RealTimeData/bbc_alltime
This dataset contains BBC News articles from 2017 to 2022. The articles are arraged by month. Access the specific month by using the format "YYYY-MM" as config. Such as load_dataset("RealTimeData/bbc_alltime", "2021-1").
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1{"title": ["Ukraine war latest news: Biden says war at critical point as he sends more weapons - BBC News", "Wimbledon: Elina Svitolina says Russians who denounce Ukraine invasion should play - BBC Sport", "Ukraine war: Mariupol fighters' relatives tell of bitter pride - BBC News", "Chelsea takeover: Lewis Hamilton & Serena Williams back Sir Martin Broughton's bid - BBC Sport", "Ukraine war: World Bank warns of 'human catastrophe' food crisis - BBC News", "The BBC News app keeps you informed with live and breaking news you can trust - BBC News", "Germany rules out immediate end to Russian oil imports - BBC News", "Queen celebrates 96th birthday in Sandringham - BBC News", "Elina Svitolina: 'We shouldn’t completely ban Russian players from Wimbledon' - BBC Sport", "KitKat maker Nestle warns of further price rises - BBC News", "Sir David Attenborough named Champion of the Earth by UN - BBC News", "Tory donor’s 'link' to sanctioned oligarch’s secret London property - BBC News", "As it happened: MPs back probe over claims PM misled Parliament - BBC News", "Many protected areas do not benefit wildlife, study says - BBC News", "$50bn wiped off Netflix’s value as subscribers quit - BBC News", "War in Ukraine - BBC News", "Covid: PM seeks to delay inquiry vote and woman infected twice in 20 days - BBC News", "I'm anxious about menopause - Nicola Sturgeon - BBC News", "Women wear less make-up since the pandemic - BBC News", "War in Ukraine - BBC News", "Russian tycoon lambasts country's 'massacre' - BBC News", "French election: Macron and Le Pen clash in TV presidential debate - BBC News", "TikTok helps UK book sales hit record levels, Publishers Association says - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Kyiv's allies pledge more weapons to help win war - BBC News", "MPs say asbestos must go from public buildings within 40 years - BBC News", "Whitehead murder: Police release name of woman stabbed to death - BBC News", "Mariupol: Satellite images suggest mass graves dug near besieged city - BBC News", "Rudy Giuliani revealed on The Masked Singer TV show - BBC News", "Tesla profits soar as customers pay more - BBC News", "Erik ten Hag: Manchester United appoint Ajax coach as next manager - BBC Sport", "Wimbledon ban on Russian players is discrimination - Andrey Rublev - BBC Sport", "Learn how the BBC is working to strengthen trust and transparency in online news - BBC News", "Climate - BBC News", "Work from home to beat Putin, says EU - BBC News", "Mariupol steelworks: 'We have wounded and dead inside the bunkers' - BBC News", "Spike in child hepatitis cases linked to common virus - BBC News", "Johnny Depp faces questioning in case against ex-wife Amber Heard - BBC News", "Alec Baldwin: Rust film producers were indifferent to gun safety - report - BBC News", "Earl and Countess of Wessex: Prince Edward and Sophie postpone Grenada trip - BBC News", "Child Q: Strip-search schoolgirl head teacher steps down - BBC News", "Man City 3-0 Brighton: City go back top with six games to play - BBC Sport", "Translink: NI bus drivers' strike action over pay deferred - BBC News", "Afghanistan: 'Blood and fear everywhere' after deadly IS blast - BBC News", "Sudbury man fined for kicking hedgehog - BBC News", "NI health crisis: Elderly woman died after six-hour ambulance wait - BBC News", "British men captured in Ukraine being looked after, says Russia - BBC News", "A$AP Rocky arrested in connection with shooting - BBC News", "Bourne End murder inquiry under way after three bodies found - BBC News", "Scott Morrison: Australia PM faces backlash over 'blessed' disability remark - BBC News", "Russia releases video of intercontinental ballistic missile launch - BBC News", "Covid: Woman caught virus twice within record 20 days - BBC News", "Prince Andrew returned from Falklands War 'a changed man', he says in deleted post - BBC News", "Princess Beatrice 'wedding gift' claim in court case - BBC News", "Sacramento shooting: At least six dead in centre of California state capital - BBC News", "War in Ukraine: Street in Bucha found strewn with dead bodies - BBC News", "Zelensky spokesman describes heartbreaking scenes in Ukraine - BBC News", "Essex Police make 83 arrests as oil terminals blocked - BBC News", "Jordan's Prince Hamzah bin Hussein renounces title of prince - BBC News", "Diesel delivery highlights UK dependence on Russia - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Family’s bid to reach safety ends in tragedy - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Polish doctor saves family's sight after bombing - BBC News", "Battle for Irpin: Russian forces pushed out of Kyiv suburb - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Gruesome evidence points to war crimes on road outside Kyiv - BBC News", "Grammys 2022: Foo Fighters win three prizes in early ceremony - BBC News", "Energy rationing not part of UK approach, minister says - BBC News", "Cricket World Cup: England and Australia set for final - BBC Sport", "Manchester Airport: More delays blamed on lack of staff - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest: Biden calls for Putin war crimes trial as more evidence of atrocities emerge - BBC News", "Russia's war ignites Orban's tightest election challenge in Hungary - BBC News", "The heavy losses of an elite Russian regiment in Ukraine - BBC News", "Celtic staff member hit by bottle during Old Firm game - BBC News", "'Appalling' spate of arson attacks damages up to 25 vehicles - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Boris Johnson condemns Russia's 'despicable' civilian attacks - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Europe's new security era, faced with Russian threat - BBC News", "Hargeisa fire: Inferno devastates market in Somaliland's capital - BBC News", "Just Stop Oil: More than 200 arrested after oil terminal protests - BBC News", "Dover cross-Channel ferry disruption begins to ease - BBC News", "Three Palestinian militants killed by Israeli forces in West Bank clash - BBC News", "Climate change: Scientists race to finish key IPCC report - BBC News", "Shrewsbury maternity scandal: Calls for independent oversight of services - BBC News", "Sunflower oil: UK bottler has a few weeks' supply left - BBC News", "Serbia's President Vucic performs balancing act as he seeks re-election - BBC News", "War in Ukraine: Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking oil depot - BBC News", "Ukraine: People's generosity to refugees 'extraordinary' - BBC News", "Women's Six Nations: 12-try England earn 74-0 win against Italy - BBC Sport", "Sri Lanka: Reshuffle begins after cabinet quits over protests - BBC News", "Dover queues due to shortage of cross-Channel ferries - BBC News", "Search for plane missing over the Channel called off - BBC News", "Plane crashes into block of flats near Bicester, Oxfordshire - BBC News", "War in Ukraine: Johnson congratulates Volodymyr Zelensky over Kyiv pushback - BBC News", "Women's World Cup final: Australia outclass England to take title - BBC Sport", "Estelle Harris: Seinfeld and Toy Story star dies aged 93 - BBC News", "Search under way in English Channel for missing small plane - BBC News", "Boat Race 2022: Oxford win men's race after Cambridge win women's event - BBC Sport", "Hungary election: PM Viktor Orban criticises Ukraine's Zelensky as he wins vote - BBC News", "Smoke rising in Ukrainian port city Odesa after strikes - BBC News", "Guantanamo inmate sent to Algeria after almost 20 years - BBC News", "Tory MP David Warburton suspended amid sexual harassment allegations - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Bucha street littered with burned-out tanks and corpses - BBC News", "FM reported to police over mask rule breach video - BBC News", "UK asylum deal: Is Rwanda a land of safety or fear? - BBC News", "Invictus Games: Harry says world is united with Ukraine - BBC News", "Whatever happened to the Novavax Covid vaccine? - BBC News", "Rwanda asylum plan: Justin Welby raises 'serious ethical questions' - BBC News", "Johnson to visit India in bid to boost defence ties - BBC News", "Dovercourt woman's bid to house Ukrainian family in caravan rejected - BBC News", "No 10 parties: PM's lockdown fine constitutional crisis, says historian - BBC News", "Celtic 1-2 Rangers: Ibrox side come back to seal Scottish Cup final meeting with Hearts - BBC Sport", "Russian warship: Moskva crew 'shown for first time since sinking' - BBC News", "Ukraine: Online posts 'transform' war crimes documentation - BBC News", "Ukraine's battle for control of its skies - BBC News", "Covid: Thousands of vaccinators get permanent NHS roles - BBC News", "As it happened: Mariupol defenders ignore Russia surrender deadline - BBC News", "'I'm shocked by my church leaders in Moscow' - priest in Ukraine - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Mariupol defenders will fight to the end says PM - BBC News", "Coventry fire: Two children among seven rescued from blaze - BBC News", "As it happened: Ukraine war latest news: Forces clash along eastern front line - BBC News", "Patrick Lyoya: Could rethink of US police traffic stops save lives? - BBC News", "South Africa flooding: 'I had thought my house was safe' - BBC News", "Covid caution urged as Scots gather for Easter - BBC News", "Christmas savings clubs money to be protected by new laws - BBC News", "Ukraine war scams: Cybercriminals stole my identity - BBC News", "Ukraine war: No quick return to normal for scarred Bucha - BBC News", "Rwanda asylum seekers: What does the UK's deal mean? - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Trucks stuck at Poland-Belarus border as EU sanctions deadline passes - BBC News", "FA Cup semi-final: Man City 2-3 Liverpool - Sadio Mane double helps Jurgen Klopp's side through - BBC Sport", "Boris Johnson and Prince Charles remember war in Ukraine in Easter messages - BBC News", "Whitehead murder: Police release name of woman stabbed to death - BBC News", "Next and finance firms buy JoJo Maman Bebe - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Minesweeping dog helps clear Chernihiv of Russian explosives - BBC News", "Lumo train passengers' panic after emergency stop - BBC News", "Rob Key named England men's managing director - BBC Sport", "FA Cup semi-final: Chelsea 2-0 Crystal Palace - Blues win at Wembley - BBC Sport", "Older residents of the east reluctant to hit the road - BBC News", "Extinction Rebellion: Six arrested after Olympians scale oil tanker - BBC News", "North Korea tests new weapon 'to improve tactical nukes' - BBC News", "Royal children join parents at Easter service - BBC News", "Extinction Rebellion: Seventy arrested at climate change protests - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Germany's conundrum over its ties with Russia - BBC News", "Covid-19: 'Small number' of Omicron XE cases in Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Which other countries send asylum seekers overseas? - BBC News", "Sanctioned Russian oligarchs linked to £800m worth of UK property - BBC News", "Covid adviser Devi Sridhar sent white powder and mask in post - BBC News", "Nathan Fleetwood: Body found in river in missing man search - BBC News", "Piers Morgan says exit from ITV's Good Morning Britain was 'a farce' - BBC News", "Ukraine war: L'Occitane U-turn as it closes Russian shops - BBC News", "Dozens arrested at Sweden riots sparked by planned Quran burnings - BBC News", "Arsenal 0-2 Chelsea: Holders to face Man City in FA Cup final - BBC Sport", "Doctor Who: Former companions to join Jodie Whittaker's farewell - BBC News", "Biden accuses Russia of 'genocide' in Ukraine - BBC News", "Poisoned Novichok police officer Nick Bailey settles over case - BBC News", "Kenny Shiels: Northern Ireland boss apologises for saying 'women are more emotional than men' - BBC Sport", "Tesco vows to rein in prices as profits treble - BBC News", "GP telephone first system 'here to stay' - BBC News", "Just Stop Oil: Valero Energy granted injunction restricting protests - BBC News", "Homes for Ukraine: Don't match female refugees with single men, UN says - BBC News", "Soaring petrol costs drive UK inflation to 30-year high - BBC News", "Easter travel delays: Call to fine airlines over airport travel chaos - BBC News", "Sir David Amess murder: Ali Harbi Ali given whole-life sentence - BBC News", "Developers pledge to fix unsafe cladding on tall buildings - BBC News", "New Cross: Boy, 16, stabbed to death in south-east London - BBC News", "Kemarni Watson Darby: Man guilty of murdering partner's son, 3 - BBC News", "Student loan interest rate to hit 12% in England - BBC News", "Time Out magazine to be axed in London from June - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest news: US to send $800m more in military aid to Ukraine - BBC News", "Sir David Amess: How MP's killer was a textbook radicalisation - BBC News", "Partygate: Met Police issue 30 more Downing Street lockdown fines - BBC News", "NI election 2022: 41 poster incidents reported to police - BBC News", "Warning travel problems could continue into summer - BBC News", "Morad Tahbaz: Daughter of Iran detainee holds protest - BBC News", "Wayne Couzens requests jury trial for indecent exposure charges - BBC News", "Brooklyn shooting: Person of interest named in New York subway attack - BBC News", "Johnny Depp lawyers say Amber Heard giving 'performance of her life' - BBC News", "Sir David Amess: Man found guilty of murdering MP - BBC News", "Liverpool 3-3 Benfica (agg: 6-4): Jurgen Klopp's side set up Villarreal semi-final - BBC Sport", "Kenny Shiels: Northern Ireland boss says 'women are more emotional than men' - BBC Sport", "Met Police: Job advert for new commissioner published - BBC News", "Matt Hancock: Not enough evidence to prosecute CCTV leak suspects - BBC News", "Covid: Restrictions on Wales' businesses to end - BBC News", "Nursing and teaching bodies complain about MP's lockdown drink comments - BBC News", "Edward Colston statue case sent to Court of Appeal - BBC News", "Ros Atkins on… PM’s lockdown party fine - BBC News", "Chris Mason appointed new BBC political editor - BBC News", "Putin's mysterious Facebook 'superfans' on a mission - BBC News", "Fantastic Beasts 3: Gay dialogue removed from film for Chinese audiences - BBC News", "South Africa's Durban floods: At least 45 die as rain and mudslides cause havoc - BBC News", "Climate change: COP26 promises will hold warming under 2C - BBC News", "Nasa scientists spy 'largest comet ever seen' - BBC News", "Grieving Russians can't believe talk of war crimes in Ukraine - BBC News", "Sir David Amess: Southend MP's murder 'sent shockwaves' through community - BBC News", "Partygate fines: Are Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak finished? - BBC News", "UK officials investigating total of 74 child hepatitis cases - BBC News", "Mutations across species reveal clues to ageing - BBC News", "Atletico Madrid 0-0 Man City (agg: 0-1): Mature City hold off Atletico in fiery encounter to reach semis - BBC Sport", "Ukraine: The critical fight for 'heart of this war' Mariupol - BBC News", "Police anti-terror IT system was 'not fit for purpose' - former officer - BBC News", "Zika virus may be one step away from explosive outbreak - BBC News", "Minister Lord David Wolfson quits over Covid law-breaking at No 10 - BBC News", "Gilbert Gottfried: Stars pay tribute to late comedian and actor - BBC News", "Jody Keenan: Ombudsman appeal over Newry ambulance wait death - BBC News", "Jersey court seizes $7bn of Roman Abramovich's assets - BBC News", "Tropical Storm Megi: Landslides and floods kill 167 in Philippines - BBC News", "Boris Johnson wrong to attend lockdown party, says Grant Shapps - BBC News", "Donbas: Battle in east Ukraine expected to be bloody and decisive - BBC News", "Real Madrid 2-3 Chelsea (Agg: 5-4 aet): Blues suffer agonising Champions League exit - BBC Sport", "Collecting the dead in Bucha - BBC News", "Ukraine: British man fighting in Mariupol 'forced to surrender' - BBC News", "Kinahan Cartel: Sport warned about involvement with Irish organised crime group following sanctions - BBC Sport", "One-way ticket to Rwanda for some UK asylum seekers - BBC News", "Ukraine War: Biden accuses Russian troops of committing genocide in Ukraine - BBC News", "War in Ukraine: Separatist leaders targeted in new UK sanctions - BBC News", "Preston fire: Two children die days after house blaze - BBC News", "P&O ferry detained at Dover fails second safety check - BBC News", "Insulate Britain: Judge 'inspired' by activists after M25 protest - BBC News", "Police arrest suspect in New York subway shooting 'without incident' - BBC News", "Ed Sheeran, Adele and Inflo up for IvorNovello awards - BBC News", "Experts issue warning over cannabis sweets laced with Spice - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Bucha deaths 'not far short of genocide' - PM - BBC News", "Hitachi train cracks report calls for standards review - BBC News", "Amir Locke: No charges filed in Minneapolis 'no-knock' police shooting - BBC News", "BBC cannot name alleged abusive MI5 agent - court - BBC News", "Israeli PM vows no limits after three killed by Palestinian attacker - BBC News", "London Luton Airport: Government to hold inquiry into growth plan - BBC News", "Mental health groups call for trans conversion therapy ban - BBC News", "Ed Sheeran hits out at culture of 'baseless' copyright claims after court victory - BBC News", "Denise Welch: Man jailed for stalking TV star and arson outside home - BBC News", "Exeter Nightingale hospital redesigned to tackle waiting list 'backlog' - BBC News", "War in Ukraine: 'I saw a Russian soldier shoot my father dead in Bucha' - BBC News", "Brain injury: ‘They leave their walking frames and they’re free’ - BBC News", "US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tests positive for Covid - BBC News", "Rishi Sunak faces questions over wife Akshata Murty's non-dom tax status - BBC News", "As it happened: Ukraine war latest news: 'Crucial' period as Russia focuses on east - BBC News", "Ukraine war in new and different phase - Liz Truss - BBC News", "Grenfell Tower inquiry: Ex-minister unaware red tape cuts affected fire safety - BBC News", "NHS under huge strain as A&Es turn away ambulances - BBC News", "David McKee: Mr Benn and Elmer author dies aged 87 - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest: Battles in Donbas will look like World War Two, says Ukraine - BBC News", "Who are Putin's daughters? What we know about his family - BBC News", "I haven't seen UK government feuding over refugees, says minister - BBC News", "Ukraine War: Veterans prepare for battle in occupied Luhansk - BBC News", "British embassy guard charged with spying for Russia - BBC News", "Ukraine War: Putin's daughters targeted by US sanctions - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Family calls absent-from-court murderer a coward - BBC News", "Government defeated over voter ID plans in House of Lords - BBC News", "Shock result in particle experiment could spark physics revolution - BBC News", "Nato: Ukraine asks for 'weapons, weapons, weapons' - BBC News", "Charing Cross: Met Police vow to 'root out' bad officers - BBC News", "Energy: What does the UK's new strategy say? - BBC News", "Bucha murders: German report says Russian troops discussed killings - BBC News", "Ban cyclists and e-scooter riders using phones, Tory peer urges - BBC News", "Staffordshire Police 'not effectively safeguarding children' - BBC News", "Unite official under investigation by police - BBC News", "Devonport diesel fuel theft investigation launched - BBC News", "Tesco staff to see pay rise to £10.10 an hour - BBC News", "Families in Nottingham maternity inquiry hit out at review - BBC News", "West Belfast: Viable device found following security alert - BBC News", "Canada proposes foreign buyers home real estate ban - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia's Nobel winning editor Muratov doused with paint - BBC News", "NY attorney general seeks to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court - BBC News", "Tanis: Fossil found of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike, scientists claim - BBC News", "Rape victim sues police for naming her online - BBC News", "Dover: Council will declare 'major incident' if travel disruption persists - BBC News", "Briton denies spying at embassy for Russia - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russians fed twisted picture and one voice - that of Putin - BBC News", "Gloucestershire Army captain to traverse UK in straight line challenge - BBC News", "Cuddly toy reviews used for headphones on Amazon - BBC News", "Will the UK's energy strategy work? - BBC News", "British man and son missing after Malaysia diving trip - BBC News", "Covid: Blood clot risk higher for six months after having virus - BBC News", "Chelsea 1-3 Real Madrid: Benzema hat-trick puts Spaniards in charge in Champions League last eight - BBC Sport", "More Kinder Surprise egg products recalled over salmonella links - BBC News", "Ketanji Brown Jackson: US Senate votes to confirm judge to top court - BBC News", "Queen's hospital donor placed on UK's Russia sanctions list - BBC News", "Bucha killings: 'I wish they had killed me too' - BBC News", "Rabid fox bites nine people on US Capitol Hill - BBC News", "Disney and Taylor Swift lyrics used to increase Latin appeal - BBC News", "Ukraine War: 'Russian soldiers held us as human shields' - BBC News", "IS captors used 'sadistic' torture methods, court hears - BBC News", "Sir David Amess: Terror suspect tells court he killed MP over Syria vote - BBC News", "Adenovirus probable cause of mysterious child hepatitis - BBC News", "Non-dom status: Labour pledges to replace tax-saving scheme - BBC News", "Ukraine war: US wants to see a weakened Russia - BBC News", "Liz Kincaid: Gymnastics coach was pulled from Tokyo Olympics squad after serious allegations made - BBC Sport", "Angela Rayner: MPs hit back over claims of 'Basic Instinct' tactics to distract PM - BBC News", "Zara threatens legal action over Darlington boutique brand - BBC News", "Cambridge-based Internet Watch Foundation warns of rise in remote abuse - BBC News", "Wales council elections: Call for ethnic minority candidate quotas - BBC News", "Royal couple told of Antigua and Barbuda's wish to be republic - BBC News", "Asda and Morrisons cut prices as supermarkets fight for customers - BBC News", "Liverpool 2-0 Everton: Reds win derby to leave Toffees in bottom three - BBC Sport", "Breydon Water: Norfolk lifeboat crews rescue 17 people and three pets - BBC News", "Alyson Nelson: Vigil held to remember Whitehead victim - BBC News", "Jamie Wallis: First trans MP says part of him died after rape - BBC News", "Unite strike: Councils and schools face disruption over pay dispute - BBC News", "France divided, EU delighted over Macron win - BBC News", "Airlines should be fined for refund delays, MPs say - BBC News", "Ukraine: 'My disabled nephew has a home in UK – but is stuck in Paris' - BBC News", "P&O Ferries forced to reverse attempt at pay cut - BBC News", "Lola James: Man in court over two-year-old's murder - BBC News", "Elon Musk strikes deal to buy Twitter for $44bn - BBC News", "Elon Musk makes offer to buy Twitter - BBC News", "Odesa missile attack: 'My world was destroyed by a Russian missile' - BBC News", "Angela Rayner: Commissioner demands investigation over misogyny - BBC News", "Angela Rayner: Tory source of misogyny claims would be punished, PM says - BBC News", "Johnny Depp blames 'burn Amber' text on Monty Python - BBC News", "Nigeria in trauma after Imo refinery deaths - President Buhari - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Inside Kyiv's trench defences - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest news: Railway strikes targeted arms supply routes - Russia - BBC News", "'You can't imagine the conditions' - Accounts emerge of Russian detention camps - BBC News", "P&O Ferries hits back at staff pay cut claim - BBC News", "Jurgen Klopp hails Liverpool's run of results after win over Everton - BBC Sport", "Twitter: Why Elon Musk has been so keen on taking control - BBC News", "Labour calls for emergency budget over cost of living crisis - BBC News", "NHS: Doctors' broken system claims dismissed by health minister - BBC News", "Whistleblower vet awarded £1.25m settlement and apology from DAERA - BBC News", "M1 crash: Drink-drive mum jailed over deaths of children - BBC News", "Queen's Platinum Jubilee: Pubs can stay open later in England and Wales - BBC News", "Bermondsey stabbings: Four killed in south-east London home - BBC News", "Wylfa nuclear power: Boris Johnson says new station 'going to happen' - BBC News", "First full-size driverless bus trials to begin in Scotland - BBC News", "Lab-grown meat and insects 'good for planet and health' - BBC News", "Live music revenue fell again in 2021, despite gigs returning - BBC News", "Alex Salmond lawyer guilty of professional misconduct - BBC News", "Labour: Difficult to see Jeremy Corbyn return after Nato remarks - Starmer - BBC News", "French election: Historic win but Macron has polarised France - BBC News", "Twitter shares halted as reports say Elon Musk deal close - BBC News", "Channel migrant boats: Ministers drop plans to turn back vessels - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest news: Biden says war at critical point as he sends more weapons - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Mariupol fighters' relatives tell of bitter pride - BBC News", "Mariupol: Driving into the 'apocalypse' to save mum and dad - BBC News", "NHS to ban products of slavery after PPE concerns - BBC News", "Ukraine war: World Bank warns of 'human catastrophe' food crisis - BBC News", "Carlos Ghosn: Ex-Nissan boss says he wants a trial - BBC News", "Queen celebrates 96th birthday in Sandringham - BBC News", "Madeleine McCann disappearance: A timeline - BBC News", "P&O Ferries: First Dover to Calais ferry cleared to sail - BBC News", "Missing Sheffield dog rescued after four-day mine shaft ordeal - BBC News", "Madeleine McCann case in pictures - BBC News", "Kardashians deny faking Roblox sex tape scene - BBC News", "Stowaway cat rescued on North Sea platform - BBC News", "Prince Louis' fourth birthday marked with beach photos - BBC News", "Tyson Fury v Dillian Whyte: Champion Fury weighs in 12lb lighter than last fight - BBC Sport", "Ukraine war: Kyiv's allies pledge more weapons to help win war - BBC News", "Retail sales fall as rising cost of living bites - BBC News", "Mariupol: Satellite images suggest mass graves dug near besieged city - BBC News", "Florida's governor signs law revoking Disney powers - BBC News", "Ukraine war: The Russia I knew no longer exists - Steve Rosenberg - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Inside Kyiv's trench defences - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest news: Railway strikes targeted arms supply routes - Russia - BBC News", "Hakeem Hussain: Mum guilty of manslaughter over fatal asthma attack - BBC News", "Bourne End: Three found dead in village were stabbed, say police - BBC News", "War in Ukraine: Orphans settle in Scotland but dream of home - BBC News", "Madeleine McCann: Parents welcome declaration of formal suspect - BBC News", "Mariupol steelworks: 'We have wounded and dead inside the bunkers' - BBC News", "Supermarkets set limits on sale of cooking oil - BBC News", "Large hadron collider: A revamp that could revolutionise physics - BBC News", "Work from home to beat Putin, says EU - BBC News", "Earl and Countess of Wessex: Prince Edward and Sophie postpone Grenada trip - BBC News", "Longest Covid infection lasted more than 16 months, tests show - BBC News", "Mike Tyson punched plane passenger 'after bottle thrown' - BBC News", "Ukrainians injured or killed by unexploded ammunition - BBC News", "Sudbury man fined for kicking hedgehog - BBC News", "Aiden Aslin: Captured Briton's YouTube interview removed - BBC News", "British men captured in Ukraine being looked after, says Russia - BBC News", "Tom Grennan recovering after NYC attack - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia aiming for full control of south, commander says - BBC News", "Coronavirus levels continue to fall across the UK - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 15 April - 22 April - BBC News", "Martin Kok: Gangland figure jailed for murder of Dutch writer - BBC News", "Madeleine McCann: Christian Brueckner declared formal suspect - BBC News", "Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020 - BBC News", "Co-op supermarket scraps yoghurt use-by dates in bid to cut food waste - BBC News", "Biden accuses Russia of 'genocide' in Ukraine - BBC News", "Man accused of trying to kill five police officers - BBC News", "Bodybuilding champion Cedric McMillan dead at 44 - BBC News", "Enfield Southgate Conservatives: Chair resigns over Nazi photo - BBC News", "Michael Snee and Aidan Moffitt killings: Man charged with Sligo murders - BBC News", "Just Stop Oil: Valero Energy granted injunction restricting protests - BBC News", "Homes for Ukraine: Don't match female refugees with single men, UN says - BBC News", "As it happened: 900 civilians found dead in Kyiv region – chief of police - BBC News", "Cuba Gooding Jr: Actor admits forcibly kissing waitress - BBC News", "Refugees Minister Lord Harrington declines to comment on Rwanda plan - BBC News", "Queen not expected to attend Easter Sunday service - BBC News", "Ukraine attention shows bias against black lives, WHO chief says - BBC News", "Sir David Amess murder: Ali Harbi Ali given whole-life sentence - BBC News", "Depp and Heard marriage ended in 'mutual abuse', says therapist - BBC News", "Lyon 0-3 West Ham United (1-4 on aggregate): Hammers reach first European semi-final in 46 years - BBC Sport", "GP sexually abused 48 patients over 35 years - BBC News", "New Cross: Boy, 16, stabbed to death in south-east London - BBC News", "Sligo murders: Killings 'beyond belief' says victims' priest - BBC News", "Immigration: PM outlines Rwanda plans for asylum seekers - BBC News", "Covid levels starting to fall in UK, says ONS - BBC News", "Schools face further strike disruption after Easter - BBC News", "Freddy Rincon: Former Colombia captain dies following car crash - BBC Sport", "Ukraine war latest news: US to send $800m more in military aid to Ukraine - BBC News", "'I'm shocked by my church leaders in Moscow' - priest in Ukraine - BBC News", "Durban floods: South Africa floods kill more than 300 - BBC News", "Prince Charles stands in for Queen at Maundy Service - BBC News", "'Flooding meant I could only reach my home by boat' - BBC News", "Elon Musk makes offer to buy Twitter - BBC News", "Wayne Couzens requests jury trial for indecent exposure charges - BBC News", "Brooklyn shooting: Subway attack suspect held without bail - BBC News", "Valneva Covid vaccine approved for use in UK - BBC News", "Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky: The comedian president who is rising to the moment - BBC News", "Ted Hankey: Former darts champion admits sexual assault - BBC News", "Northern Ireland's Easter pub opening hours going late under new laws - 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What policies have other nations taken?", "A dozen sanctioned Russians are linked to an estimated £800m worth of property in the UK, BBC analysis reveals.", "Prof Devi Sridhar revealed the face mask, which was used, had the words \"I am done\" in black ink.", "Police looking for Nathan Fleetwood who was missing for 19 days find a body in a river.", "The host is to return to screens after saying he was \"censored\" when he left Good Morning Britain.", "The firm says military action in Ukraine means it will shut its shops, having defended staying open.", "There have been clashes between police and people angry at a far-right group's plan to burn Qurans.", "Chelsea will face Manchester City in a second domestic cup final this season after seeing off league rivals Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final.", "Two of the Doctor's companions from the 1980s will feature in Jodie Whittaker final show.", "US President Joe Biden accuses Russia's Vladimir Putin of genocide in Ukraine.", "Nick Bailey fell seriously ill after being contaminated with the nerve agent at Sergei Skripal's home.", "Northern Ireland boss Kenny Shiels apologises for saying \"women are more emotional than men\" when discussing his side's 5-0 defeat by England.", "Tesco announces a sharp rise in profits but warns it will come under pressure from rising inflation.", "A couple with various health problems says they find the system a hassle and impersonal.", "The ruling comes after activists were arrested at Valero Energy's Kingsbury terminal in Warwickshire.", "The UN's refugee agency urges the UK to avoid matching Ukrainian women and children with single men.", "Prices went up by 7% in the 12 months to March, as food and fuel costs continued to climb.", "Lessons must be learnt to avoid a repeat of Easter's \"travel shambles\" in the summer, Which? says.", "The MP's family say it breaks their hearts he would have \"greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship\".", "Housing Secretary Michael Gove says those responsible have to pay to solve the crisis.", "The boy was found after police were called to a venue following reports of a fight in progress.", "Kemarni Watson Darby suffered weeks of beatings before the fatal attack at his West Bromwich home.", "The rate will rise this autumn, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says, before falling back next March.", "A spokesperson said Time Out was in consultation with print staff about potential job losses.", "The US pledges $800m more in military aid after President Zelensky asks for more weapons to combat Russian forces.", "Ali Harbi Ali - convicted of the murder of Sir David Amess - is a textbook study of radicalisation.", "Police say they have sent out more than 50 fines so far for Covid law-breaking in government buildings.", "One candidate says she was attacked by two youths who were trying to take down her campaign posters.", "Border force is \"chronically under-staffed\" and it will take time to train new officers, a union says.", "The Foreign Office said Iran had \"failed to honour\" a commitment to release Morad Tahbaz.", "The alleged offences are said to have taken place when Wayne Couzens was a serving Met officer.", "New York police say Frank R James, 62, rented a U-Haul van that may be linked to the shooting.", "Amber Heard \"concocted a role as a victim\", the former spouses' defamation trial is told.", "The Southend West MP was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in October 2021.", "Liverpool remain on course for a historic quadruple after a thrilling draw with Benfica secures a two-legged Champions League semi-final against Villarreal.", "Northern Ireland manager Kenny Shiels says \"women are more emotional than men\" when conceding goals in football.", "Cressida Dick's successor as Met Police commissioner must be \"inspirational\", the advert says.", "They find \"insufficient evidence\" to prosecute over the images of the ex-minister kissing an aide.", "An obligation for firms to take Covid precautions ends on Monday, the Welsh government announces.", "Michael Fabricant's claim nurses and teachers would drink in staff rooms is demoralising, union says.", "The attorney general is seeking clarification of the law after the Colston case leads to \"uncertainty\".", "Boris Johnson has been fined for attending a birthday party, thrown for him during a Covid lockdown.", "He replaces Laura Kuenssberg, who is taking over from Andrew Marr on BBC One's Sunday morning show.", "Posts praising the Russian leader are being viewed by millions on the social network.", "Warner Bros agreed to the request for changes but have said the \"spirit of the film remains\".", "People stand on rooftops awaiting rescue after flooding along Durban's coast kills at least 45.", "Scientists say their analysis is \"encouraging\" but keeping under 1.5C this century looks unlikely.", "It's 85 miles wide, which is larger than the US state of Rhode Island. And it's coming this way.", "\"They'll accuse Russia of anything,\" says the widow of a Russian soldier killed in Ukraine.", "Police video shows an IS fanatic's journey to kill Sir David Amess, his arrest and custody interview.", "The prime minister and chancellor are in uncharted waters over fines for breaking lockdown laws.", "One potential cause could be adenoviruses, but health experts are also looking at links to Covid-19.", "\"Staggering\" findings from studying 16 mammals - including humans - sheds light on why we age.", "Manchester City produce a mature and disciplined performance to hold off the challenge of Atletico Madrid and reach the Champions League semi-finals.", "Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing the city after a devastating, six-week assault.", "A database used to investigate extremists had serious flaws when rolled out, a former police officer says.", "Scientists say we should be on alert for variants which could start another major outbreak.", "Justice minister Lord David Wolfson criticises the \"scale, context and nature\" of breaches.", "The stand-up comedian and actor, known for his roles in Aladdin and Problem Child, has died aged 67.", "Jody Keenan died on a Newry street on Sunday as ambulances took more than 45 minutes to arrive.", "The Channel Island is the latest jurisdiction to crack down on the Russian billionaire", "Tropical Storm Megi devastated the country on Sunday, with houses washed out to sea in one village.", "But the transport secretary says Boris Johnson did not intend to break Covid laws and should stay on.", "Ukrainian troops in the Donbas region are preparing for heavy strikes as Russia turns its focus to the east.", "Chelsea's reign as European champions comes to an agonising end despite beating Real Madrid on a night of high drama at the Bernabeu Stadium.", "After the discovery of the atrocities in Bucha, a massive operation to find the bodies began.", "The family of Aiden Aslin says he told them his unit has no weapons left to fight with.", "The world of sport is warned about involvement with the Irish Kinahan organised crime group, who have been hit with worldwide financial sanctions.", "Some of those arriving on small boats will be sent to the country as part of a £120m trial.", "The US leader says President Putin is trying to \"wipe out the idea\" of a Ukrainian identity.", "It comes after more than 50 people were killed in shelling of a train station in eastern Ukraine.", "A three-year-old girl and a boy, aged five, were critically injured in the fire in Preston on Friday.", "The Pride of Kent and the Spirit of Britain cannot sail, prompting fears of travel disruption at Easter.", "Judge Stephen Leake fines a group of M25 activists but says their \"voices are certainly heard\".", "\"We got him,\" says New York mayor following massive manhunt in wake of the Brooklyn subway shooting.", "The prestigious songwriting awards also see nominations for Dave, Raye and Pink Pantheress.", "Drugs charity The Loop says it's worried the sweets could be putting buyers at risk of death.", "Further sanctions against oligarchs and an end to imports of Russian coal and gas are announced by UK.", "Hitachi Class 800 and 385 series trains were temporarily taken out of service in May 2021.", "Prosecutors say there is insufficient evidence for criminal charges in fatal shooting of Amir Locke.", "The High Court rules the man who is alleged to be a dangerous misogynist cannot be identified.", "Three Israelis were killed by a Palestinian gunman who opened fire on a busy bar in Tel Aviv.", "The communities secretary calls in a council's decision to approve Luton Airport's expansion plan.", "It comes after ministers removed therapies for transgender people from a forthcoming ban.", "The singer says pop stars are easy targets in what has become a \"really damaging\" culture in music.", "Toraq Wyngard, 64, is sentenced for stalking the Loose Women star, leaving her \"terrified\".", "A number of the hospital's services have been expanded to tackle waiting lists.", "Teenager's account adds to growing evidence of atrocities allegedly committed by Russian soldiers in Bucha.", "People with brain injuries in Belfast are rediscovering their love of cycling.", "Mrs Pelosi is the most senior member of Congress so far to report a positive test.", "Labour demands to know whether the chancellor has benefited from his wife's tax arrangements.", "Russia is re-equipping and redeploying forces, say Western officials, as the offensive shifts to the Donbas region.", "Putin has changed tactics but still wants a hold over all of Ukraine, the UK foreign secretary says.", "Lord Pickles could not give an example of fire safety being exempt from a policy to cut regulations.", "Winter pressures being felt in spring, as Covid cases remain high and other illnesses rebound.", "The writer and illustrator also created Elmer the Patchwork Elephant and Not Now, Bernard.", "Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba calls on Nato allies to provide more weapons immediately as Russia focuses its war on the east of the country.", "The Russian president says he has daughters, but has given little information about them.", "Lord Harrington insists \"raised voices\" at meetings reflect a shared desire to help Ukrainians.", "As Russia redirects its attack towards Luhansk, Ukraine's most experienced troops face encirclement.", "David Ballantyne Smith, 57, is charged with nine offences under the Official Secrets Act.", "The US sanctions' list includes Putin's adult daughters and relatives of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.", "Koci Selamaj, who beat and strangled primary teacher Sabina Nessa, refuses to attend sentencing.", "The House of Lords support plans to widen the documents people could use to get a ballot paper.", "Scientists find a sub-atomic particle's mass is at odds with one a theory underpinning modern physics.", "Kyiv's foreign minister renews the plea as Nato meets to discuss military aid for Ukraine.", "The Met Police accepts 15 recommendations made by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).", "The blueprint places a major focus on boosting supplies from nuclear plants and offshore wind.", "Intercepted audio appears to show Russians talking about shooting town residents, Der Spiegel says.", "Baroness McIntosh wants a specific offence for using a mobile phone while on a bike, e-bike or scooter.", "The force takes too long to recognise risks and respond to missing children cases, inspectors say.", "The official's office has been searched as part of an inquiry into bribery, fraud and money laundering.", "The stolen fuel was found in a tanker truck being driven \"by a civilian\", says the Ministry of Defence.", "The move by the UK's largest supermarket will bring its pay rates in line with Lidl and Aldi.", "A letter states a review into failing maternity services in Nottingham is moving like treacle.", "The security alert in Moor Park Mews is now over and residents have returned to their homes.", "Canada is facing some of the most severe housing affordability issues in the world.", "It is believed the attack is linked to Dmitry Muratov's stance on the Russia-Ukraine war.", "New York's top lawyer says Donald Trump has not submitted files to a Trump Organization probe.", "Remains are unearthed of a dinosaur that may have died on the very day a space rock hit Earth.", "Devon and Cornwall Police admits liability and settles the case for a six-figure sum.", "Dover's District Council leader says the town \"will not tolerate\" another weekend of gridlock.", "David Smith is accused of spying for Russia whilst working at the British Embassy in Berlin.", "Officials and Russian media have started pinning the murders of civilians on Kyiv in ominous rhetoric.", "Captain George Bromley will walk, kayak and swim in a straight line from Lands End to John O'Groats.", "Sellers are boosting ratings of electronics with reviews for completely different products, Which? finds.", "The plan aims to increase UK electricity generation from nuclear, wind, hydrogen and solar sources.", "Malaysian authorities resume a search for three people who went missing during a diving trip.", "Lung and leg clots were much more likely in seriously ill patients, but mild cases can be affected.", "Karim Benzema's hat-trick for Real Madrid leaves Chelsea with a mountain to climb to retain their Champions League crown.", "Different chocolate egg products have been recalled over a link to UK cases of salmonella in children.", "The historic vote means Judge Jackson will be the first black female justice to serve on the court.", "A major donor to the Edward VII's hospital is on the list of oligarchs sanctioned by the UK over Ukraine.", "A family tells the BBC how Oleg Abramov, a welder in Bucha, was shot dead outside his home.", "The female fox was euthanised and her three kits were also put down due to possible exposure.", "A new guide for teachers says a fresh approach would make the subject attractive to more young people.", "Villagers say 150 people were rounded up to protect Russians as the Ukrainian forces advanced.", "A former captive tells a US court that notorious IS jihadist cell terrorised their hostages.", "Ali Harbi Ali says he has no regrets and killed Sir David Amess to send a message to his colleagues.", "Experts say there is mounting evidence that a common virus is linked to these rare cases.", "The party says a shorter-term scheme would stop \"outdated tax perks\" for the wealthiest under the scheme.", "US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says he hopes to see the Russian military depleted in Ukraine.", "Liz Kincaid was pulled from Great Britain's gymnastics coaching squad just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics after a serious allegation was made against her.", "An article suggesting Labour's deputy tries to distract the PM in the Commons is roundly condemned.", "The high street fashion giant claims Darlington-based House of Zana is \"conceptually identical\".", "The Internet Watch Foundation says it found illegal content on 252,000 web pages last year.", "Campaigners say there is an \"appalling\" lack of black, Asian and minority ethnic councillors.", "The remarks came during a meeting between the Earl and Countess of Wessex and the country's PM.", "Morrisons and Asda launch new promotions as households face pressure from the rising cost of living.", "Liverpool keep pace with Manchester City at the top of the Premier League as two second-half goals give them a victory that deepens Merseyside rivals Everton's relegation worries.", "Two boats ran aground in low tide, stranding people overnight and leading to a dramatic rescue.", "Relatives say she was killed in the \"cruellest of circumstances\" in the village last Saturday.", "Jamie Wallis said last month he has gender dysphoria and had been a victim of rape and blackmail.", "Council services likely to be affected include some bin collections and street cleaning.", "European leaders rush to applaud the French president, who defeated passionate Eurosceptic Marine Le Pen.", "Passengers hit by international travel disruption should be better protected, a report concludes.", "A disabled Ukrainian teenager has been stuck in Paris for six weeks without a UK visa.", "The ferry firm had asked recently-employed agency workers to sign new contracts with reduced wages.", "Lola's mother Sinead James, 29, is charged with causing or allowing her death.", "Mr Musk, who made the shock bid just over a week ago, said he would \"unlock\" the social media firm's potential.", "The boss of Tesla claims he wants to unlock the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".", "Yuriy Glodan's wife, mother-in-law, and baby were killed in a strike on their apartment block in Odesa.", "Misogynistic comments about Angela Rayner must be investigated, says Sophie Howe.", "Boris Johnson condemns claims about Labour's deputy leader as \"a load of sexist, misogynist tripe\".", "Mr Depp defends messages sent to fellow actor Paul Bettany saying he would burn his then-girlfriend.", "President Buhari calls the deaths of more than 100 people in an explosion \"a national disaster\".", "Kyiv's defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.", "Moscow's defence ministry says it fired missiles at Ukrainian infrastructure used to bring in foreign weapons.", "Those who have fled the Ukrainian city say people are being held in cramped, unclean camps.", "The firm says it has not asked recently-employed agency workers to sign new contracts with reduced wages.", "Liverpool's recent run of positive results is \"insane\", boss Jurgen Klopp says after they make it 14 Premier League games unbeaten with victory over Everton.", "The billionaire has called for a series of changes from relaxing Twitter's content restrictions to eradicating fake accounts.", "Sir Keir Starmer says the government's response to the crisis so far has been \"utterly woeful\".", "Eluned Morgan rejects doctors' claims but admits the system is under \"immense\" pressure.", "Dr Tamara Bronckaers won a case against Daera last year relating to animal welfare issues.", "Mary McCann's son and daughter were not wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash, a court hears.", "Venues in England and Wales are set to stay open until 01:00 to celebrate the Queen's 70-year reign.", "Dolet Hill is one of four people found dead after police force their way into a house in Bermondsey.", "Boris Johnson says new nuclear power station on Isle of Anglesey is \"going to happen\".", "The buses could be carrying passengers between Edinburgh and Fife, over the Forth Road Bridge, this summer.", "Switching to futuristic foods will reduce carbon emissions and save land and water, a study suggests.", "Royalties for live music were down almost 30% last year, but a recovery is on the horizon.", "Gordon Jackson QC was recorded on a train discussing the former first minister's sex assault trial.", "The ex-Labour leader suggested the alliance be disbanded, sparking further ire from the current boss.", "The 44-year-old will now serve for another five years, but he is facing a polarised France.", "The social media giant is reported to be in the final stages of a takeover deal with Elon Musk.", "Campaigners say escorting boats back to France would be inhumane and dangerous.", "The US president sets out another £800m package for Ukraine, a refugee scheme and a Russian ship ban.", "Relatives speak of their pride and fears for the last Ukrainian soldiers defending Mariupol.", "How a young Ukrainian woman travelled into the besieged city of Mariupol to save her parents.", "A campaign group says it is the biggest step in removing forced labour from supply chains in years.", "The World Bank chief says hundreds of millions more people could be pushed into poverty.", "The former car boss says he wants to clear his name after France issued an international warrant for his arrest.", "Britain's longest-reigning monarch has been celebrating the occasion with family and friends.", "Parents Kate and Gerry McCann have spent 16 years searching for answers over their missing daughter.", "Another ferry is found to have issues that need fixing before it can sail again.", "Olive was eventually found after having fallen into a hole while out walking in South Yorkshire.", "Photographs of some of the key moments since the three-year-old went missing in Portugal in 2007.", "Questions are being asked about a scene in The Kardashians, when Kim's son finds a sex tape ad on Roblox.", "After a helicopter ride home, the one-eyed wanderer is reclaimed, five years after he went missing.", "The youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is pictured playing in the sand in Norfolk.", "WBC champion Tyson Fury weighs in 12lb lighter than his previous fight for Saturday's heavyweight bout against Dillian Whyte.", "Leaders agree to send artillery and other weapons as Russia launches a fresh offensive in eastern Ukraine.", "Consumer spending was hit last month as household finances came under increasing pressure.", "Satellite images appear to show more than 200 graves, as Ukraine accuses Russia of mass killings.", "Disney's special status allowed it to in effect operate its own municipal government in Florida.", "The BBC's Steve Rosenberg takes in the sites of Moscow apparently distorted by the war against Ukraine.", "Kyiv's defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.", "Moscow's defence ministry says it fired missiles at Ukrainian infrastructure used to bring in foreign weapons.", "Seven-year-old Hakeem Hussain was found dead in a garden in freezing conditions.", "The victims had been knifed in the chest and stomach, post-mortem examinations find.", "A group of 52 children who fled the war zone speak about settling into their new home in Edinburgh.", "Madeleine has been missing for nearly 15 years - she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal.", "One of the last defenders in Mariupol tells the BBC conditions are dire but they won't surrender.", "Tesco joins Waitrose and Morrisons in limiting purchases as supplies are hit by the conflict in Ukraine.", "The BBC gets an exclusive look at the upgraded machine helping to overhaul our understanding of the Universe.", "Plan urges citizens to cut energy use to reduce money flowing to Russia", "The change in plans for the Earl and Countess of Wessex comes after talks with the island's government.", "UK doctors who treated the patient at a London hospital say persistent infections are still rare.", "Video shows the former heavyweight boxer repeatedly punching a man in the head.", "Across Ukraine’s Kyiv region, efforts have begun to clear the countless pieces of unexploded ammunition left behind after fierce fighting.", "David Herring was seen on camera kicking a hedgehog with \"considerable force\".", "Aiden Aslin appeared, handcuffed, in a video speaking to a pro-Kremlin blogger.", "Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were captured last week while defending the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.", "The singer was left with a torn ear drum after being attacked outside a bar in New York this week.", "A senior Russian commander is quoted as saying Moscow plans to take full control of the south and east.", "ONS officials say they are seeing welcome falls in infection across the UK, but levels remain high.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 April and 22 April.", "Christopher Hughes must serve at least 25 years for the murder of Martin Kok outside a sex club.", "Madeleine McCann has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal.", "Guns have overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of death among young Americans.", "The supermarket urges people to use their judgement - with best-before labels used instead.", "US President Joe Biden accuses Russia's Vladimir Putin of genocide in Ukraine.", "The 40-year-old is alleged to have thrown Molotov cocktail-type bottles in the incident in Inverness.", "McMillan's is the third death of well-known bodybuilders in the US in the past year.", "Colin Davis says he had \"no recollection\" of the occasion but \"can't absolutely rule it out\".", "Yousef Palani, 22, is accused of murdering Michael Snee and Aidan Moffitt in the Irish town.", "The ruling comes after activists were arrested at Valero Energy's Kingsbury terminal in Warwickshire.", "The UN's refugee agency urges the UK to avoid matching Ukrainian women and children with single men.", "The police chief of the Kyiv region says the remains of 900 civilians have been found after Russian troops pulled out.", "The Oscar-winning star strikes a plea deal to bring criminal proceedings against him to an end.", "Lord Harrington tells the BBC the scheme is not his responsibility as it won't cover Ukrainian refugees.", "Buckingham Palace indicates the Queen will miss the service at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.", "The WHO chief says a fraction of the help given to Ukraine has been given to other humanitarian crises.", "The MP's family say it breaks their hearts he would have \"greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship\".", "A psychotherapist tells the court of a volatile dynamic between the couple during therapy sessions.", "West Ham will face Eintracht Frankfurt for a place in the Europa League final after securing their first European semi-final in 46 years with a stunning win in Lyon.", "Krishna Singh was found guilty of 54 charges of kissing, groping and giving inappropriate examinations to women.", "The boy was found after police were called to a venue following reports of a fight in progress.", "Michael Snee and Aidan Moffit were found dead in their own homes on Monday and Tuesday.", "Single men arriving in Britain on boats or lorries could be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda.", "About one in 15 people would test positive for coronavirus, as levels start to fall.", "The services affected would include transport, some school meal services and availability of classroom assistants.", "Former Real Madrid midfielder Freddy Rincon dies after suffering severe head injuries in a car crash.", "The US pledges $800m more in military aid after President Zelensky asks for more weapons to combat Russian forces.", "The Russian Orthodox Church's war stance has prompted some Ukrainian priests and parishioners to cut ties.", "KwaZulu-Natal authorities say the storm is one of the worst in South Africa's history.", "The Queen misses the traditional coin giving ceremony for the first time since 1970.", "Under a new scheme, money will be available for work on flood-hit properties to prevent repeat damage.", "The boss of Tesla claims he wants to unlock the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".", "The alleged offences are said to have taken place when Wayne Couzens was a serving Met officer.", "If convicted, Frank James, 62, faces life behind bars for the attack which saw 10 people shot.", "The Valneva jab is manufactured using technology similar to how flu shots are made.", "Ukraine's president had no experience of politics when when elected in 2019, but has emerged as a convincing war leader.", "The 54-year-old, nicknamed The Count, won the BDO World Championship in 2000 and 2009.", "The new laws, nine years in the making, allow bars to open as normal after decades of restrictions.", "Speaking to the Grenfell inquiry, a survivor has described her escape from the tower block.", "Some of those arriving on small boats will be sent to the country as part of a £120m trial.", "An obligation for firms to take Covid precautions ends on Monday, the Welsh government announces.", "Eugene Tenenbaum and David Davidovich have had their assets - estimated to be up to £10bn - frozen.", "The detective thought he was meeting a 13-year-old girl but it was an undercover police officer.", "Record numbers of patients have to wait four hours or more before being treated and discharged in A&E.", "Disney launch copyright claim against latest unauthorised version of the defunct children's game.", "Ukraine's leader tells the BBC that all European countries should have ended Russian energy imports.", "Despite the war continuing, some Ukrainians are now going back to their homeland.", "A further 85 people are stopped by French authorities from crossing, the Home Office says.", "Clive Myrie visits the heavily fortified Situation Room - the HQ of the resistance against Russia's invasion.", "El Shafee Elsheikh is the highest profile IS fighter to stand trial in the US.", "A gang with links to far-right and anti-Covid groups wanted to overthrow democracy, say prosecutors.", "It's 85 miles wide, which is larger than the US state of Rhode Island. And it's coming this way.", "Health Minister Robin Swann says it is regrettable that obvious problems have been left unaddressed.", "The UK is to give some asylum seekers a one-way ticket to Rwanda. What policies have other nations taken?", "The warship sank while being towed a day after Ukraine claimed to have hit it with a missile.", "Douglas Stuart reflects on growing up in a working class Glasgow family to winning the Booker Prize.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often impressed by its efficiency, but should be careful what they say.", "Ukraine says more than 6,000 such cases have already been opened - but Moscow denies the allegations.", "Manchester City produce a mature and disciplined performance to hold off the challenge of Atletico Madrid and reach the Champions League semi-finals.", "Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing the city after a devastating, six-week assault.", "Justice minister Lord David Wolfson criticises the \"scale, context and nature\" of breaches.", "The Channel Island is the latest jurisdiction to crack down on the Russian billionaire", "But the transport secretary says Boris Johnson did not intend to break Covid laws and should stay on.", "After the discovery of the atrocities in Bucha, a massive operation to find the bodies began.", "The home secretary says \"malicious criminals\" are preying on the vulnerable.", "The family of Aiden Aslin says he told them his unit has no weapons left to fight with.", "The French cosmetics firm will keep its shops in Russia open but says it is \"firmly committed\" to Ukraine.", "The deadline for applying to register to vote passed at 11:59 BST on Thursday.", "Some of those arriving on small boats will be sent to the country as part of a £120m trial.", "It comes after more than 50 people were killed in shelling of a train station in eastern Ukraine.", "Imran Ahmad Khan's decision to stand down after a sex assault verdict will trigger a by-election.", "Russian sources claim Aiden Aslin has been captured in the besieged city of Mariupol.", "The Pride of Kent and the Spirit of Britain cannot sail, prompting fears of travel disruption at Easter.", "The royal couple stopped at Windsor to visit the monarch on their way to the Netherlands.", "\"We got him,\" says New York mayor following massive manhunt in wake of the Brooklyn subway shooting.", "The European Causeway vessel is suspended for \"tourist travel\" until later in the week.", "Emmanuel Macron wins the first round, but the run-off against his far-right rival may be far closer.", "Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the date after seeing the Governor General in Canberra.", "Toddler Veronika had to leave her doll in Ukraine but found the same one in a charity warehouse.", "Premier League's top two play out pulsating draw at Etihad Stadium to keep the title race on a knife edge.", "Valérie Pécresse has given the Republicans a lift, and a poll suggests she could be president.", "Analysis of three attacks in the city of Chernihiv may offer clues about Putin's tactics in Ukraine.", "President Putin's former chief economic adviser tells the BBC Western countries could stop the war.", "The UK prime minister held talks in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.", "Charles Leclerc takes a dominant victory in the Australian Grand Prix to move into a commanding position in the World Championship.", "A girl, three, and a five-year-old boy are in critical conditions and their mother is also injured.", "Emmanuel Macron is now looking over his shoulder before the first round of the presidential race.", "Merseyside Police are investigating an alleged assault after Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo appeared to break a fan's phone.", "The victim, in his 20s, is being treated for potentially life-changing injuries, police say.", "Boris Johnson makes a surprise visit to Ukraine's capital, and meets President Volodymyr Zelensky.", "Emergency services were called to Kinghorn Beach in Fife after he got into difficulty in the water.", "Danielle endures frequent name-calling, stares and people trying to take photos of her.", "A former British Army soldier is among the international volunteers supporting the Ukrainian war effort.", "Wrexham FC's Hollywood owner pledges to get 72-year-old club legend with dementia to FA Trophy Final.", "The firm has written to the government and says it can demonstrate fracking is safe and secure.", "The chancellor's ratings are slumping, with colleagues questioning his chances of becoming PM.", "The PM offers Ukraine 120 armoured vehicles during a visit No 10 calls a \"show of solidarity\" .", "Henry Patterson wrote 85 novels, including the WW2 thriller penned under the pseudonym Jack Higgins.", "Eric Zemmour - tipped to run for the French presidency - is rebranding far-right nationalism.", "Organisers say the damage is \"devastating\" for the creators, sponsors and the charity it's in aid of.", "The monarch speaks about her experience with the virus during a virtual hospital visit.", "A group of young musicians from Kharkiv and Odesa have found new homes in Denmark.", "Staff at the former nuclear plant tell the BBC they were forced to negotiate when Russian forces took over.", "The far-right leader calls on those who did not vote for Macron to back her in the second round.", "If the past is anything to go by, the world will struggle to unite for Ukraine - says Fergal Keane.", "The chancellor faces further questions after it emerges he filed US tax returns until last year.", "Emmanuel Macron will face far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of France's presidential election, projections suggest.", "The injured officer was taken to hospital but his condition is not life-threatening, the Met said.", "Drivers say deliveries of produce like meat are losing quality and value in long waits at the port.", "More than 3,000 personnel took part in the Nato deployment in Norway in temperatures as low as -30C.", "The prime minister describes the bombing of a crowded railway station in Ukraine as \"unconscionable\".", "Twelve candidates are campaigning for the top job in France's presidential elections next month.", "The chancellor refers himself to Boris Johnson's ethics adviser amid ongoing questions about his finances.", "Russia is re-equipping and redeploying forces, say Western officials, as the offensive shifts to the Donbas region.", "Noble Yeats wins the Grand National at Aintree to give amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen a fairytale farewell in his final ride.", "The people of Kramatorsk are coming to terms with a strike on a train station that killed more than 50.", "Emmanuel Macron says he will unite \"all the different convictions and beliefs\" if re-elected.", "Emmanuel Macron will face a run-off against Marine Le Pen, in what is far from a done deal.", "Labour says a row over Akshata Murty's tax affairs raises questions over the chancellor's judgement.", "Some babies have limited vocabularies and struggle to understand facial expressions, a report finds.", "A reporter entering Bucha, near Kyiv, counts at least 20 bodies of men, one with his hands tied.", "A spokesman for Ukraine's President Zelensky describes the discovery of mass graves.", "The prince - who is the king's half-brother - was last year accused of conspiring to destabilise the crown.", "Residents who have escaped the besieged city are trying to leave behind memories of its destruction.", "The mother of five-year-old twin boys describes how she tried to protect as their house was bombed.", "John Craven, Lizo Mzimba and Julie Etchingham are among presenters recalling their time on the show.", "The BBC finds the charred remains of civilians on a highway where Russian troops had stationed tanks.", "June Brown's most famous character weathered more than 30 years of hardship and disappointment in EastEnders.", "The BBC has seen fresh evidence of atrocities, including the bodies of four people allegedly shot dead by Russian forces.", "Carrie Lam's five years in office saw massive pro-democracy protests and increased Chinese control.", "The most bombarded city in Ukraine’s war with Russia is key to Moscow’s military campaign.", "Police are still searching for other suspects in the worst US mass shooting of 2022 so far.", "Helen MacNamara apologises after she was fined for attending a leaving do for a civil servant during lockdown.", "The legal requirement to wear them at wedding and funeral services has also been removed.", "The 93-year-old has played Dot Cotton, one of the programme's longest-running characters, for 35 years.", "Logan Mwangi's body was found with 56 external injuries and severe damage to his abdominal area.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk has bought almost a tenth of the social media platform's shares, worth $3bn.", "Transgender people can be excluded from some spaces if \"justified and proportionate\", the EHRC says.", "The 23-year-old became ill after she ate a sweet delivered in \"child-friendly packaging\".", "The more than €5bn (£4bn) factory is the biggest investment in a German car plant in recent history.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Near-complete results show Viktor Orban has won a fourth term in Hungary's election by a landslide.", "Boris Johnson says mass graves being found was \"sickening\" and those responsible must be held to account.", "June Brown played one of EastEnders best loved characters, Dot Cotton.", "The actress played Dot Cotton on the BBC One soap for more than 30 years.", "For the first time since 2010, Hungary's prime minister faces a real fight for election victory.", "The member of the backroom team had to have stitches in his head following the incident during Sunday's match.", "Projected results from Serbia's elections suggest Aleksandar Vucic has won a comfortable victory.", "In an earnings call, Elon Musk talks up his plans to build humanoid robots - but what's involved?", "Staving off the worst impacts of climate change is possible, say scientists, but immediate action is needed.", "It will rule on a controversial blocked vote of no-confidence, following a day of political turmoil.", "Russia claims a Ukrainian helicopter raid set fuel tanks ablaze in Belgorod, a Russian city.", "Charities react to the government's decision not to ban conversion therapy for trans people.", "It follows 63 cases of food poisoning mostly in children aged five and under, the Food Standards Agency says.", "Ukraine's president had no experience of politics when when elected in 2019, but has emerged as a convincing war leader.", "Thousands of civilians have been trapped in the Ukrainian port city for nearly two weeks", "\"Our musicians wear armour not tuxedos,\" Volodymyr Zelensky tells the star-studded Grammys audience.", "For those escaping besieged Mariupol, the suffering is far from over, especially for their children.", "Jon Batiste wins album of the year while Silk Sonic's Leave The Door Open is named song of the year.", "Royal Mail says it will help cover rising delivery costs, but some have criticised the 11% hike.", "The father of 31-year-old Maksim Iovenko describes how his son and family ended up on a deadly stretch of highway outside Kyiv.", "Grant Shapps says the policy is \"not a route we want to go down\" despite pressure on supplies.", "Sore throats, headaches and loss of appetite are now all officially recognised as signs of infection.", "Boris Johnson says scenes in Irpin and Bucha are \"yet more evidence\" of war crimes in Ukraine.", "The Ukrainian president says people have been found in barrels, having been strangled and tortured.", "Many commentators say Ukraine's war has united Europe as hasn't been seen in years, but are they right?", "EU hearts will sink as \"illiberal democrat\" Viktor Orban wins another term, Katya Adler writes.", "Treasury Minister John Glen says \"stablecoins\" could be used as a means of payment.", "The president names a new finance minister after the whole cabinet resigns over the economic crisis.", "Police issue fixed penalty notices to some people who attended a gathering on 16 April 2021, sources say.", "As well her iconic role as George Costanza's mother, Harris was the voice of Toy Story's Mrs Potato Head.", "The BBC sees further evidence of alleged atrocities in areas recently occupied by Russia.", "A BBC team witnesses utter devastation in the town of Bucha, after Russian soldiers pulled out.", "The assault is alleged to have happened when he was a student officer at Hendon Training School.", "Viktor Orban calls Ukraine's president one of his \"opponents\" after his election win.", "Police appeal for public help in search for suspects in Sacramento shooting that left six dead.", "The band win best rock album and best rock performance, a week after drummer Taylor Hawkins' death.", "How the veteran EastEnders star rose to fame as one of soap's most loved characters, Dot Cotton.", "The BBC Breakfast host announces that he will be leaving the corporation to front 5 News.", "The BBC is told the money made from selling the broadcaster will be reinvested in the TV industry.", "UN scientists set to publish major study on how the world can limit global warming in the coming decades.", "Waiting lists for gynaecological conditions have risen more sharply than any other specialty.", "One ex-head of a school in Derby said the 100-hour weeks made it the \"loneliest job I've ever done\".", "Customers are turning to discount retailers as food prices continue to rise, research suggests.", "Manchester City remain on course to reach a second successive Champions League final after beating Real Madrid in a thrilling semi-final first leg.", "Russia also says Nato is conducting a proxy war, while UK says strikes using Western weapons are legitimate.", "Labour deputy leader says she was overwhelmed by support after the reports in a Sunday newspaper.", "Experts say there is mounting evidence that a common virus is linked to these rare cases.", "Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden is among business leaders who signed an open letter to ministers.", "Two elderly women from Coleraine, County Londonderry, tell BBC News NI about the effect of rising costs.", "Imran Ahmad Khan was part of a panel reviewing a research paper into child sexual exploitation.", "US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says he hopes to see the Russian military depleted in Ukraine.", "Liz Kincaid was pulled from Great Britain's gymnastics coaching squad just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics after a serious allegation was made against her.", "Moscow says 'unfriendly' countries must start paying for its gas in roubles.", "A joint investigation by the BBC and the Guardian has uncovered allegations of unwanted sexual behaviour and touching.", "Wimbledon is unlikely to waver on its decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players from this year's event, despite criticism from tennis governing bodies.", "Students are turning over papers in the first formal SQA exam diet since the start of the pandemic.", "The newly-formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra is part of the Proms' first full line-up since 2019.", "The remarks came during a meeting between the Earl and Countess of Wessex and the country's PM.", "Crowds of well-wishers pay tribute to Harry Billinge as his funeral cortege passes through St Austell.", "A machete-wielding man launched an unprovoked attack on a stranger in a train, a court hears.", "Council services likely to be affected include some bin collections and street cleaning.", "Women are facing unacceptable delays accessing menopause treatments, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society says.", "War in Ukraine", "Russia says countries interfering in Ukraine will be met with a \"lightning-fast\" response.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering Katie Kenyon, who has been missing since Friday.", "The musician, known as Bonehead, co-founded the band and played on Be Here Now and Definitely Maybe.", "Boris Johnson told ministers the service needed to start delivering better value for money.", "A disabled Ukrainian teenager has been stuck in Paris for six weeks without a UK visa.", "James Heappey says it is acceptable for Western weapons to be used to disrupt Russian supply lines.", "Authorities also published crime scene photos after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot.", "Mr Musk, who made the shock bid just over a week ago, said he would \"unlock\" the social media firm's potential.", "The boss of Tesla claims he wants to unlock the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".", "Consumer group Which? has written to the Treasury calling for urgent action to protect access to cash.", "The airline says strong winds and runway maintenance forced flight cancellations in recent days.", "Mr Depp defends messages sent to fellow actor Paul Bettany saying he would burn his then-girlfriend.", "Yuriy Glodan's wife, mother-in-law, and baby were killed in a strike on their apartment block in Odesa.", "Boris Johnson condemns claims about Labour's deputy leader as \"a load of sexist, misogynist tripe\".", "North Korea's leader spoke at a military parade which also saw banned missiles displayed.", "Ukraine is pushing up prices of commodities including food, cotton and energy, the World Bank says.", "Reducing the cost of looking after children was among the suggestions posed by ministers at a cabinet meeting.", "Kyiv's defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.", "Martin Newman had taken cocaine and was drinking at the wheel when he crashed into a family's car.", "Moscow's defence ministry says it fired missiles at Ukrainian infrastructure used to bring in foreign weapons.", "Those who have fled the Ukrainian city say people are being held in cramped, unclean camps.", "Ros Atkins looks why Nato’s border with Russia looks likely to expand significantly.", "Serious violence neared pre-pandemic levels in August, but overall rates were lower, say researchers.", "The billionaire has called for a series of changes from relaxing Twitter's content restrictions to eradicating fake accounts.", "Dr Tamara Bronckaers won a case against Daera last year relating to animal welfare issues.", "Yogita Limaye visits a Ukrainian village on the border of Russia and Belarus that has been torn apart by war.", "Police say a 28-year-old man arrested over the deaths remains in a stable condition in hospital.", "Venues in England and Wales are set to stay open until 01:00 to celebrate the Queen's 70-year reign.", "Dolet Hill is one of four people found dead after police force their way into a house in Bermondsey.", "Previously people could get married at 16 or 17 as long as they had parental consent.", "A joint investigation by the BBC and the Guardian has uncovered allegations of unwanted sexual behaviour and touching.", "Ukrainian forces have been holding the line in Donbas since 2014, but what was sporadic fighting has now turned into a full-blown war.", "The European Causeway, which can carry 410 passengers, spent hours adrift off the coast of Larne.", "Emma Raducanu has split from coach Torben Beltz after only five months.", "The social media giant is reported to be in the final stages of a takeover deal with Elon Musk.", "Bank manager Alistair Wilson objected to a nearby hotel's decking plans shortly before he was shot.", "Campaigners say escorting boats back to France would be inhumane and dangerous.", "Footage shows Nicola Sturgeon without a mask during a visit to a barber shop in East Kilbride.", "Police thank East Lulworth residents for their patience while they moved on the last partygoers.", "More than one in 10 deaths in the community are recorded as suicide, with systematic racism being blamed.", "It is not clear if Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin were speaking under duress in the Russian TV appearance.", "A Ukrainian air defence officer tells the BBC: \"Whoever dominates the air wins the war.\"", "The Russian Orthodox Church's war stance has prompted some Ukrainian priests and parishioners to cut ties.", "The 11,483 people who have taken permanent NHS England jobs include former gym managers and air crew.", "The western city's mayor says the strikes show there are \"no safe and unsafe locations\" in Ukraine.", "Capturing the city is a major strategic goal for Russia, leaving it in control of vast swathes of the country.", "Researchers say they warned UK officials about being targeted, but the software's makers deny the claims.", "The government wants shoppers' money to be protected even if the scheme they are in goes bust.", "Bosses paid £27m extra since 2020 despite 1,000 sewage spills a day, according to the party's research.", "BBC reporter Dan Johnson describes seeing a missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Lviv.", "The home secretary responds after criticism of her refugee plan from the Archbishop of Canterbury.", "A Kentucky man has claimed that a surprise office birthday party triggered a series of panic attacks.", "Everything has changed in this town since the Russians came, and horrific memories will not easily be erased.", "Some walkers 'caught short' are pooing on Wales' highest mountain.", "Manchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and partner Georgina Rodriguez say the death of their baby boy is the \"greatest pain any parents can feel\".", "An 80km queue formed on the Polish border ahead of a deadline for Russian trucks to leave the EU.", "Official figures earlier said there had been no Covid-linked deaths in Shanghai since 2020.", "Volunteers will be sent to those who need assistance to ease pressure on ambulance services.", "The temporary sale will see some off-peak prices slashed by as much as half in April and May.", "Boris Johnson is expected to face questions from MPs on Tuesday after being fined for breaching Covid rules.", "There will be no immediate job losses at the baby goods retailer, although its founder will step down.", "Almost three months after rule was lifted in England, Scots no longer have a legal obligation to wear masks.", "British Transport Police say 15 train passengers reported minor injuries after the emergency stop.", "Chelsea will face Liverpool in the FA Cup final after they beat Crystal Palace in their semi-final at Wembley.", "It will complicate efforts to make him pay damages in lawsuits over Sandy Hook conspiracy theories.", "Prince Harry voices his support for Ukraine and applauded their attendance at the Invictus Games.", "The Duke of Sussex speaks about the opportunity for \"healing\" that the Invictus Games provide.", "While young Ukrainians have moved to safety, many older residents say they have no choice but to stay.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge brought their older children to St George's Chapel in Windsor.", "The rise in the cost of living has led to more households cutting their subscription services.", "Derby County are relegated from the Championship after suffering a dramatic late defeat at Queens Park Rangers.", "Berlin now has some hard decisions to make following years of dialogue and co-operation with Moscow.", "Sviatohirsk was a tourist trail staple but is now just another place in the Donbas where people flee war.", "A federal judge in Florida, appointed by Donald Trump, says the CDC exceeded its authority.", "A dozen sanctioned Russians are linked to an estimated £800m worth of property in the UK, BBC analysis reveals.", "Credible footage of sinking Russian warship surfaces as Ukraine says Russia has started its assault to seize Donbas in the east.", "Russian sources claim Aiden Aslin has been captured in the besieged city of Mariupol.", "The host is to return to screens after saying he was \"censored\" when he left Good Morning Britain.", "Scotland's first minister has apologised after being filmed in a barber shop without a face covering.", "Vitaly Shevchenko's family fled Ukraine with the help of two BBC audience members.", "There have been clashes between police and people angry at a far-right group's plan to burn Qurans.", "Face-covering rules have changed but people are still being strongly advised to wear them voluntarily.", "Two of the Doctor's companions from the 1980s will feature in Jodie Whittaker final show.", "A man is held on suspicion of attempted murder after police are confronted by a man with a knife.", "Researchers rejuvenate a 53-year-old woman's skin by decades, but clinical applications are a way off.", "Court papers in a financial dispute suggest another connection with the Duchess of York.", "Three Israelis were killed by a Palestinian gunman who opened fire on a busy bar in Tel Aviv.", "The singer tells the BBC he now films his song-writing sessions due to concerns about plagiarism claims.", "Survivors from the besieged city say they wondered at times if the rest of Ukraine had fallen.", "Teenager's account adds to growing evidence of atrocities allegedly committed by Russian soldiers in Bucha.", "The US rapper had denied sexually assaulting a woman after a concert in 2013.", "The Academy voted on Friday to sanction Smith after he slapped Chris Rock at the awards show.", "The UN says the conflict has spread shocks through markets for grains and vegetable oil.", "The primary school teacher was found dead in a south-east London park in September.", "Sudden and sharp frosts in France this week are threatening this year's vintage.", "Two women are facing steep fines for allegedly biting crew members and passengers on domestic flights.", "Disruption at airports and the Port of Dover is continuing, ahead of another busy weekend for travel.", "Russia is re-equipping and redeploying forces, say Western officials, as the offensive shifts to the Donbas region.", "Putin has changed tactics but still wants a hold over all of Ukraine, the UK foreign secretary says.", "Lord Pickles could not give an example of fire safety being exempt from a policy to cut regulations.", "The Kent Resilience Forum said a number of problems have created a \"perfect storm\" for congestion.", "The widow of top civil servant Andrew Slorance says she is still waiting for answers about his death.", "High Court overturns the government's decision to allow a permanent monument outside Parliament.", "Koci Selamaj attacked Sabina Nessa after the abusive marriage he relied on to stay in the UK ended.", "Nearly 4.9 million people would test positive for coronavirus, according to the ONS.", "The advice is contained in updated guidelines to help reduce the risks of specific health conditions.", "The Met Police accepts 15 recommendations made by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).", "Intercepted audio appears to show Russians talking about shooting town residents, Der Spiegel says.", "Police are astonished to find two boys lying down on the central reservation of the motorway.", "Scientists say there is not enough evidence to link the disease to pollution.", "The band's first new material in 28 years was inspired by David Gilmour's \"anger\" over the war.", "Transgender women are no longer able to compete at elite female events run by British Cycling after the organisation suspended its current policy.", "The three-time Wimbledon champion was declared bankrupt in 2017 over an unpaid loan of more than £3m.", "A tax agreement between the UK and India could offer significant savings on Ms Murty’s inheritance tax bill.", "Figures show that of 41,000 refugees granted visas, only 12,000 have reached the UK.", "Canada is facing some of the most severe housing affordability issues in the world.", "It is believed the attack is linked to Dmitry Muratov's stance on the Russia-Ukraine war.", "The chancellor's ratings are slumping, with colleagues questioning his chances of becoming PM.", "James Davis killed Ciaran Morris when his car hit a pram being pushed by the baby's parents.", "New York's top lawyer says Donald Trump has not submitted files to a Trump Organization probe.", "The BBC's Jeremy Bowen takes stock of the war and its significance for the world.", "The Chinese leader's comments come as infections rise and residents complain of food shortages.", "The chancellor faces further questions after it emerges he filed US tax returns until last year.", "The French president made the comments following criticism over his talks with Vladimir Putin.", "The grime artist was given a community order with a 24-week curfew and told to wear an electronic tag.", "Dame Cressida Dick believes she is leaving a force that is \"more professional\" than it used to be.", "Four people are arrested after police clear protesters from the bridge to allow the road to reopen.", "Last-minute cancellations and delays could damage consumer confidence, says the aviation watchdog.", "The Queen, who has mobility problems, will not be attending this year's Maundy Service ceremony.", "Tiger Woods shoots a one-under-par 71 on his Masters comeback as the five-time champion is welcomed back to competitive golf amid celebratory scenes at Augusta.", "The co-host has appeared on the show since 2009, but is leaving to focus on his writing.", "Akshata Murty has previously not paid UK tax on shares worth £700m in an Indian tech company.", "The historic vote means Judge Jackson will be the first black female justice to serve on the court.", "The chief electoral officer says the absent vote legislation doesn't make allowances for Covid-19.", "A family tells the BBC how Oleg Abramov, a welder in Bucha, was shot dead outside his home.", "The female fox was euthanised and her three kits were also put down due to possible exposure.", "Police have launched a major investigation into the incident at Belfast Multi-Cultural Association.", "Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the Russian casualty rate a \"huge tragedy\" for the country.", "Villagers say 150 people were rounded up to protect Russians as the Ukrainian forces advanced.", "The prime minister describes the bombing of a crowded railway station in Ukraine as \"unconscionable\".", "Dozens of suspected cases are reported in the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.", "Ffion Morgan accidentally returned one of her belongings to Asos - but does not know what it is.", "Two books owned by Charles Darwin are left outside Cambridge University library in a pink gift bag.", "The UK, US, and Australia are to begin research focused on how to defend against the super-fast weapons.", "Mayor Andy Burnham is meeting Manchester Airport bosses to discuss the \"concerning\" situation.", "The actress played Dot Cotton on the BBC One soap for more than 30 years.", "A reporter entering Bucha, near Kyiv, counts at least 20 bodies of men, one with his hands tied.", "Cody Ackland admits murdering the 18-year-old, who was last seen at a bus stop in Plymouth.", "A Celtic physiotherapist suffered a head wound after a bottle was thrown at Sunday's Old Firm clash.", "Emotions ran high as the family of an aid worker killed by IS cell testify at a federal US trial.", "Can Arslan had terrorised his neighbours for 12 years before he stabbed Matthew Boorman 27 times.", "Stena Line suspends route from Fishguard as its ship is sent to help out in Northern Ireland.", "Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba calls on Nato allies to provide more weapons immediately as Russia focuses its war on the east of the country.", "Sore throats, headaches and loss of appetite are now all officially recognised as signs of infection.", "The Tesla founder has become the social network's biggest single shareholder, and a board member.", "The BBC has seen fresh evidence of atrocities, including the bodies of four people allegedly shot dead by Russian forces.", "A BBC crew follows an ambulance team as medics evacuate 12 children from the city of Sumy.", "Ukraine's president says Russia must be held accountable for civilian deaths in northern Ukraine.", "Mr Biden called the Russian leader \"brutal\" and said the killing of civilians in Bucha is \"outrageous\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Managing director Karen Smart is to leave, amid criticism of management over long security queues.", "The road in Derbyshire is closed as police try to \"digest\" the issue.", "United With Ukraine, led by Charlie Cawsey in Kent, has delivered items to more than 110 hospitals.", "Liverpool will take a two-goal lead into the Champions League quarter-final second leg after earning victory over Benfica in Lisbon.", "Staving off the worst impacts of climate change is possible, say scientists, but immediate action is needed.", "The BBC Breakfast host announces that he will be leaving the corporation to front 5 News.", "Teenager's account adds to growing evidence of atrocities allegedly committed by Russian soldiers in Bucha.", "The retailer said that five of its 526 shops have temporarily been shut since the attack last week.", "China's financial hub is now subject to indefinite restrictions after Covid cases hit a new high.", "The BBC is told the money made from selling the broadcaster will be reinvested in the TV industry.", "Senior Tories are calling for an end to the ban on shale gas extraction to help secure energy supplies.", "Kirstie Allsopp and Matt Lucas voice concerns about a government plan to privatise the broadcaster.", "The UK foreign secretary says sanctions on Russia must go further, after \"appalling acts\" in Ukraine.", "More than 40 aligned with Mr Rajapaksa's coalition say they will independently represent themselves.", "Helen MacNamara apologises after she was fined for attending a leaving do for a civil servant during lockdown.", "Police are still searching for other suspects in the worst US mass shooting of 2022 so far.", "Logan Mwangi's body was found with 56 external injuries and severe damage to his abdominal area.", "Virus-related absences are stabilising in England's state schools, despite rising cases in the UK.", "Richard Woodcock had gone to help a two-year-old neighbour who was in trouble, an inquest hears.", "Charities react to the government's decision not to ban conversion therapy for trans people.", "Revelations of atrocities have added impetus to calls for further measures against Russia's economy.", "The 23-year-old became ill after she ate a sweet delivered in \"child-friendly packaging\".", "Two other family members, a woman, 50, and her 14-year-old son, are in hospital with critical injuries.", "The cats, aged from six months, were living in the home and outbuildings at Breasclete on Lewis.", "Transgender people can be excluded from some spaces if \"justified and proportionate\", the EHRC says.", "Over 100 LGBT+ groups had vowed to boycott the \"Safe To Be Me\" event over the government's stance on conversion therapy.", "Firms will not be able to use stars like footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and Love Island's Chris Hughes.", "LGBT business champion Iain Anderson says he has \"no choice\" but to resign with a \"heavy heart\".", "A judge has ordered Latasha Kebe, known as Tasha K, to to delete and never repost defamatory videos.", "Ukraine's president says Borodyanka may have suffered more than other towns abandoned by Russian troops.", "He was awarded an MBE after raising funds used to create the British Normandy Memorial.", "The singer says the book will tackle painful past events she has \"never been able to express openly.\"", "Five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods says \"as of right now I am going to play\", adding that he will play nine more practice holes on Wednesday.", "The BBC sees further evidence of alleged atrocities in areas recently occupied by Russia.", "A BBC team witnesses utter devastation in the town of Bucha, after Russian soldiers pulled out.", "Dr Cathy Gardner believes the government acted unlawfully and failed to protect care home residents.", "Russia has halted gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria, after demanding countries pay in roubles.", "Crocodiles and turtles are in a particularly dire situation, according to a global assessment of risks.", "The High Court says government policies did not take into account transmission risks to the elderly.", "Manchester City remain on course to reach a second successive Champions League final after beating Real Madrid in a thrilling semi-final first leg.", "Russia also says Nato is conducting a proxy war, while UK says strikes using Western weapons are legitimate.", "Turning TVs, games consoles and chargers off at the wall when not in use could help combat price rises, British Gas says.", "Government policies on discharging patients from hospital to care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic have been ruled unlawful by the High Court.", "Two elderly women from Coleraine, County Londonderry, tell BBC News NI about the effect of rising costs.", "Imran Ahmad Khan was part of a panel reviewing a research paper into child sexual exploitation.", "The first service of its kind in the UK aims to relieve pressure on GPs and the NHS.", "The company says new healthy food rules fail to consider the nutritional value of milk added to cereals.", "Russian energy giant Gazprom cuts supply to Poland and Bulgaria for refusal to pay in roubles.", "Moscow says 'unfriendly' countries must start paying for its gas in roubles.", "A joint investigation by the BBC and the Guardian has uncovered allegations of unwanted sexual behaviour and touching.", "The US plane-maker reveals costs from the deal former US President Donald Trump renegotiated.", "A report finds \"no-go areas\" for staff and says jails must not provide opportunities for militants.", "The ex-model is accused of breaching a restraining order against ex-husband Kieran Hayler's fiancee.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The figures from the ONS are the first to reveal the full toll of the epidemic in care homes.", "Russia says countries interfering in Ukraine will be met with a \"lightning-fast\" response.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering Katie Kenyon, who has been missing since Friday.", "A review of the claims - made by two female MPs - is escalated to an independent complaints scheme.", "The musician, known as Bonehead, co-founded the band and played on Be Here Now and Definitely Maybe.", "Liverpool take control of their Champions League semi-final with Villarreal with a deserved first-leg win at Anfield.", "Ministers had refused to make it public, arguing that it would breach legal professional privilege.", "Rhiannon Lucas says she has nothing to do with her life now her two children are gone.", "There is a “chronic under-appreciation” of the potential of the countryside, says a new report.", "The book attracted criticism for describing people wearing turbans and a niqab as unfriendly.", "Russia's president says any nation meddling in the Ukraine war will face a \"lightning-fast\" response.", "Two journalists were summoned by Sir Lindsay Hoyle to discuss an article about Labour's deputy leader.", "Ukraine is pushing up prices of commodities including food, cotton and energy, the World Bank says.", "Asked if he will do more to help with energy costs, the chancellor says he wants to wait.", "An investigation uncovered allegations of predatory sexual behaviour and touching against the DJ.", "Frances and Patrick Connolly landed a £115m jackpot and have donated more than half their winnings.", "Reducing the cost of looking after children was among the suggestions posed by ministers at a cabinet meeting.", "Councillors in York vote to remove the honour bestowed on Prince Andrew in 1987.", "The homelessness charity wants ministers to scrap the process of tenancies ending with no explanation.", "Ros Atkins looks why Nato’s border with Russia looks likely to expand significantly.", "Daisy Cooper responds after a court rules policies on discharging untested patients from hospitals to care homes in England at the start of the Covid pandemic were unlawful.", "Western allies must \"double down\" in their support for Ukraine, the UK's foreign secretary says.", "The teen was allegedly in possession of white powder, and a 17-year-old had a \"Rambo-style\" knife.", "Five officers face gross-misconduct proceedings after the search of British sprinter Bianca Williams.", "Police say a 28-year-old man arrested over the deaths remains in a stable condition in hospital.", "Five-fold variation seen between areas with highest and lowest rates, government data shows.", "Sharyar Ali, 34, was due to go to trial for the 2019 murder of Hunter Patrick McGleenon.", "Labour's deputy says she hopes to hear from Boris Johnson as the Mail on Sunday defends its story.", "Prof Donald Forrester says there are \"profound problems\" with the service pre-pandemic.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps also calls again for P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite to resign.", "Previously people could get married at 16 or 17 as long as they had parental consent.", "Paige Burnley was more than twice the legal limit for alcohol when stopped by police in Cheltenham.", "Ukrainian forces have been holding the line in Donbas since 2014, but what was sporadic fighting has now turned into a full-blown war.", "Police hope the man photographed can help with their enquiries into an alleged incident on a train.", "A statue that once represented friendship between the two countries is pulled down in Kyiv.", "But Facebook owner Meta is struggling with its slowest revenue growth since at least 2012.", "The Trussell Trust charity expects food poverty to worsen in the UK as the cost of living crisis deepens.", "Labour's Sir Keir Starmer called the PM an “ostrich\", putting his \"head in the sand\" over rising prices.", "DJ Tim Westwood leaves Capital Xtra \"until further notice\" after sexual misconduct allegations.", "Katie Kenyon, 33, was last seen getting into a Ford Transit van in Lancashire five days ago.", "The actress says \"theatre should remain accessible\" to vulnerable people, as she wins an Olivier Award.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The victim, in his 20s, is being treated for potentially life-changing injuries, police say.", "In a letter seen by the BBC, the Planning Inspectorate's office confirms it has finished its report.", "Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the move won't bring stability to Europe.", "Organisers say the damage is \"devastating\" for the creators, sponsors and the charity it's in aid of.", "The monarch speaks about her experience with the virus during a virtual hospital visit.", "A murder trial jury is played the call made by a constituent after the MP was fatally stabbed.", "The far-right leader calls on those who did not vote for Macron to back her in the second round.", "The injured officer was taken to hospital but his condition is not life-threatening, the Met said.", "Russia is re-equipping and redeploying forces, say Western officials, as the offensive shifts to the Donbas region.", "Emmanuel Macron will face a run-off against Marine Le Pen, in what is far from a done deal.", "Mr Justice Sweeney tells jury the killing was not self defence, defence of another or to prevent crime.", "Analysis of three attacks in the city of Chernihiv may offer clues about Putin's tactics in Ukraine.", "Ali Harbi Ali - convicted of the murder of Sir David Amess - is a textbook study of radicalisation.", "Leaked documents show how sanctioned oligarch Suleiman Kerimov used shell companies to move $700m.", "War in Ukraine", "Mariupol's deputy mayor denies reports that Russia is close to victory in his city.", "Ministers want to stop some councils in England charging for the disposal of materials.", "The ferry operator said it will resume full sailings from Scotland to Northern Ireland on Thursday.", "The firm has written to the government and says it can demonstrate fracking is safe and secure.", "The Southend West MP was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in October 2021.", "Ajay Spence quit his life in Belfast to help defend Kyiv - now he is being redeployed to east Ukraine.", "Emmanuel Macron wins the first round, but the run-off against his far-right rival may be far closer.", "The BBC has uncovered first-hand evidence of Russian soldiers raping and killing civilians in a village west of Kyiv.", "One liberal centrist, one far right - the two challengers offer very different ideas for the future.", "Sales growth in March slowed due to people tightening their personal budgets, new figures show.", "Posts praising the Russian leader are being viewed by millions on the social network.", "Sasha Makoviy wrote her daughter's name on her skin in case her family were killed fleeing Kyiv.", "The singer, 40, also says she has previously suffered perinatal depression.", "The murdered teacher's sister says if they were a white family they would have been treated better.", "Jurors are shown footage of the moment officers tackled the man accused of murdering Sir David Amess MP.", "A former British Army soldier is among the international volunteers supporting the Ukrainian war effort.", "A deal is being struck to make them freely available to patients in England at an affordable cost to the NHS.", "As Russian forces retreat to eastern Ukraine, Andriivka and other abandoned villages are left devastated.", "Hauliers have warned fresh produce is losing quality and value due to long queues at the port.", "Alice Walker, now 67, scores a perfect 14 out of 14 on her specialist subject, the Peak District.", "Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan is found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008.", "If the past is anything to go by, the world will struggle to unite for Ukraine - says Fergal Keane.", "World number one Scottie Scheffler cements his place at the top of the men's game by winning the 2022 Masters and clinching his first major title.", "The chancellor refers himself to Boris Johnson's ethics adviser amid ongoing questions about his finances.", "Emmanuel Macron says he will unite \"all the different convictions and beliefs\" if re-elected.", "The drug found in magic mushrooms could treat depression in a unique way, researchers say.", "The French president fires up his re-election campaign visiting a stronghold of his far-right rival.", "The Old Bailey hears the man accused of killing Sir David Amess told police it was a terrorist attack.", "The three accused of Logan Mwangi's murder have behaved \"like rats in a bag\", prosecution says.", "Shauna McDevitt died following a crash on the Toome Bypass, County Antrim, on Sunday night.", "Money raised will help build the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease in Leeds.", "A sharp fall in car and computer production weighed on the UK's economic expansion.", "Lord Pickles says the Hillsborough disaster had been on his mind when he \"misspoke\".", "The riot squad was clearing an area for a curfew following protests over George Floyd's murder.", "Two High Court judges dismissed part of the force's appeal over a previous ruling as \"hopeless\".", "Emergency services were called to Kinghorn Beach in Fife after he got into difficulty in the water.", "Marine Le Pen will go head-to-head with President Macron in an election run off in a fortnight.", "Labour calls for full disclosure as No 10 launches an inquiry into Rishi Sunak's financial interests.", "The PM offers Ukraine 120 armoured vehicles during a visit No 10 calls a \"show of solidarity\" .", "The teams will help tackle the \"shocking\" collapse in rape prosecutions, MPs say.", "Russia warns two Nordic nations against Nato membership, and the Austrian chancellor meets Putin in Moscow.", "Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne were among the winners at Sunday's theatre awards ceremony.", "The FIA - motorsport's governing body - is investigating after a 15-year-old Russian karting champion appeared to make a Nazi salute on a podium.", "Drivers say deliveries of produce like meat are losing quality and value in long waits at the port.", "Texas authorities had said a woman, 26, caused “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion”.", "Nearly 2,500 barristers essential to the criminal justice system will start industrial action.", "US President Joe Biden accuses Russia's Vladimir Putin of genocide in Ukraine.", "Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing the city after a devastating, six-week assault.", "Colin Davis says he had \"no recollection\" of the occasion but \"can't absolutely rule it out\".", "The Tesla boss claims he has a 'Plan B' if his offer, which values the firm at $43bn, is rejected.", "An Algerian man in Belgium is fighting to claim his €250,000 winnings because of his status.", "The Russian Orthodox Church's war stance has prompted some Ukrainian priests and parishioners to cut ties.", "A Ukrainian air defence officer tells the BBC: \"Whoever dominates the air wins the war.\"", "Lee Rogers and Brian Statham were flying from Warwickshire to France when their plane vanished.", "Eugene Tenenbaum and David Davidovich have had their assets - estimated to be up to £10bn - frozen.", "Videos appearing to show people suffering in Shanghai's lockdown have gone viral, stretching censors.", "Ukraine's leader tells the BBC that all European countries should have ended Russian energy imports.", "The vice-chancellor says they should use bikes and lower the thermostat to use less Russian gas.", "Despite the war continuing, some Ukrainians are now going back to their homeland.", "An executive at one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges hits out at scammers who target the vulnerable.", "After the discovery of the atrocities in Bucha, a massive operation to find the bodies began.", "Joe Root steps down as England Test captain, citing the \"toll\" and \"impact\" the role has had on him.", "Education officials say some pupils may be unable to attend school during upcoming industrial action.", "The experience of a young soldier who took his own life is \"sadly not isolated\", a lawyer says.", "The tamarin monkey is among the world's most endangered primates, with only about 2,000 in the wild.", "The police chief of the Kyiv region says the remains of 900 civilians have been found after Russian troops pulled out.", "The boss of Tesla claims he wants to unlock the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".", "Clive Myrie visits the heavily fortified Situation Room - the HQ of the resistance against Russia's invasion.", "El Shafee Elsheikh is the highest profile IS fighter to stand trial in the US.", "The Sussexes make their first public appearance in Europe together since stepping back as senior royals.", "Temperatures hit 23.4C in London's St James's Park as the Easter weekend begins.", "If convicted, Frank James, 62, faces life behind bars for the attack which saw 10 people shot.", "Three non-major label acts dominate the album chart's top spots for the first time in over a decade.", "Sections of the M20 have reopened, although ferry passengers are warned of two-hour delays.", "Millions of drivers are heading on trips across the UK, while several major train routes are closed.", "Moscow says it hit the Ukrainian capital overnight and will launch more strikes in response to attacks in Russia.", "Residents have been forced from their homes as apartments are turned into quarantine centres.", "A psychotherapist tells the court of a volatile dynamic between the couple during therapy sessions.", "Activists against new government oil and gas projects target sites in Warwickshire and Essex.", "West Ham will face Eintracht Frankfurt for a place in the Europa League final after securing their first European semi-final in 46 years with a stunning win in Lyon.", "Imran Ahmad Khan's decision to stand down after a sex assault verdict will trigger a by-election.", "Ukraine's president had no experience of politics when when elected in 2019, but has emerged as a convincing war leader.", "The warship sank while being towed a day after Ukraine claimed to have hit it with a missile.", "Burnley sack manager Sean Dyche with eight games left of their season in the Premier League.", "More than 200 brain tumour patients are taking part in research hoping to yield new personalised treatments.", "Russian sources claim Aiden Aslin has been captured in the besieged city of Mariupol.", "Hundreds attend vigils on Friday evening in memory of Michael Snee and Aidan Moffitt.", "Robert Jenrick is thought to be the first MP to take in refugees under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.", "Crypto worth at least $615 million was stolen from players of popular online game Axie Infinity.", "Some of those arriving on small boats will be sent to the country as part of a £120m trial.", "The royal couple stopped at Windsor to visit the monarch on their way to the Netherlands.", "The so-called \"poison pill\" measure is in response to Elon Musk's $43bn cash buyout offer.", "Salah Abdeslam was allegedly part of an IS terror cell that killed 130 people in attacks across Paris in 2015.", "The European Highlander has a \"small number\" of issues to be fixed before it can return to service.", "Relatives speak of their pride and fears for the last Ukrainian soldiers defending Mariupol.", "Assets frozen of charity donating £9m to Queen's hospital and £3m pledged to Prince Charles’s charity.", "Crawley suspend manager John Yems over accusations he used \"discriminatory language and behaviour\" towards his players.", "The culture secretary says it is tough seeing people mock her for something beyond her control.", "Another ferry is found to have issues that need fixing before it can sail again.", "Guns have overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of death among young Americans.", "A year since the first subpostmasters overturned wrongful convictions, most still await a financial settlement", "David Nott worked in conflict zones around the world - now he's sharing his expertise to help doctors in Ukraine.", "A 56-year-old man was found dead in the car park of Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield.", "The minister, who wants civil servants to stop working from home, left a note saying \"sorry you were out\".", "The medication could help millions of UK women with overactive bladders, say experts.", "The youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is pictured playing in the sand in Norfolk.", "Police say they were called to reports of several people being attacked in Bedworth on Saturday.", "The fires covered an area the size of 325 rugby pitches and took three days to tackle.", "A man has been taken to hospital following the blaze on a double decker bus in Glasgow.", "Disney's special status allowed it to in effect operate its own municipal government in Florida.", "Kyiv's defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.", "Critics want a council to apologise after a newsletter urged staff to cut back on meat and dairy.", "It follows reports that officials were fined for a garden party Boris Johnson attended in 2020.", "Seven-year-old Hakeem Hussain was found dead in a garden in freezing conditions.", "Madeleine has been missing for nearly 15 years - she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal.", "One of the last defenders in Mariupol tells the BBC conditions are dire but they won't surrender.", "Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene is on trial for allegedly violating a Civil War era law.", "Tesco joins Waitrose and Morrisons in limiting purchases as supplies are hit by the conflict in Ukraine.", "The health secretary is considering letting an inquiry access a database of young people already treated.", "Boris Johnson tells Volodymyr Zelensky the UK will provide more armoured vehicles, drones and anti-tank weapons.", "A Pembrokeshire company says it will stop printing \"Little England beyond Wales\" on its tubs.", "The search continues in frigid waters off the Hokkaido island for 16 others who were on board.", "A mother says she is struggling to keep her family warm without carpets in social housing in Preston.", "A senior Russian commander is quoted as saying Moscow plans to take full control of the south and east.", "ONS officials say they are seeing welcome falls in infection across the UK, but levels remain high.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 April and 22 April.", "WBC champion Tyson Fury produces a stunning one-punch stoppage in the sixth round to beat fellow Briton Dillian Whyte and then insists he will retire.", "The latest data from the ONS suggests some 4.9 million people in the UK are infected with the virus.", "The soaring cost of living is affecting millions of people in the UK. These five charts explain why.", "The scientific achievement, which has taken decades, offers insights into people's genetic building blocks.", "The BBC finds the charred remains of civilians on a highway where Russian troops had stationed tanks.", "Protesters are arrested as climate change campaign groups target \"critical\" fuel sites across England.", "The BBC has seen fresh evidence of atrocities, including the bodies of four people allegedly shot dead by Russian forces.", "BBC reporters Jenny Hill and Orla Guerin - on the ground - answer your questions about the war in Ukraine.", "The French-born actor had accused the Russian president of \"crazy, unacceptable excesses\" in Ukraine.", "John Fleming is banned from keeping animals for 10 years and must do 200 hours of community service.", "Yorkshire chair Lord Patel hails an \"overwhelming vote for positive change\" as structural reforms at the club are approved on Thursday.", "Crime figures are released to the Lib Dems, who accuse the government of being \"soft on crime\".", "In total 47 officers were investigated over the handling of claims of child sex abuse in Rotherham.", "Gerard McCrory, 45, killed 24-year-old Lucy McIlhatton on the Springfield Road on 3 January, 2021.", "Owners of the Sheffield venue say they plan to keep it open but with new managers in charge.", "Centrica's boss tells the BBC that the UK should be open to the idea of bringing back fracking.", "The World Trade Organisation says ongoing pandemic-related supply chain problems are also hurting growth.", "The government failed to complete a review of fire safety guidance before the disaster in June 2017.", "It can eliminate the need for finger prick tests and prevent life-threatening attacks, say experts.", "Daniel Cooke, a construction site manager from Somerset, has taken a second job to pay rising energy bills.", "The team hope the slime could one day be used to collect accidentally-swallowed objects.", "As a new price cap takes effect, causing energy bills to soar, we answer your questions.", "Demonstrators face off with police in Colombo while tear gas is fired at students in another town.", "A strip-search of any child in two London boroughs will need approval from an inspector.", "News on Russia's poor military performance is not making it back to Putin, the White House says.", "A typical annual energy bill could be as high as £2,600 by October, warns consultancy Cornwall Insight.", "Tear gas was fired on demonstrators protesting against dire food, fuel and power shortages.", "Russia claims a Ukrainian helicopter raid set fuel tanks ablaze in Belgorod, a Russian city.", "An Italian aid worker says he was beaten and given dog names by his Islamic State captors in Syria.", "Vladimir Putin orders \"unfriendly\" foreign buyers of Russia's gas to open Russian bank accounts.", "The Leadmill, in Sheffield, says it has been told it must leave the building in a year's time.", "\"Spring is on hold,\" says BBC Weather, in a sharp change to last week which saw highs of 20C.", "Rishi Sunak has been under pressure over his wife's stake in Infosys, which operates in Russia.", "The chancellor speaks out over criticism of his wife, who owns shares in a firm operating in Russia.", "Analysts warn of another big rise in energy costs in October following increases in a host of essential bills.", "Gen Eric Vidaud loses his job as military intelligence boss for not predicting Russia's invasion.", "Meta said it was investigating the issue but didn't say what caused it.", "The government U-turns on plans to drop a ban on conversion therapy for gay and bisexual people.", "A special school is closed as Unite workers take further action in a pay dispute with employers.", "Logan Wellbeing offers fertility treatment but the BBC found it used prescription-only drugs.", "Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges says she has been \"harassed and demonised\" after being told she cannot compete in the National Omnium Championships.", "Nearly 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup was stolen in the so-called Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.", "An ex-insider told the BBC it would be \"disgraceful\" if junior, but not senior, staff received fines.", "The Airport Operators Association warned staff shortages and absences could put operations under strain.", "Video captured by a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance group appears to show Russian forces shooting at civilians.", "England could face Scotland or Wales at the Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 after the draw for the tournament's finals was made on Friday.", "The Labour leader says people in Downing Street who broke the rules should not keep it secret.", "The Duke of York returns £750,000 claimed to have been \"misappropriated\" from its Turkish owner.", "The expansion comes as officials estimate nearly five million people in the UK now have the virus.", "Orla Guerin returns to Irpin, where the Ukrainian military has forced a Russian retreat.", "The UK says Russia is bringing in between 1,200 and 2,000 troops from Georgia as reinforcements.", "Ukraine's state nuclear company says Russian soldiers have left the former nuclear power plant.", "Lincoln City has asked supporters to support the move, sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.", "Russia has blocked 45 buses heading to the city to rescue civilians, says Ukraine's deputy prime minister.", "A US judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction, denying her bid for a new trial.", "The Insolvency Service launches criminal and civil investigations into the recent redundancies.", "It says the decision to award the National Lottery licence to another operator is \"badly wrong\".", "A robot boat controlled from the UK is going to survey the Pacific volcano that erupted in January.", "President Putin demands roubles for gas supplies, as Russian troops redeploy around Ukraine.", "Some farmers say studies suggest Paraquat could be a factor in the onset of Parkinson's Disease.", "The body of 54-year-old Roy Reynolds was found in North Woodburn Reservoir on Monday.", "Razzie organisers said it was \"not appropriate\" after the announcement about actor's health issues.", "The Kremlin says it won't cut gas supplies to European customers until mid-April at the earliest.", "Tiger Woods is unable to match the standard he set on his comeback but makes the cut as world number one Scottie Scheffler takes a commanding halfway lead at the Masters.", "The fire service says they will work with police to investigate the fire at We The Curious in Bristol.", "Further sanctions against oligarchs and an end to imports of Russian coal and gas are announced by UK.", "Court papers in a financial dispute suggest another connection with the Duchess of York.", "Toddler Veronika had to leave her doll in Ukraine but found the same one in a charity warehouse.", "Analysis of three attacks in the city of Chernihiv may offer clues about Putin's tactics in Ukraine.", "As the invasion of Ukraine loomed, Western intelligence officials decided to tell the world what they knew.", "The Queen, who has mobility problems, will not be attending this year's Maundy Service ceremony.", "The UK prime minister held talks in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.", "A girl, three, and a five-year-old boy are in critical conditions and their mother is also injured.", "The ship had been held by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency after P&O sacked 800 of its workers.", "Emmanuel Macron is now looking over his shoulder before the first round of the presidential race.", "Climate change activists say they will block more roads than ever before and protest all week.", "Merseyside Police are investigating an alleged assault after Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo appeared to break a fan's phone.", "Akshata Murty has previously not paid UK tax on shares worth £700m in an Indian tech company.", "Teenager's account adds to growing evidence of atrocities allegedly committed by Russian soldiers in Bucha.", "Danielle endures frequent name-calling, stares and people trying to take photos of her.", "Survivors from the besieged city say they wondered at times if the rest of Ukraine had fallen.", "Nearly 4.9 million people would test positive for coronavirus, according to the ONS.", "Nigel Adams, who represents Selby and Ainsty, said he wanted to focus on other interests.", "Viktoria describes how her daughter and husband were killed in front of her while escaping Russian forces.", "The PM offers Ukraine 120 armoured vehicles during a visit No 10 calls a \"show of solidarity\" .", "His British father and a French woman are rescued by authorities after two-and-a-half day ordeal.", "Henry Patterson wrote 85 novels, including the WW2 thriller penned under the pseudonym Jack Higgins.", "The Academy voted on Friday to sanction Smith after he slapped Chris Rock at the awards show.", "The chancellor's ratings are slumping, with colleagues questioning his chances of becoming PM.", "The BBC's Jeremy Bowen takes stock of the war and its significance for the world.", "The UN says the conflict has spread shocks through markets for grains and vegetable oil.", "A group of young musicians from Kharkiv and Odesa have found new homes in Denmark.", "Staff at the former nuclear plant tell the BBC they were forced to negotiate when Russian forces took over.", "The Chinese leader's comments come as infections rise and residents complain of food shortages.", "Villagers say 150 people were rounded up to protect Russians as the Ukrainian forces advanced.", "Trailblazing rider Rachael Blackmore, the first female jockey to triumph, is on 2021 victor Minella Times again in Saturday's big race at Aintree.", "If the past is anything to go by, the world will struggle to unite for Ukraine - says Fergal Keane.", "One paramedic remains in a serious condition after a van, a pick-up truck and two motorcycles crashed.", "The chancellor faces further questions after it emerges he filed US tax returns until last year.", "It comes as airlines cancel flights and ferry operators continue to struggle to meet demand.", "Weather investigators visit the site in north Wales where property and trees were damaged this week.", "The French president made the comments following criticism over his talks with Vladimir Putin.", "Drivers say deliveries of produce like meat are losing quality and value in long waits at the port.", "More than 3,000 personnel took part in the Nato deployment in Norway in temperatures as low as -30C.", "The prime minister describes the bombing of a crowded railway station in Ukraine as \"unconscionable\".", "Two women are facing steep fines for allegedly biting crew members and passengers on domestic flights.", "The three-time Wimbledon champion was declared bankrupt in 2017 over an unpaid loan of more than £3m.", "Russia is re-equipping and redeploying forces, say Western officials, as the offensive shifts to the Donbas region.", "Noble Yeats wins the Grand National at Aintree to give amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen a fairytale farewell in his final ride.", "The people of Kramatorsk are coming to terms with a strike on a train station that killed more than 50.", "Dozens of suspected cases are reported in the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.", "Pakistan's prime minister warns that if he is ousted, he won't recognise an opposition government.", "Gillian Docherty was living on borrowed time but a drug improved her health so much she had a baby.", "A leading expert says Boris Johnson \"broke the law\", \"misled Parliament\" and \"shredded the ministerial code\".", "A \"clear message\" must be sent to civil servants about ending home working, minister says.", "Nearly 40,000 people signed a petition calling on the theatre performance to be axed.", "The firm needs to sign up new subscribers after losing 200,000 in the first quarter of the year.", "Justice minister Lord David Wolfson criticises the \"scale, context and nature\" of breaches.", "Boris Johnson tells MPs he is \"profusely\" sorry for breaking lockdown laws but it had not occurred to him he was breaking the rules.", "It is not clear if Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin were speaking under duress in the Russian TV appearance.", "Boris Johnson has been fined for attending a birthday party, thrown for him during a Covid lockdown.", "Dozens of missiles are launched as Russian and Ukrainian forces fight along a 300-mile front in the Donbas region.", "Researchers say they warned UK officials about being targeted, but the software's makers deny the claims.", "A study of thousands of women across seven countries tries to discover why there is a strong link.", "The western city's mayor says the strikes show there are \"no safe and unsafe locations\" in Ukraine.", "As fighting rages across Ukraine, Russia's invasion has shattered the lives of millions of children.", "BBC reporter Dan Johnson describes seeing a missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Lviv.", "Co-founder Hayden Wood tells MPs he was asked to stay on to \"support customers\".", "Prashanth Kandaiah is accused of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing a knife.", "The actor describes his childhood of physical abuse as he takes the stand in a Virginia court.", "Sir Bradley Wiggins says he was groomed by a coach when he was about 13 and that the experience has \"impacted\" his adult life.", "Manchester United and Liverpool supporters unite in a fan-led minute of applause at Anfield in support of Cristiano Ronaldo and his family following the death of his baby boy.", "An influential panel of scientists wants to see a mission to the Solar System's seventh planet.", "Leaders agree to send artillery and other weapons as Russia launches a fresh offensive in eastern Ukraine.", "Manchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and partner Georgina Rodriguez say the death of their baby boy is the \"greatest pain any parents can feel\".", "A murder investigation is under way after the death of a 64-year-old woman in Victoria Avenue.", "The temporary sale will see some off-peak prices slashed by as much as half in April and May.", "Boris Johnson is expected to face questions from MPs on Tuesday after being fined for breaching Covid rules.", "Missile strikes are reported in Luhansk and Donetsk as Russia begins a second phase of the war.", "One trade body suggests three quarters of its members have had staff off sick in the last month.", "White goods prices are up a third since last year and set to climb higher, says Appliances Direct boss.", "Two blasts outside a high school in the Afghan capital killed at least six people and wounded 20.", "Fulham crush Preston to seal their Premier League return as Aleksandar Mitrovic's double takes his season's tally to 40 goals", "The government has also announced people will be able to opt out of subscriptions more easily.", "The prime minister and chancellor are in uncharted waters over fines for breaking lockdown laws.", "Mobile phone use while driving will remain illegal, as changes to the Highway Code are announced.", "Former world champion Amir Khan says he has been robbed at gunpoint while out with his wife in Leyton, east London.", "Berlin now has some hard decisions to make following years of dialogue and co-operation with Moscow.", "Sviatohirsk was a tourist trail staple but is now just another place in the Donbas where people flee war.", "The rise in the cost of living has led to more households cutting their subscription services.", "A federal judge in Florida, appointed by Donald Trump, says the CDC exceeded its authority.", "Derby County are relegated from the Championship after suffering a dramatic late defeat at Queens Park Rangers.", "Iby Knill, who moved to Leeds in 1947, dies 77 years after her liberation from Auschwitz.", "Credible footage of sinking Russian warship surfaces as Ukraine says Russia has started its assault to seize Donbas in the east.", "Vitaly Shevchenko's family fled Ukraine with the help of two BBC audience members.", "Russian sources claim Aiden Aslin has been captured in the besieged city of Mariupol.", "Scotland's first minister has apologised after being filmed in a barber shop without a face covering.", "Patients in hospitals and GP waiting rooms in England are no longer required to socially distance.", "The Ukraine war will \"severely set back\" global growth with the UK hit harder than most, the IMF says.", "Only £60m of £220m humanitarian aid pledged by the government was handed out by 1 April, a Labour MP says.", "A man is held on suspicion of attempted murder after police are confronted by a man with a knife.", "The PM defends the rise, but Labour's Sir Keir Starmer calls it \"the wrong tax at the wrong time\".", "The UK, US, and Australia are to begin research focused on how to defend against the super-fast weapons.", "Further sanctions against oligarchs and an end to imports of Russian coal and gas are announced by UK.", "The soaring cost of living is affecting millions of people in the UK. These five charts explain why.", "Handwritten lyrics by Joy Division's Ian Curtis and Granada TV's entire archive are among the items.", "A BBC crew follows an ambulance team as medics evacuate 12 children from the city of Sumy.", "Mr Biden called the Russian leader \"brutal\" and said the killing of civilians in Bucha is \"outrageous\".", "The ex-president's daughter gives evidence days after her husband and fellow aide also spoke to Congress.", "It comes after ministers removed therapies for transgender people from a forthcoming ban.", "The singer says pop stars are easy targets in what has become a \"really damaging\" culture in music.", "Matt le Tissier says he has \"stepped aside\" from his role as ambassador at former club Southampton.", "Managing director Karen Smart is to leave, amid criticism of management over long security queues.", "Teenager's account adds to growing evidence of atrocities allegedly committed by Russian soldiers in Bucha.", "People with brain injuries in Belfast are rediscovering their love of cycling.", "Kirstie Allsopp and Matt Lucas voice concerns about a government plan to privatise the broadcaster.", "Labour demands to know whether the chancellor has benefited from his wife's tax arrangements.", "Isle of Wight Council says staff are covering up the \"inappropriate\" website showing on the screen.", "Biden's eldest granddaughter will get a wedding party at perhaps the most exclusive venue in the US.", "He was awarded an MBE after raising funds used to create the British Normandy Memorial.", "Delhi calls for an investigation into the \"deeply disturbing reports\" of civilian killings.", "President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked the people of Ireland for supporting his country.", "The widow of top civil servant Andrew Slorance says she is still waiting for answers about his death.", "A Celtic physiotherapist suffered a head wound after a bottle was thrown at Sunday's Old Firm clash.", "Emotions ran high as the family of an aid worker killed by IS cell testify at a federal US trial.", "Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba calls on Nato allies to provide more weapons immediately as Russia focuses its war on the east of the country.", "The Russian president says he has daughters, but has given little information about them.", "Lord Harrington insists \"raised voices\" at meetings reflect a shared desire to help Ukrainians.", "Ukraine's president says Russia must be held accountable for civilian deaths in northern Ukraine.", "David Ballantyne Smith, 57, is charged with nine offences under the Official Secrets Act.", "The US sanctions' list includes Putin's adult daughters and relatives of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.", "A festival organised by a London council to encourage vaccination saw just 435 people getting jabbed.", "Liverpool will take a two-goal lead into the Champions League quarter-final second leg after earning victory over Benfica in Lisbon.", "Matthew Boorman's family say mistakes were made by the authorities that must never be repeated.", "A man is arrested after a woman became worried for her safety and rang police covertly.", "The new laws could see doctors face fines of up to $100,000 and up to 10 years in prison.", "The Ukrainian president visits Bucha, where Russian forces have been accused of atrocities.", "The cats, aged from six months, were living in the home and outbuildings at Breasclete on Lewis.", "Over 100 LGBT+ groups had vowed to boycott the \"Safe To Be Me\" event over the government's stance on conversion therapy.", "People are being warned to expect long delays over the bank holiday weekend.", "The firm hopes to get its Pride of Kent and Spirit of Britain ships back in action, subject to inspection.", "Gina and Craig Dewdney reflect on the \"best but hardest job\" as their three boys turn one.", "The father of 31-year-old Maksim Iovenko describes how his son and family ended up on a deadly stretch of highway outside Kyiv.", "A letter states a review into failing maternity services in Nottingham is moving like treacle.", "The security alert in Moor Park Mews is now over and residents have returned to their homes.", "The Ukrainian president says people have been found in barrels, having been strangled and tortured.", "Senior Tories are calling for an end to the ban on shale gas extraction to help secure energy supplies.", "Passengers facing disruption ahead of Easter, the first holiday since Covid travel restrictions ended.", "Richard Woodcock had gone to help a two-year-old neighbour who was in trouble, an inquest hears.", "Remains are unearthed of a dinosaur that may have died on the very day a space rock hit Earth.", "John Lansdown is the only seafarer out of the 800 sacked at short notice to take P&O to a tribunal.", "It comes after new board member Elon Musk asked his followers if they wanted the feature.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he does not believe transgender women should compete in female sporting events.", "The BBC sees further evidence of alleged atrocities in areas recently occupied by Russia.", "A BBC team witnesses utter devastation in the town of Bucha, after Russian soldiers pulled out.", "The remains of 108 Aboriginal people will be reburied in anonymous sites in national parks.", "The prime minister says it is fair for some to face an extra tax burden to pay for health and social care.", "Can Arslan had terrorised his neighbours for 12 years before he stabbed Matthew Boorman 27 times.", "After the High Court judgement, the singer says such \"baseless\" claims \"are way too common now\".", "Karim Benzema's hat-trick for Real Madrid leaves Chelsea with a mountain to climb to retain their Champions League crown.", "A father who died with his son in the Australian mountains is named as lawyer Mehraab Nazir.", "Different chocolate egg products have been recalled over a link to UK cases of salmonella in children.", "A report calls for a relaxation on requirements to speak English, and to 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concedes in France's presidential vote.", "The wives of two police officers who died in the line of duty want a change to the law in Scotland.", "A 23-year-old man is charged after Neri Morse, 24, died following an attack on Wednesday.", "Officers said the vehicle \"almost flew past them\" during a speed check on the A78 in Ayrshire.", "One liberal centrist, one far right - the two challengers offer very different ideas for the future.", "Campaigners say there is an \"appalling\" lack of black, Asian and minority ethnic councillors.", "The culture secretary says it is tough seeing people mock her for something beyond her control.", "Two boats ran aground in low tide, stranding people overnight and leading to a dramatic rescue.", "Liverpool keep pace with Manchester City at the top of the Premier League as two second-half goals give them a victory that deepens Merseyside rivals Everton's relegation worries.", "Relatives say she was killed in the \"cruellest of circumstances\" in the village last Saturday.", "Jamie Wallis said last month he has gender dysphoria and had been a victim of rape and blackmail.", "David Nott worked in conflict zones around the world - now he's sharing his expertise to help doctors in Ukraine.", "WBC champion Tyson Fury produces a stunning one-punch stoppage in the sixth round to beat fellow Briton Dillian Whyte and then insists he will retire.", "The minister, who wants civil servants to stop working from home, left a note saying \"sorry you were out\".", "The incumbent, Emmanuel Macron, has secured the largest share of the vote in the presidential election.", "France's sitting president beats his far-right rival and secures a second term in office.", "The ferry firm had asked recently-employed agency workers to sign new contracts with reduced wages.", "Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen take part in an animated contest ahead of Sunday's run-off vote.", "The fires covered an area the size of 325 rugby pitches and took three days to tackle.", "Police say they were called to reports of several people being attacked in Bedworth on Saturday.", "Yuriy Glodan's wife, mother-in-law, and baby were killed in a strike on their apartment block in Odesa.", "President Buhari calls the deaths of more than 100 people in an explosion \"a national disaster\".", "Kyiv's defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.", "Moscow's defence ministry says it fired missiles at Ukrainian infrastructure used to bring in foreign weapons.", "Sir Keir Starmer says the government's response to the crisis so far has been \"utterly woeful\".", "Chappell was the writer behind several hit TV sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.", "Rescuers find seven people after the vessel put out a distress signal during a tour of a world heritage site.", "It follows reports that officials were fined for a garden party Boris Johnson attended in 2020.", "Parades fill the streets of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro for the first carnival since the pandemic began.", "The health secretary is considering letting an inquiry access a database of young people already treated.", "Eluned Morgan rejects doctors' claims but admits the system is under \"immense\" pressure.", "Boris Johnson tells Volodymyr Zelensky the UK will provide more armoured vehicles, drones and anti-tank weapons.", "Fascist, dirty liberal, racist, elitist - the violent dislike in this French election is startling.", "The sailings were disrupted for several weeks after the company sacked 800 workers last month.", "Mum is told her passport is invalid for Portugal because it lasts longer than 10 years.", "Nataliya Hevak's family cannot shelter in bunkers in Lviv because their son is in a wheelchair.", "The search continues in frigid waters off the Hokkaido island for 16 others who were on board.", "A mother says she is struggling to keep her family warm without carpets in social housing in Preston.", "A senior Russian commander is quoted as saying Moscow plans to take full control of the south and east.", "An article suggesting Labour's deputy tries to distract the PM in the Commons is roundly condemned.", "The ex-Labour leader suggested the alliance be disbanded, sparking further ire from the current boss.", "The 44-year-old will now serve for another five years, but he is facing a polarised France.", "Emmanuel Macron will face a run-off against Marine Le Pen, in what is far from a done deal.", "A forum which allowed criminals access to stolen personal data - for a fee - has been taken down.", "The French presidential candidate says she is in favour of sanctions on Russia - except for energy.", "Tropical storm Megi is the first storm to hit the nation this year, causing floods and mudslides.", "In a rare public appearance, Russia's president insists his country's \"noble\" aims will be met.", "Russia is re-equipping and redeploying forces, say Western officials, as the offensive shifts to the Donbas region.", "Kemarni Watson Darby suffered weeks of beatings before the fatal attack at his West Bromwich home.", "The attacker is still at large after opening fire in a New York City subway station, police say.", "Cyber experts say the malicious software used points to notorious military attackers.", "Analysis of three attacks in the city of Chernihiv may offer clues about Putin's tactics in Ukraine.", "The US pledges $800m more in military aid after President Zelensky asks for more weapons to combat Russian forces.", "Police say they have sent out more than 50 fines so far for Covid law-breaking in government buildings.", "Leaked documents show how sanctioned oligarch Suleiman Kerimov used shell companies to move $700m.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "War in Ukraine", "Border force is \"chronically under-staffed\" and it will take time to train new officers, a union says.", "Those applying had to complete an application form specifying the reason why they cannot vote in person.", "Guns that can be built at home will now have to be legally registered, according to new rules.", "At least 16 people are in hospital after the rush-hour shooting at a station in New York City.", "New York police say Frank R James, 62, rented a U-Haul van that may be linked to the shooting.", "Amber Heard \"concocted a role as a victim\", the former spouses' defamation trial is told.", "Badreddin Abdalla Adam contacted the Home Office and other organisations in the period before the attack in Glasgow in 2020.", "Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak attended a gathering for the PM's birthday in June 2020, when strict rules on parties were in place.", "The Southend West MP was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in October 2021.", "Ajay Spence quit his life in Belfast to help defend Kyiv - now he is being redeployed to east Ukraine.", "Heather Phillipson, who put a whipped cream sculpture on the Fourth Plinth, is among the nominees.", "Kate Jayden may have to wait up to a year before her feat is confirmed by Guinness World Records.", "The BBC has uncovered first-hand evidence of Russian soldiers raping and killing civilians in a village west of Kyiv.", "The attorney general is seeking clarification of the law after the Colston case leads to \"uncertainty\".", "Boris Johnson has been fined for attending a birthday party, thrown for him during a Covid lockdown.", "Sales growth in March slowed due to people tightening their personal budgets, new figures show.", "Posts praising the Russian leader are being viewed by millions on the social network.", "Sasha Makoviy wrote her daughter's name on her skin in case her family were killed fleeing Kyiv.", "The singer, 40, also says she has previously suffered perinatal depression.", "A man whose uncle died in the Grenfell Tower fire says he was left alone to find his missing relative.", "Marina Ovsyannikova staged an anti-war protest on a live broadcast of Russian state TV last month.", "A deal is being struck to make them freely available to patients in England at an affordable cost to the NHS.", "\"They'll accuse Russia of anything,\" says the widow of a Russian soldier killed in Ukraine.", "The party has adopted new approaches under Doug Beattie in a bid to win over voters.", "Alice Walker, now 67, scores a perfect 14 out of 14 on her specialist subject, the Peak District.", "One potential cause could be adenoviruses, but health experts are also looking at links to Covid-19.", "The prime minister and chancellor are in uncharted waters over fines for breaking lockdown laws.", "Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan is found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008.", "The drug found in magic mushrooms could treat depression in a unique way, researchers say.", "Shauna McDevitt died following a crash on the Toome Bypass, County Antrim, on Sunday night.", "Scientists say we should be on alert for variants which could start another major outbreak.", "Ukrainian troops in the Donbas region are preparing for heavy strikes as Russia turns its focus to the east.", "The riot squad was clearing an area for a curfew following protests over George Floyd's murder.", "Chelsea's reign as European champions comes to an agonising end despite beating Real Madrid on a night of high drama at the Bernabeu Stadium.", "The teams will help tackle the \"shocking\" collapse in rape prosecutions, MPs say.", "Players are hoping more volunteers can be found to become on-course guides.", "These wave-like asperitas clouds are seen so infrequently they were only added to the official global cloud atlas five years ago. Simon King explains.", "Russia warns two Nordic nations against Nato membership, and the Austrian chancellor meets Putin in Moscow.", "The FIA - motorsport's governing body - is investigating after a 15-year-old Russian karting champion appeared to make a Nazi salute on a podium.", "Crispin Blunt said MP Imran Ahmad Khan's conviction for sexual assault was a \"miscarriage of justice\".", "Texas authorities had said a woman, 26, caused “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion”.", "Ukrainian forces in Mariupol say a Russian drone dropped a chemical substance on the city overnight.", "Judge Stephen Leake fines a group of M25 activists but says their \"voices are certainly heard\".", "US officials said Daniel Kinahan, who worked as an advisor to boxer Tyson Fury, leads one of Europe's top drug gangs.", "The Duke of Sussex reveals his son Archie would like to be a pilot at the event's opening at The Hague.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often impressed by its efficiency, but should be careful what they say.", "US President Joe Biden accuses Russia's Vladimir Putin of genocide in Ukraine.", "Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing the city after a devastating, six-week assault.", "The prime minister will meet his Indian counterpart after previous visits were postponed due to Covid.", "Official figures claim there have been no Covid deaths in the current outbreak.", "The woman says the fully-furnished, heated caravan would be \"perfect\" for the Ukrainian family.", "Russia's defence ministry releases a video purportedly showing the crew of the Moskva in Sevastopol.", "A Ukrainian air defence officer tells the BBC: \"Whoever dominates the air wins the war.\"", "Torrential floods have killed nearly 400 people in South Africa, with more rain forecast.", "The death of a black man in Michigan after a traffic stop raises questions about police use of force.", "An Algerian man in Belgium is fighting to claim his €250,000 winnings because of his status.", "The Russian Orthodox Church's war stance has prompted some Ukrainian priests and parishioners to cut ties.", "Lee Rogers and Brian Statham were flying from Warwickshire to France when their plane vanished.", "There's been no sign that Ukrainian soldiers defending Mariupol have met Russian demands to lay down their arms.", "Prof Linda Bauld says there are still high levels of infection due to the BA.2 Omicron variant.", "Posts praising the Russian leader are being viewed by millions on the social network.", "Despite the war continuing, some Ukrainians are now going back to their homeland.", "The vice-chancellor says they should use bikes and lower the thermostat to use less Russian gas.", "Liam Taylor, 19, was stabbed to death and his grandmother is on a mission to fund life-saving bleed kits.", "Some asylum seekers arriving in the UK will be sent to Rwanda but what's in the deal for the two nations?", "Everything has changed in this town since the Russians came, and horrific memories will not easily be erased.", "Sadio Mane scores twice as Liverpool beat Manchester City 3-2 in a classic FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "The pop star plays the first UK date of her Future Nostalgia tour, two years later than planned.", "The police chief of the Kyiv region says the remains of 900 civilians have been found after Russian troops pulled out.", "Clive Myrie visits the heavily fortified Situation Room - the HQ of the resistance against Russia's invasion.", "Patron, a Jack Russell, has so far helped to remove hundreds of explosive devices.", "Manchester City will compete for a fourth Women's FA Cup title after booking their place in Wembley's final with victory over West Ham.", "The Sussexes make their first public appearance in Europe together since stepping back as senior royals.", "Temperatures hit 23.4C in London's St James's Park as the Easter weekend begins.", "Three non-major label acts dominate the album chart's top spots for the first time in over a decade.", "\"They'll accuse Russia of anything,\" says the widow of a Russian soldier killed in Ukraine.", "The measures block their entry into Russia but will not impede necessary high-level contacts.", "Great Britain are unable to clinch their place in the Billie Jean King Cup finals as the Czech Republic win the decisive doubles match in the best-of-five tie.", "Extinction Rebellion protesters, including two Olympians, scaled the tanker in London.", "Residents have been forced from their homes as apartments are turned into quarantine centres.", "Activists against new government oil and gas projects target sites in Warwickshire and Essex.", "The UK is to give some asylum seekers a one-way ticket to Rwanda. What policies have other nations taken?", "A dozen sanctioned Russians are linked to an estimated £800m worth of property in the UK, BBC analysis reveals.", "Fraudsters are cold-calling people asking for bank details to receive the £150 rebate, say councils.", "Denise Kidger will take part in her first games competing in several events in The Hague.", "Police looking for Nathan Fleetwood who was missing for 19 days find a body in a river.", "Nigel Pearson was known for his speedway and darts commentary and died aged 52.", "The firm says military action in Ukraine means it will shut its shops, having defended staying open.", "Robert Jenrick is thought to be the first MP to take in refugees under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.", "Suggestions emissions could rise for another three years without dangerous warming are wrong, scientists say.", "Moscow says it hit the Ukrainian capital overnight and will launch more strikes in response to attacks in Russia.", "The so-called \"poison pill\" measure is in response to Elon Musk's $43bn cash buyout offer.", "A civil servants union says the plan is \"divisive\" but officials will have to implement it or leave.", "Salah Abdeslam was allegedly part of an IS terror cell that killed 130 people in attacks across Paris in 2015.", "Hundreds gather outside the funeral of The Wanted singer, who died last month at the age of 33.", "A leading expert says Boris Johnson \"broke the law\", \"misled Parliament\" and \"shredded the ministerial code\".", "Russia's defence ministry releases a video purportedly showing the crew of the Moskva in Sevastopol.", "Britain's longest-reigning monarch has been celebrating the occasion with family and friends.", "Open-source evidence is increasingly used by the UN and war crimes investigators, says law professor.", "Nearly 40,000 people signed a petition calling on the theatre performance to be axed.", "Scotland's first minister says she is in the \"foothills\" of menopause and has worried about its impact.", "But Mikhail Fridman avoids criticising President Putin as it could be risky for himself and staff.", "As fighting rages across Ukraine, Russia's invasion has shattered the lives of millions of children.", "President Putin has for years warned Russia's richest to protect themselves against sanctions.", "A murder investigation is under way after the death of a 64-year-old woman in Victoria Avenue.", "The discovery may lead to ways to spot and even prevent dangerous tumours, experts hope.", "Prince Harry talks about the \"chaos\" of fatherhood and the influence of his mother Diana.", "The makers of a film whose cinematographer was shot dead knew firearm safety rules were not being followed, a report says.", "Sviatohirsk was a tourist trail staple but is now just another place in the Donbas where people flee war.", "President Putin says the new Sarmat missile is food for thought for those who try to threaten Russia.", "The Duke of Sussex says he wants his grandmother to have \"the right people around her\".", "War in Ukraine", "The actor describes his childhood of physical abuse as he takes the stand in a Virginia court.", "Acute hepatitis - or liver inflammation - among children was first reported in the UK last week.", "An influential panel of scientists wants to see a mission to the Solar System's seventh planet.", "Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen take part in an animated contest ahead of Sunday's run-off vote.", "Leaders agree to send artillery and other weapons as Russia launches a fresh offensive in eastern Ukraine.", "Russian and Belarusian players will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year because of the invasion of Ukraine.", "The school's governing body says teachers were not aware a strip-search was taking place.", "Manchester City restore their one-point advantage over Liverpool at the top of the Premier League with victory over a resolute Brighton.", "Three people were found dead at a sheltered accommodation scheme after a \"targeted attack\", say police.", "The Ukraine war will \"severely set back\" global growth with the UK hit harder than most, the IMF says.", "The US president sets out another £800m package for Ukraine, a refugee scheme and a Russian ship ban.", "Relatives speak of their pride and fears for the last Ukrainian soldiers defending Mariupol.", "The PM is seeking support from his party, before vote on whether a committee should investigate him.", "\"We have to be patient,\" Finance Minister Christian Lindner tells the BBC.", "Dmytro Kuleba told CBS’s Face the Nation Russian troops have “decided to raze the city to the ground\".", "Manchester United and Liverpool supporters unite in a fan-led minute of applause at Anfield in support of Cristiano Ronaldo and his family following the death of his baby boy.", "The actor reportedly threw a chair at a woman, leaving her with a cut to her head, on Tuesday.", "Patron, a Jack Russell, has so far helped to remove hundreds of explosive devices.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "Elon Musk's Tesla has raised prices for its electric cars as it faces higher costs.", "Fulham crush Preston to seal their Premier League return as Aleksandar Mitrovic's double takes his season's tally to 40 goals", "The government has also announced people will be able to opt out of subscriptions more easily.", "The actor testified about his volatile marriage to Amber Heard ahead of cross examination by her lawyers.", "A court has approved an order for the Wikileaks founder to face espionage charges in the US.", "Mobile phone use while driving will remain illegal, as changes to the Highway Code are announced.", "The woman reportedly died in a basement more than 80 years after surviving the city's Nazi occupiers.", "The firm needs to sign up new subscribers after losing 200,000 in the first quarter of the year.", "Justice minister Lord David Wolfson criticises the \"scale, context and nature\" of breaches.", "Capturing the city is a major strategic goal for Russia, leaving it in control of vast swathes of the country.", "Dozens of missiles are launched as Russian and Ukrainian forces fight along a 300-mile front in the Donbas region.", "North Wales Police arrested a member of staff from Wrexham Maelor Hospital following allegations.", "Businessman Oleg Tinkov is one of the most high profile Russians to publicly condemn the war.", "Katie Jarvis, 30, is given a two-year community order with 200 hours of unpaid work by a judge.", "BBC reporter Dan Johnson describes seeing a missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Lviv.", "Co-founder Hayden Wood tells MPs he was asked to stay on to \"support customers\".", "Sir Keir Starmer demands an apology over comments Boris Johnson made to a private meeting of Tory MPs.", "His son Tom died a day after being judged \"low risk\", in a final counselling session, Philip Pirie says.", "Investment firm LetterOne said Mikhail Fridman's shareholdings had been \"frozen indefinitely\".", "Vitaly Shevchenko's family fled Ukraine with the help of two BBC audience members.", "The Duchess of Cornwall visited Albert Square with the Prince of Wales to meet the cast and crew.", "A millionaire says money paid to Prince Andrew was falsely described as a gift for his daughter Beatrice.", "The Duke of York returns £750,000 claimed to have been \"misappropriated\" from its Turkish owner.", "Centrica's boss tells the BBC that the UK should be open to the idea of bringing back fracking.", "A reporter entering Bucha, near Kyiv, counts at least 20 bodies of men, one with his hands tied.", "Climate change protesters prevent road access and reveal an underground network of tunnels.", "Two former Labour staff were asked to sign confidentiality agreements after bringing harassment complaints against a senior official.", "The World Trade Organisation says ongoing pandemic-related supply chain problems are also hurting growth.", "The soaring cost of living is affecting millions of people in the UK. 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Ukrainian troops, they say, “continue to fight in a very smart and very effective manner”.\n\nSome of the Russian lines of communication are still quite long (notably south from Kharkiv) and exposed to attack from the west.\n\nOfficials say Vladimir Putin is “still in a position to win”, with a range of possible outcomes, none of which they expect to see happen quickly. The West is gearing up to sustain military support for Ukraine “through a prolonged period of conflict….perhaps much of the rest of this year\".\n\nA successful Russian campaign in the Donbas is possible and, in a worst case scenario, this could lead the Russians to revisit some of their pre-war objectives, such as Kyiv and Odesa.\n\nOfficials say that Russian forces enjoy a roughly three to one advantage in numbers over the Ukrainian military, but much depends on how smartly Moscow uses those forces and what capabilities the Ukrainian defenders have - hence the push by the West to send even more advanced equipment.\n\nRussia still has large numbers of troops - between 5,000 and 10,000 - in the area around Mariupol, which means that there has been little or no movement on the southern side of Russia’s expected pincer movement against Ukrainian forces in the Donbas.\n\nOfficials say that if Putin wants to seal off Mariupol, this will not be a trivial task and will continue to limit the ability of those forces to take part in operations in the Donbas.\n\nOfficials note that Russia’s use of long-range Iskander missiles has slowed somewhat in the past week, suggesting Moscow has concerns about usage rates and the ability to restock.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRussian and Belarusian players who speak out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine \"should be allowed\" to compete at Wimbledon, says Elina Svitolina.\n\nOn Wednesday the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) banned players from the two countries from competing at this year's tournament.\n\nGoverning bodies the ATP and WTA described the decision as \"unfair\".\n\n\"We don't want them banned completely,\" Ukrainian Svitolina told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast.\n\n\"If players don't speak out against the Russian government then it is the right thing to ban them.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Russian world number eight Andrey Rublev said the Wimbledon ban is \"complete discrimination\" and \"illogical\".\n\nShortly after the war started in February, 24-year-old Rublev appealed for peace when he signed a camera lens with a \"no war please\" message at the Dubai Tennis Championship.\n\nSvitolina added: \"We just want them to speak up, if they are with us and the rest of the world or the Russian government. This is for me the main point.\n\n\"If they didn't choose, they didn't vote for this government, then it's fair they should be allowed to play and compete.\"\n\nSvitolina said she did not agree with the governing bodies' reaction to Wimbledon's decision, saying the organisations had not reacted \"as quick as we wanted\".\n\nOn Wednesday she released a lengthy statement calling on them to take a harsher stance against Russian and Belarusian athletes.\n\nBut tennis legends Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, along with men's world number one Novak Djokovic, have said they cannot support Wimbledon's decision.\n\n\"We can see there's been sanctions for Russian people. Why should tennis players be different. I don't think they're right,\" said Svitolina.\n\nWith friends and family still in Ukraine, Svitolina said her emotions are \"up and down\" and tennis is no longer her \"main focus\".\n\nShe said: \"There are many Russian players who can do more. I can count one hand how many Russian and Belarusian players who have asked me how I'm doing, how is my family, is everyone safe?\n\n\"That's why I feel a bit sad about this situation. Personally some people should do a little bit more than they've done. It's mysterious.\n\n\"The way Russian and Belarusian players have been is very, very sad. We are colleagues who see each other every week so it's shocking to see this change and so quick.\"\n• None The raw and honest story of Paul Gascoigne's life on and off the pitch\n• None Is it worth buying an electric car? Look behind the claims and promises of switching to an EV", "\"I was thinking what would happen if I would receive a message that Maks has died, what would I do?\", she says. \"And I just started crying in the middle of the street because I don't have any answer to that.\"\n\nWe are sitting in the office of her volunteer centre in Kyiv, where boxes of supplies - food, medical kits and armoured vests - are being gathered to be sent off to Ukrainian forces on the eastern front: the epicentre of the Russian offensive.\n\nHer sense of purpose is twofold: her nation and her family, with her 26-year-old cousin Maksim, or Maks for short, fighting in Mariupol.\n\nThe boy she grew up with, whom she describes as a kind and respectful engineering student, is one of the last remaining Ukrainian defenders holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in the city, somehow withstanding the ferocious firepower of one of the world's biggest armies.\n\nPerhaps a couple of thousand soldiers and civilians are there, in the Cold War-era network of bunkers and tunnels, where food, water and time are running out. For more than a month she had no word from him but spoke to him briefly this week.\n\n\"He never told us about the real conditions, probably he didn't want to upset us\", she says. \"But they have very little food and medical supplies - and it's harder and harder to treat wounded soldiers.\"\n\nGrowing up in Sumy, north-eastern Ukraine, Maks's mother - Olena's aunt - wanted him to join the army, calling it \"a school of life for men\".\n\nWhen he was called to fight in Mariupol, she was initially relieved, thinking the city, a little further along the coast from the occupied territories of the Donbas, would be spared the worst.\n\nBut Russia is determined to establish a land corridor through eastern Ukraine to Crimea - and that would have to run through Mariupol. And so Russian forces have besieged it for some seven weeks. Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky said tens of thousands may have died in the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Olena Nikulina says her cousin has become \"a true hero of Ukraine\"\n\n\"I feel terrible about him being there\", says Olena, struggling to hold back her tears. \"First of all, I feel very sorry about not speaking to him as much as I could while we still had a connection. It felt terrible when my aunt sent me a message at 06:00 to say that Maks' friend was probably dead and she's so worried about him.\"\n\nI ask of the pride she must feel towards the boy who used to drive her in his car - and became a Ukrainian fighter who refused Russia's demands to surrender.\n\n\"I would have never imagined my cousin to become a true hero of Ukraine and of Mariupol\", she replies with a smile. \"It's obviously a very bitter sense of pride in the sense that he's in a life-threatening situation. I dream of the day he will return and I will be able to tell this to him.\"\n\nOn the shelves in the volunteer centre are spoils of war: Russian soldiers' equipment, downed missiles and fragments of a Russian fighter jet that the Ukrainians proudly exhibit as symbols of an invasion that has so far not gone Moscow's way.\n\nBut the Kremlin will surely be determined that the eastern offensive does not repeat the mistakes of the west, from where Russian troops have now retreated.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is thought likely to want a tangible gain by 9 May - the annual commemoration of Victory Day against Nazi Germany - and Mariupol could serve him that.\n\nThat's a fear shared by another relative, Vladimir Vasilyuk, whose 23-year-old son Danilo is also fighting in the Azovstal plant. They're still in regular contact.\n\n\"The boys are lacking ammunition\", Vladimir says, \"but they don't want to leave because they're protecting the civilians - they don't want to abandon them.\"\n\nRussian service equipment on show at the volunteer centre\n\nHis composed, almost impassive look begins to break as he talks more of his only child, lowering his eyes with a sharp intake of breath.\n\n\"I don't sleep at night\", he admits. \"If I had a chance to go there, I would. I don't think the city is worth the loss of his life. But the boys made their choice.\n\n\"Maybe it's my fault that he joined the army, because I always took him to training and I prepared him for it\", he adds. \"His main goal was always to make our country better.\"\n\nWe stand beneath a monument in Kyiv covered up by sandbags spray painted in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag. The bells of the golden-domed St Michael's Church chime five.\n\n\"I am sure we will see each other again\", Vladimir says, \"it's a matter of time. But if I could pass a message to him now it would be that I love him and I'm waiting for him.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nLewis Hamilton and Serena Williams are among the investors backing Sir Martin Broughton's bid to buy Chelsea.\n\nThe Broughton consortium is one of three groups in the running to purchase the Premier League club for £2.5bn.\n\nAs first reported by Sky, seven-time Formula 1 champion Hamilton - an Arsenal fan - and 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion Williams have pledged investment into the bid.\n\nWorld Athletics president and Chelsea fan Lord Coe is also behind the bid.\n\nThe Blues are operating under a special licence from the UK government after owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned.\n\nAbramovich put the club up for sale before he was sanctioned for his alleged links to Russian president Vladimir Putin following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBBC Sport understands that Hamilton and Williams have been involved with the Broughton consortium's bid from the start.\n\nThey would have no say on footballing decisions.\n\nOther investors in the Broughton-led bid include the Rogers family, who are based in Canada and own media and telecoms company Rogers Communications, chair of the Houston 2026 World Cup bid committee John Arnold, and the Tsai family from Taiwan, which owns two baseball teams.\n\nThe Broughton bid is already backed by Crystal Palace co-owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer, with additional funds from investment banker Michael Klein and Lord Coe.\n\nThe group faces competition to buy Chelsea from consortiums led by Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly and co-owner of the Boston Celtics Stephen Pagliuca.\n• None Three bidders remain - but who is best placed?\n\nAmerican investment firm Raine Group has been tasked with selling Chelsea and the UK government is expected to issue a new licence, allowing the club to be sold once a preferred buyer has been identified.\n\nAny sale must be signed off by the bidder passing the Premier League's owners' and directors' test.\n\nSeveral sources have told BBC Sport that a decision about a preferred bidder is unlikely this week, but once one is chosen it is expected that there will be little opposition to any of the bids from the Premier League or government.\n\nChelsea are third in the Premier League and face Liverpool in the FA Cup final on 14 May.\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "The world faces a \"human catastrophe\" from a food crisis arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, World Bank president David Malpass has said.\n\nHe told the BBC that record rises in food prices would push hundreds of millions people into poverty and lower nutrition, if the crisis continues.\n\nThe World Bank calculates there could be a \"huge\" 37% jump in food prices.\n\nThis would hit the poor hardest, who will \"eat less and have less money for anything else such as schooling\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC economics editor Faisal Islam, Mr Malpass, who leads the institution charged with global alleviation of poverty, said the impact on the poor made it \"an unfair kind of crisis... that was true also of Covid\".\n\n\"It's a human catastrophe, meaning nutrition goes down. But then it also becomes a political challenge for governments who can't do anything about it, they didn't cause it and they see the prices going up,\" he said on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington.\n\nThe price rises are broad and deep, he said: \"It's affecting food of all different kinds oils, grains, and then it gets into other crops, corn crops, because they go up when wheat goes up\".\n\nThere was enough food in the world to feed everybody, he said, and global stockpiles are large by historical standards, but there will have to be a sharing or sales process to get the food to where it is needed.\n\nMr Malpass also discouraged countries from subsidising production or capping prices.\n\nInstead, he said, the focus needed to be on increasing supplies across the world of fertilisers and food, alongside targeted assistance for the very poorest people.\n\nThe World Bank chief also warned of a knock on \"crisis within a crisis\" arising from the inability of developing countries to service their large pandemic debts, amid rising food and energy prices.\n\n\"This is a very real prospect. It's happening for some countries, we don't know how far it'll go. As many as 60% of the poorest countries right now are either in debt distress or at high risk of being in debt distress,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to be worried about a debt crisis, the best thing to do is to start early to act early on finding ways to reduce the debt burden for countries that are on have unsustainable debt, the longer you put it off, the worse it is,\" he added.\n\nThe acknowledgement by the World Bank president that we have to be worried about a developing country debt crisis, is very significant.\n\nThe combination of massive pandemic debts with rising interest rates, and rising prices is truly toxic.\n\nThe talk on the sidelines here at the IMF and World Bank meetings is that the rich countries told emerging economies not to worry about borrowing in order to spend to help suppress the pandemic.\n\nNow those countries are wondering if these record debts will be written off.\n\nCampaigning groups are preparing mobilisations over a pandemic debt jubilee. But there is silence from the rich country lenders, so far.\n\nAnd there is a very new dynamic these days. The bankers to whom these sums are owed are no longer just in the West.\n\nChina is now, very broadly, owed as much as the entire collection of Western creditors known as the Paris Club.\n\nHow will it respond to calls for leniency on the repayment of loans?\n\nMr Malpass says of China: \"They have different rules, for example, contracts that have non-disclosure clauses, meaning you can't share the terms with other people that makes it very hard to restructure those debts\".\n\nChina has also secured its lending against ports and natural resources. Sri Lanka is a case in point right now.\n\nThe unwinding of all of this might not be orderly, and could have significant geopolitical consequences.\n\nEarlier this month, the United Nations said that the Ukraine war had led to a \"giant leap\" in food prices, as they hit a new record high in March.\n\nIt came as the war cut off supplies from the world's biggest exporter of sunflower oil and the cost of alternatives climbed.\n\nUkraine is also a major producer of cereals such as maize and wheat which have risen sharply in price too.\n\nThe UN said \"war in the Black Sea region spread shocks through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils\".\n\nThe UN Food Prices Index tracks the world's most-traded food commodities - measuring the average prices of cereal, vegetable oil, dairy, meat, and sugar.\n\nFood prices are at their highest since records began 60 years ago, according to the index, after they jumped nearly 13% in March, following February's record high.\n\nFood commodity prices were already at 10-year highs before the war in Ukraine, according to the index, because of global harvest issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on why the war in Ukraine is pushing up food prices - and the likely impact on poorer countries", "The BBC News app is available for Android and iOS devices\n\nWith the latest news and analysis from our journalists around the world and the unique human stories behind current events, we've got the best of our journalism in one place on the BBC News app.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from Google Play for Android devices.\n\nWe would like to know what you think of the new app - click here to give us your feedback.\n\nDepending on the contract you have, data charges may apply for accessing the internet on your mobile device.\n\nIf you are not sure about the potential charges, please ask your mobile network provider. You may find some costs are included in your existing price plan or that you can opt for a data package that gives reduced charges for accessing the internet.\n\nThe BBC does not charge you to access mobile content.", "Germany is moving \"as fast as possible\" to end its reliance on Russian energy, but it will take time, the country's finance minister has said.\n\n\"We have to be patient,\" Christian Lindner told the BBC.\n\nBy contrast, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had earlier said Germany would end oil imports by the end of the year, with gas following.\n\nUkraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky has criticised Germany for failing to curb Russian energy imports.\n\nHe described energy payments as \"blood money\".\n\nProceeds from the sale of Russian oil and gas amount to around $1bn (£770m) a day, undermining international efforts to put economic pressure on President Vladimir Putin to end the war.\n\nThe US has already banned Russian oil imports and the UK plans to phase them out by the end of the year.\n\nBut EU countries are more heavily dependent on Russian energy, with Germany currently buying around 25% of its oil and 40% of its gas from Russia.\n\nMr Lindner told the BBC that his country was working to implement an embargo on Russian energy but that he preferred using sanctions which \"hurt [Putin] more than us\".\n\nHe said a sudden halt to Russian energy imports could see the physical shutdown of German producers such as manufacturers and carmakers.\n\nEarlier this week, German economic institutes warned that immediately halting Russian imports would spark a sharp recession in Europe's biggest economy by 2023.\n\n\"We are willing to stop all energy imports from Russia, it's just a matter of time,\" said Mr Lindner, who is leader of the liberal Free Democrats, one constituent of Germany's coalition government.\n\nHe insisted that any calculation on Vladimir Putin's part that Germany would continue to rely on Russian energy was \"wrong\".\n\n\"In the end, we don't want to have any further business with Putin,\" he said.\n\nHowever his stance was at odds with statements made by Germany's foreign minister, Ms Baerbock, a prominent Green politician and former co-leader of the party.\n\nMs Baerbock said Germany would halve Russian oil imports by the summer and eliminate them altogether by the end of the year, to be followed quickly by a reduction in Russian gas imports.\n\nGermany's finance minister was keen to sound tough on Russia and appears acutely aware of the criticism levelled at his country for dragging its feet over a full energy embargo on the Kremlin.\n\nHis basic message was - it is coming, but not quite yet, because it is impossible to enact immediately and would probably lead to shutdowns of large swathes of the German economy.\n\nPresident Zelensky used a BBC interview last week to demand an immediate embargo on Russia's lucrative oil trade, accusing those sending euros and dollars to Kremlin-controlled oil giants of \"trading in blood\". He singled out Germany alongside Hungary for blocking EU action.\n\nMr Lindner said Germany would move as fast as possible, but did not confirm that would be within a year.\n\nIn Berlin this issue appears to be putting some stress on the three-party governing coalition. Mr Lindner leads the free market FDP, not the normal bedfellows for the Social Democrats and Greens.\n\nMeanwhile Green Party leader Annalena Baerbock, also the foreign minister, said dependence on Russian oil would definitely finish by the end of the year. The Chancellery under Olaf Scholz appears to be the most cautious on this issue.\n\nGermany has already called off the opening of Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in response to the war, a project pursued by previous governments of different political stripes.\n\nBut Mr Lindner said he was concerned about the macroeconomic effects an overnight shut-off of Russian energy would cause.\n\n\"I don't fear [the] economic costs [of buying less Russian energy]. I fear the physical scenario, if you have to stop the supply, for a complete production line, this causes more than economic costs,\" Mr Lindner told the BBC.\n\n\"I think it's preferable to have sanctions, which we can stand for months, for years,\" he said.\n\nMr Lindner said Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the root cause of growing geopolitical and economic risks including inflation, food shortages and a debt crisis for low income countries.\n\nBut he also criticised the approach of previous Berlin governments of relying on Russia for oil and gas.\n\n\"It was a strategic miscalculation from German governments, over the last two decades, and now we have to work on energy diversification,\" he said.", "The Queen was spotted at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk on her birthday\n\nThe Queen is celebrating her 96th birthday on Thursday in Sandringham.\n\nBritain's longest-reigning monarch travelled by helicopter to her Norfolk estate, where she is being joined by family and friends.\n\nShe is thought to be staying in a cottage particularly liked by her late husband, Prince Philip.\n\nA photograph has been released to mark the birthday, showing the Queen with two ponies and reflecting her lifelong interest in horses.\n\nThe picture was taken at Windsor Castle, where the Queen now mostly stays, and shows her with two Fell ponies, who will appear in the forthcoming Royal Windsor Horse Show.\n\nA photograph for the Queen's birthday reflects her lifelong interest in horses\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wished the Queen happy birthday on Twitter, calling the monarch an \"inspiration to so many across the UK, the Commonwealth and the world\", and sharing a photo of the Queen and Prince Philip with seven of their great-grandchildren.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by The Royal Family\n\nPrince Harry suggested in a US TV interview that the Queen might be downplaying this latest milestone, saying that \"after a certain age you get bored of birthdays\".\n\nBut she will be spending time at Wood Farm, a cottage described as \"small and intimate\" by former housekeeper Teresa Thompson, and a place with strong associations with Prince Philip, who died a little over a year ago.\n\nThe Queen was in Sandringham earlier this year when she marked her accession to the throne in 1952.\n\nShe was born in 1926, not in a royal residence, but in a London townhouse on Bruton Street, where she first lived with her father and mother, who became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.\n\nThe house on Bruton Street where the Queen was born was demolished in the 1930s\n\nBirthday wishes have been sent by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and gun salutes were fired.\n\nThe prime minister also paid tribute to the monarch's \"dedicated and faultless service\" in a pre-recorded address posted on Twitter.\n\nThe Queen's Guard played Happy Birthday during the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen has had mobility problems in recent months and has had to miss a number of events, including church services over Easter.\n\nHer only public appearance this year, outside of her own residences or on video, was at the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe Queen's 96th birthday marks another unprecedented age for a British monarch, in a year in which she has become the first monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee of 70 years on the throne.\n\nThe next longest-lived monarchs were Queen Victoria and George III, who lived to the age of 81, and were the only other monarchs to have lived into their 80s.\n\nAccording to figures from the Office for National Statistics, the Queen is one of about 124,000 people in the 95 to 99 age group in the UK, almost three quarters of these being women.\n\nAlthough 21 April is the day the Queen was born, it is not her only birthday. The monarch also has an official birthday celebration on the second Saturday of June, a tradition which began because her great-grandfather Edward VII's birthday was in November, when the weather is generally less favourable for a birthday parade.\n\nThe Queen's official birthday is marked each year by the military parade Trooping the Colour. This year, the parade will take place on Thursday 2 June to coincide with the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nA number of commemorative items are being produced to mark the Jubilee. Among them is a Barbie doll, featuring a recreation of her wedding tiara and an ivory gown fitted with a blue ribbon.\n• None The mystery of the Queen's birthplace", "Elina Svitolina, Ukraine's highest-ranked tennis player, says Russian and Belarusian players should be allowed to play at Wimbledon if they condemn the invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s regime.\n\nThe All England Lawn Tennis Club has confirmed that players from both countries will not be allowed to compete at this year’s championships.\n\nSpeaking to 5 Live Breakfast's Rick Edwards, former Wimbledon semi-finalist Svitolina said silence from her colleagues is a betrayal and \"they have to speak up and choose their side\".\n\nREAD MORE:Svitolina says Russians who denounce Ukraine invasion should play", "Swiss food giant Nestle has warned that it will continue to raise the prices of its products because of the rising costs of food.\n\nThe maker of KitKats and Nesquik increased prices by more than 5% in the first three months of the year.\n\nThe price rise helped Nestle to report sales growth of 7.6% in the period.\n\nAs costs rise, Nestle boss Mark Schneider said \"further pricing and mitigating actions over the course of the year\" will be required.\n\n\"We stepped up pricing in a responsible manner and saw sustained consumer demand,\" Mr Schneider added.\n\nFood prices worldwide are at their highest since records began 60 years ago, according to the UN Food price index.\n\nIn the UK, the cost of living is rising at its fastest pace for 30 years as energy, fuel and food prices continue to soar and increase the squeeze on household budgets.\n\nAnalysts said Nestle's price rise of 5.2% helped its sales to increase by more than expected.\n\n\"Hiking prices to keep things moving in the right direction in the wake of input cost inflation certainly won't be a course of action management want to have to take,\" said Matt Britzman, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"But nonetheless, it's the position Nestle finds itself in and doesn't look likely to go away anytime soon,\" he added.\n\nLast month, Nestle said it would only sell essentials such as baby formula and medical nutrition products in Russia. It suspended sales of brands such as KitKat and Nesquik and stopped investment in the country as a growing number of Western brands halted operations in Russia in protest at the war.", "Sir David Attenborough has been named a Champion of the Earth by the UN's Environment Programme.\n\nThe prestigious award recognises the 95-year-old's commitment to telling stories about the natural world and climate change.\n\nAccepting the award, Sir David said the world must take action now to protect nature and the planet.\n\nHis celebrated documentaries include The Green Planet and A Plastic Ocean.\n\nSir David said that environmental success stories should give us hope that change is possible.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, whales were on the very edge of extinction worldwide. Then people got together and now there are more whales in the sea than any living human being has ever seen,\" he suggested.\n\n\"We know what the problems are and we know how to solve them. All we lack is unified action.\"\n\nUNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson said that the UN chose to recognise Sir David because of his devotion to broadcasting the natural world.\n\nThe story of saving whales should give us hope that change is possible, Sir David says\n\n\"If we stand a chance of averting climate and biodiversity breakdowns and cleaning up polluted ecosystems, it's because millions of us fell in love with the planet that he captured on film and writing, in his voice,\" said Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director.\n\nSir David began working on natural history programmes in the 1950s, and his programmes filmed in far-flung parts of the world became immensely popular. In the past four years, his warnings about the damage that climate change is causing the planet and humans have become more stark.\n\nSir David is particularly popular with children and teenagers worried about climate change. Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has said that meeting the broadcaster was \"indescribable\" and that everyone should strive to be like him.\n\nAsked about Sir David, children visiting the London aquarium told BBC News they love watching him on TV and even have books about him.\n\n\"He does loads of things to support our planet and the animals. On his show, he tells us the natural world might be in danger if we don't make a difference,\" explains 10-year-old Raya.\n\nShe worries about the planet, saying she's learned that \"we need to stop using plastic, start using more electric cars, and we should plant more trees instead of cutting them down.\"\n\nBenjamin, 13, said watching Sir David's programmes has inspired him to become a marine biologist. But they've also taught him about the danger we face from climate change and biodiversity loss.\n\n\"I want to be able to have a family and I want them to live a nice world. But if we start trying very hard, we can save the natural world,\" he explained.\n\nSir David's emphasis on success stories like bringing back whales from the point of extinction is important, Prof Rick Stafford, marine biologist at Bournemouth university, told BBC News.\n\n\"He really brought climate change and biodiversity loss to the forefront. Optimism is important but the major problems to be solved are not scientific - they are economic and political,\" he explained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC goes behind the scenes with Sir David Attenborough on the set of his new documentary, The Green Planet", "A major Conservative Party donor was listed as a director of a company secretly owned by a Russian oligarch close to President Putin.\n\nThe BBC has seen a document dated 2006 and signed \"Lubov Golubeva\", the maiden name of Lubov Chernukhin, a Tory donor.\n\nMrs Chernukhin says she \"does not recall consenting in writing\" to being a director of Suleiman Kerimov's firm.\n\nMr Kerimov, now sanctioned, previously denied any connection with Mrs Chernukhin.\n\nPapers seen by the BBC appear to show that Mrs Chernukhin, then Lubov Golubeva, was appointed a director of offshore company Radlett Estates Limited, in 2005 - following its acquisition of a substantial property, 1 Radlett Place, in north London.\n\nAnother firm - Swiru Holding AG - was the sole shareholder of Radlett Estates. The directors of Radlett Estates were Swiss businessman Alexander Studhalter and Suleiman Kerimov's nephew, Nariman Gadzhiev.\n\nMr Studhalter was accused in a French court of being a so-called \"straw man\", or proxy, for Mr Kerimov - involved in hiding the oligarch's wealth.\n\nRadlett Estates had planned to demolish the building and construct a new 3,500 sq-ft (325 sq-m) home. According to architects' plans, there was to be a cinema, a health spa and gym, indoor swimming pool, a map room, six bedrooms and a \"6 car motorised garage and large staff quarters\".\n\nMr Kerimov and his wife were not listed as directors of Radlett Estates and their names were not on the planning documents seen by the BBC. But one designer's website identified the clients as \"Mr and Mrs K\".\n\nThe signature \"Lubov Golubeva\" appears on a Radlett Estates board meeting document from 2006. It records her resignation from the company.\n\nIn 2007, Ms Golubeva married Vladimir Chernukhin - a multimillionaire businessman who had served under President Putin as a junior minister, but later fled Russia.\n\nThe same year, she started giving money to the Conservative Party - initially in £5,000 donations under her maiden name. As time went on, the donations - in her married name - became much bigger. She would end up becoming one of the Tory party's most influential donors - having given more than £2.1m.\n\nThe discovery of the evidence suggesting a business connection between Mrs Chernukhin and Mr Kerimov follows questions in Parliament about her and her links to Russia. This was despite Mrs Chernukhin's condemnation of \"Russian military aggression in Ukraine\" where she called for \"the strongest possible sanctions against Putin's regime and its enablers\".\n\nEarlier this month, the BBC - as part of the Pandora Papers Russia project with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and global partners - revealed how Suleiman Kerimov has been hiding his wealth.\n\nLubov Chernukhin's husband Vladimir was in the Russian government between 2000 and 2002. He was then appointed chairman of a state bank by Mr Putin, but left Russia after being dismissed by the president in 2004.\n\nBut in a 2018 court case, his wife confirmed that Mr Chernukhin had maintained \"excellent\" relationships with \"prominent members of the Russian establishment\".\n\nMr Chernukhin said he arrived in the UK with a fortune of $300m (£230m) and started building a \"real estate empire\".\n\nBoth he and his wife are now UK citizens - which means she is entitled to donate to a political party. In February, she was reported to be a member of a small \"advisory board\" of major donors with access to senior party members, including the prime minister.\n\nIn 2019, she paid £135,000 to attend a ladies' night dinner attended by then-Prime Minister Theresa May, and then-Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss, who is now foreign secretary with responsibility for sanctions against Russia.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2020, the BBC revealed how Mr Chernukhin had been secretly funded with $8m by a company linked to Mr Kerimov four years previously - before Mr Kerimov was first sanctioned by the US.\n\nAt that time, her lawyers said \"Mrs Chernukhin has never received money deriving from Mr Kerimov or any company related to him\" and her \"donations to the Conservative Party have never been tainted by Kremlin or any other influence\".\n\nLawyers for Mr Kerimov said he had had \"no dealings whatsoever\" with Mrs Chernukhin.\n\nSuleiman Kerimov was among a dozen billionaires called to stand alongside President Putin as Russia's tanks rolled into Ukraine in February. The businessman has been estimated to be worth more than $14bn.\n\nMr Kerimov has been subject to US sanctions since 2018 - and since March by the EU and UK. The EU described him as \"a member of the inner circle of oligarchs\" close to Mr Putin.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Kerimov was arrested in France over his alleged role in laundering the proceeds of tax evasion. The case related to French properties which investigators believed were owned by Mr Kerimov - his ownership hidden by Alexander Studhalter acting as a proxy for the oligarch.\n\nMr Studhalter denies being the \"straw man\" for Mr Kerimov and says he was the real owner of the properties through a Swiss company called Swiru Holding AG.\n\nBut - according to secret French Court of Appeal records seen by the BBC - bank documents showed Mr Studhalter was holding shares in Swiru Holding on behalf of Mr Kerimov and his nephew, Nariman Gadzhiev.\n\nMr Kerimov's French lawyers said: \"After several years of investigation, no charges were brought against our client.\"\n\nMr Kerimov and Mr Studhalter did not respond to our questions about the ownership of 1 Radlett Place, which was sold to another offshore company in 2012 for £36.5m.\n\nMr and Mrs Chernukhin's lawyers said \"Mrs Chernukhin has never been a director of Radlett\". She had, they said, been approached in relation to the \"Radlett Project\" in her capacity as a director of another business called Capital Construction Development Limited - a company then owned by her husband - and \"asked to submit a pitch\". The project did not proceed, they said.\n\nThe BBC has seen conflicting evidence of Mrs Chernukhin's relationship with Radlett Estates Limited.\n\nAn email in December 2009 quoted a representative of Swiru Holding - the sole shareholder of Radlett Estates - as saying they could not find \"any evidence\" in their files that \"Mr or Ms Golubov [sic] have been appointedd [sic], nor any Resolutions or Resignation/Acceptance letters.\"\n\nAnd documents show representatives of Swiru repeatedly submitted corporate documents to Radlett's registered agent - its administrator in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) - which contained no mention of Lubov Golubeva.\n\nBut a number of leaked registers of directors - including from three of the agent's offices in Switzerland, the BVI and Cyprus - show Mrs Chernukhin, then Lubov Golubeva, listed as a director.\n\nAsked about those documents, and the one showing Lubov Golubeva's resignation in 2006, lawyers for the Chernukhins said \"Mrs Chernukhin does not recall consenting in writing to being a director of Radlett Estates Limited\" and questioned whether the documents were \"forgeries and/or may have been manipulated\".\n\nAnti-money laundering expert Tom Keatinge at the think tank Rusi, told us it was possible the signature was a forgery - but unlikely.\n\n\"Documents show she was present at a meeting where her continued directorship was being discussed. And indeed at that meeting she resigned as a director so I think it stretches the imagination to suggest her identity was stolen.\"\n\nRachel Davies of Transparency International says the BBCs investigation underlines why the system of political donations has to be more transparent.\n\n\"Any politician or political party ought to have a clear understanding of the nature of their benefactor. That means conducting due diligence over those who sponsor their activities, not just looking at whether the funds they receive are lawful but ensuring they're exercising good judgement in receiving them in the first place.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said, \"if a British citizen is able to vote in an election for a political party, they also have the democratic right to donate to a political party. All donations are properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them, and comply fully with the law.\"", "The lead-up was chaotic; the moment the motion passed was something of an anti-climax.\n\nThe significance of what it means, though, is huge: Boris Johnson will become the first prime minister to be investigated for claims he deliberately misled Parliament.\n\nIn a political system that largely relies on trust and honesty, that is a big deal.\n\nPulling the amendment, and not objecting to Labour’s motion, saved the Conservatives from the temporary embarrassment of some of their own MPs abstaining or even voting with the opposition.\n\nIt also saved individual MPs from the prospect of opposition attacks if they had voted to block the investigation.\n\nThe chaotic circumstances of the government’s U-turn in itself though suggested an embarrassing lack of grip on the party from Downing Street.\n\nAny respite will also be temporary.\n\nFirstly, the investigation guarantees that the rows over Partygate will go on even after the police investigation has finished and the report by senior civil servant Sue Gray has been published.\n\nAnd if Boris Johnson gets through both of those, the investigation opens the door to a possible new moment of peril for the PM, if he were to be found to have misled Parliament and then be sanctioned.", "The study focused on wetlands and waterbirds\n\nThe largest ever study of protected areas - places \"set aside\" ostensibly for nature - has revealed that most do not actively benefit wildlife.\n\nScientists examined the impact of 1,500 protected areas in 68 countries, focusing their analysis on wetlands and waterbirds.\n\nThey found that, in terms of how wildlife fared, success varied hugely around the world and depended a great deal on how an area was managed.\n\nThe study was published in Nature.\n\nIts authors say that habitats need to be managed effectively in ways that provide a boost for nature.\n\n\"There need to be rules in place and restoration,\" said lead researcher Dr Hannah Wauchope, from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at University of Exeter.\n\n\"We can't just draw a line around an area and say, 'you can't build a car park here'.\"\n\nDr Wauchope explained that the study used population trends of wetland birds as a measure of the success of a protected area, which can be anything from an area of outstanding natural beauty to a carefully managed nature reserve.\n\nMany areas of outstanding natural beauty are not managed for wildlife\n\nShe and her colleagues also compared sites before and after they were officially protected, and compared the trends of similar bird populations inside and outside protected areas.\n\n\"In the majority of places we looked, wildlife populations were still stable or were increasing, but they weren't doing any better than in unprotected areas,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"That's disappointing, but not surprising. There seems to be this disconnect between people talking about how much land is protected and whether those areas are actually doing anything positive.\"\n\nAccording to the UN, one million species of plants and animals are now under threat.\n\nNext month, world leaders will gather in China to set the agenda of global conservation efforts for the next decade. Many countries are now aligning themselves with a target of protecting 30% of the Earth's surface by 2030.\n\nBut this, the scientists say, will not guarantee the preservation of biodiversity.\n\nThey say that targets need to be set for the quality of protected areas, not just the quantity. Measuring success could include doing species population counts or setting goals for increasing the diversity of plant and animal species in an area.\n\nWetland restoration in the UK is credited with a boost in the population in bitterns\n\nCo-author Prof Julia Jones, from Bangor University, stressed that \"drawing lines on a map does nothing for nature\".\n\nShe said: \"An obsession with reaching a certain area-based target - such as 30% by 2030 - without a focus on improving the condition of existing protected areas will achieve little,\" she added.\n\n\"When world leaders gather in China later this year to set targets for the next decade, I really hope to see a focus on effectiveness of protected areas, rather than simply how much surface area is devoted to them.\"", "One of Netflix most popular series, Bridgerton, launched its second series last month\n\nShares in Netflix have slumped by 35% after it revealed a sharp drop in subscribers and warned millions more are set to quit the streaming service.\n\nIt wiped more than $50bn off the firm's market value as experts warned it faced a struggle to get back on track.\n\nNetflix faces intense competition from streaming rivals, but was also hit after it raised prices and left Russia.\n\nYet some cast doubt on its plans to boost growth, which include bringing in a free ad-supported service.\n\nIt also plans to crack down on password sharing, estimating that more than 100 million non-paying households watch the service this way.\n\nIn a sign of the unease, one of America's best known investors, William Ackman, ditched his $1.1bn investment in Netflix on Wednesday, taking a loss of more than $400m.\n\nHis hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management had bought the shares just three months ago.\n\nIn a brief statement, Mr Ackman said that while Netflix's plans to change its business model made sense, investing in the company felt too risky.\n\n\"While Netflix's business is fundamentally simple to understand, in light of recent events, we have lost confidence in our ability to predict the company's future prospects with a sufficient degree of certainty,\" he wrote.\n\nIn a trading update on Tuesday, Netflix said its total number of subscribers had fallen by 200,000 in the first three months of 2022, falling well short of its target.\n\nIt also said some two million more were likely to quit the service in the three months to July.\n\nSome analysts warned that, after period of turbo-charged expansion during the pandemic, the streaming giant has run out of easy ways to grow.\n\nSqueezed consumers are cutting back on streaming services to save money, while some feel there is too much content to choose from amid an avalanche of competition from rivals such as Disney and Amazon.\n\n\"Netflix's wider problem, along with the rest of the sector is that consumers don't have unlimited funds, and that one or two subscriptions is usually enough,\" said Michael Hewson, an analyst at CMC Markets.\n\n\"Once you move above that something has to give in a cost-of-living crisis, and while Netflix is still the market leader, it doesn't have the deeper pockets of Apple, Amazon or Disney, which makes it much more vulnerable to a margin squeeze.\"\n\nBut Julian Aquilina, senior TV analyst at the media research firm Enders Analysis, said it was wrong to write the firm off.\n\n\"The streaming market is maturing and the high expectations people had about Netflix are being reset.\n\n\"But I think it will remain the market leader, it has such a commanding position. If people are going to ditch a subscription, Netflix won't be the first one they choose.\"\n\nHe added that the firm had just put up its prices \"which always leads to a drop in subscribers, but also means it's making more revenue per customer\".\n\nNetflix remains the world's leading streaming service with more than 220 million subscribers. It is increasingly producing its own content and shows such as the Crown, Bridgerton and Squid Game have been global hits.\n\nThe firm had enjoyed uninterrupted quarterly growth in subscribers since October 2011 but on Tuesday it admitted it was losing customers to rivals, while struggling to expand due to password sharing.\n\nIt also said a decision to raise prices in key markets had cost it 600,000 subscribers in North America alone, while its exit from Russia over Ukraine lost it 700,000.\n\nDespite the challenges, revenue grew by $7.8bn (£6bn) in the first three months of the year, up 9.8% compared with the same period last year.\n\nThat marked a slowdown from earlier quarters, while profits fell more than 6% to roughly $1.6bn.\n\nNetflix's shares plunged 35% on Wednesday, and fell a further 3.5% on Thursday.", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday morning.\n\nMPs should be voting on an investigation into whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson misled Parliament about parties held in Downing Street during lockdown. But it could be delayed following government pressure. The government - aware that some rebel Tory MPs are threatening to vote with Labour, or not at all - is hoping to push it back by saying it should take place once the investigations by police are over and civil servant Sue Gray's full report has been published.\n\nIt's fairly common to catch Covid more than once but how soon can you catch it again? It seems it could be as little as weeks. Spanish researchers claim a 31-year-old healthcare worker caught the virus twice within 20 days - the shortest-known gap recorded. She was infected by two different variants, Delta and then Omicron.\n\nAuthorities in China are taking what can only be described as extreme measures to stop a new wave of Covid. Entire communities in areas of Shanghai - where Western companies are said to be facing a \"logistical nightmare\" - are being relocated, with one notice revealing some residents would be sent to quarantine facilities more than 100 miles (160km) away. They would stay there for at least a week, some are exempt and only those who test negative will be taken there. Here's more on the story.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Officials moved people from their homes in Pudong on the outskirts of Shanghai\n\nWhile not as many people are getting as seriously ill with Covid, the pressure on the NHS in Wales still remains. It's \"absolutely relentless\" say NHS managers, who believe the impact of the virus is \"going to be with us for years to come\".\n\n\"Before, you wouldn't have caught me picking up a pint of milk without my face on,\" says Charlie. Since the pandemic struck, she says she doesn't wear as much make-up as she used to, even to work. She's part of a growing trend, boosted by lockdown, of people who use fewer cosmetics. There have been big changes in people's post-lockdown beauty routines, according to market research firm Kantar. Read more here.\n\nHow do you know if you have Covid, a cold or some other infection? This checklist should help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon talked about the menopause during an interview on ITV's Loose Women programme\n\nScotland's first minister has revealed that she is anxious about how going through menopause will affect her.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was in the \"foothills\" of menopause but felt nervous to speak out about the \"intensely personal\" experience.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Loose Women programme, Ms Sturgeon said she hoped addressing the issue would help tackle the stigma around the subject.\n\nShe said she had been considering how she would cope given her public role.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I feel quite nervous [talking] about it as well. It's not the kind of thing I feel instinctively comfortable talking about - I think because it is so intensely personal, and there's still a lot of stigma around it.\"\n\nOn her own experience, the 51-year-old said: \"Obviously I'm in the foothills of it. I've been quite anxious about - given the public nature of my job - how I am going to cope with the impact of that, what's it going to be like.\"\n\nShe said she knew it was important to use her platform to talk about her experience, and hoped women in a similar position would benefit from hearing about her experience.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she wished she could go and read about other politicians' experience of the menopause.\n\n\"If I could go and read Angela Merkel or Hilary Clinton saying 'this is what it was like for me and how I coped with it', I think that would help me right now,\"\n\nShe hoped sharing her experience would help the next generation of female leaders.\n\nEarlier this year, the first minister spoke to a podcast about menopause.\n\nShe told The Shift there was still a \"massive amount of guesswork\" about menopause and that many women still suffered in silence.\n\nShe said she had already had a conversation with her doctor about hormone replacement therapy (HRT), a treatment to relieve symptoms which works by replacing hormones that decrease as women approach menopause.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that she had not started treatment yet, but was of the generation that grew up thinking that HRT was \"some terrible, terrible thing\" and that it was a \"badge of honour to push yourself through without it\".\n\nSome women report symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety and mood changes.\n\nShe said: \"I'm at the stage where definitely I'm feeling a bit hotter overnight, not being able to sleep and I've got windows open in the depths of winter,\" she said.\n\nThe first minister had not experienced \"extreme\" symptoms in public or in meetings, but she said she had thought about what would happen if she got a hot flush for example in parliament when she was on her feet in the middle of First Minister's Questions.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that she was concerned speaking up could be used against her in some way.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she and her husband had considered fostering\n\nIn the wide-ranging interview with Loose Women, the first minister was also asked about whether she and her husband were still considering fostering.\n\nShe said the couple had talked about it but had \"only scratched the surface\", adding: \"It would be a really serious decision to take.\"\n\n\"It's for the future, but it's something that we have thought about and talked about but only in an initial stage.\"\n\n\"You shouldn't do it to fill a gap in your own life - it should be about the young person.\n\n\"So I wouldn't want to do it just because I don't have children of my own, it would only be if I genuinely thought I could offer something to a young person.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"Circumstances have meant that I have never had children... and obviously I had a miscarriage and spoke about that because there's still a lot of stigma around that as well, so I think it is important to open up these conversations.\"\n\nThe first minister revealed in 2016 that she had experienced the loss five years earlier, while she was deputy first minister.\n\nSpeaking previously about her loss, she said she hoped it would challenge assumptions made about why she - and other women - did not have children.\n\nThe first minister was also asked on the programme about being filmed in a barber's shop at the weekend not wearing a mask.\n\nShe said again that she had made a \"mistake\" and had forgotten to put it on when she went into the shop, and said it was an \"error for a few seconds\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charlie uses fewer cosmetics than she used to\n\n\"Before, you wouldn't have caught me picking up a pint of milk without my face on,\" says Charlie, who works for a training business.\n\nBut then the pandemic struck and now she just doesn't wear as much as she used to, even to work.\n\n\"I was stuck at home furloughed with two kids, my husband was away, so I spent a lot of time outside without make-up on, and realised no one cares,\" she explains.\n\nCharlie feels the pandemic has given her the confidence to embrace a more natural look. And it seems she's not alone.\n\nThe use of cosmetics was already declining before 2020, but a survey of 10,000 British women by market research firm Kantar has revealed big changes to post-lockdown beauty routines.\n\nMake-up purchases and frequency of wearing products has dropped steeply in the last two years, by almost a third, it suggests.\n\nColleagues of Charlie's at Rhino Safety, on the outskirts of Sandbach in Cheshire, agree.\n\nDirector Cate Walter admits she splurges on getting her nails and eyebrows done. But her daily regime is minimal; a bit of blusher and maybe mascara for a day in the office.\n\n\"I just don't want to look ill,\" she jokes.\n\nAlthough the business has a relaxed feel, Cate says she has definitely noticed a change since staff started working remotely.\n\n\"You do not need to spend as much time on your appearance, especially as you're potentially only seen from the waist up anyway,\" she says, adding that being fully made-up is not something she, nor many clients, expect.\n\n\"I'm not going to expect you to be in a full face of make-up and a suit when you're essentially sat at your kitchen table,\" she says.\n\nKantar surveyed 300,000 women worldwide, as well as looking at spending data, and found that British women have made the biggest change in their grooming habits in recent years.\n\nCate Walter says she doesn't expect staff to wear a lot of make-up especially if they are working from home\n\n\"Manufacturers are going to struggle and they're really going to have to work harder to get our money from us,\" said Kantar analyst Maya Zawislak.\n\nTheir research shows a 19% fall in make-up sales since 2019, but the pandemic is only part of the story.\n\nMs Zawislak adds that a looming cost-of-living crisis could also affect what consumers buy.\n\nThe cosmetics industry is struggling on two fronts. As the squeeze on all our budgets really starts to bite people are looking for ways to cut their spending.\n\nBut the pandemic has also given some women the self-confidence to try going make-up free, or to let their hair go grey.\n\nSkin care products have not seen the same decline as cosmetics though, as we've moisturised with enthusiasm after all the anti-bac gel. And self-care has become an important buzz word in these difficult times.\n\nOverall it seems people are reluctant to spend on what might be seen as frivolous, but happier to splurge on something that feels like it's doing them good.\n\nHistorically, economists would say that lipstick sales thrive during difficult economic times. Typically, this little luxury might have been a way for cash-strapped consumers to treat themselves.\n\nBut this time the use of masks and remote working has seen the sale of red lip products fall by 40%.\n\nThe boss of Boots in the UK, Sebastian James, told the BBC his chain had seen the same trend.\n\n\"Over the pandemic we saw a lot less colour cosmetics in our trade, lipsticks and so on, and a lot more spend on self care , so skin care, haircare, and particularly what we call expert skin care,\" he told the Today programme.\n\n\"Certainly year-on-year we're well up in [our beauty sales] but definitely people are buying different stuff.\"\n\nOn the other hand, rather than just buying less, some people have switched to different products.\n\n\"I probably buy less now, but maybe higher-end price products,\" says Charlie's colleague, Julie Hopwood.\n\nJulie uses a tinted moisturiser plus a bit of eye-shadow. \"I think eyes did become more important when we were all wearing masks,\" she explains, adding that she has felt inspired to try new things, watching tutorials online during lockdown.\n\nBoth Julie and Charlie spend about half an hour getting ready for work and maybe an hour at the weekend. Changes to their morning routine mean they can spend time going to the gym or with family instead.\n\nThe relaxation of what we wear to work started long before the pandemic for many sectors. But it appears to have accelerated during the pandemic, so much so that last month the Office for National Statistics removed men's suits from their \"typical\" basket of consumer goods.\n\nThe question for the cosmetic industry, and for related areas such as workwear, is whether these new habits will stay or fade as fashions and behaviours shift.\n\nSarah Finn, for one, hopes they stick.\n\n\"I used to be the odd one out, because I didn't wear make-up,\" she says. \"I get up, get showered and I'm out of the door.\"\n\nNow, no-one else seems to be wearing make-up either, says Sarah, and possibly, like her, they'll decide they'd rather keep the morning lie-in.", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "A Russian tycoon has lambasted the country's \"massacre\" in Ukraine and called for an end to the \"crazy war\".\n\nOleg Tinkov wrote in a profanity-littered Instagram post that he did not see \"any beneficiary\" of the conflict.\n\nMr Tinkov is one of Russia's most well-known entrepreneurs and founded the global online bank Tinkoff Bank and owned the cycling team Tinkoff-Saxo.\n\nHe is also one of the most high profile Russians to publicly condemn President Vladimir Putin's actions.\n\nTwo of the country's most prominent oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have made separate calls for peace, but have stopped short of direct criticism.\n\nMr Fridman, a billionaire banker, has said any personal remarks could be a risk not just to himself but also staff and colleagues.\n\nHowever, the businessman Boris Mints, who worked for the Russian government in the 1990s but was discharged of his political roles four days after Mr Putin took office, has joined Mr Tinkov in voicing direct criticism of the president.\n\nMr Mints, who lives in the UK, is the subject of current legal action by the Kremlin. He told the BBC \"every right-thinking person has a duty to speak out against this appalling war and Vladimir Putin's growing authoritarianism\".\n\n\"All of us must do what we can to support Ukrainians suffering from this vicious onslaught, whether in Ukraine or as refugees beyond its borders,\" he added.\n\nThe UK government has sanctioned Mr Tinkov along with many other Russians identified as having close links to the Kremlim. Mr Mints has not been sanctioned.\n\nWarning: This story contains language some may find offensive.\n\nMr Tinkov has previously denied having any close relationship with President Putin or the Kremlin.\n\nIn his Instagram post, Mr Tinkov said 90% of Russians were against the war in Ukraine and added \"morons in any country are 10%\".\n\n\"I don't see a SINGLE beneficiary of this insane war! Innocent people and soldiers are dying,\" Mr Tinkov added.\n\n\"Waking up with a hangover, the generals realised that they have a shit army.\n\n\"And how will the army be good, if everything else in the country is shitty and mired in nepotism, sycophancy and servility?\"\n\nBefore Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, Mr Tinkov's wealth had been estimated at more than $4.4bn (£3.4bn).\n\nBut he has since lost his billionaire status as shares in his bank have plummeted, Forbes reported last month.\n\nSwitching to English in his post, Mr Tinkov wrote: \"Dear 'collective West' please give Mr Putin a clear exit to save his face and stop this massacre. Please be more rational and humanitarian.\"\n\nOleg Tinkov used to own cycling team Tinkoff-Saxo\n\nIn a statement, Tinkoff Bank said it would not comment on the \"private opinion\" of its founder, who stepped down as chairman in 2020, saying he no longer made decisions for the brand started in 2006.\n\nMr Tinkov, who is not currently in Russia, owns about 35% of Cyprus-based TCS Group Holding, whose stable of companies under the Tinkoff brand span sectors from banking and insurance to mobile services.\n\nHe has been described as a \"serial entrepreneur\" whose career has seen him go from bike racing, to importing electronics, flogging frozen food, brewing beer, issuing credit cards and then back to bike racing as owner of cycling's Tinkoff-Saxo team.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Le Pen and Macron come to blows over headscarf policy\n\nThe two candidates for the French presidency have gone head to head in their only televised debate, ahead of Sunday's second-round run-off vote.\n\nFar-right leader Marine Le Pen has fallen behind centrist Emmanuel Macron in the opinion polls but millions of voters are still undecided.\n\nIt did not take long for the two-hour-45-minute clash to burst into life.\n\nThe candidates confronted each other on the cost of living, Russia, climate change and immigration.\n\nAround 15.6 million viewers watched the debate, in which Mr Macron accused his rival of being dependent on Russian power while Marine Le Pen called him a hypocrite on climate change.\n\nSpiralling prices have dominated the campaign and immediately took centre stage in the debate.\n\nEmmanuel Macron was widely seen as the winner of the pair's 2017 encounter, when his rival appeared flustered and underprepared. But this time, Marine Le Pen was ready from the start and far more composed.\n\nThroughout the debate, it was Mr Macron who went on the offensive, appearing more like a challenger than an incumbent, repeatedly interrupting his rival.\n\nMs Le Pen said 70% of the French people believed their standard of living had fallen over the past five years and she would be the president of civil peace and national brotherhood. \"We need to give priority to the French in their own country,\" she said.\n\nMr Macron said France had known unprecedented crisis, with Covid followed by war in Europe. He had steered France through those challenges and aimed to make France a stronger country: the vote was a \"referendum on Europe, on secularism, and a moment of clear choice\", he said.\n\nDespite a strong performance from Ms Le Pen, a snap Elabe poll of voters suggested 59% of viewers thought Mr Macron had come out the winner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Voters react to the Macron and Le Pen TV debate\n\nThe sitting president was seen as most presidential, by 53% to 29%, although half of viewers also said he had come across as arrogant. Ms Le Pen was narrowly deemed to be more in tune with normal people, although 50% found her \"worrying\".\n\nThe president's difficulty was that unlike in 2017, he is now defending a record in office.\n\nIt meant that when asked what he planned for a second mandate, he had to stick to the unexciting option of continuity. His opponent could make hay with attacks on the inevitable failures of five years in government.\n\nAnd yet, the president never gave the feeling he was not on solid ground. His attacks on Marine Le Pen over the Russian loan, over Europe and over the Islamic headscarf all hit home.\n\nOn the economy, he argued forcefully that his already-enacted proposals for protecting the French from inflation - a cap on fuel prices and tax exemption for pay bonuses - were both fairer and more effective than Madame Le Pen's ideas.\n\nAnd in the main, he avoided the trap of coming over as too arrogant or technocratic. Often, he gave the impression of wanting to launch himself more strongly against his opponent but of holding himself back.\n\nAfter a relatively civil start, it quickly turned combative when the two candidates addressed the biggest issue for voters.\n\nCost of living: From the start Marine Le Pen said this was her priority: \"I will permanently cut VAT on energy. I will also cut taxes, no income tax for under-30s.\" She accused Mr Macron on letting pension levels fall in real terms too.\n\nMr Macron said his solution was to impose a cap on prices which was \"twice as effective as dropping sales tax\".\n\nThey became animated as they disagreed on how to bring down energy prices. Mr Macron repeatedly challenged his opponent's proposals as unworkable. She snapped back: \"I want to give the French their money back.\"\n\nMr Macron frequently went on the offensive during the long debate\n\nRussia's war in Ukraine: Emmanuel Macron said Russia was \"going down a fatal path\" and the role of France and Europe was to provide Ukraine with military equipment and take in refugees.\n\nMs Le Pen, criticised for her close ties to the Kremlin and for taking a Russian bank loan for her party, warned that giving Ukraine weapons could make France a \"co-belligerent\". However, she supported her opponent's policy of backing Ukraine and taking in refugees.\n\nAt this point Mr Macron went on the offensive, pointing out she was one of the first political leaders in 2014 to recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea. \"You're speaking to your banker when you speak to Russia,\" he said.\n\nMs Le Pen said she had taken Russian money as no French bank would lend to her party. When she argued that she had had to borrow money like millions of French people, he countered that the French did not look to Russia for finance.\n\nAt one point Marine Le Pen held up a printed tweet to prove her backing for a free Ukraine\n\nEuropean Union: Marine Le Pen has changed her policy from leaving the EU to seeking change from within it. But Mr Macron argued that her idea of a \"Europe of nations\" would spell the end of the EU and that \"you are selling a lie\".\n\nIn the current EU she said France was failing to defend its interests and she would stop negotiating trade deals that \"hurt French producers and farmers\".\n\nRetirement age: This is another of the big election issues: Emmanuel Macron has said France needs to raise the pension age from 62 to 65 over nine years, while Ms Le Pen wants to keep it at 62.\n\nMs Le Pen said his proposal was \"absolutely intolerable\". He hit back saying she was promising to be more generous with pensioners but did not explain how she would pay for it.\n\nClimate change: Renewable energy is another issue where the two candidates are diametrically opposed and it became one of the most animated points of the debate. The only thing they agree on is building more nuclear power stations.\n\n\"You are a climate sceptic, that's pretty obvious,\" Mr Macron said to his rival. The only Green presidential candidate has urged his voters to back the incumbent president. Marine Le Pen retorted that he was a \"climate hypocrite\".\n\nMarine Le Pen argued importing goods from thousands of miles away was responsible for climate change and producing locally would help tackle global warming. There was nothing worse than wind turbines, she complained. He countered that her policy of relying on nuclear power to replace fossil fuels was \"untenable\" and renewables had to be part of the mix. \"Wind turbines create jobs,\" he added.\n\nImmigration and Islam: Marine Le Pen went on the offensive, promising a referendum on who should stay and who should leave France and condemning what she called \"anarchic and massive immigration\" that contributed to a sense of insecurity.\n\nShe then spoke about another of her key policies, banning the wearing of the headscarf in public, arguing that women had to be liberated from \"Islamist pressure\". Mr Macron objected it was wrong to mix Islam with Islamism. Her policy, he said, would lead to \"civil war\" and was a betrayal of French values: \"You would have police running down the street after girls in headscarves and [Jewish] boys wearing the kippah.\" It was intolerant and she was pushing millions of compatriots out of the public space on account of their religion, he said.\n\nConstitutional change: Another of Marine Le Pen's big policies is for citizens' referendums, which she said were rooted in the yellow-vest or gilets jaunes protests that began early in the Macron presidency. \"The main problem after your five-year term is that you have divided the country. We need to rebuild France and bring people together.\"\n\nOne of the big attractions of such referendums for Ms Le Pen is that they would bypass parliament, where she has only a handful of MPs. Mr Macron said they would be unconstitutional.\n\nTelevised confrontations between the top two candidates have been a highlight of French presidential elections for almost five decades and they have proved most decisive when the polls are close.\n\nIn 1974, conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went on to beat Socialist François Mitterrand after performing well in their debate. Mitterrand did better in the rematch in 1981 and won the run-off vote.\n\nThis was the first time since then that the same candidates have squared off in two consecutive elections.\n\nThe 2017 debate was a disaster for Ms Le Pen that led to a big election defeat. This time around the race is much closer and her strong performance could help win over undecided voters.\n\nThe gap in the opinion polls has widened slightly since the first round vote in which the incumbent president won 27.85% and Ms Le Pen came second with 23.15%. But they are still fluctuating wildly, suggesting Mr Macron will secure between 53% and 57% of the vote.\n\nThe choice for voters is far clearer than five years ago, when Emmanuel Macron won with very little experience as a politician.\n\nHis strict Covid policies alienated many voters and he has been accused of acting as a \"president for the rich\". He is more popular in the big cities but has secured the support of other mainstream left and right parties for his pro-EU liberal and global outlook.\n\nMarine Le Pen has toned down her nationalist, anti-EU rhetoric during the campaign but as she made clear in the debate her aim remains to revise France's relationship with the European Union.", "Readers have been spreading their love of their favourite books on TikTok\n\nPublishers say the popularity of readers discussing their favourite books on TikTok helped lift sales to record levels in the UK in 2021.\n\nTotal book sales rose 5% to £6.7bn last year, with fiction, children's and young adult all performing well, the Publishers Association said.\n\nThe organisation said four of the top five young adult bestsellers in 2021 had been driven by the BookTok trend.\n\nThey included hit titles like They Both Die at the End and We Were Liars.\n\nPublishers Association chief executive Stephen Lotinga said viral videos on platforms like TikTok and YouTube had been \"really significant\" in encouraging readers to discover books.\n\n\"Anecdotally, we've had lots of individual booksellers talking about the fact that they're having lots of young people coming into their book stores, talking about books that they have heard about on TikTok and asking for them,\" he said.\n\n\"It is having an impact on the number of books sold, but the shape of what's being sold is changing as well. Throughout the pandemic period, we saw people increasingly buying what we call backlist books, which are books that have been published in the past.\"\n\nThe BookTok hashtag has had almost 50 billion views on TikTok\n\nMany of the titles that have taken off on TikTok are several years old rather than brand new releases.\n\nThey Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, which was the top-selling young adult book of 2021, according to Nielsen, was first published in 2017 before enjoying a resurgence. E Lockhart's We Were Liars, which was third on the list, originally came out in 2014.\n\nEmilie Marneur from publisher Bonnier said We Were Liars sold four times more copies last year than it had in the previous seven, while TikTok also pushed two of the company's other older titles into last year's top 50 young adult bestsellers list.\n\n\"The sheer volume of sales we saw in that one year on the back of the TikTok activity far exceeded the combined sales we've seen for those titles over their lifetime before that,\" she said.\n\nWe Were Liars, which has \"a very, very dramatic\" ending, benefited from a \"big trend around books that make you really sad or have a very unexpected ending\", she explained.\n\nMr Lotinga said the overall sales figures reflected \"quite an incredible performance\" given that book shops were closed during lockdown for the first three months of 2021.\n\nDespite that, print sales were up by 5% over the entire year while sales of audio downloads rose by 14%, but digital sales in consumer publishing were down by 1%.", "Ukrainian soldier stands guard close to the front line with Russian troops near Kharkiv\n\nUkraine's allies have pledged to send more weapons to help it defend against a renewed Russian offensive.\n\nThe US and others vowed to send artillery, anti-tank and air defence aid to Kyiv during a 90-minute video call on Tuesday.\n\nUkraine says it needs the weapons to help defend itself as Russia launched a new campaign in the country's east.\n\nClashes there have marked what Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky said was the start of the \"battle for the Donbas\".\n\nThe eastern Donbas - which comprises the Luhansk and Donetsk regions - is where Russia is concentrating its efforts.\n\nAccording to Ukraine, Russian forces have been attacking Ukrainian positions along the entire 300-mile (480km) front line since Monday.\n\nIt was amid these renewed attacks that Western leaders met to discuss further military assistance for Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the meeting, the US defence department said additional military aircraft and aircraft parts had been sent to Ukraine to increase their fleet size and repair others in Ukraine's arsenal that were damaged.\n\nThe US defence department added that the US had not provided aircraft to Kyiv itself, and did not provide details on which countries have provided the aircraft.\n\nPresident Zelensky has been appealing to the US for Soviet-made air defence systems and fighter jets as an alternative to a no-fly zone over Ukraine.\n\nLast month, the US refused a proposal by Poland to provide it with MiG-29 fighter jets, which it would then transfer to Ukraine.\n\nPresident Joe Biden, speaking to reporters after the meeting between Western allies, added that the US is planning to provide a further military aid package to Ukraine of a similar size to the $800m (£615m) aid package he announced last week, according to US media.\n\nHe said Washington would also be sending Ukraine more artillery - heavy guns deployed in land warfare.\n\nOther countries also pledged to help Ukraine with further military assistance during the meeting.\n\n\"They [Ukraine] need support with more artillery, that is what we will be giving them,\" said the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in parliament after the meeting.\n\nIn Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany was providing finance to enable Ukraine to buy anti-tank weapons and ammunition from German arms manufacturers.\n\nMeanwhile, the Czech Republic said it would repair Ukrainian tanks and armoured vehicles when they are damaged in combat.\n\nFurther economic sanctions against Russia was another topic on the agenda.\n\nThe arms pledges follow persistent calls from President Zelensky for allies to increase their weapons supplies to Kyiv.\n\n\"We need heavy artillery, armed vehicles, air defence systems and combat aircraft — anything to repel Russian forces and stop their war crimes,\" Mr Zelensky said on Twitter last week. \"Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with heavy weapons\".\n\n\"The United States and Western states under its control are doing everything to drag out the military operation for as long as possible,\" Russia's defence chief Sergei Shoigu said.\n\nThe leaders also discussed how to provide security guarantees to Ukraine after the war even if it is not a member of Nato, a French presidential advisor said.\n\nNato is a military alliance whose 30 members - including the US, UK and Germany - have agreed to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any one of them.\n\nSince Ukraine is not a Nato member, the alliance isn't obliged to come to its defence.\n\nIts members fear that involving themselves in direct armed confrontation could lead to an all-out conflict between Russia and the West.\n\nInstead, Nato members have supplied Ukraine with millions of dollars worth of military aid since Russia launched the invasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Galina is sheltering in a Mykolaiv basement, but will run out of medication in three weeks", "MPs have called for a 40-year deadline for all asbestos to be removed from public and commercial buildings.\n\nThe Work and Pensions Select Committee said asbestos remained the biggest cause of work-related deaths in the UK.\n\nMore than 5,000 such fatalities were recorded in 2019.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimates that asbestos may still be present in 300,000 non-domestic buildings and in many more homes, despite long-term efforts to remove it.\n\nThere is currently no target date for the eradication of the material in public buildings, or private homes, in the UK.\n\nAsbestos is classified as being carcinogenic, which means it can cause cancer and other dangerous lung conditions when fibres are inhaled.\n\nThe use of any type of the substance was banned in the UK in 1999.\n\nThe Work and Pensions Committee warned that while \"extreme exposures\" might be a thing of the past, the risks were likely to escalate.\n\nThe retrofitting of buildings to meet net zero requirements meant more materials containing asbestos would be disturbed in the coming decades, the MPs said.\n\nWhile both the HSE and the government have said they believe it should be removed, the committee said neither had put forward a \"clear and comprehensive strategy\" for achieving this.\n\nIt wants all asbestos removed from non-domestic buildings within 40 years, starting with the highest risk settings such as schools, saying a \"clear deadline\" would help to \"focus minds\".\n\n\"Simple reliance on a set of regulations which devolve asbestos management to individual duty holders - the building owners or managers responsible for maintenance - will not be good enough,\" the committee said.\n\n\"We need a pan-government and 'system-wide' strategy for the long-term removal of asbestos, founded on strong evidence of what is best from a scientific, epidemiological, and behavioural point of view.\"\n\nThe government has been approached for comment.", "Alyson Nelson, 64, was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nPolice have released the name of a woman who was killed in Whitehead, County Antrim.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched following the death of Alyson Nelson, who was 64 and had lived in the town for many years.\n\nShe was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 60s has been arrested.\n\nPolice were called to a house in Victoria Avenue at about 18:10 BST on Saturday after receiving reports of a stabbing.\n\nThey said the man had been arrested on suspicion of murder and was in police custody.\n\nThe incident happened at Victoria Avenue in the town centre on Saturday evening\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThe BBC was told Ms Nelson was often seen walking her dogs and chatting with neighbours.\n\nPeople in the area have said they are shocked and saddened by her death.\n\nMaeve Taylor, from Whitehead, said she was \"devastated\" at what had happened.\n\n\"I feel so sorry for her family, she was a lovely neighbour, a lovely lady,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"She walked her dogs, everybody knew her around the town. She would have been out and about and always very friendly, very chatty and she will be badly missed.\n\n\"It is just shocking, how she has passed away.\"\n\nVictoria Avenue is located near the railway station in Whitehead\n\nRev Mark Taylor, a Church of Ireland rector in Whitehead, said \"there was a great deal of shock\" at what had happened and that the community's thoughts and prayers were with Ms Nelson's family.\n\n\"This is a quiet, seaside town,\" he added.\n\n\"There are families that are torn apart and it is very hurtful for them, very difficult for them to deal with.\n\n\"They are known to people in the community, who care for them deeply.\"", "A satellite image by Maxar purportedly showing four sections of linear rows of graves near Mariupol\n\nA US satellite firm says it has identified a mass burial site containing about 200 graves near Mariupol, a city Russian forces have been trying to wrest control of for weeks.\n\nMaxar said its images showed an expansion of graves that began at the end of March.\n\nLocal Ukrainian officials accuse the Russians of burying Mariupol civilians killed by Russian troops there.\n\nMoscow has not yet responded.\n\nRussian troops control most of Mariupol after weeks of bombardment and fighting, but some Ukrainian forces remain in a sprawling steelworks in the city. President Putin has abandoned plans to storm the Azovstal plant and instead told troops to seal it off.\n\nThe alleged mass grave is near a village called Manhush about 20km (12 miles) west of Mariupol. Maxar said there were four sections of linear rows about 85m long.\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the images.\n\nMariupol city council earlier issued its own statement accusing the Russians of burying civilians at the same location.\n\nThe council said the Russians were digging trenches and \"using dump lorries to bring the bodies\" and provided its own aerial image of the site, which it said was \"already twice as large as the nearby cemetery\".\n\nThe city's mayor Vadym Boichenko says tens of thousands of civilians may have been killed in Mariupol\n\nMoscow has repeatedly denied accusations by Ukraine and its Western allies that Russian troops and top Kremlin politicians are responsible for mass killings of civilians.\n\nEarlier this month, Maxar images of the town of Bucha outside Kyiv appeared to show bodies of civilians lying in the street nearly two weeks before the Russians left the town as part of a withdrawal from northern Ukraine.\n\nThe image from 19 March, first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by the BBC, contradicted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's claim that footage of bodies in Bucha had been \"staged\" after the Russians withdrew.\n\nBucha Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk has said that least 300 civilians were killed in the town.", "Rudy Giuliani was inside the Jack in the Box costume\n\nDonald Trump's former personal lawyer and ex-mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani has been unmasked as a contestant on US TV show The Masked Singer.\n\nThat performance led one of the show's judges, comedian Ken Jeong, to walk off, saying: \"I'm done.\"\n\nMr Giuliani, one of Mr Trump's key allies when claiming electoral fraud in 2020, was identified as the personality inside the Jack in the Box costume.\n\nAfter being unmasked, he then sang the George Thorogood song Bad to the Bone.\n\nJeong's fellow judges Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg and Nicole Scherzinger danced along to Mr Giuliani's rendition.\n\nHe is a controversial figure for his role in promoting the baseless claim that Mr Trump really won the 2020 US presidential election.\n\nLast June, he had his law licence suspended in New York for making \"demonstrably false and misleading\" claims around the election.\n\nRudy Giuliani addressed a rally before the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021\n\nHe also spoke at a rally before the storming of the Capitol in Washington, DC on 6 January 2021, encouraging protesters to \"have trial by combat\".\n\nUS entertainment magazine Variety said his casting was the show's \"worst decision yet\".\n\nColumnist Daniel D'Addario wrote: \"Treating Giuliani as a plaything for our culture, albeit one who has made some controversial choices, is not a matter of policy disagreement, or of being a bit too grave about the lighter side of the news.\n\n\"Fox gave time and attention to a powerful figure who would have, if given his way, put the last nail in the coffin of democracy in this country.\"\n\nAsked why he agreed to appear, Mr Giuliani told host Nick Cannon: \"I guess the main reason is I just had a granddaughter, Grace, and I want her to know that you should try everything, even things that are completely unlike you and unlikely. I couldn't think of anything more unlike me and unlikely than this.\n\n\"I enjoy the show and I have for years, and it just seemed like it would be fun, and I don't get to have a lot of fun.\"\n\nHe added that it had been \"a really wonderful experience\".\n\nHe's not the first political figure to appear on the programme. Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared as Bear in 2020.", "Tesla has been raising prices - but that hasn't seemed to dent demand for its electric cars.\n\nDespite the firm facing higher costs, profits at Elon Musk's electric car company soared to $3.3bn (£2.5bn) in the first three months of the year, as customers proved willing to pay more.\n\nThe firm's deliveries were up 68% - and would have been higher if not for supply chain shortages, the firm said.\n\nIts Shanghai factory was also recently forced shut due to Covid restrictions.\n\nAs the plant reopens this month, staff will be required to sleep at the factory in an effort to avoid further lockdowns, Bloomberg has reported.\n\n\"Although limited production has recently restarted, we continue to monitor the situation closely,\" Tesla said as it shared quarterly results with investors.\n\nTesla has been pushing to expand, opening new factories in Texas and Germany in recent weeks.\n\nThe firm delivered more than 310,000 cars in the first three months of the year and in a conference call, chief executive Elon Musk predicted the company would produce 60% more cars during the year as a whole compared to last year.\n\nTesla doesn't advertise its products, but attracts frequent headlines, often related to controversial comments made by Mr Musk.\n\nBut the firm said that it had also seen spikes in orders following increased marketing from rival electric car makers.\n\nMr Musk said Tesla expects to mass produce a robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals by 2024.\n\nWhile Tesla shares rose more than 5% in after-hours trade, following the strong results, some investors worry Mr Musk may be distracted from his focus on the electric carmaker as it expands.\n\nMr Musk, known for his sometimes erratic musings on Twitter, recently made an unsolicited offer to buy the social media platform for $43bn.\n\nThe rise in Tesla's stock market value in recent years has made Mr Musk the world's richest man, with an estimated net worth of more than $260bn.\n\nThat is nearly $100bn more than his closest rival, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United have appointed Ajax coach Erik ten Hag as their next manager.\n\nThe Dutchman, 52, will take over from interim boss Ralf Rangnick at the end of this season on a three-year deal which can be extended by a year.\n\nRangnick, who replaced the sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in November, is set to move into a consultancy role.\n\nTen Hag will become United's fifth permanent manager since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.\n\n\"It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead,\" said Ten Hag.\n\n\"I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am absolutely determined to develop a team capable of delivering the success they deserve.\"\n• None What can Man Utd expect with Ten Hag?\n• None Go straight to all the best Man Utd content\n\nUnited are sixth in the Premier League with five games remaining this season, three points behind Tottenham, who occupy the fourth Champions League spot.\n\nAjax are top of the Dutch Eredivisie - four points clear of PSV Eindhoven - with five matches left, although they lost to their rivals in the Dutch Cup final.\n\nTen Hag, who took over as Ajax head coach since December 2017, led them to the league and cup double in 2018-19 and 2020-21.\n\nThey reached the semi-finals of the 2018-19 Champions League and were within a minute of making the final, only to be denied by a remarkable Tottenham comeback.\n\nUnited's choice had narrowed to Ten Hag and Paris St-Germain boss Mauricio Pochettino, after Sevilla coach Julen Lopetegui had also been spoken to about the role.\n\nTen Hag is expected to bring in a former United coach or player as part of his backroom team, given it is unlikely the remaining link to the Solskjaer era, Mike Phelan, will remain at the club.\n\nTen Hag joined Ajax after two and a half years at Utrecht, having previously coached Bayern Munich's second team, where he worked with Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.\n• None 'The first manager since Ferguson other clubs will fear' - fans' views\n\nSolskjaer was sacked following a 4-1 defeat at Watford that left United seventh in the table.\n\nSince Rangnick officially took charge on 3 December, United have a record of nine wins, six draws and four defeats in 19 league games.\n\nThey were knocked out of the Champions League in the last 16 by Atletico Madrid and lost to Championship side Middlesbrough in the FA Cup fourth round.\n\nAfter Tuesday's 4-0 league defeat by Liverpool, Rangnick said United might need as many as 10 new players this summer.\n\nTen Hag wants ex-England coach and Ferguson's former assistant Steve McClaren to work with him.\n\nMcClaren worked with Ten Hag at FC Twente and it is understood Ten Hag feels he can provide invaluable insight into the workings of United and English football in general.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced that chief scout Jim Lawlor and head of global scouting Marcel Bout had United.\n\nUnited won 38 trophies during Ferguson's 26-year reign at Old Trafford, including 13 league titles, two Champions Leagues, five FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nHowever, since his departure United have won only the FA Cup under Louis van Gaal, the League Cup, Europa League and Community Shield under Jose Mourinho, and the Charity Shield under David Moyes.\n\nMoyes, originally earmarked as Ferguson's long-term successor and given a six-year contract, was sacked in his first season in charge.\n\nTen Hag was the unanimous choice of senior figures at Old Trafford after what is being said was a rigorous recruitment process, led by football director John Murtough and technical director Darren Fletcher, with new chief executive Richard Arnold engaged for the final stages.\n\nThe belief at United is that Ten Hag was the candidate most closely aligned to the club's identity and strategy.\n\nTen Hag is viewed as being a proven winner who likes to play an attractive, attacking style of football, with a commitment to youth.\n\nIt is felt he improves players and develops teams, and within the negotiation process he set out his long-term vision to build a successful team.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRussian world number eight Andrey Rublev said Wimbledon's ban on Russian and Belarusian players is \"complete discrimination\" and \"illogical\".\n\nRublev is one of three top-10 players - along with fellow Russian Daniil Medvedev and Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus - who cannot play at SW19 this summer.\n\nWimbledon made the decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players because of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"The reasons they gave us had no sense, they were not logical,\" said Rublev.\n\n\"What is happening now is complete discrimination against us.\"\n\nThe Belarusian Tennis Federation said it is seeking legal advice about the decision made by the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) and the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA).\n\n\"Such destructive actions in no way contribute to the resolution of conflicts, but only incite hatred and intolerance on a national basis,\" it said.\n• None Russians who denounce Ukraine invasion should be allowed to play - Svitolina\n\nRublev's comments to the AFP news agency came after the 24-year-old won 4-6 7-6 (7-1) 6-2 against Czech opponent Jiri Lehecka at the Serbia Open.\n\nShortly after the war started in February, Rublev appealed for peace when he signed a camera lens with a \"no war please\" message at the Dubai Tennis Championship.\n\nOn Wednesday, world number one Novak Djokovic said he did not support the \"crazy\" decision by Wimbledon to ban Russian and Belarusian players.\n\nMartina Navratilova, who won a record nine Wimbledon singles titles, said excluding Russian and Belarusian players was \"not the way to go\".\n\nWimbledon, which is one of the sport's four Grand Slam events, runs from 27 June to 10 July.\n\nMeanwhile, six-time Wimbledon champion Djokovic reached the Serbia Open semi-finals when he fought back from a set and a break down to beat fellow Serb Miomir Kecmanovic.\n\nThe 20-time Grand Slam champion, who came back from a similar deficit against Laslo Djere on Wednesday, won 4-6 6-3 6-3 against world number 38 Kecmanovic.\n\nDjokovic, chasing a third title at the Serbia Open and a fourth ATP Tour title overall in his home city, will face either Russian third seed Karen Khachanov or Brazilian qualifier Thiago Monteiro for a place in the final.\n\nAt the Barcelona Open, British number one Cameron Norrie's match against Hungary's Marton Fucsovics was pushed back to Friday after Thursday's play was ruined by rain.", "The BBC is recognised by audiences in the UK and around the world as a provider of news that you can trust. Our website, like our TV and radio services, strives for journalism that is accurate, impartial, independent and fair.\n\nOur editorial values say: \"The trust that our audience has in all our content underpins everything that we do. We are independent, impartial and honest. We are committed to achieving the highest standards of accuracy and impartiality and strive to avoid knowingly or materially misleading our audiences.\n\n\"Our commitment to impartiality is at the heart of that relationship of trust. In all our output we will treat every subject with an impartiality that reflects the full range of views. We will consider all the relevant facts fairly and with an open mind.\"\n\nResearch shows that, compared to other broadcasters, newspapers and online sites, the BBC is seen as by far the most trusted and impartial news provider in the UK [PDF].\n\nEven so, we know that identifying credible journalism on the internet can be a confusing experience. 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We usually link to official reports, sets of statistics and other sources of information, to enable you to judge for yourself the underlying information that we are reporting on.\n\nWhenever appropriate, we also offer links to relevant third-party websites that provide additional information, source material or informed comment.\n\nFor in-depth pieces of work, such as complex investigations or data journalism projects, we will help you understand how we went about our work by showing the underlying data and by disclosing any caveats, assumptions or other methodological frameworks used - for example, the study-design; the sample size; representativeness; margins of error; how the data was collected; geographical relevance and time periods.", "To extract oil and gas from a facility like this, a series of wells are drilled into the seabed and then the products extracted to a ship moored to the seabed. This offloads the oil onto big ships called tankers, while the gas is sent down a pipeline.\n\nThe drilling and anchoring of the ship, as well as chemicals released, have the potential to disturb the seabed and damage habitats - and potentially kill animals living there such as soft corals and sea spiders.\n\nThere is also a lot of noise produced underwater when oil is extracted. This is important because many species in the marine environment use sound to communicate.\n\nThere are a number of laws such as The Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats which ensure damage is minimised and where possible avoided. The regulator will have looked at how rare the species in this environment are and the area of seafloor disturbed before approval.\n\nThe biggest environmental impact would come from any accidental spill. The worst marine oil spill in history was in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico from a BP site. The incident spilt four million barrels of oil over nearly three months. BP was required to pay up to $8.8bn (£7.25bn) for damages to the natural environment.\n\nSuch spills are rare - the frequency of a blowout of a well at the site is estimated at less than 0.0004%.\n\nMillions of barrels of oil poured in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill Image caption: Millions of barrels of oil poured in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill", "The EU is asking its citizens to drive less, turn down air conditioning and work from home three days a week, to reduce reliance on Russian energy.\n\nThe measures, drawn up with the International Energy Agency, would save a typical household €450 (£375) a year.\n\nBuying energy from Russia helps to support its economy and finance the war in Ukraine.\n\nBut Europe has said it cannot find alternative supplies, so it is asking citizens to adjust their lifestyles.\n\nThe nine-point plan, entitled “Playing My Part”, urges citizens to drive less, by using public transport, or working from home three days a week.\n\nIt also calls on citizens to:\n\nIt also calls on cities to promote car-free Sundays, as some already do.\n\n“Faced with the horrendous scenes of human suffering that we’ve seen following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, people in Europe want to take action,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA.\n\n“This guide has easy-to-follow steps that with little or no discomfort on our part can reduce the flow of money to Russia’s military and help put us on a path to a cleaner and more sustainable planet.”\n\nThe IEA calculates that if every citizen followed its recommendations, it could save 220 million barrels of oil every year, enough to fill 120 supertankers. It would also save 17bn cubic metres of gas, enough to heat nearly 20 million homes.\n\nIn March, the EU announced a plan to make the bloc independent of Russian energy imports by 2030.\n\nBut the German energy minister Christian Lindner told the BBC on Wednesday it would be impossible to stop oil imports immediately.\n\nThe report also recommends that citizens consider investing in home insulation, smart digital thermostats, and digital cars, which can all help to reduce fossil fuel use.\n\n\"All these measures, they can be voluntary contributions,\" said Leonore Gewessler, Austria's environment minister. \"But they need political action to underpin them.\"\n\nAustria has cut all fares on public transport to three euros per day, she said, and is introducing a programme to help low-income households replace old, inefficient appliances.\n\nEamon Ryan, Ireland's environment minister said by acting at a European level, it was easier to get the political messaging right.\n\n\"It is very difficult not to come across as someone who is telling the citizen what to do, or is being seen as a mean, Scrooge-like character,\" he said.\n\nEU countries are calling on citizens to walk, cycle or take public transport to reduce reliance on Russian oil\n\nSeparately, the UK announced it was tightening sanctions on non-energy goods exported from Russia, including a ban on caviar, silver and wood products.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was also ramping up taxes on some other exports from Russia and Belarus, covering goods worth a total of £130m.\n\nThe products facing higher import duties include diamonds, rubber, pharmaceuticals, meat, coffee, tobacco and other products.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, said the UK was taking every opportunity to \"ratchet the pressure to isolate the Russian economy\".\n\n\"These further measures will tighten the screws, shutting down lucrative avenues of funding for Putin's war machine,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Svyatoslav Palamar, from the controversial Azov regiment, says Mariupol was and will stay Ukrainian\n\nOne of the last Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol has told the BBC that the besieged steelworks where they are holed up is largely destroyed above ground and civilians are trapped under collapsed buildings.\n\nSpeaking from the Azovstal plant - the last part of Mariupol not under Russian control - Svyatoslav Palamar from the controversial Azov regiment said defenders had repelled waves of Russian attacks.\n\n\"I always say that as long as we are here, Mariupol remains under control of Ukraine,\" he said.\n\nEarlier President Vladimir Putin called off a planned Russian assault on the steelworks - a maze of tunnels and workshops - and ordered his troops to seal it off instead.\n\n\"Block off this industrial area so that a fly cannot pass through,\" he said.\n\nMuch of Mariupol has been destroyed in weeks of heavy Russian bombardment and intense street fighting. Taking the Sea of Azov port is a key Russian war aim and would release more troops to join a Russian offensive in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nCapt Palamar said the Russians had fired on the steel plant from warships and dropped \"bunker-busting\" bombs on it.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify any of his account. But it tallies with testimony earlier this week from a Ukrainian marine commander also in the steelworks, who said fighters were outnumbered and running out of supplies.\n\n\"All the buildings in the territory of Azovstal are practically destroyed. They drop heavy bombs, bunker-busting bombs which cause huge destruction. We have wounded and dead inside the bunkers. Some civilians remain trapped under the collapsed buildings,\" Capt Palamar said.\n\nThe Azov regiment was originally a far-right group that was later incorporated into Ukraine's National Guard. Its fighters along with a Marine brigade, border guards and police officers are the last Ukrainian defenders left in the city.\n\nWhen asked how many Ukrainian defenders remained in Mariupol, Capt Palamar answered simply \"enough to repel attacks\".\n\nHe said that civilians were in separate locations away from fighters. They were in basements containing 80-100 people each but it was unclear how many civilians there were in total as some buildings had been destroyed and fighters could not reach them because of shelling. Entrances to some of the bunkers were blocked by heavy concrete slabs that only heavy machinery could move, he said.\n\n\"We keep in touch with those civilians who stay in places that we can get to. We know that there are small children there as young as three months old,\" he said.\n\nThe fighter appealed for civilians to be given safe passage out of the steelworks and called for a third country or an international body to act as a guarantor for their safety.\n\n\"These people have got through a lot already, through war crimes. They don't trust Russians, and they are scared,\" he said, adding that they feared torture and murder at the hands of Russian troops or deportation to Russia through so-called filtration camps.\n\nElderly civilians in the steelworks were in need of medicine while there were also about 500 seriously wounded fighters who were not getting the care they needed - including major surgery such as amputations.\n\n\"After 52 days of blockade and heavy fighting we are running of medicines. And then we also keep unburied bodies of our fighters whom we need to bury with dignity in Ukraine-controlled territory,\" he said.\n\nCapt Palamar said Ukrainian defenders also wanted to secure their own evacuation if possible - but there could be no question of surrender.\n\n\"As for surrender in exchange for the safe way out for civilians, I hope we all know whom we are dealing with. We definitely know that all guarantees, all statements of the Russian Federation are worth nothing.\"\n\nHe said many of the defenders left in Azovstal came from Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, as well as the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He himself had been married there and his child had been born there.\n\n\"I witnessed how this city was developing. How this city became the pearl of Azov and it's a hometown for me as well,\" he said.\n\n\"Russia is not renewing or rebuilding anything. It aims to destroy and terrorise... If we fall this horde will go further and the whole civilised world will be in danger.\"\n\nUkraine has accused Russian forces of bombing civilian shelters and of using weapons banned or restricted by international law - including phosphorus bombs and cluster munitions - in attacks on Azovstal.\n\nUkraine as well as the US and UK have announced investigations into the possible use of chemical weapons in Mariupol, something Russia has denied. The BBC cannot independently confirm the allegations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin orders forces to block off last Mariupol fighters in steel plant", "Health officials are now investigating 108 cases of sudden-onset hepatitis - or liver inflammation - in children in the UK since the start of this year.\n\nThey say it is increasingly likely a virus which causes flu symptoms, known as adenovirus, could be the cause.\n\nOfficials are examining 79 confirmed cases in England, 14 in Scotland and 15 across Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said eight children had received a liver transplant as a result.\n\nThe first sign of an unusual rise in young children with liver inflammation was spotted in Scotland in late March.\n\nMost of the children hospitalised so far are thought to be between the ages of one and five years old.\n\nUKHSA's chief medical advisor, Professor Susan Hopkins, says that officials were still looking at a range of possible factors that could be behind the increase, but \"the most likely\" trigger was an adenovirus - a group of common viruses which usually cause colds, vomiting and diarrhoea in children.\n\n\"Transplants in this age group are extremely rare so therefore we are concerned, and we want to understand why this is happening and what else we can do,\" she told the BBC.\n\nProf Hopkins says 77% of childhood hepatitis cases currently under investigation have tested positive for some form of adenovirus.\n\nScientists and clinicians are now investigating whether there has been a change in the genetic make-up - or genome - of the virus that might trigger liver inflammation more easily.\n\nAnother possible explanation is that restrictions imposed in the pandemic may have led to young children being first exposed to adenovirus at a slightly later point in their lives, leading to a \"more vigorous\" immune response.\n\nThe UKHSA says it is keeping an \"open mind\" and not ruling out other possible causes, including Covid-19, other infections or an environmental trigger.\n\nBut it says there is \"no link\" with the Covid-19 vaccine, as none of the children involved has been vaccinated.\n\nTo minimise the chance of an infection, Prof Hopkins says parents should supervise good handwashing and hygiene at home.\n\n\"The good things that we've learnt from reducing transmission of Covid will help us reduce the transmission of whatever is causing this as well,\" she says.\n\nThe UKHSA has told parents and guardians to be on the lookout for the signs of hepatitis such as jaundice - a yellowing of the eyes and skin - and contact a GP if they are concerned.\n\nOther symptoms of the liver condition include:\n\nEarlier this week, the European Centre for Disease Control said an undisclosed number of childhood hepatitis cases had also been detected in Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain.\n\nIn the US, Alabama's public-health department said nine cases had been found in one- to six-year-olds, with two needing liver transplants.\n\nIt's a broad term used to describe inflammation of the liver.\n\nUsually the result of a viral infection, it can also be caused by exposure to some chemicals, drinking too much alcohol, drugs and certain genetic disorders.\n\nThere are five main types of hepatitis caused by specific viruses - known as A, B, C, D and E - but none of those so far appears to have caused the liver inflammation seen in these children.\n\nSome types of hepatitis can pass without any serious problems, while others can be long-lasting.", "Johnny Depp has sought to paint ex-wife Amber Heard as a volatile spouse who abused and demeaned him.\n\nThe actor, 58, has sued Ms Heard over an article she wrote saying she was a victim of domestic violence.\n\nMr Depp has denied any abuse. Ms Heard, 35, has sued him in return, with a $100m (£76m) counterclaim.\n\nIn his testimony, Mr Depp said he felt \"pure hatred\" from Ms Heard. Cross-examination from her lawyers began on Wednesday after two days of testimony.\n\nHis testimony is set to resume into a third day on Thursday.\n\nAfter the romance of their first year together soured, the pair argued regularly, he said, with Ms Heard frequently issuing a \"sarcastic, demeaning, aggressive, violent, toxic spew\", and occasionally resorting to violence.\n\n\"It could begin with a slap,\" Mr Depp said. \"It could begin with throwing a TV remote at my head. It could be throwing a glass of wine in my face.\"\n\n\"She has a need for conflict. She has a need for violence,\" he said. And in recordings of the former couple played to the jury on Wednesday, Ms Heard can be heard admitting she \"did start a physical fight\" with Mr Depp.\n\nMr Depp also recalled a now-infamous incident between him and his former wife, in which he found \"human fecal matter\" on his side of the bed in the flat he shared with Ms Heard.\n\n\"It was so bizarre and so grotesque, that I could only laugh,\" he said.\n\nMs Heard has denied that she or any of her friends left human excrement on the bed, testifying in Mr Depp's 2018 defamation trial in the UK that the idea was \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\nJurors in the closely watched civil trial, which is taking place in Virginia, have heard two wildly different accounts of Mr Depp and Ms Heard's relationship.\n\nLawyers for Ms Heard have so far worked to portray Mr Depp as a physically and sexually abusive partner prone to drug and alcohol binges.\n\nMr Depp addressed his drug and alcohol use on Wednesday, saying he had become addicted to prescription opioids after receiving Roxycodone for a back injury.\n\nThe actor testified that while detoxing from the drugs, Ms Heard withheld medication from him that would have relieved symptoms of withdrawal because she said it was not time for the next dose.\n\nThe actor said he rolled on the floor, in tears, and begged. \"I hate saying this, having to admit this, but that was about the lowest point in my life.\"\n\nAs Johnny Depp settled down for day two on the witness stand there was only the briefest glance across the court towards where his ex-wife Amber Heard was sitting.\n\nThroughout it all she sat watching intently, occasionally writing a few notes as Mr Depp began to describe his views about their relationship - a relationship she says was violent and abusive.\n\nOn day one of his testimony, his answers at the beginning had been marked by hesitations and long searches for the right words.\n\nThe Johnny Depp of day two was immediately rather more fluent as he described how their marriage disintegrated and how he felt her behaviour had become controlling and belittling.\n\nIt was, he said, an \"endless parade of insults and looking at me like I was a fool\".\n\nThe reason for the long description on the previous day of his problematic relationship with his mother now began to make sense. The criticisms from Ms Heard and his responses to it made him realise he was in a relationship with his \"mother\".\n\nThere was a little smile as he reflected on what he had said.\n\nHe also talked about celebrity and the impossibility of dealing with everything that was written about him.\n\n\"Your arms are too short to box with God,\" he said.\n\nHis drinking was, he said, a means of dealing with the pain of the relationship. It was Ms Heard who would strike him, he claimed. He would retreat, booking extra rooms when they were travelling so he had a place to escape.\n\nAs they rose for recess, he looked straight ahead.\n\nMs Heard watched, her face giving nothing away.\n\nHer side of the story is yet to be told.\n\nUnder cross-examination, Ms Heard's lawyer Ben Rottenborn had Mr Depp confirm that his name is not mentioned in the 2018 op-ed in question.\n\n\"I think that it's very easy to write a piece and put the finger on someone without saying their name,\" Mr Depp replied.\n\n\"There are sneaky ways of writing things.\"\n\nThe lawyer also asked why Mr Depp did not sue after Ms Heard accused him of assault in a restraining order two years earlier, in May 2016.\n\n\"I was advised by my attorney not to fight,\" Mr Depp said.\n\nMr Rottenborn additionally introduced into evidence a divorce document the couple signed in August 2016 that stated: \"Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain.\"\n\nThe defamation trial is now into its second week.\n\nEarlier, the jury heard evidence presented by the celebrity ex-couple's former therapist, who described how Mr Depp and Ms Heard engaged in \"mutual abuse\", as well as from medical workers who treated Mr Depp as he was detoxing himself from opiates.\n\nSeveral high profile witnesses, including the entrepreneur Elon Musk and the actors James Franco and Paul Bettany, are to appear later in the trial, which is expected to last at least another month.", "A photo of Halyna Hutchins at a vigil following her death in October\n\nThe producers of a film whose cinematographer was accidentally shot dead on set by Alec Baldwin have been fined and strongly criticised by authorities for failing to follow safety guidelines.\n\nThe makers of Rust showed \"plain indifference to recognised hazards associated with use of firearms on set\", according to the New Mexico Environment Department.\n\nThe agency has issued the maximum $136,793 (£105,000) fine to Rust Movie Productions.\n\nHalyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza injured in October as Baldwin rehearsed with what he believed to be a safe gun.\n\nAlec Baldwin has said he said he did not pull the trigger but the revolver fired after he cocked it\n\nThe actor, who was also a producer on the film, has previously said he did not pull the trigger and has no idea how a live bullet came to be on the set near Santa Fe.\n\nThe report said Rust Movie Productions' management \"knew that firearm safety procedures were not being followed on set and demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety by failing to review work practices and take corrective action\".\n\nThe company said it disagreed with the findings and would appeal.\n\nNew Mexico Environment Department cabinet secretary James Kenney said: \"There were several management failures and more than sufficient evidence to suggest that if standard industry practices were followed, the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins and the serious injury to Joel Souza would not have occurred.\n\n\"Through our investigation, we determined that Rust Productions' failures were both serious and wilful.\"\n\nHe added: \"The bottom line here is that it was the employers' obligation to follow national standards, and that did not happen on the set of Rust.\n\n\"This was a terrible tragedy and our thoughts are with the victim - a mother, a wife, an experienced cinematographer and a well respected member of the film community. Today we continue to extend our thoughts and prayers to her loved ones.\n\n\"While I realise no fine can compensate for the loss of life, we are holding Rust Productions fully accountable.\"\n\nThe tragedy occurred at Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe\n\nIn a statement to the Reuters news agency, Rust Movie Productions spokesman Stefan Friedman said: \"While we appreciate OSHA's time and effort in its investigation, we disagree with its findings and plan to appeal. Our thoughts and prayers remain with Halyna's family.\"\n\nBaldwin has previously said a live bullet \"wasn't even supposed to be on the property\", and that the replica Colt .45 revolver fired after he cocked it during rehearsals.\n\nBaldwin's lawyers issued a statement after the report was released, saying: \"We appreciate that the report exonerates Mr Baldwin by making clear that he believed the gun held only dummy rounds and that his authority on the production was limited to approving script changes and creative casting.\"\n\nAccording to court records, Mr Baldwin had been handed the weapon by the film's assistant director, Dave Halls, who did not know it contained live ammunition and indicated it was unloaded by shouting \"cold gun\".\n\nMr Halls had been given the gun by Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old armourer on the film. Lawyers for Ms Gutierrez-Reed have said she did not know where \"the live rounds came from\".", "The Earl and Countess of Wessex leave for their seven-day trip on Friday\n\nThe Grenada leg of the Earl and the Countess of Wessex's Caribbean tour has been postponed, a day before their week-long trip begins.\n\nThe decision was made after talks with the island's government and governor general, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nPrince Edward and Sophie will still visit other islands on the tour to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nIt comes after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were criticised for some parts of their recent Caribbean tour.\n\nA Buckingham Palace source said discussions were held with host nations to ensure the itinerary would meet the aims of the tour, which are to celebrate the islands and mark the Queen's 70-year reign.\n\nWithin those discussions, Grenada - on the advice of Dame Cecile La Grenade, its governor general and the Queen's representative in the country - suggested a postponement.\n\nNo further detail has yet been given about the reason for the delay. Prince Edward and Sophie hope to visit the island at a later date, the palace said.\n\nTheir tour of three Caribbean nations - St Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda - will begin on Friday.\n\nThe plan must have seemed straightforward - send members of the Queen's family to her Realms (the countries where she is Head of State) to celebrate their culture and futures in this, her Platinum year. Yes - Princess Anne had a controversy-free trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea earlier this month and next month Prince Charles will travel to Canada. But the negative headlines which buffeted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's Caribbean tour last month will have concentrated Palace minds.\n\nAlthough no reason has been given for the postponement of the Earl and Countess of Wessex's trip to Grenada, the key word in the brief statement announcing the change of plan must be \"consultation\". In Belize, the protest that derailed the Cambridges' trip on its very first day was reportedly because local people felt they had not been consulted on the plans for the visit.\n\nLast year, Barbados removed the Queen as its head of state. Last month, welcoming Catherine and William to his country, the Jamaican prime minister made clear his wish to do the same. Politicians in Grenada have called for a referendum on whether to become a republic. The country's reparations committee - which is calling for compensation from Britain as a result of the slave trade - says it requested an audience with the royal couple.\n\nSo maybe the reason Grenada was dropped is that it was felt a visit may be deemed too political and a risk from a PR perspective. As the Cambridges found out, tours that once may have provided picturesque photo opportunities can now be viewed as a reminder of darker times involving colonialism and slavery. The palace will be hoping enough \"consultation\" has been done to ensure the Earl and Countess receive a warm welcome on the islands that remain on the itinerary.\n\nIn March, part of Prince William and Catherine's Caribbean tour was axed after opposition from locals. The pair had been due to visit a cacao farm in the foothills of the Maya Mountains but it was removed from the couple's schedule following reports of a protest opposing the royal trip.\n\nOther moments on their tour were criticised as public relations missteps - for example a Land Rover trip that was described as having a colonial appearance, and the greeting of local children through a wire fence.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the Caribbean for their first overseas trip since the start of the pandemic\n\nGrenada gained independence from the UK in 1974 when Eric Gairy became the island's first prime minister.\n\nThe National Democratic Congress, a liberal opposition party, has previously said it would put the question of whether the Queen should be head of state to a referendum. It also congratulated the prime minister of Barbados for having taken this step ahead of the island becoming a republic last year.\n\nThe press secretary for the prime minister's office in Grenada said there was a mutual agreement between the parties to postpone the visit.\n\nDuring the upcoming tour, Prince Edward will conduct an investiture on behalf of the Queen and the couple will attend a service to mark the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe couple are due to meet local communities, Commonwealth Games athletes, craftspeople and women in leadership roles during their trip.", "Protests have been held in east London over the student's treatment\n\nThe head teacher of an east London school where a black pupil was strip-searched has stood down due to health issues.\n\nA safeguarding report found the search of the 15-year-old girl, known as Child Q, was unjustified and racism was \"likely\" to have been a factor.\n\nChild Q is suing the Met Police and the school in Hackney over the incident.\n\nIn a letter to parents, the school said \"an outstanding head teacher\" is already in place to take over the role.\n\nDuring the incident, the girl was taken out of an exam to the school's medical room and strip-searched by two female Met Police officers who were looking for cannabis, while teachers remained outside.\n\nNo other adult was present, her parents were not contacted, and no drugs were found.\n\nThe girl's intimate body parts were exposed and she was made to take off her sanitary towel, according to the review.\n\nThe Met has admitted the actions of the two officers were \"regrettable\" and it \"should never have happened\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Florence Eshalomi: \"When my daughter is 15, I hope this issue still isn't happening but I'm worried it will\"\n\nThe school's governing body has claimed teachers were \"not aware that a strip search was taking place\".\n\nIn March, the school released an apology to Child Q and her family.\n\nSince the incident, the school has changed the leadership of its governing board. However, research by the BBC shows the chair of governors was still in place six months after the search occurred.\n\nThe make-up of the school board has also changed.\n\nThe Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) said a report on the incident was being \"finalised\".\n\nThe incident sparked days of protest across Hackney, near the site of Child Q's school.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City leapfrogged Liverpool back to the Premier League summit thanks to three second-half goals against Brighton.\n\nAfter struggling to break down Graham Potter's men in a frustrating opening period, Kevin de Bruyne provided the inspiration as City restored their one-point advantage.\n\nDe Bruyne created the opener for Riyad Mahrez and provided the faint final pass for Bernardo Silva to wrap up the scoring eight minutes from time.\n\nIn between, Phil Foden needed the aid of a deflection to beat the Brighton goalkeeper after Mahrez spotted the England man on his own just outside the box at a corner.\n\nThe goals relieved building tension around Etihad Stadium and leave City knowing six more wins are now required for Pep Guardiola's men to retain their title, starting with the home game against relegation-threatened Watford on Saturday.\n\nDe Bruyne did not get his name on the scoresheet but the standing ovation he received as he was replaced by Gabriel Jesus shortly after Bernardo's goal said everything about the Belgian's contribution.\n\nWith frustration mounting in the stands, De Bruyne took direct action eight minutes after the restart.\n\nHe set off on a surging run from inside his own half and the determination to make an impact meant he kept going when twice he could easily have stopped to claim free-kicks.\n\nInstead, he kept his feet and shrugged off a third challenge before running the ball on to Mahrez. The Algerian profited from a couple of fortunate deflections, first to give him the shooting opportunity before a second took it past Robert Sanchez.\n\nThis was the Algerian's 250th Premier League appearance and he helped boss Guardiola to his 250th win as City's boss - achieved 52 games quicker than any other manager in English top-flight history.\n\nAfter Foden doubled the hosts' lead, De Bruyne was the key man again as Bernardo added a third, deftly flicking on Oleksandr Zinchenko's pass after the Ukrainian - earlier given a warm reception on only his second home appearance since the Russian invasion of his homeland - had taken advantage of Brighton hesitancy inside their own half.\n\nAfter his injury scare during the Champions League quarter-final second leg with Atletico Madrid, Guardiola will want to keep De Bruyne as safe as possible for the remainder of the campaign.\n\nThe same, presumably, is also true of central defender Ruben Dias, who was introduced at half-time after a seven-week absence with a hamstring injury and seemed to shrug off fears from the bench he had suffered a recurrence.\n\nBrighton's awful record against City, eight defeats out of nine Premier League meetings and no away wins in their entire history, offered hardly any cause for optimism.\n\nHowever, buoyed by fabulous recent wins against Tottenham and Arsenal, Potter showed what a side could do with a gameplan that players willingly adhere to.\n\nA three-man defence which Lewis Dunk led with his customary authority, was bolstered by a further three in front of them, with limited space in between for City's talented playmakers to exhibit their skills.\n\nTrue, visiting attacking opportunities were rare - the nearest they came in the first half was down to pressure exerted by a Pascal Gross corner that dropped into a dangerous position inside the six-yard box where it was booted clear by Aymeric Laporte.\n\nBut their efforts were another notable achievement by Potter, who has guided Brighton so close to their highest ever finish.\n\nSadly for the visitors, they were only able to repel City for eight minutes of the second period and after that, it was a familiar story.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Jeremy Sarmiento tries a through ball, but Solly March is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Enock Mwepu (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Joël Veltman tries a through ball, but Solly March is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 3, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Jeremy Sarmiento (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Bus drivers will now be balloted on the new offer\n\nMembers of the Unite and GMB bus driver trade unions have deferred industrial action over a pay offer from Translink.\n\nUnions said negotiations had led to a revised pay offer from employers and bus drivers will now be balloted on the new offer.\n\nBut both unions have said they would not recommend the offer to members.\n\nHad the strike gone ahead, all Ulsterbus and Metro services would have been withdrawn for one week from 25 April.\n\nA Translink spokeswoman said the deferral was a \"positive step\".\n\nUnite's deputy regional secretary said it had put the offer to its members for consideration but would not recommend it.\n\nDavy Thompson told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme that \"members have a decision to make based on their circumstances and not every member is in the same circumstance\".\n\n\"For some people, the deal that was there previously, they accepted it. They believed it suited their needs. But for the majority of others, they feel it didn't.\"\n\nThe strike action was due to take place as schools returned from Easter holidays\n\nPeter Macklin from GMB also confirmed that they would would not be making a recommendation of the offer.\n\n\"We don't believe it goes far enough but we are prepared to put it out to our memberships to let them decide, we are a member-led organisation so I think it's fair to let them have their say,\" he said.\n\n\"They have worked through the pandemic, they feel like they have been undervalued, unrecognised.\n\n\"They see millions being spent on new buses, the new hub and yet nothing being spent or very little being spent on those that are required to service them.\"\n\nA Translink spokeswoman said: \"We have an agreement to defer the planned strike action commencing Monday, 25th April while the bus drivers are balloted on a revised pay offer following further negotiations.\n\n\"We welcome this positive step and thank the Unions for their commitment to working together in an effort to build back public transport as a sustainable and better future for all.\"\n\nUnions had been calling for a 6% pay rise for bus workers across the region and had claimed that Translink bosses refused to budge from their offer of 3%.\n\nLast week, Translink said the company had made a pay offer of 3% \"plus an enhanced package of conditions that included a 7% increase in weekend and overtime rates along with two extra days holiday\".\n\nThe unions have said about 85% of their members who voted supported taking the action.", "The Seh Dokan mosque stands in a busy area of Mazar-i-Sharif, a city in northern Afghanistan\n\nDozens of people have been killed or injured in four explosions across Afghanistan on Thursday, local officials and journalists have said.\n\nThe first explosion tore through a Shia Muslim mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif.\n\nAt least 31 people were killed, and 87 were wounded, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe Islamic State group (IS) admitted carrying out the attack. The Taliban say they have defeated the IS but the group remains a serious security challenge to Afghanistan's new rulers.\n\nThe attack on the Mazar-i-Sharif mosque was carried out using a remotely detonated booby-trapped bag when the building was packed with worshippers, the Sunni Muslim IS jihadists said.\n\nThe group called the attack part of an ongoing global campaign to \"avenge\" the deaths of its former leader and spokesman.\n\nAhmad Zia Zindani, spokesman for the provincial public health department, told AFP news agency that \"blood and fear are everywhere,\" and that \"people were screaming\" while seeking news of their relatives at the local hospital.\n\nIS has also claimed another of Thursday's attacks - a blast which saw a vehicle blown up near a police station in Kunduz, leaving four dead and 18 injured.\n\nThe BBC has also received reports of a Taliban vehicle being hit by a roadside mine in eastern Nangarhar province, killing four Taliban members and wounding a fifth.\n\nA fourth blast was caused by a mine planted in the Niaz Beyk area of Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, and wounded two children.\n\nThursday's bloodshed comes days after two bomb blasts at Abdul Rahim Shahid high school in a mostly Shia area of the Afghan capital, Kabul. At least six people were killed and more than 20 wounded, officials said.\n\nLocal reports and witnesses say the explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif happened at Seh Dokan, one of the biggest mosques used locally by the Hazara minority group.\n\nThe number of casualties remains fluid at this stage and liable to change.\n\nAfghanistan's Hazara community is often targeted by Sunni militant groups, including IS.\n\nThe blast is said to have happened while worshippers were preparing to perform prayers. Images shared on social media, which the BBC has not verified, showed the site littered with broken glass and victims being carried.\n\nOne Mazar-i-Sharif woman told news agency Reuters she had been shopping at a nearby market when she heard a large explosion near the mosque.\n\n\"The glass of the shops was broken and it was very crowded and everyone started to run,\" she said, asking for her name not to be used.\n\nRichard Bennett, the United Nation's Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan on human rights, condemned the attacks.\n\n\"Today more explosions rocks Afghanistan [...] and again the Hazara community is a victim. Systematic targeted attacks on crowded schools and mosques calls for immediate investigation, accountability and end to human rights violations,\" he wrote on Twitter.", "The hedgehog was kicked several times along a driveway\n\nA man has been fined after being filmed kicking a hedgehog several times.\n\nFootage of David Herring, 53, of Manor Road, Sudbury, in Suffolk, kicking the animal several times in November last year, was sent to the RSPCA.\n\nThe RSPCA said the hedgehog was kicked with \"considerable force\", causing \"pain and fear\", with Herring showing a \"clear disregard for a wild animal\".\n\nAt Colchester Magistrates' Court he admitted causing unnecessary suffering and was fined £277.\n\nHerring was also ordered to pay £300 costs and a £34 victim surcharge.\n\nImages caught on camera showed him moving the hedgehog from a doorway and kicking it several times out of a driveway of a property in Sudbury.\n\nSpeaking after the case on 6 April, RSPCA inspector Caroline Richardson, said: \"Having reviewed video footage it was clear the hedgehog was kicked with considerable force.\n\n\"The final kick can clearly be heard on the camera footage. The hedgehog rolls at speed several metres, out of sight.\n\n\"An expert vet who examined the footage said the hedgehog would have suffered unnecessarily during this time and the suffering would have extended beyond the time of the kicking if an injury was caused. [The vet] believed the suffering caused was due to pain and fear.\n\n\"This was an incident which showed a clear disregard for a wild animal,\" she added.\n\nIn mitigation, the court heard Herring was of previous good character, that he had had a heart attack within the last year and had been under stress.\n\nHis legal team said Herring had initially thought the hedgehog was a rat.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kathleen Neagle, 89, died at her Dundonald home on 8 July, 2021 - six hours after an ambulance was first called\n\nAn 89-year-old woman died at her home after a near six-hour wait for an ambulance, during which paramedics were twice dispatched to her but were diverted to other calls, her family has told BBC News NI.\n\nKathleen Neagle died on 8 July 2021 in Dundonald, after being ill for a number of days.\n\nHer family said her GP called for an ambulance at about 16:00 BST that day\n\nBut none arrived until before 22:00 that evening.\n\nAmbulances dispatched to treat Mrs Neagle were twice diverted to Category One emergency calls.\n\nThe initial call for an ambulance was considered a Category Three call and was upgraded to a Category Two later that evening - both are treated less urgently than Category One.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) said it deeply regretted any delay in ambulance response.\n\nMrs Neagle's daughter, Meta Patterson, said she was disgusted at how the system had \"failed\" her mother.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Patterson said that on 6 July, two days before she died, her mother initially fell ill and attended the Ulster Hospital by ambulance.\n\nShe was diagnosed with vomiting and diarrhoea, and was discharged.\n\nHowever, she deteriorated and, on the afternoon of 8 July, her family contacted Mrs Neagle's doctor, who then requested an ambulance.\n\nAt this stage, Mrs Neagle was conscious, but was weak and not eating or drinking.\n\nThe ambulance service later called the family at about 18:30 for a condition update.\n\nMeta Patterson, Mrs Neagle's daughter, said her mother was failed by the healthcare system\n\nThe call handler was told that Mrs Neagle had a rash that would not go away when pressure was placed on it by a glass. It was spreading from her lower limbs over her back, Mrs Patterson said.\n\nShe said the ambulance service then said her mother would be treated as a priority.\n\nAt about 21:30, a 999 call was made by Mrs Neagle's son, as she had stopped breathing, Mrs Patterson said.\n\nShe said the dispatcher remained on the phone as CPR was performed for about 20 minutes, until two police officers arrived at the house to assist.\n\n\"And then the young ambulance driver came in at 10pm, when she was dead,\" Mrs Patterson said.\n\n\"He didn't even realise what he was coming in to.\n\n\"It sounds terrible. I know people would say she was 89, but she was a fit 89-year-old. She didn't have ongoing problems that would cause that.\"\n\nMrs Patterson said her mother died of heart failure.\n\nMrs Neagle's case has come to light after it emerged that a 39-year-old woman who died in Newry, County Down, had been waiting for paramedics from Belfast due to a shortage of crews in the Southern Health Trust area.\n\nMrs Patterson said that when the ambulance eventually arrived at her mother's house, the paramedic said he had come from Ballynahinch.\n\n\"That night I shouted at the ambulance driver when he said he was sorry,\" Mrs Patterson said.\n\n\"I said: 'No, you had told me she was going to be fine. You should have been here.'\n\n\"And that fella just stood there and said: 'There was no one available, I had to come from Ballynahinch.'\n\nMrs Patterson said the Ulster Hospital was \"five minutes away but we couldn't take her because she was so bad\".\n\nShe said the ambulance service later carried out an inquiry into the case - a Significant Event Audit - during which it came to light that two ambulances had been dispatched to her mother that evening, but both had been diverted to Category One emergency calls.\n\nIt stated that the initial ambulance request from Mrs Neagle's doctor was a Category Three call, later updated to a Category Two at 18:24.\n\nThe call was then further upgraded at 21:31, when Mrs Neagle had stopped breathing.\n\nThe audit stated that on that date the ambulance service was under extreme pressure.\n\nIt said there were no A&E vehicles available in the area due to crew shortages and long handovers at hospitals.\n\nMrs Patterson said she did not blame the ambulance service, but the system.\n\n\"I was totally disgusted. I just felt they failed my mother,\" Mrs Patterson said.\n\n\"My mum should not have died.\n\n\"The ambulance drivers are being put in a position and they get so much abuse. I think the system has failed.\"\n\nThe Neagle family wrote to Health Minister Robin Swann in February after a meeting they had with the NIAS.\n\nIn their letter, they praised ambulance service staff, saying they \"performed their tasks with efficiency, sensitivity and care, during a traumatic situation\" and appealed to the minister to take action.\n\nA spokesperson for the minister confirmed the department received correspondence, and a reply was sent a number of days later.\n\nNIAS, in a statement, said concerns relating to any aspect of provision of service are reviewed internally \"through the appropriate processes within NIAS, and we respond and engage directly with the patient and/or their families and carers\".\n\n\"Such delays are not the service the public expect and deserve, nor one that we seek to provide and we would apologise unreservedly for any such delay,\" it said.\n\n\"We wish to express our sincere condolences to Mrs Neagle's family on their loss. We have engaged directly with family members during the review of the circumstances which led to the delayed response.\n\n\"We would of course be happy to engage further if the family felt this would be helpful, however do not feel it appropriate to comment further.\"\n\nMrs Patterson said her mother had not been unwell in the days before her death.\n\nShe said she had been at her church the previous Sunday, four days before she died.\n\n\"She had problems with her leg, and a bit of arthritis in the knee, but other than that she was up getting her hair and her nails done, going to her church,\" Mrs Patterson said.\n\n\"She had a friend called Vivienne who took her everywhere and she went with her walking stick for her knee. She loved her clothes, loved getting out, having a laugh.\n\n\"She just loved her family around her and getting everywhere.", "Aiden Aslin is seen wearing military uniform and holding a puppy\n\nTwo British men captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine are being \"taken care of\", Russia has said.\n\nAiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, were captured last week while defending the south-eastern city of Mariupol.\n\nIn footage shown on Russian state TV, both appeared to have facial bruising, prompting their families to call for the Geneva Convention to be respected.\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: \"Don't worry, the Russian side is taking care of them.\"\n\nShe added: \"They are fed, watered, and given the necessary assistance. Just like other foreigners who have surrendered or been detained.\"\n\nMs Zakharova also referenced what she described as a call by Prime Minister Boris Johnson for British detainees to be shown mercy, and said that in turn Britain should \"show mercy\" to the citizens of Ukraine by stopping the supply of weapons to the Ukrainian government.\n\nMr Johnson had urged Russia to treat captured British fighters \"humanely and compassionately\".\n\nThe Geneva Convention states that prisoners of war must be protected \"against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity\".\n\nBoth Mr Aslin, originally from Newark in Nottinghamshire, and Mr Pinner, originally from Bedfordshire, have lived in Ukraine since 2018.\n\nThey had both been serving as marines in Ukraine's military since before Russia launched its invasion.\n\nIn separate clips broadcast on Monday on the Rossiya 24 TV channel, each was seen calling on Boris Johnson to arrange for them to be freed in exchange for Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician currently being held by Ukraine.\n\nIt is not clear whether the men were speaking under duress.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Robert Jenrick, the MP for Mr Aslin's home constituency, described the broadcasts as a \"flagrant breach\" of the Geneva Convention.\n\nHe later told the BBC that a prisoner exchange was the \"most likely route\" to get Mr Aslin to safety, but added it would be for the Ukrainian government to decide whether a swap could take place.\n\nShaun Pinner seen while serving with the United Nations\n\nThe families of both Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner have released statements saying that the men are long-serving members of the Ukrainian military and not volunteers or mercenaries.\n\nMr Aslin's family said he was a \"much-loved young man with... a loving wife-to-be\" and described the footage of him as \"deeply distressing\".\n\n\"Together with the family of Shaun Pinner, we are in contact with the Foreign Office to ensure the Russian authorities meet their obligations to prisoners of war under international law, and ultimately to secure the release of Aiden and Shaun,\" they said.\n\nMr Pinner's family described him as a well-respected soldier and \"funny, much-loved, [and] well-intentioned\".\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government announced a new raft of sanctions targeting key figures within Russia's military and others supporting the war effort.\n\nThe measures included asset freezes and travel bans for the commander of the Russian airborne forces Col Gen Andrey Serdyukov, and Lt Col Azatbek Omurbekov, the commanding officer of the unit accused of committing war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.\n\nAlso targeted was Oleg Belozyorov, CEO of Russian Railways, which has helped in the transport of Russian military equipment, and Ilya Kiva, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament expelled last month over his support for the Russian invasion.", "The star's lawyer confirmed he had been arrested, but declined to make any further comments\n\nThe rapper A$AP Rocky has been arrested in connection with a shooting last November, Los Angeles police have said.\n\nThe star was taken into custody at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday as he returned from a holiday with his girlfriend, Rihanna.\n\nPolice had been investigating the star, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, for his potential involvement in a non-fatal shooting in Hollywood last year.\n\nHe was released on bail of $550,000 (£421,000) shortly after his arrest.\n\nThe Los Angeles Police Department said the arrest was made in connection with an \"argument between two acquaintances\" which resulted in shots being fired.\n\nThe victim later told police that Mayers, who was walking with two others, approached him with a handgun on the street. They claimed Mayers shot at him three to four times and that he believed one of the bullets grazed his left hand, according to police reports obtained by NBC News.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, LAPD said the victim had sustained a \"minor injury\" after which his assailants \"fled on foot\".\n\nMayers' lawyer, Alan Jackson, confirmed that his client had been arrested but declined to make any further comments.\n\nThe rapper will make his first appearance in court on 17 August.\n\nThe star was previously given a two-year suspended sentence for his role in a brawl in Stockholm in August 2019.\n\nThe rapper and two members of his entourage were convicted of kicking and beating a 19-year-old man after an argument. They said they acted in self-defence, but the court rejected their argument.\n\nThe case drew worldwide media attention after then-US president Donald Trump unsuccessfully tried to secure Mayer's release from prison as he awaited trial.\n\nMayers and Rihanna are expecting a child later this year\n\nBorn in New York, Mayers was one of the biggest break-out stars of the 2010s, earning eight platinum singles in the US including Wild For The Night, Everyday, LSD and A$AP Forever.\n\nHe rose to fame after being championed by Drake, and has worked with artists including Alicia Keys, Lana Del Rey, Skepta, Selena Gomez and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nHis relationship with the billionaire musician and fashion mogul Rihanna was confirmed last year. In an interview with GQ magazine last May, Mayers called Rihanna the \"love of my life\" and \"the One\".\n\nThe couple announced they were having a baby in January. In March, Rihanna told Elle magazine she was in her third trimester.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Thames Valley Police said officers were called to a property in Bourne End on Tuesday\n\nA \"complex\" murder investigation is under way after three bodies were found at a sheltered accommodation scheme.\n\nA man and a woman, in their 60s, and man, in his 50s, were found dead at Orchard House on Spring Gardens, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, on Tuesday.\n\nThames Valley Police said officers were called to the address at about 21:55 BST following reports of a disturbance.\n\nThe force said all three were known to each other and described the incident as a \"targeted attack\".\n\nIt added that formal identification of the bodies was still to take place.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"We are in the very early stages of this investigation and we are dealing with a very complex inquiry, which appears a targeted attack.\n\n\"We are not looking for anyone else in connection with it.\"\n\nThe man and woman, from Bourne End, and the other man, from Hazlemere, have not been identified.\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone who might have seen something in the area of Orchard House to come forward\n\nDet Supt Brown added: \"A scene watch is likely to be in place for a number of days at very least, which is likely to have an impact on local residents and we would like to thank them in advance for their patience.\n\n\"The next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers, our thoughts remain with them at this most difficult time.\"\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone who heard a disturbance or saw anything suspicious in or around Orchard House or Spring Gardens between 17:00 and 22:00 to come forward.\n\nResidents emerging from the sheltered accommodation in this quiet riverside village have been describing their shock at what happened on Tuesday night.\n\nThere is police tape with a number of officers standing outside the block of 39 flats, which are for people over the age of 60.\n\nEve Speight lives on the second floor with her husband, a few flats down from the one where the three bodies were discovered.\n\nShe told the BBC that her husband heard two men arguing earlier in the evening.\n\nShe then described the \"frightening\" moment armed police arrived with a helicopter circling overheard.\n\n\"We knew instantaneously there must be a murder or somebody got killed,\" Ms Speight said.\n\n\"The next thing we knew we had armed police in the flat and they searched every room and they said they would do that in the whole building.\n\n\"It was frightening because we didn't know what was going on, nobody was telling us anything.\"\n\nMs Speight said all the residents are \"very sad\" and added that it is \"not a nice place to live anymore once this has happened\".\n\n\"You begin to think about your own security,\" she said.\n\nRed Kite housing association, which runs the property where the incident happened, confirmed it was assisting police with their investigation.\n\nHead of communications, Julie Gamble-Kempe, said staff were \"shocked\" and were supporting the other residents who lived there.\n\n\"The welfare of our tenants and their safety is of utmost importance to us, so we will be working with tenants who live at the scheme to ensure they feel safe and secure and will do everything we can to help them through this very difficult time,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scott Morrison made the comments to an audience in Brisbane\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been criticised for telling an audience he is \"blessed\" not to have children with disabilities.\n\nMr Morrison made the remark during a town hall debate ahead of Australia's election, after being asked a question by a woman with an autistic son.\n\nOpposition MPs and others said the comment was upsetting, with one saying \"every child is a blessing\".\n\nGovernment MPs said the context of the comment had been lost in the backlash.\n\nDuring Mr Morrison's debate with Labor leader Anthony Albanese, the woman - identified as Catherine - asked about funding for a disability support scheme.\n\n\"I've been told, to give my son the best future, I need to vote Labor. Can you please tell me what the future of the [National Disability Insurance Scheme] looks like under your government?\"\n\nThe prime minister began by asking Catherine for her son's name. After she replied it was Ethan, Mr Morrison said: \"Jenny and I have been blessed, we've got two children that don't - that haven't had to go through that.\"\n\n\"And so, for parents with children who are disabled, I can only try and understand your aspirations for those children.\"\n\nHe went on to discuss how the scheme helped people \"live their best possible life\" while adding it still had \"faults\" to address.\n\nBut his use of \"blessed\" drew a backlash. Labor Senator Katy Gallagher, who has an autistic daughter, said it was \"the kind of response they get all the time\".\n\nShe told Network Seven: \"Certainly my daughter enriches my life and my partner's life every day.\"\n\nGreens Senator Jordon Steele-John, who uses a wheelchair, said: \"I am done with this government dismissing and disempowering disabled people.\"\n\nFormer Australian of the Year Grace Tame tweeted a photo of herself looking sideways at Mr Morrison, of whom she's a frequent critic. She wrote: \"Autism blesses those of us who have it with the ability to spot fakes from a mile off.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Grace Tame This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Morrison defended his words as being \"in good faith\".\n\n\"But I was just simply trying to say... I haven't walked in your shoes, Catherine. I'm not going to pretend to say that I understand it as well as you do.\"\n\nGovernment Senator Hollie Hughes, whose has an autistic son, said people were \"missing the point of the substantive issue here if they want to focus on one word\".\n\n\"It's not looking at us as families or our children as a burden - it's a recognition that we do have additional challenges,\" she said.\n\n\"This is why the disability community struggles to make constructive gains. Because there's lying underneath it a significant, almost permanent rage machine,\" she added, speaking about the challenges faced by parents and carers to get support.\n\nAustralia's election is on 21 May. Opinion polls were proven unreliable at the last election, but currently show the opposition is slightly favoured to win.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Russian defence ministry has released video of what it says is a successful launch of a nuclear-capable missile.\n\nThe new Sarmat super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk spaceport in the north-western Arkhangelsk region and landed in the other side of Russia in the far-eastern Kamchatka peninsula.\n\nPresident Putin said it was food for thought for those who try to threaten Russia.", "The woman, who was a Spanish healthcare worker, tested positive for Delta and then Omicron\n\nA 31-year-old healthcare worker caught Covid twice within 20 days - the shortest-known gap between infections, Spanish researchers have claimed.\n\nTests show the woman was infected with two different variants - Delta in late December and then Omicron in January.\n\nThis shows that even if you have had Covid before, you can still be infected again even if fully vaccinated, the researchers say.\n\nReinfections in the UK require 90 days between positive tests.\n\nBased on that definition, health officials say nearly 900,000 people have potentially been infected twice with Covid up to the start of April.\n\nIt is difficult to pin down an exact number, because only whole genome sequencing can confirm the infections are caused by different strains, and very few positive tests go through this process.\n\nThe Spaniard did not develop any symptoms after her first positive PCR test, but less than three weeks later she developed a cough and fever which prompted her to take another test.\n\nWhen the tests were analysed further, they showed the patient had been infected by two different strains of coronavirus.\n\nIn a presentation at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, study author Dr. Gemma Recio said the case highlighted that Omicron can \"evade the previous immunity acquired either from a natural infection with other variants or from vaccines\".\n\nShe said: \"In other words, people who have had Covid-19 cannot assume they are protected against reinfection, even if they have been fully vaccinated.\n\n\"Nevertheless, both previous infection with other variants and vaccination do seem to partially protect against severe disease and hospitalisation in those with Omicron,\" added Dr Recio, from the Institut Catala de Salut, Tarragona in Spain.\n\nShe said monitoring reinfections in people who were fully vaccinated was important, and would help the search for variants which evade vaccines.\n\nCovid reinfections rose sharply in December 2021 after the much more infectious Omicron variant emerged, and there was another increase when a slightly different version of it, called BA.2, appeared in early March.\n\nBefore that, 1% of all cases recorded in the UK were labelled as second infection - but that has now gone up to 11%.\n\nMost are likely to be people infected by the Alpha or Delta variants and then infected again by the more contagious Omicron.\n\nScientists predict that eventually everyone will catch Covid twice, and probably many more times over the course of their lifetime.", "Prince Andrew was a helicopter pilot with HMS Invincible during the Falklands War\n\nPrince Andrew returned from the Falklands War \"a changed man\", he said in a now deleted piece posted on his ex-wife's Instagram account.\n\nThe Duke of York recalled his time as a helicopter pilot in the conflict 40 years ago in three posts on Saturday.\n\nHis piece was initially signed off as HRH The Duke of York, before the reference to His Royal Highness was soon removed.\n\nAnd only hours later all the posts were removed.\n\nIt is unclear why the 700-word account was taken down.\n\nBut Andrew gave up the right to use HRH in an official capacity in January when the Queen stripped her son of his honorary military roles as he faced a US civil action over sexual assault allegations, which he denied.\n\nVirginia Giuffre sued Andrew for allegedly sexually assaulting her on three occasions when she was 17. The case later reached a multi-million pound settlement out of court.\n\nIn the first Instagram post, Sarah, Duchess of York wrote that she had asked Andrew for his reflections on the 40th anniversary of his sailing from Portsmouth to the Falklands.\n\nPrince Andrew began: \"As I sit here at my desk on this cold crisp spring morning thinking back to April 1982 I've tried to think what was going through my mind as we sailed out of Portsmouth lining the flight deck of HMS INVINCIBLE.\"\n\nHe concludes: \"So whilst I think back to a day when a young man went to war, full of bravado, I returned a changed man.\n\n\"I put away childish things and false bravado and returned a man full in the knowledge of human frailty and suffering.\"\n\nThe 62-year-old said he was thinking about those experiencing conflict today.\n\nPrince Andrew has found himself firmly back in the headlines this week, but presumably not in the way he'd hoped.\n\nThe Instagram posts, via the account of his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York, have just made a bad week worse.\n\nIt is unclear why Prince Andrew decided to record his reflections on his Falklands experience.\n\nAs a veteran he clearly has memories to share, but he isn't a working royal. He no longer has an official status within public life.\n\nNobody within the royal household speaks on his behalf and he has deleted all of his own social media accounts.\n\nCrucially, he should no longer be using the HRH style alongside his name, as the Duchess of York initially did in the posts before swiftly removing it.\n\nWhatever the intention, it all looked clumsy and ill-conceived.\n\nAdd to that Prince Andrew's role supporting his mother at Westminster Abbey last Tuesday during the Thanksgiving service for his father. He was at the event because it was deemed a \"family occasion\".\n\nPrince Andrew escorted the Queen at a memorial service for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey\n\nThese things are carefully choregraphed. There had been a clear timetable of arrival times, with the prince originally scheduled to enter Westminster Abbey alongside his daughters.\n\nThere was no mention of him escorting his mother - so something changed.\n\nComing up are the official celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Will Prince Andrew be involved in any of these events?\n\nHe may want to be. The rest of his family may have other ideas.\n\nIn the posts, Andrew also described being shot at: \"I was flying and saw a chaff shell fired from one of our ships that passed not that far in front of us.\n\n\"For a moment it was on a steady bearing before it began to cross to our left.\n\n\"The terror that that was going to be that, just for a moment, has had a lasting and permanent effect on me.\"\n\nAndrew spoke about how the war had affected him during his 2019 Newsnight interview in which he denied allegations of sexual assault.\n\nResponding to a claim he went on a night out with Ms Guiffre, who claimed he was sweating heavily, Andrew said: \"I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at and I simply... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.\"", "Princess Beatrice has featured in a legal dispute between a Turkish millionaire and her business adviser\n\nA Turkish millionaire claims her payment to Prince Andrew was falsely described as a wedding gift for his daughter Princess Beatrice.\n\nNehebat Isbilen is claiming at the High Court in London that her business adviser Selman Turk \"dishonestly misappropriated\" £38m of her assets.\n\nMrs Isbilen paid £750,000 to Prince Andrew and claims Mr Turk had wrongly told her bank it was a wedding gift.\n\nThere is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Princess Beatrice or Prince Andrew.\n\nThe Duke of York has now returned the £750,000 to Mrs Isbilen.\n\nMr Turk has rejected the allegations made against him.\n\nThis complex court case revolves around accusations that Mrs Isbilen's money was fraudulently used by her business adviser, Mr Turk.\n\nMrs Isbilen, aged 77, is from a wealthy Turkish business family, but when her politician husband was jailed she wanted advice on moving her assets out of Turkey.\n\nBut the High Court has heard accusations that Mr Turk \"misappropriated\" her assets - and her lawyers have been trying to track down and recover her money.\n\nAccording to court papers, this revealed that \"substantial sums\" had been paid to Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York.\n\nMrs Isbilen claims Mr Turk advised her to make a \"gift\" of £750,000 to Prince Andrew, which she was misled into believing was for assistance with her passport.\n\nThis amount was transferred from her account on 15 November 2019.\n\n\"The representation that Mrs Isbilen needed to make a gift to the Duke of York in connection with her passport [or for any other purpose] was false,\" says her legal team in their claim of dishonesty against Mr Turk.\n\nBut Mrs Isbilen's testimony in an affidavit also says that she saw an email from Mr Turk to her bank explaining the £750,000 payment as being a \"wedding gift\" for the Duke of York's daughter, Princess Beatrice.\n\nThis claim was \"entirely false\" says Mrs Isbilen in her affidavit.\n\nA week before the payment by Mrs Isbilen, Mr Turk's firm had also been a winner of an award at the Pitch at the Palace business initiative, headed by Prince Andrew.\n\nRepresentatives of Prince Andrew have not commented on the ongoing court case.\n\nA spokesman for the Duchess of York said: \"The duchess was completely unaware of the allegations that have since emerged against Mr Turk. She is naturally concerned by what has been alleged against him.\"\n\nThe court has heard claims of further payments to the Duke and Duchess of York, via a company called Alphabet Capital.\n\nAccording to court documents, about £900,000 of Mrs Isbilen's money was paid into this company in two payments, despite her claim: \"I did not know about or authorise either of these payments.\"\n\nThis company then made payments to Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah, with Peters and Peters, the law firm representing Mrs Isbilen, claiming Prince Andrew received £350,000 and the Duchess of York £225,000.\n\nThe discovery of payments to Prince Andrew emerged after a court order allowed a search of Mr Turk's financial dealings.\n\nCourt papers show that some of the expenditure had been attributed by Mr Turk to professional costs and unsuccessful investments, but there were claims of significant amounts still to be explained.\n\nJonathan Tickner, Mrs Isbilen's lawyer, said she had been \"the victim of serious fraud and financial wrongdoing\", and was determined to pursue her claim against all those involved.\n\nCourt documents show that Mr Turk has disputed the allegations and disagrees with Mrs Isbilen's understanding of how her assets have been handled.", "Police say the area has been secured\n\nPolice are searching for multiple suspects after at least six people were left dead and 12 wounded in a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, California's capital.\n\nNo arrests have yet been made in the worst US mass shooting so far in 2022, which broke out early Sunday morning.\n\nVictims were still being identified on Monday, and police are seeking public help for evidence.\n\nThe violence was \"unprecedented\" for the city, its police chief said.\n\nVideos posted online appear to show a brawl break out in the area - packed with restaurants and bars - in the early hours on Sunday, just before rapid gun fire sent people fleeing.\n\nIt was so far unclear whether the fight led to the shooting, police say, and on Monday, officials set up an online portal to ask the public to submit information from the scene.\n\nThe shooting took place at around 02:00 (09:00 GMT) near the junction of 10th Street and K Street, in an area that leads to the Golden One Center, where the Sacramento Kings play basketball.\n\nIt is also only a few streets from the state Capitol building.\n\n\"This is a really tragic situation,\" Police Chief Katherine Lester said.\n\nPolice nearby responded to the gunfire and came across a \"very large crowd\", Chief Lester said. At least one handgun, now understood to be stolen, was recovered.\n\nThree men and three women were killed in the street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPamela Harris said her daughter called her at 02:15 to say that her 38-year-old son, Sergio, had been shot and killed outside a nightclub.\n\n\"She said he was dead. I just collapsed,\" Harris told Reuters at the scene of the shooting.\n\n\"I cannot leave here now until I know what's going on. I'm not going anywhere. It seems like a dream.\"\n\nKay Harris, 32, said she was asleep when one of her family members called to say they thought her brother had been killed. She said she thought he was at London, a nightclub on 10th Street, the Associated Press reports.\n\nShe said she has been to the club a few times and described it as a place for \"the younger crowd\".\n\nPamela Harris went to the crime scene on Sunday for news of her son\n\nCommunity activist Berry Accius reached the scene at about 02:30 after a city council member called him about the shooting.\n\n\"The first thing I saw was like victims,\" he was quoted as saying by CBS News.\n\n\"I saw a young girl with a whole bunch of blood in her body, a girl taking off glass from her, a young girl screaming saying, 'They killed my sister.' A mother running up, 'Where's my son, has my son been shot?'\"\n\nThe incident is certain to inflame the ongoing debate about gun violence and the prevalence of lethal weapons in US society.\n\nMayor Darrell Steinberg tweeted that the numbers of dead and wounded were \"difficult to comprehend\".\n\n\"Rising gun violence is the scourge of our city, state and nation, and I support all actions to reduce it,\" he said.\n\nIn a tearful statement to reporters, city council member Katie Valenzuela - who represents the district where the shooting happened - said: \"I'm heartbroken and I'm outraged.\"\n\n\"Our community deserves better than this,\" she said, pledging to do whatever she can so young people \"don't get shot down on K Street when they're out trying to have a good time\".\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, President Joe Biden decried \"another\" instance of gun violence leaving \"families forever changed. Survivors left to heal wounds both visible and invisible\".\n\nFirearms are involved in approximately 40,000 deaths a year in the US, including suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJournalists entering a Ukrainian town which saw fierce fighting with Russian forces have found dead bodies of men in civilian clothes strewn on a street.\n\nAn AFP news agency reporter in Bucha, near Kyiv, counted at least 20 bodies. At least one man had his hands tied.\n\nUkrainian forces regained control of the town this week and photos show widespread devastation.\n\nBBC journalists in another part of Ukraine found the bodies of two civilians killed by Russian forces.\n\nWarning: Some readers may find content in this story distressing including a photo lower down.\n\nEarlier this week the BBC's Jeremy Bowen and his team counted a total of 13 bodies, some of whom may have been Ukrainian soldiers, along a stretch of road between the villages of Mria and Myla.\n\nUkraine says Russian forces have made a \"rapid retreat\" from around Kyiv, with one official saying the whole region around the capital has been retaken since the invasion began on 24 February.\n\nThe invasion has seen thousands killed in ferocious fighting and has made refugees of at least four million Ukrainians. Western states have responded with tough sanctions against Russia and military supplies for Ukraine.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has sought to justify his attack by arguing that Ukraine, a former Soviet state with Nato and EU ambitions, was a constant threat and Russia could not feel \"safe, develop and exist\".\n\nIn Bucha, where a photographer for Reuters news agency also recorded dead bodies, holes gaped from apartment blocks hit by shelling and crushed cars littered the streets.\n\nSixteen of the 20 bodies seen by AFP lay either on the pavement or by the verge. Three were sprawled in the middle of the road, and another lay on his side in the courtyard of a destroyed house.\n\nAn open Ukrainian passport lay on the ground next to the person who had his hands tied behind his back with a piece of white cloth. Two other people had white cloth tied around their upper arms.\n\nWarning: There is a photo below that some readers may find distressing\n\nA Ukrainian official told AFP the dead men could have been killed in a bombardment or shot by Russian soldiers, and police would investigate.\n\nBut the town's mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, told AFP by phone that all of the 20 dead had been shot in the back of the head. He added that other bodies still lay inside the wrecks of cars destroyed by shelling.\n\nThe town, he said, had buried 280 people in mass graves as a result of the Russian invasion.", "A spokesman for Ukraine's President Zelensky has told the BBC that mass graves have been discovered in recaptured territory.\n\nSerge Nykyforov told Clive Myrie on the Sunday Morning programme, the scenes were heartbreaking and described how executed civilians had been found.", "Essex Police said it was working to bring the protests to a swift and safe conclusion\n\nMore than 80 people have been arrested as climate change protesters continued to block oil terminals.\n\nActivists from Just Stop Oil said they had obstructed access to a tanker park and revealed an underground network of tunnels at two oil terminals in Essex.\n\nThe protesters are demanding the UK government stops new oil and gas projects.\n\nEssex Police said 83 people were arrested for a variety of offences after protests in the Thurrock area.\n\nThe force said 63 were held on Friday following protests in Oliver Road, Grays, London Road, Purfleet, and Askew Farm Lane, Grays.\n\nTwenty people were arrested on Saturday at Oliver Road and Stoneness Road, Grays, with officers \"continuing to engage\" with protesters at both sites, and at Purfleet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by JustStopOil This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rachel Nolan said: \"Our officers are continuing to work in exceptionally challenging circumstances with a view to bringing these protests to a safe and swift conclusion.\n\n\"I would like to thank businesses, local drivers and workers for their continued patience whilst we carry out our work.\"\n\nThe Just Stop Oil activists said Saturday morning's tunnel activity at Grays and Purfleet meant the main and emergency access roads to the oil terminals were closed.\n\nThe activists said Titan Truck Park in Grays contained more than 100 oil tankers which service the three major oil terminals in the area.\n\nIt comes after activists from Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion obstructed 10 fuel sites in the Midlands and southern England in the early hours of Friday, to stand against \"expanding UK oil and gas production\".\n\nProtesters glued themselves on to roads and locked on to oil drums and each other.\n\nExxonMobil UK, one of the country's largest privately-owned underground oil pipeline distribution networks, said it shut down three of its terminals as a result, and police from at least five forces were deployed to tackle the demonstrations.\n\nThe Met arrested 14 activists who broke into a facility at Bedfont Road in Staines, Surrey, and West Midlands Police arrested six people at a terminal in Tyburn, Birmingham.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the former heir to the throne of Jordan, has said he is renouncing his title of prince.\n\nPrince Hamzah said his \"personal convictions\" were not in line with the \"modern methods of our institutions\".\n\nThe prince is the fourth son of the late King Hussein and younger half-brother of the ruling King Abdullah.\n\nHe was put under house arrest last year after accusing the country's leaders of corruption, incompetence and harassment.\n\nIn March, Jordan published an apology purportedly signed by Hamzah and asking his half-brother, King Abdullah for forgiveness.\n\nIn a statement posted to twitter on Sunday, Hamzah said: \"Following what I have witnessed in recent years, I have come to the conclusion that my personal convictions which my father instilled in me, and which I tried hard in my life to adhere to, are not in line with the approaches, trends and modern methods of our institutions.\n\n\"From the matter of honesty to God and conscience, I see nothing but to transcend and abandon the title of prince. I had the great honour of serving my beloved country and my dear people over the years of my life.\n\n\"I will remain as I have always been and as long as I live, loyal to our beloved Jordan.\"\n\nThe oldest son of the late King Hussein and his favourite wife Queen Noor, Prince Hamzah is a graduate of the UK's Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He also attended Harvard University in the US and has served in the Jordanian armed forces.\n\nHe was named crown prince of Jordan in 1999 and was a favourite of King Hussein, who often described him in public as the \"delight of my eye\".\n\nHowever, he was seen as too young and inexperienced to be named successor at the time of King Hussein's death.\n\nInstead his older half-brother, Abdullah, ascended the throne and stripped Hamzah of the title of crown prince in 2004.\n\nThe move was seen as a blow to Queen Noor, who had hoped to see her eldest son become king.\n\nKing Abdullah and his wife Queen Rania (pictured far right) attend the wedding ceremony of Prince Hamzah and Princess Noor (left) alongside Hamzah's mother Queen Noor (centre) in 2004\n\nIn April 2021, Hamzah released a video message in which claimed to have been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics and accused Jordan's leaders of corruption and incompetence.\n\nIt came after a number of high-level arrests said to be linked to an alleged coup plot.\n\nPrince Hamzah denied any wrongdoing and said he was not part of any conspiracy.\n\nThe Jordanian military denied Hamzah was under house arrest, but said he had been ordered to stop engaging in actions that could threaten Jordan's \"security and stability\".\n\nAbdullah later said in a televised address that the \"sedition has been nipped in the bud\" and that Hamzah was \"with his family in his palace under my protection\".\n\nTwo senior figures from the royal court were later convicted and sentenced to 15 years in jail over the alleged plot, though both also denied wrongdoing.\n\nPrince Hamzah has rarely been seen in public since the incident, but in March the Jordanian royal court released a letter purportedly written by Hamzah to his brother.\n\n\"Last year, our beloved Jordan endured trying circumstances and a regrettable chapter in its history,\" it reportedly read.\n\n\"The months that have passed since have afforded me the opportunity to honestly look within and self-reflect, and I find myself compelled to write to you... hoping that we can turn the page on this chapter in our country's and our family's history.\n\n\"I have erred, Your Majesty, and to err is human. I, therefore, bear responsibility for the stances I have taken and the offences I have committed against Your Majesty and our country over the past years, culminating in the events of the sedition case.\n\n\"I seek Your Majesty's forgiveness, knowing that you have always been very forgiving.\"", "On Saturday afternoon, a bright red tanker carrying 33,000 tonnes of Russian diesel sailed up the Thames and delivered its cargo in Grays, Essex.\n\nIts arrival - which doesn't violate sanctions - highlights the UK's dependence on Russia, which supplies nearly a fifth of the country's diesel.\n\nThe UK has pledged to stop importing Russian diesel by the end of the year: until then, the deliveries continue.\n\nRussian-owned or flagged vessels are now banned from UK ports.\n\nBut the STI Comandante's journey from Primorsk on the Baltic sea does not flout the Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia, because the ship is owned by the US firm Scorpio Tankers and flies the flag of the Marshall Islands, a nation in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nSome shipping lines including the global giants Maersk and MSC have chosen to suspend most deliveries to and from Russia.\n\nOthers have decided that as long as the trade is still legal and safe, they will continue.\n\nIt's a controversial choice. “This shipment of diesel, along with the other fossil fuels that have been allowed to enter the UK since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is filling Putin’s coffers and helping to fund the war. It has to stop,” said Emily Armistead, programme director at Greenpeace UK.\n\nGreenpeace has set up an automated tracker to monitor movements of tankers leaving Russia, loaded with oil and diesel.\n\nThe STI Comandante was chartered by ST Shipping, a subsidiary of the commodity giant Glencore. Glencore doesn't necessarily own the diesel on board, though - it may well have been bought and sold many times while the boat was on the water.\n\nPhasing out Russian oil will be extremely hard, and diesel will be particularly difficult. Russia supplies 8% of the UK’s oil needs but 18% of its diesel, according to government figures.\n\nDiesel is essential to a modern economy. Besides fuelling more than a third of UK cars, it powers trucks, buses, some trains, farming and construction equipment, and is used for generating electricity.\n\nThe Ukraine crisis has led to a shortage of diesel across Europe, which depends on Russia for about half of its diesel imports.\n\nThis shortage has been reflected in the prices that drivers pay for diesel at the pump, which have been rising faster than petrol prices.\n\nThe average price of diesel in the UK has risen 18% since the start of February, to 177p a litre, while the average cost of unleaded has risen by 11%, according to RAC Fuel Watch.\n\nThe faster rise “reflects the fact that the biggest immediate problem at the moment for the end user is diesel,” said Neil Crosby, senior oil analyst at OilX.\n\nOther countries, including the US and Germany, have also seen sharply rising diesel prices.\n\nDiesel supplies were tight before the crisis began, as demand for oil bounced back after pandemic lockdowns faster than producers could keep up.\n\n“Stocks of lots of fuels are relatively low, but diesel in particular, in Europe, in the US and in Asia as well. The demand for diesel has been very strong up until the crisis, and that also contributed to that. There’s just an imbalance between supply and demand,\" said OilX’s Mr Crosby.\n\nFinding alternative supplies to replace the diesel Britain buys from Russia will be made harder because many other countries around the world are also trying to wean themselves off Russian energy supplies at the same time.\n\nThere is no suggestion of pumps in the UK imminently running dry. But last week, the boss of one of the world’s biggest trading groups warned of possible diesel shortages around the world.\n\n\"The diesel market is extremely tight and we're possibly heading to stock-outs. Europe can probably afford to pay. The problem is what happens to Africa and Latin America,\" Jeremy Weir, the chief executive of Trafigura said on 22 March, according to the Reuters news agency.", "Ksenia and Maksim met while working at the same travel agency in Kyiv\n\nThe drone footage shows three cars speeding along an empty main road just outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, when they suddenly turn around and race back - all except one.\n\nThis white car turns, but then stops. A man steps out and raises his hands. Then his body falls to the ground. Moments later, Russian soldiers approach. An elderly woman and child leave the car, and a soldier walks them away.\n\nThe man on the ground was Maksim Iovenko. The 31-year-old was shot dead by Russian forces that were positioned at the roadside. His wife Ksenia, who was in the car, was also killed.\n\nTheir six-year-old son and the elderly friend of the family who were with them escaped, although she was wounded and remains in hospital. (Both families asked us not to name them.)\n\n\"Until I saw the video, I still had some hope,\" Maksim's father Sergiy Iovenko tells the BBC in Kyiv, where he lives. \"I was hoping that he was alive.\"\n\nThe incident happened on 7 March, when Maksim and his family joined a convoy of about 10 cars of civilians trying to reach Kyiv from the western outskirts of the city, which had become a conflict zone.\n\nIt was filmed by a Ukrainian territorial defence group doing aerial reconnaissance, and widely shared.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video captured by a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance group appears to show Russian forces shooting at civilians\n\nWhen a friend of Maksim's who was part of the convoy called Sergiy to tell him the news, Sergiy says he immediately knew something was wrong. There was silence when he picked up the phone, and eventually the friend said: \"Stay strong, your son and daughter-in-law are gone.\"\n\nMaksim lived in Kyiv and worked for a travel agency, which is where he and Ksenia met. Sergiy describes his son as a family man with a kind heart who liked to sing karaoke. But his biggest hobby was his family, he says. \"He loved his son very much, and this was his passion.\"\n\nLike many other Ukrainians, Sergiy says he and his family didn't believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would invade. Once Putin did, Maksim thought Kyiv would be one of the first cities to be shelled.\n\nHaving discussed the situation with an old school friend, Maksim and his family moved west to the friend's second home, or dacha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, not far from the E-40 highway where the shooting would happen. Maksim told his father he thought it would be quieter there.\n\n\"It turned out the opposite,\" Sergiy says.\n\nWhile Russia's main focus appeared to be on the east and south of the country, Russian forces also started bombing towns and cities to the west of the capital, such as Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel - close to where Maksim was staying. Sergiy says he would often hear the sound of the heavy bombing from his home in Kyiv.\n\nMaksim wouldn't say much about conditions at the dacha, Sergiy says. \"He would say, 'it is quiet, peaceful, all is normal.'\"\n\nMaksim and his friend, also called Maksim, would take turns patrolling the area overnight, Sergiy says. Power outages and poor mobile signal meant regular contact was difficult. As the bombing continued, they moved into the basement, leaving only to buy food.\n\nThen, on 7 March, they lost all power. With no electricity, heating or food, Maksim, Ksenia and other families staying in the area decided to return to Kyiv. They knew they risked running into Russian troops along the highway, but they thought they could make it through safely.\n\nMaksim's car was third in the convoy, made up of about 50 people in total, including other children. In the windows of his car, he had put handwritten signs on white paper that read: \"Children.\" His friend was part of the same convoy, and it was his mother who was in the car with Maksim and Ksenia, and he was able to tell Sergiy what happened.\n\nWhen the shooting started, Maksim's car was hit. \"The car's engine stalled,\" Sergiy says. \"My son jumped out of the car, he raised his hands and started shouting that there was a child in the car, so that the child would be saved.\"\n\nIt's not clear why the rest of the convoy fell behind the first three cars, but Sergiy believes many of those driving behind turned back when they saw the cars in front turning and heard the gunshots.\n\nAfter the shooting, Maksim's body was left on the highway and Ksenia's was left in the car. Maksim's son and his friend's mother were told by Russian soldiers to walk back along the road. When they got a safe distance from the Russian soldiers, she called her husband, who came to take them to safety. They returned to the dacha, and were evacuated safely to Kyiv the next day.\n\nA burned out car on the road where Maksim and Ksenia were killed\n\nThe boy is with his grandmother in a safe location in Ukraine but away from Kyiv, where Sergiy remains.\n\nOn Friday, Sergiy received a call informing him that the area had been re-taken by Ukrainian forces. There was more bad news.\n\n\"They burned everyone. Burned the cars as well,\" Sergiy says.\n\nA team of BBC journalists taken to the same stretch of road saw many burned cars and bodies. Among them was Maksim's car, riddled with shrapnel and reduced to a shell by fire, with the burned remains of a body inside it and one on the road beside it, still wearing a wedding ring.\n\nSergiy says he is heartbroken by what has happened, and by what his grandson has had to witness.\n\nThe child remembers seeing the Russian soldiers with their weapons and is receiving support from family and specialists, Sergiy says.\n\n\"The only words he said when he got to a safe place, to his grannies, were: 'We won't be sleeping in a basement any longer, will we? And there won't be any scary men?'\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Olena describes sheltering her children beneath her after a bomb hit their home\n\n\"I went into the kitchen and saw a bomb coming towards my window. It was all so quick I didn't know what was happening. I just saw it flying towards me.\"\n\nIt was the morning of 11 March in the city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, when a bomb crashed into Olena Selichzianowa's home - and her family.\n\nSpeaking in Russian, the mother of five-year-old twin boys, Nazar and Timur, describes how she fell to her knees, pulling her sons beneath her to protect them from the pieces of shrapnel. After the bomb's impact she recalls nothing.\n\nAll three were blinded by the flying fragments that cut into their arms and faces. Their skin was badly burned, a small shard of glass embedded itself in one of Olena's eyes and her leg was broken.\n\nNazar and Timur have had several surgeries to try to save their sight\n\nThe family were pulled from the wreckage and taken to a nearby hospital, but their wounds were so serious they had to be moved quickly.\n\nIn Lviv, eye specialist Dr Nataliya Preys was made aware of this family's injuries. Dr Preys sent images of the wounds to her former teacher in Poland, Professor Robert Rejdak, at the Medical University of Lublin.\n\nHe knew the three needed to be treated immediately. But the fighting in Ukraine meant it would take a week for Olena, Nazar and Timur to reach Poland.\n\n\"They have come from hell,\" Professor Rejdak told us. \"The mum was completely blind, she could only reach out to touch her children. The children were so hungry and tired when they first arrived that they only ate, slept and cried.\"\n\nHe is visibly moved as he recounts their first meeting. Then, his expertise as a leading surgeon at one of Europe's largest eye hospitals takes over.\n\n\"We decided to operate on mum. I performed bilateral cataract surgery. The surgery was really complicated because of the wounds, because of a piece of glass inside one eye.\n\n\"Fortunately the surgery went really perfectly and Olena sees almost fully two days after. The healing process is perfect so I hope it will be even better - but at least now she can see her boys and look around.\"\n\nThe little boys' journey to health will take longer. Nazar has lost his eye.\n\nProfessor Rejdak's team performed retina surgery, and is now planning further cataract surgery.\n\n\"The twins also have really massive ocular trauma,\" he says. \"We are hoping the vision will be good, but they need longer treatment.\"\n\nIf Olena and her boys had reached Lublin just a few days later the consequences would have been stark.\n\n\"They would be blind because it was the last moment to start the treatment, it already took seven days from the accident and in ocular trauma time is crucial.\"\n\nWhen asked if it was a miracle to be able to save their sight, Professor Rejdak says, \"a little bit\".\n\nBack on the ward the little boys are playing. Although it is Nazar who has lost his eye, he seems more protective over his brother Timur, who is a little shyer and more withdrawn.\n\n\"A psychologist is helping them, giving them tablets so they can sleep,\" explains Olena. \"They are feeling better and have had many operations. But they saw the bomb fall on them. They are a little calmer but they are jumpy and they struggle to sleep.\"\n\nBefore the war, Olena was a cook at the local school. Once her family have healed, would she want to go back?\n\n\"No,\" she answers quickly. \"Everyone has been so kind here, I want to stay. Also my home has been destroyed, there is nothing left.\"\n\nProfessor Rejdak is among those helping to find somewhere for this family to live. Once Olena has recovered and only when she is ready, the hope is she that she will find a job.\n\nThis is not the only family that needs help. Professor Rejdak is providing virtual consultations with his colleagues in Ukraine. Thanks to his teaching work he has a network of specialists. He works closely with his former pupil Dr Preys and advises who should be evacuated to receive surgery in Lublin.\n\nProfesssor Rejdak is preparing for more people arriving from Ukraine\n\nIf evacuation is not possible, then he gives advice on how doctors in Lviv should proceed with treatment.\n\nHe firmly believes virtual medicine is key to helping the victims of this war. Medical supplies and donations are also being sent to Ukraine by a team of people brought together under the umbrella of the Medical University of Lublin.\n\nThe work is endless, as more and more people are injured in the fighting. Professor Rejdak and his team will be operating on the twins again in the coming days, but they are also preparing for new arrivals who will be coming to the hospital from Ukraine.", "The battle-scarred town of Irpin now stands as an example of Ukrainian resistance, and of Russian defeat. President Putin's forces managed to enter the town but didn't manage to push through it. If they had, Kyiv would have been their next stop - the capital is just a short drive away, 13 miles (21km) down the road. Blocking the Russian advance here was critical.\n\nWe reached the city centre under armed escort, driving through streets strewn with rubble and downed power lines - and devoid of life.\n\nUkrainian forces gave us a careful tour - avoiding some main roads. We were told Russian forces might be present in the forests on the outskirts, though the Mayor, Oleksandr Markushyn, insists the town itself is completely under Ukrainian control.\n\nTroops proudly showed us a Russian armoured personnel carrier which had been torn to shreds, its turret upturned. Another burnt out Russian vehicle was just down the road. But we were moved quickly from place to place because of the ongoing risk of Russian shelling.\n\nMost of the 70,000 people who used to live in this middle class commuter city fled over the past month - darting out of basements, running the gauntlet of relentless Russian shelling.\n\nMany may have little left to come back to. President Putin claims he is not targeting civilian areas, but the destroyed homes of Irpin give the lie to that.\n\nMany residential buildings in Irpin have been damaged or destroyed\n\nWe saw extensive damage in residential areas, including one high-rise block where a shell had punched a neat hole right through a corner apartment. There was a child's red toy car on the ground, close to a forsaken playground. There were cars with bullet-riddled windscreens, and charred houses where the roofs have been ripped off.\n\nSome of the dead still lie beneath the rubble. Others were buried hastily in courtyards and parks because a proper funeral was impossible. The mayor estimates that between 200-300 civilians were killed here, some directly targeted as they fled. The final death toll is likely to be higher.\n\nThe Russians had held 20-30% of the city, but the resistance here was dogged. Ukraine's defence ministry has recognised \"the mass heroism and resilience of the residents and the defenders\" with the honorary title \"Hero City of Ukraine\". The title dates from World War Two when it was awarded by the Soviet Union to several cities.\n\nInside the city, as heavily armed police and troops kept watch, there was a palpable layer of tension.\n\nThis victory was hard-fought, but troops we spoke to conceded that the Russians could be back at some point.\n\n\"Yes, I believe that,\" said Serhiy Smalchuk, whose day job is TV presenting. \"They need Kyiv, right, because Putin will lose if he doesn't take over Kyiv. So, perhaps they will try but we are prepared in case they come back, and we will defeat them.\"\n\nIvan Kolehin said he expected to die in the battle for Irpin\n\n\"We don't know what they are thinking,\" said Ivan Kolehin, a young territorial defence recruit. \"I don't think they will try again any time soon. Their ground forces have been removed but their artillery can still hit us.\"\n\nIvan had a day job in marketing before he took up arms. He seemed to be struggling to process the battle for Irpin, and the fact that he is still alive.\n\n\"I never thought I would live,\" he said. \"On our third day we heard a whistle and they started to bomb us directly. We sat in the basement and the ceiling started to crumble. We were pretty scared.\"\n\nNow he worries for the future of the city.\n\n\"It's still not safe here, but in due time we will rebuild,\" he said. \"Probably it will take years, considering the damage. I am trying not to think about the fact that every house that was destroyed was built by someone, sometimes with their own hands.\"\n\nHe had Russian friends in the past, but not anymore.\n\n\"I hate the Russians from the depths of my heart,\" he said. \"There are no excuses for this.\"\n\nCivilians are still being evacuated from Irpin\n\nMoscow now says it will drastically reduce its attacks around the capital, and focus on the eastern Donbas region. In reality the Kremlin had little choice, as its offensives around the capital had ground to a halt.\n\nBut in time Russian forces may regroup and target the capital again. If they do, the \"hero city\" will once again be in their path, and in the line of fire.\n\nAs we left Irpin a trickle of civilians was evacuating on foot, crossing a river bed on planks of wood balanced precariously on rubble and boulders. This is the wreckage of a bridge, blown up by Ukrainian forces to block the Russian advance - another sacrifice made by Irpin.\n\nAn ambulance was waiting for two elderly women, carried up the riverbank on stretchers - survivors of a merciless and failed Russian assault.\n\nFurther up the road a departing column of Ukrainian troops - with the swagger of victory - broke into an obscene chant about President Putin.", "Corpses and burned out cars litter this stretch of the E-40 highway\n\nFootage of Russian troops shooting a man with his hands up on a highway outside Kyiv at the beginning of March was shared around the world. Now the Russians have been pushed out of the area and the BBC's Jeremy Bowen has been to see the grim aftermath of their short-lived occupation.\n\nThis report contains material some viewers will find disturbing\n\nWe counted 13 bodies on a nightmarish stretch of road not much more than 200 yards long, between Mria and Myla, villages whose Ukrainian names translate as Dream and Sweetheart.\n\nTwo of the dead are confirmed as Ukrainian civilians who were killed by the Russians. The others have not been identified yet - they lie where they were killed - but only two are wearing recognisable Ukrainian military uniforms.\n\nOur BBC team was able to get to the area, on the main E-40 highway as it approaches Kyiv, because Ukrainian forces had captured the sector only 10 hours earlier.\n\nThe marks of battle and of heavy shelling were everywhere. Petrol stations and a hotel that was well-known for its spa and restaurant were in ruins. Shell holes and craters pockmarked both carriageways.\n\nUkrainian troops changing a wheel in the ruins of a roadside garage said the Russians were about 4km (2.5 miles) away and had pulled their remaining men and armour back after a hard fight, lasting several days, in the early hours of the morning.\n\nLeft behind in the heart of the desolation were the dead bodies, and a mass of questions and concerns about who they were and how they died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome answers already exist for a couple who were killed by the Russians and left to decompose on 7 March. Their rusty, shrapnel riddled car lies in the road next to one of the petrol stations, reduced to a shell by fire. Next to it are the burnt and twisted remains of a body that is just about recognisable as the remains of a man. A wedding ring is still on the corpse's finger. Stretched out inside the hulk of their car is what is left of the incinerated body of a woman, the mouth opened in what looks like a scream.\n\nTheir deaths were filmed by a Ukrainian drone on 7 March, operated by the Bugatti unit of Territorial Defence. The unit released the video, which was republished by news organisations around the world. It caused outrage because it showed the cold-blooded killing of a man who had raised his arms to show he was harmless, in the classic gesture of surrender.\n\nThe bodies, the BBC discovered in an investigation this month, are of Maksim Iowenko and his wife Ksjena. They were part of a convoy of 10 civilian vehicles who were trying to escape the Russians and get to Kyiv.\n\nKsjena and Maksim Iowenko were civilians and should have been protected\n\nAs they drove down the road, they spotted a Russian tank in position, dug into the grass verge. The drone video shows it was clearly marked with the letter V, one of the identifiers used by the Russian armed forces. The other cars did quick U-turns and drove away at speed. But Maksim's car stopped, most likely because it was hit.\n\nAs soon as the car stopped, Maksim leapt out and raised his hands. Within seconds he was shot dead. His wife was killed in the car. Also in the car were their six-year-old son and the elderly mother of one of Maksim's friends. Both of them survived and were eventually released by the Russian soldiers.\n\nThey were found walking back down the road, and the woman told her family that Maksim was shouting that a child was in the car when he was killed. Both survivors, according to the Bugatti drone unit, are now safe but deeply traumatised.\n\nThe car is now burnt out, but it was not on fire after the attack. One hypothesis must be that the bodies and the car were set on fire by the Russians to destroy the evidence of what they had done. The Bugatti Unit has submitted its drone video to the Ukrainian authorities and to the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nMore burnt cars and dead bodies line the road for the next few hundred yards. No video has emerged to show what happened. A credible working assumption for any investigation must be that the other dead people were killed by the tank crew, or other Russian soldiers.\n\nSome of the evidence the BBC gathered is too disturbing to show in full. Here a dead man has been covered by rubber tyres\n\nHere a Ukrainian soldier gestures towards sets of charred human remains by a burned out vehicle\n\nAttempts have been made to destroy the other bodies. Some have been left to rot where they were killed. But other corpses have been piled up and surrounded by tyres. Charred clothing indicates attempts were made to set fires around them. Tyres are flammable and must have been placed there as an accelerant.\n\nThe emplacement where the tank was dug in has a clear arc of fire across the area where the 13 bodies are lying. The tank has gone but debris was left by its crew, including Russian army field rations. In the woods nearby is at least one other tank, which has been burnt out after being hit by an anti-tank missile.\n\nA Ukrainian soldier produced a wallet he had found in the tank. He emptied out Russian identity papers, bank notes in the Russian currency, the rouble, and small change in Belorussian coppers. The major thrust to the north-west of Kyiv came from invaders who had crossed the border from Belarus, Moscow's ally.\n\nClose by the knocked out tank are the remains of a chaotic camp, with dugouts, chairs and a long table piled high with the remains of food and drink. They are all surrounded by big piles of garbage, rotten food and empty bottles of alcohol. Ukrainian soldiers said shops at the petrol stations were looted.\n\nAn abandoned Russian camp: the soldiers are said to have looted petrol stations\n\nNext to the table is a large pair of bolt-cutters. Piles of unburied rubbish scattered in a forward position are usually a sign of undisciplined soldiers.\n\nWe decided to drive two or three kilometres further down the road, after Ukrainian soldiers said more Russian armour had been destroyed.\n\nIn a small village, a Russian tank and two armoured personnel carriers were broken and burnt. Some of the wreckage was still smoking. The force of the weapon that destroyed the tank blew off its turret and main gun, which lay upside down and half buried in a crater around 15 yards away.\n\nIn the pine woods on either side of the road Ukrainian soldiers were digging trenches and fox holes with shovels. Others were patrolling. It was far too early to say whether the Russians were gone for good, or whether they would be back.\n\nWhat is clear though is that Russian forces, under continued pressure from Ukrainian soldiers, have been forced to yield strategic territory around Kyiv. Every time they move back, the Ukrainian capital and its people become a little safer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video captured by a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance group appears to show Russian forces shooting at civilians\n\nAs and when the Russians leave, more evidence is likely to emerge of civilians having been killed - backing up the many stories that have emerged of such incidents.\n\nThe gruesome scenes on the road were more than simply the terrible deaths of human beings who had become victims of President Putin's decision to invade. It is also a crime scene, with evidence that should be collected and preserved for an investigation whenever this war ends.\n\nUnder the laws of war civilians are protected, and when they are killed in defiance of those laws, their deaths amount to war crimes.", "Foo Fighters have won three prizes at the 2022 Grammy Awards, just a week after the unexpected death of their drummer, Taylor Hawkins.\n\nThe band received best rock album for Medicine at Midnight, rock performance for its opening track, Making A Fire and rock song for Waiting On A War.\n\nPresenter Jimmy Jam accepted the prizes in the band's absence, \"with prayers to their loved ones\".\n\nHawkins died in Colombia shortly before the band were due to play a festival.\n\nLocal officials said an ambulance was sent to the hotel after a man reported having chest pains. He did not respond to resuscitation efforts and was declared dead, the city's health department said.\n\nOpioids, marijuana and other drugs were found in the 50-year-old's system after he died, investigators said, but it is not known whether they contributed to his death.\n\nFoo Fighters had been due to play the Grammys this weekend. Instead, organisers played a video tribute to Hawkins, set to the Foo Fighters' song My Hero.\n\n\"Our thoughts go out to Taylor's family, his friends, the Foo Fighters family and all of their fans around the globe,\" said host Trevor Noah.\n\nPop star Billie Eilish paid her own tribute, wearing a black T-shirt with an image of Hawkins emblazoned across the front during her performance of Happier Than Ever.\n\nThe Grammys also honoured Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, who died last November at the age of 91, with a medley of his songs.\n\nFoo Fighters' awards were presented during a smaller \"Grammy premiere ceremony\" which took place ahead of the main event on Sunday night.\n\nIt also saw folk-rock legend Joni Mitchell win best historical recording for her Archives, Vol 1 box set.\n\nThe star, who had a brain aneurysm in 2015, collected the award in person, helped onto the stage by her physical therapist, who she called her \"angel\".\n\n\"I didn't expect this,\" she added, before thanking her record label and her assistant, \"who keeps me on schedule\".\n\nMitchell was previously honoured at a Grammy event on Friday night, with Herbie Hancock, Cyndi Lauper, Angelique Kidjo and Stephen Stills among those paying tribute to her music.\n\nGraham Nash played an emotional version of her folk-rock classic A Case Of You; while John Legend played River. Both tracks were taken from her 1971 album Blue, frequently cited as one of the best records of all time.\n\nThe trailblazing, Canadian-born star told journalists on the red carpet that she was feeling \"pretty good,\" adding she'd been \"making improvements\" seven years into her recovery.\n\nShe will appear again at the main Grammy ceremony on Sunday night.\n\nMore than 70 awards are distributed on the night, with many of the smaller, genre-based prizes handed out at a \"premiere ceremony\" before the big event.\n\nGeorge Harrison's classic 1970 album All Things Must Pass won the award for best limited edition package, following a 50th-anniversary edition that included extra outtakes, jam sessions and extensive liner notes.\n\nHis widow Olivia collected the award on his behalf, noting that eight years after the record was inducted to the Grammy Hall Of Fame, it was definitively \"here to stay\".\n\n\"The music is here for you,\" she said. \"It's full of hope and compassion and healing and rock and roll.\"\n\nJon Batiste had the most nominations for this year's Grammys, with 11 in total\n\nPuerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny, who is Spotify's most-streamed artist in the world, took home a new prize: Best música urbana album, for his third studio release El Último Tour Del Mundo.\n\nThere was an upset in the musical theatre category, where The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical - a project that originated on TikTok - beat Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella soundtrack and a new concert recording of Les Miserables.\n\n\"A year ago, when I asked the internet, 'what if Bridgerton' was a musical?' I could not have imagined I would be holding a Grammy in my hands,\" said the project's co-creator Abigail Barlow.\n\nBest music film went to Summer Of Soul - a documentary about 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival, which had been all-but erased from history, which also won best documentary at last weekend's Oscars.\n\nAccepting the prize, director Ahmir \"Questlove\" Thompson said: \"It just hit me that we really haven't given much spotlight to what really matters in this film which is the beautiful artists that performed.\"\n\nHe went on to name-check artists including Stevie Wonder, Mavis Staples, Gladys Knight, Nina Simone, BB King and Sly & The Family Stone, whose performances were all restored in the Disney+ movie.\n\nQuestlove is better known as the drummer and band-leader of rap group The Roots\n\nComedian Bo Burnham won best song written for visual media for All Eyes On Me, an anxiety-ridden track from his Netflix lockdown show, Inside.\n\nTrevor Noah will host the main ceremony later, with performances from Billie Eilish, BTS, Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X, Olivia Rodrigo and Justin Bieber.\n\nJazz musician Jon Batiste had the most nominations ahead of the ceremony, with 11 in total.\n\nHe won four during the non-televised premiere ceremony, including best music video for his vibrant, celebratory song Freedom.\n\nThat award saw him beat Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo - the presumed front-runners for album of the year, which he also eventually won, in one of the night's biggest upsets.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Grant Shapps firmly rule out energy rationing for the UK\n\nThe transport secretary has said energy will not be rationed in the UK, despite pressure on supplies globally.\n\nGrant Shapps ruled this out after Labour's shadow business secretary suggested ministers might need to prepare for rationing.\n\nSome European countries have moved towards rationing as energy costs rise and supplies tighten.\n\nMr Shapps told the BBC the energy strategy would be announced later this week.\n\nPlans to expand nuclear and wind power are expected to form part of the strategy, which has been delayed amid cost concerns.\n\nWhen pressed on whether he can completely rule out energy rationing, he told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: \"Yes, I can. It's not the route that we want to go down.\"\n\nHe was responding to Labour's shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds who told the programme: \"The government should be preparing, not necessarily in public for that situation.\"\n\nBut Mr Reynolds later told Times Radio the UK should be not be rationing energy right now.\n\nAs Mr Shapps ruled out rationing, he said wind farms were an \"immense invisible national resource\" that could be exploited more and that it was better to build significant wind power offshore.\n\nWhile he said there may be occasions where onshore wind farms made sense, he added: \"I don't think we want to cover every inch of land in onshore wind farms.\"\n\nIn turn offshore wind \"performs better because it tends to be windier\" and can be built \"much, much bigger\", he said.\n\nThe government is looking to increase the amount of energy generated by nuclear power\n\nHe made the comments after he told Sky News that he did not favour \"a vast increase in onshore wind farms\", calling them an \"eyesore for communities\".\n\nSources have told the BBC onshore wind will feature in the government's energy strategy, despite some opposition within the cabinet.\n\nOnshore wind has long been a topic that has divided the Conservative Party.\n\nFormer Prime Minister David Cameron said in 2014 people were \"fed up\" with seeing them being built, and some Conservative activists have criticised their visual impact on the landscape.\n\nPlanning laws were then tightened in England to make them much harder to build. But recent polls have suggested a majority of the public support onshore wind.\n\nCabinet ministers are split over whether to review those planning rules in England. They have been clear onshore wind, and solar farms, need local consent and should be accompanied by \"community benefits\".\n\nI understand those community benefits are being considered, regardless of whether rules are relaxed in England or not. If that happened, Scotland and Wales could - in theory - feel the benefit more proportionally.\n\nThis energy strategy won't be an instant fix to high energy bills. Nuclear power stations, for example, can take years and be very expensive to build.\n\nMeanwhile, as the cost of living rises, some Tory MPs are calling for the government to pause its net zero plans. But the government argues that moving towards more renewables is the answer to high bills - not the problem.\n\nThe BBC previously reported that cabinet ministers were split over the idea of relaxing planning laws in England to enable more onshore wind farms - an idea backed by Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Kwarteng said there has to be \"community consent\" for onshore wind and fracking, a controversial method of mining for shale gas.\n\nThe BBC has reported one option ministers were considering was lowering energy bills for people near wind turbines.\n\nHe confirmed that ministers have agreed to set up a new body to oversee delivery of new nuclear plants.\n\nThe prime minister has previously said he wants 25% of UK energy generated by nuclear by 2050, but the Treasury has raised concerns about some of the costs of these targets.\n\nMeanwhile, a move away from the use of Russian oil and gas is expected to be addressed in the government's energy strategy, which will also outline plans to hit net-zero emissions targets.\n\nThe UK government has already said it will phase out imports of Russian oil by the end of the year.\n\nRussian imports account for 8% of total UK oil demand and 5% of gas supplies and the government is attempting to shore up energy security in the UK following a spike in oil and gas prices since the start of the Ukraine war.\n\nA £700-a-year rise in energy costs has put pressure on household budgets in the UK, at a time when other hikes to bills are taking effect.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nBBC coverage: Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds; live text and video highlights on BBC Sport website & app.\n\nEngland will attempt to win a second successive Women's World Cup when they face Australia in Sunday's final.\n\nHeather Knight's side lost their first three games of the tournament, but go into the meeting with Australia in Christchurch (02:00 BST) on the back of five straight wins.\n\nNo England senior women's or men's team has successfully defended a World Cup.\n\n\"The way we've come back has been remarkable and speaks volumes about this group,\" Knight told BBC Sport.\n\n\"To be here at a World Cup final with a chance of going back-to-back and making history is very special.\"\n• None World Cup final to be shown free to air\n\nKnight lifted the trophy on home soil in 2017 and is set to become the first player to lead England in two 50-over World Cup finals.\n\n\"I'm more relaxed than I was in 2017,\" she said. \"There's a lot of experience from five years ago and the girls that were involved then will hopefully take a lot from that.\n\n\"We need to remember to take everything in, because it is a special moment in your career to be involved in a World Cup final.\"\n\nEngland are likely to be unchanged from the team that beat South Africa in the semi-finals, while Australia are waiting on the fitness of all-rounder Ellyse Perry, who has missed two games with a back problem. She could play as a specialist batter.\n• None Vote for the best catch of the tournament\n\nAustralia are perhaps the strongest international sports team in the world. Since losing in the semi-finals of the previous World Cup they have been beaten in only two of the 41 one-day internationals they have played, as well as winning two T20 World Cups.\n\nThey went unbeaten in winning the Ashes series against England in January and February and go into the World Cup final having won all eight of their games in this tournament.\n\n\"There's no doubt about that we've had our eyes set on winning this tournament for a long time,\" said Australia captain Meg Lanning.\n\n\"England are hitting hitting peak form at the right time, so it's going to be a huge challenge for us. We we know we have to play well to be able to beat them, but it's an exciting opportunity.\"\n\nLanning brushed off any suggestion that her team's supreme form makes them favourites to win the final.\n\n\"They'd be disappointed if they didn't win, just as we would be,\" said Lanning. \"You can think about it how you like, but we're coming in to this game wanting to win as we do every other game.\"\n\nKnight, however, says Australia are \"clear favourites\".\n\n\"If I was captain of that team, I would do exactly the same to try to take the pressure off a little bit,\" she said.\n\n\"We have the mentality that we have almost got nothing to lose. If we do get in a position where we can win the game, we have to have a few players that go and take it. We can certainly beat them.\"\n\nAustralia have won the World Cup on six occasions and England four - a combined total of 10 wins from the 11 previous tournaments.\n\nHowever, the Ashes rivals have only ever met in two finals - Australia won both - with the most recent meeting at this stage coming in 1988.\n• None 'I hate being called Megastar' - in search of the real Meg Lanning\n\nSophie Ecclestone: The England left-arm spinner is the tournament's leading wicket-taker with 20, yet went wicketless when England were beaten by Australia in the group stage. It is hard to see England lifting the trophy without Ecclestone having a good day.\n\nMeg Lanning: The Australia captain is possibly the best batter to have played women's cricket. At only 30, Lanning has 15 one-day hundreds; no other player has more than 12. England must find a way past her.\n\nNat Sciver: England's star all-rounder has had a relatively quiet tournament since making a century in a losing cause against Australia. A match-winner with bat and ball, England will need her to stand up against the Aussies.\n\nJess Jonassen: If Ellyse Perry cannot bowl, Australia's seam bowling will be relatively inexperienced, leading to plenty of responsibility on the spinners, like left-armer Jess Jonassen. If England can get after Jonassen, where will Australia turn?\n\nAustralia go into this game with all the pressure. For England, the pressure is off.\n\nEngland have had an incredible journey to get to this final. Now they have to go out and play with freedom.\n\nCan England bat first and get big runs on the board, making sure Australia have a huge target to chase?\n• None What made Sir Alex Ferguson who he is? Sir Alex speaks about his younger days and the influences which shaped his extraordinary career\n• None Was Sven-Göran Eriksson expected to succeed wherever he went?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People have been facing long queues to get through security at Manchester Airport for weeks\n\nA lack of staff at Manchester Airport has led to people facing long waits for baggage collection, as the airport struggles with increased demand.\n\nThe airport has suffered delays for weeks, with hours-long queues for security causing some to miss flights.\n\nOn Saturday, returning passengers were told there were not enough staff to get the bags through - or even to let them disembark from planes in some cases.\n\nThe airport said it was struggling to recruit and train staff to meet demand.\n\nThe difficulties come as Easter holidays begin in parts of the UK, and demand increases after the removal of all Covid travel restrictions to enter the UK.\n\nPassengers said they were told in the baggage hall that there were not enough staff to get the bags through.\n\nOne man told the BBC a member of staff had said \"they've got rid of everyone [staff] and no one wants to come back\".\n\nOther people complained on Twitter that they were left stuck on planes because \"there's no ground crew available to let us off\".\n\nThe issues at the airport, which is partly owned by Manchester City Council, have been blamed on a \"failure of management\" by one councillor.\n\nThe airport apologised to passengers whose experience had \"fallen short of the standards they expected\".\n\nIt said it was experiencing some of the busiest periods in two years and advised people to arrive at the \"earliest time recommended by their airline\".\n\nIt said it was \"under-resourced\" and was struggling to recruit more staff, who take \"a lot of time to train, up to eight weeks\", adding there were shortages of baggage handlers and handling agents.\n\nThe airport is \"exploring a number of short-term measures\" to alleviate delays, including the use of agency staff.\n\nOn Friday, the Airport Operators Association (AOA) said its members had been trying to hire for new roles following job losses and staff departing during the pandemic.\n\nBut it warned recruitment problems and Covid-related staff absences could put operations at airports under strain.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said at peak time passengers \"may not have the experience they are used to\".\n\nManchester Airport has previously said that 400 new recruits would start at the airport in April.\n\nSeparately, Heathrow Airport said it had a very busy day on Saturday, with congestion in parts of the airport.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said it was \"expecting to see passenger numbers not seen since early March 2020\" over the coming weeks and that the airport has deployed extra staff across to help limit delays.", "Olha Sukhenko, her son Oleksander and husband Igor were found dead more than a week after going missing Image caption: Olha Sukhenko, her son Oleksander and husband Igor were found dead more than a week after going missing\n\nAs we've been reporting, a family who disappeared in their village west of Kyiv last month have been found dead in a shallow grave.\n\nOur correspondent, Yogita Limaye, visited the site, located in a wood near destroyed homes.\n\nOlha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander are alleged to have been shot dead by Russian soldiers. A fourth body was also found but has not been identified.\n\nRussian forces took Olha - who served as the head of her village of Motyzhyn - and her family from their home on 23 March, an investigation by the Ukrainian chief prosecutor found.\n\nIn Olha's last Facebook post before her death, posted in late February after the Russian invasion, she talked about there being \"someone else's scum in our village\" and warned residents to keep calm and not to leave their houses.\n\nTwo days after the family were allegedly disappeared by Russian forces, a woman called Daria appealed on social media for information on their whereabouts, saying they were her \"second family\" and \"helped people to the end\".\n\nShe said Russian forces had stolen Oleksander's car and were \"riding around the village\".\n\nAfter it emerged that the family had been killed, Daria posted an update:\n\nI don't have enough words and strength to describe how I and my whole family feel.\n\nThis is a crime - in every sense. All involved will be appear in court.\n\nSasha, my Hero. You didn't leave your parents behind. You will forever be in my heart. In our hearts. Heroes don't die.", "Ukrainians have fled the war across Hungary's eastern border\n\n\"Peace or War\" is at stake screams the headline in the tabloid Metropol, handed out to morning commuters flocking through the Western Station in Budapest. And there's a neat blue cross in the box next to the \"peace\" option.\n\nThat's the slogan of Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, as it battles to win a record fourth consecutive term in office in elections on Sunday.\n\nAfter 12 years in power, they face their first genuine challenge from an opposition alliance of six parties that has united under one candidate: Peter Marki-Zay.\n\nAnd Russia's war in Ukraine has given added impetus to the race.\n\nHungary shares a border with Ukraine and has taken in more than half a million refugees so far. Mr Orban insists that by helping the people, but refusing to supply weapons to Ukraine, only he can keep Hungary out of the war.\n\nHis party's slogan of peace or war may be simplistic, but it is effective. And it is broadcast, printed, and lit up in bright letters wherever you look in Hungary.\n\nIt interrupts any music you play on YouTube, and even videos that include international coverage of the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe government has spent eight times more on its campaign than all the opposition parties combined, according to a group of critical monitoring organisations. It helps that the ruling party has the support of a largely pliant media.\n\nThe opposition's catch-phrase, on the other hand, is \"Orban or Europe\".\n\nTheir candidate Peter Marki-Zay argues that Hungary should join Poland, the UK and others in supplying arms to Ukraine. And if called upon, and only within a Nato framework, should even consider sending troops.\n\nThe opposition complains that Fidesz has isolated Hungary from the European mainstream, from consensual democracy, fairness and decency. And that in this war Mr Orban has even alienated Hungary's closest allies - Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - the other members of the Visegrad-4 group.\n\nA V4 defence ministers' meeting was abruptly cancelled this week, with the Czech defence minister accusing Mr Orban of valuing Russian oil over Ukrainian blood.\n\nBut it was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky whose message hit home hardest.\n\n\"There can be no Russian branches in Europe that divide the EU from within,\" he said in an address to the Danish parliament on Wednesday. \"This must stop, and Europe must stop listening to the excuses of Budapest.\"\n\nHungary gets 85% of its gas and 64% of its oil from Russia, through a pipeline that deliberately circumvents Ukraine. However, a Hungary-Russia deal to expand the Paks nuclear power station south of Budapest with Russian finance and technology looks increasingly jeopardised by the war.\n\nAnd with Hungary's election campaign reaching its peak, President Zelensky chose the recent EU summit to address a very personal message to Mr Orban.\n\n\"Listen, Viktor, do you know what's going on in Mariupol? And you hesitate whether to impose sanctions or not? And you hesitate whether to let weapons through or not? And you hesitate whether to trade with Russia or not? There is no time to hesitate. It's already time to decide.\"\n\nMr Zelensky also made a poignant reference to Budapest's famous shoe monument on the banks of the Danube.\n\nLook at those shoes. And you will see how mass killings can happen again in today's world. That's what Russia is doing today. The same shoes. In Mariupol, there are the same people\n\nThe 60 pairs of bronze shoes remember Hungary's Jews, murdered and pushed into the river by Hungarian fascists in the winter of 1944.\n\nDays after his speech, Ukrainians in Budapest arranged new shoes among the bronze ones on the Danube embankment, decorated with flowers and the blue and yellow ribbons of the Ukrainian flag - in memory of all the dead in Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine, victims of the Russian invasion.\n\nHungarians laid shoes beside the Danube this week in memory of the victims of Russia's bombardment of Mariupol\n\nThe idea that Hungary is isolated from an otherwise pro-Ukraine Europe is an argument the government side bitterly rejects.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Orban told his final campaign rally: \"If the opposition wins on Sunday, the next day they will start delivering weapons to Ukraine, and close the taps on the Russian gas pipelines. Our heart is with [the Ukrainians], but Hungary has to stand up for its own interests.\"\n\nThe election arithmetic suggests a closer race than the government would like.\n\nAccording to opposition paper Nepszava, Fidesz is assured of victory in 41 of the country's 106 individual constituencies, while the opposition alliance can count on 33.\n\nThat leaves 32 battleground districts where the opposition has to break through. The remaining 93 seats in Hungary's 199 seat Parliament are divided according to party lists.\n\nDifferent polling agencies suggest a record turnout - perhaps as high as 80%, compared with 70% four years ago.\n\nIn a country of 9.7 million, the electorate was split almost evenly - 2.6 million apiece - four years ago. Pollsters reckon that this election will be decided by between 300,000 and 600,000 voters who are either undecided or uncommitted, and who are in the cross-hairs of campaigners from both sides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Hungarian PM Viktor Orban says the country could host peace talks", "Some of the 39 Russian soldiers from the 331st regiment who are known to have died\n\nIn any war, there are units that distinguish themselves and others that become symbolic of failure. The 331st Guards Parachute Regiment had high hopes of being the first, but now represents the disintegration of Russia's plan for a quick war.\n\nThe regiment's commanding officer, Col Sergei Sukharev, was killed in Ukraine on 13 March, and was posthumously awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation medal. At his funeral, deputy defence minister Gen Yuri Sadovenko said the colonel \"lived for the future, for the future of our people, a future without Nazism\".\n\nCol Sergei Sukharev, commander of the Kostroma 331st regiment, was also killed\n\nCasualties among Russian forces are not widely reported in Russia itself, but using open source material, the BBC has pieced together the story of their advance, and found that at least 39 other members of the elite 331st regiment have died.\n\nThe men were part of a column that advanced into Ukraine from Belarus, led by Russia's airborne forces, known by the acronym VDV. Their presence underlined the priority of their objective - advancing on the capital, Kyiv.\n\nThat advance swiftly got drawn into a destructive stalemate in districts on the outskirts of Kyiv which soon became synonymous with the viciousness of the war: Bucha, Irpin, and Hostomel.\n\nVideos that emerged online from these battles showed combat vehicles used by Russian airborne forces with \"V\" signs painted onto them.\n\nOne video we found shows several damaged light armoured vehicles from the VDV, abandoned after an attack by Ukrainian special forces. Another shows several vehicles from the Russian airborne forces apparently abandoned.\n\nThe men in the 331st regarded themselves as the pick of Russia's army. In a video posted online last May, a general tells soldiers of the 331st Parachute Regiment that they are \"the best of the best\". The unit served in the Balkans, Chechnya, and the 2014 Russian intervention in the Donbas region of Ukraine, and regularly took part in Red Square parades in Moscow.\n\nThe 331st was also a showcase for Russia's policy of replacing national service soldiers with contraktniki - professionals under contract. It is understandable why the generals should have given it an important role in the invasion.\n\nA comment on a post mourning Maj Sergei Krylov reads: \"We are proud of you, thank you for supporting peace. Russian hero Major Krylov. RIP\" - this post is no longer public\n\nFrom early March, reports began to circulate of deaths in the 331st. It took time for bodies to be returned to Kostroma, the community where it is based, 300km north-east of Moscow.\n\nAs the funerals started, an anguished conversation began playing out on social media. Memorial walls on V'Kontakte - the Russian equivalent of Facebook - pledge \"eternal memory\" and feature pictures of candles.\n\nThe wife of Sergei Lobachyov mourns her \"reliable, loving and caring husband\"\n\nA woman who says she was the wife of Warrant Officer Sergei Lobachyov writes: \"Seryozha, my most reliable, loving and caring husband. Now you are in heaven and you will protect us from there! You will always live in our hearts and you will forever be a real hero to me!\"\n\nAlthough many posts appear to accept Kremlin explanations that the war is being waged against Ukrainian fascists, some also display anxiety about the lack of reliable information.\n\nOn the memorial wall for Sergeant Sergei Duganov, one woman wrote: \"Nobody knows anything. The 331st regiment is disappearing. Almost every day, photos of our Kostroma boys get published. It sends shivers down my spine. What's happening? When will this end? When will people stop dying?\"\n\nHer post was followed by another, which exclaimed: \"Kostroma has lost so many young men, what a tragedy\". Another pleaded: \"God, how many more death notifications shall we receive? Please have mercy on our boys, help them survive, return them back home to their wives and mothers. I'm begging you!\"\n\nYanosh Leonov's partner writes: You are a real hero, you are the best father, a loved and loving husband, a loyal friend and a real fighter.\n\nSpeaking out about the war in Russia carries great risks, but there are hints of a loss of faith in the Kremlin's arguments for war. On the memorial page for one sergeant, a woman asks: \"Why aren't children of MPs on the frontline? The majority of them live in Europe anyway. Ordinary boys are dying for no good reason.\" Another uses an expletive to describe President Vladimir Putin, and goes on to say that by deciding to \"play war\" he has \"sent thousands of guys to die\".\n\nFor the most part though, those reacting on social media remain true to the official narrative.\n\nThe top Ukrainian comment on a post mourning Ravshan Zhakbayev reads: Everyone who steps on our soil to occupy it will get buried in it. Welcome to hell! A later comment reads: Eternal memory to you, our hero, our protector. Thanks for all.(((\n\nOn some V'Kontakte memorial walls, Ukrainians have posted comments mocking the dead men. \"Over 15,000 have died already and they will continue on dying as long as they'll keep on marching on our land. Nobody invited you freaking saviours,\" reads one.\n\n\"Alexander, go away you bloody Nazi,\" a Russian responds to another mocking post. \"Our soldiers are real heroes. Russians have never killed civilians nor children, which is something you can't say about Ukrainians.\"\n\nThe fury of those online exchanges is nothing, though, to the experiences of the VDV forces, who have been hit by Ukrainian artillery, ambushes, and infantry assaults during weeks of bloody combat.\n\nIn these close-quarter battles, they have discovered what earlier VDV units learned in Afghanistan - that armoured vehicles designed to be light enough to be carried on planes do not give much protection from enemy fire. From the roads outside Hostomel airfield, to a side street in Bucha, or a road junction in Irpin, videos taken by Ukrainians have shown burnt out and abandoned vehicles belonging to the airborne group.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThese scraps of phone footage also speak to a more basic failure. In these shattered neighbourhoods around Kyiv, the Russian paratroopers were outmatched by the Ukrainians. And given that the defenders were in many cases simply local defence units or reservists, that speaks to a basic failure in the VDV's system of training and recruitment.\n\nUkrainians have latched on to the 331st's losses, making excited claims that the regiment has been \"wiped out\". Ilya Ponamarev, a former Russian MP and opposition figure who now lives in Kyiv, says people there see the regiment's fate \"as a perfect example of karma\".\n\nDuring the 2014 fighting in the Donbas, the 331st was held responsible by Ukrainians for killing hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers at Ilovaisk, in breach of a ceasefire agreement.\n\nHowever, while the regiment has suffered considerably, Ukrainian claims that they have been wiped out are an exaggeration. It is likely, though, that the 331st Parachute Regiment may have been withdrawn from Ukraine recently - certainly unidentified elements of the VDV task force to which it belonged were filmed on 29 March pulling back into Belarus.\n\nPhotographs of some of the Russian soldiers from the 331 regiment who have died\n\nAs for the price of failure, it mounts daily. At the time of writing, BBC Newsnight had compiled a list of 39 named members of the 331st Parachute Regiment killed in Ukraine. But since none of those fatalities is more recent than the 13 March, it can be supposed that dozens more will emerge in the coming weeks.\n\nKostroma locals have told us they believe that around 100 members of the regiment may have died. And many families will never receive their loved one's body because it was left behind on the battlefield.\n\nEven a conservative projection of the deaths we now know about, and their dates, suggest that the town's losses in a few weeks in Ukraine already exceed those from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya.\n\nThe regiment that set off full of confidence in February has acquired the type of reputation that no soldiers would ever want.\n\nThe BBC has so far verified the deaths of 39 soldiers from the 331st regiment: Klim Abramov, Cpl Artem Arbuzov, Oleg Bedoshvili, Capt (Co Cdr) Yurii Borisov, Snr Lt Ilya Chernyshev, Cpl Yuri Degtaryov, Konstantin Dobrynin, Sasha Dolkin, Sgt Sergei Duganov, Kiril Fedoseyev, Andrey Kovalevsky, Maj Sergei Krylov, Stanislav Kutelev, Cpl Yanosh Leonov, Sgt Alexander Limonov, Snr WO Sergei Lobachyo, Cpl Ivan Mamzurin, Cpl Ilya Martynenko, Lt Lev Ovchinnikov, Maksim Ovchinnikov, Cpl Leonid Panteleyev, Maj Oleg Patskalyev, Sgt Stanislav Petrutik, Sgt Roman Pomelov, Snr WO Pavel Rudenko, Snr Lt Alexander Shalygin, Sgt Nikolai Smirnov, Col Sergei Sukharev, Maxim Svetlenko, Snr Lt Nikolai Symov, Daniil Titov, Maxim Trokai, Ivan Turyev, Sgt Maxim Vorotyntsev, Capt Alexei Vyshegorodtsev, Alexei Yelimov, Cpl Artem Yergin, Sgt Ravshan Zhakbaev, Cpl Danila Zudkov", "The incident happened during Sunday's Old Firm game\n\nA member of Celtic's backroom team suffered a head wound after being hit by a glass bottle during the Old Firm game.\n\nCeltic said the man needed urgent medical treatment and had to have stitches in his head.\n\nA statement from the club said the matter had been referred to police.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We are aware of a glass bottle being thrown at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, during the Rangers v Celtic match.\"\n\nHe added: \"One man has sustained injuries as a result of this and required treatment. Inquiries are currently ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\"\n\nThe incident happened at the end of the first half.\n\nPolice are also investigating another incident which delayed the start of the second half.\n\nGround staff had to remove shards from a broken glass bottle in Celtic goalkeeper Joe Hart's penalty area.\n\nDiscarded bottles at Ibrox after the match\n\nCeltic manager Ange Postecoglou said: \"It is disappointing because this is a fixture that gets beamed around the world. Two teams going at it, first and second spot.\n\n\"You don't need a couple of idiots ruining it. I don't know what people are trying to achieve by doing that.\"\n\nRangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst said: \"It's never good the game has to be stopped\" and added \"safety is first\".\n\nThe match was won by Celtic 2-1, allowing the team to move six points clear of their rivals.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dozens of cars were damaged in a spate of attacks north of the city on Sunday\n\nAbout 25 cars and vans have been damaged in an \"appalling\" spate of arson attacks near Bristol on Sunday.\n\nPolice were first called to a car fire in Stoke Gifford in the early hours, with others later attacked in Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Patchway.\n\nThe attack on the Rolls Royce carpark in Patchway destroyed 15 minibuses which were used by schools and vulnerable members of the community.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police is appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.\n\nThe BBC has been told that the minibuses were owned by charity Four Towns and Vale Link Community which helps people with mobility issues be \"self-sufficient and maintain their personal independence\".\n\nIt is believed that some of the vehicles were due to be used to transport children to school on Monday morning.\n\nAbout 15 minibuses were burned out in Patchway during the arson attack\n\nIt is currently unknown if alternative arrangements have been made.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the charity for comment.\n\nBradley Stoke mayor and town council spokesman Tom Aditya said the attacks were \"appalling and shameful\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he called on police to \"deploy a special dedicated team to identify the culprit\".\n\nHe revealed that two of the vehicles belonged to the council and it was waiting for technicians to evaluate the extent of the damage.\n\nA car on fire in Bradley Stoke was pictured in the early hours of Sunday morning\n\nMr Aditya said that this sort of crime was \"unheard\" of in Bradley Stoke.\n\nAnother man - who lives in Stoke Gifford - said he was alerted to the fires when his dog started barking shortly after 01:00 BST.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the man - who did not wish to be named - said he got dressed and ran outside to see several cars ablaze.\n\nHe could hear two people calling 999 so decided to film the fires and later sent the footage to the BBC.\n\n\"Two vehicles were burning 50 metres in front of me on Gatcombe Drive and another one maybe 100 metres behind me down on Sandringham road,\" he explained.\n\n\"I was approached by a neighbour shortly afterwards who said he'd heard of up to five in the area.\"\n\nThe man believes the arson attack was not committed by local people because there was a \"trail of destruction across the area\".\n\nPolice and the fire service were initially called to reports of a vehicle fire at about 01:30 on Sunday in New Road, Stoke Gifford.\n\nBy 05:30 there were further reports, with up to 20 vehicles set alight in locations across Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford.\n\nAt about 03:45 about 20 more vehicles were on fire in a car park at Rolls Royce, Filton.\n\nPolice warned that residents might have heard fuel tanks exploding during the string of incidents.\n\nThere have been no reports of injuries or damage to buildings.\n\n*An earlier version of this article said that up to 40 vehicles had been damaged. Avon and Somerset Constabulary has since clarified this and said the number is believed to be about 15 minibuses and between eight and 10 cars and vans.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia's \"despicable attacks\" on innocent Ukrainian civilians in Bucha and Irpin are \"yet more evidence\" of war crimes, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nHe described Russian President Vladimir Putin as desperate amid his \"failing invasion\" - and said the UK would step up sanctions and military support.\n\nThe BBC's Jeremy Bowen said at least 20 dead men, some with their wrists tied, were found on the streets of Bucha.\n\nUkraine says its forces have retaken the entire region around its capital, Kyiv.\n\nBut, as Russian troops have retreated from key towns, the toll of weeks of fierce fighting has been exposed.\n\nFlattened civilian cars on the streets of Bucha\n\nAuthorities in Ukraine have found what \"looks exactly like war crimes\" including the bodies of executed civilians and mass graves, a spokesman for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said.\n\nSergey Nikiforov told the BBC's Sunday Morning show: \"We found people with their hands and with their legs tied up... and with shots, bullet holes, in the back of their head.\n\n\"They were clearly civilians and they were executed. We found half-burned bodies as if somebody tried to hide their crimes but they didn't have enough time to do it properly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Johnson said: \"No denial or disinformation from the Kremlin can hide what we all know to be the truth - Putin is desperate, his invasion is failing, and Ukraine's resolve has never been stronger.\"\n\nHe said the UK would not rest until justice had been served, as he confirmed extra funding and the deployment of specialist investigators to assist the International Criminal Court's investigation.\n\nHe also said the government would increase humanitarian support for Ukraine.\n\nEarlier, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss insisted Russia must not be allowed to cover up \"appalling acts\" in Bucha and Irpin with \"cynical disinformation\".\n\nThe UK-led effort to expedite and support the International Criminal Court's investigation into war crimes in Ukraine was \"the largest state referral in its history\", she said.\n\nShe added that it was essential the international community continued to provide Ukraine with military and humanitarian support - and step up sanctions.\n\nOther nations have also condemned Russian forces' actions. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the images of bodies in the streets of Bucha as a \"punch in the gut\".\n\nEU chief Charles Michel pledged further sanctions on Moscow. \"Shocked by haunting images of atrocities committed by Russian army in Kyiv liberated region #BuchaMassacre,\" the European Council head wrote on Twitter.\n\nGermany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock denounced President Putin's \"uninhibited violence\", saying Russia must pay for its \"war crimes\" in Bucha in the form of more severe sanctions.", "A banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin next to the Moscow embassy in Riga, Latvia\n\n\"Era defining\", \"new reality\", \"historic moment\" - that's where we are right now in Europe. At least, that's what countless European politicians and commentators say, since Russian President Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAre they right? Yes and No, I'd argue.\n\nOn 24 February, President Putin shocked this continent out of complacency.\n\nHis assault on Ukraine has brought large-scale death and destruction back to Europe, including whispers of possible nuclear war.\n\nHis aim: not only to dominate Ukraine, but to roll back Western dominance militarily and - ideally - politically, in terms of liberal democracy, from the former Soviet sphere of influence.\n\nThe action Western allies take together now will fundamentally affect Europeans' sense of self and safety for years to come.\n\nNato is re-invigorated. The transatlantic military alliance, once dismissed by French President Emmanuel Macron as \"brain dead\", is simultaneously proving Mr Putin wrong to view the West as weak and disunited, while also providing military support, defence and deterrence to Nato's eastern flank that feels so exposed to the Kremlin's expansionist fervour.\n\nThis - so far - is also proving to be a defining moment for the EU. The bloc had long talked up playing a bigger role on the world stage - and not solely in terms of economics and trade. Until now, that was a failed ambition.\n\nBut the Russia-Ukraine crisis has unexpectedly elevated the EU into a credible geopolitical player.\n\nThe speed with which Brussels co-ordinated sanctions against Russia - both within the EU, and with international allies - was frankly impressive. As were the unity of resolve amongst member states, and the bureaucracy-defying EU moves to enact never-before-used mechanisms to help Ukrainian refugees, and the Ukrainian military.\n\nGermany, one of the EU's biggest players, also took the world's breath away by suddenly saying goodbye to World War Two sensitivities and announcing huge investments in its military, the Bundeswehr.\n\nKey to the decision being applauded in the EU and further afield is that this is not a Germany newly flexing nationalist muscles.\n\n\"This is about Germany helping to re-define Europe, not its own role,\" Ricarda Lang told me. She is the co-chair of the German Green Party in the coalition government.\n\n\"It's about European sovereignty, not just in security and defence but also in terms of imports and energy.\"\n\nFor years Germany has knowingly been reliant on the US for security, and on Russia for energy and trade. It is not the only EU country in that position. But as the bloc's richest and most powerful nation, Berlin is the most stand-out example.\n\nAnd this has weakened the West's hand when it comes to sanctions against Russia.\n\nEU countries pay Moscow up to €800m (£674m; $884m) for energy every day, which amounts to an estimated 40% of the Kremlin's income. This money goes towards funding the war against Ukraine, that the West is ostensibly fighting.\n\n\"It's tragic it took a war like this, but now we Germans have woken up with a bang!\" insists Marie Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, who heads the German parliament's Defence Committee.\n\nShe assured me Berlin was now ready to take responsibility.\n\n'We Germans have woken up with a bang!' said the chairwoman of the German parliament's Defence Committee\n\nThe West looked at Germany with suspicion after two world wars, she observed, but that was decades ago, and - to be honest, she said - Germany was pretty comfortable enjoying being a Nato and EU member, without having to invest in its own army.\n\n\"Germany's allies have waited too long for us to do our bit.\"\n\nBerlin has now pledged to build an efficient, modern military, and to keep up defence spending to Nato requirements. Under international pressure, trade and energy ties are being tackled, too.\n\nBear in mind, though, that transforming the currently threadbare German military will take years, as will untangling the country from its deep-seated relations with Russia.\n\nFor decades, Berlin was the dividing line between East and West Europe.\n\nHopes for European unity were high after the fall of the iconic Berlin Wall, and the ensuing 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.\n\nBut fast-forward 30 years, and you hear talk of a new \"Berlin Wall\", though further to the east.\n\nTiny Baltic country Latvia has a 200km (124 mile)-long border fence, separating the EU and Nato member on one side from expansionist Russia on the other.\n\nCol Sandris Gaugers is the commander of the Latvian Land Forces Mechanized Infantry Brigade. We spoke at his military base, just outside the capital, Riga. The base is also home to Nato forces, which have almost doubled in size since Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nCol Sandris Gaugers said priorities have changed across Europe\n\n\"I see a new Iron Curtain coming. Though this time, we'll be on the western side,\" the colonel told me.\n\n\"We are living a new reality. For us Latvians the security environment is now gone. We spent 20 years in Iraq, in Afghanistan. Now our main focus is here. How do we defend our freedom and our country?\"\n\nPriorities have now changed across Europe, he said. \"People used to focus on economic wealth. Now it's about defending our values and way of life.\"\n\nLatvians and their Baltic neighbours in Estonia and Lithuania are trying hard not to say \"I-told-you-so\" to the West. They've been warning about President Putin for years.\n\nThey feel they understand the Russian leader better than most. All three countries were once part of the Soviet Union.\n\nLatvia's Prime Minister, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, insists the West has to accept that \"Putin is not like us\". France and German leaders famously went on diplomatic visits to Moscow earlier this year, trying to dissuade President Putin from attacking Ukraine.\n\nPrime Minister Kariņš says agonising over finding the right words, or turns of phrase to persuade Mr Putin, is pointless.\n\n\"He's hell-bent on destroying democracy and our way of life.\n\n\"If we don't stop Putin. He will not stop at Ukraine.\"\n\nMr Kariņš said the one good thing to come out of the current situation is that Nato and the EU are working closer together than they have in 30 years. That, he said, was a game-changer.\n\nAnd here we come back to whether this is an era-defining moment for Europe.\n\nThe EU is thrilled to have the US back and engaged in Europe.\n\nFor all Brussels' talk of the bloc now building \"strategic sovereignty\" in defence and security, EU countries look to Washington when faced with Russian threats.\n\nTraining session at the Adazi military base in Latvia\n\nEU defence plans, designed to complement - or to partly replace - Nato, depending which European politician you speak to, are nothing new. And so far, they've never worked.\n\nAll EU countries agree that at the very least, it makes sense to pool resources and know-how: cyber, military, equipment and intelligence. Yet, no nation wants to go first.\n\nEach EU member has businesses or individuals benefiting from national contracts. The European Commission now wants to oversee the overhaul of defence capabilities. Few in the military are holding their breath, wherever they reside in Europe.\n\nAs regards the renaissance in EU-Nato co-operation, in all likelihood, once the acute Russia-Ukraine crisis subsides, the US will turn its attention to what it truly sees as its foreign policy priority: the Asia-Pacific, not Europe.\n\nBut the EU has its raison d'être back.\n\nDesigned originally as a peace project, its vision fell by the wayside in recent times. Younger Europeans had no memory of war. They saw no urgency in uniting or fighting for peace on their continent.\n\nIn that regard, this moment really is a new reality.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Fire engulfs a market in Hargeisa the capital city of Somaliland\n\nResidents of the capital of Somaliland, Hargeisa, have woken to scenes of devastation after fire tore through the main market overnight.\n\nThe blaze destroyed hundreds of businesses in the densely crowded market area as firefighters struggled to gain access to the flames.\n\nBut it appears that nobody was killed though 28 people were injured.\n\nThe blaze is a setback for the city of 1.2 million people, capital of the unrecognised Republic of Somaliland.\n\nSomaliland, which broke away from Somalia just over 30 years ago, has escaped much of the chaos and violence that plague its neighbour.\n\nThe fire started around 20:00 (17:00 GMT) on Friday and was not brought under control until Saturday morning, Efe news agency reports. The cause was not immediately known.\n\n\"The town has never witnessed such a massive calamity,\" the city's mayor Abdikarim Ahmed Moge told reporters.\n\n\"This place was the economic centre of Hargeisa and even though the firefighters did their best to contain the fire, the market is destroyed.\"\n\nThe market - the biggest open-air market in the city - was a hub of activity with hundreds of small businesses.\n\nSomaliland has a high rate of unemployment and the market was a lifeline for many poor families who depended on it to make a living. The fire happened just a few hours after the month of Ramadan began, when food business traditionally booms.\n\nSomaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi said the fire had destroyed goods worth millions of dollars.\n\nResponding to news of the disaster in the former British protectorate, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted he was \"saddened to see... such destruction in the open market that is the economic heart of the city\".\n\n\"Your city will rise again and the UK will do what we can to support Somaliland's rebuilding effort,\" he added.\n\nMarket trader Bashi Ali told AFP news agency he had possessed several businesses in the market and they had all been burnt to ash. \"All we can learn from this disaster is to plan the market well,\" he said.\n\nDramatic photos of the aftermath of the blaze were posted by journalist Fahad Karie\n\nThe market used to be home to about 2,000 shops and stalls\n\nOfficials said it started on Friday but was largely brought under control by dawn on Saturday", "Protesters from Just Stop Oil have been demonstrating in Kingsbury since Friday\n\nMore than 200 people have been arrested since Friday as protests at oil terminals enter a third day.\n\nActivists from Just Stop Oil have obstructed access to terminals across England, demanding an end to new oil and gas projects.\n\nIn Essex, a total of 155 people have been detained following demonstrations in the Thurrock area.\n\nMeanwhile, Warwickshire Police arrested 54 people at the Kingsbury terminal.\n\nThe force said they had been arrested on suspicion of offences including criminal damage, obstructing the highway and public order offences.\n\nPolice said officers remained at the scene after making dozens of arrests\n\n\"We fully acknowledge every person's right to engage in lawful protest, however, when that protest becomes unlawful and disproportionate in nature, we will act to protect the rights of others,\" Assistant Chief Constable Ben Smith, from Warwickshire Police, said.\n\n\"Due to the nature and scale of the policing operation, a large number of officers have been deployed over the last two days... I am hopeful the situation can be brought to a swift conclusion so my officers can return to protecting the communities of Warwickshire.\"\n\nHe said a \"significant operation remains ongoing\" at the scene.\n\nA significant police presence remains at the scene in Warwickshire\n\nIn Essex, two tunnels are still being occupied at Navigator and Gray's Terminal. On Saturday, the county's police force said 83 people had been arrested after protests in the Thurrock area.\n\nEssex Police arrested 35 people on Sunday in addition to the 57 people held on Saturday and 63 on Friday.\n\nSeven other facilities also continue to be disrupted near London and in the West Midlands.\n\nThe arrests come after activists from Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion obstructed 10 fuel sites in the Midlands and southern England in the early hours of Friday to stand against \"expanding UK oil and gas production\".\n\nProtesters glued themselves on to roads and locked on to oil drums and each other.\n\nExxonMobil UK, one of the country's largest privately owned underground oil pipeline distribution networks, said it shut down three of its terminals as a result, and police from at least five forces were deployed to tackle the demonstrations.\n\nThe Met arrested 14 activists who broke into a facility at Bedfont Road in Staines, Surrey, and West Midlands Police arrested six people at a terminal in Tyburn, Birmingham.\n\nHampshire Police also made four arrests on Friday following demonstrations at Hythe Terminal and at BP in Hamble Lane and Copse Lane. It has since stood down its presence after protesters left the area.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Part of the M20 has been turned into a lorry park for freight vehicles attempting to reach Calais\n\nThe Port of Dover says many roads approaching the ferry terminal are now \"free-flowing\" after disruption on Saturday led to waits of up to nine hours for drivers.\n\nCapacity at the port had been reduced due to the suspension of P&O services.\n\nDespite two DFDS vessels also being taken out of action, services had been coping well until a surge in demand, due to Easter travellers.\n\nThe port added there was \"space in the port for those arriving today\".\n\nFreight traffic is still being advised to use the M20 as the \"quickest route\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Sunday, Richard Ballantyne, chief executive of the British Ports Association, said: \"It is a bit better today, we understand. Yesterday we were up to nine-hour queues outside the port,\"\n\n\"Traffic measures are in place, which... are working fairly well and it enables other people around east Kent and businesses, residents... to move around freely. But [it is] not a good position if you're stuck in a vehicle for six to eight hours.\"\n\nOperation Brock has seen part of the M20 turned into a lorry park, for freight, while other traffic is using the opposite carriageway as a contraflow.\n\nUsing a concrete barrier between Ashford and Maidstone, the measure was originally introduced to keep traffic moving amid fears a no-deal Brexit would lead to delays at the border.\n\nEurotunnel says it has carried \"more traffic than it ever expected\" this weekend, as demand returns to pre-pandemic levels\n\nAs well as a surge in demand for ferries ahead of Easter, Eurotunnel said it had similarly seen the \"busiest sustained period of traffic\" since before the pandemic.\n\n\"For us this is business as usual back to where we were three years ago,\" John Keefe, from Eurotunnel, said.\n\nHe added the situation had been made \"a little bit more tricky\" with the situation facing P&O, which was putting more pressure on other operators.\n\nLogistics UK, which represents the haulage industry, said its members had been diverting routes, where possible, to travel via Eurotunnel after Saturday's delays heading to the port.\n\nDespite traffic flow improving since Saturday, a coach driver trying to get to Austria described the scene in Dover first thing on Sunday as \"bedlam\", with too many cars and lorries trying to get on too few ferries.\n\nElena Noseda and her husband Alessandro Pula made it to Disneyland for a family holiday after queuing for hours on Saturday\n\nElena Noseda, meanwhile, was left stuck in queues with her husband and two young children as they attempted to reach Calais on Saturday.\n\n\"The struggle was nobody was giving us any information. Nothing from local authorities or DFDS,\" she said.\n\n\"[In] the first few hours there was no access to facilities. We were lucky, we had our campervan and games for the children but other families in cars with little children had to try and entertain them for a long time.\"\n\nTruckers Afrim Alele (L) and Christian Hermanowski (R) said demand for spaces meant truck stops near Ashford were full by midday\n\nWhile the flow of traffic has improved for non-commercial vehicles, hauliers are still experiences delays as a result of the backlog of trucks involved in Operation Brock.\n\nAt Stop 24 truck stop in Folkestone, driver Taodol Sivakov from Bulgaria told BBC South East: \"No one cares about us. We just don't know how this is going to end and when.\"\n\nMeanwhile, fellow drivers Afrim Alele, from Macedonia, and Christian Hermanowski said demand for spaces at truck stops meant most spaces were booked out by midday and some HGV drivers had been waiting for two days to attempt a crossing.\n\nTraffic jams spread beyond the M20 to surrounding roads\n\nDFDS said it had continued sailings throughout the night, rather than stopping for maintenance work, in a bid to clear the backlog.\n\nIt added that two of its ferries, which have been out of action, were expected to be back in service by Tuesday.\n\nTraffic problems spread beyond the M20 to surrounding roads and the centre of Dover. While still busy, a spokesperson for the Port of Dover said that was easing.\n\nLocal MP Natalie Elphicke blamed P&O for the problems - the firm has yet to be given permission to resume sailings to France since sacking 800 staff last month.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nAre you stuck in a traffic queue in Dover? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The violence comes amid heightened tensions at the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan\n\nThree Palestinian militants have been killed in a gun battle with Israeli security forces near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police say.\n\nA statement said the Palestinians were on their way to carry out an attack in a car on Friday night and that they fired on a counter-terrorism unit that was trying to arrest them.\n\nFour Israeli troops were wounded in the ensuing clash, one of them seriously.\n\nThe Islamic Jihad militant group confirmed the dead men were members.\n\n\"We mourn our heroic martyrs and we assert that our fighters will continue to combat the enemy,\" it armed wing said.\n\nPalestinian news agency Wafa cited security sources as identifying the three men as Khalil Tawalbeh, from Jenin, Saeb Abahreh from al-Yamoun, and Saif Abu Libdeh, from Tulkarm.\n\nIsrael's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned that the country's security forces would \"act forcefully against any attempted attack\" on its citizens.\n\nThe forces are already on their highest level of alert since last year's conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, after three deadly attacks in Israel in less than two weeks.\n\nThe violence has come in the run-up to a sensitive time when religious holidays will overlap for Muslims, Jews and Christians. Saturday is the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.\n\nOn Friday, a Palestinian man was shot dead during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Israeli military said its soldiers opened fire when a suspect threw a Molotov cocktail at them during a riot.\n\nAnother three Palestinians were killed on Thursday. One was shot dead after he stabbed and wounded an Israeli on a bus in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, while two others were killed in a gunfight during an Israeli raid in Jenin.\n\nThe Israeli military said its soldiers came under fire in Jenin as they arrested three people suspected of involvement in an attack by a Palestinian gunman in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak on Tuesday, in which two Israeli civilians, two Ukrainian nationals and an Israeli policemen were killed.\n\nFour people were killed by an Israeli Arab in a car-ramming and stabbing attack in Beersheba on 22 March, and two were shot dead by two Israeli Arabs in Hadera on Sunday. All three of the assailants were linked to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).", "UN scientists have worked through the weekend to complete a key report on how to restrict the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.\n\nMembers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are likely to advise a rapid shift from fossil fuels over the next 8 years.\n\nThey will also suggest the widespread use of carbon removal technology to limit dangerous warming.\n\nBut disputes over the exact wording of the document have delayed agreement.\n\nThe IPCC is set to publish their findings on what we can do to stem climate change on Monday.\n\nMost of the world's leading researchers on climate change are involved in the production of IPCC reports - their summaries of the latest science, produced every six or seven years, are used by governments in their negotiations on climate change, such as those that took place at COP26 last November.\n\nThese IPCC reports are seen as the best, if slightly conservative studies on the state of climate science.\n\nFor the past two weeks, IPCC scientists and government officials from all over the world have been locked in a virtual approval session, going through this latest report on how to stop climate change line by line.\n\nThis new study will be the third of three important documents from the IPCC issued over the past eight months.\n\nThe previous two have looked at the causes and impacts of climate change, but this one will focus on mitigation - or what we can do to stop it.\n\nThis essentially means that researchers will look at how we can reduce the amount of warming gases that are emitted from human activities.\n\nOne key part of the summary report will detail what the world can do between now and 2030 to limit heating.\n\nCarbon removal technology, such as at this installation in Iceland, will be examined\n\nIPCC scientists have previously warned that to keep the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century, emissions from warming gases would have to halve by the end of this decade.\n\nIn this new study, the researchers will likely be encouraging a rapid reduction in fossil fuel use, especially over the next eight years.\n\nBut this is sensitive territory - many large developing countries say that they should have the right to continue to use coal, oil and gas for longer, to help grow their economies.\n\nSome major fossil fuel producers are also reluctant to embrace the urgency of cutting these fuels that scientists say is absolutely necessary.\n\nOther countries have also taken issue with questions around the use of nuclear energy.\n\nThese divisions have seen the approval session continue way past its official closing time on Friday.\n\nAccording to one person with knowledge of the proceedings, it is not a surprise that the talks are running late as everyone recognises the implications this report will have on decisions that will have to be taken in next few years.\n\nAnother key part of the report will be the focus on approaches to remove CO2 from the air.\n\nProf Jim Skea is one of the co-chairs of the latest IPCC report\n\nThe kind of carbon removal approaches the report will consider will likely include tree planting and agriculture, as well as the more advanced technological approaches that use large machines to remove the carbon from the air.\n\nThey will also look at combined approaches, where land is used to grow crops which can be burned for energy while the carbon is captured and buried.\n\nThe use of these types of technology is controversial. Campaigners express doubts that they can be made to work economically and there are also concerns that technology could be seen as an excuse not to make the major changes in energy production that are needed.\n\nScientists though say that the situation is now so serious that carbon dioxide removal will be needed in addition to massive cuts in emissions.\n\nThe discussions to approve the report's Summary for Policymakers, due on Monday, have been one of the longest in IPCC history.\n\nDelegates worked through Saturday night and well into Sunday to finish the document.", "The inquiry was called following a campaign by parents\n\nAn MP has called for an independent organisation to be brought in to oversee improvements at Shropshire's under-fire maternity services.\n\nA report found catastrophic failings at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospitals Trust (SaTH) contributed to hundreds of babies' deaths over 20 years.\n\nHelen Morgan, Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire, said an independent body would help \"restore trust\".\n\nSaTH said improvements had already been made to its services.\n\nMP Helen Morgan thanked bereaved families for their bravery in coming forward\n\nMs Morgan said the report, published on Wednesday by senior midwife Donna Ockenden, \"was devastating reading\".\n\nThe review was first launched in 2017 to examine a cluster of 23 cases, but was expanded to look at almost 1,600 and became the largest of its kind in NHS history.\n\nAmong its key findings were that there was an undue focus on so-called \"natural births\"; a culture where mistakes were not investigated; parents were not listened to and that the trust failed to learn from its mistakes.\n\n\"A lot of women have experience of being made to feel inadequate for having a C-section, I know I was,\" Ms Morgan said, detailing how a midwife - not at SaTH - had asked her if she \"felt like a failure\".\n\nWhile she said that had been a national issue, she said the report showed \"that culture went further at SaTH than anywhere else\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Politics Midlands programme, Conservative MP for Ludlow, Philip Dunne, agreed. He said the trust was \"praised for having the lowest rate of C-sections in the country... it wasn't just them, everyone was saying this was a good thing.\"\n\nThis culture meant the trust \"was not focussed on mother and baby outcomes,\" he added.\n\nLouise Barnett, chief executive at SaTH, said the trust would continue to make improvements\n\nAlthough Ms Morgan said she had faith that management at SaTH would implement Ms Ockenden's recommendations, she still backed calls for an independent body.\n\n\"I think it would help to restore trust and confidence that there was somebody else looking over their shoulder saying, 'yes we're happy',\" she said.\n\n\"I think the maternity services stand a fighting chance,\" she added. \"The comments about the [SaTH] culture are very concerning but I think [chief executive] Louise Barnett also acknowledges the scale of the task.\"\n\nShaun Davies, the Labour leader of Telford and Wrekin Borough Council, said: \"I am being reassured by the current leadership, but it's clearly showing that things still aren't right.\n\n\"People in Shropshire deserve better than what we've got at the moment.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Edible Oils Ltd bottles cooking oils for 75% of the UK's retail market\n\nThe biggest cooking oil bottler for UK shops has said it only has a few weeks' supply of sunflower oil left.\n\nUkraine and Russia produce most of the world's sunflower oil and the war is disrupting exports, said Edible Oils.\n\nThe company, which packages oil for 75% of the UK retail market, is ramping up supplies of other oils for shoppers.\n\nMeanwhile, manufacturers of foods that contain sunflower oil, like crisps, oven chips and cereal bars, are reworking their recipes.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency has advised people with allergies to look out for extra information from shops and food makers.\n\nKim Matthews, commercial director at Edible Oils said 80% of the global supply of sunflower oil comes out of Russia and Ukraine.\n\n\"So obviously, with everything going on out there, we physically can't get sunflower to be coming out of the country,\" he said.\n\nKim Matthews is commercial director of Edible Oils which usually fills 32 million bottles of sunflower oil a year\n\nIf you buy any cooking oil on the supermarket shelves, chances are it has come from the Edible Oils plant in Erith, on the outskirts of south-east London. It bottles oil for brands and retailers own label products.\n\n\"From a UK consumer perspective, sunflower oil is the biggest oil. It's used more than anything else,\" said Mr Matthews.\n\n\"It's a fast moving situation. We're still trying to see if we can get some more but it's looking very tight.\"\n\nEdible Oils Ltd has upped production to 24/7 to try to make sure it has plenty of rapeseed and other oils to put on the shelves when the sunflower oil goes.\n\n\"Sunflower is great because you can cook at high temperatures. Rapeseed is very similar. You can do exactly the same with it,\" he said.\n\nBut it was far from clear when sunflower oil supplies will be back to normal, he said.\n\n\"At the moment, Ukrainian farmers should be sowing the seeds now for the harvest in October and November.\n\n\"Clearly that's not going to happen… we're probably going to miss the season so we could be impacted for 12-18 months.\"\n\nThe recipes for hundreds of food products are being reformulated due to the lack of sunflower oil\n\nSunflower oil can also be found in many hundreds of products, like ready meals, biscuits and mayonnaise.\n\nFood manufacturers are now racing to find alternative ingredients.\n\nThe British Snack Company makes a small but popular range of hand cooked crisps for sale in pubs. After potatoes, its other key ingredient is sunflower oil.\n\n\"The supply of sunflower oil is something that we've always taken for granted,\" said founder Tom Lock.\n\nShortly after the invasion, he had to quickly come up with a plan B and has already switched to rapeseed oil, which is very similar.\n\n\"There's an incredible scramble. Everyone's doing the same thing. So while sunflower oil is impossible to get at the moment, rapeseed oil is possible but difficult to get as well obviously because everyone's having the same idea, as prices are skyrocketing at the moment.\"\n\nTom Lock has switched to rapeseed oil to cook his crisps\n\nRapeseed is used far more in the food supply chain, according to the National Edible Oil Distributors' Association.\n\nBritish farmers grow rapeseed but there won't be enough to go round.\n\n\"Prices for rapeseed oil have risen 50-70% since the attack,\" said NEODA's President Gary Lewis. \"But there's a limited supply to cover all this demand so some shortfall will be expected.\"\n\nMr Lock's crisp business had to pay through the nose because otherwise he would have run out of crisps, which makes up more than two-thirds of his sales.\n\nHe says he'll absorb the costs as much as he can, but if the situation carries on he'll have to increase prices.\n\nOne immediate headache he and other food manufacturers don't have to worry about is labelling. They're being allowed to switch ingredients without having to print new packaging, which can take up to 12 weeks.\n\nEmily Miles, chief executive at the Food Standards Agency, said allergic reactions to rapeseed oil were \"very rare and if they do occur are mild\", and advised anyone with allergies to look out for extra information.\n\nGed Futter said the UK's food supply issues were a once in a lifetime situation\n\nFor grocery expert, Ged Futter, the food industry is now grappling with supply issues not experienced since the end of World War Two.\n\n\"Retailers and suppliers have to work much more closely than they ever have before and to be much more flexible in their approach to make sure the products are on the shelf,\" he said.\n\n\"The immediate focus is sunflower oil and rapeseed oil, but there will be many more products which will be affected over the coming months. It's some of the ingredients you don't even think about, like starch, which comes from wheat.\"\n\nHe believes thousands of products will have to be reformulated.\n\nMr Futter runs a business advising suppliers on how to deal with retailers. He says the ripple effects from the war are creating \"scarily high\" price rises, adding to already rising prices on the supermarket shelves.\n\n\"I think the level of food inflation we are now going to be seeing will be in excess of 15%.\"", "Aleksandar Vucic's Progressive SNS party came to power in 2012\n\nIt may not be the first time that a household fridge has made a prominent appearance in an election campaign.\n\nBut when Serbia's president emerged in a couple's kitchen in a promotional video, it raised hackles as well as eyebrows.\n\nWith barely a shiver, Aleksandar Vucic proceeded to reel off a list of his Progressive Party's achievements during their decade in power.\n\nThe ad was supposed to poke fun at the president's critics.\n\nThey complain that Mr Vucic is ubiquitous and they did not see the funny side.\n\nAs far as Serbia's opposition parties are concerned, the president's frequent - and usually positively framed media appearances - are evidence of an unhealthy relationship between the Progressive Party and the country's most popular newspapers and broadcasters.\n\nThey say that makes it hard to challenge a party that has won the last four parliamentary elections, and is looking for a hat-trick of presidential victories in Sunday's elections.\n\n\"The regime is in absolute control of the media,\" complains Borko Stefanovic, deputy leader of the centre-left Party of Freedom and Justice.\n\nFor 10 years we have had a complete media blockade, not only of the opposition, but of anyone who dares to speak against the government\n\nElection monitor CRTA reports that representatives of the government have gained two-thirds of national TV coverage during the election campaign - and three-quarters of the airtime on news programmes. The Serbian office of anti-corruption organisation Transparency International refers to \"the media dominance of Aleksandar Vucic and his [candidate] list\".\n\nThe monitors complain that Mr Vucic has blurred the lines between his presidential duties and campaign activities. They cite as an example the opening in March of the first section of a new, high-speed rail line between Belgrade and Budapest.\n\nThe president is accused of using the opening of a high-speed rail link to Budapest to further his campaign\n\nAs the pristine Swiss-built train sped towards Serbia's second city, Novi Sad, camera crews jostled around the first-class leather seats where Mr Vucic was hosting Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban.\n\nOn arrival, a crowd of thousands was waiting to hear an address from the two leaders in front of the freshly renovated station.\n\nDuring the return journey, Mr Vucic told the BBC that he had no sympathy with opposition allegations of unfair dominance.\n\n\"Do you want me to be helpful to my political opponents in beating me, or what?\" he asked.\n\n\"I didn't mention a single name of my political opponents in this campaign. There is no campaign against them - and there is a 24/7 campaign against me. I know one thing: I'm more diligent and more dedicated than them. That's what people here appreciate - and I'm proud of that.\"\n\nIndeed, political analysts agree that the appeal of Mr Vucic and the Progressives cannot be explained by media ubiquity alone.\n\nAleksandar Vucic's critics say he has turned Serbia into a semi-authoritarian state\n\n\"Vucic is remarkably good at delivering on things that ordinary Serbs want to see,\" says James Ker-Lindsay, a Balkans specialist at the London School of Economics.\n\n\"From the outside, we see someone who is very authoritarian and there's a lot of concerns about the possibility of illiberal turns. But on the ground, ordinary Serbs talk about the fact that he's delivering economic development and big infrastructure projects. These are the things that many ordinary Serbs think should have been done before under previous administrations, but weren't.\n\nIt has been rather trickier for Mr Vucic to give voters what they want when it comes to relations with Russia. He is all too aware that many of his party's voters favour traditional ties with Moscow over the European Union membership negotiations that started in 2014.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has turned a long-running balancing act into more of a tightrope walk, without a safety net. Serbia has declined to join EU sanctions against Moscow - but did vote in favour of UN resolutions condemning the invasion. There have been demonstrations against Russia's war as well as in favour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as thousands of pro-Russia Serbs march through the centre of Belgrade\n\nMr Vucic has made \"peace and stability\" something of a catchphrase during the campaign - though if he is re-elected, Brussels is likely to increase the pressure on Belgrade to choose where its loyalties lie: East or West.\n\nNatasa Kandic, founder of Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Centre, agrees that the president is a \"pragmatic politician\" who has won popularity through attracting foreign investment which has brought \"jobs and salaries\". But an atomised opposition has also helped his cause.\n\n\"The main problem is that there is no democratic opposition,\" says Ms Kandic. \"How can you win without a strong leader?\"\n\nThat problem has persisted since the Democratic Party lost power in 2012 and splintered into multiple, competing factions. Most of those parties boycotted the last elections in 2020, claiming the conditions for a free and fair vote didn't exist. That just allowed the Progressives to consolidate their hold on power.\n\nThis time around, there's no opposition boycott. Parties from across the political spectrum have signed up to a coalition called United Serbia in a joint campaign against the Progressives.\n\nTheir candidate for president is a former general, Zdravko Ponos. He is a conservative figure - which illustrates the awkward nature of the opposition alliance. In essence, all they have in common is a desire to dethrone Mr Vucic - and analysts doubt that will be enough to appeal to the electorate.\n\nAfter 10 years and six elections, Serbia's people already know plenty about the Progressive Party. Sunday's vote will show whether they buy the president's vision of progress - or accept the opposition's line that it is a manipulated media mirage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Firefighters tackle a blaze at an oil storage depot in Belgorod, which Russia says was attacked\n\nAn oil storage depot was set on fire in a Russian city just north of Ukraine after what Russia described as an attack by two Ukrainian helicopters.\n\nA video shared on Twitter showed a blaze near apartment blocks in Belgorod, 40km (25 miles) from the border.\n\nSome clips appeared to show rockets hitting the oil depot.\n\nUkraine's top security official, however, denied Ukrainian forces were behind the attack.\n\n\"For some reason, they are saying we are behind it. This does not correspond to reality,\" security council secretary Oleksiy Danilov said.\n\nUkrainian aircraft have not struck targets in Russia previously.\n\nYet Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov accused Ukraine of launching the attack, and later Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov gave details.\n\nHe said that at around 05:00 Moscow time (02:00 GMT) two Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters entered Russian airspace at extremely low altitude and \"launched a missile attack on a civilian oil storage facility\" on the outskirts of Belgorod. Some storage tanks were damaged and caught fire, he said.\n\n\"The oil storage facility has nothing to do with the Russian armed forces,\" he said.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin's spokesman said the incident \"cannot be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for continuing the talks\" with Kyiv. So far those peace talks have made little progress.\n\nThe spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia was now trying to reorganise the fuel supply chain to prevent disruption of Belgorod's energy supplies.\n\nThe city of 370,000 lies just north of Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, which has been heavily shelled by Russian artillery and remains surrounded by Russian forces.\n\nGovernor Gladkov said in a Telegram message that nobody was killed at the oil depot, which is run by Russian state oil firm Rosneft. He said emergency workers were trying to contain the fire and there was \"no threat\" to residents. The emergencies ministry posted video of the blaze on Telegram.\n\nRussia's Interfax news agency reported that residents nearby were evacuated and two people were injured at the depot. It said eight fuel tanks were on fire and nearly 200 firefighters were on the scene.\n\nQueues of cars later formed at local petrol stations, but Mr Gladkov said Belgorod's fuel supplies were still plentiful.\n\nRussia's RIA Novosti news agency says the blaze in three of the tanks has been extinguished, but there is still a risk of the fire spreading.\n\nOn 29 March several explosions were reported at an ammunition depot near Belgorod.\n\nCommenting on the oil depot blaze, Ukrainian defence ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said Russian \"aggression\" was being resisted \"on the territory of Ukraine\".\n\n\"It does not mean that Ukraine has to bear responsibility for all those catastrophes and all those events that happen on the territory of the Russian Federation. This is not the first time we have seen such accusations. So, dear friends, I will neither confirm nor deny this information,\" he said.\n\nUkraine is yet to claim responsibility for this attack, but if it were confirmed it would be the first time that Ukrainian aircraft have flown into Russian airspace to hit a target. bringing the war home to Russia.\n\nUkrainian helicopter pilots have plenty of experience of flying low and fast to avoid being detected by military radar and air defence systems. They've been doing exactly that in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine for years. I experienced and witnessed the extraordinary skills of the Ukrainian military pilots in 2018 - flying barely metres above the tree line and telegraph poles.\n\nBut if these unconfirmed reports are correct - flying at night, well into Russian territory, to launch an attack on an enemy fuel depot would have required extraordinary bravery - as well as finely-honed flying skills.\n\nLow-flying helicopters are still vulnerable to short-range air defence systems. Flying at night would have lessened that risk, but heightened the danger of hitting an object near the ground.\n\nThe Mi-24, or Hind helicopter, is known as the \"flying tank\". Its rockets would have been the weapon deployed to target the oil depot in Belgorod, Russia.\n\nThis alleged attack alone will not dramatically alter the battle. But it could show Ukraine has managed to keep its air force functioning, and give a huge boost to the morale of Ukraine's military.\n\nA well-known Ukrainian journalist in Kyiv, Yury Butusov, posted on Facebook that it was a missile attack at 05:50 local time (02:50 GMT) by \"two Ukrainian Mi-24 combat helicopters, which flew from Ukraine to Russian Belgorod over low altitudes, inconspicuous for Russian anti-aircraft defence\".\n\nVladimir Soloviev, host of a staunchly pro-Kremlin current affairs programme on Russian state TV, asked in a tweet: \"Question. Who is in charge of the Belgorod air defences? Have the bases of the helicopters that delivered this strike been destroyed? When will a safe zone be set up in Belgorod region?\"", "Refugees and volunteers at Medyka border crossing between Poland and Ukraine\n\nPublic response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis has shown people to be \"more generous than a lot of the media and... politicians would like them to be,\" according to Dr Rowan Williams.\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury said he felt the UK government \"expects the worst\" of people but the population was \"readier to give its best\".\n\nMore than 10,000 people in Wales have expressed interest in housing refugees.\n\nThe UK government has been asked to respond.\n\nMore than 10 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.\n\nAt the start of Russia's invasion, Boris Johnson defended criticism of the number of Ukrainian refugees who had been granted visas.\n\nAs of 31 March, 24,400 Ukraine family visas had been issued, against 32,800 applications received.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Wales, Dr Williams, who is also a former Archbishop of Wales, said: \"The government's response has been on the slow side... and it wasn't a particularly good start, but it's improving.\n\n\"I've often felt that the British people, when it comes to crises, are more generous than a lot of the media and a lot of the politicians would like them to be.\n\n\"Then there's that slightly double-edged aspect to the situation - 'Ukrainians are more like us, these are Europeans' and so it's a bit easier to welcome,\" said Dr Williams, from Swansea.\n\n\"Even when you're talking about refugees from further afield from Syria or from Afghanistan or wherever, local generosity is extraordinary... and I do often feel that the government expects the worst of the British population and the British population is readier to give its best.\"\n\nOn climate change, he questioned whether people and politicians are \"grasping the magnitude\" of the crisis.\n\n\"In the last maybe five to eight years it's come up the agenda, pretty rapidly for a lot of people, and far more people now are both aware of it and aware that they need to be doing something about it,\" he said.\n\n\"The problem often is they don't know quite what they can do or they feel that whatever they do is inadequate to the scale of the problem.\"\n\nA recent report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said many of the impacts of global warming are now simply \"irreversible\" and over 40% of the world's population are \"highly vulnerable\" to climate.\n\nDr Williams also questioned whether \"sheer, unbridled, capitalist expansion\" was compatible with dealing with a climate emergency.\n\n\"That's not to say that the market has no role, it's not to say we go straight over to a kind of command economy,\" he said.\n\n\"It's to note that already within quite a lot of the commercial world, business world, there is a sense that profit alone is a kind of fiction because you can't sustain profit in an unsustainable social and material environment.\"\n\nGlobal warming: \"Far more people now are both aware of it and aware that they need to be doing something\"\n\nSpeaking ahead of Easter, Dr Williams was asked on Politics Wales as to how he reflected on an increasingly godless society.\n\n\"What we are facing is, I think, a general loss of confidence and trust in institutional religion, which has been going on for the last, probably the last century, all told.\n\n\"We're looking at the heritage sadly, of abuse and misconduct... so the institutions are not looking particularly good.\n\n\"At the same time I don't sense that there is overall a massive principled hostility to religion and I think there is, as the pandemic indicated, a remarkably widespread hunger for some sort of nourishment from spiritual sources.\n\n\"How do we solve this problem and say well, here we are, this is our offer and look as if we were a bit more confident, a bit more grateful about it. Maybe that would help,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland crushed Italy in Parma as they racked up a 20th successive win and stayed firmly on course for a fourth straight Women's Six Nations title.\n\nThe Red Roses, who thrashed Scotland 57-5 last weekend, crossed for the first of 12 tries when Sarah McKenna skipped over in the fourth minute.\n\nThe one-way traffic continued as Lydia Thompson, Lark Davies, Shaunagh Brown and Alex Matthews followed suit.\n\nThompson scored two more tries in the second half to complete her hat-trick.\n\nProp Sarah Bern's extraordinary 50-metre burst was the pick of the scores, 30 seconds after her arrival off the bench.\n\nFellow replacements Vicky Fleetwood, Emma Sing and Emily Scarratt - with her 50th England try - also added their names to the scoresheet after the break, with McKenna picking up her second.\n\nEngland have been playing under fatigue so far in the the tournament with high levels of training in the build-up to matches.\n\nBut the Red Roses were far too fresh and bright for the hosts as they ground down Italy with big carries and smart handling.\n\nItaly's players never lost heart, throwing themselves into tackles despite the scoreboard damage.\n\nBut any faint hopes of a huge underdog victory, after defeats in all 22 of the teams' previous meetings, were soon snuffed out.\n\nEngland take on an unbeaten Wales side next weekend, but the final-weekend showdown with old foes France, who have beaten Italy and Ireland by more than 30 points in their two openers, looms ever larger.\n\nEngland's win takes them back to the top of the table, courtesy of a 126-point points difference.\n\nIn sparkling sunshine at the Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi, England took advantage of the conditions from the start, with forward runners offloading and punching holes in wide channels.\n\nIt was a piece of prime opportunism that delivered the first try however, as McKenna darted blind and scrum-half Natasha Hunt, playing her first Test since November 2020, provided the pass for her to walk in unopposed.\n\nOpposite wing Thompson scooted in for her 39th England try after Vickii Cornborough's charge-down and regather, while Davies and Brown rumbled over from close range to guarantee the bonus point within 28 minutes.\n\nThe impressive Matthews, who staked her claim to a regular spot in England's well-stocked back row, scattered blue shirts with a fifth first-half try.\n\nCoach Simon Middleton promised in the build-up to the match that his side would never ease off their opposition, with internal competition for places and the quest to regain the World Cup from New Zealand later this year keeping the pedal to the metal.\n\nHis side duly showed little mercy after the break. Thompson rounded her opposite number two minutes after the interval while Fleetwood was the beneficiary at the back of a steamrolling maul.\n\nBern's score, thirty seconds after her arrival off the bench, followed as she showed an extraordinary turn of pace to scamper home after Hunt's half break.\n\nScarratt pounced on Zoe's Harrison's deliciously weighted grubber for her first Test score since she suffered a broken leg at the end of last year.\n\nMiddleton faces cutting his squad down, potentially to just 30 players, for October's World Cup.\n\nIt was another performance to show the depth of talent at his disposal. And the difficult decisions ahead.\n• None What made Sir Alex Ferguson who he is? Sir Alex speaks about his younger days and the influences which shaped his extraordinary career\n• None Was Sven-Göran Eriksson expected to succeed wherever he went?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Police in Sri Lanka fire tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Kandy\n\nSri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is trying to stabilise his government after mass protests prompted most of the cabinet to resign.\n\nOnly the president's brother, the prime minister, Mahinda, stayed on as the government grapples with a major economic crisis.\n\nBut spontaneous public protests have continued against shortages of essential goods and rolling power cuts.\n\nOn Sunday, many defied a curfew to take to the streets in several cities. Many of the protesters have been calling for the resignation of the president.\n\nThe curfew, along with a ban on social media sites including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter, was meant to halt a planned day of protests, after a demonstration outside the president's house on Thursday night turned violent.\n\nTwo opposition parties - the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB), with 54 seats, and the Janatha Vinukthi Peramuna (JVP), with three - have also rejected the president's invitation to form a national unity government and told him to resign instead.\n\nSri Lanka is struggling to pay for imports of fuel and other goods because of a shortage of foreign exchange, which has exacerbated its worst economic crisis since independence from the UK in 1948.\n\nSri Lanka needs foreign currency to pay for imports of fuel. With power cuts lasting half a day or more and shortages of food, medicines and fuel, public anger has reached a new high.\n\nThe 26 cabinet ministers who resigned included the prime minister's own son, Namal Rajapaksa, who tweeted that he hoped it would help the president and PM's \"decision to establish stability for the people and the government\".\n\nMr Sabry, who was justice minister in the previous government, now becomes finance minister, replacing another of the president's brothers, Basil Rajapaksa, who was due to visit Washington this month for talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a loan programme.\n\nPrevious ministers of foreign affairs, education and highways were reappointed to their old positions.\n\nMany protesters who allege that the president and his family are to blame for the situation in the country are angry at the fact that he will remain in power.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ranga Jayasuriya This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother called it a \"play from the dictator's playbook\".\n\n\"We want all of you gone - the Rajapaksas, the cabinet,their political henchman, the corrupt cronies, their media guys. All of them,\" another social media user added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe demonstrations mark a massive turnaround in popularity for Mr Rajapaksa, who swept into power with a majority win in 2019, promising stability and a \"strong hand\" to rule the country.\n\nI met opposition leader Sajith Premadasa at another impromptu protest on Sunday, where he along with other members of his party were stopped at police barricades as they tried to enter the city's Independence square.\n\n\"The supreme law of the land protects the right of the people to share their opinions, to demonstrate and to engage in peaceful democratic activities, so that right cannot be violated,\" he said, adding that the curfew and social media ban were dictatorial, autocratic and draconian steps.\n\nI also met several people who had defied the curfew to come out and protest.\n\nSuchitra was one of dozens gathered at a protest outside an Asian restaurant by what's usually a busy road.\n\nAs he cradled his 15 month-old baby boy, who shares his name, Suchitra told me about the daily problems he faced with power cuts.\n\n\"Without electricity our fans don't even work. In this heat it's impossible for the baby, or us, to sleep.\"\n\n\"I came out today because my rights have been taken away, and I'm very angry,\" said Anjalee Wandurgala, one of a few hundred students who gathered in a part of Colombo.\n\n\"Why have they put this curfew? Is it to protect us?\" she asked. \"It doesn't make sense at all\".\n\nFreelance advertising copywriter Sathsara says it is the first time he has ever protested.\n\n\"I'm freelance, but I can't earn money as there's no gas, no electricity. I'm totally broke,\" he says.\n\nHe's one of many young Sri Lankans struggling to see a way forward through this crisis.\n\n\"We are at the prime of our lives, how are we going to achieve our dreams with all this happening?\"", "Some drivers said they did not move for more than six hours in queues approaching Dover\n\nMotorists reported delays of more than six hours approaching Dover, with long queues caused by disruption to cross-Channel ferry services.\n\nBad weather and a shortage of ferries were being blamed.\n\nCapacity at the Port of Dover was already reduced due to the suspension of P&O services.\n\nLorry driver Stuart Orme, who was stuck for several hours, told the BBC people were being \"treated like animals\" with little or no help.\n\nHundreds of lorry drivers were stuck on the M20 in Kent for a second night into Sunday, with warnings from Dover MP Natalie Elphicke that the problems in the area could continue for several days.\n\nA spokesperson for the Port of Dover said: \"Operators have been working hard all day to process the traffic and get people on their way as swiftly as possible.\n\n\"Tourist traffic continues to move through the port and local traffic congestion is easing but still busy.\"\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum - a partner organisation preparing for emergencies in Kent and Medway - said problems had been made worse by \"impatient\" lorry drivers attempting to avoid the Dover TAP and Operation Brock traffic management plans and causing a bottleneck in the town.\n\nLorry driver Stuart Orme says he has been stuck for hours\n\nA section of the M20 is being used to park lorries, leading to long tailbacks and under Operation Brock, the motorway remains closed to anything other than freight between junctions eight and nine.\n\nThe Department for Transport said efforts were being made to minimise disruption.\n\nOperation Brock's concrete barrier, found between Ashford and Maidstone on the M20, was originally introduced to keep traffic moving amid fears that a no-deal Brexit plan would lead to delays at the border.\n\nLorry driver Stuart Orme told BBC South East on Saturday he had been stuck between junctions eight and nine of the M20 for more than six hours and had moved less than 0.6 miles (1km) in that time.\n\n\"We're being treated like animals. No welfare, no toilet facilities and no information. We're just left here,\" Mr Orme said.\n\n\"We're trying to get to the Ashford truck stop because we won't get over [to their destination] today. They won't let us go down the middle of the queue to get to Ashford to use facilities.\"\n\nAnother freight firm Logistics UK told the BBC it had built in plans for a 15-hour wait at Dover to cross the channel, and again at Calais on the way back.\n\nToby Howe from the Kent Resilience Forum said \"impatient\" HGV drivers had caused a bottleneck in Dover\n\nToby Howe from the Kent Resilience Forum said it had been prepared for disruption caused by P&O Ferries suspending services, but the stormy weather was \"the straw that broke the camel's back\" and blamed \"impatient\" HGV drivers for causing a bottleneck in Dover.\n\n\"There is a traffic management plan in place which controls freight getting to Dover. Ordinarily, that plan would have worked, but because we then had lorries getting very impatient and avoiding that, that's what caused the problem.\n\n\"It's all heading straight to the port and there isn't any other outlet for it. So that's the problem. Once it happens it's very hard to undo.\"\n\nMatthias Mueller and his family are trying to reach Germany\n\nNHS nurse Matthias Mueller left his home in London with his family at 05:00 BST to try to be among the first to swap his P&O ticket for a DFDS one at the port.\n\n\"We are going to Germany to see my parents for the first time in two years. We thought this would be an early start to the Easter holidays, it's come to a standstill,\" Mr Mueller said.\n\nNick Gale, a teacher from Kent travelling to Amsterdam with family, criticised the \"awful\" communication around Dover after missing the ferry they were booked on.\n\n\"We've got no food and an eight-year-old in the back moaning,\" Mr Gale said.\n\n\"Around Dover it's awful, there is no communication for what non-freight customers [are] to do. We're local to the area so knew a couple of ways to beat the huge queues but it's literally not moving.\"\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke said: \"The traffic disruption caused by P&O's actions is very serious\", adding that the adverse weather and Easter break had made the situation \"severe\" and likely to continue for days.\n\n\"The problems have caused an unacceptable impact on our community, particularly at Whitfield, Aycliffe, Capel-Le-Ferne and in Dover town itself.\"\n\nSome schools have already broken up for Easter and an increase in traffic was expected as many families made the most of the easing of travel restrictions.\n\nP&O services have been reduced after the company sacked 800 workers last month. It has yet to be given permission to resume sailings to France using cheaper agency staff.\n\nP&O services have been reduced after the company sacked 800 workers last month\n\nThe shortage of cross-Channel services was made worse after a DFDS ferry hit a berth in Dunkirk in strong winds, leading to that being taken out of service for repairs.\n\nIt will not be available until Monday at the earliest.\n\nTravel journalist Simon Calder described it as a \"perfect storm\" for Easter travellers.\n\nWith P&O's three vessels at berth in Dover, he said DFDS services had been coping well with the extra passengers until Saturday.\n\nA \"surge in demand\" had been coupled with difficult weather conditions in the Channel overnight, he said.\n\n\"It's very difficult to see how that will be relieved,\" he added, with bookings also high at the Eurotunnel terminal at nearby Folkestone.\n\nMr Calder said disruption was affecting airports as well with Easyjet cancelling flights to Mykonos, Copenhagen and Corfu at Manchester Airport.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "The missing plane is believed to be a Piper PA-28 Cherokee aircraft\n\nThe search for a plane which vanished over the Channel has been called off.\n\nThe small aircraft was carrying two people and disappeared after taking off from Wellesbourne in Warwickshire on its route to France on Saturday.\n\nA French Coastguard spokesperson said the disappearance of the plane, thought to be a PA-28, was \"worrying\".\n\nThe French Navy mobilised an aircraft, a helicopter and a boat to aid the search alongside a British plane.\n\nBut the search ended on Sunday. Searches \"by means of opportunity\" will continue - if any boats or crews in the Channel find any debris, they should report it to the coastguard.\n\nThe aircraft was travelling from Wellesbourne to Le Touquet in northern France\n\nAfter the light aircraft disappeared around midday on Saturday en route to Le Touquet in northern France, the French Coastguard asked vessels travelling in the Channel to look out for debris.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Search under way in Channel for missing plane", "The wreckage of the plane which crashed into the new-build block of flats in Upper Heyford\n\nA plane has crashed into an empty block of flats near Bicester, Oxfordshire.\n\nThames Valley Police said it happened at about 12:00 BST on Saturday. The pilot has been taken to John Radcliffe Hospital, but the extent of his injuries is unknown.\n\nThe new-build block of flats off Camp Road, Upper Heyford, was unoccupied and officers said nobody else was hurt.\n\nAn eye witness described seeing the pilot parachuting down on to the old RAF base.\n\nTisa Kilby, 55, said she was out walking her dogs when she saw the light aircraft hit the building.\n\n\"I looked up and literally saw this guy leap out of this plane and thought, that's an odd place to be parachuting,\" she said.\n\n\"Within four or five seconds the plane nose-dived and crashed into the block of flats.\"\n\nMs Kilby said she had been told by police at the scene that the pilot had suffered life-changing injuries\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said the victim, an \"older gentleman\" was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has launched an investigation and inspectors have begun searches.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson has congratulated Volodymyr Zelensky on the successful push back of Russian forces from Kyiv.\n\nSpeaking with Ukraine's president, the UK prime minister also acknowledged the \"immense suffering being inflicted on civilians\", Downing Street said.\n\nUkraine says its military has retaken the entire region around the capital, as Russia has withdrawn from key towns.\n\nMr Johnson also updated Mr Zelensky on a recent military donor conference convened by the UK with 35 countries.\n\nSpeaking over the phone with the prime minister, the Ukrainian president gave an update on the steps towards peace negotiations and welcomed \"further UK involvement in these diplomatic efforts\", Downing Street said.\n\nAmong the areas abandoned by Russia around the capital is Hostomel airport, as well as key battleground towns around the capital of Irpin and Bucha.\n\nAs Moscow's forces retreat, evidence of civilian killings is mounting. In Bucha, at least 20 dead men's bodies in civilian clothes were found in a street.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said Mr Johnson \"congratulated Ukraine's brave armed forces\" for their success in pushing back the Russian army in some areas.\n\nBoth leaders agreed on the importance of \"continuing to ratchet up sanctions to increase the economic pressure\" on Russian President Vladimir Putin, as long as Russian troops remained on Ukrainian territory.\n\nMr Johnson also updated Mr Zelensky on the progress made at a military donor conference and \"committed to continue to step up defensive support\", the spokesperson added.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Zelensky described the UK as a \"powerful ally\" and added: \"We look forward to the donors' conference for Ukraine.\"", "Australia underlined their status as the premier international sports team on the planet by outclassing England to win the Women's World Cup.\n\nThe Australians shattered records in Christchurch on their way to adding the 50-over title to the T20 World Cup and Ashes crowns they already hold.\n\nAlyssa Healy crashed an astonishing 170 from 138 balls, the highest score in either a women's or men's World Cup final. Her partnership of 160 with Rachael Haynes and Australia's total of 356-5 are also women's final bests, the latter a record for any team against England.\n\nEngland, who were huge underdogs to defend the title they won in 2017, will rue their decision to field first in perfect batting conditions. They also dropped Healy and Haynes in the same over.\n\nFaced with such a mammoth chase, England lost wickets too regularly to ever be in contention, but Nat Sciver batted with authority for a century of her own.\n\nSciver was 148 not out when England were finally bowled out for 285, spinners Alana King and Jess Jonassen taking three wickets apiece in Australia's 71-run win.\n\nIt was a disappointing end to an England turnaround that saw them reach the final despite losing their first three games of the tournament.\n\nMeanwhile, awesome Australia were crowned world champions for the seventh time with a perfect record of nine wins from nine matches.\n\nThe suspicion was that England would need everything to go their way in order to beat an Australia side that entered the final with only one defeat in their previous 38 one-day internationals.\n\nFor as much as England - and Australia - favour chasing, it seemed like a gift for Heather Knight to give away the opportunity to bat first.\n• None No regrets over bowling first - Knight\n\nThe defending champions passed up the chance to post a score that might have pressured the Australians, who dictated terms throughout.\n\nEngland did not bowl particularly badly, but the dropped catches were a hammer blow. By the end, Healy was playing some outrageous strokes, scoring runs at will.\n\nDespite Sciver's wonderful innings, the contest was effectively over at the interval, the most dramatic World Cup ever denied the final it deserved.\n\nOpener Healy made a century in Australia's semi-final win over West Indies and here went one better, playing one of the all-time great one-day innings.\n\nWhat made the assault all the more remarkable was a measured beginning - Australia took only 37 from the first 10 overs in the face of some searching new-ball bowling.\n\nHealy and Haynes, who made 68, were just starting to go through the gears when the drops came in the same Kate Cross over. Haynes, on 47, escaped as a diving Danni Wyatt missed a chance at point, Healy had 41 when the ball burst through Sciver's hands at mid-wicket.\n\nReaching a half-century from 62 balls was Healy's signal to go into overdrive. She scored in all areas of the ground, toying with England by hitting the ball where a fielder had just been moved from. Healy's second 50 came from 38 balls, her third from just 29.\n\nAfter Haynes miscued to point, Beth Mooney arrived to bludgeon 62 from 47 balls in a stand of 156 that came in little more than 16 overs. Australia took 120 runs in a final 10 overs of mayhem.\n\nBy the time Healy departed, stumped off Anya Shrubsole, she had cracked 26 fours and become the first woman to pass 500 runs at a single World Cup.\n\nAll inside a packed Hagley Oval stood to applaud Healy, Australia's magnificent match-winner and player of the tournament.\n\nFor England to have even made this final was a significant achievement given their three opening defeats. They were one wicket from a loss against New Zealand that would have knocked them out.\n\nThey responded with five straight wins and seemed relaxed as the final began, only to be blown away by the Australians.\n\nSpinner Sophie Ecclestone, the tournament's leading wicket-taker, leaked 71 runs from her 10 overs, veteran pacer Katherine Brunt conceded 69 from hers, while young off-spinner Charlie Dean was targeted to go for 34 from four.\n\nOnly Shrubsole, England's match-winner in the final five years ago, escaped the carnage with a respectable 3-46.\n\nOn such a superb pitch, England actually scored more quickly than Australia, yet only Sciver passed 27.\n\nFaced with impossible odds, she scored heavily through the leg side, often with ingenuity, reaching three figures from 90 balls.\n\nHow different might this final have turned out had Sciver been unleashed in the first innings?\n\n'Amazing effort' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Heather Knight on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Credit to Australia. It was a remarkable innings from Alyssa Healy - to do that in a final and for them to put that on the board was tough. We probably didn't have an answer at times - they batted outstandingly. It was a very good track and it made it very hard to defend. We fought hard in the chase - Nat Sciver was unbelievable, what an innings. We are disappointed, but credit to Australia for the way they played today.\"\n\nAustralia captain Meg Lanning: \"I'm really pleased with that. This tournament has been a long time coming - it has been in the back of our minds and there are no doubts we wanted this trophy in our cabinet. It has been an amazing effort over a number of years and to finish it off like this is amazing.\"\n\nEx-England spinner Alex Hartley: \"Australia have had a professional domestic set-up for five or six years longer than England have. England only started a couple of years ago and the first year, realistically, was heavily impacted by Covid. We've had professional players in England for one year effectively and that is only 10 or 15 games.\n\n\"This Australia side have played domestic cricket for years and years. It will take a while for England to catch up, but they are not a million miles away, and I guess that is the exciting thing.\"", "Estelle Harris thrilled fans with her grating voice and quick wit in dozens of Seinfeld episodes\n\nThe US film and television actress Estelle Harris has died at the age of 93.\n\nShe was best known for playing Estelle Costanza, the mother of George Costanza in the 1990s sitcom Seinfeld.\n\nWith an iconic high-pitched voice and short-fused temper, Harris turned Costanza into a fictional mother loved by fans for her absurd insults.\n\nThe star also voiced the animated Mrs Potato Head in Toy Story 2, later returning to the role twice.\n\nBut it was on Seinfeld that Harris became a familiar face to many, appearing in dozens of the smash sitcom's episodes across five of its seasons.\n\nHarris was introduced to viewers in 1992 as Estelle Costanza - the dominating mother of romantically insecure George Costanza.\n\nIn the show, Estelle nags her son George so excessively that he fruitlessly tries to persuade her to relocate permanently to Florida - far away from the New York City neighbourhood where the show was set.\n\n\"She is the mother that everybody loves, even though she's a pain in the neck,\" Harris told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998.\n\nViewers \"just look at her as being funny, cute and a loudmouth. But it's not how I play her. I play her with miser underneath,\" she said.\n\nAfter Seinfeld's nine-season run ended Harris continued her career on stage and on screen in many other roles.\n\nAs well as starring as Mrs Potato Head in three Toy Story films, Harris played the recurring character of Muriel in the popular Disney sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody - introducing her unique humour to a younger generation of television viewers.\n\nHarris starred in three Toy Story films as the voice of Mrs Potato Head, a speaking potato toy trained in the martial arts\n\nHarris was born in New York City in 1928 and grew up in a suburb of Pittsburgh.\n\nShe discovered her talent for comedy while starring in high school plays that \"could make the audience get hysterical,\" she told People Magazine in 1995.\n\nHarris briefly put her show business ambitions on hold when she got married in the early 1950s, but returned to acting once her children had grown up.\n\nHer agent confirmed her death in in Palm Desert, California, AP news agency reported.\n\nShe is survived by three children, three grandsons, and a great grandson.\n\nEstelle Harris with her on-screen son and husband on Seinfeld's final day of shooting in 1998", "A small plane flying from the UK has vanished over the English Channel, prompting a search for debris.\n\nThe plane, thought to be a PA-28, went missing on a journey from Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, to Le Touquet, France, at around midday on Saturday.\n\nThe French Coastguard said the plane - which was carrying two people - was the subject of a \"worrying disappearance\".\n\nIt asked vessels travelling in the Channel to look out for debris. The search will resume on Sunday.\n\nTwo French aircraft and a boat were engaged in the search on Saturday, with a UK aircraft also attempting to trace the whereabouts of the missing plane.\n\nThe searches were suspended overnight and will resume on Sunday.\n\nThe small plane was on a journey between Wellesbourne and Le Touquet in northern France", "Last updated on .From the section Rowing\n\nOxford won the men's Boat Race for the first time since 2017 after Cambridge won the women's event in record time.\n\nThe Dark Blues took the 167th men's crown in 16 minutes and 47 seconds.\n\nIn the women's race, Cambridge beat Oxford by more than two lengths in 18 minutes and 22 seconds to extend their winning streak to five years.\n\nThe 2022 Boat Race marks the return of the event to the Thames in London for the first time since 2019 because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 2020 edition was cancelled, while the 2021 event took place without spectators on the Great Ouse in Ely because of Covid restrictions.\n\nOxford have now won 81 Boat Races, narrowing the gap with Cambridge's 85, while in the women's, Cambridge have won 46 editions to Oxford's 30.\n\nOxford rower Tobias Schroder told BBC Sport: \"A lot of years trying, a lot of years failing. I'm just so proud of what we did there.\"\n\nSpeaking after winning the women's race, Cambridge president Bronya Sykes said: \"It was insane, it was fast, it was emotional all in one go.\n\nCox Jasper Parish added: \"I took a risk early on to get ahead of them. It paid off as the race went on.\n\n\"Full credit to Oxford, they raced really well and pushed us right to the end.\n\n\"I'm so proud of what we've done.\"\n• None What made Sir Alex Ferguson who he is? Sir Alex speaks about his younger days and the influences which shaped his extraordinary career\n• None Was Sven-Göran Eriksson expected to succeed wherever he went?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won a fourth term by a landslide in the country's general election, near-complete results show.\n\nHis right-wing Fidesz party won 135 of 199 seats with almost 99% of the votes counted, preliminary results show.\n\nThe opposition alliance led by Peter Marki-Zay was far behind with 56 seats.\n\nIn his victory speech, Mr Orban criticised Brussels bureaucrats and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling them \"opponents\".\n\nMr Zelensky has repeatedly criticised Mr Orban's ban on the transfer of arms to Ukraine, with which it shares a border.\n\nHowever, Mr Orban - who has close ties with Moscow - has condemned the Russian invasion and taken in half a million refugees since the war began in February.\n\n\"We never had so many opponents,\" he said, quoted by AFP. \"Brussels bureaucrats... the international mainstream media, and the Ukrainian president.\"\n\nFollowing the result, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Mr Orban a congratulatory message on the Telegram messaging app, according to the Kremlin.\n\n\"Despite the difficult international situation, the further development of bilateral ties of partnership fully accords with the interests of the peoples of Russia and Hungary,\" Mr Putin wrote.\n\nMr Orban said that his \"huge victory\" could be seen \"from the Moon, but certainly from Brussels as well\".\n\nWhen officially confirmed by Hungary's electoral commission, the victory will be Fidesz's fourth successive win since 2010. The National Election Office said Fidesz would have 135 seats, a two-thirds majority, and the opposition alliance would have 56 seats - again, based on preliminary results.\n\nMr Orban, 58, has had a fraught relationship with the EU, which considers that Fidesz has undermined Hungary's democratic institutions.\n\nIn his 12 years in power, Mr Orban has rewritten the constitution, filled the top courts with his appointees and changed the electoral system to his advantage.\n\nDuring campaigning, the opposition's catchphrase was \"Orban or Europe\".\n\nTheir candidate Peter Marki-Zay argued that Hungary should join Poland, the UK and others in supplying arms to Ukraine. And if called upon, and only within a Nato framework, should even consider sending troops.\n\nThe opposition complained that Fidesz had isolated Hungary from the European mainstream, and from consensual democracy, fairness and decency.\n\nYou could almost hear the collective thud of EU hearts sinking last night.\n\nA self-styled illiberal democrat, Hungary's leader has repeatedly clashed with Brussels over rule of law issues such as press freedom and migration.\n\nThey've fallen out over Moscow too. Mr Orban is famed for his warm relations with Vladimir Putin. He signed up to Western sanctions - but refuses to supply Ukraine with weapons. He's the only EU leader to openly criticise President Zelensky.\n\nHungary is becoming increasingly isolated in the EU and Nato - but Mr Orban knows neither institution is keen to ostracise him. They want a show of Western unity to display to Russia.\n\nHis new term in office means he'll remain an unpredictable thorn in their side.\n\nMore than 200 international observers monitored the election in Hungary, along with thousands of volunteers from across the political spectrum.\n\nTurnout hit 68.69%, almost matching the record number of voters in the last national elections in 2018.\n\n\"I will not hide my sadness and my disappointment,\" he told supporters, accusing Fidesz of running a campaign of \"hate and lies\".\n\nHe claimed the opposition had done \"everything humanly possible\" but that the campaign had been \"an unequal fight\" as anti-Fidesz politicians got so little showing in state media.", "Thick black smoke has covered the skies over the Ukrainian port city of Odesa after missiles hit the area.\n\nA Ukrainian military official has said that there are no known casualties so far.\n\nFollow the latest updates on Ukraine here", "The US says 37 detainees remain - including 18 eligible for transfer - at Guantanamo Bay\n\nGuantanamo Bay inmate Sufiyan Barhoumi has been repatriated to Algeria, US officials say, after spending nearly 20 years at the detention facility.\n\nHe was captured at a safehouse in Pakistan with a top al-Qaeda member in 2002, and accused of taking part in a plan to bomb the US.\n\nBut the US Department of Defense said his detention was no longer considered necessary.\n\nIt said Algeria had given assurances that he would be treated humanely.\n\nIn a statement, the department added that US authorities recommended that Mr Barhoumi could be sent back to his native country \"subject to security... assurance\".\n\n\"The United States appreciates the willingness of Algeria, and other partners to support ongoing US efforts toward a deliberate and thorough process focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing of the Guantanamo Bay facility,\" the statement said.\n\nThe department provided no further details about Mr Barhoumi.\n\nAlgeria has not publicly commented on the issue.\n\nWith the latest release, 37 detainees remain - including 18 eligible for transfer - at Guantanamo Bay, which is part of a US naval base complex in south-eastern Cuba.\n\nSince 2002, the detention facility has been used to hold what the US describes as captured unlawful combatants during America's war on terror.", "Conservative MP David Warburton has been suspended from the parliamentary party pending an investigation into allegations about his conduct.\n\nThe claims about Mr Warburton, who sits on the backbenches, are being examined by Parliament's Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS).\n\nConservative sources have told the BBC that three allegations of sexual harassment are being investigated.\n\nMr Warburton has been MP for Somerton and Frome since 2015.\n\nA spokesperson for the Whips Office said the party whip had been removed while the investigation was ongoing.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that three women have complained about Mr Warburton's conduct.\n\nThe newspaper also reported allegations that Mr Warburton had taken cocaine, and that he had failed to declare a £100,000 loan - taken out in 2017, and since repaid - from a Russian businessman.\n\nMr Warburton hasn't responded to a BBC request to comment on the allegations.\n\nHowever he did tell the Sunday Telegraph that he had not heard from the ICGS and that he had \"enormous amounts of defence\".\n\nAsked about the allegations, government minister Grant Shapps said he had no further knowledge other than what the party had said, and what he had read in the newspapers.\n\n\"Obviously, any allegations like this need to be taken extremely carefully, but all the facts will need to be brought out as well,\" he told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday.\n\nMr Warburton is chair of the all-party parliamentary group on music and has previously been a member of the European scrutiny committee.\n\nHe lives near Somerton, in Somerset, with his wife and their two children, his website says.", "A suburban avenue in Bucha became one of the first graveyards for Russia's hopes of encircling and entering Kyiv and then deposing the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe moment came two or three days after the first Russian forces crossed into Ukraine on 24 February, when Ukrainian forces destroyed a column of Russian tanks and armoured personnel carriers moving through the town of Bucha to the city of Kyiv.\n\nThe convoy was destroyed in one of the first of many Ukrainian ambushes that stopped the Russian advance dead.\n\nOur BBC team was able to get to Bucha because during Friday the final Russian soldiers pulled out, as part of what the Kremlin has presented as a calm and rational decision to concentrate on the war in eastern Ukraine.\n\nMoscow says, without proof or any reliability, that its war aims in central Ukraine have been achieved, and they never included capturing Kyiv.\n\nThe truth is that unexpectedly fierce and well organised Ukrainian resistance stopped them outside the capital, and the evidence includes the rusting and twisted wreckage of the column that still lies where it was destroyed on that suburban street.\n\nLocal residents say they hadn't had any bread for weeks\n\nTwo or three weeks into the war the Russian invaders ran out of momentum. On the street in Bucha you can see why.\n\nElite troops from Russia's airborne forces rode into the town in armoured vehicles light enough to be carried by aircraft. They came from Hostomel airport, a few miles away, which had been attacked and seized by Russian paratroopers landed by helicopter on the first day of the invasion. Even then, there was fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces.\n\nWhen the column moved through Bucha on the way to Kyiv, they had a harsh awakening.\n\nThe road is narrow and straight, an ideal place for an ambush. Witnesses said the Ukrainians attacked the convoy with Bayraktar attack drones bought from Turkey. Other neighbours said Ukrainian territorial defence volunteers were also in the area.\n\nHowever they did it, the lead vehicles and the ones bringing up the rear were knocked out and imprisoned the others. The wreckage has not been touched. Belts of 30mm cannon shells lie on the grass verge, along with many pieces of dangerous and damaged abandoned ordnance.\n\nYoung conscripts ran away, begging, local people said, not to be turned over to Ukrainian territorial defence. A man of around 70 who called himself uncle Hrysha, said: \"I felt sorry for them. They were so young, 18 to 20, with their whole lives ahead of them.\"\n\nIt looks as if Russians, as they prepared to pull out of Bucha, had no such pity. At least 20 dead men were lying in the street as Ukrainian troops entered the town. Some of them had their hands tied behind their backs. The mayor said they had buried 280 people in mass graves.\n\nA few civilians who stayed said they had tried to avoid the Russians. They set up wood fires outside their Khrushchev-era flats, cooking on them outdoors because their gas, power and water were cut.\n\nVolunteers are bringing supplies in from Lviv in western Ukraine, and from countries far from the war, geographically at least.\n\n\"This is the first bread we've had in 38 days,\" said a woman called Maria, looking at a plastic bag with some modest looking buns inside. Her daughter Larysa showed me round the Soviet-built apartment building.\n\nMany of the people who had left for safer areas, or abroad, had bolted shut security doors. The Russians removed them by ripping out the concrete lintels and door posts.\n\nA few miles away, the trail of devastation leads to Hostomel airport. Russian airborne troops tried to use it as a base for a push into Kyiv.\n\nThe world's largest transport plane was destroyed early on. The roof of the enormous hangar built for it was so riddled with a constellation of shrapnel holes. The plane itself, known by the Ukrainian word for dream (Mriya), lies there broken-backed, big chunks of fuselage and engine in places around it. Its fate is a parable of what is happening to Ukraine.\n\nAn enormous amount of national pride was invested in the aircraft, as a symbol of Ukraine's ability to make big projects all round the world.\n\nAs the world's largest transport plane, Mriya was once Ukraine's pride", "Nicola Sturgeon has been reported to police after being filmed apparently breaching Scotland's face mask rules.\n\nFootage on social media shows the first minister without a mask in an East Kilbride barber shop, which she had visited on the election campaign trail.\n\nShe posted footage of the visit on her own Instagram account with her mask on.\n\nThe SNP said Ms Sturgeon realised she was not wearing a mask \"within a few seconds\" of entering the shop.\n\nUntil Monday, it was legally required for people to wear face coverings in many indoor settings in Scotland. The law has now become guidance.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We can confirm that we have received a complaint which is currently being assessed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring the visit to the barber shop on Saturday, Ms Sturgeon shaved a man's beard while journalists took photographs.\n\nThe SNP leader later posted footage on her own social media feeds, describing it as \"surreal\" but one of the best and \"scariest\" things she had done on the campaign trail.\n\nHowever, further footage was later posted online showing her interacting with people without her mask on.\n\nA SNP spokesperson said: \"The first minister was invited into the barbers during an outdoor visit on the street.\n\n\"Within a few seconds, she realised she hadn't put her mask back on and immediately put it on.\"\n\nIn December 2020 Ms Sturgeon apologised for breaching Covid-19 restrictions when she briefly removed her mask at a funeral.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have condemned the latest apparent breach of the rules as \"blatant hypocrisy\".\n\nThe party's health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane MSP said: \"The video clearly shows Nicola Sturgeon isn't practising what she preaches on facemasks.\n\n\"She's happy virtue signalling for official photos but behind closed doors it's clear she doesn't believe in her own rules so why should anyone else.\n\n\"The public, who have been under these legal Covid restrictions for over two years, deserve an apology for this rule break.\"\n\nA Scot Liberal Democrat spokesperson added: \"It's incumbent on all politicians to set a good example. It looks like Nicola Sturgeon has lost track of what her own rules are.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Scottish Labour and the Scottish Greens for comment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Rishi Sunak recently rejected calls to resign, despite being fined by police for breaking lockdown rules in Downing Street in June 2020.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.\n\nEveryone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it \"one of the world's safest nations\".\n\nTake the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat \"in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert\".\n\nBut underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.\n\nWalk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.\n\nSpying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars\n\nThose deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.\n\n\"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country,\" Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.\n\nOn the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means \"Community Work\".\n\nOne Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.\n\nAny camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.\n\nThe country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).\n\nThe UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on\n\nThey have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France and Belgium.\n\nThe UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.\n\nBut when Denmark announced last year that it was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.\n\n\"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable,\" it said last August.\n\nAfrica already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees \"often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries\", it said.\n\n\"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - \"so that they can resettle and thrive\", as the home secretary put it.\n\nIt is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take \"tens of thousands in the years ahead\".\n\nOut of Kigali, Wrong says it is a \"poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees\".\n\nNo-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.\n\nLast month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.\n\nCritics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on whom the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence\n\nAfter the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.\n\nBut in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.\n\nHis daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: \"Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.\n\n\"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people.\"\n\nThe reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.\n\nPresident Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017\n\n\"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price,\" says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.\n\nLast year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on \"humanitarian grounds\". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.\n\nWestern nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.\n\nThe UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThe former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.\n\nA cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of-the-art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.\n\nSome see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.\n\nBut Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion\n\n\"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents,\" Yolande Makolo told the BBC.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Harry has told the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games that the \"world is united\" with Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking in The Hague, the Duke of Sussex said: \"You know we stand with you. The world is united with you and still you deserve more.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian team were given special permission by President Volodymyr Zelensky to compete at the competition for injured military veterans.\n\nThe duke also revealed his son Archie would like to be a pilot.\n\nBefore their arrival in this year's host city of The Hague in the Netherlands, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan stopped off in the UK on Thursday to visit the Queen at Windsor.\n\nThe duke and duchess, who have not been on this side of the Atlantic together since 2020, also saw Prince Charles while they were at Windsor Castle, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nThe couple have been joined at the event by a camera crew filming a Netflix documentary series as part of their company Archewell's deal with the streaming firm.\n\nOn Sunday, Harry and Meghan met competitors, including Team UK's Lisa Johnston, at the athletics competition during day two of the Games.\n\nHarry and Meghan arrived for day two of the Games at Zuiderpark on Sunday\n\nThe duke and duchess met competitors at the athletics competition, including Team United Kingdom competitor Lisa Johnston\n\nThe couple have been joined at the games by a camera crew filming a Netflix documentary series as part of their company Archewell's deal with the streaming firm\n\nOn Saturday evening, the Duchess of Sussex introduced her husband to the opening ceremony's audience of competitors and members of the Dutch royal family.\n\nShe spoke of the Ukrainian team's presence at the event, saying it had taken a lot \"both physically and emotionally\" for every competitor to get to the Netherlands, \"not least of which for the Ukraine team, who we are all standing with\".\n\nCalling him her \"incredible husband\", she described the duke as \"the founder of the Invictus Games, and the father to our two little ones, Archie and Lili\".\n\nThe duke said in his address that the Ukrainian team had told him on Friday they had come \"not simply to show your strength but to tell your truth, the truth, of what is happening in your country\".\n\n\"You know we stand with you. The world is united with you and still you deserve more,\" the duke said.\n\n\"And my hope is that these events, this event, creates the opportunity in how we as a global community can better show up for you.\"\n\nThe duke also revealed his two-year-old son, Archie, had expressed a wish to follow in his father's footsteps by becoming a pilot.\n\nHarry was an Apache helicopter pilot in the army in a tour of Afghanistan during 2012-13.\n\nThe Ukrainian team were given special permission by President Volodymyr Zelensky to compete in the games\n\nMeghan introduced Harry on stage, calling him her \"incredible husband\"\n\nSpeaking about the importance of character, the duke told the opening ceremony: \"When I talk to my son Archie about what he wants to be when he grows up, some days it's an astronaut, other days it's a pilot - a helicopter pilot obviously...\n\n\"But what I remind him is that no matter what you want to be when you grow up, it's your character that matters most, and nothing would make his mum and me prouder than to see him have the character of what we see before us today.\"\n\nEarlier, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined in with a junior driving contest where they were driven round a circuit in miniature Land Rovers.\n\nThe duke then took to a full-size car to complete his driving challenge, taking on a course featuring bridges, ramps and rocks.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited the Zuiderpark in The Hague at lunchtime\n\nPrince Harry was driven in a miniature car by four-year-old Dutch girl Scarlet Vroegop, while Meghan's driver was was five-year-old French girl Mya Poirot\n\nThe opening ceremony included performances by the Kaiser Chiefs, along with a military band, Dutch singer-songwriter Anneke van Giersbergen, and Hague-based rock band DI-RECT.\n\nThe 2022 edition of the Invictus Games runs until next Friday. The city was originally due to host the event in 2020 but it was postponed due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nCompetitors will take part in events including archery, athletics, wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball.\n\nThe duke was inspired to set up the games after seeing the 2013 Warrior Games in the US, where injured and retired service personnel competed.\n\nThe first edition of the games was held in London in 2014, with subsequent competitions being held in the US, Canada, and Australia.", "A first dose of the Novavax vaccine being given in Berlin, Germany on 28 February, 2022\n\nIn February, the UK medicines regulator approved the first Covid vaccine based on an older, more established technology. Its developer, Novavax, has pitched it as an alternative for people reluctant to take newer mRNA-based jabs.\n\nBut while it is now available in much of Europe, Novavax is still not cleared for use in the UK.\n\n\"It's been so frustrating - and it's not just me,\" says a woman in her 40s, who did not want to be named.\n\n\"There are other people out there who are not anti-vax or anything like that, but are just hesitant to take the new kind of mRNA vaccines.\"\n\nShe caught Covid last year and spent five nights in hospital on oxygen. Last month she travelled from the UK to a vaccine clinic in France to have the Novavax jab.\n\n\"I had to blag it a bit,\" she says. \"But the language barrier actually helped because I just looked confused.\"\n\nShe had wanted a vaccine previously, but was unsure about the Pfizer and Moderna jabs which have been rolled out in their tens of millions across the UK. Both have been through formal clinical trials and found to be safe and effective by medicines regulators, while real-world monitoring over the past year suggests serious side effects are extremely rare.\n\nBut they are based on a newer type of technology which delivers genetic code, known as messenger RNA (mRNA), into the bodies' cells - instructing them to produce copies of the distinctive spike protein found on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.\n\nThe Novavax vaccine was one of the first on the market to work in a more traditional way - the spike protein is grown outside the body in a laboratory and then injected, alongside a separate ingredient which boosts the immune response called an adjuvant.\n\n\"Protein-based vaccines like this have quite a long history - from hepatitis to meningococcal B, to HPV,\" says Novavax's chief medical officer Filip Dubovsky.\n\n\"I think some people are reassured by the decades of safety profiles which are based on this technology.\"\n\nAnother \"more traditional\" vaccine - produced by the French company Valneva - has just been approved by the UK medicines regulator, although the UK government currently has no doses of that jab on order.\n\nAfter months of promises, and a series of delays, the Novavax jab was finally approved for use in adults by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in late December 2021, followed by the British equivalent, the MHRA, on 3 February 2022.\n\nIn countries such as Germany, France and the Netherlands, it was quickly recommended for use - as an alternative to the mRNA vaccines, for people who may have had an allergic reaction to them in the past, or those who are still unvaccinated.\n\nBut while more than 150,000 doses have now been administered in other parts of Europe, Novavax has still not been recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), who advise ministers in the UK.\n\nThe JCVI's chair of Covid-19, Professor Wei Shen Lim, says only that the vaccine's potential use remains \"under consideration\" and full advice will be published in \"due course\".\n\nOne hurdle to overcome is that the UK vaccine programme does not currently allow someone to choose which type of jab they are given. In some other European countries, individuals can call a dedicated phone line to request the Novavax product.\n\nAll four vaccines used so far in the UK have gone through safety checks as part of the clinical trial and approval process. Most side effects - like a sore arm or headache - are mild, with the risk of a severe reaction extremely low.\n\nMore than 92% of over-12s in the UK have already received at least one of those Covid jabs - but that still leaves around five million people unvaccinated.\n\nEvery fortnight, a team from Imperial College London has logged the reasons for vaccine hesitancy. The sample size of each survey is small, at around 70 people, as they are investigating a hard-to-reach minority, but the results are still thought to be representative.\n\nThe most common reason for remaining unvaccinated is concern about side effects, followed by worries the jabs have not been tested sufficiently. Six per cent also said it was because the specific vaccine they wanted was not yet available in the UK.\n\n\"I think [the Novavax vaccine] could make a difference,\" says Dr Peter English, a retired consultant in communicable disease control and former editor of the journal Vaccines in Practice.\n\n\"When you think about people in intensive care and the pressure on the NHS, it is the unvaccinated who are making up a disproportionate number of those in hospital with Covid. Even lifting it [vaccination rates] by a few per cent would be worth it.\"\n\nPeople wait in separate queues to receive the Novavax and Pfizer vaccines in Berlin, Germany on 28 February 2022\n\nKenneth, from Bristol, says he has a health condition which makes him cautious about anything that interacts with his immune system; he has been waiting for an alternative to the two main mRNA vaccines.\n\n\"I'm making a personal choice based on my own research and my own body,\" he says.\n\nHe stresses that he is not anti-vaccination. He adds he is still being as careful around other people as he was at the height of lockdown.\n\n\"Every single one of our neighbours in the EU - Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands - they all have access to Novavax. The UK is an island in the middle that doesn't.\"\n\n\"By now, someone in Germany who got their first Novavax vaccine at the end of February could have had their full primary series and be getting on with their life - whereas I'm still waiting around in a sort-of personal lockdown, so that is really frustrating.\"\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Moderna jabs have been tested on a cross-section of the population, including people with a variety of health conditions.\n\nMedicine regulators also continue to collect data, so vaccine safety can be monitored and any possible adverse reactions can be investigated.\n\nThe wait to make the Novavax jab available comes after the UK played a significant part in its development: government-funding helped support clinical trials and 15,000 British volunteers participated in the testing.\n\nIn January 2021, an order for 60 million doses was placed by UK ministers, with a deal agreed for it to be manufactured at a Fujifilm plant in Billingham, Teesside.\n\nAt the time, Novavax said production should be up and running by April 2021. But when the vaccine was finally given medical approval in the UK in February 2022, it was on the basis that initial doses would come, not from Teesside, but from the Serum Institute in India.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid toured the Fujifilm site in Teesside in February\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid recently toured the factory in Billingham, which is in the middle of a £400m expansion, though it is still unclear if - and when - Novavax jabs made here could make their way into the arms of UK citizens.\n\nNovavax itself says it is continuing to work with Fujifilm and plans to update its submission to the UK medicines regulator so that doses produced in Teesside can be used by the NHS.\n\nThe developer is also in the process of applying to regulators to use the vaccine as a booster shot and in children, where vaccination rates are currently much lower than in adults.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Easter sermon to condemn the government's plans to send asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda.\n\nJustin Welby told the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral that \"subcontracting out our responsibilities\" goes against Christian values.\n\n\"As a policy it privileges the rich and the strong,\" he said.\n\nHe recognised Rwanda's good intentions with its part in the plans, but said that responsibility for the asylum seekers lies with the UK.", "Boris Johnson will meet India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi for trade and defence talks\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is set to make a long-delayed trip to India this week in a bid to strengthen security ties with the country.\n\nHe will meet his counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday, with talks focused on defence and trade.\n\nIt will be Mr Johnson's first major trip to India as PM after previous visits were postponed due to Covid.\n\nThe UK has been trying to persuade India to reduce its reliance on Moscow since Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nLast month, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss visited India in an attempt to get the country to impose stronger sanctions against Russia and to cooperate more closely on trade, defence, energy and food security.\n\nIndia has not criticised Russia directly since it invaded Ukraine on 24 February and did not condemn the invasion at a United Nations vote on the issue.\n\nMr Johnson's trip will also include a visit to Gujarat on Thursday, India's fifth-largest state, where he is expected to announce a major investment in key industries in the UK and India, as well as new collaboration on science, health and technology.\n\nAhead of his visit, the prime minister said: \"As we face threats to our peace and prosperity from autocratic states, it is vital that democracies and friends stick together.\n\n\"India, as a major economic power and the world's largest democracy, is a highly valued strategic partner for the UK in these uncertain times.\n\n\"My visit to India will deliver on the things that really matter to the people of both our nations - from job creation and economic growth to energy security and defence.\"\n\nIn April last year, Mr Johnson cancelled a trip to India when the south Asian nation was added to the UK's red list, meaning people returning from there had to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nInitially the government had insisted the trip would go ahead, despite India's soaring coronavirus cases and the new delta variant.\n\nInstead Mr Johnson said he would speak to the Indian prime minister online, after questions as to why India had not ben put on the red list.\n\nA trip in January 2021 to India was also cancelled due to the UK lockdown.", "Alison Bird said she wants the local authorities to reconsider and allow a refugee family to stay in her caravan\n\nA woman said she was \"shocked\" to be told she could not house a family of Ukrainian refugees in her fully-furnished, heated static caravan.\n\nAlison Bird had offered the two-bedroom caravan in Dovercourt, Essex, to a family of four who are squatting in a single room in Turkey.\n\nBut officials said it was not suitable due to the seasonal nature of caravans and restrictions on year-round occupancy.\n\nMs Bird called for them to reconsider.\n\nMeanwhile, she said she did not have the heart to tell the family because they were \"so down and so desperate\".\n\n\"I can't add to their worries, so before I say anything to them I'm trying to get Essex County Council to do the right thing and to say 'yes' to our caravan and to look at each individual property on its own merit,\" she said.\n\nMs Bird's caravan is double-glazed, fully heated, newly decorated and close to the local schools\n\nMs Bird said said she thought the caravan was \"perfectly suitable\".\n\nShe said it could be used all-year round, was double-glazed, fully heated, newly decorated and close to local schools.\n\n\"It would be perfect for this family,\" said Ms Bird.\n\nShe said she and her husband had planned to rent it out over summer but it was \"far more important we house Ukrainian refugees than it is to make a bit of money from the caravan\".\n\nA spokesperson for Essex County Council and other local organisations involved in the Homes for Ukraine scheme said: \"A decision has been taken as a group county-wide that due to the seasonal nature of caravans, there are restrictions on year-round occupancy and other risks which make them unsuitable housing for refugees, particularly refugee families with children.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson's fine for breaching lockdown rules is the \"most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister\", a historian has said.\n\nHistory of government expert Lord Hennessy told the BBC Mr Johnson had \"broken the law\", \"misled Parliament\" and \"shredded the ministerial code.\"\n\nMr Johnson is the first serving PM to be sanctioned for breaking the law.\n\nSpeaking after news of the fine was announced, the PM said people \"had the right to expect better\" from him.\n\nMr Johnson has since said it \"did not occur\" to him at the time that the \"brief\" gathering in the Cabinet Room to mark his birthday in June 2020 could be in contravention of Covid lockdown rules.\n\nHe is known to have attended at least two further events of the 12 being investigated by police, meaning he could be fined again.\n\nOne No 10 aide, who witnessed many of the events under investigation, told the BBC the birthday party was the least serious gathering, in terms of potential rule-breaking, that the PM attended.\n\nThe prime minister intends to update MPs on the fine after they return from their Easter break on Tuesday.\n\nOpposition parties are investigating ways to hold him to account for what they see as misleading statements to Parliament.\n\nSpeaking to Broadcasting House on BBC Radio 4, cross-bench peer Lord Hennessy said: \"I think we're in the most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister that I can remember.\"\n\nHe added when Mr Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined on Tuesday, he wrote in his diary that \"Tuesday 12 April 2022 will be forever remembered as a dark bleak day for public and political life\" and the prime minister had become \"the great debaser in modern times of decency in public and political life, and of our constitutional conventions\".\n\n\"The prime minister sealed his place in British history as the first lawbreaker to have occupied the premiership,\" Lord Hennessy wrote.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson had turned his position into \"an adventure playground for his narcissistic vanity\".\n\nLord Hennessy accused the prime minister of having \"broken the law, misled Parliament and has in effect shredded the ministerial code\" when he \"should be the guardian of the code\".\n\nThe chancellor and prime minister have both apologised for receiving fines\n\nThe prime minister is under pressure to justify why he previously said to MPs that rules in No 10 Downing Street were followed at all times.\n\nOpposition MPs have accused him of misleading the House of Commons, which they say would break the ministerial code and be a resigning offence.\n\nLord Hennessy said Mr Johnson's decision not to resign showed \"complete and utter disdain for the decency of our constitutional conventions\".\n\nHe also criticised ministers defending his conduct on the airwaves and their use of the situation in Ukraine to argue there should not be a leadership contest now by saying they \"cannot ignore the decency of your own system\".\n\nHe said: \"The Queen's First Minister is now beyond doubt a rogue prime minister, unworthy of her, her Parliament, her people, and her kingdom.\n\n\"I cannot remember a day when I have been more fearful for the well-being of the constitution.\n\n\"It's an assault on not just the decent state of mind which keeps our society open and clean but also on the institutions of the state.\n\n\"If he's not prepared to do the decent thing... why should anybody else behave decently and properly? The whole decency of our public life turns on this question.\"\n\nLord Hennessy of Nympsfield sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher\n\nLord Hennessy thinks future prime ministers should sign an oath to protect and uphold the constitution and that Boris Johnson \"must have knowingly misled when he said the guidelines were kept throughout\".\n\nAmong the options open to opposition parties to put political pressure on Mr Johnson include asking a parliamentary committee to investigate or holding a Commons vote.\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas has written to Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle asking him to establish a process to investigate both Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak.\n\nIt puts pressure on the parliamentary authorities to respond and on some Conservative Party backbenchers who have been on the fence about their leader's conduct.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Cup\n\nRangers will play Hearts in the final of the Scottish Cup on 21 May after coming from behind to beat Celtic in extra time of a relentless and pulsating Old Firm derby.\n\nCeltic defender Carl Starfelt turned Calvin Bassey's cross into his own net with five minutes of extra time left to send the blue end of Hampden wild.\n\nIt sealed an impressive turnaround for the Ibrox side, who fell behind to Greg Taylor's goal in the second half before Scott Arfield equalised, and a chance at a first domestic cup for 11 years.\n\nThe rousing comeback also ends Celtic's hopes of a fifth domestic treble in six seasons, having already won the League Cup this season and with a six-point lead in the Scottish Premiership.\n\nRangers' performance in stopping their rivals from making it 19 straight wins at Scotland's national stadium was especially impressive given they were taken to extra time on Thursday in their Europa League quarter-final against Braga.\n• None 'What might Rangers' cup win do to title race?'\n\nWith Hampden a cauldron of colour and noise, it was no surprise the game was filled with crunching tackles, mistakes, and nerve-shredding tension.\n\nWhen the smoke which billowed from the pre-match pyrotechnics finally cleared, the action started and never really let up. Despite their European exploits, Rangers looked fresh as they shut down Celtic's midfield and hampered their build up.\n\nJoe Aribo had two headed chances to give them a deserved lead, and John Lundstram's curling effort cracked a post as they came close to adding the gloss to a disciplined, if frantic, first period.\n\nBut Celtic, who have made Hampden their fortress in the last decade, came back in the second half when Callum McGregor's quick free quick caught out Rangers, and Taylor fired beyond Jon McLaughlin with the help of a deflection off Bassey.\n\nOn an afternoon when Ange Postecoglou's side looked less sure of themselves, they might have been 2-0 up and on course for the final had Cameron Carter-Vickers' close-range shot not cannoned off the bar.\n\nBut instead Arfield swept home the equaliser from James Tavernier's cross with 12 minutes left, and from there it was Rangers who looked the side with more energy and intent heading into extra time, dismissing any notion they would fade.\n\nTavernier and Fashion Sakala were denied by Joe Hart in extra time, before some quick thinking by Glen Kamara released Bassey down the left, and his low delivery was prodded by Starfelt beyond his own goalkeeper under pressure from Sakala.\n\nThe explosion of noise in the Rangers end was something to behold as their decade-long pain in the cups comes another step closer to ending after a game where they had to dig incredibly deep to get the job done.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nAfter back-to-back derby defeats in 2022, Rangers ceded the league lead to Celtic and there was a general malaise about their domestic form, in stark contrast to their Europa League run, which will continue in the semi-finals against RB Leizpig.\n\nBut to get off the floor here, especially given they had won just two of their last 11 games at Hampden, with 120 minutes already in the legs from three days prior, was a hugely impressive feat.\n\nAll of the substitutes made a huge contribution. Steven Davis brought calm amid the storm and tired legs, Kamara's quick thinking set up the goal, while Arfield scored and Sakala was the man who forced the winner.\n\nThat was in contrast to Celtic, who seemed to suffer when Stephen Welsh and Anthony Ralston came on in the full-back positions.\n\nMatt O'Riley did make a difference, but overall this was a reminder there is work to do with their squad building. They also looked short of ideas when Rangers were able to shut them down for long spells.\n\nThey'll need to quickly refocus with another derby to come in the league to make sure they press home their advantage and end the season with the title.\n\nWhat they said\n\nCeltic manager Ange Postecoglou: \"I don't think any player from either side left that pitch without giving everything they had. Games like these are decided on moments and unfortunately it didn't happen for us.\n\n\"You've got to understand that, take that disappointment and fuel it for future endeavours. We've had a lot of setbacks this year, we've just overcome them really well and really quickly. We've got five games now to become champions.\"\n\nRangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst: \"To play extra-time two times in four days... the players were magnificent. We had to dig deep and we did it as a team. We're proud that we're in the final.\n\n\"It's important to be in the final but the most important thing is to win the final. We haven't won anything yet. We want to achieve something and the belief is there that we can win the cup.\"\n\nCeltic will look to re-affirm their advantage at the top of the Scottish Premiership next Sunday when they face Ross County in Dingwall (14:30 BST).\n\nRangers are scheduled to be away to Motherwell earlier in the day (12:00), but have asked for that game to be brought forward to the Saturday.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Kent (Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Scott Wright.\n• None Anthony Ralston (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Russia releases video they say shows surviving crew of the sunken ship Moskva\n\nThe Russian defence ministry has published images showing what it says is the crew of the warship Moskva - the first time any sailors from the ship have been seen since its sinking.\n\nA large group of sailors is seen on parade in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, met by Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm Nikolay Yevmenov.\n\nThe Moskva was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.\n\nThe ship's demise has been described as a huge blow to Russian morale.\n\nThe ministry announced late on Thursday that the Moskva had sunk on stormy seas after a fire caused by exploding ammunition. Ukraine said it had sunk the ship with two Neptune missiles.\n\nRussia said at the time that the crew had been taken to Sevastopol, a major port Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. This, however, is the first time any evidence has been offered of the survival of any sailors.\n\nThe video shows Adm Yevmenov and two other officers standing on a parade ground in front of about 100 sailors.\n\nIt is not clear when the meeting took place.\n\nThe Moskva patrolling the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria\n\nIn an interview shown at the end of the video, Adm Yevmenov says that the officers and crew are currently residing at their base in Sevastopol and will continue their service in the navy.\n\nRussia has not reported any casualties from the fire or the sinking.\n\nHowever, an unnamed US official quoted by Reuters news agency said Washington believed there were casualties.\n\nUkraine says the ship's captain, Anton Kuprin, was killed on board, but the BBC has been unable to verify this.\n\nThe 12,490-tonne cruiser is the biggest Russian warship to be sunk in action since World War Two.\n\nOn the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the Moskva gained notoriety after calling on a small garrison of Ukrainian border troops defending Snake Island in the Black Sea to surrender - to which they memorably radioed an expletive-laden message of refusal.\n\nOriginally built in the Soviet era, the Moskva entered service in the early 1980s. The vessel was actually built in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv, which has been heavily bombed by Russia in recent days.\n\nThe guided missile cruiser was previously deployed by Moscow in the Syria conflict where it supplied Russian forces in the country with naval protection from the Mediterranean.\n\nIt is the second major vessel Russia has lost since the start of its invasion of Ukraine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you prove a war crime has been committed?\n\nImages posted online will be crucial in prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine, according to UK legal experts.\n\nA law professor said the use of bomb footage from Yemen during a mock war crimes trial showed how images shared online had \"transformed\" the documentation of atrocities.\n\nOne online investigator said there was \"so much\" useful and verifiable information in warzone footage.\n\nBut experts also said eyewitness accounts must not be overshadowed.\n\nCases against individuals who have committed war crimes in Ukraine could depend on social media posts about unlawful killings, wartime sexual violence and torture, said Prof Yvonne McDermott Rees, who runs the Open Source Research for Human Rights project at Swansea University.\n\nImages shared online have \"transformed\" the documentation of atrocities, legal experts say\n\nShe said material, known as open-source information, had \"completely transformed our way of knowing about human rights violations\".\n\n\"We're seeing increasingly the UN commissions of inquiry, fact-finding missions, even the International Criminal Court in the Hague, using this kind of evidence,\" she explained.\n\nProf McDermott Rees said open-source information had also been used in Swedish and Dutch courts to prosecute members of the so-called Islamic State returning from Syria.\n\nOpen-source information is information that is freely available online.\n\n\"A video of a beheading that's recorded or shared on YouTube or Facebook... is evidence,\" she said, adding that similar material was recently tested for use in a UK court.\n\nIn 2018, unverified footage of the aftermath of a deadly airstrike on the office of the presidency in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, was posted on Twitter.\n\nPeople were seen lifting injured people from the rubble following an airstrike in Sana'a, Yemen\n\nThe open-source investigative website, Bellingcat, used geolocation, satellite imagery and comparisons of hundreds of images to document the attack.\n\nTheir evidence was then presented in the mock trial of a fictitious Saudi pilot accused of war crimes.\n\n\"We wanted to see if one of these videos would be accepted as evidence in a common-law court in England and Wales,\" said Nick Waters, the justice accountability lead at Bellingcat.\n\nHe said the result was a methodology \"we're now using to collect and verify incidents in Ukraine\".\n\nSix people were reported to have died in an airstrike in Yemen, footage of which was then used in a mock war crimes trial in the UK\n\nThe problem, said Prof McDermott Rees, is that in the midst of war, bystanders are rarely thinking about a criminal trial.\n\n\"They're sharing it with the intention of showing the world what they've witnessed,\" she explained.\n\nBystanders are being encouraged to film landmarks and known buildings in their footage of war crimes and to use a mobile phone app developed by the International Bar Association, called eyeWitness.\n\nA young woman with a mobile phone takes pictures of a destroyed Retroville shopping centre in Kyiv following a Russian shelling attack\n\n\"It does things like capturing the metadata, the time, the date, the place where this piece of content was recorded,\" she said.\n\n\"If you are recording this, as well as showing the injuries suffered, the weapon, see if you can include landmarks or buildings in the background.\"\n\nShe said Witness, a charity that uses videos to document human rights abuses, has published guidelines on how bystanders can gather images that will be acceptable for use in courts.\n\nWar crimes investigators are also fighting against the widely held view that online images cannot be trusted.\n\n\"That misses out on the fact that there is so much useful and verifiable information being posted on the Internet,\" Mr Waters said, adding that it is difficult to fake incidents online because real events come with a pattern of tweets from multiple sources.\n\n\"With the advent of social media, of smartphones, you effectively have an incredibly powerful information network where people are able to take pictures and take videos of the events,\" Mr Waters added.\n\nThe presence of mobile phones in war zones has been a gamechanger\n\nSolicitor Dearbhla Minogue works with the human rights charity, Global Legal Action Network and Bellingcat,\n\nShe said viewing a video of something happening is a lot more compelling than hearing somebody talk about it.\n\n\"Think about... the death of George Floyd,\" said Ms Minogue.\n\n\"People actually saw that happening in real-time, including the jury, by watching what was filmed by a passer-by.\n\n\"That impacted the outcome of that trial because it was no longer one person's word against another person's.\"\n\nThe University of California has developed rules for the use of digital open-source material, called the Berkeley Protocol.\n\nThe question facing war crimes prosecutors, Ms Minogue said, is how to reassure a judge that the video is not faked or manipulated for political reasons.\n\n\"With a video that just appears online purporting to be the aftermath of an airstrike, how do we know that it is what it says it is?\" she said.\n\n\"That it's not staged or faked or these issues that are being raised by Russia in the context of these Bucha videos.\"\n\nMs Minogue said the normal way in domestic courts is to call the person who filmed it to give evidence in court.\n\n\"But in the cast of open-source information, where you don't have the creator, you can't ask them how they created it, whether they manipulated it [or] whether someone else could manipulate it.\n\n\"Using the information in the video and comparing it with other satellite imagery or other videos showing the same event, they can piece together all these bits of content and assess whether they think it real or fake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Russian soldiers raped me and killed my husband\"\n\nProf McDermott Rees warned that while open-source material can help, \"it's important not to lose the human side in all of this\".\n\nShe said: \"In Yemen, this kind of evidence wasn't seen on its own, it was in close collaboration with accounts that were gathered by NGOs on the ground.\"\n\nIn Ukraine, she said evidence of rape had been documented in the testimony of survivors, \"so it's really important that we don't underplay the importance of those human accounts\".\n\n\"It's about showing that when international crimes are committed, they're not committed with impunity,\" Prof McDermott Rees said.\n\n\"So this work in documenting and gathering information… we have to make sure that's going to stand up in court and that we'll see justice.\n\n\"All of us are seeing this really disturbing content coming out of Bucha, other areas in Ukraine and I think universally we want to see justice done.\"", "Much of the focus of the war in Ukraine has so far been about the battle on the ground - but the fight to dominate the skies is just as important. The BBC has been given an exclusive interview with a Ukrainian air defence officer about the battle for control of Ukraine's skies.\n\nCaptain Vasyl Kravchuk has a surprisingly ready smile for a man who has endured 50 days of war. We spoke to him via video link from his base at an undisclosed location.\n\nHe knows the coming weeks will offer no respite. Russia may have received a bloody nose in its aborted attempts to take Kyiv, but with the Eastern region of the Donbas now firmly in Moscow's sights, the men and women of Dnipro's Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade will continue to play a key role in the next phase of the war.\n\nDefending Ukraine's skies from Russian attacks is already proving a challenge. As another Ukrainian air defence officer told the BBC, it is like trying to use a giant fly swatter which had large holes in it.\n\n\"We can't cover the whole airspace,\" Capt Kravchuk says simply.\n\nThe fact he is even sitting here speaking to us is somewhat remarkable - especially given the fact that \"many air defence facilities were destroyed fully or partially\" in the first days of the war.\n\nIt's a rare public admission by Ukrainian forces that they suffered significant losses in the early stages of the war.\n\nBut despite these losses, the air defences which survived have still been used to good effect.\n\nOryx, which has been tracking military losses during the war using visual confirmation, says that Ukraine has destroyed, damaged or captured at least 82 Russian aircraft, including jets, helicopters and drones.\n\nIndeed, their successes have confounded military experts, who predicted that Russia would quickly achieve air superiority over Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video, shared by Ukrainian armed forces, shows a Russian helicopter being shot down by a missile\n\nRussia already had a significant advantage in the air, deploying more than three times as many combat aircraft as Ukraine. The US Pentagon says that Russian aircraft have been flying around 250 military missions and carrying out some 30 air strikes every day. Western officials still say that Russia is struggling to gain air superiority.\n\nBut in contrast, Ukraine's aging fleet of mostly MiG-29 fighter jets have been struggling to compete, managing at best around 10 military missions a day.\n\nUkraine knows that Russia has the upper hand in the air. That's why its repeatedly called on Western nations to close its skies.\n\nBut Russia's anticipated offensive in the Donbas presents a new, more difficult challenge.\n\nJustin Bronk, senior research fellow for airpower at the Royal United Services Institute, says Russia is likely to have greater freedom of access in the airspace over the eastern region than the rest of the country due to its proximity to Russian controlled airspace.\n\nIn order to win the fight here, Ukraine requires a mix of long, medium and short range weapons to provide what's known as a \"layered defence\".\n\nThe West has been providing a significant number of shorter-range surface-to-air missiles. The US alone has already sent 2,000 Stingers. The UK has provided an unspecified number of Starstreak high velocity missiles too.\n\nBut while Capt Kravchuk says his country is grateful for those shoulder launched weapons, known as Manpads, he says they're only effective on the frontline.\n\nThis is because Manpads - man-portable air defence systems - are most effective against low flying aircraft. Russia is mostly using long range cruise missiles and high-altitude bombing.\n\nCapt Kravchuk told the BBC: \"We now lack medium and long range air defence systems... we do not have enough.\"\n\nA renewed Russian offensive in the Donbas will put another serious strain on Ukraine's limited air defence.\n\nWhile the focus of the war has turned to Eastern Ukraine, the rest of the country still needs protection. On the ground, we've seen evidence that Ukraine has been sending additional air defence systems to the east in recent days. But it can't afford to redeploy all its air defence systems to the Donbas region.\n\n\"We cannot leave half of Ukraine completely without protection,\" Capt Kravchuck says.\n\nUkraine is having to use its air defences not just to target Russian aircraft, but also Russian cruise and ballistic missiles. They are having some success, but they can't destroy everything.\n\nCapt Kravchuk estimates that his unit is shooting down between 50-70% of Russia's longer-range missiles. As an example, he says when Russia fired six missiles around Dnipro recently they managed to stop four.\n\nThat still suggests a significant number are getting through. The Pentagon says that Russia has launched 1,550 missiles since the war began.\n\nRussia says it's also been using hypersonic missiles. There isn't much Ukraine's air defences can do against those as they travel at five times the speed of sound.\n\nBut the harsh fact is that, without more significant support, Ukraine will find it increasingly hard to defend itself from Russian air and missile strikes the longer this war goes on.\n\nA senior western intelligence official told the BBC that long and mid-range air defences were top of the list of Ukraine's requests for more weapons supplies: \"They're very specific that they need air defence ammunition… they do need those in large quantities.\"\n\nAnd as Capt Kravchuk told us: \"Past wars have shown, whoever dominates the air wins the war.\"", "Tamryn Saby worked for an airline for 11 years before joining the vaccination programme\n\nMore than 10,000 people who signed up to help deliver Covid-19 vaccinations have now taken permanent roles with the NHS in England.\n\nAbout 71,000 people took paid roles and thousands more volunteered to help with the programme which has now given more than 120 million doses.\n\nThe 11,483 who have chosen to stay in the NHS include former airline cabin crew members, gym managers and chefs.\n\nNHS England said they would help tackle the backlog caused by the pandemic.\n\nTamryn Saby worked for an airline for 11 years but decided to volunteer with the vaccine programme in Cambridge and study to become a therapeutic radiographer when she was furloughed.\n\n\"I hoped that by getting involved it would help us all return to 'normal' sooner, but being part of the vaccine roll-out also helped build my confidence for a career in healthcare, and showed that by working for the NHS you can make a real difference to people's lives every day,\" she said.\n\nAnd Kazeem Reaves Odunsi, who worked as a gym manager before becoming a vaccinator, said: \"I have always loved helping people so the vaccinator role seemed like a good fit and although I don't have any clinical experience, I received training and was able to use the leadership skills and good customer service that I had learned from my previous jobs.\n\n\"By giving someone the vaccine I felt I was helping to improve their quality of life and bring an end to the pandemic.\n\n\"Being part of a team that was making history and getting to meet people from a range of backgrounds and cultures, I was really inspired to stay on and start a new career in the NHS.\"\n\nHe is now working as an assistant service manager at Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London.\n\nNHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said it was fantastic that 11,000 people who had helped \"deliver the most successful NHS vaccination programme in history\" had decided to stay in the health service, while Health Secretary Sajid Javid said he was \"delighted\".\n\nThe 120 million doses of coronavirus vaccine administered since December 2020 - when Margaret Keenan from Coventry became the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer vaccine - include more than 32 million boosters and 1.4 million spring boosters.\n\nSpring boosters are being offered to people aged 75 and over, residents in care homes and those with weakened immune systems.\n\nAnd earlier this month the programme opened to all children aged five to 11 years old, who are being offered two low-strength doses of the Pfizer vaccine, at least 12 weeks apart.", "Sailors said to be from the Moskva were shown on parade in a video released on Saturday Image caption: Sailors said to be from the Moskva were shown on parade in a video released on Saturday\n\nSome 40 sailors were killed, several are missing and many more were wounded in the sinking of the warship Moskva, the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe reports quoting the mother of a sailor believed to be on board.\n\nThe mother said her son told her in a phone call that the Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, had been hit by three missiles from land, from Ukrainian territory.\n\n\"He called me and was crying because of what he had seen. It was terrifying,\" she said, adding that she herself was terrified of having to wait for him to finish his service.\n\nHe said he would not give her the details of what he had seen because it was so terrible, adding that many of the wounded had lost limbs because of the explosions.\n\nThe newspaper has not named the sailor or his mother to protect them.\n\nBut it says it has documentary evidence which makes it plausible that the sailor was serving on the Moskva.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has so far given no word of any casualties in the sinking. However, earlier we reported that Radio Liberty had confirmed the death of Midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev.\n\nMeanwhile the ministry on Saturday posted video which it says is of the ship's sailors meeting the commander of the Russian Navy in Sevastopol.\n\nIt blames the sinking on a fire on board the ship and stormy weather. Ukraine says it hit the Moskva with two missiles.\n\nNovaya Gazeta Europe was set up earlier this month to get around Russia's crackdown on media freedom. Its Russian counterpart suspended its operations in March after being repeatedly threatened with closure over its coverage of the invasion of Ukraine.", "The Russian Orthodox Church has echoed the rhetoric of the Kremlin in justifying the war in Ukraine. It is a stance that appears to be driving large numbers of Ukrainian priests and parishioners to turn their backs on Moscow.\n\n\"I will never forget the moment when I woke up early to go to mass, only to suddenly hear the shocking sounds of bombing,\" says Father Nicolay Pluzhnik.\n\n\"The wonderful woman who cooked at our church and her son, who was in a wheelchair, were both killed when an artillery shell hit their apartment. I now know of several other of our parishioners who have died.\"\n\nLike most clergy in the region of north-eastern Ukraine where he is from, Father Pluzhnik belonged to the branch of the Russian Orthodox Church which takes its direction from its religious leadership in Moscow.\n\nBut now, he says, has applied to join the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - which was finally granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church in 2019, in a move never recognised by Russia.\n\nHe says many fellow priests who followed Patriarch Kirill in Moscow are doing the same because of the Church leader's stance on the war.\n\nFather Nicolay Pluzhnik in his church in Chuhuiv, in the Kharkiv region, before he fled west\n\nFather Pluzhnik and his family fled under artillery fire and now have a temporary new home in the town of Chernivtsi, in western Ukraine.\n\n\"When the war started, I was waiting to hear from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the 'father' of our church. But first there was no reaction at all, and then there was worse,\" he says.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill blessed the Russian army and gave his blessing to the war. It was not just him but the majority of priests of the Moscow Patriarchate [Russian Orthodox Church] including some that even have Ukrainian roots. I was in shock.\"\n\nAs well as having failed to unequivocally condemn the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, or call for a ceasefire, the Patriarch has held large televised services in Moscow to bless Russian troops. He has also suggested in sermons that the Kremlin's war is a righteous one about the future of Christianity.\n\n\"What is happening today is much more important than politics,\" he said last month. \"We are talking about human salvation, about where humanity will end up and on which side of God the Saviour.\"\n\nPatriarch Kirill, in green robes, at a recent service attended by military personnel\n\nThere are religious undertones in much of the Kremlin's narrative justifying its invasion of Ukraine. It is a fight for the conservative ideals of the Russian Orthodox Church based in Moscow, against an immoral outside world. President Putin has said Ukraine is not only an \"inalienable part\" of Russia's history and culture - but also its \"spiritual space\".\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said he finds Patriarch Kirill's sentiment concerning.\n\n\"There are elements in the Russian Christian tradition that can become really toxic when they get in their head a particular kind of Christian nationalism, a sort of messianic approach to the fate of the nation,\" said Dr Williams during a visit to western Ukraine this week.\n\nHe was part of an extraordinary high-level, multi-faith delegation - including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders. They met refugees who had fled the horrors in the eastern part of the country.\n\nDr Williams has long studied and written about the positive contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church, and appears deeply saddened by the role the Moscow Patriarchate is playing in the war.\n\n\"I think that the increasing influence in the Patriarchate of Moscow of ultranationalist ideals - often including a strand of anti-Semitism - has been going on for some time.\n\n\"And it has now expressed itself in this very uncritical support of Russian national ambitions, a very aggressive attitude towards many other Orthodox churches. The writing has been on the wall for some time,\" he said.\n\nPatriarch Kirill has echoed President Putin's claim that Russian speakers and followers of Moscow's Russian Orthodox Church living in eastern Ukraine need liberating after years of oppression.\n\n\"Our brothers and sisters were really suffering, they suffer for their loyalty to the Church,\" said Patriarch Kirill a week into the war.\n\nBut Father Pluzhnik, a Russian speaker and a follower of the Moscow Patriarchate all of his adult life, is angered by those claims.\n\n\"When I hear them say they are protecting us and fighting some 'Holy War', I think they are either blind, or they are not serving God but the devil,\" he says.\n\n\"We were living peacefully until they came. But far from protecting us they bombed and tortured and killed. Before the war, parishioners were completely free to choose what church they went to, they just went to the church closest to their home. For many of them it was not even a significant difference to go to a church that followed Moscow or not, they just wanted to pray to God. Now that has changed.\"\n\nDr Sergii Bortnyk, a professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy and an adviser to the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, acknowledges that there has been a widespread movement of people and parishes across the country abandoning their loyalty to Moscow.\n\n\"I think it is maybe half of the 12,000 parishes [of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine] that have said that they want to break away now,\" says Dr Bortnyk.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill has not said anything about all the Christians in Ukraine that have been killed, so I believe the members of our church are free to end their connection to him as the patriarch,\" he says.\n\n\"The connection to all of our [Moscow Patriarchate Russian Orthodox] Church in Ukraine to Moscow is in question now.\"\n\nThe Kremlin's aim, backed by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, had been to unite Russia and Ukraine in a single \"spiritual space\".\n\nBut the manner by which they have tried to achieve that appears to have had precisely the opposite effect.", "Capturing the whole of Mariupol is seen as a major strategic prize for Russia\n\nDefenders of the besieged city of Mariupol will fight to the end against Russian forces, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says.\n\nThe port city has not fallen despite an ultimatum from Moscow to remaining fighters to give up, he said.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia has chosen to raze Mariupol to the ground.\n\nLocal officials said Russian forces have announced they will stop anyone from entering or leaving the city.\n\nCapturing the whole of the city is seen as a major strategic prize for Russia, leaving it in control of a vast swathe of southern and eastern Ukraine.\n\nAn advisor to the mayor of Mariupol said residents would be forced to queue for a pass to enable them to move between districts and some could have their phones confiscated or be taken against their will to Russia.\n\nPetro Andryushchenko also said Russia was holding at least 20,000 Ukrainian citizens in filtration camps outside Mariupol.\n\nIn an interview with the US network ABC, Mr Shmyhal said a Russian deadline for Ukrainian forces in Mariupol to surrender by Sunday had been ignored.\n\n\"The city still has not fallen,\" he said. \"There is still our military forces, our soldiers, so they will fight until the end. And as for now, they still are in Mariupol.\"\n\nRussia's military says it controls almost all of Mariupol, while Ukraine's Azov Battalion is still holding out in Azovstal, a huge steelworks overlooking the Azov Sea.\n\nJustin Crump, a military expert at security consultancy Sybilline, told the BBC there could be 500 to 800 Ukrainian troops holding out in the city.\n\n\"[The steelworks] has nuclear bunkers, tunnels, it's built to survive a nuclear conflict - they are really well set for defence,\" he said.\n\n\"They have had more than 50 days to fortify it and build escape routes,\" Mr Crump added. \"I suspect that unless they are wiped out they'll be there a long time. It's credible there would be guerrilla resistance.\"\n\nUkraine has demanded that Russian forces open humanitarian corridors from Mariupol to allow civilians and wounded Ukrainian troops to leave, but no large-scale evacuations have taken place for several weeks.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk confirmed there would be no corridor again on Monday and repeated calls for a way out of Mariupol to be set up.\n\n\"We demand an urgent humanitarian corridor from the territory of the Azovstal plant for women, children and other civilians,\" she said in a post on Telegram.\n\nThe situation for civilians in the city is desperate, with homes destroyed and widespread water shortages.\n\nThe family of one of two British men reportedly been captured by Russian forces while fighting in Mariupol have said they are hoping for a quick resolution to his situation.\n\nShaun Pinner, 48, who is serving in the Ukrainian Army, has appeared on Russian state television, as has Aiden Aslin. They asked to be exchanged for Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician being held by Ukraine's authorities, though it was unclear if they were speaking under duress.\n\nMr Medvedchuk's wife has also called for the exchange, appealing to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to help arrange it.\n\nAs Mariupol defenders continue to hold out, Ukrainian officials still deny any possibility of territorial concessions to Russia.\n\nIn an interview broadcast on Sunday by CNN, President Volodymyr Zelensky brushed aside the idea of letting Moscow take over parts of eastern Ukraine to stop the conflict.\n\n\"Ukraine and its people are clear. We have no claim to anyone else's territories but we are not going to give up ours,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, authorities in the western city of Lviv said seven people were killed in rocket strikes on Monday morning.\n\nIt is not yet clear what the strikes were targeting. In recent weeks, Russia has focused its offensive on eastern Ukraine.", "An investigation into the cause of the fire has begun\n\nSeven people have been rescued from a \"severe\" fire on the 15th floor of a block of flats.\n\nFive adults and two children were led to safety from Nauls Mill House in Coventry after the blaze broke out at about 20:50 BST on Saturday.\n\nAnother six people, including a child, were able to get out by themselves and nobody was seriously hurt.\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service said a further 19 residents were moved to a nearby library.\n\nCrews from Coventry, Solihull and Birmingham were called to the 16-storey building on Middlesbrough, with 75 firefighters arriving in 13 fire engines.\n\nThe fire was put out just after midnight and an investigation into the cause has been launched.\n\nFirefighters spent more than three hours putting out the fire\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said four people were assessed at the scene and treated for minor injuries.\n\nThe fire service said crews arrived within two minutes of getting the call and described the blaze as \"severe\" and \"very challenging\".\n\nA spokesman said the fire had spread from the flats to a balcony above.\n\nThe fire broke out on the 15th floor of the 16-storey building\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Destroyed buildings and vehicles in Mariupol on 13 April Image caption: Destroyed buildings and vehicles in Mariupol on 13 April\n\nThe embattled Ukrainian city of Mariupol could completely fall to Russian forces within days, a European official has told Reuters.\n\nThe official, who asked not to be named, said they believe that Russia hopes to declare the city \"liberated\" by 9 May, the date when Russia marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.\n\n\"We do expect a complete destruction of the city and many civilian casualties in Mariupol,\" they added.\n\nThe official added they fear the death toll could be worse than Bucha, where Russian troops have been accused of killing hundreds of civilians. Russia denies the claims.\n\nAdditionally, the official said they believed Russia's medium-term objective was to control Luhansk and Donetsk and secure a land corridor with Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014.\n\nSuch an operation is likely to take between four and six months to complete, after which the conflict could result in a stalemate, the official added.", "A makeshift memorial at the site of Lyoya's death\n\nThe fatal shooting of a young black man in Michigan after a scuffle during a traffic stop has once again raised questions about the police use of lethal force - and why pulling over African American motorists so often leads to tragedy.\n\nIn a quiet suburb of the Michigan city of Grand Rapids, a collection of flowers, cards and candles has been placed against a tree next to a small front lawn.\n\nThis corner of Nelson Avenue and Griggs Street - the intersection of two parallel rows of neat clapboard houses with cars in the driveways and Happy Easter decorations in the porches - could be anywhere in the great American Midwest.\n\nSome of the residents, though, speak of something else far less visible but just as commonplace - a sense of insecurity on account of the colour of their skin.\n\n\"Once again we're at the same question - police brutality, police injustice in our country,\" says Terry Roberts, 57.\n\n\"I think most black men go through that. We get stopped for no reason at all or just because we're driving black. That's just how it is.\"\n\nThis week, the police released video footage of the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya.\n\nThe tragic incident was caught in graphic detail and from multiple angles on a police body camera, a police dashboard camera, an eyewitness' phone and a doorbell security system from one of those Nelson Avenue homes.\n\nIt makes difficult viewing from all of them.\n\nFrame by frame, what began as a routine traffic incident - with Mr Lyoya being questioned by a white police officer over a suspected licence plate violation - unfolds rapidly towards an outcome that has once again put the question of racial injustice and policing firmly in the national spotlight.\n\nMr Lyoya at times seems confused, and tries to run.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patrick Lyoya was fatally shot by a police officer, shortly after grappling over a taser\n\nAt one point his hand can be seen holding and fending off an electric stun gun while the officer attempts to deploy it from close range.\n\nIn the ensuing struggle, Mr Lyoya is forced face down to the ground with the policeman lying on top of him shouting at him to let go of the Taser.\n\nThen, without warning, the officer draws his gun and shoots Mr Lyoya in the head.\n\nA short drive east from Grand Rapids, in the Michigan state capital of Lansing, the same biting wind blows from across the Great Lakes, even in Spring.\n\nBut there's one important difference between the two cities that might, some people believe, offer a way to help prevent more deaths like that of Patrick Lyoya.\n\n\"Two years ago, after the George Floyd incident, we wanted to evaluate our policies,\" says Lansing Mayor Andy Schor.\n\nProtesters have been on the streets demanding justice for Patrick Lyoya\n\nThe incident in which Mr Floyd died at the hands of a police officer who knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes, prompted Mr Schor to outlaw restraint techniques like chokeholds.\n\nBut it also led to a wider review in which a decision was made to curtail the range of reasons for which police officers can stop people in cars.\n\n\"We put in place a policy that said we're not going to have our officers pull people over just for non-public safety reasons,\" says the mayor.\n\nWhile offences that pose a danger, like speeding or running stop signs, are still enforced at the roadside, he believes that there are other far more efficient and potentially less confrontational ways to tackle things like cracked taillights or licence plate violations.\n\nAnd telling officers which kind of violations they should pull drivers over for also reduces the risk of conscious or unconscious racial profiling inherent in a more free-for-all approach which, he acknowledged, can lead to escalation.\n\n\"You never want a traffic stop to end up in a death of the person being pulled over or of the police officer.\"\n\nIt will now be for a Michigan police investigation to answer the key questions in the case of Patrick Lyoya - what, if any, threat did he pose and what level of force was appropriate in response.\n\nBut they are questions that police forces across the US find themselves asking all too frequently.\n\nA recent New York Times investigation of road-side traffic stops found that over a five-year period police officers shot dead more than 400 US drivers who were neither wielding a gun or a knife, nor involved in a violent crime.\n\nBarricades at the police station at Grand Rapids\n\nAs a result of those kinds of figures, Lansing is not the only place trying to think differently about how to reduce them.\n\nLos Angeles and Philadelphia are among other cities and districts where the police or city leaders have been rewriting the rules for routine traffic stops.\n\nCarlton T Mayers, an attorney who works with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said he welcomed the changes as a practical approach to a long running problem.\n\n\"We've seen young teenagers, black and Latino, having guns pulled on them over a mistaken identity. We've seen a young black man get punched in the face on video during a routine traffic stop,\" he told me.\n\n\"And this is just within the past two years in Grand Rapids prior to Patrick's tragedy. We know that these issues exist and in order to address it, we need everybody to step up to the plate\".\n\nIn a country where high levels of gun ownership will remain a fact of life and where there's no easy fix for discrimination and bias, reforming traffic stop rules can at least minimise the chances of minor interactions ending in fatalities.\n\nMr Mayers welcomes the shift in some police forces towards minor traffic infringements being handled by administrators rather than traffic police.\n\n\"Now you have unarmed individuals taking on that responsibility instead of armed law enforcement,\" he says.\n\n\"But at the end of the day, it cannot just be one policy change or one law change. It's always a holistic approach that you need, and it has to be a multi-pronged approach.\"\n\nA few doors down from where Patrick Lyoya was shot, I met Ida Nixon, a black woman who has lived in the street for 43 years.\n\n\"When it's going to get solved, we will never know,\" she sighed.\n\n\"I feel sorry for his family,\" she said and then added: \"And a police officer and his family, you know, what they're going through too.\"\n• None Family of man shot by US police want officer named", "Hero lost his house but others were able to make repairs\n\nRescue operations are continuing in South Africa in an effort to save the lives of dozens of people who are missing following the floods in KwaZulu-Natal province. With more rain on its way, emergency teams face further peril as they search for survivors.\n\n\"My house was here, and behind my house it was six or seven metres away from the river, so I thought I was safe,\" says Hero Cangcatha, pointing at the debris that was once his Durban home.\n\n\"I'm traumatised because I don't know what to do, I don't know where to go, I don't know the way forward. There's no way forward in fact.\"\n\nHero is one of about 40,000 people affected by the floods. Officials say 13,500 properties have been damaged, leaving many homeless without shelter, food or water.\n\nAnother woman nearby, who said she was too embarrassed to be named, said she must flee before her home is destroyed.\n\n\"I need a place to stay now, right now I'm leaving. Just for the safety of my children. It's too bad, but we thank God that we are alive.\"\n\nNearly 400 people have died and there are fears that number will increase as search and rescue operations continue to find scores of people who are still unaccounted for.\n\nThe grim search for survivors is also in jeopardy because some excavation machine drivers have left for the Easter holiday.\n\nOne aid organisation, Gift of the Givers, is now appealing for people who know how to operate excavation machinery.\n\nThat is now more likely to be a body retrieval operation as opposed to a rescue. But still, residents are digging through the rubble with their bare hands.\n\nThere is a frantic search for clean drinking water, a week on since the floods swept through this region - destroying homes, power lines, roads and bridges.\n\nResidents gathered near a burst-water pipe scrambling for every drop of safe water in Amaoti, a township north of Durban.\n\nThe queues are long but the people are desperate.\n\n\"There's no water at home, we can't eat, we can't bath. We need the government to help us with relief efforts,\" one resident told the BBC, as they filled a plastic container with water to take home.\n\nMeanwhile nearly 300 schools and some health facilities have also been damaged.\n\nSome communities are completely cut off because roads and bridges have collapsed.\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa visited the province earlier this week to access the damage and level of need.\n\nHe described the floods - the worst in decades - as a \"catastrophe of enormous proportions\".\n\nHe's declared the province a disaster area and has promised that the government would \"spare no expense\" to rebuild the infrastructure and assist all affected families.\n\nWeather experts have said that climate change may be contributing to changing patterns and making such extreme events more frequent.\n\nWhile residents and critics agree, they have also blamed the government for not maintaining infrastructure or having proper water drainage systems in the province.\n\nThese are accusations the government has refuted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Footfall across Scotland is expected to surge over the busy Easter weekend\n\nA leading public health expert has urged people to keep following Covid-19 advice over the busy Easter weekend.\n\nProf Linda Bauld told the BBC there were still high levels of infection due to the BA.2 Omicron variant.\n\nShe said public health advice on the virus would be around for \"months to come\" despite the rule on face masks becoming guidance on Monday.\n\nTraffic jams and rail disruption have already impacted commuters across the UK over the long weekend.\n\nFamily gatherings, a rise in church attendance and events including the Musselburgh races are expected to contribute to higher social interaction across Scotland.\n\nCrowds will also have gathered at Hampden for the Scottish Cup semi-finals with Hearts playing Hibs on Saturday and Celtic clashing with Rangers on Sunday.\n\nHearts supporters pictured at Hampden on Saturday during the semi-final clash\n\nEarlier this week the Office for National Statistics sampling showed a slight decrease in the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in Scotland for the third week in a row.\n\nHowever, Prof Bauld said despite the encouraging figures, infection levels were still high due to the highly transmissible BA.2 variant.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: \"Reinfections are increasingly common - they're accounting for around 11% of infections certainly in Scotland.\n\n\"So if you're in indoor places with others you don't normally live with, of course people may pick it up.\n\n\"They're unlikely to become severely unwell but I think in time when we've lifted basically all the protective measures and it's down to people's decisions, we still just need to be aware of that.\"\n\nOn Thursday Public Health Scotland reported 4,196 further cases of Covid-19 and 40 deaths of people who had tested positive.\n\nFewer people are becoming severely unwell with only 20 patients with Covid requiring intensive care on Friday, although more than 2,000 Covid-positive patients are in hospital across Scotland.\n\nOn Monday, the legal requirement to wear face masks in many indoor settings in Scotland will become guidance.\n\nThe move had been delayed twice amid record levels of Covid cases and high numbers of people in hospital with the virus.\n\nSpeaking about the matter to the PA news agency on Sunday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she had confidence in the \"good sense and responsibility\" of people in Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"We can't keep things in law beyond a point where that is deemed to be proportionate, so we will move the face covering requirement out of law and into guidance.\n\n\"Wearing a face covering is a bit of protection you can give, not only to yourself but to the people you might be around - including people who might be more clinically vulnerable.\"\n\nProf Bauld echoed the Scottish government's advice for people to continue wearing masks in crowded indoor places and on public transport.\n\nShe said: \"Wearing a face covering indoors even if it's not a legal requirement, thinking about being in well ventilated places and finally just making sure everyone is up to date with their vaccines before they travel - this is practical advice we're going to hear around the country for some months to come.\n\n\"If you had Delta for example you might pick up Omicron, and you could still become quite poorly even if you don't become severely unwell.\"\n\nProf Bauld added that new hybrid variants were still being identified through the government's testing surveillance.\n\nShe said: \"They certainly are transmissible and in fact some of them may be a little bit more transmissible than what we've got at the moment but they're not causing more severe disease.\"", "New laws are aimed at preventing scandals like the collapse of Christmas savings club Farepak in 2006\n\nSavings clubs for shoppers will soon be protected under new laws to be introduced by the government.\n\nMany families pay into schemes throughout the year to spend on Christmas, weddings or home projects.\n\nThese clubs are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.\n\nBut new laws mean even if the company goes bust, shoppers' money will still be protected. It is aimed at preventing scandals like the collapse of Christmas savings club Farepak in 2006.\n\nWhen the Swindon-based company folded, it left 116,000 customers with losses of £37m and many unable to pay for festive gifts.\n\nMany UK supermarkets and other businesses have a Christmas savings club, allowing customers to top up an account throughout the year and receive products and services in time for Christmas.\n\nThe average family spends about £740 extra in December, analysis from the Bank of England has shown.\n\nConsumer minister Paul Scully said that families' hard-earned savings needed to be protected now more than ever due to the cost of living crisis.\n\n\"New laws will crack down on dodgy dealers who have no plans in place to protect shoppers' savings if their business goes to the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll make sure scandals like Farepak never happen again, where thousands of families, many on low incomes, lost all they had saved for Christmas.\"\n\nThe law will apply to Christmas savings clubs and other prepayment schemes that are forms of a savings club.", "Scammers have been profiting from the war in Ukraine by spreading emotional appeals across the internet and stealing identities.\n\nGlobal Disinformation Reporter Hannah Gelbart investigates their emotionally charged tricks, and follows digital paper trails across the internet\n\nListen to the episode ‘War scams: The criminals exploiting conflict in Ukraine’ from BBC Trending.\n\nWatch the documentary on BBC News iPlayer ‘Victims of Ukraine War Scams’ in the UK and BBC News YouTube globally.\n\nProduced by Soraya Auer and Hannah Gelbart for BBC Global Reality Check and the Global Disinformation Unit.", "The physical reminders of what happened here will eventually be erased\n\nAt the base of a block of flats in Bucha, the sound of sawing echoes around the deserted communal garden.\n\nIn one of the doorways a blackened kettle boils on an open fire, blowing clouds of steam into the bitter air. This place should be buzzing with life and sound, with the chatter of children playing and clambering over the climbing frame that dominates the square.\n\nBut since the Russians came, everything has changed here. Most people fled, and they're yet to return. There's just one small, hardy group who are trying to pave the way for others to come back.\n\nSergei and his wife arrived at their flat five days ago. Now they and their neighbours are trying to rebuild their damaged homes, and clearing away the debris of countless Russian shells.\n\n\"You always want to come back home\", he tells me. \"So we used our first chance to return as well. And we used our chance to make sure that all the property is safe, even from locals that might come and steal something.\"\n\nSergei takes me to an open grave in the shadow of his building. It's just a few steps away, and we walk in the deep grooves the Russian tanks carved into the mud as they rolled in. Sergei's neighbour - killed as he tried to take a photo of them - lay here.\n\nHis name and the date he died are written of a piece of wooden pallet, a rough and temporary gravestone. When Sergei returned home, one of the first things he wanted to do was finally give him a dignified burial.\n\nIn just a few weeks, Bucha locals have become accustomed to death.\n\nDenys Davidoff stayed in the town throughout the occupation. When the Russians left he ventured back onto the streets, and was confronted with a vision of horror. Many people around the world saw photos and videos of bodies lying scattered on the ground in Bucha, some with hands bound behind their backs. But Denys witnessed them himself.\n\nDenys Davidoff saw much of the horror first hand\n\n\"When I arrived I saw the street with the dead bodies. I just walked around them, and they were everywhere. I wasn't scared, but it was intense. You got used to it during the month of the occupation.\"\n\nAs the world condemned what it saw, Russia claimed the news was fake, and the bodies were planted after its forces left. But Denys lived through it, and that was not what he saw.\n\n\"Some corpses were lying for such a long time that you could see their bodies were covered with the sand and the earth after it rained. At some point I realised I knew some of the people who were killed.\"\n\nThe people of Bucha are still processing the devastation they've lived through. But they aren't entirely safe just yet. More than 3,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance have been found around the Kyiv region so far.\n\nThis local man has come back to repair his home\n\nIn a nearby village we pass a ditch at the side of the road, with around 20 unexploded shells neatly placed in it, lying side by side. A single thin ribbon of plastic tape runs around the perimeter to protect the unaware from stumbling in.\n\nMaking these towns safe again for people to return to will be a huge job.\n\nOn the road to Bucha, there's an unconventional graveyard. The burned and twisted hulks of Russian military vehicles lie idly by the roadside.\n\nThis was a camp, a defensive position, and among the wreckage are signs of the soldiers who once lived here. There are small gold foil pots of food rations, vodka bottles, underwear and socks. Mis-matching camouflage, and a civilian brightly-patterned sleeping bag that someone brought along to keep warm. By the remains of a campfire there's a discarded bottle of shower gel, and someone's toothbrush.\n\nI find pieces of paper with burned edges and Russian script on them. Our local producer Illya scans them and tells me they're from a rulebook for Russian soldiers, a tome of instructions on how to fight and survive. But they didn't here.\n\nLocal people pose for selfies among the abandoned Russian equipment\n\nThere's no silence in this place. Cars and lorries roll by, slowing down for a better look at the wreckage. Locals arrive in a constant stream, then clamber over the destroyed vehicles and pose for selfies.\n\nEven the single Russian forearm lying in the grass nearby, its flesh and skin charred black, doesn't deter them. A closer inspection reveals that one of the tanks still has a badly burnt body inside - barely recognisable as human. A small group gathers and one man films it on his mobile phone.\n\nIn time, this will all be cleared away, and the road will look like it always did. The bodies will be buried, the shattered windows will be mended, and the buildings will be repaired. Eventually the physical reminders of the cruelty that was inflicted will be gone from sight.\n\nBut for the people of Bucha, the memories will long remain.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel travelled to Rwandan capital Kigali to sign the deal\n\nThere was only muted applause from a handful of officials as the politicians shook hands in the Kigali Conference Centre, smiling awkwardly for the cameras.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel hailed the Rwandan deal as a world first, a major milestone. And it is. Potentially.\n\nSome nations have attempted to outsource their asylum processing offshore. But no country has ever tried to export its asylum responsibilities before.\n\nWhat the deal envisages is an end to the system of protection for those fleeing war and persecution that Britain signed up to more than 70 years ago.\n\nLast year 28,526 people crossed the Channel in small boats\n\nInstead of claiming asylum when they arrive in Britain, those fleeing persecution or war will have to find a legal and safe route to the UK or, for most, face being packed off to Africa. There are currently very few such routes and none available to the citizens of countries that make up the bulk of those granted refugee status in Britain.\n\nWhat is an asylum seeker form Iraq or Iran, say, supposed to do? They are faced with Catch 22. They can only claim asylum to Britain on British soil. But in reaching the UK, they make themselves inadmissible for asylum.\n\nFor the home secretary and the prime minister, that appears to be the long-term aim: to stop all asylum seekers from coming to Britain. Instead, we are promised a network of safe routes from UN-run refugee camps.\n\nAs things stand, the UK is a passive recipient of those asking for sanctuary. The government has no control over who the asylum seekers are. The new plan would mean politicians could pick and choose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It's a striking fact that around seven out of 10 of those arriving in small boats last year were men under 40, paying people smugglers to queue jump and taking up our capacity to help genuine women and child refugees,\" was how the prime minister put it.\n\nBoris Johnson knew what buttons he was pressing when he said: \"We can't ask the British taxpayer to write a blank cheque to cover the costs of anyone who might want to come and live here.\"\n\nThere is concern the UK is being taken for a ride by people simply seeking a better life.\n\nHe conflated the thousands of people risking their lives to reach the Kent coast in small boats with \"economic migrants taking advantage of the asylum system\".\n\nThe problem with this argument is that a substantial majority of those who cross the channel are subsequently granted refugee status by the UK government. Home Office officials decide they do indeed have a well-founded fear of persecution in their country of origin.\n\nIt was noticeable how upbeat the home secretary was as she jetted to Kigali to sign on the dotted line.\n\nPriti Patel has faced a great deal of criticism in recent weeks, often from MPs on her own side. But she sees the Rwandan deal, nine months in the making, as an opportunity to defeat the \"evil people smugglers\" whose activities in the Channel are so humiliating for a government that promised to take back control of Britain's borders.\n\nI sense this home secretary relishes the opportunity of a battle against \"the naysayers\", her \"political opponents\" who \"condemn everything\" without a plan of their own, and the asylum \"lawyers who are fleecing the British taxpayer\".\n\nThat is an argument that would play well with her core support, burnish her Brexit credentials, and helpfully change the conversation from visa delays and \"partygate\".\n\nOne can see, then, why the UK government would want this deal, but what about the Rwandans? Are they happy about it?\n\nWe don't know all the details of the arrangement, but there is an initial £120m for educational projects and other money to assist with processing sent by the UK.\n\nRwandan ministers believe the arrival of motivated migrants will help boost their economy and the deal itself will encourage further investment.\n\nBut one wonders what the ordinary Rwandan will think of a rich European country sending its problem to a small African state.", "It is unclear what will happen to those who did not manage to cross the border in time\n\nA huge queue of trucks has formed on the Poland-Belarus border as Russian and Belarusian drivers try to leave the EU following a sanctions deadline.\n\nIn the run-up to the Saturday deadline, the line extended to 80km (50 miles), with some stuck for up to 33 hours.\n\nThe EU has banned lorries from Russia and Belarus - except those carrying medicine, mail or petroleum products - from entering or staying in the bloc.\n\nThe move is part of sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nDrone footage filed by Reuters news agency showed long queues remaining as the midnight deadline neared.\n\n\"There are still many kilometres to drive... so it's unrealistic,\" it quoted a Belarusian driver on his chances of crossing the border in time.\n\nAnd hours after the deadline passed, the waiting times had been shortened to 12 hours, says the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw, with the number of trucks at two border crossings between 230-400 vehicles.\n\nHowever, it is unclear what will happen to thousands of other trucks from the two countries estimated to currently be on EU territory.\n\nOne possibility is that they will be seized by national authorities.\n\nA Polish official representing transport groups expressed concern that such a move may lead to similar measures against Polish trucks using Russia and Belarus on their way back home.\n\nThe EU - and many other Western countries - have imposed punishing sanctions against Russia, and its main ally Belarus.\n\nThe two countries have reciprocated with measures of their own.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLiverpool survived a late scare to remain on course for an historic quadruple as they reached the FA Cup final with victory over Manchester City at Wembley.\n\nIf last Sunday's Premier League meeting between the clubs was a classic, this semi-final was effectively decided in a one-sided first 45 minutes, in which a mixture of ruthless finishing and Manchester City mistakes saw Liverpool take a 3-0 lead.\n\nA reshuffled City side were unable to recover as Liverpool, having won the Carabao Cup, are now in the FA Cup final too - as well as the last four of the Champions League, while sitting second in the Premier League.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, who was unable to start Kevin de Bruyne and had Kyle Walker out injured, preferred Zack Steffen to Ederson in goal, a move that back-fired spectacularly.\n\nIbrahima Konate had already headed Liverpool in front after nine minutes when Steffen, trying to repeat the feats of Ederson in the league game between these two clubs, miscontrolled in his six-yard area, allowing Sadio Mane to pounce.\n\nMane beat Steffen with a crisp volley at the end of a superb Liverpool build-up to put Jurgen Klopp's side in complete command at the break but Jack Grealish pulled one back early in the second half and keeper Alisson twice saved crucially from Gabriel Jesus as this semi-final sprang to life.\n\nBernardo Silva pulled another back for City at the start of a tense period of stoppage time but Liverpool survived to face either Chelsea or Crystal Palace, who meet at Wembley on Sunday, in the final on 14 May.\n• None One of Liverpool's best ever performances - Klopp\n\nLiverpool on course for history\n\nLiverpool's win keeps them in contention to make history - as no team in English football has won the league title, the two main domestic cup competitions and become champions of Europe in the same season.\n\nThis was a win built on the foundation of a first half in which their intensity and ruthlessness proved too much for City, whose revamped side looked off the pace and unable to cope with the power of Klopp's side.\n\nKonate's power in the air saw him score his third header in his past three starts and Mane's alertness was never going to allow Steffen to get away with his hesitation as he attempted to keep possession in the six-yard area.\n\nEderson had the calmness and expertise to escape almost on his goal-line as Diogo Jota bore down on him during last Sunday's 2-2 draw at Etihad Stadium but Steffen showed no such expertise or composure, and paid a heavy price as he was caught.\n\nMane led the Liverpool charge while Thiago was imperious in midfield, his clever pass allowing Mane to volley past Steffen at his near post in the closing moments of the first half for what eventually proved to be the winner.\n\nKlopp was elated with his team's performance at the conclusion, although he will have concerns about how they allowed City back into the game through Grealish's goal, conceded two clear chances to Jesus then had to survive the anxiety of four minutes of stoppage time after Silva struck.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, Liverpool deserved to reach the final and will present a formidable barrier to either Chelsea or Crystal Palace once the winner of the second semi-final is decided.\n\nMan City too late to the party\n\nThis was not a good day for Manchester City.\n\nIt started with a section of their support chanting through the minute's silence to commemorate the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, with City issuing a formal apology to Liverpool after the match had started.\n\nIn the football context, Guardiola and City were left to regret injuries, a team selection that did not work out and a horribly laboured first 45 minutes that left them with too much to do, despite the brief hope offered by Silva's second goal.\n\nCity missed the invention of De Bruyne, only fit enough for the bench after suffering an injury in the stormy Champions Leaque quarter-final against Atletico Madrid, and the experience of defender Walker, who was ruled out completely.\n\nAnd Guardiola's loyalty to Steffen as his FA Cup keeper was not rewarded as the American made that crucial error that allowed Liverpool to build on their fast start.\n\nGuardiola will be disappointed but this is a quality side who will now refocus and set sights on the Premier League, where they lead Liverpool by one point, and the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid.\n\nHe will hope to have De Bruyne and Walker back fully fit soon because, despite this loss, there is still so much at stake for Guardiola and Manchester City as they remain in a position to achieve stellar things this season.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Roberto Firmino following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Aké with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 2, Liverpool 3. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The prime minister previously met members of the Ukrainian community at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in London\n\nBoris Johnson has remembered the war in Ukraine in his Easter message, saying there was \"light beyond the darkness\".\n\nHe said Jesus' \"message of hope, the triumph of life over death, and good over evil\" would especially resonate with Christians in Ukraine this year.\n\nAddressing Ukrainians in their language, he urged them to \"be strong\" and to \"have courage in your heart\".\n\nPrince Charles also highlighted the suffering of \"innocent victims of conflict\" in his Easter message.\n\nIn a video message shared on his Twitter account, the prime minister said Easter was a time when the UK \"burst with new life and new hope\".\n\nHe said it was also a moment to reflect on the meaning of Christ's \"self-sacrifice and resurrection\" for people today as he paid tribute to Christians in the UK \"loving their neighbours and carrying out countless acts of kindness\".\n\nRemembering those \"around the world facing fear of persecution\", Mr Johnson said for the Christians of Ukraine - whether they were marking Easter today or its Orthodox equivalent later this month - Christ's message of hope would \"resonate this year perhaps more than any other\".\n\n\"Easter tells us that there is light beyond the darkness, that beyond the suffering lies redemption,\" he added.\n\nAddressing the Christians of Ukraine in their language, Mr Johnson rounded off his message by saying: \"Be strong and have courage in your heart all you who trust in the Lord.\"\n\nThe prime minister's address comes a day after he and other senior ministers were banned from entering Russia over the UK's \"hostile\" stance on the war in Ukraine.\n\nPrince Charles said he was \"heartbroken\" at the suffering of innocent victims of conflict\n\nMeanwhile in his Easter message, the Prince of Wales said he was \"heartbroken\" at the plight of those forced to flee their homes due to conflict or persecution but was \"profoundly moved\" by those ready to open their homes to people in need.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has led to millions of people fleeing their homes.\n\nIn the UK, more than 200,000 people have expressed an interest in housing Ukrainian refugees through the government's Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme - although it has been criticised for being too bureaucratic and slow.\n\nPrince Charles said: \"Today, millions of people find themselves displaced, wearied by their journey from troubled places, wounded by the past, fearful of the future - and in need of a welcome, of rest, and of kindness.\n\nHe added that it had been \"profoundly moving to see how so many people are ready to open their homes to those in need, and how they have offered their time and their resources to help those facing such soul-destroying sorrow and hardship.\"\n\nThe prince said he was \"profoundly moved\" by those ready to open their homes to displaced people\n\nThe prince doesn't refer to Ukraine by name in his Easter message but there can be no doubt that the unfolding horrors there have inspired him to highlight the plight of refugees.\n\nHe has often in the past spoken out in support of Christians who've been persecuted in different parts of the world.\n\nHe's also in recent weeks shown his support for Ukraine by visiting the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in London where he lit a candle and expressed his sympathy with members of the Ukrainian community.\n\nHis Easter message recalls the actions of Jesus at the Last Supper when he knelt before his disciples and washed their \"travel-weary feet\".\n\nThe principle of looking after and serving one another is particularly relevant, the prince suggests, in the context of millions of people who find themselves displaced and \"wearied by their journey from troubled places\".\n\nAt Easter, he says, we are reminded of the timeless example of goodness in the face of light and of courage in the face of fear.\n\nSpecial coins were given out to local elderly people during the Royal Maundy Service\n\nPrince Charles continued that he \"prayed with all my heart\" the \"darkness of the world\" would be dispelled.\n\n\"This Easter, as always, we are reminded of Our Lord's timeless example of goodness in the face of suffering, of courage in the face of fear, of faith in the face of despair,\" he added.\n\n\"His light triumphed in that dark time.\"\n\nPrince Charles also remembered the role his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, played during the many Maundy services he attended.\n\nHe said it was an \"enormous privilege\" to perform the ceremony of distributing Maundy money to the community when he stepped in for the Queen on Thursday.\n\nThe prince has previously used his annual Easter message to highlight social issues, including knife crime and religious tolerance.", "Alyson Nelson, 64, was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nPolice have released the name of a woman who was killed in Whitehead, County Antrim.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched following the death of Alyson Nelson, who was 64 and had lived in the town for many years.\n\nShe was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 60s has been arrested.\n\nPolice were called to a house in Victoria Avenue at about 18:10 BST on Saturday after receiving reports of a stabbing.\n\nThey said the man had been arrested on suspicion of murder and was in police custody.\n\nThe incident happened at Victoria Avenue in the town centre on Saturday evening\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThe BBC was told Ms Nelson was often seen walking her dogs and chatting with neighbours.\n\nPeople in the area have said they are shocked and saddened by her death.\n\nMaeve Taylor, from Whitehead, said she was \"devastated\" at what had happened.\n\n\"I feel so sorry for her family, she was a lovely neighbour, a lovely lady,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"She walked her dogs, everybody knew her around the town. She would have been out and about and always very friendly, very chatty and she will be badly missed.\n\n\"It is just shocking, how she has passed away.\"\n\nVictoria Avenue is located near the railway station in Whitehead\n\nRev Mark Taylor, a Church of Ireland rector in Whitehead, said \"there was a great deal of shock\" at what had happened and that the community's thoughts and prayers were with Ms Nelson's family.\n\n\"This is a quiet, seaside town,\" he added.\n\n\"There are families that are torn apart and it is very hurtful for them, very difficult for them to deal with.\n\n\"They are known to people in the community, who care for them deeply.\"", "Baby goods retailer JoJo Maman Bebe is being sold to High Street giant Next and a group of finance firms, the BBC has learned.\n\nNext has taken on 44% of the firm's shares, with the other 56% acquired by investment companies managed or advised by hedge fund Davidson Kempner.\n\nThere will be no immediate job losses at JoJo Maman Bebe.\n\nIts founder said she was \"excited by the opportunities this new partnership will offer\".\n\nAs part of the deal though, Laura Tenison will leave the business that she founded nearly 30 years ago.\n\nShe added that she was \"exceptionally proud\" of the firm's achievements, having grown the company \"from a kitchen table start-up to being the UK's leading specialist boutique mother and baby brand\".\n\nGwynn Milligan, who joined JoJo Maman Bebe in 2017 as commercial director, has taken over as chief executive.\n\nThe retailer has 87 brick-and-mortar shops across the UK, which will continue trading.\n\nAccording to its LinkedIn page, it currently employs more than 950 people.\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, staff were told on Thursday that the deal would \"ensure the longevity of the brand for generations of new customers\".\n\nNext will also make a £16.3m investment in the brand using its own cash, although the value of JoJo Maman Bebe's sale was not immediately made clear.\n\nNext plans to keep the JoJo brand distinct and grow the business globally using its online shopping infrastructure, such as warehousing and software, to support the up-market baby goods retailer's physical shops and online sales.\n\nIt has not yet been decided whether or not the boutique baby clothes will be sold in Next shops.\n\nLast September, JoJo Maman Bebe was forced to hike prices for the first time in about five years due to rising costs and supply chain issues.\n\nAt the time, Ms Milligan said that the company had seen shipping costs quadruple.\n\nShe added that the company was also having to absorb increased costs on some products, because of competition from retail rivals.\n\nIn a statement, Simon Wolfson, Next's chief executive, said: \"We are excited to see what can be achieved through the combination of JoJo's exceptional product with Next's infrastructure and Davidson Kempner as our investment partner.\"\n\nHe added that the investment was not expected to have any immediate impact on the High Street giant's profits this financial year, but he expects it \"to make a positive contribution thereafter\".", "A Jack Russell has been hard at work helping to remove explosive devices left behind by Russian troops.\n\nPatron is currently working in the Chernihiv region, north of Kyiv, and has so far helped to remove hundreds of devices.", "The Rail Accident Investigation Branch was notified after a Lumo train came to a sudden halt\n\nRail passengers have complained of being thrown from their seats and hit by falling luggage after a train came to a sudden stop.\n\nThe driver of the 08:20 from Newcastle to King's Cross hit the emergency brake near Peterborough, operator Lumo said.\n\nPassenger Neuma Domingos said she had a panic attack and hurt her leg and Lumo apologised for any distress caused.\n\nPolice said 15 people had minor injuries and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch had been informed.\n\nLumo said all travellers had been rerouted and the train was taken out of service for safety checks with later journeys cancelled.\n\n\"Regrettably there has been a knock-on effect for passengers on the 12:09 from King's Cross and the return journey at 18:52 from Edinburgh, both of which have been cancelled,\" Lumo said in a statement to the BBC.\n\nNeuma Domingos said she twisted her leg when the train came to a sudden halt\n\nMs Domingos was returning to London for a hospital appointment after visiting family in Newcastle.\n\nThe King's College London student told the BBC: \"Everything was fine until very abruptly we started veering to the right. All things fell on the floor. I was leaning on to the woman next to me and she almost fell out of her seat.\n\n\"And then very rapidly the train swung from side to side, heavily on to the left side all the luggage fell at this point. I hit my knee, people were gasping, a couple of people cried out - it was like really bad turbulence on a plane.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm still pretty shocked by everything, surprised and my leg still hurts. A suitcase hit a man's head. I can't get that image out of my head. The suitcase slowly moving and then bang. It happened right in front of me.\"\n\nBillie Rainer said the movement of the train felt much worse than plane turbulence\n\nBillie Rainer, 25, said she was left \"shaken\" by the incident after she caught the train from Newcastle to visit friends in the capital.\n\n\"The train was swinging from side to side as it went around the corner very fast,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I felt like a massive jolt and I was lifted out of my seat. I wasn't injured but other people were, by falling items. A woman was limping because she'd been hurt.\n\n\"The train tipped to the side a bit, then loads more. My suitcase fell to the floor and a couple of people fell off chairs.\n\n\"After the train swung from side to side it came to a massive halt and stopped at Peterborough station for an hour and a bit.\n\n\"It did feel like the train had approached the corner way too fast. It was so much worse than plane turbulence.\"\n\nEllie Foster tweeted a picture of her dented suitcase after it fell from a shelf\n\nEllie Foster, 24, who lives in Canterbury was on the train with her partner Luke after visiting family over the Easter holidays.\n\nShe tweeted about the \"very scary\" moment when she saw \"luggage and people flown all over the train\".\n\nShe shared a photograph of a dent in her suitcase after it fell from a shelf.\n\n\"We were approaching Peterborough and we were sitting on the right side of the train and the train sort of jolted to the left causing all the luggage to come down from above our head. The train then wobbled and came to a stop and we were left waiting for over an hour,\" she said.\n\n\"In that instance you don't really know what's happening. I've obviously grabbed on to something because I've hurt my two little fingers, nothing serious, but I was bracing for the impact because I honestly thought the train was going to crash. I feel fine now.\n\n\"The ladies on the train said they were just waiting for the signal to change, there was no reason for what happened and they just hoped everyone was ok.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said it received a report of an emergency stop at 11.53 BST.\n\nOfficers met the train at King's Cross and talked to passengers who were offered medical assistance by paramedics at the station, BTP said.\n\nLumo is owned by the travel business FirstGroup and runs trains on the East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. The route started in October and all Lumo trains on the service are electric.\n\nThe operator said it was \"very sorry for any distress the sudden stop may have caused\".\n\n\"Such events can be jolting for passengers and we took great care to check on everybody's welfare. There was some falling luggage and naturally many people will have felt the effects of the sudden halt.\"\n\nIt added: \"A full investigation is now under way and we are supporting our driver and the Rail Accident Investigations Branch to determine precisely what happened.\"\n\nIt said all passengers were entitled to a full refund through the normal delay repay channels.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer England and Kent batter Rob Key has been named the managing director of England men's cricket.\n\nKey takes on the role from Andrew Strauss, who had stepped in on an interim basis following the sacking of Ashley Giles in February.\n\nGiles' departure from the job - which he had taken up in December 2018 - followed England's 4-0 Ashes defeat in Australia.\n\n\"It is an absolute honour to take up this role,\" Key said.\n\n\"The chance to have an impact and make a difference is an opportunity given to very few and I will give it everything I have to try to shape the next great era of English men's cricket.\"\n\nHe will start immediately, and give up his commentary role with Sky Sports.\n\nIn addition to his broadcasting work, Key been involved with cricket administration since his retirement in 2016. Among his roles, he has been a member of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Performance Cricket Committee.\n\nHe comes in at a time when England are seeking a new head coach and Test captain. Chris Silverwood was sacked as head coach following the Ashes defeat in Australia, while Joe Root announced on Friday that he was relinquishing the captaincy.\n\nRoot's final series in charge had been a defeat by the West Indies - England's fourth series defeat in a row.\n\n\"Although at this current moment it has been a challenging time in English cricket, I also think it's as exciting a time as I can remember,\" Key said.\n\nIn contrast to those Test failings, England's white-ball men's teams have enjoyed success in recent years, winning the World Cup in 2019.\n\n\"With two of our teams near or at the top of the world rankings and an undoubted amount of talent in our game, I hope to try and bring everyone along for the ride so we can all help take English men's cricket to new heights across all formats,\" Key continued.\n\nKey played 21 times for England across all three formats and was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2005 on the back of a Test double hundred against the West Indies at Lord's in 2004.\n\nHe score more than 28,000 runs in a career spanning three decades.\n\n\"Following a thorough recruitment process, Rob stood out in a very competitive field,\" said ECB chief executive officer Tom Harrison.\n\n\"His passion and knowledge of the game at domestic and international level is outstanding. He is a proven leader and combines an approachable nature with fresh original thinking and resilience which will stand him in good stead.\n\n\"He will bring a lot to the role and I am sure players and staff alike will enjoy working with Rob.\"\n• None Darkly comic, poignant and devastating monologues about life in poverty\n• None The greatest players never to have lifted the Premier League trophy", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nChelsea set up a second Wembley meeting with Liverpool this season as they overcame Crystal Palace's stubborn resistance to reach the FA Cup final.\n\nLiverpool won the Carabao Cup final on penalties in February but Chelsea will have the chance for revenge as second-half goals from Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Mason Mount underlined their supremacy.\n\nUnlike the first semi-final between Liverpool and Manchester City, chances were at a premium until substitute Loftus-Cheek, on for the injured Mateo Kovacic, broke the deadlock with a deflected shot after 65 minutes.\n\nPalace had their opportunities, Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy saving well from Cheikhou Kouyate in the first half, but they could not come back after Mount slipped a low finish beyond Jack Butland with 14 minutes left.\n\nChelsea have deservedly reached their third successive FA Cup final and will now hope to reverse recent history after losing the previous two to Arsenal and Leicester City.\n\nManager Thomas Tuchel has a remarkable record in reaching domestic and European finals since his appointment and Chelsea will be formidable opponents for Liverpool, who are in search of a historic quadruple.\n\nChelsea had to work had for their triumph but they showed patience, organisation and then quality to take control after half-time.\n\nBy the end, Chelsea were in complete command and only some generosity in front of goal from substitute Romelu Lukaku, who struck the post when it seemed easier to score, and the otherwise excellent Timo Werner prevented a scoreline that would have been harsh on Palace.\n\nChelsea may be surrounded by turmoil off the pitch amid the sanctions against owner Roman Abramovich, but a winning mentality persists on it and the players showed admirable powers of recovery following the disappointment of their Champions League quarter-final elimination by Real Madrid.\n\nAnd if the EFL Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool earlier this season is anything to go by, the FA Cup equivalent will be a tightly-contested affair between two high-quality sides.\n\nPalace on the right track\n\nPalace manager Patrick Vieira and his players were understandably devastated at the final whistle but the Eagles' performance here, and over the season as a whole, gives great cause for optimism.\n\nVieira has squad boasting several emerging young talents playing attractive football, although they were required to show a more pragmatic side here as they contained Chelsea well until their former loanee Loftus-Cheek struck with an effort that took a slight deflection.\n\nThere was no way back for Palace after that but, backed by truly magnificent support, they give the impression of a well-run club on the right lines under an astute manager with an excellent structure around him.\n\nDanger man Wilfried Zaha was just too isolated to make an impression but the key component missing was the guile, quality and exuberance of England midfield man Conor Gallagher, who was unable to play against his parent club.\n\nDefeat will hurt, but Vieira and Palace can nevertheless be delighted with the progress the club is making.\n• None Attempt missed. Timo Werner (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hakim Ziyech.\n• None Attempt blocked. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea) hits the right post with a right footed shot from very close range. Assisted by Timo Werner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Tyrick Mitchell.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Timo Werner.\n• None Attempt missed. Joachim Andersen (Crystal Palace) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Jordan Ayew following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Michael Olise with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Rayisa Horislavets decided to stay in Serhiivka. \"I can't afford to rent an apartment somewhere safer,\" she said\n\nThe small village of Serhiivka, in eastern Ukraine, was completely quiet on Sunday - hardly a person on the streets or milling around the centre of the village, where you would normally find life.\n\nThere used to be 1,500 people here, before the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine in February, and the renewed violence around the frontlines not far from here.\n\nToday there are only about 300 residents left, and more are leaving as Russia renews its campaign to the east and south.\n\nThe population would have already skewed older, but few of the younger people who were here have stayed. It's a phenomenon seen in villages and towns around Ukraine, as younger generations have moved to safer areas while their parents and grandparents choose to stick it out.\n\n\"I have lived here all my life, I'm not going anywhere,\" said Mykola Luhynets, a 59-year-old carrying a rifle and wearing the armband of the territorial defence. Luhynets signed up and took a gun in February. \"I will stay in Serhiivka and defend it if necessary,\" he said.\n\nMykola Luhynets has vowed to stay in the small town\n\nIn normal times, Serhiivka is an industrial and agricultural village - many of its working-age population are either farmers or staff at the local coal enrichment factory. It could be in the line of fire if the Russian forces decided to encroach beyond Donetsk towards the city of Dnipro.\n\n\"We only have simple shelters here but we have prepared them,\" said Valeriy Duhelnyy, 59, the head of the village and local territorial defence units. Duhelnyy is the equivalent of the village mayor, a position he has held since 2020.\n\n\"It's hard for older people here to hit the road,\" he said. \"And maybe some are sentimental - they have stronger emotional ties to where they live. They don't want to die anywhere but home.\"\n\nMore than two million older people in the east of the country are at extreme risk as a result of the Russian assault, according to the charity HelpAge International. There is particular concern among charities focused on supporting the elderly that older people have been unable to move out of harm's way, or feel unable to take on the hardship of upheaval.\n\nThe village has remained peaceful, but people like Mykola Luhynets are preparing to defend if necessary\n\nSome simply do not have the money to move, or a place to go. \"I'm a retiree and I don't have much, only a small pension,\" said Rayisa Horislavets, 66, who lives with her daughter in a small house in Serhiivka.\n\n\"I can't afford to rent an apartment somewhere safer. I can't rule out that something bad will happen here, but I just have no other options,\" she said. \"Nobody needs me anywhere else, so I decided come-what-may I would stay here.\"\n\nHorislavets used to speak regularly to her sister, who lives on the other side of the frontline that separates the territory still in Ukrainian control from the \"Donetsk People's Republic\" - the breakaway region where Russia has forged a separatist movement since 2014.\n\nThe phone connection to her sister died about two weeks ago, Horislavets said. But the relationship had already deteriorated, after her sister began telling her that she thought the news about Russia's attacks on Ukraine was fake.\n\nValeriy Duhelnyy, head of the village, sits on the monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko\n\n\"She told me not to believe anything I see in our media, that it is the Ukrainians doing all the damage,\" Horislavets said. \"I told her there are witnesses, we see what is happening in Kharkiv and elsewhere, but she doesn't believe me.\"\n\nHer story is not uncommon in eastern Ukraine, where frontlines have divided families and Russian propaganda has convinced many on the Russian side that the atrocities and attacks reported in international media are fake - that Ukraine is the aggressor.\n\nSo far, Serhiivka has been peaceful. The remaining residents hope it will stay that way, though they are preparing the best they can for worse. They have seen the destruction of Kharkiv to the north and Mariupol to the south, and the grinding war not far from their doorstep in Donetsk.\n\nHorislavets said that when that conflict began, she had taken care for her sister, who lived there.\n\n\"When bad things came to their home we supported them,\" she said. \"Now bad things come to our home, and they do not support us.\" She would like to speak to her sister again. \"Of course, she is my sister,\" she said. But not right now. \"We would only fight.\"", "Olympian Etienne Stott joined the protest on top of a Shell oil tanker\n\nSix people have been arrested after climate change activists, including two Olympians, scaled an oil tanker.\n\nExtinction Rebellion protesters surrounded the Shell tanker in Bayswater Road in London in protest at the use of fossil fuels.\n\nGold medal-winning canoeist Etienne Stott and sailor Laura Baldwin had glued themselves to the top of the tanker, Extinction Rebellion said.\n\nThe Met said six arrests for vehicle interference had been made.\n\nIt is not known if the two Olympians were among those arrested.\n\nMr Stott said he wanted to \"disrupt the toxic fossil fuel industry\".\n\nA large banner was unfurled after two people climbed Marble Arch\n\nThe Met said protesters had been walking through central London and \"stopped at various locations along their unspecified route, causing disruption\".\n\nShortly before 18:00 BST, a man and a woman climbed up two pillars on Marble Arch to hoist a green banner with \"End fossil fuels now\" on it.\n\nA group of eight activists later locked themselves on to a car in the road, while two glued themselves to the roof.\n\nOfficers cleared the road and several people were detained.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe group said the \"highly disruptive\" action would end a run of 10 days of protests.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, the Met said: \"We attended Bayswater Road at approximately 08:50 BST to deal with a number of protesters who had climbed on an oil tanker.\n\n\"We have made six arrests for vehicle interference. The road is now open.\"\n\nOn Friday protesters blocked four of London's busiest bridges and blocked entrances to major insurance marketplace Lloyd's of London earlier this week.", "North Korea says it has successfully tested a new weapon, which it says will significantly enhance its tactical nuclear capabilities.\n\nPhotos show the country's leader Kim Jong-un smiling and clapping as he watches the new missile's launch.\n\nExperts believe this is a sign that North Korea is planning to test a compact nuclear weapon soon - in other words, a tactical nuclear weapon.\n\nThe following year, it blew up tunnels at its Punggye-ri nuclear testing site, in a move that was seen to be part of a diplomatic rapprochement with South Korea and the US.\n\nBut recent satellite images suggest work is under way to restore the tunnels.\n\nThe \"new-type tactical guided weapon... is of great significance in drastically improving the firepower of the frontline long-range artillery units and enhancing the efficiency in the operation of tactical nukes,\" the North's official KCNA news agency reported.\n\nIt added that Mr Kim had given \"important instructions on further building up the defence capabilities and nuclear combat forces of the country\".\n\nSouth Korea's military confirmed that two missiles - likely to be short-range - were launched from the North into the sea on Saturday night.\n\nThe US said it was monitoring the situation.\n\nExperts say the timing of the test could be seen as a protest against joint US and South Korean military drills, which are due to take place for nine days from Monday.\n\nNorth Korea has often denounced such drills as a rehearsal for war.\n\nThe timing also coincides with events celebrating the anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, last Friday.\n\nJust three weeks before the celebrations, North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time since 2017.\n\nNorth Korea is banned from testing them and has been heavily sanctioned for doing so before.\n\nIt has been conducting other regular missile tests as part of its weapons development programme.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended the service with their older children Prince George and Princess Charlotte\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were accompanied by two of their children as they joined other royals for the Easter Sunday service at Windsor Castle.\n\nPrince George was dressed in a dark blue suit like his father while Princess Charlotte's dress matched her mother Catherine's light blue outfit.\n\nSeveral of their second cousins, such as Mia Tindall and Savannah and Isla Phillips, also attended.\n\nThe Queen was not at the service - one of the staples of the family's year.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch, who has been suffering mobility issues recently, was also absent from the traditional Maundy Service last Thursday, where special coins were given to 96 men and 96 women.\n\nShe was represented then by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nBut Prince Charles and Camilla were absent from this service.\n\nSunday's outing in Windsor was the second public appearance in a matter of weeks for Prince William's older children - who were also at the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial service on 29 March.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex brought their children Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn\n\nPrincess Eugenie walked alongside Peter Phillips and his children Savannah and Isla\n\nMia Tindall went to the service with her father Mike and mother Zara\n\nJust like the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - who did not bring three-year-old Prince Louis - many of the other royals chose to leave their very youngest children at home.\n\nThe Queen, who has her 96th birthday on Thursday, reached her Platinum Jubilee in February.\n\nShe was visited by her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, in Windsor on Thursday - their first meeting since the couple decided to step down as senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex had chosen to stop off in the UK en route to The Hague in the Netherlands where the Invictus Games, which Prince Harry founded, is currently being held.\n\nWhile in Windsor, the couple reportedly met the duke's father Prince Charles.", "A large banner was unfurled after two people climbed Marble Arch\n\nSeventy people were arrested during a spate of Extinction Rebellion protests across London.\n\nSix people, including two Olympic athletes, were detained for scaling and gluing themselves to an oil tanker near Hyde Park on Saturday, police said.\n\nDozens more were arrested at Marble Arch as demonstrators climbed the structure to attach a green banner reading \"end fossil fuels now\".\n\nProtesters also blocked the road and surrounded a car.\n\nOlympic gold medal-winning canoeist Etienne Stott and sailor Laura Baldwin were among those who glued themselves to the oil tanker.\n\nOlympian Etienne Stott joined the protest on top of a Shell oil tanker\n\nThe action came as activists gathered in Hyde Park and then marched the capital's streets.\n\nProtesters waved flags, set off flares and danced in the street before settling in the road at Marble Arch.\n\nA group of eight activists later locked themselves to a car in the road, while two glued themselves to the roof.\n\nSome protesters glued and locked themselves to a car in the road at Marble Arch\n\nThe Met said officers had imposed a public order direction on the group to clear the road by 18:00.\n\nIt covered an area from Marble Arch gyratory and along Park Lane, Oxford Street, Tyburn Way, Edgware Road, Bayswater Road and Cumberland Gate.\n\nThe force said 213 people had been arrested since the latest spate of protests began on 9 April.\n\nOn Friday protesters also blocked four of London's busiest bridges and blocked entrances to major insurance marketplace Lloyd's of London earlier this week.\n\nProtesters moved to the road by Marble Arch after meeting in Hyde Park", "A protest in Bonn, Germany: The German government has previously argued against weapons deliveries to Ukraine\n\nRepenting historical wrongs is a national pastime in Germany. But even by German standards, the soul-searching over Berlin's Russia policy is remarkable.\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, many German politicians have publicly admitted they got Vladimir Putin wrong. Even German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has apologised, saying it was a mistake to use trade and energy to build bridges with Moscow.\n\n\"It's a bitter acknowledgement that for 30 years we emphasised dialogue and co-operation with Russia,\" says Nils Schmid, foreign affairs spokesperson for Mr Steinmeier's party, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). \"Now we have to recognise this has not worked. That's why we have entered a new era for European security.\"\n\nThat new era was dubbed \"Zeitenwende\" - literally meaning a turning point - by Germany's SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a now-famous speech in the German parliament a few days after the invasion.\n\nIt means scrapping rules about weapons exports, a huge boost in defence spending and an end to Russian energy imports. A Russian gas pipeline to Germany called Nord Stream 2 has already been suspended.\n\n\"For the foreseeable future, co-operation with Russia will not occur. It will be more about containment and deterrence and, if needed, defence against Russia,\" Mr Schmid tells me.\n\n[Dialogue and co-operation with Russia] has not worked... we have entered a new era for European security.\n\nUnexpectedly hawkish words for a party that until seven weeks ago believed Germany's historical guilt and moral duty to make up for Nazi crimes meant peace with Russia at all costs.\n\nBut in Berlin, the war in Ukraine feels very close. The images of shelled Ukrainian buildings look like German cities in World War Two. And the third-of-a-million refugees, mostly women and children, arriving at German train stations remind many here of their parents or grandparents as children fleeing Russian soldiers in 1945.\n\nEven Germany's view of its own history is changing.\n\nUntil the invasion mainstream opinion was that German reunification was thanks to dialogue with Moscow by another SPD chancellor, Willy Brandt. But now the debate has shifted, with reminders that Mr Brandt's diplomacy was backed up by strong deterrence, including a West German defence budget of 3% of GDP.\n\nThe issue of German historical war guilt has also become more nuanced. Before the invasion the government argued against weapon deliveries to Ukraine because of Nazi crimes against Russia.\n\n\"Under Putin, official Russian policy tried to monopolise the memory of the Second World War for the bilateral German-Russian relationship,\" explains Mr Schmid. This blinded parts of German society to the suffering of Ukrainians during the war, he adds.\n\nNow there is a greater awareness of Ukraine's traumas under the Nazis.\n\nBerlin's rhetoric has shifted dramatically. But some ask whether actions are following fast enough. Certainly warm words of support are not enough for Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. He has criticised Germany's continued reliance on Russian oil and gas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nIn a BBC interview last week, Mr Zelensky called payments for Russian energy \"blood money\". And a planned visit to Kyiv by President Steinmeier was cancelled at the last minute.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about what happened: some Ukrainian officials say Mr Steinmeier was not \"disinvited\". But certainly German politicians and commentators interpret the failed visit as a sign of Ukraine's distrust in the German president, who as foreign minister under Angela Merkel spent years trying to achieve peace by engaging with Russia.\n\nAt the Brandenburg Gate - a symbol of another \"Wende\", the word used in German for the process of German reunification - I meet Claudia Major, defence specialist at SWP, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.\n\n\"Our partners look at us, and say: OK, you do a Zeitenwende but what are you practically doing?\" she says. \"On sanctions we are timid and on weapons delivery, we are reluctant. So, rightly, they wonder what that Zeitenwende is about, and given that Germany is a big economic, military, political power in the middle of Europe, whatever we do makes a difference, in good ways and bad.\"\n\nGermany has committed to sanctioning Russian energy imports, but wants a gradual phase-out, rather than an instant embargo. The government argues this would tip Germany into recession and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.\n\n\"This is a dilemma that Germany has created itself,\" argues political scientist Liana Fix from the Körber Foundation. \"That's obviously difficult to accept for other countries, who are willing to go ahead with an embargo and have done their homework on energy diversification.\"\n\nGerman President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was told he was not welcome in Ukraine due to his close ties with Russia\n\nIronically, it's a Green Party politician, Economy Minister Robert Habeck, from a party that for years has been calling for energy independence from Russia, who is having to solve this dilemma.\n\nOn military support for Ukraine, Berlin says it is prepared to send whatever weapons Kyiv needs. But there are allegations that some ministries are getting tied up in bureaucracy. Here, too, it is a Green politician, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who is pushing the governing coalition to go faster. She has called for heavy weaponry, such as tanks or fighter jets, for Ukraine.\n\nThe chancellor, meanwhile, appears to dodge the question when asked - possibly nervous of losing his party's support.\n\nOlaf Scholz has to keep his party onside, govern in a three-way coalition and overturn Germany's guilt-laden pacifist identity overnight.\n\nBut even his allies say the chancellor should at least communicate better what's going on. One speech in parliament and a few TV chat shows are not enough, says Claudia Major.\n\nMeanwhile, it feels like many individual Germans are going through their own Zeitenwende. Ariane Bemmer, a columnist for the Tagesspiegel newspaper, has written about reassessing her own feelings towards Russia. \"I definitely got it wrong, it's like losing a friend,\" she tells me.\n\nLike many in the former West Germany in the 1980s, she was wary of US-style cutthroat capitalism. She bought a book called Ami Go Home - she never read it, but felt it would look good on her bookshelf - and was intrigued by the reforms in Russia.\n\n\"In America you had Ronald Reagan as a president, which was a shock for us. We thought: what will he do, this crazy actor with his cowboy boots? Will he set the world on fire? Russia was a place where all the good changes were, perestroika, freedom, wind of change,\" she says.\n\nFew in Germany think that now. In one recent poll, 55% of Germans said Berlin should send heavy weapons, such as tanks and fighter jets, to Ukraine to fight against Russia.\n\nFor Ariane, and many other Germans, any lingering Russophile romanticism vanished for good the day Putin's tanks rolled over Ukraine's border.", "The new virus, known as Omicron XE, is a recombinant of two other variants\n\nA small number of cases of a new variant of the Omicron strain of Covid-19 have been discovered in Northern Ireland, according to the Public Health Agency (PHA).\n\nThe new form of the virus, known as Omicron XE, is a recombinant of the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants.\n\nThe PHA said that 1,179 cases of XE have been confirmed in the UK so far.\n\nBut, to date, fewer than five cases of the variant have been detected in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Recombinant variants are not an unusual occurrence, particularly when there are several variants in circulation, and several have been identified over the course of the pandemic to date,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"The best way to stop variants developing or spreading is to keep pushing down infection rates and the transmission of the virus in our community.\n\n\"By sticking to public health advice, getting vaccinated, wearing face coverings in busy indoor environments where ventilation is poor, and particularly when visiting hospitals and other health and care settings and when around people they know to be vulnerable, we can all play a role in tackling Covid-19.\"", "A £120m trial will see mostly single men arriving in the UK via boat crossings sent to Rwanda, under new plans\n\nA plan to tackle the number of asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats will see some given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, the government has announced.\n\nThe UK is not the first to explore sending individuals overseas. What has been the impact of other countries' policies?\n\nAustralia first began using offshore detention centres in 2001.\n\nAnd in 2013, it hardened its immigration law to deny resettlement visas to asylum seekers arriving by boat.\n\nThousands of asylum seekers have been transferred out of Australia during this time. Its Border Force has said more than 4,000 were relocated between 2012 and 2019.\n\nSome 112 refugees and asylum seekers currently remain on the nation island of Nauru, but a similar scheme on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea - where 120 people were detained - ended last year.\n\nThis picture taken in 2014 shows asylum seekers at Australia's Manus Island detention centre\n\nRights groups and the UN have frequently criticised Australia's centres for substandard conditions.\n\nIn total, 13 people sent to Nauru and Papua New Guinea have died from violence, medical inattention or suicide.\n\nIranian Kurd refugee and author Behrouz Boochani told the BBC in 2019 that detention on Manus Island was like a prison, and said the system felt like it was designed to \"humiliate us and destroy us\".\n\nHe said people were taken \"from the water\" and sent to Manus Island without being asked questions, and experienced a \"violation of human rights\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iranian Kurd refugee Behrouz Boochani, speaking in 2019, was sent to Manus Island\n\nAustralia argues its offshoring policy is justified because it prevents deaths at sea. By its own projections it will spend $811.8m (£460m) on offshore processing in 2021-22.\n\nIn March, a three-year deal was announced for up to 450 refugees from Australia's regional processing centres to be resettled in New Zealand.\n\nFaced with a growing influx of asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, Israel took action to resolve the problem by striking deals with third country \"safe havens\" to take an undisclosed number of people.\n\nThe two countries were not officially identified but media reports said they were Uganda and Rwanda.\n\nWhen the scheme began in 2015, those rejected for asylum and other illegal immigrants were given the choice of returning to their country of origin, or accepting a payment of $3,500 and a plane ticket to one of the third countries, or being put in jail if they stayed in Israel.\n\nAfrican migrants protest against the treatment of asylum seekers by Israel\n\nBy 2018, Israel said some 20,000 of about 65,000 who had arrived in the country illegally had left under one scheme or another.\n\nHowever, human rights activists criticised the \"voluntary deportation\" programme as giving false promises to those who chose to accept it, putting them at risk in the countries that took them where there was no guarantee of their legal status nor protection against further deportation.\n\nA later plan to forcibly deport failed asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants to third countries - reportedly Uganda and Rwanda again - was suspended by Israel's Supreme Court.\n\nThe Danish government has not been shy about its goal of \"zero\" refugees in Denmark.\n\nLast June, legislation was passed that would allow it to move asylum seekers to third countries outside the EU while their cases were processed.\n\nThe controversial measure was heavily criticised by the European Commission and human rights groups, while questions were raised about its legality.\n\nA surprise visit to Rwanda last year by Immigration Minister Matthias Tesfaye prompted widespread speculation Denmark intended to open a facility there.\n\nA memorandum of understanding was signed, but there was nothing concrete about a refugee-processing centre.\n\nJust last night, however, the minister met other political parties to spell out his plans.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Tesfaye told the BBC: \"We are in dialogue with Rwanda, and we have a good cooperation based on a broad partnership, but we do not have an agreement on transfer of asylum seekers.\n\n\"I share the view of the Rwandan and British governments that the current asylum system is unsustainable.\"\n\nDemonstrators in Copenhagen march with a banner reading 'Syria is not safe' following the revoking of hundreds of Syrians' resident permits\n\nDenmark was the first country to join the UN Refugee Convention in 1951. But recently, governments on the left and right have repeatedly tightened immigration laws.\n\nLast year it began controversially revoking the residence permits of hundreds of Syrians from the Damascus area, arguing it was now safe for them to return.\n\nHowever, Denmark's approach to Ukrainians is markedly different. It plans to host up to 100,000 people and grant work permits.", "A dozen sanctioned Russians are linked to an estimated £800m worth of property in the UK, analysis by the BBC reveals.\n\nMulti-million pound country manors in the south of England and luxury flats in London's most expensive areas are among the homes which have been snapped up by figures linked to Vladimir Putin.\n\nSome of the individuals deny ownership of the mansions, which may mean they are beyond the reach of the sanctions.\n\nTo get to the bottom of who owns what, we carried out a detailed trawl of leaked offshore documents, the Land Registry and court papers - as well as previous reporting.\n\nOur findings highlight the UK's status as a place for super-rich Russians to set up home, and the difficulties of identifying the true owners of properties bought by offshore firms in tax havens.\n\nIn response to the BBC's findings, anti-corruption group, Transparency International highlighted how hard it is to track who owns what in the UK.\n\n\"Because of the system of secrecy here in the UK and in relation to the Overseas Dependencies it's really easy for people to hide their assets and their funds in the UK and not even the police necessarily have sight of where those assets are,\" Rachel Davies, head of advocacy at the organisation, told the BBC.\n\nThe UK, US and European Union have together sanctioned more than 1,000 Russian individuals and businesses, including wealthy business leaders - so-called oligarchs - who are considered close to the Kremlin.\n\nMost of those listed below were sanctioned after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, although some were already on the government's sanctions list.\n\nIn early March, the British government imposed sanctions on the 55-year-old billionaire. The previous week Mr Abramovich had put Chelsea FC up for sale.\n\nHe has a vast property portfolio in the UK with more than 50 luxury residences, most on Fulham Road in west London. Through his UK company Fordstam Limited, he owns dozens of apartments in Chelsea Village, plus the hotel and residential complex around Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium, according to the Land Registry.\n\nHis most expensive London property is a 15-bedroom house on a street that is nicknamed Billionaires Row. With its vast stucco-faced Italianate mansions, it is home to royalty and ambassadors - as well as oligarchs.\n\nMr Abramovich bought the property in west London using an offshore company in 2011, reportedly paying £90m. In 2016 he was granted planning permission for a £28m refurbishment, including a subterranean pool, although this did not go ahead.\n\nIn planning documents submitted to the council, its existing pool was described as a \"miserable space\" that was \"too small to afford comfortable or meaningful swimming\".\n\nIn 2017, Mr Abramovich used Fordstam Limited to buy an apartment just off the King's Road for £8.7m. In 2019, he paid £22.3m for a three-storey penthouse apartment on the former Lots Road power station site in Chelsea.\n\nMr Abramovich did not answer the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nThe UK government imposed a full asset freeze and travel ban on Alisher Usmanov on 3 March, citing the Russian billionaire's \"close links to the Kremlin\". This followed a similar move by the EU.\n\nThe Uzbekistan-born businessman and former Arsenal shareholder has been a close associate of Everton's majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, who resigned as chairman of Mr Usmanov's USM Holdings in early March following the imposition of sanctions on the oligarch. Everton have suspended all dealings with Mr Usmanov's businesses, including USM's sponsorship of their training ground.\n\nHis wealth has been estimated at $18.4bn (£14bn), including \"Beechwood House in Highgate [north London]… and the 16th Century Sutton Place estate in Surrey\", the UK government said.\n\nBut a spokesman for Mr Usmanov said most of the billionaire's UK property, plus a $600m (£456m) yacht, had already been \"transferred into irrevocable trusts\", potentially putting them beyond the reach of sanctions.\n\nTracing the ownership of the two houses targeted by the UK government is extremely difficult. They have been held through a complex web of trusts and companies registered in places like the British Virgin Islands which, until recently, did not require the ultimate owner to be disclosed.\n\nMr Usmanov bought Beechwood House for £48m in 2008 using an offshore company. As part of an investigation with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the BBC has seen a document showing Usmanov secured a mortgage in 2005 to part-finance payments for Sutton Place via two firms in Cyprus.\n\nHis two nephews each own multi-million pound properties in north London.\n\nWhen the UK government imposed sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, they described him as worth £2bn and a \"one-time business partner\" of Roman Abramovich.\n\nIn early March, a court heard that he has a multi-million pound property portfolio in the UK, including the art deco mansion Hamstone House in Weybridge, Surrey. Sitting in eight acres of grounds, the Grade II listed property was acquired for £7.1m by a Cyprus-based company, Edenfield Investments Limited, in 2001.\n\nMr Deripaska also owns a large home in Belgrave Square that was occupied by protestors. However, a spokesman for the billionaire at the time said the property belonged to family members.\n\nThere is evidence suggesting Mr Deripaska owns a building five minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace. The 17th-Century terrace house was bought in 2004 for £4.7m by Astibe Limited - an offshore shell company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, which appears in the annual accounts of EN+ (an energy and metals group that Mr Deripaska has a stake in). The property is listed as the address of the company, according to research by Transparency International.\n\nA judge has frozen UK bank accounts operated by a British businessman amid allegations they are linked to Mr Deripaska - National Crime Agency investigators believe the accounts were being used to help the oligarch avoid sanctions.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Deripaska said the sanctions were \"deeply misguided\" and based on \"unfounded and hollow accusations\".\n\n\"Mr Deripaska has never been involved in politics. It is wrong to suggest that Mr Deripaska is close to the Government of Russia and/or Vladimir Putin,\" the statement read.\n\n\"The decision to sanction him has nothing to do with justice or law, neither does the freezing of assets belonging to him or his family.\"\n\nThe UK-based billionaire oligarch Mikhail Fridman had his shares frozen in the investment firm LetterOne, which owns international health food chain Holland & Barrett, after the EU sanctioned him following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On 15 March, he was also sanctioned by the British government, which said he was \"closely associated with President Vladimir Putin\".\n\nMr Fridman told the BBC that the imposition of sanctions by the UK government left him \"shocked\" and that the statement he was closely associated with Vladimir Putin was \"absolutely incorrect\".\n\nLetterOne, which is just under 50% owned by Mr Fridman and Petr Aven (see below), announced the business partners had \"ceased to have any involvement with the company\".\n\nMr Fridman, who is thought to be worth around $12bn, owns a huge property, Athlone House in north London, for which he paid £65m in 2016.\n\nMr Fridman told his local newspaper, the Hampstead and Highgate Express, the building was originally designed for a Victorian industrialist, adding: \"It felt like fate that I, as a businessman, would be similarly drawn years later to the same property and grounds.\"\n\nMr Fridman secured planning permission for a significant restoration, including the addition of a wine cellar, cinema room, swimming pool, yoga room and cigar room.\n\nMr Aven was named in EU sanctions as \"one of Vladimir Putin's closest oligarchs\" who \"does not operate independently of the President's demands\".\n\nAlong with Mikhail Fridman, the Russian billionaire's shares in LetterOne were frozen.\n\nLand Registry records show a Cyprus-based company paid £8m in 2009 for his home, Ingliston House in Virginia Water, Surrey.\n\nPetr Aven pictured next to his Henry Moore sculpture\n\nMr Aven reportedly owns an extensive private art collection, which includes works by Kandinsky, Louise Bourgeois and Henry Moore. He was photographed by the FT at his home alongside some of his pieces.\n\nAfter he was sanctioned by the EU, he stepped down as a trustee at the Royal Academy, which returned a donation from him.\n\nMr Aven told the BBC that his family also owned a two-bedroom apartment and studio in central London.\n\nHe said he \"strongly disagreed\" with UK government's description of him as a \"pro-Kremlin oligarch\".\n\nHe said the sanctions against him were \"understandable, but unfair\", adding he saw no fair reason to be sanctioned and that he never operated under the demands of Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"My partners and I always tried to be out of politics,\" he said.\n\nBorn in Kyiv, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, Mr Khan is \"a close associate of Vladimir Putin who has been involved in destabilising Ukraine\", according to UK authorities, which sanctioned him in March.\n\nHe and and his wife Anzhelika own several properties in England.\n\nThe Panama Papers revealed the couple have shares in the Seychelles company Apilosa Corporation. Land registry papers show it paid £62m in 2008 for two apartments near Buckingham Palace.\n\nGerman Khan bought two more flats in the area in 2005. In 2018, they were transferred to his wife's name, according to Land Registry documents.\n\nThe couple also bought a mansion in Virginia Water, Surrey, for £26m in 2014. Records show that the mansion was sold on 24 December 2021 to Ravenmorrow Limited for £31m.\n\nIt is unclear who now owns the property. Ravenmorrow Limited was set up in December last year and no individual is identified on UK company records as the beneficial owner.\n\nMr Khan did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe UK government said Igor Shuvalov \"is a core part of Putin's inner circle\" when it imposed sanctions on him in March.\n\nOfficials confirmed his assets in the UK include two luxury apartments in Whitehall worth an estimated £11m. That was first reported by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, set up by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nLand registry documents show the properties are owned by Sova Real Estate LLC in Russia, which - according to official records obtained by the Anti-Corruption Foundation - indicated they were owned by Mr Shuvalov and his wife.\n\nIn response to our questions, a spokesperson for Mr Shuvalov confirmed that ownership of the apartments had been transferred to a Russian company \"controlled by the Shuvalov Family\" in 2014.\n\nThe value of the flats significantly exceeds the £634,000 that Mr Shuvalov declared as his and Mrs Shuvalov's joint wealth to the Russian parliament in 2014.\n\nMr Shuvalov's spokesperson told the BBC that these issues \"have been the subject of competent government audits\", and that \"no complaints were ever filed\".\n\nIn August 2021, Mr Gutseriev was sanctioned by the UK because of his close relationship with Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nMr Gutseriev was the founder of Safmar Group, a Russian conglomerate, but is no longer involved in the company. Mr Gutseriev's son Said, a British citizen who has not been sanctioned, now part-owns SFI - a company previously known as Safmar Financial Investments.\n\nThe Pandora Papers revealed Said Gutseriev owns a multi-million-pound City of London office block bought for more than £40m through a secret offshore company.\n\nSaid Gutseriev's representatives told the BBC he did not have \"any business links with his father\". His lavish wedding, which made headlines in 2016, featured performances by Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias.\n\nYuri Soloviev is a high-ranking executive at sanctioned Russian bank VTB and was sanctioned by the UK government on 15 March this year. The 51-year-old has Russian and British citizenship.\n\nAccording to US Treasury officials, his wife Galina Ulyutina \"was previously implicated in a golden passport scheme\" in Bulgaria. Golden passport schemes allow nationals of one country to acquire citizenship in another through investment.\n\nMr Soloviev owns two London properties in his own name. One is a penthouse in Hampstead, the other is in Westminster. A third apartment near Kensington Palace was bought outright in the name of a relative for £2.2m in 2006 and revealed in the 2016 Panama Papers leak.\n\nA spokesperson for VTB told the BBC that Mr Soloviev \"left VTB group on 24 February 2022\", the day that Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"Mr Soloviev was not sanctioned by any countries while working at VTB,\" the statement added.\n\nThe chairman of the management board of state-owned Gazprombank, Andrey Akimov, was sanctioned by the US in 2018. He was sanctioned by the UK earlier this month.\n\nAccording to Catherine Belton in her book Putin's People, he is a former intelligence operative and \"one of the most important financiers behind Vladimir Putin's regime\".\n\nWorking with the International Consortium of Journalists, the BBC has seen evidence in the Pandora Papers leak that link Mr Akimov to property in London.\n\nLand Registry documents show that Mr Akimov's partner Marianna Chaykina owns an apartment in Knightsbridge. It was bought for £10m by British Virgin Islands (BVI) company Inma Investments in 2012.\n\nMs. Chaykina is listed as co-owner of a number of Mr. Akimov's firms in leaked corporate records and she has been described by Russian media as Mr. Akimov's wife.\n\nThe BBC received no response to its questions from Mr Akimov.\n\nPolina Kovaleva is the stepdaughter of Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, according to the UK government.\n\nLavrov was sanctioned by the British government at the same time as Vladimir Putin. A few weeks later, on 24 March, the UK government sanctioned Ms Kovaleva too - saying she reportedly owns a London property worth £4m.\n\nLand Registry documents show Polina Kovaleva bought an apartment in Kensington with no mortgage in 2016, when she was 21.\n\nMs Kovaleva did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nArkady Rotenberg is one of Vladimir Putin's closest friends - the pair sparred in the same judo gym in St Petersburg.\n\nThe US and the EU imposed sanctions on him in 2014 following Russia's annexation of Crimea. He is also under sanction in the UK, with the government citing his \"close personal ties to President Putin\". His brother Boris and son Igor were added to the sanction list last month.\n\nIn July 2020, an investigation by the US Senate accused the Rotenberg brothers of using secretive purchases of expensive art to evade sanctions.\n\nUpper Ribsden in the village of Windlesham was bought in 2012 for £27.5m by Ravendark Holdings Limited, a company registered in the BVI. It received a loan of over £30m from another BVI company said to be owned by Mr Rotenberg.\n\nIn November 2021, a High Court judge ruled the house was held on trust for the benefit of Mr Rotenberg by Ravendark. That was appealed and the case has yet to be decided. Mr Rotenberg did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe difficulty faced by senior judges and lawyers in establishing who owns a UK mansion illustrates how hard it can be to trace the assets of sanctioned oligarchs.\n\nUpdate 27 May 2022: This article has been amended to clarify the business dealings of Said Gutseriev.", "A leading public health expert has revealed she was sent white powder and a used face mask in the post last summer.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, of Edinburgh University, said the words \"I am done\" were written in black ink on the mask.\n\nShe has previously received abuse on social media after commenting on vaccines and face coverings.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon condemned the \"horrendous abuse\" of women in the public eye.\n\nProf Sridhar is a professor of global public health and sits on the Scottish government's coronavirus advisory board.\n\nShe told the Times newspaper that something about being sent items in the post felt different to previous abusive incidents.\n\nShe said: \"I was extremely shaken and it was probably the hardest part because it was in my real life, not virtual or online.\n\n\"I have thought often about withdrawing but it feels like, for better or worse, my job now also has a public dimension. Hopefully it's helpful to have scientists out there explaining things for most people.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said Prof Sridhar had been a \"hugely important and valuable\" adviser to the government and given very straight and \"at times uncomfortable\" advice.\n\nSpeaking to the PA news agency, she said: \"Devi is an example of a high-profile, vocal woman who gets horrendous abuse through social media - she's not alone in that but I know she has received that.\n\n\"She has been a real voice of reason and good sense throughout this pandemic, but like many women who put their heads above the parapet they face the most horrendous abuse and it's got to stop.\n\n\"Social media companies and others really have to be part of putting a stop to it.\"", "Nathan Fleetwood went missing after a night out in Shrewsbury\n\nA body has been found in a river in the search for a 21-year-old man who was missing for 19 days.\n\nNathan Fleetwood was last seen near Kingsland Bridge, Shrewsbury, on 27 March.\n\nWest Mercia Police said the body was found by West Mercia Search and Rescue in the River Severn on Friday.\n\nThe force said formal identification had not yet taken place but Mr Fleetwood's family had been informed of the discovery.\n\nHundreds of people were involved in searches for Mr Fleetwood, led by his family and his friend Toby Owen.\n\nIn a post on the Help Find Missing Nathan Fleetwood page, Mr Owen said his friend's body had been found near the Greyfriars Bridge.\n\nToby Owen has organised searches around Shrewsbury to find clues of his friend's whereabouts\n\nMr Owen thanked everyone involved and said he hoped it showed \"that we can all pull together as a community\".\n\nIn the same post, Mr Owen added a message he said was from Mr Fleetwood's family, asking for \"time and space\" to come to terms with their loss.\n\nMr Fleetwood went missing after a night out at Albert Shed in the town and the final sightings of him were in the Kingsland area.\n\nIn a direct message to his friend, Mr Owen added: \"We all love you so much and did everything we possibly could to get you home safe.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Morgan said his new show would \"cancel cancel culture\"\n\nPiers Morgan has said his controversial exit from ITV's Good Morning Britain last year was \"a farce\" but it \"focused everyone's minds\" on free speech.\n\nThe presenter is about to launch his first TV show since the row over his comments about the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nPiers Morgan Uncensored will air on the new TalkTV channel in the UK as well as being screened in the US and Australia.\n\nHe also criticised ITV for \"censoring\" him. The network has previously said it champions freedom of expression.\n\nMorgan left the breakfast show last March after saying he \"didn't believe a word\" Meghan had said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\nHis comments sparked a record 58,000 complaints to Ofcom. The UK media regulator later rejected the complaints, however, saying that limiting his views would be a \"chilling restriction\" on free expression.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the launch of his new show, Morgan said: \"I used to think I was uncensored, and then of course when I left Good Morning Britain, it turned out that I actually was being censored in the sense that I was told I had to apologise for disbelieving Princess Pinocchio or I would have to leave the building.\n\n\"So I took the leave-the-building option, which I thought was a sad moment for me and for the show. I thought it was the wrong call by ITV.\n\n\"It was all a bit dramatic, but of course what it really did was focus everyone's minds to, 'what is free speech?'\"\n\nThe 57-year-old said his new TalkTV programme would \"uncancel those who have been cancelled\".\n\nITV has said it was Morgan's decision to leave Good Morning Britain and the company accepted this decision.\n\nRupert Murdoch has hired Morgan to host the new show\n\nTalkTV will launch in the UK on 25 April, with Morgan's show also airing on Fox Nation in the US and Sky News Australia.\n\nReferring to his ITV exit, Morgan added: \"I thought the whole thing was a farce, and I'm delighted that actually as a result of the farce, we've ended up with a whole network which is now dedicated to preventing that kind of farce from recurring.\"\n\nSetting out the boundaries for his new show and his approach to free speech, he said: \"You shouldn't be shamed or vilified or cancelled for having an opinion, unless you genuinely are spewing hateful, bigoted stuff.\"\n\nHe added: \"We know where this line is. You can have a vigorous debate with somebody, vehemently disagree, be severely critical. You can call me all sorts of things. That's fine.\n\n\"But the moment you try and get me fired, as Meghan Markle did on Good Morning Britain, where she personally writes to the boss of ITV and demands my head on a plate, that is cancel culture right there.\n\n\"And the idea that ITV rolled over to it is ridiculous. But that's why I'm here, and I feel in a way grateful to them because I think this is a very exciting new platform and opportunity.\"\n\nMorgan will be joined on the TalkTV line-up by Sharon Osbourne\n\nAlthough Ofcom rejected the complaints against ITV, it did so because Morgan's views were balanced by co-presenters who challenged him. The regulator criticised his \"apparent disregard\" for the subject of suicide, after the Duchess of Sussex discussed her mental health.\n\nOfcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said in September: \"Some of the things he said had the capacity to be harmful as well as deeply offensive.\"\n\nThe duchess was among those who complained to Ofcom, and was reported to have also complained to ITV directly.\n\nITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall said in September the broadcaster had \"vigorously\" defended Morgan to Ofcom, and there was \"no way we wouldn't be absolutely not just endorsing but championing freedom of speech and freedom of expression\".\n\nMorgan even likened himself to former South African President Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison for his political activities against the country's racist apartheid regime.\n\n\"I feel like Nelson Mandela when he came out of prison,\" Morgan said. \"It's like the long walk to free speech freedom.\"\n\nThe TalkTV line-up will also include The Talk, a new show featuring Sharon Osbourne, who left a separate US chat show called The Talk after defending Morgan on air.", "The French cosmetics chain L'Occitane says it will close its Russian shops and website, days after defending its decision to continue trading.\n\nThe firm said the move follows the \"enormous human suffering and escalating military action in Ukraine\".\n\nL'Occitane told the BBC last week it was keeping its shops open to protect staff from potential \"retaliation\".\n\nSome customers had criticised the company for its decision and called for a boycott of the brand.\n\nIts products are sold at more than 3,085 retail outlets worldwide and had sales of €1.5bn (£1.3bn) last year.\n\nLast week the firm told the BBC it had discussed closing its Russian stores \"at length\" but said it had not because it wanted to protect staff from potential \"retaliation\".\n\nThe cosmetics firm, which has spas and stores in Russian cities including Moscow and St Petersburg, originally said it could not take the \"risk\" of closing its shops.\n\nBut in a statement issued on Friday evening, L'Occitane said the decision to shut its Russian operation had been approved by the company's board of directors.\n\n\"Given the enormous human suffering being caused by escalating military action in Ukraine and to protect our employees worldwide from potential public aggression, we have decided to close our own stores and e-commerce websites in Russia,\" the statement said.\n\nHundreds of international brands including L'Oreal and Estee Lauder have already closed shops and ceased online sales in Russia in protest at the war in Ukraine.\n\nTweeting a picture of a L'Occitane product one customer said: \"I've used this cream for years, never again. Even if they back out, they've showed their corporate integrity.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maddus Mickus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of firms are still listed as still operating in Russia by Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld at Yale University's School of Management.\n\nAmong them are the French energy giant EDF, the UAE's Emirates airline, and China's Lenovo computer brand.\n\nAround 600 big firms have pulled out of Russia or suspended sales since it invaded, including Starbucks, Coca Cola, Levi's and Apple.\n\nOther international outlets still open in Russia have said they are not able to shut stores due to complex franchise deals preventing them from withdrawing. Burger King and the hotel groups Marriott and Accor are among the firms restricted by these arrangements.\n\nOn Tuesday, some independent Nike stores were found to be operating in Russia over a week after the sportswear brand said it was temporarily closing all its shops in the country.\n\nProfessor Vanessa Burbano, from Columbia Business School in the US, said that consistency between claims and actions is important for brands with operations in Russia.\n\n\"Customers and employees do pay attention to which companies are first in making these kinds of commitments and which firms don't go as far,\" Prof Burbano said.\n\n\"The risk of companies making claims that may not be perceived as consistent with their actions is that they could be seen as a green-washing in the Ukraine context which would be bad for their reputation.\"", "More than 40 people have been arrested after violent clashes in Sweden between police and people angry at plans by a far-right group to burn copies of the Quran.\n\nThree people were injured in Norrkoping on Sunday when officers fired warning shots at rioters, police said.\n\nThe violence was sparked by a series of rallies organised by the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan.\n\nHe says he has burned a copy of Islam's holy book and wants to do so again.\n\nMuslims consider the Quran the sacred word of God and view any intentional damage or show of disrespect towards it as deeply offensive.\n\nSaudi Arabia has condemned what it called the \"deliberate abuse of the holy Quran by some extremists in Sweden, and provocation and incitement against Muslims\".\n\nIran and Iraq earlier summoned the Swedish ambassadors to lodge protests.\n\nPolice broke up crowd of protesters in the Rosengård area of Malmo on Saturday\n\nSweden's national police chief, Anders Thornberg, said he had never seen such violent riots following Sunday's clashes in Norrkoping, which is about 160km (99 miles) south-west of Stockholm, and nearby Linkoping.\n\nThe two cites also witnessed riots on Friday, along with the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby and the western city of Orebro. On Saturday, there was a riot in the southern city of Malmo.\n\nOn Monday, police said 26 police officers and 14 members of the public had been injured in the violence and that more than 20 vehicles had been damaged or destroyed.\n\nThey said that around 200 people had been involved in the violence, adding they believed it was organised by networks of criminal gangs. Some of the individuals are already known to police and Sweden's security service, Sapo.\n\nSunday's violence in Norrkoping came after Rasmus Paludan said he planned to hold a rally there. However, he never showed up in the city.\n\nIn a statement posted by his far-right, anti-immigrant Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, Paludan said he cancelled the rally because Swedish authorities had \"shown that they are completely incapable of protecting themselves and me\".\n\nHe had earlier appeared on Thursday in the central city of Jonkoping, but as he talked into a megaphone while holding a Quran, his words were drowned out by a priest ringing the bells of a local church in protest.\n\nProtests against plans by Stram Kurs to burn the Quran have turned violent in Sweden before. In 2020, protesters set cars on fire and shop fronts were damaged in clashes in Malmö.\n\nPaludan represented Stram Kurs party in the last Danish elections in 2019, where it received 1.8 % of the vote, failing to win a seat.\n\nIn 2020, he was jailed in Denmark for a month for a string of offences including racism.\n\nHe plans to stand in Swedish elections in September, but he reportedly does not yet have the necessary number of signatures to secure his candidature.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nChelsea will face Manchester City in a second domestic cup final this season after they saw off league rivals Arsenal in a feisty Women's FA Cup semi-final at Meadow Park.\n\nThere were few clear-cut chances in the first half - Arsenal's Vivianne Miedema coming close with an effort that flew over the bar - but Chelsea were clinical after the break.\n\nGuro Reiten broke the deadlock with a stunning effort from the edge of the box, before Ji So-yun fired one in off the underside of the crossbar 11 minutes later.\n\nArsenal could have gone 1-0 up moments before Reiten's opener when Beth Mead spun away in the box but dragged her shot inches wide.\n\nInstead, cup holders Chelsea threatened to extend their lead, with Sophie Ingle and Reiten forcing smart saves from goalkeeper Manuela Zinsberger, before striker Bethany England fired one over the bar.\n\nBoth sets of supporters were in fine voice - an indication of the growing rivalry between these sides, who occupy the top two spots in the Women's Super League.\n\nIt was the fourth meeting between the sides this season, with Arsenal's only victory coming on the WSL's opening day at Emirates Stadium, while Chelsea won last season's delayed FA Cup final at Wembley in December.\n\nManchester City saw off West Ham to progress to the final on Saturday, and so Chelsea will have an opportunity to make amends for their League Cup final defeat by Gareth Taylor's side in March.\n\nFourteen-time FA Cup winners Arsenal have not won the competition since 2016, while Chelsea are aiming to win a third title in five years.\n\nBarely anything has separated these two teams this season, with Chelsea leading the WSL by just a point.\n\nThe last meeting between them, an exhilarating league encounter at Kingsmeadow in February, ended in a goalless draw.\n\nThis time, the first half was a little cagey with both sides trying to test the nerve of the other.\n\nArsenal had started well - pressing from the front and asking questions of Chelsea with runs in behind.\n\nMead and Stina Blackstenius were not able to pick out Miedema with a few cut-backs and the hosts finished the half without a shot on target, after inviting some pressure from Chelsea towards the end.\n\nThe Blues came out the blocks fast in the second half, though, and put away their chances when it mattered.\n\nThat stalled Arsenal's early momentum and Chelsea went on to dominate, going 2-0 up just after the hour mark.\n\nEmma Hayes will now seek to guide Chelsea to the completion of a successful FA Cup defence against an in-form Manchester City side in the final on 15 May at Wembley.\n\nArsenal, who have missed out on two domestic trophies this season, will be hoping to regain top spot in the WSL, needing to close that one-point gap with just four games remaining.\n\n'This win means nothing for the league' - reaction\n\nChelsea manager Emma Hayes, speaking to BBC Two: \"The first 20 minutes, we were horrific. But once we executed the game plan, we stifled them and they struggled. The goal came at the right time and we dominated them.\n\n\"We got a clean sheet and we limited them to one chance in the first half. Defensively we were solid. That's our foundation.\n\n\"This win means nothing for the league. We're in the final, at Wembley. That's where we want to be.\"\n\nFormer England midfielder Fara Williams on BBC Two: \"Emma Hayes will have gone in at half-time disappointed with the performance from Chelsea. She'll have made some adjustments and we saw them after the break.\n\n\"Chelsea came out and dominated, got their goals and we didn't see a response from Arsenal.\"\n\nFormer Leeds striker Lucy Ward on BBC Two: \"That was a professional performance from Chelsea. Emma Hayes will be pleased with the way her team adapted to the game.\n\n\"It was a battle to start with but they had a couple of moments of quality and then they had control. Chelsea were deserved winners.\"\n• None Offside, Arsenal Women. Vivianne Miedema tries a through ball, but Beth Mead is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Nikita Parris (Arsenal Women) header from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Beth Mead with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bethany England (Chelsea Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jessie Fleming.\n• None Attempt missed. Bethany England (Chelsea Women) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Aniek Nouwen.\n• None Nikita Parris (Arsenal Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Kim Little (Arsenal Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Bethany England (Chelsea Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Vivianne Miedema (Arsenal Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tobin Heath.\n• None Offside, Arsenal Women. Lotte Wubben-Moy tries a through ball, but Nikita Parris is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jodie Whittaker became the first female to play the Doctor in 2018\n\nTwo former Doctor Who companions will appear in Jodie Whittaker's final adventure later this year.\n\nTegan and Ace will join the 13th Doctor in the special episode being broadcast this autumn.\n\nThe news was revealed in a trailer that followed the show's Easter special.\n\nThe short teaser also revealed that the episode will feature the Doctor's arch enemy The Master (Sacha Dhawan) and two of her most famous foes, the Daleks and the Cybermen.\n\nYasmin Khan, played by Mandip Gill, and Sacha Dhawan as the Master\n\nThe Daleks are among the Doctor's most famous foes\n\nTegan Jovanka, an Australian air stewardess, appeared on the BBC One show between 1981 and 1984 as a companion to Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors.\n\nIt's the first time she's been seen on screen in almost 40 years.\n\nShe's played by Janet Fielding, who says: \"In some ways it was a very different experience to what it was like when I finished recording in 1983, but in many ways it was very similar. It was so lovely to be a working member of the Doctor Who family again.\"\n\nAce was in the TV drama from 1987 to 1989 alongside Sylvester McCoy's seventh Doctor.\n\nActress Sophie Aldred says: \"It's been quite a challenge to have such a big secret to keep, even from my family, and I couldn't be more thrilled and excited to have been asked back. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I adored being part of the TARDIS team again.\"\n\nShe was the show's final companion before it went on a 16-year hiatus. Writer/producer Russell T Davies revived it in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston playing the returning Doctor.\n\nJanet Fielding as Tegan and Peter Davison as The Doctor in 1984\n\nSophie Aldred as Ace and Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor in their 1988 adventure Remembrance of the Daleks\n\nWhittaker, the first woman to play the Doctor, has appeared in three series of the sci-fi drama. Her first series in 2018 was one of its most-watched ever.\n\nShe announced that she was quitting the role last summer, and that she would be saying goodbye to the character in three specials.\n\nHer replacement as the Doctor is expected to be revealed in the coming weeks.", "During a speech about surging inflation on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden appeared to accuse Russia's Vladimir Putin of genocide.\n\nThe Biden administration has previously stopped short of describing civilian killings in Ukraine as \"genocide\", but has accused Mr Putin of war crimes.\n\nThe White House is seeking to pin the blame for rising consumer prices on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, though American inflation predates the war.", "Det Sgt Nick Bailey was contaminated at the home of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in 2018\n\nAn ex-policeman who sued his former force after being poisoned in the Salisbury Novichok attack says a financial settlement has been reached.\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey was the first person to enter the home of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia after they were found poisoned in March 2018.\n\nLawyer Patrick Maguire, who represents Mr Bailey, said the incident had a \"major impact\" on the former officer.\n\nHe added the settlement with Wiltshire Police felt like a \"huge step forward\".\n\nSergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the attack after spending several weeks in hospital\n\nMr Bailey made three attempts to go back to work with his force of 18 years, but left after he said he \"couldn't deal with being in a police environment\".\n\nHe was contaminated when he touched the door handle of Mr Skripal's home.\n\nA spokesman for Wiltshire police said their legal advisors were \"fully engaged in the civil legal process\".\n\n\"Although we can confirm that a settlement has now been reached in this case, it would not be appropriate to comment any further,\" he added.\n\n\"We wish Nick and his family the very best for the future.\"\n\nBoth Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped on a bench in the Maltings area of Salisbury but survived the attack.\n\nLater Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she came into contact with a perfume bottle thought to have been used to store the nerve agent and then discarded.\n\nHer partner, Charlie Rowley, was left seriously ill but recovered.\n\nDawn Sturgess died after coming into contact with a perfume bottle, thought to have been used in the attack\n\nAn inquest into Ms Sturgess' death will be heard at a later date.\n\nTwo Russian nationals have been accused of travelling to the UK to try to murder Mr Skripal with Novichok, smearing the highly toxic substance on the door handle of his home in Salisbury.\n\nThought to be from the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU, they were caught on CCTV in Salisbury the day before the attack.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nNorthern Ireland boss Kenny Shiels has apologised for saying \"women are more emotional than men\" when discussing his side's 5-0 defeat by England.\n\nShiels' remarks drew criticism from former England players Siobhan Chamberlain and Ian Wright.\n\nHe said on Wednesday that he was \"sorry for the offence\" caused.\n\n\"I am an advocate for the women's game and passionate about developing opportunities for women and girls to flourish,\" he said.\n• None 'Shiels' comments were themselves an emotional reaction'\n\nShiels' side conceded four second-half goals in a 5-0 defeat by England that left them unable to qualify for next year's Women's World Cup.\n\nHe told a post-match news conference: \"I felt [England] were struggling a wee bit at times to open us up until the psychology of going 2-0 up in the women's game.\n\n\"I'm sure you will have noticed if you go through the patterns - when a team concedes a goal, they concede a second one in a very, very short space of time.\n\n\"[It happens] right through the whole spectrum of the women's game, because girls and women are more emotional than men. So, they take a goal going in not very well.\"\n\nThe match was attended by a crowd of 15,348 at Windsor Park in Belfast - a record for a women's match in the country.\n\n\"I wish to apologise for my comments made in the post-match press conference last night,\" Shiels said.\n\n'Last night was a special occasion for the women's game in Northern Ireland and I am proud to manage a group of players who are role models for so many girls, and boys, across the country.\"\n• None What do home nations need to reach World Cup?\n\nFormer goalkeeper Chamberlain, who played 50 times for England, said Shiels had to take responsibility for \"knowing the value that words can hold\".\n\n\"I think we all know that the five minutes after you concede a goal - not just in women's football, [also] in men's football - you're more likely to concede a goal,\" Chamberlain, speaking before Shiels' apology, told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"To just generalise that to women is a slightly bizarre comment.\n\n\"When you give post-match news conferences when you're feeling emotional after a big game, it's important to make sure that you are speaking sensibly and are aware of the message that your words can carry.\"\n\nYvonne Harrison, chief executive of Women in Football, said Shiels' remarks were \"very unhelpful\".\n\n\"Hearing a man talking about women being too emotional in this day and age, I just felt like I'd gone back 30 years, to be perfectly honest with you,\" Harrison told PA news agency.\n\n\"It's something women have had to face for years and years right across society, not just sport.\n\n\"But I caveat that with his team had just been beaten 5-0 by a very strong Lionesses team and that's not easy to take, and you've got all the media on you.\"\n\nShiels, 65, was appointed manager of the senior women's team in May 2019, having previously led Kilmarnock and Derry City's men's teams.\n\nHe oversaw Northern Ireland's successful Euro 2022 play-off campaign, which saw them secure the country's first ever qualification for a major women's tournament.\n\nShiels described his side's qualification as the \"UK's greatest sporting achievement\".\n\nEngland went 1-0 up in the 26th minute but had to wait until the 52nd minute to add a second.\n\n\"When we went 1-0 down we tried to slow it down to give them time to get that emotional imbalance out of their heads. That's an issue we have,\" Shiels continued in his Tuesday news conference.\n\n\"Not just in Northern Ireland but all of the countries in the world.\"\n\nTuesday night was one of contrast and controversy as Northern Ireland played in a historic World Cup qualifier against rivals England.\n\nIt was a celebration of their recent success on the pitch - including their qualification for a first major tournament at the Euros this summer.\n\nBut the 5-0 defeat ended their slim hopes of securing a place at the 2023 World Cup and Shiels' rash comments shortly afterwards are now dominating headlines which should have been reflecting on their progression on the pitch.\n\nThere was shock in the news conference room when he made the claim that \"women are more emotional than men\" and the extent of the offence caused by his comments was clear this morning.\n\nHis statement stressed his hopes to be an \"advocate for the women's game\" but his comments will have harmed his reputation as such.\n\nNow, in a period when NI should be preparing for the biggest tournament in their history, his future as manager is under speculation and that will be an unwelcome distraction for the players.\n• None How are people coping with having to make do with less?\n• None Can they face their fears? Celebrities take on challenges in sub-zero temperatures with Wim Hof", "Tesco profits more than trebled last year amid rising sales and a fall in Covid-related costs.\n\nThe UK's largest supermarket chain reported pre-tax profits of £2.03bn, up from £636m the previous year.\n\nGroup sales, excluding fuel, rose by 2.5% to £54.8bn, while in the UK retail sales rose by 2.3% year on year.\n\nHowever, Tesco warned of \"significant uncertainties\" and said performance would be affected by the the investment needed to keep prices down.\n\nChief executive Ken Murphy said: \"Clearly, the external environment has become more challenging in recent months.\n\n\"Against a tough backdrop for our customers and with household budgets under pressure, we are laser-focused on keeping the cost of the weekly shop in check - working in close partnership with our suppliers, as well as doing everything we can to reduce our own costs.\"\n\nMr Murphy added that Tesco was managing to keep the rise in the cost of living a \"bit under the number for the overall market\".\n\nHowever, products that require a lot of energy to produce are experiencing the highest cost pressures. Tesco accepted a 20% cost price increase in milk from its suppliers less than two weeks ago. However, the UK's largest dairy Arla recently warned that with cost increases of some 36%, farmers faced tough cost challenges.\n\nMr Murphy said strong product availability had been maintained but added that products such as sunflower oil were a challenge due to the war in Ukraine.\n\nIt is also said customer behaviour is also returning to more normal patterns as shoppers rely less on supermarket trips as the UK emerges from the pandemic.\n\nCommenting on Tesco profits, chief executive of Retail Economics, Richard Lim said the increases were \"mightily impressive\".\n\nAs the cost of living crisis continues, Mr Lim said many shoppers would be trading down to own-label brands, switching retailers and scaling back on premium purchases.\n\nHowever, he said Tesco was \"well-positioned\", given the \"competitive advantage\" offered by its loyalty scheme and \"meaningful negotiating power\" it had with suppliers.\n\nTesco online business was lower as sales declined by 6.5% because some customers chose to return to shopping in stores as the pandemic eased.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. GP telephone first system '\"here to stay\"\n\nA phone first system adopted by most GP surgeries at the start of the pandemic is \"here to stay\", the Royal College of GPs (RCGPs) in Northern Ireland has said.\n\nHowever, the RCGP has also accepted patient access needs to improve.\n\nThe system was introduced in spring 2020.\n\nRetired couple Simon and Jean Clayton said they found the system impersonal and a hassle.\n\nSimon had a stroke a number of years ago, was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2020 and Jean too has had health problems.\n\nWhile they are now with a GP practice they are happy with - they said that in the past they have struggled with access.\n\nAccording to GPs, the move, which was imposed by government and came without either consultation or prior information, was necessary to minimise the risk of infection of Covid-19.\n\nSimon and Jean Clayton have found the telephone system challenging\n\nBut there is concern among some members of the public that the system is not working.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI on behalf of the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), Dr Ursula Mason accepted that the system wasn't working but said there were not enough GPs to see people.\n\nShe said the telephone system, which was being refined and \"improved\", was the best way to prioritise the sickest patients.\n\n\"The telephone system allows us to see many more patients, to deal with demand in a better way so I think the telephone system is here to stay,\" added Dr Mason.\n\n\"There will be some changes to upgrade it, but it will form a significant part of how we manage demand.\"\n\nJean Clayton said she found the telephone system challenging.\n\n\"Being number 29 in the queue on the phone and then it would be about 4 o'clockish, knowing that they would close at 17:00 and you go right down to position three, two and then back to three and then it cuts off - gone for the day,\" she said.\n\n\"The physio suggested cortisone injections and so I came downstairs and asked the receptionist for an appointment and she said: 'You've got to phone me.'\"\n\nHer husband said he found the system impersonal.\n\n\"It just gets to the point when you are ill you just don't bother ringing up, because you just treat yourself. A lot of people are self-medicating because it's just so much hassle.\"\n\nDr Laurence Dorman, RCGP NI chairman, said they were aware some patients are having \"genuine difficulties accessing our services\" and said more than 200,000 patients per week contact GP surgeries.\n\n\"It is very important to realise that there are massive pressures on General Practice in the same way as there are in emergency departments and right across our systems,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Wednesday.\n\nDr Dorman said he did not have \"hard data about health outcomes\" in relation to the phone-first system but said it was vital for the public to realise this was being done to \"meet their needs\".\n\n\"It is not a perfect system and unfortunately we had to do it at the start of the pandemic in response to infection prevention and control and to meet the needs of the protection from Covid, but there our new ways of working and we will be engaging positively with our patients on this.\"\n\nThe chief executive of the Patient and Client Council said that it wants a wider conversation about plans to make the phone-first system permanent.\n\nVivian McConvey told BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme that there has been a wide range of responses from patients.\n\n\"Some people are saying, 'you know, I haven't had a real problem with this service and it actually has suited me to be able to phone in', right through to other people at the other end of the scale feeling like this isn't working for me, I'm feeling very isolated from GP services.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some people express frustration at difficulties they have had in seeing a GP, but others believe the telephone-first system should stay\n\nDr Mason's practice in Carryduff is used to taking several thousand calls daily.\n\nWhile waiting areas are sparsely populated, inside the individual surgeries doctors take call after call.\n\nAfternoons are set aside to see those people who have phoned in earlier and have managed to get a face-to-face appointment.\n\n\"We have seen huge problems with access over the years due the telephone system, that is the bottleneck for patients and it is frustrating for patients and GPs,\" she said.\n\n\"But we are taking steps to try and change and refine systems. But the bottom line is there are only so many patient contacts that GPs can deal with every day and when those finish we can then only offer an emergency service and that is regrettable.\"\n\nDr Mason warned that unless there was realistic funding GP services would be \"limited in the future\".\n\nShe said the college \"accepts there are problems with the telephone system\", but that it allowed GPS to see the sickest first.\n\n\"Part of the problem is that some practices have old phone systems that don't allow for patients to be placed on hold.\n\n\"It's not working and we are trying to fix it by upgrading phone systems and by changing how we work. But it is hugely difficult.\"\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan's practice triage more than 1,000 patients over the phone and saw 645 face-to-face\n\nMeanwhile, 40 miles away in Armagh, Dr Frances O'Hagan juggled similar problems in the Friary surgery.\n\nAt most, two people sit in the waiting room, while others attend a treatment room.\n\nIn the past five days 1,012 people have been triaged by telephone, while 645 people have had face-to-face consultations with their GP.\n\nThere are eight phone lines into the building and for approximately eight hours every day the lines are constantly ringing.\n\nDr O'Hagan also admitted things could be done better, but said the telephone system was the safest way of treating patients during a pandemic.\n\n\"At the moment Covid is still with us and we must ensure patients are seen in the safest way,\" she added.\n\n\"We manage how they come into the building and we can't have people waiting in a crowded area.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Siobhan McDermott, a receptionist at a GP practice in Londonderry, described her typical day.\n\n\"The phone lines are starting from nine o'clock in the morning,\" she said.\n\n\"We have two girls here answering the lines - we could be taking up to 200 calls each a day and directing them to the right area by care navigating each call.\n\n\"So we're care navigators now more so than receptionists, which allows us to direct the patient to the right person that they need to talk to.\"\n\nAcross Northern Ireland, on the week ending 25 March, 74,267 people were treated in surgery and 117,182 by phone or video.\n\nWhile RCGP NI didn't have comparable figures for before and after the new telephone system, GPs said they believe it was allowing them to treat more patients - but not necessarily face-to-face.\n\nAccording to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Nisra, there were 321 GP practices in March 2021 - that is a reduction of 29 (8%) since 2014.", "An oil firm has been granted a High Court injunction aimed at restricting environmental protesters from targeting its fuel processing sites.\n\nValero Energy has secured the order against several environmental groups and \"persons unknown\".\n\nIt bans anyone from damaging the land at its sites or \"affixing themselves to any other person or object\".\n\nThe firm's Warwickshire terminal has been the site of recent protests, with 32 arrests made over the weekend.\n\nActivists from the group Just Stop Oil have tried to obstruct access to Valero's Kingsbury oil terminal since a series of nationwide protests started on 1 April.\n\nValero also operates a refinery in Pembrokeshire, south Wales, and five other fuel terminals across the UK.\n\nCampaigners, including some from Extinction Rebellion, have carried out protests at other sites including in Birmingham, London, Southampton and Hemel Hempstead.\n\nFollowing a hearing on Monday, Mr Justice Bennathan made the injunction in terms which ban people from damaging any part of the land at the firm's sites or access roads, from building any structure and from tunnelling under roads or occupying existing tunnels.\n\nThe order, the details of which were made public on Wednesday, also prohibits abandoning vehicles or other items on parts of Valero's sites' access roads.\n\nBut the judge refused to widen the injunction to include blocking, endangering, slowing down, preventing, or obstructing the free passage of traffic on the access roads, and refusing to leave the roads when asked by police.\n\nIn his ruling Mr Justice Bennathan said: \"The order I made forbids various acts of trespass, including the blocking of gates on Valero's premises, and forbids acts of obstructing certain specified roadways, including public highways, in various semi-permanent ways. It does so for all seven sites.\"\n\nHe said he was satisfied Valero would have a strong basis for action over trespass or private and public nuisance on the basis of protests which had already taken place but that due to the sums involved in the oil industry, and the \"impracticality of obtaining damages on that scale from a diverse group of protesters\", damages would not be an adequate remedy.\n\nThe judge added that trespassing on the sites could lead to \"highly dangerous outcomes\" given the flammable nature of the materials on site and that obstruction of roads could cause serious damage for critical infrastructure, as \"emergency services, hospitals and other key parts of society depend on oil based fuels\".\n\nThe injunction will be reconsidered at a hearing next January to determine if it is still necessary.\n\nSimilar injunctions were put in place to stop protests by the group Insulate Britain after its activists blocked parts of the M25 last year.", "Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion arrive at Przemysl Glowny train station, in Poland,\n\nThe UN's refugee agency has urged the UK government to ensure that Ukrainian women and children are not matched with single men as hosts.\n\nThere are concerns that refugees are at risk and could be exploited if matched with an unsuitable host via the Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme.\n\nThe UNHCR has called for \"a more appropriate process\" when matching sponsors and refugees.\n\nThe government said there were \"robust security and background checks\".\n\nThe Homes for Ukraine scheme opened on 18 March but has been criticised for being overly bureaucratic and slow to grant visas.\n\nAnyone in the UK can apply to become a host on the scheme, as long as they are able to offer accommodation to a refugee for at least six months.\n\nHowever, the government does not match hosts with refugees and reports suggest some people could be using social media to find vulnerable women and children fleeing the war.\n\nA spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said it would be \"more appropriate\" to match women and women with children with families or couples than with single men.\n\n\"Matching done without the appropriate oversight may lead to increasing the risks women may face, in addition to the trauma of displacement, family separation and violence already experienced,\" he added.\n\nThe warning follows an investigation by the Times that resulted in an undercover journalist posing as a young Ukrainian woman being inundated with inappropriate messages from single men.\n\nAnd Louise Calvey, the head of safeguarding at Refugee Action has previously told the Observer the scheme was at risk of becoming a \"Tinder for sex traffickers\".\n\nMembers of some Facebook groups have also expressed concerns over exploitation when young Ukrainian women have posted looking for accommodation.\n\nA spokesperson for the government said that \"Attempts to exploit vulnerable people are truly despicable - this is why we have designed the Homes for Ukraine scheme to have specific safeguards in place.\"\n\nThey said these included \"robust security and background checks\" on all sponsors, by the Home Office and local authorities.\n\n\"Councils must make at least one in-person visit to a sponsor's property and they have a duty to make sure the guest is safe and well once they've arrived,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nHome Office figures published on Friday showed only 12,500 visas had been granted under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, and only 1,200 refugees had arrived in the UK under it.\n\nIn total the government had granted 41,000 visas to Ukrainians fleeing the war.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel apologised for the \"frustrating\" delays but said new visa schemes took time to set up.", "Prices are rising at their fastest rate for 30 years, driven by a sharp increase in petrol and diesel costs.\n\nThe UK inflation rate rose to 7% in the year to March, the highest rate since 1992 and up from 6.2% in February.\n\nPrices are rising faster than wages and there is pressure on the government to do more to help those struggling.\n\nThe cost of living is expected to rise even further after the energy price cap was increased, driving up gas and electricity bills for millions.\n\nInflation is the rate at which prices rise. If a bottle of milk costs £1 and that rises by 5p, then milk inflation is 5%.\n\nFuel had the biggest impact on the inflation rate, with average petrol prices rising by 12.6p per litre between February and March, the largest monthly rise since records began in 1990, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nThis compares with a rise of 3.5p per litre between the same months of 2021.\n\nDiesel prices also rose by 18.8p per litre this year, compared with a rise of 3.5p per litre a year ago.\n\nThe rise in the inflation rate was higher than the 6.7% expected by analysts and was also driven up by furniture, restaurant and food prices.\n\nThe figures for March do not yet reflect the average £700-a-year increase in energy bills that took place from 1 April when the energy price cap was raised.\n\nSara Gerritsma says her petrol costs have shot up by about £120 a month\n\nSince late last year, prices have been rising fast as pandemic restrictions have been eased and firms face higher energy and shipping costs which they have passed on to consumers.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine is now adding to the pain, as the price of oil and other commodities climb higher.\n\nRussia is one of the world's largest oil exporters and demand for oil from other producers has increased since the invasion, leading to higher prices.\n\nAlthough the UK imports just 6% of its crude oil from Russia, it is still affected when global prices rise.\n\nUkraine and Russia are also the world's main suppliers of sunflower oil and the war has hit prices.\n\nIn the UK, the price of oils and fats for food increased by 7.2% in March, according to the ONS.\n\nAndrew Selley, chief executive of wholesaler BidFood, which supplies 45,000 caterers and food service businesses across the UK, said increasing electricity, fuel and packaging costs were impacting the price of all its products.\n\nBut he told the BBC products affected by the war in Ukraine, such as wheat-based foods, sunflower oil, chicken and white fish, were particularly hard hit.\n\n\"I've been in the business for over 30 years. I've never seen a situation where everything seems to be going up [in price],\" he said, adding that some of these costs would ultimately be passed on to consumers.\n\nThe firm had previously sourced a lot of its chicken from Poland but Ukrainian workers had returned to fight in the war and the country was keeping more of its chicken to feed refugees meaning it was now sourcing from other countries, driving prices up by a fifth.\n\nSara Gerritsma, a student from Leicestershire with a partner and six year-old child, said she may have to give up her paramedic degree due to the rising cost of fuel.\n\nThe 32-year-old only started the three-year course in October but she has a 2.5 hour roundtrip each day to get to university in Northampton, and her petrol costs have shot up by about £120 a month.\n\n\"It would be really frustrating giving up my course. It was a big decision changing my career at 32,\" Sara told the BBC.\n\n\"But recently we have sat down and gone through everything and thought, can I afford to be a full-time student?\"\n\nThe sharp rise in prices is also putting pressure on businesses.\n\nPaul White, who owns the pizzeria 6/CUT in Eccles, Greater Manchester, said the increase in the minimum wage, the end of VAT relief, and rising fuel and food prices have all hit his company. The restaurant is also spending £500 more a week on its energy bills.\n\n\"We need to find an extra £1,400 a week to cover the costs of everything that's come on in the last few weeks,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe says he will have to put up prices, and is looking to charge each customer about 50p to £1 extra to cover his rising overheads.\n\nBut he is also worried people might start eating out less as their budgets are squeezed.\n\nThis is no longer a cost of living squeeze, but a financial throttling for many people. Price rises are accelerating and their wages, benefits and pensions are failing to keep pace.\n\nIn the words of the ONS, there were \"no large offsetting downward contributions\" to the inflation rate. In other words, nothing is getting significantly cheaper.\n\nSo avoidance of price rises is impossible. Even if you do not have a car and are avoiding surging fuel costs, lots of other necessities are getting more expensive.\n\nExperts say the only option is trying to budget as best we can, across every part of our lives. Most importantly, they also stress the importance of seeking early, and free, help before falling into unmanageable debt.\n\nResearch for the consultancy Retail Economics found the least affluent UK households saw discretionary income fall by 5.2% or £26 in March, compared with the same month last year. The Retail Economics-HyperJar Cost of Living Tracker said households on average incomes had £52 each less spare cash, a fall of £52.\n\nChief executive Richard Lim said it was a \"real concern to see the least affluent families under this amount of pressure even before accounting for the energy price hikes\".\n\n\"The most disadvantaged households will experience the brunt of the crisis,\" he added.\n\nJack Leslie, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation think tank, which focuses on those on lower incomes, warned the cost of living crisis would \"continue to worsen before it starts to ease at some point next year\".\n\nHe said with wages not keeping pace with rising prices, people were facing \"the biggest squeeze since the mid-70s.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"I know this is a worrying time for many families, which is why we are taking action to ease the burdens by providing support worth around £22bn in this financial year, including for the most vulnerable through our Household Support Fund.\"\n\nBut Labour criticised the government for increasing taxes when \"the cost of living is hitting households hard\".\n\nLiberal Democrats leader Ed Davey called for \"unfair tax hikes\" to be immediately reversed and said people needed \"urgent help\" with energy bills.\n\nAnd the SNP said the \"cost of living crisis continues to spiral out of control with no sign of the UK government stepping up to the challenge to protect families and households\".", "Manchester Airport is among the worst hit, with long queues for check-in and security reported frequently in recent weeks\n\nThe air travel regulator must be given powers to fine airlines who ignore passengers' legal rights, a consumer rights group has said.\n\nAlongside more powers for the Civil Aviation Authority, Which? said lessons must be learned from the \"travel shambles\" over the Easter holidays.\n\nTravellers have faced long delays in recent days and weeks, with security issues causing many to miss flights.\n\nMulti-hour waits and queues snaking out of terminals have been reported.\n\nDisruption has also been seen in significant delays at passport checks and baggage reclaim, with some of the worst hit airports including Manchester, Heathrow, Birmingham and Gatwick.\n\nDemand for travel is strongly rebounding after the UK's Covid travel restrictions were lifted last month.\n\nTravellers at Manchester Airport have reported further hour-long queues for security early in the morning on Wednesday, as many follow advice to arrive as early as possible following chaotic scenes at the airport in recent weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, at Stansted Airport, people arriving in the UK have reported long queues to pass immigration checks.\n\nMany in the industry are anticipating further problems over the upcoming bank holiday weekend, with airports encouraging passengers to arrive as early as their airline recommends - often three hours before take off.\n\nWhich? called for the government to work with airlines and airports to make sure they have \"resources and capacity\" to meet the expected demand of summer holiday flights.\n\nThe group's travel editor Rory Boland insisted \"lessons should be learned from the experience and said \"there can be no excuse for a repeat of these failings\".\n\nHe said the government must \"support consumers\" by giving the Civil Aviation Authority the power to fine, ramping up pressure to ensure people are given their legally required compensation for flight delays.\n\n\"Airlines wouldn't be ignoring the law and their passengers' rights if the aviation regulator had some teeth,\" he added.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had recently consulted on proposals aimed at protecting air passengers, including additional powers for the CAA to enforce breaches of consumer rights laws.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are reviewing responses from across industry, consumer groups and the general public, and will set out next steps in due course.\"\n\nRecent queues at Heathrow Airport ahead of check-in and security\n\nAirports and airlines have blamed the delays on staff shortages, driven by both a rise Covid-19 sickness absences, as well as ongoing difficulties and delays to hiring new staff.\n\nAfter shedding thousands of jobs during the pandemic, the travel industry has struggled to recruit, train and security-check new staff quickly enough to keep up with rebounding demand.\n\nOne aviation recruitment expert cautioned on Tuesday it would take at least a year for shortages to settle down, with others in the industry concerned this summer will likely be similarly affected by disruption.\n\nThe Unite union has blamed transport companies' difficulties in hiring new workers on \"bargain-basement wages and insecure jobs\".\n\nThe union said it warned the sector \"not to use the cover of Covid to slash jobs and pay\", a move which would \"render it unable to meet demand when passengers returned\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"Now the sector is suffering from a chronic inability to attract new staff because workers are not attracted to an industry where pay is poor and conditions are lousy.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the aviation industry had been warned \"for a long time\" of the need to \"gear up again\" after losing a lot of staff during the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that travel operators, including airlines, airports and ports, must \"ensure they get back to strength and quickly\" to manage a \"very busy\" upcoming Easter weekend.\n\nA source in the aviation industry said Mr Shapps's comments \"have not gone down well\" given the industry's work with his officials to improve security clearances.\n\nThey said the sector had been clear with the government throughout the pandemic it would take time to ramp up again and it needed a long-term plan to manage travel restrictions.\n\nThe source asked: \"Indeed, if they saw this coming, then why is Border Force so woefully unprepared and short-staffed?\"", "Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in October\n\nIS fanatic Ali Harbi Ali has been given a whole-life sentence for murdering Sir David Amess MP.\n\nAli stabbed the Conservative MP for Southend West more than 20 times after tricking his way into a constituency surgery in Essex last year.\n\nSir David's family said it broke their hearts that he would have \"greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship\".\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"This was a murder that struck at the heart of our democracy.\"\n\nSir David, 69, was killed at the surgery he was holding at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October.\n\nHe was stabbed after 26-year-old Ali had gone into the meeting pretending to be an NHS employee moving to the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Amess' murder by Ali Harbi Ali \"sent shockwaves\" through the community\n\nAli, from Kentish Town in north London, told the court he had plans to target various MPs, including cabinet minister Michael Gove.\n\nHe told his trial he was motivated by a desire to seek revenge against MPs who had voted for airstrikes on Syria.\n\nMembers of Sir David's family wiped away tears during the 40-minute hearing.\n\nAfter sentencing, they said they felt \"no elation\" in a statement issued through the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThey added: \"It breaks our heart to know that our husband and father would have greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship and would have been anxious to help.\n\n\"How sickening to think what happened next. It is beyond evil.\"\n\nTwo plain clothes officers were the first police to arrive at Belfairs Methodist Church where they detained the suspect\n\nTracy Ayling QC, for Ali, told the court she had been instructed by her client not to say anything in mitigation.\n\nAli pursed his lips briefly but otherwise showed little emotion as the judge handed down his sentence.\n\n\"The defendant has no remorse or shame for what he has done - quite the reverse,\" said the judge.\n\nHe described Sir David's death as a loss \"of national significance\".\n\nHe added: \"He had done nothing whatsoever to justify the attack upon him, let alone his murder.\n\n\"On the contrary, he had devoted 38 years of his life to the lawful service of the public, and was engaged in doing so when he was murdered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown bodycam footage of plain-clothed police officers tackling Ali Harbi Ali to the ground\n\nMPs who had once been on Ali's list of potential targets provided victim impact statements in which they described the effect it had had on their lives.\n\nMike Freer, Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said he and his staff would now wear stab vests and panic alarms for constituency surgeries.\n\nLevelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said he had been at home in west London when Ali carried out armed reconnaissance outside in the months prior to attacking Sir David.\n\n\"Our security and that of our home was threatened and that has put a profound pressure on our lives,\" he said.\n\nThe jury took just 18 minutes on Monday to convict Ali of murder and preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nDuring the trial, he said he had no regrets or shame, saying: \"If I thought I did anything wrong, I wouldn't have done it\".\n\nThe court was told he had planned to die as a \"martyr\", assuming he would be shot by police.\n\nJulie Cushion, a long-standing aide and friend of Sir David who was at the church, shared her anguish about the killing and said she still felt guilt and anger.\n\nIn an impact statement read by the prosecution, she said: \"I can still see and hear the sounds and images of the time, like the crashing of furniture.\n\n\"I remember the awful feeling of distress while we waited for help - feeling helpless and hopeless as there was nothing I could physically do to help.\"\n\nShe said the look on Ali's face - \"smug, so self-satisfied\" - had stayed with her.\n\nShe said she was now working for the constituency's new MP and was haunted by the fear of a similar attack.\n\nConservative Anna Firth, who won the by-election in February, welcomed Ali's whole-life sentence.\n\nShe said Sir David's \"incredible work and legacy will live on through the many charities and good causes he championed\".\n\nThe judge imposed a whole-life sentence, as opposed to a life sentence with a minimum term, which means Ali will not be considered for parole and will never be released from prison.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 35 developers have pledged to fix unsafe cladding on medium and high-rise buildings\n\nDevelopers have struck a deal with the government to help fix unsafe cladding on tall buildings they have worked on.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove said it was a \"significant\" step to ensuring \"those responsible pay to solve the crisis they have helped to cause\".\n\nAn industry levy will collect £3bn and developers will pay at least £2bn.\n\nCompanies failing to pledge to fix tall buildings they have worked on in the past 30 years will face consequences, Mr Gove has said.\n\nHousebuilders who do not sign up to the voluntary pledge could be banned from new construction, the government has warned.\n\n\"We will do whatever it takes to hold industry to account, and under our new measures there will be nowhere to hide,\" said Mr Gove.\n\nMore than 35 housebuilders so far have committed to fixing unsafe cladding on all medium and high-rise buildings, taller than 11m (36ft), under the new agreement. While currently voluntary, it is to become legally enforceable.\n\nAfter the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people in 2017, flammable cladding and other fire safety defects were identified in hundreds of blocks of flats in the UK.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 revealed flammable cladding in many flats across the UK\n\nLabour's shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook said the announcement \"falls short of what is needed\".\n\n\"Having missed his first and second deadline for the £4bn he promised to extract from developers, the agreement announced by Michael Gove today only raises half that amount with the names of a series of major developers missing,\" he said.\n\nThe government needed to \"take action against those companies that are still refusing to do the right thing\" so leaseholders can be protected, he added.\n\nThe Local Government Association said it was \"pleased\" the government had listened to calls it had been \"making for several years to protect leaseholders from the costs of two decades of industry failure\".\n\nIt called for the same protection to be given to council tenants and council taxpayers \"by exempting councils from the developer levy and funding the remediation of social housing on the same basis as private housing\".\n\nThe deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats said it was \"right\" for developers to pay to remove unsafe cladding from buildings, but \"people are facing a fifth miserable year stuck in homes which are not safe\".\n\nAn \"unequivocal commitment\" that leaseholders would not have to \"shoulder the cost of remediation\" was needed, said Daisy Cooper.\n\n\"Liberal Democrats continue to call for the government to stump up the cash so we can make homes safe, and then go after those responsible.\"\n\nIn February the government guaranteed no leaseholder would \"have to pay a penny\" to remove cladding from buildings.\n\nThe new scheme will be partly funded through an extension to the building safety levy, chargeable to all new residential buildings in England.\n\nCladding means adding a new layer of material to the outside of a building - to increase insulation, offer weather protection or improve the appearance of a building.", "Police had been called to a venue in Angus Street over reports of a fight\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in south-east London.\n\nPolice had been called to a venue in Angus Street, near New Cross, just after 16:00 BST on Wednesday over reports of a fight.\n\nThe boy was found with stab injuries and despite treatment by paramedics was pronounced dead at the scene. His family has been informed.\n\nThe Met Police said no arrests had been made and \"urgent inquiries are ongoing\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering his partner's three-year-old son after inflicting more than 20 rib fractures over weeks of beatings.\n\nNathaniel Pope left Kemarni Watson Darby with injuries comparable to a car crash or fall from height.\n\nKemarni's mother Alicia Watson was convicted of causing or allowing her son's death at her West Bromwich flat.\n\nWatson and Pope were also found guilty of child cruelty charges at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nSeveral jurors were in tears as the verdicts were read out after the 20-week trial.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice Tipples also became emotional as she ordered the panel to be discharged from future jury service for life due to the \"awful nature of the facts\" they had had to consider.\n\nKemarni, who was known as a noisy, energetic and cheerful three-year-old, had been the victim of what was described in court as a \"brutal assault\".\n\nJurors heard it was one of several attacks the boy had suffered while living with Watson, 30, and her partner Pope, 32, at the flat in West Bromwich.\n\nKemarni's body had 34 separate areas of external injuries which acted as a \"silent witness\" to the crimes, the court was told.\n\nThe pair had tried to pass this off as accidental and Watson told the police he was a \"boisterous boy\" who was \"always running into things\".\n\nJurors were shown a photograph of Kemarni with an injury to his right eye as well as one showing him eating near a clump of his own hair, which Watson claimed he had cut off.\n\nProsecutors said they deliberately beat the boy's abdomen rather than more obviously visible areas of his body.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC said: \"It's Kemarni's body that spoke the loudest, with the most clarity, in this courtroom. His squeezed, battered and lifeless, oxygen-starved body cannot lie.\"\n\nThe three-year-old died on the afternoon of 5 June 2018 after his ribcage was \"crushed\" at the two-bedroom flat.\n\nAlicia Watson and Nathaniel Pope blamed each other from the witness box\n\nKemarni had expressed a wish not to go back to his mother's flat after contact visits with his dad, the court heard.\n\nA safeguarding review by Sandwell Children's Safeguarding Partnership will reveal whether opportunities were missed to save him.\n\nNo safeguarding concerns about Kemarni had been identified before his death and he had had no involvement with children's social care, the partnership said.\n\nTheir chair, Lesley Hagger, said the case was \"deeply upsetting\" and they would look to publish their report \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"It is vital that sad cases like these are thoroughly looked at and, where there are areas for improvement, that any necessary changes are made,\" she added.\n\nAlthough in its statement the Sandwell Safeguarding Partnership said there had been no prior contact with children's services, the review it's carrying out will want to ask why? This was a vulnerable three-year-old who was living with his mother - a regular cannabis user - and her partner - a convicted drug dealer.\n\nWe learned during the trial that the nursery which Kemarni had attended had raised some concerns about his well-being, but it's not clear to whom those concerns were raised and what action, if any, was taken.\n\nKemarni's tragic and short life seems to have been lived under the radar, and perhaps if any lessons are learned from the safeguarding review it will be to see whether more can be done to pick up on cases like his.\n\nAlicia Watson said Kemarni's injuries had been caused by accidents or fights with other children\n\nBoth adults routinely abused drugs, the prosecution told the court, and neighbours said there had been a \"constant smell of weed from the flat\".\n\nPope, a former warehouse worker, had been jailed for four months for smashing a mother's head repeatedly into a rail on a bus in London in 2011 in front of her children and then dragging her off by her hair.\n\nBut the details were kept from the jury after legal arguments.\n\nHe had also previously been convicted of burglary and possession of heroin with intent to supply.\n\nPope told jurors he had \"just told some of the truth\" about himself in evidence but insisted he had never hurt Kemarni in any way.\n\nWatson was said in court to have a \"zero to a 100\" temper and it emerged she spent money on cannabis and driving lessons at a time when her son lost his nursery place due to a lack of funds.\n\nDuring her six days of evidence she accused barristers of lying and dismissed the case against her as \"disgustingly wrong\".\n\nKemarni lived in a small flat with drug users Alicia Watson and Nathaniel Pope\n\nWatson insisted Pope must have attacked Kemarni while she was away and claimed to be horrified at \"learning\" of his internal injuries.\n\nBut Mr Badenoch told her she had acted with him in the abuse \"for days, months and hours on end\".\n\nThe pair, who blamed each other from the witness box, were also convicted of one count of child cruelty, relating to rib fractures and an abdominal injury before Kemarni's death.\n\nThey were also separately found guilty of two further counts of child cruelty in relation to other children. Watson was cleared of murdering her son.\n\nDet Insp James Mahon described the investigation as a \"horrific case for everyone involved\".\n\n\"It's absolutely awful that the two people who were supposed to look after him the most were those that caused injury, and in the end his death,\" he added.\n\nTheir sentencing will take place at a later date.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Students and graduates in England will pay up to 12% interest on their loans this autumn, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).\n\nThe rate will dip in March 2023, when a cap on the interest will kick in.\n\nThe IFS says a rollercoaster of interest rates lies ahead, but the long-term impact on repayments will not be large.\n\nFor students starting degree courses from 2023, the rate will be fixed at a lower level.\n\nThe interest rate on the loan for those currently at university in England is calculated by adding 3% to the retail price index (RPI) measure of inflation.\n\nThis is based on the changes in a range of costs over time, including housing.\n\nMany working towards their degrees don't realise interest is being charged during their studies until they get their first statement the year after leaving university.\n\nAfter graduation the interest rate is linked to pay, so those earning £27,295 or less are charged RPI, although they do not make repayments until they earn above that amount annually.\n\nGraduates who do earn more each year are charged interest at RPI+3%.\n\nThe RPI figure confirmed on Wednesday sets the interest rate for the coming academic year, which means it will leap from 4.5% this year to 12% from September 2022.\n\nThis is the highest rate seen since tuition fees for university students in England were raised to £9,000 in 2012.\n\nHillary Gyebi-Ababio, from the National Union of Students, described the headline figures as \"brutal\".\n\nShe said: \"Increasing the maximum interest rate on student loans to 12% will deter thousands of students from going to university, and will cause unparalleled uncertainty for the millions of graduates already repaying their loans, with thousands of pounds added to their debt sheet.\"\n\nWhen interest rates hit just over 6% in 2017, it provoked a political debate about whether the system felt fair.\n\nFor a very high-earning recent graduate, on more than £49,130 a year, the IFS said it means £3,000 in interest charges on a balance of £50,000 over six months.\n\nA lower-earning graduate will see the interest rate increase from the current 1.5% to 9%.\n\nFor a graduate earning below the £27,295 earnings threshold, the six months of higher rates would mean incurring about £2,300 interest.\n\nThis latest increase will be a short, sharp spike, because a limit set out in the law covering student loans in England will take effect on March 2023, six months after the increase.\n\nThe law says the interest charged on student loans cannot be higher than on unsecured commercial loans that can be taken out on the High Street.\n\nThe IFS says on current estimates that means interest is likely to fall back to about 7% in March 2023.\n\nFor many this short spike, and other fluctuations between 7% and 9% that may follow in the next couple of years, will not make a big overall difference to how much they repay.\n\nSo the IFS says the main risk is it might deter some potential students who don't understand the complex system, or very high-earning graduates who might be tempted to raid their savings to pay off their remaining loan.\n\nIt suggests the policy could be tweaked to even out what it described as \"wild swings\" in the coming years\n\n\"The maximum rate will reach an eye-watering level of 12% between September 2022 and February 2023 and a low of around zero between September 2024 and March 2025,\" the IFS said.\n\n\"There is no good economic reason for this. Interest rates on student loans should be low and stable, reflecting the government's own cost of borrowing.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said student loans were protected in a number of ways, unlike commercial loans.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Monthly repayments for student loans are linked to income, not to interest rates or the amounts borrowed, and borrowers earning below the relevant repayment threshold make no repayments at all.\n\n\"The IFS report makes it clear that changes in interest rates have a limited long-term impact on repayments, and the Office for Budget Responsibility predict that RPI will be below 3% in 2024.\"\n\nFor current students and graduates with post-2012 loans, the balance unpaid will be written off after 30 years out of public funds.\n\nFor any students starting their degree course from 2023 in England, the student loan system will be different as a result of the largest changes since 2012.\n\nThey will be asked to repay for up to 40 years, a change that will mean the highest-earning will pay less, as they pay off the loan more quickly.\n\nMiddle-earning graduates will repay more compared with the current system, and overall it means many graduates paying for longer and repaying more.\n\nBut for those in the new system, interest rates will be fixed at the RPI inflation measure only - for both current students and future graduates.", "The print version of Time Out reached its peak of popularity in the 1990s\n\nTime Out will stop publishing its London magazine print edition after 54 years.\n\nIt has become the latest in a long line of media outlets to abandon their physical print presence, and will focus on digital-only from the end of June.\n\nThe magazine previously cost £3.25 to buy but in 2012 2Time Out switched to being a free publication.\n\nA spokesperson said Time Out was in consultation with print staff about potential job losses.\n\nThe magazine began life in 1968, peaked in the late 1990s, but has seen numbers dwindling since changes to the publishing business as a whole.\n\nTime Out London's first cover in 1968\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, Time Out ceased printing copies of its magazine when commuter numbers reduced significantly and the service and hospitality sectors froze.\n\nIt temporarily rebranded its digital offering as \"Time In\" and returned to print magazine form in London, Barcelona and Madrid in August 2020.\n\nTime Out Group CEO Chris Ohlund said: \"Time Out needs to make sure it's creating the right content, on the right channels and platforms where our consumers are now.\n\n\"The Time Out London magazine remains a big success, but we're currently seeing the most exciting growth, engagement and innovation on our digital channels.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Time Out to become free magazine", "Ammunition stockpiles aboard a Russian ship that was famously defied by Ukrainian troops early in the war have detonated, according to a statement from the Russian defence ministry.\n\nA fire caused the explosion on the Moskva, the statement in Russian media said, adding that all sailors had evacuated beforehand.\n\nThe statement said: \"The cruiser Moskva's ammunition has detonated as a result of a fire on the warship.\n\n\"The vessel is seriously damaged. The entire crew have been evacuated. The cause of the blaze is being investigated.\"\n\nIt did not specify the cause of the fire.\n\nBut earlier on Wednesday, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet was hit by Ukrainian rockets, according to the governor of Odesa.\n\nUkrainian officials said Russia was struggling to rescue the estimated 510 crew members on board.\n\nThe Moskva warship rose to fame early in the war when Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island refused calls to surrender and told the Russian ship to \"go to hell\", before they were ultimately taken prisoner.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jurors were shown footage from a police interview where the suspect said 'I killed an MP'.\n\nAli Harbi Ali was born in Southwark, south London, growing up in Croydon. A British national of Somali heritage, he became radicalised by the war in Syria and ultimately decided to kill an MP.\n\nHe booked an appointment for 15 October, last year, to meet Tory MP Sir David Amess at a weekly constituency surgery, in Leigh-on-Sea. Once there, he murdered the 69-year-old, stabbing him 21 times. It was an \"assassination for terrorist purposes\", the jury at his trial was told.\n\nNow convicted of the murder of Sir David, Harbi Ali's motives - made clear during police interviews and his trial - reveal a textbook study of radicalisation.\n\nCivil war was raging in Syria as Harbi Ali entered his late teens and he turned to social media to try to understand what was happening.\n\n\"It was probably one of the most documented wars ever in terms of the brutality that was carried out by a tyrant to this day,\" he said in a police interview.\n\n\"And it was seeing the fighting that happened and everything surrounding it that sort of first of all got me interested. And then through that, I learnt about Islamic practices and more about my religion than I knew before.\"\n\nThe self-styled Islamic State (IS) group became a dominant voice in the coverage of the war because of how it quickly took territory and how it sold a story that it was the legitimate government of God on earth.\n\nIS said there was an obligation on all Muslims to help build this \"state\" and fight its enemies. As it recruited, willing soldiers then broadcast tales of their new exciting life to people back home.\n\nHarbi Ali bought in to the propaganda - turning a blind eye to the IS group's shocking brutality.\n\n\"I guess they were just quite media savvy,\" he told counter-terrorism detectives. \"They would put things out there [on social media] quite quickly that was easily picked up, yeah.\"\n\nHarbi Ali convinced himself he was under an obligation to act.\n\nAnd so - for a potentially bored teenager living a humdrum life in suburban London - the war not only appeared like an exciting video game on social media, it came packaged with an appealing message that there was a role for everyone else.\n\nBy 2015, Harbi Ali had decided that he would take part in \"hijrah\".\n\nIn Islamic history, the term refers an important episode in the life of the prophet Muhammad when he escaped his enemies to the sanctuary of another city.\n\nModern-day jihadists distort the the story and tell recruits hijrah is a divinely-ordained migration in order to fight.\n\n\"My initial focus was to go abroad,\" Harbi Ali told police. He wanted to travel abroad to join the fight.\n\n\"My second year [of university], around five years ago, I made the decision to drop out and follow the path and make hijrah - which was my preference.\"\n\nBy late 2018 or early 2019, he was not going anywhere and, by his own admission, was running out of excuses.\n\nHarbi Ali told himself he could instead join the ranks of home-grown attackers - on the basis of an instruction from an IS propagandist who played a major role in the spread of terrorism attacks in western Europe.\n\n\"He came out with an audio message essentially saying, 'Strike them wherever you find them,' which is a quote from the Quran,\" he said.\n\n\"It was essentially saying if the doors of hijrah have been closed to you then you have a second option. You're in the place where we hate everyone already - do something there.\"\n\nThe pandemic slowed his plans - but during his police interviews Harbi Ali said he settled quite early on a plan to kill one of 524 MPs who had voted in 2014 in favour of UK air strikes against IS.\n\nHarbi Ali believed this was an attack against Muslims and that he therefore had a just cause to kill an MP as a response.\n\n\"Would you describe your decision and your actions as rational?\" asked one of the police officers. \"Yes,\" replied Harbi Ali. \"If I thought I'd done something wrong I wouldn't have done it, you know.\"\n\nAt times he referred to World War Two, comparing his actions to defeating Nazi Germany. \"I think what I [did] was a just cause and for other people they would see fighting Nazis as a just cause.\"\n\nIn the witness box: Harbi Ali appeared relaxed and unconcerned about his actions or fate\n\nThe Metropolitan Police confirmed that between 2014 and 2015 Harbi Ali had some kind of engagement with the counter-radicalisation scheme, Prevent.\n\nHe told his trial that he was booked to meet a man from the Home Office in Brixton, south London, who talked to him about the true meaning of Islamic theology.\n\nThis sounds like an official \"intervention provider\" - usually a theologian - but neither the police nor the Home Office will confirm if this is true.\n\nThat also means we don't know if Harbi Ali was ever given the all-clear by Prevent bosses, or, as sometimes happens, he walked away refusing to co-operate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown bodycam footage of plain-clothed police officers tackling Ali Harbi Ali to the ground\n\nHe told his trial: \"There's a hadith [saying of the prophet Muhammad] that says that war is deception. If to further my war I have to deceive, I will do that.\"\n\nHis deception continued during his trial. When he stepped into the witness box he chose not to swear on the Quran - despite describing himself as a practising \"moderate\" Muslim.\n\nThe reason was simple: it allowed him the space to continue to lie and fantasise until the very end - including his denial that his crime was murder and his intention was terrorism.", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "Elsie Trainor is one of two SDLP candidates for Belfast South\n\nForty-one incidents relating to election posters being damaged, removed or destroyed have been reported in the past month, police have said.\n\nCandidates from many parties have experienced issues with election campaign material.\n\nPolice said they were investigating all the incidents thoroughly.\n\nOfficers are also treating an attack on SDLP Belfast South candidate Elsie Trainor on Monday as a hate crime.\n\nSIGN UP FOR ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC Northern Ireland election coverage\n\nMs Trainor, who is one of two SDLP candidates in Belfast South, told the Belfast Telegraph she followed two youths after she saw them removing her election posters.\n\nMs Trainor said while she followed them, one of the youths assaulted her and the other tried to grab her mobile phone as she filmed them.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of incidents targeting election campaigns.\n\nOn Monday, Sinn Féin Upper Bann candidate John O'Dowd said a \"gang of masked men\" had taken down his party's posters in Portadown, County Armagh while the party said posters had also been stolen or damaged in , Foyle, Newry and Armagh, South Belfast, North Belfast and other areas.\n\nThere have also been reports of Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Alliance Party and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) posters being torn down or defaced.\n\nMs Trainor tweeted that she had chased the men through Ormeau Park on Monday evening as she wanted police to know which exit to lift them from.\n\n\"They assaulted me and after that tried to rob my phone,\" she said.\n\n\"We need common ground politics here. We need to not fail these thugs as much as anyone else.\n\n\"Polarisation is wrecking our present and future\".\n\nShe told the Belfast Telegraph she was pushed against a fence and subjected to sectarian abuse.\n\nCh Supt Nigel Goddard described one of the suspects as about 18, 5ft 8in and dressed in a light grey jacket.\n\nHe said the other was about the same age, 5ft 10in and wearing a dark grey jacket with its hood up, black-framed glasses and a face mask.\n\nHe called for anyone with information, dashcam or mobile phone footage to contact the police.\n\nThe 41 incidents of damage reported to police were during the period 22 March to 11 April.\n\nCh Supt Godard added that police wanted anyone who saw posters being stolen or damaged to contact them immediately and added that officers had offered safety training to candidates.\n\n\"The Police Service of Northern Ireland is committed to doing everything we can to ensure all candidates can participate fully in the forthcoming Northern Ireland Assembly election free from harassment, intimidation and other forms of criminality,\" he said.\n\n\"We are investigating thoroughly the incidents which have been reported to us, including the removal and destruction of election posters, and any identified suspects will be liable to prosecution.\n\nMs Trainor's party leader Colum Eastwood said he was worried by the \"tone\" of the election campaign.\n\n\"All political leaders need to think about whether they are showing leadership or adding to the problem,\" he said.\n\n\"These posters are just not worth the (aggression) each election,\" he tweeted. \"There must be a better way.\"\n\nOn Friday a poster of Mr Beattie with a noose around his neck was left in Lurgan, County Armagh, ahead of a rally opposing the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he \"utterly deplored\" what happened to Ms Trainor.\n\n\"I think this was absolutely pathetic that anyone would do this to a young person who is prepared to step up very courageously and put themselves before the electorate,\" he said.\n\nSir Jeffrey added that the DUP had also had posters removed and that some of its candidates had faced abuse online and on the streets.\n\nSinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said all parties were entitled to contest elections as part of the democratic process.\n\n\"I think that those that are whipping up tensions and fears, those that are orchestrating young people, or whoever it is that are responsible for taking down posters, it needs to stop, it needs to be called out, because it is wrong,\" she said.\n\n\"None of us who put ourselves forward into public life will be be deterred by those that are involved in criminal behaviour, ripping down posters, stealing posters or threatening behaviour towards candidates, that's just not acceptable.\"\n\nAlliance Party North Down candidate Andrew Muir told BBC News NI that politics was becoming increasingly polarised.\n\n\"What I've seen in recent days and weeks in relation to the theft, defacement and other criminal acts around posters is really concerning,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to have a politics where people can stand for election without fear of intimidation, and particularly for women coming forward in politics, we need to have a place which is welcoming and doesn't have that air of intimidation around it.\"\n\nGreen Party deputy leader and Belfast North assembly candidate Mal O'Hara tweeted his support for Ms Trainor.\n\n\"There have been too many nasty incidents in this election. We really need to redouble our efforts to build and nurture our peace here,\" he said.\n\nTUV Lagan Valley candidate Loran Smyth has also complained to the police about her posters being removed.\n\nShe said: \"What I do not accept is that some people would seek to interfere with the democratic process\".\n\nA full list of candidates for all constituencies is available here.", "Worker shortages mean airports and ports are facing a \"very difficult summer\", a border staff union has said.\n\nLucy Moreton, from the Immigration Services Union, warned that Border Force was \"catastrophically under-staffed\" and that it took nearly a year to fully train new officers.\n\nMeanwhile, one aviation recruitment expert said it would take at least 12 months for shortages to settle down.\n\nSome travellers have seen long queues and cancellations over Easter.\n\nThe travel industry cut thousands of jobs during the pandemic, but as demand for flights has returned, it has struggled to recruit, carry out security checks and train new staff quickly enough.\n\n\"For the first time in living memory, Border Force is no longer attracting enough candidates to fill the vacancies that they've got,\" Ms Moreton told the BBC.\n\n\"Combined with the fact it takes nearly a year to fully train a Border Force officer, we're going into not just this summer but this weekend catastrophically under-staffed, with people beginning to travel again.\"\n\nWhile she said it was right that no corners were cut with training and security clearances, Ms Moreton said more resources would help.\n\nShe said cash incentives were being offered for working shifts at London's Heathrow Airport, while staff from Scotland and Northern Ireland were also being brought down to provide cover.\n\nHowever, she added: \"This is a very expensive proposition that resourcing it properly in the first place would have avoided.\"\n\nThe Aviation Recruitment Network, which is working with airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester, said it currently had more than 300 live vacancies - a record for this time of year.\n\nKully Sandhu, the organisation's managing director, told the BBC he believed it would take at least 12 months for recruitment problems to be resolved.\n\n\"Brexit has not helped with the issues we're facing at the moment because we had a natural attraction of individuals from the European market who would apply for vacancies within UK airports,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We no longer have that talent pool to recruit from and we are relying on individuals within the UK.\"\n\nHeathrow has said security checks and training mean it can take three to six months before new recruits can start working.\n\nIt is aiming to have 1,000 new security officers recruited and in their posts by the summer.\n\nOn Monday, Heathrow admitted resources were \"stretched\", as it revealed March was its busiest month since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe airport warned of \"congestion in check-in areas at peak times\" and said it was \"working closely with airlines and ground handlers to make sure this increase in demand can be met while keeping passengers safe\".\n\nThe Home Office also said travellers may face longer waits than usual over the Easter period due to high passenger numbers.\n\n\"Border Force's number one priority is to maintain a secure border, and we will not compromise on this. We are mobilising additional staff to help minimise queuing times for passengers and will continue to deploy our staff flexibly to manage this demand,\" a statement said.\n\nLast week, Ken O'Toole, the deputy chief executive of Manchester Airports Group, said staff shortages meant long queues at security could continue for four to six weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, airlines have been hit by Covid-related absences, with EasyJet and British Airways cancelling flights as a result.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the company had seen absence rates of 20% in some cases.\n\nBut he said delays in processing security checks for new airline crew were also contributing to flight cancellations.\n\nMr Lundgren said the airline was waiting for the Department for Transport to give permission for around 100 new members of staff to start work.\n\nHowever, the company said it had flown 94% of its planned schedule in the past seven days, with around 1,500 flights a day - four times higher than this time last year.\n\nIt added that cancellations had been made as early as possible to enable the majority of customers to rebook onto flights departing the same day.\n\nEasyJet said it was seeing strong demand, with summer bookings over the past six weeks above pre-pandemic levels.\n\nHave you changed your travel plans due to warnings of disruption? Have you experienced delays renewing your passport? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Roxanne Tahbaz said her family felt abandoned by the UK government\n\nThe daughter of a British-US national detained by Iran has held a protest outside the Foreign Office to urge the government to bring her father home.\n\nLondon-born Morad Tahbaz, 66, was returned to custody after being allowed out on furlough in March, on the day Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was freed.\n\nHis daughter Roxanne said her family felt abandoned by the UK government.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Iran had \"failed to honour\" a commitment to release Mr Tahbaz indefinitely.\n\nIn March, the UK said it had secured Mr Tahbaz's furlough, along with the release and return of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, after agreeing to settle a £400m debt with Iran.\n\nHowever, two days later Mr Tahbaz was forced to return to Evin Prison.\n\nSpeaking at the demonstration outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Ms Tahbaz said her family had been led to believe her father would be included in any deal negotiated with Iran.\n\nShe also revealed her mother had been placed under a travel ban by the Iranian authorities.\n\n\"It's been one month since Nazanin and Anoosheh have come home, and my father's still sitting in prison and my mother's still on a travel ban,\" Mr Tahbaz's daughter said.\n\n\"So we're hoping to have the press and the media help us to call on the government and on the Foreign Secretary (Liz) Truss to keep her promise and bring him home to us, so we can be reunited as a family.\"\n\nMr Tahbaz, who also has Iranian citizenship, was arrested during a crackdown on environmental activists in January 2018.\n\nA prominent conservationist, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison along with his colleagues on charges of spying for the US and undermining Iran's security.\n\nFamily photo of Morad Tahbaz, as a younger man, with his family\n\nAsked when she last had contact with her father, Ms Tahbaz said: \"Not for some time now, actually. We don't have direct contact - it's only on speakerphone through my mum, with another speakerphone.\"\n\nShe added that her father had \"made it very clear that he feels abandoned\" by the UK government over its response to the situation.\n\nAn FCDO spokesperson said Iran had \"committed to releasing Morad from prison on an indefinite furlough\", but had \"failed to honour that commitment\".\n\n\"We continue to urge the Iranian authorities at every opportunity to release him immediately.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wayne Couzens made no indication of a plea when he appeared at court via video-link\n\nSarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens has requested a trial by jury after appearing in court charged with four counts of indecent exposure.\n\nThe 49-year-old is accused of exposing himself four times in Swanley, Kent, in January and February 2021, when he was a serving Met Police officer.\n\nThe defendant appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court where he gave no indication of a plea but requested a crown court trial with jurors.\n\nHe is due at the Old Bailey on 11 May.\n\nThe defendant, with a shaven head, beard and a moustache parted and turned up at both ends, sat occasionally blinking and spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth.\n\nThe charges state he allegedly \"intentionally exposed his genitals intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm and distress\".\n\nChief Magistrate Paul Goldspring said the alleged offences could be tried at a magistrates' court \"but as is your right, you have elected crown court trial\" with a jury.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew York City police have named \"a person of interest\" after a morning rush-hour shooting at a subway station that left more than 20 people injured.\n\nPolice said they were looking for Frank R James, 62, in connection with the attack as he had rented a U-Haul van that may be linked to the shooting.\n\nThe key to the van, rented in Philadelphia, was found at the scene.\n\n\"We are looking to determine if he has any connection to the train,\" NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said.\n\nThe New York Police Department (NYPD) asked \"anyone with information on his whereabouts\" to call a hotline.\n\nMr James has not been named as a suspect in the attack. Being identified as a person of interest means police believe he may have information concerning the crime.\n\nPolice say Frank R James rented a van that may be linked to the shooting\n\nThe New York Times reports that Mr James, who has addresses in Wisconsin and Philadelphia, appears to have posted dozens of videos on social media in recent years, in which he expresses bigoted views. More recently he had also criticised New York City Mayor Eric Adams.\n\nIn a briefing late on Tuesday, police gave more details of the incident which saw a male attacker detonate two smoke grenades and open fire at Brooklyn's 36th Street station.\n\nThe attack unfolded shortly before 08:30 local time (12:30 GMT) on Tuesday, and police said the man had a Glock 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.\n\n\"He then fired that weapon at least 33 times, striking 10 people,\" police chief Mr Essig said. Seven men and three women were shot.\n\nImages from the scene showed bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the smoke-filled station.\n\nAnother 13 people \"suffered injuries related to smoke inhalation, falling down or a panic attack\", the police chief said.\n\nAll of the victims are expected to survive.\n\n\"The male then fled the scene, and detectives are actively trying to determine his whereabouts,\" Ms Essig said.\n\nInvestigators found the Glock handgun, three extended magazines, a hatchet and a range of potential incendiary devices at the scene.\n\nA $50,000 (£38,450) reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the suspect.\n\nPolice say the gunman was roughly 5ft 5in tall and 170lb (77kg). He was said to be wearing a construction vest, grey hooded sweatshirt, and a gas mask.\n\nThe attacker's motive was not immediately known.\n\nLaw enforcement officers stand guard at the scene of the shooting in the Brooklyn borough of New York City\n\nNew York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said earlier on Tuesday that the shooting was not initially being treated as an act of terrorism.\n\nWitnesses have described hearing people shouting for medical assistance and fleeing in panic. Brooklyn resident Yayha Ibrahim said he saw people running from the 36th Street station.\n\n\"I saw a lady, she was shot right in her leg and she was screaming for help,\" he told Reuters news agency. Rescue workers \"did a good job of coming quick and fast, and the ambulance came in and they took her\", he added.\n\n\"My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,\" eyewitness Sam Carcamo told the Associated Press. He added that a billow of smoke poured out of the train once its doors opened.\n\nInitial police investigations into what happened may have been hampered by a failure in the station's surveillance system.\n\n\"At that particular station there appeared to be some form of malfunction with the camera system,\" Mayor Adams later said.\n\nResponding to the attack, President Joe Biden expressed gratitude to \"all the first responders who jumped into action, including civilians who didn't hesitate to help their fellow passengers.\"\n\nUS cities have seen a rise in gun violence over the past two years.\n\n\"This insanity that is seizing our city has to stop,\" New York Governor Kathy Hochul said after the attack. \"We say no more. No more mass shootings. No more disrupting lives.\"", "Johnny Depp and Amber Heard divorced in May 2016\n\nLawyers for Johnny Depp branded Amber Heard a liar, \"obsessed\" with her image, in opening arguments of the defamation trial between the former spouses.\n\nThe case was brought after an article by Ms Heard in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse.\n\nBut Ms Heard's team argued Mr Depp brought her to court simply to \"destroy her\".\n\nMr Depp, 58, has denied any abuse and has sued his ex-wife for $50m (£38m).\n\nMs Heard has in turn, sued him, with a $100m counterclaim.\n\nHordes of fans have already gathered outside the Virginia court for the trial, expected to last up to seven weeks.\n\nAt issue in the trial is Ms Heard's 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post, describing herself as a \"public figure representing domestic abuse\". Mr Depp says the article - which does not mention him by name - is defamatory and derailed his career.\n\nBeginning a day of opening arguments, Camille Vasquez, a lawyer for Mr Depp, told jurors Ms Heard had been the aggressor throughout the relationship.\n\nMs Heard concocted a role for herself as victim, Ms Vasquez said, once Mr Depp had asked her for a divorce in attempt to \"avoid humiliation\".\n\n\"She is obsessed with her public image,\" she said. \"She has been living and breathing this role for years now and she is preparing to give the performance of her life.\"\n\nLawyers for Ms Heard instead claimed the actress had endured emotional, verbal and physical harassment at the hands of Mr Depp.\n\nMr Depp wants to \"haunt her, to wreck her career\", attorney Ben Rottenborn said.\n\nChristi Dembrowski, Mr Depp's older sister, was first on the witness stand. Responding to questions from Mr Depp's lawyer, Ms Dembrowski described a volatile childhood, shaped by their mother's abuse.\n\n\"Mom would, she would scream, she would yell. She would hit [Dad], call him names,\" Ms Dembrowski said. Mr Depp never fought back, she said.\n\nMs Dembrowski described her famous sibling as a gentle and loving brother, son and father to his two children.\n\nAccording to Ms Dembrowski, her brother's demeanour changed when he became involved with Ms Heard. \"He seemed sadder,\" she said.\n\nMs Heard would often insult Mr Depp, Ms Dembrowski said, recalling an instance when Dior wanted to hire Mr Depp for an advertisement campaign.\n\n\"She [Ms Heard] said, 'Dior, why would Dior want to do business with you? You don't have style... She called him an old fat man,\" Ms Dembrowski said.\n\nMr Depp's sister told jurors she was \"devastated\" by the news that Mr Depp would marry Ms Heard, and fearful that her brother's relationship was mirroring that of their parents.\n\n\"If I'm honest, I debated going [to the wedding],\" she said. \"I wanted to make sure that I showed up anyway, because I wanted to make sure, honestly, that my little brother knew I was going to be there no matter what.\"\n\nMs Dembrowski is the first of an estimated 120 witnesses who will be called to testify in Virginia in the coming weeks, helping to sketch competing accounts of Mr Depp and Ms Heard's relationship.\n\nOn Sunday, ahead of the trial, Ms Heard released a statement to Instagram, writing that she has \"always maintained a love for Johnny\".\n\n\"It brings me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world,\" she said.\n\nThe words were delivered with a flourish, the beginning of a case about how Johnny Depp had been wounded, emotionally and materially by the words of Amber Heard. Benjamin Chew, leading Johnny Depp's legal team, laid out what we are about to witness, a case that will try to portray Amber Heard as a liar, a \"troubled\" and \"manipulative\" woman who was, they say, the real abuser.\n\nThe opening statement was delivered with all the slickness of a Hollywood movie, you almost felt there was going to be a round of applause at the end but, inside the court, all was calm.\n\nJohnny Depp sat silently, carefully watching the lawyers' presentations to the jury of 11. Amber Heard, impassive, attentive, occasionally appearing to take notes.\n\nWatching was a crowd made up largely of Depp fans. Before court proceedings began they were warned to keep phones hidden, not to take pictures, there would be no shouting of 'we love you, Johnny.' But as it began there was not a murmur or a sign of movement. Confidence was high that this would vindicate their idol.\n\nThis is going to be, they feel, the full story with evidence from forensic experts, a counsellor, the police and friends. Johnny Depp may have lost his case in London - this they feel will be different.\n\nAmber Heard's legal team then presented the challenge. Yes, she had accused him of abuse but that was not what her article in the Washington Post was about. She did not name Johnny Depp, she did not write the headline and in America there is a special constitutional protection for words written in the newspapers.\n\nMost lawyers would agree that bringing a successful libel action in America is much harder than in the UK and in the case in Britain, the judge came down firmly on the side of Amber Heard's version of events.\n\nToday, however, was just an overture. Jurors were warned that what was to come would be graphic, neither side said they wanted to reveal the details of their turbulent private life and celebrity friends but that is now where we are.", "Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in October\n\nAn IS fanatic has been found guilty of murdering Sir David Amess MP.\n\nThe Southend West MP was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex on 15 October 2021.\n\nA jury at the Old Bailey took just 18 minutes to convict Ali Harbi Ali of murder and preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Kentish Town, north London, had denied the charges and claimed he targeted the MP over his vote for airstrikes on Syria.\n\nSir David's family sat in court just a short distance from Ali as the verdicts were delivered.\n\nAli stabbed Sir David, 69, after tricking his way into a meeting by pretending to be an NHS employee moving to the area\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, said Ali, who refused to stand up in the dock on \"religious grounds\", will be sentenced on Wednesday.\n\nBefore being sent out, the judge told the jury the defendant had no legal defence for killing the Conservative MP.\n\nFollowing the verdicts, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that Sir David was \"a beloved colleague, public servant and friend\", adding that his thoughts were with his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAli stabbed Sir David, 69, after tricking his way into a meeting by pretending to be an NHS employee moving to the area.\n\nDuring the trial, jurors heard how he had also scoped out and planned attacks on other MPs, including cabinet minister Michael Gove who he believed was \"a harm to Muslims\".\n\nHe drew up plans to get close to the Levelling Up Secretary which he abandoned after he split from his wife and left the family home, the jury heard.\n\nThe court heard the defendant was still determined to carry out an attack and scouted the office of Finchley MP Mike Freer and carried out online research on other MPs, including Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nHe chose Sir David after a search on Twitter showed he was due to hold a constituency surgery.\n\nIn his evidence, Ali told the court he wanted to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group but it was too \"difficult\" so he decided to \"help Muslims here\" instead\n\nThe trial heard Ali was a \"model student\" but had become self-radicalised in 2014, dropping out of university and abandoning ambitions of a medical career.\n\nHe was referred to the government's Prevent strategy to counter radicalisation, but continued plotting in secret.\n\nIn evidence, Ali told the court he wanted to travel to Syria to join the self-styled Islamic State but it was too \"difficult\" so he decided to \"help Muslims here\" instead.\n\nHe said he had no regrets or shame about killing Sir David, telling the court: \"If I thought I did anything wrong, I wouldn't have done it\".\n\nAli said: \"I felt like one minute I was sat down at the table talking to him and the next he was, sort of, dead.\n\n\"But, yeah, it's probably one of the strangest days... of my life now, you know?\"\n\nThe court heard the defendant had planned to die as a \"martyr\", assuming he would be shot by police.\n\nAfter the stabbing, witnesses described how he waved the knife around and threatened Sir David's staff and members of the public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown bodycam footage of plain-clothed police officers tackling Ali Harbi Ali to the ground\n\nHe was detained by two plain-clothed officers from Essex Police, the first on the scene, who were armed only with batons and incapacitant spray.\n\nIn video shown to the jury, officers were heard shouting \"drop the knife\" while the defendant was on the phone to his sister.\n\nHe told jurors he dropped the weapon when he realised the officers - PC Ryan Curtis and PC Scott James - were unarmed.\n\nBoth officers have received Essex Police's highest accolade, the Merit Star, for their bravery.\n\nRecalling when they arrived at the scene, PC James said: \"We couldn't stand outside if there was a chance other people were getting attacked, and we also wanted to get paramedics inside the building as soon as possible.\n\n\"Our biggest fear that day was that there were other defenceless people inside with Sir David waiting for the police to come through the door - so any fears we had were put to one side.\"\n\nTwo plain clothes officers were the first on the scene and detained the suspect\n\nDet Ch Supt Dominic Murphy, head of operations for the Met Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said: \"Sir David's family have been left utterly devastated, but they have shown remarkable courage and dignity throughout the investigation and this trial.\n\n\"Following the murder, our officers worked extremely hard and at pace to firstly ensure there was no existing threat linked to the attacker, and then to put together a compelling package of evidence which showed his extremist mind-set, and the lengths he went to in order to plan and commit the attack.\"\n\nSir David was killed five years after Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox was murdered in her constituency.\n\nHer widower Brendan Cox said on Twitter: \"The terrorist will rot in jail and die in ignominy. David's name will be remembered, especially by the people of Southend who he served.\"\n\nJo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater, the current MP for Batley and Spen, told the BBC there were \"two things that really need to be looked at\", including ensuring the country had a \"free and open society and democracy\" and \"also how we make sure people elected to public office feel safe to do their jobs\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool remain in the hunt for a historic quadruple after a thrilling draw with Benfica secured a Champions League semi-final against Villarreal.\n\nHaving established a 3-1 lead in Lisbon, Liverpool extended their advantage with Ibrahima Konate's powerful 21st-minute header from a Kostas Tsimikas corner.\n\nBenfica equalised through Goncalo Ramos' excellent turn and finish, before Roberto Firmino's two second-half goals - a tap-in followed by a volley - in front of the Kop looked to have put the Reds in control.\n\nBut after Roman Yaremchuk broke through to beat Alisson and make it 3-2 on the night, Darwin Nunez scored a late equaliser.\n\nNunez was then denied by Alisson as Benfica finished strongly but Liverpool held out to advance 6-4 on aggregate.\n• None Man City keep cool in fiery encounter to reach semis\n\nThey now host Villarreal - the club they beat in the semi-finals of the Europa League in 2016 - on 27 April before travelling to Spain for the second leg on 4 May.\n\nVillarreal secured their last-four spot by overcoming Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals.\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp said: \"I'm really happy because being in a semi-final is so special.\n\n\"We expect a couple of really difficult games. It will be a tough cookie but we are a tough cookie, so who cares?\n\n\"Villarreal deserved to get through. I know Bayern Munich don't want to hear that.\"\n\nThe semi-final brings Liverpool face-to-face with Villarreal boss Unai Emery, who has won the Europa League four times.\n\nThree of those triumphs came at Sevilla, including victory over Klopp's Liverpool in the 2016 final, and the other with his current club.\n\nKlopp added: \"The manager is the king of the cup competitions, so they are experienced and a team full of desire and well organised with top-class players.\"\n• None All the best Liverpool content here\n\nThe games are coming thick and fast for Liverpool at the business end of the campaign, with a huge FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City up next on Saturday - the second meeting between the Premier League's top two in a week.\n\nThey head for Wembley knowing they are one round away from a third Champions League final in five seasons under Klopp.\n\nThe Liverpool boss made seven changes to the side that started the first leg in Portugal last week, with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane among those on the bench.\n\nThere was a return for James Milner who, at the age of 36, became the oldest Englishman to start a Champions League match since 37-year-old David Beckham did so for Paris St-Germain in 2012-13.\n\nThe Reds were made to work hard for their place in the semi-finals as Benfica came out fighting but the damage was done in the first leg.\n\n\"I made seven changes and that makes life not easy for the players,\" added Klopp. \"We lost concentration when we were 3-1 up and it looked like we were through.\n\n\"It was not exactly what we wanted but it is absolutely not important.\n\n\"If we played the best game of the season tonight, it wouldn't have made it more likely to get to the final. We are through and that's all that matters and I'm really happy.\"\n\nAfter Saturday, Liverpool - who trail leaders Manchester City by a single point - have a chance to return to the top of the Premier League, for 24 hours at least, when they host Manchester United in the Premier League the following Tuesday.\n\nIt will require a monumental effort for Liverpool, who won the Carabao Cup in February, to finish the season with four trophies and they will certainly have to defend better than they did in this game.\n\nBut with just a few weeks of the season left, they remain in the hunt for what would be an incredible feat.\n• None Offside, Benfica. Alejandro Grimaldo tries a through ball, but Darwin Núñez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Konstantinos Tsimikas with a cross.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Mohamed Salah tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Attempt saved. Darwin Núñez (Benfica) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Paulo Bernardo with a cross.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Benfica 3. Darwin Núñez (Benfica) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by João Mário.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How are people coping with having to make do with less?\n• None Can they face their fears? Celebrities take on challenges in sub-zero temperatures with Wim Hof", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\n\"Girls and women are more emotional than men. So they take a goal going in not very well.\"\n\nOn a night when Northern Ireland hosted England in front of a record crowd, the focus quickly switched from events on the field to post-match comments from home manager Kenny Shiels.\n\nHis remarks drew criticism from former England players Ian Wright and Siobhan Chamberlain.\n\nShiels' side conceded four second-half goals in a 5-0 defeat by England that left them unable to qualify for next year's Women's World Cup.\n\n\"I felt [England] were struggling a wee bit at times to open us up until the psychology of going 2-0 up in the women's game,\" Shiels said after the match.\n\n\"I'm sure you will have noticed if you go through the patterns - when a team concedes a goal, they concede a second one in a very, very short space of time.\n\n\"[It happens] right through the whole spectrum of the women's game, because girls and women are more emotional than men. So, they take a goal going in not very well.\"\n• None What do home nations need to reach World Cup?\n\nFormer goalkeeper Chamberlain, who played 50 times for England, said Shiels had to take responsibility for \"knowing the value that words can hold\".\n\n\"I think we all know that the five minutes after you concede a goal - not just in women's football, [also] in men's football - you're more likely to concede a goal,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"To just generalise that to women is a slightly bizarre comment.\n\n\"When you give post-match news conferences when you're feeling emotional after a big game, it's important to make sure that you are speaking sensibly and are aware of the message that your words can carry.\"\n\nEngland went 1-0 up in the 26th minute but had to wait until the 52nd minute to add a second.\n\n\"When we went 1-0 down we tried to slow it down to give them time to get that emotional imbalance out of their heads. That's an issue we have,\" Shiels added.\n\n\"Not just in Northern Ireland but all of the countries in the world.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland were playing in front of a crowd of 15,348 at Windsor Park in Belfast - a record for a women's match in the country.\n\nThe Irish Football Association has been approached for comment.\n• None How are people coping with having to make do with less?\n• None Can they face their fears? Celebrities take on challenges in sub-zero temperatures with Wim Hof", "Dame Cressida Dick finished in her role as Met Police commissioner on Sunday\n\nThe job advertisement for Dame Cressida Dick's permanent successor as Met Police commissioner has been published by the Home Office.\n\nThe advert stipulates that the new commissioner must be \"inspirational\" and have experience of leading a policing organisation.\n\nThe salary for the role is £292,938. Applications will close on 4 May.\n\nThe successful candidate will ultimately be appointed by the Queen on the home secretary's recommendation.\n\nDame Cressida, 61, announced in February she would be standing down after a string of controversies, culminating in public outrage over the offensive behaviour of a group of officers based at Charing Cross police station.\n\nOther scandals included the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer and the jailing of two PCs who took pictures of the bodies of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman.\n\nDame Cressida finished in the job last week, when she said that during her time in policing, the force had become \"more diverse and more professional\".\n\nHowever, the advertisement for her successor remarks that it has \"become evident that significant and sustained improvements need to be made within the Met to restore public confidence and legitimacy in the largest police force in the UK\".\n\nIt added: \"This will require inspirational leadership to deliver a demonstrably more professional police force, that better reflects the diversity of London itself.\n\n\"The successful candidate will be responsible for re-establishing trust and confidence in policing amongst everyone living in London, particularly women and girls and those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\"\n\nThe advert also states that the new commissioner will be responsible for addressing the \"serious failings\" that have been identified by two reports into the Met Police.\n\nAddressing the outcome of the ongoing inquiries led by Dame Elish Angiolini QC and Baroness Casey will also be an important task for Dame Cressida's successor.\n\nCentral to role will be the need to work collaboratively with the Home Office and the Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime, the job description adds.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Matt Hancock resigned as health secretary following pictures being published of him in an embrace with Gina Coladangelo (left)\n\nInvestigators have said there is not enough evidence to prosecute two people suspected of leaking CCTV of Matt Hancock kissing his then aide.\n\nThe images led to Mr Hancock resigning as health secretary last year after he admitted breaking Covid-19 rules.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) set up a criminal inquiry after it received a report of a data breach.\n\nBut on Wednesday, the ICO closed its probe, citing a lack of evidence.\n\n\"After taking legal advice, the ICO concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone with criminal offences under the Data Protection Act 2018,\" the watchdog said in a statement.\n\nThe BBC has requested comment from Mr Hancock.\n\nThe government said it took security seriously and would continue to work with the ICO \"to learn any lessons from this incident\".\n\nMr Hancock, who is married with three children, resigned on 27 June 2021 after the images of him kissing his long-time friend and then aide Gina Coladangelo were published.\n\nThe Conservative MP for West Suffolk ended his 15-year marriage to his wife, Martha, and moved in with Ms Coladangelo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said he was sorry he let people down after breaking social distancing guidance\n\nThe CCTV images were published by the Sun newspaper, which said they had been taken inside the Department of Health and Social Care on 6 May 2021.\n\nThe newspaper's editor, Victoria Newton, said an \"angry whistleblower\" made its newsdesk aware of the images.\n\nThe department of health and its property management firm Emcor made a complaint to the ICO, alleging the CCTV stills had been taken without permission.\n\n\"Given the seriousness of the report and the wider implications it potentially had for the security of information across government, the ICO had a legal duty to carry out an impartial assessment of the evidence available to determine if there had been a breach of the law,\" the watchdog said.\n\n\"Forensic analysis revealed that the leaked images were most likely obtained by someone recording the CCTV footage screens with a mobile phone.\"Investigators close inquiry into Hancock CCTV leak\n\nThe ICO said six mobile phones seized during searches did not contain any relevant CCTV footage.\n\n\"The ICO has therefore closed its criminal investigation,\" it added.\n\nIn a statement, the department of health said: \"We take the security of our personnel, systems and estates extremely seriously.\n\n\"Since this incident, we have worked with security specialists from across government to review procedures and will keep them continually under review.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Businesses will still be required to make risk assessments under existing legislation\n\nA law requiring workplaces in Wales to take precautions for Covid will be axed from Monday.\n\nIt is one of two remaining Covid measures the Welsh government has in place.\n\nRules requiring facemasks in health and social care settings will remain in force for at least another three weeks.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the mask rule would help control the spread of Covid where \"some of the most vulnerable people\" are treated or live.\n\nThe move to scrap restrictions on businesses came as the latest Office for National Statistics data indicated infections remain at record levels in Wales, with one in 13 people still estimated to have Covid in the latest week.\n\nMr Drakeford said firms will still be required to make risk assessments under existing legislation.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"It certainly doesn't mean that businesses will be abandoning all the things that they put in place to keep their workers safe and to keep customers safe.\"\n\nHe said firms are telling ministers \"they're determined to go on doing all of those things because they know it makes good sense for their business\".\n\nThe last Welsh government review of coronavirus rules saw the end of the laws requiring people to wear face coverings in shops and on public transport, and to self-isolate if they catch coronavirus.\n\nBoth measures were replaced with guidance.\n\nUnder the law, companies and other organisations had been required to assess the risk coronavirus poses in their workplace.\n\nThey were required to take precautions from a shopping list of suggestions, such as ensuring premises are well ventilated, using screens or barriers and limiting close physical interaction, and could have faced fines if they ignored the rules.\n\nThe Welsh government said firms would \"continue to be encouraged to take steps to operate in a Covid-safe manner\".\n\nWorkplaces will still be subject to other legal responsibilities, such as under the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives' Russell George said the changes were coming \"too late with the long bank holiday weekend already on us\".\n\nHe called for Mr Drakeford to use the next review to \"finally announce an independent public inquiry into the Welsh government's handling of the pandemic that has seen Wales with the highest rate of deaths in the UK and record-breaking waiting lists\".\n\nFigures for deaths in Wales involving Covid, which do not adjust for age or population, across the whole of the pandemic period are higher in Wales than the other UK nations at 314.1 per 100,000 people.\n\nWhen standardised for age the figure is 142.7, slightly lower than England's 143.2, but higher than Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Peredur Owen Griffiths also called for a Welsh-only pandemic inquiry, adding: \"Key worker illness and sickness absence remains a real problem for many services. That's why it's more important than ever that the Labour government provides a meaningful plan for NHS recovery.\"\n\nCBI Wales' Leighton Jenkins said: \"These recent changes will be welcomed by businesses, which are under strain due to rising energy costs and inflation.\"\n\nBen Cottam, head of the Federation of Small Businesses Wales, added: \"Business will continue to do everything they can to ensure customers and staff are safe.\"\n\nShavanah Taj, general secretary of the Wales TUC group of trade unions, said employers \"still have a legal obligation to ensure the safety and security of their workers\".\n\n\"Employers must continue to assess the physical environment and working practices in order to safeguard against the spread of infection.\"\n\nLeader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Jane Dodds, also welcomed the decision and called for the fourth booster vaccine to be opened up to those under 75 who want it.\n\nMichael Kill says the industry does not take safety lightly\n\nMeanwhile, Night Time Industries Association's Michael Kill said a Welsh government Freedom of Information request showed there was no evidence to support the closure of nightclubs last year.\n\nMr Kill told Radio Wales Breakfast the findings left many in the sector feeling \"frustrated and angry\".\n\n\"The response that we got... was it is not possible to establish exactly where someone caught Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"Therefore, it's not possible to provide the number of cases that were caught in specific venues. Welsh government does not hold that information.\" he added.\n\nHe said the sector was not surprised by the response, which showed evidence was \"anecdotal\", but said there had been a \"huge impact\" on businesses, with over a third of nightclubs now closed across the UK.\n\nIn response, the Welsh government said its approach has been \"informed by the latest available scientific and medical advice\".\n\nIt added that \"Increasing the number of people at a venue without increasing the size of the venue or otherwise mitigating appropriately will increase the risk of transmission. SAGE highlighted the highest risks of transmission are associated with poorly ventilated and crowded indoor settings.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said nightclubs were \"high-risk\" and have been associated with super-spreader events \"across the world\".\n\n\"The evidence from the Sage committee said the transmission of the virus was strongly associated with a proximity and duration of contacts in indoor environments,\" he added.\n\nCovid infections remain at record levels in Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), with one in 13 people still estimated to have Covid in the latest week.\n\nIt is estimated 231,900 people in Wales had Covid in the week ending 9 April.\n\nThat equates to 7.63% of the population and is a slight increase on the previous week's estimate, which was that 230,800 people were infected and suggests they may be flattening.\n\nThe estimate for Wales is a higher than those in the other UK nations, where infections were estimated to be decreasing. It was also higher than in all English regions except the north east.\n\nInfections are estimated to involve one in 14 people in England, one in 17 in Scotland and one in 19 in Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Wales, later on Thursday, that Covid \"in general\" has been \"stabilising in Wales over the last three weeks, albeit at very high numbers\".\n\nHe said there were \"just the beginnings of signs that maybe the BA.2 wave of Omicron is passing its peak and numbers are beginning to come down\".\n\nMeanwhile, the numbers of patients with Covid in hospital beds has averaged 836 over the last week - slightly up on the previous seven days. Numbers in critical care are averaging 19 a day, a small rise on a week ago but half the numbers at the peak we saw in January.\n\nHowever, more than 84% of patients with Covid in acute beds are being treated for other conditions, reflecting the high numbers of Covid infections in the community. Only 124 patients with Covid on Wednesday were being primarily treated for the virus.\n\nBut the chief medical officer for Wales warned that the health and care system continued to struggle with Covid demands and high levels of staff absence.\n\nMark Drakeford has warned people that the pandemic is not over\n\nEarlier this week registered deaths involving Covid in Wales rose to their highest weekly total in two months, according to the ONS.\n\nIn the most recent week, up to 1 April, 61 people in Wales had a death registered which involved Covid - and saw it included as a contributory factor on a death certificate.\n\nIt was the highest weekly total since early February - there were 45 deaths registered in the previous week.\n\nThe next three-weekly review of coronavirus regulations is expected around 5 May.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClaims nurses and teachers would drink in staff rooms during lockdown are \"demoralising\" and \"wholly inaccurate\", nursing and teaching bodies say.\n\nMost nurses would spend their time cleaning uniforms and keeping away from family to protect them, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said.\n\nLichfield MP Michael Fabricant told BBC News he knew of nurses and teachers who went for a quiet drink after shifts.\n\nHe said since his initial claims, five more people had contacted him to back up his claim.\n\nHe said he was keeping them anonymous.\n\n\"I am not condemning them for this but merely saying that the holier than thou attitude taken by some to score political points really doesn't cut it,\" he said.\n\nThe RCN said it wanted to formally complain while several teaching unions said they would be writing to the MP and Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nRCN general secretary and chief executive Pat Cullen said she wanted to complain to the MP and also sent a copy of her letter to party chairman Oliver Dowden.\n\nMs Cullen criticised the MP's comments and said nurses and nursing support staff would, after finishing well past the end of their shifts, \"get home, clean their uniforms, shower and collapse into bed\" rather than \"have a quiet one in the staff room\".\n\n\"It is utterly demoralising - and factually incorrect - to hear you suggest that our diligent, safety critical profession, can reasonably be compared to any elected official breaking the law, at any time,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS worker from a medical admissions unit in Wakefield - who wished to remain anonymous - contacted the BBC to give their reaction stating Mr Fabricant \"should walk in a nurse's shoes for a week\".\n\nThey said: \"I came home from work, went straight into the shower after every shift, disinfected my car daily. Kept well clear of all family and friends for months. Kept my washing separate to protect my family.\n\n\"I saw nurses going home crying. Exhausted. It was and still is relentless.\n\n\"So I hope they enjoyed their little party while we were sinking, not drinking.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders' union, said in a letter to the education secretary Mr Fabricant's suggestion was \"wholly inaccurate and deeply insulting\" to teachers as a profession.\n\nHead teachers had followed government guidance during the pandemic \"meticulously\" and Mr Zahawi himself had praised them for doing so, he added.\n\nOne teaching union said head teachers had followed the government's guidance \"meticulously\" during the pandemic\n\nMr Fabricant's comments were \"as insulting as they are offensive\", Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said.\n\nDame Alison Peacock, chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, said Mr Fabricant's comments were \"naïve and wrong\" and teachers should be being thanked instead \"for everything they have done\".\n\nMr Coll, who works in Barry in South Wales, said he had been a lifelong Conservative voter but \"never again\" after what the MP had said.\n\n\"It's disgusting that a person in his position can use a tiny minority of people to taint whole professions,\" he said.\n\n\"You cannot compare it to what the prime minister has done. Is this how far the Tory party has fallen?\"\n\nMr Fabricant's comments were also criticised by fellow Conservative MP Simon Hoare on Twitter who, responding to accounts from nurses and their families, said he had \"seen no evidence of 'after shift party time'\".\n\nMr Fabricant made the claims when reacting to Boris Johnson being fined for attending a birthday party thrown for him during a Covid lockdown.\n\nHe said the prime minister needed to think hard and apologise, although he did not think that Mr Johnson believed he was breaking the law.\n\n\"I think at the time just like many teachers and nurses who after a very, very long shift would tend to go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink which is more or less what he has done.... I don't think he thought he was breaking the law, but of course that doesn't make any sort of excuse...,\" he said.\n\nIn a later statement Mr Fabricant said a teacher and two nurses had told him they had some sympathy with the prime minister \"as after an exhausting day at work they, too, had had a drink with their work mates\".\n\nHe said: \"They felt it safe as they had not mixed with others and, frankly, I cannot blame them.\"\n\nHowever, the MP said he fully understood the anger of people who obeyed the rules, \"couldn't visit relatives, and missed weddings and funerals\".\n\n\"I was in lockdown in Lichfield all the time so I know exactly how they feel,\" he added.\n\n\"But Boris Johnson's mother died during lockdown too and he himself ended up in intensive care so he will also understand their anger.\"\n\nPeople have contacted the BBC both supporting Mr Fabricant and criticising his claims.\n\nOne person, who said they had worked for the NHS for 30 years, claimed all hospitals were alcohol-free in staff rooms while a teacher said their school did not have alcohol on site even for leaving events.\n\nBut another claimed they had witnessed NHS staff breaking Covid rules by \"visiting each other and their families\" during lockdown.", "The Edward Colston statue was thrown into Bristol's harbour after being pulled down in June 2020\n\nThe acquittal of four people on trial for toppling Bristol's Edward Colston statue has prompted the attorney general to contact the Court of Appeal.\n\nSuella Braverman is seeking clarification of the law around what can be used as a defence to criminal charges arising from protests.\n\nShe said the Colston case has led to \"uncertainty\" and asked for clarification on human rights defences.\n\nThe referral will not affect the acquittals in the case.\n\nMilo Ponsford, 26, Rhian Graham, 30, Jake Skuse, 33, and Sage Willoughby, 22, were charged with criminal damage after the memorial to the slave trader was toppled on 7 June 2020.\n\n(Left to right) Sage Willoughby, Jake Skuse, Milo Ponsford and Rhian Graham were cleared of criminal damage\n\nThey were cleared after a trial but the verdict prompted a debate about the criminal justice system after the defendants opted to stand trial in front of a jury and did not deny involvement in the incident.\n\nThe defendants claimed in court that the presence of a statue of a man involved in the slave trade was a hate crime and it was therefore not an offence to remove it.\n\nThe prosecution argued it was \"irrelevant\" who Colston was and the case was one of straightforward criminal damage.\n\nEdward Colston was a member of the Royal African Company and bequeathed his wealth to charities when he died\n\nMs Braverman has contacted the Court of Appeal concerning the scope of defences that can be used for criminal charges arising from protests and the directions which should be given to juries.\n\nShe said the case has caused uncertainty between the offence of criminal damage and the right to protest peacefully.\n\nThe Court of Appeal will be asked to clarify the law around whether someone can use a defence related to their human rights when they are accused of criminal damage.\n\n\"After careful consideration, I have decided to refer the Colston statue case to the Court of Appeal to clarify the law around protests,\" said Ms Braverman.\n\n\"Trial by jury is an important guardian of liberty and critical to that are the legal directions given to the jury.\n\n\"It is in the public interest to clarify the points of law raised in these cases for the future.\n\n\"This is a legal matter which is separate from the politics of the case involved,\" she added.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Boris Johnson has been fined by police for attending a birthday party thrown for him during a Covid lockdown, and has offered a full apology.\n\nThe BBC's Ros Atkins looks at the events leading up to the UK Prime Minister saying he \"fell short when it came to observing the rules\" laid out by his government.", "Mason will take up his new post in May, following the UK's local elections\n\nChris Mason has been appointed the BBC's new political editor, the corporation has announced.\n\nThe Yorkshire-born broadcaster, 41, has worked as a BBC journalist for two decades and currently hosts Radio 4's Any Questions? programme.\n\nMason replaces Laura Kuenssberg, who stepped down earlier this year.\n\n\"What a tremendous privilege to take on what, for me, is the most extraordinary job in British broadcasting and journalism,\" Mason said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I clamber upon the shoulders of giants like Laura, Nick [Robinson] and Andrew [Marr] with a smattering of trepidation and a shedload of excitement and enthusiasm.\n\n\"To lead the best team of journalists in the business on the best news patch of the lot is something I'd never even dared dream of. I can't wait to get started.\"\n\nMason will take up his new post in May, following the UK's local elections, and will continue to front Any Questions? until the summer.\n\nMason and his predecessor Kuenssberg (second left) worked together on Newscast - formerly Brexitcast\n\nMason was one of the original hosts of Newscast (formerly known as Brexitcast) and previously worked on the BBC's regional desk at Westminster and as a political reporter for BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nHe co-presented the network's Question Time Extra Time, a radio spin-off from the BBC One political panel show. He also spent two years in Brussels as Europe correspondent.\n\nMason became a political correspondent for the corporation in 2012 and occasionally stands in as a presenter on BBC Breakfast.\n\nJonathan Munro, interim director of BBC News, said: \"Chris has been an exceptional correspondent in an extraordinary time for British politics.\n\n\"His calm, incisive analysis and signature candid style have been invaluable for audiences when navigating complex stories. His ambition and vision for the political editor role is really exciting and I wish him every success in the new post.\"\n\nKuenssberg will take over BBC One's Sunday morning politics show, which was previously fronted by Andrew Marr, in September.\n\nAfter the appointment was announced, she tweeted: \"Huge congrats and welcome to the best daily job in the business, to colleague, great friend and of course Newscaster, Chris Mason.\"", "Putin's supporters like to share photos of the president playing with dogs in the snow\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has been widely condemned in many parts of the world, but a network of Facebook groups run by people with obscure motivations would like to change perceptions of the country's leader.\n\nMillions of people have viewed posts committed to portraying President Vladimir Putin as smiling, benevolent and peace-loving.\n\nThese are Putin's superfans - and we've been tracking what they do and where they come from.\n\nThousands of posts praising the Russian leader have surfaced on a pro-Putin network of Facebook groups\n\nThe BBC has been investigating these huge pro-Putin groups with the help of researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).\n\nISD experts identified 10 pro-Putin public groups, boasting names such as Vladimir Putin - Leader of the Free World. The groups have more than 650,000 members between them. Content includes photos and messages praising the Russian leader, written in a number of languages, including English, Russian, Farsi, Arabic and Khmer.\n\nNot only are they popular, but they are very active. Over the past month, researchers counted 16,500 posts, receiving more than 3.6 million interactions.\n\nThe overall aim of the groups seems to be to promote Mr Putin as a hero standing up to the West, with overwhelming international support.\n\nThe images often show the Russian leader \"walking confidently, holding puppies, staring longingly into the camera, saluting troops, and riding an array of wild animals, including bears and lions\".\n\nThese groups have gained more than 100,000 new members since the start of the invasion on 24 February.\n\nMany of the posts are put up repeatedly across groups by \"superfan\" administrators\n\nDigging into the details of the people driving most of the content, it emerged that many of the fans listed as administrators of the groups have duplicate accounts under the same name. The researchers found at least 100 such accounts in the network.\n\nThese accounts generally follow each other and sometimes post heart-warming messages or send heart emojis to each other. And they administer these pro-Putin accounts alongside others pretending to be the Russian Federation or the Russian security services, which are clearly fake.\n\nRunning duplicate accounts is a potential violation of Facebook's rules on inauthentic behaviour, the ISD says.\n\nLead researcher Moustafa Ayad calls the practice an example of \"astroturfing\" - an online operation involving multiple accounts that falsely gives something the impression of wider grassroots support.\n\nThe campaign \"creates the appearance of widespread support for Putin and the Kremlin in the shadow of the invasion and relies on... inauthentic accounts to accomplish its goal\", according to the ISD report.\n\nA closer examination of some of the group admins shows some unusual activity. One, named Marine, who says her location is Syria, uses three separate accounts to generate support for the president. Her three accounts, in Arabic, post at the same time every day.\n\nAnother moderator, Victoria, from Cambodia, has been pushing content in a Khmer language group. Since 4 February, her posts have generated more than 34,000 reactions and have been shared more than 4,000 times.\n\nAnd Marine and Victoria jointly run a Khmer-language Facebook page, part of a wider pattern of co-ordination between some of the accounts.\n\nPosts are widely shared across different groups. For instance, another account listed as located in Bulgaria posted the same Putin image 12 times in the space of a couple of minutes.\n\nVladimir Putin's appearances with animals are often shared by the network of fans\n\nWe tried to contact the people behind all of these accounts for comment, but didn't have much luck.\n\nBut a man in Kenya, called Raj, who's in several of these groups and includes \"Putin\" at the end of his name on Facebook, did answer the phone when we rang. In a brief conversation, he called the president a \"great leader\" but said he didn't want to discuss the war. We emailed him further questions about his interest in Russia, but he didn't respond.\n\nHasmik, from Armenia, says she's a journalist and now helps to run six pro-Putin groups. We asked who invited her to do it. She told us it was the people already running the groups and said that she wasn't paid for her efforts.\n\nIt's difficult to glean the motivations of the people behind the accounts. There is no obvious link to the Russian government and unlike other well-known Russian disinformation campaigns, the network isn't subtle; nor do the people involved hide their intentions.\n\nBut we can't rule out the possibility that the network has some links to the Russian authorities or pro-Putin elements inside Russia.\n\nMany people around the world are drawn to Mr Putin and his anti-West view of the world.\n\nWe contacted Facebook, which says it has policies against fake accounts and has suspended a number of accounts based on information from the report and their own investigations.\n\n\"We're continuing to take strong action to prevent the spread of misinformation relating to the crisis in Ukraine,\" says a spokesman for parent company Meta.\n\nIn the course of our research, we came across another interesting phenomenon - Vladimir Putin impersonation accounts.\n\nOne of the Putin impersonation Facebook accounts had a massive following before being taken down\n\nMr Putin is one of the few world leaders who doesn't use social media, and there's no official Facebook account in his name. He reputedly doesn't even have a smartphone.\n\nAccording to his spokesman, Mr Putin simply \"does not need\" social media as it \"doesn't give him anything he doesn't have already\".\n\nBut some have filled the gap left by his online absence. The page on Facebook displayed above had more than three million followers until it was taken down for impersonation shortly after the invasion at the end of February.\n\nA significant number of its subscribers - more than 700,000 - joined during the pandemic, when the page was talking up Russian-made Covid vaccines.\n\nMore recently, the page was posting messages amplifying the Kremlin's view of the war, and many commenting on it appeared to believe it contained the genuine words of the Russian president.\n\nShortly after the invasion, a post on the page declared the goal of the \"operation\" was \"peacekeeping... aimed only at the demilitarisation of a neighbouring country\". This message was shared and liked more than 200,000 times.\n\nAnd the page also had a habit of tagging people in its messages about Mr Putin, including users identified by researchers as having duplicate accounts. In other words, it was interacting with the Putin superfans.\n\nWe don't know who's behind this account. The people managing it are based in Russia and Latvia, according to the page's transparency section.\n\nFan pages are fertile ground to drum up support for the Kremlin internationally, says Nika Aleksejeva, a researcher at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), part of the Atlantic Council think tank.\n\n\"They may help to build public support in foreign countries for Russia's so-called 'military operation in Ukraine' unless taken down by mainstream social media platforms,\" she says.\n\nDFRLab documented how one Putin-impersonator account posting in Arabic had paid for adverts targeting users in several countries, including Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, and Tunisia. The page had more than one million followers, but has since been deleted.\n\nAnother prominent Putin page, posted in Arabic, used to be managed by a man who is also a big fan of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. It attracted almost a million followers before recently disappearing.", "Jude Law, Mads Mikkelsen and Eddie Redmayne star in the latest Harry Potter franchise film\n\nReferences to a gay relationship in the new Fantastic Beasts movie were removed by Warner Bros for Chinese audiences.\n\nSix seconds of the third instalment, The Secrets of Dumbledore, which alluded to the romantic past between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, were cut.\n\nHarry Potter author JK Rowling said Dumbledore was gay in 2007, but the movies had never explicitly referenced his sexuality until now.\n\nThe producers, Warner Bros, said the \"spirit of the film remains\".\n\nNow in the Chinese version of the new movie, the edited-out dialogue between Jude Law's titular character and Grindelwald, played by Mads Mikkelsen, contained the lines \"because I was in love with you\" and \"the summer Gellert and I fell in love\".\n\nThe rest of the film remained the same, including an understanding that the characters share an intimate bond.\n\nIn a statement to Variety, Warner Bros said it was \"committed to safeguarding the integrity of every film we release\" and that that sometimes meant \"sensitively\" making \"nuanced cuts\" for certain markets.\n\n\"Our hope is to release our features worldwide as released by their creators but historically we have faced small edits made in local markets,\" they said.\n\n\"In the case of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, a six-second cut was requested and Warner Bros accepted those changes to comply with local requirements but the spirit of the film remains intact.\"\n\n\"We want audiences everywhere in the world to see and enjoy this film, and it's important to us that Chinese audiences have the opportunity to experience it as well, even with these minor edits,\" it added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHomosexuality has been legal in China for more than two decades and the Chinese Society of Psychiatry stopped classifying it as a mental disorder in 2001.\n\nBut same-sex marriage is not recognised, and some LGBT people still struggle for acceptance, especially when it comes to close family members with traditional expectations.\n\nA report by the United Nations Development Programme in 2016 found no more than 15% of LGBT people in China come out to their close family members.\n\n\"Some people who have already come out successfully are proud,\" Xie Xiao, a member of CINEMQ, a queer cinema collective based in Shanghai, told the BBC in 2020.\n\n\"Meanwhile some people are scared to death of whether their family members know anything about their sexuality.\"\n\nIn the UK in 2018, fans of the Harry Potter franchise were were left disappointed when it was made clear that Dumbledore would not be portrayed as \"explicitly\" gay in the previous film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.\n\nBut director David Yates told Newsbeat that people were already aware that the characters previously \"fell in love with each other's ideas, and ideology and each other.\"", "Many residents along the coast fear their homes may collapse after mudslides\n\nAt least 45 people in South Africa have been killed in floods caused by days of heavy rain, the authorities say.\n\nIt happened in the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, where many people are still missing and emergency services are searching for survivors.\n\nSome in the city of Durban are standing on rooftops awaiting rescue, but local media report that only one helicopter is available to lift people away.\n\nKey roads across the city are shut and mudslides have destroyed many homes.\n\nIt comes as scientists warn that climate change is fuelling heavier rainfall than usual in southern Africa.\n\nThe mayor of eThekwini - which is the area including Durban and its surrounding towns - has apologised to residents who were left stranded after the emergency call centre was overwhelmed overnight.\n\nMayor Mxolisi Kaunda also says efforts are under way to restore water and electricity supplies that have been cut to parts of the city, after most of the city's electricity power stations were flooded on Monday evening and a number of water treatment plants were damaged.\n\nPeople are being urged to stay at home, but those living in low-lying areas are also being urged to move to higher ground.\n\nResidents who fear their homes may collapse should seek shelter in community halls, Mayor Kaunda advises.\n\nSouth Africans have been posting photos online of the destruction, including this collapsed road in the resort town of Umdloti:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFloodwaters disturbed graves at nearby Ntuzuma Cemetery with reports of human bones washing on to the street, and an anti-theft vehicle-tracking agency posted footage on Twitter showing what it said was a human skull that had washed up.\n\nThe national broadcaster SABC showed footage of shipping containers strewn across a motorway in the city of Durban.\n\nMore rainfall is expected across southern KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday, according to the South African Weather Service, which is advising citizens to stay clear of flooded roads and bridges.\n\nShipping containers are strewn across this motorway in Durban\n\nEfforts are under way to clear debris caused by the storms", "The carbon-cutting promises made at COP26 would see the world warm by just under 2C this century, according to a new analysis.\n\nThe study finds that if all the pledges made by countries are implemented \"in full and on time\", temperatures would rise by 1.9-2C.\n\nHowever, there is far grimmer news on the idea of keeping warming under 1.5C.\n\nThe paper finds there is just a 6-10% chance of staying under this key threshold.\n\nWhen political leaders met in Glasgow last November, many of them brought new and improved plans to reduce their carbon emissions.\n\nOthers, such as India, announced new, long-term targets to bring their CO2 output to net zero.\n\nThe focus of the meeting was to try to improve the pledges so that global temperatures this century don't rise by more than 1.5C above the levels recorded in the middle of the 19th Century.\n\nScientists have concluded that going beyond this level is very dangerous for the world, particularly for people living in small island nations and developing states.\n\nDuring the gathering in Glasgow, researchers carried out rapid analyses of the new pledges and promises.\n\nThey all indicated these new plans would reduce the rise in global temperatures that the world is experiencing.\n\nThe key question, though, is by how much.\n\nIndia's prime minster Modi is greeted by Boris Johnson at COP26\n\nThis new, peer reviewed study builds on those early findings.\n\nThe authors first look at the plans that countries have made for the short term up to 2030.\n\nOn their own, these would see temperatures rise by 2.6C this century, with devastating consequences for tens of millions of people.\n\nBut if countries fulfil their longer-term goals of reducing warming gases to as close to zero as possible, then the impact on temperatures is far greater.\n\n\"This is the first paper that says there's actually a better than 50% chance of keeping temperatures below 2C if these targets are implemented,\" said lead author Prof Malte Meinshausen, from the University of Melbourne.\n\n\"But it is not a good news story because our study clearly shows that increased action this decade is necessary for us to have a chance of not shooting past 1.5 degrees by a wide margin.\"\n\nExtreme weather events such as flooding are likely to increase as the climate warms\n\nThe authors say that support, financial and technical, is needed for developing countries to make significant cuts in their carbon output.\n\nEven if these happen, the 1.5C threshold of the COP21 Paris agreement is in serious trouble, according to this analysis.\n\nAt best, there's a 10% chance of limiting warming to that level this century.\n\nWhat's making that unlikely is that in the short term, carbon emissions are going up not down.\n\nThe new study finds that CO2 will increase by 13% up to 2030, rather than going down by around 45%.\n\nThat's the amount of cuts that scientists say is necessary to stave off more dangerous warming.\n\n\"The really key thing is the importance of reducing emissions over the period to 2030,\" said co-author Christophe McGlade from the International Energy Agency.\n\n\"There are options available for policymakers to respond to the current crisis that can also be in line with our long-term emission goals, things like reducing oil use by lowering speed limits. It has an immediate impact in terms of lowering oil demand, it reduces some of the stress in the oil markets, and it would also help to reduce emissions.\"\n\nCurbing speed limits could reduce demand for oil, say experts\n\nOther researchers in this area believe that this new report shows that stabilising temperatures at a safer level will need the deployment of carbon-removal approaches, including machines to suck CO2 from the sky.\n\n\"The only way to 1.5C is to come back down to 1.5C from above it,\" said Glen Peters from the Centre for International Climate Research in Oslo, who was not involved with the new study.\n\n\"It is hard to know how to put it in words that convey the message that 1.5C is as good as gone, unless you can remove enough carbon to come back down to it from above.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Nature.", "The image on the left shows the comet on 8 January, 2022. The right shows the 'coma' - an envelope around a comet's nucleus\n\nA comet with a nucleus 50 times bigger than normal is barrelling towards Earth at 22,000 miles per hour.\n\nNasa's Hubble telescope has determined the comet's icy nucleus has a mass of about 500 trillion tonnes and is 85 miles (137km) wide - larger than the US state of Rhode Island.\n\nBut not to worry. The closest it will get is one billion miles away from the Sun, and that won't be until 2031.\n\nIt was first spotted in 2010 but only now has Hubble confirmed its size.\n\nAnd it's larger than any comet ever seen by astronomers before.\n\n\"We've always suspected this comet had to be big because it is so bright at such a large distance,\" said David Jewitt, a professor of planetary science and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). \"Now we confirm it is.\"\n\nNasa describes the icy dirtball as a behemoth \"barrelling this way\".\n\nAccording to a statement from the space agency, it was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein in archival images from the Dark Energy Survey at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.\n\nA Nasa astronaut does some maintenance work on the Hubble telescope\n\nComets are described by Nasa as icy \"Lego blocks,\" left over from the early days of planet construction.\n\n\"They were unceremoniously tossed out of the Solar System in a gravitational pinball game among the massive outer planets,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"The kicked-out comets took up residence in the Oort Cloud, a vast reservoir of far-flung comets encircling the Solar System.\"\n\nMan-To Hui, of the Macau University of Science and Technology, described the comet as \"an amazing object\", adding: \"We guessed the comet might be pretty big, but we needed the best data to confirm this.\"\n\nComet Bernardinelli-Bernstein has been following a three-million-year-long elliptical orbit, taking it as far from the Sun as roughly half a light-year.\n\nThe comet is now less than two billion miles from the Sun, falling nearly perpendicular to the plane of our Solar System.", "Russians are also burying their dead as the conflict goes on\n\nIn Stavropol cemetery, there is a new line of graves.\n\nThe fresh mounds of earth are covered in a sea of flowers. Decorating the graves, fluttering in the breeze, are military banners with emblems of elite Russian units.\n\nFixed to wooden crosses are the portraits of soldiers, their names and the dates they died.\n\nThe servicemen buried here lost their lives after 24 February: the start of President Putin's \"special military operation\" in Ukraine.\n\nAt the cemetery I meet Dmitry. He lays red carnations at the grave of his former paratrooper comrade, an officer called Sergei Tysyachny.\n\n\"He was like a second father to me and the lads,\" Dmitry tells me. \"We love him, we respect him and we mourn for him.\"\n\nSuch praise for a Russian soldier jars with events on the ground in Ukraine. The Kremlin may insist that its military offensive there is necessary and justified. But the UN Secretary-General calls it \"a full-fledged invasion… in violation of the UN charter\".\n\nThere is also international outrage at reports of apparent Russian military atrocities and alleged war crimes.\n\n\"I don't believe these fakes,\" Dmitry says about war crime allegations levelled against some Russian soldiers. \"I will never believe them.\n\n\"I know how my commander, Sergei, taught us to act. I trust my comrades and my army. They would never do things like this.\"\n\nDmitry, left, says his commander Sergei, right, was like a father\n\n\"But investigations are under way,\" I continue. \"What if you were shown cast-iron evidence that crimes happened? Would you believe it then?\"\n\n\"I'm sure there will be no evidence,\" he replies. \"I'm certain.\"\n\nThis certainty that Russia is right (and the West wrong) is rooted in years of similar messaging here by the state media.\n\nThe Kremlin uses its control of television to convince Russians they are living in a besieged fortress, surrounded by enemies - Nato, America, Britain, the EU, to name a few - who are plotting from morning till night to sow chaos in their country.\n\nPresident Putin's media monopoly has also helped him to persuade many here that Russians in Ukraine are battling \"Nazis\", \"neo-Nazis\", \"ultra-nationalists\" and \"liberating Ukraine from fascism\" - creating a parallel reality around events there.\n\nSince all independent Russian news sources have either been blocked or shut down, accessing alternative views in Russia has become increasingly difficult.\n\nSergei Tysyachny's widow, Lada, agrees to meet me in the centre of Stavropol.\n\n\"I didn't want to believe it. I still can't completely believe it,\" Lada says of the moment she was told her husband had been killed.\n\nShe, too, refuses to believe that Russian soldiers have committed atrocities.\n\n\"They'll accuse Russia of anything,\" Lada says\n\n\"I know that the whole world is against us now,\" Lada says. \"They'll accuse Russia of anything.\"\n\nAnd it turns out that Russia will accuse the West - and Western journalists - of anything.\n\nAt the end of the day in Stavropol, we find ourselves making the news, not just covering it.\n\nA popular local website has published an article about the BBC's visit, along with a photograph of my cameraman and me interviewing Lada on a park bench.\n\nHere's an extract: \"It's easy to guess how the recently widowed resident of Stavropol must have felt talking to journalists from a country that is an accessory to the death of her husband.\"\n\nThis attempt to link Britain to the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine shows how Western journalists in Russia are viewed, increasingly, as the enemy.\n\nAnd how the authorities here are searching for scapegoats for the horrors unfolding in Ukraine.", "Video released by police has captured an IS fanatic's journey to kill Sir David Amess, his arrest after the attack and an interview in custody, where he admitted it was terrorism.\n\nThe Southend West MP was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 26, from Kentish Town, north London, was sentenced at the Old Bailey and received a whole-life term for murder and life with a minimum of 30 years to run concurrently for preparing terrorist attacks.\n\nFriend and fellow Essex MP Mark Francois described Mr Amess as being \"absolutely devoted to his constituents\", while BBC Essex presenter Sonia Watson said his murder \"sent shockwaves through the community\".", "Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson on a visit to a brewery last year\n\nBoris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been fined by the Metropolitan Police over lockdown parties in Downing Street. Can lawmakers get away with being lawbreakers?\n\nNot just any law maker, but the prime minister and the chancellor.\n\nAnd not just any law, but the one that confined millions of us to our homes, closed schools, crippled businesses and were designed to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths.\n\nThe law which the prime minister himself said, while looking solemnly at us down a camera, was essential to our safety and which we must all obey.\n\nThe PM faced the cameras again on Tuesday to apologise for breaking those laws, while insisting it did not occur to him at the time that he was doing anything wrong.\n\n\"But, of course,\" he added, \"the police have found otherwise and I fully respect the outcome of their investigation.\"\n\nHe tried to sound contrite, saying people had a right to expect better from their prime minister.\n\nBut he made it clear he will not be resigning, telling reporters he intended to \"get on with the job\".\n\nWill this be enough to save his skin?\n\nWhen Partygate dominated the headlines, many observers believed it was only a matter of time before Tory MPs triggered a no confidence vote in him.\n\nBut that sense of momentum has evaporated to some extent.\n\nFirstly, and potentially importantly, there aren't many MPs around. It is the Easter break. The chance to plot, to gossip, to fume, to agitate isn't there.\n\nSure there are WhatsApp groups, but they are not quite the same.\n\nBut secondly, and more importantly, the context has changed.\n\nWar has broken out in Europe; our television screens are dominated by the horrific images we see every day from Ukraine.\n\nWho did or didn't drink a glass of wine, where and with whom months and months ago in lockdowns so many of us are desperate to put behind us can, to some, seem trivial, parochial in that context.\n\nIn recent weeks, some Conservative MPs have made it known they had withdrawn their letters saying they had no faith in Boris Johnson's leadership.\n\nThat momentum I was talking about felt like it was draining out of the issue.\n\nThe big question, then - is what happens now?\n\nCould Conservative MPs, talking to voters ahead of next month's local elections, encounter a tidal wave of anger from constituents that makes them think again about the prime minister's future?\n\nOr have a crucial chunk of voters moved on too?\n\nWhat will be the verdict of voters next month, and to what extent would that be able to be pinned on Partygate anyway?\n\nPolitics is at its keenest and its most compelling when the biggest questions are uncertain; where, whatever the speculation - and there'll be plenty - the next public actions and decisions of Westminster's biggest players aren't obvious.\n\nMake no mistake: this is uncharted territory. For the very first time, it is publicly known that the prime minister and the chancellor broke the very laws they put in place, in the very place where they were devised.\n\nEven if Conservative MPs don't have the appetite to remove Boris Johnson now, even if the electorate's verdict next month isn't clear, this is a line from the prime ministerial CV he will never shift.\n\nA prime minister who's built a career on being unorthodox and has survived the apparently politically unsurvivable before, finds the dice rolling again.\n\nAs a pollster put it to me the other day, political events can be classified as turning points or talking points.\n\nThe vast majority are the latter, noisy, but of little long-term consequence.\n\nThis could still have the potential to be the former, even if nothing changes immediately.", "The UK Health Security Agency says parents should look out for symptoms such as jaundice\n\nHealth officials are now investigating a total of 74 cases of hepatitis - or liver inflammation - in children across the UK since the start of this year.\n\nThey believe that the common adenovirus could be the cause, but they have still not ruled out Covid-19.\n\nOfficials are examining 49 cases in England, 13 in Scotland and 12 across Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said parents should be on the lookout for symptoms such as jaundice.\n\nThe first sign of an unusual rise in cases in young children was spotted in Scotland last week.\n\nDr Meera Chand, director of clinical and emerging infections at UKHSA, said officials were looking at a wide range of possible factors which could be causing children to be admitted to hospital with liver inflammation.\n\n\"One of the possible causes that we are investigating is that this is linked to adenovirus infection. However, we are thoroughly investigating other potential causes,\" Dr Chand said.\n\nOther possible explanations being investigated include Covid-19, other infections or an environmental trigger.\n\nAdenoviruses are a family of viruses that usually cause a range of mild illnesses such as colds, vomiting and diarrhoea.\n\nHepatitis is not a common complication of these viruses but in rare cases a link has been found.\n\nTo reduce spread, Dr Chand said parents should supervise good handwashing and hygiene at home, as well as keeping an eye out for possible symptoms.\n\n\"We are calling on parents and guardians to be alert to the signs of hepatitis - including jaundice, or yellowing of the eyes and skin - and to contact a healthcare professional if they are concerned.\"\n\nOther symptoms of the liver condition include:\n\nThe UKHSA says there is \"no link\" between these recent infant hepatitis cases and the Covid-19 vaccine, as none of the children involved has been been vaccinated.\n\nProfessor Will Irving, virology expert from the University of Nottingham, said the current crop of cases of hepatitis in children under the age of 10 was \"very unusual\".\n\n\"In relation to viral hepatitis, infection in childhood very rarely causes clinical disease,\" he said, adding it was often much worse if caught as an adult.\n\nIt's a broad term used to describe inflammation of the liver.\n\nUsually the result of a viral infection, it can also be caused by exposure to some chemicals, drinking too much alcohol, drugs and certain genetic disorders.\n\nThere are five main types of hepatitis caused by specific viruses - known as A, B, C, D and E - but none of those appear to have caused the liver inflammation seen in these children so far.\n\nSome types of hepatitis can pass without any serious problems, while others can be long-lasting.", "The study shows doggy DNA mutates five times faster than their owners' genetic code\n\nHow long animals live is linked to how quickly their genetic code mutates, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers discovered that mammals - from tigers to humans - have roughly the same number of mutations by the time they die of old age.\n\nBut short-lived animals tend to burn through their allowance more rapidly, the analysis of 16 species indicates.\n\nThe researchers say it helps explain why we age and sheds light on one of cancer's most perplexing mysteries.\n\nExperts said the findings, by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, were \"staggering\" and \"thought-provoking\".\n\nMutations are changes that creep into the instruction manual for building and running our bodies - our DNA.\n\nThose mutations have long been known to be at the root of cancer, but whether they were important for ageing has been debated for decades. Researchers at Sanger say they have produced \"the first experimental evidence\" suggesting they are.\n\nThey analysed how quickly mutations occur in species with different life expectancies. They looked at DNA from a cat, black and white colobus, dog, ferret, giraffe, horse, human, lion, mouse, naked mole rat, rabbit, rat, ring-tailed lemur and a tiger.\n\nThe study, published in the journal Nature, showed mice rattle through nearly 800 mutations a year during their short lives, which last just under four years.\n\nAnd the longer animals live, the fewer mutations they pick up each year.\n\nDogs have around 249 annual mutations, a lion 160 and a giraffe 99. Humans averaged 47.\n\nOne of the researchers, Dr Alex Cagan, said the pattern was \"striking\" and it was \"really surprising and exciting\" that all the animals in the study converged on \"about 3,200\" mutations across their lifetime.\n\nIf people's DNA mutated at the same rate as that of mice, we would die with more than 50,000 genetic alterations.\n\n\"Despite having different lifespans, at the end of life the mammals had the same number of mutations,\" Dr Cagan told the BBC.\n\n\"This is the number, but what does it mean? It's a mystery to us,\" he said.\n\nIt could be the cells in the body reach a critical number of mutations and then conk out. There are also ideas that \"a few [cells] behaving badly\" start to take over critical tissue, such as in the heart, as we age, so organs do not function properly.\n\nAgeing, however, is unlikely to be down to a single process inside our bodies' cells.\n\nTelomere shortening and epigenetic changes are also thought to play a role. However, if mutations are involved, then it poses the question whether there are ways of slowing the genetic damage or even repairing it.\n\nThe researchers want to see whether this pattern holds true for all life or just for mammals. They are aiming to add fish to the analysis, including a Greenland shark, which can live to over 400 years old and is the longest-living vertebrate in the world.\n\nIn cancer science there is a conundrum known as \"Peto's paradox\" - why don't big, long-living animals have sky-high rates of cancer?\n\nThe more cells there are in your body and the longer you live, the greater the chance that one of them becomes cancerous. This should be terrible news for elephant and whales.\n\n\"Whales have trillions more cells [than us]. They shouldn't exist as they'd have cancer before adulthood,\" says Dr Cagan.\n\nBig animals tend to live longer, so their slower mutation rate could help explain the paradox, but the researchers say this is far from the whole story.\n\nA naked mole rat lives to around the same age as a giraffe and has similar mutation rates\n\nNaked mole rats and giraffes both live to broadly the same age, with similar mutation rates, despite giraffes being thousands of times larger.\n\n\"You'd expect the giraffe's mutation rate to be even lower, but it's like body size doesn't matter,\" said Dr Cagan.\n\nInstead, the researchers argue that other methods of suppressing cancer must have evolved - which could inspire new cancer therapies. For example, elephants have more copies of a chunk of DNA that suppresses tumours.\n\nDr Alexander Gorelick and Dr Kamila Naxerova, from Harvard Medical School, said the gulf between a human's 47 mutations a year and a mouse's 800 was huge..\n\n\"This difference is staggering, given the large overall similarities between human and mouse genomes.\n\nDr Simon Spiro, a wildlife veterinary pathologist at the Zoological Society of London, said: \"Animals often live much longer in zoos than they do in the wild, so our vets' time is often spent dealing with conditions related to old age.\n\n\"The genetic changes identified in this study suggest that diseases of old age will be similar across a wide range of mammals, whether old age begins at seven months or 70 years.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City produced a mature and disciplined performance to hold off the challenge of Atletico Madrid - and set up a Champions League semi-final showdown with the Spanish side's city rivals Real.\n\nKnowing a clean sheet would be enough to seal the tie, City kept their cool in the face of a hostile home crowd and intimidation from a physical Atleti side showing far more ambition than in the first leg.\n\nIlkay Gundogan could have made life much easier for Pep Guardiola's men by slotting in from close range, instead of against the post in the first half.\n\nBut in the face of much-increased pressure and a home side pushing desperately for parity, City put up a resolute rearguard action to confirm their progression to the last four.\n\nAtletico ended the fiery contest with 10 men when defender Felipe was shown a second yellow card for a dangerous follow-through on Phil Foden, having also caught the same player with an arm that drew blood from the England international's head earlier in the game.\n\nReal Madrid, who edged past Chelsea in a thrilling quarter-final tie on Tuesday, now stand between City and a second successive appearance in the final of Europe's premier club competition.\n\nHaving lost to Thomas Tuchel's Blues in last season's final, Guardiola's side are seeking a maiden Champions League title in a campaign where they are still challenging on three fronts.\n\nThey lead the Premier League by one point from second-placed Liverpool - and face Jurgen Klopp's Reds in an FA Cup semi-final this Saturday.\n\nCity dig deep to reach the last four\n\nCity have grown accustomed to controlling games of football at this level, strangling the life out of teams through sheer volume of possession before surgically picking them off in what are often benign, one-sided encounters.\n\nFor 45 minutes here, though, they were given a taste of their own medicine and forced to dig deep against extreme pressure from an increasingly desperate opponent, whose ill-discipline in stoppage time should could easily have resulted in further red cards.\n\nIt is a huge feather in City's cap that they were able to hold firm against repeated attacks and then keep their heads as Atletico were losing theirs.\n\nIt is a shame that the credit the home side's attacking display deserved was largely overshadowed by their unnecessary antics. They included a potential headbutt from former City centre-back Stefan Savic on Raheem Sterling - and hair pull on Jack Grealish - during an unsavoury melee involving both sets of players and the two benches after Felipe's foul on Foden.\n\nClashes also continued at full-time as both sets of players made their way down the tunnel.\n\nPrior to this, the 90 minutes had showcased a different approach from the Spanish champions in comparison to a first leg in which they operated largely in a 5-5-0 formation and failed to muster a single effort on goal.\n\nRoared on by a vociferous home crowd, they pressed fiercely, harrying the City players all over the pitch.\n\nHaving stayed in the tie for three quarters of it - with Geoffrey Kondogbia's blocked 35th-minute effort their solitary shot across both legs - the hosts came out swinging for the second period.\n\nAntoine Griezmann went close, as did Rodrigo de Paul, Matheus Cunha and Luis Suarez, as boss Diego Simeone threw every attacking option he had onto the field in the hope of breaking the visitors down.\n\nBut this is not an easily intimidated City side, nor does their elite attacking prowess come at the expense of defensive frailty, even when injury affected Kevin de Bruyne and Kyle Walker and forced the introduction of Nathan Ake.\n\nJohn Stones was immense, with a block to deny a Cunha effort from close range the highlight of an intelligent and dogged display.\n\nKeeper Ederson was also called upon for a heroic moment, saving superbly to stop Angel Correa's shot after the ball had broken to the Atletico man in the box in the 11th minute of added time.\n\nCelebrations were mixed among the confrontations at full-time, but City have little time to rest after this epic energy-sapping encounter.\n\nSaturday sees them face Liverpool in the FA Cup semi and, two weeks from now, Real will visit the Etihad.\n• None Attempt saved. Ángel Correa (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rodrigo de Paul.\n• None Attempt missed. Rodrigo de Paul (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Yannick Carrasco (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None João Cancelo (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a through ball.\n• None Second yellow card to Felipe (Atletico Madrid) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Stefan Savic (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Matheus Cunha following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Matheus Cunha (Atletico Madrid) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How are people coping with having to make do with less?\n• None Can they face their fears? Celebrities take on challenges in sub-zero temperatures with Wim Hof", "Russian troops started their encirclement of Mariupol in early March, gradually tightening the noose\n\nThere are growing signs Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing Mariupol, the besieged southern port city which has suffered a devastating, six-week assault.\n\nOfficially, Ukraine's armed forces say they are sustaining its defence and are in \"continuous contact\" with their troops on the ground. But they concede it is likely Moscow will try to take full control of the city, while a regional Russian-backed separatist leader claims Mariupol is close to falling.\n\nUkrainian troops have said they are running out of ammunition, and are believed to have been pushed back into two isolated pockets adjoining the coastline.\n\nThe city's fate is likely to be critical for the next phase of the war. In Russian hands it would provide control of a clear swathe of territory connecting Moscow's two fronts in the south and east. It would release large numbers of forces to redeploy, and provide President Vladimir Putin with a moment of strategic \"victory\" after a lethally shambolic first stage to his invasion.\n\nIt would mark a huge loss, if by now an expected one, for Ukraine's leadership which has described Mariupol as \"the heart of this war today\".\n\nIt is believed Ukraine's forces have been forced back to the port area and the Azovstal iron and steel plant\n\nRussian troops started their encirclement of Mariupol in early March. The siege has killed thousands of civilians and unleashed an appalling struggle for survival for trapped residents who remain.\n\nThousands of people have escaped further north, risking a deadly journey through the front line. Here, in Zaporizhzhia, I have watched civilians arrive day after day, describing how they have witnessed the obliteration of their city.\n\nIn recent days Russian forces are thought to have pushed in further by dividing the remaining holdout of Mariupol's defenders, according to think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).\n\nIt's believed Ukraine's forces have been forced back to the port area and the Azovstal plant, a massive iron and steel works from where they had launched counter-attacks for weeks.\n\nVideos have emerged of fighters apparently from the 36th marine brigade vowing not to surrender their positions.\n\n\"We are holding on to every bit of the city wherever possible,\" says one in a video posted to social media channels on Tuesday.\n\n\"But the reality is the city is encircled and blocked and there was no re-supply of ammunition or food,\" he adds. Part of the footage shows him alongside several other marines in a room that looks like a basement shelter. One of the men has crutches leaning against his chair.\n\nA post on Monday on the brigade's Facebook page described the situation as \"the last battle… It is death for some of us, and captivity for the rest,\" it said, adding they had been \"pushed back\" and \"surrounded\" by Russian troops.\n\nUkrainian analysts differed over whether the post could be relied on as genuine, with some claiming the page had been hacked. But more than 36 hours later the post remained on the site.\n\nThe siege and a resulting collapse in communications in Mariupol mean it is difficult to independently verify reports about changes on the ground.\n\nThere is little doubt Ukrainian forces have been desperate for new supplies of weapons, ammunition, food and water.\n\nMariupol - home to more than 400,000 people before the war - has been virtually wiped out by weeks of heavy Russian shelling\n\nUkraine's military reportedly managed over the weeks to resupply troops with kit including night and thermal vision goggles, portable battery charging packs and even anti-tank munitions; but it became increasingly hard.\n\n\"Ultimately, the city was surrounded so soon into the invasion that there was never a chance to build up supplies,\" says Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at defence think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\n\"They've already held out far, far longer than any external analysis would have predicted possible. So it's difficult to say how much longer they can go on,\" he says, adding that they have \"achieved extraordinary results with very little\".\n\nUkrainian attempts to rotate forces or evacuate the wounded also became much more high risk as Russia tightened its siege.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry claimed two weeks ago it had shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter 5km (three miles) from the Sea of Azov shore. It was thought to have been coming out of the city.\n\nOn Tuesday, it claimed up to 100 Ukrainian troops had tried to fight their way out of the steel works plant - but said half were killed by Russian artillery and airstrikes, and more than 40 surrendered.\n\nIn his video address to the nation late on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said: \"The future of Ukraine directly depends on the strength of our resistance in all its forms. The future of us all, each of our cities, each of our villages.\n\n\"And I am grateful to everyone who understands this. Who does not stop resisting even when it seems that the result is very far. Because the darkest time is always before dawn.\n\n\"I want to separately address those heroes who are having a very hard time. Those who defend Mariupol. A marine battalion of the 36th marine brigade, Azov special operations detachment, 12th operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. Subdivisions of the State Border Guard Service. Volunteers of the \"Right Sector\". The 555th military hospital and National Police employees.\"\n\nAs well as the marines, the defence of Mariupol also consists of the Azov battalion, an ultranationalist militia formed in 2014 which Kyiv says has been reformed and is now part of Ukraine's National Guard.\n\nThey are only a tiny part of Ukraine's overall forces, but their presence has been a key focus of Moscow's propaganda war: it refers to the invasion as a \"special military operation\" claiming it is to \"demilitarise\" and \"denazify\" Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, reports by local forces that Russia deployed chemical weapons in Mariupol this week have yet to be confirmed. They are a reminder of how the conflict could quickly trigger a further dangerous escalation.\n\nThe full capture of the city could see significant numbers of Russian troops, so far used to contain and prevent resupply in Mariupol, reconstituted and moved elsewhere, particularly in other parts of the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow is gearing up for a major offensive.\n\nIt could also see Moscow consolidate its progress north of Mariupol, which is one of the reasons the Ukrainians were finding it so hard to relieve the city, according to Mr Bronk.\n\nThe forces could also be used to bolster Russian-occupied Kherson, where Ukrainian troops have been attempting to retake ground with some success.\n\nPresident Zelensky continued his metaphor that Mariupol is the heart of the war. \"If it stops beating then we will be… weaker,\" he said.", "Former counter-terrorism officer Tony Thorne says he warned his bosses about faults in the intelligence software in 2014\n\nA key intelligence database used by police to investigate extremists was \"not fit for purpose\" when introduced in 2014, a former counter-terrorism officer has told the BBC.\n\nThe officer, who retired in 2018, says the National Common Intelligence Application (NCIA) had serious flaws.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing says \"substantial improvements\" were made following a significant review after terror attacks in 2017, including at the Manchester Arena.\n\nBBC Newsnight has collaborated with BuzzFeed News on a detailed investigation into problems with the IT system, which cost hundreds of millions of pounds and was designed to allow police forces across the UK to share secret intelligence seamlessly.\n\nFormer detective constable Tony Thorne, who was part of a pilot project in 2013, told the BBC the NCIA was known to be \"clunky\", \"clumsy\" and to produce inconsistent results.\n\nDuring the pilot, Mr Thorne said users sitting side-by-side at computer terminals were watched while they conducted identical searches. When these searches yielded different results Mr Thorne says he was immediately concerned.\n\n\"They came up with different data - the bio details that were coming back were completely different,\" he said. \"There was something wrong there.\"\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight the 2013 trial also found that the system allowed data to be destroyed as users could accidentally overwrite it - and that there was no way of monitoring if any information had been altered.\n\nMr Thorne said he tested this by accessing an intelligence file. \"I was able to go in and edit it, and it couldn't be unedited. I said, 'We shouldn't be able to do that.'\"\n\n\"To have [intelligence data] in one area is a fantastic thing - it can't get lost, it backs up,\" he continued, \"but from the very start the application was just not fit for purpose.\"\n\nThe NCIA system roll-out to police forces began in 2014. Delays meant the Metropolitan Police did not receive it until 2019, but it had been deployed to the north-west before the Manchester Arena bomb attack that killed 22 people on 22 May 2017.\n\nA public inquiry into the bombing is still under way.\n\nTop row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nA government spokesperson told the BBC: \"It is a matter for the chair of the Manchester Arena Inquiry to decide whether the systems Counter Terrorism Policing used impacted their ability to prevent the attack.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that the NCIA has \"greatly enhanced\" counter-terrorism work in the years since the bombing in 2017.\n\nBut Tony Thorne says it was rolled out too quickly and put to use before faults had been corrected.\n\n\"It should never have gone out,\" he said.\n\nMr Thorne says he felt \"physically sick\" when he heard news bulletins about the Manchester Arena bombing, because he feared the faults he'd warned his bosses about in 2014 could have played a part in the failure to stop the attack.\n\n\"I couldn't 100% say, 'Yes, NCIA was the cause of it,' but it'd be a factor,\" he said.\n\nMost of the evidence about intelligence handling was heard in secret at the inquiry. But lawyers for families of some of the victims said it was already clear from what had been made public that there were \"multiple opportunities to uncover and prevent the outrage\".\n\nBBC Newsnight spoke to the father of the youngest person to be killed in the Manchester Arena bombing, Saffie Roussos. Andrew Roussos was deeply critical of counter-terrorism police and the security service MI5 when he gave evidence to the public inquiry.\n\nAndrew Roussos' eight-year-old daughter was killed when a suicide bomber detonated a home-made explosive at the end of an Ariana Grande concert\n\nHe told the BBC: \"If you don't join the dots then how is our country going to be secure? We're talking about who's in front of you and the evidence you're already looking through.\n\n\"He even states his name within that text message,\" he continued, referring to the exchanges between Abedi and Abdallah, in which Abedi gave his full name and discussed martyrdom.\n\nMr Roussos praised Tony Thorne for raising his concerns: \"I want to give him a hug. I want to shake his hand. I commend people that will come forward and say, 'You know what, guys?' This is wrong.\"\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing, who oversee the work of counter-terrorism units around the UK, did not deny that there had been significant problems with the NCIA database, but said that after 2017: \"Thirty-two late-stage terror attacks have been disrupted and saved many lives\", adding that the \"NCIA has been an essential tool in helping us achieve this\".\n\nTony Thorne says he has spoken out about the NCIA programme and the people who ran it in the interest of informing the public. He has not divulged anything which would be damaging to national security - nor given any information, intelligence or methods that would jeopardise or threaten national security.\n\nWatch Richard Watson's report on Newsnight on Wednesday 13 April 2022 at 2230 on BBC Two, or afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.", "The virus has been linked to cases of microcephaly\n\nA new outbreak of Zika virus is quite possible, warn researchers, with a single mutation potentially enough to trigger an explosive spread.\n\nThe disease caused a global medical emergency in 2016, with thousands of babies born brain-damaged after their mums became infected while pregnant.\n\nUS scientists say the world should be on the lookout for new mutations.\n\nLab work, described in the journal Cell Reports, suggests the virus could easily shift, creating new variants.\n\nRecent infection studies suggest those variants may prove effective at transmitting the virus, even in countries which have built up immunity from previous outbreaks of Zika, say the team from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.\n\nExperts said the findings, although theoretical, were interesting - and a reminder that viruses other than Covid could pose a threat.\n\nZika is spread by bites from infected Aedes mosquitoes. The insects are found throughout the Americas - except for Canada and Chile, where it is too cold for them to survive - and across Asia.\n\nWhile for most people Zika is a mild illness, with no lasting effects, it can have catastrophic consequences for babies in the womb.\n\nIf a mother contracts the virus during pregnancy, it can harm the developing baby, causing microcephaly (unusually small head) and damaged brain tissue.\n\nZika is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is most active during the day\n\nThe researchers recreated what happens when Zika passes back and forth between mosquitoes and humans, using cells and living mice in their experiments.\n\nWhen Zika passed between mosquito cells and mice in the laboratory, small genetic changes occurred.\n\nThis meant it was relatively easy for Zika to mutate in a way that allowed the virus to thrive and spread, even in animals that had some previous immunity from a similar mosquito-borne infection called dengue.\n\nLead investigator Prof Sujan Shresta said: \"The Zika variant that we identified had evolved to the point where the cross-protective immunity afforded by prior dengue infection was no longer effective in mice.\n\n\"Unfortunately for us, if this variant becomes prevalent, we may have the same issues in real life.\"\n\nProf Jonathan Ball, an expert in viruses at the University of Nottingham, told the BBC: \"We've heard so much lately about the rapid evolution and emergence of coronavirus variants, but this is a timely reminder that shapeshifting is a common feature shared by so many viruses.\n\n\"This work shows just how rapidly a single letter change in the genome sequence of a virus can arise, and the stark impact it can have on the disease capability of a virus. But viruses that share these changes haven't often been seen in outbreaks and, as the authors point out, these intriguing insights require more thorough investigation.\"\n\nDr Clare Taylor, from the Society for Applied Microbiology, said: \"Although these findings were seen in laboratory experiments and therefore have limitations, it does show that there is potential for variants of concern to arise during the normal Zika transmission cycle and reminds us that monitoring is important to follow viruses as they evolve.\"\n\nShe said it might be possible to predict which variants could cause significant issues in the future and intervene early.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, Professor in Medicine at the University of East Anglia, said past infection with Zika might still offer some protection against new variants - as has been seen with Covid.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "Gilbert Gottfried was a US stand-up comedian and actor\n\nStars including Amy Schumer, Mark Hamill and Seth MacFarlane have led the tributes to \"one-of-a-kind\" US comic and actor Gilbert Gottfried, after he died aged 67 following a long illness.\n\nThe stand-up comedian was known for voicing the wise-cracking parrot Iago in Disney's 1992 animated film Aladdin.\n\nHe also appeared in films like Problem Child, Look Who's Talking Too and Beverly Hills Cop II.\n\nStars Wars star Hamill also shared a tribute online. \"He was a unique voice in comedy on so many levels,\" he wrote, \"Unpredictable, one-of-a-kind, hilarious & irreplaceable!\"\n\nAdding: \"Thank you for the lifetime of laughs, sir.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Hamill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFamily Guy creator Seth MacFarlane tweeted: \"Gilbert Gottfried made me laugh so hard that day on set, I could barely do my job.\n\n\"A wholly original comic, and an equally kind and humble guy behind the scenes. He will be missed.\"\n\nOscar-winner Marlee Matlin recalled her fond memories of Gottfried. \"I am so sad to read about the passing of Gilbert Gottfried,\" she wrote, alongside a picture of them together. \"Funny, politically incorrect but a softie on the inside.\"\n\n\"We met many times; he even pranked me on a plane, replacing my interpreter Jack Jason (they're like twins).\n\nThe stand-up comedian and actor was known for his roles in Aladdin and Problem Child\n\nGottfried was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a hardware store owner, and began performing stand-up aged 15, before going on to write and perform sketches on Saturday Night Live.\n\nLater moving into movies, he played accountant Sidney Bernstein in the 1987 film Beverly Hills Cop II, which reunited him with his former SNL colleague Eddie Murphy.\n\nIn the early 1990s, he got his major breakout role as the adoption agent Igor Peabody in the dark US comedy sleeper hit film Problem Child and its sequel Problem Child 2; and then portrayed the parrot Iago in Aladdin. He also played Joey, the baby gym instructor, in the rom-com Look Who's Talking Too.\n\nProblem Child director Dennis Dugan told The Hollywood Reporter Gottfried was \"the sweetest guy\" and \"one of the funniest guys I ever worked with, for sure\".\n\n\"You'd think that maybe he was a guy who worked in the back of a library, putting books onto the racks,\" he said. \"He was just the nicest, quietest little guy, and then you'd say action, and like an atomic bomb, he would just explode.\"\n\nThe director recalled how he had to stand up to studio executives to allow him to let the camera roll on after takes in order to catch some of Gottfried's improvisations.\n\n\"So they were yelling, 'What are you doing there? You're way over budget on film.' And I go, 'Well, we're doing a comedy, right?' And they go, 'Yeah.' And I said, 'Well, we got Gilbert Gottfried',\" he explained.\n\n\"And when I'd say action, Gilbert Gottfried does the script, and then he just starts going. You don't say cut. You just let him go. [I'd say] 'Don't look at how long it is - watch the film, and see what you think.' And so they called me back, and they go, 'All right. You're OK because he's that funny.'\"\n\nProducer Dara Kravitz and her husband in 2017\n\nAs his comedic style developed, Gottfried became well-known for his exaggerated shrill squawking voice, squinting and an emphasis on shocking humour - courting controversy for an endless series of crude jokes at 1991 Emmys ceremony, as well as gags about 9/11.\n\nHe met his future wife, producer Dara Kravitz at a Grammy Awards ceremony in the late 1990s and they went on to have two children, Lily and Max, together.\n\nNews of Gottfried's death was announced on his official social media channels. \"We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long illness,\" the post read.\n\n\"In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend and father to his two young children.\n\n\"Although today is a sad day for all of us, please keep laughing as loud as possible in Gilbert's honour.\"\n\nHis friend and publicist Glenn Schwartz said in a statement he died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II, a disorder that affects the heart.\n\nShortly before his death, Gottfreid defended Chris Rock for his joke at the Oscars that led to Will Smith storming the stage and assaulting him.\n\nPaying his respects, fellow actor, comedian and filmmaker Mel Brooks also paid his respects, tweeting: \"So sorry to hear about Gilbert Gottfried's passing.\n\n\"Truly a funny, funny guy. So unique. He will be sorely missed.\"", "The Police Ombudsman has appealed for witnesses over the death of a woman who was waiting more than 45 minutes for an ambulance on a street in Newry.\n\nJody Keenan, who was 39, died in the early hours of Sunday after calling emergency services.\n\nPSNI officers were with her on more than one occasion before she died and before an ambulance arrived. The PSNI later contacted the ombudsman.\n\nMs Keenan's death is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIt is understood she became seriously ill during a night out in Newry city centre.\n\nA prayer ceremony was held in St Paul's High School in Bessbrook on Monday morning\n\nShe was socialising with friends when she collapsed on Trevor Hill.\n\nThe funeral of Ms Keenan, who was a classroom assistant at St Paul's High School, in Bessbrook, County Armagh, took place on Wednesday.\n\nIn its statement the ombudsman said it was seeking witnesses \"to an incident in the Trevor Hill area of Newry, County Down, in the early hours of Sunday, 10 April 2022\".\n\n\"The incident happened some time between 02:00 and 04:00,\" the ombudsman said.\n\nThe funeral cortege makes its way to the Church of the Assumption\n\n\"We are appealing for witnesses who may have seen a female fall into the street, or who may have observed an incident in the area during the relevant time.\n\n\"We would be particularly keen to speak with anyone who saw what happened or recorded video footage of the incident on their mobile phone or dash cam.\n\n\"If you believe you can help, our witness appeal line is 0800 032 7880.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) said it received a call about Ms Keenan at 03:15 BST on Sunday but no ambulances were immediately available at the time due to a shortage of crews.\n\nTwo ambulances were eventually sent to the scene, one from Belfast and one from Banbridge.\n\nMs Keenan had been socialising with friends in the Trevor Hill area of Newry\n\nHowever, the first crew did not arrive at Trevor Hill until 04:03 BST - 48 minutes after NIAS said it got the first 999 call about the emergency.\n\nBy that stage, she had died, despite efforts to resuscitate her, including by Ms Keenan's mother who attempted to give her CPR.\n\nOn Tuesday, the PSNI's district commander in Newry, Supt Norman Haslett. said: \"The Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (OPONI) has been advised about this incident and are currently assessing the matter, given police were with Jody shortly before her death.\n\n\"We are currently assisting OPONI with their assessment and our thoughts remain firmly at this time with Jody's family, friends, colleagues and all those affected by this tragic incident.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service has apologised to the family and is carrying out its own investigation.", "Roman Abramovich has been forced to sell Chelsea FC and move his superyachts out of EU waters\n\nRussian billionaire Roman Abramovich has had $7bn (£5.4bn) of assets linked to him frozen by a Jersey court.\n\nOn Tuesday, Jersey Police searched premises suspected to be connected to Mr Abramovich's business activities on the island, Jersey Law Officers' Department said.\n\nThe billionaire is on the UK sanctions list over Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nChannel Island Jersey follows UK policy and imposes sanctions on the same people.\n\n\"The Royal Court also imposed a formal freezing order on 12 April, known as a saisie judiciaire, over assets understood to be valued in excess of US$7bn which are suspected to be connected to Mr Abramovich and which are either located in Jersey or owned by Jersey incorporated entities,\" the Jersey Law Officers' Department said.\n\nMr Abramovich was among several wealthy Russians added last month to the UK and European Union sanctions lists over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and governments have since been taking action to seize yachts and other luxury assets from them.\n\nThe billionaire tried to sell Chelsea Football Club in March, but that process was taken out of his hands by the government after he was sanctioned.\n\nEarlier this month, the Caribbean nation Antigua and Barbuda said it was willing to help the UK seize yachts owned by Abramovich.\n\nSuperyachts linked to the businessman, together worth an estimated $1.2bn, have also been docked in southwest Turkey, outside the jurisdiction of the EU and the UK.\n\nThe Jersey Royal Court has frozen a staggering $7bn of Roman Abramovich's assets in Jersey.\n\nAnd one company in particular will be of interest to football fans.\n\nCamberley International Investments, based in the Jersey capital St. Helier, has loaned £1.4bn to Fordstam Ltd, the company through which Roman Abramovich owns Chelsea FC, according to its latest accounts.\n\nThat's money which has helped to fund Chelsea's triumphs on the pitch.\n\nCamberley International Investments is described in the accounts as a 'related party' - suggesting it could also be controlled by Mr Abramovich.\n\nWe don't know for sure if it is among the assets frozen by the Jersey court. But if it is - what will that mean for the ongoing sale of the Chelsea?\n\nMr Abramovich has previously said that he won't seek for the loan to be repaid. But if the company which made the loan were to be frozen, the decision may be out of his hands.\n\nThe Jersey Law Officers' department gave no detail on what would happen to specific assets.\n\nIt will come under a lot of pressure to fill in some of the blanks in coming days.", "As You Wish Photography A mudslide buried residents and wiped out homes in a village near Baybay city\n\nAt least 167 people died in landslides and floods after Tropical Storm Megi devastated the Philippines last Sunday.\n\nA further 110 people are missing and 1.9 million have been adversely affected, the national disaster agency says.\n\nVillages around Baybay city in the central Leyte province were badly hit, with hillside avalanches and overflowing rivers.\n\nIn one village, Pilar, about 80% of the houses were washed out to sea.\n\nThe agency also reported deaths in the southern Davao region, Mindanao and in the central Negros Orientals province.\n\nMany people fled their homes to shelters or higher ground when the storm, known locally as Agaton, hit the archipelago with winds of up to 65km/h (40mph).\n\nA man carries a boy on his shoulder as they walk through a flooded road in Capiz province with the aid of rescuers\n\nAnother rescue operation in Panitan on Panay Island in the nation's east\n\nPictures posted by the Philippines Coast Guard show rescuers carrying the injured on stretchers through chest-high water and ferrying survivors on rafts down flooded streets.\n\nThe rescue effort was hampered by rain although conditions eased on Tuesday.\n\nIt was the first such storm of the year - the Philippines typically sees an average of 20 each year.\n\nIt comes about four months after Super Typhoon Rai devastated many of the nation's south-east islands in December - killing at least 375 people and affecting about 500,000 people.\n\nIt was the worst storm to hit the Philippines that year and experts said it had grown stronger far quicker than anticipated.\n\nMarissa Miguel Cano, a public information officer in Baybay, told AFP news agency: \"It's supposed to be the dry season but maybe climate change has upended that.\"\n\nScientists say human-caused climate change has led to a greater intensity and power in tropical storms. The Philippines has experienced some of its most deadly storms since 2006.\n\nIt's been ranked as one of the nations most vulnerable to climate disasters due to its geography.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch this video that walks through the destruction caused by the typhoon in Cebu City", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "Much of the war in eastern Ukraine has been fought in areas of open ground\n\nPeople in eastern Ukraine know the Russians are about to step up their offensive here. Even the dogs on the streets seem to know, and can be heard barking whenever there's a heavy thump of artillery in the distance.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people have already fled to the relative safety of western Ukraine. Once again large columns of Russian vehicles have been spotted by satellite - this time heading towards the east.\n\nHere in the Donbas we've also seen signs of Ukraine bringing in more military equipment, including armoured vehicles and longer range air defence systems. But not in the volume of Russia's reinforcements.\n\nUkraine may be being more tactically astute about their movements, or simply have less. Both are probably true.\n\nMany believe this next phase of the war in the east could decide the outcome of this conflict. Many also expect it to be bloody.\n\nAt our request, the Ukrainian army showed us one of their artillery lines that is already shelling Russian positions. The only way to get there was to travel in an armoured vehicle across fields. Much of the war here will be fought across open ground. Ukrainian troops will also take advantage of their already dug in defensive positions.\n\nWe nervously looked up for any sign of Russian aircraft, but Ukraine still has air defences. We saw a vehicle fitted with radar and rockets and anti-aircraft guns, which we were asked not to film.\n\nThere were more air defences at the artillery positions, including short-range Stinger anti-aircraft surface-to-air missiles supplied by the West. They were out of their box and ready to fire, should the Russian drones or jets target their positions.\n\nSuch weapons have made a significant impact in this war - while Russia may have an advantage in the air, it still doesn't have control of the skies.\n\nWeapons provided by the West have helped Ukrainian forces to prevent Russia controlling the skies\n\nUkraine's artillery is, so far, also proving effective. We did not see long lines of artillery, but instead a small mobile unit ready to move at a moment's notice. While the Russians have a bigger army, Ukraine's forces rely on well prepared defences and mobility.\n\nVolodymyr, a Ukrainian soldier, told me they had to change position regularly to avoid being targeted.\n\n\"If we stay in one position for more than a couple of days, then we become the target,\" he said. He also highlighted another key difference; Ukraine's artillery was targeting military positions - Russian artillery - while Russia, he said, was also targeting towns and cities.\n\n\"They're shooting at our cities because they want people to panic. They want our people to give up,\" he said.\n\nRussia will struggle to make significant advances while Ukraine continues to have effective air defences and artillery. Both sides have, until now, had similar levels of forces in the region - around 30-40,000 troops.\n\nBut Western officials say Russia is aiming to double or even triple its strength in the region. Though they add that might take considerable time as Russia reconstitutes its units. Some estimates suggest Russia has lost 20% of its strength since the start of this war.\n\nUkraine also has some of its most battle-hardened troops in the region. They've been fighting Russian-backed separatists here for the past eight years. They're well dug in, using fortified trenches and defensive positions. Some of the troops may look tired, but morale appears to be high.\n\nUkraine is also being given real time intelligence on Russia's military movements by their Western allies. They won't discuss details, but both Ukrainian and Western officials have confirmed this to the BBC.\n\nRussia still has a numerical advantage - tens of thousands more troops being redeployed after its failed offensive around the capital, Kyiv. Russia is also now fighting on fewer fronts and its supply lines won't be as long.\n\nUkraine also has another problem to contend with - the enemy within. In the city of Kramatorsk we went on a police patrol looking for Russian saboteurs.\n\nThere is more pro-Russian sentiment here than other parts of Ukraine. The police stop and search passers-by, looking for evidence they might be Russian saboteurs. They search mobile phones. They're worried about people passing on information and photographs of Ukrainian defensive positions.\n\nThe local police chief, Col Alexander Malish, told me people are arrested and handed over to the intelligence services most days.\n\n\"I don't understand what's in their heads... maybe [it is] Russian propaganda? I think that after the war the people of Ukraine will have to work out what to do with people who've been helping the country of the occupying forces.\" Col Malish said it was part of Russia's hybrid warfare.\n\nSeveral cities in eastern Ukraine have been targeted by Russian airstrikes, artillery and missiles. At a cemetery in Kramatorsk - where more than 50 people were killed in a Russian strike on a railway station last week - fresh graves are already being dug.\n\nTatiana clutches a photograph of her son Alexander Tislenko, who was killed while fighting with the Ukrainian forces\n\nWe watched the burial service of a recent Ukrainian casualty from a distance.\n\nAlexander Tislenko was 34 when he was killed on the frontline, fighting for the Ukrainian special forces. All his mother, Tatiana, knows is that his position was being targeted by Russian Grad rockets before she was told he had been killed in combat.\n\nTatiana held a photograph of Alexander above his coffin, draped in a Ukrainian flag. She couldn't stop crying. Alexander was her only child.\n\nLater, Tatiana told me: \"Our son has dedicated his life to his homeland Ukraine. I'm so proud of him, but it's such a big loss. It's a loss I cannot forget during my lifetime. I curse [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.\"\n\nOver the coming weeks here in eastern Ukraine there will be many more grieving mothers of both Ukraine and Russia. This phase of the war will be difficult for both sides. Both are likely to suffer significant losses. But the stakes couldn't be higher.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea's reign as European champions came to an agonising end despite beating Real Madrid on a night of high drama at the Bernabeu Stadium.\n\nIn a Champions League epic, Mason Mount's wonderful finish and Antonio Rudiger's powerful header wiped out Real's 3-1 first-leg advantage and brought the quarter-final tie level in Spain's capital.\n\nThomas Tuchel's side were outstanding throughout and Timo Werner's clever finish from an angle put them ahead for the first time on aggregate and within sight of a place in the semi-finals.\n\nBut substitute Rodrygo - after a stunning pass by Luka Modric - forced extra time with a volleyed finish before Karim Benzema, a hat-trick hero in the first leg at Stamford Bridge six days earlier, headed the decisive goal in the 96th minute to send Real through 5-4 on aggregate.\n\nBenzema, who had earlier headed against the bar on a rollercoaster night, was unmarked when he scored to break Chelsea's hearts after Rudiger slipped inside the box.\n\nEven after what turned out to be the clincher, Hakim Ziyech, Kai Havertz and Jorginho went close to forcing a penalty shootout.\n\nIn the end Chelsea, who played superbly, were made to pay for their first-leg performance as Tuchel's side fell just short of producing one of the great comebacks in the competition.\n• None Reaction from the Bernabeu after incredible Champions League tie\n• None All the best Chelsea content here\n\nMany of Chelsea's players slumped to the ground at the end of 120 gripping minutes after pushing record 13-time winners Real - who will face Manchester City or Atletico Madrid in the last four - all the way.\n\nTuchel had said on the eve of this game that Chelsea's progression into the semi-finals would be akin to the best Hollywood script.\n\nHis players came close to producing a blockbuster in their first game at the Bernabeu in European competition as they showed incredible fight and belief - ingredients which were missing from their poor performance in the first leg.\n\nThis breathless game had everything and more, including a Marcos Alonso goal at 2-0 ruled out by the video assistant referee for handball.\n\nWhile Tuchel will be delighted with the way his players responded, there will be concern at how much the energy-sapping 120 minutes has taken out of them.\n\nChelsea do not have long to recover from going out of Europe as they prepare to make a second visit of the season to Wembley.\n\nThey face Crystal Palace in an FA Cup semi-final on Sunday (16:30 BST) - a competition that offers them their last chance of landing a major domestic trophy.\n\nDespite enjoying success in the Fifa Club World Cup and Uefa Super Cup, they lost a penalty shootout to Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final and are 12 points behind leaders Manchester City in the Premier League with just eight matches left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reece James (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Jorginho (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Hakim Ziyech following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Reece James with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jorginho (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mason Mount.\n• None Kai Havertz (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How are people coping with having to make do with less?\n• None Can they face their fears? Celebrities take on challenges in sub-zero temperatures with Wim Hof", "Police in Bucha examine a body unearthed in a field. At least 500 dead have been found since the Russians left.\n\nWhen the Russians retreated from Bucha, a massive operation began to find and document the dead. BBC News joined the local police officers and bereaved families as they carried out their grim task.\n\nPolice Chief Vitaliy Lobas was sitting at a child's desk in an abandoned school in Bucha, collecting the details of the bodies.\n\nEvery few minutes, Chief Lobas, who has broad shoulders and short dark hair, and rarely uses an unnecessary word, received a call on his mobile phone, and the brief conversations went the same: a location, a few details, a phone number of a relative or friend.\n\nBefore the Russians came, Lobas was an ordinary local police chief, the head of Buchanksy District 1, who spent his days dealing with ordinary local crime and the occasional murder. Since the liberation of Bucha, he has spent his days in this abandoned school classroom, where school posters still hang on the walls, coordinating the massive operation to find the dead.\n\nIn front of Lobas on the school desk there was a map of Bucha, a once peaceful and little-known suburb of Kyiv that is now a sprawling crime scene. The area was occupied by Russian forces for a month as they attempted to assault Kyiv, and its liberation a little over a week ago has begun a slow and painful process of uncovering horrors.\n\nEach time the phone rang, Lobas consulted the map in front of him, and on a plain piece of paper he wrote down the necessary information in neat handwriting, one line per body. By mid-morning, he had filled one side of A4 and moved on to the reverse. The previous day there had been 64 bodies, he said. The day before, 37. He did not know how many there would be that day, but he was expecting the number to jump by around 40 because a mass grave was being dug up nearby. Lobas is only in charge of one part of this region, and many more bodies are being found outside his jurisdiction.\n\nVitaliy Lobas, the head of Buchansky District 1 police department, takes a call in his command post in a school classroom.\n\nLobas paused occasionally to go to the school playground for a cigarette, but even these moments were interrupted by calls about bodies or problems relating to the collection of bodies. It was raining in Bucha, and one of the vans that ferried corpses to the morgue had become stuck in the mud. A tractor needed to be found quickly, because there was a limited number of vans and a large number of bodies. Lobas generally delegates the field work to his deputies, but in cases of particularly grave crimes he goes himself.\n\n\"When people have been shot in the head with their hands tied behind their back, for example, I will go,\" he said.\n\n\"When the bodies have been burned I also go.\"\n\nAbout mid-morning, a call came in from Dmytro Kushnir, a 24-year-old police deputy in one of Lobas's units, to log a body that had been reported behind an apartment building on the outskirts of Bucha.\n\nWhen Kushnir arrived at the building, which stood alone on an otherwise undeveloped green area on the edge of woodland, he found two men behind the building at the place where the property line met the woods. They were wearing blue surgical gloves and standing over the partially decomposed body of a man who appeared to have been shot in the back of the head. The body lay on a stained white duvet decorated with red flowers and was surrounded by empty bottles of beer and spirits. The blue surgical gloves initially gave the men the appearance of medical officials, but they introduced themselves as Volodymyr and Serhiy Brezhnev, the dead man's father and brother. Lying on the blanket was Vitaliy Brezhnev, a 30-year-old former cook who, until the Russians arrived, lived a peaceful life with his girlfriend on the sixth floor of the apartment building that now towered over his corpse.\n\nSerhiy Brezhnev stands over his brother's body. \"He was a kind-hearted man, he gave his all,\" Serhiy said.\n\nA passport picture of Vitaliy that Serhiy carried while he searched for his brother\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy had lost contact with Vitaliy a month earlier, when the Russians seized control of Bucha and communications went down. It was impossible to enter the suburb to check his building, so they searched for him for a month online, scouring social media in vain for evidence that he was alive.\n\nWhen the Russians finally retreated, a little over a week ago, Serhiy got a call from Vitaliy's girlfriend and she told them the story. The Russians had assaulted the apartment building and blasted their way into every apartment with a shotgun, she said, demanding people handed over their SIM cards and keys. They interrogated her and Vitaliy in separate rooms, beat them, and shot their dog, she said. Then they took her down to the basement with a group of other residents and bolted the door, but took Vitaliy away separately and told her she wouldn't see him again, and she didn't.\n\nAs soon as the Ukrainian army declared Bucha safe to re-enter, Volodymyr and Serhiy set out for the apartment building. Inside, they found blood smeared on the floor in the stairwells and personal photographs from people's apartments strewn around. On every door you could see the holes from the shotgun blasts - sometimes one, sometimes four or five. Doors with steel plates had been crowbarred. On one wooden door, where the lock hadn't given way to repeated shots, the Russian soldiers appeared to have become frustrated and blown a hole right through the middle of the door into the apartment. Behind another door, it was clear the homeowners had pushed a heavy table up against the frame in a failed attempt to keep the invaders out.\n\nEvery door in Vitaliy Brezhnev's apartment building had been blown open with a shotgun.\n\nWhen Volodymyr and Serhiy reached the sixth floor they saw that the shotgun had been used on the door of Apartment 83. A rank odour came from inside. The Russians had trashed the apartment and pried open the air vents and even the bathroom drain, looking for money, Serhiy guessed. When he entered Vitaliy's bedroom he suffered the first of several blows to his hopes of finding his brother alive. On the pillow there was a deep blood stain and blood was sprayed up the walls behind the bed. Among the mess on the floor there were two 7.62mm bullet casings - the calibre used by the Russian army in their rifles.\n\n\"You could see that a man had been killed here,\" Serhiy said. \"But there was no body.\"\n\nSo Volodymyr and Serhiy began to search for Vitaliy, knowing that their search was now probably for a body and not a son and brother they could hold again in their arms. Serhiy was carrying a passport photograph of Vitaliy. \"We searched and searched,\" he said, \"and at first we were looking for his face.\"\n\nWarning: Readers may find some of the following images distressing\n\nThe scene inside Vitaliy's bedroom. \"You could see a man had been killed here,\" Serhiy said.\n\nVitaliy Brezhnev's body was found behind his apartment, where the property line met the woods.\n\nBehind the building, next to the woods, they found what appeared to be a shallow grave, and they began to dig. It took time to exhume the remains there. First they saw a flower-patterned duvet they didn't recognise and their hearts found some hope. But when they brought the body up they saw that inside the duvet there was a curtain from Vitaliy's apartment. Then they saw the dead man's shoes and thought they recognised them. The light was fading by that point and they had to be home before curfew, so they covered the body with the sheet. Embers of hope remained.\n\n\"Today was the final touch,\" Serhiy said, the following day, looking down at the body. \"Today we took his shoes off and we saw his feet.\"\n\nBecause Vitaliy's feet had been inside socks and shoes they were better preserved than the rest of his body after a month in the earth.\n\n\"We saw the shape of his feet,\" Volodymyr said.\n\n\"Then we looked at the shape of the nose and the hands,\" Serhiy said. \"And we knew it was our bloodline.\"\n\nVolodymyr replaces the thin sheet that covered the body where it lay\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy waiting for the van that collects the bodies. Eventually they gave up.\n\nVolodymyr had purchased the small apartment in Bucha two years earlier - an investment in his son's future. Vitaliy had been a cook in a restaurant in Kyiv, until the pandemic hit and he was laid off. He did some work in construction and was looking for something more stable, but he had a girlfriend he loved and a dog, and now an apartment in a nice neighbourhood. He loved to fish and hunt, and forage for mushrooms in his spare time, and cook.\n\n\"He was living a peaceful life here,\" Serhiy said. \"He was a normal guy, that's all, a kind-hearted man. He gave his all.\"\n\n\"He was a son and a brother,\" Volodymyr said, trying to hold back his tears.\n\nAt the front of the apartment building, Officer Kushnir was filling out his police report. Volodymyr went to his car and took two small pieces of cardboard and wrote his name and phone number and Vitaliy's name and address on each. Then he asked some neighbours for clear tape to cover the ink, because the rain was beginning to fall harder on Bucha, and he went back to the body, without surgical gloves this time, to tie one piece of card to Vitaliy's ankle and one to his wrist.\n\n\"I do not want to lose my son,\" he said.\n\nOfficer Kushnir finished his report and called it in. Chief Lobas would arrange for the van that collected the bodies to stop by. Volodymyr and Serhiy took shelter from the rain and waited for the van to arrive.\n\nFamilies in Bucha attached tags to their loved ones or put passports in their pockets, so as not to lose them again.\n\nAs the day wore on, Chief Lobas's classroom command post got busier. Officers came and went, filing crime scene reports. The list on Lobas's desk got longer and his phone kept ringing.\n\nA dead woman had been found in a well next to a destroyed column of Russian tanks. There was a body on the ninth floor of an apartment building. A driver of one of the vans called to say he couldn't find the body he had been sent to collect. A woman came in to the classroom in person to report that her neighbour was dead. \"I understand everything,\" Lobas told her, keen to move on. \"We will try to collect him today.\" Lobas's father called. \"Dad, I am too busy,\" he said. \"Everything is OK.\"\n\nTwo of Bucha district's police departments had been destroyed in the Russian assault and Lobas was struggling for resources. There were not enough body bags. His team had also been whittled down over the preceding days to those who had shown themselves capable of withstanding this new work. \"Those who were weak went at the very beginning,\" he said. There was little room for sentiment amid the scale of the task.\n\nLobas received another call. \"Nine?\" he said. \"Where?\"\n\nThe call was coming from a unit in a neighbouring police department. Nine bodies were buried in a field nearby. Lobas hung up and dialled one of his mobile units. \"The team there is exhausted and they have no body bags left,\" he said. \"They have been collecting bodies all day. Please go and help them now. Find body bags and help them to pack the bodies.\"\n\nNine graves, dug by neighbours behind apartment buildings in Bucha.\n\nThe nine graves were laid out neatly in a row at the edge of the field, behind a corrugated fence at the end of a dirt track. The dead had been buried by their neighbours during the Russian occupation and now they were being exhumed by their neighbours, with the help of the police.\n\n\"Some of these people died because they could not get medicine and some were killed by Russians,\" said Gennadiy, a 45-year-old Ukrainian from one of the buildings by the field, who had helped to bury the the bodies and was doing the most work now to bring them up.\n\n\"These were our neighbours,\" Gennadiy said, a look of deep anger set in his face. \"Here is Uncle Tolya from the building next door and a neighbour of his. Here is another person I knew from the next building. This man has a bullet wound, we didn't know him but we found a passport on his body. This elderly woman had severe diabetes and we tried to take her out of Bucha but there was no green corridor, so she died. This man went for a walk with his dog and didn't come back. We are not pathologists but it looks like he was shot.\"\n\nGennadiy, a resident who buried his neighbours, helps to bring them up from their graves.\n\nThe work to remove the bodies was hard. They had been buried well in deep graves, and the rain was soaking into the mud and making it slippery. Gennadiy, in a green plastic rain cape, climbed into each grave, one after the other, and shovelled the earth from around the bodies so that thick straps could be tied around them to hoist them up.\n\nEach body had been wrapped in whatever was at hand - curtains, blankets of different colours and patterns. They were examined by the police and any obvious wounds photographed with an iPhone. Enough body bags had been found, and after a while the van arrived. In the dirt on its back doors, someone had scrawled '200' - the military identifier for the transport of the dead. The bodies were loaded inside. The sky was grey and the rain kept falling.\n\nAt Vitaliy's apartment building, Volodymyr and Serhiy had waited as long as they could for the van to arrive. It was getting dark and they needed to get home. Vitaliy's body would have to spend another night on the ground. They were too late now to make the 9pm curfew in Kyiv, but at the military checkpoints along the route they showed the death report and were waved through.\n\nAt sunrise the next morning, the father and son got up and began the drive back to Bucha. They could not wait for the van any longer, and they loaded Vitaliy's body into the back of their car and set out for a morgue in the town of Boyarka, about an hour's drive south.\n\nBefore the invasion, the staff at the Boyarka morgue were used to handling about three bodies a day, the vast majority of them deaths from natural causes. Since Bucha was liberated, they have been autopsying about 50 bodies a day, 80% of which were violent deaths, said Semen Petrovych, 39, who has been the forensic expert there for 16 years.\n\nThe Boyarka morgue used to receive three bodies a day. Now it is autopsying about 50.\n\nThe morgue, a small outbuilding at the back of a hospital on the edge of town, where Boyarka meets the forest, had just acquired two rented refrigerator trucks and both were full of bodies. Body bags lay on the floor by the trucks and against the fence nearby and either side of the entrance to the morgue.\n\n\"There are not enough staff and there is not enough room,\" said Petrovych, the forensic expert. \"Even if we had more people, where would we put the bodies?\"\n\nNormally he would do a careful autopsy on every body and print a death certificate. \"Now we just dissect them quickly and write something simple by hand,\" he said.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy were not alone in bringing a body themselves. Private cars pulled up to the morgue and bodies were brought out wrapped in blankets and rugs. Relatives and friends came searching. Tatiana Zhylenko was looking for the body of the father of a friend who was abroad. \"He had his passport on his chest,\" she told the staff. Oleksander Zakovorotnyi came for his father-in-law, who, when the Russians cut the gas supply in the depth of winter, rigged up a makeshift heater using a gas cylinder, but fell asleep and was poisoned when the flame went out.\n\nSerhiy Brezhnev helps carry Vitaliy's body bag out from the morgue, to await fingerprinting.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy waited outside until they were called in to identify Vitaliy. They stood inside the cramped, low-ceilinged morgue, where there were bodies on the floor and on every gurney and the smell was overpowering. They had to squeeze between two gurneys, beside an open corpse, to get close to Vitaliy's body, and they searched it for scars they could remember. They repeated to the pathologist that they thought they recognised his feet. Volodymyr looked away and looked back. He was wrestling with doubt and hope.\n\nAfterwards, he walked behind the refrigerator truck and stood alone sobbing, his chest heaving with his tears. Vitaliy was brought out, his body bag tagged number 552 - the 552nd body processed by this small morgue since the beginning of the year, nearly double the figure in a normal year, the extra hundreds all condensed into one week.\n\nThe police took fingerprints and told Volodymyr and Serhiy that the formal identification would take around a month, because of the backlog, but otherwise they were free to take him to the cemetery to be buried.\n\nThe line of body bags at the Bucha cemetery, waiting to be processed and buried.\n\nBecause Vitaliy was already identified, he was placed by his family straight into a casket.\n\nRather than wait for the body van, Volodymyr and Serhiy lifted Vitaliy carefully again into the back of their car and drove him the hour or so back to Bucha, past the rows of destroyed homes and places where bodies had laid in the streets for weeks. At the cemetery, which was already full, new graves were being dug outside the boundary fence on a thin strip of earth along the side of the road. A priest intoned the funeral rites over a coffin. The mother of the dead man wailed. In the near distance, past the line of the forest, enormous booms sounded as unexploded ordnance was detonated. Volodymyr and Serhiy drove into the cemetery and unloaded Vitaliy next to a long line of body bags arrayed on the ground.\n\nBecause Vitaliy had already been identified and would be buried here in Bucha, he was placed into a simple wooden casket with maroon fabric and afforded the small dignity of resting inside a brick building on the cemetery grounds. He would be buried in two days' time.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy left the cemetery and Volodymyr decided that, even though it was far from their home in Kyiv, he would buy a plot there for his wife Lily, Vitaliy's mother, who was suffering from end-stage cancer, so that when the time came she would be near to her son.\n\nTwo days later, on a bright, cold morning in Bucha, the family gathered at the cemetery. Once again, Volodymyr and Serhiy took the lead and went inside the brick building to prepare to carry the casket. Lily sat outside on a bench, smoking a cigarette, alone among the body bags. The casket was carried to a stone plinth and the family gathered around it while the priest read the funeral rites and two elderly women from the church held the incense burner and sang. Then Vitaliy was taken by the van marked 200 to one of the fresh graves along the roadside outside the cemetery and laid to rest. Volodymyr was still wrestling with doubt. \"I am still hoping that the fingerprints will show this was not my son,\" he said.\n\nThe family gathers for a small funeral service for Vitaliy\n\nVitaliy Brezhnev was buried on Monday 11 April, in a fresh grave by the road\n\nLater that day, back at the abandoned school in Bucha, Chief Lobas was sitting at his schooldesk, listening carefully to a man who had come in person to ask for help finding a relative he heard was in a mass grave. The man had been to the large mass grave by the church, he said, but they redirected him to the police. He wanted to give Chief Lobas a picture, but Lobas explained that this was not the way things were done. \"We cannot go around opening all the body bags holding this picture,\" he said. \"Do you understand? It will waste too much time.\"\n\nLobas explained that they had to begin burying the unidentified bodies because there was not enough space at the morgues. But he assured the man that fingerprints and photographs were being taken and would be kept. \"Even though the people themselves are buried the information remains,\" he said. \"The photographs remain.\"\n\nThe calls kept coming in - a body on Yablunska Street, another body next to a school. \"We have cleared these two addresses already, give us more to collect,\" Lobas said. He saw a window for a cigarette and went to the playground. The number of bodies each day was already beginning to fall, and he thought the job might be finished soon. \"There are no weekends here now, we will keep working until the collection of the bodies is complete,\" he said. He flicked his cigarette away. His phone was ringing.", "Aiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nThe family of a British man fighting in Ukraine said he has told them he will have to surrender to Russian forces.\n\nAiden Aslin, from Newark in Nottinghamshire, has been fighting in Ukraine since he moved there in 2018, and became a marine in the country's military.\n\nHis unit has recently been defending the besieged city of Mariupol, which has been heavily bombarded by Russia.\n\nHis mother Ang Wood said her son told her he had no choice.\n\n\"He called me and said they have no weapons left to fight,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I love my son, he is my hero - they put up one hell of a fight.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Aslin is a former care worker who previously fought with Kurdish armed units in Syria against so-called Islamic State.\n\nHe has a Ukrainian fiancée and now has dual citizenship.\n\nMs Wood said her son \"sounded OK\" when she spoke to him, but called for the UK government to provide more support to Ukraine.\n\n\"Boris [Johnson] needs to take [Vladimir] Putin down,\" she added.\n\nBrennan Philips, a friend of Mr Aslin who also spoke to him by phone, said he sounded \"strong and in good spirits\".\n\n\"He called me and said 'we have no food, no supplies, no ammo, we're completely surrounded, we have to surrender',\" he said.\n\n\"Aiden was very well aware of what was going on, very calm.\n\n\"They can't get out, they can't fight back so they had no choice.\n\n\"I'm sure if they had a bullet left they would have shot it.\"\n\nAiden had been due to get married last week to his Ukrainian fiancée.\n\nBut his unit had become increasingly cut off as Russian forces bombarded the city of Mariupol in recent weeks, and Aiden's family and loved ones have had an extremely anxious wait as the situation deteriorated.\n\nAiden had been in communication periodically, sometimes sending video updates of himself to friends to post on social media, or just checking in to let his family know he was safe.\n\nBut the news that he was having to surrender has been a huge blow.\n\nThere are now Russian reports coming out claiming the 36th Marine Brigade have surrendered, which Aiden's family understand is his unit, though his family have heard nothing further since his initial phone calls.\n\nAiden is no newcomer to the perils of conflict. Before joining the Ukrainian forces, he had previously left the UK to fight in Syria against IS, fighting with the Kurdish armed group the YPG.\n\nTo the Kurds he is a hero, although he and many others like him faced questioning by counter-terrorism police when they returned to the UK. Most cases were eventually dropped.\n\nNow what has happened to him in Ukraine is uncertain. When Aiden spoke to his family it appeared his unit were communicating with the Russians in what appeared to be preparation for a negotiated surrender.\n\nThe key question is what would happen if he were to be taken as a prisoner of war? His friends have appealed on social media for Aiden and his unit to be treated in accordance with the Geneva conventions.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Office is working to verify reports of UK nationals like Aiden involved in the fighting. But given the situation, it is likely that the Foreign Office's powers will be quite limited.\n\nRussia has claimed more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in Mariupol but Ukraine says the city is still standing despite being under siege.\n\nMariupol's mayor said about 21,000 civilians had been killed with another 100,000 awaiting evacuation.\n\nThe city's fate is likely to be critical for the next phase of the war.\n\nIn Russian hands, it would provide control of a clear swathe of territory connecting Moscow's two fronts in the south and east.\n\nRussian soldiers are in the city of Mariupol\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nThe world of sport has been warned over its involvement with the Kinahan organised crime group, which has been hit with worldwide financial sanctions.\n\nAmong those sanctioned is Daniel Kinahan - a well-known figure in boxing circles who has worked with world champions Tyson Fury and Josh Taylor.\n\nGarda (Irish police) commissioner Drew Harris said it was \"now absolutely explicit\" that \"if you deal with\" the individuals or businesses sanctioned then \"you are involved in a criminal network\".\n\nThere are no allegations of wrongdoing against any boxers who have worked with Kinahan.\n\nThe Irish Kinahan cartel emerged in Dublin in the 1990s, and Irish, American and British law enforcement have launched coordinated action against what the US says is one of the world's largest crime groups.\n\nA reward of up to $5m (£3.84m) has been offered by the US for information on the three most senior members. In total, seven members and three associated businesses are targeted.\n\n\"On the business of sport, today we have made it very clear through this announcement who and what exactly the Kinahan organised crime group is,\" said Harris.\n\n\"Individuals, specific individuals, have been sanctioned. It's then for businesses to make a decision, considering the probity of their own business, the probity of all the business that comes from sport, and also then their fans, and even just then the reputation of a sport and whether they should carry on in any business dealings with any of these sanctioned individuals. In fact then, in the US that is in fact prohibited.\"\n\nAssistant commissioner John O'Driscoll condemned Kinahan's standing in boxing, telling reporters at a news conference in Dublin his influence was \"destroying or attempting to destroy a sport that is so important to inner city communities\".\n\nKinahan is a co-founder of the MTK Global agency, which represents a number of boxing's leading fighters, including Fury. Kinahan says he cut ties with the company in 2017.\n\nWhile Kinahan says he is no longer associated with the agency, last year Fury expressly thanked him for organising a high-profile bout with then world champion Anthony Joshua, which later fell through.\n\nJust weeks ago, Fury was photographed in Dubai with Kinahan.\n\nKinahan is also understood to have been an adviser to Scotland's world boxing champion Taylor, who is also represented by MTK Global.\n\nTaylor once described Kinahan as a \"great adviser\" who is doing great things for the sport of boxing.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Fury's promoters, Top Rank, and Taylor and his team for comment.\n\nDespite Kinahan's well-known links to the drug trade, boxing chiefs have defended his involvement with the sport.\n\nLast month, World Boxing Council (WBC) president Mauricio Sulaiman offered his \"full backing\" to the Irishman's continued involvement after a meeting in Dubai. The BBC has contacted the WBC for comment.\n\nOne of the businesses sanctioned by the US is Hoopoe Sports, a sports management company for combat sports. Its website lists a number of prominent boxers as clients.\n\nAnother boxing company, Probellum, has denied any involvement with Kinahan.\n\nAfter a BBC investigation revealed his continued presence in the sport last year, Kinahan insisted allegations of criminality are part of a \"campaign\" against him.\n\n\"It is absolutely a matter for sport and leaders of sport and the participants in that to take a look at who they are doing business with and whether they are comfortable with that and take the right steps,\" said National Crime Agency deputy director of investigations Matthew Horne.\n\n\"That is an appropriate matter for the sporting community to address.\"\n\nHorne added that sporting bodies and broadcasters need to \"take great care\" and ensure that Kinahan no longer has any ties to any organisations they do business with.\n\n\"If there is a relationship with Daniel Kinahan then clearly he is sanctioned and that has implications for other organisations,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"But it really will be a matter for sport and sport organisations to make those assessments based on what we have released today working with our partners internationally.\"\n\nIn a statement, Sky Sports said it is \"aware of recent developments\" including the sanctions.\n\nIt added: \"We always scrutinise and act responsibly in our boxing relationships.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda under new government plans.\n\nThe pilot scheme will focus on single men arriving on boats or lorries.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the £120m scheme would \"save countless lives\" from human trafficking.\n\nRefugee organisations have criticised the plan as cruel. They questioned its cost and impact and raised concerns about Rwanda's human rights record.\n\nMr Johnson said action was needed to stop \"vile people smugglers\" turning the ocean into a \"watery graveyard\", with the plan designed to break their business model.\n\n\"Our compassion may be infinite but our capacity to help people is not,\" he said. \"We can't ask the British taxpayer to write a blank cheque to cover the costs of anyone who might want to come and live here.\"\n\nThose who succeed in making it to the UK \"will be taken not to hotels at vast public expense\", the prime minister said, and instead would be housed in detention centres.\n\nSpeaking in Kent, he said the new plan would \"over time prove a very considerable deterrent\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the scheme as \"unworkable\" and \"extortionate\", claiming it was an attempt to distract from Mr Johnson's \"partygate\" fine.\n\nLast year, 28,526 people are known to have crossed in small boats, up from 8,404 in 2020. About 600 people made the crossing on Wednesday - the figure could reach 1,000 a day in coming weeks, Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe number of people who can be relocated will be \"unlimited\", said Mr Johnson.\n\nRwanda will have the \"capacity to resettle tens of thousands of people in the years ahead\", including those who have arrived \"illegally\" since the start of the year, he said.\n\nMigrants arriving in Dover after being rescued crossing the Channel\n\n\"We cannot sustain a parallel illegal system,\" said the prime minister. \"Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel, who travelled to Rwandan capital Kigali to sign the deal, said it was a \"global first and it will change the way we collectively tackle illegal migration\".\n\nShe said the \"vast majority\" of those arriving in the UK \"illegally\" would be considered for relocation to Rwanda.\n\nRecent research by Ipsos Mori suggested 60% of the public were dissatisfied with the government's migration policy - more than half of which cited Channel crossings.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton, reporting from Rwanda, said ministers would face legal hurdles and substantial costs to launch the scheme.\n\nPrecise details of the plan are yet to be confirmed - but he said the trial would be restricted to mostly single men.\n\nUnder the proposal, Rwanda would take responsibility for the people who made the more than 4,000-mile journey, put them through an asylum process, and at the end of that process, if they were successful, they would have long-term accommodation in Rwanda.\n\nThe BBC has seen accommodation the asylum seekers would be housed in, thought to have enough space for about 100 people at a time and to process up to 500 a year.\n\nJournalists were given a tour of a typical government refugee facility in Rwanda\n\nThe Rwandan government said migrants would be \"entitled to full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment, and enrolment in healthcare and social care services\".\n\nThe UK Home Office believes existing asylum law will be enough to implement the plan, but questions remain about the legality of the scheme.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan was \"fully compliant\" with international law, but acknowledged he expected it to be subject to challenge in the courts and from a \"formidable army of politically-motivated lawyers\".\n\nBritish Red Cross executive director Zoe Abrams said the humanitarian network was \"profoundly concerned\" about the scheme and that \"the financial and human cost will be considerable\".\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the charity was \"appalled by the government's cruel and nasty decision\", which it said would \"do little\" to deter people from coming to the UK.\n\nMiranda Butler, a barrister who specialises in immigration law, said there were \"serious questions\" about the risks faced by migrants under this \"expedited process\".\n\nThe Lib Dems said the government was \"slamming the door\" in the face of refugees, while the SNP's Ian Blackford described the plan as \"absolutely chilling\".\n\nQuestions have been raised over the human rights record of the Rwandan government and its president, Paul Kagame.\n\nLast year, the UK government expressed concern at the United Nations over \"continued restrictions to civil and political rights and media freedom\" in Rwanda.\n\nBut Mr Johnson described Rwanda as being one of the safest countries in the world.\n\nOther countries - including Ascension Island and Gibraltar - had also been considered.\n\nThe government's Nationality and Borders Bill is making its way through Parliament, but time is running out to pass it into law after a series of defeats in the House of Lords.\n\nMPs are currently on a break, but when they return, they are due to review a series of amendments, including one about powers to offshore asylum claims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Channel Migrants: A dinghy in the English Channel is dwarfed by tankers", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden says Russia's invasion on Ukraine is 'genocide'\n\nUS President Joe Biden has accused Russian forces of committing acts of genocide in Ukraine.\n\nHe said Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to \"wipe out the idea\" of a Ukrainian identity.\n\nThe US has historically been reluctant to use the word genocide due to a duty to intervene if the term is used.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron later said he was reluctant to use the word. The Kremlin called Mr Biden's comments \"unacceptable\".\n\nBut Mr Biden insisted on Tuesday night that evidence of genocidal acts by Russian troops was mounting.\n\n\"More evidence is coming out of the horrible things that the Russians have done in Ukraine,\" the president said. \"And we're going to only learn more and more about the devastation. We'll let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies, but it sure seems that way to me.\"\n\nHe first made the comments as part of a throwaway remark during a speech in Iowa about increasing inflation, telling supporters in Iowa their ability to budget should not \"hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide half a world away\".\n\nSpeaking to the public broadcaster France 2, the President Macron said he would be \"careful with such terms today because these two peoples are brothers.\"\n\n\"I want to continue to try, as much as I can, to stop this war and rebuild peace. I am not sure that an escalation of rhetoric serves that cause,\" he added.\n\nThe Kremlin said Mr Biden was attempting to \"distort the situation\" in Ukraine.\n\n\"This is hardly acceptable from a president of the United States, a country that has committed well-known crimes in recent times,\" Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on a conference call with reporters.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has not held back from accusing Russia of genocide and crimes against humanity following the discovery of mass graves in the city of Bucha, said Mr Biden's comments were \"true words of a true leader\".\n\n\"Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil,\" Mr Zelensky wrote on Twitter.\n\nLast month, US officials rowed back on comments President Biden made in Warsaw. At the end of a speech in front of Polish government officials and dignitaries he said of Mr Putin: \"For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power.\"\n\nThe US quickly issued a clarification amid fierce backlash from the Kremlin. \"The president's point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours or the region,\" a Biden administration official said. \"He was not discussing Putin's power in Russia, or regime change.\"\n\nGenocide is widely seen as the most serious crime against humanity and is defined under international law as a mass extermination of a particular group of people.\n\nWhile there is no legal consensus on whether Russia is guilty of the crime, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has described killings in the town of Bucha as \"acts of genocide\". And last week, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the attacks do not \"look far short of genocide\".\n\nThe US has historically dodged using the word genocide when defining atrocities. The UN Genocide Convention, of which the US is a signatory, requires countries to intervene once genocide is formally identified.\n\nFormer President Bill Clinton was heavily criticised for failing to use the term as Rwandan Hutus' were killing ethnic Tutsis in 1994. His administration eventually used the diluted term \"acts of genocide\".\n\nThe Biden administration last month declared that Myanmar's military committed genocide against the Rohingya minority. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that it was only the eighth time in history that the US had determined a genocide had taken place.", "Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK is sanctioning those who \"prop up the illegal breakaway regions\" in eastern Ukraine\n\nThe self-styled leaders of Ukraine's breakaway regions are among those being targeted by new UK sanctions.\n\nIndividuals sanctioned include Sergei Kozlov and Alexander Ananchenko, from the self-declared People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nRussia has recently pulled troops away from Kyiv and shifted most of the focus of its war to eastern Ukraine.\n\nLast week scores of people were killed in a missile strike on a train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk.\n\nThe measures are being co-ordinated with the EU, the Foreign Office said.\n\nAnnouncing the latest sanctions, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said after the \"horrific rocket attacks on civilians\" the UK was sanctioning those who \"prop up the illegal breakaway regions\" and were \"complicit in atrocities\" against Ukrainians.\n\nShe vowed ministers would continue to target all those who \"aid and abet\" Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion.\n\nMore than 50 people, including children, were killed and many more were injured in Friday's train station attack.\n\nUkrainian officials say thousands of people were waiting for evacuation trains to escape heavy Russian shelling across the wider Donetsk region.\n\nThe country's president Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Russia for the attack, but Moscow denied carrying it out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Burnt-out cars and remains of a missile outside Kramatorsk station\n\nRussia is building up troops and military equipment along Ukraine's eastern border ahead of an expected offensive in the Donbas - which broadly refers to the Russian-backed separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nThe latest UK sanctions announced on Wednesday target 206 people, including 178 separatists, six oligarchs, their close associates and employees, as well as an additional 22 individuals.\n\nMaria Lavrova, the wife of Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, is among those subject to a travel ban and asset freeze.\n\nFurther family members of Russian oligarchs have also been targeted, including Pavel Ezubov, cousin of Oleg Deripaska, and Nigina Zairova, the executive assistant to Mikhail Fridman.\n\nThe Foreign Office said since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the UK had sanctioned more than 1,400 individuals and businesses - including more than 100 oligarchs and family members.\n\nThe department added that secondary legislation would be also laid in Parliament on Thursday banning the import of Russian steel and iron products and the export of luxury goods.", "The fire broke out at the home in Coronation Crescent in Preston\n\nTwo children left critically injured in a house fire have died in hospital four days after the blaze.\n\nThe girl and boy, aged three and five, were rescued from the fire in Coronation Crescent, Preston, on Friday evening.\n\nTheir mother, aged in her 20s, was not seriously injured, Lancashire Police said.\n\nA 24-year-old man held on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life was later released with no further action.\n\nEmergency services were called to the house at about 20:00 BST after receiving reports of people trapped inside the home.\n\nA joint investigation between police and the fire service to find the cause of the fire is continuing.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rach Higson said: \"This tragic incident has resulted in two children sadly losing their lives and my thoughts are with their loved ones at this time.\"\n\nThe children's family are being supported by officers and a file will be passed to the coroner, police said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "P&O Ferries services were suspended after the company sacked 800 workers\n\nHopes of P&O Ferries sailing from Dover before Easter have been dashed after one of its ships failed a safety inspection for the second time.\n\nTwo P&O ferries remain detained after Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) inspectors found safety and crew documentation \"deficiencies\".\n\nThe Pride of Kent, which failed the check again on Wednesday, will remain docked with the Spirit of Britain.\n\nBoth ships normally serve the Dover to Calais route.\n\nP&O said it looked forward to welcoming customers again as soon as all mandatory safety tests had been passed.\n\nThe firm has faced criticism after sacking 800 staff without notice.\n\nA spokesperson for the MCA said the reinspection of the Pride of Kent on Wednesday uncovered \"a number of additional deficiencies including in safety systems and crew documentation\".\n\n\"We have advised P&O to invite us back once they have addressed the issues. We do not know yet when this will be,\" the MCA said.\n\nP&O's Dover-Calais routes are currently suspended and the company had earlier said Friday was the earliest that services would resume, but that was on the assumption that the Pride of Kent would pass reinspection.\n\nThe MCA has been making its way through inspections of eight P&O Ferries to ensure they are fit to sail.\n\nThe Pride of Hull and European Causeway have been inspected and cleared to sail.\n\nA P&O Ferries spokesperson earlier said the Spirit of Britain would \"remain berthed in its current port\" following inspections by MCA.\n\n\"In the past few days both the European Causeway and the Pride of Hull have been deemed safe to sail by the MCA and we continue to work with all relevant authorities to return all our ships to service.\n\n\"We take the safety of our passengers and crew very seriously and look forward to all of our ships welcoming tourist passengers and freight customers again as soon as all mandatory safety tests have been passed.\"\n\nThe concern over a lack of ferries comes amid warnings that travel disruption is expected to return at Dover and other ports in Kent as the Easter weekend approaches.\n\nSeveral factors have caused the delays at Kent ports in the past few weeks.\n\nBad weather, Easter holidays and P&O Ferries routes being suspended have all led to congestion around Dover. There have also been problems with an IT system for customs checks at the UK's busiest port following Brexit.\n\nLogistics UK called for a \"rapid reinstatement of full ferry capacity\" before the Easter weekend to help reduce long lorry queues.\n\nThe transport industry body raised concerns over drivers being stuck in queues without access to toilets, washing facilities, food and water.\n\nIt blamed Operation Brock, the traffic management system intended to keep vehicles moving across the English Channel, and called for the plan, which allows lorries to use one entire side of the M20 into Dover, to be reviewed \"urgently\".\n\nIan Uttley, director of the haulage company Stagefreight, told the BBC drivers were being treated \"inhumanely\".\n\n\"We cannot sit drivers on the side of the motorway for 20-plus hours, trying to get out of the country to just do their jobs, with no facilities whatsoever,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"They're sat there and when they ask where the toilet is they're told it's the embankment.\"\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum, which manages emergency planning for the county, said it was not possible to provide toilet facilities.\n\nA spokesman said it was due to safety reasons, but added when queues were at a standstill previously, food and water had been provided to drivers.\n\nLorries continue to queue on the M20 in Operation Brock near Ashford\n\nAt the weekend, UK hauliers carrying perishable goods said products were losing quality and value as they were forced to sit in long queues to cross into Europe from Dover.\n\nThough the queues eased on Sunday, the British Meat Processors Association said some of its members had waited for 24 hours or more to cross the Channel.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum - which is a partnership organisation including Kent Police, Kent County Council and Highways England - has confirmed Operation Brock will remain in place until after the bank holiday weekend.\n\nHighways England has said the traffic management system is kept \"under continual review\".", "Insulate Britain protesters have held numerous demonstrations in London, Essex and the South East\n\nA judge told of how he was \"inspired\" by Insulate Britain protesters as he fined some for holding a demonstration on the M25.\n\nThe group blocked traffic, including an ambulance with a patient, by sitting at junction 3 near Swanley, Kent.\n\nSome activists glued themselves to the road, while another stuck himself to a police car on 29 September.\n\nSome of the demonstrators appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, while others pleaded guilty by post.\n\nThree protesters, Ian Bates, 63, from Northampton, Karen Matthews, 60, and 54-year-old Biff Whipster from Canterbury, Kent, were told by District Judge Stephen Leake they had \"inspired\" him after making speeches about their climate concerns while representing themselves.\n\nBut the judge added his role was to \"apply the law\" and said their actions had caused \"significant disruption\" to the motorway.\n\nHe said: \"I have heard your voices. They have inspired me and personally I intend to do what I can to reduce my own impact on the planet, so to that extent your voices are certainly heard.\"\n\nWhipster admitted criminal damage by gluing himself to a police car and was fined £120.\n\nMary Adams, 68, of Greenwich, south London, was fined £250 after the judge found her refusal to move out of the path of an ambulance a \"serious\" aggravating factor.\n\nShe had pleaded guilty to wilful obstruction of the highway, along with Margurite Doubleday, 67, Bethany Mogie, 39, from Hertfordshire, Xavier Gonzalez-Trimmer, 21 and from London, and Lucy Crawford, 52, from Cambridge.\n\nThe demonstration, one of a series held across the country by Insulate Britain, disrupted about 18,000 drivers, according to National Highways.\n\nFive protesters, Tim Speers, Daniell Thomas, Peter Morgan, Louise Lancaster and Iain Webb, did not attend court. They were convicted of wilful obstruction after a trial in their absence.\n\nThomas and Speers were fined £200 while Morgan was fined £400. Meanwhile, Lancaster was fined £330 and Webb was fined £300.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'We got him': man arrested in New York subway shooting\n\nPolice in New York City have arrested a man suspected of shooting 10 commuters in a rush hour attack at a Brooklyn subway station.\n\nFrank James, 62, is alleged to have donned a construction worker's helmet, vest and a gas mask before throwing smoke grenades and opening fire.\n\nA massive 30-hour manhunt was launched in the wake of the attack.\n\nMr James was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan after police received a tip-off, they said.\n\n\"My fellow New Yorkers: we got him,\" Mayor Eric Adams said via video during a news conference.\n\nOfficials said Mr James was the sole suspect in the shooting at Brooklyn's 36th Street station on Tuesday morning, in which 23 people were wounded, 10 of them from gunfire. The attack renewed calls to address violence in the city's transit system.\n\nKeechant Sewell, New York's police commissioner, said that Mr James was arrested \"without incident\". \"There was nowhere left for him to run,\" she said.\n\nPolice did not answer questions about the individual who called in the tip, though the Associated Press and CNN are reporting the suspect was the one who tipped off police to his location in lower Manhattan.\n\nMr James will be charged on several counts, authorities said, including the violation of a federal law which prohibits \"terrorist and other violent attacks\" against mass transit systems. He could face life in prison if found guilty.\n\nHe had nine prior arrests, police said, and he had ties to Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.\n\nThe search for Mr James was complicated by malfunctioning cameras inside the subway station. Officials on Wednesday were working to determine whether one or multiple cameras at the station were broken.\n\nThe suspected gunman escaped the scene but was linked to the attack through a rented U-Haul van. The key to the van, rented in Philadelphia, was found at the scene, along with a Glock 9mm handgun, three ammunition magazines, a plastic container containing petrol, and a credit card with Mr James' name on it, police said.\n\nAn FBI affidavit said the agency believes Mr James rented the U-Haul in Philadelphia on Monday and drove it to New York, arriving the next day. The agency said that records showed the Glock was lawfully bought in Ohio \"by an individual named 'Frank Robert James'\".\n\nPolice have not given a motive for the attack, though authorities have said Mr James had posted black nationalist rhetoric and bigoted rants online and \"made various statements about the New York City subway system\", including about homeless people on the subways and \"various conspiracy theories\", according to court documents,\n\nMr James is expected to make his first court appearance in New York on Thursday.", "Adele is up for two awards, including best song for her hit single Easy On Me\n\nAdele, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, Dave and Raye have all been nominated for songwriter of the year at the prestigious Ivor Novello awards.\n\nProducer and writer Inflo, once called \"the most influential and mysterious producer on the planet\", leads the award nominations, with four in total.\n\nHe is recognised for his work with Brit Award-winner Little Simz, singer Cleo Sol and funk-soul collective Sault.\n\nEd Sheeran, who just won a plagiarism battle, is up for three prizes.\n\nAs well as songwriter of the year, the star has two tracks - Bad Habits and Shivers - up for the PRS for music most performed work category, which recognises the song heard most often on UK radio and television in the last year.\n\nAlso nominated in that category are Elton John and Dua Lipa's Cold Heart; Tom Grennan's Little Bit Of Love; and David Guetta, Joel Corry and Raye's dance anthem Bed.\n\nSam Fender's Seventeen Going Under was the star's first top 10 hit\n\nAdele's comeback single Easy On Me is in the running for best song musically and lyrically, where she faces competition from Sam Fender's autobiographical Seventeen Going Under and Rag 'N' Bone Man's All You Ever Wanted - a protest song about the state of the UK's live music industry.\n\n\"I'm kind of romanticising the crappy little spit and sawdust venues I went to when I grew up,\" he told the BBC last year. \"A lot of them don't exist any more and that makes me frustrated and angry.\n\n\"Like, is all you ever wanted another block of flats or a coffee shop? If those venues don't exist then where do the bands cut their teeth?\"\n\nInflo, whose real name is Dean Josiah Cover, has credits on three of the records nominated for album of the year: Little Simz's Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, Sault's Nine and Cleo Sol's Mother.\n\nThe publicity-shy musician, who won the 2022 Brit Award for producer of the year, also worked on Adele's 30, but her album missed out on a nomination. The field is instead completed by Sleaford Mods' Spare Ribs and Laura Mvula's 80s funk odyssey Pink Noise.\n\nThe singer said she was delighted to be recognised for an album she worked on alone during lockdown, after being dropped by her record label.\n\n\"Sometimes it was hard to imagine getting to the finish line, so to know that it has made some impact in such strange times is really exciting for me,\" she told The Guardian.\n\nLaura Mvula's Pink Noise is a life-affirming record about shaking off your struggles\n\nThe Ivors also recognise songwriting and composition for television, film and computer games, with Jonny Greenwod's score for the Princess Diana biopic Spencer among the nominees.\n\nBBC Sound Of 2022 winner Pink Pantheress is up for the rising star award. Last year's recipient, Holly Humberstone, graduates to the main field, with a best song nomination for her track Haunted House.\n\nFormer Ivors winner and judge Shaznay Lewis, of the pop group All Saints, said it had been \"a stand-out year\" for music.\n\n\"I am full of admiration for the 77 talented songwriters and composers we are celebrating this year,\" she said. \"Their work and words touch on a dizzying range of emotions, and I count myself lucky to have heard their stories.\"\n\nThis awards will be handed out in London on 19 May.\n\nRaye is up for songwriter of the year for her work with pop stars Mabel and Zara Larsson, as well as her solo work\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A drug testing charity is warning dangerous synthetic cannabis, sold as marijuana sweets, could be putting buyers at risk of death.\n\nIt's after a 23-year-old woman died after eating a synthetic cannabis sweet that she'd ordered on a messaging app.\n\nA man's since been charged with possession with intent to supply Class B synthetic cannabinoid.\n\nThe Loop says it's worried about a rise in the popularity of cannabis sweets known as gummies.\n\nThat's because without testing, it's impossible to tell what's inside them.\n\n\"People are taking advantage of this,\" Guy Jones, a senior scientist at The Loop, tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"With herbal cannabis you can look at it you can smell it to decide whether it's real cannabis or not. With these highly processed forms, that is completely out of the window.\"\n\nBoth cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids - commonly referred to as Spice - are illegal to produce possess, distribute or sell in the UK. Some people can be legally prescribed cannabis by healthcare professionals for various medical conditions, however.\n\nPossession can result in up to five years in prison or an unlimited fine (or both), supply and production can result in up to 14 years in prison and an unlimited fine (or both).\n\nPolice can give you an on-the-spot fine of £90 if you are caught with cannabis.\n\nOne is grown, the other is created in a lab - designed to latch on the same receptors in the brain as cannabis, but with a completely different chemical structure.\n\nSo even though some of the effects might seem familiar, the potential for different side effects is very different.\n\nSynthetic cannabinoids can cause hallucination, extreme paranoia and in the highest doses even death.\n\nSynthetic cannabinoids like Spice were made illegal in the UK in 2015\n\n\"The concern is drug sellers are buying a regular supply of cannabis sweets and their supplier has gone out of stock,\" Guy says.\n\n\"They find another supplier who says, 'I've got these really good cannabis sweets, they're really strong'. But it turns out this person is just trying to turn a profit by using these really cheap synthetic cannabinoids.\"\n\nHe says everyone downstream faces a \"huge additional risk\". Buyers think they're purchasing cannabis which has \"essentially a non-existent risk of overdose\".\n\nIn reality they're buying synthetic cannabinoids, which Guys explains \"carry a very very significant potential for death or serious harm by overdose\".\n\nIt's not the first time these synthetic drugs have been in the news.\n\nIn 2018, a prisoner who died after being found \"slumped\" in his cell at a Welsh prison, was found to have taken Spice.\n\nTwo high school pupils in Northern Ireland were given medical treatment last year, after inadvertently consuming synthetic cannabis through an e-cigarette.\n\nThe latest available data from the Office for National Statistics shows between 2018-2020, 169 deaths were recorded where the cause of death related to \"poisoning\" from synthetic cannabinoids. That's compared to 60 deaths in the three years before that.\n\n\"It's not a new thing,\" says Guy.\n\nBut as countries around the world have legalised the recreational use of marijuana, the market has expanded and so too has the way people want to consume it.\n\nEverything from vaporisers, oils and creams you can rub on your skin, to edible sugar sweets have become popular - particularly in the US and Canada, where it's legal.\n\nCanada's marijuana market alone is worth around CAD$5bn (£3bn; $4bn) a year.\n\nLollipops containing THC, the chemical which makes users high, on sale in California where the drug has been legalised\n\nGuy says he expects users to be getting synthetic gummy products the same way they get any marijuana product, \"through social media, face to face or online\".\n\n\"Obtaining drugs doesn't seem to be a problem for the users of our service nor anybody else. I would expect that synthetic products are filtering through the same supply networks,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\nThere's also a warning for those determined to buy them and consume them.\n\n\"If you're really intent on taking something that isn't tested and have significant risks associated with it, start with a small amount. If you start with one whole dose you run the risk that whoever made it has been incompetent and has put say three whole doses in. If that's a synthetic cannabinoid there's a potential for serious harm.\"\n\nFRANK provides a confidential service to anyone wanting information, advice or support about any aspect of drugs.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None How social media is being used to sell drugs", "Residents of Bucha said Russian soldiers killed civilians outside their homes without provocation\n\nAttacks on civilians by Russian forces in the Ukrainian town of Bucha do not \"look far short of genocide\", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK has announced further sanctions against eight oligarchs and Russian banks, including the country's largest, Sberbank, and Credit Bank of Moscow.\n\nDozens of people have been found dead in the town - including some in a mass grave - after Russia's withdrawal.\n\nMoscow denied involvement and described reports as fake news.\n\nThe Foreign Office announced its latest sanctions following the reports of attacks on civilians, and these include ending all imports of Russian coal and oil by the end of the year as well as action against strategic industries.\n\nThe latest sanctions come in step with those imposed by the US, which has also imposed sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin's two daughters.\n\nAhead of the new sanctions being announced, Mr Johnson said: \"I'm afraid when you look at what's happening in Bucha, the revelations that we are seeing from what Putin has done in Ukraine doesn't look far short of genocide to me.\n\n\"It is no wonder people are responding in the way that they are. I have no doubt that the international community, Britain very much in the front rank, will be moving again in lockstep to impose more sanctions and more penalties on Vladimir Putin's regime.\"\n\nAs part of its sanctions response, the UK has pledged to stop importing Russian oil by the end of the year, while the EU is reducing its imports of Russian gas by two-thirds.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"enormous strides\" the EU is taken to reduce dependence on Russian gas.\n\nAt a working dinner in Brussels on Wednesday evening Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is expected to tell Nato colleagues the \"age of engagement with Russia is over\".\n\nShe is expected to say there is \"no time for false comfort\" and that Russia is not retreating but regrouping to push harder in the east of Ukraine.\n\nMs Truss is expected to urge allies to arm Ukraine quickly and decisively, and to rethink its support for countries \"caught in the web of Russian influence\", such as Georgia and Moldova.\n\nAs part of sanctions imposed on Russia all new outward investment to the country has been banned, while imports of Russian iron and steel products will be banned.\n\nAmong those added to the sanctions list is Viatcheslav Kantor, the largest shareholder of fertilizer company Acron, whose donations funded a new unit at a London hospital used by the royal family.\n\nThe Edward VII Hospital accepted a donation from the Kantor Charitable Foundation to fund the Kantor Medical Centre.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin (R) talks to billionaire, businessman and owner of Acron Group Viatcheslav Kantor (L) while visiting the Acron plant in 2016\n\nThe other oligarchs added to the sanctions list include:\n\nMs Truss said the latest wave of sanctions would decimate Mr Putin's \"war machine\" and show the Russian elite could not wash their hands of the atrocities committed on his orders.\n\nSanctions are penalties imposed by countries intended to stop aggression, or punish breaches of international law, and often involve financial curbs.\n\nThose taken by the UK so far include freezing assets, excluding Russian banks from the UK financial system, banning some exports to Russia, restricting visas for wealthy investors and banning flights.\n\nBy the end of the year, the UK has said it will also phase out Russian oil imports.\n\nAlong with the EU and US, it has frozen the assets of more than 1,000 individuals and companies, including politicians and wealthy business leaders thought to be close to the Kremlin.\n\nAsset freezes prevent anyone in the UK or any UK company from dealing with any funds or resources that are owned or held by the designated person, and prevent resources being provided to or for the benefit of that person.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer had called for \"even tougher sanctions\" following the \"horrific, harrowing images\" of civilian deaths in Bucha.\n\nHe said we have to give Ukraine \"every support we can\" and said the international community must be clear \"that these war crimes will end up with those responsible being hunted down\".\n\nThe deliberate targeting of civilians, as has been alleged by residents of Bucha, is a war crime under the Geneva Convention.\n\nBut for a massacre to be considered genocide, the law also requires proof of the intent to destroy a particular national, ethnic, racial or religious group - whether entirely or in part.\n\nThe Genocide Convention, introduced after the Nazi Holocaust during World War Two, requires the 152 nations who are signatories to \"prevent and to punish\" genocide where it occurs.", "182 Hitachi trains were withdrawn from service due to cracks\n\nIndustry standards should be reviewed after fatigue and corrosion led to high-speed trains being withdrawn from service, the rail regulator has found.\n\nCracks were found in more than 180 Hitachi trains being used by Great Western Railway (GWR) and London North Eastern Railway (LNER) last year.\n\nThe Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said the damage was partly due to the trains being corroded by salt in the air.\n\nHitachi Rail said it took \"appropriate action to prioritise safety\".\n\nIn May 2021, the withdrawal of the damaged Hitachi Class 800 and 385 series trains led to a week of delays and cancellations for travellers.\n\nCracks were also found after examination of ScotRail's Class 385 and Southeastern's Class 395 trains.\n\nThe ORR investigation found the design of the trains complied with existing standards but that corrosion cracks were found on lifting points - which allow carriages to be raised during maintenance work - resulting from the use of a particular type of aluminium, which was corroded by salt in the air.\n\nIt said fatigue cracking was caused by the \"trains experiencing greater loads from train movement than allowed for in the original design\".\n\nIt added: \"It is not yet known for certain why this happened, although potential factors include wheel wear and track design.\"\n\nThe trains first entered service in 2017.\n\nThe ORR recommended further work was carried out to identify the reasons for cracks developing in the rolling stock.\n\nIt said it had been assured of \"no safety failures and trains have performed as specified\" since they returned to service.\n\nIan Prosser, ORR's chief inspector of railways, said Hitachi Rail and other operators had put in place \"robust plans to make sure the right safety issues are being managed\".\n\n\"Our review provides a clearer picture of the issue and we will continue our oversight to ensure work moves forward to agree the permanent solution and our recommendations are acted on,\" he added.\n\n\"It is important that the whole industry works together to learn lessons from what has happened.\"\n\nHitachi Rail has proposed a plan to replace and modify affected parts to be completed over six years in order to minimise the number of trains out of service at one time.\n\nIn a statement, the company said the report confirmed \"all Hitachi trains meet relevant standards and that we took the appropriate action to prioritise safety and maintain train availability\".\n\n\"The proposed engineering solutions outlined in the report are currently being reviewed by all partners,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working together to finalise the plan for their implementation, while always prioritising safety and train availability to support consistent passenger services.\"\n\nWhen the cracks were discovered it caused chaos with Great Western Railway reduced to running just three intercity trains for a time.\n\nTens of thousands of people found they could not travel.\n\nNow we are told it will take up to six years to put right.\n\nAnd the precise solution to the hairline cracks still hasn't been agreed.\n\nWhat we do know is that Hitachi will rent space at Eastleigh Works in Hampshire, and take trains out of service one at a time to fix them - it won't be cheap.\n\nFor now, Great Western Railway says it has enough trains available to match its timetable, and passengers should not be affected.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'We will continue to fight,' vows Amir Locke's mother\n\nNo criminal charges will be brought against a Minneapolis police officer who shot dead a 22-year-old man in an apartment during a \"no-knock\" raid.\n\nAmir Locke was at his cousin's apartment on 2 February when a Swat team entered the home.\n\nProsecutors said there was insufficient evidence to charge officer Mark Hanneman, who fired the fatal shot.\n\nThey also said they did not have enough evidence to prove criminal wrongdoing by any of the other officers involved.\n\nMr Locke was sleeping in a couch in his cousin's apartment when a nine-member Swat team entered the home.\n\nIn bodycam footage released by the police after the incident, he is under a blanket on the couch holding a gun - for which he had a permit - in his hand. He was shot three times by Mr Hanneman.\n\nHis family has said they believe he was startled and reached for the weapon in self-defence.\n\nA judge had approved a warrant for the raid, which was conducted as part of an investigation into a fatal shooting in the neighbouring city of St Paul. Mr Locke was not a suspect in the killing or named in the warrant, and his death prompted outrage and protests in Minneapolis.\n\nOn Wednesday, County Attorney Michael Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement that there was \"insufficient admissible evidence to file criminal charges in this case\".\n\nThe circumstances in the case \"are such that an objectively reasonable officer in Officer Hanneman's position would have perceived an immediate threat of death or great bodily harm\" the statement said, adding that \"an objectively reasonable officer would not delay in using deadly force\".\n\nThe statement also said that Mr Locke, an aspiring musician, was a victim and that his life mattered. \"He should be alive today, and his death is a tragedy\".\n\nMr Locke's mother Karen Wells said in a news conference following the announcement that she was \"disgusted with Minneapolis, Minnesota\".\n\nHer son's death drew comparisons to the case of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was shot and killed in her Louisville, Kentucky home by US police in March 2020 during another no-knock raid, which allows police to access without announcing their presence before entering.\n\nMs Wells vowed to \"continue the fight for the no-knock warrant bans in honour of his name [and] for Breonna Taylor\".\n\n\"This cannot happen to anybody else,\" she said.\n\nAs of Friday, Minneapolis police will no longer be allowed to apply for or execute no-knock warrants or respond to such requests from other police forces, barring certain '\"exigent\" circumstances, the mayor's office said this week. Under the new policy, police must repeatedly knock and announce their presence and purpose prior to entry.", "The BBC is to be prevented from naming a man it says exploited his status as an MI5 informant to abuse a partner and poses an ongoing threat to women.\n\nA High Court judge has ruled that identifying the man, known only as X, would create a \"real and immediate\" risk he would be killed or injured.\n\nThe judgement proceeds on the basis that X is a danger to women, but it makes no formal finding.\n\nThe BBC said it would still be able to report key parts of its story.\n\nIn a statement, it said it had fought the case because it was \"important journalism\" about \"matters of the highest public interest\".\n\nAttorney General Suella Braverman applied for an injunction preventing the identification of X by a planned BBC story.\n\nWithout confirming or denying whether X was an MI5 agent - a covert human intelligence source - she said the story would place X at risk of harm or death and damage national security by making people less likely to work as agents.\n\nIn such circumstances, she submitted there could be no balancing of X's interest against the interests of others, including the interests of any women who might potentially in future be harmed by him.\n\nThe BBC did not accept that revealing X's identity would give rise to a real or immediate risk to him - and argued the only people to be deterred from working as agents would be those engaged in similarly abusive conduct.\n\nThe corporation argued X had exploited his intelligence status to coerce and terrify a former partner, abused a separate woman, and that identifying him would protect other women.\n\nIt also argued MI5 should have known about X's behaviour and realised it was inappropriate to use him.\n\nMuch of the government's evidence was heard in secret, without the BBC or its lawyers present.\n\nSecurity-cleared barristers, known as special advocates, were appointed to act on its behalf in the closed sessions, but they could not communicate directly with the BBC after seeing the sensitive material.\n\nAttorney General Suella Braverman applied for the injunction, arguing naming X would put him at risk and harm national security\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain, granting an interim injunction, said he was satisfied that if the alleged agent's identity became public \"there would be a real and immediate risk that X would be killed or seriously injured\".\n\nThe senior judge said he relied on a \"closed\" MI5 statement containing a \"detailed and nuanced assessment of the risks to X and others\".\n\nHe said he had borne in mind that, according to the BBC, X chose to tell one former partner he worked for a security or intelligence agency.\n\nAs a result of evidence heard in secret, he also ruled that if X were named it was likely that measures would be taken to protect him, which would undermine the potential protective effect for other women of naming him.\n\nThe judge does not describe the measures, but possibilities might include a change of identity or appearance.\n\nThese measures would undermine one of the main public interest justifications for publicising his identity, the judgement says.\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain concluded that disclosure of X's identity would have a wider damaging effect on national security because an agent who became aware of the BBC's story \"would not necessarily assume that the story was accurate in every respect\" and might conclude \"it was based principally on the say-so\" of one of the women.\n\nThe judge said this risked discouraging people from acting as agents, as they might think the trigger for disclosure of their identity was the making of an allegation, whether true or not.\n\nThe BBC's evidence included a video showing X attacking one of the women with a \"dangerous weapon\" and the two women - given the pseudonyms Beth and Ruth - gave statements to court saying they considered that X was serious danger to others. The women have never met.\n\nRuth said: \"I consider that [X] is dangerous enough to kill a woman and I fear that he will do so if he is not challenged and exposed.\"\n\nThe judge also ruled that the BBC journalist working on the story took \"proper steps to assess whether its various elements were true\".\n\nHe said the attorney general nevertheless suggested there was evidence, which cannot be referred to without risk of identifying X, that cast doubt on Beth's \"reliability, credibility and motivation\".\n\nThe judge said that while it was not his role to decide the truth of the claims, the BBC's investigation \"comfortably\" met the test of showing the allegations it sought to broadcast were \"serious and have a credible evidential basis\".\n\nThe BBC said it would report the key elements of the story, without identifying X, after clarification of the precise restrictions, expected next week.\n\nIt said \"we fought the case to try and tell as fully as possible\" two women's stories of their alleged abuse.\n\n\"This is because we firmly believe these are matters of the highest public interest - the issues of coercive control of women, male abuse of power and the failure of state institutions to address these problems,\" the statement said.\n\nThe broadcaster added that it \"does not fully know the reasons why\" the court decided to protect X's identity \"and nor will the public\" due to the \"highly unusual\" closed proceedings.\n\nIt said the secret procedures are a \"significant departure from the principles of open and natural justice, as the judge himself states\".", "Dizengoff Street, where the attack happened, is a place bustling with bars and restaurants\n\nIsraeli PM Naftali Bennett says security forces will have \"full freedom\" to act after an attack in Tel Aviv killed three Israelis.\n\nTwo were killed when a Palestinian opened fire on a bar in one of the city's busiest streets on Thursday night. A third died on Friday.\n\nThe attacker evaded a huge manhunt for hours, before being shot dead in a gunfight in nearby Jaffa.\n\nIsrael has been rocked by a wave of attacks which have killed 14 people.\n\nIn the latest, Raad Hazem, 28, from Jenin in the occupied West Bank, shot people at the Ilka bar on Dizengoff Street, a main thoroughfare full of restaurants and bars in the heart of Tel Aviv, before escaping.\n\nMore than 1,000 members of the Israeli police, army special forces and the Shin Bet intelligence service poured into the city centre to try to find him, as police warned residents to stay indoors.\n\nHazem was found hiding near a mosque in the port of Jaffa, about four miles (6km) away, and was killed in a shootout with counter-terrorism and security agents.\n\nSpeaking in Tel Aviv on Friday morning, Prime Minister Bennett said security forces would have free rein to deal with threats.\n\n\"There are not and will not be limits for this war. We are granting full freedom of action to the army, the Shin Bet [domestic intelligence agency] and all security forces in order to defeat the terror.\"\n\n\"Every murderer knows we will find them, everyone who helps a terrorist should know that they will pay a heavy price.\"\n\nShin Bet said Hazem had entered Israel illegally and had no known links to militant organisations.\n\nPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned \"the killing of Israeli civilians\", warning that \"the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians only leads to a further deterioration of the situation\", the official Palestinian Wafa news agency said.\n\nHowever, the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, praised the attack.\n\nTwo childhood friends and a 35-year-old father-of-three were killed by the gunman\n\nIsraeli media reports say Hazem had been sitting outside Ilka bar for about 15 minutes before he opened fire at about 21:00 (18:00 GMT), sparking pandemonium.\n\n\"I was heading north and as we were passing by a bar shots started,\" Mark Malfiev, who was injured, told the BBC.\n\n\"I saw the window shattering, suddenly people started running and I felt a back pain,\" he said. \"I did not know there was an injury. I was just walking and then I felt a lot of blood, I saw blood.\"\n\nCCTV footage showed people drinking then suddenly dashing away at the moment of the attack, overturning chairs in the scramble to escape. Video from Dizengoff Street showed people running away as emergency vehicles streamed into the area, sirens wailing.\n\nThe two men killed at the bar were named as childhood friends Eytam Magini and Tomer Morad, both aged 27. A 35-year-old father-of-three, who was one of 12 people wounded, died in hospital on Friday.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the attack, adding that Washington stood with Israel \"resolutely in the face of senseless terrorism and violence\".\n\nIsrael's security forces were already on a high state of alert after a spate of deadly attacks in recent days.\n\nAt the end of last month, five people were shot dead by a Palestinian gunman in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish suburb of Tel Aviv. Days earlier, six people were killed in two attacks by three Israeli Arabs in the northern city of Hadera and the southern city of Beersheba. All the perpetrators were shot dead.\n\nIt marks the deadliest period of attacks in Israel since 2006, with fears of further incidents in the lead-up to the rare convergence next week of the Muslim festival of Ramadan, the Jewish festival of Passover and the Christian festival of Easter.", "The cap on passenger numbers at London Luton Airport would rise to 19 million under the proposals\n\nThe government is to hold an inquiry into Luton Airport's expansion plans that were approved by a council.\n\nLuton Borough Council backed the airport's plans for growth in December.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has cited concerns over climate change targets and policies for enhancing the natural environment among its reasons.\n\nLondon Luton Airport said it was \"disappointed by the decision\", but opponents welcomed the intervention.\n\nThe council, whose company Luton Rising owns the UK's fifth busiest airport, said the government's decision was \"in line with due process\".\n\nLuton Borough Council was told in a letter: \"To consider all the relevant aspects of the proposed development, the secretary of state [Michael Gove] has decided to hold a local inquiry.\"\n\nThe plans approved by the council would enable the site to handle 19 million people a year - up from 18 million.\n\nAmendments to the current noise contours, which measure how many people are affected by noise from the airport, were also approved by the authority.\n\nResponding to the government's decision, a council spokesman said: \"The Secretary of State had already signalled his wish to consider reviewing the application so this development is in line with due process.\"\n\nOpponents of the expansion have expressed their joy at the decision to hold an inquiry.\n\nAndrew Lambourne, from anti-noise group LADACAN, said it was a \"fantastic decision\".\n\nThe \"call-in\" of the plans was also supported by Bim Afolami, Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, who last year said the approval decision \"completely ignores the environmental and cross-boundary impact\".\n\nThe government has the power to call in planning applications that local authorities approve and make the final decision.\n\nThis usually happens in cases where the decision may have wider effects beyond the immediate locality or potentially conflict with national policy.\n\nIn a statement, London Luton Airport Operations, which runs the airport, said it respected the secretary of state's request.\n\n\"The government understands that airports are an important enabler of wider economic growth, and for LLA to play its part it's important we can maximise our potential,\" it said.\n\n\"Our plan enables us to do that by putting the airport on the best possible footing for a long-term recovery that supports the local economy and the creation of jobs following the worst crisis our industry has ever faced.\"\n\nHe added: \"This plan is consistent with our commitment to achieving carbon neutrality for our own operations by 2026, and to achieve net zero emissions by 2040.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mental health bodies in the UK have called for the government to include transgender people in forthcoming legislation to ban conversion therapy.\n\nLast week No 10 rolled back on a promise to include therapies to suppress someone's gender identity.\n\nIt led to a huge backlash from LGBT organisations and the cancellation of the government's first LGBT conference.\n\nBoris Johnson said there are complexities and sensitives which needed to be worked through.\n\nThe Memorandum of Understanding Coalition Against Conversion Therapy (MOU), whose members include NHS England and the British Medical Association, published an open letter downplaying the risk of unintended consequences and called for any ban to include all forms of conversion therapy.\n\nDr Igi Moon, chairperson of the MOU, said they would work with the government to find a way to achieve a ban which also covers transgender people.\n\nThey said: \"We are grateful to members across the psychotherapy and counselling profession, and the whole of mental health, for their clear statement in support of a ban on conversion therapy that should cover gender as well as sexuality.\"\n\nThe government has said it would carry out separate work on the issue of transgender conversion therapy but was keen for any policy not to have unintended consequences, describing it as a legally complex area.\n\nSeveral members of the MOU group - which includes psychotherapy, psychological and psychiatric bodies - say a ban which still allows for explorative therapies is possible and had already been enacted in other countries.\n\nDr Adam Jowett, chairman of the British Psychological Society's sexualities section, said conversion therapy practices carried out on transgender people are \"similar\" to those carried out on lesbian, gay and bisexual people.\n\nHe added: \"Clinicians can still help people fully explore their gender identity where appropriate but it's time for this unacceptable and harmful practice to end.\"\n\nA number of gender critical groups had fought for the ban not to include conversion therapy relating to issues of gender identity, warning of unintended consequences of a legislative ban.\n\nStephanie Davies-Arai, director of gender critical campaign group Transgender Trend, criticised the letter, highlighting a recent interim report into gender identity services in England.\n\nShe said: \"We would expect from professional bodies a higher level of engagement with the complex and sensitive issues detailed in the Cass report, rather than a knee-jerk political response. Children deserve better.\"\n\nThe Women's Rights Network said they agreed with the prime minister's decision to not include transgender people in a ban, adding: \"numerous therapists and the findings of the recent Cass Review that children should not be able to make irreversible life-changing decisions, particularly without parental involvement.\n\n\"Watching and waiting therapies are not 'conversion' and this bill obfuscated that fact.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Mr Johnson told reporters: \"We will have a ban on gay conversion therapy, which to me is utterly abhorrent, but there are complexities and sensitivities when you move from the area of sexuality to the question of gender.\n\n\"There, I'm afraid, there are things that I think still need to be worked out.\n\n\"I'm sorry we haven't been able to reach agreement with the organisations concerned but that will in no way diminish our determination to tackle prejudice wherever we can.\"\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said that conversion therapy in all its forms should be banned.\n\n\"That used to be the government's position, and they've been flip-flopping on this over the last few days,\" he said.\n\nThe row over the government's decision not to include trans conversion therapy in a ban has led to the cancellation of the government's landmark Safe to Be LGBT conference, set to be held in London in July, after more than 100 organisations pulled out.\n\nA spokesman said it was \"disappointing\" to see partners withdraw from the event which focused on the \"fundamental human rights issues facing LGBT people around the world\".\n\nHe said the government remained committed to strengthening LGBT rights and freedoms and would continue to push globally for change for LGBT people.", "Ed Sheeran says the culture of copyright claims is \"really damaging to the songwriting industry\"\n\nEd Sheeran has warned that pop stars should not be allowed to be \"easy targets\" for copyright claims after winning his court battle with the writers of a song they claimed he had plagiarised.\n\nA High Court judge ruled that the singer had not copied part of his hit, Shape of You, from Oh Why, by Sami Chokri.\n\nThat prompted Sheeran to declare on Instagram: \"I hope that this ruling means in the future baseless claims like this can be avoided.\n\n\"This really does have to end.\"\n\nThe case was not the first time Sheeran has faced a copyright claim, and many other stars have also been involved in high-profile disputes in recent years.\n\nLast month, Katy Perry won a case on appeal after a rapper said she had plagiarised an eight-note riff for her 2013 hit Dark Horse.\n\nDua Lipa has recently been sued twice over her song Levitating, the biggest-selling single in the US last year. Those claims have come from the writers behind Latin disco band Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and Florida reggae group Artikal Sound System.\n\nAlso last month, Sam Smith and Normani were sued over their 2019 duet Dancing With A Stranger, while Taylor Swift is facing a trial over her 2014 anthem Shake It Off.\n\nAs the music industry saying goes, where there's a hit, there's a writ.\n\nThe field of music copyright \"has become like the Wild West\", says forensic musicologist Peter Oxendale, who worked with Sheeran in this latest case.\n\nHe says cases have proliferated since 2015, when Blurred Lines creators Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were found guilty in the US of copying the \"feel\" of Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up, rather than directly plagiarising musical phrases or lyrics.\n\n\"In that case, [there] wasn't even two notes in common, and yet it found in favour of the wrong side,\" Oxendale told BBC Radio 4's The World At One.\n\nPart of the melody in Shape of You did bear some similarity to a segment of Oh Why - but Sheeran successfully argued in the High Court that it was a coincidence and he had not heard the other song before.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Ed Sheeran's Shape of You and Sami Chokri's Oh Why\n\nSheeran took legal action after Switch - real name Sami Chokri - and fellow songwriter Ross O'Donoghue asked to be added to the songwriting credits for Shape of You, which is the most streamed song ever on Spotify.\n\nHowever, the judge ruled that Sheeran would be justified in thinking their request \"was a tactic designed to extract a settlement\" - in other words, money and/or a credit without going to court.\n\nSheeran said: \"I feel like claims like this are way too common now and have become a culture where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to court, even if there's no basis for the claim.\n\n\"It's really damaging to the songwriting industry. There's only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music. Coincidence is bound to happen if 60,000 songs are being released every day on Spotify. That's 22 million songs a year, and there's only 12 notes that are available.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by teddysphotos This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSheeran's plea for an end to \"baseless claims\" will find sympathetic ears among other musicians.\n\n\"It should never have got as far as it did,\" Grammy-winning composer David Arnold wrote of the Sheeran case. \"Hopefully this result brings about a change in the avalanche of frivolous speculative copyright infringement cases.\"\n\nBut Wednesday's ruling won't bring copyright cases to an end. It won't even bring cases against Ed Sheeran to an end.\n\nHe's facing another trial in the US after being sued for $100m (£76m) by the owner of a share of the songwriting rights to Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On, who claims Sheeran copied it for his 2014 chart-topper Thinking Out Loud.\n\nHe has also settled cases out of court in the past.\n\nIn 2018, he paid $5.4m (£4.1m) to songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington after being accused of copying their track Amazing (which was released by X Factor winner Matt Cardle in 2012) for Sheeran's 2015 song, Photograph.\n\nIn the latest trial, the star said he had been \"bruised\" by that experience. Even though he felt he had done nothing wrong, he said he had agreed to pay out on the advice of his lawyers because it would have been a \"nuisance\" and \"more trouble than it was worth\" to fight.\n\nThe writers of TLC's No Scrubs have a credit on Shape of You\n\nAfter the Shape of You ruling, Oxendale said: \"I'm full of admiration for Ed Sheeran in this case because he could easily have taken the easy way out, which is just to give them a nuisance payment to go away.\n\n\"But he didn't. He chose to fight it and fighting cases in the High Court is traumatic for anyone. It's difficult. It's really expensive. It's time-consuming.\"\n\nSheeran had already given the writers of TLC's 1999 hit No Scrubs a credit on Shape of You several years ago after similarities were pointed out.\n\nIn recent years, more stars have given the composers of potentially problematic tracks credits before a dispute gets anywhere near a court.\n\nTaylor Swift famously credited 1990s British pop duo Right Said Fred on her 2017 single Look What You Made Me Do because it follows the same rhythmic pattern as I'm Too Sexy.\n\nLast year, Olivia Rodrigo added two members of Paramore to the writing credits of Good 4 U, and the number of writers on Uptown Funk, by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, ballooned from six to 11 when The Gap Band noticed similarities to their song Oops Upside Your Head.\n\nPart of Chokri and O'Donoghue's complaint was that Sheeran treats unknown songwriters worse than famous ones when it comes to giving credits - which he denied.\n\nBut the case rested on the fact that he insisted he had never heard their song, so could not have copied it either consciously or subconsciously - which would have been more difficult to argue if Oh Why had been a hit.\n\nSheeran gave evidence at the High Court trial last month\n\nCopyright lawyer Kate Swaine says: \"If I was advising somebody who's been accused of copyright infringement, the first thing I would ask them is, 'Is there a possibility that you could have, unconsciously or consciously, been influenced, inspired or taken an element of this?'\n\n\"If somebody turns around and says, 'I do know that track really well. I have heard it. It's not out of the question,' they may feel that, rather than getting into the cost and disruption of a court action, it is easier to make a concession and therefore give some credit on the royalties.\n\n\"Here, what comes across from Sheeran's evidence is he was absolutely adamant that he had not heard this track.\"\n\nShe sees little chance of the number of copyright claims subsiding.\n\nBut she says that despite the Blurred Lines ruling, \"the law seems to be doing a reasonably decent job\" of assessing when there is sufficient evidence of copyright infringement, and when there is not.", "Denise Welch says Toraq Wyngard subjected her to an \"incredibly terrifying and stressful\" ordeal\n\nA stalker who started a fire in the driveway of Loose Women TV star Denise Welch's home, leaving her \"terrified\", has been jailed.\n\nToraq Wyngard, 64, who was found with a kitchen knife in his rucksack, caused £4,285 of damage after the fire spread.\n\nThe former Coronation Street actress told Manchester Crown Court that his actions had \"changed her life\".\n\nHe was jailed for seven years and seven months for stalking, arson, possession of a knife and criminal damage.\n\nThe court heard that, just before 23:00 BST on 19 September, 2020, Wyngard started a fire in a skip outside the home the actress shares with her husband Lincoln Townley in Cheshire.\n\nMs Welch, who appeared via videolink from the US, said she had been alerted to the fire by her husband's \"piercing scream\" when a member of the public knocked on their door after spotting the flames.\n\nGareth Bellis, prosecuting, said CCTV showed a man in a distinctive baseball cap looking around the property before appearing to pour an accelerant into the skip and set it alight.\n\nThe fire spread to the garage.\n\nWyngard, of Cannon Street, Salford, was later arrested nearby wearing the cap, covered in metallic pin badges, and police discovered a kitchen knife in his rucksack.\n\nToraq Wyngard attempted to change his plea after admitting the charges\n\nThe court heard that he claimed to be a press photographer after police found two cameras in his bag.\n\nOfficers also found a number of cameras, some covert, and binoculars during a search of his home.\n\nOn 10 February 2021, while Wyngard was released under investigation, Ms Welch and Mr Townley discovered the words \"Witch\" and \"Pimp\" along with an upside-down cross scrawled on their front gate in blue marker pen, the court was told.\n\nCCTV showed Wyngard writing the graffiti and he was also seen at a nearby shop buying the pen.\n\nMs Welch told the court: \"This whole experience terrified me and continues to do so.\"\n\n\"It has changed my life. I have a wonderful life and this man has permanently scarred it,\" she said.\n\nThe court heard that the couple now spend £2,000 a month on additional security.\n\nWyngard pleaded guilty to the stalking charges at a hearing last September but his sentencing was delayed after he later attempted to change his pleas, claiming he had been \"pressured\" into admitting the offences, the court heard.\n\nHis application to change his pleas was rejected but Louise Cowen, defending, said Wyngard maintained he was not guilty.\n\nShe said he suffered from bipolar affective disorder and had been failing to take his medication.\n\nSentencing Wyngard, Judge Michael Leeming said: \"You have expressed not a single word of regret, not a single word of concern for your victims at all.\n\n\"Your only concern is for your own interests.\"\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Senior Crown Prosecutor Angela Rowan said Toraq Wyngard had done \"all he can to avoid facing up to what he did\" and had \"tried to frustrate the court process during the course of these proceedings, causing unnecessary delay\".\n\nShe said she was grateful to Ms Welch and her family \"for showing patience in allowing justice to prevail\".\n\n\"I hope today's sentence and restraining order gives them some peace,\" she added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new developments aim to clear the \"backlog\" in waiting lists\n\nA Nightingale hospital in Devon has been redesigned to help tackle the backlog in waiting lists.\n\nOrthopaedic surgery, ophthalmology, rheumatology services, plus MRI and CT scans have all been expanded as part of the repurposing.\n\nThe hospital in Exeter was built in 2020 to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed by coronavirus patients.\n\nA Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust spokesperson said it has been redesigned to be \"efficient\".\n\nJonathan Howell, consultant orthopaedic surgeon, said: \"The backlog has been created by an inability to get our patients into theatre and into a ward, and this facility is protected.\n\n\"It's separate from the emergency department pressures that the major trusts face.\"\n\nChris Tidman, deputy chief executive of Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, said it has been designed to be \"efficient\"\n\nChris Tidman, deputy chief executive of the trust, said: \"We're struggling like every other hospital is struggling because we all want to grow our workforce to get through our backlog.\n\n\"But the beauty of this place is we have designed it to be really efficient. So once we can begin to staff it you will see the benefits.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were trying to get humanitarian aid when a Russian soldier stopped them\n\nAt around 11:00 on 17 March, Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were cycling to Bucha's administration building where aid was being handed out. Electricity, gas and water had been cut, and essentials were in short supply in the town, one of the first to be occupied by Russian forces as they advanced on Ukraine's capital Kyiv.\n\nYuriy and his father hoped to pick up some medicine and food. Yuriy said a Russian soldier stopped him and his father on Tarasivska St. They immediately raised their hands.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC by phone alongside his mother, Alla, the 14-year-old gave his account of what happened next. \"We told them that we weren't carrying any weapons and that we didn't pose any danger,\" he said.\n\n\"Then my father turned his head my way, and that's when he got shot… He was shot twice in the chest, right where the heart is. Then he fell.\"\n\nAt that point, the teenager said, the soldier shot him in his left hand and he fell too. While he was on the ground, he said, he was shot again, this time in the arm.\n\n\"I was lying on my stomach, I couldn't see anything that was happening around me,\" Yuriy said. The soldier, he said, shot again, aiming at his head. \"[But] the bullet went through my hood.\"\n\nYuriy said the soldier shot again, this time at his father's head. But Ruslan was already dead. \"I had a small panic attack, lying there with my wounded arm underneath me. I saw that my hand was bleeding,\" he said.\n\nIt was only after a while, when the soldier went behind a tank, that Yuriy got up and ran, he said.\n\nYuriy shows wounds that, he says, were caused by a Russian soldier in Bucha\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the details of Yuriy's account, but it comes as evidence grows of atrocities committed by Russian forces while they were in control of Bucha and other towns north of Kyiv.\n\nIn Bucha alone, bodies of dead men were found lying in the street, many with extensive wounds. Some had been shot through the temple, as if executed. Others had their hands or legs tied behind their backs. Some had clearly been run over by tanks.\n\nMany of the bodies were seen along a stretch of Yablonska St, just 2km (one mile) from the street where Ruslan is said to have been killed.\n\nYuriy's mother Alla told the BBC how she had gone to see her husband after the teenager returned home and told her what had happened. She thought Yuriy could be wrong, and that Ruslan was wounded, in need of medical help.\n\n\"My son begged me not to,\" Alla said. \"He said they would kill me too.\"\n\nWhen she tried to walk down the street, she said, her neighbours stopped her. \"[They] told me not to go further, saying the Russians were killing everyone in the territories under their control.\"\n\nThe next morning, Alla got her mother to help. Wearing white scarves, they went to the site of the shooting. Her mother talked to Russian soldiers and they managed to get through. They finally collected Ruslan's body, and brought it home.\n\nA photograph of the partially covered body, taken by Alla and shared with the BBC, appears to confirm Yuriy's testimony. It shows a gunshot wound to the left side of the chest, near the heart.\n\nRuslan, a lawyer, was 49 when he was killed. He was \"active in the community,\" Alla said. \"He couldn't just sit in the shelter and wait. So, he was volunteering and helping people.\"\n\nThey buried him in the garden of the family home.\n\nYuriy said the soldier who killed him was clearly Russian. His uniform was dark green, he said, typical of the Russian army. \"I saw that on his flak jacket it was written 'Russia' in Russian,\" he said.\n\n\"We were no danger to the military, we were civilians, wearing white scarves to show that,\" Yuriy said. \"It's very stupid.\"", "Graham Hill was a keen cyclist before he discovered he had a brain tumour in 2012.\n\nSurgery had impacted the father-of-two's balance and ability to walk more than a short distance.\n\nThe County Antrim man believed his cycling days were over until he joined the Pedal Power Cycling Club, run by Brain Injury Matters.\n\nThe group uses adapted bikes to cater for those with a brain injury. It is a joint project with cycling and walking charity Sustrans, which provides a number of bikes including side-by-side tandems.\n\nPhysiotherapist Dr Jonathan McCrea, head of services at Brain Injury Matters, said: \"It is one of the most spine-tingling moments when you see people who have had profound life-changing injuries come here.\n\n“They have lost their sense of self and all of sudden they leave their walking frames behind, get on the bikes and they’re free.”", "Mrs Pelosi was seen in close quarters with a number of high-profile Democrats, including President Joe Biden\n\nUS Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for Covid-19, making her the most senior member of Congress so far to report an infection.\n\nThe leading Democrat is asymptomatic, her spokesman said on Thursday.\n\nMrs Pelosi, 82, was seen hugging former President Barack Obama during his visit to the White House on Tuesday and standing close to President Joe Biden.\n\nAccording to the latest US guidelines, quarantine is not required after Covid-19 exposure for those vaccinated.\n\nBoth Mr Biden and Mr Obama have been vaccinated, and the current president tested negative on Wednesday, the White House said. He is not considered a close contact under the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nMrs Pelosi's spokesman Drew Hammill said: \"The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided\".\n\n\"The Speaker will quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to get vaccinated, boosted and test regularly\".\n\nThe news of Mrs Pelosi's diagnosis comes as the US approaches 1 million Covid-19 related deaths since the start of the pandemic.\n\nAfter a steep spike in infections in December - fuelled by the highly contagious Omicron variant - Covid-19 cases and hospital admissions have fallen precipitously since mid-January.\n\nBut breakthrough infections have hit a number of high-powered Washington residents in recent days, with vaccinated leaders including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and US Congressman Adam Schiff announcing they had tested positive.", "Rishi Sunak said it was wrong for people to criticise his wife Akshata Murty\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is facing calls to \"come clean\" on his family's financial affairs after it emerged his wife benefits from a tax-saving scheme.\n\nAkshata Murty has non-dom status, meaning she does not have to pay UK tax on income earned abroad.\n\nMs Murty earns money from shares in an Indian software giant founded by her billionaire father.\n\nHer spokeswoman said she paid all tax due in the UK - but Labour called for \"complete transparency\".\n\nUnder the rules, people can be granted non-dom status if they live in the UK but intend to return to their home country.\n\nMs Murty is an Indian citizen and has retained family ties to India. The BBC understands she has said she would eventually like to return there.\n\nIf she lived in the UK for 15 years she would automatically lose her non-dom status, under the rules, but she has declined to say when it came into effect.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Sunak had \"very serious questions to answer\" about his family's finances.\n\n\"If it now transpires that his wife has used schemes to reduce her tax, while he's been increasing taxes on working people, that's breathtaking hypocrisy,\" said Sir Keir.\n\nIt \"just goes to show just how out of touch this chancellor is\" at a time when taxes are increasing for millions of workers, he added.\n\nLabour has written to the chancellor demanding to know if he has benefited from Ms Murty's tax status.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine said: \"Sunak now needs to come clean about which country his family pays tax in abroad and if it is a tax haven.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems have urged Mr Sunak to ban the partners of ministers from claiming non-dom status, calling it a \"loophole\".\n\nBut Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng defended Mr Sunak, saying it was \"completely unfair\" to scrutinise the tax affairs of Ms Murty, \"who is not a politician\".\n\nHe also rejected opposition claims that she was \"sheltering\" from UK taxes.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"I think she's been very clear, she's been very transparent, the chancellor's been very transparent, and this non-dom status has been part of the UK tax system for more than 200 years.\"\n\nWhen asked about the criticism of Mr Sunak over his wife's tax affairs, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I think it's very important in politics to keep people's families out of it.\".\n\nLast week, Mr Sunak told the BBC it was \"very upsetting\" to see his wife being criticised in the media, as she was not an elected politician.\n\nA non-dom is a UK resident who declares their permanent home, or domicile, outside of the UK.\n\nA domicile is usually the country his or her father considered his permanent home when they were born, or it may be the place overseas where somebody has moved to with no intention of returning.\n\nFor proof to the tax authority, non-doms have to provide evidence about their background, lifestyle and future intentions, such as where they own property or intend to be buried.\n\nNon-domiciled tax status was introduced in 1799 to protect colonial investments during the time of the British Empire. Those who have it must still pay UK tax on UK earnings but do not need to pay UK tax on foreign income. They can give up their non-dom status at any time by stating on your tax return that you intend to live in the UK and wish to be considered British for tax purposes.\n\nMs Murty has chosen to be domiciled in India via her father, the billionaire Narayana Murty, which means she doesn't need to pay taxes in the UK on dividends she receives from her stake in her dad's company, thought to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nNon-dom status has been a frequent source of political controversy.\n\nWealthy Conservative politicians, such as former party chairman Lord Ashcroft and environment minister Lord Goldsmith, have faced criticism over claiming it, although Lord Goldsmith has now given up his non-dom status.\n\nMs Murty confirmed her non-dom status after it was reported by the Independent website on Wednesday.\n\n\"Akshata Murty is a citizen of India, the country of her birth and parents' home,\" her spokeswoman said.\n\n\"India does not allow its citizens to hold the citizenship of another country simultaneously. So, according to British law, Ms Murty is treated as non-domiciled for UK tax purposes.\n\n\"She has always and will continue to pay UK taxes on all her UK income.\"\n\nBut tax experts have questioned her statement, suggesting that non-dom status is a \"choice\" that people can give up.\n\n\"Domicile has nothing to do with a person's nationality,\" said Professor Richard Murphy, co-founder of left-wing campaign group the Tax Justice Network.\n\nHe added: \"Just because a person has Indian citizenship will never automatically grant them non-dom status in the UK.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak and Will Smith both saw their wives mocked, but the chancellor says: \"At least I didn't get up and slap anybody.\"\n\nMs Murty was born in India in 1980 and holds an Indian passport.\n\nIn 2009, she married Mr Sunak, who became the MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire, in 2015. The couple, who have two daughters, have a flat in Downing Street, and own a number of properties in the UK including a £1.5m home in his constituency, and a property in Santa Monica, California.\n\nMs Murty's father founded the IT services company Infosys which has grown to be one of India's biggest firms. She owns a little under 1% of its shares, worth more than £500m. She also has interests in several companies in the UK.\n\nLast month the Telegraph reported Ms Murty would have received £11.6m in dividends from Infosys in the past tax year. Her non-dom status means she would not have had to pay UK tax on those dividends, which is currently charged at a rate of 39.35%.\n\nIndian tax authorities say dividend income is taxable at the rate of 20% for non-residents unless they qualify for any deductions. But the dividend rate can come down to 10% for people who are eligible to benefit from the UK's tax treaty with India.\n\nAsked if Ms Murty paid tax on her Infosys dividend payments in India, her representative said \"international tax\" was paid on her \"international income\".\n\nIt is not clear, however, whether she pays tax on her dividend income in India or another jurisdiction.\n\nIn its letter to Mr Sunak, Labour asked if his wife pays all foreign tax in India or in a tax haven such as the Cayman Islands.\n\nMr Sunak made the Cabinet Office aware of his wife's tax status as part of his declaration of interests when he first became a government minister in 2018.", "The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world Image caption: The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world\n\nWe reported earlier that the BBC has been able to verify the deaths of more than 1,000 Russian troops, of whom about 20% are officers.\n\nEven if we talk about confirmed losses only - there is evidence that Russia has lost some of its best specialists, including elite special forces operators, highly skilled fighter pilots and some experienced commanders.\n\nIt takes five years and at least $10,000 to prepare an infantry lieutenant in Russia. For other specialties, the cost rises to $60,000 per officer. It costs between $4m and $14m (and takes up to 14 years) to prepare a skillful fighter pilot.\n\nWe also noticed another trend. About 15% of all confirmed losses are paratroopers from units which are considered the elite of the Russian army. And preparation of a paratrooper in Russia demands more money and time compared to an infantryman. So these are sensitive losses.\n\nSome servicemen were very experienced, for example fighter pilot Capt Sergei Volynets fought in Georgia and Syria, and had several medals.\n\nThere are at least 15 military intelligence special forces operators (including five officers) and three maroon berets in the confirmed losses list. These take months or even years to train and educate. The test to get a maroon beret is considered to be one of the hardest in the military world.", "The war in Ukraine has entered a \"new and different phase\", UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said, following a meeting of Nato allies.\n\nMs Truss said there was now \"a more concentrated Russian offensive\", and Nato had agreed to supply new and heavier equipment to Ukraine.\n\n\"Our objective as a United Kingdom remains clear. Putin must lose in Ukraine,\" she said.\n\nUkraine earlier warned more atrocities could happen without more military aid.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting in Brussels, Ms Truss said: \"Putin has changed his tactics but not his intent. He wants a hold over the whole of Ukraine.\"\n\nShe earlier said the UK would be \"stepping up\" its supply of weapons but has not yet detailed what this would include.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK would send another £30m to Poland to help ensure vital supplies reach those fleeing Ukraine.\n\nMeeting with his Polish counterpart in Downing Street earlier, he said it was an important moment to launch a \"proper thoroughgoing security defence partnership\".\n\nNato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also said allies were \"ready to do more\" to provide military equipment but did not go into specifics.\n\nUkraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, also speaking at the Nato meeting, said help was needed in \"days not weeks\" if it was to avoid coming too late.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia has warned that \"pumping weapons into Ukraine\" will have a \"negative effect\" on peace talks.\n\nUkraine is not a part of Nato but has been receiving military aid from its members. More than 30 countries, including the UK, have provided military aid, including €1bn (£800m) from the EU and $1.7bn (£1.3bn) from the US.\n\nSo far Western supplies have been limited to arms, ammunition and defensive equipment, such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems.\n\nNato members fear that supplying Ukraine with heavier offensive equipment such as tanks and fighter jets could lead to direct open conflict between Russia and the alliance.", "A former housing secretary has admitted to the Grenfell Tower inquiry he did not know a policy of cutting red tape had prevented government officials tightening fire safety standards.\n\nLord Pickles claimed building standards regulations were exempt from a policy promoted by David Cameron's government.\n\nBut under questioning he was unable to give an example of where the exemption had been specifically set out.\n\nThe fire in the west London tower block in 2017 claimed the lives of 72 people.\n\nLord Pickles said he took full responsibility for any failures in the housing department, which he led in the years of the Cameron coalition government between 2010 and 2015.\n\nThe inquiry into the disaster is examining what the government did to prevent construction firms from using dangerous materials on tall buildings.\n\nCombustible cladding and insulation were a cause of the Grenfell Tower fire, and the subsequent building safety crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of flat owners.\n\nIn his second day giving evidence, Lord Pickles appeared to suggest the inquiry's senior counsel, Richard Millett QC, should speed up his questions as the peer had meetings planned for the afternoon.\n\nHe later apologised for being \"discourteous\" and said he had decided to cancel his meetings as \"this is more important than anything I'm doing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA key issue for the inquiry centres on the \"one in, one out\" policy of the government at the time which aimed to cut the number of regulations affecting businesses.\n\nFor every new regulation introduced, another, and as time went on, another two or three, had to be removed.\n\nIn 2011 and 2012 the government decided to exempt \"fire safety regulations\" from the policy.\n\nHowever the inquiry was shown government documents suggesting the exemption only applied to the safe management of buildings and underground railway stations.\n\nThe building regulations, and guidance designed to prevent major fires, would continue to be part of the government's approach to regulation, \"not least the one in, one out approach\", according to a submission to ministers in 2012.\n\nLord Pickles pointed to a single line in a government press release that stated \"essential safety and accessibility protections will remain untouched\" as evidence his department did not intend to erode safety regulations.\n\nBut asked whether he had ever seen a document in which the building regulations were specifically exempted from the \"war on red tape\", he was unable to give an example.\n\nThis is a highly significant issue for the Grenfell Inquiry because four government officials, working on fire safety in building construction, have given evidence that the deregulation drive was having an impact on regulations governing \"life safety\".\n\nOne, the fire policy specialist Brian Martin, had been warned about fires engulfing tower blocks around the world, and concerns dangerous materials were being used in Britain.\n\nHe gave evidence that tightening the regulations for England would have been \"incredibly difficult\" because \"regulation was a dirty word\" within the government.\n\nLord Pickles claimed the officials, whom he had never met, were making political assumptions, were poorly managed, involved in a \"grudge\" with a parliamentary committee and \"struggling to cope\" at work.\n\nMr Millett asked him to explain the situation and whether the former minister had been \"spectacularly out of touch\" with what was happening in his department.\n\nLord Pickles responded: \"I think that would be uncharacteristically unjust of you to say that. This is an enormous department. I am utterly reliant on receiving good intelligence from my permanent secretary and director generals.\"\n\nIn an opening statement to this phase of the long-running public inquiry, the government apologised for \"past failures in relation to the oversight of the system that regulated safety in the construction and refurbishment of high rise buildings.\"\n\nAsked if he took responsibility for what had happened, Lord Pickles briefly lost his composure, saying: \"I swore on the Bible. I'm a Christian. I wouldn't come here to remove responsibility. These things are important to me.\"\n\nLord Pickles' description of the fire's 72 victims as \"the nameless 96 people\" angered Grenfell United\n\nIn a final statement at the end of his evidence, Lord Pickles said \"ultimately it comes down to the nameless 96 people who were killed in the Grenfell fire\".\n\nHowever 71 people died as a direct result of the fire and a further death was later linked to it. All have been named.\n\nThe statement prompted an angry response from Grenfell United, which represents many bereaved, survivors and residents affected by the fire, which said his \"disrespect\" had left members speechless.\n\n\"His utter disregard for what happened and to those no longer with us is horrifying, given that he had the ability as minister of housing to reform building safety,\" Grenfell United said.\n\nLord Pickles delayed improvements to the building regulations that were recommended following a previous fatal fire in south London. The changes had not been made by the time of the Grenfell disaster in June 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is coming to the end of a phase examining the role of the government and will next look at the way it handled the aftermath of the fire in west London.\n\nIt is expected to finish later this year and report in 2023.\n\nA police investigation is also ongoing, and once the inquiry reports, is expected to recommend criminal charges to the Crown Prosecution Service.", "Hospitals are under \"enormous strain\", with growing numbers so busy they are having to divert ambulances to other sites because they are unable to cope.\n\nOver the past week, 20 NHS Accident and Emergency departments in England issued diverts, with patients taken elsewhere.\n\nThose A&E departments still taking new patients have seen long delays, with more than 25% of ambulances waiting at least 30 minutes to handover patients.\n\nHospital bosses said they were \"very concerned\" about the situation.\n\nAll areas of the country are facing huge pressures, but NHS bosses in West Yorkshire and the south central area of England - covering Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire and Berkshire - have reported particularly severe strain.\n\nThe pressures are being partly caused by the high number of Covid patients currently in hospital. This week numbers across England have exceeded 16,000, rising to 20,000 once other nations in the UK are included.\n\nCurrent figures are close to the total seen in first Covid wave, in spring 2020 - although more than half of those patients are in hospital for other reasons, but happen to have Covid as well.\n\nThis second Omicron wave is being driven by BA. 2, an off-shoot of the Omicron variant that first hit the UK at the end of last year.\n\nBut hospitals are also said to be seeing rising number of people coming forward for other conditions, including flu.\n\nSimilar levels of diverts and delays have been seen on a weekly basis since the turn of the year.\n\nTo put the pressures in context: the current delays being seen at A&E departments are worse than those seen in the winter before the pandemic hit, which was considered the most challenging winter for many years.\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said: \"We're very concerned about the real pressures across the whole health and care system.\n\n\"A very high number of hospital beds are occupied, and combined with staff absences and severe workforce shortages, this means that trusts can't recover care backlogs as quickly as they want to.\n\n\"Ambulance services are doing everything they can in these extremely difficult circumstances, but the extra pressures are leading to growing delays to handovers to busy emergency departments.\n\n\"This means that ambulances aren't able to get back out into the community as quickly as they would like.\"\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the figures sum up \"just how busy NHS staff currently are\".\n\nHe said bed occupancy was at very high levels, while staff sickness absences had been growing for 10 weeks.\n\nHe urged those eligible to come forward for their spring Covid boosters.", "McKee also illustrated some of the later Paddington Bear books\n\nDavid McKee, the children's author and illustrator known for the Mr Benn series, has died at the age of 87.\n\nThe Devon-born writer, who also created Elmer the Patchwork Elephant and Not Now, Bernard, sold more than 10 million books around the world.\n\nIn a statement, his publisher Andersen Press announced the \"beloved\" author's death \"with great sadness\".\n\n\"All at Andersen Press hope his spirit lives on for many more generations through his joyful, heartfelt stories.\"\n\nMr Benn was put on a British postage stamp in 2014\n\nMcKee's character Mr Benn famously wore a black suit and bowler hat and went on a series of adventures.\n\nIn each story, Mr Benn visited a fancy dress store and tried on a different outfit, before leaving the shop through a magic door and going on a journey related to his costume.\n\nThe concept was later adapted as an animated television series, originally transmitted by the BBC in the early 1970s.\n\nElmer the Patchwork Elephant was also made into a TV series, as well as a stage play.\n\nMcKee also illustrated books written by other authors, such as some of the later Paddington Bear books and Forrest Wilson's Super Gran.\n\nTributes have been paid by fans and fellow writers, including Philip Ardagh, who said it was \"very sad news\".\n\nAuthor and illustrator James Mayhew said McKee was \"such a gentle, modest, generous man, who leaves an astonishing legacy, covering themes of acceptance & pacifism, as relevant today as ever\".\n\nFred Blunt wrote on Twitter: \"He has been an inspiration to me for as long as I can remember.\"\n\nThe Centre for Literacy in Primary Education tweeted that \"his contributions to children's literature are such a wonderful legacy to leave behind\".\n\nChildren's charity Kidscape commented: \"His books highlighted diversity & inclusivity & he will be missed.\"\n\nChildren's book reviewer Imogen Russell Williams said McKee's \"work, full of bold flat colour and subversive wit, is simply unforgettable\", and had \"enriched small readers for decades\".\n\nAustralian TV personality and children's book blogger Brydon Coverdale said he was \"a wonderfully creative man\".\n• None The evolution of Elmer the Elephant", "Land warfare analyst Nick Reynolds, who works for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank, has been filling us in on what the next few weeks of the war in Ukraine might look like, as Russia shifts its focus to the area in the south and east known as the Donbas.\n\nWas Ukraine's foreign minister accurate when he said the fighting in the Donbas could be reminiscent of World War Two?\n\n“Yes I think that’s accurate,\" Reynolds said. \"With all the forces freed up from the north of Ukraine… we’re going to see a clash of arms on European soil that hasn’t been seen for generations.\"\n\nCould Ukraine actually take back territory?\n\nThere are a lot of unknown factors here, Reynolds says.\n\nMany Ukrainians will be buoyed up by the withdrawal of Russian forces in the north, but in the south and east “the map has still been slowly turning red”, he says, and that's even before any reinforcements have arrived from the north.\n\nSo Russia certainly still has some forwards momentum in the south and east, he says.\n\nHow much difference could Western arms make?\n\nThe weapons Western countries have so far sent to Ukraine have been game-changing but Nato has handed over a \"significant amount of its stocks - and that supply was finite\", Reynolds says.\n\nWestern arms will be \"absolutely essential\" in the coming weeks but it's hard to know how they can get them to where they need to go, he adds.\n\nRamping up industrial production of sophisticated weapons such as Javelins, NLAWs and Stingers is not easy, he says, as they have complex supply chains, He believes Western governments are struggling to keep up with demand.\n\nSwitchblade drones could “start to change things on the ground within a short timeframe” – but there’s “very little else” that could do so, he adds.", "Putin and his family were shown in this 2002 picture, which hid their identities\n\nRussia's President, Vladimir Putin, has always been guarded when it comes to questions over his family.\n\nIn 2015, during one of his marathon news conferences, he dodged questions about his daughter's identities.\n\n\"My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them,\" he said. \"They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone.\"\n\n\"Every person has a right for their fate, they live their own life and do it with dignity,\" he added.\n\nHe might not want to name them, but others have. The latest round of US sanctions has targeted Maria Vorontsova, 36, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35.\n\n\"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them,\" one US official said.\n\nWhile little has been officially confirmed about President Putin's family life, documents, media reports and the occasional public pronouncement are enough to provide a portrait of the pair.\n\nThe two are the daughters of President Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila. The pair married in 1983 when she was a flight attendant and he a KGB officer. Their marriage lasted 30 years, spanning Mr Putin's rapid rise to the top of Russia's political system.\n\nIn 2013, they split. Mr Putin said \"it was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life\". She said he was \"completely drowned in work\".\n\nTheir eldest, Maria Vorontsova, was born in 1985. She studied biology at St Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University.\n\nMaria Vorontsova is an academic and businesswoman\n\nMrs Vorontsova is now an academic, specialising in the endocrine system. She co-wrote a book on stunted growth in children, and is listed as a researcher at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow.\n\nShe's also a businesswoman. BBC Russia identified her as co-owner of a company planning to build a massive medical centre.\n\nMrs Vorontsova is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, who once worked at Russian state energy giant Gazprom, although they have reportedly separated.\n\nPeople who have spoken to her since the Ukraine invasion say she supports her father, and has cast doubt over international reporting of the conflict.\n\nCompared to her sister, Katerina Tikhonova has been much more in the public eye, not least due to her talents as a rock n' roll dancer. She and her partner came fifth at an international event in 2013.\n\nMs Tikhonova has assumed a public role without being called President Putin's daughter\n\nThat same year, she married Kirill Shamalov, the son of a long-time friend of President Putin. Their wedding was held at an exclusive ski resort near St Petersburg. Workers there said the couple arrived on a sleigh drawn by three white horses.\n\nMr Shamalov was sanctioned by the US in 2018 for his role in Russia's energy sector. The US Treasury said that \"his fortunes drastically improved following the marriage\". The pair have since split.\n\nFollowing the invasion of Ukraine, two Russian activists were arrested for occupying a luxury villa in Biarritz said to be owned by Mr Shamalov.\n\nMs Tikhonova is now in academia and business. She made a brief appearance on Russian state media in 2018 to talk about neurotechnology and also at a business forum in 2021. In neither cases was her relationship to the president mentioned.\n\nNeither woman is said to spend a lot of time with President Putin.\n\nMr Putin also has grandchildren. He mentioned them at a phone-in in 2017, but did not say how many he had or which of his daughters had them.\n\n\"Regarding my grandchildren, one is already in nursery school. Please understand, I don't want them to grow up like some kind of royal princes. I want them to grow up like normal people,\" he said.", "A Home Office minister has said he \"has not seen any feuding\" between government departments over how to deal with Ukrainian refugees.\n\nLord Harrington insisted \"raised voices\" in meetings were the result of a desire shared by all ministers to \"do the same thing\" and help people.\n\nHe also revealed that 29,000 visas had been issued to Ukrainians, with around 65,000 applications received so far.\n\nBut Labour said the government had to \"step up to the plate\".\n\nSeveral newspapers have reported that Home Secretary Priti Patel and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss have argued over how to clear a backlog of Ukrainian refugees' applications, amid reports that only \"hundreds\" of people have so far made it to the UK.\n\nThe BBC understands that HM Revenue and Customs and Department for Work and Pensions staff are now helping with the processing of Ukrainian refugees.\n\nA Home Office source said a \"cross-government effort\" was under way.\n\nLord Harrington, making his maiden speech since becoming a minister, said during a Lords debate: \"I've not seen this feuding between departments that's reported.\"\n\nHe told peers he had attended meetings with Home Secretary Priti Patel and Housing and Communities Secretary Michael Gove, among others, adding: \"I've seen raised voices because we are all trying to do the same thing, but not [because we are angry] with each other...\n\n\"What happens behind closed doors, I couldn't possibly know... I've not experienced [feuding] myself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLord Harrington said the immediate vetting of refugees should, at most, include passport checks, verifying whether people are on criminal watch lists, checking whether children travelling with adults are actually theirs, and checking whether sponsors have criminal records - the last two designed to prevent people trafficking.\n\n\"That's really it,\" he added, saying that \"it's taken too long to do it\" so far.\n\nThe government is operating two schemes to help Ukrainians displaced by Russia's invasion to come to the UK - involving living with family members already in the country or sponsorship by other hosts.\n\nFor Labour, shadow Home Office minister Lord Coaker said: \"There's a bureaucratic mess here and a bureaucratic quagmire and it needs to be sorted out.\n\n\"The British people want better from their government... They want their government to step up to the plate.\"\n\nThe United Nations says 4.28 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded in late February.\n\nOf these, neighbouring Poland has taken almost 2.5 million.", "The sound of Russian artillery grew louder as we drove to a Ukrainian frontline position in Luhansk. The rumble of shelling interspersed with the occasional burst of small arms fire. We were within 500 metres of the Russian positions.\n\nThis may be a conflict in the 21st century but, at times, with its maze of trenches, it feels more like something from the First World War.\n\nRussia's military offensive in eastern Ukraine is already intensifying. You can see it in the long queues of traffic driving west towards relative safety; you can feel it in the deserted streets as you drive through the towns and cities of the Donbas; and you can hear it with the increasing sound of Russian artillery.\n\nRussia is redeploying more of its forces from northern to eastern Ukraine. The objective is to step up the battle in the Luhansk and Donetsk - parts of which were already controlled by Russian backed separatists. Russia will take advantage of its shorter supply lines - something which proved a problem in its failed offensive on the capital Kyiv.\n\nA maze of trenches makes the front line feel like something from the First World War\n\nRussia and its proxies now control around 90% of Luhansk and more than half of Donetsk - the old industrial heartlands of Ukraine. There is smoke rising across a landscape already scarred by mining and factories.\n\nUkrainian forces have been fighting a war here for the past eight years. Their units include some of the country's most battle hardened troops. Western officials say Ukrainian forces stationed in the Donbas are the best trained and equipped units.\n\nAs the Russian offensive pushes from the north, east and south there is a real danger they may soon be encircled and cut off.\n\nUkraine has already lost ground to Russia. But they are digging in for the fight. As we travelled east towards the frontline we saw new defensive positions and trenches being dug.\n\nAnatoly, a 52-year-old soldier, peered through a periscope from his trench to view the Russian positions. He told me \"I see the Russians, they look like me\".\n\nBut he was ready to hold the line. He said \"if they try to take our position, I will kill them. If I don't kill them, they will kill me. It's the rules of war.\"\n\nMost of the men we talked to believed that their well-prepared trenches and defences will give them the upper hand against the invaders.\n\nAndrej, a 27-year-old soldier, was kept company in his gloomy dug out by his pet dog Lucifer. He told me \"we have good weapons and good fortifications and if Russia attacks us here they will lose\".\n\nWestern nations have supplied Ukraine with over 17,000 javelin\n\nThe troops say they've been supplied with western weapons such as javelin anti-tank missiles. They were grateful, but were hoping for more.\n\nAndrej said that President Putin is a \"psycho\" but he added that his dead Russian soldiers would be good fertiliser for the soil.\n\nThe troops looked weary from the fighting, but all said morale was high.\n\nRoman, a deputy commander, had spent four years studying psychology at Lviv University. As well as fighting he was able to offer his men mental health support.\n\nBut he said \"usually people don't need my help. They have a good motivation for fighting for their family, friends and home, unlike the Russians\", who he dismissively described as \"zombies\".\n\nRoman says his troops are ready for a fight with regrouping Russian soldiers\n\nThe Ukrainian troops are all well aware that Russia is redeploying more forces to the east. They know that worse is to come.\n\nBut Roman believes that Ukraine's forces are more tactically astute. He said that Russia's military doctrine had not progressed since World War Two, relying on artillery.\n\nThat Russian artillery though is already forcing tens of thousands of people to leave their homes.", "A security guard at the British embassy in Berlin suspected of spying for Russia has been extradited to appear in court charged with nine offences under the Official Secrets Act.\n\nDavid Ballantyne Smith, 57, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe UK national was arrested by German police on 10 August.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have happened between October 2020 and August 2021.\n\nMr Smith, who had been living in Potsdam, in Germany, was flown back to the UK on Wednesday ahead of his appearance at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the nine charges related to the collection and communication of information useful to the Russian state.\n\nNick Price, head of the special crime and counter terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said Mr Smith was accused of seven offences of collecting information with the intent of sending it to the Russian authorities, one of attempting communication and one of providing information to a person he believed was a member of the Russian authorities.\n\nHe said the CPS had worked closely with its German counterparts to bring Mr Smith back to the UK after obtaining an extradition warrant.", "The US has imposed sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle, including his daughters.\n\nThe list also includes the family of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and major banks.\n\nThe measures follow new revelations of atrocities by Russian troops in Ukraine, including images of bodies of civilians scattered on the streets of Bucha, near the capital Kyiv.\n\nRussia says, without evidence, the images are staged by Kyiv officials.\n\nEven though satellite images have shown the civilians were killed when Russians were in control of Bucha, Mr Putin on Wednesday described the event as a \"crude and cynical provocation by the Kyiv regime\".\n\nReferring to the Bucha murders, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday: \"There's nothing less happening than major war crimes.\"\n\n\"Responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable,\" Mr Biden added.\n\nThe US said that Mr Putin's daughters, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, were being put under sanctions \"for being the adult children of Putin, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked\".\n\nThe announcement described Ms Tikhonova as \"a tech executive whose work supports the GoR [Russian government] and defense industry\".\n\nHer sister, Ms Vorontsova, it went on, \"leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin\".\n\nAsked why the US was targeting Mr Putin's daughters, a senior Biden administration official said the US thought they could be in control of some of their father's assets.\n\n\"We have reason to believe that Putin, and many of his cronies, and the oligarchs, hide their wealth, hide their assets, with family members that place their assets and their wealth in the US financial system, and also many other parts of the world,\" the official said.\n\n\"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them.\"\n\nThe US sanctions announced by the White House include:\n\nMeanwhile the UK has announced further sanctions against eight oligarchs and Russian banks, including the country's largest, Sberbank, and Credit Bank of Moscow.\n\nThe European Union is also debating cutting off Russian coal imports as concern over alleged war crimes increases.\n\nBefore the new raft of sanctions was announced in Washington, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he could not \"tolerate any indecisiveness\".\n\nSpeaking to the Irish parliament on Wednesday, he said there was still a need to convince some in Europe who believe \"war and war crimes are not as horrific as financial losses\" to back tougher sanctions.\n\nHe added that \"Russian oil cannot feed the Russian military machine\", with Ukraine's foreign minister arguing on Twitter that an embargo on gas and oil was needed to truly impact Russia's ability to finance the war.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky urged more action when speaking to Irish lawmakers on Wednesday\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's chief diplomat, separately acknowledged on Wednesday that the one billion euros ($1.09bn; £833m) Europe spent on Russian energy every day put into sharp perspective the billion euros given to Ukraine in military assistance since the start of the invasion.\n\nSome European member states, including Germany, are heavily reliant on Russian energy and had been reluctant to directly target the sector.\n\nHowever, in a first, the European Commission proposed a potential ban on imports of Russian coal on Tuesday, which must be agreed by all 27 members. Europe buys around €4bn ($4.4bn; £3.3bn) worth of coal from Moscow every year.\n\nSentiment appeared to change after evidence of Russian war crimes emerged, with French President Emmanuel Macron joining calls for a ban on coal earlier this week.\n\nThe ban was suggested ahead of a range of sanctions set to be announced in coordination with the US and other G7 nations.\n\nEU officials say sanctions on Russian imports of coal and oil are definitely being considered\n\nEuropean member states are also expected to impose a \"full transaction ban\" on four Russian banks and ban a range of other Russian and Belarusian imports, including wood, cement, seafood and liquor, worth €5.5 billion ($6bn; £4.59bn).\n\nAnd Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said she intends to close EU ports to Russian vessels and ban Russian and Belarusian road transport operators from the region.\n\nMs Von der Leyen accused Russia of \"waging a cruel and ruthless war\" against Ukrainian civilians and said the EU must \"sustain utmost pressure on Putin and the Russian government at this critical point\".\n\nBut Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Tuesday evening criticized the EU's proposed sanctions package, calling it a \"feeble response\" which is \"an invitation for more atrocities.\"\n\n\"Coal, four banks…a ban on ports and borders (with exceptions) is not really an adequate sanctions package to the massacres that are being uncovered,\" Mr Landsbergis wrote on Twitter.", "Sabina Nessa was on her way to meet a friend when she was murdered\n\nThe family of murdered primary school teacher Sabina Nessa has branded her killer a \"disgusting animal\" and a \"coward\" at his sentencing hearing, which he refused to attend.\n\nKoci Selamaj, 36, beat and strangled the 28-year-old as she walked through Cator Park, south London, in September.\n\nSelamaj, who did not know Ms Nessa, pleaded guilty to murder in February.\n\nMs Nessa's sister Jabina Islam called Selamaj an \"awful human\". Sentencing at the Old Bailey was adjourned to Friday.\n\nSpeaking in court, Ms Islam labelled Selamaj a \"coward\" for not facing up to his crime at the hearing.\n\nShe said: \"You are an awful human being and do not deserve your name to be said. You are a disgusting animal.\"\n\nShe said her sister was an \"amazing role model\" who was \"powerful, fearless, bright and just an amazing soul\".\n\nMs Islam described being haunted by images of what her sister went through in her last moments.\n\nMs Nessa's parents, Abdur Rouf and Azibun Nessa, said in a statement: \"You had no right to take her away from us in such a cruel way.\n\n\"The moment the police officer came to our house and told her she was found dead our world shattered into pieces.\n\n\"How could you do such a thing to an innocent girl walking by, minding her own business?\n\n\"You are not a human being, you are an animal.\"\n\nThe head teacher where their daughter had worked said the school was in \"utter shock\" and described Ms Nessa as a \"happy, hard-working\" teacher who had a \"fulfilling career ahead of her\".\n\nKoci Selamaj, who had no previous convictions, also took a rolling pin to the murder scene\n\nMs Nessa had left her home on 17 September to meet a friend at a bar when she was targeted by Selamaj, who was said to have driven to London from his home in Eastbourne to carry out \"a predatory attack on a stranger\".\n\nThe court heard the Albanian national carried out the murder with \"extreme violence\", prosecutor Alison Morgan QC said. The court heard the murder involved a sexual or sadistic element.\n\nCCTV footage played in court showed Selamaj had spotted Ms Nessa and checked to see if there was anyone else around.\n\nHe then ran towards his victim and struck her 34 times using a metal traffic triangle.\n\nThe defendant then carried her away unconscious before strangling her in the park in Kidbrooke and removing her tights and underwear. He then tried to cover her body in grass, the court heard.\n\nHe disposed of the weapon in a river on his way back to Eastbourne.\n\nHundreds attended a vigil for the 28-year-old teacher in the days after her murder\n\nThree days before the attack, he booked a room at the five-star Grand Hotel in Eastbourne.\n\nMs Morgan suggested the booking of a room at the hotel near his home was \"indicative of his premeditation to have some kind of sexual encounter that evening\".\n\nOn the day of the attack, Selamaj met his former partner, who told the court he appeared \"very agitated\" when they met at his car near the hotel.\n\nShe said: \"I think that he wanted to have sex in the car. I don't know what was bothering him, but he was very agitated.\"\n\nShe refused to join him on the back seat and left, the court was told.\n\nSupporters from the Sabina Project attended the hearing at the Old Bailey\n\nHead teacher Lisa Williams also described the \"devastating\" impact the primary school teacher's murder had had on pupils.\n\nHer class of 30 students \"will never be able to comprehend why someone murdered their teacher and the world in which they live is not safe for them to play in a park,\" she said in a statement.\n\nSelamaj initially refused to comment in police interviews but when he was charged, he asked: \"What will happen if I open up now and say everything?\"\n\nIn mitigation, Lewis Power QC said Selamaj's family, who had attended court, were in \"shock and total disbelief\".\n\nHe said his client had provided no explanation for why he murdered Ms Nessa, adding: \"He simply accepts that he did it.\"\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said the \"inevitable\" sentence would be life in prison, with a starting point for a minimum term of 30 years.\n\nSentencing is expected to take place on Friday.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Counting votes in Glasgow during the 2019 general election\n\nThe government has been defeated in the House of Lords over its plans to introduce photo ID for voters in elections.\n\nPeers voted by 199 to 170 to widen the range of documents a person could present to get a ballot paper.\n\nThe government will now have to decide whether or not to try to overturn the vote in the House of Commons.\n\nMinisters argue photo ID would tackle voter fraud but critics warn it would discourage some people from voting.\n\nThe vote came during a debate of the Elections Bill which makes changes to the running of UK parliamentary elections, local council elections in England and police and crime commissioner elections in England and Wales.\n\nThe bill's measure requiring people to show an approved form of photo ID before voting would fulfil a manifesto promise made by the government but it has proved controversial.\n\nConservative former minister Lord Willetts proposed an amendment which said voters should be allowed to use documents including library cards and workplace or student ID cards to prove their identity.\n\nThe government says that under its plans people without an approved form of ID would be able to get a free voter card from the council, however Lord Willetts said it would be cheaper to broaden the range of acceptable forms of identification.\n\nHe expressed concern that \"hundreds of voters per constituency\" could be turned away from polling stations at the next election.\n\n\"Imagine if the outcome of the next election is a modest majority... where throughout the day the media story has been voters being turned away from polling stations,\" he said.\n\n\"That seems to me a very significant political and constitutional risk that does need to be taken into account if this measure is introduced.\"\n\nLabour's Baroness Hayman supported his amendment, arguing it would \"help to mitigate against the serious concerns about the impact of photographic voter identification on turnout\".\n\nCabinet Office minister Lord True argued against Lord Willetts' amendment saying many of the proposed alternative forms of ID did not include a photo and so could not \"provide the appropriate level of proof that the bearer is who they say they are\".\n\nIndependent crossbench peer Lord Woolley of Woodford - founder of Operation Black Vote, a campaign to boost voter registration - wanted to remove the ID proposals altogether arguing that instances of voter fraud were very low.\n\nOnce the House of Lords have finished scrutinising the bill it will go back to MPs in the House of Commons who will decide whether to accept or reject the Lords' changes.", "The Fermilab Collider Detector obtained a result that could transform the current theory of physics\n\nScientists just outside Chicago have found that the mass of a sub-atomic particle is not what it should be.\n\nThe measurement is the first conclusive experimental result that is at odds with one of the most important and successful theories of modern physics.\n\nThe team has found that the particle, known as a W boson, is more massive than the theories predicted.\n\nThe result has been described as \"shocking\" by Prof David Toback, who is the project co-spokesperson.\n\nThe discovery could lead to the development of a new, more complete theory of how the Universe works.\n\n\"If the results are verified by other experiments, the world is going to look different.\" he told BBC News. \"There has to be a paradigm shift. The hope is that maybe this result is going to be the one that breaks the dam.\n\n\"The famous astronomer Carl Sagan said 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'. We believe we have that.\"\n\nThe scientists at the Fermilab Collider Detector (CDF) in Illinois have found only a tiny difference in the mass of the W Boson compared with what the theory says it should be - just 0.1%. But if confirmed by other experiments, the implications are enormous. The so-called Standard Model of particle physics has predicted the behaviour and properties of sub-atomic particles with no discrepancies whatsoever for fifty years. Until now.\n\nCDF's other co-spokesperson, Prof Giorgio Chiarelli, from INFN Sezione di Pisa, told BBC News that the research team could scarcely believe their eyes when they saw the results.\n\n\"No-one was expecting this. We thought maybe we got something wrong.\" But the researchers have painstakingly gone through their results and tried to look for errors. They found none.\n\nThe result, published in the journal Science, could be related to hints from other experiments at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider at the Swiss-French border. These, as yet unconfirmed results, also suggest deviations from the Standard Model, possibly as a result of an as yet undiscovered fifth force of nature at play.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scientists say they have found \"strong evidence\" for the existence of a new force of nature\n\nPhysicists have known for some time that the theory needs to be updated. It can't explain the presence of invisible material in space, called Dark Matter, nor the continued accelerating expansion of the Universe by a force called Dark Energy. Nor can it explain gravity.\n\nDr Mitesh Patel of Imperial College, who works at the LHC, believes that if the Fermilab result is confirmed, it could be the first of many new results that could herald the biggest shift in our understanding of the Universe since Einstein's theories of relativity more than a hundred years ago.\n\n\"The hope is that these cracks will turn into chasms and eventually we will see some spectacular signature that not only confirms that the Standard Model has broken down as a description of nature, but also give us a new direction to help us understand what we are seeing and what the new physics theory looks like.\n\n\"If this holds, there have to be new particles and new forces to explain how to make these data consistent\".\n\nBased on a 2,700-hectare site near Chicago, Fermilab is America's premier particle physics lab\n\nBut the excitement in the physics community is tempered with a loud note of caution. Although the Fermilab result is the most accurate measurement of the mass of the W boson to date, it is at odds with two of the next most accurate measurements from two separate experiments which are in line with the Standard Model.\n\n\"This will ruffle some feathers\", says Prof Ben Allanach, a theoretical physicist at Cambridge University.\n\n\"We need to know what is going on with the measurement. The fact that we have two other experiments that agree with each other and the Standard Model and strongly disagree with this experiment is worrying to me\".\n\nAll eyes are now on the Large Hadron Collider which is due to restart its experiments after a three-year upgrade. The hope is that these will provide the results which will lay the foundations for a new more complete theory of physics.\n\n\"Most scientists will be a little bit cautious,\" says Dr Patel.\n\n\"We've been here before and been disappointed, but we are all secretly hoping that this is really it, and that in our lifetime we might see the kind of transformation that we have read about in history books.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US supplied anti-tank Javelin missiles unloaded in Kyiv in February\n\nUkraine says it urgently needs more weapons from its Western allies to defend itself against Russia.\n\nForeign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told a Nato meeting that more atrocities against civilians could happen if Ukraine doesn't get more military aid.\n\nNato chief Jens Stoltenberg said members of the alliance had agreed more support for Ukraine.\n\nRussia has warned that \"pumping weapons into Ukraine\" will have a \"negative effect\" on peace talks.\n\nMr Kuleba said he was looking for \"weapons, weapons and weapons\", but he added that Ukraine was offering Nato a \"fair deal\".\n\n\"You provide us with everything that we need, and we will fight for our security but also for your security, so that President Putin will have no chance to test Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty,\" he said.\n\nArticle 5 is the key part of the Nato treaty that says that an attack on one Nato country is considered an attack on all.\n\n\"Either you help us now - and I'm speaking about days, not weeks, or your help will come too late, and many people will die, many civilians will lose their homes, many villages will be destroyed,\" Mr Kuleba said.\n\nUkraine is not a part of Nato but has been receiving military aid from its members.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said members of the alliance were prepared to increase support.\n\n\"After the invasion, allies stepped up with additional military support, with more military equipment, and it was a clear message from the meeting today that allies should do more and are ready to do more to provide more equipment, and they realise and recognise the urgency,\" he said.\n\n\"We are closely coordinating and discussing these issues with Ukraine, so allies are providing and are willing to do more when it comes to military support.\"\n\nOver 30 countries including the UK have provided military aid to Ukraine, including €1bn (£800m) from the EU and $1.7bn (£1.3bn) from the US.\n\nSo far Western supplies have been limited to arms, ammunition, and defensive equipment like anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems.\n\nUkrainian forces being trained in Kyiv to use an NLAW anti-tank missile\n\nNato members fear that supplying Ukraine with heavier offensive equipment like tanks and fighter jets could lead to direct open conflict between Russia and the alliance.\n\nRussia warned on Thursday that the supply of weapons to Ukraine is harming any prospect of ending the war.\n\n\"Pumping weapons into Ukraine will not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian talks,\" Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, referring to the peace negotiations between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking at Nato's headquarters ahead of Thursday's meeting, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said \"in the face of Putin's appalling aggression...we are stepping up our supply of weapons to Ukraine.\"\n\nMs Truss is yet to detail what those supplies will include, but the Times newspaper has reported that the UK is preparing to supply Kyiv with armoured vehicles.\n\nIt comes after reports this week that the Czech Republic is sending Soviet-era tanks to help Ukrainian forces, which if confirmed would make it the first Nato country to do so.\n\nAre you or your family affected by the war in Ukraine? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Met Police accept 15 recommendations made by the Independent Office for Police Conduct\n\nThe Met Police has vowed to \"root out people who do not belong in the force\" following an investigation into harassment and racism in a police unit.\n\nThe police watchdog discovered \"disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination and sexual harassment in a police unit based at Charing Cross police station.\n\nFollowing the investigation, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) made 15 recommendations.\n\nThe force has accepted all of the recommendations.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said the proposals will \"drive forward lasting change\".\n\nMr Javid said: \"Like so many people I was disgusted to see officers involved in sharing deeply offensive and discriminatory messages. Their behaviour was unacceptable.\n\n\"We are determined to root out people who don't share our values and don't belong in the Met.\n\n\"As we do this, unfortunately, we will continue to see more cases where officers and staff fail to uphold our expectations of them.\"\n\nBas Javid said while the IOPC had recognised steps had already been taken to improve culture and standards, \"it's clear we still have a large amount of work to do\"\n\nOfficers were found to have joked about rape and exchanged offensive social media messages.\n\nMost officers investigated were police constables and based at the Charing Cross station, the IOPC said.\n\nThe inquiry was launched in March 2018 into nine linked independent investigations concerning serving police officers from the Met.\n\nInvestigations began after an officer allegedly had sex with a vulnerable woman in a room inside a London police station, the IOPC said - although this allegation was never proven.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said he \"felt ashamed and disappointed\" by the actions of officers based at the Charing Cross station\n\nThe force said it would commit to zero-tolerance on racism, misogyny, bullying and harassment.\n\nIn line with the recommendations, the force made a public commitment to being an anti-racist organisation.\n\nOther recommendations included making sure future investigations into bullying and harassment were \"suitably independent\".\n\nIOPC regional director Sal Naseem said: \"We welcome the Met's full acceptance of our recommendations and the programme of work it has announced to create a better working environment and improve the service for the communities it serves in London.\"\n\nOf the 14 officers investigated, two were dismissed for gross misconduct and put on the barred list, preventing future employment with the police.\n\nAnother two resigned and several others faced disciplinary action, the IOPC said.\n\nNine are still serving with the force, while another is working as a contractor in a staff role.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has published its long-awaited strategy for increasing the UK's energy independence.\n\nThe blueprint aims to move away from Russian oil and gas, and boost renewable energy sources.\n\nMinisters are also under pressure to help tackle soaring energy bills facing consumers, amid rising gas prices.\n\nThe document has been delayed amid wrangling over the contents. So what's in it?\n\nThe strategy contains an ambition to deliver up to eight new nuclear reactors before 2030, including two at Sizewell in Suffolk.\n\nThe government wants nuclear to supply 24 gigawatts (GW) of electricity by 2050 - around 25% of the UK's predicted energy demand.\n\nThe UK currently has 15 reactors that can supply about 20% of demand - with most due to cease operating before the end of the decade.\n\nThirteen new reactors are at various stages of development, but funding and approving new sites has presented major challenges in recent years.\n\nA new government body - called Great British Nuclear - will be set up to oversee the delivery of new nuclear plants.\n\nThe government also recently acquired new powers to finance new projects by allowing developers to add costs to customers' bills during construction.\n\nMinisters argue this will prove less expensive for energy customers than current funding models, where these costs can only be added after a station starts generating electricity.\n\nOffshore wind is also a big part of the plans - with a new target to generate 50GW of energy by 2030.\n\nMinisters hope around a tenth of this could come from turbines based on floating structures, which can be positioned further from the shore.\n\nThe government has vowed to relax planning rules to speed up the approvals process from four years to one, and set up a fast-track approvals process for \"priority\" projects.\n\nA senior source has also told the BBC that Boris Johnson wants to appoint a \"Kate-Bingham like\" figure to oversee new projects - a reference to the venture capitalist who led a government taskforce on Covid vaccines.\n\nThere will be no new target, however, for onshore wind - which has proved unpopular with some Tory activists and MPs.\n\nThe government has pledged it will not make \"wholesale changes\" to planning laws in England for onshore sites, which were tightened in 2015.\n\nInstead, it will consult a \"limited number of supportive communities\" about hosting new sites, in exchange for guaranteed discounts on energy bills.\n\nLabour has accused the prime minister of \"caving\" to his backbenchers, and not doing enough to boost new onshore sites.\n\nThere will be a licensing round this summer for new North Sea oil and gas projects, and a taskforce set up to support new developments.\n\nMinisters say they don't want to burn more gas, but instead produce more of it domestically while they transition to renewables.\n\nAlongside the strategy, a new scientific study has also been commissioned into fracking - the process of extracting shale gas from the ground.\n\nThe controversial practice has been subjected to a UK ban since 2019, amid fierce local opposition and fears of earth tremors - but some Tory MPs have been pushing for it to be lifted.\n\nThe business secretary says the war in Ukraine means it is right to look at \"all possible domestic energy sources\".\n\nKwasi Kwarteng pledged the ban on fracking would remain in place in England unless scientific evidence showed it is safe and causes \"minimal disturbance\" to nearby residents.\n\nThere's an ambition to increase the UK's current 14GW solar capacity fivefold by 2035.\n\nPlanning laws in England will be reviewed to promote the development of new solar farms on non-protected land.\n\nA consultation will also look at how to make it easier to put solar panels on rooftops, including on public buildings.\n\nSupporters of solar say a new generation of farms could provide a source of renewable energy to power hundreds of thousands of homes.\n\nBut plans for new farms have faced local resistance, with a number of Conservative MPs also voicing their opposition.\n\nThe strategy contains a target to double UK hydrogen production to 10GW by 2030.\n\nThe ambition is that at least half of this will come from electrolytic hydrogen - where electricity is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.\n\nThis process of producing the gas can be greener than the most common production route used at the moment, by reacting natural gas with steam.\n\nLow-carbon hydrogen production in the UK is still at an early stage, with hopes that advances in technology can reduce costs.\n\nThe target to boost production, however, comes with a caveat - it is \"subject to affordability and value for money\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussian troops were heard discussing killing civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, in messages intercepted by German intelligence, German media say.\n\nDer Spiegel magazine says some of the radio traffic tracked by the BND intelligence agency appears to match locations of bodies just outside Kyiv.\n\nThe BND has so far made no public comments on the issue.\n\nUkraine says more than 300 civilians were killed by the Russians in Bucha - Moscow denies any involvement.\n\nRecent images of Bucha streets strewn with bodies have shocked the international community. Some of the victims appeared to have been shot in the back of the head after their hands were tied.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of genocide, an accusation flatly rejected by Moscow.\n\nWarning: This piece contains graphic images which some may find upsetting.\n\nBucha was seized by Russian troops soon after President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.\n\nAfter more than a month, the Russians eventually withdrew from Bucha, and Ukrainian forces soon entered the town.\n\nWorkers have been removing civilians' bodies found on the streets of Bucha into body bags\n\nThe BND's intelligence was shared with German parliamentarians during a briefing on Wednesday, Der Spiegel reported on Thursday.\n\nIn one intercepted radio message, the magazine said, Russian soldiers appeared to be talking about interrogating people and then shooting them.\n\nIn another, a soldier talked about shooting someone on a bike, which appeared to match a notorious photo showing a dead cyclist in Bucha.\n\nAccording to Spiegel, the intercepts also appeared to indicate that mercenaries from Russia's private Wagner group played a key role in the Bucha killings.\n\nAn unnamed security source told Reuters news agency: \"It's true that the [German] federal government has indications of Russian perpetration in Bucha\".\n\n\"However, these findings on Bucha refer to satellite images. The radio transmissions cannot be clearly assigned to Bucha.\"\n\nRussia says its forces withdrew from Bucha on 30 March. The Ukrainians say this happened in the early hours of 31 March.\n\nOn 1 April, footage was posted filmed from a car driving through the town which showed bodies on either side of a road.\n\nRussia has claimed, without providing evidence, that the footage shows \"fake dead bodies\" and it was \"staged\" after its troops had left the town.\n\nHowever, a satellite image from 19 March, first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by the BBC, directly contradicted the Russian claim.\n\nThe photo by the Maxar technology company shows objects that appear to be bodies in the exact locations where they were subsequently found by Ukrainian forces when they regained control of the town north of Kyiv.", "Stock photo of person using a mobile phone while using a bicycle\n\nA Tory politician is calling for a ban on using mobiles while on a bicycle or e-scooter, after a concerning incident with a cyclist near Parliament.\n\nBaroness McIntosh of Pickering wants a law change so cyclists are prosecuted for the offence of using a phone, in the same way that car drivers are.\n\nThere is no specific offence for a cyclist using a phone, but a minister pointed out cyclists can be prosecuted for careless or dangerous cycling.\n\nThat comes with fines of up to £2,500.\n\nBaroness McIntosh's call for a law change come after updates to the Highway Code in January which included a hierarchy of road users designed to protecting vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists.\n\nLady McIntosh questioned why Rule 149 of the code, requiring motorists to \"exercise proper control of your vehicle at all times\" and banning use of a mobile phone while driving, did not apply to cyclists and other road users.\n\nTo illustrate her point, she said she had recently been walking to the Houses of Parliament and as she was crossing the road, she suddenly became aware of a cyclist travelling towards her using a mobile phone, \"one hand bicycling, one hand on the mobile phone, on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nShe added: \"I wasn't clear whether he was going to stop or not.\"\n\nShe said some cyclists and riders of e-scooters and e-bikes and were using mobile phones \"inappropriately\" and challenged the Department for Transport on why it had not addressed the issue.\n\nThe former minister said e-scooters were \"even more of a concern\" with some people left feeling \"absolutely terrorised\" by those using them \"irresponsibly\".\n\nOf course, the use of e-scooters is totally illegal on most public roads anyway - whether or nor the owner is using a mobile phone simultaneously. They can only legitimately be used in one of the areas that is operating an official rental scheme, as part of on ongoing government trial.\n\nLady McIntosh urged the government to \"create criminal offences relating to dangerous, careless and inconsiderate cycling for those users of pedal bikes, electronically assisted bikes and e-scooters\".\n\nLady McIntosh said she had a close encounter with a cyclist using a mobile phone while she was crossing the road near the Houses of Parliament\n\nTransport minister Baroness Vere of Norbiton said existing laws already banned cyclists and e-scooter riders from using mobile phones.\n\nShe said: \"It is not a specific offence to cycle and use a mobile phone or headphones, but cyclists and e-bike riders can be prosecuted by the police for careless and dangerous cycling with maximum fines of £1,000 and £2,500 respectively.\"\n\nShe said later that the regulations in the government's current e-scooter trial already state that is an offence to use a handheld mobile phone while operating one. Rule-breakers could be fined and get six penalty points, she added.", "Assistant Chief Constable Jennifer Mattinson said there are opportunities to provide a more consistent level of service\n\nA police force is \"not effectively safeguarding children\", a watchdog has said.\n\nStaffordshire Police needs to do more to give a consistently good service for all children and some investigations are confused, a report says.\n\nThe force was criticised for its handling of some missing children cases with inspectors saying it takes too long to recognise risks and respond.\n\nThe force said it was committed to making improvements.\n\nThe inspection, by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) in September, found, overall, the force's arrangements \"aren't consistently providing a good enough response to effectively safeguard children\".\n\nStaffordshire Police said it is committed to making improvements\n\nInvestigations into sexting offences among children are also \"sometimes confused\", the report said, with evidence of investigations being given to officers who do not have the right training.\n\nOfficers do not always seize devices containing the images, which means they cannot be used for evidence or to help identify other victims., it added.\n\nHMICFRS has issued a series of recommendations including the force recognise missing children are particularly vulnerable, share information about online child abuse promptly and that officers speak to children and use that information to make decisions about their welfare.\n\nInspectors said Staffordshire Police sometimes takes too long to recognise risks and respond to cases of missing children\n\nHer Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams said the force has some areas of effective practice in child protection and it does understand the benefits of working closely with other local safeguarding organisations.\n\n\"However, Staffordshire Police urgently needs to make fundamental changes to improve many of its child protection arrangements and practices.\n\n\"While officers and staff who manage demanding child abuse cases are doing their best, some don't have enough knowledge or understanding of good child protection practice.\"\n\nStaffordshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Jennifer Mattinson said: \"Work is very much underway to address the concerns raised and it has been for some time.\"\n\nShe said new and refreshed training is being delivered to staff, with the force reviewed processes and procedures around missing children and technology being upgraded.\n\n\"We acknowledge there are opportunities to provide an improved and more consistent level of service and we are committed to supporting our staff so this can be achieved.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None More than 200 new officers to join force\n• None Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unite said police had searched the union's headquarters in Holborn, London\n\nAn employee from the Unite union is being investigated by police as part of an inquiry into allegations of bribery, fraud and money laundering.\n\nThe trade union confirmed that officers searched an unnamed employee's office at its Holborn headquarters under warrant on Wednesday.\n\nIt is understood South Wales Police were involved in the operation.\n\nThe force said it had searched a number of addresses on Wednesday as part of a joint investigation with HMRC.\n\nIt added that the addresses were in the South Wales, Metropolitan, Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales, Dyfed Powys and Northamptonshire police force areas.\n\nSouth Wales Police said that \"a number of suspects will be interviewed in due course\".\n\nUnite is one of the UK's largest trade unions, and counts over a million members among both private companies and the public sector.", "The stolen fuel was found in a tanker truck while HMS Bulwark was being refitted, said the Ministry of Defence\n\nMinistry of Defence police and navy contractors Babcock are investigating diesel theft from a naval dockyard.\n\nIt follows a report in The Sun that £250,000 of fuel was stolen from Devonport dockyard in Plymouth.\n\nThe stolen fuel was found in a tanker truck while assault ship HMS Bulwark was being refitted last September, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD).\n\nShadow Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard, Labour MP for Sutton and Devonport, said it was \"embarrassing\".\n\nThe base is the largest of its type in Europe and covers 650 acres\n\n\"The team in Babcock are investigating it,\" said an MoD spokesperson.\n\n\"It was a theft of their fuel and they have assistance from Ministry of Defence police in their investigations.\n\n\"The fuel was in a fuel lorry (tanker) which was tasked to fill a fuel tank on a generator in the navy base.\n\n\"This generator was likely to provide electricity to HMS Bulwark whilst she is in extended upkeep period.\"\n\nThe MoD said in a statement that it was \"aware of an incident last year involving the alleged theft of fuel from a contractor within HMNB Devonport\".\n\nIt continued: \"There was no disruption to defence operations and the MoD has no further comment.\"\n\nMr Pollard said: \"The theft of fuel from a Royal Navy warship is not only criminal, it takes scarce resources away from our military in a time of national crisis.\n\n\"Having such a huge amount of fuel stolen is not only embarrassing but it also raises serious questions about the security at one of our most secure naval bases.\"\n\nDevonport is the largest naval base in Western Europe and has been supporting the Royal Navy since 1691.\n\nThe site covers more than 650 acres and has 15 dry docks, four miles of waterfront, 25 tidal berths and five basins.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tesco staff are set to see pay rise to £10.10 an hour from the end of July, the supermarket giant has announced.\n\nThe UK's biggest private employer said staff wages will rise by 55p, up from £9.55 an hour, from 24 July.\n\nMeanwhile, its delivery drivers and click and collect assistants will get a 90p increase to £11 an hour.\n\nTesco's move brings it in line with Lidl and Aldi, which became the UK's highest-paying supermarkets this year with the same hourly rate.\n\nUnion Usdaw said Tesco's pay rise was \"testament\" to the hard work of staff at what it said was a \"difficult time\".\n\nThe new pay deal will be handed to workers in stores and customer fulfilment centres.\n\nLast year, Morrisons became the first UK supermarket to announce it would pay at least £10 an hour from April 2021.\n\nSainsbury's said in January it would pay shop workers at least £10 an hour, while the supermarket is expected to make a further announcement tomorrow on wages.\n\nJason Tarry, chief executive officer of Tesco UK & ROI, said employees were getting a \"well-deserved pay rise, more access to extra hours, and setting out a long-term commitment and investment in their careers at Tesco\".\n\nTesco store workers in London will get a similar increase bring their hourly pay to £10.78 per hour.\n\nAlongside pay rises, Tesco is to increase its \"colleague clubcard\" discount allowance by £500 to take the annual total allowance for all colleagues to £1,500 with immediate effect.\n\nUsdaw national officer Daniel Adams said the union was \"pleased\" to secure a pay deal that not only delivered \"the highest hourly rate of pay in the sector\", but also gave members a right to request a \"normal hours\" contract and ensured a minimum 16-hour contract in the future.\n\nTesco employs about 300,000 people in the UK, and most of them work on the shop floor.\n\nUpping the core hourly wage by an extra 55p will add £200m to the wage bill.\n\nThere's a battle to recruit and retain staff in many parts of the economy right now.\n\nAs Britain's biggest retailer, Tesco needs to stay competitive on pay. It can also afford to do so.\n\nTesco's been doing very well. It has momentum and scale in a sector that's as cut throat as it's ever been.\n\nThis move also puts pressure on other retailers as they wrestle with soaring cost increases and how much of these they can pass on to consumers.\n\nShop workers face the same cost of living pressures as everyone else and more pay deals are on the cards over the coming months.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, telecoms giant BT said it would hand its UK frontline workers a £1,500 pay rise in the company's biggest pay increase for more than 20 years.\n\nBT said the increase was \"focused on the lowest paid workers\" including engineers, contact centre staff and retail staff, and would work out as a roughly 8% increase for some.\n\nBut the offer was rejected by the Communication Workers Union. It tweeted that it had \"no choice now but to immediately prepare for a statutory industrial action ballot\".\n\nPeople in the UK are facing increased pressure from living costs, with inflation rising at its fastest rate for 30 years, driven up by surging fuel, energy and food prices.\n\nThe National Living Wage, which applies to workers over the age of 23, has increased from £8.91 per hour, to £9.50 per hour from this month. The National Minimum Wage, for those aged 21 to 22, has gone up to £9.18.\n\nThe rate at which prices rise has been forecast to reach 8.7% in the final three months of 2022.", "Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust runs both the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital\n\nDozens of families have written to the government expressing concern over a review into failing maternity units in Nottingham.\n\nA probe into Nottingham University Hospitals Trust is under way after dozens of babies died or were injured.\n\nBut families say the review is \"moving with the viscosity of treacle\".\n\nThey have called for Donna Ockenden, who led the inquiry into the UK's biggest maternity scandal, to take charge of a review.\n\nIn a letter to Health Secretary Sajid Javid, a group of 100 people raised concerns with the current thematic review, which has been commissioned by the local clinical commissioning group (CCG) and NHS England, and NHS Improvement.\n\nAccording to the CCG, the review will look at themes and trends and put in \"place detailed and measurable actions so improvements can be made fast\".\n\nBut families have questioned the independence of the review and the experience of the team to handle a probe of this magnitude.\n\nIt is chaired by Cathy Purt, a long-time NHS manager who the families believe has no experience of running complex inquiries or maternity services.\n\nThe letter states: \"If families are to be safeguarded, real intervention is required.\n\n\"The review so far has been less than impactful, understaffed and moving with the viscosity of treacle.\"\n\nThe families say the \"answer is Donna Ockenden\", who led the inquiry into the maternity scandal at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospitals Trust.\n\nSarah Hawkins gave birth to her stillborn daughter in 2016\n\nSarah Hawkins, who was awarded a £2.8m settlement after her daughter was delivered stillborn after mistakes at Nottingham City Hospital in 2016, said a review by Donna Ockenden would lead to many more affected families coming forward.\n\n\"I am confident that we will get into the thousands of families,\" she said.\n\nHer husband Jack Hawkins added: \"We need urgent change to how maternity is working in Nottingham. There are still babies coming to harm.\n\n\"Donna Ockenden knows what she's doing. She's got huge wealth of experience and expertise.\n\n\"This current team is not going to deliver what is needed.\"\n\nThe number of families taking part in the review has increased from 84 to 461 in a month, the BBC has learned.\n\nMaternity units run by the trust - which oversees care at Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre - have been rated as inadequate by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) since 2020.\n\nAn inspection found \"serious concerns\" and that some staff \"did not always understand how to keep women and babies safe\".\n\nFollowing a reinspection last month, the CQC issued a warning notice to the trust, highlighting concerns over triage services and increases in stillbirths.\n\nAt a meeting with families last week, the review team said 179 families, about half those who had been in touch at the time, had still to be contacted.\n\nThe review is expected to be completed on 30 November 2022.\n\nA spokesperson for the review (at NUH) said: \"We would like to thank all the families who have come forward so far. Families and partners will be updated shortly.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the local CCG, NHS England and NHS Improvement (which commissioned the Review at NUH) added: \"The ongoing thematic review has a dedicated team who are ensuring that the experience of women and families is heard.\n\n\"We will continue to monitor the progress of the review and ensure that any necessary improvements to maternity services are put in place.\"\n\nRupert Egginton, acting chief executive at the trust, said: \"We are doing everything in our power to ensure patients using our maternity services get the best care.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some houses at Moor Park Mews in west Belfast were evacuated during the alert\n\nA viable device has been found during a security alert in west Belfast.\n\nPolice and Army technical officers were sent to Moor Park Mews on Tuesday night following the discovery of a suspicious object.\n\nThe device has been taken away for further examination and residents who were asked to leave their homes have been allowed to return.\n\nPolice thanked local people for their patience and appealed for anyone with information to contact them.", "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has proposed a two-year ban on some foreigners buying homes.\n\nThe measure comes as the country grapples with some of the worst housing affordability issues in the world.\n\nPrices have jumped more than 20%, pushing the average home in Canada to nearly C$817,000 ($650,000; £495,000) - more than nine times household income.\n\nBut industry analysts say it's not clear a ban on foreign buyers will address the problem.\n\nData on purchases by foreign buyers in Canada is limited, but research suggests they amount for a small fraction of the market.\n\n\"I don't think it's going to have a huge impact,\" said Ben Myers, president of advisory firm Bullpenn Research & Consulting in Toronto, who found foreigners accounted for just 1% of purchases in 2020, down from 9% in 2015 and 2016.\n\n\"It's a fairly low number and let's face it, the people that really want to buy ... are going to find alternative ways to do it.\"\n\nMr Myers said the soaring housing costs reflect strong population growth and a shortage of supply, due in part to rules that restrict development.\n\nThe issues have worsened since the pandemic hit in 2020, when policymakers in Canada and elsewhere slashed interest rates to stabilise the economy, lowering borrowing costs and boosting demand even further.\n\nThe moves have fuelled the soaring housing prices seen in many markets around the world, but in Canada the disconnect between home prices and incomes is one of the most dramatic, according to OECD data.\n\nMr Trudeau pledged to tackle housing affordability during his campaign for election last year.\n\nIn addition to the temporary ban on foreign buyers, the budget proposal his government unveiled on Thursday sets aside billions to spur new construction and proposes new programmes, such as a tax-free savings account for first-time buyers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why it takes 30 years to buy a house in Canada\n\nMr Trudeau has also discussed banning certain bidding processes that favour investors, who by some measures have accounted for about one in five homes purchased in Canada since 2014.\n\nThe proposed ban on foreign buyers would exempt permanent residents and foreign students and workers, as well as those buying their primary residence.\n\nThe proposal builds on actions such as special taxes that some parts of Canada have already taken against out-of-town and foreign buyers.\n\nIn Ontario, for example, provincial Premier Doug Ford recently announced plans to raise an existing tax on foreign buyers from 15% to 20% and expand it beyond Toronto to the entire province.\n\nWhile foreign purchases are not the driver of the affordability issues, taxing them at least captures revenue that can be re-deployed to address such problems, said Steve Pomeroy, head of Focus Consulting, a housing policy firm.\n\n\"If you ban them, you don't really have much of an impact on suppressing rising home prices and you give up the revenue,\" he said.\n\n\"It's good politics because it's easy to blame a victim that nobody cares about,\" Mr Pomeroy added. \"I don't think it will have much of an impact.\"\n\nPaul Kershaw, professor at the University of British Columbia and founder of Generation Squeeze, also said he saw little in Mr Trudeau's proposal likely to slow price increases or significantly address affordability.\n\n\"It's not clear the housing measures will be sufficient to break Canada's addiction to high and rising home prices,\" he said, noting that for existing homeowners, the high prices help amass wealth.\n\nMr Pomeroy said he does expect price appreciation to slow in coming months, as the central bank raises interest rates. The Canadian housing market is particularly susceptible to such moves, since many buyers rely on five-year mortgages rather than the long-term ones common in the US and UK.\n\nBut higher interest rates will only make it less affordable for prospective buyers trying to break into the market, he warned.\n\nMr Myers said over the long-term, he expects hot markets such as Toronto and Vancouver to become dominated by renters, as regular buyers get priced out of the market, unless politicians address supply.\n\nBut Mr Pomeroy said high development costs means that adding supply will not necessarily reduce prices, unless the additions are dramatic.\n\n\"Unless you've got born into the right family ... the prospects for young buyers are quite dim,\" he said.", "Dmitry Muratov says he was attacked on a train that was due to depart Moscow to the city of Samara\n\nRussia's Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Dmitry Muratov says he has been attacked with red paint laced with the solvent acetone aboard a train.\n\n\"My eyes are burning terribly,\" said the editor of the Novaya Gazeta liberal newspaper, which has halted its operations after warning from Moscow over its Russia-Ukraine war coverage.\n\nThe male attacker shouted, \"Muratov, this is for our boys,\" he said.\n\nNovaya Gazeta is known for being highly critical of the Russian authorities.\n\nLast month, it announced it was suspending its print and online operation \"until the end of Russia's special military operation\" in Ukraine - the official term Russia's media regulator Roskomnadzor says all media outlets in the country must use. Anyone who describes Russia's actions in Ukraine as a \"war\" faces heavy fines or closures.\n\nThe incident happened on Thursday on the Moscow-Samara train, Mr Muratov said.\n\nPictures of the aftermath of the attack were published on the Telegram channel of Novaya Gazeta. Europe\n\nThe outlet has been launched by a team of journalists from Novaya Gazeta. They say it will be operating outside Russia, publishing articles in different languages.\n\nMr Muratov was co-awarded the peace prize in 2021 in recognition of his fight to defend freedom of expression in Russia.\n\nThe day after the war began, Novaya Gazeta's front page exclaimed 'Russia. Bombs. Ukraine'\n\nSince the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, restrictions on reporting have been increasingly severe in Russia, and access to almost all independent outlets is blocked or limited - or they censor themselves.\n\nRussia has also banned Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the country.\n\nA number of Russian activists and journalists speaking out against their country's invasion of Ukraine have recently had their homes vandalised by unknown pro-Kremlin figures.\n\nSince the war began, life for those who oppose it has become increasingly difficult in Russia. The government has passed a law threatening people who spread \"fake\" information about the war with 15 years in prison.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin and other politicians have painted any opposition to the war as a betrayal of the country.", "New York's top lawyer has asked a state judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court, for allegedly failing to turn over files for an investigation into his business practices.\n\nAttorney General Letitia James requested he be fined $10,000 (£7,650) per day until he complies.\n\nA judge previously ordered Mr Trump to provide the files as part of Ms James's probe into the Trump Organization.\n\nThe former president's lawyer called the motion \"frivolous\".\n\nThe New York attorney general opened a civil inquiry in 2019 into claims that - before he took office - Mr Trump had inflated the value of his assets to banks when seeking loans.\n\nMr Trump and his family have denied wrongdoing and the former president has called the inquiry a \"witch hunt\".\n\nIn February, a judge ruled that Mr Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr, 44, and daughter Ivanka Trump, 40, must answer questions under oath in the New York investigation into their business practices.\n\nThey appealed the order to appear but did not object to a separate part of the ruling that the former president comply with a subpoena \"seeking documents and information\". Those were meant to be produced by 31 March.\n\nIn court documents filed on Thursday, the New York attorney general said Mr Trump has not produced the requested documents and has raised objections \"based on grounds such as overbreadth, burden, and lack of particularity\".\n\n\"The judge's order was crystal clear: Donald J Trump must comply with our subpoena and turn over relevant documents to my office,\" Ms James said in a statement.\n\nMs James has repeatedly blamed Mr Trump for creating unnecessary delays in the legal process.\n\nMr Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, said in a statement sent to Reuters that: \"We are prepared to adamantly oppose the frivolous and baseless motion filed by the attorney general's office.\n\n\"Our client has consistently complied with the many discovery requests served by the attorney general's office over the years.\"\n\nThe civil case is separate to a Manhattan criminal investigation into the Trump Organization's practices.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sir David Attenborough seeks expert help to understand the significance of the fossil leg\n\nThe limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota.\n\nBut it's not just their exquisite condition that's turning heads - it's what these ancient specimens are purported to represent.\n\nThe claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth.\n\nThe day 66 million years ago when the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began.\n\nVery few dinosaur remains have been found in the rocks that record even the final few thousand years before the impact. To have a specimen from the cataclysm itself would be extraordinary.\n\nThe BBC has spent three years filming at Tanis for a show to be broadcast on 15 April, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.\n\nSir David will review the discoveries, many that will be getting their first public viewing.\n\nAlong with that leg, there are fish that breathed in impact debris as it rained down from the sky.\n\nWe see a fossil turtle that was skewered by a wooden stake; the remains of small mammals and the burrows they made; skin from a horned triceratops; the embryo of a flying pterosaur inside its egg; and what appears to be a fragment from the asteroid impactor itself.\n\n\"We've got so many details with this site that tell us what happened moment by moment, it's almost like watching it play out in the movies. You look at the rock column, you look at the fossils there, and it brings you back to that day,\" says Robert DePalma, the University of Manchester, UK, graduate student who leads the Tanis dig.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert DePalma: \"Dinosaurs and the impact are two things that are absolutely linked in our minds\"\n\nIt's now widely accepted that a roughly 12km-wide space rock hit our planet to cause the last mass extinction.\n\nThe impact site has been identified in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula. That's some 3,000km away from Tanis, but such was the energy imparted in the event, its devastation was felt far and wide.\n\nThe remains of animals and plants seem to have been rolled together into a sediment dump by waves of river water set in train by unimaginable earth tremors. Aquatic organisms are mixed in with the land-based creatures.\n\nThe sturgeon and paddlefish in this fossil tangle are key. They have small particles stuck in their gills. These are the spherules of molten rock kicked out from the impact that then fell back across the planet. The fish would have breathed in the particles as they entered the river.\n\nThe spherules have been linked chemically and by radiometric dating to the Mexican impact location, and in two of the particles recovered from preserved tree resin there are also tiny inclusions that imply an extra-terrestrial origin.\n\n\"When we noticed there were inclusions within these little glass spherules, we chemically analysed them at the Diamond X-ray synchrotron near Oxford,\" explains Prof Phil Manning, who is Mr DePalma's PhD supervisor at Manchester.\n\n\"We were able to pull apart the chemistry and identify the composition of that material. All the evidence, all of the chemical data, from that study suggests strongly that we're looking at a piece of the impactor; of the asteroid that ended it for the dinosaurs.\"\n\nThe existence of Tanis, and the claims made for it, first emerged in the public sphere in the New Yorker Magazine in 2019. This caused a furore at the time.\n\nScience usually demands the initial presentation of new discoveries is made in the pages of a scholarly journal. A few peer-reviewed papers have now been published, and the dig team promises many more as it works through the meticulous process of extracting, preparing and describing the fossils.\n\nTo make its TV programme, the BBC called in outside consultants to examine a number of the finds.\n\nProf Paul Barrett from London's Natural History Museum looked at the leg. He's an expert in ornithischian (mostly plant-eating) dinosaurs.\n\n\"It's a Thescelosaurus. It's from a group that we didn't have any previous record of what its skin looked like, and it shows very conclusively that these animals were very scaly like lizards. They weren't feathered like their meat-eating contemporaries.\n\n\"This looks like an animal whose leg has simply been ripped off really quickly. There's no evidence on the leg of disease, there are no obvious pathologies, there's no trace of the leg being scavenged, such as bite marks or bits of it that are missing,\" he tells me.\n\n\"So, the best idea that we have is that this is an animal that died more or less instantaneously.\"\n\nArtwork: The thinking is that a water surge buried all the creatures at Tanis\n\nThe big question is whether this dinosaur did actually die on the day the asteroid struck, as a direct result of the ensuing cataclysm. The Tanis team thinks it very likely did, given the limb's position in the dig sediments.\n\nIf that is the case, it would be quite the discovery.\n\nBut Prof Steve Brusatte from University of Edinburgh says he's sceptical - for the time being.\n\nHe's acted as another of the BBC's outside consultants. He wants to see the arguments presented in more peer-reviewed articles, and for some palaeo-scientists with very specific specialisms to go into the site to give their independent assessment.\n\nProf Brusatte says it's possible, for example, that animals that had died before the impact were exhumed by the violence on the day and then re-interred in a way that made their deaths appear concurrent.\n\n\"Those fish with the spherules in their gills, they're an absolute calling card for the asteroid. But for some of the other claims - I'd say they have a lot circumstantial evidence that hasn't yet been presented to the jury,\" he says.\n\n\"For some of these discoveries, though, does it even matter if they died on the day or years before? The pterosaur egg with a pterosaur baby inside is super-rare; there's nothing else like it from North America. It doesn't all have to be about the asteroid.\"\n\nA pterosaur embryo inside an egg, found at the Tanis site...\n\n...here digitally extracted and constructed into a model\n\nThere's no doubting the pterosaur egg is special.\n\nWith modern X-ray technology it's possible to determine the chemistry and properties of the egg shell. It was likely leathery rather than hard, which may indicate the pterosaur mother buried the egg in sand or sediment like a turtle.\n\nIt's also possible with X-ray tomography to extract virtually the bones of the pterosaur chick inside, to print them and reconstruct what the animal would have looked like. Mr DePalma has done this.\n\nThe baby pterosaur was probably a type of azhdarchid, a group of flying reptiles whose adult wings could reach more than 10m from tip to tip.\n\nMr DePalma gave a special lecture on the Tanis discoveries to an audience at the US space agency Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center on Wednesday. He and Prof Manning will also present their latest data to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in May.\n\nDinosaurs: The Final Day with Sir David Attenborough will be broadcast on BBC One on 15 April at 18:30 BST. A version has been made for the US science series Nova on the PBS network to be broadcast later in the year.", "Devon and Cornwall Police admitted misusing Jane's personal information and have agreed to pay a six-figure sum in costs and damages\n\nA woman who was gang-raped by men claiming to be Welsh rugby players has sued the police for naming her online.\n\nJane, who was 17 when she was raped in a Plymouth hotel in 1978, said officers breached her legal right to anonymity as the victim of a sexual offence.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police admitted misusing her personal information and has settled her claim, agreeing to pay a six-figure sum in costs and damages.\n\n\"What's happened to me is a second rape,\" said Jane.\n\nThe force said it was unable to comment on the case.\n\nJane, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, said she was a normal teenager when she went out with a friend in Plymouth one Saturday, 44 years ago.\n\nShe met a man and agreed to go to his hotel with him.\n\nOnce there, she had consensual sex with the man who said he was a maths teacher and part of a touring rugby team from Wales.\n\nThere was a knock on the door and more than 10 men forced their way into the room before six or seven of them raped her.\n\nJane reported what happened to police, first in 1993 and again in 2015.\n\n\"The first investigation unbeknown to me had been shut down four weeks after it had commenced,\" she said.\n\n\"I came forward 20 years later and asked to see the records of that first investigation, to find that there were no records and that I didn't exist.\"\n\nJane revisited the former hotel in Plymouth where she was raped in 1978\n\nDue to her previous experience Jane was reluctant to re-report the rapes but was encouraged to do so and a new investigation was launched.\n\nTrying to track down the officers involved in the 1993 investigation, detectives in the second investigation arranged to have details of her rapes, including her name and address, published on an unsecure website for retired police officers and staff.\n\nJane said she was unaware she had been identified on the website.\n\nIn 2017, senior detectives visited Jane at her home and told her about the publication.\n\n\"I went into shock,\" she said.\n\n\"It was literally like an emotional bomb had gone off ... my first concern was that nobody in my family knew.\"\n\nShe asked for information about who had published her details and the name of the website but said the officers refused to tell her.\n\nJane said afterwards she felt forced to disclose her rapes to her family.\n\nThe force did not carry out a criminal investigation and Jane said she had to lobby for the breach of her anonymity to be treated as a crime.\n\nEventually an investigation was started by another police force, who sent officers to interview her.\n\nJane was raped in what was then the Strathmore Hotel in Plymouth\n\nJane said she was not told there was a time limit for prosecuting an offence of breaching the anonymity of the victim of a sexual assault and that charges needed to be brought within six months of the publication being removed from the website.\n\nShe said a file was handed to the CPS with \"days to run before it expired\".\n\nJane said the CPS was not given full information about the website and that, when the CPS concluded there should not be a prosecution because it felt her details were not accessible to the general public, it was too late for her to appeal the decision.\n\nThe Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 provides life-long anonymity to victims of sexual offences, protecting victims from being identified in the media.\n\nA victim has the right to remain anonymous from the moment they make an allegation that they are the victim of a sexual offence.\n\nThe law states nothing which could lead members of the public to identify a victim should be published, including their name, address, their school or place of work or a picture of the person.\n\nJane said she had been told the website was password protected but because the officers had refused to tell her the name of the website, she was unable to check.\n\nShe said: \"Nearly a year-and-a-half later I was going back over the papers, the CPS wrote to me, the person who looked at the case had named the publisher and he had named the website and within 20 minutes of properly looking for the website, I was in.\n\n\"That's two years after they had told me that it was password protected - it still wasn't password protected.\"\n\nIn the months and years that followed, Jane pursued a number of professional standards investigations, carried out by two other police forces, before appealing to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nIn 2020, the IOPC determined two named officers - a detective inspector and a detective constable - \"may have breached the standards of professional behaviour\".\n\nThe IOPC report said: \"This decision is somewhat academic because both officers have retired, and the legislation prohibits me from finding a case to answer for misconduct.\"\n\nIt said the conduct of the two officers was not believed to have \"reached the threshold to be considered gross misconduct\".\n\nThe report said the detective inspector involved was \"ultimately responsible\" for organising the post on the website which \"breached\" Jane's anonymity and \"this was most likely due to him being ignorant of the relevant legislation or he failed to conduct due diligence into the security and accessibility of the website\".\n\nIt said: \"Despite the fact that failings have been identified, I have not identified any sense of contrition or consequence on the part of the force and no apology has been offered.\"\n\nThe IOPC added that had the time limit for bringing charges under the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act not expired, it would have \"recommended a re-referral to the CPS in respect of the anonymity breach to test whether 'additional information' would have affected their charging decision\".\n\nJane said she felt compelled to engage her own legal representation because \"the police made it known that they were not going to act in my best interests\".\n\nIn March 2021, Devon and Cornwall Police's legal team confirmed the force admitted liability for misuse of Jane's private information, breach of confidence and for breaching her rights under the Data Protection Act by placing her identifying details on the website.\n\nThe financial settlement was agreed at the end of 2021.\n\n\"[When they initially came and visited me] they could have avoided four years of absolute hell for me, they could have avoided the amount of money that they have had to pay for the case to be concluded and they could have shown contrition,\" Jane said.\n\nShe said she had asked for a face-to-face meeting and an apology from Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer, who was named as the defendant in her case, in exchange for a reduction in the settlement.\n\nThis offer was declined and the force paid the higher amount, she said.\n\n\"The important thing for rape victims is to know that they can come forward in safety with trust and be assured that the police are working for their interests ... what I've experienced is quite the opposite,\" she said.\n\nNo-one has ever been prosecuted for Jane's rapes, meanwhile, the investigation continues.\n\nIn January 2020, Devon and Cornwall Police launched an appeal to find two men they believed could help identify the rapists.\n\nE-fit images of the two men, who Jane believed were friends with her rapists but did not rape her, were released.\n\nThe police launched an appeal in January 2020 to find two men they believed could identify the rapists\n\nThe force told the BBC: \"In adherence with the Sexual Offences [Amendment] Act 1992 we are unable to disclose details of any victim of a sexual offence to a third party without their explicit consent.\n\n\"In line with College of Policing guidelines we are unable to confirm nor deny whether any identified individual has been a victim of a crime or has been involved in a police investigation.\n\n\"Therefore, we are unable to comment further on this matter.\"\n\nJane called on the public to help identify the men who raped her.\n\nShe said: \"Do I have hope? It's dwindling. Potentially I don't feel there's the will to investigate ... I know it's been a long time since those rapes but I would ask people to come forward ... if the police can't do it then it is down to the general public isn't it?\"\n\nJane said throughout her ordeal her \"ability to consent to things that are happening to me has been taken away, firstly by the rapists and I would say that what's happened to me again is a second rape\".\n\nShe said: \"I understand my rapists, rapists rape, I don't understand the police ... I would personally rather face my rapists than ever have to face the trauma of going through a rape investigation.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Devon and Cornwall Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) said: \"It would be inappropriate for the police and crime commissioner to comment on any individual case. However, the commissioner does have a role in monitoring how the police handle and respond to complaints about Devon and Cornwall Police, its officers and operational police staff.\n\n\"Complaints should be sent directly to the force in the first instance.\n\n\"If a complainant is unhappy with the outcome of that complaint the OPCC can then review the case and will appoint an independent chair to carry out the review.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lorries queued into the distance along the A20 in Aycliffe village near Dover\n\nA council says it is prepared to declare \"a major incident\" if traffic disruption around Dover continues into this weekend.\n\nTraffic chaos has left some travellers queuing for hours since the start of the Easter break at the weekend.\n\nIn an open letter Dover District Council (DDC) leader Trevor Bartlett said the town would \"not tolerate another weekend of gridlock\".\n\nFreight traffic continues to queue on the M20 and A20 in Kent..\n\nThe delays were initially caused by a shortage of ferries and bad weather as the holiday period began.\n\nMr Bartlett said: \"We will be monitoring the situation closely throughout the weekend and I will not hesitate to authorise DDC officers to declare a major incident if we see signs of the sort of congestion witnessed last weekend.\"\n\nDover District Council leader Trevor Bartlett says the town \"will not tolerate\" another weekend of gridlock\n\nDeclaring a major incident would \"force the issue\" and \"trigger a more robust response\" from authorities, Mr Bartlett said.\n\nHe also raised concerns over how emergency services would be able to respond to a incidents if Dover continued to be cut off.\n\nA 23-mile (37km) stretch of the M20 remains closed to accommodate queuing freight between junction eight (Maidstone) and eleven (Westernhanger/Hythe).\n\nAuthorities have implemented Operation Brock, a system which allows lorries heading to Dover to use one side of the M20, while all other traffic is restricted to a contraflow system on the opposite side.\n\nBut East Kent Highways say the system is holding 4,500 lorries, when it \"normally has capacity for around 2,000\".\n\nToby Howe, East Kent Highways manager, said there are \"more lorries coming into the county at the moment than we can get out\".\n\nHe said authorities need to prepare for further tourist traffic on Friday by bringing freight under control.\n\nLorries continue to queue on the M20 in Operation Brock near Ashford\n\nIn a statement, the Port of Dover said it served 30,000 passengers during last weekend's disruption, triple that of the corresponding weekend last year.\n\nThe port added that it expected another busy weekend and urged passengers to check with ferry companies before their journey and to only arrive for their allotted sailing time.\n\nP&O Ferries announced on Wednesday it was preparing to bring two of its vessels, Pride of Kent and Spirit of Britain, back into service between Dover and Calais \"by next week\", subject to inspection.\n\nMeanwhile, the CEO of tourism body Visit Kent, Deirdre Wells, said she has written to all the county's MPs asking them to \"urgently raise\" the county's congestion issues with the Department for Transport and the prime minister.\n\nMs Wells said: \"The situation on Kent's roads is quite frankly dire and risks damaging the image of our beautiful county and Global Britain.\"\n\nThe Port of Dover said it served triple the number of passengers last weekend than in the same period last year\n\nFolkestone and Hythe MP Damian Collins told BBC South East the former Manston Airport site ought to be considered as a holding site for lorries again.\n\nIn December 2020 about 4,000 lorries were parked at the site, and another 2,300 were held on the M20, after the French closed their border with the UK during the pandemic.\n\nMr Collins said: \"I think we do have to consider some of the measures that we've looked at before, like bringing Manston back into play. There was even a scenario where we could use the M26 to hold lorries.\n\n\"What we need to do is to try and find a way of restoring two-way flow of of passenger traffic on the M20. That's the best way of relieving the pressure on the local roads and getting things moving again.\"\n\nDelays caused by lorries queuing on the M20 are being felt on the M2 as far back as Faversham\n\nTraffic delays stretch back to the M2 near Faversham, some 20 miles from the port, as non-freight traffic is advised to use the M2 and A2 while lorries queue on the M20.\n\nAny lorries trying to use the M2/A2 to avoid joining the queues to Dover are being turned back by police.\n\nChannel operator DFDS has tweeted to say it currently has two-hour delays on crossings between Dover and Calais.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Smith denied all charges against him at Westminster Magistrates' Court\n\nA security guard at the British embassy in Berlin has denied spying for Russia.\n\nBritish national David Smith, 57, is accused of collecting information from the embassy and passing it to a person he believed was a Russian representative, among other allegations.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to nine offences under the Official Secrets Act at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Smith will next appear in court at the Old Bailey on 13 April.\n\nThe British national, who was living in Potsdam in Germany, was arrested in August 2021 over the alleged offences between October 2020 and August last year. He was extradited to the UK on Wednesday.\n\nThe court lists detailing the charges allege Mr Smith attempted to communicate by letter with General Major Sergey Chukhurov, the Russian military attache based out of the Russian Embassy in Berlin.\n\nThe material allegedly contained details about the activities, identities, addresses and telephone numbers of various members of Her Majesty's Civil Service, in breach of the Official Secrets Act. It is claimed the information was \"intended to be useful to an enemy, namely the Russian state\".\n\nIn eight other charges, Mr Smith is accused of collecting information about the layout and operations of the UK embassy in Berlin that could be useful to the Russian state.\n\nIt is alleged he collected information classified as secret relating to UK government activities.\n\nMr Smith also allegedly made unauthorised photocopies of documents, video recordings of the embassy's CCTV system and kept Sim card packaging he had been asked to dispose of.\n\nMr Smith, of no fixed address, denied all the charges. He was not granted bail and remanded in custody.\n\nThe police van thought to be carrying David Smith arriving at court", "The murders of civilians in Bucha have outraged the international community, but Russia claims they were staged\n\nThe Kremlin denies it all: the footage of bodies lying in the streets in Bucha, the mass graves and the terrible testimony of witnesses. And state TV parrots the narrative.\n\nSince evidence of apparent Russian atrocities emerged from the settlements around Kyiv, programme editors have gone to extraordinary lengths to discredit the reports as a fabrication, a lie concocted by Ukraine and the West.\n\nTo switch on Russian TV has, for weeks now, been to step into a weird parallel universe where glossy presenters and well-dressed pundits chronicle a successful \"special military operation\" in Ukraine. There is no war, just heroic Russian soldiers defending the motherland while taking care to avoid targeting civilians.\n\nThe horrific images from Bucha have been broadcast, but viewers are told that the gruesome scenes were staged by Ukrainian officials, with help from the West.\n\n\"This was done by professionals, probably British. They're the best in the area of information operations,\" said commentator Gevorg Mirzaryan. \"[They know how] to place the bodies correctly, do everything correctly, create a nice picture for the necrophilic Western consciousness.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Francis Scarr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTalk show host Olesya Loseva even suggested that the town of Bucha had deliberately been chosen because President Joe Biden had recently used the word butcher to describe Vladimir Putin, so \"for Americans this word should be clear\".\n\nIt is a classic Kremlin tactic in the face of such accusations - deny, dismiss as fake and, if possible, blame someone else.\n\nSome outlets, including pro-Kremlin tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, have published reports accusing Ukrainian troops or militants of being behind the killing of civilians in Bucha.\n\nThe newspaper also alleged that \"Kyiv propagandists\" were controlled by \"Western curators\". The UK was taking charge of fake news about Russian soldiers raping Ukrainian women and the BBC, Guardian and Independent had helped to promote it, it claimed.\n\nThis approach has also been taken up by former President Dmitry Medvedev, who is now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council. He has gone so far as to accuse Ukraine's armed forces of killing their own civilians \"in order to dehumanise Russia and its maximum denigration\".\n\nDeep Ukrainianism, fueled by anti-Russian poison and an all-consuming lie about its identity, is one big fake\n\nVladimir Putin and his officials have consistently sought to portray Russia's neighbour as the aggressor and the West as a threat to Russian security. They have accused Ukraine, aided by the West, of trying to acquire nuclear weapons and develop biological weapons for use against Russia.\n\nOne of Vladimir Putin's favourite justifications for the invasion is that Ukraine must be \"de-Nazified\". It's a commonly repeated narrative that exploits Russia's long and painful memory of World War Two.\n\nThe claims of Nazism are completely baseless, but the foreign ministry recently accused the government in Kyiv of being steeped in Nazi ideology and of committing \"horrendous crimes\".\n\nMany Ukrainians, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, have been horrified by an opinion piece published by Russia's state-owned Ria news agency which they say justifies genocide in Ukraine.\n\nThe piece by Timofei Sergeytsev claimed that a significant number of Ukrainians were \"passive Nazis\" who supported and indulged the \"Nazi authorities\". Ukraine was unviable as a national state and attempts to build one would logically lead to Nazism, he claimed. \"De-Nazification will inevitably be a de-Ukrainisation as well,\" he added.\n\n\"The article describes a clear and calculated procedure for the destruction of everything that makes Ukrainians Ukrainians and our people themselves\n\nMr Medvedev appeared to take up the theme by claiming \"the goal is for the harmony of future generations of Ukrainians and the opportunity to build an open Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok\".\n\nFor Russian media, the atrocity in Bucha is just a new example of Ukrainian aggression - an \"information war\".\n\nForeign Minister Sergei Lavrov has described what he termed Ukraine's fabrication of Russian war crimes as a \"provocation\" that threatens international security.\n\nIt's hard to say how many Russians believe all that they're told. But there is no significant independent Russian media left and access to social media is severely restricted.\n\nAccording to the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin has dismissed the murders in Bucha as \"crude and cynical provocations\" by Kyiv\n\nOpinion polls, even independent ones, are a tricky source in Russia because people are wary of expressing anti-Kremlin sentiment. As such, they suggest high levels of support for Vladimir Putin and his \"special military operation\".\n\nWhat were almost daily anti-war street demonstrations have dwindled.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Kevin Rothrock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere are, without doubt, plenty of people who manage to access external and independent news reports and who are horrified and deeply ashamed by what is being perpetrated in the name of their country.\n\nBut they're up against a powerful Kremlin propaganda machine and a state that swiftly crushes dissent. In this Russia, there is only really one voice. And it belongs to Vladimir Putin.", "Capt Bromley broke his neck playing in an Army rugby game in 2019\n\nAn Army captain who broke his neck playing rugby in 2019 is to embark on a gruelling challenge to kayak, walk and swim from Land's End to John O'Groats.\n\nCapt George Bromley, 36, who is based in Gloucester, is taking on the \"Beeline Challenge\" - a straight line journey of around 745 miles (1,200km).\n\nHe will be making the trip to raise money for the charities that helped him recover from his injury.\n\nCapt Bromley said the challenge has given him \"something to reach for\".\n\nHe is raising funds for five different charities - the Armed Forces charity SSAFA, the Limbless Veterans charity Blesma, Rugby for Heroes, Help for Heroes and the Royal British Legion - who helped him fight his way back from the injury.\n\n\"The biggest challenge I faced was the mental battle,\" he said.\n\nHe said the hardest part of his recovery was the \"mental challenge\"\n\n\"With an injury like that you don't know your worth and you think you're not going to be employed any more, you could lose this or that, or your home, or your living.\n\n\"That is something I really wanted to fight against. This challenge was something to reach for, something to look forward to, something to keep me going.\"\n\nCapt Bromley, who is part of the Allied Rapid Reaction force in Innsworth, said he has studied charts and tides in preparation, but is still \"worried\" for any weather changes.\n\n\"The Bristol channel is a scary place. I'm going to be in the middle of it for the best part of a whole day,\" he said.\n\n\"The Isle of Man and the Irish Sea, that journey is about 43 miles (70km), so that is also a worry.\"\n\nCapt Bromley said he is most worried about the weather during the challenge\n\n\"If he was paralysed from his rugby injury, there are charities that would have been there to support him,\" he said.\n\n\"He's now fundraising for those charities to acknowledge them.\"\n\nHe has been training on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal\n\nCapt Bromley said he is looking forward to being back in nature and seeing the coastline.\n\nHe added that it will remind him of how lucky he is to be able to \"have that chance\".\n\n\"That's when I'll be smiling the most,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "A glowing review of a cuddly toy is all very well, but not much help when the product it is next to is headphones\n\nHeadphones on Amazon from some third-party sellers had misleading reviews for different products like cuddly toys and umbrellas, Which? found.\n\nIn an investigation, the consumer watchdog discovered that nine out of 10 of the top-rated headphones on the site earlier this year had glowing reviews for a range of unrelated products.\n\nAmazon said that it had taken action on the listings and sellers in question.\n\nThe UK government is investigating the issue of fake reviews.\n\nReviews on products sold on Amazon and other online marketplaces play a big part in persuading consumers to buy one item over another.\n\nA beach umbrella comes with a glowing review but has nothing to do with headphones\n\nWhich? found that some sellers were using loopholes in review merging, which can artificially inflate how high up in listings products are seen by customers.\n\nMerging reviews on Amazon can be legitimate, and is useful for sellers who want to manage a catalogue of very similar products - such as the same product but in a different colour.\n\nBut using such reviews for unrelated products is against Amazon's terms and conditions, because it can make something look more popular than it is.\n\nWhich? focused on just one category - Bluetooth-enabled headphones - and followed the reviews for the top 10 products over the course of a month, from February to March this year.\n\nNine out of 10 of the top 10 in-ear headphones carried reviews for completely unrelated products\n\nMost of the brands were not household names and were all sold by more than one seller, so Which? was unable to determine whether the brands themselves were implicated in any wrongdoing.\n\nNone of the sellers contacted by Which? replied to its requests for comment.\n\nThe most highly-rated product boasted five stars, carried an \"Amazon's Choice\" stamp of approval and came with 40 glowing reviews. But none of the reviews actually related to the headphones themselves - instead they were for cuddly toys.\n\nAnother headphone listing had 863 reviews for a personalised jigsaw puzzle, while a third had 1,386 reviews for beach umbrellas\n\nNext to the other products on the list, Which? found more completely unrelated reviews, for souvenir mugs, razor blades, and an extension cable.\n\nSome, but not all of the reviews, came with pictures of the other products.\n\nOnly one of the headphones on the list, made by one of the best-known audio electronics firm Bose, showed no evidence of review merging. But its headphones were ranked only eighth best out of the 10 investigated.\n\nWhich? director of policy Rocio Concha said: \"Unscrupulous businesses are exploiting weaknesses with Amazon's review system, leaving shoppers at risk of buying products boosted by thousands of bogus five-star reviews.\"\n\nIt was, she added, more evidence that the Competition and Markets Authority's ongoing fake reviews investigation was vitally needed to \"protect people from these unfair practices\".\n\nBuyer Alistair Soames found a review for a shower curtain next to earbuds\n\nIn response, Amazon said: \"We have now taken appropriate enforcement action against the product listings and sellers in question.\n\n\"We have clear guardrails in place to prevent products from being incorrectly grouped, either due to human error or abuse.\n\n\"Our proactive measures detect and block the vast majority of abuse in our store automatically: however, we are disappointed when bad actors evade our system and we will continue to innovate and invest in our tools and processes.\"\n\nAlthough Which? only looked at headphones, it said it had also seen the issue across other categories, such as smartphone chargers.\n\nAnd the watchdog also found evidence of review hijacking, where sellers have their reviews stolen by others.\n\nDoing this is relatively easy to do, experts told Which? Sellers simply find dormant listings and retop them with their own product name.\n\nWhich? was first alerted to the issue by buyer Alistair Soames, who complained to the watchdog that he had been shopping for earbuds on Amazon, and noticed that some of the reviews for them were for shower curtains and kitchen knives.\n\n\"I read the reviews and many were absolute nonsense. It was the pictures that gave it away - I saw a shower curtain and thought 'hang on a second, what has that got to do with headphones?'\"", "It's worth noting what this strategy is - and what it is not.\n\nIt is not a plan to cushion the UK economy from the immediate cost of living crisis caused in large part by rocketing international energy prices.\n\nIt is the government's attempt to increase the UK's resilience to future energy shocks.\n\nIt does set out a plan to wean the UK off fossil fuels but acknowledges that we are not in a position to do that just yet.\n\nIt also does not involve significant government spending beyond that which has already been committed and to its critics it's a plan that fails to hit any of its various targets.\n\nNew nuclear power forms the centrepiece of the plan.\n\nIn addition to advanced plans to approve two new reactors at Sizewell in Suffolk during this parliament, Wyfla in Anglesey is named as a candidate to host either a large scale plant, smaller modular reactors or possibly both in the next parliament.\n\nThe prime minister and the business secretary's enthusiasm for more onshore wind - the cheapest and quickest forms of renewable energy to deploy - has been tempered by fears that public and backbench MP opinion is divided.\n\nCommunities that want them, and the energy bill discounts that living near turbines could bring, will still be encouraged to have them.\n\nTargets for hydrogen production are doubled with a plan to have a working facility by 2025, while targets for solar and offshore wind have been increased.\n\nThe conflict in Ukraine has made a powerful argument for weaning the UK off fossil fuels in the long term but have also exposed the continued international reliance on them.\n\nMinisters are convinced that in the short term the world needs more gas. In the long term less.\n\nPlans to accelerate North Sea oil and gas projects will prompt dismay from environmental groups who argue that it will make little difference to energy prices that are set internationally. But supporters say it makes no sense to import liquefied gas from the US, Qatar and elsewhere when domestic production that can provide UK jobs and domestic tax revenues is closer to hand.\n\nAbove all, this is a plan to secure future supply rather than reduce demand.\n\nPolicies to reduce household and business consumption are largely limited to tax breaks to introduce privately funded energy saving measures.\n\nTo its advocates it's the moment when the government called time on a decade of drift in energy policy, to its critics it's a plan full of reheated ideas that has come too late.", "Malaysian authorities have resumed a search for three missing divers\n\nRescuers are searching for a British man and his 14-year-old son who went missing on a diving trip in Malaysia.\n\nAdrian Chesters, 46, and his Dutch son, Nathen Chesters, were on a group dive in water off the coast of Mersing, in the southern state of Johor.\n\nAnother diver, 18-year-old French woman Alexia Molina, who was part of the four-strong diving group, also remains missing.\n\nA diving instructor who was also on the trip has been rescued.\n\nPolice said there is a \"strong chance\" the divers will be found.\n\nThe group had been on a training dive in 49ft (15m) deep water near small island, Pulau Tokong Sanggol, around 10 miles (16km) off the coastal town of Mersing.\n\nThe alarm was raised after they did not surface about an hour after the dive.\n\nThe divers went missing in deep water in water off Mersing in southern Johor state\n\nMalaysian authorities called off the search on Wednesday due to poor visibility.\n\nBut on Thursday morning Norwegian diving instructor Kristine Grodem, who was training the group to obtain advanced diving licences, was found safe.\n\nThe Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said Ms Grodem was found by a tugboat 22 nautical miles from the group's last reported location.\n\nMs Grodem told authorities she lost sight of the other divers when the group drifted far from their boat due to strong underwater currents, the MMEA said.\n\nDistrict police chief Cyril Edward Nuing said he remains hopeful the missing divers, who had surfaced before they disappeared according to Ms Grodem, will be found.\n\nHe said: \"With their equipment, their full gear and their experience, we believe there is a strong chance of finding them alive.\"\n\nDiving has been suspended off Mersing and the boat's skipper has been detained while police investigate.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign Office said it is in contact with the Malaysian authorities.\n\nAuthorities in neighbouring Indonesia and Singapore and passing ships have been told to keep a look out for the divers.\n\nThe divers' disappearance comes days after Malaysia reopened its border to foreign nationals on 1 April.", "After a Covid infection, there is an increased risk of developing a serious blood clot for the next six months, a study from Sweden suggests.\n\nThe research found people with severe Covid, and those infected during the first wave, had the highest clot risk.\n\nThis highlights the importance of being vaccinated against the virus, the researchers say.\n\nBlood clots can also occur after vaccination but the risk is far smaller, a major UK study found.\n\nPeople who have had Covid-19 are more likely to develop a blood clot - particularly patients who have needed hospital treatment. Scientists wanted to find out when that risk returns to normal levels.\n\nThe researchers tracked the health of just over one million people who tested positive for Covid between February 2020 and May 2021 in Sweden, and compared them with four million people of the same age and sex who had not had a positive test.\n\nAfter a Covid infection, they found an increased risk of:\n\nWhen the researchers compared the risks of blood clots after Covid to the normal level of risk, they found that:\n\nThe study, published in the BMJ, said the raised risk of blood clots was higher in the first wave than later waves, probably because treatments improved during the pandemic and older patients were starting to be vaccinated by the second wave.\n\nThe risk of a blood clot in the lung in people who were very seriously ill with Covid was 290 times greater than normal, and seven times higher than normal after mild Covid. But there was no raised risk of internal bleeding in mild cases.\n\n\"For unvaccinated individuals, that's a really good reason to get a vaccine - the risk is so much higher than the risk from vaccines,\" says Anne-Marie Fors Connolly, principal study investigator from Umea University in Sweden.\n\nThe researchers can't prove that Covid caused the blood clots in this study but they have several theories on why it happens.\n\nIt could be the direct effect of the virus on the layer of cells which line blood vessels, an exaggerated inflammatory response to the virus, or the body making blood clots at inappropriate times.\n\nVaccines are very effective against severe Covid, but offer less protection against infection, particularly with the Omicron variant - meaning repeat infections with symptoms are common as countries work out how to live with Covid.\n\nFrederick K Ho, public health lecturer from the University of Glasgow, said this study \"reminds us of the need to remain vigilant to the complications associated with even mild [Covid] infection, including thromboembolism\".\n\nThe risk of blood clots goes up after vaccination, but \"the magnitude of risk remains smaller and persists for a shorter period than that associated with infection\", he adds.\n• None BMJ study - Risks of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and bleeding after Covid-19 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea's hold on the Champions League hangs precariously after Karim Benzema's hat-trick put Real Madrid in a position of power following the quarter-final first leg at Stamford Bridge.\n\nReal coach Carlo Ancelotti made a winning return to the club where he won the Premier League and FA Cup double after veteran France striker Benzema delivered his latest masterclass.\n\nBenzema, 34 and fresh from the treble that sunk Paris St-Germain in the last 16, punished holders Chelsea with two magnificent headers in the space of three minutes midway through the first half.\n\nKai Havertz's header gave Chelsea hope before the break but keeper Edouard Mendy's poor clearance seconds after the restart gifted Benzema his third to put Real in command of the tie before the second leg at the Bernabeu next Tuesday (12 April).\n\nChelsea battled to the end of this first leg but were always fighting an uphill task after they were hit by Benzema's brilliant one-two and then saw their hopes of mounting a comeback wrecked by a self-inflicted wound.\n\nReal had already delivered a warning about the danger they posed when Vinicius Junior hit the bar but that went unheeded as he provided the cross for Benzema's flying headed opener.\n\nAnd once Benzema had confirmed his aerial threat with a second, Chelsea were always vulnerable against a side who are the masters of these Champions League situations.\n\nHavertz, the match-winner in last season's Champions League final win against Manchester City, gave a subdued Stamford Bridge some hope but the entire destiny of the tie may have turned in the opening 40 seconds after the interval.\n\nMendy, normally so reliable, made an expensive misjudgement when he raced from goal only to send a weak pass in the direction of Antonio Rudiger.\n\nThe defender was unable to gain control and the predatory Benzema was in like a flash to roll the ball into the unguarded net with Mendy looking on in anguish.\n\nIt came just after Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel had introduced Mateo Kovacic and Hakim Ziyech at the start of the second half to build on Havertz's goal, but the changes were undermined before they had any chance to take effect.\n\nTuchel later brought on Romelu Lukaku in a desperate attempt to retrieve the situation but his struggles were summed up when he sent a weak header wide with one of Chelsea's best chances of the night.\n\nChelsea have demonstrated an ability to overcome adversity in the past but with Real holding a two-goal advantage going into the second leg at the Bernabeu, it would rank as one of their finest achievements if they were to reach the last four from this position.\n\nMadrid the masters once more\n\nReal Madrid may be runaway leaders in La Liga but Carlo Ancelotti's side were regarded as rank outsiders as they chase a 14th triumph in this competition in its guises as the European Cup and Champions League.\n\nYet, after the dramatic comeback against the odds to knock out Paris St-Germain in the last 16, with this show of experience and class at Stamford Bridge they demonstrated once again that their credentials are dismissed at your peril.\n\nAnd in Ancelotti, for all the speculation surrounding his long-term future at the Bernabeu, they have a leader who has demonstrated his expertise by winning this trophy three times with AC Milan and Real.\n\nThe coach and Real's players showed they are old hands at this and how they punished Chelsea, with Benzema and the 36-year-old Croatia maestro Luka Modric at their heart, to take a giant stride towards the semi-final.\n\nBenzema gets better with age, scoring two headers of the highest class before poaching a third goal, while Modric retains that priceless ability to control the tempo of games, retain possession and always make the right choice from the options available.\n\nAncelotti will take nothing for granted but the veteran Italian, who flew into London on the day of the game after recovering from Covid-19, cut a highly satisfied figure at the final whistle.\n• None Attempt missed. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\n• None Substitution, Real Madrid. Dani Ceballos replaces Federico Valverde because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Reece James (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kai Havertz.\n• None Attempt saved. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Mateo Kovacic. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "More Kinder Surprise chocolate egg products have been recalled over a link to salmonella cases in the UK.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) had advised people not to eat 20g or three-pack eggs with best before dates between 11 July and 7 October 2022.\n\nKinder Easter egg hunt kits (150g), Kinder Mini eggs (75g), Kinder schokobons (200g) and the 100g Kinder Surprise have now been recalled too.\n\nAll sweets affected had been made in the same Belgian factory.\n\nFerrero, which makes Kinder chocolates, said that it had taken the \"precautionary decision\" to voluntarily extend the recall to these products in the UK and Ireland with best before dates between 20 April 2022 and 21 August 2022.\n\nThe chocolate-maker said none of its Kinder products released for sale had tested positive for salmonella, but that it takes the matter \"extremely seriously\".\n\nThey added that they were aware of Easter coming up, which usually sees a sales boost for Kinder Surprise eggs.\n\n\"The company takes food safety extremely seriously and we sincerely apologise for this matter. Our continued commitment to consumer care has driven our decision today to extend the voluntary recall,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nNo other Ferrero or Kinder products are believed to have been affected.\n\nThe FSA said that if customers have chocolates from the batches described, they should not eat them. They can also contact Ferrero for a full refund.\n\nThe products will be taken off the shelves and notices put up in shops to warn consumers.\n\nIt comes after about 63 people in the UK, mostly young children, became infected with salmonella in an outbreak linked to the Kinder Surprise treats.\n\nOn Monday, the FSA said no deaths had been reported in the UK but most cases involved children aged five and under.\n\nInvestigations so far have been led by the UK Health Security Agency, Public Health Scotland, Public Health Wales and Public Health Agency Northern Ireland.\n\nEurope's health agency said on Wednesday it was also looking into dozens of suspected cases of salmonella linked with eating chocolate in at least nine countries including the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.\n\nIt did not mention Ferrero or any other confectioner in a statement, but warned that the reported cases were mostly among children under 10.\n\nDr Lesley Larkin, of the UK Heath Security Agency, previously said that symptoms of salmonellosis, which can include diarrhoea, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting and fever, \"typically resolve themselves within a few days\".\n\nShe said symptoms could be more severe, especially in young children and those with weakened immune systems and anybody with concerns should contact their GP or call NHS 111.\n\nSalmonella can be spread from person to person, so Dr Larkin advised anyone with symptoms to wash their hands thoroughly and avoid handling other people's food.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US Supreme Court is to include a black female justice for the first time in its 233-year history after the Senate confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the nine-member bench.\n\nThree Republicans crossed the aisle to seal her appointment by a vote of 53 to 47.\n\nJustice Jackson's appointment fulfils President Joe Biden's campaign promise to put a black woman on the court.\n\nChuck Schumer, the majority leader, called it a \"joyous day\" for the US.\n\nThe vote was overseen by Vice-President Kamala Harris, the first black woman to hold the office.\n\nMs Jackson, 51, will replace Justice Stephen Breyer, a fellow liberal judge for whom she once clerked, upon his retirement in June.\n\nThe lifetime appointment will likely see Ms Jackson on the bench for decades, but will not shift the ideological balance of the current court, with its 6-3 conservative majority.\n\nMs Jackson has said she has a \"methodology\" to deciding cases but not an overarching philosophy. And she agreed with Republican senators about the importance of abiding by the text of the Constitution, as it was intended by the founders.\n\nDuring her confirmation, Democrats touted her experience working as a public defender. She will be the first Supreme Court justice since Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court justice - to have career experience representing criminal defendants.\n\nThe jurist, a Washington DC native, currently sits on the influential US court of Appeals for the DC circuit. She has two degrees from Harvard University and once served as editor of the Harvard Law Review. She worked as a public defender in Washington before joining a private practice prior to her judicial appointments.\n\nSome Republicans took issue with clients Ms Jackson took on as a public defence lawyer - namely terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, with some accusing her of being soft on crime.\n\nOthers, however, applauded the diversity of experience her legal career would bring to the bench over the course of what was at times highly fractious and almost entirely polarised six week confirmation process.\n\nSenator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, one of three Republicans to vote in favour of Justice Jackson said this decision rested, in part, as a \"rejection of the corrosive politicisation\" that has come to shape the confirmation process.\n\nThe new justice \"will bring to the Supreme Court a range of experience from the courtroom that few can match given her background in litigation,\" Ms Murkowski said.\n\nThe top court plays a crucial role in American public life and is often the last word on highly contentious laws and disputes between states and the federal government.\n\nKetanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation is a historic one as the appointment of the first black female justice. It's also notable because her professional background differs markedly from recent justices. She is the first since Thurgood Marshall in 1967 to come to the court with extensive experience as a criminal defence attorney.\n\nA recent Cato Institute study found that throughout the federal court system, former prosecutors outnumber defence attorneys by four to one.\n\nSome conservatives have accused Ms Jackson of being \"soft\" on criminals, pointing to her experience as a public defender and willingness as a federal judge to issue prison sentences below federal guidelines. While her supporters vociferously dispute this, Ms Jackson is likely to bring a different perspective to the court, particularly on the criminal procedure cases that regularly appear on the docket.\n\nAs one of nine justices, replacing one of only three liberals on the court, her arrival may have a negligible impact on the court rulings. She has a lifetime appointment to assert her influence, however. And even if she's not penning majority rulings, that influence can come through private interactions with justices and through dissenting opinions that could preview new legal principles if the court's ideological balance someday shifts.", "Viatcheslav Kantor, pictured with President Putin, has funded a new wing at the Edward VII hospital\n\nA major financial donor of the private hospital used by the Queen, King Edward VII's hospital, has been put on the UK list of sanctioned Russian oligarchs.\n\nViatcheslav Kantor, whose name is still above the door of the central London hospital, faces sanctions over Ukraine.\n\nThe hospital recently opened the Kantor Medical Centre, funded by Dr Kantor, and so far is keeping its name.\n\nThe King Edward VII's is where the Queen has gone for medical care, including a night's stay last autumn.\n\nThe hospital describes itself as an \"independent charitable hospital with a proud history of royal patronage, discreetly located within London's Harley Street medical district\".\n\nPrince Philip and other members of the Royal Family have also been treated there.\n\nDr Kantor has been described by the UK government as the \"largest shareholder of fertilizer company Acron with vital strategic significance for the Russian government\".\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said: \"We are showing the Russian elite that they cannot wash their hands of the atrocities committed on Putin's orders.\"\n\nDr Kantor had been \"life governor\" of the hospital but has stepped down from this role and from the board of trustees.\n\nThe private hospital has treated members of the Royal Family\n\nThe oligarch's significant donations to the hospital have funded the Kantor Medical Centre, opened this year, which has seven floors of treatment and diagnostic services.\n\nIt includes new facilities for MRI and CT scans, ultrasound, X-rays and consulting rooms and will have rooms for minor procedures.\n\nDr Kantor, funder of the Kantor Charitable Foundation, has been a donor to many charities and arts projects in the UK.\n\nThe foundation's online photo gallery shows him with Russian President Vladimir Putin, among other international figures.\n\nAt the outbreak of the war in Ukraine the hospital had defended the acceptance of donations from the UK-registered charity funded by Dr Kantor.\n\n\"We share the deep concern felt by people across the world at the invasion of Ukraine,\" said a statement from the hospital.\n\nThose on the sanctions list are subject to asset freezes, meaning anyone in the UK or any UK company is prevented from dealing with any funds or property that is owned by them.\n\nDr Kantor is among eight oligarchs who were added to the UK's sanctions list as part of its latest package of measures in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe others included fertiliser firm founder Andrey Guryev, truck manufacturing firm director Sergey Kogogin, diamond producer Sergey Sergeyevich Ivanov, natural gas firm boss Leonid Mikhelson, Gazprombank chief executive Andrey Akimov, oil producer Gazpromneft chief executive Aleksander Dyukov, and Boris Borisovich Rotenberg - the son of the co-owner of Russia's largest gas pipeline producer SGM.\n\nOther sanctions include asset freezes on Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, and Credit Bank of Moscow, as well as plans to end imports of Russian coal and oil by the end of the year.", "Iryna Abramov stands outside her destroyed home in Bucha, where her husband was killed. 'I wish they had killed me too,' she said.\n\nVolodymyr Abramov was trying desperately to put out the fire in his home, in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, calling out for his son-in-law to help.\n\nRussian troops had smashed through the front gates of Volodymyr's home, opened fire at the house, and dragged Volodymyr, 72, his daughter Iryna, 48, and her husband Oleg, 40, out into the yard.\n\nThe soldiers took Oleg out beyond the gate on to the pavement, Volodymyr said, and threw a grenade in through the front door of the house that exploded with a deafening bang and set the house on fire.\n\nVolodymyr grabbed a small fire extinguisher and tried in vain to extinguish the flames. \"Where is Oleg? Oleg will help!\" he shouted to his daughter.\n\nBut the reply came from one of the Russian soldiers, he said.\n\n\"Oleg will not help you any more.\"\n\nThey found Oleg on the pavement outside the gate, and it was clear from the way he was lying that he had been forced to kneel and shot in the head at point blank range, Iryna said. He was a welder who lived a quiet life on the corner of Yablonska Street in Bucha, who was taken out of his home and killed.\n\nVolodymyr Abramov stands in the house once shared by his daughter and son-in-law. \"I felt empty when they killed Oleg,\" he said. \"I only wanted to die.\"\n\nThe killing is one of scores - if not hundreds - being uncovered in Bucha after Russian troops withdrew from the Kyiv suburb recently. The mayor, Anatoliy Fedoruk, said on Monday that at least 300 civilians had been killed. There is no official tally yet.\n\nRussia has denied any involvement in the atrocities. But its burned-out tanks litter the city. On the grounds of a church, there is an open mass grave with the dead still inside, some in black body bags, some loose in the sand. On the roads, there are bullet-riddled civilian cars - at least one with a body still inside. Houses are caved in by shelling, their driveways ploughed over by tanks. Residents have described Russian soldiers shooting civilians outside their homes with no provocation, and satellite imagery shows that bodies were lying in the streets while the Russians were still in control.\n\nThe Russian soldiers who killed Oleg Abramov \"did not ask him anything\", his wife Iryna said.\n\n\"They didn't ask anything or say anything, they just killed him,\" she said. \"They only told him to take off his shirt, kneel down, and they shot him.\"\n\nVolodymyr Abramov points to the spot on the pavement outside their house where he says his son-in-law was forced to kneel and shot in the head\n\nShe wept on Tuesday as she stood on the spot where he was killed, where a dark patch of blood was still visible on the street. When she ran out and found his disfigured body, the four Russian soldiers who dragged him out were standing casually drinking water, she said. She screamed at them to shoot her, and one raised his gun, then lowered it, then raised it again, and lowered it, until Volodymyr dragged her back inside the gate.\n\n\"Those soldiers told us we had three minutes to leave and they forced us to run in our slippers,\" Volodymyr said. \"Bucha was like an apocalypse - dead bodies everywhere, the streets full of smoke.\"\n\nVolodymyr and Iryna had no choice but to leave Oleg's body lying on the street and it lay there for nearly a month while they sheltered at a relative's house nearby. When it was safe to return, Volodymyr tried to bury his son-in-law on a rough patch of earth by the pavement, and the half-dug hole was still visible there on Tuesday.\n\nBut exhausted by the effort, and afraid of Russian soldiers, Volodymyr carried Oleg back inside the yard and laid him there. Later, Ukrainian soldiers loaded the body into a van, Volodymyr said, and took it away. \"I have no idea how we are going to find it now,\" he said.\n\nA mass grave on the grounds of a church in Bucha, where bodies were discovered when the Russians retreated\n\nUkrainian authorities have now cleared the bodies off the streets of Bucha but there are fears more will be found in the basements and yards of private homes. Officials have only just begun the process of cataloguing the horrors. And so great is the damage in Bucha, it is hard to imagine the scale of the reconstruction needed to restore it to the attractive suburb it once was.\n\nAlong one road through the town on Tuesday, where burned-out tanks were piled up and almost every house was destroyed, 84-year-old Hryhoriy Zamohylnyi was sweeping the street, as if oblivious to the total destruction around him. Somehow, his home was intact - the only building left undamaged along the whole stretch of road.\n\n\"I saw the war with the Germans and now this war with the Russians,\" said Zamohylnyi, a former engineer, born and raised in Bucha. \"What you see here is animal cruelty,\" he said.\n\nAddressing the UN security council on Tuesday, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused the Russians of committing the worst crimes since World War Two, and called for those responsible to be tried as the Nazis were in Nuremberg.\n\n\"The Russian military searched for and purposefully killed anyone who served our country,\" he said. \"They killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies.\"\n\nThe ruins of the Abramovs' home in Bucha\n\nUkraine has begun a war crimes investigation into Russia's actions in Bucha and nearby Irpin. It says 410 bodies have been found across the two suburbs so far.\n\nThere are fears now that more atrocities will be found as the Russians retreat further and more suburbs are opened up - more bodies in the streets, more mass graves. Volodymyr and Iryna Abramov are only looking for one body, and their fear is that they will never find it.\n\n\"He was just a peaceful man, a family man, a welder, who struggled with a spine fracture and was disabled all his life,\" Volodymyr said.\n\n\"Just before he died, while I was in the yard, I saw him briefly through the open gate, on his knees, and he said his final words. He asked them why.\"\n\nRodion Miroshynk and Daria Sipigina contributed to this report. Photographs by Joel Gunter.", "A rabid fox has been \"humanely euthanised\" after biting at least nine people - including a congressman and a journalist - in Washington DC.\n\nThree fox kits have also been put down after their mother was trapped and confirmed to have the disease.\n\nThe fox attacks stirred up a frenzy on Capitol Hill, frequented by many politicians, as well as on Twitter.\n\nOfficials are urging residents to report encounters with any aggressive, sick or injured foxes.\n\nReports of an aggressive fox began on Monday. The next day, Capitol Police trapped the fox for testing and confirmed she had rabies, an infectious disease that affects the nervous systems and is passed on through bites and scratches from an infected animal.\n\nOn Thursday, officials said her baby foxes had to also be euthanised since \"the kits could have been exposed [to rabies] during grooming or other means\".\n\n\"They were no longer able to be safely rehabilitated.\"\n\nOne of the bite victims was California congressman Ami Bera, who was walking near one of the Senate office buildings on Monday when he felt something lunge at him, and which he first thought was a small dog.\n\nHe told the Associated Press that he used his umbrella to try and fend off the fox during the encounter, which he estimated lasted about 15 seconds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ami Bera, M.D. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolitico reporter Ximena Bustillo was another person to be bitten. She later tweeted: \"You're telling me I survived three years of a pandemic to be bit by a rabid fox.\"\n\nBoth have started the first series of four rabies shots as a precaution.\n\nOfficials are contacting everyone who had been bitten, though there are no plans to take action against healthy foxes.\n\nFoxes are not uncommon in DC and the National Park Service says the animals adapt well to both city and rural life. There are numerous fox dens on the National Mall, a downtown park that hosts many of the city's iconic monuments, but their location can change year to year.\n\nThe Capitol complex only recently reopened after having been closed for most of the pandemic.\n• None US bans dog imports from more than 100 countries", "Roman poet Virgil, who wrote about the death of Dido (pictured here), is used to teach Latin in schools\n\nLatin teaching in many schools is based on 1950s models and a fresh approach would attract more state-educated pupils, according to a new guide from the University of Cambridge.\n\nDisney and Taylor Swift are referenced in a handbook for teachers as examples of how to engage pupils.\n\nCambridge academic Steven Hunt says Latin is not only for the \"lucky ones in the few schools which provide it\".\n\nA scheme rolling out in September aims to help more state schools teach Latin.\n\nMr Hunt, the guide's author, who has been teaching Latin for 35 years and trains new teachers, believes students should be taught to speak in Latin as well as learning written grammar and vocabulary.\n\nHe told the BBC that Latin should be structured in the same way as modern foreign languages - based on the four skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing,\n\nBut he said his handbook was not a criticism of teachers, who \"work very hard under difficult circumstances\".\n\n\"The examination system at GCSE tends to force teachers to use quite traditional approaches - much teaching to the test - rather than exploring other approaches which might be more engaging, contain more variety, and reflect what we know of how young people learn languages,\" he said.\n\nThere is a \"stark divide\" in the teaching of Latin in England, according to the British Council - with GCSE Latin offered by about 65% of independent schools, and only 9% of state schools.\n\nA £4m programme to introduce Latin in about 40 state schools in England - announced last year by former education secretary Gavin Williamson - is due to start in September.\n\nAmong the examples cited in Mr Hunt's handbook are a university lecturer who uses Swift's \"Bad Blood\" to teach \"the starting place for writing\" in Latin, and a YouTube channel featuring translated songs from the Little Mermaid and Frozen.\n\nStudents at a Tennessee university were asked to translate Taylor Swift's lyrics to help them understand literary devices in Latin poetry\n\nZanna Wing-Davey, executive director of the Latin Programme, a charity that works in state schools to improve literacy and language learning through Latin, welcomed the \"refreshing rethink of Classics teaching\".\n\nChildren who attended the charity's summer school created a version of the Roman myth Echo and Narcissus using two hip-hop songs - one in English and the other in Latin.\n\n\"This both supports advanced translation skills, whilst thoroughly engaging students from a broad demographic,\" she said.\n\nShe told the BBC that the structure of modern language curricula \"engages students from all backgrounds and enables students of different abilities to access a subject traditionally seen as 'challenging'\".\n\nElizabeth Sutcliffe, head of Classics at The Abbey School, an independent girls' school in Reading, said teaching had \"moved a long way from the 1950s\".\n\nHer students speak basic Latin in class, perform plays with contemporary twists and recently held a \"Dragon's Den-style event to sell the benefits of ancient cities as tourist destinations in the ancient world\".\n\nMrs Sutcliffe said the subject should be accessible, and there is an emphasis on exploring English words with Latin roots at her school.\n\n\"Some students admittedly still prefer a more methodical approach,\" she said. \"But if you can achieve linguistic knowledge via computer games and pop songs, and extend the benefits of learning Latin to a wider audience, why not?\"\n\nIn his handbook, Mr Hunt also said there is a need to attract a diverse range of students and improve representation in teaching materials, some of which include racial and gender stereotypes and trivialise slavery.\n\nHe advises against the use of one text traditionally used for teaching - the story \"Venalicius\", or \"the slave dealer\".\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said it was \"making great progress towards children from all backgrounds having the opportunity to study Latin\".\n\nThey said the scheme starting in September would help schools develop training and teaching materials and support teachers to deliver Latin.\n\n\"Latin can help pupils learn other subjects from English to modern languages, and can be another powerful tool to help the children who study it fulfil their potential,\" they added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Residents of Obukhovychi, north of Kyiv, say they were taken from their homes at gunpoint\n\nClear evidence of Russian troops rounding up Ukrainian civilians and using them as human shields has been found by the BBC. In multiple interviews in Obukhovychi, villagers say they were taken from their homes at gunpoint and held in a school by Russians trying to stop advancing Ukrainian forces. Local people also gave accounts of Russian troops shooting civilians and holding others captive in and around Ivankiv, the neighbouring town.\n\nOn the night of 14 March, Russian soldiers in Obukhovychi were under attack and losing men and armoured vehicles. The Ukrainians were regaining territory.\n\nAs darkness fell, local people, sheltering in their cellars, heard explosions and the grinding sound of armoured vehicles manoeuvring.\n\nThey had been under Russian occupation since the start of the invasion - the area was on the main axis of Russian advance. Obukhovychi is 100km (60 miles) from Kyiv, close to Belarus and just south of the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.\n\nWe have now managed to speak to many people about what happened that night. They all told us the same stories about 24 hours that traumatised the village.\n\nFamilies described how the Russians went door-to-door, rounded them up at gunpoint, and marched them to the local school - where the Russian forces used them as protection.\n\nLydmila says she was forced into the local school by Russian soldiers\n\nMany of the houses in the village had the Ukrainian word for \"people\" painted on their gates - a way of warning soldiers to be careful and not hurt them. But, in the end, the signs were a magnet to Russian troops.\n\nWe were told that if people didn't open their doors, the Russians broke them down. About 150 civilians, including the elderly and small children, were taken from their cellars to the school.\n\n\"The [Russians] are fascists, vandals. It was chaos, children and people crying… I don't want to talk about the Russians. They're not human beings,\" 60-year-old Ivan told us.\n\nLydmila Sutkova described the terror of being rounded up at the school. \"When explosions came, we thought if the ceiling falls this will become a mass grave.\"\n\nCivilians say they were held in this school building\n\nOthers told us that some of the Russian soldiers were drunk, and threatened to take them to Belarus.\n\nMaria Bilohovost, an 89-year-old great grandmother, told us she had survived World War Two and that the Russian invaders were like the Germans. \"Except they spoke Russian, so I knew what they were saying.\"\n\nShe said the Russians left her in the house but took the rest of her family - including her granddaughter Maryana and great-granddaughter Marharyta. Maryana says two-year-old Marharyta still shows signs of anxiety.\n\nGreat-grandmother Maria can remember German occupation in World War Two\n\nMaryana's mother Olena tells us that she was afraid they would all be shot in the gym. \"I was scared for my daughter. I don't have the words. I'm still frightened. Machine guns - a two-year-old girl should not see this.\"\n\nOlena says that while the Russians were occupying the village, young women and girls hid inside their homes. \"We were really terrified. One lady went to collect wood for the fire in her house - she was shot in the leg. They just did it for fun.\"\n\nIn Obukhovychi, there was no mass slaughter of civilians - but we were told stories of individuals, including a local priest, being killed.\n\nUp the road, the nearby village of Termakhivka is built around a desolate crossroads, where routes lead to Belarus, Chernobyl, Warsaw and Kyiv. There were burnt out military vehicles and military emplacements - once held by the Russians, we were told, but now manned by Ukrainians.\n\nOne local man, 25-year-old Bogdan, says he was held captive for 15 days outside in sub-zero temperatures - often bound and gagged - by Russian troops. He rolled up his trouser leg to show where a Russian had shot him.\n\n\"He put me on a bench near the house, aimed his machine gun at me and shot my knee… the reason is that I have a younger brother. He served in the army. They found his military cap and his military photos.\"\n\nBogdan also took us across a waterlogged field to show us a patch of disturbed ground - which he said was a shallow grave. The Russians forced him to dig the hole, he explains, so they could bury the body of a man who had been shot.\n\nGetting to these villages was a hard slog. It meant going the long way round, across pontoon bridges and along back roads through miles of deep forest.\n\nThis part of Ukraine is a land of rivers and swamps. It's one reason why the Russian advance stopped.\n\nA destroyed bridge on the edge of Ivankiv\n\nNow the Russians have pulled out of this area, it is slowly being reconnected to the rest of the country. While we were there, the Ukrainian army fixed a temporary bridge over a river on the road to the capital, next to the ruins of one the Russians blew up as they were retreating to Belarus. Dozens of volunteers were helping out, lighting fires, making soup, cutting trees, digging up stumps and smoothing out new roadways\n\nIn areas where Ukrainian forces are in control, evidence is accumulating that Russian troops repeatedly broke the laws of war.\n\nThe question is how the Russians are treating civilians in the places which they still occupy.", "A journalist once held by captors from the Islamic State group has told a US court of \"sadistic\" and \"terrifying\" tactics used against hostages.\n\nThose in captivity were forced to sing a parody of the Eagles' pop song \"Hotel California\" retitled \"Hotel Osama\", Nicolas Hénin said.\n\nIt contained the lines: \"you will never leave/if you try, you will die\".\n\nMr Hénin was the latest witness in the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh.\n\nThe IS militant cell was known as the Beatles because of their British accents.\n\nAn alleged member of the militant cell known as \"Jihadi George,\" Mr Elsheikh, 33, is the highest profile IS fighter to face trial in the US, accused of kidnapping and conspiracy to murder.\n\nThe court on Wednesday heard from Mr Hénin, who was abducted in June 2013 while working in Raqqa, Syria.\n\nHe was blindfolded by men with AK-47s in the middle of the day and driven out of town, he said. When the blindfold was removed, he found himself alone in a cell, and would later come into contact with several other hostages.\n\nMr Hénin testified that he witnessed brutal torture and was himself beaten until unconscious by men believed to be the so-called Beatles.\n\nThe group have been linked to some 27 abductions and the murders of four Americans - journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nProsecutors in the case argue that Mr Elsheikh was deeply involved in making ransom demands from the families of hostages for the group, and involved in the executions they carried out.\n\nHe is also charged with conspiring in the deaths of the British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nThe defence, however, have said that the Sudanese-born Londoner was not part of the group and merely \"a simple Isis fighter\".\n\nMr Hénin said that he saw Mr Haines, who was starved and tortured so much that he \"at first sight looked like somebody at a Nazi concentration camp\", and Mr Foley, who was weak from \"intense torture\" and had had his ribs broken.\n\nAnother captive, the Danish journalist Daniel Rye Ottosen, was \"a shadow of a man... so badly tortured that he was mentally and physically diminished\". Wounds on his wrists were \"so deep you could see his bones\", Mr Hénin said.\n\nHe also encountered Ms Mueller, Mr Sotloff and Mr Kassig during his captivity, the Frenchman said. They arrived at various point during his detainment, he said, and were at one point held together in a small underground room they nicknamed \"the Dungeon\".\n\nMr Hénin was released in April 2014, but others were not so lucky.\n\nThe family of aid worker Kayla Mueller gave evidence on Tuesday\n\nSeveral family members of victims have testified about email exchanges with the captors as part of the prosecution's case.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the father of Peter Kassig recounted receiving a letter from his son saying he \"knew it was his time\", predicting his death before he was executed.\n\nMr Elsheikh - on Wednesday wearing a white shirt and black face mask - sat back in his chair and listened intently to Mr Kassig's testimony, cocking his head slightly to look at the government's evidence, and making no eye contact with the witness.\n\nHe took extensive notes when Mr Hénin testified.\n\nThe trial continues, with as many as 50 witnesses expected.", "Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in October\n\nA terror suspect accused of murdering Sir David Amess told jurors he decided to kill him over his vote for airstrikes on Syria.\n\nThe Southend West MP was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex on 15 October 2021.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 26, told the court he had no regrets, adding \"If I thought I did anything wrong, I wouldn't have done it\".\n\nHe denies murder and preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nHe told jurors at the Old Bailey: \"He [Sir David] voted previously in Parliament, not just him... I decided if I couldn't make hijrah, if I couldn't help the Muslims [in Syria], I would do something here.\"\n\nAli Harbi Ali told jurors he killed Sir David Amess to prevent Muslims being harmed and to send a message to other MPs\n\nAsked what difference killing Sir David would make, he said: \"For one, he can't vote again.\n\n\"If he had previous for doing votes like that he won't do it in the future, and perhaps send a message to his colleagues.\"\n\nHe added: \"So hopefully, he won't be able to harm Muslims in that regard.\"\n\nHe said that another \"big problem\" for him about Sir David was his membership of the Conservative Friends of Israel Group.\n\nUnder cross-examination by Tom Little QC, Mr Ali told the court he had no regrets about killing Sir David, 69, during a constituency surgery at Belfairs Church - but denied being \"utterly shameless\".\n\nHe said: \"I wouldn't use the word 'shameless', but I don't have any shame.\"\n\nMr Little said: \"You don't think you did any thing wrong?\"\n\nMr Ali replied: \"If I thought I did anything wrong, I wouldn't have done it.\"\n\nAli Harbi Ali told the court he had no regrets about killing Sir David Amess\n\nHe also retracted comments made to police saying he would not now class his actions as \"terror\", saying the attack on Sir David was comparable with the actions of MPs who voted for Syrian airstrikes.\n\nHe told the court: \"I don't think I would use those words now.\n\n\"If I was to use that word on myself, I would expect the British politicians who bombed Syria to use that word on themselves.\"\n\nHe also denied being a radical Muslim, insisting \"I am a moderate Muslim\".\n\nMr Ali told the court he had expected to be shot and die \"a martyr\" but when he realised the two officers who entered the building were not armed he decided to drop his knife.\n\nThe trial previously heard Mr Ali, of Kentish Town north London, had plans on his phone describing possible attacks on cabinet minister Michael Gove.\n\nHe told the jury when he came up with the plan he hoped to \"attack and hopefully kill Michael Gove\".\n\n\"I believe he was someone who was a harm to Muslims.\n\n\"I thought if I couldn't go join Islamic State, I should try and do something here to help Muslims here,\" he said.\n\nHe \"deeply\" regretted not being able to join the terrorist group, he told the court.\n\nMr Ali said he wanted to travel to Syria between 2015 and 2017, but did not go as it was \"difficult\".\n\nHe told defence counsel Tracy Alying QC: \"As a Muslim, I was obligated to do something during that period.\"\n\nConcluding his evidence, Mr Ali said he hoped that by killing Sir David, other MPs would \"cease hostilities with Muslims\".\n\nMr Ali also said it was very likely he had a knife in his rucksack when he was captured on CCTV outside the Houses of Parliament in the months before he killed Sir David.\n\nThe trial has restarted after a 10-day delay due to three jurors and the judge in the case testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The UK Health Security Agency says parents should look out for symptoms such as jaundice\n\nHealth officials say there is mounting evidence that a common virus is linked to rare cases of hepatitis that have been occurring in some young children.\n\nGlobally, there have been 169 cases recorded, and one death.\n\nIn the UK alone, 114 children have become ill and 10 have needed a liver transplant.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says a strain of adenovirus called F41 is looking like the most probable cause.\n\nMost of the children affected are five years old or younger and have had symptoms of gastroenteritis illness - diarrhoea and nausea - followed by jaundice or yellowing of the skin and eyes (a sign that the liver is struggling).\n\nDr Meera Chand, director of clinical and emerging infections at UKHSA, said: \"Information gathered through our investigations increasingly suggests that this rise in sudden onset hepatitis in children is linked to adenovirus infection.\n\n\"However, we are thoroughly investigating other potential causes.\"\n\nExperts stress that most children who catch adenovirus will not become very unwell. Cases of liver inflammation - known as hepatitis - are extremely rare, but can be very serious.\n\nScientists and clinicians are now investigating whether there has been a change in the genetic make-up of the virus that might trigger liver inflammation more easily.\n\nAnother possible explanation is that restrictions imposed in the pandemic may have led to young children being first exposed to adenovirus at a slightly later point in their lives, leading to a \"more vigorous\" immune response in some.\n\nProf Calum Semple, who is an expert in infectious diseases at Liverpool University, said: \"Adenovirus virtually disappeared during the Covid outbreak when there was reduced mixing and it has come back in a surge now.\"\n\nHe said other hypotheses are also being explored, including whether a recent Covid infection might be a trigger for the liver problems along with adenovirus.\n\nThere is no link to the Covid vaccine. None of the currently confirmed cases in under-10-year-olds in the UK are known to have been vaccinated.\n\nCases have been seen in all four nations of the UK.\n\nDr Chand told an emergency session at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon earlier on Monday how the pieces of the puzzle were beginning to fit together to understand the unusual and challenging situation.\n\nShe said parents and families could be reassured that cases like these are rare, but should know the signs to check and seek advice for:\n\nNormal hygiene measures such as thorough handwashing and good respiratory hygiene help to reduce the spread of many common infections, including adenovirus.\n\nChildren experiencing symptoms of a gastrointestinal infection including vomiting and diarrhoea should stay at home and not return to school or nursery until 48 hours after the symptoms have stopped, experts say.\n• None Hepatitis in children: How many cases are there?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour has pledged to replace the so-called \"non-dom\" taxpayer status in the UK after a row over the finances of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife.\n\nThe party said it would abolish the \"unfair\" status, which allows UK residents whose permanent homes are abroad not to pay UK tax on overseas income.\n\nIt would bring in a shorter-term scheme for temporary residents.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said it would end \"outdated tax perks\".\n\nThe UK government said non-doms played \"an important role in funding our public services\", with tax contributions estimated to be worth £6bn a year.\n\nBut a Treasury spokesperson said it was \"only right that those who choose to live here for a long time pay their fair share of tax, which is why we reformed the rules in 2017 to end permanent non-dom status\".\n\nCurrently, non-doms can keep the status for up to 15 years.\n\nMs Reeves told the BBC the status \"should not be available to a privileged few\" at a time when living costs were soaring and taxes going up.\n\n\"We need to do more to crackdown on some of the loopholes, which mean some of the wealthiest in society aren't paying their fair share of tax,\" she said. \"If you make Britain your home, you should be paying your taxes here.\"\n\nLabour has previously been critical of the non-dom arrangement, and had pledged to scrap it under former leaders Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband.\n\nThe party said its decision to recommit to removing the status came as part of a wider review of its tax policies, announced by Ms Reeves at Labour Party conference in September.\n\nBut it also follows a row earlier this month after emerged that Mr Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, had claimed non-dom status through her father, Narayana Murty - the billionaire founder of Indian software giant Infosys.\n\nThe BBC estimated this would have saved her £2.1m a year in UK tax on dividend payments from her shares in the company.\n\nAfter a political backlash, Ms Murty announced that although she would remain a non-dom, she would pay UK tax on her overseas income.\n\nLabour has said, if it wins power after the next general election, it would replace the status with a shorter-term arrangement similar to those in France, Germany and Canada.\n\nMs Reeves said the status could last \"as long as five years\" for residents who qualify. \"But between six months and five years is what other countries do and we would consult [businesses] on that,\" she added.\n\nLabour has not provided further details of its plan, but said it would be a \"clear, simple, and modern system\".\n\nMs Reeves added: \"With Labour, people who make the UK their home will contribute to this country by paying tax on their global income.\"\n\nThe Treasury said it considered non-dom status to be an important feature of the UK's tax system and said it wanted to continue attracting \"talent to work and live in the UK\".\n\nA non-dom is a UK resident who declares their permanent home, or domicile, outside of the UK.\n\nA domicile is usually the country his or her father considered his permanent home when they were born, or it may be the place overseas somebody has moved to with no intention of returning.\n\nFor proof to the tax authority, non-doms have to provide evidence about their background, lifestyle and future intentions - such as where they own property or intend to be buried.\n\nThose who have the status must still pay UK tax on UK earnings, but do not need to pay UK tax on foreign income.\n\nThey can give up their non-dom status at any time.\n\nAccording to the latest figures from HM Revenue and Customs, there were 75,700 people claiming non-dom status in the UK in the tax year ending 2020.", "Mr Austin (L) and Mr Blinken (R) became the highest level US officials to travel to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has said he hopes Russian losses in Ukraine will deter its leadership from repeating its actions elsewhere.\n\nUkraine can still win the war if given the right support, he added.\n\nHe also announced the US would allocate an extra $713m (£559m) of military aid to Ukraine and other European nations.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of attempting to \"split Russian society and destroy Russia from within\".\n\nMr Austin, a retired four-star general, was speaking after meeting Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv. Also involving Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the visit marked the highest-level trip to Ukraine by US officials since the invasion began over two months ago.\n\nThe meeting between the US and Ukrainian parties, which ran for over three hours, comes as Russia escalates its military campaign in the south and east of the country.\n\nAt a news conference in Poland after the visit, Mr Austin told reporters the US wants to see \"Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine\".\n\nThe Pentagon chief added that US officials still believed Ukraine could win the conflict with \"the right equipment\" and the \"right support\".\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale observed that Mr Austin's comments calling for a weakened Russia were unusually strong for a US defence secretary. It is one thing to help Ukraine resist Russian aggression, it is quite another to speak of weakening Russia's capabilities, he said.\n\nMr Putin's accusations of the West attempting to \"destroy Russia\", made during a speech on Monday, appeared to be in response to Mr Austin's comments.\n\nMr Zelensky has called for increased military assistance from Western nations\n\nUS defence officials said of the millions announced in fresh military funding, nearly $332m (£260m) would be allocated to Ukraine.\n\nIt brings the total US security assistance provided to Ukraine since the invasion began to more than $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\nMr Zelensky has been pleading with Western leaders to increase the flow of military equipment for weeks, vowing that his forces can overcome Russia's military if provided with fighter jets and other vehicles.\n\nLast week the US confirmed it had supplied Ukrainian troops with howitzer artillery cannons and anti-artillery radars for the first time.\n\nRussia's ambassador in Washington said Moscow had sent a diplomatic note demanding an end to the US supply of weapons to Ukraine.\n\nMr Blinken announced some US diplomatic staff would start to return to Ukraine from next week. They are expected to be based in Lviv initially, with a longer-term plan to re-open the US Embassy in the capital, Kyiv.\n\nRussia is believed to have suffered heavy military losses\n\nPresident Joe Biden intends to nominate Bridget Brink, a career diplomat, as US ambassador to Ukraine - a post that has remained vacant for more than two years.\n\nMr Blinken also defended America's diplomatic approach, telling reporters that the Western alliance the Biden administration had assembled had put pressure on President Putin's government.\n\n\"The strategy that we've put in place, massive support for Ukraine, massive pressure against Russia, solidarity with more than 30 countries engaged in these efforts, is having real results,\" Mr Blinken said. \"And we're seeing that when it comes to Russia's war aims, Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding.\"\n\n\"A sovereign, independent Ukraine will be around a lot longer than Vladimir Putin's on the scene,\" Mr Blinken added.\n\nSpeaking following the meeting, Mr Zelensky said his government appreciated \"the unprecedented assistance\" from Washington and added that he \"would like to thank President Biden personally and on behalf of the entire Ukrainian people for his leadership in supporting Ukraine\".\n\nPresident Biden's always made clear that the US won't directly intervene in the war in Ukraine. He won't be sending American troops to join the battle.\n\nBut the truth is that the US is getting more deeply involved - and that's been highlighted by the words of the US defence secretary.\n\nAmerica has dramatically increased the supply of weapons to Ukraine in recent weeks. Despite Russian warnings, it's made clear it'll be sending more. Mr Austin's words underline that America is not a bystander in this war. America wants to see Russia defeated.\n\nMore than that, it wants to see Russia's military machine reduced to such an extent that it will not be able to threaten any another European ally in the future. The fear, shared by Nato allies, is that any kind of defeat for Ukraine will only embolden President Putin's ambitions.\n\nMr Austin has now set out clearly that the US has its own strategic goals for this war - even if it's theoretically not participating. The goal is to stop President Putin and to weaken Russia's military to such an extent that it will no longer be able to threaten other nations.\n\nTo some extent that's already happened. Military experts already believe it will take years for Russia to recover from its military losses. That might also send a signal to another nation which the US is increasingly concerned about - namely China.\n\nFor President Putin it's more evidence that he's not just in a war with Ukraine. No doubt it will feed his own narrative for the purposes of domestic support. He's long portrayed Nato as a threat to Russia.\n\nIn recent days Russia has refocussed its advance on Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and US sources believe that Moscow has committed over 76 battalion tactical groups inside Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday, the UK's ministry of defence said in an update that Moscow had made minor advances in the region but had \"yet to achieve a breakthrough\" because of logistical issues.\n\nThe update said: \"Ukraine's defence of Mariupol has also exhausted many Russian units and reduced their combat effectiveness.\"\n\nHave you been affected by what is happening in Ukraine? Or do you have any questions about the conflict? Email us at: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A leading gymnastics coach was pulled from Great Britain's coaching squad just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics after a serious allegation was made against her, BBC Sport has learned.\n\nAt the time, Liz Kincaid's retirement from the sport was given as the official reason for her withdrawal.\n\nHowever, British Gymnastics had removed her from the team after an allegation was made about the mental health of one of her former gymnasts.\n\nAn investigation was launched but British Gymnastics had received other complaints about Kincaid almost a year earlier. Kincaid strongly denies all the allegations.\n\nBritish Gymnastics said the British Olympic Association's rules state no-one with \"any unresolved ongoing complaints about them\" could attend the Games.\n\nA wider independent investigation into allegations of abuse within British gymnastics is ongoing, after a number of current and former gymnasts alleged mistreatment at all levels of the sport in 2020.\n\nThe final report of the independent review, led by Anne Whyte QC and co-commissioned by Sport England and UK Sport, is due to be published at the end of May.\n\nBBC Sport has spoken to two of Kincaid's former gymnasts, who have made further allegations of serious injury mismanagement and mistreatment by their ex-coach.\n\nAt the age of 12, former Welsh gymnast Poppy Wynn - now 25 - tore her perineum after landing in oversplits after a missed catch on the bars. She was not being monitored by a coach.\n\n\"I went to Liz, I had blood dripping down my leg and she then took me into the office and gave me sanitary pads to effectively mop up the blood and then sent me back into the gym,\" Wynn told BBC Sport's Natalie Pirks.\n\nKincaid allegedly told Wynn's mother that she had apparently started her period during training.\n\nHer mother later looked at her daughter's injury and said what she saw looked \"worse than childbirth\", immediately taking Wynn to hospital where \"concerned\" doctors admitted her overnight and referred her to gynaecologists.\n\nWynn said she also trained on a broken hand for six weeks, while Sophie Jameson - a three-time British champion - remembers training on a broken ankle, taken out of its cast too early at Kincaid's request, and other mismanaged injuries followed.\n\n\"I dislocated my knee on beam. I looked down and I remember just screaming in the gym. It was a quite horrific experience,\" said Jameson, also now 25.\n\n\"I was in a big knee brace. She wanted me to carry on upper body training, swinging on bars and stuff. Your legs do have to come up and I just remember that being absolutely excruciating.\"\n\nBoth Wynn and Jameson also allege that Kincaid spoke to them in a way that made them feel \"less than human\", as well as \"shouting in their faces\" and weight-shaming gymnasts.\n\nJameson previously spoke to BBC Sport in August 2020, saying she now suffers from anxiety and developed an eating disorder as a result of her experiences in gymnastics.\n\nThree of Kincaid's gymnasts have competed at the Olympics, including Amelie Morgan, who in Tokyo helped Britain's women win their first Olympic gymnastics team medal since 1928 with bronze.\n\nKincaid denies all claims against her and told BBC Sport: \"The health, well-being and safety of the gymnasts under my care and tuition was of paramount importance to me and a matter close to my heart. To suggest I would mistreat the gymnasts goes against every principle I live by and is very upsetting.\"\n\nBritish Gymnastics told the BBC it will embark on a programme of reform after next month's independent review looking into abuse in the sport and and added it is \"determined to learn from all those who have bravely come forward and raised concerns\".\n\nThe governing body said: \"We are deeply sorry to those that have had a poor experience in our sport where we have fallen short.\"\n\nBoth Wynn and Jameson are part of a civil claim against British Gymnastics. Jameson said: \"You need to take these investigations a lot more seriously and speed up the process because I see no change.\n\n\"[Kincaid] is still very capable of walking into a gym and coaching, and right now I really don't think she should be.\"\n\nWynn added: \"She can come back from retirement. What if she goes to America? There's lots of avenues she can take to still coach.\"\n\nSince July 2020, BBC Sport has revealed a series of stories of former and current gymnasts alleging mistreatment at all levels of the sport - including Olympic medal-winning gymnasts Amy Tinkler and Nile Wilson, plus Olympians Becky and Ellie Downie.\n\nAs well as the ongoing independent review - which received information from almost 400 people - British Gymnastics is also the subject of a legal claim raised by 37 former athletes who say they were victims of alleged systemic physical and psychological abuse.\n\nA support helpline set up for gymnasts by the British Athletes Commission and the NSPCC received more than 120 calls in its first five weeks.\n\nIn August 2020, British Gymnastics' national head coach Amanda Reddin stepped aside while an investigation into claims about her conduct took place, while a number of coaches were suspended.\n\nA year later, British Gymnastics chairman Mike Darcey apologised to the gymnastics community for failing to act on allegations of mistreatment within the sport.\n\nThe governing body's former chief executive, Jane Allen, retired in December 2020 despite the ongoing investigation. Her successor, Sarah Powell, said she was \"under no illusions about the scale of change needed\" to improve the culture at the organisation.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Politicians have condemned a suggestion made in a newspaper that Labour's Angela Rayner tries to distract Boris Johnson in the Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday claimed some unnamed Conservative MPs said she tried to put the PM \"off his stride\".\n\nMs Rayner dismissed this as a \"perverted smear\" that showed women in politics faced misogyny every day.\n\nA raft of politicians, including female Tory MPs, spoke out in support of her.\n\nConservative Caroline Nokes said too many female MPs of all parties had been \"on receiving end of vile articles\", while former minister Andrea Leadsom tweeted: \"Really sorry Angela. Totally unacceptable comments and reporting.\"\n\nBoth Mr Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer also criticised the comments, with the PM tweeting: \"As much as I disagree with Angela Rayner on almost every political issue, I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today.\"\n\nSir Keir added: \"The sexism and misogyny peddled by the Tories is a disgraceful new low from a party mired in scandal and chaos.\"\n\nA Downing Street source confirmed to the BBC that the prime minister had also contacted Ms Rayner privately by text message to reiterate what he said in his public tweet.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday is not commenting.\n\nThe article - which has now been changed to headline on deputy Labour leader Ms Rayner's response on Twitter - quoted unnamed Conservative MPs claiming she would cross and uncross her legs when opposite the PM at the dispatch box in the Commons to distract him.\n\nA host of MPs have since come out to not only condemn the suggestion made but also the tone of the newspaper's reporting.\n\nAnd Ms Nokes - who chairs the women and equalities committee - confirmed on Twitter that she had contacted the Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, to ask if the political editor who wrote the piece should have a press pass for Parliament.\n\nThe newspaper article said: \"Tory MPs have mischievously suggested that Ms Rayner likes to distract the PM when he is in the dispatch box by deploying a fully-clothed Parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's infamous scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct.\"\n\nThe paper added: \"It is also suggested she employs the tactic when sitting next to Sir Keir when he faces Mr Johnson at PMQs\".\n\nThe piece quotes one MP as saying: \"She knows she can't compete with Boris's Oxford Union debating training, but she has other skills which he lacks.\n\n\"She has admitted as much when enjoying drinks with us on the [Commons] terrace.\"\n\nThe article also described the Labour MP's background as \"a grandmother who left school at 16 while pregnant and with no qualifications before becoming a care worker\".\n\nMs Rayner condemned the article in a thread on Twitter as \"gutter journalism\", and accused the sources of \"spreading desperate, perverted smears in their doomed attempts to save [Mr Johnson's] skin\" amid the partygate scandal.\n\nShe added: \"I won't be letting their vile lies deter me. Their attempts to harass and intimidate me will fail.\n\n\"I hope this experience doesn't put off a single person like me, with a background like mine from aspiring to participate in public life. That would break my heart.\"\n\nThe report led to a huge backlash on social media and support for the Labour deputy leader.\n\nScotland's First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Solidarity from across the political divide to Angela Rayner on this.\n\n\"It's a reminder of the deep misogyny women face every day.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Munira Wilson described it as a \"disgraceful story\", saying: \"I can't even believe it made it into print.\"\n\nLabour's shadow leader of the Commons, Thangam Debbonaire, added: \"This all shows we need more women in politics and that when we work together, we are mighty and fearsome and some pathetic men feel threatened by it.\"", "Amber Kotrri refuses to rename her business and insists there is no risk of confusion\n\nAn independent fashion boutique is due to face high street clothing company Zara at a tribunal over claims it is an \"identical brand\".\n\nDarlington-based House of Zana has been threatened with legal action by the Spanish fashion giant which claims the brand is \"conceptually identical\".\n\nLawyers want Amber Kotrri, who opened her store in 2019 after trading online, to change its name and branding.\n\nMrs Kotrri said doing that would be \"the last thing we want to do\".\n\nShe received a notice of opposition from Zara when she tried to trademark the name House of Zana, followed by a letter from the multi-national company's lawyers that argued the County Durham business was \"confusingly similar\" for customers.\n\nThe letter went on to say the name House of Zana \"dilutes the distinctiveness and reputation of the Zara brand\".\n\nMrs Kotrri was asked to rename her business and remove all existing branding, but she refused.\n\nShe said there was \"no risk of confusing us with Zara\" and the change would \"cause irreparable damage\" to her business.\n\nAmber Kotrri says her business is named after the Albanian word for fairy\n\nMrs Kotrri started the business while living with her husband in Albania.\n\nShe said: \"Our name is very meaningful and personal to us and poses no commercial threat to Zara, and their massive market.\n\n\"We don't believe anyone has or will confuse House of Zana with Zara. We're a small business that specialises in handmade kimonos. We have one small concept store in the North East of England and a website to help promote our products.\"\n\nThe final hearing to decide whether she can keep the name House of Zana is due to take place next month.\n\nZara's owner Inditex said it had opposed Mrs Kotrri's trademark application \"because of its similarity to Zara's brand name\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We wish the business every success and we continue to make efforts to reach the business directly so we can resolve the situation amicably.\"\n\nZara has more than 2,500 stores worldwide and opened a huge flagship outlet in Madrid earlier this month\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInvestigators warn that 99% of child sexual abuse imagery found features girls - up from 65% a decade ago.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) finds, flags, and removes images and videos of child sexual abuse from the web.\n\nLast year the Cambridge-based charity's analysts uncovered illegal content on 252,000 web pages, the highest number since it began.\n\nThe charity's annual report said 70% of victims were aged between 11 and 13.\n\nWhere boys were included in the material, it tended to be of a more severe category, the IWF said.\n\nThe material was found to be predominantly self-generated and usually recorded at home using a phone or webcam.\n\nEmma Hardy said parents needed to talk to children to help keep them safe\n\nEmma Hardy, from the charity's senior leadership team, said: \"Since the pandemic there has been a near four-fold increase in the amount of content where offenders are accessing children remotely.\n\n\"That often happens when children are in bedrooms alone and have an internet-enabled device with a camera built in.\"\n\nThe charity said the increase could be due to older children exploring new technologies and spending more time online.\n\n\"Parents need to talk as a family because we know that's the best way to keep children safe,\" Ms Hardy said.\n\nThe IWF works to make the internet a safer place by identifying and removing global online child sexual abuse imagery\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) estimates as many as 850,000 people in the UK pose a sexual threat to children.\n\nA spokesperson for the NCA said offenders were increasingly turning to social media platforms to abuse children, using manipulation, threats and \"sextortion\", in which victims are sexually coerced remotely.\n\nThe Online Safety Bill, which received its second reading last week, aims to tackle the spread of child sexual abuse material by regulating some internet services.\n\nBut the IWF and other charities have expressed concerns the legislation will not go far enough.\n\nAndy Burrows from the NSPCC said the bill \"must be strengthened to give Ofcom the powers to proactively tackle abuse in private messaging\".\n\n\"It should also prevent offenders from using social networks to signpost to child abuse content on third party sites,\" he said.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"determined\" to \"ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice\".\n\n\"This report from the Internet Watch Foundation will help our law enforcement agencies understand the changing nature of online child abuse as the lines are increasingly blurred between children's physical and digital lives,\" she said.\n\n\"The government's Online Safety Bill will ensure that technology companies are held accountable for keeping children safe online and we will impose a powerful range of sanctions if they fail to do so.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Just one of Swansea council's 72 councillors is black\n\nThere are calls for political parties in Wales to run a minimum number of ethnically diverse candidates in elections.\n\nLess than 2% of candidates in the 2017 council elections identified as being black, Asian or minority ethnic.\n\nCampaigners said it was \"time to act\" with race-based shortlists to make sure the 5.2% of people in Wales who are ethnically diverse get representation.\n\nBut the three major parties in Wales all said they were against quotas.\n\nThere is no official data on the ethnic background of the candidates running in the council elections on 5 May - something the Electoral Reform Society has criticised.\n\nBut a candidate survey after the last election found just 1.8% of 1,682 respondents said they were from a non-white background.\n\nThree of the seven local authorities who responded to a request for figures by BBC Wales said they had no ethnically diverse councillors.\n\nCardiff council had the highest number of non-white councillors with nine out of 72 council seats.\n\nWhen it came to women, Newport elected one Asian woman from 50 council seats, while Swansea had one black woman from 72 seats.\n\n\"It's appalling, absolutely,\" said Evelyn James from Women's Equality Network Wales (WEN Wales). \"It shouldn't even be something we should be talking about at this point, because we live in a diverse society.\n\n\"When you bring in the different cultures, the dynamics in the thinking, that's how you thrive... so it is important for us to allow every Welsh citizen to be part of the decision process, for their voices to be heard.\"\n\nWEN Wales said the first step in overcoming barriers to political participation, such as prejudice, a lack of childcare provision and financial disincentives, was a system that guarantees councils elect people of colour.\n\n\"We are not saying that diversity quotas are the only effective tool... it is a starting point,\" said Ms James. \"Give them the chance to be at the decision table, because if we leave it to chance they have lots of barriers already in place that limit them.\n\n\"If you deliberately create a system that gives them the opportunity, then you get to see what potential they can bring to the table.\"\n\nEvelyn James said: \"We're not going to wait until decades to come to make the difference\"\n\nThe Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), which represents all local authorities, said it also wanted to see \"greater diversity in our councils' chambers, to ensure councils reflect the communities they serve\".\n\nIt has run diversity mentoring schemes and said all councils had signed a diversity pledge.\n\nA WLGA spokesman added: \"Quotas are often politically contentious, however the WLGA council agreed that groups or parties should consider using voluntary quotas and review their use following the election.\"\n\nBut Welsh Labour, the Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru have all come out against a quota system for the selection of their candidates.\n\nInstead, Labour said black, Asian and party members from other ethnic minority backgrounds have been over-represented in its future candidate programmes.\n\nBut Ramesh Patel, who is standing down after more than two decades as a Labour councillor in Cardiff, said his party was not doing enough.\n\nRamesh Patel said the representation of diverse communities had been a \"total failure\" in Wales compared with parts of England\n\n\"We should now start to be looking at possibly all-women shortlisting for people from diverse communities,\" said Mr Patel. \"It seems like, almost, you've got to fight lots of obstacles to get your name on the ballot paper and that should not happen.\"\n\nMr Patel wants Labour to consider using diversity quotas because he said having people of colour on the Cardiff councils had made a \"huge difference\", especially when it came to communicating with constituents in different languages and understanding cultural differences.\n\nHe said the need for more ethnically diverse politicians applied to all political parties.\n\n\"I think there has been a total failure compared to some parts of England [where] you've got far better representation from those diverse communities,\" he said. \"If you look at Birmingham and London, you've got day-care centres... designed for diverse communities.\n\n\"In Cardiff, I've been fighting for that for years and years and that hasn't happened... because people just don't understand what that requirement is,\" he said. \"But if you've got more diverse councillors, they could be the voice and get some of those things done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives called quotas \"demeaning, implying certain people are a special class that need favours based on their demography\".\n\nThe party said it \"supports people from all backgrounds to join\" and had a strong record of getting ethnic minority candidates elected in Wales.\n\nAltaf Hussain became the first Asian heritage councillor for the Pen-y-Fai ward in Bridgend county in 2017.\n\nHe is standing down from the council this election, after becoming a Conservative Member of the Senedd (MS) for South Wales West last year.\n\nThe retired orthopaedic surgeon said to get the best candidate, the selection process must be open to all.\n\nAltaf Hussain, one of the first Asian heritage councillors in Bridgend says he wanted to see integration, not quotas\n\nQuotas would be \"a diversion\", he said.\n\n\"What I believe is integrity, there should be no difference between you and me,\" he said. \"I don't think quota business can work, that means really you're.... limiting their competition.\"\n\nBut Mr Hussain said many immigrants come to Wales to earn money and see a job in politics as being too unstable and not paying enough.\n\nHe added that some may not be coming forward because \"they're still thinking that we are not equal, which is horrible.\n\n\"Skills should be developed within the political parties and there should be mentors.... but that's not happening at present.\"\n\nThe chairman of Plaid Cymru's black and minority ethnic section, Abyd Quinn Aziz, said the party did not see quotas as the \"necessary response or an answer\".\n\nAbyd Quinn Aziz said looking at racial diversity was something \"relatively new\" for Plaid Cymru\n\nHe said quotas can, in some cases, \"undermine\" politicians from a minority ethnic background.\n\n\"There are people who say that means you get the job, irrespective of whether you can do it or not,\" said Mr Aziz. \"We have an imposter syndrome or an 'am I good enough' feeling anyway, without that adding to it.\"\n\nLooking at racial diversity was something \"relatively new\" for Plaid, he said, explaining that it was part of a wider effort to demonstrate the party is for everyone in Wales, not just Welsh language speakers.\n\n\"Shadowing, mentoring and encouraging people to join\" and take on different roles is the way the party will get more ethnic minority candidates standing for council, he said.\n\nMr Aziz and Mr Hussain both said they believed educating young people was the key to more diverse politics in the future.\n\nThe Welsh government said its new curriculum included \"education on citizenship and politics\" to help learners become \"ethical informed citizens.\"\n\nHemione said ethnic diversity promotes democracy by allowing everyone's voice to be heard\n\nThe last election in Wales, in December, saw the Welsh Youth Parliament become the country's most diverse political body.\n\nHermione, 15, who represents Gower, said she hoped it would inspire more participation from 16 and 17-years-olds, who will be allowed to vote in a council election for the first time in May.\n\n\"Councils and parliaments reflect the wider community,\" Hermione said. \"If people have someone they can relate to in a position of power, it will inspire them to make a change themselves.\"\n\nShe said she hopes her generation of politicians will help to close the diversity gap in Welsh politics.", "The royal couple are on the third leg of their Caribbean tour\n\nAntigua and Barbuda should \"one day become a republic\", its prime minister has told the Earl and Countess of Wessex during their Caribbean tour.\n\nGaston Browne said during a meeting with the royal couple, who are touring the region to mark the Platinum Jubilee, it was the country's wish to remove the Queen as head of state.\n\nHowever Mr Browne acknowledged such a move is \"not on the cards\" currently.\n\nHe also called for \"reparatory justice\" to compensate for slavery.\n\nThe earl and countess met Mr Browne and his cabinet at a meeting on Monday during the third leg of their Caribbean tour.\n\nMr Browne told the couple: \"We continue to have the Queen as our head of state, even though I should say we aspire at some point to become a republic.\n\n\"But that is not currently on the cards so she will remain as head of state for some time to follow.\n\n\"We're not trying to embarrass you, we're just trying to build awareness.\"\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex were asked by the island's government to use their influence to help the country get reparations\n\nThe prime minister also called on the earl and countess to use their \"diplomatic influence\" to help the country receive \"reparatory justice\".\n\nMr Brown said: \"Our civilisation should understand the atrocities that took place during colonialism and slavery and the fact that we have to bring balance by having open discussions...\n\n\"You can even use your, let's say, diplomatic influence to build bridges in achieving the reparatory justice that we seek here in the Caribbean.\n\n\"Because the reality is we have been left and bereft of important institutions such as universities and good medicinal facilities.\"\n\nThe meeting comes after the royal couple were met by protests during their visit to St Vincent and the Grenadines on Saturday, where banners were held aloft saying \"compensation now\" and \"Britain your debt is outstanding\".\n\nAntigua and Barbuda were colonised by Britain in the 17th century, before being granted independence in 1981.\n\nThe countess played steel drums with secondary school pupils during the visit to Antigua and Barbuda\n\nIn an open letter to the couple, the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission asked \"why is it so hard for you to sincerely apologise for your nation's role in slavery?\"\n\nExplaining their call for reparations, it added that in the Caribbean \"many still live in deep persistent poverty and social despair\" and it asked for a \"constructive strategy\" with Britain and European countries to address economic development gaps in the region.\n\nThe impact of slavery also dominated coverage of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's tour to Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas in March.\n\nSymbols matter, particularly when they are a reminder of a painful past. For many Caribbeans, becoming a republic is as about leaving colonialism behind and having complete autonomy.\n\nI was reminded of this when I was in Barbados last year to report on the island transitioning to a republic.\n\nConversations around republicanism are not new, but recent royal visits have garnered widespread media attention.\n\nFor some Caribbeans, royal visits are an opportunity to express their views to the world. The debate around reparations sits within that conversation.\n\nThroughout the Caribbean, there is widespread support for compensation for the descendants of enslaved Africans.\n\nThose demands are sometimes met with surprise by people abroad. But a strong indication of that support was highlighted by a ten-point plan proposed by the Caricom Reparations Commission.\n\nCaricom is an intergovernmental organisation which comprises 15 member states including Barbados, Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda.\n\nThe main aim of the 10-point plan was to achieve reparatory justice for the victims of slavery. In 2014 it was unanimously approved. The commission was advised by the law firm Leigh Day.\n\nDuring a visit to Barbados in 2021, Buckingham Palace said that issue of reparations was a political matter for individual governments to address.", "Morrisons and Asda are cutting prices as supermarkets face a fierce battle for customers with the soaring cost of living hitting households' finances.\n\nBoth supermarkets have been losing customers to discounters such as Aldi and Lidl as price pressures grow.\n\nMorrisons said it would offer an average 13% price cut on more than 500 goods including eggs, beef and rice.\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced it had \"dropped and locked in\" prices on some products until the end of the year.\n\nThe cost of living is rising at its fastest rate in 30 years in part due to soaring food prices.\n\nMorrisons, which is the UK's fourth-largest supermarket after Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda, said the cuts would cover refrigerated, frozen and store cupboard food and affect around 6% of its total sales volume.\n\n\"We know that our customers are under real financial pressure at the moment and we want to play our part in helping them when it comes to the cost of grocery shopping,\" said boss David Potts.\n\nItems being discounted include cereal, cooking sauces, chicken and sausages as well as flour, bread and ham.\n\nMeanwhile, Asda said more than 100 products covered by its \"dropped and locked\" promise ranged from some fresh fruit and vegetables to fresh meat and frozen food.\n\nThe supermarket said prices would drop by 12% on average.\n\n\"We know that household budgets are being squeezed by an increasing cost of living and we are committed to doing everything we can to support our customers, colleagues and communities in these exceptionally tough times,\" said Mohsin Issa, co-owner of Asda.\n\nThe cost of living squeeze is starting to bite and shoppers are on the hunt for value in the supermarket aisles.\n\nRecent industry data shows more people are ditching the big brands in favour of own-label products to save money.\n\nThey've also been turning to the discounters, Aldi and Lidl. After a tough pandemic, they've been growing market share.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have Aldi price-matching campaigns and have been performing better than Morrisons and Asda.\n\nNow these two are fighting back. They need to. Morrisons and Asda have traditionally served budget conscious shoppers and can't afford to haemorrhage customers to the discounters.\n\nLast month, Asda launched its Just Essentials range promising an expanded line of low-cost products in all its stores from May.\n\nIn February, the grocer said it would offer a wider range of low-cost goods in its stores after being criticised by food poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe.\n\nLast week, the UK's largest supermarket chain, Tesco, said its profits last year more than trebled, but said its performance this year would be affected by the need to keep prices down.\n\nBoth Asda and Morrisons are losing out as customers turn to discounters Aldi and Lidl, to cut their costs, according to research firm Kantar.\n\nUK grocery price inflation hit 5.2% in the 12 weeks to 20 March, it said, its highest level since April 2012.\n\nIn that time, Lidl and Aldi were the only big supermarkets to see their sales and market shares rise. By contrast, Morrisons and Asda saw the biggest drops in sales and market share.\n\nKantar's head of retail Fraser McKevitt said: \"We're really starting to see the switch from the pandemic being the dominant factor driving our shopping behaviour towards the growing impact of inflation, as the cost of living becomes the bigger issue on consumers' minds.\"\n\nIn March, one food boss told the BBC food price inflation could rise as a high as 15% this year as a result of the war in Ukraine.\n\nRonald Kers, the boss of food firm 2 Sisters, blamed the rising prices of wheat and natural gas, which is used to heat greenhouses and to make fertiliser.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool moved back to within one point of Premier League leaders Manchester City and left neighbours Everton languishing in the bottom three after victory in the Merseyside derby.\n\nStruggling Everton made Liverpool fight for their win with a well-organised and disciplined performance that will give them hope they can still avoid the drop but was not enough to deny Jurgen Klopp's quadruple-chasing side.\n\nLiverpool can find different ways to get the job done and after blowing Manchester United aside on Tuesday they demonstrated patience to finally break down Everton's stubborn resistance in what could prove to be a priceless win.\n\nThe deadlock was broken after 62 minutes when Andy Robertson arrived at the far post in front of the Kop to head home Mo Salah's cross.\n\nEverton could not respond, although Demarai Gray powered a drive just wide, and Liverpool wrapped up the win when substitute Divock Origi tormented the neighbours once again when he headed in Luis Diaz's bicycle kick with six minutes left.\n\nThe loss means the Toffees end the day in the top-flight's bottom three for the first time since 6 December 2019. They were last in the relegation zone this far into the season in 1998-99.\n• None Best action and reaction from Liverpool v Everton in the Premier League\n\nLiverpool get the job done\n\nThis was not the flowing, blistering Liverpool that effectively won the FA Cup semi-final in the first 45 minutes against Manchester City at Wembley and who dismantled a hapless Manchester United at Anfield.\n\nEverton's rearguard action and determination to disrupt Liverpool infuriated and frustrated Anfield in the first 45 minutes but eventually the dam broke and for all the visitors' courage they were not able to hold out.\n\nManager Klopp may well take as much pleasure from how Liverpool were forced to dig deep and overcome Everton's determined challenge as he would from the way they have swept so many teams aside this season.\n\nLiverpool had to fight for control and, in truth, they were never in their normal level of command and still had to survive one or two anxious moments before the final whistle.\n\nIt puts the Reds right back in City's rearview mirror after Pep Guardiola's side thrashed Watford 5-1, and still on course for their ambition of adding the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup to the EFL Cup.\n\nLiverpool now face Villarreal in the Champions League semi-final first leg at Anfield on Wednesday as firm favourites and their challenge continues to gather huge momentum.\n\nEverton must take heart despite defeat\n\nEverton find themselves in a very hazardous position in the relegation places after this loss at Liverpool followed Burnley's win against Wolverhampton Wanderers.\n\nFrank Lampard's side are now in serious danger of relegation and their 17% possession displays how on the back foot they were, but there were other elements of this game that must encourage them as they try to avoid the drop into the Championship.\n\nThey will certainly believe they should have had a penalty when the outstanding Anthony Gordon tumbled under a challenge from Joel Matip with the score 0-0 after 53 minutes.\n\nIt looked like a clear penalty but was waved away by Stuart Attwell, who had earlier booked the talented youngster for diving.\n\nGordon also shot across the face of goal with a good chance before Liverpool took the lead and Gray fired a rising drive inches off target as his side looked to equalise.\n\nRobertson also made a vital goalline clearance with Alex Iwobi poised to turn home Dele Alli's cross.\n\nEverton were fiercely well-drilled until Liverpool went ahead. It was not pretty but Everton do not have to make excuses for that. They could hardly be expected to play an open, expansive game and make themselves lambs to the slaughter.\n\nWhat is beyond doubt, though, is that Everton are now in serious peril, especially with Burnley seemingly completely reinvigorated after Sean Dyche was sacked and Mike Jackson appointed as caretaker.\n\nJackson has hauled in seven points in three games in charge and the momentum is now with Burnley. This is something Lampard and Everton must address, quickly.\n• None Attempt saved. Richarlison (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Dele Alli (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (Everton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Everton 0. Divock Origi (Liverpool) header from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Luis Díaz following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Luis Díaz (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt blocked. Richarlison (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "A pregnant woman was among several adults, and a six-month-old baby, who were aboard a cruiser that got stuck on the River Yare at Breydon Water\n\nThe coastguard has rescued 17 people - along with two dogs and a rabbit - left stranded overnight on mudflats.\n\nThe mission, on Breydon Water in Norfolk, took place after two cruisers ran aground in low tide. It involved two lifeboats and a helicopter.\n\nEleven people were winched by the helicopter, while the rest of the group - including the animals - were taken off the other cruiser by boat.\n\nThey all had to spend the night on the water before the early-morning rescue.\n\nJoe Coglan, who was on one of the boats, said his family was undaunted by the experience and had decided to hire another cruiser, staying on an extra day.\n\nThe drainage engineer said he had only been concerned for his six-month-old daughter, Myla.\n\nHe praised the lifeboat service, saying: \"The rescue was very well done; they're saviours really.\n\n\"If it wasn't for them we'd probably still be there.\"\n\nOne of the two dogs aboard being carried to safety\n\nMembers of the Hemsby lifeboat service rescued several people from one of the cruisers\n\nAccording to Great Yarmouth and Gorleston RNLI, and the Hemsby lifeboat, the alarm was raised on Saturday afternoon.\n\nBoth cruisers had become stuck on the mudflats on the River Yare due to an ebbing tide.\n\nLocal marine engineers notified the coastguard after trying to reach the occupants of the hire boats.\n\nThe low tide meant a rescue of the holiday-makers was not immediately possible, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston RNLI service said. The mission began at 04:50 GMT on Sunday.\n\nAnimals rescued from one of the two cruisers by Hemsby lifeboat crew\n\nHemsby lifeboat coxswain Daniel Hurd was involved in the rescue\n\nHemsby lifeboat service deployed its flat-bottomed vessel, used to navigate the shallow waters of the Norfolk Broads, to carry out one of the rescues.\n\nThe adults aboard, including a pregnant woman, and six-month-old Myla - and the three pets - were taken off that stricken cruiser.\n\nCoxswain Daniel Hurd said the cruiser's engine had broken and the boat was listing (leaning), meaning \"those on board were in some danger\".\n\n\"I'd say they were extremely lucky,\" said Mr Hurd, when asked about the level of danger they were in.\n\nThe group, from Hastings in Sussex, were taken to a nearby yacht station. They had been on a weekend break in Norfolk.\n\nA rescue helicopter was despatched by Humber Coastguard after it became clear crews would be unable to reach the 11 people stranded aboard the second cruiser, due to the tides.\n\nPeople were winched, mostly two at a time, and taken to a nearby rugby field.\n\nHemsby lifeboat remained in the area on standby in order to keep the waterway clear while the helicopter winch took place.\n\nNo-one needed hospital treatment, the lifeboat services said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None New lifeguard hut washed away by high tides\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 300 people have taken part in a vigil for Alyson Nelson, who was killed in Whitehead, County Antrim, last week.\n\nThose who gathered held a silence, while some tied white ribbons to seafront railings close to her home.\n\nMs Nelson, 64, was pronounced dead after police received reports of a stabbing last Saturday.\n\nIn a statement read during the vigil, her family said she had been \"robbed of her life under the cruellest of circumstances\".\n\nThe day after her body was found at a house in Victoria Avenue, police announced they had started a murder investigation.\n\nA man appeared in court on Thursday charged with murder, which was alleged to have been aggravated by domestic abuse.\n\nThe domestic abuse aggravation is part of new legislation which was introduced in Northern Ireland in February.\n\nFamily members tied a white ribbon to the railings at the seafront, close to where Alyson Nelson died\n\nThe vigil on Saturday evening was led by Pastor Steve Ames, of Harbour Faith Community in Carrickfergus, who read the statement on behalf of Ms Nelson's family.\n\n\"We would like to thank the entire community of Whitehead, and further afield, for the outpouring of love and support over the past week since mum was robbed of her life under the cruellest of circumstances,\" it said.\n\nThe family added it took \"great comfort\" from knowing \"how loved mum was and still is by her friends, her family and all those who stand with us\".\n\nThe pastor told BBC News NI \"the grief has just been overwhelming for so many people\" since Ms Nelson's death and the vigil was an opportunity to show support for her loved ones.\n\n\"As a family, they are stunned, it's been a long time since I've seen the kind of grief that they are going through,\" he continued.\n\nA crowd gathered in Whitehead for the vigil on Saturday evening\n\n\"For them to come and stand here as well must have been hugely difficult, just not knowing what to expect.\n\n\"Now that they were here and seeing the sheer number of people standing around them, feeling the love and support, I think in weeks and months to come, especially as they look back to this day, it'll mean so much to them.\"\n\nThose taking part in the vigil also walked to St Patrick's Church in Whitehead to sign a book of remembrance.\n\nMembers of the Belfast Feminist Network were involved in the vigil and said they were showing \"solidarity with those grieving the loss of Alyson Nelson and with all victims of violence against women\".", "Jamie Wallis has been a Conservative MP since 2019\n\nThe first MP to come out as transgender has said he hopes to begin transitioning \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nJamie Wallis last month tweeted that he has gender dysphoria and had been raped and blackmailed.\n\nHe told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, a part of him \"died\" following the rape.\n\nThe 37-year-old, a Conservative MP for Bridgend since 2019, said he had received an \"incredible amount of support\" since he came out.\n\nHe also told the programme the transition process would take many years and he still preferred to use the pronouns he and him.\n\nMr Wallis said he was eight years old when he first started \"trying to work out what this was\", but without ready access to the internet he had no idea \"whether this was something that affected just me or whether there were other people that might feel like this\".\n\nAs a result of this, he said he came to the wrong conclusion and believed \"maybe there was some sort of horrible mistake or something had gone very wrong\".\n\nHe added: \"I think now that I am out and people do know, I'm free to start that and actually go on that journey at a pace that I find comfortable.\"\n\nMr Wallis admitted he tried to \"run away\" from who he was for years until the past six to 12 months before he \"realised, actually, I am no longer ashamed of this\".\n\nHe advised other young people struggling with their gender identity to take their time discovering themselves and \"don't feel rushed to pick up a label or view it in any way\".\n\nIn last month's tweet, Mr Wallis revealed a man sent pictures to his family in 2020 and demanded £50,000.\n\nHe said in that statement that the blackmailer pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison.\n\nThe rape was a separate incident and it is not known if anyone has been arrested or charged in connection with this.\n\nHe told Sophy Ridge he met someone but was \"not OK with not being what I consider to be responsible and safe practice in the bedroom, so I withdrew consent\".\n\nHe went on to say how the man \"decided that he was going to do it anyway and I was powerless to stop him\", adding that \"in that moment, a part of me died and I have been trying to get it back ever since\".\n\nMr Wallis said he still suffered nightmares and flashbacks about the attack, which prompted him to seek help.\n\nHe added: \"I'm not OK, I'm not the person I was before that happened, but I am at least in a place where I can get on with my life whilst I am dealing with it.\"\n\nMr Wallis was arrested last year on suspicion of driving while unfit, following an incident where a car hit a lamppost in Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, on 28 November.\n\nHe said he fled the scene as he was \"terrified\" and had \"no idea what I was doing except I was overcome by an overwhelming sense of fear\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said the matter was still under investigation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Workers protest outside a Housing Executive office on Monday, as it, councils and some schools face two weeks of disruption\n\nCouncils, the Housing Executive and some schools face up to two weeks of disruption from Monday due to strike action by the Unite union.\n\nUnite members in most councils and the Housing Executive started a walk-out on Monday in a dispute over pay.\n\nThe union's members in the Education Authority (EA) then begin strike action from Tuesday 26 April.\n\nThe action follows a previous walk-out by Unite members in March over a local government pay offer of 1.75%.\n\nThe union has called that a \"real-terms pay cut\" as the cost of living has been surging due to rising fuel, energy and food costs.\n\nUnite's Northern Ireland Officer Gareth Scott said employers were to blame for the resumption of strike action.\n\n\"These employers need to address the pay expectations of their workforce,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Their failure to do so to date has led to this escalation and the unnecessary disruption that will inevitably result.\"\n\nCouncil services likely to be affected include some bin collections\n\nBut the EA has said the Unite strike comes after a local government pay offer across England, Wales and Northern Ireland which has already been accepted by the majority of trade unions.\n\n\"Therefore, local government organisations, including EA, do not have the power or authority to renegotiate this for Northern Ireland,\" the authority said.\n\nSome EA yellow bus services, which take pupils to school, will not operate for two weeks from Tuesday.\n\nHowever, school bus services operated by Translink will run as normal following the postponement of a possible strike by bus drivers.\n\nThe EA also said that some special schools faced disruption as some non-teaching staff, including classroom assistants, would be on strike.\n\nOne special school - Glenveagh in Belfast - has already said the dispute will mean that its pupils will not be able to come into school for almost two weeks.\n\nThe EA said it had asked Unite for special school staff and bus drivers to be exempted from the strike action but the union refused.\n\n\"We firmly believe these requests to be reasonable and valid and we remain unclear about the basis for them to be rejected by Unite given the impact on some of the most vulnerable children,\" the authority added.\n\nThe Education Authority said it had asked Unite for special school staff and bus drivers to be exempted from the strike action, but the union refused\n\nMeanwhile, the Housing Executive has said some of its scheduled repair services for tenants in Craigavon, Coleraine and north and west Belfast are likely to be affected until 8 May.\n\nCouncil services likely to be affected include some bin collections, street cleaning and the operation of some venues.\n\nFor instance, Belfast City Council said that City Hall, Belfast Zoo, and some community centres, play centres, sports pitches, bowling greens, parks and public toilets could be closed on some days during the strike.\n\nDerry City and Strabane District Council said it expected there to be \"disruption to a range of services such as refuse collection, street cleansing, recycling centres, leisure facilities and a number of other services\".\n\nIt said \"the level of impact will be variable across all services\".", "European leaders rushed to applaud the French president, who defeated Eurosceptic Marine Le Pen\n\nOne French voter after another we interviewed ahead of Sunday's presidential election told us: \"I'll vote Macron but only to keep Le Pen out.\"\n\nA concerted public effort to keep a far-right, or right-wing nationalist, candidate from becoming president is nothing new in France.\n\nBut the emerging breakdown of Sunday's vote must give Emmanuel Macron pause for thought.\n\nAdd those reluctant voters of his to the 40% that voted for Marine Le Pen, plus the millions who spoiled their ballot or refused to vote at all, and Macron's \"Pour Tous\" (For Everyone) campaign slogan starts to look very hollow indeed.\n\nIn his victory speech, held in front of the backdrop of the French flag and the Eiffel Tower, an unusually humble-sounding Macron admitted that his was a divided country, and that he'd do his best to heal those divisions.\n\nThat won't be easy. And he knows it.\n\nThe first looming challenge will be to garner a healthy majority in parliamentary elections next month.\n\nFrance isn't only fragmented across party lines, it is polarised between wealthy urban centres (particularly Paris) and forgotten towns and villages; between nationalists and internationalists; between the wealthy, the poor and the marginalised.\n\nFive years ago, when he first became president, he promised to neither favour the political right or left. He'd be socially just, he said, while kick-starting the economy.\n\nBut then came a pandemic, followed by an economic downturn and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Never mind the constant pressure President Macron felt because of the growing prominence of traditional right and far-right public concerns - like immigration and law and order.\n\nHis promised social justice and environmental reforms fell by the wayside. Their champions, like one teacher I met leaving a polling station in tears on Sunday, are sceptical - to put it mildly and politely - that the next five years of Macron's presidency will be any different. Especially with voter support for Marine Le Pen now stronger than ever before.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Many voted to build a barricade against the far right\", says Macron\n\nHe is a truly divisive figure at home, but in Brussels Mr Macron is beloved. At least compared to his presidential rival.\n\nEuropean Union leaders rushed to applaud him on Sunday night.\n\nIt's notable, looking at their tweets - from the European Commission president, to the Spanish and Portuguese prime ministers and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz - that each and every one of them not only congratulated Macron, but trumpeted the confidence vote in Europe they interpret in his victory too.\n\nLe Pen is a passionate Eurosceptic. Macron, however, is a huge EU-enthusiast whose campaign team handed out EU flags alongside election pamphlets at his rallies.\n\nHis long-discussed proposals to make Europe more independent - in terms of food production, energy and defence - are now very popular amongst EU leaders after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic that so affected global supply chains.\n\nAs the EU's second largest economy and only big military power - now that the UK has left - France has long played a leading role in Brussels and in Nato.\n\nLe Pen's historically close ties to Moscow and her intention to pull France out of Nato's military command worried US and European allies.\n\nNow they're hugely relieved. \"We can count on France for five more years,\" tweeted European Council President Charles Michel on Sunday night.\n\nAnd in his congratulatory message to Macron, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described France as one of the UK's closest and most important friends.", "The UK's aviation watchdog should have stronger powers to protect passengers hit by the kind of disruption caused by the pandemic, MPs have recommended.\n\nThe sector was hit hard by efforts to tackle the virus, including quarantine, testing regimes and travel bans.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority should have \"more teeth\" to be able to fine airlines not giving refunds, a Commons Transport Committee report said.\n\nIt also called for ministers to publish an aviation recovery plan by June.\n\nAviation was one of the industries most affected by measures put in place to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nInternational travel was banned or heavily restricted in the early months of 2020 after the virus began to spread around the globe, and many customers had flights and holidays cancelled.\n\nWhen travel could resume, passengers were still subject to measures such as Covid testing, quarantine and passenger locator forms.\n\nAnd the government's traffic light system of categorising overseas countries meant flying into the UK from some destinations was still subject to bans, with changes to the \"red list\" every few weeks during the latter months of 2021 leaving people having to cancel trips at short notice or head home early.\n\nIn its report, UK Aviation: Reform For Take-Off, the Commons committee says that the regulator, the CAA, should be given the power to impose financial penalties on airlines that do not completely refund customers when required to do so by law.\n\nIt notes some Ryanair passengers are still waiting for compensation four years after being impacted by a 2018 pilot strike, because of the airline legally challenging CAA enforcement action.\n\nThe committee also called for an airline insolvency bill to be introduced in the next session of parliament to better protect consumers, employees and taxpayers.\n\nPaul Smith, Consumer Director at the CAA, said: \"We have regularly asked for stronger consumer enforcement powers, including the ability to impose fines on airlines. This would allow us to take faster action when appropriate and bring our powers in line with other sectoral regulators.\"\n\nThe MPs welcomed ministers' pledges to only apply travel restrictions in \"extreme circumstances\" in future, and said the government \"must compensate the industry for the economic loss suffered\" if measures impacting the sector were reimposed.\n\nAnd plans should be established to ensure swift Covid testing is put in place if required by other countries, the MPs said.\n\n\"Now that government has removed all coronavirus-related restrictions on international travel, ministers must get on with protecting the sector against future economic shocks,\" said Huw Merriman, the Transport Committee chairman.\n\nThe Conservative MP said the government had faced a difficult situation but some inconsistent policies had left industry and passengers confused.\n\nA report by the National Audit Office last week said there had been no system to assess the success of measures such as the traffic light system, self-isolation, testing, quarantine hotels or passenger locator forms.\n\nAnd consumer group Which? said the CAA should have greater powers after travellers faced long delays over Easter, with security issues causing many to miss flights.\n\nAfter shedding thousands of jobs during the pandemic, the travel industry has struggled to recruit, train and security-check new staff quickly enough to keep up with rebounding demand, leading to lengthy queues at airports as international travel picked up this year.\n\nTim Alderslade, CEO of Airlines UK, said: \"We can't lose sight of the fact the sector has been through its worst ever crisis and it will take several years to deal with the debt airlines had to take on to make it through the pandemic with no passengers.\"", "Kateryna and her nephew Nikita - she has lived in the UK for almost 10 years and has accommodation waiting for her family\n\nA disabled teenager and his grandparents have been waiting in Paris for more than six weeks while their UK asylum application is processed. They told the BBC they are stuck in limbo, spending thousands of pounds on accommodation.\n\nWhen Kateryna Karpenko persuaded her parents and nephew to leave Ukraine after Russian shells started falling, she thought it would not take long for them to join her in the UK.\n\nStaff at the UK visa centre in Paris then said it would take a maximum of five working days for their paperwork to be processed and for asylum to be granted.\n\nSix weeks on, they are still waiting.\n\n\"It kind of turned into a couple more days, couple more days, and now we're over a month,\" Kateryna says. \"They had to go through a lot, fleeing Ukraine, and they have no idea what's happening with our home, our family, our lives.\"\n\nNikita with his grandparents Oleksandr and Vira have spent weeks in Paris, waiting for a UK visa\n\nHer parents Oleksandr and Vira Karpenko fled their home in Irpin with their grandson Nikita Shepel after the Russian regime bombed Oleksandr's workplace. The town on the outskirts of Kyiv was the centre of a key battle for the capital and heavily shelled by Russian forces before they were repelled.\n\nKateryna, who has lived in the UK for almost 10 years, says she promised to take care of them until they were able to return home, in return for knowing they were safe.\n\nHer nephew's parents stayed behind in a relatively safe area, but they wanted him to leave Ukraine to enable him to get medical care for a condition he has had since childhood. The war meant he could no longer get health check-ups there.\n\nOther cars on the road were being shot at while the trio fled. It took over a day for them to cross the border into Poland as so many others were also trying to leave.\n\n\"That was a sense of panic,\" Kateryna says. \"So I wish I could give them that calm and the knowledge that we're all together as part of our family here in the UK. Instead they're stuck in this state of limbo.\"\n\nKateryna, pictured here with her parents, graduated from Cambridge University four years ago\n\nShe was waiting for them in Krakow, Poland, when her parents and 19-year-old nephew arrived. There, they faced a two-week wait for an appointment to process the mandatory biometrics application.\n\nThe family decided it would be best to apply for UK asylum from Paris, where they could get an appointment within days. So they packed their belongings into two suitcases and drove for 22 hours to the French capital, where they remain. Kateryna then had to return to the UK.\n\nThe UK Home Office has been accused of a chaotic and overly-bureaucratic response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. At the beginning of March, it launched a family visa scheme for Ukrainians who have an immediate or extended family member in the UK.\n\nIt then launched the Homes for Ukraine scheme, under which people in the UK can nominate an individual or family to stay with them rent-free for at least six months.\n\nFigures released by the UK government on Thursday 21 April showed a total of 71,800 visas had been issued under the two schemes.\n\nBut, as of Monday 18 April, just 21,600 Ukrainians had arrived in the UK, according to figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Home Office.\n\nEU countries are allowing Ukrainian refugees in for up to three years without a visa and more than four million people have fled to neighbouring countries since the Russian invasion.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has insisted \"security and biometric checks\" were vital to keep British citizens safe.\n\nMany residential buildings in Irpin have been damaged or destroyed\n\nKateryna's family applied for the family scheme on 9 March and submitted their applications and biometric passports at the UK visa centre on 11 March.\n\nThey have received no update and, because of the uncertainty of the length of their stay, Kateryna has been unable to arrange stable accommodation.\n\nSome friends in Paris have housed them for a few nights, but otherwise she has been looking for short-term AirBnBs, which is costing her thousands of pounds.\n\n\"It may seem like very small things because, you know, there's a war going on in Ukraine, but they have to check out from the flat at 11am, and the next place would only allow them to move in at 3pm. So they would have to wait around, even if it's rain or something, they have to find a place with a couple of their bags to stay until they can check in.\"\n\nKateryna feels frustrated that after their traumatic experience, she cannot tell them they are now safely in their second home.\n\n\"I qualify as a sponsor, I already have a place for them to stay, I can support them. All it takes is just for them to be able to physically cross the border, which is so, so close.\"\n\nKateryna says she has tried to access medical care for her nephew in France, but without identity papers they cannot proceed. Typically in Ukraine, he would see someone once a month to monitor his condition.\n\n\"I promised my sister, his mother, that I would take care of him. And I feel like I'm failing on that right now. So of course, it worries me.\"\n\nNikita told the BBC he is finding living in Paris difficult, especially as he doesn't speak French\n\nShe is also unable to arrange care in the UK as she can't say when he will arrive.\n\nKateryna visited her family in Paris at Easter and speaks to them each day, but is frustrated by her lack of ability to help.\n\n\"I'm living here. I've been living here for the past 10 years. And I feel like, I can't do anything to get my family over here. So I feel sad and helpless, about what's going on.\"\n\nFrom Paris, Nikita told the BBC, \"I know that I need medical care, and I can't get it in France. That's why I know I need support in England.\"\n\nHe says the situation makes him feel bad.\n\n\"I don't know, what do I need to do? I don't know French at all. And my grandparents don't know the language too and they can't go to the shop to buy something. And we went to visa at the embassy more than five times and we can't get the answer. That's why we can stay only in the flat and wait for an answer from the embassy.\"\n\nKateryna says the British people have offered so much support and it was clear the public was open to Ukrainians coming to the UK.\n\n\"The people who want to come, they're fleeing from actual horror in their home countries, they're not coming here in search for something. They're just looking for refuge.\n\n\"So the ability to expedite the process, and for them to find some stability would mean a world to them, because of what they went through.\"\n\nA government spokesperson has said it had launched one of the \"fastest and biggest visa schemes in UK history\" following the invasion and that \"changes the Home Office has made to streamline the visa system, including simplifying the forms and boosting staff numbers, are working\".", "P&O Ferries has been forced to reverse an attempt to pay its new, cheaper agency workers even less money.\n\nIt comes after the RMT Union received reports of agency workers at Dover being asked to sign new contracts replacing their old ones on lower pay.\n\nThe union reported P&O Ferries to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, which ensured the new workers retained their original wages.\n\nThe company has been asked for comment but has so far not responded.\n\nP&O Ferries sacked almost 800 employees last month and brought in cheaper agency workers on some of its boats, in a move it said would ensure the future of the business.\n\nHowever, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said the firm was now \"trying to bring in an exploitative model, with the lowest possible standards they can get away with\".\n\nRMT said that a seafarer on the Spirit of Britain ferry at Dover had initially contacted the union begging for help in a dispute over pay.\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC the worker wrote: \"They don't care about our rights. They try to give us less money. We are desperate.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was \"good P&O have reversed [the] further attempt at a pay cut\", but added that \"they must go much further and pay the minimum wage like all UK businesses\".\n\n\"We will legislate to force them, but they could win back some much needed credibility by acting now,\" he said.\n\nThe Spirit of Britain resumed cross channel services this weekend\n\nOn Friday, the Spirit of Britain was cleared to resume sailing after inspections by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. It had been held at the port since 12 April due to a number of unspecified deficiencies, according to the regulator.\n\nIt is P&O's first Dover to Calais ferry to recommence operations, with services set to resume on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe seafarer who contacted the RMT told the union that they were being forced to work without contracts, after old ones had expired. The worker claimed documents had also been lost by P&O.\n\nThe worker wrote in their email to the union: \"This is my sixth day working without a contract, please help us!\"\n\nOn Friday, the RMT went aboard the Spirit of Britain to speak with seafarers after being previously refused access.\n\nNational secretary Darren Proctor, who was on the visit, said P&O Ferries initially did not want to let them on, instead offering the use of a meeting room in the port. The RMT declined, quoting the ISPS Code, which is a comprehensive set of measures designed to strengthen the security of ships and port facilities.\n\nOnce on board, the union's representatives were chaperoned to a new lounge on the ferry for pets, where the RMT inspectors were able to speak directly to newly employed workers.\n\nThe RMT said it had spoken to a number of workers from around the world who have joined the ferry's crew who shared similar complaints.\n\nMr Proctor said P&O Ferries had \"brought people in on a month contract, some on two-month contracts\" and then told them that they have to accept lower pay rates if they want to stay on.\n\n\"Others are coming in on four-month contracts on lower pay. P&O is undermining safety and creating a lowest possible denominator in ferry standards,\" he said.\n\nThe union complained to the Maritime and Coastguard Authority (MCA) who took action and affected seafarers' contracts were amended with their original wages reinstated.\n\nRMT said that P&O was \"desperate to keep these new crew on board because they've been on board for four weeks now and these crews were beginning to have familiarity with the vessels. They need familiarity to get them sailing again.\"\n\nTim Morris, chief of trade association UK Major Ports Group, said P&O Ferries' newest move was \"clearly not great news for the reputation for maritime in the UK\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme the ports industry was \"disappointed and surprised as everyone else on what has gone on\".\n\n\"It's not how we operate in the ports sector,\" he said. \"We hire locally, we pay well, we have well established industrial relations.\"\n\nMr Morris said there was a law that stopped port operators \"picking and choosing who we let into our ports outside of some very narrow safety constraints\".\n\n\"Whilst we're as disappointed and surprised as everybody else, there needs to be a change in the law before employment conditions can be linked to port access,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast month, P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite admitted to MPs that the decision to sack 800 workers last month without notice broke the law.\n\nHe said there was \"absolutely no doubt\" that under UK employment law the firm was required to consult unions before making the mass cuts.\n\nHowever, he said no union would have accepted the plan and it was easier to compensate workers \"in full\" instead.\n\nThe P&O boss also said he would make the same decision again if he had to.\n\nMr Shapps has said he wanted to see British ports refusing access to ferry companies \"who don't pay a fair wage\".\n\nHe said the government would consult on the changes needed to make it a legal requirement, but urged ports to take action \"as soon as practical\".\n\nHowever, British ports have described the new pay plans for the ferry industry as \"unworkable\".\n\n\"The ports industry is genuinely sympathetic towards the situation of the impacted seafarers, however we would suggest that ports are not the competent authorities to enforce rules on employee salaries or working conditions in the shipping industry,\" said Richard Ballantyne of the British Ports Association.\n\nAre you a P&O employee or agency worker? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lola James, aged two, died in hospital on 21 July\n\nA man accused of murdering a two-year-old girl has appeared in court.\n\nLola James suffered a \"catastrophic\" head injury at her home in Haverfordwest in July 2020, and died in hospital four days later.\n\nKyle Bevan, 30, from Aberystwyth, appeared at Swansea Crown Court on Monday, charged with her murder.\n\nLola's mother Sinead James, 29, from Neyland, Pembrokeshire, is charged with causing or allowing her death.\n\nMs James did not attend the hearing and was said to be self-isolating after testing positive for Covid at Eastwood Park, the women's prison in Gloucestershire.\n\nLast Friday, Ms James and Mr Bevan appeared at Llanelli Magistrates' Court after being re-arrested and charged the day before.\n\nJudge Thomas QC said he would be asking a High Court judge to preside over the trial.\n\nA pre-trial hearing has been set for 24 June.\n• None Two in court after death of two-year-old girl", "The board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover offer from the billionaire Elon Musk.\n\nMr Musk, who made the shock bid less than two weeks ago, said Twitter had \"tremendous potential\" that he would unlock.\n\nHe also called for a series of changes from relaxing its content restrictions to eradicating fake accounts.\n\nThe firm initially rebuffed Mr Musk's bid, but it will now ask shareholders to vote to approve the deal.\n\nMr Musk is the world's richest person, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of $273.6bn mostly due to his shareholding in electric vehicle maker Tesla which he runs. He also leads the aerospace firm SpaceX.\n\n\"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,\" Mr Musk said in a statement announcing the deal.\n\n\"I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans,\" he added.\n\n\"Twitter has tremendous potential - I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe move comes as Twitter faces growing pressure from politicians and regulators over the content that appears on its platform. It has drawn critics from left and right over its efforts to mediate misinformation on the platform.\n\nIn one of its most high-profile moves, last year it banned former US President Donald Trump, perhaps its most powerful user, citing the risk of \"incitement of violence\".\n\nAt the time Mr Musk observed: \"A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech.\"\n\nNews of the takeover has been cheered by the right in the US, although Mr Trump on Monday told Fox News he had no plans to re-join the platform.\n\nThe White House declined to comment on the takeover but spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters: \"No matter who owns or runs Twitter, the president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms.\"\n\nOn Twitter, MP Julian Knight, chairman of the UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, called the deal an \"extraordinary development in the world of social media\".\n\n\"It will be interesting to see how a privately owned Twitter (run by a man who is an absolutist over free speech) will react to global moves to regulate.\"\n\nBBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin says scientists are nervous about the potential impact of the takeover on the climate debate.\n\nHe notes that Twitter announced last week it would ban advertisements that deny the scientific consensus on the climate crisis, with the firm admitting that misleading information can undermine efforts to protect the planet.\n\nMr Musk, who has more than 80 million followers on Twitter, has a controversial history on the platform himself.\n\nIn 2018 US financial regulators accused him of misleading Tesla investors with his tweets, claims that were resolved in a $40 million settlement and that Mr Musk continues to deny.\n\nAnd in 2019 he was hit with a defamation suit - which he successfully defeated - after calling a diver involved in rescuing schoolboys in Thailand \"pedo guy\" on the platform.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Musk, who has been known to clash with journalists and block critics, suggested that he saw Twitter as a forum for debate.\n\n\"I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means,\" he wrote just hours before the deal was announced.\n\nAs part of the takeover, which is expected to close later this year, Twitter's shares will be delisted and it will be taken private.\n\nMr Musk has suggested this will give him freedom to make the changes he wants to the business.\n\nAmong other ideas, he has suggested allowing longer posts and introducing the ability to edit them after they have been published.\n\nTwitter shares on Monday closed more than 5% higher after the deal was announced.\n\nBut the price remained lower than Mr Musk's $54.20 per share offer, a sign that Wall Street believes he is overpaying for the firm.\n\nMr Musk has said he doesn't \"care about the economics\" of the purchase. However, he will take on a company with a chequered record of financial performance.\n\nDespite its influence, Twitter has rarely turned a profit and user growth, particularly in the US, has slowed.\n\nThe company, founded in 2004, ended 2021 with $5bn in revenue and 217 million daily users globally - a fraction of the figures claimed by other platforms such as Facebook.\n\nBret Taylor, chair of Twitter's board, said it had fully assessed Mr Musk's offer and it was \"the best path forward for Twitter's stockholders\".\n\nIt is not clear who will lead the company moving forward. Twitter is currently led by Parag Agrawal, who took over from co-founder and former boss Jack Dorsey last November.\n\nBut in his offer document, Mr Musk told Twitter's board: \"I don't have confidence in management.\"\n\nMr Agrawal told employees on Monday that the future of Twitter is uncertain.\n\n\"Once the deal closes, we don't know which direction the platform will go,\" he said, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nMr Musk's targeting of Twitter has moved at remarkable speed. It emerged at the beginning of April that he had become the largest shareholder in the firm with a 9.2% stake.\n\nHe was then invited to join Twitter's board but turned down the offer before launching a surprise bid for the company on 14 April, saying he wanted to \"unlock\" its potential as a bastion of freedom of speech.\n\nTwitter tried to fend off his bid, threatening to dilute the shareholdings of anyone who bought more than a 15% stake in the firm. However, its stance shifted after Mr Musk revealed more financial details about his proposed bid.\n\nHe has secured $25.5bn of financing for the deal and will take a $21bn stake in the business.\n\nThe board unanimously approved the bid, which will now be presented to shareholders for a vote.\n\nThe speed this move has happened at had many heads in Silicon Valley spinning.\n\nFrom nowhere, Elon Musk is the absolute monarch of Twitter.\n\nHe himself has said it's not about the \"economics\", this is about power and influence.\n\nBy taking the company private he will exercise total control over Twitter.\n\nHe has the power to do with the company as he pleases. In practice that will mean a much lighter moderation policy.\n\nHe also says that he will make its algorithm public - so that people can better understand how Twitter works.\n\nThe move leaves the door open to Donald Trump's return to the platform, though he apparently says he would rather use his own social media platform Truth Social for now.\n\nFor years conservatives have argued that Twitter is biased against them - and the news has left Republicans in the US delighted.\n\nOthers have been left dismayed at what Twitter might look like without strong platform moderation.\n\nYou only need to look at how much criticism Facebook has received for not taking down groups linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory, or the Stop the Steal movement to imagine how much criticism Elon Musk is in store for.\n\nThe danger that Twitter now faces is that unfettered free speech on social media can become very ugly, very quickly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021", "Tesla boss Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter, saying he is the right person to \"unlock\" the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".\n\nIn a surprise announcement, Mr Musk said he would pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, valuing it at about $40bn.\n\nIt recently emerged that Mr Musk was Twitter's biggest shareholder after he built up a large stake in the firm.\n\nHe said that if his offer was not accepted: \"I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder\".\n\nMr Musk also said that if the board of directors at Twitter chose to reject the offer, it would be \"utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote\".\n\n\"They own the company, not the board of directors,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nTwitter's share price rose jumped by 5.3% to $48.32 in early trading, before falling back to more than $46.20 later on.\n\nA filing with the US financial regulator appeared to show text and/or voice messages from Mr Musk to Twitter's board, showing that he had raised the idea at the weekend that the business should go private.\n\nMr Musk had been invited to join the board, but Twitter announced on Sunday he had decided against it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the messages published in the filing, Mr Musk said he was not \"playing the back-and-forth game\" and said of his offer: \"It's a high price and your shareholders will love it.\"\n\nHe said he would have to sell his shares if the deal did not go through.\n\n\"This is not a threat, it's simply not a good investment without the changes that need to be made,\" he added.\n\nVictoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor, said: \"This is a deeply hostile move from Elon Musk who has threatened to 'reconsider' his 9.2% stake in the company if his 100% acquisition offer is rejected.\"\n\nIn his filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Musk said he had invested in Twitter because \"I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.\n\n\"However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.\"\n\nHe added: \"Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.\"\n\nTwitter said its board \"will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the company and all Twitter stockholders\".\n\nMr Musk is the world's richest man, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of $273.6bn mostly due to his shareholding in electric vehicle maker Tesla. He also leads the aerospace firm SpaceX.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with head of TED, Chris Anderson, Elon Musk has not only laid out his vision for Twitter but revealed that he has a plan B if the Twitter board reject his offer.\n\nHe didn't go into details about what it was, saying simply that it was for \"another time\".\n\nThe interview was much anticipated among the TED audience which gathers in Vancouver every spring to hear a range of talks on technology, entertainment and design.\n\nMusk also revealed that his first job, if his offer is accepted, would be to open up the Twitter algorithm so that the decisions it makes can be seen by everyone. The code needs to go on a platform such as GitHub so that other programmers can see it and make suggestions rather like operating system Linux was built, he said.\n\nDan Ives, senior equity research analyst at Wedbush Securities, said Twitter will either be forced to accept Mr Musk's bid or find another buyer.\n\nHe said: \"There will be host of questions around financing, regulatory, balancing Musk's time (Tesla, SpaceX) in the coming days but based on this filing it is a now or never bid for Twitter to accept.\n\n\"Ultimately, we believe this soap opera will end with Musk owning Twitter.\"\n\nRumours have been swirling for weeks that Elon Musk was considering starting his own social network, but with the news he'd lifted his stake in Twitter to 9.2%, it seemed like he was scratching the itch by investing in one rather than building his own. Donald Trump's Truth Social platform's struggle for relevance and technical woes has proven that building a social network is perhaps not so easy.\n\nWhile some were shocked Mr Musk rejected a position on Twitter's board, seasoned watchers commented that accepting it would come with rules and conditions that might not be a good match for the world's richest man and his fondness for speaking his mind on the platform.\n\nThere's been considerable disquiet among staff at Twitter over the whole affair, with some employees taking to the platform to vent their frustration and concerns about controversial statements Mr Musk has made in the past.\n\nIf Mr Musk's takeover is successful, we'll likely find out how he intends to run the company courtesy of one of his many tweets.\n\nTwitter had offered Mr Musk a seat on its board after it emerged that he held a 9.2% stake in the company.\n\nThe role was set to become effective last weekend but then Mr Musk decided against taking it.\n\nOn Monday, Twitter's chief executive Parag Agrawal had tweeted that he thought the decision by Mr Musk not take a seat on the board was \"for the best\".\n\nHe added: \"We have and will always value input from our shareholders whether they are on our board or not. Elon is our biggest shareholder and we will remain open to his input.\"\n\nThough he also warned staff: \"There will be distractions ahead.\"\n\nAfter that announcement, Mr Musk posted a cryptic tweet of smiling emoji with its hand over its mouth.\n\nMr Musk has already given a hint of the things he would like to change at Twitter.\n\nHe has suggested changes to the Twitter Blue premium subscription service, which was launched last year in Canada and Australia, including slashing the price, banning advertising and giving users the option of paying the monthly fee with the cryptocurrency, dogecoin.\n\nMr Musk also asked his 81 million followers on Twitter whether the company is \"dying\" and if its headquarters should be turned into a homeless shelter.", "Valeria, with baby Kira, said she had achieved \"a new level of happiness\" since her daughter's birth\n\nYuriy Glodan had only left his flat and family to go to the shops when he heard the news of the explosion.\n\nAt the entrance to his block of flats he screamed at police to let him inside the burning building. When he reached his flat, he found the bodies of his wife and her mother, killed by a Russian missile that had ripped into the lower floors of the block.\n\nThe body of his three-month-old baby Kira was discovered later; he saw it for the first time when he returned to the flat on Sunday.\n\nThe deaths - three generations of a single family - have sparked outrage and revulsion in Ukraine, a country already hardened by two months of war.\n\nCommenting on the strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky was visibly upset when speaking about baby Kira's killing.\n\n\"How did she threaten Russia? It seems that killing children is just a new national idea of the Russian Federation,\" Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address to Ukrainians. He described those who had planned and carried out the attack as \"bastards\".\n\nFive others were also killed in the missile strike.\n\nYuriy was in the wrecked building on Sunday to find what he could salvage from the apartment. Photo albums, his wife's sugar sachet collection, handwritten notes. He found his baby's stroller in pieces.\n\nYuriy and his baby daughter, who died in a missile attack on Saturday 23 April\n\n\"If I leave things in the flat, it will become garbage and people will throw it away,\" he told the BBC. \"I want to keep it for my memories.\"\n\nHe and Valeria had been a couple for nine years.\n\n\"She could find joy in everything. Odesa was her favourite city. She worked in PR and she could communicate with a lot of people, understand them. I admired what a good writer she was,\" he said.\n\n\"She was a great mother, friend, with all the best qualities. It will be impossible for me to find somebody else like Valeria. She was perfect. Such a person could be given to you only once in a life and it's a gift from God.\"\n\nKira had been born at the end of January, just a month before the start of the war.\n\nA few weeks after that, Valeria had posted on Instagram that she was living with \"a new level of happiness\" after the birth of her first child. \"Our girl is one month old now,\" she wrote. \"It has been the best 40 weeks.\"\n\nYuriy swipes through pictures of his wife and daughter, with our reporter\n\nYuriy showed us photos of Kira on his phone sent to him by his wife.\n\n\"We were so happy when she was born,\" he says. \"I was in the maternity hospital when she gave birth. It's very hard for me to realise now that my daughter and wife are no longer here. All my world was destroyed yesterday by a Russian missile.\"\n\nHe wants the world to know about what happened to his family.\n\n\"What is happening is a grief for my family, for our city, for Ukraine, it's a grief for the whole civilisation. I hope our story helps to stop this war.\"\n\nAs we leave, he hands us some nappies in a carrier bag, one of the few things he's been able to recover from the flat.\n\n\"Please take them,\" he tells us. \"Give them to charity. I have no need for them now.\"\n\nHave you been affected by what is happening in Ukraine? Or do you have any questions about the conflict? Email us at: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe MP responsible for \"misogynistic\" claims about Angela Raynor should be expelled, Wales' future generations commissioner has said.\n\nSophie Howe spoke out after claims about Labour's deputy leader in a Sunday newspaper.\n\nPoliticians have condemned the suggestion that she tries to distract the prime minister in the Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs.\n\nMs Rayner has said women in politics face misogyny every day.\n\nSophie Howe said that only removing the Conservative MP or MPs responsible for the comments from their political party would suffice.\n\n\"The prime minister should be conducting an investigation,\" she said.\n\n\"Why would we not be investigating this sort of misogyny [given] the long term impact it has, not just on individuals, but on the wider issue of getting women into politics?\n\n\"They should be taking robust action, expelling them from the party, and indeed any party that has people conveying this sort of misogyny\".\n\nBoris Johnson has suggested he would discipline the source of \"misogynistic\" claims.\n\nEarlier Ms Howe told Radio Wales Breakfast how the comments had brought back the same feelings of \"anger and utter frustration\" from her own experience.\n\nIn 2015, Ms Howe gave an interview to the BBC and was later accused by Ruth Price, an ex-Plaid Cymru councillor, of crossing her legs \"Sharon Stone style\" on the television.\n\n\"I was being contacted by a whole range of different media outlets,\" Ms Howe said.\n\n\"But the main thing was I was contacted by my 15-year-old son, who was in school at the time, and he text me and said 'Mum, what's going on? All the boys are talking about you and something about Sharon Stone'. I don't think he even knew who Sharon Stone was.\n\n\"And then having to explain to him and my other children what this was all about, how stupid this was and how outrageous this was.\"\n\nShe added: \"We question why there aren't more women in politics and public life and it's because this is the absolute rubbish that they have to put up with.\n\n\"I was just doing what every woman does. I was sat in an uncomfortable way and I crossed and uncrossed my legs. I hadn't even thought about it.\n\n\"Most women don't think about that sort of thing, nor should they have to.\"\n\nFuture Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe wants the misogynistic comments about Labour's deputy leader to be investigated\n\nShe added that such comments can have a lasting impact.\n\n\"If you Google my name one of the things that will come up is a headline which says, 'Top cop accused of Sharon Stone moment'.\n\n\"People who say these things, they don't realise the wider implications that these things can have on women in politics and public life.\"\n\nMs Howe was adamant that women must not alter their own behaviour in response and said any such comments should be taken seriously.\n\n\"I think its really important for women to own who they are,\" she said.\n\n\"I am not going to change who I am to conform to misogyny and these sorts of outrageous and unacceptable comments.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has contacted Ms Rayner to make clear that he views claims about her in a Sunday newspaper misogynistic.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson criticised the comments tweeting: \"As much as I disagree with Angela Rayner on almost every political issue, I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today.\"\n\nMs Howe said he should go further and investigate the comments.\n\n\"The problem is with the people making these comments, not with me and not with Angela Rayner.\n\n\"If I was Boris Johnson I would be holding an investigation to find out who made these comments. I would be putting them through a disciplinary process.\"", "Boris Johnson has suggested he would discipline the source of \"misogynistic\" claims about Labour's deputy leader in a Sunday newspaper article.\n\nHe condemned the claim Angela Rayner tries to distract him in Parliament by crossing and uncrossing her legs.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday said some unnamed Tory MPs had made the allegation.\n\nMr Johnson threatened to unleash \"the terrors of the earth\" on the source behind the comments if they were ever identified.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister told reporters it was \"hard to say\" if there was a cultural problem in Parliament, but described the story about Ms Rayner as \"the most appalling load of sexist, misogynist tripe\".\n\n\"I immediately got in touch with Angela and we had a very friendly exchange,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nDowning Street will not be asking for an inquiry into who made the comments to the newspaper, with a source saying this was because such inquiries rarely found the person in question.\n\nCommons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle called the \"unsubstantiated claims\" in the article \"misogynistic and offensive\" and expressed his \"sympathy\" for Ms Rayner.\n\nHe has arranged a meeting with the editor of the Mail on Sunday this Wednesday to discuss the article.\n\nUK press regulator Ipso said it had received 5,500 complaints about the article and was exploring possible breaches of its code of practice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Rayner dismissed the story as a \"perverted smear\" that showed women in politics faced misogyny every day.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told BBC Breakfast: \"This is endemic.\" She added that she did not think there was a single female MP or staff member in the House of Commons who did not have their own stories of misogyny or sexism.\n\nAnd Technology Minister Chris Philp said Tory MPs who hold those views could face \"serious consequences\" if identified.\n\nA raft of politicians, including female Tory MPs, have also spoken out in support of Ms Rayner.\n\nConservative Caroline Nokes said too many female MPs of all parties had been \"on the receiving end of vile articles\", while former minister Andrea Leadsom tweeted: \"Really sorry Angela. Totally unacceptable comments and reporting.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"The sexism and misogyny peddled by the Tories is a disgraceful new low from a party mired in scandal and chaos.\"\n\nThe Mail on Sunday is not commenting.\n\nThe article quoted unnamed Conservative MPs, saying Ms Rayner would cross and uncross her legs when opposite the PM at the dispatch box in the Commons to distract him.\n\nThe newspaper article said: \"Tory MPs have mischievously suggested that Ms Rayner likes to distract the PM when he is in the dispatch box by deploying a fully clothed parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's infamous scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rachel Reeves says she was told a new baby and being in cabinet don't mix\n\nThe piece quotes one MP as saying: \"She knows she can't compete with Boris's Oxford Union debating training, but she has other skills which he lacks.\n\n\"She has admitted as much when enjoying drinks with us on the [Commons] terrace.\"\n\nThe article also described the Labour MP's background as \"a socialist grandmother who left school at 16 while pregnant and with no qualifications before becoming a care worker\".\n\nMany MPs have since also condemned the tone of the newspaper's reporting.\n\nMs Rayner condemned the article in a thread on Twitter as \"gutter journalism\", and accused the sources of \"spreading desperate, perverted smears in their doomed attempts to save [Mr Johnson's] skin\" amid the partygate scandal.\n\nShe added: \"I won't be letting their vile lies deter me. Their attempts to harass and intimidate me will fail.\n\n\"I hope this experience doesn't put off a single person like me, with a background like mine from aspiring to participate in public life. That would break my heart.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Solidarity from across the political divide to Angela Rayner on this.\n\n\"It's a reminder of the deep misogyny women face every day.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Munira Wilson described it as a \"disgraceful story\", saying: \"I can't even believe it made it into print.\"", "Johnny Depp has said text messages he sent about burning and drowning his former partner Amber Heard were a joke based on a Monty Python sketch.\n\nTestifying before a Virginia court on Monday, the actor said he was \"ashamed\" of the messages, and that they were an attempt at humour.\n\nMr Depp, 58, sued Ms Heard, 36, over a story she wrote in which she described herself as a victim of domestic violence. He denies any abuse.\n\nTaking the stand for a fourth day, Mr Depp responded to questions about a 2013 text exchange with British actor Paul Bettany.\n\n\"Let's burn her,\" Mr Depp had written. \"Let's drown her before we burn her.\"\n\nHe then made a further obscene suggestion \"to make sure she is dead\".\n\nAsked about the messages in court, Mr Depp said the messages were \"directly\" from a Monty Python sketch about burning and drowning witches.\n\n\"This is a film we'd all watch when we were 10 - it's just irreverent and abstract humour,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Week two: Johnny Depp's face off with Amber Heard\n\nDuring cross-examination, Mr Depp was pressed on his claims that Ms Heard was wrong to portray him as a domestic abuser.\n\nJurors heard a series of audio recordings of conversations between the former couple, in which Mr Depp could be heard shouting vulgar insults and obscenities at Ms Heard.\n\nIn one exchange, Ms Heard shouts at Mr Depp to put his \"cigarettes out on someone else\". Mr Depp could be heard insulting Ms Heard about her weight.\n\nHe grimaced while the clips were played, while Ms Heard seemed to hold back tears.\n\nAnd lawyers for Ms Heard focused again on Mr Depp's history of substance use, claiming he would be violent during alcohol and drug binges.\n\nBut Mr Depp said: \"If anyone had a problem with my drinking, at any time in my life, it was me. The only person I've ever abused in my life is myself.\"\n\nAt times, Mr Depp appeared visibly agitated by the lines of questioning, occasionally snapping at Ms Heard's lawyer, J Benjamin Rottenborn.\n\nMr Rottenborn introduced a series of negative articles about Mr Depp, some dating back to 2014, trying to demonstrate that damage to his reputation - and his career - had been done years before Ms Heard publicly accused Mr Depp of abuse.\n\n\"These are all hit pieces. These are dreck [rubbish],\" Mr Depp said.\n\nAt the centre of the case is Ms Heard's 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post, where she describes herself as a \"public figure representing domestic abuse\".\n\nMr Depp says the article - which does not mention him by name - is defamatory and derailed his career.\n\nAt the trial - now in its third week - lawyers for Mr Depp have claimed Ms Heard was the aggressor, playing the \"role\" of victim to benefit her career.\n\nEarlier, the jury heard evidence presented by the celebrity ex-couple's former therapist, who described how Mr Depp and Ms Heard engaged in \"mutual abuse\", as well as from medical workers who treated Mr Depp as he was detoxing himself from opiates.\n\nSeveral high-profile witnesses, including the entrepreneur Elon Musk and the actor James Franco, are scheduled to appear later in the trial, which is expected to last at least another month.\n\nAn earlier version of this story named Paul Bettany as a witness. The actor was included in pre-trial court papers, but his lawyer says he will not give evidence.", "A picture from the scene of the explosion shows burned out vehicles\n\nNigeria's president has said the country is in \"shock and trauma\" following the deaths of at least 100 people from an explosion at an illegal oil refinery.\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari described the incident in Imo state, southern Nigeria, as a \"catastrophe and a national disaster\".\n\nMany victims were burnt beyond recognition.\n\nThe police are now looking for the owner of the illegal refinery.\n\nThe damage to fishing and farming caused by the oil industry over the decades and the failure to share the oil wealth has led some to find other ways to make money.\n\nIllegal refining is attractive as in parts of the oil-rich Niger Delta it is seen as being relatively easy to pull off, despite efforts to halt the practice.\n\nDozens of people were thought to have been working at the refining plants when they were caught in the huge fire.\n\nThe death toll has risen as emergency workers go through the scene. Ifeanyi Nnaji of the National Emergency Management Agency told BBC Igbo that the number killed now stood at 109.\n\n\"We learnt many bodies are in nearby bushes and forests as some illegal operators and their patrons scampered for safety,\" he earlier told the AFP news agency.\n\nCharred human remains, as well as fragments of belongings, such as flip flops, bags and clothing, were witnessed across the scene of the disaster by a journalist for the Reuters news agency.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Mr Buhari offered his condolences to families of the victims and said those responsible for the explosions must be caught and brought to justice.\n\nThe authorities have been struggling to curb the proliferation of illegal plants where stolen crude oil is refined. The president ordered security forces to intensify efforts to shut these refineries.\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the explosion that happened sometime overnight into Saturday, but accidents have been common in the past at similar dangerous sites where safety measures are not enforced.\n\nThere have been concerns over a lack of precautions at such facilities as well as over the environmental pollution they cause.\n\nBut Nigeria's official oil refineries do not work to capacity, causing frequent fuel shortages and price increases across the country.", "With the Russian offensive centred on eastern Ukraine, Kyiv is beginning to return to a sense of calm.\n\nBut the city’s defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.\n\nThe BBC got rare access to the 131st battalion in the forests of the capital.", "Lieutenant Denys Gordeev is used to war, but not like this. \"It's become much harder,\" he says. \"We have bomb attacks, rocket attacks every day, all the time, every hour.\"\n\nThough he has spent eight years battling Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas, now he and his men are facing the full might of the Russian army.\n\nAfter its retreat from Kyiv three weeks ago, Russia has refocused its military efforts in Eastern Ukraine - with its goal of taking the whole of the Donbas region. It has redeployed many of its units to the east. Western officials estimate that Russia now has about 76 Battalion Tactical Groups in the region - each of which has about 800 men.\n\nThey also say there's some evidence Russia's been addressing some of its early mistakes, helped by the fact they're now fighting on fewer fronts, and under a unified command.\n\nThe result is that Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold a 300-mile front in the Donbas. They've already lost ground to the Russians and are likely to lose more in the days ahead. Russian forces have been conducting probing attacks to find weak points in Ukraine's defences.\n\nFor now the invading army is mostly using its artillery and rockets to grind down Ukraine's defences. Some military analysts expect a major assault is still to come.\n\nAnd Ukrainian forces, including Lt Gordeev and his unit, appear to be holding the line, although Western experts say they are already outnumbered three to one.", "Olena and Oleksandr in the relative safety of Lviv, after escaping Mariupol\n\n\"You can't imagine how horrible the conditions were.\"\n\nOleksandr and Olena are two of the lucky few who recently managed to escape from Mariupol, which is now almost under full Russian control after weeks of bombardment.\n\nThe city is effectively sealed off from the world, and information about what is happening inside is difficult to confirm independently.\n\nBut the pair, and others, have given chilling accounts of life in Russia's so-called filtration camps, set up outside Mariupol to house civilians before they are evacuated.\n\nOleksandr and Olena, speaking from the relatively safe western city of Lviv, say they ended up at one of the centres when they tried to escape the city. After walking from their home to an evacuation point, they were driven to a Russian refugee hub at a former school in the village of Nikolske, north-west of Mariupol.\n\n\"It was like a true concentration camp,\" Oleksandr, 49, says.\n\nThe centres have been compared by Ukrainian officials to those used during Russia's war in Chechnya, when thousands of Chechens were brutally interrogated and many disappeared.\n\nOleksandr and Olena were fingerprinted, photographed from all sides, and interrogated for several hours by Russian security officers - \"like in a prison\", he says.\n\nThey worried that the Russians would look at their phones, and so they cleared all evidence from their devices of anything to do with Ukraine - including photos of their daughter in front of a Ukrainian flag.\n\nThey were right to worry. Oleksandr says that during their interrogation, Russian security officers examined photographs, phone call history and contact numbers on their devices for links with journalists or government and military officials.\n\n\"If a person was suspected of being a 'Ukrainian Nazi', they took them to Donetsk for further investigation or murder,\" says Oleksandr, although the BBC has not been able to verify this claim. \"It was very dangerous and risky. Any small doubt, any small resistance - and they could take you to the basements for interrogation and torture. Everybody was afraid to be taken to Donetsk.\"\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has stated one of the aims of his invasion is to clear Ukraine of Nazis, and Russian propaganda has made numerous baseless allegations that Ukraine is somehow aligned with Nazism.\n\nEventually the pair were detained and put on a list for evacuation. But the ordeal did not stop there.\n\nElderly people slept in corridors without mattresses or blankets, Olena says. There was only one toilet and one sink for thousands of people. Dysentery soon began to spread. \"There was no way to wash or clean,\" she says. \"It smelt extremely awful.\"\n\nSoap and disinfectant ran out on the second day they were there. Soon, too, did toilet paper and sanitary pads.\n\nOlena and Oleksandr were told they had permission to leave on the 148th evacuation bus. But a week later, just 20 buses had left the facility.\n\nIn contrast, there were many buses organised to go to Russian territory. Authorities even tried to force the couple on to a coach heading east, they say. In the end Olena and Oleksandr felt compelled to seek the help of private drivers, who they feared could be Russians or collaborators.\n\n\"We didn't have any choice - either be forcibly deported to Russia or risk it with these private drivers,\" Olena says.\n\nIt's a dilemma that Mariupol's mayor, Vadym Boychenko, recognises. \"Many buses of civilians go to Russian rather than Ukrainian territory,\" he told the BBC, over the phone. \"From the beginning of war, [the Russians] didn't allow any way to evacuate civilians. It's a direct military order to kill civilians,\" he claimed.\n\nOleksandr and Olena's driver managed to get them from their filtration camp to the Russian-occupied city of Berdyansk - through \"fields, dirt roads, narrow pathways behind all the checkpoints\", Olena says, because they didn't have the proper documents to pass a Russian inspection.\n\nThey then spent three days looking for a route out before finding another driver who was willing to risk everything to get them to Ukrainian-controlled territory. He managed to get around 12 Russian checkpoints and safely deliver them to Zaporizhzhia. The couple then took an overnight train to Lviv.\n\n\"From filtration camps you can only escape using these risky local private drivers,\" Oleksandr says. \"Fortunately, there are good people among them.\"\n\nArriving in Lviv on the same day were Valentyna and her husband Evgeniy. They also managed to flee Mariupol last week. They were boarding a coach to a smaller city in western Ukraine - desperate for safety after their ordeal.\n\nThe situation in Mariupol, they said, had become dire. They survived by sheltering in a basement, living of tinned goods, a handful of potatoes they grew in their garden, and water taken from the boiler.\n\nEvgeniy and Valentyna managed to survive by hiding in their basement\n\nThe filtration process was speedy for them, says Valentyna, 58, perhaps because of their age and because Evgeniy has a disability. But it was far worse for younger people, she said.\n\n\"The filtration camps are like ghettos,\" she says. \"Russians divide people into groups. Those who were suspected of having connections with the Ukrainian army, territorial defence, journalists, workers from the government - it's very dangerous for them. They take those people to prisons to Donetsk, torture them.\"\n\nShe and Evgeniy also say many were sent from the filtration camps to Russia. Sometimes people were told they were destined for Ukrainian-controlled territory, they say, only for the coach to head to Russian-held territory instead.\n\nLike Oleksandr and Olena, Valentyna says it was only because of their driver that they managed to escape.\n\n\"When we finally [escaped] and saw the Ukrainian fighters and the flag, when we heard Ukrainian language, everyone in the bus started to cry,\" she said. \"It was just unbelievable that we stayed alive and finally fled from hell.\"\n\nBoth couples have now escaped Mariupol, a city that has become a symbol of the resistance and the suffering of Ukraine after the Russian invasion. Now they face an uncertain future - just four of the 11 million Ukrainians displaced by the conflict.\n\n\"The city does not exist anymore,\" Valentyna says. \"Even walls. Just huge piles of ruins. I could never have imagined such violence.\"", "The Spirit of Britain resumed cross channel services this weekend\n\nP&O Ferries has hit back at claims that it tried to get its new cheaper agency staff to accept even lower wages.\n\nThe RMT Union said it received reports of new workers at Dover being asked to sign new contracts, replacing ones they had signed weeks ago, on lower pay.\n\nIt reported P&O Ferries to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, which ensured the new workers retained their wages.\n\nBut P&O Ferries told the BBC \"no agency seafarers were asked to accept reduced wages\".\n\nThe company, which has come under fire for sacking 800 workers without notice and replacing them with cheaper agency staff in March, said there were \"no plans to change or reduce the wages\" of the new seafarers.\n\nIts statement on Monday came after the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) claimed a seafarer on the Spirit of Britain ferry at Dover, hired as a replacement for the sacked staff last month, contacted the union begging for help in a dispute over pay.\n\nThe union said the company was now \"trying to bring in an exploitative model, with the lowest possible standards they can get away with\".\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC the worker wrote: \"They don't care about our rights. They try to give us less money. We are desperate.\"\n\nThe seafarer told the union they were being forced to work without contracts, after old ones had expired. The worker claimed documents had also been lost by P&O Ferries.\n\n\"This is my sixth day working without a contract, please help us!,\" they said.\n\nThe RMT union complained to the Maritime and Coastguard Authority (MCA) about the new move by P&O Ferries who ensured seafarers' contracts were amended with their original wages reinstated.\n\nThe MCA confirmed it had investigated the complaint and \"as a result the affected seafarers were issued with amended contracts, which reverted to their original wages\".\n\nHowever, P&O Ferries said there had been an \"administrative misunderstanding\" around a contract presented to one individual who appeared to have been \"unaware of an appendix which made clear that he would be entitled to an additional £195 a month, meaning that there was no change in his overall pay\".\n\nA spokesman said the company had contacted the MCA \"to request that they withdraw their statement, which is misleading\". The MCA said the complaint from the seafarer had been upheld.\n\n\"We will continue to comply fully with any national minimum wage obligations introduced by the UK government,\" P&O added.\n\nP&O has previously declined to comment on how much agencies pay workers on ferries.\n\nSome of P&O's ferries are registered in Cyprus, meaning they do not have to pay the minimum wage required by UK law, which rose to £9.50 an hour from 1 April.\n\nOn Friday, the Spirit of Britain, which operates between Dover and Calais, was cleared to resume sailing after inspections by the MCA. It had been held at the port since 12 April due to a number of unspecified deficiencies, according to the regulator.\n\nIt is expected P&O Ferries' freight sailings from Dover will resume this week, while passenger services are expected to resume early next week.\n\nRMT officials went aboard the Spirit of Britain to speak with new seafarers on Friday, who it said shared complaints over contracts.\n\nNational secretary Darren Proctor, who was on the visit, claimed P&O Ferries had \"brought people in on a month contract, some on two-month contracts\" and then told them that they have to accept lower pay rates if they want to stay on.\n\n\"P&O is undermining safety and creating a lowest possible denominator in ferry standards,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen P&O Ferries sacked its staff in March, the company said the move was to ensure the future of the business.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has said he wants to see British ports refusing access to ferry companies \"who don't pay a fair wage\".\n\nHe has said the government will consult on changes needed to make it a legal requirement, but urged ports to take action \"as soon as practical\".\n\nHowever, British ports have described the new pay plans for the ferry industry as \"unworkable\".\n\nTim Morris, chief of trade association UK Major Ports Group, said there was a law that stopped port operators \"picking and choosing who we let into our ports outside of some very narrow safety constraints\".\n\nHe said while the body was \"disappointed and surprised as everybody else, there needs to be a change in the law before employment conditions can be linked to port access\".\n\nAre you a P&O employee or agency worker? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Jurgen Klopp hails Liverpool's run of results after win over Everton Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool's recent run of positive results is \"insane\", boss Jurgen Klopp said after they made it 14 Premier League games unbeaten with victory over Everton in Sunday's Merseyside derby. The Reds trail leaders Manchester City by a point, having dropped just four points in the league since 28 December. They are in contention for a quadruple, with a Champions League semi-final and FA Cup final to come. \"The amount of wins we've had in recent months is insane,\" Klopp told the BBC. \"You have to work. The boys did that again. I'm really happy.\"\n• None Liverpool win derby to send Everton into bottom three\n• None Best action and reaction from Liverpool v Everton in the Premier League It is now 13 wins in 15 league games for the Reds since their loss at Leicester just after Christmas, with recent results also including them beating Pep Guardiola's City in an FA Cup semi-final and Benfica over two legs in the Champions League last eight. They also won the Carabao Cup in February. Klopp's side were frustrated by a stubborn Everton in the first half of Sunday's game at Anfield, but a header from Andrew Robertson broke the tension before Luis Diaz set up fellow substitute Divock Origi to score his sixth Merseyside derby goal to seal the points. \"Thank God the game has two halves,\" German Klopp said. \"We didn't play particularly well in the first half. They made it uncomfortable but we didn't get in behind the last line. We didn't have enough movement. \"We weren't quick enough. We passed the ball into the area they had nine players. Second half we were much more direct and caused them much more problems. \"We stayed really cool and calm. The changes helped, fresh players, different formation. It made it difficult for the opposition. At times, emotions in the game threatened to spill over, with the players clashing en masse after Liverpool did not put the ball down with Richarlison on the ground in the first half. Anthony Gordon twice went down in the box following home challenges, with the first prompting the referee to book him for diving. Everton boss Frank Lampard felt both should have resulted in a penalty, which would have given the away side the chance to open the scoring. \"I think they both could have been penalties but you often don't get them at Anfield,\" said the Toffees boss, whose side are now in the bottom three following the defeat, coupled with Burnley's win over Wolves on Sunday. \"The fact there's contact and he gets booked is crazy. The second one was a foul [anywhere else] on the pitch. Sometimes you don't get them here.\" Klopp was adamant neither were spot-kicks, saying: \"It [the second] was clearly no penalty. He's really good but he's lucky not to get a second yellow. The first was not a penalty and the second wasn't.\" 'Origi is a legend and will stay a legend forever' Origi scored another important goal on Sunday, having also scored a crucial goal to beat Everton in stoppage time in the 2018-19 season Origi's goal on Sunday was the latest instance of the Belgian striker scoring important goals for the Reds, albeit this one more of a nerve-settler than a vital breakthrough. He has now scored 11 goals as a substitute in the Premier League, the outright most by a Liverpool player, overtaking Daniel Sturridge's 10. Klopp was full of praise for the 27-year-old, who is out of contract in the summer and could leave the club after eight seasons at Anfield. \"If he leaves, he will explode wherever he goes,\" added Klopp. \"He is a world-class striker, he is a legend and will stay a legend forever. \"He doesn't always make the squad which is ridiculous, but he is there when we need him every time. \"Everything that we did in the second half, without Divock, wouldn't have happened. \"The group lives because of the boys that don't always play, they are the strongest players ever; [Alex] Oxlade-Chamberlain, [Harvey] Elliot, [Takumi] Minamino, even Rhys Williams. They are in great shape, but the way they behave is why we do these kind of things.\"\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "Elon Musk says he wants to see Twitter fulfil its \"extraordinary potential\"\n\nAt first, the story of Twitter and Elon Musk feels a little like a tale of unrequited love.\n\nOur unlikely couple starts out with an imbalance of power.\n\nElon Musk loves Twitter. He has an enormous audience of 83.8m followers. He tweets prolifically, sometimes controversially, occasionally catastrophically. The SEC banned him from tweeting about Tesla affairs after one tweet wiped $14bn off its share price, and he was sued for defamation following a tweet about a cave diver in which he called him \"pedo guy\" (the cave diver lost).\n\nBut he has never strayed far from his keyboard.\n\nTwitter on the other hand is far less effusive about Elon Musk.\n\nYou might think, if someone offered you $44bn for a 16-year-old business that hadn't really enjoyed the exponential growth of its rivals, they were doing you a favour - and Twitter's shareholders seem inclined to agree.\n\nHe wants to see Twitter fulfil its \"extraordinary potential\", he says - and he's not even that interested in making money out of it. He has plenty of that already, and multi-billionaires can afford to have different priorities.\n\nTwitter responded by going straight on the defensive, deploying a \"poison pill\" strategy which prevented anybody from owning more than 15% of its shares while Musk circled, though a deal has now been agreed.\n\nPerhaps the board was unnerved by Musk's declaration that he wanted to see more \"free speech\" and less moderation. Many Republicans, who have long felt that Twitter's moderation policies favour the freedom of speech of left-leaning viewpoints, rejoiced.\n\nBut regulators around the world are lining up to crack down on social networks and force them to take more responsibility for the content they carry, issuing steep fines for non-compliance on material that incites violence, or is abusive, or classifies as hate speech, among other things. You can hear the alarm bells start to ring.\n\nCould Musk use Twitter to incentivise payments in volatile, unprotected currencies such as Bitcoin?\n\nLet's not forget the finances. Twitter's main business model is ad-based - and Musk wants to change that. He's more interested in subscriptions, he claims, which could prove a hard sell in an environment where all the main social networks are free-to-use. Twitter users may decide they prefer for their data to not be used to monetise them and they're willing to pay for that - but it's a gamble.\n\nHe also likes crypto-currencies. Could he use the platform to incentivise payments in volatile, unprotected currencies such as Bitcoin?\n\nAnd then there's Musk himself. He's the richest man in the world, a serial entrepreneur whose successes include PayPal and Tesla. He's charismatic and unfiltered - which can make him a very loose cannon indeed. He likes to test boundaries and break rules.\n\nThere's a reason why he declined to join Twitter's board after buying a 9.2% stake in January - he didn't want to be bound by the responsibility.\n\nAnd he has an army of loyal fans who adore him - I once tweeted about the fact that, because of the way his finances are structured (his wealth is largely shares-based rather than cash income, and he doesn't own property) - he doesn't pay income tax.\n\nHow dare I suggest that he might, he's brilliant and we should simply be grateful for him, came the replies.\n\nHe has not exactly wooed Twitter with flowers and chocolates, this has been an aggressive bid from an aggressive businessman - no negotiation, no compromise.\n\nIt's not a merger between two giants so there is unlikely to be much in the way of regulatory obstacles.\n\nMusk's Twitter would be a very different landscape for the 300 million people who continue to use it, if indeed they do. More feisty, perhaps, and less liberal-leaning. He could reinstate Donald Trump, who currently has a permanent ban - and given that Mr Trump's own attempt at a social network, Truth Social, appears to be floundering, he would probably be delighted to return.\n\nIt's hard to summarise the collective view of Twitter's users. In my unscientific observation, for every tweet welcoming Musk, there seems to be another threatening to leave. But then - since when did Twitter users ever agree on anything?\n\nCorrection 24th June 2022: This article has been amended to remove an incorrect description of the potential sale of Twitter as \"a private sale of a private company\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward more measures to tackle the cost of living crisis.\n\nSurges in fuel, energy and food prices are hitting people's pockets, with inflation running at a 30-year high.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Sunday Morning show the government's response had been \"woeful\" and demanded further measures like a windfall tax on energy firms.\n\nA Downing Street source said the PM was working to ease the burden on families.\n\nThey said the PM was also focused on growing the economy, adding the Queen's Speech, where the government outlines its future policies, was coming up and these issues were \"utterly central to what the government is trying to do\".\n\nThe SNP called for an emergency budget earlier this month, saying the Tories had ignored the cost of living crisis \"brewing under its watch\".\n\nThe party's Treasury spokeswoman, Alison Thewliss, said: \"Warm words now won't heat up homes or food - only action will.\n\n\"The chancellor must immediately return to Parliament with an emergency budget that finally puts money into people's pockets.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his own plans to address the cost of living during his Spring Statement last month.\n\nThey included a cut to fuel duty, raising the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance, and pledging to cut the basic rate of income tax before the next general election.\n\nBut he resisted appeals to scrap the rise in National Insurance (NI) - which came into force this month - to raise funds for the NHS and social care, and was accused by charities of not doing enough for poorer households.\n\nLabour has now outlined five policy demands for an emergency budget, including its ongoing call for the windfall tax - saying they would use the money to cut household bills by up to £600 - and cancelling the NI rise.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday Morning programme, Sir Keir said the rising cost of living was \"the single number one issue\" for people across the UK.\n\n\"They're really struggling to pay their bills, and the response of the government in the Spring Statement was woeful,\" he said.\n\n\"What we are calling for is an emergency budget to deal with the cost of living crisis.\"", "March's NHS performance figures showed were the worst A&E figures on record\n\nDoctors' claims the Welsh NHS is \"broken\" have been dismissed by the health minister.\n\nBut Eluned Morgan did admit the system was under \"immense\" pressure.\n\nThe claim was made by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) following the worst set of accident and emergency (A&E) on record.\n\nThe Welsh Tories said NHS targets were \"going in the wrong direction\" and Plaid Cymru said problems \"existed for years\" before the pandemic.\n\nThursday's figures showed both the four-hour and 12-hour A&E waiting times in March were the worst on record.\n\nAmbulance response times also deteriorated to the second worst on record.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme, Ms Morgan said: \"It is tough, there's no question about it and what we can do is our very best to address that system.\n\n\"The demand on the system is like nothing we've seen before.\"\n\nA lot of our staff are increasingly burned out and morale is a long term problem because we're not able to deliver the standard of care that we believe our patients deserve\n\nAsked if she agreed with the RCEM, Ms Morgan replied: \"We're managing to see around 200,000 people a month - that's not a broken system.\n\n\"I made a surprise visit to Cardiff accident and emergency on Friday night and the scenes were very difficult.\n\n\"It's clear there are people there, they're not time-wasters, these are people who are genuinely in pain and need to be seen.\n\n\"But the pressure on the system is immense and that's why we need to make sure that we see less flowing into the system, more prevention.\"\n\nOfficial figures showed there were 8,757 patients in Wales' hospitals on Thursday.\n\nMs Morgan said more than 1,000 of these were ready to be discharged but could not \"because of the fragility of the social care system\", causing an NHS-wide backlog.\n\nNHS waiting lists have grown for a 22nd successive month, with almost 700,000 non-urgent treatments and operations waiting to be carried out and more than 250,000 waiting more than nine months.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Welsh government will publish its long-awaited plan on how it intends to tackle the huge waiting list backlog.\n\nThe aim is to return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of this Senedd term in 2026.\n\nMs Morgan said operations and treatments would be conducted \"on a much broader footprint in future\" with people potentially travelling across Wales.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"These aren't problems that have suddenly appeared because of the pandemic, these are problems that have been made worse by the pandemic... but that existed for years before because of a lack of strategic planning by the Welsh government to put our health and care system on a stable and sustainable footing.\n\n\"We need to get to that point and sadly we're a long way away.\"\n\nRussell George, the Welsh Conservatives' health spokesman, said: \"My concern is that the targets are going in the wrong direction.\n\n\"But the main issue is not just about recruiting, but about retaining staff and I think when you're under huge pressure and it puts pressure on all those staff and staff are looking around thinking 'is this the career for me?'\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Tamara Bronckaers: \"It made me fearful going into work.\"\n\nA former government vet has received a £1.25m settlement from the Department of Agriculture and Environment, along with an \"unreserved\" apology.\n\nDr Tamara Bronckaers resigned from the Department in 2018.\n\nThis came after concerns she raised about animal welfare and failures in traceability in the meat supply chain were not acted on.\n\nAn industrial tribunal in September 2021 found she had been constructively dismissed.\n\nThe department dropped its appeal against that decision earlier this month.\n\nOn Monday, it issued a statement in which it apologised to Ms Bronckaers for the \"hurt and distress caused\".\n\nIn a statement issued by her solicitors, McCartan Turkington Breen, Dr Bronckaers said the last few years had been \"extremely harrowing\", and she could now \"move on in the knowledge that I did what was right\".\n\nDr Bronckaers had worked at the department for 19 years before she resigned in February 2018.\n\nThe industrial tribunal heard she was regarded as an expert on livestock market legislation.\n\nHer responsibilities included livestock markets, biosecurity and zoonoses - diseases that can move between animals and humans.\n\nDr Bronckaers had identified serious failings in animal welfare at some livestock markets, and the abuse of a process called \"deleted moves\".\n\nThat was a process whereby a dealer would buy an animal, without having someone to immediately sell it on to.\n\nThe move was allowed to be deleted when the animal did not leave the market before being sold on.\n\nBut Dr Bronckaers found out that the animal would sometimes leave the market to join the dealer's herd for a period of time before a buyer was found, and that move would then be deleted from the section of the tracing system that was visible in markets.\n\nDr Bronckaers said the past few years had been \"harrowing\"\n\nIt remained in the section visible at departmental level.\n\nAnimals with fewer moves in their history are more valuable.\n\nThat, Dr Bronckaers claimed, could affect the traceability of meat within the food supply chain and have an impact on the spread of disease in cattle, in particular tuberculosis.\n\nShe told the tribunal that 4,800 to 5,000 animals were having their moves deleted out of livestock markets every year.\n\nDr Bronckaers also took photographic evidence of alleged animal abuse at Ballymena Livestock Market after a tip-off that sheep had been kept there overnight.\n\nBy law, sheep may be left overnight at a livestock market but must have bedding, water and food.\n\nDr Bronckaers told the tribunal last year some livestock market operators were not adhering to statutory duties\n\nHowever Dr Bronckaers said she found pens overcrowded with sheep and a lack of food and drink.\n\n\"The sheep were empty looking - which means their sides were fallen in as they weren't fed.\n\n\"Sheep don't usually drink out of a bucket easily but they were coming for it in the bucket.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we were there a double-decker lorry arrived with 100-plus sheep and they were just loaded in to the pens in the yard.\n\n\"The legislation is very specific about the need for the market to be fenced and disinfected before another sale to break the risk of disease spreading.\n\n\"That was also worrying.\"\n\nIn a statement, Ballymena Livestock Market said it had \"zero tolerance when it comes to animal cruelty\" and regrets \"if there were any instances where those standards were less than what we ourselves demand\".\n\n\"We have re-examined what happened in the case referenced during the employment tribunal and must acknowledge our disappointment at what was alleged.\n\n\"The alleged incident occurred five years ago. Our animal welfare systems then were robust and in the intervening period, they have been further enhanced and strengthened.\n\n\"Hay and water are provided to animals left overnight and pens continue to be regularly disinfected.\"\n\nDr Bronckaers said her concerns over livestock movement and Ballymena Livestock Market were reported to colleagues, including her line manager Dr Julian Henderson, but not acted on.\n\nMany of her e-mails were ignored.\n\nThe tribunal judge said Dr Bronckaers had been reasonable to persist in raising her concerns, and that she had been professionally ignored, undermined and excluded by Dr Henderson in particular.\n\nHe has recently been temporarily promoted to the post of deputy chief vet.\n\nThe judge also found it was reasonable for Dr Bronckaers to regard the chief vet Robert Huey's actions towards her as \"intimidating, patronising, belittling and dismissive of her as a professional\".\n\nDr Bronckaers said the past few years have been \"harrowing\"\n\nSpeaking to The Nolan Show, Dr Bronckaers explained why it was so important that her concerns should have been taken more seriously.\n\nSome £40m a year is spent trying to keep TB out of herds in Northern Ireland, according to the department.\n\n\"That's why I was worried,\" she said.\n\n\"As vets we have to trace back all animals in a TB herd and there was no way we could see where these animals came from so we were missing potentially a source of TB infection.\"\n\nShe said the process had affected her mental health and family life.\n\n\"I wasn't sleeping. I was crying a lot going into work. I didn't know from day to day what would happen,\" she told the programme.\n\n\"Anyone who has a profession you don't go home and switch off. I'm a vet - that's my life,\" she added.\n\nDr Bronckaers' solicitor said the £1.25m settlement was the largest of its type in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The outcome for Dr Bronckaers is wholly justified, bearing in mind the detriments she has suffered that have not only affected her career, but her family and her financial situation,\" said John McShane.\n\n\"I am quite simply astounded by Dr Bronckaers' bravery. She was willing to do what was ethically right to the detriment of herself, her family, and her standard of living in retirement. It is a choice that very few people would make as the easier path would have been to keep quiet.\n\n\"Hopefully, the outcome of this landmark case provides reassurance that at the very least, those individuals who choose to whistle blow do have protection under the law.\"\n\nDr Bronckaers said she \"strongly believed the department was failing in its duty to protect animal welfare and therefore I couldn't continue doing a job that I wasn't being allowed to carry out ethically\".\n\n\"I couldn't sit back and watch these breaches persist,\" she said.\n\n\"The past few years have been extremely harrowing for me and my family.\n\n\"This outcome has been a long time coming and I can move on in the knowledge that I did what was right, and I now have a long-awaited and justified apology from the department.\"\n\nThe department said that following the outcome of the case in October 2021, the department established an Internal Audit Review of Cattle Traceability System within the Veterinary Animal Health Group.\n\n\"The department can reassure the public and the agri-food industry that it will continue to review its risk management tools and will seek to strengthen the controls where necessary for animal traceability to ensure continued confidence in the system,\" it said.\n\n\"The department takes extremely seriously all the matters which contributed to the outcome of the recent tribunal and will be progressing an internal review into them. This review is being undertaken with urgency and will be completed at pace.\"", "Mary McCann admitted causing the deaths of two of her children while drink-driving\n\nA mother who killed two of her children when she crashed into a lorry while drink-driving has been jailed for more than four years.\n\nMary McCann, 35, crashed into the HGV on the M1 northbound near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, on 9 August.\n\nDaughter Lilly, four, and son Smaller, 10, were not wearing seatbelts and died at the scene, Aylesbury Crown Court heard.\n\nThe mother-of-four was sentenced to four years and one month in prison.\n\nShe was also banned from driving for seven years and two weeks.\n\nMcCann, of Bamford Avenue, Derby, previously admitted two counts of causing death by careless driving whilst under the influence of drink.\n\nShe appeared in court via video-link from HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey, and wept throughout the hearing.\n\nMary McCann pictured with her son Smaller, who turned 10 years old on the day of the crash\n\nThe court heard McCann was in lane one, while the lorry was in lane two.\n\nHer car drifted into lane two and, in a bid to avoid the lorry, she crashed into it.\n\nStephen Shay, prosecuting, said McCann was driving at 72 mph in a 60 mph zone.\n\nLilly was thrown from the car and found on the roadside, while Smaller was flung around the backseat and found slumped in the footwell, the court heard.\n\nA witness heard McCann shout \"God, why didn't I put their seatbelts on?\", Mr Shay said.\n\nLilly and Smaller were in the car with another child, aged two, who was not seriously injured\n\n\"She is here to be punished by this court and rightly so, but it must be acknowledged that the true punishment for this offence lives within Mary McCann,\" he said.\n\n\"It is to that unquenchable wheel of fire that Mary McCann is bound.\"\n\nJudge Francis Sheridan said Lilly would \"not have been ejected\" if she had been strapped in, while \"Smaller would have remained in his seat\".\n\n\"There is no punishment commensurate with the loss of one's two children and I accept that,\" he said.\n\n\"The message must go out: don't drive under the influence of alcohol.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Venues can stay open until 01:00 over the extended four-day bank holiday weekend in June to mark the Queen's 70-year reign\n\nPubs, bars and nightclubs in England and Wales can stay open later to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nOpening hours will be extended by two hours to 01:00 BST over the extended bank holiday weekend between 2 and 4 June, under new government plans.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said it will allow people to \"raise a glass to toast Her Majesty's incredible service\".\n\nThe temporary extension to licensing regulations will not apply to supermarkets or off-licences.\n\nThe Queen became the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, when in February she marked 70 years since ascending to the throne,\n\nAn extended four-day bank holiday weekend between 2 and 5 June to celebrate her reign will feature a variety of celebrations, including street parties and a star-studded concert outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nParliament is set to approve an order on Monday to allow people to continue their celebrations of the historic milestone, the government said.\n\nAnnouncing the licensing plans, Priti Patel said the Queen has served the UK with the \"utmost dignity, steadfastness and resolve\" for over 70 years.\n\nLicensing laws can be relaxed by the home secretary for occasions of \"exceptional national significance\", the Home Office explained.\n\nMs Patel said: \"The Platinum Jubilee is a truly historic national occasion, which will see families, friends and communities across the country come together to celebrate this unprecedented landmark in a remarkable reign.\n\n\"Over the extended bank holiday weekend, we will be able to raise a glass to toast Her Majesty's incredible service to our country, while also providing a boost to the hospitality industry after a challenging couple of years.\"\n\nThe order will not extend to businesses which sell alcohol for consumption off the premises, such as off-licences and supermarkets, the government has decided following public consultation of the plans.\n\nThe move was supported by the National Police Chiefs' Council and National Association of Licensing and Enforcement Officers.\n\nThe Queen recently celebrated her 96th birthday privately in Sandringham, but recent mobility issues have prevented her from attending a variety of public ceremonies over the last few months - including church services over Easter.\n\nHer only public appearance this year, outside of her own residences or on video, was at the recent Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA number of commemorative items are being produced to mark the Jubilee. Among them is a Barbie doll, featuring a recreation of her wedding tiara and an ivory gown fitted with a blue ribbon.\n\nPlans for a 70ft (21m) sculpture containing 350 native British trees to be erected outside Buckingham Palace have also been announced.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The victims were all known to each other, police say\n\nA \"kind, loving\" grandmother was among four people who were stabbed to death in a house in south-east London.\n\nOfficers forced their way into a home in Delaford Road, Bermondsey, at about 01:40 BST following a call from neighbours about a disturbance.\n\nDolet Hill and a man, both aged in their mid-60s, plus two other women, in their 30s and 40s respectively, were all pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nIt is thought that all five people were known to each other.\n\nMs Hill's niece paid tribute to her aunt, saying she \"didn't deserve this\".\n\nDolet Hill was described by her niece as someone who was \"very loving, very kind, very generous\"\n\nVenecia Reid said: \"She was very loving, very kind, very generous, she'd do anything for you.\n\n\"She worked very hard in this country to support her two girls and her two grandkids.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm very, very heartbroken. I hope her soul rests in peace.\"\n\nMet Police Commander Colin Wingrove said: \"I want to offer my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of all those concerned.\n\n\"This is a deeply shocking incident and we will do everything we can to provide support to everyone affected at this difficult time.\"\n\nPolice forensic teams have been at the scene throughout the day\n\n\"My thoughts are with the family and friends of those who have lost loved ones in this awful crime,\" he added.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service (LAS) said it was called at 02:07.\n\n\"We sent three ambulance crews, two fast response units, two incident response officers, two advanced paramedics and a team leader to the scene. Our team worked closely with colleagues from other emergency services.\n\n\"Sadly, despite the best efforts of our medics, four patients died at the scene. One man was taken to hospital as a priority.\"\n\nLAS was not able to confirm if the person who was taken to hospital was the same person who had been arrested, but said only five people had been in the property.\n\nA section of the road in Bermondsey, Southwark, has been closed off\n\nDetectives from the Met's specialist crime unit are investigating and police said next of kin were being contacted.\n\nThe middle section of the road has been blocked off with metal fencing and three white forensic tents have also been erected.\n\nA resident of the adjacent road, Bramcote Grove, who did not want to be named, said he was woken by police sirens and a helicopter.\n\n\"When I saw four ambulances - not one, not two, but four - I knew it was serious,\" he said.\n\nThe incident happened on a street made up of terraced housing\n\nAnne Birkett, 60, whose back bedroom looks on to the property where they were found, said she was woken by police sirens and a circling helicopter just before 02:00.\n\nShe said the street was filled with flashing lights, but she and her husband did not go outside their house or see anything further.\n\n\"It's devastating, you hear all of this but you never assume it's going to be right on your own doorstep,\" she said.\n\nMs Birkett said there were several primary schools in the residential area near the scene.\n\n\"What's London coming to now? There's a crime every day happening... it's dreadful,\" she added.\n\nLast year, the Met opened 79 murder investigations involving stabbings, 27 of which were teenagers.\n\nMany of the neighbours I've spoken to say they were unaware of the killings until they stepped out of their houses this morning to see the police cordon and journalists on their street.\n\nA section of the road has been screened off to the public behind a tall metal fence, behind which there appears to be several forensic tents and forensic teams examining the scene.\n\nNeighbours have told me they are deeply saddened to hear of the deaths.\n\nSeveral say it's a quiet community, where many of those on the street know their neighbours and they'll be offering support to each other.\n\nLocal MP Harriet Harman said: \"Tragically four people have been killed and that is shocking to happen anywhere but especially in this very peaceful, quiet, very settled community here.\n\n\"The police have arrested someone, but it's really important still that people give information, any information they've got to the police so that whoever committed this horrific crime can be brought to justice.\"\n\nAsked about the victims, the MP for Camberwell and Peckham added: \"I don't really want to say anything more than the police are actually saying.\n\n\"But it's a terrible tragedy and our thoughts are with the family and friends of those who've tragically had their lives cut short.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Previous plans for a new nuclear power plant at Wylfa collapsed due to a lack of UK government funding\n\nThe prime minister has vowed that a new nuclear power station will be built at Wylfa on Anglesey.\n\nBoris Johnson made the promise on a council election campaign visit in north Wales on Monday.\n\nThe UK government has been talks with two US firms interested in a scheme at the site - no agreement has yet been reached.\n\nMr Johnson said he wanted it to \"get it going as fast as possible\".\n\nBut Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary said it was a \"U-turn\" by the Conservatives and doubted whether the proposals would come to fruition.\n\nA previous plan for a new nuclear power station at Wylfa collapsed in 2020.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We need to get the right type and we need to make sure that we go ahead with the right model.\n\n\"We want to make sure we get the right deal for the UK taxpayer.\n\n\"But we also want to have something that's really ambitious, and that is going to do justice to the scale of that Wylfa site.\"\n\nHe said there could be a \"couple of reactors\" put at the site.\n\n\"We're now working on all this very, very fast. We want to get going on Wylfa in the next couple of years.\n\n\"It's going to happen\", he added.\n\nThere would still be a considerable way to go before any deal is struck to build a new nuclear power station.\n\nAny company interested would need to raise a substantial amount of private sector investment as well as receive significant support from the state.\n\nOn the visit Mr Johnson said he was not concerned that party-gate or a row over claims about Angela Rayner would affect the Tories council election campaign.\n\n\"This is an election about what candidates which candidates are going to deliver you value for money,\" he said.\n\n\"It's conservative councillors who deliver better value for money, better taxpayer value.\"\n\nLabour Shadow Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens said Boris Johnson's comments that a power station will happen at Wylfa was \"another U-turn in a series of U-turns\".\n\nMs Stevens said: \"I really hope that he does fulfil his promise and it is true.\n\n\"But with this prime minister, you just don't know.\"\n\n\"We need an energy mix to deal with the current energy crisis,\" she said. \"So this is good news. But we could have done with it before now.\"\n\nA Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesperson said: \"The Welsh Liberal Democrats have said while we recognise the investment and jobs new nuclear can bring the region it is important to note that this will do nothing in the short term to address the energy crisis and the impact it is having on people's bank accounts across Wales.\n\n\"We also believe that any development of the Wylfa site must be done with community consent and those that live near the plant should receive discounts on their electricity bills.\"\n\nAnthony Slaughter, leader of the Wales Green Party, said: \"A new nuclear power station at Wylfa is nothing but an expensive distraction and in no way an answer to the energy crisis and the climate emergency.\n\n\"We need to be reaching net zero as a matter of urgency, even by the most optimistic timetable new nuclear would would take a decade to be up and running.\"", "It is intended the buses will carry up to 36 passengers, with capacity for over 10,000 a week\n\nThe UK's first full-sized driverless buses will begin trials in Scotland this week with a view to having passengers on board later this summer.\n\nRoad testing of the autonomous single-decker vehicles gets under way on a 14-mile route between Edinburgh and Fife.\n\nThe two-week trial, on a route that crosses the Forth Road Bridge, is the latest in a series held in the UK.\n\nA driver will still be on the bus as a back-up initially for passenger safety and to comply with UK legislation.\n\nIt follows previous trials of smaller, shuttle buses in London, Cambridge and Birmingham, while another driverless bus pilot is also due to start in Inverness later this year.\n\nThe CAVForth project was initially scheduled to begin in 2019 but was delayed as the Covid pandemic hit with a knock-on effect on the supply chain.\n\nIt will see five single-deck buses operating between Ferrytoll Park and Ride in Fife and the Edinburgh Park Train and Tram interchange.\n\nThe buses are fitted with sensor and control technology which allows them to run on pre-selected roads without the safety driver having to intervene or take control.\n\n\"For the moment there is a legal requirement to have somebody behind the wheel at all times, so we will definitely have a driver in the cab to monitor the system and be able to take over if needed, although that shouldn't be the case,\" the project's manager Louise Simpson told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme.\n\n\"We will also have a second member of staff on board in the saloon with the passengers, offering reassurance and a more personal customer service experience for them.\"\n\nIf all goes to plan, the buses could soon provide a service carrying up to 36 passengers across the bridge, with capacity for over 10,000 passengers a week.\n\nUntil legislation changes, there will always be a safety driver, but Ms Simpson hopes the law will \"eventually be signed off\" so drivers don't need to be in the cab and can focus on a secondary role interacting with passengers.\n\nBus operator Stagecoach has partnered with Fusion Processing, manufacturer Alexander Dennis and Transport Scotland for the UK government-funded project.\n\nIt has already held successful depot-based trials, track testing and virtual simulation to fine tune the autonomous drive systems.\n\nMs Simpson told BBC Scotland the main benefit of the scheme would be improved safety.\n\n\"It is estimated that over 90% of road traffic accidents are down to human error,\" she said.\n\n\"There is always a limit to what any human can see and anticipate whereas these vehicles will have a 360 degree view of their surroundings with an ability to see further than any human could.\n\n\"We hope with the ability to take preventative action to avoid a collision, we will see an improvement in safety.\n\n\"But with the driver not being confined to the cab area, they will also have more time to offer a better customer experience without having to operate the vehicle, keep the service to time and the other pressures our drivers currently face.\"\n\nThe buses will automatically stop at every bus stop, but future changes could see them only stop if someone hails them\n\nThe buses have six levels of driving automation, with zero to two meaning a driver must constantly supervise and is always driving, while levels three to five allow the vehicle to drive itself.\n\nAble to operate at a SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) level four, it means no driver attention is required for safety but self-driving is only supported in limited areas or circumstances.\n\nSam Greer, regional director of Stagecoach in Scotland, said it was a \"hugely exciting project\" and a major step towards launching the UK's first full-sized autonomous bus service.\n\nJim Hutchinson, chief executive of Fusion Processing which has developed the sensor technology, called it \"the world's most complex and ambitious autonomous vehicle programme\".\n\n\"On-road testing is an exciting milestone in the development of autonomous commercial vehicles and we look forward to welcoming passengers onboard in a few months' time,\" he said.\n\nTrials of a driverless bus are also due to start in Inverness later this year.\n\nThe pilot will cover a 2km route linking the Beechwood campus of the city's university with the Inverness Retail and Business Park.\n\nIt is expected the shuttle service will be used by students and people working on the site to access the shopping and business areas during the day.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dining on the likes of lab-grown meat or ground-up insects could lead to big savings in carbon emissions and water, as well as freeing up land for nature.\n\nThat's the finding of a study calculating the environmental benefits of \"greener\" foods hitting our plates.\n\nScientists say pressures on the planet could fall by more than 80% with such foods, compared with the typical European diet.\n\nBut it's not yet clear if consumers will want to shift their eating habits.\n\nA host of non-conventional foods are being developed with the aim of providing food rich in protein and other nutrients, while being gentle on the planet by using less water and land.\n\nScientists in Finland studied the nutritional profile of some of these products and looked at three measures of environmental pressure: the use of water, land and potential carbon emissions.\n\nThey say switching meat, dairy and other animal products for alternative foods could reduce these impacts by more than 80%, while providing a more complete range of essential nutrients than a purely vegetarian or vegan diet.\n\nBut they also found that relatively low-tech solutions, such as cutting down on meat and eating more vegetables, had a similar impact on the planet.\n\n\"With significant reductions in animal-sourced foods and substitutions with novel or future foods and plant-based protein alternatives, you can have significant reductions in environmental impacts in terms of global warming potential, land use and water use,\" said Rachel Mazac of the University of Helsinki.\n\nBut she said there were \"similar savings in impacts in a vegan diet\". And in a diet with a 75% reduction in animal-sourced foods, \"you can have an approximately 75% reduction across all of your impacts\".\n\nThe research, published in Nature Food, examined new foods that are expected to become a bigger part of our diets in future years, many of which rely on high-tech methods to \"grow\" animal and plant cells in bioreactors.\n\nThe novel foods studied - some of which are still on the drawing board - were:\n\nPowdered kelp is found in a range of supplements\n\nDr Asaf Tzachor of the University of Cambridge, who was not part of the research team, said while these are \"promising\" findings, the unwillingness of consumers to shift their diets might \"postpone, or indeed prevent, this much-needed transition\".\n\nNumerous studies have shown that moving towards a plant-based diet has benefits for both health and the planet.\n\nA recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommended a switch to balanced diets that are rich in plants like grains and vegetables, with a moderate intake of sustainably produced meat and dairy.", "Concerts resumed last summer, initially as part of a government pilot scheme\n\nRoyalties from live performances of music fell almost 30% in 2021, despite concerts resuming in the summer.\n\nConcert revenues were just £8m, down from £11.3m in 2020 and £54m in 2019, said PRS for Music, the body that collects royalties for songwriters.\n\nOnly 19,300 setlists were reported last year, it added, marking a huge decline from the 124,000 reported pre-pandemic.\n\n\"It's a huge decrease,\" said CEO Andrea Martin, \"but we will see a bounce back this year.\"\n\nShe said there was \"renewed optimism\" in the sector, with more than 240 major tours planned for the UK this year.\n\nActs like Dua Lipa, Little Mix and Stormzy are already on the road, while stadium shows by Harry Styles, Elton John, The Rolling Stones and Adele are planned for the summer.\n\nHowever, Martin said, revenues are not expected to reach pre-pandemic levels until 2023.\n\nDespite struggles in the live sector, PRS had a good year, collecting £777.1m in royalties - only slightly down on the pre-pandemic figure of £810m.\n\n\"I'm very excited and proud of these results because they show that the music industry is very resilient,\" said CEO Andrea Martin. \"It really shows that music connects and engages people and that we can bounce back.\"\n\nThe company said it processed 27 trillion \"performances\" of music last year, including streams, downloads, radio and TV broadcasts, as well as music played in pubs, clubs, hairdressers and concert venues.\n\nUK songwriters contributed to many of the year's most-played hits, including Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits, Dua Lipa's Levitating and Glass Animals' Heat Waves.\n\nThe popularity of those songs, and others like Adele's Easy On Me, meant that streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music generated £225.5m in royalties - up 45% from two years ago.\n\nA new deal with TikTok also ensured artists would get royalties when their songs were used on the platform.\n\nThe money generated from music featured on video-on-demand services like Netflix also doubled to £34.5m, as royalties from new services like Disney+ and Apple TV started to arrive.\n\nPublic performance revenue - which includes the music played in shops, hotels, restaurants and nightclubs - also went up.\n\nHowever, PRS paid its members less (£677.2m) than in 2020 (£699.4m).\n\nMartin said this was due to the inherent \"lag\" in receiving royalties from abroad, which meant that the effects of 2020's downturn were only now being reflected in international payments.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Gordon Jackson QC was caught on video making comments about the former first minister\n\nThe lawyer who acted for Alex Salmond during his sex assault trial, has been found guilty of professional misconduct for discussing the case on a train.\n\nGordon Jackson QC was caught on video making comments about the former first minister and two of his accusers.\n\nA disciplinary panel decided the QC's conversation - which was leaked to a newspaper - breached a court order protecting the accusers' identities.\n\nMr Salmond was acquitted of a string of sexual offence charges.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland, which prompted the investigation by the Faculty of Advocates with a complaint on behalf of Mr Salmond's accusers, called for Mr Jackson to be stripped of his right to practice as a QC.\n\nMr Jackson said he would not be making any comment about the panel's decision.\n\nHe apologised at the time, saying he \"deeply regrets the distress and difficulties\" caused by the footage.\n\nHe referred himself to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission and in April 2020 announced he would quit as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.\n\nHe said it would not be appropriate to remain in post while the faculty was considering disciplinary proceedings.\n\nThe panel concluded that Mr Jackson had publicly named two complainers and given details that would allow a woman to be identified.\n\nIt considered that this amounted to professional misconduct. It also said that giving details that could lead to identification was a breach of the court order.\n\nThe penalty for Mr Jackson's misconduct has yet to be determined. It is open to him to seek an appeal.\n\nThe video recording of Mr Jackson's conversation, obtained by the Sunday Times, was filmed by a fellow passenger on a train from Edinburgh to Glasgow during Mr Salmond's two-week trial in March 2020.\n\nIt appeared to show the QC naming two of Mr Salmond's accusers, despite strict rules that protect their anonymity.\n\nA recording of Mr Jackson's train conversation was obtained by the Sunday Times\n\nMr Jackson could also be heard saying: \"I don't know much about senior politicians but he was quite an objectionable bully to work with, in a way that I don't think Nicola [current first minister Nicola Sturgeon] is.\n\n\"I think he was a nasty person to work for...a nightmare to work for.\"\n\nHe can then be heard saying: \"Inappropriate, stupid...but sexual? Unfortunately [he then names two of the women accusers] say it's sexual.\"\n\nMr Salmond was cleared by a jury of all 13 of the sexual assault allegations against him.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland has called for Mr Jackson to be \"stripped of his right to practise as a QC as an appropriate sanction that reflects the severity of this professional misconduct\".\n\nChief executive Sandy Brindley said it was \"relieved that the Faculty of Advocates have finally confirmed that this was professional misconduct, and a breach of the contempt of court order that remains in place to protect the anonymity of the complainers in this case\".\n\nMs Brindley said: \"The process of this complaint handling, and the fact this happened at all, should prompt serious reflection on accountability and organisational culture within the legal profession.\n\n\"We shouldn't underestimate the harm of Jackson's actions here, not only to the women directly involved in the case, but in the chilling message he sent that day to anyone considering reporting sexual crimes.\n\n\"Navigating the criminal justice process is already daunting and difficult for complainers, any breaches of the anonymity of those who do report their experiences are serious and completely unacceptable.\"\n\nLawyers and indeed journalists spend a decent amount of time hanging around the corridors of courthouses picking over the details of cases.\n\nIt should be stressed that this generally takes place between people who already have knowledge of the trial in question - more a question of sharing perspectives than telling tales out of school.\n\nSo the fact there was some discussion of the evidence being heard and the strategies at play is not necessarily a surprise.\n\nHowever, the Alex Salmond trial was a phenomenon, the subject of national interest and speculation. As the lead defence lawyer, Mr Jackson was one of the faces of the story.\n\nAnd rather than being behind the closed doors of the court, this conversation took place in a rather public place - indeed a public enough place for someone to record parts of it without Gordon Jackson's knowledge.\n\nUltimately, the QC's involvement in the trial may chiefly be remembered for the fact he was on the winning side.\n\nBut this finding of misconduct is a blot on what was a formidable reputation, with Mr Jackson facing sanction by the very organisation he once headed.", "Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from Labour's parliamentary party in 2020\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said it is \"very difficult to see\" how his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, could re-join the party in the Commons after his comments about Nato.\n\nMr Corbyn was suspended from Labour in 2020 over his response to a report into anti-Semitism in its ranks.\n\nBut while he was reinstated as a Labour member, Sir Keir refused to let him return to the party's backbenches.\n\nLast week, the former leader suggested Nato be disbanded to \"bring peace\".\n\nMr Corbyn - a long-standing critic of the transatlantic military alliance - said while he accepted the group was not going to be scrapped immediately, people should re-examine it after the conflict in Ukraine ends.\n\nHe told Times Radio: \"Do military alliances bring peace? Or do they actually encourage each other and build up to a greater danger?\n\n\"I don't blame Nato for the fact that Russia has invaded Ukraine. What I say is look at the thing historically, and look at the process that could happen at the end of the Ukraine war.\"\n\nMr Corbyn also described the choice to remove the Labour whip from him as a \"totally unjustified decision\".\n\nAsked whether his predecessor could be readmitted to the parliamentary party after his comments, Sir Keir told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: \"It is very difficult to see how that situation can now be resolved.\"\n\nHe added: \"[Mr Corbyn] lost the whip because of his response to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission in relation to anti-Semitism, but I made it very clear, the first thing I said as party leader was that I was going to tear out anti-Semitism by its roots in our party.\n\n\"I've also made it clear that our position in the Labour Party is not to accept the false equivalence between Russian aggression and the acts of Nato.\"\n\nThe current Labour leader insisted the party's stance under both his leadership and Mr Corbyn's was pro-Nato and that was not going to change.\n\nMr Corbyn remains in the Commons, sitting as an independent MP for Islington North.", "Macron's supporters were happy - but has he forced those who oppose him to the extremes of the political spectrum?\n\nBefore the caveats, it is only fair to acknowledge the scale of President Macron's achievement.\n\nNot enough is being made of this, but this is the first time ever that a governing president of the Fifth Republic has been re-elected.\n\nYes, presidents have retained the Elysée before. But both François Mitterrand in 1988 and Jacques Chirac in 2002 were effectively in opposition in the period running up to the vote.\n\nIn both cases, actual government was - as a result of mid-term parliamentary elections - in the hands of the president's foes. Though in office, Mitterrand and Chirac were politically impotent - but that helped when the wheel turned again and they found themselves back in favour.\n\nAs for Charles de Gaulle's victory in 1965, he'd never been elected by the people in the first place.\n\nSo, Emmanuel Macron is the first president in modern times who, after running every aspect of foreign and domestic policy for a full term, has once again won the trust of the people.\n\nWhen you consider France's longstanding relationship with government - which is essentially to cheer 'em in, then chuck 'em out at the first opportunity - this is no mean feat.\n\nHe has done it by two methods, the first of which bodes well for the next five years, the second less so.\n\nThe results suggest that hidden beneath the seething mass of social media caricatures - the arrogant Parisian rich, the angry provincial mob - there are millions of French people of the middling type who feel that Emmanuel Macron has not been at all a bad president.\n\nThese people appreciate that unemployment is no longer a political issue, largely because of Macron's reforms. They think his handling of Covid was competent, and they agree that pushing back the age of retirement is inevitable.\n\nAccording to projections Macron has taken 58% of the vote to Le Pen's 42% - making it a narrower victory than in 2017\n\nThey also discern a leader who can more than hold his own on the international stage. They are glad there is someone at the Elysée with the stature to talk straight with Putin, even if it proved a fruitless endeavour.\n\nAnd they reckon that under Macron France can aspire to take the lead in Europe, at a time when his vision of greater military and economic autonomy for the EU is looking more and more relevant. The contrast on this front with Marine Le Pen could not have been starker.\n\nThese people may not particularly like Emmanuel Macron - he's too different - but enough have come to respect him.\n\nHowever, the second aspect of the Macron methodology is more problematic - and this is where the caveats come in.\n\nFive years ago, Macron made a brilliant gamble about the state of modern politics.\n\nBy straddling the centre, he destroyed the old pairing of conservatives and social democrats, and using the powers implicit in De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, he installed a highly personalised and highly concentrated system of government from the Elysée.\n\nOpposition was forced to the \"extremes\" of left and right, where he trusted they could never really pose a threat. So far he has been proved right, as this election shows.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the election has also demonstrated something else: that more and more people in France are now prepared to dally with the \"extremes\". They do it because - thanks to the successful Macron revolution - there is nowhere else for them to go if they want to oppose him.\n\nMany of these voters - especially the millions who chose the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon - now want their revenge on the newly re-elected head of state.\n\nThey hope they can do it at the parliamentary elections which will take place in June. But if that does not work, they dream of a social \"third round\" in September taking the form of anti-Macron demonstrations on the street, especially if he has by then launched a new wave of reforms.\n\nEmmanuel Macron will no doubt start this second term promising a new kind of government. He'll be more of a listener. He knows there are wounds that need to heal. The trouble is that he has said that kind of thing before, and a lot of people simply don't believe him.\n\n\"Not only has this election shown that there are two opposing Frances out there. It's also revealed a growing tendency for people to say that the opposite camp is not legitimate,\" said commentator Natacha Polony.\n\n\"In the past elections always ended with someone who people recognised as president of all the French. I'm not sure that is the case any more.\"", "Trading in Twitter's shares have been halted amid reports the firm could agree a takeover deal with Elon Musk as early as Monday.\n\nThe board of the social media giant is reported to have met with Mr Musk over the weekend to discuss his $43bn offer.\n\nBut according to reports, Twitter is now in the final stages of negotiations with Mr Musk to buy the business.\n\nReuters, the news agency, reported that an announcement may come later on Monday after Twitter's board met and recommended a deal to its shareholders.\n\nIn trading earlier on Monday, shares rose more than 5%, approaching Mr Musk's offer price of $54.20 a share.\n\nMr Musk's targeting of Twitter has moved at remarkable speed. It emerged at the beginning of April that Mr Musk, who is the boss of electric carmaker Tesla, had become the largest shareholder in Twitter with a 9.2% stake.\n\nHe was then invited to join Twitter's board but turned down the offer before launching a surprise bid for the company on 14 April, saying he wanted to \"unlock\" the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".\n\nTwitter responded by putting in place a so-called \"poison pill\" defence to fend off Mr Musk. The mechanism would have created difficulties for Mr Musk if he attempted to increase his stake in the company.\n\nThe board now appears to have U-turned after Mr Musk revealed he had lined up a $46.5bn financing package for his offer - with funding from a mixture of his own assets and the backing of Wall Street banking giant Morgan Stanley and other firms.\n\nMr Musk recently said that he believes that Twitter should be more open and transparent. \"I think it's very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech,\" he told the TED2022 conference in Vancouver.\n\nThe billionaire, who is the world's richest man according to Forbes magazine, has also hinted at his plans for Twitter.\n\nHe asked his 83.3 million followers on Twitter if the social media platform should allow people to edit their posts - 74% of those who responded wanted an edit button.\n\nMr Musk's has also criticised Twitter's process of verifying a Twitter account which he said was like \"if Kafka had a Magic 8-Ball!\".\n\nEven Twitter itself didn't appear to take Elon Musk seriously when he first said that he wanted to buy it. It's just Musk being, well, Musk, everyone thought. He may be the world's richest man but he is also by his own admission cash-poor - and he is well-versed in posting unsubstantiated grand ideas on social media.\n\nBut underestimate him at your peril. He is a multi-billionaire and Twitter is one of his favourite toys - so he's come back with a funded $43bn offer that the firm's shareholders are now looking likely to accept.\n\nTwitter hasn't explicitly explained why it didn't initially want to become part of Mr Musk's empire. Certainly any social media firm with regulators breathing down their necks is going to be wary of a new owner who wants to \"open up\" the platform to more freedom of speech and less moderation.\n\nHe's also keen on subscription rather than advertising as a business model, which may prove a hard sell for a platform that has not experienced significant user growth in ages.\n\nA Musk-owned Twitter would have a very different feel, for sure. But he also brings to it his own brand of magic -criticise him on social media and you'll soon bear the brunt of devoted fans who idolise him.\n\nTwitter may decide to try to find an alternative buyer but Musk's star quality would be difficult to substitute.\n\nHe also recently tweeted: \"If our Twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying\"…..And authenticate all real humans.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not clear who would run Twitter if Mr Musk's bid succeeds. He is the chief executive as well as the \"Technoking\" of Tesla according to the company's website.\n\nHe is also chief executive, chief technology officer and chairman of rocket and spacecraft firm SpaceX. Mr Musk is also involved in a number of other businesses and start-ups.\n\nTwitter is led by chief executive Parag Agrawal, who took on the role last November with the backing of co-founder and former boss Jack Dorsey.\n\nAt the time, Mr Dorsey said: \"My trust in Parag as Twitter's chief executive is deep. I'm deeply grateful for his skill, heart, and soul. It's his time to lead.\"\n\nMr Musk has been critical of Twitter's management. In his offer document, he told Twitter's chairman Bret Taylor: \"I don't have confidence in management.\"\n\nMr Agrawal has not discussed the takeover on the platform since earlier this month, when he announced that Mr Musk had turned down an offer to sit on the company's board, a decision he said would be \"for the best\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Parag Agrawal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has dropped the policy ahead of a challenge in the High Court\n\nThe UK government has dropped plans to turn back people crossing the English Channel just over a week before they were due to be challenged in court.\n\nCampaigners say the policy, which would allow Border Force patrols to intercept boats and take them back to France, is inhumane and a risk to life.\n\nThe PCS civil servants' union called the government's change of mind a \"humiliating climbdown\".\n\nBut the Home Office said ministers were \"unified\" in wanting to stop crossings.\n\nThe government has dropped the policy ahead of the High Court challenge, meaning the so-called \"pushback\" tactics are not currently in use.\n\nLast week ministers announced separate controversial plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda in a bid to reduce the number of migrants crossing the Channel.\n\nAt the same time it was revealed the Royal Navy would take charge of responding to small boats in the Channel alongside Border Force - although the military said it would not be using \"push back tactics\".\n\nThe PCS and the campaign groups Care4Calais, Channel Rescue and Freedom from Torture have argued that the Border Force does not have the legal authority to push the vessels back, and that doing so would infringe on migrants' human rights.\n\nFollowing the Home Office's decision, they have now withdrawn their judicial review claims, which had been due to be heard on 3 May.\n\nPCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"This humiliating climbdown by the government is a stunning victory for Home Office workers and for refugees.\n\n\"PCS is proud to have brought this legal action alongside refugee groups in order to prevent this morally reprehensible and utterly inhumane proposal from ever seeing the light of day. There is little doubt that lives have been saved.\"\n\nBut a Home Office spokesperson said: \"The entire government is united in our efforts to prevent these lethal crossings and break the business model of the criminal gangs exploiting people.\n\n\"It is right that we consider all safe and legal options to stop these unnecessary journeys, including turning boats around.\"\n\nThey added: \"As we have set out previously, this tactic fully complies with both domestic and international law. However, there are extremely limited circumstances when you can safely turn boats back in the English Channel.\"\n\nLast year, the government authorised Border Force officials to use the tactic of turning back boats containing migrants - but only in limited circumstances.\n• None Migrant boats could be turned back in new UK move", "Western officials say they see some signs that Russia is addressing some of the problems that beset the early weeks of its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe fact that they are trying to advance along a more narrow set of lines means that issues like command and control are better.\n\nBut officials say the Russians are still operating in long convoys on single roads, which means they remain vulnerable to attack. Ukrainian troops, they say, “continue to fight in a very smart and very effective manner”.\n\nSome of the Russian lines of communication are still quite long (notably south from Kharkiv) and exposed to attack from the west.\n\nOfficials say Vladimir Putin is “still in a position to win”, with a range of possible outcomes, none of which they expect to see happen quickly. The West is gearing up to sustain military support for Ukraine “through a prolonged period of conflict….perhaps much of the rest of this year\".\n\nA successful Russian campaign in the Donbas is possible and, in a worst case scenario, this could lead the Russians to revisit some of their pre-war objectives, such as Kyiv and Odesa.\n\nOfficials say that Russian forces enjoy a roughly three to one advantage in numbers over the Ukrainian military, but much depends on how smartly Moscow uses those forces and what capabilities the Ukrainian defenders have - hence the push by the West to send even more advanced equipment.\n\nRussia still has large numbers of troops - between 5,000 and 10,000 - in the area around Mariupol, which means that there has been little or no movement on the southern side of Russia’s expected pincer movement against Ukrainian forces in the Donbas.\n\nOfficials say that if Putin wants to seal off Mariupol, this will not be a trivial task and will continue to limit the ability of those forces to take part in operations in the Donbas.\n\nOfficials note that Russia’s use of long-range Iskander missiles has slowed somewhat in the past week, suggesting Moscow has concerns about usage rates and the ability to restock.", "\"I was thinking what would happen if I would receive a message that Maks has died, what would I do?\", she says. \"And I just started crying in the middle of the street because I don't have any answer to that.\"\n\nWe are sitting in the office of her volunteer centre in Kyiv, where boxes of supplies - food, medical kits and armoured vests - are being gathered to be sent off to Ukrainian forces on the eastern front: the epicentre of the Russian offensive.\n\nHer sense of purpose is twofold: her nation and her family, with her 26-year-old cousin Maksim, or Maks for short, fighting in Mariupol.\n\nThe boy she grew up with, whom she describes as a kind and respectful engineering student, is one of the last remaining Ukrainian defenders holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in the city, somehow withstanding the ferocious firepower of one of the world's biggest armies.\n\nPerhaps a couple of thousand soldiers and civilians are there, in the Cold War-era network of bunkers and tunnels, where food, water and time are running out. For more than a month she had no word from him but spoke to him briefly this week.\n\n\"He never told us about the real conditions, probably he didn't want to upset us\", she says. \"But they have very little food and medical supplies - and it's harder and harder to treat wounded soldiers.\"\n\nGrowing up in Sumy, north-eastern Ukraine, Maks's mother - Olena's aunt - wanted him to join the army, calling it \"a school of life for men\".\n\nWhen he was called to fight in Mariupol, she was initially relieved, thinking the city, a little further along the coast from the occupied territories of the Donbas, would be spared the worst.\n\nBut Russia is determined to establish a land corridor through eastern Ukraine to Crimea - and that would have to run through Mariupol. And so Russian forces have besieged it for some seven weeks. Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky said tens of thousands may have died in the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Olena Nikulina says her cousin has become \"a true hero of Ukraine\"\n\n\"I feel terrible about him being there\", says Olena, struggling to hold back her tears. \"First of all, I feel very sorry about not speaking to him as much as I could while we still had a connection. It felt terrible when my aunt sent me a message at 06:00 to say that Maks' friend was probably dead and she's so worried about him.\"\n\nI ask of the pride she must feel towards the boy who used to drive her in his car - and became a Ukrainian fighter who refused Russia's demands to surrender.\n\n\"I would have never imagined my cousin to become a true hero of Ukraine and of Mariupol\", she replies with a smile. \"It's obviously a very bitter sense of pride in the sense that he's in a life-threatening situation. I dream of the day he will return and I will be able to tell this to him.\"\n\nOn the shelves in the volunteer centre are spoils of war: Russian soldiers' equipment, downed missiles and fragments of a Russian fighter jet that the Ukrainians proudly exhibit as symbols of an invasion that has so far not gone Moscow's way.\n\nBut the Kremlin will surely be determined that the eastern offensive does not repeat the mistakes of the west, from where Russian troops have now retreated.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is thought likely to want a tangible gain by 9 May - the annual commemoration of Victory Day against Nazi Germany - and Mariupol could serve him that.\n\nThat's a fear shared by another relative, Vladimir Vasilyuk, whose 23-year-old son Danilo is also fighting in the Azovstal plant. They're still in regular contact.\n\n\"The boys are lacking ammunition\", Vladimir says, \"but they don't want to leave because they're protecting the civilians - they don't want to abandon them.\"\n\nRussian service equipment on show at the volunteer centre\n\nHis composed, almost impassive look begins to break as he talks more of his only child, lowering his eyes with a sharp intake of breath.\n\n\"I don't sleep at night\", he admits. \"If I had a chance to go there, I would. I don't think the city is worth the loss of his life. But the boys made their choice.\n\n\"Maybe it's my fault that he joined the army, because I always took him to training and I prepared him for it\", he adds. \"His main goal was always to make our country better.\"\n\nWe stand beneath a monument in Kyiv covered up by sandbags spray painted in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag. The bells of the golden-domed St Michael's Church chime five.\n\n\"I am sure we will see each other again\", Vladimir says, \"it's a matter of time. But if I could pass a message to him now it would be that I love him and I'm waiting for him.\"", "As Russian forces encircled Mariupol, a Ukrainian woman undertook an extraordinary journey into the besieged city to rescue her parents. She is among a small number of people who have braved the risk of attack or abduction to drive in through front lines and a blockade. She has told the BBC of the \"apocalypse\" she witnessed there.\n\nWithin days of Russia's invasion, Anastasia Pavlova understood what the war was going to mean for Ukraine. The 23-year-old escaped the bombardment of Kharkiv, a city where shelling of residential areas was \"indiscriminate\" - in the words of the local mayor - from the start. Anastasia and her fiance Abakelia went south, to the city of Dnipro. She felt safer here in the tower block apartment of Abakelia's family. But she agonised over the fate of her own parents, who lived on the outskirts of Mariupol.\n\nHer mother, Oksana, had faith. She found peace in prayer, and tended the roses in their small brick-built bungalow in the Cheryomushki neighbourhood, an industrial suburb. For the 54-year-old religious studies teacher, the city is the country's most special. \"It has a big name, Mariupol, named after the Virgin Mary,\" she explains.\n\nBut her prayers were being drowned out as Russian troops advanced.\n\nBefore the war, Oksana taught religious studies - she says her students were safely evacuated\n\n\"Day after day, shells of various calibres were flying over the roof of our small house,\" says Oksana. \"On the fourth day of war I started to think: 'I am not going to get through this.'\"\n\nMariupol quickly descended into what one aid agency described as \"hell\", as Moscow's forces besieged the city. Amid the fighting, civilians had to scavenge for food and water - running water and electricity were cut off and communications collapsed. Many thousands were killed. Military checkpoints controlled movement in and out. Soviet-era Grad missiles - rockets launched from the back of military trucks in what is sometimes described as a \"hailstorm\" - hit the district where Oksana and her husband Dmitry have their home. \"I couldn't catch my breath,\" she recalls, describing the devastation in Biblical terms. It was a tempest, she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOksana managed to speak to her daughter in one scratchy phone call. She warned Anastasia: \"Do not come.\" But in late March, five weeks into the war, Anastasia decided to try to drive to Mariupol - a journey fraught with danger and exceptionally rare to attempt other than by official humanitarian groups. She hired a driver and van from aid volunteers who were also trying to help evacuate people from the city. They left from Zaporizhzhia, north-west of Mariupol, and the last relatively safe city before the front line.\n\n\"No-one wanted to be the lead vehicle,\" explains Anastasia. \"They thought that should someone want to fire at the column, they are going to shoot at the lead vehicle first. My driver was very brave. He said: 'We are going to be the lead vehicle.' I held onto my seat and thought: 'Okay, that's it, I've made my mind up, come what may.'\"\n\nAnastasia put on a brave face before driving to Mariupol\n\nA photo was taken of them just before they set off. \"I am smiling here,\" she says. \"But I am frightened. I am as frightened as it's possible to be.\"\n\nAnastasia felt increasingly anxious as they drove over 260km (160 miles) from Ukrainian-controlled territory, across front lines, navigating the first Russian checkpoint. She felt surprise at first, finding this manned by \"skinny boys who were embarrassed to ask to open the car\". As they moved further into Russian-occupied territory \"more military\" guards appeared, with DPR stripes on their uniforms from the Russian-backed self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.\n\n\"At one of the checkpoints, while checking the documents, the military aimed the barrel of a machine gun at our heads,\" Anastasia says. They demanded to know why they were travelling in. She explained she was going to help her parents and bring medicine to her father.\n\nShe couldn't shake off the fear. \"It feels like they are about to take your vehicle away or to shoot you, rape you. You constantly expect this to happen. It's scary. You realise that none of your rights are observed here,\" she says.\n\nMeanwhile Oksana and her husband Dmitry were sleeping on the floor under blankets and pillows to survive in Mariupol. The house was shaking under shelling and blast waves. Her neighbour chopped wood to cook on a stove outdoors.\n\n\"Even in the shelling we realised that this connection between humans,\" says Oksana. \"This help was like the saying they have in war - salvation is found in mercy, in mutual help. Somebody has a decent stove, we had some buckwheat. Others have some water left. We visited an elderly man in the neighbourhood. We were comforting each other, and that made me feel not so scared.\"\n\nAnastasia didn't know if she would find her parents alive. They travelled for nine hours, arriving in a devastated city. She speaks of appalling journeys along mined roads, passing shallow graves through streets strewn with rubbish, which had been picked up by the wind.\n\nThey entered Mariupol shortly before curfew. Anastasia says it felt \"like the end of the world\".\n\n\"Around you are burning cars, tanks, holes in houses, black buildings with collapsed roofs. Crowds of very dirty people with empty eyes follow [our vehicles] along the mined road. Everything was taken away from them, relatives died.\n\n\"Initially, you are looking at the graves, and you are frightened and confused. But once you see about 10 of those, 20, you are just passing by. Maybe it's just me, but somehow it feels like you quickly become accustomed to these atrocities.\"\n\nAnastasia saw many graves in the city of Mariupol\n\nThey tried to get through the downtown area in the centre of the city but the fighting was intense. At a checkpoint there, Anastasia says they were dangerously close to shelling. Troops told them they had two minutes to move or they would fire on them. Instead, they decided to circle around part of the city further west. A night-time, curfew was approaching and they made their way to the western suburb of Volodarske, where they had heard a school was repurposed as a refugee camp.\n\n\"This was probably the second scariest experience,\" says Anastasia. \"It was a pain to witness - as painful as those blackened buildings in Mariupol - the people in this refugee camp.\" She said the civilians inside were due to be taken by Moscow's forces the Rostov region in Russia and to Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. This process is referred to by Ukraine as \"filtration\" and condemned by the West as deportation. Moscow describes it as a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians. \"There are people who have lost everything. They know that no-one will come after them. The camp is their only chance to survive,\" Anastasia says.\n\n\"What I saw inside made me very sick. On the floor and in the corridors, in the classrooms and the gym, people lie almost on top of each other. Everything is mixed - grandparents, women, children. It's hard to breathe there, and people had not had access to running water for a month,\" she says. \"Terrible stories can be heard in the queue [for food]. One grandmother said she spent 10 days in the basement without food. She drank only one raw egg each day. After [hearing] these words, I began to cry,\" she says.\n\nAnastasia says she witnessed an \"apocalypse\" that night in Mariupol. \"I felt like everything collapsed inside of me. It seemed as if everything we believed in, everything good, my perception of people, the idea that we are living in civilised society... all of this [had been] wrong. [It was as if] I had been wrong all my life, that people are in fact barbaric and human life is not worth anything. And I dwelled on this that whole night and morning.\"\n\nAnastasia reached her parents on the second day. \"I could not rejoice, but I could not cry either,\" she says. She told her parents: \"We will cry on Ukrainian territory.\"\n\nHer mother Oksana calls Anastasia \"a hero\". Residents on the street were stunned that she had made it to Mariupol, and Anastasia says no-one knew what to take with them. She told her mother to fetch her favourite clothes. They managed to evacuate several of their neighbours. \"On the bus we took out eight people.\"\n\nAnastasia handed the van back to a volunteer after returning safely\n\nBut Anastasia still thinks of those who can't get out. \"They have to try to stay alive, even if Mariupol is occupied. They are under fire every day. Many do not want to leave, they don't want to leave their homes, or the grave of a husband or wife.\"\n\nNow her parents are in a safer city to the west of Ukraine, while Anastasia remains in Dnipro with her fiancé Abakelia. She carries guilt over the rescue, she says, because she got her parents to safety while others remain. \"Every day I keep finding out that some of my classmates, some of my relatives, either get killed there or get injured,\" says Anastasia.\n\nDmitri, Oksana - with her cat - and Anastasia Pavlova after the rescue from Mariupol\n\nHer mother Oksana reflects on Mariupol's nightmare. \"Every crime comes with a punishment,\" she says. \"The chalice of anger fills up… and there is God's rage.\" But she remains hopeful because, she says, salvation came from her daughter. \"She's a role model to many people,\" says Oksana. \"How to believe in the chance of being rescued - that to stay brave, you need to believe.\"", "There were concerns that some of the billions spent on PPE may have paid factories using forced labour in China\n\nThe NHS in England will be barred from using goods and services linked to slavery or human trafficking under a law to be introduced by the government.\n\nIt would prevent the health service buying equipment worth billions from parts of China where it is claimed forced labour is used in supply chains.\n\nThe government said it wanted to use the NHS's buying power to help \"eradicate modern slavery\".\n\nMPs are expected to hold a vote on the measure and pass it next week.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid is due to introduce the new law as an amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill on Friday, after coming under cross-party pressure.\n\nThe amendment says the health secretary must make regulations to \"eradicate\" the use of goods and services in the health service in England that are \"tainted\" by slavery and human trafficking.\n\nThe change comes after Britain bought billions of pounds of protective health equipment during the Covid pandemic. some of which was allegedly manufactured by forced labour in China.\n\nThe government revealed in February that the UK had bought £5.8bn worth of lateral flow tests from China.\n\nThere have particularly been concerns about the use of forced labour in the Xinjiang province of western China. Reports have documented the detention of many thousands of people - mostly the largely Muslim Uyghur minority - in camps the authorities insist are for the re-education of extremists.\n\nDetails of the new law have still to be worked out but the regulations are expected to set out the steps the NHS should take to assess the risks associated with individual suppliers and the basis on which they should be excluded from any tendering process.\n\nCampaigners say this would effectively create a blacklist of companies banned from providing goods and services to the NHS - including medical equipment, security technology and basic infrastructure.\n\nA senior government source said the amendment would help ensure the NHS was not buying or using goods or services involving any kind of slave labour.\n\n\"It's absolutely right that we use the NHS - a huge procurer of all sorts of goods and services - to help eradicate modern slavery around the world,\" the source said.\n\nLiberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran said: \"\"This is long overdue. It should not have taken a pandemic to shine a light on the hugely concerning links between supply chains involving forced labour - including those in Xinjiang - and PPE and other items used in our healthcare sector.\"\n\nShe said the government should not stop here and should make a \"concerted effort\" to tackle modern slavery in all UK supply chains, as well as banning goods from Xinjiang altogether.\n\nIain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, said it was a \"significant move\" that came after MPs had campaigned hard.\n\nHe urged all other government departments to introduce the same regulations, saying: \"We will be sending the most powerful signal to those around the world that exploit and terrorise those weaker than themselves that the swords of justice are on their trail.\"\n\nLuke de Pulford, chief executive of anti-slavery campaign group Arise, which pushed for the change, said: \"This is easily the most significant advance in supply chain regulation since the Modern Slavery Act in 2015, and in many ways goes much further.\n\n\"I know all in the anti-slavery movement hope that the rest of government follows the health secretary's lead on this, and roots out slavery from our supply chains completely.\"", "The world faces a \"human catastrophe\" from a food crisis arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, World Bank president David Malpass has said.\n\nHe told the BBC that record rises in food prices would push hundreds of millions people into poverty and lower nutrition, if the crisis continues.\n\nThe World Bank calculates there could be a \"huge\" 37% jump in food prices.\n\nThis would hit the poor hardest, who will \"eat less and have less money for anything else such as schooling\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC economics editor Faisal Islam, Mr Malpass, who leads the institution charged with global alleviation of poverty, said the impact on the poor made it \"an unfair kind of crisis... that was true also of Covid\".\n\n\"It's a human catastrophe, meaning nutrition goes down. But then it also becomes a political challenge for governments who can't do anything about it, they didn't cause it and they see the prices going up,\" he said on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington.\n\nThe price rises are broad and deep, he said: \"It's affecting food of all different kinds oils, grains, and then it gets into other crops, corn crops, because they go up when wheat goes up\".\n\nThere was enough food in the world to feed everybody, he said, and global stockpiles are large by historical standards, but there will have to be a sharing or sales process to get the food to where it is needed.\n\nMr Malpass also discouraged countries from subsidising production or capping prices.\n\nInstead, he said, the focus needed to be on increasing supplies across the world of fertilisers and food, alongside targeted assistance for the very poorest people.\n\nThe World Bank chief also warned of a knock on \"crisis within a crisis\" arising from the inability of developing countries to service their large pandemic debts, amid rising food and energy prices.\n\n\"This is a very real prospect. It's happening for some countries, we don't know how far it'll go. As many as 60% of the poorest countries right now are either in debt distress or at high risk of being in debt distress,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to be worried about a debt crisis, the best thing to do is to start early to act early on finding ways to reduce the debt burden for countries that are on have unsustainable debt, the longer you put it off, the worse it is,\" he added.\n\nThe acknowledgement by the World Bank president that we have to be worried about a developing country debt crisis, is very significant.\n\nThe combination of massive pandemic debts with rising interest rates, and rising prices is truly toxic.\n\nThe talk on the sidelines here at the IMF and World Bank meetings is that the rich countries told emerging economies not to worry about borrowing in order to spend to help suppress the pandemic.\n\nNow those countries are wondering if these record debts will be written off.\n\nCampaigning groups are preparing mobilisations over a pandemic debt jubilee. But there is silence from the rich country lenders, so far.\n\nAnd there is a very new dynamic these days. The bankers to whom these sums are owed are no longer just in the West.\n\nChina is now, very broadly, owed as much as the entire collection of Western creditors known as the Paris Club.\n\nHow will it respond to calls for leniency on the repayment of loans?\n\nMr Malpass says of China: \"They have different rules, for example, contracts that have non-disclosure clauses, meaning you can't share the terms with other people that makes it very hard to restructure those debts\".\n\nChina has also secured its lending against ports and natural resources. Sri Lanka is a case in point right now.\n\nThe unwinding of all of this might not be orderly, and could have significant geopolitical consequences.\n\nEarlier this month, the United Nations said that the Ukraine war had led to a \"giant leap\" in food prices, as they hit a new record high in March.\n\nIt came as the war cut off supplies from the world's biggest exporter of sunflower oil and the cost of alternatives climbed.\n\nUkraine is also a major producer of cereals such as maize and wheat which have risen sharply in price too.\n\nThe UN said \"war in the Black Sea region spread shocks through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils\".\n\nThe UN Food Prices Index tracks the world's most-traded food commodities - measuring the average prices of cereal, vegetable oil, dairy, meat, and sugar.\n\nFood prices are at their highest since records began 60 years ago, according to the index, after they jumped nearly 13% in March, following February's record high.\n\nFood commodity prices were already at 10-year highs before the war in Ukraine, according to the index, because of global harvest issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on why the war in Ukraine is pushing up food prices - and the likely impact on poorer countries", "Carlos Ghosn spoke to the BBC from Lebanon where he is banned from leaving the country\n\nFugitive former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has said he wants to stand trial on charges of financial wrongdoing in order to clear his name.\n\nHe spoke to the BBC after France issued an international warrant for his arrest, citing allegedly suspect payments.\n\nMr Ghosn said he was \"expecting\" the move though he was \"surprised at the timing\".\n\nMr Ghosn faced charges of financial misconduct when he fled Japan in 2019.\n\nThe former head of Nissan, once one of the most powerful figures in the car industry, is currently unable to leave Lebanon, as he is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice issued by Japan.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I want to stand trial because that's the only way I can get rid of the Red Notice which today forbids me from leaving Lebanon.\"\n\nHe said he wanted a trial in Lebanon on the charges brought against him in Japan, and any that emerge from the French investigation - and was \"totally confident\" he could prove his innocence.\n\nProsecutors in France are investigating claims that Mr Ghosn funnelled millions of euros from Renault through Suhail Bahwan Automobiles.\n\nAccording to reports first published in the Wall Street Journal, he used the money for personal purchases including that of a 120-foot yacht.\n\nAn investigating magistrate in France has now issued five international arrest warrants against Mr Ghosn and four people linked to a car distributor in Oman.\n\nMr Ghosn told the BBC on Friday: \"There was not one euro [from Nissan or Renault] that ended up benefitting me directly or indirectly\".\n\nHe denied he was a fugitive from justice - and repeated previous claims he had left Japan because he would not have had a fair trial there.\n\nMr Ghosn said the charges against him were part of a conspiracy to derail his plans for a full merger between Renault and Nissan.\n\nSince his escape, Carlos Ghosn has repeatedly claimed that the charges against him in Japan were baseless.\n\nThey were, he maintains, part of a conspiracy, designed to prevent him from orchestrating a merger between Nissan and its French partner Renault.\n\nBut for several years a separate investigation has been quietly taking place in France. An investigating magistrate recently questioned Mr Ghosn at length in Beirut.\n\nThe decision to issue an international arrest warrant suggests the French side believes there is a genuine case to answer at least.\n\nMr Ghosn has said he would be happy to stand trial in France to clear his name, and his lawyers seem confident that would happen. But there's a problem.\n\nThe former executive is banned from leaving Lebanon because he is still subject to an extradition request from Japan, even though that request is highly unlikely to be granted.\n\nFor the moment, he remains in a legal limbo.\n\nMr Ghosn once ran the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, one of the biggest car-making groups in the world.\n\nHe was arrested in Japan in late 2018, and faced a number of charges, including claims he deliberately mis-reported his earnings and used company money to fund his own lifestyle. He denied any wrongdoing.\n\nHe has previously spoken of his dramatic escape from Japan, which involved disguising himself to go unnoticed through the streets of Tokyo, being hidden in a large music equipment box and fleeing to his native Lebanon as he awaited trial.\n\nMr Ghosn, who holds Brazilian, Lebanese and French passports, cannot be extradited to France from Beirut, although he confirmed to the BBC that he has been questioned as part of the investigation.\n\nHe said he thought France had issued the arrest warrant because under its law the investigation could not be closed unless he was in French territory.\n\n\"So in a certain way we were expecting something like this to happen,\" he said. \"What was surprising was the timing...and also that we knew about it through an American newspaper...without me being officially alerted.\"\n\nEarlier, his lawyer, Jean Tamalet at King & Spalding, told the BBC: \"We believe this move is the only technical resort they found to be able in the future to try the case in a court of law.\"\n\nWarrants were also issued against the current owners and former directors of the car distributor, Suhail Bahwan Automobiles.\n\nThe Omani firm did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Queen was spotted at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk on her birthday\n\nThe Queen is celebrating her 96th birthday on Thursday in Sandringham.\n\nBritain's longest-reigning monarch travelled by helicopter to her Norfolk estate, where she is being joined by family and friends.\n\nShe is thought to be staying in a cottage particularly liked by her late husband, Prince Philip.\n\nA photograph has been released to mark the birthday, showing the Queen with two ponies and reflecting her lifelong interest in horses.\n\nThe picture was taken at Windsor Castle, where the Queen now mostly stays, and shows her with two Fell ponies, who will appear in the forthcoming Royal Windsor Horse Show.\n\nA photograph for the Queen's birthday reflects her lifelong interest in horses\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wished the Queen happy birthday on Twitter, calling the monarch an \"inspiration to so many across the UK, the Commonwealth and the world\", and sharing a photo of the Queen and Prince Philip with seven of their great-grandchildren.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by The Royal Family\n\nPrince Harry suggested in a US TV interview that the Queen might be downplaying this latest milestone, saying that \"after a certain age you get bored of birthdays\".\n\nBut she will be spending time at Wood Farm, a cottage described as \"small and intimate\" by former housekeeper Teresa Thompson, and a place with strong associations with Prince Philip, who died a little over a year ago.\n\nThe Queen was in Sandringham earlier this year when she marked her accession to the throne in 1952.\n\nShe was born in 1926, not in a royal residence, but in a London townhouse on Bruton Street, where she first lived with her father and mother, who became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.\n\nThe house on Bruton Street where the Queen was born was demolished in the 1930s\n\nBirthday wishes have been sent by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and gun salutes were fired.\n\nThe prime minister also paid tribute to the monarch's \"dedicated and faultless service\" in a pre-recorded address posted on Twitter.\n\nThe Queen's Guard played Happy Birthday during the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen has had mobility problems in recent months and has had to miss a number of events, including church services over Easter.\n\nHer only public appearance this year, outside of her own residences or on video, was at the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe Queen's 96th birthday marks another unprecedented age for a British monarch, in a year in which she has become the first monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee of 70 years on the throne.\n\nThe next longest-lived monarchs were Queen Victoria and George III, who lived to the age of 81, and were the only other monarchs to have lived into their 80s.\n\nAccording to figures from the Office for National Statistics, the Queen is one of about 124,000 people in the 95 to 99 age group in the UK, almost three quarters of these being women.\n\nAlthough 21 April is the day the Queen was born, it is not her only birthday. The monarch also has an official birthday celebration on the second Saturday of June, a tradition which began because her great-grandfather Edward VII's birthday was in November, when the weather is generally less favourable for a birthday parade.\n\nThe Queen's official birthday is marked each year by the military parade Trooping the Colour. This year, the parade will take place on Thursday 2 June to coincide with the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nA number of commemorative items are being produced to mark the Jubilee. Among them is a Barbie doll, featuring a recreation of her wedding tiara and an ivory gown fitted with a blue ribbon.\n• None The mystery of the Queen's birthplace", "Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, then aged three\n\nIn the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, say all they have ever wanted is to find their daughter.\n\nHere is the story so far.\n\nMadeleine went missing from this apartment block at the Ocean Club. The family's apartment is on the left of the building, as seen here\n\nOn 3 May Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, is on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal.\n\nOn 12 May, the McCanns say they \"cannot describe the anguish and despair\" they are feeling.\n\nPortuguese police say they believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive and in Portugal.\n\nOn 26 May, police issue a description of a man seen on the night of Madeleine's disappearance, possibly carrying a child.\n\nA search took place in the areas around Praia da Luz on the Algarve\n\nIn June, a Portuguese police chief admits vital forensic clues may have been destroyed as the scene was not protected properly.\n\nIn July, British police send sniffer dogs to assist the investigation, and inspections of the McCann's apartment and rental car are conducted.\n\nBy August it is 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. Investigating officers publicly acknowledge she may not be found alive.\n\nOn 6 September, Portuguese police interview Kate McCann as a witness. On 7 September, detectives make the couple \"arguidos\" and days later, the McCanns return to the UK. Prosecutors later say there is no new evidence to justify re-questioning them.\n\nGerry McCann releases a video in November saying he believes his family was watched by \"a predator\" in the days before his daughter's disappearance.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann leave church after a service to mark the first anniversary of their daughter's disappearance\n\nOn 20 January the McCanns release sketches of a suspect, based on a description by a British holidaymaker of a \"creepy man\" seen at the resort.\n\nIn April, Portuguese police fly to the UK to sit in on interviews conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' friends they had dinner with on the night Madeleine disappeared.\n\nOn 3 May, one year since the disappearance, Mrs McCann urges people to \"pray like mad\" for her little girl.\n\nBy July Portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. Weeks later, authorities shelve their investigation and lift the \"arguido\" status of the McCanns.\n\nAn image was released of how Madeleine might look at six\n\nOn 3 November, new images of how Madeleine might now look are released.\n\nIn March 2010, the McCanns criticise the release of previously unseen Portuguese police files - detailing possible sightings of Madeleine - to British newspapers.\n\nA month later, in April, Gerry McCann says it is \"incredibly frustrating\" that police in Portugal and the UK had not been actively looking for his daughter \"for a very long time\".\n\nIn November, the couple sign a publishing deal to write a book about Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThe McCanns' book, Madeleine, is released in May.\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron asks the Metropolitan Police to help investigate. A two-year review follows.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Redwood, the detective leading the UK review of Madeleine's disappearance, tells an April broadcast of the BBC's Panorama his team is \"seeking to bring closure to the case\".\n\nA computer-generated image of what Madeleine might look like aged nine is released, a day before Portuguese authorities say they are not reopening their investigation.\n\nIn May, UK detectives reviewing the case say they have identified \"a number of persons of interest\".\n\nBy July, Scotland Yard announces it has \"new evidence and new witnesses\" in the case and opens a formal investigation.\n\nBy October, Scotland Yard detectives say they have identified 41 potential suspects.\n\nA BBC Crimewatch appeal features e-fit images of a man seen carrying a blond-haired child of three or four in Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine went missing.\n\nPortuguese police reopen their investigation - to run alongside Scotland Yard's - citing \"new lines of inquiry\".\n\nMet Police officers searched scrubland near where Madeleine vanished in 2014\n\nIn January British detectives fly to Portugal amid claims they are planning to make arrests.\n\nIn June searches in Praia da Luz are carried out, including an area of scrubland situated south-west of the Ocean Club complex. It yields nothing of interest.\n\nA month later, in July, four suspects are quizzed by police but no new developments emerge.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nIn September 2015 the British government disclose that the investigation has cost more than £10m.\n\nIn April 2017 the four official suspects investigated by police are ruled out of the investigation but senior officers say they are pursuing a \"significant line of inquiry\".\n\nIn June 2019 the UK government says it will fund the Met Police inquiry, which began in 2011, until March 2020.\n\nA year later, in June 2020, police reveal that a 43-year-old German prisoner - named by German media as Christian B - has been identified as a suspect. The McCanns thank police, saying: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nGerman investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry and say they are assuming that Madeleine is dead.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police says it has received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nIn April 2022, a German man is declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the case.\n\nChristian Brueckner, then 45, is made an \"arguido\", although Portuguese authorities do not formally reveal the suspect's name.\n\nThe McCann family mark the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance on 3 May 2022, saying she is \"still very much missed\" and they \"await a breakthrough\".\n\nLater that month, a Portuguese news website reports that an area near a reservoir, about 30 miles (48km) from Praia da Luz, had been being sealed off. Police say they will begin searching the Arade dam on 23 May.\n• None In Pictures: The search for Madeleine McCann", "P&O Ferries services were suspended after the company sacked 800 workers\n\nThe first P&O ferry that operates from Dover to Calais has been cleared to sail again.\n\nThe Spirit of Britain had been detained by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).\n\nIt has been conducting trial sails up and down the English coast between Dover and New Romney, a marine traffic website has shown.\n\nSafety fears were raised after P&O replaced nearly 800 seafarers with cheaper agency staff last month.\n\nThe marine traffic website, which shows the live positions of ships, reports the ferry's destinations as \"TRIALS\".\n\nP&O tweeted on Saturday morning that its services remain suspended.\n\nThe MCA previously said the Spirit of Britain \"has been released from detention and can commence operations when P&O Ferries are ready\".\n\nThe firm suspended most of its sailings but reportedly only expected the disruption to last up to 10 days.\n\nHowever inspections prevented a number of ferries from operating, which contributed to major travel disruption near Dover in the run-up to, and during the, Easter holidays.\n\nWhen the Spirit of Britain was detained earlier this month, P&O Ferries were told to fix a number of safety issues before a second inspection by the MCA.\n\nP&O operates four ferries across the English Channel between Dover and Calais.\n\nThe Pride of Kent remains under the detention of the MCA and two other P&O ferries on this route have yet to be inspected.\n\nThe removal of these four P&O ferries from service had a substantial impact on passenger and freight traffic, affecting both holidays and trade.\n\nThe Easter holidays created a major bottleneck, as thousands of lorries queued to cross the channel alongside families going on holiday in Europe. There were also problems with a key IT system for custom checks at the UK's busiest port after Brexit.\n\nThe last week has seen problems ease as holidays ended, which meant capacity has improved. Trade volumes are often lower in the week after a major bank holiday.\n\nThe European Highlander, a P&O ferry that operates between Larne in Northern Ireland and Cairnryan in Scotland, has been found to have a \"small number of deficiencies\" that need to be addressed before it can resume service, the MCA said.\n\nP&O currently has one ferry, the European Causeway, operating on this route between Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOther ferries that have been inspected and cleared to sail by the MCA include the Pride of Hull, Norbay and the European Causeway.\n\nThe Pride of Hull, which operates between Hull and Rotterdam; Norbay, which runs from Liverpool to Dublin; European Causeway (Larne - Cairnryan) and Spirit of Britain (Dover - Calais) have been inspected and cleared to sail by the MCA.", "Olive was reunited with her family after four days underground\n\nA dog missing for four days has been rescued safe and well after being discovered in an abandoned mine shaft.\n\nOlive the red fox labrador went missing on Thursday 14 April while on a walk at Lady Canning's Plantation in Sheffield.\n\nSearch parties and drones were all involved in the search for her and she was eventually saved after being heard whimpering down a deep hole.\n\nOwner Jo Belton said: \"Not only was she there, but she seemed fine. It is unbelievable.\"\n\nTwo-year-old Olive had been out accompanied by a dog walker when she disappeared from sight.\n\nMs Belton said at first she had tried to stay calm after hearing the news, but as the hours passed it started to \"feel surreal\".\n\n\"The worst thing was, there was no sightings. It was like she vanished.\"\n\nThe dog liked to go off and follow a scent, but she usually always returned when called, Ms Belton said.\n\n\"By Monday, we just started to lose hope. It's like a needle in a haystack.\"\n\nThe fire service was called to help rescue Olive from the deep hole\n\nMembers of voluntary dog searching group Hart Sar were called in, with teams dispatched to where Olive was reported missing.\n\nDrone pilots also scoured the area using thermal imaging cameras, with search dogs deployed.\n\nOlive's faint cries were finally heard by a family friend who was out searching on Monday.\n\nNews of her potentially having been found sent Ms Belton into \"a complete meltdown\", she admitted.\n\n\"We were convinced she was dead. Four days, four nights. We were a bit hysterical.\"\n\nFire crews were called to help rescue Olive, who it emerged had fallen about 12ft (3.6m) down the former mine shaft.\n\nThe red fox labrador is thought to have fallen down the hole just 30 seconds after going missing\n\nVolunteer searcher Simon Marples said: \"The shaft was in the middle of long grass, so we had searched in that area.\n\n\"She could have gone down there and died. Luckily she'd been licking the rockface for water.\"\n\nOn Monday night, friends of Ms Belton celebrated Olive's rescue by \"cracking open the champagne\", she said.\n\n\"Our black lab and border terrier were going crazy. Olive was just really tired.\"\n\nMs Belton thanked volunteers and the fire service for their help.\n\n\"She's like a local celebrity. I'm taking her walking on a lead now,\" she added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None 'I've found more than 200 lost dogs with my drone'", "Here is a look back at the search for Madeleine, who has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in May 2007.", "The moment Saint West shows his mother the Roblox sex tape room he apparently found\n\nA reality show scene where Kim Kardashian's son finds an advert for a sex tape on the game Roblox was not faked, a source close to the star says.\n\nIn the scene, Saint West, six, shows his mother a \"Kim Kardashian experience\" room he apparently stumbled across while playing the game.\n\nRoblox said it removed the room and banned its creator - and no sex tape was ever available.\n\nIt also said only \"a few dozen players\" found it in the short time it was live.\n\nOn social media and in some news reports, people have suggested the chances of Saint West being one of those who found it are slim.\n\nOne well known independent Roblox developer known as Zomebody told BBC News: \"The chances of 'accidentally' stumbling upon a game like that are astronomically small.\n\n\"There are two potential ways for Saint to have found such a game - either he or the family actively searched for (or even created) such a game or someone else in their group of peers created it and then shared it directly with the boy.\"\n\nNeither the Kardashians nor the production company, Fulwell 73, provided an on-the-record comment but a source close to the family insisted the scene was not falsified.\n\nFifty million players worldwide log in to Roblox every day to explore, play mini-games and create their own experiences.\n\nThere are millions of player-generated experiences and mini games, with new features added daily.\n\nThe most popular experiences are showcased to Roblox players through a curated home screen but others can be found using the search function.\n\nThe vast majority of these zones are not advertised to players and do not receive many visitors.\n\nThe moment Saint West finds the Roblox room is a central driver of the drama in the first episode of the new show, The Kardashians, a reboot of the long-running Keeping Up With the Kardashians reality show.\n\nHe is seen running up to his mother, saying: \"Everybody look it, this is on Roblox,\" before handing her his tablet computer.\n\nKim Kardashian has thanked fans for the success of the first episode of her new show\n\nThe tablet screen is blurred but Kim Kardashian describes what she saw to an interviewer: \"There was a picture of my cry face and I look at it and it said something super-inappropriate like, 'Kim's new sex tape'. This is supposed to be unreleased footage from my old sex tape.\"\n\nA sex tape of Kim Kardashian was published online in 2007.\n\nLater in the episode, using strong language, she threatens to sue Roblox telling her lawyer she has \"all the time, all the money and all the resources to burn them to the... ground\".\n\nRoblox, which is valued at about $24bn (£18bn), said it took action against the content as soon as its moderators were alerted in September 2021.\n\nThe show aired on Hulu in the US and Disney+ elsewhere, last week.\n\nThere is no public record of a lawsuit filed against the company.\n\nA Roblox spokesman said: \"The text reference to the tape that got around our filters was quickly taken down and fortunately visible only to a few dozen people on the platform. We also swiftly took down the associated experience and banned the community developer involved with the incident.\"\n\nRoblox would not say who had created the room, exactly how many players had entered it before it had been removed or how the company had been notified about it.\n\nHulu, which did not respond to requests for comment, celebrated the success of the show, which had the biggest US premiere in the streaming service's history.\n\nKim Kardashian wrote on Instagram she was \"so grateful for you all for tuning in\".", "Bridie Dorta has been reunited with Dexter\n\nA stowaway cat who was flown ashore from a North Sea platform has been reunited with his owner - five years after going missing.\n\nThe one-eyed cat was discovered on Thursday inside a shipping container that had been shipped from Peterhead.\n\nIt emerged he had previously been a regular visitor to HMP Grampian, where prison staff fed him and nicknamed him \"one-eyed Joe\".\n\nThe publicity has now led to the wanderer being identified as Dexter.\n\nThe crew of the offshore platform fed their unexpected visitor on chicken from the canteen and called in the Scottish SPCA.\n\nThe cat was flown back to the mainland by helicopter and handed over to the Scottish SPCA\n\nOn Friday morning he was flown by helicopter into Aberdeen and handed over to the charity.\n\nAnimal rescue officer Aimee Findlay, who collected the cat, said: \"We've no idea how the cat ended up there.\n\n\"After checking him for a microchip it turns out his real name is Dexter and he has been missing for five years.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are so glad that he was well looked after for the time he was missing, but were even more delighted to be able to reunite him with his original owner thanks to his microchip being up to date.\"\n\nDelighted owner Bridie Dorta told BBC Scotland she was \"quite shocked\" to have Dexter back.\n\n\"He's always been a wanderer,\" she said. \"He went away a few years ago and we never heard anything about him since.\n\n\"We never expected him to end up back here.\"\n\nShe hopes to be able to keep Dexter in touch with his fans at the prison.", "Prince Louis is fifth in line to the throne\n\nPhotographs of Prince Louis have been released to mark his fourth birthday.\n\nThe pictures were taken earlier this month on the Norfolk coast by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThey show Louis - the youngest of her three children - enjoying a trip to the beach and holding a cricket ball.\n\nTo mark the prince's third birthday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released a photograph of him on his bike about to go to nursery for the first time.\n\nPrince Louis was born at St Mary's Hospital in London in 2018\n\nIn this year's series of four photos, Prince Louis is pictured on the dunes in Norfolk, wearing a grey jumper with a band of colourful stars, and a shirt and blue shorts.\n\nPrince Louis is fifth in line to the throne after his grandfather the Prince of Wales, his father Prince William, and older siblings Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nHe was born at the private maternity Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London at 11:01 BST on 23 April 2018, weighing 8lb 7oz.\n\nHis mother Catherine's photos have regularly been used to mark her children's birthdays.\n\nThe 40-year-old is patron of the Royal Photographic Society, and also released a pandemic photography book in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery last year.\n\nHold Still featured 100 photographs taken by members of the public during the pandemic, and the Duchess said it would serve as a \"lasting record of what we were all experiencing\".\n\nPrince Louis is the youngest of the couple's three children\n\nThe prince was pictured barefoot in the sand\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge with Prince Louis outside the Lindo Wing on the day he was born", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nCoverage: Live text commentary on BBC Sport website and app from 20:00 BST\n\nWBC and Ring Magazine champion Tyson Fury weighed in 12lb lighter than his previous fight for Saturday's blockbuster heavyweight bout against Dillian Whyte at Wembley.\n\nFury, 33, hit the scales at 18st 12lb, while challenger Whyte weighed in at 18st 1lb.\n\nThe two Britons will fight in front of 94,000 fans - a post-war British record - with Fury making a second defence of the title he won against Deontay Wilder in February 2020.\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Kinahan, Fury and the state of boxing\n\nFury's drop in weight from the final bout in the Wilder trilogy in October gives a slight indication as to how he may approach the fight.\n\nAgainst Wilder, Fury went toe-to-toe with the big-punching American. Weighing in lighter suggests Fury may revert back to fighting at range and using his quick feet and movement to outbox Whyte.\n\nWhyte, dressed in all black, took to the stage first and was dealt a chorus of boos by the Fury-friendly crowd at BoxPark in Wembley.\n\nThe 34-year-old's self-imposed media silence before the fight left many wondering what shape he would come in, but Whyte looked in good condition and is 6lb heavier than when he knocked out Alexander Povetkin in March 2021.\n\nFury then made his way to the scales. Wearing a white, blue and red tracksuit, the 'Gypsy King' paraded his WBC belt to a pumped-up crowd.\n\nThe fighters have shared several social media spats over the years but, just as it was at Wednesday's media conference, there was a jovial atmosphere with no signs of any bad blood. They jokingly tickled each other, shook hands and then swapped baseball caps.\n\nFury and Whyte almost resembled a double act and gave in the demands of an audience wanting an encore when they returned to the stage. They danced in unison to some music, throwing their hands in the air while bouncing on the spot.\n\nOn Wednesday Fury and Whyte calmed down their respective entourages when matters got heated between the two teams.\n\nAt the weigh-in, Team Fury and Team Whyte reconciled as the fighters' brothers embraced on stage.\n\nAll media commitments and obligatory fight week events are done. The next time these two men lock eyes will be inside the ropes on Saturday evening.\n\nCould this be Fury's last weigh-in?\n\nBritain's Anthony Joshua is expected to fight Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk in a rematch this summer in a bid to reclaim the WBA, IBF and WBO belts he lost in September.\n\nThe winner of Fury-Whyte will could then face Joshua or Usyk for an undisputed clash later this year.\n\nBut Fury - who has won 31 bouts, with 22 knockouts, and drawn one - has suggested he will retire this weekend regardless of the outcome.\n\nWhyte is challenging for a world title for the first time, having won 28 bouts, with 19 stoppages.\n\nHe has two losses on his record - against Joshua in 2015 and a knockout loss to Alexander Povetkin in August 2020, although he avenged his defeat by the Russian seven months later.\n• None The story of one of the most extraordinary family sagas the world has ever seen\n• None Your first look at the exciting new drama SAS Rogue Heroes from the creator of Peaky Blinders", "Ukrainian soldier stands guard close to the front line with Russian troops near Kharkiv\n\nUkraine's allies have pledged to send more weapons to help it defend against a renewed Russian offensive.\n\nThe US and others vowed to send artillery, anti-tank and air defence aid to Kyiv during a 90-minute video call on Tuesday.\n\nUkraine says it needs the weapons to help defend itself as Russia launched a new campaign in the country's east.\n\nClashes there have marked what Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky said was the start of the \"battle for the Donbas\".\n\nThe eastern Donbas - which comprises the Luhansk and Donetsk regions - is where Russia is concentrating its efforts.\n\nAccording to Ukraine, Russian forces have been attacking Ukrainian positions along the entire 300-mile (480km) front line since Monday.\n\nIt was amid these renewed attacks that Western leaders met to discuss further military assistance for Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the meeting, the US defence department said additional military aircraft and aircraft parts had been sent to Ukraine to increase their fleet size and repair others in Ukraine's arsenal that were damaged.\n\nThe US defence department added that the US had not provided aircraft to Kyiv itself, and did not provide details on which countries have provided the aircraft.\n\nPresident Zelensky has been appealing to the US for Soviet-made air defence systems and fighter jets as an alternative to a no-fly zone over Ukraine.\n\nLast month, the US refused a proposal by Poland to provide it with MiG-29 fighter jets, which it would then transfer to Ukraine.\n\nPresident Joe Biden, speaking to reporters after the meeting between Western allies, added that the US is planning to provide a further military aid package to Ukraine of a similar size to the $800m (£615m) aid package he announced last week, according to US media.\n\nHe said Washington would also be sending Ukraine more artillery - heavy guns deployed in land warfare.\n\nOther countries also pledged to help Ukraine with further military assistance during the meeting.\n\n\"They [Ukraine] need support with more artillery, that is what we will be giving them,\" said the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in parliament after the meeting.\n\nIn Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany was providing finance to enable Ukraine to buy anti-tank weapons and ammunition from German arms manufacturers.\n\nMeanwhile, the Czech Republic said it would repair Ukrainian tanks and armoured vehicles when they are damaged in combat.\n\nFurther economic sanctions against Russia was another topic on the agenda.\n\nThe arms pledges follow persistent calls from President Zelensky for allies to increase their weapons supplies to Kyiv.\n\n\"We need heavy artillery, armed vehicles, air defence systems and combat aircraft — anything to repel Russian forces and stop their war crimes,\" Mr Zelensky said on Twitter last week. \"Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with heavy weapons\".\n\n\"The United States and Western states under its control are doing everything to drag out the military operation for as long as possible,\" Russia's defence chief Sergei Shoigu said.\n\nThe leaders also discussed how to provide security guarantees to Ukraine after the war even if it is not a member of Nato, a French presidential advisor said.\n\nNato is a military alliance whose 30 members - including the US, UK and Germany - have agreed to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any one of them.\n\nSince Ukraine is not a Nato member, the alliance isn't obliged to come to its defence.\n\nIts members fear that involving themselves in direct armed confrontation could lead to an all-out conflict between Russia and the West.\n\nInstead, Nato members have supplied Ukraine with millions of dollars worth of military aid since Russia launched the invasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Galina is sheltering in a Mykolaiv basement, but will run out of medication in three weeks", "UK retail sales dropped in March as the rising cost of living hit consumer spending, according to official data.\n\nOnline sales fell sharply as people cut down on non-essential spending, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nFuel sales also dropped as people cut travel amid record petrol and diesel prices.\n\nHowever, overall retail sales were still above pre-Covid levels, the ONS said.\n\nRetail sales fell by an unexpected 1.4% in the month, and February's sales figures were also revised down.\n\nDarren Morgan, ONS director of economic statistics, said \"Online sales were hit particularly hard due to lower levels of discretionary spending.\n\n\"Fuel sales also fell substantially, with evidence suggesting some people reduced non-essential journeys, following record high petrol prices, while food sales continued to fall, dropping for the fifth consecutive month.\"\n\nThe cost of living crisis is being driven by surges in fuel, energy and food prices, with inflation running at 7% - its highest rate for 30 years.\n\nEnergy and fuel prices had been rising even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine as economies started to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, and the conflict has pushed up prices further.\n\nBethany Beckett, UK economist for Capital Economics, said inflation was set to keep rising and \"there's a real risk of an outright fall in consumer spending in the coming quarters\".\n\nThe biggest contribution to the March retail sales slide came from the drop in online sales, which have been falling from pandemic highs after coronavirus restrictions eased.\n\n\"The sharp decline in sales in March suggests that households are already paring back spending to cope with higher costs for food and fuel,\" said Ms Beckett.\n\n\"That is only likely to worsen in the coming months as the cost of living crisis intensifies. After all, the March data predated April's huge 54% rise in utility bills which will have hit household budgets hard.\"\n\nSeparately, a survey by GfK suggested that UK consumer confidence in April dropped to its second-lowest level in 50 years due to people's weakening confidence in the economy and in their personal finances.\n\nConsumer confidence was at its lowest ebb since July 2008, which was during the severe worldwide economic crisis, the market research firm said.\n\nThe bigger-than-expected fall in retail sales last month was largely down to the current cost of living crisis - that's according to ONS officials.\n\nOnline sales of non-essential items fell again, and the data suggests that record high petrol prices are having a major impact with a cut in non-essential journeys.\n\nMore significantly perhaps is the fact food sales have been falling since last November, which is a sign that consumers are paring back their spending to cope with higher costs.\n\nEconomists believe the situation will only become more acute as March's data came before April's 54% hike in gas and electricity bills.\n\nThey also point to falling consumer confidence - the survey for this in April slumped to its lowest level in 14 years.\n\nMeanwhile, a survey of businesses suggested a slowdown in private sector growth in April.\n\nThe UK's dominant services sector saw growth slow sharply, the S&P Global/CIPS composite Purchasing Managers' Index indicated.\n\nAlthough manufacturing growth picked up slightly after a five-month low in March, new manufacturing orders from abroad fell by the most since June 2020 as orders from Europe fell back.\n\nFirms also said export orders were hit by Brexit, recent congestion in UK ports and sanctions on Russia, the survey found.\n\nThere was also a sharp rise in company insolvencies in March, according to official data. The number of firms going bust rose to 2,114 in March, more than double the number in March 2021, and a third higher than pre-pandemic figures.\n\nThe Bank of England has been raising interest rates to try to cool inflation, and its key rate currently stands at 0.75%.\n\nIts governor, Andrew Bailey, said on Thursday that the Bank was walking a tight line between dealing with inflation and avoiding recession.\n\nBank of England monetary policymaker Catherine Mann said that interest rates would probably have to go up \"a little bit\" further.\n\nAsked about the risk of so-called \"stagflation\", which is a combination of slow growth and high inflation, Ms Mann said \"in some senses, we could say we're already there\" because of the jump in energy prices and slowing retail sales.\n\n\"But I think that, you know, it's premature to kind of hearken back to the 1980s or the 1970s, in the US context in particular, and use that vocabulary,\" she said.", "A satellite image by Maxar purportedly showing four sections of linear rows of graves near Mariupol\n\nA US satellite firm says it has identified a mass burial site containing about 200 graves near Mariupol, a city Russian forces have been trying to wrest control of for weeks.\n\nMaxar said its images showed an expansion of graves that began at the end of March.\n\nLocal Ukrainian officials accuse the Russians of burying Mariupol civilians killed by Russian troops there.\n\nMoscow has not yet responded.\n\nRussian troops control most of Mariupol after weeks of bombardment and fighting, but some Ukrainian forces remain in a sprawling steelworks in the city. President Putin has abandoned plans to storm the Azovstal plant and instead told troops to seal it off.\n\nThe alleged mass grave is near a village called Manhush about 20km (12 miles) west of Mariupol. Maxar said there were four sections of linear rows about 85m long.\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the images.\n\nMariupol city council earlier issued its own statement accusing the Russians of burying civilians at the same location.\n\nThe council said the Russians were digging trenches and \"using dump lorries to bring the bodies\" and provided its own aerial image of the site, which it said was \"already twice as large as the nearby cemetery\".\n\nThe city's mayor Vadym Boichenko says tens of thousands of civilians may have been killed in Mariupol\n\nMoscow has repeatedly denied accusations by Ukraine and its Western allies that Russian troops and top Kremlin politicians are responsible for mass killings of civilians.\n\nEarlier this month, Maxar images of the town of Bucha outside Kyiv appeared to show bodies of civilians lying in the street nearly two weeks before the Russians left the town as part of a withdrawal from northern Ukraine.\n\nThe image from 19 March, first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by the BBC, contradicted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's claim that footage of bodies in Bucha had been \"staged\" after the Russians withdrew.\n\nBucha Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk has said that least 300 civilians were killed in the town.", "Supporters of the bill gathered outside Walt Disney World in Florida earlier this month\n\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a controversial bill dissolving Walt Disney World's self-governing status in the state.\n\nThe move is seen as retribution for Disney's opposition to the state's so-called \"Don't Say Gay\" bill.\n\nThe company's status in the state in effect allowed Disney to operate as its own municipal government.\n\nIt included the ability to levy tax, build roads, control utilities and operate its own fire department.\n\nThe Florida bill will eliminate Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District and several others.\n\nThe measure, however, allows for districts to be re-established in the future.\n\nAt a bill signing ceremony on Friday, Mr DeSantis accused Disney of lying about the controversial bill, which bars many primary school classrooms from discussing sexual orientation.\n\n\"You're a corporation based in Burbank, California, and you're gonna marshal your economic might to attack the parents of my state,\" he said.\n\n\"We view that as a provocation, and we're going to fight back against that.\"\n\nMr DeSantis is seen as a contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination (file picture)\n\nOn Thursday, Florida's legislature passed a bill, which would largely remove Disney's powers in the special district where its theme park is based.\n\nDisney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nFollowing the move, the district will be dissolved by 1 June, 2023.\n\nThe decision to strip Disney of its status comes amid growing tension between the company and the state, as a result of its opposition to the gender and sexuality education bill signed by Mr DeSantis last month.\n\nThe bill prohibits any instruction about sexual orientation of gender identity between kindergarten and third grade in primary school.\n\nOpponents of the bill - which many have dubbed the \"Don't Say Gay\" law - say it will isolate and stigmatise LGBT youth, while supporters say it will protect children from inappropriate content.\n\nAfter initially staying quiet on the bill, Disney vowed to oppose it - and similar bills across the country - after facing intense pressure from employees.\n\nOn Friday, Mr DeSantis said that even if \"none of that [debate about the bill] had happened, this is the right thing to do\", adding that Disney's status was \"unlike anything else that we know in the state of Florida\".\n\nDisney is Florida's largest private employer, with about 80,000 jobs.", "The symbol of Russia's \"special military operation\" in Ukraine crops up all over Moscow\n\nThere are no shells exploding in Moscow. There are no foreign forces encircling the city. What Muscovites are experiencing now is nothing compared to the horrors in Ukraine.\n\nAt first glance life here even looks normal. As usual, Moscow's Garden Ring is packed with traffic. Crowds are streaming from the metro station opposite me.\n\nIn reality, though, little here could be described as normal. Normality ended on 24 February when Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine for his \"Special Military Operation\".\n\nI have experienced Communist Russia. I have lived through post-Soviet Russia. Now the world's largest country has metamorphosed again.\n\nLet me take you on a tour of \"Special Military Operation Russia\".\n\nI get in the car to drive to the supermarket. By force of habit, I switch on the radio. It's tuned to 91.2 FM - once the home of Radio Echo of Moscow. Echo was my favourite Russian radio station - a reliable source of news and information.\n\nBut in recent weeks all independent Russian news outlets have either been blocked or shut down. Broadcasting now on 91.2 FM is state-run Radio Sputnik, which backs the Russian offensive in Ukraine.\n\nDriving along the Garden Ring, I pass a theatre which has erected on its façade a giant Latin letter Z - the symbol of Russia's military operation. There's another Z outside the headquarters of Russian Railways. I overtake a lorry that has a Z sticker on the side. In recent weeks Zs have been graffitied on the front doors of Kremlin critics.\n\nAt the shopping mall, business is far from booming. Many of the shops - international brands - have shut down. Since Russian forces attacked Ukraine, hundreds of foreign companies have suspended operations in Russia.\n\nIn the supermarket, the shelves are full. Last month's sugar shortage in Russia - the result of panic buying - appears to have been resolved. But the range of products seems smaller than before. And over the last two months prices have shot up.\n\nOutside the shopping centre, I get chatting to Nadezhda, a doctor.\n\n\"Prices are so high, it's impossible to survive now on my salary,\" Nadezhda tells me.\n\nSupermarkets are full - with no sign of the panic that set in days after Russian troops moved into Ukraine\n\n\"But the hardest thing of all is living in a society that doesn't want to know the truth about events in Ukraine. People are too busy worrying about their mortgage payments, paying off their debts. They're not interested in what's going on around them. But I think that what's happening in Ukraine is terrible. I'm ashamed to be Russian.\"\n\nI drive to the Moscow engineering institute where, 30 years ago, I used to teach English.\n\nBack in the early 1990s, after the fall of communism, my students here were full of hope that Russia and the West would forge a lasting friendship and partnership; that the future would be peaceful and prosperous.\n\n\"We'll overcome all our difficulties. After sunset always comes the dawn,\" says Denis, a student, outside the institute.\n\n\"But I support our troops. They are our soldiers. I am obliged to support my country come what may.\"\n\nMy final destination is the giant war museum that celebrates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two - a glorious victory, achieved at enormous human cost. More than 27 million Soviet citizens were killed in what is known here as the Great Patriotic War.\n\nWhat I find disturbing is how the \"Special Military Operation\" has found a place in this museum, how it's being honoured here.\n\nOn the museum's website, the spelling of the word \"museum\" has been altered to feature the letter Z. In the museum shop you can buy Z mugs and badges declaring \"Putin is My PreZident\".\n\nThe Z has replaced the S in the word president in the badges being sold in the WWII museum shop\n\nAnd the museum is currently hosting an exhibition about Nazis in Ukraine. That helps to cement the Kremlin's bogus claim that the Russian army is liberating Ukraine from Nazism.\n\nThis is \"Special Military Operation Russia\" - a parallel universe, Orwellian, where invasion is liberation, where aggression is self-defence and where critics are traitors.\n\nIt feels like the Russia I have known for the last 30 years has gone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment an elderly activist is arrested at a protest in St Petersburg", "With the Russian offensive centred on eastern Ukraine, Kyiv is beginning to return to a sense of calm.\n\nBut the city’s defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.\n\nThe BBC got rare access to the 131st battalion in the forests of the capital.", "Lieutenant Denys Gordeev is used to war, but not like this. \"It's become much harder,\" he says. \"We have bomb attacks, rocket attacks every day, all the time, every hour.\"\n\nThough he has spent eight years battling Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas, now he and his men are facing the full might of the Russian army.\n\nAfter its retreat from Kyiv three weeks ago, Russia has refocused its military efforts in Eastern Ukraine - with its goal of taking the whole of the Donbas region. It has redeployed many of its units to the east. Western officials estimate that Russia now has about 76 Battalion Tactical Groups in the region - each of which has about 800 men.\n\nThey also say there's some evidence Russia's been addressing some of its early mistakes, helped by the fact they're now fighting on fewer fronts, and under a unified command.\n\nThe result is that Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold a 300-mile front in the Donbas. They've already lost ground to the Russians and are likely to lose more in the days ahead. Russian forces have been conducting probing attacks to find weak points in Ukraine's defences.\n\nFor now the invading army is mostly using its artillery and rockets to grind down Ukraine's defences. Some military analysts expect a major assault is still to come.\n\nAnd Ukrainian forces, including Lt Gordeev and his unit, appear to be holding the line, although Western experts say they are already outnumbered three to one.", "Hakeem Hussain had suffered from asthma since the age of three, exacerbated by his mother's drug habit\n\nThe mother of a boy found dead in a freezing garden after an asthma attack has been found guilty of manslaughter.\n\nJurors were told Laura Heath \"prioritised\" her drug addiction over caring for Hakeem Hussain.\n\nThe court heard Heath had even repurposed one of the seven-year-old's inhalers as a makeshift crack pipe.\n\nThe 40-year-old was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence over Hakeem's death in Nechells, Birmingham, in November 2017.\n\nShe also admitted four counts of child cruelty at Coventry Crown Court, and is due to be sentenced on 28 April.\n\nProsecutors said Hakeem died alone and \"gasping for air\" in the garden of a friend where his mother had been staying.\n\nJust two days earlier, a nurse had told a safeguarding panel that he \"could die at the weekend\".\n\nLaura Heath paid for her £55-a-day drug habit by sex work and deceiving friends and family\n\nThe court heard Hakeem went to bed at about 22:00 GMT on 26 November, while his mother smoked more drugs, before she passed out in the same bed as him.\n\nHis breathing became more difficult in the night, thought to have been exacerbated by the second-hand smoke.\n\nHe had not been able to access his preventative inhaler for two days as it was left uncollected by his mother at his home on nearby Long Acre.\n\nUnable to rouse his mother, it is thought he went outside for fresh air, where he was found the next morning.\n\nHis lifeless body was discovered in the garden by the friend Heath had been staying with and he carried him inside the home to the sofa.\n\nThe trial heard one of Hakeem's inhalers had been repurposed for smoking drugs\n\nHeath called emergency services and later told police he was \"freezing and his lips were blue\".\n\nShe said Hakeem would go out when unwell and that \"he must have fallen asleep\" outside.\n\n\"I just suspect he didn't wake me up, took himself to get fresh air and then probably fell asleep,\" she said in a police interview.\n\nA neighbour heard tapping at his window in the early hours, but saw nothing in the darkness, the trial heard.\n\nSocial services were aware of Hakeem before his death different agencies discussed his case just days before his death.\n\nA Child Safeguarding Practice Review into their contact with the youngster and his mother is set to be published within weeks.\n\nBut Andy Couldrick, chief executive of Birmingham's Children's Trust, said there were \"clear missed opportunities\" by social workers and that the conference \"should have happened earlier\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hakeem Hussain: Agencies should have acted more \"urgently\"\n\nJurors were told that health, education and social workers voted to act to protect Hakeem at the child protection conference with the family's social worker set to speak to Heath on the Monday, by which time Hakeem had died.\n\nNeelam Ahmed, family outreach worker at Hakeem's school, told jurors she had voted at the meeting \"to take Hakeem immediately into care\".\n\nShe and school nurse Melanie Richards rated Hakeem's safety as \"zero\" out of 10.\n\nIain Butlin Moran, who chaired the conference on the Friday, said \"standard practice\" for the family's social worker to update the family of the outcome of the meeting \"would have been to do that on the Monday\".\n\nThe court heard that Hakeem had told one witness he had no bed at his Long Acre home\n\nBirmingham Children's Trust was formed six months after Hakeem's death, following years of criticism of council-run services in the city.\n\nThe trial heard Heath - whose other three children were taken into care - failed to ensure her son's asthma was properly treated and monitored.\n\nShe also admitted failing to provide proper medical supervision and exposing her son to class A drugs before his death.\n\nConditions at her home at Long Acre were described as \"disgusting\" by one witness who said Hakeem had said he had no bed, and slept on the sofa, while there was evidence Heath used an upstairs bedroom for sex work to fund her drug habit.\n\nTeachers said Hakeem would often arrive late for school in an unwashed uniform, looking dirty, with uncut hair.\n\nHeath's friend, Chloe Cooper, said she offered to take him home with her the day before he died after being shocked at his home environment, but Heath refused.\n\nThe boy's father was in prison at the time of Hakeem's death, for an unrelated offence, the court heard.\n\nHakeem had been suffering from breathing difficulties and asthma since he was three years old and throughout his life authorities were concerned about his medical condition and how it was being mismanaged at home, West Midlands Police said.\n\nConditions at the property Heath had been staying were described by one friend as \"foggy and smoky\" inside and a \"mess\"\n\nHe was admitted to a high dependency unit for four days in September 2017 - his third admission - due to his \"life-threatening\" condition, the court heard.\n\nIn a card written by Heath to her son after his death, she questioned why he had not stayed inside or woken her up, but the trial heard he may have struggled to rouse her after she had smoked drugs.\n\nDet Insp Michelle Thurgood, who led the investigation, said his death was \"untimely, tragic and preventable\" with his mother failing in her duty of care to administer his medication.\n\n\"He was a young boy who should have been enjoying a carefree and happy childhood. I am saddened by what happened to him and the desperately unfortunate circumstances that caused his death,\" she said.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Heath had been told by several medical professionals about the importance of managing her son's asthma better, but pharmacy records showed that in the last two months of his life, Hakeem had been given only one third of the prescribed amount of preventer medication.\n\nShe also exposed him to known asthma triggers, like second-hand smoke, and toxicology evidence proved that Hakeem had inhaled tobacco smoke in the hours before his death and a hair sample showed he had also ingested heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis.\n\nGeorgina Davies from the CPS said: \"This was a tragic case of a young boy who was let down by his mother who should have protected him.\n\n\"The terrible choices that Laura Heath repeatedly made led to the loss of Hakeem Hussain and I welcome the jury's decision.\"\n\nLaura Heath had sole custody of Hakeem and was increasingly dependent on drugs\n\nAfter his death, staff and pupils at Nechells E-Act Academy had described Hakeem as a \"beautiful little boy, a great friend to many staff and children with a wicked sense of humour and an infectious giggle\".\n\n\"He totally stole the show with his performance as the 'Christmas Star' in the year two nativity play with his clear speaking voice and stage presence,\" the school said.\n\n\"There wasn't a dry eye in the house as he delivered his lines with poignancy, grace and humour.\n\n\"The twinkle in his beautiful eyes was as bright as the stars in the sky, and our love for him will shine out forever, from all of his Nechells family.\"\n\nThe NSPCC echoed criticisms that \"opportunities were missed by local agencies to step in and protect Hakeem\".\n\n\"Suffering from severe asthma meant Hakeem Hussain needed an attentive and loving parent who was always alert to his wellbeing,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Tragically he was instead totally neglected by his mother as she lost herself consuming heroin and crack cocaine.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thames Valley Police said officers were called to a property in Bourne End on Tuesday\n\nThree people found dead at a sheltered accommodation flat died from stab wounds, post-mortem examinations have found.\n\nThe bodies of a man and a woman in their 60s, and a man in his 50s, were discovered in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, on Tuesday.\n\nThe pair in their 60s have been named locally as Susan and Jeffrey Farrance.\n\nThames Valley Police are yet to release any names but have said a \"complex\" murder investigation is under way.\n\nThe force said officers were called to Orchard House in Spring Gardens at about 21:55 BST following reports of a disturbance.\n\nIt added that three people - a man and a woman from Bourne End and a man in his 50s from Hazlemere - were found dead, together with \"evidence to suggest a serious assault had occurred\".\n\nPost-mortem examinations on Thursday found the cause of death for all three to be stab wounds to the chest and abdomen.\n\nIt added that formal identification of the bodies was still to take place but earlier confirmed that all three were known to each other.\n\nOfficers have said they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone who might have seen something in the area of Orchard House to come forward\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with the victims' families at what must be an extremely difficult time for them and they have asked for their privacy to be respected.\n\n\"We are still investigating the circumstances of this very complex inquiry, we are not looking for anyone else in connection with it and a file is being prepared for the coroner.\n\n\"A scene watch is still likely to be in place for a number of days, which is likely to have an impact on local residents and I would like to thank them for their continued patience.\"\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone who heard a disturbance or saw anything suspicious in or around Orchard House or Spring Gardens between 17:00 and 22:00 on Tuesday to come forward.\n\nEve Speight, who lives on the second floor with her husband, a few flats down from the one where the bodies were discovered, told the BBC that her husband heard two men arguing earlier in the evening before armed police arrived and a helicopter was circling overheard.\n\nRed Kite housing association, which runs the property where the incident happened, has confirmed it is assisting police with their investigation and working with other tenants who live at the scheme \"to ensure they feel safe and secure\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Murder inquiry after three bodies found in village\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rita, 17, has made friends and is being positive about the changes happening to her group\n\nA group of Ukrainian orphans - extracted from a war zone by a Scottish charity started by football fans - have finally settled into their new home.\n\nThe group of 52 children and their guardians made headlines when the Dnipro Kids charity fought red tape to bring them to safety in Scotland.\n\nAfter a month of rest and recovery in Callander near Stirling, they are now living in Edinburgh.\n\nSome of the older children have been speaking about their new lives.\n\nShe said: \"It's very pretty. I like it very much and the place we stay in is very different from what we have in Ukraine. So far we like everything. I like it here.\"\n\nBut there is still a lingering sadness for what has been left behind.\n\n\"On one side I am so very sad for so many friends I left in Ukraine, but I have met some good friends here in Scotland already. It's cool.\"\n\nSasha, 16, explained that the journey from Dnipro to Poland and then on to Scotland was \"difficult, long and uncomfortable\".\n\nHe said the situation has been hard for all of them but that they have been supporting each other. As one of the older children, he helps his house mother.\n\nHe said: \"It's lots of responsibility. I have to help my mother - she needs my help and I help her to stay more relaxed.\n\n\"It is difficult for the children to be in another country and they are doing their best, trying not to make mistakes that will cause any trouble. Mum always protects them asking them to be careful.\"\n\nSasha helps his house mothers and says all the children have been supporting each other\n\nSasha likes Edinburgh and says Scottish people have been kind to them, but thoughts of home are never far away.\n\n\"It is a beautiful city and very nice people,\" he said. \"But I miss my home very much. I worry a lot because war takes a lot of innocent lives and I hope that all the people I love and care about will be safe.\n\n\"I miss Dnipro and I hope to go back soon.\"\n\nStevie Carr has worked with Dnipro Kids for many years and finds it hard to take in what the tiny charity has achieved in getting the Ukrainian children out of the war-ravaged country .\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"It's absolutely unbelievable that on the back of a just a football match 17 years ago, that this charity has managed to achieve something that was probably impossible to imagine at the start of March.\n\n\"The fact we have done it is phenomenal, with too many people to mention who have helped us along the way.\"\n\nHibernian supporters have kept the charity going since 2005\n\nDuring a UEFA Cup trip to the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, in September 2005, a handful of Hibernian FC supporters organised a collection for some local orphans.\n\nThe gesture turned into an official charity and the team's supporters adopted the Dnipro Appeal.\n\nIn its first year, funds bought the children of the orphanage winter coats and boots and then paid for medical equipment and repairs to their building. Over the years the charity helped more children in the city.\n\nAfter the Russian invasion, the plight of the children gained the charity support with both the Scottish and UK governments involved in efforts to evacuate the children to safety.\n\nEnglish lessons began for the young people this week and City of Edinburgh Council is working on plans for the group which ranges in ages from one to 19.\n\nAndy McWhirter, from social work services, said the council's main role was to restore some sense of normality.\n\n\"The important thing is they are guests here and they all want to go home,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to find a balance to help them integrate and relate to Scotland but to support their Ukrainian identity and not impose our values and views on their experience.\"\n\nTheir education will be mindful of their connection to Ukraine, using online lessons being provided to displaced children by the Ukrainian authorities.\n\nEnglish lessons began this week for the Dnipro young people\n\nNatalie Radchenko worked for Dnipro Kids in Ukraine and travelled with the group, often acting as their translator.\n\nShe has seen a change in the children since they settled in Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"We are all very happy to be somewhere nice and safe.\n\n\"Everyone is a bit tired of travelling but I think they are getting better after all the stress and the horrible situation.\n\n\"The kids were very quiet in the beginning but now you can see them smiling and happy.\"\n\nIt has been a long, exhausting and, at times, emotional journey. BBC Scotland first met the children and young people as they crossed the Polish border on their way to their ultimate destination - Edinburgh.\n\nIn the last week they have been settling into their accommodation here. It is no mean feat for the tiny charity set up by Hibs supporters to get them here.\n\nThe young people I spoke to were so positive and full of hope.\n\nThe strong bonds between them are so clear to see with the older teenagers helping take care of the little ones.\n\nThey are making the best of the most difficult of situations, laughing, smiling and playing with each other.\n\nTheir house mothers show so much strength - they have left family behind but stoically support and protect their families here.\n\nBut the biggest hope the young people and mothers have of all is to return to Dnipro and the people they love there.", "Kate and Gerry McCann pictured in 2017, 10 years after their daughter disappeared\n\nMadeleine McCann's parents have welcomed news that a German man has been formally made a suspect over the three-year-old's disappearance.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann said it reflected progress in the investigation, adding they still hoped to be reunited with Madeleine, who went missing in 2007.\n\nPortuguese prosecutors made Christian Brueckner an \"arguido\" on Thursday, but did not formally reveal his name.\n\nBrueckner has not been charged and denies any involvement in the case.\n\nMadeleine disappeared during a family holiday in Praia da Luz and investigators believe she was abducted from the apartment where the family were staying in the Algarve resort.\n\nPosting on the Official Find Madeleine Campaign Facebook page, Kate and Gerry McCann wrote: \"We welcome the news that the Portuguese authorities have declared a German man an 'arguido' in relation to the disappearance of our beloved daughter Madeleine.\n\n\"This reflects progress in the investigation, being conducted by the Portuguese, German and British authorities.\n\n\"It is important to note the 'arguido' has not yet been charged with any specific crime related to Madeleine's disappearance.\n\n\"Even though the possibility may be slim, we have not given up hope that Madeleine is still alive and we will be reunited with her.\"\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nGerman police first announced they were investigating Brueckner in connection with Madeleine's disappearance in 2020.\n\nHe is serving a prison sentence for drug offences in Germany and was also given a seven-year term for raping a 72-year-old woman.\n\nOn Thursday, a statement was issued by prosecutors in Faro, Algarve's main city, who said a person was made an \"arguido\" - which translates as \"named suspect\", \"formal suspect\" or \"person of interest\" - a day earlier.\n\nOn 3 May it will be 15 years since Madeleine was reported missing and under Portuguese law it would no longer be possible to declare someone a person of interest beyond this date. Declaring someone a person of interest is a necessary step to any criminal charges.\n\nIn its statement, though, Portugal's office of public prosecutions said the move was not driven by timing, but by \"strong indications\" of the practice of a crime.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police continue to treat Madeleine's disappearance as a missing persons inquiry.\n\nChristian Brueckner has not been charged over Madeleine's disappearance\n\nJim Gamble, a former police officer who led a 2010 review of the case commissioned by the Home Office, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the case against Brueckner was strong and the \"confidence of the German police\" should not be underestimated.\n\nHe said: \"This seems like a really strong case and that's why I don't think it is a procedural tick in a box to make sure they don't miss out because of the statute of limitations.\"\n\nThe child protection expert claimed a phone attributed to the convicted rapist placed him in the area within a 30-minute window. He also said Brueckner had burgled holiday homes in the area and had children's clothes in his camper van.\n\nHe continued: \"I think the circumstantial evidence that I know exists is extremely strong… I wouldn't be surprised if charges follow.\"\n\nThe Madeleine McCann case has been out of the news in Portugal for some time, and in the last few years almost all developments have emerged from the prosecutor's office in Germany.\n\nThis latest news has been widely reported, though in some cases not very prominently and with few details.\n\nVirtually everyone in Portugal knows about the case, though, with many having for months if not years followed the ins and outs. Not only the various criminal investigations, but the civil case in which Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann sued - ultimately unsuccessfully - the former lead detective on the case, Gonçalo Amaral, after he published a book about it.\n\nHe had already attracted a lot of criticism, particularly from British tabloids, which raised some hackles in Portugal, since the Judicial Police, or PJ, is in fact one of the country's most respected institutions.\n\nIt's not clear whether or when the Portuguese authorities might charge this or any other suspect in the case.\n\nWhile there are legal deadlines, the pandemic could be grounds for the courts to rule that more time is allowed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Svyatoslav Palamar, from the controversial Azov regiment, says Mariupol was and will stay Ukrainian\n\nOne of the last Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol has told the BBC that the besieged steelworks where they are holed up is largely destroyed above ground and civilians are trapped under collapsed buildings.\n\nSpeaking from the Azovstal plant - the last part of Mariupol not under Russian control - Svyatoslav Palamar from the controversial Azov regiment said defenders had repelled waves of Russian attacks.\n\n\"I always say that as long as we are here, Mariupol remains under control of Ukraine,\" he said.\n\nEarlier President Vladimir Putin called off a planned Russian assault on the steelworks - a maze of tunnels and workshops - and ordered his troops to seal it off instead.\n\n\"Block off this industrial area so that a fly cannot pass through,\" he said.\n\nMuch of Mariupol has been destroyed in weeks of heavy Russian bombardment and intense street fighting. Taking the Sea of Azov port is a key Russian war aim and would release more troops to join a Russian offensive in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nCapt Palamar said the Russians had fired on the steel plant from warships and dropped \"bunker-busting\" bombs on it.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify any of his account. But it tallies with testimony earlier this week from a Ukrainian marine commander also in the steelworks, who said fighters were outnumbered and running out of supplies.\n\n\"All the buildings in the territory of Azovstal are practically destroyed. They drop heavy bombs, bunker-busting bombs which cause huge destruction. We have wounded and dead inside the bunkers. Some civilians remain trapped under the collapsed buildings,\" Capt Palamar said.\n\nThe Azov regiment was originally a far-right group that was later incorporated into Ukraine's National Guard. Its fighters along with a Marine brigade, border guards and police officers are the last Ukrainian defenders left in the city.\n\nWhen asked how many Ukrainian defenders remained in Mariupol, Capt Palamar answered simply \"enough to repel attacks\".\n\nHe said that civilians were in separate locations away from fighters. They were in basements containing 80-100 people each but it was unclear how many civilians there were in total as some buildings had been destroyed and fighters could not reach them because of shelling. Entrances to some of the bunkers were blocked by heavy concrete slabs that only heavy machinery could move, he said.\n\n\"We keep in touch with those civilians who stay in places that we can get to. We know that there are small children there as young as three months old,\" he said.\n\nThe fighter appealed for civilians to be given safe passage out of the steelworks and called for a third country or an international body to act as a guarantor for their safety.\n\n\"These people have got through a lot already, through war crimes. They don't trust Russians, and they are scared,\" he said, adding that they feared torture and murder at the hands of Russian troops or deportation to Russia through so-called filtration camps.\n\nElderly civilians in the steelworks were in need of medicine while there were also about 500 seriously wounded fighters who were not getting the care they needed - including major surgery such as amputations.\n\n\"After 52 days of blockade and heavy fighting we are running of medicines. And then we also keep unburied bodies of our fighters whom we need to bury with dignity in Ukraine-controlled territory,\" he said.\n\nCapt Palamar said Ukrainian defenders also wanted to secure their own evacuation if possible - but there could be no question of surrender.\n\n\"As for surrender in exchange for the safe way out for civilians, I hope we all know whom we are dealing with. We definitely know that all guarantees, all statements of the Russian Federation are worth nothing.\"\n\nHe said many of the defenders left in Azovstal came from Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, as well as the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He himself had been married there and his child had been born there.\n\n\"I witnessed how this city was developing. How this city became the pearl of Azov and it's a hometown for me as well,\" he said.\n\n\"Russia is not renewing or rebuilding anything. It aims to destroy and terrorise... If we fall this horde will go further and the whole civilised world will be in danger.\"\n\nUkraine has accused Russian forces of bombing civilian shelters and of using weapons banned or restricted by international law - including phosphorus bombs and cluster munitions - in attacks on Azovstal.\n\nUkraine as well as the US and UK have announced investigations into the possible use of chemical weapons in Mariupol, something Russia has denied. The BBC cannot independently confirm the allegations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin orders forces to block off last Mariupol fighters in steel plant", "Some supermarkets are limiting how much cooking oil customers are able to buy as supplies are hit by war in Ukraine.\n\nTesco is allowing three items per customer. Waitrose and Morrisons have limited shoppers to two items each.\n\nThe majority of the UK's sunflower oil comes from Ukraine and disruption to exports has led to some shortages and an increased demand for alternatives.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium says the restrictions are a temporary measure \"to ensure availability for everyone.\"\n\nOlive, rapeseed and sunflower oils are included in the limits being put in place by some supermarkets, both in-store and online.\n\nIceland have not yet commented on pictures posted on social media of signs that have appeared in its stores limiting sales of two-litre and five-litre bottles of sunflower oil to one per customer.\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesperson for Waitrose said: \"We are closely monitoring the situation and working with our suppliers to ensure customers continue to have a choice of cooking oils.\"\n\nSignage at a Tesco store in Hatfield showed customers were limited to three per customer.\n\nGrocery expert Ged Futter says shoppers can be reassured that there are plenty of alternatives when it comes to cooking oils.\n\n\"We are used to an abundance of varieties, what we may see is that they become more limited,\" he says.\n\nBut he also warned that sunflower oil may soon be unavailable on the shelves. \"These limits may delay things a bit, but in a couple of months, there won't be any sunflower oil available to buy,\" he suggests.\n\nSainsbury's and Asda are not currently limiting how much cooking oil their customers can buy.\n\nA spokesperson for Sainsbury's said: \"We are working closely with our suppliers to make sure customers continue to have cooking oils to choose from including olive oil, vegetable oil and rapeseed oil.\"\n\nTom Holder from the British Retail Consortium said that the restrictions being put in place by some supermarkets are a temporary measure, \"to ensure availability for everyone.\"\n\nHe added that \"retailers are working with suppliers to ramp up production of alternative cooking oils, to minimise the impact on consumers.\"\n\nMorrisons has also introduced limits on the purchase of cooking oils.\n\nAnalysis by retail research firm Assosia also suggests that the reduced supply of sunflower oil as a result of the conflict in Ukraine is having an impact on prices.\n\nIt has tracked changes in the average cost of sunflower oil across major retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi and Lidl.\n\nIts data suggests that a one-litre bottle of own-brand sunflower oil has gone up by an average of 12p to £1.26 since January 2022 - an increase of more than 10%.\n\nFor a five-litre bottle, the increase was 38p or 6%. There had been no change in the average price of a one-litre of own-brand organic sunflower oil, which stood at £3.10.\n\nUK food manufacturers that use sunflower oil as an ingredient in their products, such as crisps and oven chips, have also reported concerns over supplies.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland have told consumers that some products labelled as containing sunflower oil may in fact contain alternatives such as rapeseed oil, in a move to try and make sure products remain available.\n\nThey cautioned that anyone with allergies should look out for extra information.", "A hundred metres underground at the heart of the LHC: I'm shown around a ''majestic cathedral to science''\n\nDeep underground amidst the Alps, scientists are barely able to contain their excitement.\n\nThey whisper about discoveries that would radically alter our understanding of the Universe.\n\n\"I've been hunting for the fifth force for as long as I've been a particle physicist,\" says Dr Sam Harper. \"Maybe this is the year\".\n\nFor the past 20 years, Sam has been trying to find evidence of a fifth force of nature, with gravity, electromagnetism and two nuclear forces being the four that physicists already know about.\n\nHe's pinning his hopes on a major revamp of the Large Hadron Collider. It's the world's most advanced particle accelerator - a vast machine that smashes atoms together to break them apart and discover what is inside them.\n\nIt's been souped up even further in a three-year upgrade. Its instruments are more sensitive, allowing researchers to study the collision of particles from the inside of atoms in higher definition; its software has been enhanced so that it is able to take data at a rate of 30 million times each second; and its beams are narrower, which greatly increases the number of collisions.\n\nWhat all this means is that there's now the best chance ever of the LHC finding subatomic particles that are completely new to science. The hope is that it will make discoveries that will spark the biggest revolution in physics in a hundred years.\n\nAs well as believing that they may find a new, fifth force of nature, researchers hope to find evidence of an invisible substance that makes up most of the Universe called Dark Matter.\n\nThe pressure is on the researchers here to deliver. Many had expected the LHC to have found evidence of a new realm of physics by now.\n\nThe Atlas detector comprises 7,000 tonnes of metal, silicon, electronics, and wiring, intricately and precisely put together. It is now more powerful than ever\n\nThe LHC is part of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as Cern, on the Swiss-French border, just outside Geneva. As one approaches, it seems an unremarkable complex - blocks of 1950s office buildings and dormitories, sprawling across a two and a half square mile site of manicured lawns and winding roads named after revered physicists.\n\nBut 100 metres underground, it is a cathedral to science. I was able to go into the heart of the LHC, to one of the giant detectors that made one of the biggest discoveries of our generation, the Higgs Boson, a subatomic particle without which many of the other particles we know about would not have mass. The Atlas detector is 46m long and 25m high. It is one of the LHC's four instruments that analyse the particles created by the LHC.\n\nIt is 7,000 tonnes of metal, silicon, electronics, and wiring, intricately and precisely put together. It is a thing of great beauty. \"Majesty\" is the word used by Dr Marcella Bona from Queen Mary University of London, who is one of the scientists who uses the Atlas detector for her experiments.\n\nI am awestruck by the view, as Marcella tells me about the improvements to the detector during the LHC's three-year shutdown.\n\n\"It is going to be two to three times better, in terms of the ability for our experiment to detect, collect and analyse data,\" she tells me. \"The whole experimental chain has been upgraded.\"\n\nAmid the clanking and banging of the engineers finishing off Atlas's refurbishment, I find it hard to imagine that something so large is needed to detect particles that are many times smaller than an atom.\n\nThe LHC has four such detectors, each one doing different experiments. It is right in the centre of these gigantic detectors that particles known as protons, which are found in the core of atoms, are crashed together after being accelerated close to the speed of light around a 17-mile circumference ring.\n\nThe collisions create even smaller particles that fly off in different directions. Their path and energy are tracked by the detector systems, and it is this trail that tells the scientists what kind of particle it is, rather like determining the species and characteristics of an animal from its footprints.\n\nThe collisions create particles that fly off in different directions. The trail tells the scientists what kind of particle it is.\n\nNearly all the smaller particles arising from the collisions are already known to science. What the physicists here are after is evidence of new particles, which may arise from the collisions but are believed to be created extremely rarely.\n\nIt is these undiscovered particles that physicists believe hold the key to unlocking a completely new view of the Universe. Their discovery would create the biggest shift in physics thinking since Einstein's theories of relativity.\n\nEngineers have spent the past three years upgrading the LHC to produce more collisions in a shorter space of time. The refurbished machine has a much greater chance of creating and finding the rarely created new particles. Much of that work has been led by Dr Rhodri Jones, who rejoices in his title of \"Head of Beams\".\n\nI meet Rhodri in Cern's magnet assembly area, which resembles a vast aircraft hangar. Here, engineers are revamping the 15 metre-long cylindrical magnets that bend the particle beams around the accelerator. This is precision work with absolutely no margin for error.\n\nThe LHC's magnet assembly area. They have been revamped to make the beam narrower and so increase the number of collisions\n\nRhodri tells me that his team has made the beams narrower, so that more particles are squeezed into a smaller area. This greatly increases the chances of particles crashing into each other.\n\n\"We are looking at very rare processes, so the greater the number of collisions, the greater the chance of actually finding what is going on and seeing small anomalies,\" he says.\n\n\"The improvement in the beam means that for all the physics that we have done since the start of the years the LHC has been in operation, we'll be able to get the same amount of collisions in the next three years as we did in those ten years.\"\n\nAnother big improvement has been in capturing and processing the data from the collisions. In the refurbished LHC, data is collected from each of the four detectors at a blistering rate of 30 million times each second. This is, of course, far too much for a human mind to take in, but any single one of the collisions may contain the crucial piece of evidence of the existence of one of the new particles the scientists are searching for.\n\nThe LHC's software has been upgraded so that it automatically searches through all the data collected and, using the latest AI techniques, it identifies and saves the readings that might be of potential interest for the scientists to analyse.\n\nThe LHC's instruments are more sensitive and will now provide high definition visualisations of the collisions and so better able to detect new particles.\n\nThe current theory of subatomic physics is called the Standard Model. Although it has an unimaginative name, the theory has been brilliant at explaining how the subatomic particles come together to create atoms which make up the world around us. The Standard Model also explains how the particles interact via the forces of nature, such as electromagnetism and the nuclear forces that hold the components of atoms together.\n\nBut the Standard Model can't explain how gravity operates nor can it explain how invisible parts of the Universe, that physicists call Dark Matter and Dark Energy, behave. Scientists know these invisible particles and forces exist from the movement of galaxies in space - and together they account for 95 per cent of the Universe. But no-one has yet been able to prove their existence and determine what they are.\n\nThe LHC's software has been upgraded to enable it to sift through data at a rate of 30 million times each second.\n\nThe LHC was built to detect these particles that might explain how the vast bulk of the cosmos works. Dr Marcella Bona tells me there is now real hope that the upgrades might make that possible.\n\n\"It's a really exciting time,\" she beams. \"We've worked for the past three years updating the machinery. Now we are ready.\"\n\nMarcella has blazed with passion from the moment I met her. But her enthusiasm goes up a level when I ask her if the discovery of a dark matter particle would be one of the biggest discoveries in physics.\n\n\"I would say yes,\" she laughs, eyes widening, \"yes absolutely, that would be incredible,\" she says, allowing herself, momentarily, to revel in the very real prospect of that happening in the coming months.\n\nThis computer simulation shows dark matter sprawled across the Universe. LHC researchers hope to find it for real\n\nNo less excited is Dr Sam Harper, the scientist who has spent the last two decades hunting for the 'fifth force' of nature. He works at another of the LHC's four detectors called CMS, located at the other end of the Cern complex.\n\nResults from LHC before it shut down for the revamp and from several other particle accelerators around the world have found tantalising hints of that fifth force. But with the extra power of the LHC, Sam tells me that his scientific quest may soon be over.\n\nAnd just like Marcella, the excitement in his voice builds as he says out loud what can't formally be said in scientific circles until there is firm evidence.\n\n\"This would upend the field. It would be the biggest discovery of the LHC, the biggest discovery in particle physics since, since...\"\n\n\"It'll be bigger than the Higgs\".\n\nCern will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs Boson later this year. But the festivities draw attention to the fact that the publicly funded £3.6 billion-pound LHC, with its annual costs of £1.1bn, hasn't made a really big discovery since. Many had hoped, and some had expected, the most powerful particle accelerator to have discovered dark energy, a fifth force or some other paradigm-shifting particle by now.\n\nThere is a lot riding on the results the researchers get over next few years because Cern will soon be putting forward proposals for an even larger hadron collider. The most ambitious plan, called the Future Circular Collider (FCC) would have a ring of 60 miles circumference, that would go under Lake Geneva.\n\nThe FCC could cost an estimated £20bn. The current machine has at least another ten years to go, and several more upgrades that will give it even more oomph with which to try to discover the particles that will forever change physics. But the scientific leaders at Cern will be presenting their case for the next phase of particle physics experiments soon. Persuading the governments of member nations to commit to a big increase in funding will be harder if the latest upgrade fails to find even an inkling of the new particles in the next two to three years.\n\nCern's proposed Future Circular Collider will be many times larger than the LHC and much more expensive.\n\nDr Sam Harper confesses to feeling \"a little bit terrified\" as the LHC embarks on its next set of experiments.\n\n\"We are desperately trying to get everything together and we are working really hard to make sure we don't miss any possible new physics. Because the worst thing in the world will be that the new physics is there, and we don't find it.\"\n\nBut overriding Sam's terror is intense excitement about what the next few years hold.\n\n\"The thing that drives all particle physicists is that we want to discover the unknown and this is why things like the fifth force and dark matter are so exciting because we have no idea what it could be or if it exists and we really want to find this out.\"\n\nWhat might be the first crack in the Standard Model was discovered by researchers at Fermilab, the US equivalent of the LHC earlier this month. Over the coming months and years, researchers at the LHC will be looking to confirm their result and find many more fissures in the current theory until it crumbles to make way for a new, unified and more complete theory of how the Universe works.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The EU is asking its citizens to drive less, turn down air conditioning and work from home three days a week, to reduce reliance on Russian energy.\n\nThe measures, drawn up with the International Energy Agency, would save a typical household €450 (£375) a year.\n\nBuying energy from Russia helps to support its economy and finance the war in Ukraine.\n\nBut Europe has said it cannot find alternative supplies, so it is asking citizens to adjust their lifestyles.\n\nThe nine-point plan, entitled “Playing My Part”, urges citizens to drive less, by using public transport, or working from home three days a week.\n\nIt also calls on citizens to:\n\nIt also calls on cities to promote car-free Sundays, as some already do.\n\n“Faced with the horrendous scenes of human suffering that we’ve seen following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, people in Europe want to take action,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA.\n\n“This guide has easy-to-follow steps that with little or no discomfort on our part can reduce the flow of money to Russia’s military and help put us on a path to a cleaner and more sustainable planet.”\n\nThe IEA calculates that if every citizen followed its recommendations, it could save 220 million barrels of oil every year, enough to fill 120 supertankers. It would also save 17bn cubic metres of gas, enough to heat nearly 20 million homes.\n\nIn March, the EU announced a plan to make the bloc independent of Russian energy imports by 2030.\n\nBut the German energy minister Christian Lindner told the BBC on Wednesday it would be impossible to stop oil imports immediately.\n\nThe report also recommends that citizens consider investing in home insulation, smart digital thermostats, and digital cars, which can all help to reduce fossil fuel use.\n\n\"All these measures, they can be voluntary contributions,\" said Leonore Gewessler, Austria's environment minister. \"But they need political action to underpin them.\"\n\nAustria has cut all fares on public transport to three euros per day, she said, and is introducing a programme to help low-income households replace old, inefficient appliances.\n\nEamon Ryan, Ireland's environment minister said by acting at a European level, it was easier to get the political messaging right.\n\n\"It is very difficult not to come across as someone who is telling the citizen what to do, or is being seen as a mean, Scrooge-like character,\" he said.\n\nEU countries are calling on citizens to walk, cycle or take public transport to reduce reliance on Russian oil\n\nSeparately, the UK announced it was tightening sanctions on non-energy goods exported from Russia, including a ban on caviar, silver and wood products.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was also ramping up taxes on some other exports from Russia and Belarus, covering goods worth a total of £130m.\n\nThe products facing higher import duties include diamonds, rubber, pharmaceuticals, meat, coffee, tobacco and other products.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, said the UK was taking every opportunity to \"ratchet the pressure to isolate the Russian economy\".\n\n\"These further measures will tighten the screws, shutting down lucrative avenues of funding for Putin's war machine,\" she said.", "The Earl and Countess of Wessex leave for their seven-day trip on Friday\n\nThe Grenada leg of the Earl and the Countess of Wessex's Caribbean tour has been postponed, a day before their week-long trip begins.\n\nThe decision was made after talks with the island's government and governor general, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nPrince Edward and Sophie will still visit other islands on the tour to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nIt comes after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were criticised for some parts of their recent Caribbean tour.\n\nA Buckingham Palace source said discussions were held with host nations to ensure the itinerary would meet the aims of the tour, which are to celebrate the islands and mark the Queen's 70-year reign.\n\nWithin those discussions, Grenada - on the advice of Dame Cecile La Grenade, its governor general and the Queen's representative in the country - suggested a postponement.\n\nNo further detail has yet been given about the reason for the delay. Prince Edward and Sophie hope to visit the island at a later date, the palace said.\n\nTheir tour of three Caribbean nations - St Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda - will begin on Friday.\n\nThe plan must have seemed straightforward - send members of the Queen's family to her Realms (the countries where she is Head of State) to celebrate their culture and futures in this, her Platinum year. Yes - Princess Anne had a controversy-free trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea earlier this month and next month Prince Charles will travel to Canada. But the negative headlines which buffeted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's Caribbean tour last month will have concentrated Palace minds.\n\nAlthough no reason has been given for the postponement of the Earl and Countess of Wessex's trip to Grenada, the key word in the brief statement announcing the change of plan must be \"consultation\". In Belize, the protest that derailed the Cambridges' trip on its very first day was reportedly because local people felt they had not been consulted on the plans for the visit.\n\nLast year, Barbados removed the Queen as its head of state. Last month, welcoming Catherine and William to his country, the Jamaican prime minister made clear his wish to do the same. Politicians in Grenada have called for a referendum on whether to become a republic. The country's reparations committee - which is calling for compensation from Britain as a result of the slave trade - says it requested an audience with the royal couple.\n\nSo maybe the reason Grenada was dropped is that it was felt a visit may be deemed too political and a risk from a PR perspective. As the Cambridges found out, tours that once may have provided picturesque photo opportunities can now be viewed as a reminder of darker times involving colonialism and slavery. The palace will be hoping enough \"consultation\" has been done to ensure the Earl and Countess receive a warm welcome on the islands that remain on the itinerary.\n\nIn March, part of Prince William and Catherine's Caribbean tour was axed after opposition from locals. The pair had been due to visit a cacao farm in the foothills of the Maya Mountains but it was removed from the couple's schedule following reports of a protest opposing the royal trip.\n\nOther moments on their tour were criticised as public relations missteps - for example a Land Rover trip that was described as having a colonial appearance, and the greeting of local children through a wire fence.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the Caribbean for their first overseas trip since the start of the pandemic\n\nGrenada gained independence from the UK in 1974 when Eric Gairy became the island's first prime minister.\n\nThe National Democratic Congress, a liberal opposition party, has previously said it would put the question of whether the Queen should be head of state to a referendum. It also congratulated the prime minister of Barbados for having taken this step ahead of the island becoming a republic last year.\n\nThe press secretary for the prime minister's office in Grenada said there was a mutual agreement between the parties to postpone the visit.\n\nDuring the upcoming tour, Prince Edward will conduct an investiture on behalf of the Queen and the couple will attend a service to mark the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe couple are due to meet local communities, Commonwealth Games athletes, craftspeople and women in leadership roles during their trip.", "UK doctors believe they have documented the longest Covid infection on record - a patient they treated who had detectable levels of the virus for more than 16 months, or 505 days, in total.\n\nThe unnamed individual had other underlying medical conditions and died in hospital in 2021.\n\nPersistent infections such as this are still rare, say the London medics.\n\nMost people naturally clear the virus, but the patient in question had a severely weakened immune system.\n\nChronic infections like these need studying to improve our understanding of Covid and the risks it can pose, say experts.\n\nThe patient first caught Covid in early 2020. They had symptoms and the infection was confirmed with a PCR test.\n\nThey were in and out of hospital many times over the next 72 weeks, for both routine checks and care.\n\nOn each occasion - about 50 in all - they tested positive, meaning they still had Covid.\n\nThe doctors, from King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, say detailed lab analysis revealed it was the same, persistent infection, rather than repeated bouts.\n\nThe patient could not shake the infection, even after being given antiviral drugs.\n\nThis is different to \"long Covid\", where symptoms persist after the infection has gone.\n\nOne of the medics who will be presenting the findings at a medical conference - the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - is Dr Luke Blagdon Snell.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"These were throat swab tests that were positive each time. The patient never had a negative test. And we can tell it was one continuous infection because the genetic signature of it - the information we got from sequencing the viral genome - was unique and constant in that patient.\"\n\nProlonged infections are rare but important, say the researchers, because they might give rise to new variants of Covid - although that did not happen in this case, or other ones that they studied.\n\nDr Snell said: \"The virus is still adapting to the human host when people are infected for a long time. It might provide an opportunity for Covid to accrue new mutations.\n\n\"Some of these patients that we have studied have mutations that have been seen in some of the variants of concern.\"\n\nHe stressed that none of the nine patients they checked had spawned a new dangerous variant.\n\nSomeone with a chronic infection might not be contagious to others, he added.\n\nDr David Strain from the University of Exeter Medical School, said: \"We know that every time the virus replicates, it must reproduce its RNA - equivalent to manually copying a text book. We know if we were to transcribe an entire book we would make mistakes, so too does the virus. Every copy will produce mutations.\n\n\"Although Omicron did not arise in these particular individuals, this demonstrates a very clear pathway by which vaccine resistant variants may arise. Whereas with BA.2 we have got lucky, that the mutation is associated with a less severe illness, there is no guarantee that the next iteration will be the same.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson punched a fellow airline passenger after the person \"threw a water bottle at him,\" Tyson's spokesperson has said.\n\nVideo taken on the plane shows Tyson leaning over his seat as he repeatedly punches an unidentified man.\n\nA spokesperson for the boxing Hall of Famer confirmed Tyson had an \"incident with an aggressive passenger\" who was \"harassing him\".\n\nPolice were dispatched and temporarily detained two individuals.\n\nOne person was treated at San Francisco International Airport for non-life threatening injuries.\n\n\"That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to co-operate further with the police investigation,\" a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.\n\nBoth people were released \"pending further investigation\". The department did not identify either of the individuals involved.\n\nThe attack occurred on board a JetBlue fight on Wednesday night, before it set off from San Francisco to Florida.\n\nThe video - published by TMZ - does not show the entirety of the altercation and a water bottle is not visible in the footage.\n\nAccording to TMZ, Tyson had agreed to take a picture with the passenger at the beginning of the flight. But the man continued to harass Tyson, despite requests from Tyson to \"chill\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TMZ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe video of Tyson striking his fellow passenger includes audio of another person calling \"hey Mike, Mike\", seemingly trying to calm him while another person tries to push Tyson away.\n\nIt then shows the passenger's forehead, which appears bloodied.\n\nThe San Francisco Police Department said it was \"aware of video that possibly captured the incident\". The footage was sent to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office which has jurisdiction over the investigation.\n\nTyson is no stranger to violence inside and outside the ring.\n\nIn 1992, he was convicted of rape and served three years in prison. In 1997, he was disqualified from a fight after biting off part of his opponent's ear.\n\nAnd in 1998, Tyson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour assault following a car accident in Maryland.\n\nSince February 2021, more than 7,000 unruly passenger incidents have been reported in the US - though 70% of them involved masking rules, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.", "Across Ukraine’s Kyiv region, efforts have begun to clear the countless pieces of unexploded ammunition left behind after fierce fighting. The main hospital there says it’s receiving increasing numbers of patients who’ve touched or stepped on mines and shells. The State Emergency Service, police and army all have expert teams working on the ground to make the area safe.", "The hedgehog was kicked several times along a driveway\n\nA man has been fined after being filmed kicking a hedgehog several times.\n\nFootage of David Herring, 53, of Manor Road, Sudbury, in Suffolk, kicking the animal several times in November last year, was sent to the RSPCA.\n\nThe RSPCA said the hedgehog was kicked with \"considerable force\", causing \"pain and fear\", with Herring showing a \"clear disregard for a wild animal\".\n\nAt Colchester Magistrates' Court he admitted causing unnecessary suffering and was fined £277.\n\nHerring was also ordered to pay £300 costs and a £34 victim surcharge.\n\nImages caught on camera showed him moving the hedgehog from a doorway and kicking it several times out of a driveway of a property in Sudbury.\n\nSpeaking after the case on 6 April, RSPCA inspector Caroline Richardson, said: \"Having reviewed video footage it was clear the hedgehog was kicked with considerable force.\n\n\"The final kick can clearly be heard on the camera footage. The hedgehog rolls at speed several metres, out of sight.\n\n\"An expert vet who examined the footage said the hedgehog would have suffered unnecessarily during this time and the suffering would have extended beyond the time of the kicking if an injury was caused. [The vet] believed the suffering caused was due to pain and fear.\n\n\"This was an incident which showed a clear disregard for a wild animal,\" she added.\n\nIn mitigation, the court heard Herring was of previous good character, that he had had a heart attack within the last year and had been under stress.\n\nHis legal team said Herring had initially thought the hedgehog was a rat.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aiden Aslin was told by the interviewer that he could face the death penalty\n\nA video of a British man captured in Ukraine has been removed from YouTube following claims it broke the Geneva Convention.\n\nAiden Aslin, originally from Newark, Nottinghamshire, was seized by Russian forces during the battle for Mariupol.\n\nHe appeared, handcuffed, in a video posted on YouTube.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament on Wednesday, MP Robert Jenrick said the interviewer Graham Phillips was \"in danger of prosecution for war crimes\".\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Jenrick also called on the online platform to remove the video immediately.\n\nHe said it showed Mr Aslin \"being interviewed under duress for propaganda purposes\", and claimed that was \"a flagrant breach of the Geneva Conventions\".\n\nOn Friday, YouTube said it had removed the video following a \"valid privacy complaint\".\n\nThe firm added it had also taken action against Mr Phillips, saying his account was no longer able to receive money from advertisements.\n\nIn the 45-minute interview, Mr Phillips claimed Mr Aslin was a \"mercenary\" rather than a prisoner of war, and told him he could face the death penalty.\n\nHowever, Mr Aslin had been serving as a marine in Ukraine's military since before Russia launched its invasion. His family said he had moved to Mykolaiv in 2018 where he met his girlfriend.\n\nResponding to the news from YouTube, his mother said she was very relieved, after finding the videos of her son being interviewed in captivity \"horrifying\".\n\n\"I'm happy that YouTube have recognised and taken action on removing this.\" Angela Wood said.\n\nYouTube has also previously blocked channels linked to Russian state media.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Aiden Aslin is seen wearing military uniform and holding a puppy\n\nTwo British men captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine are being \"taken care of\", Russia has said.\n\nAiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, were captured last week while defending the south-eastern city of Mariupol.\n\nIn footage shown on Russian state TV, both appeared to have facial bruising, prompting their families to call for the Geneva Convention to be respected.\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: \"Don't worry, the Russian side is taking care of them.\"\n\nShe added: \"They are fed, watered, and given the necessary assistance. Just like other foreigners who have surrendered or been detained.\"\n\nMs Zakharova also referenced what she described as a call by Prime Minister Boris Johnson for British detainees to be shown mercy, and said that in turn Britain should \"show mercy\" to the citizens of Ukraine by stopping the supply of weapons to the Ukrainian government.\n\nMr Johnson had urged Russia to treat captured British fighters \"humanely and compassionately\".\n\nThe Geneva Convention states that prisoners of war must be protected \"against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity\".\n\nBoth Mr Aslin, originally from Newark in Nottinghamshire, and Mr Pinner, originally from Bedfordshire, have lived in Ukraine since 2018.\n\nThey had both been serving as marines in Ukraine's military since before Russia launched its invasion.\n\nIn separate clips broadcast on Monday on the Rossiya 24 TV channel, each was seen calling on Boris Johnson to arrange for them to be freed in exchange for Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician currently being held by Ukraine.\n\nIt is not clear whether the men were speaking under duress.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Robert Jenrick, the MP for Mr Aslin's home constituency, described the broadcasts as a \"flagrant breach\" of the Geneva Convention.\n\nHe later told the BBC that a prisoner exchange was the \"most likely route\" to get Mr Aslin to safety, but added it would be for the Ukrainian government to decide whether a swap could take place.\n\nShaun Pinner seen while serving with the United Nations\n\nThe families of both Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner have released statements saying that the men are long-serving members of the Ukrainian military and not volunteers or mercenaries.\n\nMr Aslin's family said he was a \"much-loved young man with... a loving wife-to-be\" and described the footage of him as \"deeply distressing\".\n\n\"Together with the family of Shaun Pinner, we are in contact with the Foreign Office to ensure the Russian authorities meet their obligations to prisoners of war under international law, and ultimately to secure the release of Aiden and Shaun,\" they said.\n\nMr Pinner's family described him as a well-respected soldier and \"funny, much-loved, [and] well-intentioned\".\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government announced a new raft of sanctions targeting key figures within Russia's military and others supporting the war effort.\n\nThe measures included asset freezes and travel bans for the commander of the Russian airborne forces Col Gen Andrey Serdyukov, and Lt Col Azatbek Omurbekov, the commanding officer of the unit accused of committing war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.\n\nAlso targeted was Oleg Belozyorov, CEO of Russian Railways, which has helped in the transport of Russian military equipment, and Ilya Kiva, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament expelled last month over his support for the Russian invasion.", "UK singer Tom Grennan is recovering from an \"unprovoked attack\" which has left him with injuries including a torn ear-drum, his manager has announced.\n\nThe 26-year-old is said to have been attacked and robbed outside a bar in Manhattan after performing in New York on Wednesday.\n\nHe has been forced to postpone his gig in Washington DC on Friday as a result.\n\nGrennan's track Little Bit of Love was nominated for song of the year at this year's Brit Awards.\n\n\"In the early hours of this morning after Tom's New York show, he was the victim of an unprovoked attack and robbery outside a bar in Manhattan,\" his manager John Dawkins said in a statement posted online on Thursday evening.\n\n\"Tom is currently being assessed by doctors for his injuries which include a ruptured ear, torn ear-drum and issue with his previously fractured jaw.\"\n\nHe added: \"Despite this Tom is in good spirits but needs to temporarily recuperate whilst doctors assess his ability to continue with his touring.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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And DJ Mista Jam offered: \"Sending love to you bro\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by TomGrennanVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nGrennan initially found fame as the guest vocalist on Chase & Status's track All Goes Wrong, and he went on to score a number one solo album with 2021's Evering Road.\n\nThe Bedford-born singer received two recent Brit Award nominations, including best rock/alternative act, while losing out to Adele's Easy on Me in the song of the year category.\n\nLast month he revealed that therapy had offered him \"light at the end of a tunnel\", as he opened up about his mental health battles.", "Russia's stated aim is to capture and control Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas\n\nRussia is aiming to take full control of southern Ukraine as well as the eastern Donbas region, a senior Russian commander says.\n\nMaj Gen Rustam Minnekayev was quoted in state media as saying that goal would allow Moscow to form a land bridge to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.\n\nHe also said it would give Moscow access to the Russian-backed separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova.\n\nIt is unclear if Gen Minnekayev's comments were officially sanctioned by the Kremlin, but they were widely cited in Russian state media including the Interfax and Tass news agencies.\n\nRussian defence officials told the BBC's Steve Rosenberg that they were \"looking into\" the general's comments, which - if confirmed - offer the first insight into Russia's potential plans in the coming weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, a senior EU official told Reuters that Russia is likely to intensify its attacks in eastern Ukraine and along the southern coast in the coming days, adding that the next two weeks may be decisive in the war.\n\nMoldova has summoned Moscow's ambassador over the comments, which its foreign ministry described as \"deeply concerning\".\n\nA small Russian-speaking breakaway region, Transnistria borders Ukraine from the west. It claimed independence after the fall of the Soviet Union in a bloody conflict, but is not recognised internationally and officially remains part of Moldova.\n\nA small detachment of around 1,500 Russian troops has been stationed in the region since 1995 as part of a truce agreement.\n\nGen Minnekayev, who is deputy commander of Russia's central military district, was speaking at a military event in the Sverdlovsk region on Friday.\n\n\"Control over the south of Ukraine is another way out to Transnistria, where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population,\" Gen Minnekayev said.\n\nMr Putin made similar claims, without providing evidence, about alleged discrimination against Russian speakers in Ukraine before launching the invasion on 24 February.\n\nAnd the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to them in his regular overnight address. \"The Russian invasion of Ukraine was intended only as a beginning, then they want to capture other countries,\" he claimed.\n\nHe earlier said Russia was planning on holding a series of sham independence referendums in occupied regions to create a series of pro-Russian breakaway states.\n\n\"If they ask you to fill out some questionnaires, leave your passport data somewhere, you should know this is not to help you,\" he warned.\n\n\"This is aimed to falsify the so-called referendum on your land if an order comes from Moscow to stage such a show. This is the reality. Be careful.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Ukrainian defence ministry said that referendums were planned in Kherson and occupied areas around Zaporizhzhia in the coming weeks.", "The number of people who currently have coronavirus in the UK is continuing to fall, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIt suggests around 3.76 million people were infected in the week ending 16 April - roughly one in 17 people.\n\nThis is a fall of about 15% on the week before - when the figure stood at 4.4 million, or around one in 15 people.\n\nOther ONS data suggests more than 70% of people in England have had coronavirus since the pandemic began.\n\nONS officials welcomed the overall decline in infection in the UK in recent weeks, but warned levels of the virus remain high.\n\nThe latest study, based on testing by the ONS, gives the clearest available picture of the virus' spread since free testing ended for most people in England at the beginning of this month.\n\nSome limited free testing for the public will continue in Scotland until the end of April, and in Wales and Northern Ireland until the end of June.\n\nThe ONS compiles the data by testing thousands of people at random - whether they have symptoms or not - to estimate how much virus there is in the UK.\n\nDuncan Cook, deputy director for the Covid-19 infection survey, said he welcomed the \"continued decrease\" in infections across England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, as well as Wales, where infections have fallen for the first time in several weeks.\n\nHe added it was \"encouraging\" to see that infections had decreased \"in all age groups\" across England.\n\nBut cautioned: \"Despite the decrease in infections, it is important to note that levels remain high. We continue to monitor these going forward.\"\n\nIn the week ending 16 April, the study estimates:\n\nThe study shows infections fell in all English regions apart from the North East, where the trend was uncertain and where infection rates remain the highest in England.\n\nThe Omicron BA.2 sub-variant - which was partly behind the recent surge in cases - continues to be responsible for most cases across the UK, though levels are falling.\n\nOther UK data shows the number of people being admitted to hospital with Covid continues on a downward trend.\n\nFigures had risen from about 1,100 a day in mid-February to nearly 2,400 by the end of March, but have since dropped to about 2,200 admissions per day.\n\nMeanwhile the number of hospital patients in intensive care with the virus, who require ventilators, stands at around 350.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kathleen Cumming took this picture of Killantringan Lighthouse. She said: \"I had to walk through the woods, down to an empty beach, up the steepest steps I've ever known and scramble up round the cliffs. It was worth it!\"", "A member of a major Scottish crime gang has been jailed for at least 25 years for the murder of a Dutch crime writer outside a sex club.\n\nChristopher Hughes lured Martin Kok, 49, to his death before he was shot eight times by a gunman in Laren, in the Netherlands, on 8 December 2016.\n\nPolice described Hughes, 33, as a \"dangerous individual\" after he was convicted last month.\n\nHe was part of a global enterprise that generated more than £100m a year.\n\nHughes, originally from Glasgow, was also found guilty of involvement in serious organised crime between July 2013 and January 2020.\n\nMartin Kok died outside a club near Amsterdam in 2016\n\nIt was investigated as part of Police Scotland's Operation Escalade.\n\nSentencing Hughes at the High Court in Stirling the judge, Lady Scott, said the murder was a ruthless \"execution.\"\n\nKok was a convicted killer, turned crime writer, who had set up a website detailing the activities of criminals in his homeland.\n\nDuring the trial it emerged Hughes met him at an Amsterdam hotel, then the Boccaccio sex club and alerted others to where he was.\n\nWhen the pair left the club Hughes paused to stroke a cat, before Kok was gunned down as a \"favour\" for seemingly angering Moroccan gangsters.\n\nHughes was quizzed by Dutch police the next day, but was allowed to leave as the international probe into the shooting continued.\n\nIt was his apparent confession to a fellow gang member-turned-informer which lead to his downfall.\n\nHughes was arrested at a hotel in Turin, Italy in January 2020 and flown back to Scotland on a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nThe court heard Hughes was a trusted member of heavily-armed group, which was part of a vast criminal network.\n\nFirearms traded by the organised gang were also used to enforce the gang's lucrative drugs operations\n\nIt had links with gangs across the globe, from Colombian drug cartels to the Italian mafia.\n\nThe group even invested in state-of-the-art surveillance equipment in a bid to establish if their network had been compromised by the authorities.\n\nDuring the trial at the High Court in Glasgow jurors were shown a photo of Hughes smiling with the two wanted men who run the operation.\n\nThey cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nHughes was listed by HMRC as \"unemployed\" but \"wages\" of £40,000-a-week earned him a luxury lifestyle in the Algarve.\n\nThe informer explained to jurors in evidence that he was told to set a meeting up in an Amsterdam hotel between Hughes and Kok.\n\nHe told the court he believed the meeting was to discuss advertising for the firm's encrypted phone company MPC, which was funded with £1m of dirty money, on Kok's new crime TV show.\n\nThe murder was originally due to happen outside the Citizen M Hotel in Amsterdam.\n\nBut 11 months later, during a \"play by play\" of events at his flat in Antwerp, Belgium, Hughes told the informant that the gun had jammed and a second attempt was made later on the same day.\n\nHours later, the court heard, Hughes paid for Kok's evening at the sex club and supplied him with cocaine.\n\nThe informant stated that he was speaking to his crime boss on the night of the incident.\n\n\"He [the boss] had been on about someone waiting for Martin Kok and Christopher Hughes was to hold back,\" he said.\n\n\"Martin left just ahead of Chris and he made a comment about a cat appearing at the club and that he stepped back to pet it.\"\n\nProsecutor Liam Ewing QC asked what the significance of petting the cat was.\n\nThe witness replied: \"Martin was going to his car first so there was no mistake of anyone being caught in the crossfire.\"\n\nJurors watched CCTV of Hughes moments after the shooting walking away from the scene texting on a mobile phone.\n\nMr Ewing also asked the informer if Hughes understood something was to happen to Kok that night.\n\nHe replied: \"I remember a comment being made about putting him [Kok] on a plate for the Roccies.\"\n\nThe witness claimed he had a meeting with his boss a month after the murder.\n\nHe said: \"I was told it was an arrangement because the lad had access to Martin with a group called the Roccies, a Moroccan crime group, who are all over but more prominent in Amsterdam.\"\n\nHughes' boss then organised for him to be picked up as he hid in bushes while paramedics arrived at the scene.\n\nThe court heard Hughes was later put under surveillance by police and watched as he visited industrial units in Cambuslang and East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire as well as Chapelhall, North Lanarkshire.\n\nMr Ewing told the jury in his closing speech that £700,000 was recovered from a machine inside one of the lock up garages.\n\nHe added the lock-up in Chapelhall contained £40,000 of anti-surveillance equipment which is normally only found in the hands of government organisations.\n\nPolice Scotland last month thanked law enforcement colleagues in the Netherlands and Italy for helping to bring the killer to justice.\n\nDet Chief Supt Stuart Houston, head of the organised crime unit, said: \"It has been well-documented that Hughes is a dangerous individual with a long association with organised crime in Scotland and beyond.\n\n\"He has wreaked havoc in our communities by trading illegal drugs to our communities and being involved in the importation of firearms which undoubtedly would have been used to harm or kill others.\"\n\nA global investigation designed to dismantle Scotland's most sophisticated crime group has now resulted in 14 convictions.\n\nJanuary 2018: A nine-man gang was jailed for a total of 87 years after a massive investigation into violence, drugs and firearms offences.\n\nThe list of crimes included the \"merciless\" torture of a man over an unpaid drug debt and a huge arsenal of weapons found hidden in a car.\n\nJudge Lord Beckett said police had shown \"extraordinary ingenuity, courage and commitment\" to bring the gang to justice.\n\nApril 2019: Daniel Lindsay and Darren Mulheron were both jailed for seven years after after officers seized £3.4m of heroin and cocaine as well as five Glock handguns.\n\nThe pair from Castlemilk, Glasgow, pleaded guilty to being involved in serious organised crime.\n\nLindsay, 49, also admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin and Mulheron, 36, to being involved in the supply of cocaine.\n\nFive months after his conviction Lindsay was ordered to hand over £600,000 following a proceeds of crime action\n\n(Left to right) Joseph Lindsay's uncle Daniel Lindsay, Darren Mulheron and Paul Scott have also been convicted following two separate trials linked to Operation Escalade\n\nApril 2019: The group's technical expert Paul Scott fled overseas after being charged over his role with the gang.\n\nThe 47-year-old electrician, of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, eluded police for two years before being caught in Madrid in November 2018.\n\nHe was jailed for seven years after he admitted being involved in serious organised crime.\n\nThe court heard his role involved counter surveillance equipment as well as encrypted devices in order to stay ahead of police.\n\nAugust 2019: Joseph Lindsay was caught after he left DNA traces on elastic bands used to bundle up money found hidden in a lorry.\n\nLindsay, 34, of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, was brought back to Scotland to face justice after he was traced by Spanish police as he waited to meet his family at Tenerife South Airport.\n\nThe nephew of gang member Daniel Lindsay was jailed for four-and-a-half years after he admitted agreeing with others to conceal and disguise criminal property.\n\nLast year Lindsay - a nephew of gang member Daniel Lindsay - agreed to hand over more than £100,000 to settle a proceeds of crime action.", "Madeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nA German man has been declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.\n\nChristian Brueckner, 45, has been made an \"arguido\", but Portuguese authorities have not formally revealed the suspect's name.\n\nIn 2020 German police announced they were investigating him in connection with Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nBrueckner has not been charged and denies any involvement in the case.\n\nGerman authorities informed him he was a suspect, at the request of Portuguese prosecutors in Faro.\n\nThree-year-old Madeleine disappeared during a family holiday in Praia da Luz in 2007.\n\nShe has never been found and investigators believe she was abducted from the holiday apartment where the family were staying in the Algarve resort.\n\nChristian Brueckner has not been charged over Madeleine's disappearance\n\nOn Thursday, a statement was issued by prosecutors in Faro, Algarve's main city, who said a person was made an \"arguido\" - which translates as \"named suspect\", \"formal suspect\" or \"person of interest\" - a day earlier.\n\nOn 3 May it will be 15 years since Madeleine was reported missing and under Portuguese law it would no longer be possible to declare someone a person of interest beyond this date. Declaring someone a person of interest is a necessary step to any criminal charges.\n\nIn its statement, though, Portugal's office of public prosecutions said the move was not driven by timing, but by \"strong indications\" of the practice of a crime.\n\nHe is currently serving a prison sentence for drug offences in Germany and was also given a seven-year term for raping a 72-year-old woman.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police continue to treat Madeleine's disappearance as a missing persons inquiry.\n\nThe Madeleine McCann case has been out of the news in Portugal for some time, and in the last few years almost all developments have emerged from the prosecutor's office in Germany.\n\nThis latest news has been widely reported, though in some cases not very prominently and with few details.\n\nVirtually everyone in Portugal knows about the case, though, with many having for months if not years followed the ins and outs. Not only the various criminal investigations, but the civil case in which Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann sued - ultimately unsuccessfully - the former lead detective on the case, Gonçalo Amaral, after he published a book about it.\n\nHe had already attracted a lot of criticism, particularly from British tabloids, which raised some hackles in Portugal, since the Judicial Police, or PJ, is in fact one of the country's most respected institutions.\n\nIt's not clear whether or when the Portuguese authorities might charge this or any other suspect in the case.\n\nWhile there are legal deadlines, the pandemic could be grounds for the courts to rule that more time is allowed.\n\nMadeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, was on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz when she disappeared on 3 May 2007.\n\nMadeleine's whereabouts remains unknown, despite her disappearance being the most heavily reported missing person case. She is due to turn 19 years of age in May this year.\n\nHer case has been the subject of multiple documentaries, including a Netflix series which was criticised by her parents.\n\nJim Gamble, a former police officer who led a 2010 review of the case commissioned by the Home Office, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the case against Brueckner was strong.\n\nHe said: \"This seems like a really strong case and that's why I don't think it is a procedural tick in a box to make sure they don't miss out because of the statute of limitations.\n\n\"I think there's been a growing case and we should not underestimate the confidence of the German police.\"\n\nThe child protection expert claimed a phone attributed to the convicted rapist placed him in the area within a 30-minute window. He also said Brueckner had burgled holiday homes in the area and had children's clothes in his camper van.\n\nHe continued: \"I think the circumstantial evidence that I know exists is extremely strong… I wouldn't be surprised if charges follow.\"\n\nMr Gamble added: \"It would just be fantastic to be able to give the McCanns peace of mind so far as knowing exactly what happened.\"", "Guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020, new research shows.\n\nData from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020.\n\nWhile suicides contributed to the toll, the data shows that homicides form the majority of gun-related deaths.\n\nMore than 390 million guns are owned by US civilians.\n\nAccording to the research - which was published this week in the New England Journal Medicine - the rise in gun-related deaths among Americans between the ages of one and 19 was part of an overall 33.4% increase in firearm homicides nationwide.\n\nOver the same time period, the rate of firearm suicides in the US rose by 1.1%.\n\nThe overall rate of gun deaths of all reasons - suicide, homicide, unintentional and undetermined - among children and teenagers rose by 29.5%, more than twice that of the wider population.\n\n\"We continue to fail to protect our youth from a preventable cause of death,\" said a research letter published in the journal on Wednesday.\n\nThe rate of gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents rose among both men and women and across ethnic demographics between 2019 and 2020, with the largest increase among black Americans.\n\nIn past years, gun-related deaths were second only to car crashes as the leading cause of death among young Americans. Car deaths, however, have fallen over time and in 2020 approximately 3,900 Americans under 19 died in vehicle crashes.\n\nIncidents of drug overdoses and poisonings rose 83.6% between 2019 and 2020, and now are the third leading cause of death in that age group. A separate study published earlier in April found that 954 young people died of overdoses in 2020, compared to 492 in 2019.\n\nGun violence in the US has increased since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020.\n\n\"The reasons for the increase are unclear,\" the research letter said. \"It cannot be assumed that firearm-related mortality will later revert to pre-pandemic levels\".\n\nA separate study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in February, found that 7.5 million US adults - just under 3% of the population - became first-time gun owners during the pandemic between January and April 2021.\n\nThis, in turn, exposed 11 million people to household firearms, including five million children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Co-op supermarket has announced plans to ditch use-by dates on its own-brand yoghurt in a bid to reduce food waste.\n\nThe company said the label on packets and containers will instead be replaced by a best-before date as guidance.\n\nSix million people in the UK eat a yoghurt daily, the supermarket said.\n\nBut research from recycling charity Wrap shows half of yoghurts are binned unopened, mainly because they were not eaten before the recommended date.\n\nThe charity's research has also suggested 70% of food waste happens in homes.\n\nUse-by labels are the dates until which perishable food can be cooked and consumed safely. Best-before guidance, meanwhile, is for when the product should be consumed to get the best quality, taste and texture.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency says it is up to manufacturers to decide whether to apply a use-by or best-before date on their products. It will depend on factors such as how the food is made and how risky it is, it said.\n\nIn January, fellow supermarket Morrisons got rid of use by dates on its own-brand milk, in a move it said was aimed at preventing millions of pints being poured down the sink.\n\nNick Cornwell, head of food technical at the Co-op, said yoghurt can be safe if stored unopened in a fridge after the date mark, as the acidity of the dairy product acts as a natural defence for food safety.\n\nHe explained the supermarket were encouraging shoppers to \"use their judgment\" if their yoghurt has passed its best-before date, adding the move was designed to help reduce food waste.\n\nFor foods with a best before date, the FSA urges people to use their senses to check whether it is appropriate to eat. It suggests smelling some dairy products with a best before date to see if they have soured.\n\nMr Cornwell said the move would hopefully help customers to make minor changes which can \"collectively make a big impact and combat unnecessary food waste\".\n\n\"Controlling food waste is not only beneficial for managing household budgets, it also has an environmental benefit and will ultimately help reduce carbon emissions,\" he added.\n\nMr Cornwell also called on other retailers and food brands to review their own pack guidance practices and also make the yoghurt labelling switch.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCatherine David from Wrap said the charity was \"delighted\" at the change, as the date listed on yoghurt packets is a \"fundamental reason that it is wasted at home\".\n\n\"Wasting food feeds climate change and costs money,\" she said.\n\n\"Applying a best before date helps give people the confidence to use their judgment to eat beyond a best-before date and use more of the yogurt they buy - protecting the planet and their pockets.\"\n• None Best before and use-by dates - Food Standards Agency The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "During a speech about surging inflation on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden appeared to accuse Russia's Vladimir Putin of genocide.\n\nThe Biden administration has previously stopped short of describing civilian killings in Ukraine as \"genocide\", but has accused Mr Putin of war crimes.\n\nThe White House is seeking to pin the blame for rising consumer prices on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, though American inflation predates the war.", "The charges relate to an incident in Inverness\n\nA 40-year-old man has been charged with the attempted murder of five police officers by throwing Molotov cocktail-type bottles at them.\n\nThe charges arise from an incident in Inverness on 31 March.\n\nKrzystof Andrusczak also faces charges of wilful fire raising and possessing two knives and a metal chain.\n\nMr Andrusczak appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court and made no plea. He was committed for further examination.\n\nHis solicitor John MacColl said his client had been remanded to the State Hospital in Carstairs for a psychiatric assessment.", "American bodybuilder Cedric McMillan has died at the age of 44, after health complications caused by Covid-19, and a road accident.\n\nMcMillan, a long-time veteran of the US Army and National Guard, was a veteran bodybuilder and 2017 winner of the prestigious Arnold Classic.\n\nHis death was confirmed online by his sponsor, Black Skull USA, though the cause has not been made public.\n\nIt is the third death of a well-known bodybuilder in the US in the past year.\n\n\"We regret to inform you that our friend and brother @cedricmcmillan passed away today,\" Black Skull USA said on Instagram. \"Cedric will be greatly missed as an athlete, comrade, friend and father.\"\n\nMcMillan became a professional bodybuilder in 2009, before going on to win a string of competitions culminating in the 2017 Arnold Classic, named after bodybuilder, actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.\n\nAfter 2020, however, he was largely unable to compete after being plagued by health problems including a serious bicycle crash, heart problems and Covid-19.\n\nIn a November 2021 interview with Generation Iron, McMillan said he was \"almost dead\" from his heart problems in July of the same year.\n\nThe Arnold Sports Festival, which organises the Arnold Classic, said it was \"heartbroken\" to learn of McMillan's death.\n\n\"Known for his larger than life personality, his infectious smile, a gentle heart, and a sense of humour that was loved by fellow competitors and fans alike, Cedric will be deeply missed,\" an Instagram post said.\n\nThree other well-known bodybuilders have died in the past year.\n\nGeorge Peterson died at 37 in October after suffering from heart problems believed to be caused by steroids, while Shawn Rhoden died of a reported heart attack in November.", "The image appearing to show Colin Davis several decades ago was sent to Jewish News this week\n\nA London Conservative Association chair has resigned after he said he \"could not rule out\" that he was once pictured in Nazi military uniform.\n\nThe image is said to show Colin Davis from a number of decades ago and was sent to Jewish News this week.\n\nAfter it emerged, the Enfield Southgate Conservative Association said he was \"no longer a member of the Conservative Party\", nor a local election candidate.\n\nMr Davis told Jewish News he had \"no recollection\" of the occasion \"at all\".\n\nHe told the paper he could not recall dressing up as a Nazi, but added that \"there were various wild parties, very perverse themes expressed… I can't absolutely rule it out\".\n\nIn a statement, the Enfield Southgate Conservative Association said: \"Colin Davis is no longer a member of the Conservative Party and is not a candidate in the May local elections.\"\n\n\"Enfield Southgate Conservative Association is proud to have a diverse team of candidates for the local elections.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by lee harpin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt added the candidates \"reflect the make-up of the communities which they seek to serve\".\n\n\"The Conservative Party is committed to equality and diversity at every level, and does not tolerate members who behave in a manner which threatens these values,\" it added.\n• None Harry says sorry for Nazi costume", "Yousef Palani is accused of two murders as well as a separate assault\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murders of two men in the Irish town of Sligo earlier this week.\n\nYousef Palani, 22, whose address was given as Markievicz Heights, Sligo, is accused of murdering AIdan Moffitt and Michael Snee.\n\nHe is also accused of attacking a third man in the town on 9 April.\n\nHe was detained by armed police after the killing of Mr Snee, 58, whose body was found at his home in Connaughton Road on Tuesday night.\n\nMichael Snee and Aidan Moffitt were found dead in their own homes in Sligo in the Republic of Ireland\n\nThe night before, Mr Moffitt, 42, was found dead in his Cartron Heights home.\n\nBoth men had been assaulted and sustained \"significant\" injuries, Gardaí (Irish police) said.\n\nA large crowd gathered in the area outside the court ahead of the accused's appearance\n\nRelatives of the two murder victims and the man who was assaulted sat in the courtroom for the short hearing.\n\nMr Palani was remanded in custody and will appear in court again by video link on 21 April.\n\nThe court was told he made no reply to the assault charge and said he understood the two murder charges when they were put to him.\n\nA defence lawyer requested he be put on suicide watch by the prison service and that he be given an urgent psychiatric assessment.\n\nA large crowd had gathered outside the court ahead of his appearance.\n\nThey were angry scenes and abuse was shouted at the prison van when it arrived at the court.\n\nThen, when it was leaving the court, some members of the public banged on the side of the van and were held back by police.\n\nOn Thursday, Fr Noel Rooney, a parish priest who knew both victims, said the killings were \"beyond belief\" and had caused \"a great deal of shock and upset\".", "An oil firm has been granted a High Court injunction aimed at restricting environmental protesters from targeting its fuel processing sites.\n\nValero Energy has secured the order against several environmental groups and \"persons unknown\".\n\nIt bans anyone from damaging the land at its sites or \"affixing themselves to any other person or object\".\n\nThe firm's Warwickshire terminal has been the site of recent protests, with 32 arrests made over the weekend.\n\nActivists from the group Just Stop Oil have tried to obstruct access to Valero's Kingsbury oil terminal since a series of nationwide protests started on 1 April.\n\nValero also operates a refinery in Pembrokeshire, south Wales, and five other fuel terminals across the UK.\n\nCampaigners, including some from Extinction Rebellion, have carried out protests at other sites including in Birmingham, London, Southampton and Hemel Hempstead.\n\nFollowing a hearing on Monday, Mr Justice Bennathan made the injunction in terms which ban people from damaging any part of the land at the firm's sites or access roads, from building any structure and from tunnelling under roads or occupying existing tunnels.\n\nThe order, the details of which were made public on Wednesday, also prohibits abandoning vehicles or other items on parts of Valero's sites' access roads.\n\nBut the judge refused to widen the injunction to include blocking, endangering, slowing down, preventing, or obstructing the free passage of traffic on the access roads, and refusing to leave the roads when asked by police.\n\nIn his ruling Mr Justice Bennathan said: \"The order I made forbids various acts of trespass, including the blocking of gates on Valero's premises, and forbids acts of obstructing certain specified roadways, including public highways, in various semi-permanent ways. It does so for all seven sites.\"\n\nHe said he was satisfied Valero would have a strong basis for action over trespass or private and public nuisance on the basis of protests which had already taken place but that due to the sums involved in the oil industry, and the \"impracticality of obtaining damages on that scale from a diverse group of protesters\", damages would not be an adequate remedy.\n\nThe judge added that trespassing on the sites could lead to \"highly dangerous outcomes\" given the flammable nature of the materials on site and that obstruction of roads could cause serious damage for critical infrastructure, as \"emergency services, hospitals and other key parts of society depend on oil based fuels\".\n\nThe injunction will be reconsidered at a hearing next January to determine if it is still necessary.\n\nSimilar injunctions were put in place to stop protests by the group Insulate Britain after its activists blocked parts of the M25 last year.", "Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion arrive at Przemysl Glowny train station, in Poland,\n\nThe UN's refugee agency has urged the UK government to ensure that Ukrainian women and children are not matched with single men as hosts.\n\nThere are concerns that refugees are at risk and could be exploited if matched with an unsuitable host via the Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme.\n\nThe UNHCR has called for \"a more appropriate process\" when matching sponsors and refugees.\n\nThe government said there were \"robust security and background checks\".\n\nThe Homes for Ukraine scheme opened on 18 March but has been criticised for being overly bureaucratic and slow to grant visas.\n\nAnyone in the UK can apply to become a host on the scheme, as long as they are able to offer accommodation to a refugee for at least six months.\n\nHowever, the government does not match hosts with refugees and reports suggest some people could be using social media to find vulnerable women and children fleeing the war.\n\nA spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said it would be \"more appropriate\" to match women and women with children with families or couples than with single men.\n\n\"Matching done without the appropriate oversight may lead to increasing the risks women may face, in addition to the trauma of displacement, family separation and violence already experienced,\" he added.\n\nThe warning follows an investigation by the Times that resulted in an undercover journalist posing as a young Ukrainian woman being inundated with inappropriate messages from single men.\n\nAnd Louise Calvey, the head of safeguarding at Refugee Action has previously told the Observer the scheme was at risk of becoming a \"Tinder for sex traffickers\".\n\nMembers of some Facebook groups have also expressed concerns over exploitation when young Ukrainian women have posted looking for accommodation.\n\nA spokesperson for the government said that \"Attempts to exploit vulnerable people are truly despicable - this is why we have designed the Homes for Ukraine scheme to have specific safeguards in place.\"\n\nThey said these included \"robust security and background checks\" on all sponsors, by the Home Office and local authorities.\n\n\"Councils must make at least one in-person visit to a sponsor's property and they have a duty to make sure the guest is safe and well once they've arrived,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nHome Office figures published on Friday showed only 12,500 visas had been granted under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, and only 1,200 refugees had arrived in the UK under it.\n\nIn total the government had granted 41,000 visas to Ukrainians fleeing the war.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel apologised for the \"frustrating\" delays but said new visa schemes took time to set up.", "The mayor of the port city of Odesa has told the BBC that one of the biggest threats in the Black Sea region has been taken away, after the Russian warship Moskva sank. The flagship carrier was destroyed after it suffered an explosion and fire.\n\nMayor Gennadiy Trukhanov told me: \"The Moskva cruiser had the most modern missile equipment. It was a big threat for us as it could have supported an attack by land if it happened here.”\n\nThe historic city of Odesa has Ukraine’s biggest seaport and has been living in fear of a full-scale invasion by Russia’s navy positioned offshore.\n\nA view of a barricaded street in Odesa on 18 March Image caption: A view of a barricaded street in Odesa on 18 March\n\nEven though the warship is now destroyed, Mr Trukhanov warned that the situation is still dangerous.\n\n“Unfortunately, the enemy has missiles - not only those that were on the Moskva cruiser but also on the land, in Crimea too. We can see it, as there were attacks in Ukraine last night. They were done from the territory of Crimea.”\n\nAnd there was another reminder of the threat from Russia. Rockets hit the coastal city of Mykolaiv to the east of Odesa. The army there told the BBC several civilians were killed or injured. There has been no comment from Moscow on the strike.", "Gooding Jr won an Oscar in 1997 for Jerry Maguire\n\nActor Cuba Gooding Jr has admitted forcibly kissing a woman, in a plea deal that is expected to bring criminal proceedings against him to an end.\n\nThe Oscar winner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour charge of forcibly kissing a waitress in a nightclub in 2018.\n\nHe must continue counselling for six months and avoid any further arrests.\n\nIf he does, he can rescind his plea and instead plead guilty to a lesser violation of harassment. If he does not, he could face a year in jail.\n\nGooding Jr, 54, won an Oscar for his role in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, and is also known for films including Boyz N The Hood and Men of Honour.\n\nHe has been accused of groping and unwanted touching by more than 20 women, with three accusations leading to criminal charges.\n\nThe plea deal means charges relating to all three will be dismissed, his lawyer said. The two women who brought the other charges had accused him of groping them in 2018 and 2019.\n\nHis lawyer Frank Rothman told the AFP news agency: \"In six months, if he stays out of trouble, that charge [to which he pleaded guilty] will be withdrawn, and he will have no criminal record at the end of this.\"\n\nIn court on Wednesday, the actor said: \"I apologise for making anybody ever feel inappropriately touched.\n\n\"I am a celebrity figure. I come into contact with people. I never want them to feel slighted or uncomfortable in any way.\"\n\nOne of the two other women addressed the court on Wednesday, telling how Gooding Jr had grabbed her breast \"as if I was a piece of meat for dinner that night\", according to the Associated Press.\n\n\"I feel very sad and feel very lost for what I can do,\" she added.\n\nGooding Jr still faces a civil lawsuit brought by a woman who has accused him of raping her twice in 2013, which he has denied.", "Refugees Minister Lord Harrington has declined to comment on government plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nAsked by the BBC if he thought the scheme was a good idea, he said it was not his responsibility.\n\nThe minister - who was appointed to lead efforts to help Ukrainian refugees - said last week there was \"no possibility\" of sending them to Africa.\n\nUnder the scheme, single men who arrive in the UK and claim asylum will be relocated to Rwanda.\n\nIn an interview with LBC last week, Lord Harrington said no refugees had been sent to Rwanda and added: \"If it's happening in the Home Office on the same corridor that I'm in they haven't told me about it.\"\n\nOn Thursday, he told the BBC that \"hundreds of thousands\" of people were fleeing Ukraine and none of them would be going to Rwanda.\n\nThe agreement with Rwanda was announced earlier by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nPrecise details of how it will work are yet to be confirmed, but the BBC understands the trial will be restricted to mostly single people the British authorities believe are inadmissible.\n\nRwanda will take responsibility for processing the asylum seekers. If they are successful they will be offered long-term accommodation in Rwanda.\n\nThe UK Home Office believes existing asylum law will be enough to implement the plan, but questions remain about the legality of the scheme.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the scheme was needed to \"save countless lives\" from human trafficking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said action was needed to stop \"vile people smugglers\", adding the \"humane and compassionate\" plan was designed to break their business model.\n\nBut campaigners for refugees and opposition parties have been highly critical of the plans, pointing to Rwanda's poor record on human rights.\n\nAt the United Nations last year, the UK demanded investigations into allegations of killings, disappearances and torture.\n\nAmnesty International UK's Refugee and Migrant Rights Director Steve Valdez-Symonds described the initiative as \"the very height of irresponsibility\" and \"shockingly ill-conceived\".\n\nHe said it would go \"far further in inflicting suffering while wasting huge amounts of public money\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow cabinet minister Lucy Powell said the scheme was \"less about dealing with small boats and more about dealing with the prime minister's own sinking boat\".\n\nShe called it a \"pretty desperate\" distraction from the partygate scandal.\n\nMs Powell added that Labour would tackle illegal and dangerous routes of immigration through measures such as making it more difficult for smugglers to advertise online.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey described the plans as a \"cynical distraction\".\n\nHe said they would not stop people crossing the English Channel in small boats and called for more action against people smugglers.\n\nScotland's First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon condemned the Rwanda scheme as \"despicable\". She also claimed it was an attempt to distract people from partygate that laid bare the Government's \"moral bankruptcy\".", "The Queen has had to miss a number of events this year\n\nThe Queen is not expected to attend this year's Easter morning church service, Buckingham Palace has indicated.\n\nThe service, at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, will be attended by other members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe 95-year-old Queen, who has mobility problems, has already pulled out of the Maundy Service on Thursday - the first time she has missed it since 1970.\n\nPrince Charles is representing the Queen at the Maundy Service.\n\nThe Queen, whose 96th birthday is next week, was able to attend the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip last month at Westminster Abbey.\n\nBut difficulties in moving and discomfort in travelling have meant that she has pulled out of several events, including the annual Commonwealth Service.\n\nThe Queen has often spoken of the importance of her Christian faith, but this year she is not expected to be able to attend the \"mattins service\", celebrating Easter Sunday.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, marking the start of this year's Platinum Jubilee of her 70-year-reign, described her Christian faith as \"the rock on which she stands\".", "Tedros said the world does not give equal attention to emergencies affecting black and white people\n\nThe head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) says the world does not give equal attention to emergencies affecting black and white people.\n\nTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said only a fraction of the help given to Ukraine was given to other humanitarian crises.\n\nAssisting Ukraine is \"very important\" because it \"impacts the whole world\", he said.\n\nBut Tigray province in Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan or Syria are not receiving the same attention, he said.\n\n\"I don't know if the world really gives equal attention to black and white lives,\" Mr Tedros told a news conference.\n\n\"I need to be blunt and honest that the world is not treating the human race the same way. Some are more equal than others. And when I say this, it pains me. Because I see it. Very difficult to accept but it's happening,\" he added.\n\nTedros, who is from Tigray, said the United Nations had determined that 100 trucks per day of life-saving humanitarian supplies were needed for the Ethiopian region.\n\nWar broke out in Tigray between the TPLF - a group that dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades - and the government in November 2020 following months of simmering tension.\n\nThe fighting has seen thousands killed - including civilians - while millions are in desperate need of humanitarian aid, with the federal government accused of hampering relief efforts.\n\nAll warring parties have allegedly carried out extrajudicial killings and used sexual violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There was no law - I was alone.\"\n\nIn Afghanistan, the UN says 24 million people need humanitarian assistance to survive.\n\nSyria has been at civil war for 11 years. Around half a million people have been killed and millions have been displaced in the conflict.\n\nWar crimes prosecutors visiting the site of civilian killings in the town of Bucha have called Ukraine a crime scene, while US President Joe Biden has accused Russian forces of committing acts of genocide in the country.", "Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in October\n\nIS fanatic Ali Harbi Ali has been given a whole-life sentence for murdering Sir David Amess MP.\n\nAli stabbed the Conservative MP for Southend West more than 20 times after tricking his way into a constituency surgery in Essex last year.\n\nSir David's family said it broke their hearts that he would have \"greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship\".\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"This was a murder that struck at the heart of our democracy.\"\n\nSir David, 69, was killed at the surgery he was holding at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October.\n\nHe was stabbed after 26-year-old Ali had gone into the meeting pretending to be an NHS employee moving to the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Amess' murder by Ali Harbi Ali \"sent shockwaves\" through the community\n\nAli, from Kentish Town in north London, told the court he had plans to target various MPs, including cabinet minister Michael Gove.\n\nHe told his trial he was motivated by a desire to seek revenge against MPs who had voted for airstrikes on Syria.\n\nMembers of Sir David's family wiped away tears during the 40-minute hearing.\n\nAfter sentencing, they said they felt \"no elation\" in a statement issued through the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThey added: \"It breaks our heart to know that our husband and father would have greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship and would have been anxious to help.\n\n\"How sickening to think what happened next. It is beyond evil.\"\n\nTwo plain clothes officers were the first police to arrive at Belfairs Methodist Church where they detained the suspect\n\nTracy Ayling QC, for Ali, told the court she had been instructed by her client not to say anything in mitigation.\n\nAli pursed his lips briefly but otherwise showed little emotion as the judge handed down his sentence.\n\n\"The defendant has no remorse or shame for what he has done - quite the reverse,\" said the judge.\n\nHe described Sir David's death as a loss \"of national significance\".\n\nHe added: \"He had done nothing whatsoever to justify the attack upon him, let alone his murder.\n\n\"On the contrary, he had devoted 38 years of his life to the lawful service of the public, and was engaged in doing so when he was murdered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown bodycam footage of plain-clothed police officers tackling Ali Harbi Ali to the ground\n\nMPs who had once been on Ali's list of potential targets provided victim impact statements in which they described the effect it had had on their lives.\n\nMike Freer, Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said he and his staff would now wear stab vests and panic alarms for constituency surgeries.\n\nLevelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said he had been at home in west London when Ali carried out armed reconnaissance outside in the months prior to attacking Sir David.\n\n\"Our security and that of our home was threatened and that has put a profound pressure on our lives,\" he said.\n\nThe jury took just 18 minutes on Monday to convict Ali of murder and preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nDuring the trial, he said he had no regrets or shame, saying: \"If I thought I did anything wrong, I wouldn't have done it\".\n\nThe court was told he had planned to die as a \"martyr\", assuming he would be shot by police.\n\nJulie Cushion, a long-standing aide and friend of Sir David who was at the church, shared her anguish about the killing and said she still felt guilt and anger.\n\nIn an impact statement read by the prosecution, she said: \"I can still see and hear the sounds and images of the time, like the crashing of furniture.\n\n\"I remember the awful feeling of distress while we waited for help - feeling helpless and hopeless as there was nothing I could physically do to help.\"\n\nShe said the look on Ali's face - \"smug, so self-satisfied\" - had stayed with her.\n\nShe said she was now working for the constituency's new MP and was haunted by the fear of a similar attack.\n\nConservative Anna Firth, who won the by-election in February, welcomed Ali's whole-life sentence.\n\nShe said Sir David's \"incredible work and legacy will live on through the many charities and good causes he championed\".\n\nThe judge imposed a whole-life sentence, as opposed to a life sentence with a minimum term, which means Ali will not be considered for parole and will never be released from prison.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's former couples therapist said the pair engaged in \"mutual abuse\" during the final months of their stormy marriage.\n\nVideo testimony by Dr Laurel Anderson was played for jurors on the third day of the $50m (£38m) defamation trial in Virginia.\n\nMr Depp has sued his ex-wife over a story she wrote in which she described herself as a victim of domestic violence. He denies any abuse.\n\nIn testimony recorded in February and played for jurors on Thursday, Ms Anderson said she had seen the famous couple for several therapy sessions between October and December 2015. Ms Heard filed for divorce in May 2016 after just 15 months of marriage.\n\nThe psychotherapist described a volatile dynamic between Mr Depp and Ms Heard, with both threatening to walk out of sessions amid arguments.\n\nIn sessions without Mr Depp present, Ms Anderson said, Ms Heard reported physical assault at the hands of her then-husband. On one occasion Ms Heard came to her office with several small bruises on her face, she testified.\n\nOn more than one occasion Ms Heard initiated violent interactions in an effort to prevent Mr Depp from leaving, Ms Anderson said.\n\n\"It was a point of pride to her, if she felt disrespected, to initiate a fight,\" Ms Anderson told jurors. \"If he was going to leave her to de-escalate from the fight, she would strike him to keep him there, she would rather be in a fight than have him leave.\"\n\nMs Anderson said that Mr Depp was often interrupted by Ms Heard during the therapy sessions.\n\n\"Ms Heard had a jackhammer style of talking,\" the clinical psychologist said. \"She was very amped up. He had trouble talking at a similar pace. He was cut off a lot.\"\n\nMs Anderson testified to both Ms Heard and Mr Depp's family history of domestic violence. Ms Heard was beaten by her father, she said, and Mr Depp was beaten by his mother.\n\nMr Depp had been \"well controlled\" for decades before meeting Ms Heard, Ms Anderson said, and did not engage in violence with past partners. \"With Ms Heard, he was triggered. They engaged in what I saw as mutual abuse.\"\n\nAt issue in the trial is Ms Heard's 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post, describing herself as a \"public figure representing domestic abuse\". Mr Depp says the article - which does not mention him by name - is defamatory and derailed his career.\n\nJurors have so far been presented with duelling accounts of Depp and Heard's relationship.\n\nMs Heard's team has portrayed Mr Depp as a physically and sexually abusive partner prone to drug and alcohol binges.\n\nMr Depp's team has presented Ms Heard's claims of domestic violence as a \"hoax\" and a calculated strategy to ruin his reputation.\n\nAlso on Thursday, a former personal assistant to Ms Heard, Kate James, testified about what allegedly happened when she asked her then-boss for a salary increase.\n\nMs James said: \"She [Ms Heard] leapt up out of her chair, put her face approximately four inches from my face. She was spitting in my face, telling me how dare you ask me for the salary you're asking for.\"\n\nThe trial, expected to last at least six weeks, is being broadcast live and will involve a number of high-profile witnesses, including James Franco, Paul Bettany and Elon Musk.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWest Ham United will face Eintracht Frankfurt for a place in the Europa League final after the Hammers secured their first European semi-final in 46 years with a stunning second-leg victory in Lyon.\n\nHaving held on for a 1-1 first-leg draw in London after playing the entire second half with 10 men, David Moyes' players withstood periods of intense early pressure before sweeping their Ligue 1 opposition aside.\n\nThe visitors struck twice in seven minutes at the end of the first half, as Craig Dawson met Pablo Fornals' corner with a superb near-post header before a deflected Declan Rice strike put the Premier League club in total charge.\n\nJarrod Bowen extended the advantage within three minutes of the restart, slotting in at the end of a sweeping counter-attack, and a deflated Lyon could offer no response as West Ham comfortably saw out a memorable win.\n\nThe statement victory set up the biggest match in the club's recent history, against Bundesliga side Frankfurt, who upset Spanish giants Barcelona 3-2 at the Nou Camp to win 4-3 on aggregate.\n• None 'Things come back to bite you' - West Ham's special night\n\nFrankfurt were also the opposition in the last four of the 1976 European Cup Winners' Cup, in West Ham's last major European semi-final.\n\nThe Hammers prevailed 4-3 on aggregate on that occasion and it is the German side they must once again overcome if they are to reach the final in Seville next month, as their hugely impressive Europa League journey continues.\n\nMoyes and his players could already be immensely proud of their European run this season, having topped their group before eliminating Sevilla - among the favourites for the competition - on a memorable night at London Stadium in the last 16.\n\nBut the manner of this latest victory, against a club who were Champions League semi-finalists two years ago, means they will rightly believe they can go even further.\n\nKarl Toko Ekambi had struck the post inside the opening five minutes and it required last-ditch defending to deny Houssem Aouar, but West Ham successfully weathered the hosts' dominant start.\n\nThat was despite missing left-back Aaron Cresswell, after his first-leg red card, and injured centre-back Kurt Zouma, as the visitors fielded what Moyes described before kick-off as a \"patched up\" defence.\n\nBowen volleyed wide on the stretch from Michail Antonio's cross as West Ham began to assert themselves, though, and Lyon were simply left shell-shocked by sucker punches from Dawson and Rice.\n\nA brilliant pass from Fornals picked out Bowen for his 15th goal of the season to move the away side within reach of the semi-finals, but there was still work to be done as Lyon racked up the attempts, to no avail, in the closing stages.\n\nLyon, 10th in Ligue 1, had not lost in nine Europa League games this term despite their domestic struggles - but their defeat was greeted by unsavoury scenes at full-time as supporters attempted to get onto the pitch, while violence was reported among the home fans in the stands.\n• None Attempt saved. Saïd Benrahma (West Ham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Karl Toko-Ekambi (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Moussa Dembele with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jeff Reine-Adélaïde (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Emerson (Lyon) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bradley Barcola.\n• None Attempt saved. Moussa Dembele (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Paquetá.\n• None Bradley Barcola (Lyon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of West Ham United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Hammers - go straight to all the best content", "Dr Krishna Singh denied abusing his position to carry out sex attacks on women over four decades\n\nA doctor from North Lanarkshire has been found guilty of 54 sex offence charges against women over 35 years.\n\nKrishna Singh, 72, kissed, groped, gave inappropriate examinations and made sleazy comments to 48 patients during appointments in various medical settings.\n\nProsecutors described how the sexual predator was \"hiding in plain sight\" over nearly four decades.\n\nThe GP, who was awarded an MBE in 2013, had denied the charges.\n\nSingh was found guilty of multiple sexual and indecent assaults that he carried out between February 1983 and May 2018.\n\nHe was found not proven on nine others charges and not guilty on a further two.\n\nThe offences mainly occurred at medical practices in North Lanarkshire, but also at a hospital accident and emergency department, a police station and during visits to patients' homes.\n\nThe judge, Lord Armstrong, deferred sentencing until next month and allowed Singh to be released on bail on condition that he surrendered his passport.\n\nSingh went on to leave the courtroom alongside members of his family.\n\nSingh became a GP in the area in the early 1980s and went on to serve as a police casualty surgeon, which included examining victims of sexual violence.\n\nAn investigation was launched into his behaviour when one woman reported him to authorities in 2018.\n\nA letter was then sent to all patients at the practice to see if they could help in the police inquiry.\n\nSingh's practice was at the Coatbridge Health Centre\n\nAmong the witnesses who gave evidence was a 50-year-old hospital worker who had reported being raped.\n\nShe was examined by Singh at a police station in Motherwell in March 2008.\n\nThe woman said the GP asked her whether she had been wearing a skirt and whether sex was consensual. She said he went on to molest her.\n\nShe told the court: \"He asked how low my top was and if my cleavage was showing. He was asking if I was being provocative. He said 'so, you are not a good time girl'.\"\n\nAnother woman who saw Singh while she was a teenager said he would \"press and prod\" around her pant line during check ups on a sore throat.\n\nShe said his behaviour became a \"running joke\" between her friends.\n\nThe woman said: \"If that was my daughter, I would be sitting in the dock on a murder charge. No professional should act like that.\"\n\nSingh was released on bail and will be sentence next month\n\nA man told the court he threatened to assault Singh after catching him groping his pregnant wife at an appointment in the mid-1990s.\n\nMany women became so uncomfortable going to see the GP that they brought a friend or relative to appointments.\n\nOne woman tried to make her medication last longer to delay having to go back and see him.\n\nThe court heard how victims were often hesitant about reporting Singh through the years.\n\nWomen felt they would not be heard as Singh was latterly senior partner at the surgery and his wife was practice manager.\n\nProsecutor Angela Gray told the jury during the trial that Singh had been in a routine of abusing his position to offend against women.\n\nShe said: \"Sexual offending was part of his working life. Access to women as and when the situation arose and taking the chances when he could.\n\n\"A quick feel, a look in an intimate area, an indecent comment. This was his way of working, Hiding in plain sight.\"\n\nDr Linda Findlay, medical director for South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said Singh's actions had been a \"despicable breach of trust and a total abuse of the patient-doctor relationship.She added: \"We know that this has been an extremely difficult time for the patients and relatives affected and we thank them for their courage in coming forward to report their concerns to the police.\"\n\nLaura Connor, a partner at Thompsons Solicitors who represented some of Singh's victims, told the BBC the damage he caused would be lifelong.\n\nShe said: \"The extent of damage that he's done and continues to do by his defence to the criminal trial is quite unbelievable.\n\n\"It has impacted them personally, it has impacted their families. It has done in the past, continues to and will continue to in the future.\n\n\"Like many survivors of abuse it impacts all parts of their lives, it's not an injury which can obviously be seen but it's there and it's present all the time.\"\n\nThe firm said it would begin civil proceedings against relevant authorities in order to secure compensation for victims.\n\nHelen Provan, centre director for Lanarkshire Rape Crisis Centre, welcomed the verdict but said she believed there could be more women who had been attacked by Singh but had not yet come forward.\n\nShe said: \"Anyone who has been in a situation where they're not expecting their bodily autonomy to be breached, it makes them feel very violated and leaves them feeling who can they trust after that.\n\n\"There can well be an unknown number of women who he has also violated and behaved inappropriately at best to who may well wishing to come forward\".\n\nDet Insp Stephen Morris added: \"I hope this conviction provides a sense of closure for the victims and sends a clear message that all reports of sexual abuse, regardless of the passage of time, will be thoroughly investigated by Police Scotland and victims will be supported throughout.\"", "Police had been called to a venue in Angus Street over reports of a fight\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in south-east London.\n\nPolice had been called to a venue in Angus Street, near New Cross, just after 16:00 BST on Wednesday over reports of a fight.\n\nThe boy was found with stab injuries and despite treatment by paramedics was pronounced dead at the scene. His family has been informed.\n\nThe Met Police said no arrests had been made and \"urgent inquiries are ongoing\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Snee and Aidan Moffit were found dead in their own homes in Sligo in the Republic of Ireland\n\nThe killing of two men in Sligo town in suspected hate-related attacks have been described as \"beyond belief\" by a parish priest who knew both victims.\n\nAidan Moffitt was found dead in his home at Cartron Heights on Monday and, the next night, Michael Snee's body was found at his home on Connaughton Road.\n\nA man is due to appear before Sligo District Court later charged in relation to the killings.\n\nThe man, who is in his 20s, was arrested on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe killings have caused a great deal of shock and upset in the town, according to the parish priest, Fr Noel Rooney.\n\nSome of his parishioners wept as details of the \"brutal\" killings began to emerge, he told BBC News NI.\n\nFr Rooney visited Mr Snee's family on Wednesday to offer his sympathy and said they had been left \"completely numb\" by his loss, which was made even worse by the violent nature of his death.\n\nThe priest has known the family for some time, having previously officiated at the funeral of Mr Snee's mother.\n\nNoting that the killings took place in the week before Easter, he said they were going through \"a crucifixion of absolutely epic proportions\".\n\nMichael Snee's home on Connaughton Road was cordoned off while the scene was examined\n\nHe also knew Mr Moffitt, who he described as a \"nice, decent, honourable guy\".\n\nMr Moffitt was originally from County Roscommon and when he moved to Sligo some years ago he reminded Fr Rooney that they had already met decades earlier.\n\n\"He told me that as a tiny child I carried him around his parents' kitchen on my shoulders,\" the priest said.\n\nHe explained that he had visited the Moffitt family in the 1980s while he was serving as a curate in Lisacul in Roscommon.\n\nOn the morning after Mr Moffitt's death, Fr Rooney had the difficult task of informing his parishioners during Mass that there had been a murder in their town, but at that stage they did not know who had been killed.\n\nThe next morning, the priest found himself making a \"carbon copy announcement\" from the altar, telling Mass-goers that a second victim had been killed.\n\nPrayers were said for both victims in their local church in the parish of St Josephs and Calry.\n\nFloral tributes have been left outside Aidan Moffitt's home at Cartron Heights", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has outlined plans for some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK via boats and lorries, to be sent to Rwanda.\n\nSingle men could be given a one-way ticket to the country, in a £120m trial agreed with the African nation.", "The number of people in the UK infected with coronavirus is falling, says the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nAbout 4.4 million people had the virus in their body in the week up to 9 April, down from nearly 4.9 million the week before.\n\nThat's about one in 15 people testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe study, which uses its own testing, gives the clearest indication of the virus's spread since free testing ended in England.\n\nIt tests thousands of people at random - whether or not they have symptoms - to estimate how much virus there is in the country.\n\nThe number infected still remains very high, despite the 10% drop recorded by the ONS.\n\nThe BA.2 form of the Omicron variant helped push up the number infected with the virus to record levels in recent weeks, and is only now starting to decline.\n\nSarah Crofts, from the ONS, said: \"Across most parts of the UK, infections have thankfully begun to decrease.\n\n\"It is too early to say if we have passed the peak of infections, and infections overall remain high.\"\n\nIn the week leading up to 9 April, the ONS estimates:\n\nRates of Covid are falling in most of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. They seem to have plateaued in Wales, but are still climbing in north-east England, which now has the highest rates in any part of the UK.\n\nThe overall drop will be a welcome development as the NHS is under intense pressure.\n\nThe success of vaccines has helped prevent the NHS from being completely overwhelmed with Covid patients. However, the sheer volume of people infected - including NHS staff - is adding to the pressure on the health service.\n\nA record 6.2 million people are waiting for routine NHS treatment. A&E is heaving, with only 71% of patients seen, treated and then admitted or discharged in under four hours, compared with 87% in March 2019 - before the pandemic began.\n\nHowever, the number of people being admitted to hospital with Covid across the UK is starting to fall. The figures had risen from about 1,100 a day in mid-February to nearly 2,400 by the end of March. It has since dropped to about 2,250 a day.", "Unite workers went on strike in a dispute over pay last month\n\nThe Education Authority (EA) has said it is facing further strike action by the Unite union for almost two weeks after the Easter school break.\n\nIn a letter to principals seen by BBC News NI, the EA said it was \"very concerned\" about the potential impact.\n\nIt said it had been notified of further action from 26 April to 1 May and from Tuesday 3 May to Sunday 8 May.\n\nIn their letter to principals, the EA said that this would cause \"disruption to some education services\".\n\nThese include \"a number of EA home-to-school transport (yellow bus) services, some school meal services and on the availability of a number of classroom assistants, particularly in special schools\".\n\nUnite has also confirmed its members in all of the eleven local councils, the Housing Executive, some Further Education colleges, some schools and youth services are planning to take strike action after Easter.\n\nIt will span discontinuously across the last week of April and early May.\n\nMembers of Unite were previously on strike in March over a local government pay offer of 1.75%.\n\nThe cost of living has been surging due to rising fuel, energy and food costs.\n\nPreviously, one special school - Glenveagh in Belfast - could not offer face-to-face teaching to pupils as almost all of its classroom assistants were on strike.\n\nIt is not yet clear if the school will be able to open for pupils to attend after Easter.\n\nSpecial schools are particularly affected by the unavailability of Education Authority transport as they rely heavily on the so-called \"yellow buses\".\n\nThe Education Authority said they would \"request exemptions for special school classroom assistant staff, and for drivers transporting pupils to special schools,\" but these have not previously been agreed by Unite.\n\nStrikes at Translink from Monday 25 April could cause significant disruption\n\nGareth Scott, from Unite, told BBC's Evening Extra programme the 1.75% pay offer was not acceptable to members, describing it as insulting.\n\n\"We are taking further action in pursuit of our dispute with the local authority and powers across Northern Ireland, some 18 of them, including the Education Authority,\" Mr Scott said.\n\n\"As the employer just walked away from the negotiating table, we have been left with no alternative but to pursue our claims by industrial action.\"\n\nWhen asked whether special schools would be exempt from the strikes, Mr Scott said requests for dispensations would be considered.\n\n\"In respect of the Education Authority, I'm not aware that there is a change in our position on that,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously dispensation requests will be considered but at this moment I'm not aware that any change will be made.\n\n\"But our members in those schools have made it clear they wish to be involved in this action, so it would be wrong for them to be ostracised because they merely want to take up their legal right to strike.\"\n\nMr Scott has also said he recognises the action may impact some children more than others, but said members should be allowed to \"speak up for a fair and proper pay increase\".\n\nThe Education Authority also said that a strike at Translink by the Unite and GMB unions due to take place from Monday, 25 April would also cause significant disruption to school transport.\n\n\"Whilst Translink are continuing to negotiate with the trade unions to seek a resolution, if this action goes ahead it will result in all Translink bus services, including school services, being withdrawn from Monday, 25 April to Sunday, 1 May and on Friday, 6 May causing significant disruption right across the school transport network,\" the Education Authority letter said.\n\n\"If children connect from an Education Authority bus to a Translink service, parents should make alternative arrangements for the whole of their journey during the Translink period of strike action if it proceeds.\"\n\nThe Education Authority also said the strikes could cause disruption to pupils about to sit GCSE, AS and A-level exams.\n\n\"The EA are concerned that this industrial action will once again impact pupils' learning, particularly for those year groups taking key examinations over the coming weeks,\" their letter to heads said.\n\n\"We would therefore ask you to consider how you might provide additional support for pupils who may be unable to arrange alternative transport.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Colombia captain Freddy Rincon has died after suffering severe head injuries in a car crash.\n\nThe 55-year-old was driving a car that collided with a bus early on Monday in Cali, Colombia.\n\nFormer Real Madrid midfielder Rincon scored 17 goals for Colombia and played at the 1990, 1994 and 1998 World Cups.\n\nHe shares with Carlos Valderrama the record for the most appearances at the tournament for his country, having played in 10 World Cup games.\n\nRincon was part of the side that ended the nation's 28-year wait to play at the World Cup when they qualified for the 1990 finals, and scored a memorable goal in a 1-1 draw against eventual winners West Germany.\n\nHe also played club football for Napoli, Palmeiras and Santos, as well as leading Corinthians to victory in 2000 at the first Fifa Club World Championship - now the Club World Cup.\n\n\"Despite all the efforts of our teams, Freddy Eusebio Rincon Valencia has passed away,\" said Laureano Quintero, the medical director of the Imbanaco Clinic in Cali where Rincon was being treated.\n\nThe Colombian Football Federation (FCF) said it mourned the death of Rincon.\n\n\"We will miss him and remember him with great affection, appreciation, respect and admiration,\" said the FCF.\n\n\"We send strength, support and our condolences to his family, hoping they can bear this sad and painful loss.\"\n\nBrazilian club Corinthians recalled \"our captain\" leading them to their Fifa Club World Championship success in 2000.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to a great idol,\" they said on social media. \"Eternally in our hearts.\"\n\nFifa, football's world governing body, sent its \"sincere condolences\" to Rincon's \"loved ones, former team-mates and fans from the clubs he played for, and of the Colombia national team\".\n\nItalian club Napoli said they would also like to send their condolences to the family of Rincon, who played for them during the 1994-95 season.", "Ammunition stockpiles aboard a Russian ship that was famously defied by Ukrainian troops early in the war have detonated, according to a statement from the Russian defence ministry.\n\nA fire caused the explosion on the Moskva, the statement in Russian media said, adding that all sailors had evacuated beforehand.\n\nThe statement said: \"The cruiser Moskva's ammunition has detonated as a result of a fire on the warship.\n\n\"The vessel is seriously damaged. The entire crew have been evacuated. The cause of the blaze is being investigated.\"\n\nIt did not specify the cause of the fire.\n\nBut earlier on Wednesday, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet was hit by Ukrainian rockets, according to the governor of Odesa.\n\nUkrainian officials said Russia was struggling to rescue the estimated 510 crew members on board.\n\nThe Moskva warship rose to fame early in the war when Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island refused calls to surrender and told the Russian ship to \"go to hell\", before they were ultimately taken prisoner.", "The Russian Orthodox Church has echoed the rhetoric of the Kremlin in justifying the war in Ukraine. It is a stance that appears to be driving large numbers of Ukrainian priests and parishioners to turn their backs on Moscow.\n\n\"I will never forget the moment when I woke up early to go to mass, only to suddenly hear the shocking sounds of bombing,\" says Father Nicolay Pluzhnik.\n\n\"The wonderful woman who cooked at our church and her son, who was in a wheelchair, were both killed when an artillery shell hit their apartment. I now know of several other of our parishioners who have died.\"\n\nLike most clergy in the region of north-eastern Ukraine where he is from, Father Pluzhnik belonged to the branch of the Russian Orthodox Church which takes its direction from its religious leadership in Moscow.\n\nBut now, he says, has applied to join the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - which was finally granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church in 2019, in a move never recognised by Russia.\n\nHe says many fellow priests who followed Patriarch Kirill in Moscow are doing the same because of the Church leader's stance on the war.\n\nFather Nicolay Pluzhnik in his church in Chuhuiv, in the Kharkiv region, before he fled west\n\nFather Pluzhnik and his family fled under artillery fire and now have a temporary new home in the town of Chernivtsi, in western Ukraine.\n\n\"When the war started, I was waiting to hear from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the 'father' of our church. But first there was no reaction at all, and then there was worse,\" he says.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill blessed the Russian army and gave his blessing to the war. It was not just him but the majority of priests of the Moscow Patriarchate [Russian Orthodox Church] including some that even have Ukrainian roots. I was in shock.\"\n\nAs well as having failed to unequivocally condemn the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, or call for a ceasefire, the Patriarch has held large televised services in Moscow to bless Russian troops. He has also suggested in sermons that the Kremlin's war is a righteous one about the future of Christianity.\n\n\"What is happening today is much more important than politics,\" he said last month. \"We are talking about human salvation, about where humanity will end up and on which side of God the Saviour.\"\n\nPatriarch Kirill, in green robes, at a recent service attended by military personnel\n\nThere are religious undertones in much of the Kremlin's narrative justifying its invasion of Ukraine. It is a fight for the conservative ideals of the Russian Orthodox Church based in Moscow, against an immoral outside world. President Putin has said Ukraine is not only an \"inalienable part\" of Russia's history and culture - but also its \"spiritual space\".\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said he finds Patriarch Kirill's sentiment concerning.\n\n\"There are elements in the Russian Christian tradition that can become really toxic when they get in their head a particular kind of Christian nationalism, a sort of messianic approach to the fate of the nation,\" said Dr Williams during a visit to western Ukraine this week.\n\nHe was part of an extraordinary high-level, multi-faith delegation - including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders. They met refugees who had fled the horrors in the eastern part of the country.\n\nDr Williams has long studied and written about the positive contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church, and appears deeply saddened by the role the Moscow Patriarchate is playing in the war.\n\n\"I think that the increasing influence in the Patriarchate of Moscow of ultranationalist ideals - often including a strand of anti-Semitism - has been going on for some time.\n\n\"And it has now expressed itself in this very uncritical support of Russian national ambitions, a very aggressive attitude towards many other Orthodox churches. The writing has been on the wall for some time,\" he said.\n\nPatriarch Kirill has echoed President Putin's claim that Russian speakers and followers of Moscow's Russian Orthodox Church living in eastern Ukraine need liberating after years of oppression.\n\n\"Our brothers and sisters were really suffering, they suffer for their loyalty to the Church,\" said Patriarch Kirill a week into the war.\n\nBut Father Pluzhnik, a Russian speaker and a follower of the Moscow Patriarchate all of his adult life, is angered by those claims.\n\n\"When I hear them say they are protecting us and fighting some 'Holy War', I think they are either blind, or they are not serving God but the devil,\" he says.\n\n\"We were living peacefully until they came. But far from protecting us they bombed and tortured and killed. Before the war, parishioners were completely free to choose what church they went to, they just went to the church closest to their home. For many of them it was not even a significant difference to go to a church that followed Moscow or not, they just wanted to pray to God. Now that has changed.\"\n\nDr Sergii Bortnyk, a professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy and an adviser to the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, acknowledges that there has been a widespread movement of people and parishes across the country abandoning their loyalty to Moscow.\n\n\"I think it is maybe half of the 12,000 parishes [of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine] that have said that they want to break away now,\" says Dr Bortnyk.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill has not said anything about all the Christians in Ukraine that have been killed, so I believe the members of our church are free to end their connection to him as the patriarch,\" he says.\n\n\"The connection to all of our [Moscow Patriarchate Russian Orthodox] Church in Ukraine to Moscow is in question now.\"\n\nThe Kremlin's aim, backed by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, had been to unite Russia and Ukraine in a single \"spiritual space\".\n\nBut the manner by which they have tried to achieve that appears to have had precisely the opposite effect.", "The death toll in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal has reached more than 300, after devastating floods wreaked havoc in the area.\n\nA state of disaster has been declared in the area, after some areas saw months worth of rain fall in one day.\n\nOfficials have called it \"one of the worst weather storms in the history of our country\".\n\nMudslides have trapped people under buildings, with more floods expected.\n\nThere are reports that the rescue effort is being hampered by poor visibility as a helicopter continues to bring people back to safety.\n\nOn Tuesday the BBC witnessed one such search operation for a 10-year-old girl who was part of a family of four swept away on a flooded bridge.\n\nCommunity volunteers waded into the muddy river, taking turns to hack away at the branches using machetes and removing debris and rubbish that had washed downstream.\n\nJomba Phiri, who lives in the region's main city, Durban, said his house had been swept away in the floods.\n\n\"I don't know where we're going to sleep now,\" he told Reuters news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteers in Durban are searching for trapped locals after the worst floods the coast has seen in decades.\n\nParts of the crucial N3 highway which connects Durban to South Africa's economic heartland of Gauteng province have been blocked.\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa has visited the area and pledged to help.\n\n\"Even though your hearts are in pain, we're here for you,\" the Reuters news agency quotes him as saying.\n\nHe also described the disaster as a \"force of nature\", which some have disagreed with. They blame poor drainage and badly built houses in low-lying areas for the high death toll.\n\nThe KwaZulu-Natal province says it needs more funds to fix the extensive damage\n\nThere are still several people missing, trapped under debris and rubble\n\nDurban Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda denied that poor drainage was to blame, saying the scale of the flood was unexpected.\n\nScenes of destruction are still evident throughout the area. Some of the roads to the port of Durban, one of the busiest in Africa, are impassable after the swollen river washed mud and debris onto the roads.\n\nOperations at the port have now been suspended. A shipping container warehouse near a busy highway was severely flooded, and hundreds of containers were washed away.\n\nIn an industrial area called the Bluff, which forms part of the port, the BBC witnessed cars overturned on the road, or crushed by debris. Companies are using water pumps to drain the water from their premises.\n\nThere is also a hunt for crocodiles that were washed away during the floods, although most have since been found.\n\nCrocodile Creek Farm, about 40km (25 miles) north of Durban in Tongaat, says 12 crocodiles were swept away after torrential rain hit the area.\n\nRon Naidoo, a community pastor in the town of Tongaat, told the BBC he had been kept awake through the night by the rising floodwaters and had seen police drag a car out of the river with a body inside.\n\n\"It was traumatic because it is the first time that we have seen the river rise so high here,\" he continued.\n\nThere are mounds of debris strewn across affected areas\n\nThe KwaZulu-Natal provincial government estimates that billions of rand worth of damage has been caused to properties and infrastructure, describing the heavy rains as unleashing \"untold havoc\" in a statement on Facebook.\n\nElectricity and water treatment plants have been \"flooded out\", the Durban mayor told the BBC.\n\nCommunications have also been disrupted with two major networks reporting that more than 900 of their cell phone towers are down.\n\nDeclaring the flood-stricken area a disaster zone will \"enable the province to apply for emergency funding\" from the National Treasury and assist with necessary reconstruction work, authorities say.\n\nThere are also reports of looting in Durban, which the local government has condemned: \"We will not allow what is a tragic development in our province to be taken advantage of,\" it said.\n\nThe government is calling on people to stay safe by avoiding flooded roads and bridges and to evacuate to higher ground if they live in low-lying areas.\n\nThe stormy weather comes as scientists warned that climate change is fuelling heavier rainfall than usual in southern Africa.\n\nAt the start of the year, the region was hit by three cyclones and two tropical storms in six weeks, which primarily affected Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi and inflicted widescale damage with 230 reported deaths according to the World Weather Attribution (WWA).\n\nThere have been incidents of looting in Durban", "The Maundy Service on Thursday was the first one the Queen has missed since 1970\n\nPrince Charles has represented the Queen at a traditional coin-giving ceremony known as the Maundy Service.\n\nIt is the first time the Queen, who has been experiencing mobility problems, has missed the service in 52 years.\n\nDuring the ceremony, Maundy coins were given to 96 women and 96 men - to mark every year the Queen has been alive.\n\nBuckingham Palace has indicated the Queen is not expected to join members of the Royal Family at this year's Easter Sunday church service.\n\nThe Queen was able to attend the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip last month at Westminster Abbey, but she has pulled out of other recent events including the annual Commonwealth Service.\n\nAt Thursday's Maundy Service, the Duchess of Cornwall joined Prince Charles at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.\n\nSpecial coins were given out to local elderly people who have contributed to the community\n\nThe heir to the throne walked along a line of recipients saying a few words of thanks to each.\n\nThe special coins were given to pensioners who have given Christian service to the elderly, worked during the pandemic or helped people in need.\n\nIt was announced on Friday that the Queen would be represented by Prince Charles and Camilla\n\nA 99-year-old recipient who served in the Women's Land Army during World War Two said she was \"honoured\" to receive Maundy money.\n\n\"It was lovely meeting Prince Charles,\" said Muriel Davies who was being recognised for raising money for the RNLI for 50 years.\n\n\"Because it's a good charity and water's so dangerous, I know that fire is as well, but water is very dangerous - saving lives at sea is worth helping.\"\n\nThe Bishop of Worcester greeted the Prince of Wales and Camilla at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Bishop of Worcester, Dr John Inge, said the Queen had a list of Maundy money recipients and details about them.\n\n\"She's close by and would want me to extend to you her greetings,\" he told the congregation before the service, speaking in his role as Lord High Almoner.\n\nIt was announced on Friday that the 95-year-old Queen would not be attending the coin-giving ceremony and would be represented by Prince Charles and Camilla.\n\nMaundy Service is held every year on the Thursday before Easter\n\nThe 95-year-old Queen has only missed the service four times during her reign due to being away on overseas tours or because of the recent births of two of her children.\n\nThe service marking Maundy Thursday, which commemorates Jesus washing the feet of the apostles at the Last Supper, takes place every year on the Thursday before Easter Sunday.\n\nThe royal ceremony of awarding gifts on this day dates back to AD 600.", "Susan Young heads to her new home in 2014\n\nWhen the village of Datchet in the Thames Valley was hit by flooding, the only way Susan Young could reach her new home was by boat.\n\nShe had yet to even move into the lower ground floor flat before it was hit by the rising river waters in 2014.\n\nBut after the initial despair, she wanted to seize an opportunity. She was not only determined to repair her new home, but also to improve it so it was resilient to any future flooding.\n\n\"The village is beautiful so I felt the benefits outweighed the flood risks when I bought it. Clearly, the River Thames had other plans,\" she said.\n\n\"But I have never regretted buying it. It took time to get it back into a liveable state, but then I was forced into an opportunity.\"\n\nThe measures she took back then will now be available to more people through the Build Back Better scheme, which launches in a week's time.\n\nIt will allow people, through participating insurers, to claim up to £10,000 for flood resilience measures over and above the cost of work to repair damage caused by a flood.\n\nThe funding comes from the government-backed Flood Re project, which was set up to provide affordable home insurance for people in flood-risk areas, which is itself paid for through a levy on UK insurers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Datchet the Thames has flooded the village\n\nSince the flooding in Datchet in Berkshire in 2014, Mrs Young has spent around £6,000 to £7,000 on flood prevention and resilience in her home, which is about 260m from the bank of the Thames.\n\nThis has included pumps and a specially designed door, with seals to stop water getting in. A flood guard has been added to the back door, and non-return valves fitted to the drains.\n\nShe has accepted that the risk cannot be entirely extinguished, so the floors are tiled, and doors and skirting boards are varnished rather than painted.\n\nShe has bricks to stand heavy furniture on if there is a flood warning, as well as freestanding pumps and sandbag substitutes ready, and even a toilet bung to prevent backflow.\n\n\"If you can reduce the damage, then it reduces the time you are out of your home after flooding, which is probably the worst part of it,\" she said.\n\nThe village has community flood groups and flood plans. Mrs Young, now aged 59, said everyone had to play their part, which was why she welcomed the new initiative.\n\nShe paid for some of the work, and the survey required, with a grant. However, such local or national government funding can be slow, experts say, prompting the inception of the Build Back Better programme.\n\nAndy Bord, chief executive of Flood Re, which will launch the scheme next week, said: \"In the UK, since 1998 we have seen six of the wettest years on record, with 5.2 million homes and businesses at risk of flooding. The trajectory will only continue to worsen without urgent, collective action.\"\n\nHe said homeowners needed to be encouraged to adapt and insurers needed to innovate to make tangible change in this area.\n\n\"To do so, we must throw the traditional principles of insurance to one side. This means thinking of future resilience and building back better after a flood, rather than simply returning a property to how it was before.\"\n\nInsurers NFU Mutual, Aviva, Ageas, Lloyds Banking Group and LV= General Insurance have pledged to join the scheme this year or early next year.\n\nThey can set their own cap on the extra funding, which could be less than £10,000 per claim. They will also decide what work can go ahead, and which measures will be installed.\n\nHowever, insurers would be bound by a code of practice that states all customers should be treated equally and fairly.\n\nMalcolm Tarling, from the Association of British Insurers, said the insurance sector was broadly supportive of the scheme, and the trade body was encouraging members to consider joining.\n\n\"Insurers have a role to play,\" he said. \"In the end, it is down to individual insurers whether they sign up or not.\"\n\nHe added that some companies may already offer support to help people install flood resilience measures in their home.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter, saying he is the right person to \"unlock\" the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".\n\nIn a surprise announcement, Mr Musk said he would pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, valuing it at about $40bn.\n\nIt recently emerged that Mr Musk was Twitter's biggest shareholder after he built up a large stake in the firm.\n\nHe said that if his offer was not accepted: \"I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder\".\n\nMr Musk also said that if the board of directors at Twitter chose to reject the offer, it would be \"utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote\".\n\n\"They own the company, not the board of directors,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nTwitter's share price rose jumped by 5.3% to $48.32 in early trading, before falling back to more than $46.20 later on.\n\nA filing with the US financial regulator appeared to show text and/or voice messages from Mr Musk to Twitter's board, showing that he had raised the idea at the weekend that the business should go private.\n\nMr Musk had been invited to join the board, but Twitter announced on Sunday he had decided against it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the messages published in the filing, Mr Musk said he was not \"playing the back-and-forth game\" and said of his offer: \"It's a high price and your shareholders will love it.\"\n\nHe said he would have to sell his shares if the deal did not go through.\n\n\"This is not a threat, it's simply not a good investment without the changes that need to be made,\" he added.\n\nVictoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor, said: \"This is a deeply hostile move from Elon Musk who has threatened to 'reconsider' his 9.2% stake in the company if his 100% acquisition offer is rejected.\"\n\nIn his filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Musk said he had invested in Twitter because \"I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.\n\n\"However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.\"\n\nHe added: \"Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.\"\n\nTwitter said its board \"will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the company and all Twitter stockholders\".\n\nMr Musk is the world's richest man, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of $273.6bn mostly due to his shareholding in electric vehicle maker Tesla. He also leads the aerospace firm SpaceX.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with head of TED, Chris Anderson, Elon Musk has not only laid out his vision for Twitter but revealed that he has a plan B if the Twitter board reject his offer.\n\nHe didn't go into details about what it was, saying simply that it was for \"another time\".\n\nThe interview was much anticipated among the TED audience which gathers in Vancouver every spring to hear a range of talks on technology, entertainment and design.\n\nMusk also revealed that his first job, if his offer is accepted, would be to open up the Twitter algorithm so that the decisions it makes can be seen by everyone. The code needs to go on a platform such as GitHub so that other programmers can see it and make suggestions rather like operating system Linux was built, he said.\n\nDan Ives, senior equity research analyst at Wedbush Securities, said Twitter will either be forced to accept Mr Musk's bid or find another buyer.\n\nHe said: \"There will be host of questions around financing, regulatory, balancing Musk's time (Tesla, SpaceX) in the coming days but based on this filing it is a now or never bid for Twitter to accept.\n\n\"Ultimately, we believe this soap opera will end with Musk owning Twitter.\"\n\nRumours have been swirling for weeks that Elon Musk was considering starting his own social network, but with the news he'd lifted his stake in Twitter to 9.2%, it seemed like he was scratching the itch by investing in one rather than building his own. Donald Trump's Truth Social platform's struggle for relevance and technical woes has proven that building a social network is perhaps not so easy.\n\nWhile some were shocked Mr Musk rejected a position on Twitter's board, seasoned watchers commented that accepting it would come with rules and conditions that might not be a good match for the world's richest man and his fondness for speaking his mind on the platform.\n\nThere's been considerable disquiet among staff at Twitter over the whole affair, with some employees taking to the platform to vent their frustration and concerns about controversial statements Mr Musk has made in the past.\n\nIf Mr Musk's takeover is successful, we'll likely find out how he intends to run the company courtesy of one of his many tweets.\n\nTwitter had offered Mr Musk a seat on its board after it emerged that he held a 9.2% stake in the company.\n\nThe role was set to become effective last weekend but then Mr Musk decided against taking it.\n\nOn Monday, Twitter's chief executive Parag Agrawal had tweeted that he thought the decision by Mr Musk not take a seat on the board was \"for the best\".\n\nHe added: \"We have and will always value input from our shareholders whether they are on our board or not. Elon is our biggest shareholder and we will remain open to his input.\"\n\nThough he also warned staff: \"There will be distractions ahead.\"\n\nAfter that announcement, Mr Musk posted a cryptic tweet of smiling emoji with its hand over its mouth.\n\nMr Musk has already given a hint of the things he would like to change at Twitter.\n\nHe has suggested changes to the Twitter Blue premium subscription service, which was launched last year in Canada and Australia, including slashing the price, banning advertising and giving users the option of paying the monthly fee with the cryptocurrency, dogecoin.\n\nMr Musk also asked his 81 million followers on Twitter whether the company is \"dying\" and if its headquarters should be turned into a homeless shelter.", "Wayne Couzens made no indication of a plea when he appeared at court via video-link\n\nSarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens has requested a trial by jury after appearing in court charged with four counts of indecent exposure.\n\nThe 49-year-old is accused of exposing himself four times in Swanley, Kent, in January and February 2021, when he was a serving Met Police officer.\n\nThe defendant appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court where he gave no indication of a plea but requested a crown court trial with jurors.\n\nHe is due at the Old Bailey on 11 May.\n\nThe defendant, with a shaven head, beard and a moustache parted and turned up at both ends, sat occasionally blinking and spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth.\n\nThe charges state he allegedly \"intentionally exposed his genitals intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm and distress\".\n\nChief Magistrate Paul Goldspring said the alleged offences could be tried at a magistrates' court \"but as is your right, you have elected crown court trial\" with a jury.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr James could spend the rest of his life in prison following the subway attaack\n\nThe man accused of unleashing a barrage of gunfire on a subway train in New York City will be held without bail until trial on federal terror charges.\n\nFrank James, 62, appeared in court on Thursday, for allegedly violating a law barring \"terrorist attacks or other violence\" against mass transit systems.\n\nHe was apprehended following a huge manhunt for the lone suspect behind the attack, which injured 23 people.\n\nHe did not enter a plea. His lawyer requested a psychiatric report.\n\nIf convicted, he faces life behind bars.\n\nThe suspect \"committed a heinous and premeditated attack on ordinary New Yorkers during their morning subway commute\", said US Attorney Breon Pearce in a statement announcing the charges.\n\nPolice alleged the defendant donned a gas mask and threw two smoke grenades on the floor of a Manhattan-bound N train before opening fire around 08:30 (12:30 GMT) local time on Tuesday.\n\nHe is accused of shooting 10 people and injuring at least another 13.\n\nThe suspect escaped after the attack, police said, but left behind several incriminating personal items, including a key to a U-Haul van that he had rented, as well as a bank card with his name on it. There was also a Glock 9mm handgun legally purchased in Ohio under the name \"Frank Robert James\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe reportedly called police himself to report his whereabouts on Wednesday, US media said, citing sources in law enforcement.\n\nThe suspect, who had recent addresses in Philadelphia and Milwaukee, had nine previous arrests in New York and three in New Jersey, police said on Wednesday.\n\nNo details about his alleged motive have yet been provided.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, he published a variety of videos online making statements about the New York City subway system, occasionally addressing New York City Mayor Eric Adams as he complained about the \"homeless situation\" on subway cars.\n\nIn one video, prosecutors said, the accused said: \"And so the message to me is: I should have just gotten a gun, and started shooting.\"\n\nNYPD acknowledged in a statement on Thursday that the cameras were not working at three stations during the attack because of what the department described as a technical issue.\n\nBut it said claims that the lack of station footage had delayed the manhunt were \"unfair and misleading\".\n\nNYPD said that cameras in other parts of the subway system had helped track the suspect's movements.", "A new Covid vaccine has been approved for use in the UK by regulators.\n\nIt is manufactured by Valneva, using more traditional technology - similar to how polio and flu shots are made.\n\nIt contains a whole copy of the virus which has been inactivated, so that it can't cause the disease but does teach the body how to fight it.\n\nThe UK was due to receive 100 million doses of the jab, but the government cancelled the deal in September due to a \"breach of obligations\".\n\nDr June Raine, chief executive of the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, said the approval followed \"a rigorous review of the safety, quality and effectiveness of this vaccine\".\n\nAs with the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines, it is designed to be given as two doses.\n\nProfessor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, from the Commission on Human Medicines - which led the review - said: \"We have advised that the benefit risk balance is positive. The vaccine is approved for use in people aged 18 to 50 years, with the first and second doses to be taken at least 28 days apart.\"\n\nThe jab developed by Valneva, which has a factory in Livingston near Edinburgh, is the sixth Covid-19 vaccine to be granted an MHRA authorisation.\n\nIn trials, blood results from volunteers who received the jab had high levels of neutralising antibodies against the pandemic virus.\n\nIt outperformed the AstraZeneca vaccine on this measure in head-to-head tests.\n\nExperts say it is possible that by using the whole virus - rather than just the spike protein - the vaccine may be more useful against future emerging variants of Covid.\n\nProf Adam Finn who ran the trials said: \"On behalf of all the participants in the clinical trials which underpinned this authorisation, which were conducted in the UK, and all of the clinical and laboratory teams involved, I'd like to express our delight that this vaccine has now been approved.\n\n\"This vaccine has an important role to play in the ongoing global effort to combat the pandemic.\"\n\nThe MHRA has also approved the use of the Moderna Covid vaccine for children aged 6 to 11.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian who had no experience of politics when elected less than three years ago, has suddenly emerged as a convincing war leader.\n\nHe has rallied the nation with his addresses and video selfies and given voice to Ukrainian anger and defiance of Russian aggression.\n\nWhile Russian President Vladimir Putin has appeared increasingly erratic - accusing Ukraine of \"genocide\" in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk republics, and talking of the need to \"de-Nazify\" the country - President Zelensky, from a Russian-speaking Jewish family, has remained dignified, resolute and articulate.\n\nThese pronouncements have revealed a side that many critics - including a large chunk of the intelligentsia - had not seen coming.\n\nA key moment in the transformation from a leader floundering in the polls, who sometimes appeared out of his depth, into a national figurehead came in the early hours of Thursday, a few hours before Russia's invasion. In a sober address posted on social media, speaking partly in Russian, he said he had tried to call Vladimir Putin to avert a war and had been met by silence.\n\nThe two countries didn't need a war, \"not a Cold War, not a hot war, not a hybrid war\", he said, wearing a dark suit as he stood in front of a map of Ukraine. But he added that if Ukrainians came under attack they would defend themselves. \"When you attack us you will see our faces - not our backs, but our faces.\"\n\nSoon afterwards the invasion began, and for his next broadcast, in the middle of the day, he wore military fatigues, reflecting the country's David-versus-Goliath struggle. That evening he made another address, warning Western leaders that if they did not provide assistance then tomorrow \"war will knock on your doors\".\n\n\"This is the sound of a new iron curtain, which has come down, and is cutting Russia off from the civilised world.\"\n\nZelensky as commander-in-chief appeared to strike all the right notes on Ukrainian Twitter.\n\nYulia McGuffie, editor-in-chief of the Novoye Vremya news website, says she was upset when he was elected president in April 2019, as she had no faith in his ability to lead a government.\n\nBut Ukrainians have rapidly warmed to their president in the past week, she says.\n\n\"Full support and respect came, I think after Russia started its war - all Ukrainians have closed ranks around Zelensky. He is playing a uniting and I would say inspiring role, partly by his own example. He is leading a government that is repelling Putin's army, and for that many sincerely admire and respect him.\"\n\nZelensky's arrival on the political scene was a case of life imitating art. His most celebrated role as a comic actor was in the TV series, Servant of the People, in which he played a school teacher catapulted into the presidency after a student posted a viral video of him ranting about corruption in politics.\n\nHis candidacy in the 2019 presidential election was initially seen by some as a joke - his political party is called the Servant of the People party. But he went on to win with 73% of the vote, promising to fight corruption and bring peace in the east of the country.\n\nThe Ukrainian president has significant powers, but delivering on these promises was always going to be tough, communications consultant Yaryna Klyuchkovska notes. And for someone starting a presidency with such a high approval rating, the only way was down.\n\n\"It's one thing to make such broad-ranging promises and another thing to execute these policies,\" she says.\n\nZelensky had enjoyed the support of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky during his presidential campaign, leading many to fear he would turn out to be a puppet leader, controlled by a man who is under investigation in the US for possible fraud and money-laundering.\n\nHe had in fact proved to be more independent than the sceptics thought, refusing for example to allow the re-privatisation of PrivatBank, which was owned by Kolomoisky before it was nationalised.\n\nOn the other hand corruption remains deep-rooted in Ukraine, and there are concerns that a new anti-oligarch law could be used to restrict the activities of some oligarchs and not others. Corruption charges aimed at Zelensky's main rival, Petro Poroshenko, his predecessor as president, are regarded by some Western officials as politically motivated.\n\nZelensky's attempts to negotiate with Russia in order to find a solution to the conflict in the east, which has left more than 14,000 people dead, also had only limited success. There were prisoner exchanges and moves towards implementing parts of a peace process, known as the Minsk agreements, but no breakthrough. Throughout 2020 his approval rating steadily fell.\n\nZelensky subsequently struck a more assertive tone in pushing for membership of the European Union and the Nato military alliance, a move that was bound to anger the Russian president.\n\nBut Yaryna Klyuchkovska says Zelensky's rhetoric on the conflict in the east and relations with Russia continued to be too timid for many Ukrainians, until recent days.\n\nAs the drumbeat of war grew louder he declared a Day of Peace, and continued to emphasise his hopes for a diplomatic solution even while Ukraine was reporting a rapid increase in ceasefire violations along the front line.\n\n\"He avoided the subject of war, warfare, anything military. It was a topic outside his comfort zone and he was not willing to go there in his public rhetoric,\" Klyuchkovska says.\n\nHe also took issue with the daily warnings from the US and other Western governments of an imminent Russian attack, saying that the US communication strategy was \"very expensive for Ukraine\".\n\nZelensky has been accused of being a puppet of controversial business mogul Ihor Kolomoisky\n\nThe big change of tack came with a speech he made to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday 19 February, Klyuchkovska says, converting her too from a sceptic to a fan. He began by describing a visit to a kindergarten in the east of the country that had days earlier been hit by a missile.\n\n\"When a bomb crater appears in a school playground, children have a question: 'Has the world forgotten the mistakes of the 20th Century?'\" he said.\n\n\"Indifference makes you an accomplice,\" he told the guests from the West's diplomatic and defence elites. He reminded them of Vladimir Putin's rejection of a US-led world order at the same conference exactly 15 years earlier, and his assertion of Russia's resurgence. \"How did the world respond? With appeasement.\"\n\nKlyuchkovska says no Ukrainian leader had spoken so bluntly to the West before.\n\n\"For me the moment of pride in Zelensky came during his brilliant speech at the security conference in Munich,\" says Yulia McGuffie. \"It was then that many of Zelensky's political opponents in Ukraine decided that now is not the time for rows and conflicts.\"\n\nWestern intelligence claims that Zelensky's name is the first on a list of people Russian forces aim to kill. He says his family is second on the list, but that he and they remain in Ukraine.\n\nHis presence is confirmed by the video selfies he has been shooting outside the presidential administration and the very distinctive House of Chimeras opposite it, adorned with representations of exotic animals and hunting scenes.\n\nIn response to one of these, British writer Ben Judah tweeted: \"If you'd told many of our great-grandparents in the Pale [the area of the Russian empire in which Jews were mostly confined] that a Jewish man would be a Ukrainian war leader against a Russian invasion they would have blinked incredulously.\"\n\n\"Of course, he is an actor. I don't know whether it's his true persona or not. But whatever he's doing, it's working,\" says Yaryna Klyuchkovska. \"His speech writers have found their stride. They come from the entertainment business, but even writing a Netflix show is different from writing presidential speeches.\"\n\nUkraine still faces overwhelming odds. Russia's invasion force is huge and well-armed. But the 44-year-old law graduate, a political newbie, has found a voice that has helped to bolster Ukrainian morale.\n\n\"One of my good friends has just written, 'Zelensky has suddenly grown cojones of cosmic proportions',\" says McGuffie. \"And this really reflects the attitude to him right now.\"", "Ted Hankey won the BDO World Championship in 2000 and 2009\n\nThe former world darts champion Ted Hankey has pleaded guilty to a charge of sexual assault.\n\nThe 54-year-old, from Berry Hill in Stoke-on-Trent, appeared at Warrington Magistrates' Court, accused of intentionally touching a woman over 16 on 10 September.\n\nHankey will be sentenced at Chester Crown Court on 12 May.\n\nThe darts player, whose nickname is The Count, won the BDO World Championship in 2000 and 2009.\n\nThe charge relates to an incident in Crewe and Jonathan Wilkinson, prosecuting, said the victim was under 18.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Previously, licensed premises had limited hours for the sale of alcohol from Thursday to Sunday over the Easter weekend\n\nPubs and clubs in Northern Ireland will be able to stay open for longer this Easter weekend for the first time under new licensing laws.\n\nPrevious restrictions allowed venues to serve alcohol between 17:00 and 23:00 on Good Friday; until midnight on Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday; and 22:00 on Easter Sunday.\n\nThey can now operate as normal during Easter.\n\nThe legislation, which came into effect in October 2021, allows those with a late licence to sell alcohol until 01:00 or, for those allowed to stay open additional permitted hours, until 02:00.\n\nNine years in the making, it was the first major change to Northern Ireland's licensing laws since 1996 and has been described as the biggest change to the laws in a generation.\n\nThe Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Bill brought many of Northern Ireland's rules around alcohol sales into line with the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHospitality Ulster says the new rules are a boost for premises operating over Easter\n\nColin Neill, from Hospitality Ulster, the body which represents the industry in Northern Ireland, said bars and restaurants had been looking forward to this Easter \"for years\".\n\nHe said the legislation had been a \"shot in the arm for the entire hospitality industry as it emerges from a protracted period of pandemic closure\".\n\n\"Previous research showed the sector lost millions of pounds during the Easter period under the previous legislative regime,\" he added.\n\nHe said the new laws would mean customers and tourists can \"enjoy a glass of wine with lunch on Good Friday, or a late night out over the long weekend across Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"In years gone by, business owners have been at their wits end having to stay closed and shut early, losing millions in trade due to the restrictive laws of the past,\" he said.\n\n\"Following years of campaigning, it is a real boost for the sector to be able to bring families and friends together over a meal and a pint during the Easter holiday period.\"\n\nBarry McDaid, who manages Pyke and Pommes restaurant in Londonderry, welcomed the changes to what he said were \"archaic laws\".\n\n\"I think it is long, long overdue and it's good to see some change at last,\" Mr McDaid told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Working in bars years ago there were always queues outside the door from one o'clock when we didn't even open until three.\n\n\"People wanted to come in to sit down for a beer because it was the Easter weekend and most people are off on their holidays.\"\n\nMr McDaid said he would often find himself having to explain to tourists in Derry why they were unable to have a drink until a certain time during the Easter holidays.\n\n\"They couldn't really understand when you tried to explain to them what the old law was and that they couldn't have a drink before this time.\n\n\"Whereas everywhere else in Europe you could have a drink practically 24/7.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster, Janice Gault from the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the new legislation introduces the question of choice for consumers.\n\nShe added that for the hotel industry, the extended hours now \"opens up the opportunity to stage events over the Easter period\".\n\nGerard Keenan, who owns Dan's Bar in Belfast, said: \"These changes may not seem that big to many people but to us it's a massive thing\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope this Easter is a super one and we can put all the craziness of the last two years behind us\".\n\nTony O'Neill, the owner of Coppi Restaurant, also in Belfast, told BBC Radio Ulster that in the past, tourists had often been confused about Easter licensing laws.\n\n\"They found it very difficult when we try to explain to them why they can't have a drink,\" he said.\n\nMr O'Neill added that the hospitality industry has been in \"despair\" the past two years but he now feels more positive.\n\n\"There is a lot of confidence out there and people are enjoying being back out so fingers crossed Northern Ireland will be buzzing through the whole summer,\" he said.", "The Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 claimed the lives of 72 residents\n\nA mother who lived in Grenfell Tower with her three children has said escaping the 2017 fire was like \"coming out of a horror film\".\n\nMouna El Ogbani had lived in her 11th-storey flat in the block since 2006 after moving to the UK as a teenager.\n\nShe was alerted to the fire by a phone call from a friend and escaped the block via the stairs with her husband and children.\n\nA statement from Ms El Ogbani described thick smoke \"ceiling to floor\".\n\nThe fire destroyed Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017, claiming the lives of 72 residents.\n\nAn inquiry was ordered by former Prime Minister Theresa May the following day, and began in September the same year.\n\nIt is still ongoing and aims to examine the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the fire at Grenfell Tower.\n\nIn a statement provided to the inquiry, Ms El Ogbani said: \"It was really horrific. When I first opened the door it was thick black smoke.\n\n\"I thought, 'that's it, we're late, we're going to die' - it was like coming out of a horror film.\"\n\nMs El Ogbani said that she could see thick smoke \"zooming up\" the building's exterior once she was outside.\n\nImpromptu shelter was provided for residents by a local rugby club, before they were moved to a hotel in Earl's Court.\n\nMs El Ogbani said she and her family survived \"basically on the hand of our community\"\n\nMs El Ogbani, a former domestic violence outreach worker, said her family was given two small rooms with one bed and one cot for six weeks, with nowhere to do their laundry.\n\nShe was housed there with her husband and two children, while her son stayed at a friend's house.\n\n\"It made us really angry, because you don't know how you're going to live the next day,\" she said.\n\n\"The food was not great. As a Muslim person, it was not accommodated in the hotel. It wasn't halal. It was pizza or fish and chips.\"\n\nMs El Ogbani added that they survived \"basically on the hand of our community\", as there was \"no involvement\" from the government and she had left with just her keys and phone.\n\nRead more from the Grenfell Tower inquiry:\n\nShe left her job as an outreach worker in December 2017 after feeling she could no longer cope and was referred by her GP for counselling.\n\nMs El Ogbani also became involved with the campaign group Grenfell United, after becoming frustrated with the lack of official support.\n\nShe criticised the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council, suggesting they \"did not take into account the specific needs of each family or resident\".\n\n\"We don't want another Grenfell to happen again,\" she continued. \"We want people to be listened to. We want people who are living in social housing, when they complain or make a request for something, to be taken seriously and to be treated with dignity and respect.\"\n\nMs El Ogbani is one of several residents taking part in the inquiry to have expressed anger or frustration with the way the Grenfell fire was handled.\n\nOn Wednesday, a victim's nephew told the inquiry: \"We were abandoned in the worst way possible while we were looking for our relatives.\"\n\nThe inquiry is coming to the end of a phase examining the role of the government and will next look at the way it handled the aftermath of the fire in west London.\n\nIt is expected to finish later this year and report in 2023.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPlans to send some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats to live in Rwanda have been described as \"absolutely chilling\" and \"cruel and nasty\" by charities and politicians.\n\nThe government has faced fierce criticism for the policy with questions raised over costs and impact as well as Rwanda's human rights record.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the £120m pilot scheme would \"save countless lives\".\n\nThe PM said it would break the business model of \"vile people smugglers\".\n\nThe pilot scheme would initially focus mainly on single men arriving on boats or lorries and would see them given a one-way ticket for the 4,000-mile trip to Rwanda where they would be processed and, if successful, would have long-term accommodation in the African country.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel, who travelled to Rwandan capital Kigali to sign the deal, said the \"vast majority\" of those arriving in the UK \"illegally\" would be considered for relocation to Rwanda.\n\nThe scheme is one of a number of measures announced to tackle small boat crossings in the Channel, with others including plans to hand operational control of the Channel to the Navy and asylum seekers who are resettled in the UK being spread more evenly across authorities.\n\nMore than 160 charities and campaign groups - including the UK network of non-governmental organisations Bond - have called on the government to scrap the plans in an open letter that described the scheme as \"shamefully cruel\".\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the charity was \"appalled by the government's cruel and nasty decision\" that would \"do little\" to deter people from coming to the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Johnson was trying to distract from his \"partygate\" fine with the \"unworkable, unethical and extortionate\" scheme, while the Lib Dems said the government was \"slamming the door\" in the face of refugees and the SNP's Ian Blackford called it \"absolutely chilling\".\n\nThe government has for years struggled to address the issue of small boats crossing the Channel.\n\nDifferent ideas have been floated about how to tackle illegal immigration - many have been dismissed and ruled out.\n\nSo this is an attempt by Boris Johnson to tackle the issue head on. It matters to Conservative voters - taking back control of borders was one of Mr Johnson's big Brexit promises.\n\nBut this isn't a simple plan to implement. It will be expensive - and it's extremely controversial.\n\nMinisters know they will face legal challenges - and that some are sceptical it will amount to much.\n\nThe PM admitted it would not be enough on its own to solve the issue, but he insisted that over time it will prove a considerable deterrent. Many will be looking to see if he's right.\n\nFormer Ukip and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has also criticised the plans, saying they were \"not much more than a short-term solution\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme the problem with sending people away to islands or other countries was \"it's not very long before you start to hear tales of abuse\" and after that the Human Rights Act could be invoked to stop it.\n\nHe suggested the UK should turn boats back - a method that was used by Australia - but Mr Johnson conceded the controversial \"pushback\" technique would be dangerous except in \"extremely limited circumstances\".\n\nThe plans have been welcomed by some with a snap YouGov poll showing 35% of those asked supported the proposal, while 42% opposed it.\n\nRecent research by Ipsos Mori suggested 60% of the public were dissatisfied with the government's migration policy - more than half of which cited Channel crossings.\n\nFormer UK Border Force chief Tony Smith said it was a \"bold move\" and may put people off paying people smugglers, when they heard they could be sent to a third country.\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the Rwandan government's human rights record and its president, Paul Kagame.\n\nSteve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK's refugee and migrant rights director, warned sending people seeking asylum in the UK to another country \"let alone one with such a dismal human rights record\" was \"the very height of irresponsibility\".\n\nLast year, the UK government expressed concern at the United Nations over \"continued restrictions to civil and political rights and media freedom\" in Rwanda.\n\nBut Mr Johnson described Rwanda as being one of the safest countries in the world and said there was a \"risk of stereotyping\".\n\nRwanda, a small landlocked country in east-central Africa, has been trying to recover from the ethnic strife that culminated in government-sponsored genocide in the mid-1990s.\n\nRwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told the BBC it is \"a safe country, it's developing rapidly, we care as much as every country about human rights\".\n\nShe said the nation had a \"strong record of protecting migrants and refugees\".\n\n\"We're expecting thousands here - this is a brand new approach, it's never been done before.\"\n\nAccording to a memorandum of understanding between the two governments the UK would screen asylum seekers \"without delay\" after their arrival in the UK and then provide Rwanda with basic details of each person it wanted to transfer.\n\nRwanda would have to approve all requests before they were transferred, and the arrangement would last for five years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rwandan foreign minister: Immigration plan not for those from neighbouring nations\n\nAfter arriving in the east African nation each asylum seeker would be given accommodation and support and would be free to come and go from their accommodation at all times, the memorandum says.\n\nThe UK would also resettle \"a portion of Rwanda's most vulnerable refugees\" in the UK.\n\nMr Johnson said action was needed to stop people smugglers turning the ocean into a \"watery graveyard\", and said the British taxpayer could not be asked \"to write a blank cheque to cover the costs of anyone who might want to come and live here\".\n\nOn Thursday hundreds of people have crossed the Channel, with women, children and men brought ashore by the RNLI and Border Force at Dover, Kent.\n\nLast year, 28,526 people are known to have crossed in small boats, up from 8,404 in 2020.\n\nIn 2021 64% of asylum applications were successful after an initial decision was made, according to government figures, with some more granted after appeals.\n\nThe number of people who could be relocated would be \"unlimited\", said Mr Johnson.\n\nRwanda will have the \"capacity to resettle tens of thousands of people in the years ahead\", including those who have arrived \"illegally\" since the start of the year, he said.\n\nThe home secretary said her department had prepared for legal challenges over the deal but she was confident any claims could be successfully contested.\n\nDuring her visit to Kigali, Ms Patel said the British public had been \"crying out for change for the years\" and it was \"incredibly unfair to the British public to see organisations in their own country effectively just putting blockages after blockages in the way\".\n\nDr Niovi Vavoula, lecturer in migration and security at Queen Mary University School of Law, said she anticipated legal challenges being made under the international principle of non-refoulement - which guarantees no-one can be returned to a country where they would face \"torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment and other irreparable harm\".\n\nThe BBC has seen accommodation the asylum seekers would be housed in, thought to have enough space for about 100 people at a time and to process up to 500 a year\n\nThe Rwandan government said migrants would be \"entitled to full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment, and enrolment in healthcare and social care services\".\n\nThe UK Home Office believes existing asylum law will be enough to implement the plan, and Ms Patel said it was not reliant on the Nationality and Borders Bill - which has faced a series of defeats in the lords - going through Parliament.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Businesses will still be required to make risk assessments under existing legislation\n\nA law requiring workplaces in Wales to take precautions for Covid will be axed from Monday.\n\nIt is one of two remaining Covid measures the Welsh government has in place.\n\nRules requiring facemasks in health and social care settings will remain in force for at least another three weeks.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the mask rule would help control the spread of Covid where \"some of the most vulnerable people\" are treated or live.\n\nThe move to scrap restrictions on businesses came as the latest Office for National Statistics data indicated infections remain at record levels in Wales, with one in 13 people still estimated to have Covid in the latest week.\n\nMr Drakeford said firms will still be required to make risk assessments under existing legislation.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"It certainly doesn't mean that businesses will be abandoning all the things that they put in place to keep their workers safe and to keep customers safe.\"\n\nHe said firms are telling ministers \"they're determined to go on doing all of those things because they know it makes good sense for their business\".\n\nThe last Welsh government review of coronavirus rules saw the end of the laws requiring people to wear face coverings in shops and on public transport, and to self-isolate if they catch coronavirus.\n\nBoth measures were replaced with guidance.\n\nUnder the law, companies and other organisations had been required to assess the risk coronavirus poses in their workplace.\n\nThey were required to take precautions from a shopping list of suggestions, such as ensuring premises are well ventilated, using screens or barriers and limiting close physical interaction, and could have faced fines if they ignored the rules.\n\nThe Welsh government said firms would \"continue to be encouraged to take steps to operate in a Covid-safe manner\".\n\nWorkplaces will still be subject to other legal responsibilities, such as under the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives' Russell George said the changes were coming \"too late with the long bank holiday weekend already on us\".\n\nHe called for Mr Drakeford to use the next review to \"finally announce an independent public inquiry into the Welsh government's handling of the pandemic that has seen Wales with the highest rate of deaths in the UK and record-breaking waiting lists\".\n\nFigures for deaths in Wales involving Covid, which do not adjust for age or population, across the whole of the pandemic period are higher in Wales than the other UK nations at 314.1 per 100,000 people.\n\nWhen standardised for age the figure is 142.7, slightly lower than England's 143.2, but higher than Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Peredur Owen Griffiths also called for a Welsh-only pandemic inquiry, adding: \"Key worker illness and sickness absence remains a real problem for many services. That's why it's more important than ever that the Labour government provides a meaningful plan for NHS recovery.\"\n\nCBI Wales' Leighton Jenkins said: \"These recent changes will be welcomed by businesses, which are under strain due to rising energy costs and inflation.\"\n\nBen Cottam, head of the Federation of Small Businesses Wales, added: \"Business will continue to do everything they can to ensure customers and staff are safe.\"\n\nShavanah Taj, general secretary of the Wales TUC group of trade unions, said employers \"still have a legal obligation to ensure the safety and security of their workers\".\n\n\"Employers must continue to assess the physical environment and working practices in order to safeguard against the spread of infection.\"\n\nLeader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Jane Dodds, also welcomed the decision and called for the fourth booster vaccine to be opened up to those under 75 who want it.\n\nMichael Kill says the industry does not take safety lightly\n\nMeanwhile, Night Time Industries Association's Michael Kill said a Welsh government Freedom of Information request showed there was no evidence to support the closure of nightclubs last year.\n\nMr Kill told Radio Wales Breakfast the findings left many in the sector feeling \"frustrated and angry\".\n\n\"The response that we got... was it is not possible to establish exactly where someone caught Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"Therefore, it's not possible to provide the number of cases that were caught in specific venues. Welsh government does not hold that information.\" he added.\n\nHe said the sector was not surprised by the response, which showed evidence was \"anecdotal\", but said there had been a \"huge impact\" on businesses, with over a third of nightclubs now closed across the UK.\n\nIn response, the Welsh government said its approach has been \"informed by the latest available scientific and medical advice\".\n\nIt added that \"Increasing the number of people at a venue without increasing the size of the venue or otherwise mitigating appropriately will increase the risk of transmission. SAGE highlighted the highest risks of transmission are associated with poorly ventilated and crowded indoor settings.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said nightclubs were \"high-risk\" and have been associated with super-spreader events \"across the world\".\n\n\"The evidence from the Sage committee said the transmission of the virus was strongly associated with a proximity and duration of contacts in indoor environments,\" he added.\n\nCovid infections remain at record levels in Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), with one in 13 people still estimated to have Covid in the latest week.\n\nIt is estimated 231,900 people in Wales had Covid in the week ending 9 April.\n\nThat equates to 7.63% of the population and is a slight increase on the previous week's estimate, which was that 230,800 people were infected and suggests they may be flattening.\n\nThe estimate for Wales is a higher than those in the other UK nations, where infections were estimated to be decreasing. It was also higher than in all English regions except the north east.\n\nInfections are estimated to involve one in 14 people in England, one in 17 in Scotland and one in 19 in Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Wales, later on Thursday, that Covid \"in general\" has been \"stabilising in Wales over the last three weeks, albeit at very high numbers\".\n\nHe said there were \"just the beginnings of signs that maybe the BA.2 wave of Omicron is passing its peak and numbers are beginning to come down\".\n\nMeanwhile, the numbers of patients with Covid in hospital beds has averaged 836 over the last week - slightly up on the previous seven days. Numbers in critical care are averaging 19 a day, a small rise on a week ago but half the numbers at the peak we saw in January.\n\nHowever, more than 84% of patients with Covid in acute beds are being treated for other conditions, reflecting the high numbers of Covid infections in the community. Only 124 patients with Covid on Wednesday were being primarily treated for the virus.\n\nBut the chief medical officer for Wales warned that the health and care system continued to struggle with Covid demands and high levels of staff absence.\n\nMark Drakeford has warned people that the pandemic is not over\n\nEarlier this week registered deaths involving Covid in Wales rose to their highest weekly total in two months, according to the ONS.\n\nIn the most recent week, up to 1 April, 61 people in Wales had a death registered which involved Covid - and saw it included as a contributory factor on a death certificate.\n\nIt was the highest weekly total since early February - there were 45 deaths registered in the previous week.\n\nThe next three-weekly review of coronavirus regulations is expected around 5 May.", "Two Russian oligarchs linked to billionaire Roman Abramovich have been sanctioned by the UK government.\n\nChelsea FC director Eugene Tenenbaum and David Davidovich are longstanding business associates of Mr Abramovich, who owns the club.\n\nThe pair's assets - estimated to be worth up to £10 billion in total - have been frozen.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said it was the largest asset freeze in UK history.\n\nThey join a list of individuals to have been sanctioned following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters.\n\nThis will prevent their financial assets being sent back to Russia.\n\nThe total number of individuals sanctioned by the UK since February now stands at 106.\n\nMr Tenenbaum previously described himself as one of Mr Abramovich's closest business associates.\n\nCorporate filings show that he took control of Evrington Investments Limited, an investment company linked to Mr Abramovich, on 24 February.\n\nMr Davidovich then took over the company in March. He is also subject to a travel ban, meaning he is cannot enter - or remain in - the UK.\n\nMs Truss said: \"We are tightening the ratchet on Putin's war machine and targeting the circle of people closest to the Kremlin.\n\n\"We will keep going with sanctions until Putin fails in Ukraine. Nothing and no one is off the table.\"\n\nThese sanctions were co-ordinated with action taken by authorities in Jersey earlier this week.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Abramovich had $7bn (£5.4bn) worth of assets linked to him frozen by a Jersey court.\n\nIn the US, a Gulfstream private jet owned by Mr Abramovich has been effectively grounded as the US Commerce Department said it was one of a number of planes to contravene US sanctions.\n\nCurrently it is a criminal offence for any Russian aircraft to fly to, or land in, the UK. The government has powers to remove aircraft belonging to designated Russian individuals and entities from the UK aircraft register, even if the sanctioned individual is not on board.\n\nRussian ships are also banned from UK ports.", "Det Con Francois Olwage was suspended from the Met Police's counter-terrorism unit after his arrest\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of child sex offences after he arranged to meet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl while on duty.\n\nDet Con Francois Olwage, 52, from Stevenage, spoke to the girl for two weeks on a chat forum - she was in fact an undercover police officer.\n\nHe was convicted of attempted sexual communication with a child and attempting to cause/incite a girl aged 13 to engage in sexual activity.\n\nThe counter-terrorism officer was also found guilty of attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following grooming.\n\nWinchester Crown Court heard Olwage was having explicit sexual conversations with the \"girl\", who had the username Smile Bear, before suggesting they meet in what the undercover officer had said was her hometown of Basingstoke, Hampshire.\n\nProsecutor Peter Shaw said the divorced father-of-three had taken the train to meet the girl on 28 October and was arrested after stopping at a McDonalds.\n\nOn that day he was listed as \"on duty working from home\", Mr Shaw said.\n\nWhen officers searched his bag they found condoms, a bottle of lubricant and a packet of erectile dysfunction tablets, the jury heard.\n\nOlwage told the court that he \"never believed\" Smile Bear was a 13-year-old girl and that he thought it was an adult \"playing out a fantasy\".\n\nAt the start of the trial he admitted an offence of improperly exercising his police powers and privileges in order to receive the \"benefit of sexual gratification\".\n\nThe judge ordered the jury to find him not guilty of arranging/facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on 27 April.\n\nThe Met described the officer's crimes as \"deplorable\" and confirmed he would face misconduct proceedings following the conviction.\n\nDet Ch Supt Donna Smith, of the force's directorate of professional standards, said: \"These are appalling crimes, and the fact that these crimes were committed by a police officer makes them all the more deplorable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "NHS leaders are warning that the health service is facing the \"brutal reality\" of an Easter as bad as most winters.\n\nLatest data shows record waits for planned surgery and in A&E, as staff plough through a backlog fuelled by Covid. The government says there is hope on the horizon.\n\nRetired seamstress Jean Shepherd had a stroke in April last year, leaving her severely disabled and requiring round-the-clock care.\n\nAt the end of February there was an outbreak of sickness at her nursing home and she needed hospital treatment.\n\nShe had to wait in a wheelchair for more than 9 hours until an ambulance arrived to take her to A&E.\n\nThe 87-year-old from Nottingham then spent the next 31 hours on a trolley between the emergency department and a secondary-care unit.\n\n\"She was very distressed because she doesn't like hospitals at the best of time,\" says her son, Andy Shepherd. \"Since the stroke, because of her cognitive ability, she doesn't understand what's happening around her.\"\n\nMrs Shepherd was eventually moved to a bed in a main hospital ward, where her family says she later contracted Covid, before recovering and being discharged back to her care home two weeks later.\n\n\"I appreciate that A&E departments have always been busy, but I just wasn't prepared for what greeted me at the hospital,\" says her son.\n\n\"There were patients on ambulance trolleys literally everywhere and the staff were absolutely rushed off their feet. I remember thinking at the time that this is not sustainable.\"\n\nNottingham University Hospitals Trust has apologised for the delay in admitting Mrs Shepherd to a ward, saying she received \"expert care\" in the emergency department while staff were dealing with an \"unprecedented level of demand\".\n\nJean Shepherd back in her care home after hospital treatment\n\nThat kind of 31-hour wait might be at the extreme end.\n\nBut nationally, it's in emergency departments that the pressure on the NHS is most visible at the moment.\n\nThe number of people arriving at A&E has been increasing steadily over the past decade, driven in part by a growing and ageing population.\n\nOver the past year the proportion having to wait a long time to be treated has been rising to record levels.\n\nIn March, just 71% of patients were seen, treated and then admitted or discharged in under four hours, compared with 87% in March 2019 - the year before the pandemic began.\n\nOver the past few weeks, hospitals from Liverpool to West Yorkshire to Nottingham have had to post warnings online asking the public to think twice before turning up at A&E if they did not need urgent or life-saving care.\n\n\"I have never seen it as bad as it is now,\" says Dr Katherine Henderson, the RCEM's president. \"Long waits in emergency departments cause harm because a patient's condition may deteriorate and there may not be the staff there to notice.\n\n\"It makes everybody really anxious, and we know that people are not getting the care they deserve.\"\n\nThis problem is not unique to England. A&E waiting times in other parts of the UK have been increasing, too.\n\nThe pressure the system is under can be seen most acutely when the sickest patients in the emergency department need to be moved to a ward.\n\nA record 22,506 people had to wait more than 12 hours on trolleys and in cubicles in A&E departments in March before they could be admitted to the main hospital. The figure is up from 16,404 in February, and is the highest for any month going back to August 2010 when the data started.\n\nThere are a number of factors playing a role in this - staff shortages, a lack of care in the community - which means some patients wait a long time to be discharged - and the fact that running hospitals has become more difficult because of Covid infection-control measures.\n\nThis past winter, 131,000 people have tested positive for the virus after being admitted to hospital in England. Around half of those will have been treated predominantly for Covid pneumonia and other direct symptoms of the disease; the others were brought in with other ailments.\n\nEither way, that puts pressure on NHS services, as patients need to be isolated, entire hospital bays need to be cleaned and staff who fall sick have to take time off work.\n\nEarlier this week, Matthew Taylor, from the NHS Confederation, which speaks for healthcare providers in England, told BBC Breakfast: \"The brutal reality for staff and patients is that this Easter in the NHS is as bad as any winter.\"\n\nAll this means hospital waiting times have deteriorated across the board - not just in A&E but in ambulance response times, in cancer care and for planned surgery.\n\nMore than 6.2 million people in England are on a waiting list for routine treatment - that's one in nine of the population. More than 23,000 of them have waited more than two years for the likes of a hip replacement or gynaecology services - a nine-fold rise on last year, though down slightly on the previous month.\n\n\"Trusts are doing all they can to bear down on care backlogs, which have increased during the pandemic for hospital, mental-health and community services,\" says Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents NHS Trusts. \"But they face extraordinary pressures, including the continuing impact of Covid.\n\n\"What is needed is realism on what the NHS can achieve and how quickly, given the immediate pressure it is under.\"\n\nAmbulances parked outside hospitals have become an increasingly familiar sight\n\nTo try to manage that pressure, NHS bosses have been overhauling some services and speeding up some treatments.\n\nIn Buckinghamshire, a new mobile cataract unit, designed to perform an extra 100 surgeries every week, has been set up in the grounds of Stoke Mandeville Hospital.\n\nOn Merseyside, a grandmother recently became the first person in the region to receive hip-replacement surgery and go home the same day.\n\nNew community diagnostic hubs have also started operating in places such as supermarket car parks to offer routine scans and blood tests. The NHS says 230,000 patients have been processed through those since the start of February.\n\nEarlier this year the health service published its \"elective recovery plan\", pledging that every patient waiting more than two years for routine surgery should be treated by July.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"We know the NHS has been under unprecedented pressure - that's why we set out our plan to tackle the Covid backlog and deliver long-term recovery and reform, backed by our record multi-billion-pound investment.\n\n\"This will deliver new surgical hubs and up to 160 community diagnostic centres across the country to help patients get the surgery they need and earlier access to tests.\"", "City of London police have arrested three people for running an unofficial version of Disney's game Club Penguin.\n\nPolice, acting on the wishes of Disney, took down the website, which claimed to have millions of registered users.\n\nIt comes after a BBC investigation in 2020 witnessed players simulating sex and exchanging racist and anti-Semitic abuse on another unauthorised clone of the children's game.\n\nPolice have released the suspects as they investigate copyright offences.\n\nDisney's Club Penguin launched in 2005 and was one of the first social networks for children.\n\nIt had more than 200 million players at its peak, who explored a cartoon world - walking, talking and playing mini games using penguin avatars.\n\nSome players accused Club Penguin Rewritten of being 'unsafe'\n\nWhile anybody could join the original website, content filters and human moderators were employed to stop inappropriate messages or personal information being shared.\n\nBut Disney closed the website in 2017.\n\nSince then, unofficial clones of the website have been set up. These so-called 'private servers' were launched using stolen or copied source code, and can easily be found by children searching the internet.\n\nClub Penguin Online was the largest of the unauthorised clones and the subject of a BBC investigation in May 2020.\n\nIts popularity exploded during the coronavirus pandemic, with seven million registered players.\n\nThe BBC investigation found racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexual messages flowing freely on the unauthorised platform, which saw children playing alongside adults.\n\nDisney said it was \"appalled\" by the website and ordered it to close or face legal action.\n\nBut many players simply moved to another major site, Club Penguin Rewritten, which - nearly two years on - has now been closed.\n\nThe site included in-game advertising, although it is not known how much money was generated.\n\nOne player, who spent time on both sites, told the BBC: \"The game had been booming ever since Club Penguin Online's [CPO] shutdown, as that is where the CPO player population migrated to. However, that may have worked against them in the end.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother user contacted the BBC claiming the site was 'unsafe' because of poor moderation.\n\nDetective Constable Daryl Fryatt, from the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at City of London police, confirmed the seizure of the site and arrests.\n\n\"Following a complaint under copyright law, PIPCU have seized a gaming website as part of an ongoing investigation into the site.\n\n\"Three people were arrested on April 12 on suspicion of distributing materials infringing copyright, and searches were carried out,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused European countries that continue to buy Russian oil of \"earning their money in other people's blood\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, President Zelensky singled out Germany and Hungary, accusing them of blocking efforts to embargo energy sales, from which Russia stands to make up to £250bn ($326bn) this year.\n\nThere has been a growing frustration among Ukraine's leadership with Berlin, which has backed some sanctions against Russia but so far resisted calls to back tougher action on oil sales.\n\n\"Some of our friends and partners understand that it is a different time now, that it is no longer an issue of business and money,\" Mr Zelensky told the BBC from his situation room in Kyiv on Thursday. \"That it is an issue of survival.\"\n\nThe president also reiterated calls for more weapons to be supplied to Ukraine, saying they were not getting supplies fast enough to fend off Russia's assault.\n\n\"The United States, the United Kingdom, some European countries - they are trying to help and are helping,\" he said. \"But still we need it sooner, sooner and faster. The key word is now.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian leader (R) said his country still desperately needed weapons from the West\n\nRussian troops have in recent weeks pulled back from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and other central and northern parts of the country - apparently abandoning an attempt to seize all of Ukraine by force.\n\nBut there are fears now of a bloody and protracted conflict in the east and south of the country, as Russian President Vladimir Putin refocuses his military campaign there in an effort to seize more territory.\n\nThe southern port city of Mariupol - a strategic goal for President Putin - has already been devastated by weeks of Russian artillery bombardment.\n\nPresident Zelensky told the BBC he thought tens of thousands may have been killed in the city.\n\n\"We also have information that as well as those tens of thousands of dead, many have disappeared,\" he said. \"We know their documents have been replaced, they were given Russian passports and taken deep into Russia - some to camps, some to other cities. No one knows what is happening to those people. No one knows how many have been killed.\"\n\nPresident Zelensky said 95% of buildings had been destroyed in Mariupol, one of Ukraine's biggest cities\n\nMr Zelensky said the atrocities apparently committed by Russian troops in Mariupol, and in the Kyiv suburbs of Bucha and Borodyanka, had further narrowed the possibility of peace talks with the Russians.\n\nHundreds of dead have been found in Bucha since it was taken back by Ukrainian forces a little over a week ago, including civilians who were found shot in the head with their hands tied behind their backs, as well as widespread reports of sexual violence.\n\n\"Bucha is in the process of closing [the possibilities of peace talks],\" President Zelensky said. \"It's not about me - it's about Russia. They will not have many more chances to speak with us.\"\n\nHe said he had \"experienced the entire spectrum of emotions\" when he visited Bucha last week, but ended the day with \"nothing but hatred towards the Russian military\". He accused President Putin and the rest of the Russian army \"from top to bottom\" of being \"war criminals\".\n\nPresident Zelensky (seen here in the centre without a helmet) visited the town of Bucha earlier this month\n\nMr Zelensky defended his leadership in the run-up to the Russian invasion that began in February, when his government urged the Ukrainian people to remain calm.\n\nHe said the government had been working in the background to agree deals for weapons and supplies, as well as focusing on avoiding panic that could trigger a run on the banks and destabilise Ukraine's economy.\n\n\"That was what Russia - and not just Russia - wanted, but we didn't let that happen,\" he said. \"But we did not expect the full-scale invasion when it happened.\"\n\nUkraine is now facing a renewed attack in the east and south as Russia attempts to carve off more territory, following its 2014 annexation of Crimea.\n\nPresident Zelensky said the east now represented the \"most difficult situation\" for Ukraine's armed forces, \"but this is where our most powerful units are concentrated\".\n\n\"They can destroy us, but we will answer; they can kill but they will also die,\" he said. \"I can't understand for what - I can't understand why they came.\"", "Polish border guards now say fewer people are entering from Ukraine, while more are starting to head east\n\nAt Ukraine's western border with Poland near the town of Mostyska, Olena and Maria walk back into their home country after more than a month abroad.\n\nThe pair are from Slovyansk in the eastern Donetsk region. On 10 March, as Russian invaders drew closer, Olena's husband told her to take their daughter Maria and leave the country.\n\nOlena and Maria headed to a friend's house in Szczecin, a Polish city on the border with Germany. But they had to sleep on the floor, and Olena says they struggled to find work there because they don't speak the language.\n\nNow, they're heading back east - despite the threat of a renewed Russian assault. Donetsk remains a key target for Russian forces.\n\nOlena's husband is an ambulance driver and still in Slovyansk, waiting for them. When we ask how they feel to cross back into their home country, Olena breaks into a huge grin.\n\n\"Super!\" she says. \"No matter what, we're very happy to be back in Ukraine.\"\n\nSince Russia's invasion, more than 10 million people are thought to have left their homes in Ukraine, and 4.3 million of those have left the country.\n\nBut as the front lines stabilise and the country learns to function in a state of war, some Ukrainians are beginning to make the journey back home, even to parts of the country directly threatened by Russian forces.\n\nThe war is now well into its second month. Ukraine has held off the Russian assault and fears of a rapid collapse - as President Volodymyr Zelensky told his people this week, it is more than 48 days since military analysts in the West predicted the capital Kyiv had just 48 hours until its fall to the invaders.\n\nPeople the BBC spoke to at the Polish border said they had tired of life as refugees abroad. Others were desperate to get back for practical reasons - to collect important documents left behind in the confusion after the invasion, protect their homes from looters, or even to pick up children who stayed behind with their fathers.\n\nAnd for others, the pull of home, friends and family is just too strong.\n\nSofia is eating a hot dog from one of the fast-food stalls at the border crossing. She's defying her mum's orders, choosing to come back home after just three weeks in the safety of Poland. War is war, but Easter is Easter - she's eager to see her loved ones back home in Lviv this weekend.\n\nSofia left Ukraine on her mum's orders, but is now heading home for Easter\n\nThe 20-year-old first crossed the frontier into the EU late in March to stay with a godmother's friend in Poznan, after the Russians bombed her home city.\n\n\"Mum forced me, she was panicking,\" Sofia says. But she never felt settled abroad, despite the help for refugees that humanitarian groups and the Polish government have organised.\n\n\"You feel foreign,\" she says. \"Everyone's helping you, but it doesn't feel like home.\" She hopes to stay in the relative calm of Lviv.\n\nOfficial figures suggest more people are making the same choice. Polish border authorities say numbers going to and from Ukraine are now drawing closer - on Wednesday, 24,700 people entered Poland from Ukraine, while 20,000 people made the opposite trip. It's a sharp reversal from the record 142,000 people who crossed into Poland on 6 March.\n\nLviv-Holovnyi rail station is a key transit hub in western Ukraine. Trains bring thousands in daily from war-torn regions: outside, charities give out food, clothes and SIM cards, while coaches line up to take travellers off to the countryside or the border.\n\nAlthough most people come here from the east, a steady stream of people are starting to make the journey in the opposite direction - a potentially lethal choice.\n\nIryna, her daughter Katerina, mother Lina and mother-in-law Yevgenya are from Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine close to the front lines. They initially left the country to stay with relatives in Moldova, but have now decided to return. They've had to buy tickets for the trip - in contrast, journeys westward away from the fighting are free.\n\nIryna, far right, says she is telling her daughter Katerina, second from left, the truth about what's happening\n\nIryna says they would have come sooner, but had to wait for her eight-year-old daughter to recover from an illness. \"Home is home,\" she says, when we ask why they've decided to go back.\n\nShe admits she's worried about her daughter's safety. When they left, the Russian attacks were far away, but now they're getting closer.\n\nWe ask what they've told Katerina about the situation. \"We're telling her the truth,\" Iryna says.\n\nVolunteers at a clinic above the main station concourse give out medical and psychological support for new arrivals. Irena Bous is one of them.\n\nBefore the war, she was a judge for the International Dance Organization and chair of a number of dance competitions within Ukraine. \"All kinds - hip hop, jazz, break dancing,\" she says.\n\nA friend of hers in the Lviv governor's office knew she had a flair for organisation and so asked her to help out when the Russians invaded.\n\nIrena has met several people who are returning to areas wracked by violence. \"It's a bad idea [to return east],\" Irena says. \"We try to save their lives and keep them in Lviv.\"\n\nShe tells us of a woman who came to Lviv from her home near Bucha, a wealthy suburb of Kyiv where Russian troops shot dead scores of civilians and left bodies in the street. After nine days, she decided to return - against Irena's advice.\n\n\"I said, please wait, there are no Russians but we have many things there - bombs, mines - wait until they are deactivated,\" Irena says. The woman travelled back regardless, saying her friends had found her a place to stay.\n\nAnother woman Irena spoke to, who is in her 60s, had fled to Poland even before the war began, but returned to Ukraine and boarded a train east last week. \"I don't know how long I will live, but I will die in my house,\" she told Irena.\n\nBefore the war she organised dance competitions, but now Irena helps run a clinic at Lviv station\n\nOthers we met couldn't bring themselves to leave Ukraine in the first place. At Arena Lviv - a stadium built for the Euro 2012 football tournament, but now playing host to refugees - we meet Roma, a 19-year-old from Mykolaiv on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, and his new friend Iryna, a grandmother from Severodonetsk in the eastern Luhansk region.\n\nThe pair had never met until that day, but now they have decided to stay together. Iryna travelled across Ukraine to the Polish border in the days after the invasion, intent on escaping. After queuing for hours, she made it to the front of the line, only to change her mind at the last minute. Her son is in the military in Ukraine and she hears her home city has been recaptured by Ukrainian forces, opening up the prospect of heading home.\n\n\"I couldn't bring myself to leave [the country],\" she tells us. But since then, she has been moving around the west of the country, sleeping for a time at a nursery in Lviv before ending up at the arena with Roma.\n\nA coach destined for the countryside has one spot left on board, but despite repeated offers, Iryna refuses the seat - choosing instead to stick with her new friend.\n\nNow she and Roma - like millions of others - face an uncertain future as displaced people within the country. With a choice of refugee status abroad or rootlessness inside Ukraine, it is perhaps no surprise that some are risking everything to return to their homes.\n\nIryna and Roma are waiting out the war in Lviv for now", "A total of 190 people arrived in Kent on Thursday in six boats\n\nA total of 190 people crossed the English Channel to the UK on Thursday, the Home Office said.\n\nThey arrived in Kent in six boats. The French authorities stopped a further 85 people from making the crossing in three boats.\n\nCrossings have taken place this week amid warm weather and calm seas. Almost 400 migrants made the crossing on Tuesday, including several children.\n\nIt means more than 2,500 people have arrived via small boats in March.\n\nThe figure is more than three times as many as the number of 831 migrants that arrived in March last year.\n\nMore than 4.000 people have made the Channel crossing this year\n\nTom Pursglove, minister for tackling illegal migration, said: \"The rise in dangerous Channel crossings is unacceptable.\n\n\"Not only are they an overt abuse of our immigration laws but they also impact on the UK taxpayer, risk lives and our ability to help refugees come to the UK via safe and legal routes.\"\n\nMr Pursglove said the government was cracking down on people smugglers through the Nationality and Borders Bill, which would also make it a criminal offence to knowingly arrive in the UK illegally.\n\nThe government has suffered a series of defeats in the House of Lords over its borders bill, which has come in for criticism and attracted protests.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "The soldiers at the checkpoint scrutinised our passports, then waved us on. We were inside the grounds of the building that was being used as the headquarters of the resistance against Russia's invasion.\n\nBarbed wire, mines and machine gun mounts ring the building. Heavily armed soldiers were everywhere - the person I was about to meet is a marked man.\n\nThe Kremlin would love to see Volodymyr Zelensky dead and his government replaced with a puppet regime installed by Moscow. But over the 50 days of this war, Ukrainian resistance has stunned the world.\n\nWe passed our equipment through two sets of metal detectors and were ushered inside. Then it was down a series of long corridors, with sandbags piled up every few yards. A little hole was left in the pile near the top, through which the muzzle of an assault rifle might fit.\n\nAn aide to the President led us to a door with a brass plate on it: the words read The Situation Room, in Ukrainian. Inside, the room looks modern, with giant plasma screens covering the walls and trendy office chairs on wheels sporting ergonomic backrests.\n\nBut there was a problem. Interviewing people sitting on chairs with wheels can be tricky. Lost in their responses to questions, they tend to shift from side to side on the wheels.\n\nSo we asked the president's aide for chairs with no wheels. \"Umm,\" he says, \"I'll have a look.\"\n\nHe left the Situation Room and returned with two rather old-fashioned-looking chairs, all brown wood with patterned seats. \"That'll do the trick,\" I say. But I could see the president's chief of staff's lip curl.\n\n\"No, that won't do,\" he said. \"The chair looks too old-fashioned in this room of modern computers and plasma screens. We're trying to project a modern image here.\" And with that, two more modern-looking chairs were produced - with no wheels.\n\nThe discussion over the chairs highlighted so much for me about modern Ukraine. Since the end of the Cold War, a vibrant, young population has looked West for its influences. Cheap Ryanair flights to Western Europe opened up possibilities. This administration wanted us to know that they were informal, different, ready to talk.\n\nI then heard several footsteps coming down the hall. Two soldiers entered the room and behind them was the president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nAs we greet, an aide handed him a phone. On it was a text message, from France. \"Is it Emmanuel?\" he asked the aide? \"Yes,\" came the reply.\n\n\"We have a connection and he calls me all the time,\" the president tells me. \"Do you mind if I give him a quick call?\"\n\n\"Absolutely,\" I say, surprised that he asked me whether or not he should call the president of France back straightaway or try him later.\n\nBut that's part of the measure of Volodymyr Zelensky, an affability and charm that comes so naturally.\n\nHowever, there were times over the next hour when I could tell he was angry and upset: when he recalled visiting the town of Bucha, about 25km (16 miles) north-west of central Kyiv, that Russian forces had occupied for several weeks. After they pulled out, a mass grave was discovered near a church and there were bodies lying in the street.\n\nI asked him if he believed Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. His response was that anyone connected with the Russian military, and their civilian masters, were war criminals.\n\n\"Given everything that's happened, would you be able to sit around a negotiating table with with these people and talk peace?\" I asked.\n\n\"The window of opportunity is receding,\" he replied, pointing to the atrocities in Bucha and Borodyanka as the main driver of that thought.\n\nMr Zelensky is, of course, a former comedian and actor. But during the hour I was with him, I saw a man mentally exhausted and in deep pain about the treatment of his people. A man who has been compared to Churchill and who many will remember for his leadership through the dark days of war.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US federal jury in Virginia has convicted an ex-British jihadist over his involvement with a notorious Islamic State terror cell.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh, 33, was linked to the abduction, torture and beheading of several IS hostages in Syria, including journalists and aid workers.\n\nOn Thursday, after an 11-day trial, he was found guilty of lethal hostage taking and conspiracy to commit murder.\n\nElsheikh was the highest profile IS fighter to stand trial in the US.\n\nHostages nicknamed the Sudanese-born Londoner and two other men the Beatles - after the rock band - because of their UK accents.\n\nThe group's actions are said to have resulted in the deaths of four American hostages: journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nThey are also blamed in the deaths of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nSome of the victims were beheaded, with their deaths filmed and broadcast on social media. The killings triggered outrage around the world.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\nElsheikh was the only one of the three militants to go on trial in the US, after Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty to his own charges last September and Mohammed Emwazi was killed in a 2015 drone strike in Syria. Aine Davis, an alleged fourth member, is currently imprisoned in Turkey.\n\nFour rows in the courtroom were permanently reserved for former hostages and their family members.\n\nIt was tense inside the courtroom when everybody got news of a verdict. The jury had been deliberating for five-and-a-half hours. David Haines' daughter Bethany was shaking as she sat down.\n\nWhen the guilty verdict came through, the families quietly sobbed, as did the former hostages. They held each other's hands.\n\nDiane Foley closed her eyes and sighed with relief. Steven Sotloff's father Art smiled and said: \"This is good.\" For them, it's been a long road to justice.\n\nElsheikh showed little emotion - which he has always done in the trial - as his fate was sealed.\n\nOver the course of the trial, several of them took the stand for the government, depicting the Beatles as a cohesive unit that revelled in brutality.\n\nWitnesses recounted receiving random beatings, being given dog names and being forced to sing a parody of the Eagles' pop song \"Hotel California\" retitled \"Hotel Osama\".\n\nFamilies also detailed their painstaking negotiations with the group, with Marsha Mueller telling the court how she and her husband had \"begged\" for their daughter Kayla's life in emails.\n\nLawyers for Elsheikh, meanwhile, claimed that he \"a simple Isis fighter\" who went to Syria alone on behalf of \"suffering Muslims\".\n\nCarl Mueller, father of late US aid worker Kayla Mueller, hugs her friend after a jury convicted El Shafee Elsheikh on terrorism charges\n\nOutside the courtroom, Diane Foley - whose son James was executed on camera, with the video widely distributed by IS - told the BBC she was feeling \"relief and a tremendous sense of gratitude that mercy and justice has prevailed\".\n\n\"This is a big day for accountability,\" she said. \"We will never stop hostage taking without accountability.\"\n\nMike Haines, whose brother David also died in the group's captivity, said Thursday's result marked the end of \"an eight-year chapter of pain\" for his family.\n\n\"This unanimous judgement is a triumph for society over ills like terrorism and helps differentiate us from the hateful, divisive ideologies that fuel these individuals,\" he said.\n\n\"It must also act as a warning to anyone else seduced by the false glamour of extremism.\"\n\nElsheikh's extradition to Virginia was part of a complex negotiation between the US and UK.\n\nAs part of the agreement, he will not face the death penalty - but his conviction on all eight charges means he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.\n\nHe will be sentenced in August but must also appear in court on 29 April for victim impact statements read during Kotey's sentencing.\n• None 'IS Beatle' stood out from the others, court hears", "German police have detained four people accused of plotting to create \"civil war conditions\" so they could eventually overthrow democracy.\n\nProsecutors say the group, linked to far-right and anti-Covid movements, were planning to destroy power stations to cause a nationwide blackout.\n\nThey also wanted to kidnap Germany's health minister, who backed the country's strict coronavirus controls.\n\nThe group are due before a judge on Thursday.\n\nIn total, investigators have identified 12 people they believe were connected to the group, which used the Telegram messaging app to communicate.\n\nThe gang - who used the name United Patriots - were part of the Reichsbürger (Citizens of the Reich), whose members reject the German state as a legal entity, and opposed the German government's anti-Covid measures, the prosecutors said.\n\nAccording to TV news programme Report Mainz, the group wanted to attack substations and power lines, destroying the country's energy infrastructure.\n\nIn a statement, the prosecutors office said the aim was to cause a long-lasting nationwide power failure \"intended to cause conditions similar to civil war and ultimately to overthrow the democratic system in Germany\".\n\nA number of high profile people were allegedly also marked out as potential kidnap victims.\n\nTwo of the suspects are believed to have been planning an attack on Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.\n\nMr Lauterbach said the plot showed that coronavirus protests had become radicalised, and promised that his work would not be affected.\n\n\"There are forces that intended to destabilise the state and democracy. They are using the Covid protests. This is a small minority in our society but they are highly dangerous,\" he told a news conference.\n\nThe group were arrested in a series of raids on Wednesday, with police also seizing numerous guns including a Kalashnikov.\n\nThey also found gold bars and cash in euros and foreign currency totalling almost €20,000 (£16,600; $21,800).\n\nThe group, aged 41 to 55, are accused of preparing a serious act of violence that endangers the state and of violating a weapons control act.", "The image on the left shows the comet on 8 January, 2022. The right shows the 'coma' - an envelope around a comet's nucleus\n\nA comet with a nucleus 50 times bigger than normal is barrelling towards Earth at 22,000 miles per hour.\n\nNasa's Hubble telescope has determined the comet's icy nucleus has a mass of about 500 trillion tonnes and is 85 miles (137km) wide - larger than the US state of Rhode Island.\n\nBut not to worry. The closest it will get is one billion miles away from the Sun, and that won't be until 2031.\n\nIt was first spotted in 2010 but only now has Hubble confirmed its size.\n\nAnd it's larger than any comet ever seen by astronomers before.\n\n\"We've always suspected this comet had to be big because it is so bright at such a large distance,\" said David Jewitt, a professor of planetary science and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). \"Now we confirm it is.\"\n\nNasa describes the icy dirtball as a behemoth \"barrelling this way\".\n\nAccording to a statement from the space agency, it was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein in archival images from the Dark Energy Survey at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.\n\nA Nasa astronaut does some maintenance work on the Hubble telescope\n\nComets are described by Nasa as icy \"Lego blocks,\" left over from the early days of planet construction.\n\n\"They were unceremoniously tossed out of the Solar System in a gravitational pinball game among the massive outer planets,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"The kicked-out comets took up residence in the Oort Cloud, a vast reservoir of far-flung comets encircling the Solar System.\"\n\nMan-To Hui, of the Macau University of Science and Technology, described the comet as \"an amazing object\", adding: \"We guessed the comet might be pretty big, but we needed the best data to confirm this.\"\n\nComet Bernardinelli-Bernstein has been following a three-million-year-long elliptical orbit, taking it as far from the Sun as roughly half a light-year.\n\nThe comet is now less than two billion miles from the Sun, falling nearly perpendicular to the plane of our Solar System.", "Robin Swann said general practice had been treated as \"a Cinderella service - awarded platitudes but given little actual investment\"\n\nIt is essential patients can get GP services when they need it, Health Minister Robin Swann has said after concerns were raised that people are having difficulties accessing GPs.\n\nMr Swann also said it was regrettable that \"for so long obvious problems were left unaddressed\".\n\nHis statement comes after BBC News NI highlighted issues people are facing when trying to see a GP.\n\nDoctors have also reported massive pressures on services.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs on Wednesday said that a phone-first system adopted by most GP surgeries at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic is here to stay.\n\nHowever, some people told BBC News NI that the system did not work effectively, a point accepted by Royal College of GPs' Dr Ursual Mason who said there was not enough GPs to see people.\n\nMr Swann, in a statement, said primary care was the \"bedrock of our local health service\".\n\n\"Over the last two years I've had the privilege to meet and get to know so many GPs right across Northern Ireland,\" the health minister said.\n\n\"Yet, in early 2020, it was a service I was stunned to see in such a state of internal flux and under so much unsustainable strain.\"\n\nHe said general practice had been treated as \"a Cinderella service - awarded platitudes but given little actual investment or support\".\n\nMr Swann added that he had introduced a number of new measures including the introduction of additional GP nurses and a new graduate entry programme at Ulster University's medical school, with a focus on placements in rural settings and the west.\n\nHe also said more than £5m had been made available to support GPs over the winter period.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic most GP surgeries have operated a phone-first system limiting the numbers of patients attending face-to-face appointments\n\nOn the phone-first service, Mr Swann said it had advantages but that \"the current system still isn't working as it should\".\n\n\"Whilst by no means everywhere, in some areas too many patients are having to ring practices far too many times before they get through to somebody on the other end of the line.\n\n\"That's clearly not the level of service patients should expect.\"\n\nHe added that GPs had \"performed heroically under the most difficult of circumstances, whilst also playing a huge role in the vacciation campaign\" but that \"more work is needed to improve patient access\".", "A £120m trial will see mostly single men arriving in the UK via boat crossings sent to Rwanda, under new plans\n\nA plan to tackle the number of asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats will see some given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, the government has announced.\n\nThe UK is not the first to explore sending individuals overseas. What has been the impact of other countries' policies?\n\nAustralia first began using offshore detention centres in 2001.\n\nAnd in 2013, it hardened its immigration law to deny resettlement visas to asylum seekers arriving by boat.\n\nThousands of asylum seekers have been transferred out of Australia during this time. Its Border Force has said more than 4,000 were relocated between 2012 and 2019.\n\nSome 112 refugees and asylum seekers currently remain on the nation island of Nauru, but a similar scheme on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea - where 120 people were detained - ended last year.\n\nThis picture taken in 2014 shows asylum seekers at Australia's Manus Island detention centre\n\nRights groups and the UN have frequently criticised Australia's centres for substandard conditions.\n\nIn total, 13 people sent to Nauru and Papua New Guinea have died from violence, medical inattention or suicide.\n\nIranian Kurd refugee and author Behrouz Boochani told the BBC in 2019 that detention on Manus Island was like a prison, and said the system felt like it was designed to \"humiliate us and destroy us\".\n\nHe said people were taken \"from the water\" and sent to Manus Island without being asked questions, and experienced a \"violation of human rights\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iranian Kurd refugee Behrouz Boochani, speaking in 2019, was sent to Manus Island\n\nAustralia argues its offshoring policy is justified because it prevents deaths at sea. By its own projections it will spend $811.8m (£460m) on offshore processing in 2021-22.\n\nIn March, a three-year deal was announced for up to 450 refugees from Australia's regional processing centres to be resettled in New Zealand.\n\nFaced with a growing influx of asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, Israel took action to resolve the problem by striking deals with third country \"safe havens\" to take an undisclosed number of people.\n\nThe two countries were not officially identified but media reports said they were Uganda and Rwanda.\n\nWhen the scheme began in 2015, those rejected for asylum and other illegal immigrants were given the choice of returning to their country of origin, or accepting a payment of $3,500 and a plane ticket to one of the third countries, or being put in jail if they stayed in Israel.\n\nAfrican migrants protest against the treatment of asylum seekers by Israel\n\nBy 2018, Israel said some 20,000 of about 65,000 who had arrived in the country illegally had left under one scheme or another.\n\nHowever, human rights activists criticised the \"voluntary deportation\" programme as giving false promises to those who chose to accept it, putting them at risk in the countries that took them where there was no guarantee of their legal status nor protection against further deportation.\n\nA later plan to forcibly deport failed asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants to third countries - reportedly Uganda and Rwanda again - was suspended by Israel's Supreme Court.\n\nThe Danish government has not been shy about its goal of \"zero\" refugees in Denmark.\n\nLast June, legislation was passed that would allow it to move asylum seekers to third countries outside the EU while their cases were processed.\n\nThe controversial measure was heavily criticised by the European Commission and human rights groups, while questions were raised about its legality.\n\nA surprise visit to Rwanda last year by Immigration Minister Matthias Tesfaye prompted widespread speculation Denmark intended to open a facility there.\n\nA memorandum of understanding was signed, but there was nothing concrete about a refugee-processing centre.\n\nJust last night, however, the minister met other political parties to spell out his plans.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Tesfaye told the BBC: \"We are in dialogue with Rwanda, and we have a good cooperation based on a broad partnership, but we do not have an agreement on transfer of asylum seekers.\n\n\"I share the view of the Rwandan and British governments that the current asylum system is unsustainable.\"\n\nDemonstrators in Copenhagen march with a banner reading 'Syria is not safe' following the revoking of hundreds of Syrians' resident permits\n\nDenmark was the first country to join the UN Refugee Convention in 1951. But recently, governments on the left and right have repeatedly tightened immigration laws.\n\nLast year it began controversially revoking the residence permits of hundreds of Syrians from the Damascus area, arguing it was now safe for them to return.\n\nHowever, Denmark's approach to Ukrainians is markedly different. It plans to host up to 100,000 people and grant work permits.", "The Moskva patrolling the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria\n\nA Russian warship that was damaged by an explosion on Wednesday has sunk, Russia's defence ministry has said.\n\nMoskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, was being towed to port when \"stormy seas\" caused it to sink, according to a ministry message.\n\nThe 510-crew missile cruiser was a symbol of Russia's military power, leading its naval assault on Ukraine.\n\nKyiv says its missiles hit the warship. The United States says it also believes it was hit by Ukrainian missiles.\n\nMoscow has not reported any attack - it says the vessel sank after a fire.\n\nThe blaze caused the explosion of the warship's ammunition, Russia says, adding that the entire crew were later evacuated to nearby Russian vessels in the Black Sea.\n\nAfter saying initially the warship was afloat, late on Thursday the Russian defence ministry announced that the Moskva had been lost.\n\nThe 12,490-tonne vessel is the biggest Russian warship to be sunk in action since World War Two.\n\n\"While being towed... towards the destined port, the vessel lost its balance due to damage sustained in the hull as fire broke out after ammunition exploded. Given the choppy seas, the vessel sank,\" the Russian defence ministry said.\n\nUkraine has said the captain of the warship was killed on board.\n\nAnton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's ministry of internal affairs, shared the claim on Telegram, saying that the ship's captain, Anton Kuprin, had died during an \"explosion and fire on board\".\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify this claim.\n\nUkrainian military officials said they struck the Moskva with Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles - a weapon designed after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the naval threat to Ukraine in the Black Sea grew.\n\nThe US now also believes the Moskva was hit by two of these missiles, a senior official said on Friday.\n\nSpeaking on condition of anonymity, the official told the Reuters news agency that the US believes there were Russian casualties, though numbers are unclear.\n\nA senior Ukrainian official said as many as 510 crew could have been on board the Moskva.\n\nOn the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the Moskva gained notoriety after calling on a small garrison of Ukrainian border troops defending Snake Island in the Black Sea to surrender - to which they memorably radioed an expletive-laden message of refusal.\n\nOriginally built in the Soviet-era, the Moskva entered service in the early 1980s. The vessel was actually laid down in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv, which has been heavily bombed by Russia in recent days.\n\nThis is a significant and humiliating loss for Vladimir Putin, who has repeatedly insisted that his \"special military operation\" in Ukraine is going according to plan.\n\nUnsurprisingly, perhaps, Russian state media are not dwelling on the loss of the pride of the Black Sea fleet.\n\nMorning TV bulletins limited themselves to briefly reporting the statement issued by the authorities, who claim the ship sank in stormy seas after fire and explosions on board caused significant damage to its hull.\n\nA furious ex-MP, Vladimir Bortko, said the sinking of the Moskva was grounds for war\n\nSome newspaper commentators appeared to support that, arguing that the fire extinguishing systems on board the forty-year-old warship were out of date and inefficient but several writers agree that the development won't change the course of war.\n\nIt is however a blow to national pride; the Moskva, once a symbol of Russian might and ambition, now lies at the bottom of the sea.\n\nWhile one TV talk show host didn't speculate on Ukraine's claims that it had struck the ship, a clearly emotional studio guest - film director and ex-MP Vladimir Bortko - said the fate of the Moskva was grounds for war.\n\n\"It's more about psychological damage than material damage,\" Mykola Bielieskov from Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies told the BBC.\n\n\"It won't remove Russia's naval blockade on Ukraine completely,\" he said. \"But it's a powerful symbol that we can employ sophisticated weaponry effectively.\"\n\nBut Mr Bielieskov, who advises the Ukrainian government on military strategy, did predict that \"Russian ships will now be forced to move further from the Ukrainian shore, where they can no longer feel secure.\"\n\nThe Moskva didn't itself fire missiles at Ukrainian land targets, but military experts told the BBC that it offered crucial support to other vessels that did.\n\nThe remaining vessels in Russia's Black Sea fleet will now be more vulnerable to aerial attacks - although it's not clear that Ukraine's depleted forces have the resources to take advantage of this.\n\n\"The Moskva was the only ship in the fleet which had long-range air defences on board,\" said Sidharth Kaushal, a sea power expert at the Royal United Services Institute.\n\n\"While smaller vessels were conducting bombardments of Ukrainian cities, the Moskva was providing them with wide-area air cover.\"\n\nThe guided missile cruiser was previously deployed by Moscow in the Syria conflict where it supplied Russian forces in the country with naval protection.\n\nIt is the second major vessel Russia has lost since the start of its invasion.\n\nAdmiral Lord West, former First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, said that as well as being a military blow the vessel's loss was \"very embarrassing\".\n\n\"This has a huge impact,\" Lord West said, speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM before confirmation that the Moskva had sunk.\n\n\"Putin loves the navy. When he came into power, the first bit of the old Soviet forces that he put effort into was the navy. He's always had a soft spot for it.\"", "Douglas Stuart published his first novel Shuggie Bain in 2020, which went on to win the Booker Prize\n\nBullying, bigotry and benefits. That is how author Douglas Stuart describes his challenging childhood.\n\nBut he then went on to have a successful career as a fashion designer before winning one of the most famous book prizes in the world - with his first novel too.\n\nNow, his eagerly-awaited second novel is being published and life is good. So why is Douglas Stuart \"a nervy wreck?\"\n\n\"I've always felt,\" he tells BBC News, \"a little bit of an impostor my whole life. I think we can't ever underestimate what childhood trauma does to people and how it can undermine our confidence. I still carry a lot of that with me. I have a lot of chips on my shoulder.\"\n\nIt's a startling admission from a writer who won the 2020 Booker Prize with his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, a tough but tender story about a young gay boy and his alcoholic mother in 1980s Glasgow.\n\nHis second novel, Young Mungo, is a gay love story, about two working-class teenagers who dream of a different life, set in the masculine and often violent world of Glasgow's housing estates and cramped council flats in the 1990s. It is a world Stuart knows well. While his books are not autobiographical, they do draw heavily on his own childhood, growing up in a poor family and relying on benefits.\n\nStuart was born in Glasgow in 1976. His father walked out when he was four and died when he was eight. He and his older sister and brother were brought up by his mother, an alcoholic, \"who had very, very serious mental health issues\".\n\nStuart grew up in a poor family in 1980s Glasgow (the city's Sighthill Cemetery is pictured in August 1980)\n\n\"I think my writing is always about embracing my past,\" he says. \"I think so much of our working-class history doesn't get recorded in literature enough. And so I wanted to really talk about what it felt like for me and for probably a lot of people growing up both of the working class and in the north.\"\n\nBut if that was not enough, Stuart also had a \"huge\" secret. He was gay. He was desperate to fit in and wanted, he says, to feel like one of the lads.\n\n\"I was trying to be tougher,\" he remembers. \"I was trying to be better at sports. I was trying to be hyper-sexualised with girls.\" But, he reflects: \"I was terrible at it. It wasn't a natural state for me.\"\n\nInstead he was effeminate and that marked him out as different. \"I liked dolls, I liked skipping rope. And the boys liked fighting and football. And I remember being about six or seven and it was a wet Wednesday. And the boys looked at me in this classroom and they said, 'What is wrong with you?'\n\n\"The moment there was a chink in the armour like that, the moment that they saw that they had pierced some kind of shame inside me, it just started to build and to grow throughout the rest of my time at school.\" He was bullied \"for being queer,\" almost every day.\n\nStuart was, however, resilient and lucky. Two teachers noticed he was \"a creative kid\" and he managed to get to university to study fashion at the Royal College of Art where he was spotted by a talent scout for Calvin Klein.\n\nHe travelled to New York, where he still lives, and later worked for Ralph Lauren and Gap. \"That was the right place for me,\" he says of the latter, \"because I was making clothes that real people could afford\".\n\nStuart worked as a fashion designer before becoming a writer (pictured dressing a model while at Calvin Klein 1997)\n\nNonetheless, he says he increasingly felt \"creatively unfulfilled\" and, in 2008, he started writing.\n\nIt took him 10 years to finish Shuggie Bain. It was rejected by more than 40 publishers, in part, Stuart believes, because the mostly middle-class people who work in publishing reacted with \"prejudice\" to a working-class story. It was finally published on both sides of the Atlantic in 2020, and won the Booker Prize the same year.\n\nThe judges said: \"It's not a story where everybody lives happily ever after. It is challenging, intimate and gripping. It is not an easy read.\" But they believed it was \"destined to be a classic\".\n\nIt has gone on to sell more than 1.5 million copies around the world. The success has transformed his life. Other writers from similar backgrounds are not so lucky.\n\nStuart has overcome more barriers than most. And now comes Young Mungo - which proves Shuggie Bain was not a one-off. Indeed, Shuggie himself makes a blink-and-you'd-miss-him appearance in the new book, almost as if he is keeping an eye on Mungo.\n\nThe setting and many of the themes are the same - in fact some critics have complained the novels are too similar, with Johanna Thomas-Corr writing in The Sunday Times: \"Young Mungo's many virtues don't disguise the fact that Stuart is rearranging the core elements of Shuggie Bain (alcoholism, rape, neglect, homophobia, domestic abuse) with the same family dynamics too.\"\n\nOthers including Alex Preston in The Observer think Young Mungo is a better book than its predecessor, \"offering many of the same pleasures, but with a more sure-footed approach to narrative and a finer grasp of prose.\"\n\nI found Young Mungo a more harrowing read, and while the blossoming love story between the two boys is beautifully drawn, at times the book is unbearably violent.\n\nIt is, however, a vivid portrait of a community collapsing as manual industries closed during Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s, leading to job losses, high unemployment and low prospects.\n\nStuart writes with insight and empathy about ordinary people going through tumultuous times and their sense of being forgotten. There was \"no hope,\" he remembers. \"No-one was going to come to your rescue.\"\n\nAnd he thinks the situation is actually \"worse\" now. \"We had such a sense of community in the 1980s and we had such a sense of people looking out for one another. We were in it together in many ways. And I think sometimes that feels like it's come apart,\" he says.\n\nThe Cock (kiss) by Wolfgang Tillmans, taken in 2002, is used on the front cover of Young Mungo\n\nSo what now for Stuart? He is working on two new novels, including one set in New York, and is currently adapting Shuggie Bain for a BBC TV series, which will be directed by Stephen Daldry.\n\n\"As a young man I grew up and we didn't have books, but television was our king. And so when I was approached to write the adaption, it was really important for me to do that because I think there are many people who might never read Shuggie Bain but who would appreciate the story and the characters and feel a connection with them. So I wanted to take charge of that.\"\n\nHe is also delighted with the cover of Young Mungo, which features a striking photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans of two boys kissing.\n\nThose doubts rise up again as he admits to being \"worried about what people will think.\"\n\nBut he insists: \"I wasn't trying to be provocative or to start any conversations. But I think so often queer culture can be incredibly coded. We can sort of talk about it out of the corner of our mouths or look at it out the side of our eyes. I didn't want to do that.\"\n\nHe says he could not write a story about two young men \"and not be brave enough not to put a kiss on the cover. Because for me this is just two lads kissing, fully clothed, what could be more normal than that?\"\n\nAnd, he adds, smiling. \"If you don't like the picture, you're not going to like the book.\"", "Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.\n\nEveryone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it \"one of the world's safest nations\".\n\nTake the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat \"in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert\".\n\nBut underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.\n\nWalk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.\n\nSpying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars\n\nThose deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.\n\n\"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country,\" Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.\n\nOn the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means \"Community Work\".\n\nOne Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.\n\nAny camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.\n\nThe country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).\n\nThe UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on\n\nThey have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France and Belgium.\n\nThe UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.\n\nBut when Denmark announced last year that it was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.\n\n\"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable,\" it said last August.\n\nAfrica already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees \"often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries\", it said.\n\n\"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - \"so that they can resettle and thrive\", as the home secretary put it.\n\nIt is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take \"tens of thousands in the years ahead\".\n\nOut of Kigali, Wrong says it is a \"poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees\".\n\nNo-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.\n\nLast month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.\n\nCritics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on whom the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence\n\nAfter the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.\n\nBut in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.\n\nHis daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: \"Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.\n\n\"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people.\"\n\nThe reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.\n\nPresident Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017\n\n\"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price,\" says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.\n\nLast year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on \"humanitarian grounds\". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.\n\nWestern nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.\n\nThe UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThe former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.\n\nA cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of-the-art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.\n\nSome see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.\n\nBut Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion\n\n\"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents,\" Yolande Makolo told the BBC.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Ten victims - some completely charred - were discovered in one mass grave in Bucha\n\nUkraine's fightback against Russian aggression is not just in the battlefield - but in the legal field too.\n\nAcross this shattered country, testimony is being gathered and evidence collated for a goal that may only come long after the guns fall silent - international justice.\n\nThe pursuit of it is being led by Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Iryna Venediktova, appointed two years ago as the first woman to hold the office.\n\nShe watched the exhumation of another mass grave this week, beneath a gold-domed church in Bucha, where the darkest of sins were discovered - 10 victims this time, some completely charred. Their remains were placed into body bags and taken off for an attempt at identification.\n\nAs she stood at the edge of the deep pit, she told me more than 6,000 cases of war crimes have already been opened.\n\n\"A lot of people speak about the genocide of the Ukrainian people - and we actually have grounds to talk about genocide,\" she said. \"Vladimir Putin is the president of the aggressor country killing civilians here in Ukraine. He's responsible.\"\n\nThe Kremlin continues to deny such allegations.\n\nIryna Venediktova says it's Ukraine's ultimate goal to see President Putin being prosecuted\n\nThe challenge for prosecutors will be to draw a direct line of responsibility from the top of the Russian state to the atrocities on the ground - and show that they weren't just committed but ordered.\n\nRussia is not party to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, having withdrawn in 2016. Nor, in fact, is Ukraine, although it does accept the court's jurisdiction for crimes committed within its territory.\n\nThe possibility of ever seeing President Putin himself in a tribunal is thought to be extremely slim.\n\nBut Ms Venediktova insisted it was her government's ultimate aim. \"It's very important, not just for Ukrainians,\" she said, \"it's important for the whole world to stop dictators.\"\n\nThe efforts of the Ukrainian state are being helped by a network of volunteer investigators, deploying across the country in a grassroots quest for justice.\n\nAmong them is an NGO called Truth Hounds, whose staff have been trained by former prosecutors from the ICC.\n\nBorodyanka was virtually wiped out as a town by heavy Russian shelling\n\nWe followed them to the town of Borodyanka, some 50km (31 miles) north-west of Kyiv, which has been gutted by a month-long offensive and occupation.\n\nThe destruction is immense. Apartment blocks have been wrenched apart or blown open. Entire streets lie in ruins. And amidst the devastation of shattered glass and mangled metal lie the remnants of cluster bombs, whose use is banned under an international convention.\n\nRoman Koval from Truth Hounds said they had gathered eyewitness accounts that the Russians gave orders to attack buildings once they were already in control here.\n\n\"They knew this city was full of civilians, with no combatants left, and they tried to raze it to the ground,\" he said.\n\nThe investigators' work, he added, went beyond documentation of attacks; it was one of establishing the truth - and of collective memory.\n\n\"We're trying not to let Russia formulate their lying narratives about the war in Ukraine,\" he said. \"We're trying to show people that the war crimes that Russian troops are committing became a pattern of their behaviour, not just in Bucha or Borodyanka, but all over the occupied territories.\"\n\nHe picked his way through the ruins of an apartment belonging to Oksana and Nicola Laba, which was ravaged by the shock waves of an airstrike next door. Much of it has been reduced to rubble.\n\nOksana says that \"Russia will not stop until it destroys our country\"\n\nCrouching amid the debris - fragments of broken glass covered any place to sit - he listened to their testimony and took notes. The details will be added to a central database as the war crimes case against Russia builds.\n\nOksana told of how her mother managed to flee just before the airstrike hit.\n\n\"Our home was our cosy nest, where we were planning our children's birthday,\" she recalled. \"It's hard to describe our terror - it's more like hate.\"\n\nStorytelling here carries with it the hope that accountability will be pursued.\n\n\"It's very important to say what happened,\" Oksana said, \"because these are not just war crimes: Russia will not stop until it destroys our country.\"\n\nOn the scarred street outside, diggers have started to clear up the wreckage of homes and once-happy lives. The freedom and safety that Ukrainians cherished has been destroyed.\n\nBut their solace now would be to see - and believe - that there will be punishment for those who have broken this country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Destruction in the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City produced a mature and disciplined performance to hold off the challenge of Atletico Madrid - and set up a Champions League semi-final showdown with the Spanish side's city rivals Real.\n\nKnowing a clean sheet would be enough to seal the tie, City kept their cool in the face of a hostile home crowd and intimidation from a physical Atleti side showing far more ambition than in the first leg.\n\nIlkay Gundogan could have made life much easier for Pep Guardiola's men by slotting in from close range, instead of against the post in the first half.\n\nBut in the face of much-increased pressure and a home side pushing desperately for parity, City put up a resolute rearguard action to confirm their progression to the last four.\n\nAtletico ended the fiery contest with 10 men when defender Felipe was shown a second yellow card for a dangerous follow-through on Phil Foden, having also caught the same player with an arm that drew blood from the England international's head earlier in the game.\n\nReal Madrid, who edged past Chelsea in a thrilling quarter-final tie on Tuesday, now stand between City and a second successive appearance in the final of Europe's premier club competition.\n\nHaving lost to Thomas Tuchel's Blues in last season's final, Guardiola's side are seeking a maiden Champions League title in a campaign where they are still challenging on three fronts.\n\nThey lead the Premier League by one point from second-placed Liverpool - and face Jurgen Klopp's Reds in an FA Cup semi-final this Saturday.\n\nCity dig deep to reach the last four\n\nCity have grown accustomed to controlling games of football at this level, strangling the life out of teams through sheer volume of possession before surgically picking them off in what are often benign, one-sided encounters.\n\nFor 45 minutes here, though, they were given a taste of their own medicine and forced to dig deep against extreme pressure from an increasingly desperate opponent, whose ill-discipline in stoppage time should could easily have resulted in further red cards.\n\nIt is a huge feather in City's cap that they were able to hold firm against repeated attacks and then keep their heads as Atletico were losing theirs.\n\nIt is a shame that the credit the home side's attacking display deserved was largely overshadowed by their unnecessary antics. They included a potential headbutt from former City centre-back Stefan Savic on Raheem Sterling - and hair pull on Jack Grealish - during an unsavoury melee involving both sets of players and the two benches after Felipe's foul on Foden.\n\nClashes also continued at full-time as both sets of players made their way down the tunnel.\n\nPrior to this, the 90 minutes had showcased a different approach from the Spanish champions in comparison to a first leg in which they operated largely in a 5-5-0 formation and failed to muster a single effort on goal.\n\nRoared on by a vociferous home crowd, they pressed fiercely, harrying the City players all over the pitch.\n\nHaving stayed in the tie for three quarters of it - with Geoffrey Kondogbia's blocked 35th-minute effort their solitary shot across both legs - the hosts came out swinging for the second period.\n\nAntoine Griezmann went close, as did Rodrigo de Paul, Matheus Cunha and Luis Suarez, as boss Diego Simeone threw every attacking option he had onto the field in the hope of breaking the visitors down.\n\nBut this is not an easily intimidated City side, nor does their elite attacking prowess come at the expense of defensive frailty, even when injury affected Kevin de Bruyne and Kyle Walker and forced the introduction of Nathan Ake.\n\nJohn Stones was immense, with a block to deny a Cunha effort from close range the highlight of an intelligent and dogged display.\n\nKeeper Ederson was also called upon for a heroic moment, saving superbly to stop Angel Correa's shot after the ball had broken to the Atletico man in the box in the 11th minute of added time.\n\nCelebrations were mixed among the confrontations at full-time, but City have little time to rest after this epic energy-sapping encounter.\n\nSaturday sees them face Liverpool in the FA Cup semi and, two weeks from now, Real will visit the Etihad.\n• None Attempt saved. Ángel Correa (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rodrigo de Paul.\n• None Attempt missed. Rodrigo de Paul (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Yannick Carrasco (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None João Cancelo (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a through ball.\n• None Second yellow card to Felipe (Atletico Madrid) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Stefan Savic (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Matheus Cunha following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Matheus Cunha (Atletico Madrid) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How are people coping with having to make do with less?\n• None Can they face their fears? Celebrities take on challenges in sub-zero temperatures with Wim Hof", "Russian troops started their encirclement of Mariupol in early March, gradually tightening the noose\n\nThere are growing signs Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing Mariupol, the besieged southern port city which has suffered a devastating, six-week assault.\n\nOfficially, Ukraine's armed forces say they are sustaining its defence and are in \"continuous contact\" with their troops on the ground. But they concede it is likely Moscow will try to take full control of the city, while a regional Russian-backed separatist leader claims Mariupol is close to falling.\n\nUkrainian troops have said they are running out of ammunition, and are believed to have been pushed back into two isolated pockets adjoining the coastline.\n\nThe city's fate is likely to be critical for the next phase of the war. In Russian hands it would provide control of a clear swathe of territory connecting Moscow's two fronts in the south and east. It would release large numbers of forces to redeploy, and provide President Vladimir Putin with a moment of strategic \"victory\" after a lethally shambolic first stage to his invasion.\n\nIt would mark a huge loss, if by now an expected one, for Ukraine's leadership which has described Mariupol as \"the heart of this war today\".\n\nIt is believed Ukraine's forces have been forced back to the port area and the Azovstal iron and steel plant\n\nRussian troops started their encirclement of Mariupol in early March. The siege has killed thousands of civilians and unleashed an appalling struggle for survival for trapped residents who remain.\n\nThousands of people have escaped further north, risking a deadly journey through the front line. Here, in Zaporizhzhia, I have watched civilians arrive day after day, describing how they have witnessed the obliteration of their city.\n\nIn recent days Russian forces are thought to have pushed in further by dividing the remaining holdout of Mariupol's defenders, according to think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).\n\nIt's believed Ukraine's forces have been forced back to the port area and the Azovstal plant, a massive iron and steel works from where they had launched counter-attacks for weeks.\n\nVideos have emerged of fighters apparently from the 36th marine brigade vowing not to surrender their positions.\n\n\"We are holding on to every bit of the city wherever possible,\" says one in a video posted to social media channels on Tuesday.\n\n\"But the reality is the city is encircled and blocked and there was no re-supply of ammunition or food,\" he adds. Part of the footage shows him alongside several other marines in a room that looks like a basement shelter. One of the men has crutches leaning against his chair.\n\nA post on Monday on the brigade's Facebook page described the situation as \"the last battle… It is death for some of us, and captivity for the rest,\" it said, adding they had been \"pushed back\" and \"surrounded\" by Russian troops.\n\nUkrainian analysts differed over whether the post could be relied on as genuine, with some claiming the page had been hacked. But more than 36 hours later the post remained on the site.\n\nThe siege and a resulting collapse in communications in Mariupol mean it is difficult to independently verify reports about changes on the ground.\n\nThere is little doubt Ukrainian forces have been desperate for new supplies of weapons, ammunition, food and water.\n\nMariupol - home to more than 400,000 people before the war - has been virtually wiped out by weeks of heavy Russian shelling\n\nUkraine's military reportedly managed over the weeks to resupply troops with kit including night and thermal vision goggles, portable battery charging packs and even anti-tank munitions; but it became increasingly hard.\n\n\"Ultimately, the city was surrounded so soon into the invasion that there was never a chance to build up supplies,\" says Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at defence think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\n\"They've already held out far, far longer than any external analysis would have predicted possible. So it's difficult to say how much longer they can go on,\" he says, adding that they have \"achieved extraordinary results with very little\".\n\nUkrainian attempts to rotate forces or evacuate the wounded also became much more high risk as Russia tightened its siege.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry claimed two weeks ago it had shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter 5km (three miles) from the Sea of Azov shore. It was thought to have been coming out of the city.\n\nOn Tuesday, it claimed up to 100 Ukrainian troops had tried to fight their way out of the steel works plant - but said half were killed by Russian artillery and airstrikes, and more than 40 surrendered.\n\nIn his video address to the nation late on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said: \"The future of Ukraine directly depends on the strength of our resistance in all its forms. The future of us all, each of our cities, each of our villages.\n\n\"And I am grateful to everyone who understands this. Who does not stop resisting even when it seems that the result is very far. Because the darkest time is always before dawn.\n\n\"I want to separately address those heroes who are having a very hard time. Those who defend Mariupol. A marine battalion of the 36th marine brigade, Azov special operations detachment, 12th operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. Subdivisions of the State Border Guard Service. Volunteers of the \"Right Sector\". The 555th military hospital and National Police employees.\"\n\nAs well as the marines, the defence of Mariupol also consists of the Azov battalion, an ultranationalist militia formed in 2014 which Kyiv says has been reformed and is now part of Ukraine's National Guard.\n\nThey are only a tiny part of Ukraine's overall forces, but their presence has been a key focus of Moscow's propaganda war: it refers to the invasion as a \"special military operation\" claiming it is to \"demilitarise\" and \"denazify\" Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, reports by local forces that Russia deployed chemical weapons in Mariupol this week have yet to be confirmed. They are a reminder of how the conflict could quickly trigger a further dangerous escalation.\n\nThe full capture of the city could see significant numbers of Russian troops, so far used to contain and prevent resupply in Mariupol, reconstituted and moved elsewhere, particularly in other parts of the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow is gearing up for a major offensive.\n\nIt could also see Moscow consolidate its progress north of Mariupol, which is one of the reasons the Ukrainians were finding it so hard to relieve the city, according to Mr Bronk.\n\nThe forces could also be used to bolster Russian-occupied Kherson, where Ukrainian troops have been attempting to retake ground with some success.\n\nPresident Zelensky continued his metaphor that Mariupol is the heart of the war. \"If it stops beating then we will be… weaker,\" he said.", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "Roman Abramovich has been forced to sell Chelsea FC and move his superyachts out of EU waters\n\nRussian billionaire Roman Abramovich has had $7bn (£5.4bn) of assets linked to him frozen by a Jersey court.\n\nOn Tuesday, Jersey Police searched premises suspected to be connected to Mr Abramovich's business activities on the island, Jersey Law Officers' Department said.\n\nThe billionaire is on the UK sanctions list over Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nChannel Island Jersey follows UK policy and imposes sanctions on the same people.\n\n\"The Royal Court also imposed a formal freezing order on 12 April, known as a saisie judiciaire, over assets understood to be valued in excess of US$7bn which are suspected to be connected to Mr Abramovich and which are either located in Jersey or owned by Jersey incorporated entities,\" the Jersey Law Officers' Department said.\n\nMr Abramovich was among several wealthy Russians added last month to the UK and European Union sanctions lists over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and governments have since been taking action to seize yachts and other luxury assets from them.\n\nThe billionaire tried to sell Chelsea Football Club in March, but that process was taken out of his hands by the government after he was sanctioned.\n\nEarlier this month, the Caribbean nation Antigua and Barbuda said it was willing to help the UK seize yachts owned by Abramovich.\n\nSuperyachts linked to the businessman, together worth an estimated $1.2bn, have also been docked in southwest Turkey, outside the jurisdiction of the EU and the UK.\n\nThe Jersey Royal Court has frozen a staggering $7bn of Roman Abramovich's assets in Jersey.\n\nAnd one company in particular will be of interest to football fans.\n\nCamberley International Investments, based in the Jersey capital St. Helier, has loaned £1.4bn to Fordstam Ltd, the company through which Roman Abramovich owns Chelsea FC, according to its latest accounts.\n\nThat's money which has helped to fund Chelsea's triumphs on the pitch.\n\nCamberley International Investments is described in the accounts as a 'related party' - suggesting it could also be controlled by Mr Abramovich.\n\nWe don't know for sure if it is among the assets frozen by the Jersey court. But if it is - what will that mean for the ongoing sale of the Chelsea?\n\nMr Abramovich has previously said that he won't seek for the loan to be repaid. But if the company which made the loan were to be frozen, the decision may be out of his hands.\n\nThe Jersey Law Officers' department gave no detail on what would happen to specific assets.\n\nIt will come under a lot of pressure to fill in some of the blanks in coming days.", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "Police in Bucha examine a body unearthed in a field. At least 500 dead have been found since the Russians left.\n\nWhen the Russians retreated from Bucha, a massive operation began to find and document the dead. BBC News joined the local police officers and bereaved families as they carried out their grim task.\n\nPolice Chief Vitaliy Lobas was sitting at a child's desk in an abandoned school in Bucha, collecting the details of the bodies.\n\nEvery few minutes, Chief Lobas, who has broad shoulders and short dark hair, and rarely uses an unnecessary word, received a call on his mobile phone, and the brief conversations went the same: a location, a few details, a phone number of a relative or friend.\n\nBefore the Russians came, Lobas was an ordinary local police chief, the head of Buchanksy District 1, who spent his days dealing with ordinary local crime and the occasional murder. Since the liberation of Bucha, he has spent his days in this abandoned school classroom, where school posters still hang on the walls, coordinating the massive operation to find the dead.\n\nIn front of Lobas on the school desk there was a map of Bucha, a once peaceful and little-known suburb of Kyiv that is now a sprawling crime scene. The area was occupied by Russian forces for a month as they attempted to assault Kyiv, and its liberation a little over a week ago has begun a slow and painful process of uncovering horrors.\n\nEach time the phone rang, Lobas consulted the map in front of him, and on a plain piece of paper he wrote down the necessary information in neat handwriting, one line per body. By mid-morning, he had filled one side of A4 and moved on to the reverse. The previous day there had been 64 bodies, he said. The day before, 37. He did not know how many there would be that day, but he was expecting the number to jump by around 40 because a mass grave was being dug up nearby. Lobas is only in charge of one part of this region, and many more bodies are being found outside his jurisdiction.\n\nVitaliy Lobas, the head of Buchansky District 1 police department, takes a call in his command post in a school classroom.\n\nLobas paused occasionally to go to the school playground for a cigarette, but even these moments were interrupted by calls about bodies or problems relating to the collection of bodies. It was raining in Bucha, and one of the vans that ferried corpses to the morgue had become stuck in the mud. A tractor needed to be found quickly, because there was a limited number of vans and a large number of bodies. Lobas generally delegates the field work to his deputies, but in cases of particularly grave crimes he goes himself.\n\n\"When people have been shot in the head with their hands tied behind their back, for example, I will go,\" he said.\n\n\"When the bodies have been burned I also go.\"\n\nAbout mid-morning, a call came in from Dmytro Kushnir, a 24-year-old police deputy in one of Lobas's units, to log a body that had been reported behind an apartment building on the outskirts of Bucha.\n\nWhen Kushnir arrived at the building, which stood alone on an otherwise undeveloped green area on the edge of woodland, he found two men behind the building at the place where the property line met the woods. They were wearing blue surgical gloves and standing over the partially decomposed body of a man who appeared to have been shot in the back of the head. The body lay on a stained white duvet decorated with red flowers and was surrounded by empty bottles of beer and spirits. The blue surgical gloves initially gave the men the appearance of medical officials, but they introduced themselves as Volodymyr and Serhiy Brezhnev, the dead man's father and brother. Lying on the blanket was Vitaliy Brezhnev, a 30-year-old former cook who, until the Russians arrived, lived a peaceful life with his girlfriend on the sixth floor of the apartment building that now towered over his corpse.\n\nSerhiy Brezhnev stands over his brother's body. \"He was a kind-hearted man, he gave his all,\" Serhiy said.\n\nA passport picture of Vitaliy that Serhiy carried while he searched for his brother\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy had lost contact with Vitaliy a month earlier, when the Russians seized control of Bucha and communications went down. It was impossible to enter the suburb to check his building, so they searched for him for a month online, scouring social media in vain for evidence that he was alive.\n\nWhen the Russians finally retreated, a little over a week ago, Serhiy got a call from Vitaliy's girlfriend and she told them the story. The Russians had assaulted the apartment building and blasted their way into every apartment with a shotgun, she said, demanding people handed over their SIM cards and keys. They interrogated her and Vitaliy in separate rooms, beat them, and shot their dog, she said. Then they took her down to the basement with a group of other residents and bolted the door, but took Vitaliy away separately and told her she wouldn't see him again, and she didn't.\n\nAs soon as the Ukrainian army declared Bucha safe to re-enter, Volodymyr and Serhiy set out for the apartment building. Inside, they found blood smeared on the floor in the stairwells and personal photographs from people's apartments strewn around. On every door you could see the holes from the shotgun blasts - sometimes one, sometimes four or five. Doors with steel plates had been crowbarred. On one wooden door, where the lock hadn't given way to repeated shots, the Russian soldiers appeared to have become frustrated and blown a hole right through the middle of the door into the apartment. Behind another door, it was clear the homeowners had pushed a heavy table up against the frame in a failed attempt to keep the invaders out.\n\nEvery door in Vitaliy Brezhnev's apartment building had been blown open with a shotgun.\n\nWhen Volodymyr and Serhiy reached the sixth floor they saw that the shotgun had been used on the door of Apartment 83. A rank odour came from inside. The Russians had trashed the apartment and pried open the air vents and even the bathroom drain, looking for money, Serhiy guessed. When he entered Vitaliy's bedroom he suffered the first of several blows to his hopes of finding his brother alive. On the pillow there was a deep blood stain and blood was sprayed up the walls behind the bed. Among the mess on the floor there were two 7.62mm bullet casings - the calibre used by the Russian army in their rifles.\n\n\"You could see that a man had been killed here,\" Serhiy said. \"But there was no body.\"\n\nSo Volodymyr and Serhiy began to search for Vitaliy, knowing that their search was now probably for a body and not a son and brother they could hold again in their arms. Serhiy was carrying a passport photograph of Vitaliy. \"We searched and searched,\" he said, \"and at first we were looking for his face.\"\n\nWarning: Readers may find some of the following images distressing\n\nThe scene inside Vitaliy's bedroom. \"You could see a man had been killed here,\" Serhiy said.\n\nVitaliy Brezhnev's body was found behind his apartment, where the property line met the woods.\n\nBehind the building, next to the woods, they found what appeared to be a shallow grave, and they began to dig. It took time to exhume the remains there. First they saw a flower-patterned duvet they didn't recognise and their hearts found some hope. But when they brought the body up they saw that inside the duvet there was a curtain from Vitaliy's apartment. Then they saw the dead man's shoes and thought they recognised them. The light was fading by that point and they had to be home before curfew, so they covered the body with the sheet. Embers of hope remained.\n\n\"Today was the final touch,\" Serhiy said, the following day, looking down at the body. \"Today we took his shoes off and we saw his feet.\"\n\nBecause Vitaliy's feet had been inside socks and shoes they were better preserved than the rest of his body after a month in the earth.\n\n\"We saw the shape of his feet,\" Volodymyr said.\n\n\"Then we looked at the shape of the nose and the hands,\" Serhiy said. \"And we knew it was our bloodline.\"\n\nVolodymyr replaces the thin sheet that covered the body where it lay\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy waiting for the van that collects the bodies. Eventually they gave up.\n\nVolodymyr had purchased the small apartment in Bucha two years earlier - an investment in his son's future. Vitaliy had been a cook in a restaurant in Kyiv, until the pandemic hit and he was laid off. He did some work in construction and was looking for something more stable, but he had a girlfriend he loved and a dog, and now an apartment in a nice neighbourhood. He loved to fish and hunt, and forage for mushrooms in his spare time, and cook.\n\n\"He was living a peaceful life here,\" Serhiy said. \"He was a normal guy, that's all, a kind-hearted man. He gave his all.\"\n\n\"He was a son and a brother,\" Volodymyr said, trying to hold back his tears.\n\nAt the front of the apartment building, Officer Kushnir was filling out his police report. Volodymyr went to his car and took two small pieces of cardboard and wrote his name and phone number and Vitaliy's name and address on each. Then he asked some neighbours for clear tape to cover the ink, because the rain was beginning to fall harder on Bucha, and he went back to the body, without surgical gloves this time, to tie one piece of card to Vitaliy's ankle and one to his wrist.\n\n\"I do not want to lose my son,\" he said.\n\nOfficer Kushnir finished his report and called it in. Chief Lobas would arrange for the van that collected the bodies to stop by. Volodymyr and Serhiy took shelter from the rain and waited for the van to arrive.\n\nFamilies in Bucha attached tags to their loved ones or put passports in their pockets, so as not to lose them again.\n\nAs the day wore on, Chief Lobas's classroom command post got busier. Officers came and went, filing crime scene reports. The list on Lobas's desk got longer and his phone kept ringing.\n\nA dead woman had been found in a well next to a destroyed column of Russian tanks. There was a body on the ninth floor of an apartment building. A driver of one of the vans called to say he couldn't find the body he had been sent to collect. A woman came in to the classroom in person to report that her neighbour was dead. \"I understand everything,\" Lobas told her, keen to move on. \"We will try to collect him today.\" Lobas's father called. \"Dad, I am too busy,\" he said. \"Everything is OK.\"\n\nTwo of Bucha district's police departments had been destroyed in the Russian assault and Lobas was struggling for resources. There were not enough body bags. His team had also been whittled down over the preceding days to those who had shown themselves capable of withstanding this new work. \"Those who were weak went at the very beginning,\" he said. There was little room for sentiment amid the scale of the task.\n\nLobas received another call. \"Nine?\" he said. \"Where?\"\n\nThe call was coming from a unit in a neighbouring police department. Nine bodies were buried in a field nearby. Lobas hung up and dialled one of his mobile units. \"The team there is exhausted and they have no body bags left,\" he said. \"They have been collecting bodies all day. Please go and help them now. Find body bags and help them to pack the bodies.\"\n\nNine graves, dug by neighbours behind apartment buildings in Bucha.\n\nThe nine graves were laid out neatly in a row at the edge of the field, behind a corrugated fence at the end of a dirt track. The dead had been buried by their neighbours during the Russian occupation and now they were being exhumed by their neighbours, with the help of the police.\n\n\"Some of these people died because they could not get medicine and some were killed by Russians,\" said Gennadiy, a 45-year-old Ukrainian from one of the buildings by the field, who had helped to bury the the bodies and was doing the most work now to bring them up.\n\n\"These were our neighbours,\" Gennadiy said, a look of deep anger set in his face. \"Here is Uncle Tolya from the building next door and a neighbour of his. Here is another person I knew from the next building. This man has a bullet wound, we didn't know him but we found a passport on his body. This elderly woman had severe diabetes and we tried to take her out of Bucha but there was no green corridor, so she died. This man went for a walk with his dog and didn't come back. We are not pathologists but it looks like he was shot.\"\n\nGennadiy, a resident who buried his neighbours, helps to bring them up from their graves.\n\nThe work to remove the bodies was hard. They had been buried well in deep graves, and the rain was soaking into the mud and making it slippery. Gennadiy, in a green plastic rain cape, climbed into each grave, one after the other, and shovelled the earth from around the bodies so that thick straps could be tied around them to hoist them up.\n\nEach body had been wrapped in whatever was at hand - curtains, blankets of different colours and patterns. They were examined by the police and any obvious wounds photographed with an iPhone. Enough body bags had been found, and after a while the van arrived. In the dirt on its back doors, someone had scrawled '200' - the military identifier for the transport of the dead. The bodies were loaded inside. The sky was grey and the rain kept falling.\n\nAt Vitaliy's apartment building, Volodymyr and Serhiy had waited as long as they could for the van to arrive. It was getting dark and they needed to get home. Vitaliy's body would have to spend another night on the ground. They were too late now to make the 9pm curfew in Kyiv, but at the military checkpoints along the route they showed the death report and were waved through.\n\nAt sunrise the next morning, the father and son got up and began the drive back to Bucha. They could not wait for the van any longer, and they loaded Vitaliy's body into the back of their car and set out for a morgue in the town of Boyarka, about an hour's drive south.\n\nBefore the invasion, the staff at the Boyarka morgue were used to handling about three bodies a day, the vast majority of them deaths from natural causes. Since Bucha was liberated, they have been autopsying about 50 bodies a day, 80% of which were violent deaths, said Semen Petrovych, 39, who has been the forensic expert there for 16 years.\n\nThe Boyarka morgue used to receive three bodies a day. Now it is autopsying about 50.\n\nThe morgue, a small outbuilding at the back of a hospital on the edge of town, where Boyarka meets the forest, had just acquired two rented refrigerator trucks and both were full of bodies. Body bags lay on the floor by the trucks and against the fence nearby and either side of the entrance to the morgue.\n\n\"There are not enough staff and there is not enough room,\" said Petrovych, the forensic expert. \"Even if we had more people, where would we put the bodies?\"\n\nNormally he would do a careful autopsy on every body and print a death certificate. \"Now we just dissect them quickly and write something simple by hand,\" he said.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy were not alone in bringing a body themselves. Private cars pulled up to the morgue and bodies were brought out wrapped in blankets and rugs. Relatives and friends came searching. Tatiana Zhylenko was looking for the body of the father of a friend who was abroad. \"He had his passport on his chest,\" she told the staff. Oleksander Zakovorotnyi came for his father-in-law, who, when the Russians cut the gas supply in the depth of winter, rigged up a makeshift heater using a gas cylinder, but fell asleep and was poisoned when the flame went out.\n\nSerhiy Brezhnev helps carry Vitaliy's body bag out from the morgue, to await fingerprinting.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy waited outside until they were called in to identify Vitaliy. They stood inside the cramped, low-ceilinged morgue, where there were bodies on the floor and on every gurney and the smell was overpowering. They had to squeeze between two gurneys, beside an open corpse, to get close to Vitaliy's body, and they searched it for scars they could remember. They repeated to the pathologist that they thought they recognised his feet. Volodymyr looked away and looked back. He was wrestling with doubt and hope.\n\nAfterwards, he walked behind the refrigerator truck and stood alone sobbing, his chest heaving with his tears. Vitaliy was brought out, his body bag tagged number 552 - the 552nd body processed by this small morgue since the beginning of the year, nearly double the figure in a normal year, the extra hundreds all condensed into one week.\n\nThe police took fingerprints and told Volodymyr and Serhiy that the formal identification would take around a month, because of the backlog, but otherwise they were free to take him to the cemetery to be buried.\n\nThe line of body bags at the Bucha cemetery, waiting to be processed and buried.\n\nBecause Vitaliy was already identified, he was placed by his family straight into a casket.\n\nRather than wait for the body van, Volodymyr and Serhiy lifted Vitaliy carefully again into the back of their car and drove him the hour or so back to Bucha, past the rows of destroyed homes and places where bodies had laid in the streets for weeks. At the cemetery, which was already full, new graves were being dug outside the boundary fence on a thin strip of earth along the side of the road. A priest intoned the funeral rites over a coffin. The mother of the dead man wailed. In the near distance, past the line of the forest, enormous booms sounded as unexploded ordnance was detonated. Volodymyr and Serhiy drove into the cemetery and unloaded Vitaliy next to a long line of body bags arrayed on the ground.\n\nBecause Vitaliy had already been identified and would be buried here in Bucha, he was placed into a simple wooden casket with maroon fabric and afforded the small dignity of resting inside a brick building on the cemetery grounds. He would be buried in two days' time.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy left the cemetery and Volodymyr decided that, even though it was far from their home in Kyiv, he would buy a plot there for his wife Lily, Vitaliy's mother, who was suffering from end-stage cancer, so that when the time came she would be near to her son.\n\nTwo days later, on a bright, cold morning in Bucha, the family gathered at the cemetery. Once again, Volodymyr and Serhiy took the lead and went inside the brick building to prepare to carry the casket. Lily sat outside on a bench, smoking a cigarette, alone among the body bags. The casket was carried to a stone plinth and the family gathered around it while the priest read the funeral rites and two elderly women from the church held the incense burner and sang. Then Vitaliy was taken by the van marked 200 to one of the fresh graves along the roadside outside the cemetery and laid to rest. Volodymyr was still wrestling with doubt. \"I am still hoping that the fingerprints will show this was not my son,\" he said.\n\nThe family gathers for a small funeral service for Vitaliy\n\nVitaliy Brezhnev was buried on Monday 11 April, in a fresh grave by the road\n\nLater that day, back at the abandoned school in Bucha, Chief Lobas was sitting at his schooldesk, listening carefully to a man who had come in person to ask for help finding a relative he heard was in a mass grave. The man had been to the large mass grave by the church, he said, but they redirected him to the police. He wanted to give Chief Lobas a picture, but Lobas explained that this was not the way things were done. \"We cannot go around opening all the body bags holding this picture,\" he said. \"Do you understand? It will waste too much time.\"\n\nLobas explained that they had to begin burying the unidentified bodies because there was not enough space at the morgues. But he assured the man that fingerprints and photographs were being taken and would be kept. \"Even though the people themselves are buried the information remains,\" he said. \"The photographs remain.\"\n\nThe calls kept coming in - a body on Yablunska Street, another body next to a school. \"We have cleared these two addresses already, give us more to collect,\" Lobas said. He saw a window for a cigarette and went to the playground. The number of bodies each day was already beginning to fall, and he thought the job might be finished soon. \"There are no weekends here now, we will keep working until the collection of the bodies is complete,\" he said. He flicked his cigarette away. His phone was ringing.", "Priti Patel said she continues to work with her French counterparts to tackle illegal Channel crossings\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel says she is \"determined\" to stop illegal Channel crossings by migrants.\n\nOn Friday 73 migrants were intercepted in the Channel and those landing in Dover were given face masks amid concerns about reports of a coronavirus outbreak in migrant camps near Calais.\n\nAt least 470 people have attempted to cross the Channel illegally since Britain went into lockdown on 23 March.\n\nMs Patel said: \"I am determined to stop this criminal trade.\"\n\nCharities have called on the UK government to \"create safe and legal routes\" for those seeking sanctuary.\n\nThe Home Office said coronavirus had not affected its response to Channel crossings\n\nThe home secretary said protecting British borders was a priority.\n\n\"I will not stand by whilst malicious criminals prey on the vulnerable.\n\n\"Criminal gangs are using false promises to take advantage of desperate situations and illegally smuggle people into the UK.\n\n\"I am determined to stop this criminal trade,\" she said.\n\n\"We are continuing to support the French to deploy extra patrols on French beaches, drones, specialist vehicles and detection equipment to stop these boats leaving European shores,\" she added.\n\n\"I will always make sure that Border Force have the resources needed to tackle these dangerous crossings and keep our border secure.\"\n\nBella Sankey, director of charity Detention Action, said: \"The home secretary needs to stop chasing unicorns and level with the public.\n\n\"The only way to eliminate boat crossings and put people smugglers out of business is to create safe and legal routes for those seeking sanctuary.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Aiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nThe family of a British man fighting in Ukraine said he has told them he will have to surrender to Russian forces.\n\nAiden Aslin, from Newark in Nottinghamshire, has been fighting in Ukraine since he moved there in 2018, and became a marine in the country's military.\n\nHis unit has recently been defending the besieged city of Mariupol, which has been heavily bombarded by Russia.\n\nHis mother Ang Wood said her son told her he had no choice.\n\n\"He called me and said they have no weapons left to fight,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I love my son, he is my hero - they put up one hell of a fight.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Aslin is a former care worker who previously fought with Kurdish armed units in Syria against so-called Islamic State.\n\nHe has a Ukrainian fiancée and now has dual citizenship.\n\nMs Wood said her son \"sounded OK\" when she spoke to him, but called for the UK government to provide more support to Ukraine.\n\n\"Boris [Johnson] needs to take [Vladimir] Putin down,\" she added.\n\nBrennan Philips, a friend of Mr Aslin who also spoke to him by phone, said he sounded \"strong and in good spirits\".\n\n\"He called me and said 'we have no food, no supplies, no ammo, we're completely surrounded, we have to surrender',\" he said.\n\n\"Aiden was very well aware of what was going on, very calm.\n\n\"They can't get out, they can't fight back so they had no choice.\n\n\"I'm sure if they had a bullet left they would have shot it.\"\n\nAiden had been due to get married last week to his Ukrainian fiancée.\n\nBut his unit had become increasingly cut off as Russian forces bombarded the city of Mariupol in recent weeks, and Aiden's family and loved ones have had an extremely anxious wait as the situation deteriorated.\n\nAiden had been in communication periodically, sometimes sending video updates of himself to friends to post on social media, or just checking in to let his family know he was safe.\n\nBut the news that he was having to surrender has been a huge blow.\n\nThere are now Russian reports coming out claiming the 36th Marine Brigade have surrendered, which Aiden's family understand is his unit, though his family have heard nothing further since his initial phone calls.\n\nAiden is no newcomer to the perils of conflict. Before joining the Ukrainian forces, he had previously left the UK to fight in Syria against IS, fighting with the Kurdish armed group the YPG.\n\nTo the Kurds he is a hero, although he and many others like him faced questioning by counter-terrorism police when they returned to the UK. Most cases were eventually dropped.\n\nNow what has happened to him in Ukraine is uncertain. When Aiden spoke to his family it appeared his unit were communicating with the Russians in what appeared to be preparation for a negotiated surrender.\n\nThe key question is what would happen if he were to be taken as a prisoner of war? His friends have appealed on social media for Aiden and his unit to be treated in accordance with the Geneva conventions.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Office is working to verify reports of UK nationals like Aiden involved in the fighting. But given the situation, it is likely that the Foreign Office's powers will be quite limited.\n\nRussia has claimed more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in Mariupol but Ukraine says the city is still standing despite being under siege.\n\nMariupol's mayor said about 21,000 civilians had been killed with another 100,000 awaiting evacuation.\n\nThe city's fate is likely to be critical for the next phase of the war.\n\nIn Russian hands, it would provide control of a clear swathe of territory connecting Moscow's two fronts in the south and east.\n\nRussian soldiers are in the city of Mariupol\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The French beauty brand L'Occitane says it will keep its shops in Russia open despite the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe firm told the BBC it had discussed closing its stores \"at length\" but said it had not because it wanted to protect staff from potential \"retaliation\".\n\nIt has stopped shipping to Russia but website sales still seem to be open.\n\nHundreds of international brands including L'Oreal and Estee Lauder have already closed shops and ceased online sales in Russia in protest at the war.\n\nSome customers criticised L'Occitane for its decision and called for a boycott of the brand which is sold at more than 3,085 retail outlets worldwide and had sales of €1.5bn (£1.3bn) last year.\n\nThe cosmetics firm, which has spas and stores in Russian cities including Moscow and St Petersburg, said it could not take the \"risk\" of closing its shops.\n\n\"At this point we cannot guarantee that our 700 employees in Russia will not face retaliation if we cease to operate in the country,\" a spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned for those of our employees who have relatives in Ukraine or who are of Ukrainian descent,\" she added.\n\n\"At the same time, we are firmly committed to our partners and their employees in Ukraine.\"\n\nThe firm said it strongly condemned Russia's \"unjustified and unprovoked\" invasion and had significantly scaled back its operations in Russia, suspending its investment plans and all shipments into the country.\n\nIt refused to comment on whether it had continued online sales in the country and what the impact of stopping shipments would have on its Russian shops.\n\nTweeting a picture of a L'Occitane product one customer said: \"I've used this cream for years, never again. Even if they back out, they've showed their corporate integrity.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maddus Mickus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nL'Occitane is one of a number of firms listed as still operating in Russia by Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld at Yale University's School of Management.\n\nAmong them are the French energy giant EDF, the UAE's Emirates airline, and China's Lenovo computer brand. However, a much larger group of around 600 big firms have pulled out of Russia or suspended sales since it invaded, including Starbucks, Coca Cola, Levi's and Apple.\n\nOther international outlets still open in Russia have said they are not able to shut stores due to complex franchise deals preventing them from withdrawing. Burger King and the hotel groups Marriott and Accor are among the firms restricted by these arrangements.\n\nOn Tuesday, some independent Nike stores were found to be operating in Russia over a week after the sportswear brand said it was temporarily closing all its shops in the country.\n\nProfessor Vanessa Burbano, from Columbia Business School in the US, said that consistency between claims and actions is important for brands with operations in Russia.\n\n\"Customers and employees do pay attention to which companies are first in making these kinds of commitments and which firms don't go as far,\" Prof Burbano said.\n\n\"The risk of companies making claims that may not be perceived as consistent with their actions is that they could be seen as a green-washing in the Ukraine context which would be bad for their reputation.\"", "The deadline for registering to vote in next month's Assembly election has passed.\n\nThe deadline for applying to register to vote was 11:59 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe assembly election is being held on Thursday 5 May across 18 constituencies. Two hundred and thirty-nine candidates are standing; 90 will be elected.\n\nBallots are cast using the single transferable vote (STV) method.\n\nIn this system, voters rank candidates in order of preference and are able to vote for as many or as few candidates as they like.\n\nSIGN UP FOR ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC Northern Ireland election coverage\n\nTo vote, you must be aged over 18 and be either a British, Irish qualifying Commonwealth or EU citizen.\n\nYou must also be resident at an address in the area you want to vote in and not be legally excluded from voting.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda under new government plans.\n\nThe pilot scheme will focus on single men arriving on boats or lorries.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the £120m scheme would \"save countless lives\" from human trafficking.\n\nRefugee organisations have criticised the plan as cruel. They questioned its cost and impact and raised concerns about Rwanda's human rights record.\n\nMr Johnson said action was needed to stop \"vile people smugglers\" turning the ocean into a \"watery graveyard\", with the plan designed to break their business model.\n\n\"Our compassion may be infinite but our capacity to help people is not,\" he said. \"We can't ask the British taxpayer to write a blank cheque to cover the costs of anyone who might want to come and live here.\"\n\nThose who succeed in making it to the UK \"will be taken not to hotels at vast public expense\", the prime minister said, and instead would be housed in detention centres.\n\nSpeaking in Kent, he said the new plan would \"over time prove a very considerable deterrent\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the scheme as \"unworkable\" and \"extortionate\", claiming it was an attempt to distract from Mr Johnson's \"partygate\" fine.\n\nLast year, 28,526 people are known to have crossed in small boats, up from 8,404 in 2020. About 600 people made the crossing on Wednesday - the figure could reach 1,000 a day in coming weeks, Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe number of people who can be relocated will be \"unlimited\", said Mr Johnson.\n\nRwanda will have the \"capacity to resettle tens of thousands of people in the years ahead\", including those who have arrived \"illegally\" since the start of the year, he said.\n\nMigrants arriving in Dover after being rescued crossing the Channel\n\n\"We cannot sustain a parallel illegal system,\" said the prime minister. \"Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel, who travelled to Rwandan capital Kigali to sign the deal, said it was a \"global first and it will change the way we collectively tackle illegal migration\".\n\nShe said the \"vast majority\" of those arriving in the UK \"illegally\" would be considered for relocation to Rwanda.\n\nRecent research by Ipsos Mori suggested 60% of the public were dissatisfied with the government's migration policy - more than half of which cited Channel crossings.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton, reporting from Rwanda, said ministers would face legal hurdles and substantial costs to launch the scheme.\n\nPrecise details of the plan are yet to be confirmed - but he said the trial would be restricted to mostly single men.\n\nUnder the proposal, Rwanda would take responsibility for the people who made the more than 4,000-mile journey, put them through an asylum process, and at the end of that process, if they were successful, they would have long-term accommodation in Rwanda.\n\nThe BBC has seen accommodation the asylum seekers would be housed in, thought to have enough space for about 100 people at a time and to process up to 500 a year.\n\nJournalists were given a tour of a typical government refugee facility in Rwanda\n\nThe Rwandan government said migrants would be \"entitled to full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment, and enrolment in healthcare and social care services\".\n\nThe UK Home Office believes existing asylum law will be enough to implement the plan, but questions remain about the legality of the scheme.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan was \"fully compliant\" with international law, but acknowledged he expected it to be subject to challenge in the courts and from a \"formidable army of politically-motivated lawyers\".\n\nBritish Red Cross executive director Zoe Abrams said the humanitarian network was \"profoundly concerned\" about the scheme and that \"the financial and human cost will be considerable\".\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the charity was \"appalled by the government's cruel and nasty decision\", which it said would \"do little\" to deter people from coming to the UK.\n\nMiranda Butler, a barrister who specialises in immigration law, said there were \"serious questions\" about the risks faced by migrants under this \"expedited process\".\n\nThe Lib Dems said the government was \"slamming the door\" in the face of refugees, while the SNP's Ian Blackford described the plan as \"absolutely chilling\".\n\nQuestions have been raised over the human rights record of the Rwandan government and its president, Paul Kagame.\n\nLast year, the UK government expressed concern at the United Nations over \"continued restrictions to civil and political rights and media freedom\" in Rwanda.\n\nBut Mr Johnson described Rwanda as being one of the safest countries in the world.\n\nOther countries - including Ascension Island and Gibraltar - had also been considered.\n\nThe government's Nationality and Borders Bill is making its way through Parliament, but time is running out to pass it into law after a series of defeats in the House of Lords.\n\nMPs are currently on a break, but when they return, they are due to review a series of amendments, including one about powers to offshore asylum claims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Channel Migrants: A dinghy in the English Channel is dwarfed by tankers", "Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK is sanctioning those who \"prop up the illegal breakaway regions\" in eastern Ukraine\n\nThe self-styled leaders of Ukraine's breakaway regions are among those being targeted by new UK sanctions.\n\nIndividuals sanctioned include Sergei Kozlov and Alexander Ananchenko, from the self-declared People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nRussia has recently pulled troops away from Kyiv and shifted most of the focus of its war to eastern Ukraine.\n\nLast week scores of people were killed in a missile strike on a train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk.\n\nThe measures are being co-ordinated with the EU, the Foreign Office said.\n\nAnnouncing the latest sanctions, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said after the \"horrific rocket attacks on civilians\" the UK was sanctioning those who \"prop up the illegal breakaway regions\" and were \"complicit in atrocities\" against Ukrainians.\n\nShe vowed ministers would continue to target all those who \"aid and abet\" Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion.\n\nMore than 50 people, including children, were killed and many more were injured in Friday's train station attack.\n\nUkrainian officials say thousands of people were waiting for evacuation trains to escape heavy Russian shelling across the wider Donetsk region.\n\nThe country's president Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Russia for the attack, but Moscow denied carrying it out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Burnt-out cars and remains of a missile outside Kramatorsk station\n\nRussia is building up troops and military equipment along Ukraine's eastern border ahead of an expected offensive in the Donbas - which broadly refers to the Russian-backed separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nThe latest UK sanctions announced on Wednesday target 206 people, including 178 separatists, six oligarchs, their close associates and employees, as well as an additional 22 individuals.\n\nMaria Lavrova, the wife of Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, is among those subject to a travel ban and asset freeze.\n\nFurther family members of Russian oligarchs have also been targeted, including Pavel Ezubov, cousin of Oleg Deripaska, and Nigina Zairova, the executive assistant to Mikhail Fridman.\n\nThe Foreign Office said since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the UK had sanctioned more than 1,400 individuals and businesses - including more than 100 oligarchs and family members.\n\nThe department added that secondary legislation would be also laid in Parliament on Thursday banning the import of Russian steel and iron products and the export of luxury goods.", "Imran Ahmad Khan was found guilty earlier this week but says he will appeal against the conviction\n\nA Conservative MP found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy has announced he is resigning from the Commons.\n\nImran Ahmad Khan, who has represented Wakefield since 2019, said he was appealing against the conviction.\n\nBut he added it was \"intolerable\" for his constituents not to be represented properly while he goes to the courts.\n\nThe decision will trigger a by-election for his seat, which had previously been held by Labour for 87 years.\n\nKhan had a majority of 3,358 votes in 2019 in the West Yorkshire seat, which is seen as being part of the Conservatives' Red Wall of former Labour strongholds in the North of England.\n\nEarlier this week, Southwark Crown Court found Khan guilty of groping the teenager at a party in Staffordshire in January 2008.\n\nThe jury heard he had forced the youngster to drink gin, dragged him upstairs and asked him to watch pornography before assaulting him.\n\nThe verdict saw the Conservative Party expel him \"with immediate effect\".\n\nKhan, who is 48 and has continued to deny the offence, is awaiting sentencing.\n\nIf he received a prison term of more than a year, he would be automatically disbarred from being an MP.\n\nPosting on Twitter, Khan said it would not \"ordinarily be appropriate to resign\" while legal proceedings were continuing.\n\nBut he added: \"Owing to long delays in the legal process, my constituents have already been without visible parliamentary representation for a year.\n\n\"Even in the best case scenario, anticipated legal proceedings could last many more months.\n\n\"I have therefore regrettably come to the conclusion that it is intolerable for constituents to go years without an MP who can amplify their voices in Parliament.\"\n\nIt will be up to the Conservative Party when the by-election for his Wakefield seat will be held.\n\nBut parliamentary rules state they have to move a writ - the legal process to trigger a by-election - within three months, and the vote has to take place between 21 and 27 days later.\n\nA Conservative spokesperson said: \"Decisions will be made in due course by the chief whip's office.\"\n\nDuring the trial, the victim, who is now 29, said he was \"not taken very seriously\" when he made an allegation to the Conservative Party press office in December 2019, days before Khan was elected as Wakefield's MP.\n\nThe victim went to the police days after the election.\n\nConservative sources told the BBC the party had found no record of a complaint being made about Khan in the run up to polling day.\n\nKhan tried and failed to ban media reporting of the case, with his lawyers arguing that his life could be at risk, as the consumption of alcohol and homosexuality are strictly prohibited within his faith.\n\nBut a risk assessment by West Yorkshire police counter-terrorism security advisers concluded that there was \"no objective threat to [the] defendant's life that would arise from being named as the defendant in these allegations\".", "Aiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nThe family of a British man has appealed for him to be treated humanely after he was reportedly captured while defending Ukraine.\n\nRussian sources claim Aiden Aslin, who is originally from Newark in Nottinghamshire, has been captured in the besieged city of Mariupol.\n\nOn Tuesday his family told the BBC his unit was having to prepare to surrender to Russian forces.\n\nMr Aslin has now appeared in photos and video footage restrained in handcuffs.\n\nHis mother Ang Wood told the BBC: \"I believe it is him in the photographs. We just want him to be treated according to the Geneva Conventions.\n\n\"We are just hoping that maybe there can be some sort of prisoner exchange. We don't know what else to do right now except keep pressing the Foreign Office.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) for a response.\n\nMr Aslin has a Ukrainian fiancée and now has dual citizenship, after moving to Ukraine in 2018.\n\nHis grandmother Pamela Hall told the BBC: \"I never expected this, I thought if the worst came to the worst that Aiden would die fighting.\n\n\"Obviously I didn't want that, I wanted the war to end and for him to go home to his fiancée.\"\n\nMr Aslin had been defending Mariupol with his unit during heavy fighting in recent weeks.\n\n\"I think all the guys should be treated as prisoners of war according to the Geneva Conventions; I appreciate it's opposing forces, but they're all human beings,\" his grandmother said.\n\n\"We are all just hoping and praying for his safety.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Aslin is a former care worker who previously fought with Kurdish armed units in Syria against so-called Islamic State.\n\nHe passed out as a marine with the Ukrainian military in 2018. His family understand his unit is the 36th Marine Brigade.\n\nA video is being shown on Russian television news in which Mr Aslin is being questioned.\n\nThe interviewer first asks in Russian whether he understands the language, to which he replies in Russian \"50/50\".\n\nHe is then asked whether he killed anyone, and the interviewer also says: \"Did you see others killing anyone in your presence?\"\n\nMr Aslin replies in English: \"I didn't do any fighting.\"\n\nAiden Aslin is clearly being used to maximum advantage as a tool for Russian propaganda, interviewed by a Russian TV reporter while being held captive.\n\nIn a lengthy segment, the news anchor and reporter refer to Aiden in brutal terms, calling him a \"head cutter\".\n\nDuring the interview, Aiden appears to back up propaganda that Russian state media has been putting out since the start of the invasion.\n\nHe states he has seen Ukrainian soldiers killing Ukrainian civilians. A classic Kremlin claim regularly made by Russian officials, despite huge amounts of evidence of atrocities against civilians committed by Russian forces.\n\nWe cannot know under what duress Aiden may have been prior to this interview, but one thing is very clear.\n\nThese are not the words of the Aiden Aslin from a few weeks ago, when he was speaking to family from the conflict and regularly posting social media updates.\n\nLoved ones will tell you he was very proud of his role as a marine in the Ukrainian forces, and believes strongly in defending civilians.\n\nHis grandmother told the BBC: \"Aiden was not a mercenary as some of these Russian posts are saying.\n\n\"He has never been a mercenary and his involvement with the Ukrainian forces came about because he made Ukraine his adopted home, and he was due to marry his fiancée.\n\n\"It's an unjust war - it should never have happened.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "P&O Ferries services were suspended after the company sacked 800 workers\n\nHopes of P&O Ferries sailing from Dover before Easter have been dashed after one of its ships failed a safety inspection for the second time.\n\nTwo P&O ferries remain detained after Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) inspectors found safety and crew documentation \"deficiencies\".\n\nThe Pride of Kent, which failed the check again on Wednesday, will remain docked with the Spirit of Britain.\n\nBoth ships normally serve the Dover to Calais route.\n\nP&O said it looked forward to welcoming customers again as soon as all mandatory safety tests had been passed.\n\nThe firm has faced criticism after sacking 800 staff without notice.\n\nA spokesperson for the MCA said the reinspection of the Pride of Kent on Wednesday uncovered \"a number of additional deficiencies including in safety systems and crew documentation\".\n\n\"We have advised P&O to invite us back once they have addressed the issues. We do not know yet when this will be,\" the MCA said.\n\nP&O's Dover-Calais routes are currently suspended and the company had earlier said Friday was the earliest that services would resume, but that was on the assumption that the Pride of Kent would pass reinspection.\n\nThe MCA has been making its way through inspections of eight P&O Ferries to ensure they are fit to sail.\n\nThe Pride of Hull and European Causeway have been inspected and cleared to sail.\n\nA P&O Ferries spokesperson earlier said the Spirit of Britain would \"remain berthed in its current port\" following inspections by MCA.\n\n\"In the past few days both the European Causeway and the Pride of Hull have been deemed safe to sail by the MCA and we continue to work with all relevant authorities to return all our ships to service.\n\n\"We take the safety of our passengers and crew very seriously and look forward to all of our ships welcoming tourist passengers and freight customers again as soon as all mandatory safety tests have been passed.\"\n\nThe concern over a lack of ferries comes amid warnings that travel disruption is expected to return at Dover and other ports in Kent as the Easter weekend approaches.\n\nSeveral factors have caused the delays at Kent ports in the past few weeks.\n\nBad weather, Easter holidays and P&O Ferries routes being suspended have all led to congestion around Dover. There have also been problems with an IT system for customs checks at the UK's busiest port following Brexit.\n\nLogistics UK called for a \"rapid reinstatement of full ferry capacity\" before the Easter weekend to help reduce long lorry queues.\n\nThe transport industry body raised concerns over drivers being stuck in queues without access to toilets, washing facilities, food and water.\n\nIt blamed Operation Brock, the traffic management system intended to keep vehicles moving across the English Channel, and called for the plan, which allows lorries to use one entire side of the M20 into Dover, to be reviewed \"urgently\".\n\nIan Uttley, director of the haulage company Stagefreight, told the BBC drivers were being treated \"inhumanely\".\n\n\"We cannot sit drivers on the side of the motorway for 20-plus hours, trying to get out of the country to just do their jobs, with no facilities whatsoever,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"They're sat there and when they ask where the toilet is they're told it's the embankment.\"\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum, which manages emergency planning for the county, said it was not possible to provide toilet facilities.\n\nA spokesman said it was due to safety reasons, but added when queues were at a standstill previously, food and water had been provided to drivers.\n\nLorries continue to queue on the M20 in Operation Brock near Ashford\n\nAt the weekend, UK hauliers carrying perishable goods said products were losing quality and value as they were forced to sit in long queues to cross into Europe from Dover.\n\nThough the queues eased on Sunday, the British Meat Processors Association said some of its members had waited for 24 hours or more to cross the Channel.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum - which is a partnership organisation including Kent Police, Kent County Council and Highways England - has confirmed Operation Brock will remain in place until after the bank holiday weekend.\n\nHighways England has said the traffic management system is kept \"under continual review\".", "Prince Harry and Meghan pictured here on stage at a concert in New York last September\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex met the Queen on Thursday after flying into the UK, a spokesperson for the couple confirmed to the BBC.\n\nThe couple stopped at Windsor on their way to The Hague, in the Netherlands, for the Invictus Games.\n\nPrince Harry was last reported to be in the UK in July, while Meghan is not thought to have been in the country since 2020.\n\nThe Sussexes stepped down as senior royals in January 2020.\n\nTheir trip to the UK comes after Prince Harry was absent from a memorial service for his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, in London last month.\n\nThe Queen is not expected to attend this year's Easter morning church service having already pulled out of the Maundy Service on Thursday - for the first time since 1970.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch has mobility problems and has pulled out of several events recently, including the annual Commonwealth Service.\n\nThe duchess last appeared in the UK at the Commonwealth Day Service in March 2020 while the duke was in the UK to unveil a statue of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in July last year.\n\nThe couple are on their way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands, which will take place from 16 to 22 April.\n\nA film crew is expected to be joining the couple at the games as part of filming for a Netflix series called Heart Of Invictus.\n\nPrince Harry founded the games to aid the rehabilitation of injured or sick military personnel and veterans from across the globe.\n\nThey might no longer be \"working royals\", but their touchdown in the UK made instant headlines.\n\nTheir unpublicised visit to the Queen had a touch of Hollywood drama.\n\nIt will delight their supporters. But their challenge will be to build bridges with the parts of the public who have become more sceptical.\n\nWhy are they able to travel to the Netherlands, via Windsor, when they didn't attend Prince Philip's memorial in Westminster Abbey?\n\nWill the Californian lifestyle seem out of touch with a public now worrying about gas bills?\n\nAfter the disruption of two years of the pandemic, many families will be travelling this bank holiday to try to make re-connections and get back in touch.\n\nExpect to see and hear more from Harry and Meghan over the bank holiday weekend ahead.\n\nJoe Little, managing editor of Majesty Magazine, described the visit as \"a very welcome if long overdue move\" on the part of Harry and Meghan.\n\nThe couple also saw Prince Charles while they were at Windsor Castle, the Sun reported.\n\nThe visit comes as Prince Harry is bringing a court challenge against the government's decision to refuse police security during his visits from the US.\n\nHis lawyers previously said that the UK would \"always be his home\" and it \"goes without saying that he does want to come back to see family and friends\".\n\nThe last time the duchess saw the Queen is thought to be pre-pandemic, at the Commonwealth Day service in early March 2020\n\nSince the couple moved to the US, the duchess gave an emotional interview in which she said life in the Royal Family had been so difficult she \"didn't want to be alive any more\" and the pair's daughter Lillibet, named after the Queen's family nickname, was born.\n\nBut while it may have been some time since the duchess has seen the Queen in person, during an appearance on The Late Late Show in 2021 Prince Harry revealed that the monarch had used Zoom to video call the family.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'We got him': man arrested in New York subway shooting\n\nPolice in New York City have arrested a man suspected of shooting 10 commuters in a rush hour attack at a Brooklyn subway station.\n\nFrank James, 62, is alleged to have donned a construction worker's helmet, vest and a gas mask before throwing smoke grenades and opening fire.\n\nA massive 30-hour manhunt was launched in the wake of the attack.\n\nMr James was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan after police received a tip-off, they said.\n\n\"My fellow New Yorkers: we got him,\" Mayor Eric Adams said via video during a news conference.\n\nOfficials said Mr James was the sole suspect in the shooting at Brooklyn's 36th Street station on Tuesday morning, in which 23 people were wounded, 10 of them from gunfire. The attack renewed calls to address violence in the city's transit system.\n\nKeechant Sewell, New York's police commissioner, said that Mr James was arrested \"without incident\". \"There was nowhere left for him to run,\" she said.\n\nPolice did not answer questions about the individual who called in the tip, though the Associated Press and CNN are reporting the suspect was the one who tipped off police to his location in lower Manhattan.\n\nMr James will be charged on several counts, authorities said, including the violation of a federal law which prohibits \"terrorist and other violent attacks\" against mass transit systems. He could face life in prison if found guilty.\n\nHe had nine prior arrests, police said, and he had ties to Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.\n\nThe search for Mr James was complicated by malfunctioning cameras inside the subway station. Officials on Wednesday were working to determine whether one or multiple cameras at the station were broken.\n\nThe suspected gunman escaped the scene but was linked to the attack through a rented U-Haul van. The key to the van, rented in Philadelphia, was found at the scene, along with a Glock 9mm handgun, three ammunition magazines, a plastic container containing petrol, and a credit card with Mr James' name on it, police said.\n\nAn FBI affidavit said the agency believes Mr James rented the U-Haul in Philadelphia on Monday and drove it to New York, arriving the next day. The agency said that records showed the Glock was lawfully bought in Ohio \"by an individual named 'Frank Robert James'\".\n\nPolice have not given a motive for the attack, though authorities have said Mr James had posted black nationalist rhetoric and bigoted rants online and \"made various statements about the New York City subway system\", including about homeless people on the subways and \"various conspiracy theories\", according to court documents,\n\nMr James is expected to make his first court appearance in New York on Thursday.", "The European Causeway returned to Larne on Saturday\n\nP&O Ferries passengers may have to wait until Thursday 14 April to travel on its Larne-Cairnryan service.\n\nIn a series of tweets, P&O said that it expected the route to resume next week.\n\nIt comes amid warnings that members of the RMT union, and other trade unions, would blockade ports when the service resumes.\n\nThe European Causeway had been detained in Larne by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) over safety concerns, after P&O sacked 800 of its workers.\n\nOn Saturday, it sailed, with limited services, on a return journey between Larne and Cairnryan. P&O said \"full services\" would restart on Sunday.\n\nBut it is understood that only freight has been transported on the vessel.\n\nSaturday was the first time the vessel had been allowed to sail since it was detained in Larne a fortnight ago.\n\nP&O said that the MCA had \"completed its most recent inspection of the European Causeway, and have confirmed it is safe to sail\".\n\nIt said it was \"delighted that we will be able to restart full services between Larne and Cairnryan from 8am, Sunday 10th April\".\n\n\"P&O is pleased to play its part in supporting customers to move vital goods between the Northern Ireland and Scotland,\" it added.\n\nOn Sunday morning, P&O tweeted that the Larne-Cairnryan route was \"cancelled until 12/04 for tourist travel but should resume on 13/04\".\n\nHowever, it later extended this to Thursday 14 April.\n\nThe Dover-Calais service is also expected to resume on this date.\n\nBut a union has warned P&O Ferries it faces a \"summer of disruption\" when it resumes passenger services from Scotland to Northern Ireland this week.\n\nThe RMT union said it will target ports when the ferry operator starts running its ships again.\n\nThe detention of the European Causeway came after the company sacked 800 workers across the UK without notice.\n\nThe company recruited new staff, but the MCA detained the European Causeway saying it was concerned about \"failures on crew familiarisation, vessel documentation and crew training\".\n\nThe European Causeway was detained in Larne almost two weeks ago due to inspectors' concerns\n\nAnother P&O vessel, the European Highlander, remained docked in Larne on Saturday awaiting a full Port State Control Inspection.\n\nThe ferry operator has been strongly criticised by politicians and unions following the sacking of workers.\n\nHowever, P&O says its business \"would not be viable\" without changes to staffing.\n\nP&O Ferries has been contacted for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Emmanuel Macron says he will unite \"all the different convictions and beliefs\" if re-elected\n\nEmmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French election and far-right rival Marine Le Pen will fight him for the presidency for a second time.\n\n\"Make no mistake, nothing is decided,\" he told cheering supporters.\n\nIn the end, he won a convincing first-round victory, but opinion polls suggest the run-off could be much closer.\n\nMs Le Pen called on every non-Macron voter to join her and \"put France back in order\".\n\nWith 97% of results counted, Emmanuel Macron had 27.6% of the vote, Marine Le Pen 23.41% and Jean-Luc Mélenchon 21.95%.\n\nVeteran far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon polled even better than five years ago and now has the unlikely role of kingmaker.\n\n\"You must not give a single vote to Marine Le Pen,\" he warned his supporters, but unlike other candidates, he pointedly did not back the president instead. Later in the evening, Mélenchon activists gathered outside his campaign HQ thinking he might even come second, but it was not to be.\n\nMaking up more than a fifth of the vote, Mélenchon voters could decide the final round of this election, yet many of them may just sit the second round out and abstain.\n\nTwelve candidates were in the running, but these were the only three who polled more than 10%. Many voters appeared to embrace the idea of tactical or \"useful\" voting, deciding that the other nine candidates had no hope of making the run-off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeveral of the nine had little chance anyway, but the 2022 presidential election will be partly remembered for the disaster that befell the two old parties that used to run France, the Republicans and Socialists. They sank almost without trace, with Socialist Anne Hidalgo falling below 2%.\n\nIt was only a few months ago that Valérie Pécresse was still in the race for the right-wing Republicans. She performed so badly, her party could not even scrape the 5% needed to claim its election costs.\n\nThis is potentially terrible news for a party already tearing itself apart. Parties that fail to reach 5% only get €800,000 (£670,000) of their campaign funding covered by the state, and the Republicans will have paid out far more than that.\n\nA renewed battle for votes is under way. Marine Le Pen can count on supporters of Eric Zemmour, whose more hardline nationalism won him fourth place and 7%. Nationalist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has also backed her. She can already count on an impressive 33% of the entire vote.\n\nMr Macron's team is planning a series of big rallies and major TV appearances. Most of the other candidates on the left have backed him, as has Valérie Pécresse, but one-time Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal said the president now had to \"earn\" victory.\n\nIfop pollster François Dabi said his company's 51%-49% estimate for the run-off was the closest they had ever predicted. An Elabe poll put the gap at 52%-48% and an Ipsos poll suggested it was wider still.\n\nAddressing his supporters, Mr Macron looked a relieved man and he promised to work harder than in the first part of the campaign. He had only started campaigning eight days before the vote, his mind more focused on Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\n\"When the extreme right in all its forms represents so much of our country,\" he said, \"we cannot feel that things are going well.\"\n\nHe addressed Le Pen voters too: \"I want to convince them in the next few days that our project answers solidly to their fears and challenges of our time.\"\n\nMs Le Pen said it was time for a \"great changeover\", with a fundamental choice on 24 April of two opposite views: \"Either division and disorder, or a union of the French people around guaranteed social justice.\"\n\nShe has built her campaign around the cost-of-living crunch facing much of Europe, promising to cut taxes and waive income tax for under-30s. There has been less emphasis on nationalism, but she wants a referendum on restricting immigration, radical change to the EU and a ban on the Islamic hijab in public areas.\n\nThe campaign only sparked into life in the final fortnight, first because of the Covid pandemic and then the Russian war. But in the end, the spring sunshine meant turnout was not as low as feared, at almost 75%.\n\nOne in four young voters backed the president, although more than one in three 18-24 year-olds opted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, according to Elabe pollsters.\n\nMarine Le Pen performed best among 35-64 year-olds, while the president was favoured by over-65s.\n\nIt was already clear from Mr Macron's speech that he planned to target Ms Le Pen's close links with the Kremlin. Although she has condemned Vladimir Putin's war, she visited him before the previous election in 2017 and her party took out a Russian loan.\n\nHe wanted a France that made alliances with great democracies to defend itself, he said, not a state that would leave Europe and have only populists and xenophobes for allies.", "Scott Morrison has been Australia's prime minister since 2018\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called a federal election for 21 May.\n\nMr Morrison's ruling coalition holds 76 seats in the House of Representatives - the minimum needed to retain power.\n\nPolls suggest there will be a change of government, with the opposition Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese, tipped to take office.\n\nHowever, in the last election, the centre-right Mr Morrison won despite most polls predicting otherwise.\n\nMr Morrison announced the date after talks with the Governor General in the capital, Canberra.\n\n\"It's a choice between a strong future and an uncertain one. It's a choice between a government you know and a Labor opposition that you don't,\" the prime minister said on Sunday.\n\nBut Mr Albanese - pointing out Mr Morrison's own deputy prime minister called him \"a hypocrite and a liar\" - argued that \"we can and must do better\".\n\n\"The pandemic has given us the opportunity to imagine a better future and Labor has the policies and plans to shape that future,\" he said on Sunday.\n\nMr Morrison is the first leader to serve a full term in office since John Howard, who won four elections before losing to Labor's Kevin Rudd in 2007.\n\nSince then, what observers call the \"coup culture\" of Australian politics has led to a series of short-lived premierships.\n\nMr Morrison's Liberal-led coalition is defending a one-seat majority. Even though it has won seven of the past nine federal elections, it may be hard-pressed to do so again, say political analysts.\n\nIn recent weeks, the prime minister has faced accusations of being a bully and once sabotaging a rival's career by suggesting the man's Lebanese heritage made him less electable. Mr Morrison has denied the allegations.\n\nBut despite the most recent polling putting Labor ahead, Mr Albanese has called his opponents the \"favourites\", noting his party has only won government from opposition three times since World War Two.\n\nA \"complete blank page\" or \"a bully with no moral compass\"? On 21 May, Australians will choose between an opposition leader accused by opponents of being clueless and inexperienced, or an incumbent prime minister who's fending off allegations of racism and an intimidatory style of leadership.\n\nScott Morrison's centre-right government is under pressure, but it's led by a former marketing executive who's become a political survivor and defied the polls to win the so-called \"miracle\" election in 2019.\n\nRemarkably, Mr Morrison is the first Australian prime minister to serve a full term since John Howard. His Labor challenger, Anthony Albanese, presents himself as a measured, gently progressive alternative.\n\nThe handling of the pandemic and natural disasters, as well as national security and the environment, will sway voters, but as the cost of living rises, the 21 May poll will ultimately be decided by one dominant issue - the economy.", "Veronika and her mother spotted the doll in a warehouse as they picked up essential supplies\n\nA child refugee has been given a doll exactly like the one she had to leave behind in Ukraine.\n\nToddler Veronika and her mother Tatyana spotted the doll in a warehouse run by the Surrey charity Stripey Stork as they picked up essential supplies.\n\nThe charity said in a tweet that mother and daughter got \"very excited\" when they saw the doll which was \"just the same as one she'd had to leave behind\".\n\nCharity founder and chief executive Nicola Dawes said it made their day.\n\n\"It was particularly special to discover this doll was just the same as one that Veronika had not been able to bring from home,\" she said.\n\n\"A moment of joy and connection, and it made our day when Veronika blew us a kiss as she left.\"\n\nVeronika and Tatyana arrived in the UK on Thursday to stay with a sponsor family in Epsom and Ewell as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.\n\nAfter they arrived with one case and a pushchair, their host family contacted the baby bank charity to seek help sourcing practical items.\n\nThey travelled to the warehouse on Friday to pick up supplies prepared for them, including clothes, shoes, toys, a high chair, bed guard, potty training kit, nappies and toiletries.\n\nStripey Stork has been helping families across Surrey since it was formed in 2013.\n\nIt uses a model similar to a food bank to provide essentials to families with young children, and is now helping Ukrainian refugees arriving in the area.\n\nThe charity said on Twitter more than 700 families had been matched in Surrey so far.\n• None Where have Ukraine's millions of refugees gone?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City retained their slender one-point advantage at the top of the Premier League as they fought out a classic draw with closest rivals Liverpool at Etihad Stadium. The meeting between the country's two outstanding sides lived up to its pre-match billing and in the end there was nothing to separate them, with the destination of the title still hanging in the balance with seven games remaining. City flew out of the blocks to take an early lead through Kevin de Bruyne's deflected strike but Liverpool were quickly on terms when Diogo Jota turned home Trent Alexander-Arnold's pass. Pep Guardiola's side dominated a magnificent first 45 minutes but failed to convert a host of chances before Gabriel Jesus stole in behind Alexander-Arnold to restore their lead from Joao Cancelo's cross nine minutes before the break. Liverpool had been strangely nervous but came out rejuvenated after the re-start, equalising when Sadio Mane celebrated his 30th birthday by scoring from Mohamed Salah's perfect pass in the 47th minute. Raheem Sterling had a goal ruled out for offside as both sides pressed for a winner in this superb match, with City substitute Riyad Mahrez wasting a chance to win it in the dying seconds as he lifted his finish over the top.\n• None 'Neither of top two deserve to finish second' - Shearer column on title race\n• None 'Title rivals deliver classic that lives up to the hype'\n• None 'A result we have to live with' - Klopp\n• None Where do teams' quadruple and Treble bids stand? Man City still in control... just The two sides drew 2-2 at Anfield in October in their last meeting in the Premier League Manchester City and manager Pep Guardiola may regret their failure to turn first-half superiority into a more meaningful advantage but they will not be wholly dissatisfied with the outcome. There will certainly be no dissatisfaction with City's level of performance, which was outstanding apart from a sloppy first 15 minutes at the start of the second half, during which Liverpool equalised and the reigning Premier League champions were on the back foot. City's supporters seemed happy enough with the final outcome, clearly living on their nerves in the closing stages knowing Liverpool's threat and their capacity to strike at any time. De Bruyne was at his imperious best, although Sterling struggled against his former club, his day summed up when arguably his most composed piece of play in a frenetic afternoon saw a low finish past Alisson ruled out for offside, while Liverpool's keeper also denied him in the opening moments of the game. City's advantage at the top of the table is just that one point but knowing how formidable Liverpool's challenge can be, you suspect Guardiola will settle for it with only seven games left and a fixture list that looks manageable. He would have preferred the victory that would have opened up a crucial gap but City have survived their toughest fixture of the season against their most dangerous opponents largely unscathed. City were better than Liverpool – Guardiola\n• None Man City's De Bruyne wins your player of the match\n• None Reaction to the draw at Etihad Stadium Liverpool still in the hunt Liverpool's Sadio Mane scored 46 seconds into the second half to make it 2-2 This was never going to be the so-called title decider, no matter what the outcome. There is still the capacity for too many potential twists and turns to call it so soon. Liverpool came into the game in outstanding form, on the back of 10 straight league wins and a club record eight successive away wins in all competitions. And yet, they started with uncharacteristic unease and hesitancy, especially at the back where there were several nervous moments. Even when they are off their best, Liverpool still possess ever-present menace and the poacher supreme Jota settled Jurgen Klopp's side with a trademark finish for his 15th Premier League goal of the season. Liverpool were fortunate to be only 2-1 down at half-time, although City keeper Ederson sent palpitations around Etihad Stadium when he lost control of the ball on his goal-line with Jota in close attendance, recovering to show nerves of steel and regain his poise. Klopp clearly delivered some stern messages to his players at the break and Liverpool were much more themselves in the second half, Mane striking almost immediately and their pressing game finally rushing City into mistakes. Liverpool may still be in second place but they are right in this title hunt. Like Guardiola, Klopp would have preferred all three points but he will not be unhappy with one from this wonderful Premier League spectacle. Man City v Liverpool was on a 'different level' - Klopp\n• None Attempt missed. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) hits the left post with a left footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "France's traditional right-wing Republicans party is preparing to fight for its life in the presidential election next spring. Its surprise choice of Valérie Pécresse as candidate has boosted the party, with a new opinion poll suggesting she could beat Emmanuel Macron to become France's first female president.\n\nYou know you're making headway as a female politician when people start analysing your clothes.\n\nFor Valérie Pécresse, it began with a red jacket, worn for her victory speech after winning the nomination for Les Républicains.\n\nOne daily newspaper even asked fashion historians to decrypt it.\n\n\"This red jacket was chosen to distinguish her from the crowd,\" one said. \"It's the colour of power.\"\n\nAnother described it as evoking \"warrior spirit [and] blood\".\n\nJust a few days later, a poll by Elabe suggested that, if the election were held today, Valérie Pécresse would beat President Macron in a run-off vote by 52% to 48%.\n\nThat's encouraging news for a party that's been out of power for nine years, eaten away from one side by Mr Macron and from the other by France's far-right leader, Marine Le Pen.\n\nCould Valérie Pécresse face off against Emmanuel Macron next April? One poll suggests they might\n\nHer close ally and senator for Hauts-de-Seine, Roger Karoutchi, says Mrs Pécresse is a reassuring figure, because of her experience in running the Paris region with its 12 million inhabitants.\n\n\"It's not enough to be a woman; you have to be a stateswoman,\" he said. \"[She] has been a minister, a deputy, a regional president. She has a proven track record on issues like secularism and security. She's extremely pugnacious: when she has a goal, she goes for it.\"\n\nHer opponents were, predictably, less impressed.\n\n\"I feel sorry for Republican voters,\" said Marine Le Pen, \"because Valérie Pécresse is perhaps the most Macronist of all the party candidates\"\n\nShe has almost exactly the same profile as Emmanuel Macron, and exactly the same positions on a considerable number of issues\n\nMrs Pécresse prefers to describe herself as \"one-third Margaret Thatcher and two-thirds Angela Merkel\".\n\nShe entered politics as part of President Jacques Chirac's team but made her name as higher education minister during Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency.\n\nFew question her experience, but many voters see Valérie Pécresse as rather serious, determined, even clinical; her image as a politician perhaps a little bit boring.\n\n\"I wouldn't say she's boring, but she doesn't have a singularity that would make her a new character in France's political landscape,\" explained Jean-Philippe Dubrulle from the polling agency IFOP.\n\n\"She hasn't been prime minister; she doesn't have the uniqueness of [nationalist candidate] Éric Zemmour, who was a journalist.\n\n\"Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere and had never held any elected position; [far-left leader] Jean-Luc Mélenchon has a unique style. Valérie Pécresse, in my opinion, lacks this.\"\n\nAccording to Mr Karoutchi, what she has is a very pronounced human side. \"She's very focused on the struggle many families have to make ends meet, and she has a strong sense that family life can be difficult,\" he says.\n\nValérie Pécresse was chosen as candidate by registered party members, but she'll need to appeal to a much broader cross-section of voters in the presidential race.\n\nRepublican mayor Franck Louvrier says she has a \"formidable advantage\" when it comes to rallying people outside her core party support.\n\n\"When you are a candidate for the presidential election, you have to constantly expand like a rolling snowball that swells over time,\" he said.\n\n\"This is the balance: being able to open up while maintaining principles and values. She's already done it at regional level in Île-de-France, which is a microcosm of France.\"\n\nMr Macron's victory in 2017 redrew the political map, marginalising the Republicans on the right and almost wiping out their Socialist opponents.\n\nFor years, pollsters have predicted another Macron-Le Pen presidential run-off next year.\n\nBut Jean-Philippe Dubrulle says the election has become more unpredictable, with the entrance of Mr Zemmour, a new figure on the far right of politics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eric Zemmour was grabbed at his first political rally\n\n\"The ticket price to access the second round of the election has lowered considerably,\" he told me, because Mr Zemmour has split the far-right vote usually taken by Mrs Le Pen.\n\n\"In this context, the Republican party has the chance to emerge again,\" he said. \"If a candidate from the traditional right could gather around 20% of ballots [in the first round of voting], they could change the game.\"\n\nPolls, of course, are just a blurred snapshot of a single moment in time, and we are months away from France's next presidential race.\n\nPresident Macron has yet to officially declare himself a candidate. But, assuming he does, how worried should he be about Valérie Pécresse?\n\nJean-Philippe Dubrulle has no doubt: \"Macron feared that Xavier Bertrand would be the Republican candidate, but with Valérie Pécresse, he drew a much more dangerous card.\"\n\nThe danger being that she could \"out-Macron\" Macron.\n\nUntil recently a Macron v Le Pen presidential run-off had been predicted, but no longer\n\n\"Macron was a new character five years ago,\" said Mr Dubrulle, \"and [this time] Pécresse could present herself as a new type of candidate, because she's a woman.\n\n\"Unlike Marine Le Pen, she's seen as a credible candidate to win, and so it signals a kind of freshness that says: I am renewing the political landscape in France,\" Mr Dubrulle added.\n\nFor Franck Louvrier, mayor of La Baule where Valérie Pécresse spends family holidays, her nomination is also a sign of modernity and change within France's traditional right-wing party.\n\nIt happened in the UK and Germany, and now in France, too, there is a thirst to see a woman as leader, he says: \"She's exploding the glass ceiling.\"\n\nThis most traditional of political parties has now entered the battle to renew French politics.\n\nFive years after his first-ever election campaign, President Macron could find himself being framed as the old guard.\n\nIt's not something he's used to.\n\nHe might have torn up the old political map here in the last presidential race, but those around him were apparently taking notes.", "There have been urgent calls for investigations into allegations of war crimes in previously Russian-held areas of Ukraine after shocking footage of murdered civilians.\n\nBut there are wider questions over whether widespread Russian attacks on civilian targets amount to war crimes.\n\nWe've been looking at a series of attacks in one city - Chernihiv - to see whether they are consistent with Russian tactics across Ukraine and reveal something of their strategy.\n\nThe following report contains some graphic details.\n\n\"They were shooting at us with everything they had,\" says Diana, 20. Within minutes of encountering the Russian tank, half her family would be dead.\n\nDiana, her mother Irina, her partner Sasha and his little brother Maxim were fleeing Chernihiv on 9 March after weeks of shelling. They had one simple aim - to reach safety in the west of the country, where relatives were waiting for them.\n\nBut within minutes of leaving the city heading south they were plunged into danger.\n\nAs their Volkswagen Golf passed the village of Kolychivka, Sasha saw Russian tanks ahead. One fired at them immediately. He put his foot down, hoping to accelerate through the danger zone - and then the car stalled.\n\nSasha, Diana and Maxim, and Diana with her mother Irina\n\nThe firing continued, and Sasha shouted for them get out - but 15-year-old Maxim had already been hit. There was a hole in his chest and blood coming from his mouth.\n\nDiana, Sasha and Irina crawled into bushes - but soldiers were approaching, shouting to each other, asking where the family were hiding. Bullets cracked towards them.\n\nDiana's foot was seriously injured. Sasha tried to bandage it, but then as he turned to help Irina, the horror worsened.\n\n\"Irina opened her jacket and we realised that there was nothing to bandage,\" Diana told BBC News. \"A part of her abdomen and intestines had been shot through.\"\n\nThey heard more shooting and Diana turned to Sasha believing these were their final minutes.\n\n\"We had time to say that we loved each other,\" she said. \"I asked Sasha, 'Are we going to die here?' He said, 'Probably'.\n\n\"My mum crawled with us a little more. I kept turning and saying, 'Mum, crawl, please, please'. She said, 'Yes, yes'. And then she [lay] down on the ground. She died there.\"\n\nDiana kept crawling, following Sasha as he broke a path for her through the thicket. They went past a burning field and through the forest.\n\nDiana and Sasha survived and she made it to a hospital. She has lost four toes from her left foot.\n\nDiana has no doubt the attackers were Russian because of their accents, uniforms and the Z symbol daubed on one of the tanks.\n\nThe BBC's verification team has found no evidence of any legitimate military targets near the site of the attack.\n\nAttacks on civilians in cars elsewhere\n\nWater is the most basic of human necessities and there is evidence of deliberate Russian targeting of the supply in Chernihiv.\n\nA pumping station on the outskirts of the city was hit on 14 March.\n\nThe attack badly damaged a water reservoir and destroyed a control room, according to the head of the water company in Chernihiv, Serhiy Malyavko, who said a worker at the plant - along with three family members - were killed. The family was sheltering there after their home was destroyed by shelling.\n\nSatellite imagery shows the damage to the plant, located by Twitter user @obretix in a forested area far away from other buildings.\n\nPhotos released by the water company showed a severely damaged treatment tank with small craters in the ground. Damage that looks like shrapnel holes pepper the buildings.\n\nThe sequence of craters visible in a satellite image suggests ground-launched strikes, says Wim Zwijnenburg, an arms researcher at Pax, a Dutch peace organisation.\n\n\"The shrapnel impact and blast direction seem to indicate the missiles were fired from the west of the water facility, [which] corresponds with the presence of Russian troop movements located to the west, according to public data on their locations.\"\n\nWithout access to the site itself, the experts we've spoken to say it's not possible to be precise about the weapons used. Rather than missiles, the damage may have been caused by heavy guns or mortars.\n\nThe Chernihiv Water Company released pictures of other sites that had been attacked\n\nThe head of the water company says the site was struck three days in a row.\n\n\"There was no military target. I'm 100% sure that the Russian troops have been destroying the city's infrastructure so that there would be no gas, no electricity or water supply in the city,\" Mr Malyavko told BBC News.\n\nHe said two other facilities elsewhere were also destroyed, cutting off water to most of the city's population.\n\nThe rules of war ban premeditated attacks on targets indispensable to civilian life, such as water supplies.\n\n\"This has been done to make the population panic,\" says Mr Malyavko. \"And Russia is probably hoping that if there's a humanitarian catastrophe, the local authorities will agree to start negotiations - and that the city will surrender.\"\n\nIt was the morning of 16 March, and Ukrainian journalist Alina Klimenko received news of a much-needed bread delivery to the city. Her father, Vitalii, dashed to join the queue.\n\nBut after a short while he moved away as a nearby house came under fire. Others, now used to the sound of shelling in the city, stayed.\n\nAnd then the queue itself was hit.\n\nAlina ran out to film the aftermath. Her footage showed bodies on the ground and an ambulance racing to the scene.\n\nAt least 14 civilians died, according to Ukrainian authorities.\n\nWe have confirmed the authenticity of Alina's video and located it to a residential area in the city.\n\nAlina's father, who has a military background, says the incoming fire was from the north-east, consistent with the attack being launched by Russian units operating several kilometres to the north of Chernihiv, according to the mapping team at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).\n\nWeapons expert Mark Cancian looked at the BBC's research. He said the damage was consistent with the impact of a missile with a range of up to 30km (19 miles).\n\nA satellite image from 16 March shows Russian forces with this kind of weaponry 14km north-east of the city.\n\nThe US Embassy in Kyiv initially wrongly reported that Russian forces in the city had shot dead the civilians.\n\nThis was quickly denied by Moscow who said no Russian troops were present in the city. But the Russians went further, saying the event had either been staged, or that those killed were victims of \"Ukrainian nationalists\".\n\nThere have been numerous examples of this type of denial from the Russian government.\n\nA critical factor in any prosecution for war crimes is obtaining clear evidence of a deliberate intent to target civilians.\n\nImages and eye-witness statements can be the starting point, says Prof Alex Whiting, a former investigations co-ordinator at the International Criminal Court.\n\nBut investigators would then need to tackle a series of basic questions:\n\nA hotel and a football stadium in Chernihiv were hit\n\nThroughout the conflict, the Ukrainian intelligence services have been releasing allegedly intercepted communications between Russian forces.\n\nIn one, a man with a Russian accent can be heard being ordered to shoot at a civilian car.\n\nThe authenticity of these conversations has not been verified by the BBC.\n\nBut by building a picture of consistent patterns of behaviour, the case for prosecution becomes stronger.\n\nSareta Ashraph, an expert in human-rights law, says investigators would be looking to establish these patterns of behaviour across the country - whether water facilities, hospitals or supermarkets had been regularly hit - in order to build up a picture of military strategy.\n\n\"This can show evidence of deliberate targeting, where the intent to bring the civilian population to its knees becomes much clearer,\" she says.\n\nAs the war continues, Ms Ashraph says she's reminded of Russian tactics in previous conflicts.\n\n\"I would say that Russia's actions in Ukraine contain some quite dark echoes of actions in Syria,\" she said.\n\nWe contacted the Russian defence ministry about all of the cases documented in this article. We have not yet received a response.", "The war in Ukraine could be ended if western countries stopped buying Russian oil and gas, says President Putin's former chief economic adviser\n\nA \"real embargo\" on Russian energy by Western countries could stop war in Ukraine, President Putin's former chief economic adviser has suggested.\n\nDr Andrei Illarionov said Russia \"did not take seriously\" other countries' threats to reduce their energy usage.\n\nDespite trying to reduce its reliance on Russian sources, Europe is continuing to buy oil and gas.\n\nLast year, soaring prices meant oil and gas revenues accounted for 36% of Russia's government spending.\n\nMuch of that income comes from the European Union, which imports about 40% of its gas and 27% of its oil from Russia.\n\nThis week, its top diplomat Josep Borrell said \"a billion [euros] is what we pay Putin every day for the energy he supplies us\".\n\nDr Illarionov said if Western countries \"would try to implement a real embargo on oil and gas exports from Russia... I would bet that probably within a month or two, Russian military operations in Ukraine, probably will be ceased, will be stopped\".\n\n\"It's one of the very effective instruments still in the possession of the Western countries,\" he added.\n\nDr Andrei Illarionov, President Putin's chief economic adviser from 2000 to 2005, says a total energy embargo would be \"very effective\".\n\nWhile the oil and gas trade has continued during the conflict, widespread sanctions mean that a lot of other economic activity has stopped, many foreign companies have pulled out and exports have been disrupted.\n\nOne recent survey by Russia's own central bank even forecasts the economy will shrink by 8% this year, while the International Institute of Finance says it could fall by as much as 15%.\n\nDr Illarionov suggested that President Putin was prepared to endure a hit to the economy that shows where his priorities lie.\n\n\"His territorial ambitions, his imperial ambitions, are much more important than anything else, including the livelihood of the Russian population and of the financial situation in the country... even the financial state of the his government,\" he said.\n\nPrices are rising for many food items in Russia as the country feels the impact of international sanctions.\n\nLast week, amid tensions with Europe over how gas would be paid for, President Putin said that \"key indicators\" of the health of the Russian economy include the \"creation of jobs, the reduction of poverty and inequality, the improvement of the quality of life of people, the availability of goods and services\".\n\nWorld Bank figures suggest that almost 20 million Russians live in poverty.\n\nPresident Putin has, in recent years, pledged to halve that number.\n\nNow Dr Illarionov said \"we'll see probably doubling the number of those people, maybe even tripling\" as the economy struggles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Moscow-based think tank, the Centre for Strategic Research, estimated two million jobs could be lost this year as the unemployment rate rises from a record low.\n\nThose concerns are shared by Vladimir Milov, who is a former Russian deputy energy minister, but is now part of Alexei Navalny's Russia of the Future opposition party.\n\n\"Many people are concerned about losing their jobs, I think it's just that the majority does not really realise the severity of the economic situation,\" he said.\n\nInflation, which has already risen to 15.7% because of the war, means people might stop spending money on things such as gyms and meals in restaurants and \"that's bad news for a lot of small businesses\", said Mr Milov.\n\nSome basic food items such as sugar, onions and cabbages have risen in price by more than 40% since the start of this year.\n\nMr Milov said any noticeable falls in living standards would help his party's cause as an opposition.\n\n\"We have been explaining to people all along [that] Putin's policy would lead Russia into a catastrophe, including a complete social and economic catastrophe, including [a] deterioration of living standards that we haven't seen in decades,\" he said.\n\n\"I have to say that comes at an extremely high price. We would prefer not to see what is happening today.\"\n\nHowever Mr Milov, who fled to Lithuania last year, thinks it will take time for falling living standards to translate to political change.\n\n\"Russia is a country with big inertia in society, and a lot of fear instigated by the authorities. Specifically people really are very much afraid of protesting because right now they can end up in jail for a long, long time for doing that\".\n\nHe added: \"But I would say [that within a] few months [of] real deep economic trouble, that we haven't seen in 30 years, it will change the mood of the society. More people will start to speak out loudly.\"\n\nDr Andrei Illarionov is seen here watching President Putin give a speech in 2004.\n\nPresident Putin's former adviser Dr Andrei Illarionov, who now lives in the United States, said a change of government is inevitable \"sooner or later\".\n\nHe said \"it is absolutely impossible to have any positive future for Russia, with the current political regime\".\n\nUnder President Putin, he suggested, \"there is no way that country might be integrated back into the international relations, in the world economy\".\n\nYou can watch Dr Andrei Illarionov and Vladimir Milov's interviews on Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst this weekend.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch the show on BBC iPlayer.\n\nIn other countries, it will be on BBC World News on Sunday at 16:30 GMT and Monday at 07:30 and 16:30 GMT.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has held talks in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nA No 10 spokesman has said that the prime minister was using the visit to set out a new package of financial and military aid for the country.\n\nDuring a press conference, where the Mr Johnson praised the bravery of Ukrainians, he also said: \"I have no doubt at all that an independent sovereign Ukraine will rise again.\"", "Charles Leclerc took a dominant victory in the Australian Grand Prix to move into a commanding position in the World Championship.\n\nThe Ferrari driver was in total control of the race when his main rival Max Verstappen retired with a technical failure on his Red Bull at two-thirds distance.\n\nVerstappen is 46 points - almost two clear wins - behind Leclerc after just three races of the season, in two of which the Red Bull has failed to finish.\n\nRed Bull's Sergio Perez was second after winning battles with Mercedes drivers George Russell and Lewis Hamilton.\n\nRemarkably, in the context of Mercedes' disappointing start to the season, Russell is second in the drivers' championship at this early stage and Mercedes second in the constructors' chase.\n• None Can 'controlled' Leclerc be caught by misfiring rivals?\n• None 'Crazy' to be second in championship - Russell\n\nLeclerc's win was his second of the season and by far the most imposing performance by any driver so far.\n\nRed Bull had hopes of taking the fight to Leclerc, as Verstappen did on his way to victory in the last race in Saudi Arabia, but they were in vain.\n\nLeclerc won pole position with the biggest margin of the season so far.\n\nHis team-mate Carlos Sainz caused an early safety car when he lost control of his car trying to make an overtaking move at Turn Nine after a bad start from a poor grid position. When racing resumed, Leclerc first eased away from Verstappen and then bolted into the distance as the Red Bull driver began to suffer from tyre problems.\n\nA second safety car, this time caused by a crash by Sebastian Vettel on a dire weekend for his Aston Martin team, gave Verstappen a second chance.\n\nLeclerc, who had not long before made his pit stop for fresh tyres, briefly struggled for grip on the restart and Verstappen challenged him into Turn One, but the Ferrari held him off and then proceeded to pull out another significant gap, moving clear at about half a second a lap, before the world champion ran into trouble.\n\nLeclerc was more than seven seconds in the lead - a margin built in 11 laps - when Verstappen complained he could \"smell some weird fluid\" and he was told to pull off the track.\n\nVerstappen's retirement will raise concerns at Red Bull, who have already made retaining the championship much harder than it might have been against a revived Ferrari this year.\n\nBoth cars retired from the first race of the season in Bahrain in the closing laps with fuel-system problems, denying Verstappen second place behind Leclerc.\n\nAnd now Verstappen has lost another major haul of points. Team boss Christian Horner said he thought the failure might be an \"external fuel leak\" but they needed to investigate the car to be sure.\n\n\"We can't accept DNFs,\" he said. \"We expected to be a lot closer to Ferrari in pace and they were untouchable today. We've obviously got some work to do.\n\n\"We need to understand exactly what has caused that failure.\"\n\nThere are still 20 races to go in the longest season in F1's history and Red Bull will be confident they can make up that ground, especially if they can out-develop Ferrari. But they have given a massive helping hand to a rival in Leclerc who is already looking formidable.\n\nMercedes have dropped back from the front of the field over the course of the three races so far - qualifying progressively further from the pace at each one.\n\nBut they raced well in the context of a difficult car.\n\nHamilton made a blistering start and leapt into third place ahead of Perez at the first corner and managed to hold off the Mexican for 10 laps before succumbing to the inevitable.\n\nThe seven-time champion was on course for his second podium of the season but was unlucky with the Vettel safety car.\n\nHamilton had made his pit stop just before the safety car was deployed, whereas Russell was able to benefit from stopping during it, which leapfrogged him ahead.\n\nHamilton closed up on Russell towards the end of the race, complaining slightly unfairly to the team that \"you have put me in a difficult position\" but the Mercedes finished in that order as Russell took his first racing podium after the one earned in qualifying for the race that never happened in Belgium last year.\n\nMercedes' focus now will be on finding a solution to the problems with their car that have left them a second off the pace at the start of F1's new era.\n\nHow did the rest fare?\n\nMcLaren drivers Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo converted their strongest grid positions of the season into fifth and sixth places at the flag, ahead of Alpine's Esteban Ocon, Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas and Alpha Tauri's Pierre Gasly.\n\nAnd Alex Albon, who started 20th and last, scored the final point for Williams after the team ran him right to the final lap before making his mandatory pit stop for a second set of tyres.\n\nFernando Alonso continued to have rotten luck. He had looked in contention for a place on the front two rows of the grid in qualifying before an oil seal failed and forced him to crash.\n\nThat put him 10th on the grid. He started on the hard tyre but was unlucky with the safety car, just passing the pit entry shortly before it was deployed.\n\nHe had to stay out and stop later, and was unable to recover when he ran into tyre problems on his inverted strategy and had to stop again for a third set.\n\nWho else? Leclerc was, as podium interviewer Mark Webber said, \"on another level\". He's always looked a potential champion, and while it is early days and Ferrari have a lot to prove, he is very much that right now.\n\nF1's return to Europe in two weeks' time comes at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, the closest track on the calendar to the Ferrari factory. Leclerc started this weekend saying he expected the race to suit them better than Australia. Can he send the tifosi into raptures with a home win?\n• None Jon Ronson and Louis Theroux take a deep dive into Culture Wars battles and chat about putting their old rivalries to bed\n• None From deadly chaos a mysterious figure emerges in the bewildering heart of contemporary Russia", "The blaze broke out at a terraced house in Coronation Crescent on Friday\n\nA man has been arrested after two children were critically injured in a house fire.\n\nA three-year-old girl and a boy, aged five, remained in hospital after a blaze in Coronation Crescent, Preston, at about 20:00 BST on Friday.\n\nTheir mother, thought to be in her 20s, is also in hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening, police said.\n\nA 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.\n\nA fourth person was also treated for injuries at the scene.\n\nLancashire Police said they attended after receiving \"reports of a fire with several people trapped inside the house\".\n\nPolice and the fire service were investigating the cause of the fire\n\nDet Ch Insp Graham Hill said: \"We are aware of rumours circulating online about an explosion having occurred and we would like to clarify that this is not the case.\"\n\nThe arrested man was from the town and he remains in custody.\n\nThe force said a joint investigation was under way with Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service to try to confirm the cause of the fire.\n\nOfficers have appealed for anyone with information to contact police.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Macron's big lead in the polls has shrunk as Sunday's vote has approached\n\nThe least a president might expect, when juggling a war in Europe with an election at home, is a bounce in the polls.\n\nBut Emmanuel Macron has discovered that all the energy he spent dealing with Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has been of little help in France's unpredictable vote.\n\n\"Nothing is impossible,\" President Macron has warned, as polls suggest his far-right rival is closer than ever before to winning the presidency.\n\nA month ago, Marine Le Pen was trailing President Macron by 10 points and fighting for a place in the second round against him.\n\nNow she's seen as the clear favourite to challenge him for the presidency after Sunday's first round. If she does make it through to the 24 April run-off, opinion polls suggest for the first time that a Le Pen victory is within the margin of error.\n\nAt a rally on Thursday night in Perpignan, Marine Le Pen told voters to \"take back control\"\n\nFor this, the National Rally leader can thank two men once seen as dangerous for her campaign: her far-right rival, Eric Zemmour, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, now an international pariah.\n\n\"I would say that [Zemmour's] campaign was destroyed by Ukraine,\" said Gilles Paris, an election specialist for French daily Le Monde.\n\n\"His pro-Russian attitude was a burden, while Marine Le Pen was smart enough to pivot to a more moderate point of view. She was ready to accept refugees [immediately], while it took two days for Zemmour to understand that these refugees were well accepted in France.\"\n\nMs Le Pen has since picked up a good part of Eric Zemmour's votes.\n\nPresident Macron lost most of his \"war bounce\" two weeks ago, and has also faced criticism from EU partner, Poland, for talking so regularly to Russia's president.\n\nHis frustration burst through when he was asked about it on the campaign trail this week, surrounded by crowds in the Brittany village of Spézet.\n\n\"I'm not the one who is sympathetic to Putin,\" he snapped. \"I'm not the one who looks for funding from Russia. That's other candidates.\"\n\nI take full responsibility for having spoken to the president of Russia, in the name of France... I was never naive, unlike others. I was never complicit, unlike others\n\nVladimir Putin publicly backed Marine Le Pen during the last presidential race here, and her National Rally party is currently repaying a loan from a Russian bank. But she has deflected discussion of the war in Ukraine by focusing on her core campaign topic: rising prices at home.\n\nAnd as the war has added to price pressures on petrol and basic goods, the Le Pen electoral strategy is continuing to pay off.\n\nMelina, a care assistant who came to watch President Macron's rally in Spézet this week, said the economic situation had changed her politics.\n\n\"There are a lot of French people here who work but are forced to sleep in their cars because they cannot afford an apartment and nobody helps them,\" she said. \"It's a disgrace. I used to vote for the left but I could very well vote on the right this time.\"\n\nCANDIDATES: Who's in the race to challenge Macron in France?\n\nHOW IT WORKS: A really simple guide\n\nAt a boulangerie down the road, Sophie was serving a long queue of lunch customers.\n\nShe voted for Macron five years ago, because she was \"scared\" to vote for Marine Le Pen. But she's not scared any more: Sophie is so sure Marine Le Pen will win, she has made bets with her customers on the outcome of the election.\n\n\"She has evolved,\" Sophie told me. \"She learns from her mistakes. She's more human, and we understand her when she talks.\"\n\nFrance's far-right leader has worked hard over the past five years to win votes like Sophie's, softening her rhetoric and presenting a more moderate, \"electable\" image.\n\nShe still promises strict limits on immigration, a \"French-first\" policy when it comes to housing, jobs and benefits, and a ban on the Muslim headscarf in public places. But she has also dropped her plan to leave the EU, and has emphasised her personal life as a single mother who breeds kittens.\n\nMarine Le Pen has gained from Eric Zemmour's decline in the opinion polls\n\nIt has helped win over some traditional right-wing voters who once saw her as too extreme, and her party tainted with the toxic attitudes of its past.\n\nBut here again, said Gilles Paris, it was Eric Zemmour's influence on French politics that has given her a boost: \"He was a kind of a 'useful fool' [for Marine Le Pen] because he was able to bulldoze the fence that separated the majority of the right from the far-right.\"\n\nAs a former journalist for a right-wing broadsheet, Eric Zemmour was acceptable to voters on the traditional right, despite policies that were often far to the right of Le Pen's.\n\nOnce traditional right-wing voters had backed him, the theory goes, it was easier for them to switch their support to Le Pen.\n\nMarine Le Pen has certainly gained from her far-right rival's demise. Less than two months ago, they were neck and neck; now polls put them 15 points apart.\n\nFor President Macron, that makes it all the more urgent to secure votes from the left as well as from the centre right. But five years on from his promise to combine both the centre left and centre right in a new kind of politics, many left-wing voters are disillusioned with a man they've nicknamed \"president of the rich\".\n\nWhile Marine Le Pen has stuck to her mantra of rising prices and help for the working poor, Emmanuel Macron has made waves with his promise to raise the retirement age to 65, and link teachers' pay to their efforts at work.\n\nHe is still tipped to win this election, and poll predictions have left Marine Le Pen disappointed on election day before. But Hervé Berville, an MP with the ruling Republic on the Move party, says there is genuine concern this time.\n\n\"Look at what happened in the last six years,\" he told me. \"Brexit, Trump - we're not trying to scare people, we're just trying to tell them the election matters, voting matters.\"\n\nFive years ago, it was Emmanuel Macron who defied expectations, and changed French politics. \"Nothing is impossible,\" says the 44-year-old president. He, more than anyone, should know.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nMerseyside Police are investigating an alleged assault after Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo appeared to break a fan's phone.\n\nFootage was shared on social media alongside comments claiming he smashed the device as he left the pitch after his side's 1-0 loss at Everton.\n\nMerseyside Police said they were investigating \"reports of an alleged assault\" at Goodison Park on Saturday.\n\nA spokesperson said they were liaising with both Manchester United and Everton.\n\n\"As players were leaving the pitch at 2.30pm, it was reported that a boy was assaulted by one of the away team as they left the pitch,\" they added.\n\n\"Inquiries are under way and officers are currently working with Everton to review CCTV footage and are carrying out extensive witness enquiries to establish if an offence has taken place.\n\n\"Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact Merseyside Police social media desk via Twitter MerPolCC or Facebook Merseyside Police contact centre quoting reference number 228 of 9 April 2022.\"\n\nManchester United said they were aware of \"an alleged incident\" and would \"co-operate with any police inquiries\".\n\nThe result damaged United's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League and came against an Everton side who had been one point above the relegation zone before kick-off.\n\n\"It's never easy to deal with emotions in difficult moments such as the one we are facing,\" said Portugal international Ronaldo.\n\n\"Nevertheless, we always have to be respectful, patient and set the example for all the youngsters who love the beautiful game.\n\n\"I would like to apologise for my outburst and, if possible, I would like to invite this supporter to watch a game at Old Trafford as a sign of fair play and sportsmanship.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "A police cordon remains in place on Above Bar Street as officers investigate a serious assault\n\nOne man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and two other people have been held after an assault in Southampton.\n\nA man in his 20s was found with serious injuries in Above Bar Street at about 04:00 BST on Sunday, police said.\n\nA 21-year-old man from the city has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nPolice also arrested a 17-year-old male from Winchester on suspicion of GBH with intent and a 19-year-old man.\n\nOfficers have not said why the 19-year-old was arrested, but Hampshire Constabulary confirmed he was from Fareham.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Ukraine's capital and met President Volodymyr Zelensky. They walked through Kyiv's streets together and met a passer-by.\n\nMr Johnson's last-minute visit to the capital was unannounced - the first sign he was there came with a tweet by the Ukrainian embassy in London showing a photo of him meeting President Zelensky. Downing Street said the PM travelled to Ukraine in an attempt to show solidarity with Ukrainian people.", "Police say a man was rescued from the water after getting into difficulty on a dive but died a short time later\n\nA man has died after an incident during an organised scuba dive near a beach in Fife.\n\nEmergency services were called to Kinghorn beach at 09:55 BST on Sunday after receiving reports of a man in difficulty in the water.\n\nA coastguard helicopter landed on the beach during the emergency operation.\n\nPolice Scotland said the dive had been taking place close to the beach. The man was rescued from the water but he died a short time later.\n\nA force spokesperson said: \"Enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the death are ongoing. A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Danielle has written a book that looks at dwarfism from the viewpoint of children\n\nA woman with dwarfism who faces frequent abuse on the street is visiting schools in a bid to stamp out prejudice.\n\nDanielle Webb, 23, said changing the minds of ignorant adults was difficult, so her focus was on educating children.\n\nDanielle, who is 3ft 11.5in (1.2m), said being called names and laughed at \"just becomes our norm\".\n\nEarlier this week, a documentary about a new drug developed to treat Danielle's condition aired on BBC One.\n\nVosoritide, which has been developed to treat children with the most common form of dwarfism achondroplasia, is already available in the US and the NHS has run trials for a potential roll out in the UK.\n\nEvery day, when Master of Arts student Danielle leaves her home in Newport to go to the University of South Wales or to work at youth arts organisation Urban Circle, she has to steel herself for the mockery, name-calling, stares and occasionally people trying to take photos that she has come to expect.\n\n\"Anyone with dwarfism will tell you the typical is just the stares and the laughs,\" said Danielle, who is originally from Portishead, Somerset.\n\n\"'Look at her, what's that all about?' Just like schoolground behaviour.\n\n\"I've been called names on the street, we've been in positions as a group where people have tried - not always successfully - to get a photo... where that goes afterwards is obviously completely out of our control.\"\n\nDanielle works with Newport's Urban Circle to support young people to discover their potential\n\nShe said she was able to brush it off \"nine times out of 10\", adding: \"There is always that one time where you're like 'I can't do this, this is ridiculous'.\n\n\"It is challenging on the bad days… [but] it just becomes our norm.\"\n\nOnce she has arrived at work or university it is a challenge not to let it get her down: \"You can't let it break you every single day.\"\n\nAs well as the abuse from strangers, she said she and others like her have to navigate a world built for people of average height.\n\nDaily challenges include supermarkets where trolley handles are too high and items are difficult to reach from shelves, as well as out-of-reach cash points, train ticket machines and sinks in public toilets.\n\n\"If I sit down and really think about everything I have to overcome in a day or a week, that can kind of scare you,\" she said.\n\nAll this fires her up to fight for change.\n\nLast year her book Mummy There's A New Girl was published and it is being developed for the stage by Thunk-It Theatre in York.\n\nIt tells the story of a girl who is picked on for her looks before a brave child looks past her differences and learns that size is no big deal.\n\nWith Wales now at Covid alert level zero she has begun visiting schools.\n\n\"Educating people about my condition has always seemed very daunting,\" said Danielle.\n\n\"Most of the time with adults, the ones that listen are the good ones anyway, they're not the ones that actually need educating.\n\n\"Instead of channelling my energy into trying to change opinions I need to be there when the opinions are formed.\"\n\nDanielle's parents are of average height and were told she had dwarfism four weeks before she was born\n\nFollowing a recent visit to Maindee Primary School in Newport, she believes her instincts were right.\n\n\"Half way in [the children] didn't really care that I was small, they were like 'yeah, OK, whatever', they were more excited that I was an author and I was someone new,\" she said.\n\n\"We did talk about dwarfism but it wasn't really needed because as far as they were concerned, I was just another adult.\"\n\nDanielle (pictured with a friend) says she is very comfortable in her own skin\n\nShe is convinced this is the way to end prejudice: \"I have no doubt that every child in that room will grow up accepting and understanding differences, because that's exactly the response that they showed me when I went in.\"\n\nShe said she believed some adults had discriminatory attitudes because \"their questions weren't answered and they weren't exposed to more visible disability when they were younger\".\n\nIn a recent documentary, five-time Paralympic champion swimmer Ellie Simmonds expressed concerns the drug vosoritide could potentially, \"eradicate dwarfism\" but spoke to others who saw its development as a helpful breakthrough.\n\nDanielle said: \"The people who choose to take it should be treated with exactly the same kindness as the people who don't choose to take it.\n\n\"Bad days aside, I'm very comfortable in my skin... I wouldn't have the life I do now if I didn't have dwarfism - but do I still understand why someone would chose to take it? Of course.\"\n\nShe said she wanted to see more of a focus on education, social awareness and making the world more accessible to people with dwarfism \"so if the injections come to the UK they aren't seen as the only solution\".\n\nDanielle said she knew many people with dwarfism who had achieved success in their professional, personal and academic lives.\n\n\"Yes, we live with the challenges out there, but that doesn't mean our quality of life is any different or our abilities in life are any different,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to educate the world it's actually something to be promoted and celebrated.\"", "There's a growing number of international volunteers joining Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines.\n\nThe UK government has warned people not to travel to the conflict; but the BBC's Emma Vardy has been speaking to those joining the conflict, including one former British Army soldier from Belfast.\n\nShe has had special access to Ukraine’s international legion of foreign fighters, which says it’s seeing large numbers of people wanting to join them, following the recent Russian attacks.", "Gareth Davies seen celebrating his 70th birthday with his grandchildren\n\nWrexham FC's celebrity owners have pledged to help a 72-year-old club legend watch their Wembley game.\n\nFormer captain Gareth Davies, 72, who made 612 league and cup appearances, has dementia and lives in a care home.\n\nFans set up a campaign to help his family get him to the Buildbase FA Trophy Final against Bromley in May.\n\nBut Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds tweeted to say that he and co-owner Rob McElhenney would \"make sure Gareth makes it to Wembley in comfort\".\n\nReynolds said the retired footballer had \"showed up\" for the club in the past \"and we'll show up for him\".\n\n\"We are pretty overwhelmed,\" said son-in-law Chris Braisdell.\n\n\"His battle with dementia is hard, but he always remembers the good old days.\"\n\nMr Braisdell said neither he nor wife, Kate, knew in advance that a campaign had been launched to help her father get to watch the match at the ground in London.\n\nHe said they were \"flabbergasted\" at Reynolds' response as well as the support from other supporters.\n\n\"We didn't expect quite a reaction from the fans,\" he said.\n\nRyan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney took control of the National League Club in 2021\n\nHe said the grandfather-of-two had committed his career to Wrexham so he believed the appeal showed people saw it as an \"opportunity to thank him for what he has done for the club\".\n\n\"It takes more of the burden off us, like looking after his care.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ci Sgoti This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWrexham Supporters' Trust previously said Mr Davies was \"our most successful skipper\", who led the club to the Third Division championship in 1978, and was part of their promotion winning side of 1969-70.\n\nIt said he also captained the club to the quarter finals of the FA Cup in 1974 and 1978; the quarter-finals of the European Cup-Winners' Cup in 1976; the quarter-finals of the Football League Cup in 1978; and was capped three times for Wales.", "Energy firm Ineos says it wants to build a fracking test site to show the process can be performed safely.\n\nThe company claimed extracting shale gas in the UK could make the country \"self-sufficient in 10 years\".\n\nThe firm has written to the government asking to develop a site, with its boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe saying such a move would \"reduce the cost of energy\" and ensure \"long-term energy independence\".\n\nThe offer comes after the government ordered a new report into fracking.\n\nLast week, it announced the UK's new energy strategy, which included plans to have more nuclear reactors, wind farms and solar energy production.\n\nHowever, the government's strategy made no mention of fracking, a method of extracting gas and oil from shale rock.\n\nFracking involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals at a rock layer in order to release the gas inside.\n\nThe technique was halted in the UK in 2019 amid opposition from green groups and concerns over earth tremors, but there have been calls to rethink the ban, given the recent rise in the cost of energy.\n\nSir Jim, the founder and chairman of Ineos, said that with the UK in the \"midst of an energy crisis\", it was a \"ridiculous situation with so much gas under our feet\".\n\nHe said extracting shale gas would allow \"the UK to benefit from its own resources, massively reduce the cost of energy and ensure our long-term energy independence\".\n\n\"We are today offering to drill a shale test site to show that a competent operator can be trusted to develop the technology safely,\" he added.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe is one of the UK's richest men\n\nIneos said while it was invested in what it called the \"growing renewables revolution\", the technology was not yet reliable enough to take over.\n\nThe company said the UK would need gas for three decades as it moves completely away from burning fossil fuels.\n\n\"Fracking has been safely used in the oil and gas industry for over 50 years. In the US, over one million wells have been safely used and have transformed the energy security of the country,\" Ineos said.\n\nThe UK met 48% of its gas demand from domestic supplies in 2020, and bought the rest on international markets, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has led to many countries, particularly European Union members who rely heavily on Russian gas and oil, considering where they get their supplies of energy from.\n\nIneos's call for a fracking test site comes after the boss of British Gas owner Centrica said the process could boost UK energy supplies and reduce bills.\n\nChris O'Shea said there needed to be an \"informed debate\" about it.\n\nSome senior Conservatives have also called for a rethink on fracking amid concerns over security of access and rising energy prices.\n\nHowever, environmental group Greenpeace has said there has been \"a decade of hype and bluster\" around shale gas.\n\nThe fracking site owned by Cuadrilla Resources in Lancashire had to halt activities in 2019 following concerns about small earth tremors\n\nPreviously, Greenpeace said that fracking would not improve energy security, because any gas extracted would belong to the gas firm doing the drilling, not to Britain, and it would be sold on international markets.\n\nMany environmental groups have said they are concerned about the potential for fracking to cause earthquakes.\n\nAt Cuadrilla's site in Lancashire, more than 120 small tremors were recorded while it was drilling.\n\nSir Jim said Ineos would invite government inspectors to monitor any potential test site.\n\n\"If at any stage the science shows there are problems, we will stop and make good the site,\" he said.\n\n\"But if, as we believe, the opposite is true, we would ask that the government looks again at shale gas which would allow the UK to benefit from its own resources, massively reduce the cost of energy and ensure our long-term energy independence.\"", "When Rishi Sunak pledged to do \"whatever it takes\" to help people through the pandemic in the spring of 2020 - and unveiled support worth £350bn - his personal poll ratings were stratospheric.\n\nHis net favourability was around +30 by some measures. It is now, according to pollsters Ipsos, -18.\n\nThe chancellor's confident, inclusive tone, redolent of Tony Blair in the 1990s, has sounded a little more shrill lately.\n\nUsually supportive newspapers panned his Spring Statement, with some Conservative critics saying he had not grasped the scale of the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nNow his wife's tax affairs - and his own political judgment - have been placed in the spotlight.\n\nYou might not blame him for uttering the words of Kenneth Williams's Julius Caesar in the film Carry on Cleo: \"Infamy. Infamy. They've all got it in for me.\"\n\nIndeed, he accused opponents of smearing his wife to get at him, and seems to believe he has endured an attempted character assassination.\n\nWhen Partygate dominated the headlines, he was seen as not just a potential replacement for Boris Johnson as prime minister, but the likely favourite.\n\nIt was always inevitable that his popularity would take a bit of a pasting when he started raising, rather than spending, cash, as pandemic restrictions receded.\n\nBut while the official line is that Labour dirty tricks are to blame for his current woes, his wife has broken no tax laws.\n\nRishi Sunak has become the focus of much discontent over the rise in the cost of living\n\nPrivately some of Mr Sunak's allies blame supporters of his next-door neighbour in Downing Street, who may himself face a tricky time when the police conclude their investigation into parties that happened on government premises during lockdown.\n\nNo 10 has dismissed these allegations as \"baseless\", so what do some of Mr Sunak's Conservative colleagues think of his prospects now?\n\nOne very senior figure not generally seen as unsympathetic to the chancellor wondered: \"Where is his political brain?\"\n\nAnd while one former cabinet minister said he had \"mild sympathy\" for Mr Sunak, as he had been subjected to a \"nasty ad hominem\" attack, he added that every leadership candidate, declared or otherwise, should expect this.\n\nHe was naive if he thought families were \"off-limits for attacks\".\n\nHis view was that the tax row could be as toxic for the chancellor as partygate had been for Mr Johnson.\n\nIt was all about a disconnect with ordinary voters. They could not hold a children's birthday party during lockdown, but boozy get-togethers were apparently held at the heart of government.\n\nRishi Sunak has accused political rivals of smearing his wife, Akshata Murty\n\nSimilarly, their taxes were being put up by the chancellor, while his wife did not pay UK tax on some of her own earnings\n\nAnd this question of judgement was a recurrent theme among some of his colleagues.\n\nWhy did the chancellor tell officials of his wife's tax status if he did not think it was a potentially tricky issue? Should he not have realised that not everything which is legal is politically sensible?\n\nWho had he allowed himself to fall in to the \"one-rule-for-us, one-rule-for-everyone-else\" trap?\n\nSome felt that, once Mr Sunak was associated with this impression, it would be difficult to turn it around.\n\nThe chancellor was seen by colleagues as having a carefully curated image, But the feeling was that his extended honeymoon with voters was turning in to a far more difficult relationship.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has held talks in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nNo 10 said the visit was a \"show of solidarity\" with the Ukrainian people.\n\nFollowing the meeting, Downing Street said the UK would send 120 armoured vehicles and anti-ship missile systems to support Ukraine.\n\nSenior officials in Mr Zelensky's team praised the UK for support during its conflict with Russia.\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Kyiv was not announced in advance and the first indication he was in the city came when a photograph of his meeting with President Zelensky was put on Twitter by the Ukrainian embassy in London.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"The prime minister has travelled to Ukraine to meet President Zelensky in person, in a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people.\"\n\nThe two leaders walked through central Kyiv after their talks\n\nIn a statement after the meeting, Mr Johnson paid tribute to \"President Zelensky's resolute leadership and the invincible heroism and courage of the Ukrainian people\", saying: \"Ukraine has defied the odds and pushed back Russian forces from the gates of Kyiv\".\n\nHe said: \"I made clear today that the United Kingdom stands unwaveringly with them in this ongoing fight, and we are in it for the long run.\n\n\"We are stepping up our own military and economic support and convening a global alliance to bring this tragedy to an end, and ensure Ukraine survives and thrives as a free and sovereign nation.\"\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed further economic support, taking total UK loan guarantees to £770m.\n\nSpeaking in a video address alongside President Zelensky a short while later, Mr Johnson said Ukrainians \"have shown the courage of a lion but you, Volodymyr, have given the roar of that lion\".\n\nHe reiterated that the UK and other countries supporting Ukraine would continue to tighten economic sanctions on Moscow, including moving away from the use of Russian hydrocarbons.\n\nThe PM added: \"Over the last few hours I've been able to see quite a lot of your beautiful country and it's an amazing country. I've also seen the tragic effects of the war, an inexcusable war, an absolutely inexcusable and unnecessary war.\"\n\nMr Zelensky welcomed the UK's \"decisive and significant support\" for his country and urged other Western allies to intensify the pressure on Moscow.\n\n\"We have to exert pressure in the form of sanctions. It is time to impose a complete embargo on Russian energy resources. They should increase the amount of weapons being supplied,\" he said.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Andriy Sybiha, deputy head of the Ukrainian president's office, said: \"The UK is the leader in defence support for Ukraine. The leader in the anti-war coalition. The leader in sanctions against the Russian aggressor.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell both made visits to Ukraine for talks with President Zelensky on Friday, and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer met him in Kyiv on Saturday.\n\nBut Mr Johnson is the first member of a G7 country to travel to the Ukrainian capital for talks during the conflict.\n\nMr Zelensky has called on the international community to hold to account Russian forces who carried out the missile strike on Kramatorsk station, which was packed with women and children trying to flee the area.\n\nThe Kremlin has denied responsibility for the attack.\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Kyiv came the day after the UK announced £100m of weapons for the country.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference on Friday, Mr Johnson said the UK will send additional military equipment including Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles and 800 anti-tank missiles.\n\nIt followed an appeal from Ukraine for more arms as it prepares for an expected Russian offensive in the east of the country, after Moscow pulled back its forces from around Kyiv.", "Henry Patterson, the best-selling author of The Eagle has Landed, has died aged 92, his publisher has said.\n\nPatterson, who began writing when he was a teacher, penned 85 novels between 1959 and 2017.\n\nHarperCollins said Patterson died at his Jersey home surrounded by family.\n\nThe Eagle has Landed, about a Nazi plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill in World War Two, written under the pseudonym Jack Higgins, sold more than 50 million copies and became a film.\n\nPatterson sold more than 250 million books over his career, with his other works including Comes the Dark Stranger, Hell is Too Crowded and To Catch a King.\n\nSir Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland in a scene from the film The Eagle has Landed\n\nPatterson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and grew up in Belfast before moving to Leeds.\n\nHe wrote novels in his spare time after becoming a teacher and received a £75 advance for his first novel, Sad Wind from the Sea, in 1959.\n\nHis final book, The Midnight Bell, was published in 2017 and was a Sunday Times bestseller.\n\nHarperCollins said that by the time his last novel came out, they referred to him simply as \"the legend\".\n\nHarperCollins chief executive Charlie Redmayne described Patterson as a \"classic thriller writer: instinctive, tough, relentless\", adding his novels \"were, and remain, absolutely unputdownable\".\n\nJonathan Lloyd, Patterson's literary agent, also paid tribute, saying: \"I had the privilege of being at Collins Publishers when we received the manuscript of The Eagle has Landed.\n\n\"We all knew, with a rare certainty, that we would be publishing an instant classic.\"\n\nPatterson is survived by four children from his first marriage - Sarah, Ruth, Sean, and Hannah - as well as his wife, Denise.", "The child of Jewish Algerian immigrants, Zemmour has long drawn attention for his controversial views\n\nThere were still 100 people queuing outside the auditorium when they closed the doors. Not bad for a man who hasn't officially declared his candidacy yet.\n\nEric Zemmour is shaking up France's presidential race before it's even begun.\n\nAnd his rally in the small southern town of Béziers made an unsettling image for France's far-right leader, Marine Le Pen. Polls suggest he's on track to challenge her for leadership of the nationalist hard-right in France.\n\nThe child of Jewish Algerian immigrants, Zemmour has long drawn attention for his controversial views - claiming, for example, that French Jews were protected by the state during World War Two. In fact, France's wartime Vichy regime sent thousands of French Jews as well as Jewish refugees to the Nazi death camps.\n\nNow, he says, France is being \"submerged\" by migrants, and parents should be forced to give their children \"French names\".\n\nHis speech in Béziers targeted France's education system - \"infiltrated by Marxism, anti-racism, and LGBT ideologies\", in his view.\n\nAs for the French media, he dismissed them as \"a propaganda machine that hates France\".\n\n\"Paid with your taxes, they constantly spit on you,\" he said. \"They spit on French history and culture, and they spit on the French people, whom they want to see disappear.\"\n\nIf the language was violent, it wasn't unexpected. Many in the audience here knew him from his role as an outspoken TV presenter and commentator for the French right-wing channel C-News.\n\nSitting in the front row was Christian, who had driven from a nearby town with his family. He told me they'd never been to a political meeting before, and didn't belong to any political party.\n\nBut they liked Eric Zemmour.\n\n\"He tells it like it is,\" Christian explained. \"He's more down-to-earth [than other politicians]. It's great he's shaking up the French presidential elections. I think he's a bit like Boris Johnson.\"\n\nAfter the rally, I asked Mr Zemmour how he would do French-UK relations differently if he were president of France.\n\n\"I respect the British,\" he said. \"They're a great people, who deserve respect. I think the European Commission in Brussels doesn't respect them. They never forgave them for Brexit.\"\n\nMarine Le Pen is now battling to keep far-right voters\n\nBéziers has been home turf for Marine Le Pen. She did very well here in the last presidential race, but as Eric Zemmour has risen in the polls, she has dipped. One recent survey even had him beating her to a run-off with President Macron.\n\nAfter years \"de-toxifying\" her party, in order to woo a broader range of voters, Le Pen is now facing a challenge from the right as well.\n\nBut it's not only Le Pen supporters who are here in Béziers tonight.\n\nGérard told me he'd never voted for Marine Le Pen.\n\n\"I was very interested in Macron,\" he said. \"But he's not doing enough on security. Zemmour appeals to me now - I find it a bit bizarre!\"\n\nPresident Macron faces strong opposition on both right and left\n\nPresident Macron has lost support on the left over the past five years, as he's responded to growing concerns about security and immigration, and tried hard to win over the centre-right.\n\nThe mayor of Béziers, Robert Ménard, is politically close to Marine Le Pen - and is friends with both her and Zemmour.\n\nMr Ménard told me he was pressing them to join forces, to take on Emmanuel Macron.\n\n\"I explained to Eric: 'You can't win without Marine Le Pen - it's impossible'. And I told Marine: 'You can't win without Eric,'\" he said. \"Divisions must not lead our camp to defeat. For once, we could win.\"\n\nDespite all the attention surrounding Zemmour's rapid rise, no poll has yet suggested that either he or Marine Le Pen would beat President Macron in a run-off vote for the presidency. Marine Le Pen had a disappointing result in regional elections earlier this year.\n\nNevertheless, French politics has shifted to the right in recent years. And politicians from Macron to Le Pen are intent on carving up the pie.\n\nFrance's mainstream right-wing party, Les Républicains, have yet to decide on a candidate - a sign of just how divided the right here has become.\n\nThe last presidential election redrew the political map, excluding both mainstream parties from the run-off.\n\nIt all but destroyed the Socialists; many in Les Républicains fear that, if they're not careful, this time it could be them.\n\nIn the meantime, it's Zemmour - not Macron or Le Pen - who's dominating coverage here.\n\nIt's early days, and the official campaign is still months away, but the race for the future of France has already begun.", "\"Peek a Boop\" was broken of its pedestal at Victoria Park in Cardiff\n\nFour Snoopy sculptures forming part of a trail have had to be withdrawn after just two days because they were smashed by vandals, the organisers have said.\n\nThe sculptures had been placed at landmarks around south Wales on Friday, as part of an exhibition to raise awareness and funds for the Dogs Trust.\n\nIt was \"devastating\" for the creators and sponsors, the organisers said.\n\nBut they added they hoped to repair the broken sculptures and called on the public to protect those that remain.\n\nThe display, entitled A Dog's Trail, includes 40 large and 75 miniature sculptures of Snoopy - a beagle from the cartoon Peanuts - in Cardiff, Caerphilly and Porthcawl.\n\nThey were placed at key locations, each containing information on their pedestal about the artist and efforts by the Dogs Trust to open a new rehoming centre in Cardiff.\n\nThe exhibition was scheduled to run until 5 June, when each Snoopy sculpture was to be auctioned off as part of a fundraiser.\n\n\"The trail's aim is to raise pounds for hounds so that we can continue to improve dog welfare in Wales,\" said the charity's Owen Sharp in a statement before the exhibition's opening.\n\n\"Welsh Wildflowers\" in front of Caerphilly Castle was badly cracked\n\nA Dog's Trail said the vandalism was particularly \"sad news\" for the events company commissioned to create the artworks - Wild in Art.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, they said: \"We're sorry to bring you such sad news so early on in the trail but unfortunately we have had to remove four of our Snoopy sculptures from the trail due to vandalism.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We're hopeful we can repair the sculptures and have them rejoin the pack, but we are urging the public to look after our Snoopy sculptures, take pride in the artwork and not climb or hang on them, to keep them looking their best.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Queen describes how she felt after contracting Covid\n\nThe Queen has revealed Covid left her \"very tired and exhausted\" after she caught the virus earlier this year.\n\nThe monarch, 95, was taking part in a virtual hospital visit when she described her experience to a former virus patient, whose father and brother had died with the illness.\n\nThe call to the Royal London Hospital last week marked the official opening of its Queen Elizabeth Unit.\n\nBuckingham Palace said in February that the monarch had coronavirus.\n\nShe was said to be suffering \"mild cold-like symptoms\" at the time.\n\nDuring her video call to the hospital, the Queen said: \"It [Covid] does leave one very tired and exhausted, doesn't it?\"\n\nSpeaking to former Covid patient Asef Hussain and his wife Shamina, she added: \"This horrible pandemic. It's not a nice result.\"\n\nMr Hussain was the third member of his family to be admitted to hospital with the virus in December 2020. While he was there, his brother and father died.\n\nAfter spending seven weeks on a ventilator, he is still recovering and uses a portable oxygen machine.\n\nMrs Hussain told the Queen that at one point 500 friends and family from across the world were on a Zoom call praying for her husband. The monarch asked the couple: \"So you have a large family, or a large influence on people?\"\n\nAnd referring to the restrictions on people visiting loved ones being treated in hospital at the time, the Queen - patron of the hospital - said: \"Of course not being able to see your relative was very hard.\"\n\nFormer Covid patient Asef Hussain and his wife Shamina chat to the Queen during the video call\n\nThe Queen heard how hospital staff coped with the huge influx of Covid patients.\n\nMireia Lopez Rey Ferrer, a senior sister who has worked at the hospital in Whitechapel, east London, since 2008, told the Queen: \"As nurses, we made sure that they were not alone.\n\n\"We held their hands, we wiped their tears and we provided comfort. It felt at times that we were running a marathon with no finish line.\"\n\nShe added: \"I look back to the last 18 months with great pride, pride not only in the care we provided to each and every single patient that was in one of our hospital beds, but pride in each member of staff that every day left their families at home despite their fears and worries and they came to work.\"\n\nSenior sister Mireia Lopez Rey Ferrer (centre) said she is proud of the care the staff provided\n\nAbout 800 people from across north-east London have so far been treated at the 155-bed Queen Elizabeth Unit. It was built in five weeks to meet the demand for Covid patients, instead of the normal time period of five months.\n\nAt the end of the call, the Queen spoke to the construction team who created the unit, which is on two floors of the hospital.\n\nShe told them: \"It is very interesting, isn't it, when there is some very vital thing, how everybody works together and pulls together - marvellous isn't it?\"\n\nWhen the team hailed the \"Dunkirk spirit\" that inspired them, the monarch replied: \"Thank goodness it still exists.\"", "More than 4 million Ukrainian refugees have left the war-torn country since it was invaded by Russia.\n\nA group of young musicians from Kharkiv and Odesa have found safety in Denmark, after receiving help from a local music school. They’ll now be able to continue to study and play music.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The BBC's Yogita Limaye at Chernobyl nuclear power plant, now back under Ukraine's control\n\nThe former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine was taken over by Russian forces on the first day of the invasion. It's now back under Ukraine's control. The BBC's Yogita Limaye is among the first journalists to look inside it since the Russians left.\n\nOn the afternoon of 24 February, Russian forces surrounded Chernobyl with tanks and armoured vehicles, entering Ukraine from the Belarusian border, just about 16km (10 miles) away.\n\nAbout 170 Ukrainian national guards who secured the plant were taken to the basement and held captive there. Then Russian soldiers searched the premises for weapons and explosives.\n\nEngineers, supervisors and other technical staff were allowed to continue working. In the next two days, teams from Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom were brought in.\n\nChernobyl's staff were keen to keep control of the plant's maintenance. It's not a working power station, but radioactive waste is stored at the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster. Billions of dollars have been spent since the accident in 1986 to clean up and contain further contamination. If conditions at the site are not monitored properly, there is a major risk of the release of nuclear material.\n\n\"They wanted to know how the facility was managed. They wanted information about all the procedures, documents and operations. I was scared because the questioning was constant, and sometimes forceful,\" said Oleksandr Lobada, a radiation safety supervisor at the station.\n\nEngineer Valeriy Semonov, who works at Chernobyl's former nuclear plant, said he scrambled to find fuel to keep the generator running\n\nOn the top floor of the main building of the power station are key rooms from where the site is controlled, located on both sides of a long, narrow passage. Some of the rooms were locked. When the Russians didn't find the keys, they broke into the rooms, cutting out the portion of the door in which the lock was embedded.\n\n\"We had to constantly negotiate with them, and try hard not to offend them, so that they allowed our personnel to manage the facility,\" said engineer Valeriy Semonov.\n\nWhen the power to the station was cut off for three days, Valeriy said he scrambled to find fuel to keep the generator running, even resorting to stealing some from the Russians.\n\n\"If we had lost power, it could have been catastrophic,\" Oleksandr explained. \"Radioactive material could have been released. The scale of it, you can well imagine. I wasn't scared for my life. I was scared about what would happen if I wasn't there monitoring the plant. I was scared it would be a tragedy for humanity.\"\n\nThe area behind the plant called the \"Red Forest\" is one of the most radioactive places on earth. Drone footage released by the Ukrainian military shows that Russian soldiers dug trenches and even stayed there. This was also confirmed to the BBC by officials at the station.\n\nIt's evidence of how little the soldiers knew about nuclear safety.\n\nEnergoatom, Ukraine's state-run nuclear power agency, has said Russian soldiers were exposed to \"significant doses\" of radiation.\n\nA dosimetrist measures the level of radiation around trenches dug by the Russian military in the Red Forest\n\nJust outside the sarcophagus which protects the damaged nuclear reactor, Russian soldiers piled up sandbags behind which they could hide if attacked. Valeriy scoffed at this, saying the Ukrainian military wouldn't dream of firing at a nuclear reactor.\n\nDown in the basement of the main building, are dormitory style rooms which have been completely ransacked. The floor is littered with rugs, mattresses, clothes, shoes and other personal belongings of the Ukrainian national guard who were held there. Officials at Chernobyl say Russian soldiers looted what they could when they left, and they also took the captive members of the national guard with them.\n\nThese rooms, where members of the Ukrainian national guard were held captive, are littered with rugs, mattresses, clothes, shoes and other personal belongings\n\n\"We were able to keep the site safe. But it's upsetting that they took 169 of our military,\" said Valeriy.\n\nIt's not confirmed where the men are being held, but Chernobyl's staff believe they are in Russia.\n\nPetro Poroshenko, Ukraine's former president, visited Chernobyl on Friday with food and other supplies for the plant's personnel. Access to it has only just opened up through an off-road track. The bridge to Chernobyl was blown up to stop Russia's advance.\n\nPetro Poroshenko, (left), Ukraine's former president, visited the site soon after access opened up again\n\nPresident Poroshenko has a warning for the world.\n\n\"Are we sure that tomorrow Russian troops cannot appear here? My answer would be no. Putin is completely unpredictable. And nuclear smoke is not limited by borders. It can reach Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and even Great Britain. The danger of nuclear contamination of Europe is very high, while Russia continues this war.\"", "Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called on those who did not vote for Emmanuel Macron to back her in the second round of votes in the French presidential election.\n\nFrench projections suggest Mr Macron will face a run off against Ms Le Pen in the next round of votes.\n\nAccording to national broadcaster France Télévisions, Macron received 28.4% of the vote while Le Pen came second with 23.4%.", "Accounts of atrocities committed by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians are emerging daily. There are calls for President Putin and others to be prosecuted for war crimes - but how likely is that to happen? Given its past record, and failure to stop this war which has seen more than 11 million people flee their homes, the BBC's Fergal Keane considers whether the international community will be able to unite.\n\nEven when the spring sunlight fills the little park, it remains an unsettling place. The Jewish world commemorated at Arsenalna Square in central Lviv was destroyed by genocide. The people who worshipped at the Golden Rose synagogue were either exiled or killed. There is no escape from history here. It is present in the memorial stones for the dead and in the void left by a murdered generation.\n\nIn western Ukraine's biggest city, the past collides with the present in other ways too. You can hear it in the rattle of today's refugee suitcases being pulled across the same cobblestoned streets where, in the high summer of 1941, the Germans and their Ukrainian collaborators chased Jews to their deaths. The photos of those days are some of the most terrible of the Holocaust - women being stripped and beaten before jeering mobs, eyes wide in horror, mouths frozen in mid-scream.\n\nWe are not in the middle of a new world war, or a Holocaust, but the lessons for the world of that terrible conflict - and the promises made in its aftermath - have a relevance we cannot ignore today.\n\nIt was a reality framed in scathing terms by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he addressed the Security Council of the United Nations this week. He reminded his audience that the UN had been established in 1945 to guarantee peace after the horrors of World War Two.\n\nRussia was turning 'the right of veto in the UN Security Council into a right to kill' - President Volodymyr Zelensky told the council on 4 April\n\nListing allegations of war crimes by Russian troops in Ukraine - summary killings, torture, rape - he called for the council to order a war crimes investigation.\n\n\"Are you ready to close the UN?\" he asked. \"Do you think that the time of international law is gone? If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately.\"\n\nThe threat to the peace of Europe is greater now than at any time since the end of the Cold War in 1989. For nearly a month, I watched families flee westward from Lviv in trains, cars and buses as Russia waged war on their homeland. I listened to survivors from the besieged port of Mariupol talk of a hell on earth with bodies lying in the streets and the cityscape they knew, of shops, restaurants, the Hurov Park with its spectacular fountains, reduced to rubble.\n\nLess than a year ago, I walked through the Hurov with Lyubov Vasilievna and Dominic, her two-year-old grandson. I have known Lyubov for eight years, since the day she was wounded and two other grandchildren - Nikita, 10, and Karolina, six - were killed at the war's beginning in 2014 after Russian-backed forces staged a rebellion in eastern Ukraine against the Kyiv government.\n\nThe three of them had been out walking when a shell exploded. In hospital, Lyubov told me she blamed herself for their deaths. \"I don't know how I am going to survive this. The images of them are always in front of my eyes,\" she said.\n\nSo, it was heartening to meet her again last year, in a time of relative peace, with a new grandchild. \"I am smiling because I live for him now,\" she told me. \"I have someone to take care of. He brings me joy.\"\n\nNow, as Mariupol is being destroyed, I do not know what has happened to Lyubov and Dominic. I have called and called, but her phone no longer rings.\n\nA bird's eye view of dozens of destroyed homes in Mariupol\n\nEvery day at Lviv railway station I watched for their faces in the crowds of refugees, but there was no sign. Lyubov and Dominic, and the dead Nikita and Karolina, are among many millions failed by history's greatest broken promise. It was made in the aftermath of World War Two and is firmly rooted in the story of Lviv.\n\nIn the far western corner of Ukraine, Lviv is a city to remind us of the worst of mankind, but also of what can be done to protect us from the consequences of aggression.\n\nWalk five minutes west from the ruins of the synagogue and you reach a squat two-storey building that was the cradle of the world's most important human rights legislation - the very principles under which President Putin and his armies might yet face judgement.\n\nThe law faculty of the University of Lviv was the alma mater of Raphael Lemkin who invented the word genocide to describe the attempt to exterminate \"in whole or in part\" a national, religious or racial group. Aghast at the Nazi Holocaust Lemkin coined the term in 1944 and, four years later, succeeded in having the UN define genocide as a crime under international law.\n\nHis fellow alumnus, Hersch Lauterpacht, was instrumental in bringing about the legal concept of crimes against humanity which was first used to prosecute Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg trials in 1945-46.\n\nBoth men were Jewish and studied in Lviv in the early decades of the 20th Century. Lviv was called Lemberg then and was a city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, home to a cosmopolitan mix of Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and other nationalities from across the empire.\n\nWorld War One destroyed Austria-Hungary and ushered in an age of instability as Poles, Ukrainians, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany fought for control of the city. The majority of the remaining Jewish population was wiped out in the Holocaust, among them the relatives of Lemkin and Lauterpacht.\n\nLviv's Jewish ghetto, created by the Nazis, during WW2 - when nearly all the city's Jews were murdered\n\nAt the end of World War Two, Lviv came under the rule of the Soviet Union, where it remained until the fall of communism and the creation of an independent Ukraine in 1991.\n\nAlthough they differed in important respects - Lemkin argued in favour of group protections, Lauterpacht focused on individual rights - their legacies were enshrined in the 1945 UN Charter, which promised to \"save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which, twice in our lifetimes, has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person…\"\n\nNow, Lviv finds itself once more at the centre of a great historical trauma.\n\nI think of that phrase - \"the dignity and worth of the human person\" - after watching people fight to board trains in the early days of the evacuation of Ukraine. I remember it when I see the images of executed civilians in Bucha, and I wonder what has happened to the dream of the lawyers from Lviv?\n\nWe are living in an age where millions are displaced by war. I have seen them jumping from smugglers' boats into the shallows on a Greek beach, shouting with joy that \"God is Great\". In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Yemen, I have heard civilian victims describe cruel military campaigns.\n\nAccording to the most recent UN statistics - gathered before the Russian invasion of Ukraine - 84 million people are now forcibly displaced worldwide. The figures reflect an international order in crisis with the UN unable to prevent the murder and abuse of civilians in many regions of the world.\n\nTo understand how we have come to this point it is necessary to go back a little to one of the most terrible crimes of our modern era.\n\nIt all happened in Rwanda - genocide, crimes against humanity and mass rape as a weapon of war. In late spring of 1994, I was sent to the small, central African country that had become a vast open-air cemetery. The dead flowed down rivers. They lay piled up in churches. The smell of decomposing bodies hung over abandoned villages.\n\nIn the space of 100 days, up to 800,000 people are estimated to have been murdered in the Rwandan genocide. It also sparked one of the worst refugee crises in living memory.\n\nRwanda happened because a hate-filled elite decided that the solution to the country's problems was to exterminate the Tutsi ethnic minority.\n\nTwo weeks into the genocide, with tens of thousands already slaughtered, the UN Security Council voted to reduce the peacekeeping force from over 2,000 members to 270. This came after 10 Belgian peacekeepers were attacked and killed by the Rwandan army. The great powers abandoned Rwanda to its fate.\n\nRefugees at a border crossing between Rwanda and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo)\n\nSkulls of genocide victims lined up outside a chapel in Rwanda, November 1994\n\nUnlike Ukraine now, Rwanda was a country with little geo-political importance. The US and other powers on the Security Council refused until it was too late to use the word coined by the Lviv lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, because describing the slaughter as \"genocide\" might have created a responsibility to intervene and protect the victims under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention.\n\nI cannot ever forget the sight of Tutsi refugees huddled a few yards from me outside a municipal office in Butare - a city in southern Rwanda - surrounded by extremist militia and soldiers, and wondering if they would live or die. Many were ultimately slaughtered.\n\nIn July 1995, one year after the Rwandan genocide ended, Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic murdered 8,000 Muslim men and boys when they overran the town of Srebrenica. It happened under the eyes of Dutch UN peacekeepers.\n\nA UN camp provided shelter for people who had fled\n\nThe two genocides of the 1990s - in central Africa and the former Yugoslavia - showed what happened when the Security Council was challenged to live up to words of the UN charter. The promise of 1945 was frustrated by lack of political will and division.\n\nBut those terrible years of the 1990s would come to have a profound effect on international law. If there was a failure to prevent genocide it could at least be punished. Tribunals were set up to try the accused of Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. There were also courts to try those accused of responsibility for mass killings in Cambodia and Sierra Leone.\n\nThere were UN military operations to stop the killing of civilians in Sierra Leone and Nato forces intervened to end the expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Although, the latter provoked an ominous confrontation with Russia, an ally of Serbia and already wary of Nato encroachment to the east.\n\nThe world moved to establish a permanent court to try cases of genocide and crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court - the ICC - was set up in 1998 to try the most serious cases of human rights abuses. It is not part of the UN but was created by UN members and works closely with the organisation.\n\nIn 2009, in a landmark moment, President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, became the first sitting head of state to be indicted for genocide by the ICC, for the killing of civilians in Darfur.\n\nJust as at the end of WW2, the idea was that prosecutions might not only provide accountability but would make future war leaders think twice before abusing the rights of civilians.\n\nBut there was a problem from day one, and it is one that shadows the current debate about war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nNeither the US, China or Russia ratified the Rome Statute - the treaty that established the court. This means the three biggest military powers are not subject to ICC jurisdiction.\n\nThe only way they could be is if the Security Council votes to refer them. But as each nation has a veto, that is never going to happen. It means the ICC would be powerless if it wanted to indict President Putin and his senior generals for the crime of waging an aggressive war against Ukraine. Aggression was described by the Nuremberg tribunal after WW2 as \"the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole\".\n\nIt is worth remembering what happened when the court tried to investigate alleged war crimes by all the parties in Afghanistan. The Trump administration went as far as placing sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the ICC to signal its opposition to any judicial pursuit of US forces.\n\nAnd - in China's autonomous region of Xinjiang - an attempt to investigate Chinese officials for the alleged genocide against the Uyghurs failed because China was not an ICC member.\n\nA lopsided international order - one rule for the weak, one rule for the strong - is ultimately not a sustainable legal order\n\nThe war crimes lawyer, Prof Philippe Sands QC, believes the attitude of the superpowers creates \"lopsided justice\" where the only prosecutions are those involving less powerful nations.\n\n\"One rule for the weak, one rule for the strong - is ultimately not a sustainable legal order or even really a legal order,\" he says.\n\nProf Sands' grandfather came from Lviv, and his great-grandmother was murdered by the Nazis. He is among those looking at the possibility of setting up a special international tribunal to indict the Russian president and his commanders.\n\nBut the legal framework is not the only issue that hangs over the current debate about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even some supporters of prosecuting President Putin acknowledge a charge of double standards against the US and the UK.\n\nProf Sands points out that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by a US-led coalition polarised world opinion. The then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan would later call the invasion illegal. \"You reap what you sow - and what you sow includes your own double standards,\" he says.\n\nThe British and American governments insisted the invasion was legal.\n\nBut President Putin used the Iraq example as a rhetorical stick to beat the US and UK when he announced his decision to attack Ukraine, declaring that there was a \"special place\" for the invasion of Iraq - which had been carried out \"without any legal grounds\".\n\nIn reality, there has never been a golden age of post-war peace guided by international diplomacy. The big powers have not fought an apocalyptic nuclear war but millions have died in wars big and small - in Korea, Algeria, Congo, Cambodia, Vietnam, Algeria, Indonesia, Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and many other battlegrounds. Some of those wars have been - at least partly - proxy conflicts between superpowers. More than 4,000 UN peacekeepers have lost their lives in different conflict zones trying to protect civilians and act as a buffer between warring parties.\n\nUS soldiers in a burning village during the Vietnam War, circa 1965\n\nRather than being a place where the great powers consistently work for peace, the Security Council, too often, became a forum of superpower rivalry. Ukraine is just the latest dangerous example.\n\nOn 26 February, two days after the Russian invasion began, the Security Council met to discuss a resolution calling on Moscow to stop its attack and withdraw all troops. Russia vetoed that move for peace.\n\nIn a singularly ominous moment, President Putin implicitly threatened to use nuclear weapons to deter any intervention by Nato. Whether he intends to deploy nukes or not, the simple issuing of such a threat reflects the perilous state of human affairs in the 21st Century.\n\nThe current UN Secretary General, António Guterres, sounded almost forlorn when he declared: \"We must never give up. We must give peace another chance.\" But even some of those critical of the Security Council, argue that this can also be a moment of possibility - if, for example, a special tribunal can be set up to investigate a superpower like Russia for its actions.\n\n\"I am partly fearful but also partly optimistic,\" says Prof Sands. \"This period could destroy the [legal] order created by the 1945 moment [the defeat of Nazism] or it might develop and strengthen it. I am inclined to the latter view. It's a long game. Two steps forward and one back, then another forward. We just have to stick to a principled approach.\"\n\nIn mid-1945, delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco to agree the UN Charter - and it was where Sir Anthony Eden, who led the British delegation, learned of the death of Adolf Hitler\n\nThere have also been important signs of change at the UN in recent days. The General Assembly - the body made up of all 193 UN members - condemned the invasion and voted to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. China voted against the move and India abstained - between them they represent a third of the world's population. And while the decision doesn't affect what the Security Council does or does not do, the moral signal from more than two thirds of UN members was clear.\n\nOne former UN official with experience of genocide and war crimes told me that it was a mistake to see the present world order solely through the lens of big power politics. Prof Mukesh Kapila of the University of Manchester is a former UN representative in Sudan and was instrumental in the campaign to have the killings in Darfur recognised as genocide.\n\n\"In the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil, there is a lot of activity. It is not all going on the side of the bad guys,\" he says. He points to the case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice - a UN court established in 1945 where one state can bring action against another. Myanmar is being pursued by the small west African nation of The Gambia for alleged persecution of the Rohingya Muslims.\n\nProf Kapila also cites the development in recent years of \"universal jurisdiction\" - where individual nations can try alleged war criminals from other countries if they arrest them on their soil. The successful German prosecution last January of a Syrian officer for murder, torture and sexual assault is recent example.\n\nIf the Security Council is deadlocked, then why not create a mechanism where one member can take it to a bigger jury - the General Assembly\n\nCalls for reform of the UN Security Council are not new. It has long been criticised for representing the imperial and superpower realities that prevailed at the end of WW2. There is no permanent representation for Africa, the Indian sub-continent or Latin America.\n\nExpanding the UN's top body would not at a stroke remove the potential for great power rivalry. But Prof Kapila suggests one way around the stalemates created by veto powers would be to strengthen the role of the General Assembly - the body that has just acted against Russia.\n\n\"If the Security Council is deadlocked, then why not create a mechanism where one member can take it to a bigger jury - the General Assembly. It is more democratic, and it also increases pressure on the Security Council to reach an agreement.\"\n\nThere seems little prospect at the moment of the \"Permanent Five\" - China, France, Russia, the UK and US - agreeing to dilute their influence. \"Turkeys don't vote for Christmas,\" as Prof Kapila puts it. But he argues that civil society movements have established powerful pressure for progress in recent years - in the area of climate change, for example. \"Things which seem improbable now can become real.\"\n\nA protester with a Ukrainian flag outside the UN's New York headquarters\n\nAt the heart of the promise made in the UN Charter was the idea that countries must work together to avoid war. If armed conflict did break out they would send forces to try to keep the peace and the world would ensure abuses were prosecuted - both for the sake of justice and to deter future crimes.\n\nIt is possible - no more than that - that the crisis in Ukraine becomes one of those moments where the high stakes of conflict create a genuine moment of international reflection and generate a momentum for change. Before she stepped down from power, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel wistfully reflected on a world where unilateral action by states threatened peace and stability.\n\nMrs Merkel, who grew up in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the looming shadow of superpower rivalry, warned of the dangers of forgetting - especially as those with lived experience of WW2 died away.\n\n\"We have to take care now not to enter a historical phase in which important lessons from history fade away. We have to remind ourselves that the multilateral world order was created as a lesson from the Second World War.\"\n\nRemember where we have come from, was the message, and act so that we are not dragged backwards.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak held a US green card - allowing permanent residence in that country - while he was chancellor, his spokeswoman has said.\n\nHe returned it in October last year, ahead of his first American trip as a UK government minister.\n\nThe news comes as Mr Sunak faces scrutiny over the revelation that his wife is not liable for UK taxes on her overseas earnings.\n\nHe has accused his critics of running a \"smear\" campaign against his family.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats are calling for Mr Sunak, who became chancellor in early 2020, to resign, with leader Sir Ed Davey saying: \"Never mind a green card; it's time to give Rishi Sunak the red card.\"\n\nAs stipulated in the rules, Mr Sunak filed US tax returns while he held his green card, his spokeswoman said, \"but specifically as a non-resident, in full compliance with the law\".\n\nShe added: \"As required under US law and as advised, he continued to use his green card for travel purposes. Upon his first trip to the US in a government capacity as chancellor, he discussed the appropriate course of action with the US authorities.\n\n\"At that point it was considered best to return his green card, which he did immediately.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Sunak's green card at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"As I understand it, the chancellor has done absolutely everything he was required to do.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow Treasury minister Pat McFadden said there were further questions for Mr Sunak to answer. \"Why did he keep a green card for so long while being a UK MP?\" he asked.\n\n\"Was there any tax advantage in doing so? And why did he give this up after holding it for so long?\"\n\nThe chancellor studied for a master of business administration (MBA) post-graduate degree at Stanford University, California, from 2004 to 2006, where he met fellow student Akshata Murty. The couple married in 2009 and have two daughters.\n\nMs Murty, the daughter of an Indian billionaire, has revealed she has \"non-dom\" status, meaning she does not pay UK tax on overseas earning, which the BBC estimates saves her more than £2m a year.\n\nMr Sunak has said it is unfair to attack his wife when she is a \"private citizen\", adding: \"I'm an elected politician. So I know what I signed up for.\"\n\n\"To smear my wife to get at me is awful,\" he added.", "Our live coverage of the first round of France's presidential election is ending.\n\nThe two candidates expected to go through - Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen - have done just that. The race now enters a new phase and some polls suggest the second round result could be very tight.\n\nYou can read the full story of today's vote here.\n\nWe will be back in two weeks' time, on Sunday 24 April, to report on what happens next as French voters return to the polls.\n\nToday's live page writers were Paul Kirby, Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, George Wright and Alexandra Fouché. The page was edited by Tom Spender.", "Police were called to Skelton Road in Forest Gate on Sunday\n\nA police officer has been injured by a man wielding a machete in east London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Skelton Road in Forest Gate at about midday on Sunday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police force said it was believed a man was \"suffering a mental health crisis\" and officers remained on scene in an attempt to engage with him.\n\nThe injured officer is being treated in hospital for a slash wound to his arm. His condition is not life threatening.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK hauliers carrying perishable goods say products are losing quality and value as they are forced to sit in long queues to cross into Europe at Dover.\n\nBad weather, Easter holidays and P&O Ferries routes being suspended have all led to congestion around the port.\n\nThe queues eased on Sunday, but the British Meat Processors Association said some of its members had waited for 24 hours or more to cross.\n\nThe government said traffic management measures were under regular review.\n\nHowever, a Department for Transport spokesperson gave no indication that there would be a change made for those transporting perishable items.\n\nAs well as the other factors causing congestion, which have led to the traffic management system Operation Brock being put in place, there have also been problems with a key IT system for custom checks at the UK's busiest port after Brexit.\n\nLockerbie-based Eardley International takes fresh meat from the UK into continental Europe, operating 25 trucks at any one time.\n\n\"Our products have a very short shelf life,\" company director Graham Eardley told the BBC.\n\n\"If we load lamb in the UK on a Monday, we'd expect to deliver that product to Germany on a Tuesday. Now we are seeing delays of 20 to 25 hours to cross the Channel, and the quality and the sale value of that product falls by every hour it is delayed.\"\n\nFurthermore, haulier regulations mean drivers need to take an 11-hour break when they get to Calais, as they cannot rest while they are in the traffic jam in case they need to move their vehicle. This just adds to the problem.\n\nP&O routes are still being suspended due to a shortage of ferry services following its dismissal of almost 800 staff last month without notice. The company says it plans to resume its operations on the Dover-Calais route next week if it gets regulatory approval.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, said the delays meant that the UK was losing business, as customers were turning to other countries to source goods at a time when their members' products were in hot demand.\n\n\"We are told to expect disruption well into next week. With Easter weekend approaching and a very busy time for exporting fresh meat, this is really bad timing.\"\n\nGraham Eardley says his company's produce loses value for every hour it is delayed\n\nFor Mr Eardley, the delays mean losing up to £800 per truck.\n\nHe says the abattoirs who use his services are also getting claims for late delivery and loss in value.\n\n\"We are paying for the driver to be sitting in the truck not being productive and seeing the loss of the revenue that the vehicle could be making.\"\n\nMany in the industry argue that hauliers carrying fresh produce should be prioritised for boarding, as they have been before.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum, which manages emergency planning for the county, said they were waiting for the government to advise them of who and what would be allowed to jump the queue.\n\nThis is causing huge frustration to Mr Eardley, who says that as hauliers register customs forms listing the contents of their lorries, it should be a straightforward process to put in place.\n\nToby Howe, the tactical lead for the forum, explained: \"It is not as simple as saying we will just fast-track meat or anything perishable.\n\n\"In 2015 we were given very general guidance and drivers got clever by putting a small amount in the lorry. For EU exit planning, Defra came up with specifics which we were then able to prioritise.\"\n\nOthers believe you cannot retrofit a priority system.\n\nIn response, the Department for Transport (DfT) said the traffic management measures were regularly reviewed but did not say whether any changes would be made with regard to the transportation of perishable items.\n\nIt said: \"P&O's unacceptable actions have resulted in its vessels being detained, causing backlogs and traffic jams which would be substantially alleviated if its fleet was operating normally. We are receiving real-time updates as the Kent Resilience Forum, police and regional leaders work around-the-clock to ease disruption and support those affected.\"\n\nTrade body Logistics UK said it supported prioritising perishable goods, but said the practicalities of facilitating such a policy were currently unclear.\n\nMags Simpson, Logistics UK's head of policy engagement, said: \"The delays are frustrating for industry and Logistics UK is working with DfT and the ports to identify effective solutions that can be introduced as soon as possible.\"\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation - the trade association that represents businesses which store and move frozen and chilled food - said the poor conditions caused by Operation Brock were fanning the flames of driver shortages, in an already overstretched industry.\n\n\"The UK is getting a growing reputation for being a hassle to serve, and that creates problems for my members who can't find the hauliers to take their business because they don't want to take the risk of sitting in traffic on the M20.\"\n\nPart of the frustration is that hauliers feel like tourist traffic in Dover is being prioritised over freight traffic. Mr Eardley says this further undermines morale.\n\n\"Are we saying that it's not fair to have Jimmy and Jonny delayed in their car going on holiday, but that it's acceptable to ask drivers to wait 20 hours or more in their cab? Until there is more understanding of drivers and their experience, we are on the road to ruin.\"\n\nFrom July this year, the UK will start imposing Brexit controls on meat and dairy goods coming in from the EU. Industry leaders are concerned that this will be yet another crunch time for Dover.", "The Royal Navy has completed its largest defence exercise in the Arctic since the Cold War.\n\nMore than 3,000 sailors and Royal Marines were deployed, alongside Nato allies in temperatures as low as -30C.\n\nIn total 27,000 personnel, warships, armour and air power from 27 countries in Europe and North America took part.\n\nNato has stressed the exercise was long-planned and not linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe exercise known as Operation Cold Response, which has taken place on seven previous occasions since 2006 and last in 2016, is led by Norway.\n\nThe aim is to help acclimatise allied forces to operate in any environment under any conditions.\n\nThere had been exercises planned for 2020 and 2021, but both were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe UK's biggest warship, HMS Prince of Wales, led the naval fleet acting as Nato command ship. HMS Prince of Wales will also be Nato's command ship for the rest of the year.\n\nThe Royal Navy said Operation Cold Response \"demonstrated the UK's commitment to safeguarding Europe's northern flank against any aggressor\".\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace visited those taking part on the ground and on the ship during the exercise to thank them for their efforts.\n\nHe said: \"I congratulate all those personnel from across the services who have achieved so much in the Arctic over recent weeks.\n\n\"I can testify to the challenging conditions and their utmost professionalism and good humour in maintaining operations throughout.\"", "Boris Johnson has announced £100m worth of weapons for Ukraine after the \"unconscionable bombing\" of refugees at a railway station.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK will send additional military equipment including Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles and 800 anti-tank missiles.\n\nIt comes after dozens of people died when a crowded railway station in eastern Ukraine was hit by rockets.\n\nVladimir Putin's daughters have also been sanctioned by the UK.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Mr Johnson warned Russia will not escape punishment after the attack at Kramatorsk station.\n\nHe said: \"I know that Britain and Germany share exactly the same sense of horror and revulsion at the brutality unleashed including the unconscionable bombing of refugees fleeing their homes this morning.\n\n\"It is a war crime indiscriminately to attack civilians, and Russia's war crimes in Ukraine will not go unnoticed or unpunished.\"\n\nMr Johnson added the UK will send precision munitions \"capable of lingering in the sky until directed to their target\" and more helmets, body armour, and night vision.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said the UK will also be providing Ukraine with armoured Mastiff vehicles to fight Russia's invasion.\n\nMastiffs are heavily armoured vehicles suitable for road patrols and convoys.\n\nThe vehicles will be stripped of sensitive equipment and British troops will help with training in a neighbouring country, the Times reported.\n\nMr Putin's daughters Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova are subject to travel bans and asset freezes\n\nEarlier, the Foreign Office announced fresh sanctions on Mr Putin's daughters, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova, 35, and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, 36.\n\nThey will be subject to travel bans and asset freezes, the government said.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said the move ensures those benefitting from Mr Putin's rule will \"feel consequences\".\n\nMeanwhile, the daughter of Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vinokurova, 39, has also been sanctioned.\n\nIt comes after the three women were sanctioned by the United States on Wednesday.\n\nMs Truss said: \"By freezing the assets and limiting the travel of Putin's allies, the UK government is sealing off reservoirs of cash funding the conflict, while also making sure those who have benefited from Putin's rule feel the consequences.\n\n\"Oligarchs and other wealthy Russians are amongst those hit hardest by the sanctions, which have drastically limited their access to luxury consumer goods and access to international markets.\"\n\nThe UK government said £275bn of Russian foreign currency reserves, representing 60% of its total, have been frozen due to UK and international sanctions.\n\nIt added the sanctions were having \"deep and damaging consequences for Putin's ability to wage war\".\n\nMore than 1,200 individuals and businesses have been targeted by the UK, including Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich and Mr Lavrov's stepdaughter Polina Kovaleva.", "Emmanuel Macron has limited his public appearances ahead of the first round to one big campaign rally\n\nTwelve candidates are running for the French presidency, as incumbent Emmanuel Macron stakes his claim for a second term.\n\nVoters go to the polls in the first round on Sunday and, assuming no-one wins a majority, the top two candidates will take part in a run-off on 24 April.\n\nThe winner, to be chosen from four women and eight men, will have the power to shape France and its key role in Europe for the next five years. Although the race has been overshadowed by Russia's war in Ukraine, for most voters, the main issue is the cost of living.\n\nWhen he became France's youngest ever president in 2017, it sealed a meteoric rise that came less than a year after he launched a centrist political movement called La République En Marche! to challenge the traditional parties.\n\nFive years on, aged 44, he continues to dominate French politics, but faces a strong challenge from Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate he easily defeated in the second-round run-off in 2017.\n\nHe entered the Élysée an unknown quantity, a former economy minister who had never run for elected office before. A protégé of Socialist President François Hollande, he swept away old political loyalties and, to many voters, that set him apart from the ruling class.\n\nHe has had to navigate choppy political waters to push through controversial reforms.\n\nHe made it easier for companies to fire workers, cut taxes and introduced tough security laws to tackle terrorism. But he was forced to scrap a proposed fuel tax in 2018 after weeks of unrest stoked by yellow-vest protesters, known as gilets jaunes.\n\nOther reforms, including a promise to bring the jobless rate down from more than 10% to 7% by 2022, were hit by the Covid pandemic, although unemployment is currently down to 7.4%.\n\nHe is now proposing full employment within five years, cutting taxes by €15bn (£12.5bn) a year for households and businesses, and paying for his programme by gradually raising the retirement age from 62 to 65.\n\nIncreasing the pension age is unpopular with voters already facing a cost of living crunch. His opponents have also accused him of relying on expensive advice from US consultancy firm McKinsey.\n\nHe has had to rethink a controversial plan to make a back-to-work benefit for the unemployed called RSA conditional on 15-20 hours of work a week. Mr Macron also wants to invest in the armed forces, doubling France's reserve force.\n\nMr Macron has long been favourite to win the vote, but opinion polls suggest his main rival, Marine Le Pen, has narrowed his lead and would give him a strong challenge in the 24 April run-off. His poll ratings were initially boosted by his diplomatic efforts during Russia's war in Ukraine, but voters are more exercised by increasing bills.\n\nMarine Le Pen was runner-up to Emmanuel Macron's in 2017 and this time, she is once again his closest rival.\n\nHer family has been synonymous with the far right in France for decades. She can no longer claim the hard-right vote to herself because of fierce rival Eric Zemmour. Although some of her team have defected to his camp, including her own niece, his more extreme views on Islam and immigration have made her approach appear more moderate.\n\nA political player in France for years, Marine Le Pen became a Euro MP before acting on her presidential ambitions. After her presidential defeat in 2017, she rebranded her National Front party as Rassemblement National, or National Rally.\n\nShe has since crafted a consistent anti-immigration, anti-EU message that has resonated with disaffected voters.\n\nShe has in the past expressed her admiration for Russia's Vladimir Putin and relied on a Russian bank loan for her 2017 presidential campaign. She condemns his invasion of Ukraine, while warning of the risk of sanctions to the French economy.\n\nNow 53, she has promised to halt abuse of the right to asylum, with a referendum on restricting immigration. And she wants to ban the Islamic hijab being worn in public areas. She also seeks to turn the European Union into an alliance of nations unchallenged by EU laws.\n\nMarine Le Pen wants to waive income tax for those under 30 and exempt companies from tax contributions if they raise minimum wages by 10% for many of their staff.\n\nThis is her third bid for the presidency (she came third in the 2012 election). If she makes it to the run-off, as the polls suggest, Marine Le Pen could give Emmanuel Macron a real fight for the presidency.\n\nThe strongest candidate on the left is veteran agitator Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a staunch critic of Emmanuel Macron's economic policies and a prominent supporter of the yellow-vest protests.\n\nThough few believe he could go all the way to the presidency, he has led a strong campaign and sees himself as a \"shrewd tortoise\", overtaking some of the hares in the race. His outdoor rallies can attract upwards of 20,000 supporters.\n\nMr Mélenchon dropped a career in teaching and journalism for left-wing politics in the 1970s. He served briefly as junior education minister under Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin but - by the early 2000s - became disillusioned with the Socialist party's rightward drift.\n\nAfter setting up a new left-wing party, he became a Euro MP and is standing for the presidency for a third time under the banner of La France Insoumise - France Unbowed. In 2017, he attracted 19.6% of the vote.\n\nHis programme is one of high spending and sweeping constitutional reform, to revive democratic life under a Sixth French Republic.\n\nHe promises to lower the retirement by two years to 60, while Mr Macron aims to raise it, and he wants to raise the minimum wage, known as the Smic, by 10% to €1,400 (£1,175) a month.\n\nHis critics have accused him of being too lenient on President Putin - he wants France to be non-aligned and out of Nato.\n\nHe is by far the strongest among an array of left-wing candidates, but his soft stance on the war in Ukraine could turn potential voters off.\n\n\"I am ready to be the first woman president of the Republic,\" said Valérie Pécresse on declaring her candidacy in July last year.\n\nWhen France's right-wing Les Républicains (Republicans) chose her to be their first-ever female presidential candidate, she climbed quickly in the polls, but her star has fallen since amid accusations of a shambolic campaign and defections in her party.\n\nSince 2015, she has served as the first female leader of the Île-de-France regional council, which covers Paris. She has described herself as \"one-third Margaret Thatcher and two-thirds Angela Merkel\".\n\nA speaker of four languages, including Russian, she entered politics as part of President Jacques Chirac's team, but made her political reputation as a higher education minister from 2007-11 under Nicolas Sarkozy. His refusal to back her campaign has also harmed her chances.\n\nMs Pécresse spearheaded reforms to higher education that were met with a wave of strikes.\n\nConsidered pro-European and moderate, she has staked out some of Mr Macron's centrist territory, while taking a hard line on typically right-wing issues such as immigration, integration and Islam. She has been criticised for appearing to embrace an anti-Muslim conspiracy theory.\n\nHer campaign has accused the Macron camp of copying her policies on raising the retirement age and requiring people on income support to do 15 hours' training or work every week. Her main response to help voters fight inflation is a 10% increase in monthly salaries under €2,800, paid for by savings made through reforms as well as cuts in pension contributions.\n\nInitially seen as the main obstacle to a Macron victory, Valérie Pécresse then struggled to find her voice and is fighting for fourth place in the polls. A speech to supporters early in the campaign was mocked as wooden and she has little hope of reaching the run-off.\n\nA journalist, author and TV commentator with no election experience and a conviction for inciting racial hatred would not typically be considered presidential material in French politics.\n\nBut far-right challenger Éric Zemmour, 63, has built a career on positioning himself against what he calls a \"politically correct consensus\" and now offers a \"reconquest\" - Reconquête - of France.\n\nHe burst on to the political scene in 2021 during a national tour to promote a book lamenting the perceived decline of France, which he mostly blames on immigration and Islam.\n\nInitially he surged in the polls, offering a nationalism seen as tougher than Marine Le Pen's. But he has since fallen back as his proposals have hardened.\n\nHis plan for a ministry of re-immigration, to deport 100,000 immigrants each year, particularly to Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, has been condemned by Ms Le Pen as deeply unfair and \"anti-republican\".\n\nMr Zemmour courted controversy for minimising the guilt of Philippe Pétain, the head of France's collaborationist government, in the Nazi deportations of Jews in World War Two. And his record on Russia is embarrassing too: back in 2018 he said he was \"dreaming of having a French Putin\".\n\nHe called for a ban on first names that he saw as un-French, telling one woman on live TV her parents had no right to call her Zina. He also wants dual-national repeat offenders to be stripped of French citizenship, as well as a ban on wearing the hijab in public.\n\nHe has modelled his campaign on that of former US President Donald Trump and railed against political elites. He also has the dubious honour of being the first candidate in the race to get hit on the head by an egg.\n\nHe has little chance of reaching the second round, as far-right voters see Marine Le Pen as a more viable candidate.\n\nA former Greenpeace militant and an MEP since 2009, Yannick Jadot was picked by the Greens via an online primary.\n\nHe has accused Emmanuel Macron of presiding over five years of climate denial and wants France to ditch nuclear power within 20 years. He also wants solar panels installed on most buildings. Mr Macron has just backed plans for another six nuclear reactors to be built.\n\nAs well as pushing for a big change in income tax, with additional levels for higher earners, Mr Jadot, 54, would like to see a €1,500 minimum wage, a citizen's income guaranteed for all over-18s and a €400 (£335) handout for families hit hardest by inflation.\n\nHe has been vying with ex-Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo to be the champion of the mainstream left and could influence how leftist supporters vote in the presidential election.\n\nFabien Roussel: The first Communist candidate for 15 years, his charismatic approach has had some success. Mr Roussel, 52, has called for France's big banks to be nationalised and for pay rises for public servants including nurses and teachers. He wants investment in renewable and nuclear energy and minimum wages to rise to €1,500 a month.\n\nAnne Hidalgo: Chosen as candidate for the Socialists, her struggle in getting voter support reflects the deep decline of a party that ran the country only five years ago, under President François Hollande. She wants a big rise in the minimum wage, higher salaries for teachers and 15,000 new doctors.\n\nNathalie Arthaud: A schoolteacher from outside Paris, she is now challenging for the presidency for a third time for the far-left Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' struggle) party, but has not yet attracted more than 1% of the vote. While opposed to Russia's \"monstrous\" invasion of Ukraine, she has little time for Nato either.\n\nPhilippe Poutou: The former car factory worker is standing for the New Anti-Capitalist party and advocates redistribution of wealth.\n\nJean Lassalle: Closer to the centre of French politics than other candidates but by no means a moderate, he came from a family of shepherds in the Pyrenees mountains to become France's youngest mayor in 1977.\n\nHe once went on hunger strike to protest against a factory closure and later walked more than 6,000km (3,700 miles) around France to meet the people. As leader of Résistons! (Resist), he has championed France's yellow-vest anti-Macron protesters by wearing a gilet jaune in parliament and he has called for citizens' initiative referendums, renegotiating the EU treaties and pulling out of Nato.\n\nNicolas Dupont-Aignan: A libertarian who left the mainstream right to found the Debout la France (France Arise) party, he has put freedom for France at the heart of his campaign - his third run for the presidency.\n\nHe sees Emmanuel Macron as a \"public danger\" to France, opposes the EU and campaigned against Covid restrictions. He also wants wages to be increased and linked to inflation. He has in the past backed alliance with Russia and objects to sending weapons to Ukraine.", "Rishi Sunak has referred himself to Boris Johnson's ethics watchdog as he continues to face questions about his family's financial affairs.\n\nThe chancellor wants Lord Geidt - the PM's adviser on ministers' interests - to check if he followed the rules.\n\nMr Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, last week announced she would start paying UK tax on her overseas earnings.\n\nBut Labour says he still has questions to answer about transparency and whether he has used tax havens.\n\nNo 10 has confirmed the prime minister accepted Mr Sunak's request for a review by Lord Geidt.\n\nThe spokeswoman also said Boris Johnson had full confidence in his chancellor.\n\nMr Sunak said he was \"confident\" Lord Geidt - who also investigated allegations about Mr Johnson's refurbishment of his Downing Street flat - would find he had appropriately declared all his interests.\n\nMs Murty owns £700m in shares of the Indian IT giant Infosys - founded by her father - from which she received £11.6m in dividend income last year.\n\nThe BBC estimates she would have avoided £2.1m a year in UK tax through her non-domicile (non-dom) status.\n\nShe will now pay tax on her overseas earnings, but her domicile remains India, where she has said she intends to eventually return.\n\nMr Sunak said he had made the Cabinet Office aware of his wife's non-dom status when he first became a government minister in 2018.\n\nHe has ordered a leak inquiry into how that information came to be reported in the media.\n\nDowning Street has rejected newspaper reports that its staff leaked damaging stories about Mr Sunak to the media.\n\nRishi Sunak's reputation has gone from golden to tinfoil. His personal ratings have plummeted and his leader-in-waiting status has been dented, if not destroyed.\n\nBut his job as chancellor looks safe for now.\n\nHe has the backing of the prime minister so won't get fired.\n\nThe number of Conservative backbenchers grumbling about his handling of this appears to be outweighed by the number of colleagues who think he's a good operator so they won't get rid of him. And the review into his declarations of interests isn't likely to cause him too many problems either.\n\nBut all of that could change under pressure from the opposition, the media and any further revelations, or if he becomes a threat to the reputation of the government.\n\nWhat will be fascinating to see is whether this changes the approach Rishi Sunak takes to the rising cost of living.\n\nWill the chancellor accused of being too rich feel he has to do more to help people who are getting poorer?\n\nIt feels like Rishi Sunak has gained a lifetime's-worth of baggage in a fortnight.\n\nMost politicians have it - what matters is how much it weighs them down.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said questions faced by Mr Sunak include whether he had declared his wife's tax status when taking \"policy decisions\" affecting non-dom households.\n\n\"The lack of transparency does raise questions about conflict of interest,\" she told BBC.\n\n\"The fact that they have changed their tax arrangements now shows that they do recognise it's a problem - but they wouldn't have done that if this hadn't been public.\"\n\nIt has also been revealed that Mr Sunak held a US green card until last year, entitling him to permanent residence, a path to citizenship, in that country.\n\nIt also means he filed US tax returns, prompting opposition questions about whether he gained a financial advantage from this.\n\nLabour also says the public need to know if Mr Sunak has ever benefitted from tax havens.\n\nIt follows a report in the Independent which said Ms Murty had received income from companies based in tax havens.\n\nRishi Sunak married Akshata Murty in 2009, after meeting her as a student in California\n\nA non-dom is a UK resident who declares their permanent home, or domicile, outside of the UK.\n\nA domicile is usually the country his or her father considered his permanent home when they were born, or it may be the place overseas where somebody has moved to with no intention of returning.\n\nFor proof to the tax authority, non-doms have to provide evidence about their background, lifestyle and future intentions, such as where they own property or intend to be buried.\n\nThose who have the status must still pay UK tax on UK earnings but do not need to pay UK tax on foreign income. They can give up their non-dom status at any time.\n\nMs Murty has chosen to be domiciled in India via her father, the billionaire Narayana Murty.", "The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world Image caption: The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world\n\nWe reported earlier that the BBC has been able to verify the deaths of more than 1,000 Russian troops, of whom about 20% are officers.\n\nEven if we talk about confirmed losses only - there is evidence that Russia has lost some of its best specialists, including elite special forces operators, highly skilled fighter pilots and some experienced commanders.\n\nIt takes five years and at least $10,000 to prepare an infantry lieutenant in Russia. For other specialties, the cost rises to $60,000 per officer. It costs between $4m and $14m (and takes up to 14 years) to prepare a skillful fighter pilot.\n\nWe also noticed another trend. About 15% of all confirmed losses are paratroopers from units which are considered the elite of the Russian army. And preparation of a paratrooper in Russia demands more money and time compared to an infantryman. So these are sensitive losses.\n\nSome servicemen were very experienced, for example fighter pilot Capt Sergei Volynets fought in Georgia and Syria, and had several medals.\n\nThere are at least 15 military intelligence special forces operators (including five officers) and three maroon berets in the confirmed losses list. These take months or even years to train and educate. The test to get a maroon beret is considered to be one of the hardest in the military world.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nThe 50-1 outsider Noble Yeats won the Grand National at Aintree to give amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen a fairytale farewell in his final ride.\n\nWaley-Cohen held off the challenge of favourite Any Second Now in a thrilling finish, with Delta Work third and Santini fourth.\n\nNoble Yeats, trained in Ireland by Emmet Mullins, is the first horse aged seven to win since Bogskar in 1940.\n\n\"That's beyond words - a fairytale and a fantasy,\" said the winning jockey.\n\nWaley-Cohen, who will turn 40 on Friday, only announced his retirement two days before the big race.\n\nHe had the best record over the National course of any current jockey going into the contest, with six wins in other races, and signed off with a brilliant retirement ride.\n\nIt was a first victory for an amateur jockey since Marcus Armytage won on Mr Frisk at Aintree in 1990.\n• None What happened to your horse?\n\n\"That's definitely it now, I'm done,\" he added. \"I always knew when I had second thoughts about getting out of bed to go and ride one it would be time to call it a day and I couldn't think of anywhere better to go out than this.\n\n\"The reason I kept coming back here year after year is to have a feeling like that.\"\n\nNoble Yeats was bought by the jockey's father Robert Waley-Cohen two months ago.\n\nWaley-Cohen, the former chairman of Cheltenham racecourse and owner of Long Run, who won the 2011 Cheltenham Gold Cup under Sam Waley-Cohen, was overjoyed at the success.\n\n\"It's the dream come true, I can't speak - it's just fabulous,\" said Robert.\n\n\"I feel like quoting Shakespeare - my cup runneth over. I'm really emotional.\"\n\nAny Second Now was second as the 15-2 favourite, Delta Work was third at 10-1, Santini fourth at 33-1 and Fiddlerontheroof finished fifth at 12-1.\n\nJust 15 of the 40 horses who set out made it home.\n\nLast year's winner Minella Times, the mount of Rachael Blackmore, fell at the ninth fence when at the back of the field, while strongly fancied mare Snow Leopardess was pulled up before the second circuit.\n\nHowever, there was a sad note to the race with the news that Discorama suffered a fatal injury.\n\nAn Aintree spokesman said the horse, trained in Ireland by Paul Nolan, was injured on the Flat while travelling between fences and had an untreatable pelvic injury.\n\nIt was the third equine fatality at the three-day meeting after mare Elle Est Belle earlier on Saturday and Solwara One on Friday.\n\nWaley-Cohen, who finished second in the 2011 Grand National on Oscar Time, had Noble Yeats at the back of the field early on, but jumped solidly and moved up to mid-division by the halfway point.\n\nWith two fences to go there were six runners in with a chance but Two For Gold, out in front for so long, pulled up at the penultimate fence and then it was between Noble Yeats and Any Second Now going to the last.\n\nNoble Yeats then took the inside at the Elbow and from then on it was victory all the way.\n\nHowever, the winning jockey was suspended by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) for nine days and fined £400 for using his whip above the permitted level and in the incorrect place in the finish.\n\nBut given Waley-Cohen has announced his retirement, he will not serve the ban.\n\nIt was a first National runner for winning trainer Mullins, the nephew of champion trainer Willie Mullins.\n\n\"Today was the plan, and it's nice when a plan comes together,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't get to see much of him early doors, but going away from the stands I had to take a breath and I said 'this is a winner's position'. It was the perfect spot on that second circuit.\n\n\"That last circuit, everything just seemed to fall into place. I would say I'm understandably shell-shocked.\"\n\nThere have been some great amateurs over the years and you can add Sam Waley-Cohen to that list. He has gone and won the Grand National on his last-ever ride. It is a sensational result.\n\nAny Second Now had no hard-luck stories. He had the perfect run round and he came with a challenge at the last.\n\nYou can feel the shock that a 50-1 chance has beaten the red-hot favourite.\n• None Panorama reports from the frontline in southern Ukraine\n• None 'You can't just walk away, they'll kill you' -", "More than 50 people were killed and many more wounded in a missile strike on a train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Friday. One day later, people are attempting to pick up the pieces from the deadly attack.\n\nThey're still searching through the wreckage and debris at Kramatorsk station.\n\nThe bodies of the dead were soon removed from the scene of a missile strike on Friday, but you can still see the dried blood and some evidence of human remains 24 hours later. The uncollected travel bags of those who did not survive have been gathered together and now lie in an empty ticket office.\n\nSergei, a volunteer with the Ukrainian Army, was still looking through the wreckage of destroyed cars, parked outside the station. There was evidence in one of a burnt child's body.\n\nSergei is used to death. He's been recovering the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in battle. But on Friday, he was having to gather the corpses and the remains of unarmed civilians - the innocents of this war. He has no doubt that Russia is to blame for the attack that has left more than 50 people dead and many more injured.\n\nWatching mothers grieve over children killed in the blast has clearly taken its toll on Sergei.\n\n\"When you see our future, the future of Ukraine being killed, you can't control your emotions,\" he says. He calls it a genocide.\n\n\"You just don't understand the motivation of the people who did this. What was this for?\"\n\nThousands of people were gathered at Kramatorsk station when the missile struck at 10:30 in the morning. They were waiting for a train to take them west, to relative safety. The region's authorities had told civilians to leave as Russia steps up its offensive in the Donbas. Kramatorsk and a number of other cities in eastern Ukraine have recently been targeted by Russian airstrikes, artillery and missiles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Burnt-out cars and remains of a missile outside Kramatorsk station\n\nRussia has denied it was responsible for Friday's attack. It even claims that it wasn't their missile. It's still not clear what exactly happened.\n\nUkraine's state railway says the station was hit by two missiles. The damage is certainly spread over a wide area. It's possible there were three missiles - and one was shot down by Ukraine's air defences.\n\nOn Saturday, investigators were examining the remains of what looks like a Tochka missile which landed just yards from the station. Part of the casing remains intact. In white paint, someone has written in Russian: \"For the Children\". Was it meant as some kind of revenge? If so, for what?\n\nEyewitnesses also describe seeing multiple explosions, raising questions as to whether the missile, or missiles, had been fitted with cluster munitions. Banned by many countries, they're designed to kill and maim over a wide area.\n\nAt Kramatorsk hospital, medical staff had been working through the day and night to treat the many injured.\n\nSurgeon Victor Borisovich said six people died before they had a chance to operate. Another two died after surgery - including a young child. Victor says many were life-threatening injuries, which he lists as \"amputations, torn limbs, torn feet, stomach wounds and brain injuries\". He tells me he has no doubt that the injuries and deaths were the responsibility of Russia.\n\n\"I can't imagine what kind of person takes the decision to launch a missile into a place where civilians are gathering,\" he says. \"It just cannot be explained.\"\n\nWhen we arrived at the hospital, a small number of patients were being loaded into ambulances to be taken to Dnipro, further west, for surgery. They still had pieces of shrapnel embedded in their bodies. Some were clearly still in shock. One woman said it was a miracle she'd survived. She described the scene.\n\n\"There were a lot of explosions. I fell down, then I started running, but people started to shout, 'Get down,' so I fell on the ground again.\"\n\nWhen she got up again, she says, she realised many were dead. \"God saved me,\" she says.\n\nFew of those we spoke to were willing to say who was responsible for their injuries. One woman did blame Russia, but she also suggested that the target might have been a train carrying military equipment. We saw no evidence of that when we arrived a few hours after the blast.\n\nIt is still possible that the people waiting for a train were not the intended target. Western officials say that a Tochka missile, also known as an SS-21 Scarab, can miss its target by up to 30m.\n\nEven that suggests that whoever fired the missile knew that lots of people could be in harm's way. But if the missile was designed to kill unarmed civilians waiting for a train, then Western politicians are in no doubt that it would amount to a war crime.", "French President Emmanuel Macron has called on the supporters of his defeated presidential election rivals to back him in a run-off contest against Marine Le Pen.\n\nMr Macron pledged to unify France and reflect \"all the different convictions and beliefs\" if he beats his far-right rival.\n\nThe crucial second round of voting takes place on 24 April.", "It is to be a re-run of the 2017 second round, where Emmanuel Macron pulverised Marine Le Pen. But this time around, let no-one be under any illusion that it will be so easy.\n\nEstimations from round one show how tactical voting rewrote the electoral map.\n\nVoters gathered into three broad camps: Macron, the far-right and the far-left. In the last days of campaigning, many people who were considering other candidates finally decided that they would rather back a frontrunner.\n\nThere was thus a big transfer of votes from Éric Zemmour - the hard-right nationalist pundit - to the camp of Marine Le Pen. Some right-wingers in the conservative Republicans party may have done the same.\n\nOn the left, voters decided that neither the Socialist Anne Hidalgo nor the Green Yannick Jadot could ever make it into round two. So they shifted massively to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, simply to keep a leftist in the race. This despite many Socialists and Greens actively disliking the man.\n\nAnd in the centre, many who would normally have chosen the Republicans' Valérie Pécresse will have plumped instead for the incumbent. Why? Because they were genuinely afraid that Le Pen and/or Mélenchon were coming up too strong from behind.\n\nMarine Le Pen will once again face up against Macron\n\nRemember under France's system, it's only the top two who go through, and a small margin can make a vast difference. The prospect of a Le Pen-Mélenchon second round was not totally far-fetched.\n\nOne is the utter devastation facing France's two traditional parties of government since 1958 - the conservative right, and the socialist left. This was a process started by Macron five years ago, but now comprehensively complete.\n\nBoth parties' candidates - and certainly the Socialists' Anne Hidalgo - may have failed to reach the 5% threshold, which allows them to claim back election costs. The price tag will be millions of euros, but worse is the ignominy. We can expect serious internal ructions.\n\nMacron has so engineered it that the divide in French politics is now definitively the one that he sought: between his own \"realistic centrism\" and \"openness to the world\" and the \"extremism\" of his opponents. The \"nationalist extremism\" of Le Pen and the \"utopian extremism\" of Mélenchon.\n\nFar-leftist Mélenchon came in third place with about 20% of the votes\n\nThis divide has served him very well so far. It allows him to aggregate the so-called \"responsible\" forces of left and right, gutting the mainstream opposition and leaving him master of the terrain.\n\nBut the second lesson of this first-round vote must bring him cause for concern.\n\nThis is that the so-called \"irresponsible\" forces of the extremes - his opposition - are growing stronger all the time.\n\nAs veteran political commentator Alain Duhamel put it on Sunday night \"the anti-system parties now have the loyalty of a majority of the French\".\n\nFar-right candidate Éric Zemmour has urged his supporters to vote for Le Pen\n\nIf you add Marine Le Pen's vote to that of Éric Zemmour and a third \"sovereigntist\" candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the far-right makes up 33% of the vote - seven points more than in 2017.\n\nAnd then if you add the far-left votes - for Mélenchon and the two Trotskyites - to the total votes for all \"anti-system parties\", that figure exceeds 50% of the votes cast.\n\nMany of these people will end up voting for Macron in round two, for the same reason they did so in 2017 - because for them seeing the far-right in power is unconscionable. But there will be others who abstain, or vote blank, or vote Le Pen.\n\nThe truth is that the anti-Le Pen vote and the anti-Macron vote are converging; the first going down and the second going up.\n\nWhich is why this time, round two is not going to be the same walkover.", "Rishi Sunak married Akshata Murthy in 2009, after meeting her as a student in California\n\nA Whitehall inquiry is under way into how the tax affairs of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife were leaked to the media, the BBC has been told.\n\nAkshata Murty has said she will pay UK taxes on her overseas income, following a row over her non-domicile status.\n\nShe owns £700m in shares of the Indian IT giant Infosys - founded by her father - from which she received £11.6m in dividend income last year.\n\nLabour has said the row raises questions about Mr Sunak's judgement.\n\nAs a non-domiciled (non-dom) UK resident, Ms Murty is not required by law to pay UK taxes on her overseas income. The BBC estimates this would have saved her £2.1m a year in UK tax.\n\nAfter details of her non-dom status appeared in the press on Wednesday evening, Mr Sunak said his wife had not \"done anything wrong\" and it was unfair to attack her as a \"private citizen\".\n\nBut on Friday, Ms Murty announced she would change her tax arrangements, telling the BBC she did not want to be a \"distraction\" for her husband.\n\nAsked about the U-turn on the BBC's Sunday Morning programme, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said the couple had recognised the situation \"offended against a British sense of fair play\".\n\n\"They recognise that there was a disconnect perhaps in the British public's understanding of what was appropriate, and they've corrected that situation now for the future,\" he added.\n\nNo 10 has rejected newspaper reports that its staff leaked damaging stories about Mr Sunak to the media.\n\nElsewhere, Health Secretary Sajid Javid told the Sunday Times he had claimed non-domicile status for six years when he was a banker, between 2000 and 2006.\n\nA non-dom is someone who lives in the UK but declares their permanent home to be in another country.\n\nIt has been a bruising week for the chancellor, leading to him asking senior civil servants for a full investigation to establish who divulged his wife's tax status.\n\nHis allies say very few people had access to the personal information, which Mr Sunak declared to Whitehall officials when he became a minister in 2018.\n\nSome Conservative MPs say he was naive to think the details would remain private, and that he should have predicted that the tax arrangements would be criticised as inappropriate, despite being legal.\n\nMr Sunak's team has dismissed suggestions of a rift with Downing Street and say the prime minister has been \"incredibly supportive\".\n\nBut Mr Sunak's brand - vigorously promoted since he came to office - has been damaged, with some Tories questioning his judgement.\n\nFriends have also confirmed to the BBC reports in the Sunday Mirror that the chancellor's wife and daughters are moving out of Downing Street and back to the family home in west London. Mr Sunak will join them at weekends.\n\nThe decision is said to have been made well before this row hit the headlines.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said there remained a \"series of questions\" for the chancellor to answer - including whether he had declared his wife's tax status when taking \"policy decisions\" affecting non-dom households.\n\nShe told the Sunday Morning programme: \"The lack of transparency does raise questions about conflict of interest.\n\n\"But it's also about basic fairness - and I don't think the chancellor still gets that, and that raises real questions about his judgement.\n\n\"The fact that they have changed their tax arrangements now shows that they do recognise it's a problem - but they wouldn't have done that if this hadn't been public.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have urged Mr Sunak to ban the partners of ministers from claiming non-dom status, calling it a \"loophole\".\n\nLabour has previously advocated scrapping non-dom status entirely, under previous leaders Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAsked whether her party still held that position, Ms Cooper said its policy on non-doms was subject to a wider review of tax policy being undertaken by shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves.\n\nA non-dom is a UK resident who declares their permanent home, or domicile, outside of the UK.\n\nA domicile is usually the country his or her father considered his permanent home when they were born, or it may be the place overseas where somebody has moved to with no intention of returning.\n\nFor proof to the tax authority, non-doms have to provide evidence about their background, lifestyle and future intentions, such as where they own property or intend to be buried.\n\nThose who have the status must still pay UK tax on UK earnings but do not need to pay UK tax on foreign income. They can give up their non-dom status at any time.\n\nMs Murty has chosen to be domiciled in India via her father, the billionaire Narayana Murty.", "Young children's development, following the pandemic, has been \"particularly worrying\", the chief inspector of Ofsted has said.\n\nIn a report on the recovery of children, Amanda Spielman said there were \"lingering challenges\".\n\nThe report said nurseries flagged babies with \"limited vocabularies\" and struggling to understand facial expressions.\n\nThe government said it was continuing to invest in education.\n\nOfsted's report was based on inspections of 70 early years providers in England in January and February.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Spielman said the report unveiled a variety of challenges for young children, including some struggling with potty-training.\n\nShe said: \"We are seeing difficulties with social interaction and social confidence - children just behind where you would normally expect them to be.\n\n\"And also in physical development - crawling, walking and perhaps related to that also greater obesity.\"\n\nThe report said a few early years care providers suggested face masks were having a negative impact on young children's language and communication skills.\n\n\"Children turning two years old will have been surrounded by adults wearing masks for their whole lives and have therefore been unable to see lip movements or mouth shapes as regularly,\" the Ofsted briefing said.\n\nOne nursery said children were talking in voices of cartoons they spent so much time watching.\n\nMs Spielman said: \"I think it's about talking and interacting directly with children, and introducing them to the kind of activities where they're interacting with other children and adults.\n\nShe added nurseries were reporting delays accessing speech and language therapy and mental health services.\n\nJulie Robinson, nursery owner of Eagley School House Nurseries in Bolton, told BBC Breakfast she found a difference between children who had been in nursery throughout the pandemic and those who were at home.\n\nNursery owner Julie Robinson said she had seen a decline in language and social skills\n\nShe said: \"All they've seen is parents and a house, not interacting in local parks, seeing their friends, and going to parties.\n\n\"So it's taken a long time to get these children, especially young babies and toddlers settled into nursery.\"\n\nHelen Porter, headteacher at Kings' Forest Primary School in Bristol, told the BBC: \"For very young children, not being able to have those play experiences and to explore the world around them has had a huge impact.\n\n\"It absolutely resonated with me, that the children in our nursery didn't know what I looked like without a facemask for a long time and the impact that had on being able to read facial expressions and build those relationships.\"\n\nHeadteachers also raised particular concerns about children in reception year, who they said had delayed speech and language development.\n\nOfsted also found the pandemic continuing to affect pupils' knowledge, as well as having an impact on attendance.\n\nBut the inspectorate said it saw \"lots of really good work\" across early years and school, with most education providers using catch-up strategies to close gaps in pupils' knowledge and skills.\n\nJames Bowen, of school leaders' union NAHT, called on the government to invest in early year services for disadvantaged families and support services like speech and language therapy.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said it had invested nearly £5bn in tutoring, additional funding for schools and training for teachers and early years practitioners.\n\nIt added: \"The Nuffield Early Language Intervention Programme is also being used by the majority of schools to improve language skills of reception-age children.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJournalists entering a Ukrainian town which saw fierce fighting with Russian forces have found dead bodies of men in civilian clothes strewn on a street.\n\nAn AFP news agency reporter in Bucha, near Kyiv, counted at least 20 bodies. At least one man had his hands tied.\n\nUkrainian forces regained control of the town this week and photos show widespread devastation.\n\nBBC journalists in another part of Ukraine found the bodies of two civilians killed by Russian forces.\n\nWarning: Some readers may find content in this story distressing including a photo lower down.\n\nEarlier this week the BBC's Jeremy Bowen and his team counted a total of 13 bodies, some of whom may have been Ukrainian soldiers, along a stretch of road between the villages of Mria and Myla.\n\nUkraine says Russian forces have made a \"rapid retreat\" from around Kyiv, with one official saying the whole region around the capital has been retaken since the invasion began on 24 February.\n\nThe invasion has seen thousands killed in ferocious fighting and has made refugees of at least four million Ukrainians. Western states have responded with tough sanctions against Russia and military supplies for Ukraine.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has sought to justify his attack by arguing that Ukraine, a former Soviet state with Nato and EU ambitions, was a constant threat and Russia could not feel \"safe, develop and exist\".\n\nIn Bucha, where a photographer for Reuters news agency also recorded dead bodies, holes gaped from apartment blocks hit by shelling and crushed cars littered the streets.\n\nSixteen of the 20 bodies seen by AFP lay either on the pavement or by the verge. Three were sprawled in the middle of the road, and another lay on his side in the courtyard of a destroyed house.\n\nAn open Ukrainian passport lay on the ground next to the person who had his hands tied behind his back with a piece of white cloth. Two other people had white cloth tied around their upper arms.\n\nWarning: There is a photo below that some readers may find distressing\n\nA Ukrainian official told AFP the dead men could have been killed in a bombardment or shot by Russian soldiers, and police would investigate.\n\nBut the town's mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, told AFP by phone that all of the 20 dead had been shot in the back of the head. He added that other bodies still lay inside the wrecks of cars destroyed by shelling.\n\nThe town, he said, had buried 280 people in mass graves as a result of the Russian invasion.", "A spokesman for Ukraine's President Zelensky has told the BBC that mass graves have been discovered in recaptured territory.\n\nSerge Nykyforov told Clive Myrie on the Sunday Morning programme, the scenes were heartbreaking and described how executed civilians had been found.", "Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the former heir to the throne of Jordan, has said he is renouncing his title of prince.\n\nPrince Hamzah said his \"personal convictions\" were not in line with the \"modern methods of our institutions\".\n\nThe prince is the fourth son of the late King Hussein and younger half-brother of the ruling King Abdullah.\n\nHe was put under house arrest last year after accusing the country's leaders of corruption, incompetence and harassment.\n\nIn March, Jordan published an apology purportedly signed by Hamzah and asking his half-brother, King Abdullah for forgiveness.\n\nIn a statement posted to twitter on Sunday, Hamzah said: \"Following what I have witnessed in recent years, I have come to the conclusion that my personal convictions which my father instilled in me, and which I tried hard in my life to adhere to, are not in line with the approaches, trends and modern methods of our institutions.\n\n\"From the matter of honesty to God and conscience, I see nothing but to transcend and abandon the title of prince. I had the great honour of serving my beloved country and my dear people over the years of my life.\n\n\"I will remain as I have always been and as long as I live, loyal to our beloved Jordan.\"\n\nThe oldest son of the late King Hussein and his favourite wife Queen Noor, Prince Hamzah is a graduate of the UK's Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He also attended Harvard University in the US and has served in the Jordanian armed forces.\n\nHe was named crown prince of Jordan in 1999 and was a favourite of King Hussein, who often described him in public as the \"delight of my eye\".\n\nHowever, he was seen as too young and inexperienced to be named successor at the time of King Hussein's death.\n\nInstead his older half-brother, Abdullah, ascended the throne and stripped Hamzah of the title of crown prince in 2004.\n\nThe move was seen as a blow to Queen Noor, who had hoped to see her eldest son become king.\n\nKing Abdullah and his wife Queen Rania (pictured far right) attend the wedding ceremony of Prince Hamzah and Princess Noor (left) alongside Hamzah's mother Queen Noor (centre) in 2004\n\nIn April 2021, Hamzah released a video message in which claimed to have been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics and accused Jordan's leaders of corruption and incompetence.\n\nIt came after a number of high-level arrests said to be linked to an alleged coup plot.\n\nPrince Hamzah denied any wrongdoing and said he was not part of any conspiracy.\n\nThe Jordanian military denied Hamzah was under house arrest, but said he had been ordered to stop engaging in actions that could threaten Jordan's \"security and stability\".\n\nAbdullah later said in a televised address that the \"sedition has been nipped in the bud\" and that Hamzah was \"with his family in his palace under my protection\".\n\nTwo senior figures from the royal court were later convicted and sentenced to 15 years in jail over the alleged plot, though both also denied wrongdoing.\n\nPrince Hamzah has rarely been seen in public since the incident, but in March the Jordanian royal court released a letter purportedly written by Hamzah to his brother.\n\n\"Last year, our beloved Jordan endured trying circumstances and a regrettable chapter in its history,\" it reportedly read.\n\n\"The months that have passed since have afforded me the opportunity to honestly look within and self-reflect, and I find myself compelled to write to you... hoping that we can turn the page on this chapter in our country's and our family's history.\n\n\"I have erred, Your Majesty, and to err is human. I, therefore, bear responsibility for the stances I have taken and the offences I have committed against Your Majesty and our country over the past years, culminating in the events of the sedition case.\n\n\"I seek Your Majesty's forgiveness, knowing that you have always been very forgiving.\"", "Mariupol residents Yevgen and Natalia have made it to Lviv in western Ukraine\n\nThere is no humanitarian corridor now out of Mariupol. Just a trickle of people gambling on Russian military checkpoints - and Russian political whim.\n\nBut getting out of the besieged southern city is only the first challenge; the other is leaving it behind when you do.\n\nAlexander was brought to an Israeli field hospital near Lviv last week, catatonic. His 24-year-old brain was stuck on the horror he'd lived through: on the Russian rockets that hit the apartment block where he was staying with his parents; on the rubble and dead bodies they ran through, without even putting on their shoes.\n\n\"It was constant bombing,\" says his father, Yevgen. \"Planes went past every 10 minutes and dropped bombs on Mariupol. People were falling and dying in front of my eyes. We buried people in gardens.\"\n\nThe family found shelter with hundreds of others in a cinema near the city centre. Trapped there by Russian attacks, they survived on scraps of food from locals or Ukrainian soldiers, boiling snow to drink.\n\nThe family are staying with friends outside Lviv after fleeing Mariupol\n\nWhen supplies ran critically low, Natalia says, everyone without young children was asked to leave - to save resources and give the children a chance.\n\n\"We had a car that was damaged, but still working,\" she said, \"so we decided to leave the shelter. There was no way out: you could stay and die, or you could go and die. You couldn't even count minutes between the bombs.\"\n\nMemories like these mask their old lives like a second skin. The destruction and damage to Mariupol is carried out of the city with them; invisible shrapnel, lodged in their minds.\n\nSome 160,000 people are still thought to be trapped in Mariupol\n\nMariupol's mayor says 5,000 people have been killed, and 90% of the buildings damaged.\n\nSome of their pro-Russian neighbours, Natalia says, believed it was Ukrainian forces pounding their city to dust.\n\nShe refers to the Russian soldiers sarcastically as \"our saviours\" or \"those charming boys\", describing the pressure tactics she saw them use.\n\n\"After the shelling, those 'handsome boys' would appear and try to hand out sweets,\" she said. \"Some people couldn't resist taking them, because they hadn't eaten for several days. When you're suffering like that, you'll take anything.\"\n\nNatalia says they were told to flee when resources ran low\n\nSome 160,000 people are thought to still be trapped inside the city. France, Greece and Turkey have all tried to push for a pause in the attacks to get aid in and allow civilians to leave. But Russia's President Putin has said Mariupol must surrender in order for the bombardment to stop.\n\nAlexander and his family are now staying with friends outside Lviv. And Alexander has just been discharged and allowed to go \"home\".\n\nHis father Yevgen is a musician, with one remaining saxophone he salvaged from the city before he left. Before taking his son home from hospital, he gave staff at the hospital a concert, Alexander smiling on beside him.\n\nGathered between the medical tents to listen, half the doctors were in tears.\n\nThey listened to the beautiful sound from the man who had lost so much, but who stood there, giving thanks for what he saved from Mariupol: his saxophone, and his son.\n\nAre you or your family in Ukraine and have been affected by the war in Ukraine? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Olena describes sheltering her children beneath her after a bomb hit their home\n\n\"I went into the kitchen and saw a bomb coming towards my window. It was all so quick I didn't know what was happening. I just saw it flying towards me.\"\n\nIt was the morning of 11 March in the city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, when a bomb crashed into Olena Selichzianowa's home - and her family.\n\nSpeaking in Russian, the mother of five-year-old twin boys, Nazar and Timur, describes how she fell to her knees, pulling her sons beneath her to protect them from the pieces of shrapnel. After the bomb's impact she recalls nothing.\n\nAll three were blinded by the flying fragments that cut into their arms and faces. Their skin was badly burned, a small shard of glass embedded itself in one of Olena's eyes and her leg was broken.\n\nNazar and Timur have had several surgeries to try to save their sight\n\nThe family were pulled from the wreckage and taken to a nearby hospital, but their wounds were so serious they had to be moved quickly.\n\nIn Lviv, eye specialist Dr Nataliya Preys was made aware of this family's injuries. Dr Preys sent images of the wounds to her former teacher in Poland, Professor Robert Rejdak, at the Medical University of Lublin.\n\nHe knew the three needed to be treated immediately. But the fighting in Ukraine meant it would take a week for Olena, Nazar and Timur to reach Poland.\n\n\"They have come from hell,\" Professor Rejdak told us. \"The mum was completely blind, she could only reach out to touch her children. The children were so hungry and tired when they first arrived that they only ate, slept and cried.\"\n\nHe is visibly moved as he recounts their first meeting. Then, his expertise as a leading surgeon at one of Europe's largest eye hospitals takes over.\n\n\"We decided to operate on mum. I performed bilateral cataract surgery. The surgery was really complicated because of the wounds, because of a piece of glass inside one eye.\n\n\"Fortunately the surgery went really perfectly and Olena sees almost fully two days after. The healing process is perfect so I hope it will be even better - but at least now she can see her boys and look around.\"\n\nThe little boys' journey to health will take longer. Nazar has lost his eye.\n\nProfessor Rejdak's team performed retina surgery, and is now planning further cataract surgery.\n\n\"The twins also have really massive ocular trauma,\" he says. \"We are hoping the vision will be good, but they need longer treatment.\"\n\nIf Olena and her boys had reached Lublin just a few days later the consequences would have been stark.\n\n\"They would be blind because it was the last moment to start the treatment, it already took seven days from the accident and in ocular trauma time is crucial.\"\n\nWhen asked if it was a miracle to be able to save their sight, Professor Rejdak says, \"a little bit\".\n\nBack on the ward the little boys are playing. Although it is Nazar who has lost his eye, he seems more protective over his brother Timur, who is a little shyer and more withdrawn.\n\n\"A psychologist is helping them, giving them tablets so they can sleep,\" explains Olena. \"They are feeling better and have had many operations. But they saw the bomb fall on them. They are a little calmer but they are jumpy and they struggle to sleep.\"\n\nBefore the war, Olena was a cook at the local school. Once her family have healed, would she want to go back?\n\n\"No,\" she answers quickly. \"Everyone has been so kind here, I want to stay. Also my home has been destroyed, there is nothing left.\"\n\nProfessor Rejdak is among those helping to find somewhere for this family to live. Once Olena has recovered and only when she is ready, the hope is she that she will find a job.\n\nThis is not the only family that needs help. Professor Rejdak is providing virtual consultations with his colleagues in Ukraine. Thanks to his teaching work he has a network of specialists. He works closely with his former pupil Dr Preys and advises who should be evacuated to receive surgery in Lublin.\n\nProfesssor Rejdak is preparing for more people arriving from Ukraine\n\nIf evacuation is not possible, then he gives advice on how doctors in Lviv should proceed with treatment.\n\nHe firmly believes virtual medicine is key to helping the victims of this war. Medical supplies and donations are also being sent to Ukraine by a team of people brought together under the umbrella of the Medical University of Lublin.\n\nThe work is endless, as more and more people are injured in the fighting. Professor Rejdak and his team will be operating on the twins again in the coming days, but they are also preparing for new arrivals who will be coming to the hospital from Ukraine.", "Past presenters of Newsround in 2002: Lizo Mzimba, John Craven and Becky Jago\n\nNewsround, the world's longest running children's news programme is celebrating its 50th birthday.\n\nThe show, initially commissioned as a six-week experiment by the BBC's Children's Department, was first broadcast on 4th April 1972, and has been running ever since.\n\n\"It is such an honour for me to have started it,\" says John Craven, the show's first presenter. \"I'm terribly proud that it's still an important part of national life.\"\n\nCraven helped to develop the Newsround format that still persists today.\n\n\"We had to be dealing with serious news, news we thought the children should know about. [But also] news that we thought they wanted to know about.\n\n\"We honed in on sport, and hobbies, and school stories. Space, adventure wildlife. All these kind of areas that children were interested in we had on Newsround\".\n\nLeah Boleto says Newsround is \"not patronising\"\n\n\"I think it's putting kids at the hearts of stories,\" says Leah Boleto, who presented the programme between 2010 and 2019.\n\n\"Newsround has always been really key on knowing who they're talking to. And it's not patronising, but it takes a story, strips down any of the jargon and tells it in a sensitive way.\"\n\nHer husband Ricky Boleto who's presented since 2008 (the couple met on the programme) agrees.\n\n\"I think it's the blend, the mix of stories. Newsround is so well known for having these 'and finally' stories as well, but also focusing on the big story of the day in a way that kids can understand.\"\n\nThe Newsround website offers a huge range of information for younger readers\n\nIn 1985, after 13 years, John Craven was joined by a team of other presenters that included the late Helen Rollason and Roger Finn.\n\nThe programme was now so well established with both its audience and with broadcasting executives, that the BBC Newsroom trusted its journalists to be able to handle news of any kind.\n\nFinn remembers a high level conference being held in BBC News about \"breaking news\" protocols.\n\nIn the days before rolling news channels or the internet, the first the audience would hear of a huge story was often through a television newsflash. But what would happen if a big story broke during children's programming on BBC One?\n\nThe decision was made that Newsround could, and should be trusted to break such stories.\n\nJust a few weeks later on 28th January 1986, 15 minutes before Newsround was due on air, Roger Finn was sitting in the studio checking his scripts when he heard the voice of Kirsty Fish, the show's producer, in his earpiece.\n\nThe Space Shuttle Challenger had exploded shortly after take-off. Newsround was the first programme to break the news to the country - children and adults alike.\n\n\"It was a sign of respect that yes, we can trust you to do this,\" says Roger. \"We were aware that we had to be as sensitive as possible, and we had to do this very quickly and just tell the facts and tell the story of what had happened.\"\n\nOver the decades, Newsround may not have broken every big story to the viewing public, but still, at its core was explaining difficult news to its young audience in an appropriate way.\n\nJulie Etchingham, who presented the programme in the mid to late 1990s remembers reporting from outside Buckingham Palace in the days following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in the summer of 1997.\n\nIt was a story that prompted an outpouring of grief from people of all ages.\n\n\"I just remember being down here amongst the crowds,\" she says, standing outside Buckingham Palace. \"Many people remember that just here in front of the palace - it was sort of a sea of flowers.\n\n\"You had to navigate that story like any of these big, challenging upsetting stories for Newsround,\" she expands. \"We had a guest in our studio who was a bereavement specialist and could talk about grief. And how children navigate grief.\n\n\"There's so many wonderful things about Newsround, but that is one of the greatest.\n\n\"It thinks hard about the impact on its audience. Not in just a journalistic way. But in an emotional way as well.\"\n\nMore recently, the show, which had moved to Salford Quays in Manchester a few years earlier, had to deal with a terror attack at the nearby Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAn even more difficult task for the team, as this was an attack that had targeted an event that was filled with children.\n\n\"It was a very difficult one because we knew that kids were the ones that were going to be directly impacted by this,\" recalls Ricky.\n\n\"And standing outside the Manchester Arena to talk about that story live, knowing that so many children that we were then going to engage with had friends or family who were at the concert was probably one of the hardest stories for me to tell.\"\n\nLeah adds: \"What was key for us in that moment was to tell the story. Not to shy away from what had happened. Be selective in the pictures that we could show, but also who's helping.\n\n\"Who is there on the scene, making sure people are safe is also key and then that brilliant thing that Newsround does that says it's OK to feel scared by what you might be seeing here.\"\n\nFrom the start Newsround has also been known for its lighter moments. Like all Newsround reporters, during my time on the programme between 1998 and 2008, I covered a huge range of stories from the serious to the surreal.\n\nBut the one that the audience seems to remember the most is my reporting of the Harry Potter phenomenon. I covered the books from my earliest days on Newsround, interviewing JK Rowling on many occasions, and being at the many midnight book launches.\n\nAnd when the films came along, we did a piece on how children could apply for the main roles in the forthcoming movie.\n\nWhen the young cast was unveiled to world's media on 23rd August 2000, Rupert Grint revealed that after seeing the report, he'd decided to send in an application and audition tape. The rest, as they say, is wizarding history.\n\nAnd finally! The programme has always, of course, always been known for its humorous end items.\n\n\"We always wanted to send their children away feeling happy,\" laughs John Craven.\n\n\"So we always ended on a funny story with, if possible, an awful pun attached to it. And we searched every week, we had somebody out looking for the right funny stories to end the show with.\"\n\nIt's a formula that has kept a six-week experiment in the schedules for 50 years.\n\nAnd which could well keep it going for another 50 years to come.", "Corpses and burned out cars litter this stretch of the E-40 highway\n\nFootage of Russian troops shooting a man with his hands up on a highway outside Kyiv at the beginning of March was shared around the world. Now the Russians have been pushed out of the area and the BBC's Jeremy Bowen has been to see the grim aftermath of their short-lived occupation.\n\nThis report contains material some viewers will find disturbing\n\nWe counted 13 bodies on a nightmarish stretch of road not much more than 200 yards long, between Mria and Myla, villages whose Ukrainian names translate as Dream and Sweetheart.\n\nTwo of the dead are confirmed as Ukrainian civilians who were killed by the Russians. The others have not been identified yet - they lie where they were killed - but only two are wearing recognisable Ukrainian military uniforms.\n\nOur BBC team was able to get to the area, on the main E-40 highway as it approaches Kyiv, because Ukrainian forces had captured the sector only 10 hours earlier.\n\nThe marks of battle and of heavy shelling were everywhere. Petrol stations and a hotel that was well-known for its spa and restaurant were in ruins. Shell holes and craters pockmarked both carriageways.\n\nUkrainian troops changing a wheel in the ruins of a roadside garage said the Russians were about 4km (2.5 miles) away and had pulled their remaining men and armour back after a hard fight, lasting several days, in the early hours of the morning.\n\nLeft behind in the heart of the desolation were the dead bodies, and a mass of questions and concerns about who they were and how they died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome answers already exist for a couple who were killed by the Russians and left to decompose on 7 March. Their rusty, shrapnel riddled car lies in the road next to one of the petrol stations, reduced to a shell by fire. Next to it are the burnt and twisted remains of a body that is just about recognisable as the remains of a man. A wedding ring is still on the corpse's finger. Stretched out inside the hulk of their car is what is left of the incinerated body of a woman, the mouth opened in what looks like a scream.\n\nTheir deaths were filmed by a Ukrainian drone on 7 March, operated by the Bugatti unit of Territorial Defence. The unit released the video, which was republished by news organisations around the world. It caused outrage because it showed the cold-blooded killing of a man who had raised his arms to show he was harmless, in the classic gesture of surrender.\n\nThe bodies, the BBC discovered in an investigation this month, are of Maksim Iowenko and his wife Ksjena. They were part of a convoy of 10 civilian vehicles who were trying to escape the Russians and get to Kyiv.\n\nKsjena and Maksim Iowenko were civilians and should have been protected\n\nAs they drove down the road, they spotted a Russian tank in position, dug into the grass verge. The drone video shows it was clearly marked with the letter V, one of the identifiers used by the Russian armed forces. The other cars did quick U-turns and drove away at speed. But Maksim's car stopped, most likely because it was hit.\n\nAs soon as the car stopped, Maksim leapt out and raised his hands. Within seconds he was shot dead. His wife was killed in the car. Also in the car were their six-year-old son and the elderly mother of one of Maksim's friends. Both of them survived and were eventually released by the Russian soldiers.\n\nThey were found walking back down the road, and the woman told her family that Maksim was shouting that a child was in the car when he was killed. Both survivors, according to the Bugatti drone unit, are now safe but deeply traumatised.\n\nThe car is now burnt out, but it was not on fire after the attack. One hypothesis must be that the bodies and the car were set on fire by the Russians to destroy the evidence of what they had done. The Bugatti Unit has submitted its drone video to the Ukrainian authorities and to the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nMore burnt cars and dead bodies line the road for the next few hundred yards. No video has emerged to show what happened. A credible working assumption for any investigation must be that the other dead people were killed by the tank crew, or other Russian soldiers.\n\nSome of the evidence the BBC gathered is too disturbing to show in full. Here a dead man has been covered by rubber tyres\n\nHere a Ukrainian soldier gestures towards sets of charred human remains by a burned out vehicle\n\nAttempts have been made to destroy the other bodies. Some have been left to rot where they were killed. But other corpses have been piled up and surrounded by tyres. Charred clothing indicates attempts were made to set fires around them. Tyres are flammable and must have been placed there as an accelerant.\n\nThe emplacement where the tank was dug in has a clear arc of fire across the area where the 13 bodies are lying. The tank has gone but debris was left by its crew, including Russian army field rations. In the woods nearby is at least one other tank, which has been burnt out after being hit by an anti-tank missile.\n\nA Ukrainian soldier produced a wallet he had found in the tank. He emptied out Russian identity papers, bank notes in the Russian currency, the rouble, and small change in Belorussian coppers. The major thrust to the north-west of Kyiv came from invaders who had crossed the border from Belarus, Moscow's ally.\n\nClose by the knocked out tank are the remains of a chaotic camp, with dugouts, chairs and a long table piled high with the remains of food and drink. They are all surrounded by big piles of garbage, rotten food and empty bottles of alcohol. Ukrainian soldiers said shops at the petrol stations were looted.\n\nAn abandoned Russian camp: the soldiers are said to have looted petrol stations\n\nNext to the table is a large pair of bolt-cutters. Piles of unburied rubbish scattered in a forward position are usually a sign of undisciplined soldiers.\n\nWe decided to drive two or three kilometres further down the road, after Ukrainian soldiers said more Russian armour had been destroyed.\n\nIn a small village, a Russian tank and two armoured personnel carriers were broken and burnt. Some of the wreckage was still smoking. The force of the weapon that destroyed the tank blew off its turret and main gun, which lay upside down and half buried in a crater around 15 yards away.\n\nIn the pine woods on either side of the road Ukrainian soldiers were digging trenches and fox holes with shovels. Others were patrolling. It was far too early to say whether the Russians were gone for good, or whether they would be back.\n\nWhat is clear though is that Russian forces, under continued pressure from Ukrainian soldiers, have been forced to yield strategic territory around Kyiv. Every time they move back, the Ukrainian capital and its people become a little safer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video captured by a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance group appears to show Russian forces shooting at civilians\n\nAs and when the Russians leave, more evidence is likely to emerge of civilians having been killed - backing up the many stories that have emerged of such incidents.\n\nThe gruesome scenes on the road were more than simply the terrible deaths of human beings who had become victims of President Putin's decision to invade. It is also a crime scene, with evidence that should be collected and preserved for an investigation whenever this war ends.\n\nUnder the laws of war civilians are protected, and when they are killed in defiance of those laws, their deaths amount to war crimes.", "2007: Dot attempts to hide Anya Covalenco (Olga Fedori) and baby Tomas from the immigration authorities. She takes them to a church where she believes they will be given sanctuary. Anya eventually decides to give herself up and asks Dot to look after her child. Dot agrees - but later finds looking after a baby is too much for her and gives him up for adoption.", "Olha Sukhenko, her son Oleksander and husband Igor were found dead more than a week after going missing Image caption: Olha Sukhenko, her son Oleksander and husband Igor were found dead more than a week after going missing\n\nAs we've been reporting, a family who disappeared in their village west of Kyiv last month have been found dead in a shallow grave.\n\nOur correspondent, Yogita Limaye, visited the site, located in a wood near destroyed homes.\n\nOlha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander are alleged to have been shot dead by Russian soldiers. A fourth body was also found but has not been identified.\n\nRussian forces took Olha - who served as the head of her village of Motyzhyn - and her family from their home on 23 March, an investigation by the Ukrainian chief prosecutor found.\n\nIn Olha's last Facebook post before her death, posted in late February after the Russian invasion, she talked about there being \"someone else's scum in our village\" and warned residents to keep calm and not to leave their houses.\n\nTwo days after the family were allegedly disappeared by Russian forces, a woman called Daria appealed on social media for information on their whereabouts, saying they were her \"second family\" and \"helped people to the end\".\n\nShe said Russian forces had stolen Oleksander's car and were \"riding around the village\".\n\nAfter it emerged that the family had been killed, Daria posted an update:\n\nI don't have enough words and strength to describe how I and my whole family feel.\n\nThis is a crime - in every sense. All involved will be appear in court.\n\nSasha, my Hero. You didn't leave your parents behind. You will forever be in my heart. In our hearts. Heroes don't die.", "Carrie Lam's five years in office saw massive pro-democracy protests and increased Chinese control.\n\nHong Kong's leader Carrie Lam announced she would not seek a second term in office after a controversial tenure that has seen many of the territory's civil freedoms eroded.\n\nAs chief executive, Ms Lam oversaw a turbulent period where massive pro-democracy protests led to greater Chinese control in Hong Kong.\n\nOn Monday, she told reporters Beijing had been receptive to her decision.\n\nShe also revealed she had informed China about her desire to not seek a second term a year ago, despite refusing in recent times to answer questions about her political future.\n\nMs Lam said she was stepping back and prioritising her family.\n\n\"There's only one consideration and that is family... They think it's time for me to go home,\" she said.\n\nHong Kong's Chief Secretary John Lee is tipped to be the favoured replacement for Ms Lam.\n\nThe city's leaders are selected by a committee of 1,500 members who are nearly all pro-Beijing loyalists. They're due to select the new chief executive next month.\n\nLocal media outlets reported that Mr Lee, the second-highest ranking official, was due to present his candidacy for the leadership position this week.\n\nMr Lee, a former police officer, was also a leading security official during the 2019 protests. He was elevated to the leadership ranks last year, in a sign, analysts said, of Beijing's intention to focus on security in Hong Kong.\n\nThough Carrie Lam has taken her marching orders from Beijing, the history books will show that she was Hong Kong's chief executive when the city's freedoms collapsed.\n\nShe took over a part of China like no other, where dissent was tolerated, with a free press, and an independent judiciary.\n\nDuring her time in power, Hong Kong became a place of state oppression where political opposition has been obliterated.\n\nThe upheaval of 2019 was a crisis of her government's making. They tried to ram through a proposal to allow people to be sent to face mainland courts controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and ignored millions of people marching peacefully to oppose the measure.\n\nThe longer the tensions continued, the more violent the clashes became.\n\nAfter months of destruction and disruption, at the end of 2019, Lam's political allies were crushed at the ballot box - in what were the only real elections in Hong Kong - when they lost control of all but one local council.\n\nThis could never be tolerated again so, under Lam, it was made impossible for pro-democracy candidates to even stand.\n\nNow you can be sent to prison for singing certain songs, wearing t-shirts with slogans, or suggesting that others light candles at home as a form of protest.\n\nThe chaos of 2019 was a perfect excuse for the Chinese government to rein in Hong Kong's rebellious population - and Lam was the public face of it.\n\nA bureaucrat with decades of experience, Ms Lam was Hong Kong's first female leader who soon became one of the city's most divisive leaders.\n\nThe mass protests of 2019 led to China imposing a series of policies to \"restore security\" and tighten control over Hong Kong and its residents, including a major national security law that criminalised most forms of political protest and dissent, and reduced the city's autonomy.\n\nMs Lam had promoted the widely-criticised law saying it was not all \"doom and gloom\", saying that compared to other national security laws, it was \"rather mild\".\n\n\"Its scope is not as broad as that in other countries and even China,\" she has said.\n\nHowever since its passage in 2020, Hong Kong has seen a succession of democracy activists, former lawmakers and media figures arrested and jailed. Many others have fled abroad.\n\nMs Lam was also at the forefront of her city's response to the pandemic.\n\nShe ensured Hong Kong mirrored the mainland in its pandemic response - shutting borders and enforcing weeks-long quarantine for travellers in a bid to eliminate the virus rather than live with it.\n\nBut an Omicron wave broke through last month, overwhelming the city's healthcare system and causing hundreds of deaths a day in the city of seven million. Hong Kong has now lifted some restrictions as it comes off the wave's peak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From protests to 'patriots': Why China is bent on crushing Hong Kong dissent\n\nRead more: Carrie Lam: The controversial leader of Hong Kong", "Mariupol has become the most heavily bombed and damaged city in Ukraine's war with Russia - having suffered the brunt of sustained Russian attacks. It is key to Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine. But why?\n\nThere are four main reasons why taking the port city would be such a strategic win for Russia - and a major blow for Ukraine.\n\nGeographically, the city of Mariupol occupies only a tiny area on the map but it now stands obstinately in the way of Russian forces who have burst out of the Crimean peninsula.\n\nThey are pushing north-east to try to link up with their comrades and Ukrainian-separatist allies in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.\n\nGeneral Sir Richard Barrons - former commander of UK Joint Forces Command - says capturing Mariupol is vital to Russia's war effort.\n\n\"When the Russians feel they have successfully concluded that battle, they will have completed a land bridge from Russia to Crimea and they will see this as a major strategic success.\"\n\nIf Mariupol was seized, Russia would also end up with full control of more than 80% of Ukraine's Black Sea coastline - cutting-off its maritime trade and further isolating it from the world.\n\nBy holding out against advancing forces for the past three weeks, the defending Ukrainians have managed to preoccupy a large number of Russian troops. But that failure by Russia to secure a rapid capture of the city, has prompted Russian commanders to resort to a 21st Century version of mediaeval siege tactics.\n\nThey have pummelled Mariupol with artillery, rockets and missiles - damaging or destroying over 90% of the city. They have also cut off access to electricity, heating, fresh water, food and medical supplies - creating a man-made humanitarian catastrophe which Moscow now blames on Ukraine for refusing to surrender by an 05:00 deadline on Monday. A Ukrainian MP has accused Russia of \"trying to starve Mariupol into surrender\".\n\nUkraine has vowed to defend the city down to the last soldier. It may well come to that. Russian troops are slowly pushing into the centre and, in the absence of any kind of workable peace deal, Russia is now likely to intensify its bombardment - drawing little if any distinction between its armed defenders and the beleaguered civilian population which still numbers over 200,000.\n\nIf, and when, Russia takes full control of Mariupol this will free up close to 6,000 of its troops - organised into 1,000-strong battalion tactical groups - to then go and reinforce other Russian fronts around Ukraine.\n\nThere are a number of possibilities as to where they could be redeployed:\n\nMariupol has long-been a strategically important port on the Sea of Azov, part of the Black Sea.\n\nWith its deep berths, it is the biggest port in the Azov Sea region and home to a major iron and steel works. In normal times, Mariupol is a key export hub for Ukraine's steel, coal and corn going to customers in the Middle East and beyond.\n\nFor eight years now, since Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, the city has been sandwiched uncomfortably between Russian forces on that peninsula and the pro-Kremlin separatists in the breakaway self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nLosing Mariupol would be a major blow to what is left of Ukraine's economy.\n\nMariupol is home to a Ukrainian militia unit called the Azov Brigade, named after the Sea of Azov which links Mariupol to the rest of the Black Sea. The Azov Brigade contains far-right extremists, historically including neo-Nazis.\n\nAlthough they form only the tiniest fraction of Ukraine's fighting forces, this has been a useful propaganda tool for Moscow, giving it a pretext for telling Russia's population that the young men it has sent to fight in Ukraine are there to rid their neighbour of neo-Nazis.\n\nAzov Battalion training camp at a former holiday resort near Mariupol, February 2019\n\nIf Russia manages to capture alive significant numbers of Azov Brigade fighters it is likely they will be paraded on Russian state-controlled media as part of the ongoing information war to discredit Ukraine and its government.\n\nThe capture of Mariupol by Russia, if it happens, will be psychologically significant for both sides in this war.\n\nA Russian victory in Mariupol would enable the Kremlin to show its population - through state-controlled media - that Russia was achieving its aims and making progress.\n\nFor President Putin, for whom this war appears to be personal, there is a historical significance to all this. He sees Ukraine's Black Sea coastline as belonging to something called Novorossiya (New Russia) - Russian lands that date back to the 18th Century empire.\n\nPutin wants to revive that concept, \"rescuing Russians from the tyranny of a pro-western government in Kyiv\" as he sees it. Mariupol currently stands in the way of him achieving that aim.\n\nBut to Ukrainians, the loss of Mariupol would be a major blow - not just militarily and economically - but also to the minds of the men and women fighting on the ground, defending their country. Mariupol would be the first major city to fall to the Russians after Kherson, a strategically much less important city that was barely defended.\n\nThere is another morale aspect here and that is of deterrence.\n\nDigging graves by the roadside in Mariupol, 20 March\n\nMariupol has put up fierce resistance - but look at the cost. The city is decimated, it lies largely in ruins. It will go down in history alongside Grozny and Aleppo, places that Russia eventually bombed and shelled into submission, reducing them to rubble. The message to other Ukrainian cities is stark - if you choose to resist like Mariupol did then you can expect the same fate.\n\n\"The Russians couldn't walk into Mariupol,\" says Gen Sir Richard Barrons, \"they couldn't drive in with their tanks, so they've pounded it to rubble. And that's what we should expect to see anywhere else that really matters to them.\"\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Is your family? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Six people were killed at the scene\n\nPolice have arrested one suspect in connection with a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, California's capital, on Sunday, that left six dead.\n\nDandre Martin, 26, has been charged with assault and illegal firearm possession, police said on Monday.\n\nMultiple people are believed to have opened fire in the busy downtown area, close to the state Capitol building.\n\nOfficials have identified the three men and three women killed in this year's worst US mass shooting so far.\n\nThree of the victims were men: Sergio Harris, 38, De'Vazia Turner, 29, and Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32.\n\nThree women were also shot dead: Johntaya Alexander, 21, Melinda Davis, 57, and Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21.\n\nPolice say all six victims died at the scene, when multiple shooters opened fire just after 02:00 (09:00 GMT) on Sunday near the junction of 10th and K Street.\n\nAn additional twelve people were wounded in the shooting and taken to local hospitals. By Monday, seven had been discharged.\n\nThe violence was \"unprecedented\" for the city, its police chief said.\n\nPolice have executed several search warrants as of Monday. At least one handgun, now understood to be stolen, was recovered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe family of Sergio Harris told local media the vivacious and friendly father had gone to a nightclub, London, late on Saturday and never returned.\n\nMr Harris's wife, Leticia Fields, told the San Francisco Chronicle a stranger had told her on the phone that he had been shot.\n\n\"It sounds like a lot of innocent people lost their lives tonight,\" Ms Fields told the Chronicle. \"I'm taking it day by day. I haven't told our 11-year-old yet\".\n\nMr Harris had gone to the nightclub with his cousin, DeVazia Turner - another of the victims - Mr Turner's father told local TV station Fox40.\n\n\"There's just nothing to say. I'm just here. I'm grief, that's all - grief,\" the elder Mr Turner said.\n\nVideos posted online appear to show a brawl break out in the area - packed with restaurants and bars - in the early hours on Sunday, just before rapid gun fire sent people fleeing.\n\nIt was so far unclear whether the fight led to the shooting, police say, and on Monday, officials set up an online portal to ask the public to submit information from the scene.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, President Joe Biden decried \"another\" instance of gun violence leaving \"families forever changed. Survivors left to heal wounds both visible and invisible\".\n\nFirearms are involved in approximately 40,000 deaths a year in the US, including suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.\n\nDid you witness what happened in Sacramento? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "Many at St Andrews Cathedral in Glasgow on Monday continued to wear a face coverning\n\nThe legal requirement to wear face coverings in places of worship and while attending marriage and funeral services in Scotland has ended.\n\nAbout one in 12 people had Covid last week and the number in hospital with the virus was at a record high.\n\nCovid mask laws for shops, some other indoor settings and public transport will remain in place for two weeks.\n\nThe Scottish government previously confirmed this guidance would remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nFace coverings also need to be worn in secondary school communal areas and by those moving inside the buildings.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon had previously indicated that the regulation could be downgraded to guidance on 4 April, but the plans were delayed because of a surge in cases of the highly contagious Omicron BA.2 variant.\n\nMany in the congregation at St Andrews Cathedral in Glasgow on Monday continued to wear a face covering.\n\nAfter a service, one told the BBC he would continue to wear a mask: \"It's not much of a hassle for me, I don't mind wearing one.\"\n\nHe added that he felt he was protecting himself and protecting others.\n\nAnother said she had followed the rules when masks were required, but she felt they were becoming \"ridiculous\" and people had to use common sense.\n\n\"You're sitting in a massive cathedral with a mask on, but you could be sitting in a small bistro without a mask on,\" she said.\n\nThe legal requirement to wear face coverings at weddings in Scotland has ended\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) found 451,200 people in Scotland had Covid in the week ending 26 March, down from 473,800 the previous week.\n\nSeparate statistics show 2,372 people with recently confirmed Covid-19 were in hospital on Sunday, including 23 in intensive care.\n\nThey also recorded another 5,364 new cases of Covid-19.\n\nHowever a data reporting issue means lower than usual case numbers have been reported since Friday, Public Health Scotland said.\n\nThe legal requirement for businesses to take steps to reduce the spread of Covid, including physical distancing and screens, ended on 21 March.\n\nFace coverings are no longer legally required in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe UK government has expanded its official list of Covid symptoms to include another nine signs of a coronavirus infection.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency's updated guidance now lists symptoms including a sore throat, muscle pains and diarrhoea.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would continue to keep its advice on Covid under review.", "\"You should appreciate your fans,\" Brown told the podcast\n\nVeteran EastEnders actress June Brown has said she has left her role as much-loved character Dot Cotton after 35 years.\n\n\"I've left for good,\" said the 93-year-old in an interview with podcast Distinct Nostalgia.\n\nShe is one of the BBC soap's longest-running characters and has become a firm favourite with viewers.\n\nHer character Dot has not been in an episode since January. An EastEnders spokesman said the \"door remains open\".\n\nBrown joined the show in 1985, the year it was created.\n\nIn the last episode she featured in, aired last month, Dot Cotton - or Dot Branning - left a voicemail message for character Sonia Fowler saying she had moved to Ireland.\n\nBrown told the podcast she is hoping to do a documentary next\n\nAsked by interviewer and former co-star Rani Singh whether EastEnders had put her on a retainer, Brown replied: \"I don't want a retainer. I've left. I've left for good.\n\n\"I've sent myself to Ireland and that's where she'll stay. I've left EastEnders.\"\n\nAn EastEnders spokesman said: \"We never discuss artists' contracts, however as far as EastEnders are concerned the door remains open for June, as it always has if the story arises and if June wishes to take part.\"\n\nActor John Altman, who played Nick Cotton (Dot's son), told BBC News: \"June as an actress is one of the greatest we've got, and I learned a lot from her too. She's an incredibly hard worker.\"\n\nAsked about the rather low-key send-off her character had on screen, he said: \"I think it could've been a better exit, that's for sure, but she must have discussed this with the powers that be. It's the way it is, it's a shame.\"\n\nOne of EastEnders' best-known stars, Brown was in her late 50s when she joined Albert Square.\n\nActor Leslie Grantham, who played Dirty Den, suggested her for the role. Until then, Brown's career had incorporated stage, film and television, with appearances in Coronation Street and Doctor Who.\n\n\"I think I got it because they thought I was a punctual actress,\" Brown told the podcast, which aired a special episode to celebrate 35 years of EastEnders.\n\n\"I'm not really but I became so. In fact I became so punctual I used to be in an hour before I should be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe said it \"was a very strange feeling\" leaving the soap.\n\n\"I was feeling rather down the other day,\" she said. \"I thought, 'what's the matter? Why do I feel so sad?' It's almost as if I've been bereaved.\n\n\"I've played two people simultaneously for 35 years. Really Dot wasn't me, but spiritually she probably was.\"\n\nBrown took a four-year break from the soap between 1993 and 1997\n\nAn episode from 2008 shows Dot being teased by a gang as she walks to the Tube\n\nIn 2008, Brown became the first actor in a British soap to carry an entire episode alone, with an emotional monologue dictated to a cassette for her screen husband to listen to in hospital following a stroke.\n\nThat same year she was made an MBE for services to drama and charity.\n\nLast year, Brown revealed she was losing her sight after being diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration and could no longer recognise her friends.", "Angharad Williamson and John Cole are both charged with Logan Mwangi's murder\n\nA five-year-old boy was treated like a prisoner in the days before his death, a murder trial has heard.\n\nLogan Mwangi was made to face the wall as his step-father John Cole put food in his room, jurors at Cardiff Crown Court were told.\n\nCole, 40, is on trial with partner Angharad Williamson, 31, and a youth, 14, who all deny murdering Logan.\n\nHis body was found in the River Ogmore in Sarn, Bridgend, last July with 56 external injuries.\n\nCole has previously admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice.\n\nOn Monday, he said he is \"not proud\" of how he treated Logan, but did not punch him in the stomach before he died.\n\nLogan had suffered severe internal damage to his abdominal area\n\nUnder cross-examination by Ms Williamson's barrister, Peter Rouch QC, he explained how Logan behaved during his isolation for Covid in the days before he died.\n\nHe said they kept the boy in his room with a baby gate over the doorway, making him face the wall when anyone came in, but Logan had tried to find ways to get out of the room.\n\n\"He gave both of us angry looks,\" Cole said.\n\nProsecutor Caroline Rees QC suggested in the days leading to Logan's death he was treated like a \"prisoner\" in his bedroom.\n\n\"Taking food to his room and making him face the wall as you put the food to the room,\" she said.\n\n\"You treated that little boy like a prisoner and in the week before Logan's death he was largely confined to the room and made to face the wall when food was delivered to him.\n\n\"How did you think that made that little boy feel?\"\n\nCole replied: \"We were trying our best we possibly could.\"\n\nLogan was found dead in the River Ogmore in Sarn, Bridgend county, last July\n\nThe defendant - who is 6ft 4in tall and \"between 14 and 15 stone\" - told the jury he could talk \"in a forceful voice\".\n\nMs Williamson's barrister, Peter Rouch QC asked Cole about an argument with Ms Williamson, suggesting he was getting angry with Logan \"flinching when he came near\".\n\n\"Angharad said words to the effect that you are always picking on Logan,\" the barrister added.\n\nThis was something Cole denied.\n\nThe barrister also said Cole had hit Logan \"twice in the stomach\", but the defendant replied: \"I did not hit Logan in the stomach.\"\n\nCole also denied encouraging the teenage defendant to \"sweep the boy's legs\" if he moved.\n\nMr Rouch said Ms Williamson then threatened to leave Cole and ran out of the house saying, \"I am sick of these rows, I am sick of it,\" to which John Cole is alleged to have replied: \"If you do, I will kill him.\"\n\nCole denied this, saying the row was caused by his partner picking up Logan by the arms and shaking him.\n\nJohn Cole has admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice\n\nMr Rouch referred to a neighbour texting another neighbour saying \"baldy is going bananas\", referring to his behaviour before the boy's death.\n\nCole previously told the jury he did \"clip the boy's head\" and \"tapped him on the hand\" to discipline him.\n\nHe said: \"I am not proud of what I did, but I have admitted what I have done.\"\n\nThe jury were shown the black Nike holdall bag that the couple put Logan's body into.\n\nMr Rouch said it had been measured by police and was 2ft 2in (67cm) in length, adding: \"Logan was 3ft 5in. How did you get him into the bag?\"\n\nAsked, \"did you cram him in?\", Cole replied: \"I don't remember. I wasn't thinking clearly.\"\n\nAsked again about moving Logan's body, John Cole said: \"I regret doing that - what I did was disgusting and I deserve whatever I get for that.\"\n\nUnder cross examination, Cole said Logan was alive and \"still misbehaving\" when he went to bed but did not believe his partner would have hurt the boy.\n\nHe told the court Ms Williamson said Logan's death had been a \"freak accident\" but he did not ask her more because he \"didn't want to know the answer\".\n\n\"There was a dead child, and you didn't want to know the answer?\" asked Caroline Rees QC.\n\n\"I knew I didn't kill Logan, so the answer I was going to get was too horrific and I didn't want to know.\"\n\nThe defendant told the court Ms Williamson had on a number of occasions said she could not cope with Logan's behaviour and talked about \"handing him into social services\".\n\nCole has admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice, which Ms Williamson and the 14-year-old deny.\n\nThe two adults are also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they both deny.", "Elon Musk's Twitter posts have brought him to the attention of financial regulators.\n\nElon Musk has taken a 9.2% stake in Twitter, according to a US securities filing.\n\nThe announcement sent Twitter shares soaring by more than 27% in New York trading on Monday.\n\nTesla's chief executive owned 73,486,938 shares in the social media platform as of 14 March, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.\n\nThe stake is worth $2.89bn (£2.2bn), based on Twitter's closing price on Friday.\n\nIt makes him the largest shareholder in the company, with more than four times the 2.25% holding of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.\n\nMr Musk is a regular Twitter user with more than 80 million followers, although recently he said he is giving \"serious thought\" to building a new social media platform.\n\nLate last month, Mr Musk asked his followers whether they thought the social media platform encouraged free speech.\n\n\"Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?\"\n\nHe then asked: \"Is a new platform needed?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe regularly uses Twitter to share updates from the companies he owns - including SpaceX and Neuralink. He is also known for sharing memes, adding to his popularity among fans.\n\nBut some posts have drawn controversy.\n\nLast year he tweeted in response to a claim, made by the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), that just 2% of Mr Musk's wealth could help to solve world hunger.\n\nIn October, Mr Musk said he would sell $6bn in Tesla stock and donate it to the WFP, provided it could describe \"exactly how $6bn will solve world hunger\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nMr Musk saw the valuation of his Tesla car company surpass a market value of $1 trillion last autumn, making it the fifth such firm to reach the milestone, after Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google-owner Alphabet.\n\nSoon after he took to Twitter to ask users if he should sell a 10% stake in the electric carmaker.\n\nMore than 3.5 million Twitter users voted, with nearly 58% voting in favour of the share sale leading to Musk selling around $5bn (£3.7bn) of shares in the firm in November.", "Services such as bathrooms and domestic abuse refuges can be single sex in certain circumstances, Britain's human rights body has said in new guidance.\n\nHowever, the guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission says such services should be open to trans people wherever possible.\n\nExceptions are only acceptable if there are \"proportionate and justified reasons\".\n\nThe new guidance is an interpretation of existing equality laws.\n\nIt looks at how single-sex services such as bathrooms and domestic abuse refuges should be run, and transgender people's access to these spaces.\n\nUnder the Equality Act 2010, providers cannot discriminate against someone based on sex or gender reassignment, but there are exceptions where access for certain groups can be modified or limited if there is what is described as a \"legitimate aim\".\n\nThis is the first time the EHRC has published guidance with specific examples related to the circumstances where this can be allowed to happen in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt would apply whether or not the person has a gender recognition certificate - a legal document that allows someone to change the legal sex on their birth certificate.\n\nOne example the watchdog has given about domestic abuse refuges suggests trans women could be barred if biologically female survivors indicated they felt uncomfortable, but a list of alternative support for trans women in the local area should be made available.\n\nSimilarly, in a gym with separate-sex changing rooms if there was concern over the safety and dignity of trans men in a communal area, an extra gender-neutral changing room with private units could be introduced.\n\nAnnouncing the guidance, the EHRC were keen to clarify they were not addressing the \"wider debate\" on sex and gender identity and that their guidelines are intended to help service providers interpret existing equality law.\n\nBaroness Kishwer Falkner, chair of the EHRC, said she thinks the advice will help \"uphold everyone's rights.\"\n\nShe said: \"There is no place for discrimination against anyone based on their sex or gender reassignment.\n\n\"Organisations are legally allowed to restrict services to a single sex in some circumstances. But they need help to navigate this sensitive area. That is why we have published this guidance - to clarify the law and uphold everyone's rights.\"\n\nBut the response from charities and campaigners suggests the rules could still be open to interpretation.\n\nLGBT+ campaigning charity Stonewall has criticised the announcement, claiming it will lead to \"more confusion\".\n\nA Stonewall spokesperson said: \"Far from clarifying how the single sex exemptions in the Equality Act should be used, the EHRC's latest non-statutory guidance is likely to create more confusion.\n\n\"It appears to go against the core presumption of the act which is that inclusion should be the starting point, and shifts the focus towards reasons trans people, and specifically trans women, can be excluded.\"\n\nWhile gender critical organisation Sex Matters has welcomed the move and called it a \"straightforward explanation\".\n\nMaya Forstater, executive director of Sex Matters, said: \"The EHRC's straightforward explanation should help service providers avoid the difficulties currently plaguing politicians when they are asked questions about the difference between sex and gender identity\".\n\nThe guidance has been released following the news that the EHRC's status as an A-class human rights institution is to be reviewed later this year.\n\nThere had been calls from some LGBT+ campaign groups and charities for a special review after accusations they were influenced by the UK government in the appointments of the chair and board members. The EHRC previously told the BBC it takes all decisions impartially and all appointments made through a fair, open and transparent recruitment process.\n\nHowever the BBC understands calls for a special review were rejected by The UN and instead a pre-planned review, which was already scheduled for later this year, will go ahead.\n\nEvidence submitted by campaigners will be heard as part of the review, and other interested groups will be invited to submit evidence as early as next week.\n\nIf a review does find they should be downgraded, the EHRC would be prevented from being able to make representations at the UN Human Rights Council, or its committees on human rights.", "Synthetic cannabis-laced sweets are also known as gummies\n\nA 23-year-old woman has died after eating a synthetic cannabis sweet that was delivered to her door.\n\nThe woman and her friend, aged 21, ordered the sweets - also known as gummies - to her Ilford home via a messaging app last Tuesday.\n\nThey each ate one sweet and immediately felt unwell. Both were taken to an east London hospital, where the woman died on Saturday.\n\nThe second woman was discharged from hospital following treatment.\n\nLeon Brown, 37, from South Norwood, has been charged with possession with intent to supply Class B synthetic cannabinoid, being concerned in the supply of a synthetic cannabinoid and possession with intent to supply a psychoactive substance.\n\nThe Met Police said he was found with a large quantity of cash and what were believed to be edible cannabis products.\n\nHe appeared in custody at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA post-mortem examination will be arranged in due course; tests have been conducted on a number of sweets recovered by the police.\n\nOfficers are working to identify any other cases where people have become seriously unwell after eating synthetic cannabis sweets, gummies or similar products.\n\nThey are aware of one potentially linked case in which a woman was taken unwell earlier in March after eating a cannabis sweet in Tower Hamlets. She was taken to hospital and later discharged.\n\nInquiries are ongoing to establish whether this sweet was part of the batch of sweets associated with the woman's death.\n\nCh Supt Stuart Bell, from Met Police, warned people against taking illegal substances, including those packaged in the form of cannabis sweets.\n\n\"Please do not buy or consume these products. They are illegal and, because of the child-friendly packaging, they can pose a risk of accidental consumption,\" he said.\n\nHe added that this particular batch of sweets was contained in packaging featuring \"Trrlli Peachie O's\" branding. It has not been confirmed at this stage where the sweets were manufactured.\n\n\"Drug dealers harm communities and risk the safety of individuals. We will take positive action to target those engaged in this activity as well as those found in possession of these substances.\"\n\nAnyone with information has been urged to contact police.\n\nUpdate 19 April: The headline and picture caption in this story have been changed to make it clear that the gummies were made using synthetic cannabis.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elon Musk was joined by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the new factory opening\n\nTesla boss Elon Musk has opened a huge electric car \"gigafactory\" near Berlin which is the first European hub for the firm.\n\nThe plant was delayed for eight months after local authority licensing problems.\n\nThe more than €5bn (£4bn) factory is the biggest investment in a German car plant in recent history.\n\nTesla said more than 3,000 of the factory's expected 12,000 workers had been hired so far.\n\nMr Musk said: \"This is a great day for the factory,\" describing it as \"another step in the direction of a sustainable future\".\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the plant was a sign of progress and the future of the car industry.\n\nBut outside, environmental groups protested over concerns ranging from the plant's water use to the trees felled to build it.\n\nActivists block an entrance during the opening day of the Tesla factory Gigafactory in Gruenheide near Berlin\n\nTesla will deliver its first 30 German-made Model Y Performance cars on Tuesday. The firm says the cars have a 514km (320 mile) range and cost €63,990 (£53,000).\n\nAt full capacity, the plant will produce 500,000 cars annually - more than the 450,000 battery-electric vehicles that German rival Volkswagen sold globally in 2021.\n\nIt will also make batteries at an annual rate of 50 gigawatt hours (GWh), surpassing all other plants Germany.\n\nThe new plant, officially called the Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, produces the Model Y and electric car batteries.\n\nFor now, Volkswagen still holds the upper hand in Europe's electric vehicle market, with a 25% market share to Tesla's 13%.\n\nMr Musk has said ramping up production will take longer than the two years it took to build the plant.\n\nTesla received the final go-ahead from local authorities on 4 March to begin production, provided it met several conditions, covering issues such as water use and air pollution control.\n\nThe carmaker had come close to losing its water supply contract when local environmental groups filed a complaint against the environmental ministry challenging the licence it granted to Tesla's water supplier.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.\n\nSome of those who went to a leaving party for the former No 10 director of communications James Slack have been issued with fines, sources have told the BBC. The gathering on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral was held on 16 April 2021. It formed part of the Metropolitan Police investigation into events held across government while coronavirus restrictions were in place.\n\nStaff absences due to Covid mean about 100 of Monday's EasyJet flights - including 62 from the UK - have been cancelled. The airline, which decided to make \"some cancellations in advance\", says they are a small part of its 1,645 or so flights for the day. This comes as passengers have faced long queues for security and check-in at airports following staff absences caused by coronavirus.\n\nChina imposed a lockdown on Shanghai last week, the largest since the coronavirus outbreak was first identified in 2019. It's usually a bustling financial centre but this latest round of quarantine could turn out to be particularly costly for the world's second largest economy. Find out why here.\n\nTesla has had supply chain issues in an \"extremely difficult quarter\", partly due to strict restrictions in China where it has a so-called giga factory. But despite this the car maker has delivered a record number of vehicles in the first three months of the year. Here's the story.\n\nFace coverings are no longer needed in Scotland at weddings and funeral services, and in places of worship. The legal requirement's ended although the rules remain in place in some places, including on public transport. Find out more here.\n\nYou've tested positive for Covid, so what next? Here's a guide about how to look after yourself.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won a fourth term by a landslide in the country's general election, near-complete results show.\n\nHis right-wing Fidesz party won 135 of 199 seats with almost 99% of the votes counted, preliminary results show.\n\nThe opposition alliance led by Peter Marki-Zay was far behind with 56 seats.\n\nIn his victory speech, Mr Orban criticised Brussels bureaucrats and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling them \"opponents\".\n\nMr Zelensky has repeatedly criticised Mr Orban's ban on the transfer of arms to Ukraine, with which it shares a border.\n\nHowever, Mr Orban - who has close ties with Moscow - has condemned the Russian invasion and taken in half a million refugees since the war began in February.\n\n\"We never had so many opponents,\" he said, quoted by AFP. \"Brussels bureaucrats... the international mainstream media, and the Ukrainian president.\"\n\nFollowing the result, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Mr Orban a congratulatory message on the Telegram messaging app, according to the Kremlin.\n\n\"Despite the difficult international situation, the further development of bilateral ties of partnership fully accords with the interests of the peoples of Russia and Hungary,\" Mr Putin wrote.\n\nMr Orban said that his \"huge victory\" could be seen \"from the Moon, but certainly from Brussels as well\".\n\nWhen officially confirmed by Hungary's electoral commission, the victory will be Fidesz's fourth successive win since 2010. The National Election Office said Fidesz would have 135 seats, a two-thirds majority, and the opposition alliance would have 56 seats - again, based on preliminary results.\n\nMr Orban, 58, has had a fraught relationship with the EU, which considers that Fidesz has undermined Hungary's democratic institutions.\n\nIn his 12 years in power, Mr Orban has rewritten the constitution, filled the top courts with his appointees and changed the electoral system to his advantage.\n\nDuring campaigning, the opposition's catchphrase was \"Orban or Europe\".\n\nTheir candidate Peter Marki-Zay argued that Hungary should join Poland, the UK and others in supplying arms to Ukraine. And if called upon, and only within a Nato framework, should even consider sending troops.\n\nThe opposition complained that Fidesz had isolated Hungary from the European mainstream, and from consensual democracy, fairness and decency.\n\nYou could almost hear the collective thud of EU hearts sinking last night.\n\nA self-styled illiberal democrat, Hungary's leader has repeatedly clashed with Brussels over rule of law issues such as press freedom and migration.\n\nThey've fallen out over Moscow too. Mr Orban is famed for his warm relations with Vladimir Putin. He signed up to Western sanctions - but refuses to supply Ukraine with weapons. He's the only EU leader to openly criticise President Zelensky.\n\nHungary is becoming increasingly isolated in the EU and Nato - but Mr Orban knows neither institution is keen to ostracise him. They want a show of Western unity to display to Russia.\n\nHis new term in office means he'll remain an unpredictable thorn in their side.\n\nMore than 200 international observers monitored the election in Hungary, along with thousands of volunteers from across the political spectrum.\n\nTurnout hit 68.69%, almost matching the record number of voters in the last national elections in 2018.\n\n\"I will not hide my sadness and my disappointment,\" he told supporters, accusing Fidesz of running a campaign of \"hate and lies\".\n\nHe claimed the opposition had done \"everything humanly possible\" but that the campaign had been \"an unequal fight\" as anti-Fidesz politicians got so little showing in state media.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said \"we will not rest until justice is done\", amid further evidence of continued atrocities in Ukraine.\n\nDistressing images of civilian bodies in the streets of Bucha, near Kyiv, have led to international outrage over Russia's actions.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss has called for Russia to be suspended from the United Nations' Human Rights Council.\n\nShe has also pushed for tougher international sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn a news conference in the Polish capital Warsaw, Ms Truss said: \"What we have seen in the streets of Irpin and Bucha are scenes that we will never forget. We have seen butchery, evidence of rape and sexual violence, as well as the indiscriminate killing of civilians.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are clear, that after these appalling crimes, Russia has no place on the Human Rights Council\".\n\nA senior Westminster source has told the BBC the government is considering further action against Russian soldiers as individuals.\n\nOfficials are looking at further sanctions that could target captains, majors and colonels in the Russian military.\n\nIt is understood this additional pressure could also include looking at ways to hold Russian soldiers legally accountable.\n\nMr Johnson has said the UK \"will not stand by whilst this indiscriminate and unforgivable slaughter takes place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to ensure those responsible are held to account. We will not rest until justice is done.\"\n\nUkrainian authorities said the bodies of 410 civilians have been found in the areas around Kyiv so far.\n\nRussia, without evidence, has said the photos and videos were \"a staged performance\" by Ukraine.\n\nMs Truss reiterated the prime minister's comments, saying that the UK \"will not rest until these criminals are brought to justice\".\n\nShe said \"it's very clear war crimes have taken place\" and the UK is taking \"the maximum approach on sanctions, nothing is off the table\".\n\nMs Truss added that Nato needs to use a meeting this week to \"step up support\" and sanctions. She said these measures should include more countries banning Russian ships from ports, sanctions on more banks and other sectors.\n\nIn addition to this, she said countries should set out a \"clear timetable\" for eliminating Russia energy use.\n\nMs Truss met with Ukraine's Foreign Secretary Dmytro Kuleba in Poland ahead of key G7 and Nato talks.\n\nAlso speaking at the news conference in Warsaw, Mr Kuleba said: \"What you have seen, the horrors that we have seen in Bucha, are just the tip of the iceberg of all the crimes that have been committed by the Russian army in the territory of Ukraine so far.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary will also hold talks with her Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau, on Tuesday. She has pledged a £10m civil society fund for Ukraine, including support for organisations dealing with sexual violence, following reports of Russian forces sexually assaulting people in Ukraine, as a way of terrorising the population.\n\nLiz Truss gave a news briefing with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Warsaw\n\nMs Truss has said Russia's President Vladimir Putin \"is yet to show he is serious about diplomacy\". She said \"a tough approach from the UK and our allies is vital to strengthen Ukraine's hand in negotiations\".\n\nShe added the UK would do more \"to ramp up the pressure\" on Russia and \"keep pushing others to do more\".\n\nThe BBC's Reality Check team and BBC Monitoring have been investigating Russia's claims about the killings carried out in Bucha.\n\nUkraine has accused Russia of \"deliberate massacre\", but Russia has crticised \"a staged provocation\" by Ukraine. The Kremlin claims the evidence, seen by the BBC and several news outlets, is inaccurate on three grounds:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson said Russia's \"despicable attacks\" on innocent Ukrainian civilians in Bucha and Irpin were \"yet more evidence\" of war crimes.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has repeatedly called Mr Putin a war criminal and has recently said he should face a trial over the killings in Bucha.\n\nMr Biden said he was also seeking more sanctions against Russia over the atrocities.\n\nMr Johnson spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the weekend. Following their conversation on Saturday evening, Mr Zelensky said there would be a \"new package\" of \"very, very tangible support\".", "June Brown, who has died at the age of 95, won her place in British hearts playing the chain-smoking washerwoman, Dot Cotton in EastEnders.\n\nIt was a part she would play for more than 30 years - well past her 90th birthday.\n\nIn person, Brown was a riot. One Guardian writer described her as \"Kenneth Williams trapped in the body of Cilla Black\".\n\nBut like her on-screen persona, her private life was touched by extremes of emotion - with great happiness, romantic love affairs, terrible heartache and family tragedy.\n\nJune Muriel Brown was born in Needham Market, Suffolk in 1927. Her father, Harry, was a wealthy businessman who went bust investing money in German banks before World War Two.\n\nHer mother, Louisa, was a milliner - who June was convinced loved her far less than her four other siblings. Brown would describe herself as a \"mongrel\". Her grandfather was from Scotland, her mother from Italian stock.\n\nOn BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? she discovered one of her great-great-great grandfathers had been a famous Jewish bare-knuckle fighter in London's East End.\n\nJune Brown in the part that made her famous. Dot Cotton worked with Pauline Fowler and Ethel Skinner in the Albert Square launderette\n\nHer younger brother, John, died of pneumonia in 1932 when he was just 15 days old. Two years later, June lost her elder sister to meningitis. The loss of 8 year old Marise affected her deeply.\n\nIt \"shaped the way I behaved for a long time\", she wrote in her autobiography, Before The Year Dot.\n\n\"In particular, it influenced my expectations of men,\" she said. \"Too dependent, I found it impossible to be happy alone. I was constantly in and out of love, always looking for the kind of caring she had given me.\"\n\nBrown was academically able. She won a scholarship to Ipswich High School and wanted to train as a biologist - but her father put his foot down. He insisted it would be a waste of money fearing she \"would only go and get married\".\n\nShe served in the Women's Royal Naval Service at the end of the war. She was based in Scotland and it was during her time in the WRNS she discovered the joys of acting.\n\nWhen the war was over she got a job as a cinema operator in Argyll. The newsreels of the liberation of Belsen horrified her. \"It was extremely shocking for a girl of 18\", she told one interviewer. \"We were a very innocent generation.\"\n\nShe won a place at London's Old Vic Theatre School where she met and married her first husband, actor John Garley. He suffered from depression and took his own life in 1957.\n\nA young June as Aisla Crane in 'The Case of the Frightened Lady' in 1957.\n\n\"He gassed himself using the coins I had left him for the gas meter,\" recalled Brown. \"He'd had an affair with another actress, although I was the first to be unfaithful.\"\n\nDespite their regular infidelities, she had found great companionship in her marriage to Garley. It was the second time in her life that bereavement had hit her hard.\n\nProfessionally, she was very successful. She spent years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing on stage with Alec Guinness, John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft.\n\nShe played Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth but - to her lifelong regret - never got to play Cleopatra.\n\nIn 1958, she married actor Robert Arnold who starred in the BBC series Dixon Of Dock Green. The couple shared 45 years of marriage, before Arnold died of pneumonia in 2003.\n\nThey had six children together in just seven years, although her second daughter Chloe, born prematurely at 28 weeks, died after just 16 days.\n\nIn urgent conversation with Doctor Who's assistant, Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen). June Brown played the 13th century 'Lady Eleanor'.\n\nThey were together - despite many more flings and affairs - for 45 years until his death in 2003.\n\nMotherhood saw the acting work dry up. Brown considered completing her education and even began A level biology. But she found it too much to juggle in her forties - with so many children - and never completed the course.\n\nShe gave acting another go in the 1970s - with a series of small parts in film and television. There were appearances in Coronation Street and Doctor Who.\n\nAnd then Leslie Grantham, who played EastEnders' Dirty Den put her forward for the part that would make her a British icon.\n\nWhen Dot Cotton arrived in Albert Square in 1985, June Brown was in her late fifties. She was booked for three months but stayed for more than a quarter of a century.\n\nDot's lot was largely an unhappy one. She was a hypochondriac, tragic-comic character - gossiping, chain-smoking and always guided by the scriptures.\n\nArriving in Albert Square in 1985. Dot Cotton's troublesome son Nick was played by John Altman\n\nFor years, she tried - and normally failed - to put her good-for-nothing son, Nick (played by John Altman), on the right track. Her capacity to forgive him knew almost no bounds.\n\nThere were breaks from the show. Dot moved away from the Square in 1993 amid rumours Brown was unhappy with the axing of her friend and co-star Peter Dean - who played Pete Beale.\n\nAfter four years away, Brown returned to the Square and resumed the life of Dot. Her character's story was used to develop many controversial themes - including cancer, illegal immigration and homophobia.\n\nIn one compelling storyline she helped her best friend Ethel (played by Gretchen Franklin) to end her life in 2000. The Observer wrote that it was \"one of the most moving dramatic sequences shown in recent years on British TV.\"\n\nA 2000 storyline saw Ethel ask Dot to help her die after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\nThere was constant sparring with her on-screen husband Jim Branning (played by John Bardon), who she married after years of outright rejection. Dot finally relented and accepted his proposal in an episode that aired in 2001.\n\nTheir relationship provided many moments to lighten the gloom. When Dot was stuck for words, her response was always the same - a roll of the eyes and that famous exclamation, \"Ooh I say!\"\n\nJune Brown with on screen husband, John Bardon. A rare moment of happiness for Dot Cotton.\n\nIn a special episode in 2003, Dot's Story - Tallulah Pitt-Brown played her character's life history by way of flash-backs.\n\nIn 2008, June Brown became the first actor in a British soap to carry an entire episode alone. She delivered an emotional monologue of her character's years of loss and grief - dictated to a cassette for her screen husband Jim - lying in hospital following a stroke.\n\nThat performance saw her shortlisted for the Bafta for Best Actress. She was the first from a soap opera to be so honoured since Jean Alexander's nomination for her portrayal of Hilda Ogden 20 years earlier.\n\nIn 2015, her on screen son, Nick Cotton, finally died from a heroin overdose. Dot served four months in prison for his manslaughter and retired from the launderette - although she did not leave the series completely.\n\nDot Cotton spent time in prison following the death of her son Nick.\n\nBrown continued to make occasional appearances in the series - despite her eyesight beginning to fail. She finally announced that she intended to leave the show in February 2020.\n\nInevitably, June Brown would often be asked how much she resembled her most famous creation. There were many similarities.\n\nShe chain smoked from the age of 16 and would claim that tests had proved her blood was the colour of nicotine. She was a devout Christian and consummate chatterbox - in turn prone to bursts of melancholy followed by gales of gravelly laughter.\n\nBut the comparisons only go so far. June Brown was an avid supporter of the Conservative Party.\n\nHer favourite TV shows were not the soaps - but Newsnight and Panorama. Ironically, for a soap star, she thought the time children spend watching television is abominable. As for Twitter, her views were withering.\n\nJune Brown at the age of 83 on the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special in 2010. She danced the tango with Vincent Simone.\n\nShe once told The Times that she was \"never going to be made a Dame doing Dot\" - but she was awarded the MBE for services to drama and charity, before that was upgraded to an OBE in the last New Year Honours.\n\nAnd she claimed to have planned her funeral carefully.\n\n\"I want to be buried at sea,\" she told one interviewer. \"The Britannia Shipping Company drops you off round the Isle of Wight. I'll be in a nice white nightie and they wrap you in a balsa wood coffin and weight it.\"\n\nIt's probably not what Albert Square's scriptwriters would have planned for Dot Cotton. But - for June Brown - it would be a fitting send-off for such a \"one of a kind\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nActress June Brown, who played the much-loved character Dot Cotton on EastEnders for more than three decades, has died at the age of 95.\n\nHer family said they were \"deeply saddened\" to announce that their \"beloved mother\" had died \"very peacefully\" at her home on Sunday.\n\nEastEnders actor Adam Woodyatt described her as an \"incredible woman\".\n\nDot Cotton was one of the BBC soap's longest-running characters and a favourite with viewers.\n\nBrown first appeared in the series in 1985, the year EastEnders was created.\n\nShe stayed until 1993, returning to play the same character from 1997 until 2020.\n\nAn EastEnders spokesperson said: \"There are not enough words to describe how much June was loved and adored by everyone at EastEnders, her loving warmth, wit and great humour will never be forgotten.\n\n\"June created one of the most iconic characters in Dot Cotton, not just in soap but in British television, and having appeared in 2884 episodes, June's remarkable performances created some of EastEnders finest moments.\"\n\nAfter Brown's death was announced, many fans began sharing their favourite TV moment of hers - when the actress met Lady Gaga on the BBC's Graham Norton show.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne of EastEnders' best-known stars, Brown was in her late 50s when she joined Albert Square.\n\nActor Leslie Grantham, who played Dirty Den, suggested her for the role. Until then, Brown's career had incorporated stage, film and television, with appearances in Coronation Street and Doctor Who.\n\nSome of her biggest storylines included Nasty Nick's murder plot, when her son, played by John Altman, planned to poison her so he could steal her big bingo winnings to use on drugs. He changed his mind at the last minute.\n\nOne of her most moving and controversial moments came when her close friend Ethel, who was terminally ill, asked Dot to help her take an overdose of morphine to end her life.\n\nDot wrestled with her Christian beliefs but ultimately decided to leave out morphine pills for Ethel to take.\n\nHer relationship with husband Jim Branning, played by the late John Bardon, was much cherished by fans of the soap.\n\nBrown remained a favourite with viewers for years, but during a podcast interview in February 2020, she confirmed that she had left the series \"for good\".\n\nIn the last episode she featured in, Dot Cotton - or Dot Branning - left a voicemail message for another character, Sonia Fowler, saying she had moved to Ireland.\n\nBrown's EastEnders co-stars helped her celebrate her 90th birthday in 2017\n\nFollowing the news of Brown's death, Woodyatt - who played Ian Beale in the soap for 35 years - said in a statement: \"I'm lost for words, something June never was.\n\n\"So many memories, so much fun. Just purely and simply an incredible woman who had the most incredible life and career, I was fortunate to have shared a small part of it. They never made you a Dame (we did try), but to me you will always be Dame Brown.\"\n\nGillian Taylforth, who plays Kathy Beale in the BBC soap, said: \"I'm truly heartbroken by this news. June Brown OBE, MBE, was an amazing woman and a truly wonderful actress. I shared many scenes with her over the years and she was always someone I looked up to and learnt from. There will never be another June Brown and I'm sending all my love to her family.\"\n\n\"There was nobody quite like June Brown. She captured the zeitgeist of British culture like no other in her many years on our screens,\" she said.\n\n\"Today we've lost a true national treasure but my goodness what a life she has led. Rest in peace.\"\n\nBrown (pictured outside Buckingham Palace) was made an MBE in 2008\n\nEastEnders executive producer Chris Clenshaw said Brown was an \"iconic\" character both on and off screen.\n\nThe BBC's director-general Tim Davie said: \"June Brown was a brilliantly talented actor who was loved by millions. Her performances as the incomparable Dot Cotton delivered some of the most memorable moments in soap history.\"\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and many friends.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC EastEnders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter she left the soap, Brown starred in a Christmas drama podcast in December 2020 as part of a series about family separation during the pandemic.\n\nShe played the mother of a son with Down's syndrome in the play, which explored the strains of the mother-son relationship during enforced isolation.\n\nOther tributes were paid by former EastEnders star and activist Michael Cashman, who played the UK's first gay character in a soap opera, Colin Russell.\n\nHe wrote: \"She took this country on an amazing journey and changed it for the better.\"\n\nCashman has previously spoken about how Brown helped him get time off rehearsals so he could go to an anti-Section 28 protest in London in 1988.\n\nJune Brown played Dot Cotton (or Dot Branning) on the BBC One soap for more than three decades in total\n\nActor and writer Stephen Fry also said Brown will be remembered \"as a tireless and fearless LGBT ally\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"June Brown, amongst all her other wonderful human qualities and achievements, will be remembered as a tireless and fearless LGBT ally - especially during the darkest days of HIV/AIDS and Section 28... it was a privilege to know her.\"\n\nComedian Mo Gilligan also posted on Twitter: \"If you grew up on an estate there was always a Dot Cotton. Absolute iconic character in EastEnders.\"", "Ukrainians have fled the war across Hungary's eastern border\n\n\"Peace or War\" is at stake screams the headline in the tabloid Metropol, handed out to morning commuters flocking through the Western Station in Budapest. And there's a neat blue cross in the box next to the \"peace\" option.\n\nThat's the slogan of Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, as it battles to win a record fourth consecutive term in office in elections on Sunday.\n\nAfter 12 years in power, they face their first genuine challenge from an opposition alliance of six parties that has united under one candidate: Peter Marki-Zay.\n\nAnd Russia's war in Ukraine has given added impetus to the race.\n\nHungary shares a border with Ukraine and has taken in more than half a million refugees so far. Mr Orban insists that by helping the people, but refusing to supply weapons to Ukraine, only he can keep Hungary out of the war.\n\nHis party's slogan of peace or war may be simplistic, but it is effective. And it is broadcast, printed, and lit up in bright letters wherever you look in Hungary.\n\nIt interrupts any music you play on YouTube, and even videos that include international coverage of the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe government has spent eight times more on its campaign than all the opposition parties combined, according to a group of critical monitoring organisations. It helps that the ruling party has the support of a largely pliant media.\n\nThe opposition's catch-phrase, on the other hand, is \"Orban or Europe\".\n\nTheir candidate Peter Marki-Zay argues that Hungary should join Poland, the UK and others in supplying arms to Ukraine. And if called upon, and only within a Nato framework, should even consider sending troops.\n\nThe opposition complains that Fidesz has isolated Hungary from the European mainstream, from consensual democracy, fairness and decency. And that in this war Mr Orban has even alienated Hungary's closest allies - Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - the other members of the Visegrad-4 group.\n\nA V4 defence ministers' meeting was abruptly cancelled this week, with the Czech defence minister accusing Mr Orban of valuing Russian oil over Ukrainian blood.\n\nBut it was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky whose message hit home hardest.\n\n\"There can be no Russian branches in Europe that divide the EU from within,\" he said in an address to the Danish parliament on Wednesday. \"This must stop, and Europe must stop listening to the excuses of Budapest.\"\n\nHungary gets 85% of its gas and 64% of its oil from Russia, through a pipeline that deliberately circumvents Ukraine. However, a Hungary-Russia deal to expand the Paks nuclear power station south of Budapest with Russian finance and technology looks increasingly jeopardised by the war.\n\nAnd with Hungary's election campaign reaching its peak, President Zelensky chose the recent EU summit to address a very personal message to Mr Orban.\n\n\"Listen, Viktor, do you know what's going on in Mariupol? And you hesitate whether to impose sanctions or not? And you hesitate whether to let weapons through or not? And you hesitate whether to trade with Russia or not? There is no time to hesitate. It's already time to decide.\"\n\nMr Zelensky also made a poignant reference to Budapest's famous shoe monument on the banks of the Danube.\n\nLook at those shoes. And you will see how mass killings can happen again in today's world. That's what Russia is doing today. The same shoes. In Mariupol, there are the same people\n\nThe 60 pairs of bronze shoes remember Hungary's Jews, murdered and pushed into the river by Hungarian fascists in the winter of 1944.\n\nDays after his speech, Ukrainians in Budapest arranged new shoes among the bronze ones on the Danube embankment, decorated with flowers and the blue and yellow ribbons of the Ukrainian flag - in memory of all the dead in Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine, victims of the Russian invasion.\n\nHungarians laid shoes beside the Danube this week in memory of the victims of Russia's bombardment of Mariupol\n\nThe idea that Hungary is isolated from an otherwise pro-Ukraine Europe is an argument the government side bitterly rejects.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Orban told his final campaign rally: \"If the opposition wins on Sunday, the next day they will start delivering weapons to Ukraine, and close the taps on the Russian gas pipelines. Our heart is with [the Ukrainians], but Hungary has to stand up for its own interests.\"\n\nThe election arithmetic suggests a closer race than the government would like.\n\nAccording to opposition paper Nepszava, Fidesz is assured of victory in 41 of the country's 106 individual constituencies, while the opposition alliance can count on 33.\n\nThat leaves 32 battleground districts where the opposition has to break through. The remaining 93 seats in Hungary's 199 seat Parliament are divided according to party lists.\n\nDifferent polling agencies suggest a record turnout - perhaps as high as 80%, compared with 70% four years ago.\n\nIn a country of 9.7 million, the electorate was split almost evenly - 2.6 million apiece - four years ago. Pollsters reckon that this election will be decided by between 300,000 and 600,000 voters who are either undecided or uncommitted, and who are in the cross-hairs of campaigners from both sides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Hungarian PM Viktor Orban says the country could host peace talks", "The incident happened during Sunday's Old Firm game\n\nA member of Celtic's backroom team suffered a head wound after being hit by a glass bottle during the Old Firm game.\n\nCeltic said the man needed urgent medical treatment and had to have stitches in his head.\n\nA statement from the club said the matter had been referred to police.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We are aware of a glass bottle being thrown at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, during the Rangers v Celtic match.\"\n\nHe added: \"One man has sustained injuries as a result of this and required treatment. Inquiries are currently ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\"\n\nThe incident happened at the end of the first half.\n\nPolice are also investigating another incident which delayed the start of the second half.\n\nGround staff had to remove shards from a broken glass bottle in Celtic goalkeeper Joe Hart's penalty area.\n\nDiscarded bottles at Ibrox after the match\n\nCeltic manager Ange Postecoglou said: \"It is disappointing because this is a fixture that gets beamed around the world. Two teams going at it, first and second spot.\n\n\"You don't need a couple of idiots ruining it. I don't know what people are trying to achieve by doing that.\"\n\nRangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst said: \"It's never good the game has to be stopped\" and added \"safety is first\".\n\nThe match was won by Celtic 2-1, allowing the team to move six points clear of their rivals.", "Projected results from Serbia's presidential and parliamentary elections suggest that Aleksandar Vucic and his Progressive Party have both won comfortable victories.\n\nIn a joint forecast, the CeSID election monitor and Ipsos polling organisation predict that Mr Vucic will win a second five-year term as president by taking almost 60% of the vote.\n\nMeanwhile, the Progressive Party will maintain their dominance in the National Assembly, securing more than 40 percent of the vote.\n\nAssuming they form their usual coalition with the Socialist Party, they should have a comfortable governing majority.\n\nMr Vucic said he was \"proud\" of the \"great support of the people\" - and described his campaign as \"the cleanest and most beautiful in the history of Serbia\".\n\nHe listed the priorities for his second term as continuing Serbia's modernisation, attracting foreign investments and ensuring peace and stability. And he indicated that he would aim to maintain Belgrade's traditional ties with Moscow, despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine - while continuing with EU membership negotiations.\n\n\"Good relations in the region are the most important thing, but also not breaking ties with traditional friends,\" he said.\n\nOpposition parties will be bitterly disappointed with the results. They boycotted the previous parliamentary election in 2020, claiming that government influence over the media made a free and fair vote impossible. Their absence just allowed the Progressive Party to govern unopposed.\n\nSo this time a wide range of parties formed a coalition, United Serbia, to offer voters a credible alternative. They promoted a former general, Zdravko Ponos, as their presidential candidate - and hoped he would at least force Mr Vucic into a second round. But he fell a long way short - polling less than 20%.\n\nUnited Serbia will now form the second largest bloc in the National Assembly - where they will be joined by the new, green-left movement, Moramo. One of the latter's most prominent members, the environmentalist Aleksandar Jovanovic, questioned why the national election commission had failed to publish preliminary results.\n\nHe called on his supporters to \"defend every vote on the street\" if evidence of voting irregularities emerged. And he said the Environmental Uprising campaign would continue its protests against pollution and lithium mining in Serbia - both of which had become hot topics before the start of the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe election commission is set to publish the official results on Monday evening. But it already seems clear that Serbia's voters have chosen the \"peace and stability\" which Mr Vucic told them he and his party offer.", "The Tesla Bot was unveiled last summer\n\nElon Musk likes to have a focus - and this year, it looks like it might be robots.\n\nHe told investors on a Tesla earnings call his nascent robot plans had \"the potential to be more significant than the vehicle business, over time\".\n\nAnd they would be the most important things Tesla worked on this year.\n\nThe robot in question, part of a project dubbed Optimus, was previewed last year - to raised eyebrows - by a human in a robot suit dancing on stage.\n\nAnd the performance became a popular internet meme.\n\nThe Tesla Bot, as it was dubbed, would use the same artificial-intelligence (AI) systems that helped power Tesla vehicles, Mr Musk said at the event last August - but no prototype has yet been made.\n\nHe also said the not-yet-built 5ft 8in robot would have a screen on its \"face\" and be able to lift 150lb and travel at about 5mph.\n\nThis week, Mr Musk told investors the humanoid robot's first application would be at a Tesla plant \"moving parts around the factory, or something like that\".\n\nBut in the future, he sees it helping solve labour shortages.\n\nAnd earlier this week, he tweeted: \"Tesla AI might play a role in AGI [artificial general intelligence], given that it trains against the outside world, especially with the advent of Optimus\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAGI refers to the ability of a machine to learn or understand tasks currently performed by humans.\n\nAnd in the same Twitter thread, he added: \"Decentralised control of the robots will be critical.\"\n\nProfessor of robot ethics Alan Winfield, at the University of West England, said: \"AGI is an exceptionally hard problem.\n\n\"The idea that you can crack AGI because you have created a driverless vehicle is absurd.\n\n\"Even if that car is highly capable, that would not be AGI - it would be high-functioning narrow intelligence.\n\n\"Google and Facebook have hired some of the best AI people in the world and the idea that Musk can come in and crack the problem is hubristic in the extreme.\"\n\nMr Musk does likes hard problems though, from autonomous cars to trips to Mars, and has plenty of successes.\n\nSpaceX's reusable rockets are widely regarded as representing a big step forward for space flights, for example.\n\nPepper was one of the highest profile robots, making appearances at events around the world\n\nBut previous efforts to create cost-effective mass-market humanoid robots have failed.\n\nIn June, Japanese conglomerate Softbank announced production of Pepper, a friendly little humanoid, had been paused and would start again only when the robots were needed, much to the dismay of the academic community that used them.\n\nThat said, robots are increasingly used in factories around the world, with a current average of 126 robots per 10,000 employees in the manufacturing industry, according to the International Federation of Robotics.\n\nMany, though, remained sceptical about Mr Musk's plans.\n\nAccel Robotics software engineer Filip Piekniewski tweeted: \"Anyone who thinks Tesla is actually building a humanoid robot is living in an alternate reality.\n\n\"Mars bases is more likely than the bot.\"\n\nAnd professor of cognitive robotics Tony Prescott, at the University of Sheffield, told BBC News Mr Musk would face many challenges.\n\n\"If it is being used in a factory, then a wheel-based robot would be much easier to build and have no problems of balance - but then it wouldn't be humanoid,\" he said.\n\nKeeping the robot upright would be one of the biggest issues, Prof Prescott said, along with creating hands and any form of hand-to-eye co-ordination.\n\n\"These are fundamental research problems that you need to solve,\" he said.\n\nAnd even robots such as Atlas, designed by Boston Dynamics and regarded as one of the most sophisticated humanoid bots available \"will be attached to the ceiling when it is not making videos\".\n\nThe AI in cars will be very different to that needed for robots, experts say\n\n\"Tesla cars are robots - but they are a much simpler form, so this will be starting from scratch,\" Prof Prescott added.\n\nProf Winfield agrees with Mr Musk on one thing though.\n\n\"The only thing that Musk is getting right is that the path towards AGI will be through physical robots,\" he said.\n\n\"Our own intelligence is grounded in the real world.\"\n\nThe Tesla boss's new robotics focus may disappoint some customers - in the same earnings call, he also said the company would not be introducing any new car models in 2022.\n\nAnd he does have a history of making rather ambitious promises.\n\nIn 2019, he said Tesla would have one million robot-taxis on the road by the end of 2020.", "UN scientists have unveiled a plan that they believe can limit the root causes of dangerous climate change.\n\nA key UN body says in a report that there must be \"rapid, deep and immediate\" cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.\n\nGlobal emissions of CO2 would need to peak within three years to stave off the worst impacts.\n\nEven then, the world would also need technology to suck CO2 from the skies by mid-century.\n\nAfter a contentious approval session where scientists and government officials went through the report line by line, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now published its guidance on what the world can do to avoid an extremely dangerous future.\n\nFirst, the bad news - even if all the policies to cut carbon that governments had put in place by the end of 2020 were fully implemented, the world will still warm by 3.2C this century.\n\nThis finding has drawn the ire of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.\n\nDrought is having an impact in many countries including Bangladesh\n\n\"Some government and business leaders are saying one thing - but doing another. Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.\"\n\nThat sort of temperature rise would see our planet hit by \"unprecedented heatwaves, terrifying storms, and widespread water shortages\".\n\nTo avoid that fate, the world must keep the rise in temperatures at or under 1.5C this century, say researchers.\n\nThe good news is that this latest IPCC summary shows that it can be done, in what Mr Guterres calls a \"viable and financially sound manner\".\n\nBut keeping temperatures down will require massive changes to energy production, industry, transport, our consumption patterns and the way we treat nature.\n\nTo stay under 1.5C, according to the IPCC, means that carbon emissions from everything that we do, buy, use or eat must peak by 2025, and tumble rapidly after that, reaching net-zero by the middle of this century.\n\nTo put it in context, the amount of CO2 that the world has emitted in the last decade is the same amount that's left to us to stay under this key temperature threshold.\n\n\"I think the report tells us that we've reached the now-or-never point of limiting warming to 1.5C,\" said IPCC lead author Heleen De Coninck, who's Professor of Socio-Technical Innovation and Climate Change at Eindhoven University of Technology.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News she said: \"We have to peak our greenhouse gas emissions before 2025 and after that, reduce them very rapidly.\n\n\"And we will have to do negative emissions or carbon dioxide removal in the second half of the century, shortly after 2050, in order to limit warming to 1.5C.\"\n\nGovernments will need to look at the provision of low carbon transport\n\nThe next few years are critical, say the researchers, because if emissions aren't curbed by 2030, it will make it nigh on impossible to limit warming later this century.\n\nKey to that in the short term will be how we generate energy. Luckily, solar panel and wind turbines have never been cheaper, having fallen in cost by around 85% over the past decade.\n\n\"It's game over for the fossil fuels that are fuelling both wars and climate chaos,\" said Kaisa Kosonen from Greenpeace, who was an observer at the IPCC approval session.\n\n\"There's no room for any new fossil fuel developments, and the coal and gas plants we already have need to close early.\"\n\nBut diets and lifestyles will also need changing, with huge scope for major carbon savings, according to the authors.\n\n\"Having the right policies, infrastructure and technology in place to enable changes to our lifestyles and behaviour can result in a 40-70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This offers significant untapped potential,\" said IPCC Co-chair Priyadarshi Shukla.\n\n\"The evidence also shows that these lifestyle changes can improve our health and wellbeing.\"\n\nIn practice, this means governments doing more to encourage walking and healthy eating, and putting in place the infrastructure for far more electric vehicles.\n\nOne of the most contentious aspects of the report concerns the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\n\nThis can be done in a number of different ways, including through planting trees and making changes to farming practices.\n\nSolar power has fallen dramatically in price in the last decade\n\nBut the report finds that to keep warming from going over the dangerous 1.5C threshold, we will need more than new forests.\n\nKeeping temperatures down will require machines to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere.\n\nThis is very contentious as the technology is new and currently very expensive.\n\nSome participants in the IPCC process are highly sceptical that these approaches will work.\n\n\"The idea of quick emissions reductions and large negative emissions technologies are a concern,\" said Prof Arthur Petersen, from UCL, who was an observer in the approval session.\n\n\"There are a lot of pipe dreams in this report.\"", "Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (centre) ducked a no-confidence motion that was set to happen on 3 April.\n\nPakistan's supreme court is expected to decide the fate of embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan, following a day of political turmoil.\n\nMr Khan has faced an attempt to oust him from office in recent days.\n\nBut in a move that has roiled the country, members of Mr Khan's party on Sunday blocked a vote of no-confidence in the PM and dissolved parliament.\n\nMr Khan had claimed the vote was part of a US-led conspiracy to remove him, but the US has denied this.\n\nFurious opposition politicians have now filed a petition to the Supreme Court to rule on whether the move to block the vote was constitutional.\n\nThe court was initially expected to decide by the end of Monday, but delayed the decision until Tuesday.\n\nMr Khan was widely regarded as having come to power with the help of Pakistan's army, but they have since fallen out, according to observers.\n\nHis political opponents then seized this opportunity to demand a no-confidence vote after persuading a number of his coalition partners to defect to them.\n\nOn Sunday, MPs meeting to hold the vote - which Mr Khan was expected to lose - were told of an \"an operation for a regime change by a foreign government\".\n\nThe deputy speaker chairing the session - a close ally of the prime minister - then proceeded to declare the vote unconstitutional.\n\nShortly afterwards Pakistan's president Arif Alvi - who is from Mr Khan's ruling PTI party - dissolved parliament in a step towards early elections.\n\nThe move has sparked anger among the opposition, with some politicians accusing Mr Khan of \"treason\" for not allowing the vote to go ahead.\n\nBut in a television address and a series of late night tweets Mr Khan defended the decision.\n\nMr Khan has said his criticism of US policy and other foreign policy decisions has led to an attempt by the US to remove him from power.\n\nOpposition politicians have ridiculed the accusation, and the US has denied it.\n\n\"There is no truth to these allegations... we respect and support Pakistan's constitutional process and the rule of law,\" a State Department spokesperson told news outlet Reuters.\n\nAs the holy month of Ramadan started in Pakistan, yet another political crisis embroiled the country of 220 million, as another Prime Minister was unable to finish his full term of five years.\n\nBut the overall mood seemed jubilant among the supporters of the former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.\n\nIn the last week, Mr Khan has doubled down on a \"secret memo\", which he claims showed clear proof of a US conspiracy to overthrow his government, and has rallied his supporters by making multiple TV appearances in recent days.\n\nMany others, however, feel that Imran Khan violated all democratic norms and pulled off a \"civilian coup\" in an attempt to secure power.\n\nAs the country's oldest paper, Dawn, wrote in its editorial: \"No one could have guessed that his last ploy would involve having the democratic order burnt down by a democratically empowered party.\"\n\nThe BBC's Secunder Kermani says that many of Mr Khan's supporters still believe his narrative.\n\nWhile Mr Khan's popularity has been severely dented by the rising cost of living, he still has a sizeable following and he stands a better chance in fresh elections than he did in a parliamentary vote, according to our correspondent.\n\nWho is the ruling party in Pakistan? Pakistan's current ruling party is Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which is one of the three major political parties of Pakistan. It is now headed by former cricketer-turned-politician and PTI head Imran Khan, who took power as Prime Minister in 2018 after PTI emerged as the dominant party in government following the 2013 general elections.\n\nWho are the opposition? The opposition is headed by the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) -- two usually feuding dynastic groups that dominated national politics for decades until prime minister Imran Khan forged a coalition against them.\n\nHow long does the prime minister serve for? The prime minister of Pakistan serves for a five-year term. However no elected or appointed prime ministers have served the entirety of their term to date.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Firefighters tackle a blaze at an oil storage depot in Belgorod, which Russia says was attacked\n\nAn oil storage depot was set on fire in a Russian city just north of Ukraine after what Russia described as an attack by two Ukrainian helicopters.\n\nA video shared on Twitter showed a blaze near apartment blocks in Belgorod, 40km (25 miles) from the border.\n\nSome clips appeared to show rockets hitting the oil depot.\n\nUkraine's top security official, however, denied Ukrainian forces were behind the attack.\n\n\"For some reason, they are saying we are behind it. This does not correspond to reality,\" security council secretary Oleksiy Danilov said.\n\nUkrainian aircraft have not struck targets in Russia previously.\n\nYet Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov accused Ukraine of launching the attack, and later Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov gave details.\n\nHe said that at around 05:00 Moscow time (02:00 GMT) two Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters entered Russian airspace at extremely low altitude and \"launched a missile attack on a civilian oil storage facility\" on the outskirts of Belgorod. Some storage tanks were damaged and caught fire, he said.\n\n\"The oil storage facility has nothing to do with the Russian armed forces,\" he said.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin's spokesman said the incident \"cannot be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for continuing the talks\" with Kyiv. So far those peace talks have made little progress.\n\nThe spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia was now trying to reorganise the fuel supply chain to prevent disruption of Belgorod's energy supplies.\n\nThe city of 370,000 lies just north of Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, which has been heavily shelled by Russian artillery and remains surrounded by Russian forces.\n\nGovernor Gladkov said in a Telegram message that nobody was killed at the oil depot, which is run by Russian state oil firm Rosneft. He said emergency workers were trying to contain the fire and there was \"no threat\" to residents. The emergencies ministry posted video of the blaze on Telegram.\n\nRussia's Interfax news agency reported that residents nearby were evacuated and two people were injured at the depot. It said eight fuel tanks were on fire and nearly 200 firefighters were on the scene.\n\nQueues of cars later formed at local petrol stations, but Mr Gladkov said Belgorod's fuel supplies were still plentiful.\n\nRussia's RIA Novosti news agency says the blaze in three of the tanks has been extinguished, but there is still a risk of the fire spreading.\n\nOn 29 March several explosions were reported at an ammunition depot near Belgorod.\n\nCommenting on the oil depot blaze, Ukrainian defence ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said Russian \"aggression\" was being resisted \"on the territory of Ukraine\".\n\n\"It does not mean that Ukraine has to bear responsibility for all those catastrophes and all those events that happen on the territory of the Russian Federation. This is not the first time we have seen such accusations. So, dear friends, I will neither confirm nor deny this information,\" he said.\n\nUkraine is yet to claim responsibility for this attack, but if it were confirmed it would be the first time that Ukrainian aircraft have flown into Russian airspace to hit a target. bringing the war home to Russia.\n\nUkrainian helicopter pilots have plenty of experience of flying low and fast to avoid being detected by military radar and air defence systems. They've been doing exactly that in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine for years. I experienced and witnessed the extraordinary skills of the Ukrainian military pilots in 2018 - flying barely metres above the tree line and telegraph poles.\n\nBut if these unconfirmed reports are correct - flying at night, well into Russian territory, to launch an attack on an enemy fuel depot would have required extraordinary bravery - as well as finely-honed flying skills.\n\nLow-flying helicopters are still vulnerable to short-range air defence systems. Flying at night would have lessened that risk, but heightened the danger of hitting an object near the ground.\n\nThe Mi-24, or Hind helicopter, is known as the \"flying tank\". Its rockets would have been the weapon deployed to target the oil depot in Belgorod, Russia.\n\nThis alleged attack alone will not dramatically alter the battle. But it could show Ukraine has managed to keep its air force functioning, and give a huge boost to the morale of Ukraine's military.\n\nA well-known Ukrainian journalist in Kyiv, Yury Butusov, posted on Facebook that it was a missile attack at 05:50 local time (02:50 GMT) by \"two Ukrainian Mi-24 combat helicopters, which flew from Ukraine to Russian Belgorod over low altitudes, inconspicuous for Russian anti-aircraft defence\".\n\nVladimir Soloviev, host of a staunchly pro-Kremlin current affairs programme on Russian state TV, asked in a tweet: \"Question. Who is in charge of the Belgorod air defences? Have the bases of the helicopters that delivered this strike been destroyed? When will a safe zone be set up in Belgorod region?\"", "More than 100 organisations have pulled out of the UK's first ever global LGBT+ conference over the government's stance on conversion therapy.\n\nThe UK government had promised to ban conversion therapy but last week decided to exclude conversion therapy for transgender people in the ban.\n\nGroups are now withdrawing from the government's Safe To Be Me conference.\n\nThe government says it is going to look into how it can ban trans conversion therapy.\n\nThe BBC understands the conference may even be scrapped all together, with a decision on the future of the conference to be made this week.\n\nAccording to NHS England, conversion therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nThe government's three-day Safe To Be Me conference was due to be held this summer to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first ever London Pride marches.\n\nIt was set to be the biggest event of its kind, and was seen by many in government as a way for the Government Equalities Office - part of the government which oversees LGBT equality - to \"double down\" on its commitment to LGBT rights.\n\nBut the LGBT+ Consortium, an umbrella body for LGBT+ community organisations, has issued a statement branding the government's U-turn on conversion therapy \"abhorrent\".\n\nEighty-two member organisations of the consortium have signed an open letter, which is written by LGBT+ charity and campaign group Stonewall, pulling out of the conference.\n\nIt says they will only participate in the conference if Prime Minister Boris Johnson reverts to his promise to include transgender people in any legislation against conversion therapy.\n\n\"This is a decision we take with a heavy heart. As the UK's first global LGBT+ conference, Safe To Be Me should be a moment for redoubling efforts globally to improve LGBTQ+ people's rights and experiences,\" it said.\n\n\"This is why we have worked hard with government and civil society organisations over the last few months to try to make the conference work.\"\n\nThe Terrence Higgins Trust and 22 other HIV charities and organisations have also since joined the boycott, meaning a total of 105 organisations have now pulled out.\n\nA Terrence Higgins Trust spokesperson said: \"Trans rights are human rights - progress without or at the expense of trans people is not progress. We stand together and will not be divided.\n\n\"As HIV charities and community groups we stand in solidarity with Stonewall and the whole LGBT+ sector and will not be supporting or attending the upcoming global LGBT+ 'Safe To Be Me' conference unless the government reverts to their promise of a trans-inclusive ban.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has previously called the practice of conversion therapy \"repulsive and abhorrent\" and had promised plans to outlaw it on a number of separate occasions.\n\nHowever the plans to do so have since changed; meaning the legislation will mean conversion therapy to attempt to change people's sexuality will be outlawed, but those practices carried out to try to change people's gender identity will not.\n\nThe BBC understands a series of crunch talks between No 10, the Government Equalities Office and charities hoping to get transgender people included in the ban have failed.\n\nA government spokesperson said they will carry out \"separate work\" on the issue of transgender conversion therapy but that they were keen for any legislative method brought forward not to have \"unintended consequences\".\n\nThey added: \"This is a legally complex area and we have a responsibility to ensure unintended consequences are not written into legislation, particularly in the case of under 18s.\"\n\nA number of gender critical groups had fought for the ban not to include conversion therapy relating to issues of gender identity.\n\nResponding to the legislation on Friday, Nikki da Costa, a former director of legislative affairs at No 10, said elements of the law would have had \"profound consequences for children struggling with gender dysphoria\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Doctors, therapists and parents would be deterred from exploring with a child any feelings of what else may be going on for fear of being told they're trying to change a child's identity\", adding that it was \"deeply concerning\".\n\nGovernment insiders say it was seen as \"too complicated\" to avoid any unintended consequences of the legislation - which may affect teachers, parents and therapists helping children who are struggling with their gender identity.\n\nThe Welsh government is now looking at legal advice to see what action it can take to ban trans conversion therapy.", "Some Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs have been recalled over a link to 63 UK cases of salmonella mostly in young children.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) said all the eggs affected had been made in the same factory in Belgium.\n\nIt advised people not to eat 20g or three-pack eggs with best before dates between 11 July and 7 October 2022.\n\nChocolate-maker Ferrero said none of its Kinder products released for sale had tested positive for salmonella.\n\n\"We take matters of food safety extremely seriously and we sincerely apologise for this matter,\" the firm said.\n\nNo deaths have been reported but most of the 63 salmonella cases so far are among children aged five and under.\n\nMore cases have reportedly been recorded in Europe, including Ireland, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.\n\nThe FSA said Ferrero was voluntarily recalling the products as a precautionary measure and added it had received no complaints.\n\nIt said the firm was working closely with food safety authorities to identify the exact cause of the outbreak.\n\nOther products manufactured by Kinder are not believed to be affected, the FSA said.\n\nThe agency said in an alert that investigations by public health bodies \"found a link between reported cases of salmonella poisoning across the UK and a specific product produced by the Ferrero company\".\n\n\"We know that these particular products are popular with young children, especially as Easter approaches, so we would urge parents and guardians of children to check if any products already in their home are affected by this recall,\" said Tina Potter, head of incidents at the FSA.\n\nDr Lesley Larkin, of the UK Heath Security Agency, said symptoms of salmonellosis, which can include diarrhoea, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting and fever, \"typically resolve themselves within a few days\".\n\nShe said symptoms could be more severe, especially in young children and those with weakened immune systems and anybody with concerns should contact their GP or call NHS 111.\n\nSalmonella can be spread from person to person, so Dr Larkin advised anyone with symptoms to wash their hands thoroughly and avoid handling other people's food.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian who had no experience of politics when elected less than three years ago, has suddenly emerged as a convincing war leader.\n\nHe has rallied the nation with his addresses and video selfies and given voice to Ukrainian anger and defiance of Russian aggression.\n\nWhile Russian President Vladimir Putin has appeared increasingly erratic - accusing Ukraine of \"genocide\" in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk republics, and talking of the need to \"de-Nazify\" the country - President Zelensky, from a Russian-speaking Jewish family, has remained dignified, resolute and articulate.\n\nThese pronouncements have revealed a side that many critics - including a large chunk of the intelligentsia - had not seen coming.\n\nA key moment in the transformation from a leader floundering in the polls, who sometimes appeared out of his depth, into a national figurehead came in the early hours of Thursday, a few hours before Russia's invasion. In a sober address posted on social media, speaking partly in Russian, he said he had tried to call Vladimir Putin to avert a war and had been met by silence.\n\nThe two countries didn't need a war, \"not a Cold War, not a hot war, not a hybrid war\", he said, wearing a dark suit as he stood in front of a map of Ukraine. But he added that if Ukrainians came under attack they would defend themselves. \"When you attack us you will see our faces - not our backs, but our faces.\"\n\nSoon afterwards the invasion began, and for his next broadcast, in the middle of the day, he wore military fatigues, reflecting the country's David-versus-Goliath struggle. That evening he made another address, warning Western leaders that if they did not provide assistance then tomorrow \"war will knock on your doors\".\n\n\"This is the sound of a new iron curtain, which has come down, and is cutting Russia off from the civilised world.\"\n\nZelensky as commander-in-chief appeared to strike all the right notes on Ukrainian Twitter.\n\nYulia McGuffie, editor-in-chief of the Novoye Vremya news website, says she was upset when he was elected president in April 2019, as she had no faith in his ability to lead a government.\n\nBut Ukrainians have rapidly warmed to their president in the past week, she says.\n\n\"Full support and respect came, I think after Russia started its war - all Ukrainians have closed ranks around Zelensky. He is playing a uniting and I would say inspiring role, partly by his own example. He is leading a government that is repelling Putin's army, and for that many sincerely admire and respect him.\"\n\nZelensky's arrival on the political scene was a case of life imitating art. His most celebrated role as a comic actor was in the TV series, Servant of the People, in which he played a school teacher catapulted into the presidency after a student posted a viral video of him ranting about corruption in politics.\n\nHis candidacy in the 2019 presidential election was initially seen by some as a joke - his political party is called the Servant of the People party. But he went on to win with 73% of the vote, promising to fight corruption and bring peace in the east of the country.\n\nThe Ukrainian president has significant powers, but delivering on these promises was always going to be tough, communications consultant Yaryna Klyuchkovska notes. And for someone starting a presidency with such a high approval rating, the only way was down.\n\n\"It's one thing to make such broad-ranging promises and another thing to execute these policies,\" she says.\n\nZelensky had enjoyed the support of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky during his presidential campaign, leading many to fear he would turn out to be a puppet leader, controlled by a man who is under investigation in the US for possible fraud and money-laundering.\n\nHe had in fact proved to be more independent than the sceptics thought, refusing for example to allow the re-privatisation of PrivatBank, which was owned by Kolomoisky before it was nationalised.\n\nOn the other hand corruption remains deep-rooted in Ukraine, and there are concerns that a new anti-oligarch law could be used to restrict the activities of some oligarchs and not others. Corruption charges aimed at Zelensky's main rival, Petro Poroshenko, his predecessor as president, are regarded by some Western officials as politically motivated.\n\nZelensky's attempts to negotiate with Russia in order to find a solution to the conflict in the east, which has left more than 14,000 people dead, also had only limited success. There were prisoner exchanges and moves towards implementing parts of a peace process, known as the Minsk agreements, but no breakthrough. Throughout 2020 his approval rating steadily fell.\n\nZelensky subsequently struck a more assertive tone in pushing for membership of the European Union and the Nato military alliance, a move that was bound to anger the Russian president.\n\nBut Yaryna Klyuchkovska says Zelensky's rhetoric on the conflict in the east and relations with Russia continued to be too timid for many Ukrainians, until recent days.\n\nAs the drumbeat of war grew louder he declared a Day of Peace, and continued to emphasise his hopes for a diplomatic solution even while Ukraine was reporting a rapid increase in ceasefire violations along the front line.\n\n\"He avoided the subject of war, warfare, anything military. It was a topic outside his comfort zone and he was not willing to go there in his public rhetoric,\" Klyuchkovska says.\n\nHe also took issue with the daily warnings from the US and other Western governments of an imminent Russian attack, saying that the US communication strategy was \"very expensive for Ukraine\".\n\nZelensky has been accused of being a puppet of controversial business mogul Ihor Kolomoisky\n\nThe big change of tack came with a speech he made to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday 19 February, Klyuchkovska says, converting her too from a sceptic to a fan. He began by describing a visit to a kindergarten in the east of the country that had days earlier been hit by a missile.\n\n\"When a bomb crater appears in a school playground, children have a question: 'Has the world forgotten the mistakes of the 20th Century?'\" he said.\n\n\"Indifference makes you an accomplice,\" he told the guests from the West's diplomatic and defence elites. He reminded them of Vladimir Putin's rejection of a US-led world order at the same conference exactly 15 years earlier, and his assertion of Russia's resurgence. \"How did the world respond? With appeasement.\"\n\nKlyuchkovska says no Ukrainian leader had spoken so bluntly to the West before.\n\n\"For me the moment of pride in Zelensky came during his brilliant speech at the security conference in Munich,\" says Yulia McGuffie. \"It was then that many of Zelensky's political opponents in Ukraine decided that now is not the time for rows and conflicts.\"\n\nWestern intelligence claims that Zelensky's name is the first on a list of people Russian forces aim to kill. He says his family is second on the list, but that he and they remain in Ukraine.\n\nHis presence is confirmed by the video selfies he has been shooting outside the presidential administration and the very distinctive House of Chimeras opposite it, adorned with representations of exotic animals and hunting scenes.\n\nIn response to one of these, British writer Ben Judah tweeted: \"If you'd told many of our great-grandparents in the Pale [the area of the Russian empire in which Jews were mostly confined] that a Jewish man would be a Ukrainian war leader against a Russian invasion they would have blinked incredulously.\"\n\n\"Of course, he is an actor. I don't know whether it's his true persona or not. But whatever he's doing, it's working,\" says Yaryna Klyuchkovska. \"His speech writers have found their stride. They come from the entertainment business, but even writing a Netflix show is different from writing presidential speeches.\"\n\nUkraine still faces overwhelming odds. Russia's invasion force is huge and well-armed. But the 44-year-old law graduate, a political newbie, has found a voice that has helped to bolster Ukrainian morale.\n\n\"One of my good friends has just written, 'Zelensky has suddenly grown cojones of cosmic proportions',\" says McGuffie. \"And this really reflects the attitude to him right now.\"", "Drone footage taken of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol shows the extent of the damage caused by Russian attacks.\n\nDeputy Mayor Serhiy Orlov, said the city, in south-eastern Ukraine, was under \"constant shelling, bombing and some street battles.\"\n\nThousands of civilians have been trapped there for nearly two weeks, surrounded by Russian troops firing rockets and shells, which have destroyed many buildings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a powerful pre-taped message to the Grammy Awards on Sunday evening.\n\n\"Our musicians wear body armour instead of tuxedos,\" he told stars including Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, referring to the ongoing war with Russia.\n\n\"They sing to the wounded in hospitals, even to those who can't hear them. But the music will break through.\"\n\nHe urged musicians to \"fill the silence\" left by Russian bombs \"with your music\".\n\n\"Support us in any way you can, but not with your silence,\" he continued. \"Fill the silence with music.\"\n\nThe video message was played ahead of a performance by John Legend of a new song, called Free.\n\nThe US star was joined on-stage by Ukrainian musicians Mika Newton and Suzanna Iglidan, while a poem was read by their compatriot Lyuba Yakimchuk, who recently fled the country.\n\n(Left to right) Mika Newton, John Legend, and Siuzanna Iglidan performed onstage during the 64th Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Sunday\n\n\"Rain down freedom until we're all free\" sang Legend, who was also accompanied by a gospel choir, as images of those affected by the conflict played out on screens behind him.\n\nAt the end of the track, viewers were given the details of a charity helping Ukrainian refugees.\n\nPrior to Legend's performance Mr Zelensky asked: \"What's more opposite to music?... The silence of ruined cities and killed people.\n\n\"The war doesn't let us choose who survives and who stays in eternal silence,\" he added, but spoke of his country defending its freedom \"to live, to love, to sound\".\n\nHe signed off his video message by saying he hoped his countrymen and women could soon \"be free like the people on the Grammy stage\".\n\nSince the conflict began in February, many Ukrainian musicians, producers and DJs have joined the fight against Russia, and also found themselves acting as war reporters and military fundraisers.", "Nadia and her three children managed to escape Mariupol after three weeks under siege\n\nTens of thousands of civilians remain trapped in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, with no electricity, running water or gas. Multiple efforts to open up corridors for aid distribution and the evacuation of residents have failed. For those who have managed to escape, the suffering is far from over, especially for their children.\n\nThe first thing they did was buy bread, sausage and water. Nadia Denysenko and her children had escaped after three weeks in Mariupol, under siege and under constant attack, living in their frigid apartment where the windows had blown out after a shell exploded nearby. For days they had very little to eat, and almost nothing to drink.\n\n\"We were so happy to have bottled water. We finished it in seconds,\" Nadia said, recalling the moment she reached relative safety with her two sons, aged 14 and five, and 12-year-old daughter. \"When the war started, my youngest son said 'Mum, I'd love to have some bread'.\"\n\nTheirs is another story of incredible courage amid almost unbelievable tragedy. Inside Mariupol, they spent their days in corridors behind thick walls. Nights were in the basement. They usually woke up at 05:00. The loud explosions, sometimes far, sometimes close, let no-one sleep.\n\n\"It was hell. Just hell,\" Nadia, who is 39 and used to work at a supermarket in the city, said. \"You were living your days not knowing whether you'd wake up alive in the morning.\"\n\nMariupol has seen the worst horrors of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Thousands have died as the invading forces surrounded the city, attacking it mercilessly from the air, from the ground and also from the sea. Many are being buried in mass graves, unceremoniously and unnamed. Street after street, building after building, most of Mariupol now lies in ruins.\n\n\"We were shelled heavily. They didn't care about anything... My son kept asking, 'Why are there explosions?',\" Nadia said. \"I would tell him, 'Don't worry son. It's just fireworks.\"\n\nNadia's youngest son would ask her: \"Why are they trying to kill us?\"\n\nDuring their time in the city, neighbours cooked the little food they had in a field kitchen in the street. \"We often remained outside because it was warmer than inside,\" Nadia said. On their final two days there, they had nothing left to eat. Not even cereal or oatmeal. It did not matter whether you had money. There was no food left in the city.\n\nIn one of their attempts to flee, they went to a place where cars had gathered, believing it would be an evacuation point. They came under attack. \"It was on purpose,\" she said. They only survived, Nadia said, after a man pushed her and the children \"like puppies\" inside a damaged building, where they thought they would be protected.\n\n\"When we left,\" she said, \"we witnessed something terrible.\" A car was hit by a shell. The driver, a soldier who was trying to take his family out of the city, was wounded in the head. She and others brought him to a basement, where a girl, who was not a doctor, gave him some stitches using an ordinary needle and thread.\n\n\"After seeing all of this we came back home and my younger son asked me, 'Mum, why are they trying to kill us?',\" Nadia said.\n\n\"What could I have told him? I don't know.\"\n\nNadia thinks her children will be able to overcome what they went through\n\nDays later, on 17 March, they finally managed to drive out of the city, as part of a convoy of private vehicles. First, they reached the village of Mangush. They then headed to Berdyansk, which is under Russian control. From there, they boarded a bus to Zaporizhzhia. The road, she said, was full of checkpoints set up by Russian soldiers or Russian-backed separatists.\n\n\"They checked us, especially the men, our phones,\" Nadia said. Knowing that could happen, she had already deleted all pictures she had from Mariupol. \"When we left the city, I was all dirty and covered with mud. I hadn't taken a shower. When you've got nothing to drink, you don't think about taking a shower.\"\n\nIt took them five days to travel from Zaporizhzhia to Lviv, in western Ukraine, a region that has been largely spared of Russia's attacks. One of the few signs here that this is a country at war is the sound of air raid sirens, which can go off several times a day.\n\n\"We're safe and we can buy food, but my son still hides food: bread, candies. He hides it in different parts of the flat where we're staying,\" she said.\n\nShe asked him why he was doing that.\n\n\"He said, 'So I'll have something to eat tomorrow.'\"\n\nNadia shows a picture of herself in Mariupol: \"They destroyed our city. There is nothing of it left\"\n\nNadia thinks her children will be able to overcome what they went through. She said her daughter, who did not want to come with her for our interview, was a communicative person but still had not made friends in their new city.\n\nShe wants to be able to return to Mariupol one day, when the war is over and the city rebuilt.\n\n\"There is nothing of it left... The city was blossoming and developing. It was just perfect,\" she said. The only thing they did not have, Nadia said, was McDonald's.\n\n\"I just don't understand why it all happened. Why did they do it?\"", "Olivia Rodrigo said winning three Grammys was a \"dream come true\".\n\nOlivia Rodrigo, Silk Sonic and jazz musician Jon Batiste have shared the top honours at the 64th Grammy Awards.\n\nBatiste's uplifting soul record We Are won album of the year, while Rodrigo won best new artist and best pop album.\n\nSilk Sonic's soul throwback anthem Leave The Door Open took home both the record and song of the year prizes.\n\nApart from the awards, the ceremony saw a tribute to Foo Fighters star Taylor Hawkins, and a video plea from Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nIn a pre-taped message, he urged musicians to \"fill the silence\" left by Russian bombs \"with your music\".\n\n\"Tell our story. Tell the truth about the war on your social networks and TV. But not silence.\"\n\nHis speech was followed by a performance by John Legend, accompanied by Ukrainian musicians Siuzanna Iglidan and Mika Newton; and poet Lyuba Yakimchuk.\n\nThe ceremony, held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, also saw energetic performances from Lil Nas X, Billie Eilish and BTS, while folk icon Joni Mitchell made a rare on-stage appearance to introduce Brandi Carlile.\n\nThis year's Grammys presented one of the most open fields in years, with the \"big four\" categories expanded to include 10 nominees each.\n\nBut the Recording Academy tends to favour artists who acknowledge their musical heritage - a factor that undoubtedly helped Silk Sonic and Jon Batiste win their respective categories\n\nBatiste's album, We Are, is rooted in black music tradition, from the New Orleans jazz he grew up with, to the classic soul of Al Green, via modern R&B.\n\nThe title track was written in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 - and the album's themes of positivity and intergenerational wisdom made it a favourite with voters, who awarded Batiste 11 nominations heading into this year's Grammys.\n\nJon Batiste also picked up awards for his work on the soundtrack to the Pixar film, Soul\n\nSilk Sonic, a joint project between Bruno Mars and rapper/drummer Anderson .Paak, plough a similar furrow. Their sumptuous ballad Leave The Door Open is steeped in the 70s soul sounds of acts like The Chi-Lites and Earth, Wind & Fire, delivered with a knowing wink to modern sensibilities.\n\nThe duo were clearly delighted with their double victory in song of the year and record of the year.\n\n\"We are really trying our hardest to remain humble at this point,\" said Paak, \"but in the industry, we call that 'a clean sweep'.\n\n\"To all the other nominees... the drinks is on Silk Sonic tonight.\"\n\nThe songcraft of both acts is impeccable, but they leave the Grammys with a headache.\n\nNeither act could be considered the defining sound of 2021. In fact, Batiste's album failed to chart in the UK and only reached number 86 in the US.\n\nWorse than that, their victories meant that younger, forward-thinking acts like Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish were overlooked - with neither collecting a trophy, despite multiple nominations.\n\nThank goodness, then, for Olivia Rodrigo - who was recognised for a stellar debut year that saw her score a global hit with the break-up ballad Drivers License, then top it with the whiplash-inducing pop-punk of Good 4 U.\n\nAs well as best new artist, she also picked up best pop solo performance and best pop album.\n\nThe 19-year-old dedicated the latter to her parents, saying the award was \"for you guys and because of you guys\".\n\n\"When I was nine years old, I told my mom I was going to be an Olympic gymnast, even though I could barely do a cartwheel,\" she recalled. \"The next week, when I told her I was gonna win a Grammy, she was very supportive, even though I'm sure she thought it was just a little kid pipe dream.\n\n\"I want to thank my mom for being supportive of all of my dreams, no matter how crazy; and I want to thank my mom and my dad for being equally as proud of me for winning a Grammy as they were when I learned how to do a back walkover.\"\n\nThere were also three awards for Foo Fighters, a little more than a week after drummer Taylor Hawkins was found dead in his Colombia hotel room at the age of 50.\n\nPresenter Jimmy Jam accepted the prizes in the band's absence, \"with prayers to their loved ones\".\n\nThe ceremony was held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, after a three month delay due to the Covid-19 surge in the US.\n\n\"Don't even think of it as an award show,\" said host Trevor Noah. \"Think of it as a concert where we're giving out awards\".\n\nHe kept his word. For the first 25 minutes, the show shunned prizes to concentrate on music, with three back-to-back performances from the night's main nominees.\n\nSilk Sonic opened the show with a funky strut through their Vegas-themed track 777; followed by Olivia Rodrigo, who gave a sensitive reading of her ballad Drivers License from inside the vintage white Mercedes she drove in the song's video.\n\nThird came reggaeton star J Balvin, who pivoted from the sensual duet Qué Más Pues to a raucous, intricately-choreographed performance of In De Getto.\n\nIf the Grammys wanted to display the breadth of this year's nominees in three songs, they succeeded. And then they kept going.\n\nBTS tore the roof off the MGM Grand with a heist-themed performance of their pop smash Butter; while Billie Eilish's scorching rendition of Happier Than Ever could only be extinguished by an on-stage rainstorm.\n\nBTS performed card tricks, danced through lasers and teased a kiss between singer V (Kim Tae-hyung) and Olivia Rodrigo\n\nChris Stapleton, who dominated the country music categories, gave a gruff but mesmerising performance of best country song winner Cold; and Lady Gaga threw herself into the jazz standards Love For Sale and Do I Love You, as she paid tribute to her duet partner Tony Bennett, who was unable to attend the ceremony for health reasons.\n\nAt the end of the performance, Gaga was moved to tears. \"I love you, Tony,\" she said into the mic. \"We miss you.\"\n\nBy focusing on music over sketches and set pieces, the Grammys became pacier and less self-indulgent than years gone by. It was the right lesson to learn from last year's scaled-back ceremony, where Covid restrictions forced artists into more intimate stagings.\n\nThe ceremony also continued last year's innovation of celebrating behind-the-scenes talent, whose livelihoods were interrupted by the pandemic. After highlighting independent music venues in 2021, this year's ceremony turned the spotlight on women working behind the scenes.\n\nAmong them was Billie Eilish's tour manager Nicole Massey, who called the star as \"the best 20-year-old boss in the world\".\n\nThe ceremony took place a week after the Oscars - and the altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock wasn't far from people's minds.\n\nDuring a non-televised portion of the ceremony, one presenter, Nate Bargatze, introduced the classical nominees while sporting a helmet.\n\n\"This is what comedians at awards shows have to wear now,\" he joked.\n\nNoah also referenced the incident during his opening speech.\n\n\"We're going to be dancing, we're going to be singing, we're going to be keeping people's names out of our mouths,\" he said.\n\nIn contrast to Rock's barbs, however, the South African's monologue was positively good-natured, full of gentle quips about Lil Nas X's height (he's taller than you'd expect) and the show's Las Vegas setting.\n\n\"Look at this, people are doing shots,\" he gestured to the audience at home. \"I mean, last year, people were doing shots, but it was more Moderna and Pfizer. This time, we're back in the mix.\"\n\nIn what must have been a relief for the organisers, habitual award show disruptor Kanye West decided not to attend, after having his invitation to perform withdrawn for \"concerning online behaviour\".\n\nHowever, the star (who now goes by the name Ye) picked up two awards in the rap categories: best rap song for Jail and best melodic rap performance for Hurricane.\n\nBennett, meanwhile, became the second-oldest Grammy winner in history. The star, who is 95, won best traditional pop vocal album for the 14th time for Love for Sale, his collaborative album of Cole Porter songs with Lady Gaga.\n\nThe oldest Grammy winner remains 97-year-old Mississippi blues artist Pinetop Perkins, who won best traditional blues album in 2011 for his record Joined At The Hip.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The price of a first class stamp has risen by 10p to 95p as Royal Mail seeks to cover higher delivery costs while the number of letters being sent falls.\n\nSecond class stamps have also increased by 2p to 68p.\n\nRoyal Mail said it was having to deliver to a growing number of addresses, which was adding to costs.\n\nBut some people criticised the move at a time when the cost of living is increasing and the firm's profits have jumped.\n\nThe price of first and second class stamps have more than doubled since 2010, when they cost 41p and 32p respectively. In 2000, it was 27p and 19p.\n\nLast year, Royal Mail saw the volume of parcels it delivers surge as people embraced online shopping, more than offsetting its losses from letters.\n\nIts annual profits quadrupled to £726m in the year to 28 March - up from £180m a year earlier.\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham accused Royal Mail's boardroom of \"again raising prices while helping itself to massive profits\".\n\nShe said: \"It is behaving like a short-term greedy speculator rather than the responsible owner of a key UK public service.\"\n\nLast month, Royal Mail's chief operating officer Nick Landon said the price changes were necessary to ensure the business remained \"sustainable\" and \"relevant\".\n\nHe said the volume of letters the firm delivers is down more than 60% since its peak in 2004-05, while the number of addresses it delivers to has grown by around 3.5 million, driving up its costs.\n\n\"We need to carefully balance our pricing against declining letter volumes and increasing costs of delivering to a growing number of addresses six days a week,\" he said.\n\nThe trend forced the company into a painful turnaround plan in 2019, although its fortunes have changed during the pandemic.\n\nThe price rises also come as many households face rising living costs, with food, energy and fuel costs all going up.\n\nOne person tweeted: \"The increases seem more and more frequent (like just about everything else these days!) I will definitely be buying less [stamps] now - which is a shame, as I love sending cards etc to my loved ones.\"\n\nAnother tweeted: \"I know inflation is to blame for the price, but why do we always pay more for less service?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by sandra sinclair This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes as Royal Mail, whose deliveries were hit by severe delays in 2021, faces the prospect of strikes over plans to cut managers' jobs.\n\nThe union Unite last week said the company aims to sack nearly 1,000 managers and bring in lower rates of pay in another case of \"fire and rehire\", which Royal Mail denies.\n\nThe union is preparing an industrial action ballot, which it said could see strikes begin in April.\n\nUnite said there was \"no excuse\" for the cuts at a time when the company was growing strongly. But a spokesman for Royal Mail said the restructure would improve services.\n\n\"The proposals are designed to simplify and streamline our operational structures,\" he said. \"We firmly believe this change will deliver a number of benefits for our managers and our customers and will be a significant step forward in the reinvention of Royal Mail.\"", "Ksenia and Maksim met while working at the same travel agency in Kyiv\n\nThe drone footage shows three cars speeding along an empty main road just outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, when they suddenly turn around and race back - all except one.\n\nThis white car turns, but then stops. A man steps out and raises his hands. Then his body falls to the ground. Moments later, Russian soldiers approach. An elderly woman and child leave the car, and a soldier walks them away.\n\nThe man on the ground was Maksim Iovenko. The 31-year-old was shot dead by Russian forces that were positioned at the roadside. His wife Ksenia, who was in the car, was also killed.\n\nTheir six-year-old son and the elderly friend of the family who were with them escaped, although she was wounded and remains in hospital. (Both families asked us not to name them.)\n\n\"Until I saw the video, I still had some hope,\" Maksim's father Sergiy Iovenko tells the BBC in Kyiv, where he lives. \"I was hoping that he was alive.\"\n\nThe incident happened on 7 March, when Maksim and his family joined a convoy of about 10 cars of civilians trying to reach Kyiv from the western outskirts of the city, which had become a conflict zone.\n\nIt was filmed by a Ukrainian territorial defence group doing aerial reconnaissance, and widely shared.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video captured by a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance group appears to show Russian forces shooting at civilians\n\nWhen a friend of Maksim's who was part of the convoy called Sergiy to tell him the news, Sergiy says he immediately knew something was wrong. There was silence when he picked up the phone, and eventually the friend said: \"Stay strong, your son and daughter-in-law are gone.\"\n\nMaksim lived in Kyiv and worked for a travel agency, which is where he and Ksenia met. Sergiy describes his son as a family man with a kind heart who liked to sing karaoke. But his biggest hobby was his family, he says. \"He loved his son very much, and this was his passion.\"\n\nLike many other Ukrainians, Sergiy says he and his family didn't believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would invade. Once Putin did, Maksim thought Kyiv would be one of the first cities to be shelled.\n\nHaving discussed the situation with an old school friend, Maksim and his family moved west to the friend's second home, or dacha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, not far from the E-40 highway where the shooting would happen. Maksim told his father he thought it would be quieter there.\n\n\"It turned out the opposite,\" Sergiy says.\n\nWhile Russia's main focus appeared to be on the east and south of the country, Russian forces also started bombing towns and cities to the west of the capital, such as Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel - close to where Maksim was staying. Sergiy says he would often hear the sound of the heavy bombing from his home in Kyiv.\n\nMaksim wouldn't say much about conditions at the dacha, Sergiy says. \"He would say, 'it is quiet, peaceful, all is normal.'\"\n\nMaksim and his friend, also called Maksim, would take turns patrolling the area overnight, Sergiy says. Power outages and poor mobile signal meant regular contact was difficult. As the bombing continued, they moved into the basement, leaving only to buy food.\n\nThen, on 7 March, they lost all power. With no electricity, heating or food, Maksim, Ksenia and other families staying in the area decided to return to Kyiv. They knew they risked running into Russian troops along the highway, but they thought they could make it through safely.\n\nMaksim's car was third in the convoy, made up of about 50 people in total, including other children. In the windows of his car, he had put handwritten signs on white paper that read: \"Children.\" His friend was part of the same convoy, and it was his mother who was in the car with Maksim and Ksenia, and he was able to tell Sergiy what happened.\n\nWhen the shooting started, Maksim's car was hit. \"The car's engine stalled,\" Sergiy says. \"My son jumped out of the car, he raised his hands and started shouting that there was a child in the car, so that the child would be saved.\"\n\nIt's not clear why the rest of the convoy fell behind the first three cars, but Sergiy believes many of those driving behind turned back when they saw the cars in front turning and heard the gunshots.\n\nAfter the shooting, Maksim's body was left on the highway and Ksenia's was left in the car. Maksim's son and his friend's mother were told by Russian soldiers to walk back along the road. When they got a safe distance from the Russian soldiers, she called her husband, who came to take them to safety. They returned to the dacha, and were evacuated safely to Kyiv the next day.\n\nA burned out car on the road where Maksim and Ksenia were killed\n\nThe boy is with his grandmother in a safe location in Ukraine but away from Kyiv, where Sergiy remains.\n\nOn Friday, Sergiy received a call informing him that the area had been re-taken by Ukrainian forces. There was more bad news.\n\n\"They burned everyone. Burned the cars as well,\" Sergiy says.\n\nA team of BBC journalists taken to the same stretch of road saw many burned cars and bodies. Among them was Maksim's car, riddled with shrapnel and reduced to a shell by fire, with the burned remains of a body inside it and one on the road beside it, still wearing a wedding ring.\n\nSergiy says he is heartbroken by what has happened, and by what his grandson has had to witness.\n\nThe child remembers seeing the Russian soldiers with their weapons and is receiving support from family and specialists, Sergiy says.\n\n\"The only words he said when he got to a safe place, to his grannies, were: 'We won't be sleeping in a basement any longer, will we? And there won't be any scary men?'\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Grant Shapps firmly rule out energy rationing for the UK\n\nThe transport secretary has said energy will not be rationed in the UK, despite pressure on supplies globally.\n\nGrant Shapps ruled this out after Labour's shadow business secretary suggested ministers might need to prepare for rationing.\n\nSome European countries have moved towards rationing as energy costs rise and supplies tighten.\n\nMr Shapps told the BBC the energy strategy would be announced later this week.\n\nPlans to expand nuclear and wind power are expected to form part of the strategy, which has been delayed amid cost concerns.\n\nWhen pressed on whether he can completely rule out energy rationing, he told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: \"Yes, I can. It's not the route that we want to go down.\"\n\nHe was responding to Labour's shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds who told the programme: \"The government should be preparing, not necessarily in public for that situation.\"\n\nBut Mr Reynolds later told Times Radio the UK should be not be rationing energy right now.\n\nAs Mr Shapps ruled out rationing, he said wind farms were an \"immense invisible national resource\" that could be exploited more and that it was better to build significant wind power offshore.\n\nWhile he said there may be occasions where onshore wind farms made sense, he added: \"I don't think we want to cover every inch of land in onshore wind farms.\"\n\nIn turn offshore wind \"performs better because it tends to be windier\" and can be built \"much, much bigger\", he said.\n\nThe government is looking to increase the amount of energy generated by nuclear power\n\nHe made the comments after he told Sky News that he did not favour \"a vast increase in onshore wind farms\", calling them an \"eyesore for communities\".\n\nSources have told the BBC onshore wind will feature in the government's energy strategy, despite some opposition within the cabinet.\n\nOnshore wind has long been a topic that has divided the Conservative Party.\n\nFormer Prime Minister David Cameron said in 2014 people were \"fed up\" with seeing them being built, and some Conservative activists have criticised their visual impact on the landscape.\n\nPlanning laws were then tightened in England to make them much harder to build. But recent polls have suggested a majority of the public support onshore wind.\n\nCabinet ministers are split over whether to review those planning rules in England. They have been clear onshore wind, and solar farms, need local consent and should be accompanied by \"community benefits\".\n\nI understand those community benefits are being considered, regardless of whether rules are relaxed in England or not. If that happened, Scotland and Wales could - in theory - feel the benefit more proportionally.\n\nThis energy strategy won't be an instant fix to high energy bills. Nuclear power stations, for example, can take years and be very expensive to build.\n\nMeanwhile, as the cost of living rises, some Tory MPs are calling for the government to pause its net zero plans. But the government argues that moving towards more renewables is the answer to high bills - not the problem.\n\nThe BBC previously reported that cabinet ministers were split over the idea of relaxing planning laws in England to enable more onshore wind farms - an idea backed by Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Kwarteng said there has to be \"community consent\" for onshore wind and fracking, a controversial method of mining for shale gas.\n\nThe BBC has reported one option ministers were considering was lowering energy bills for people near wind turbines.\n\nHe confirmed that ministers have agreed to set up a new body to oversee delivery of new nuclear plants.\n\nThe prime minister has previously said he wants 25% of UK energy generated by nuclear by 2050, but the Treasury has raised concerns about some of the costs of these targets.\n\nMeanwhile, a move away from the use of Russian oil and gas is expected to be addressed in the government's energy strategy, which will also outline plans to hit net-zero emissions targets.\n\nThe UK government has already said it will phase out imports of Russian oil by the end of the year.\n\nRussian imports account for 8% of total UK oil demand and 5% of gas supplies and the government is attempting to shore up energy security in the UK following a spike in oil and gas prices since the start of the Ukraine war.\n\nA £700-a-year rise in energy costs has put pressure on household budgets in the UK, at a time when other hikes to bills are taking effect.", "A runny nose is now one of the recognised symptoms of Covid\n\nThe official list of Covid symptoms has been expanded to include another nine signs of a coronavirus infection.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency's updated guidance now lists symptoms including a sore throat, muscle pains and diarrhoea.\n\nThe move comes more than two years into the pandemic, and just days after free testing ended in England.\n\nHowever, the NHS cautions that many of the new symptoms \"are very similar\" to those for colds and flu.\n\nThe original signs of a Covid infection that were recognised in the UK were:\n\nIt was known from the early days of the pandemic that this trio was just the tip of the iceberg. The World Health Organization and other countries, including the US, have used a longer list of symptoms for some time.\n\nHowever, there has been debate in the UK about precisely which symptoms should be recognised and qualify somebody for a Covid test.\n\nA headache is a known symptom of Covid, but you might not want to test everybody with one, as there are so many other causes.\n\nFever, cough or loss of sense of smell or taste were settled on, because they were either present in most Covid cases or almost exclusively caused by the virus.\n\nBut now the list of symptoms includes a further nine:\n\nCovid infections are at a record level in the UK, with 4.9 million people (about one in 13 of us) estimated to have the virus. Free testing for most people in England ended last week.\n\nThe NHS says people should stay at home and avoid others only if you have Covid symptoms and a high temperature, or if your symptoms are so bad that you are not well enough to work.\n\nProf Tim Spector, from King's College London, has been campaigning for an expanded list of symptoms because of data from people tracking their symptoms in the Zoe Covid-19 app.\n\nHe said: \"Main symptoms of coronavirus have finally changed after two years of lobbying... hurrah.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia's \"despicable attacks\" on innocent Ukrainian civilians in Bucha and Irpin are \"yet more evidence\" of war crimes, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nHe described Russian President Vladimir Putin as desperate amid his \"failing invasion\" - and said the UK would step up sanctions and military support.\n\nThe BBC's Jeremy Bowen said at least 20 dead men, some with their wrists tied, were found on the streets of Bucha.\n\nUkraine says its forces have retaken the entire region around its capital, Kyiv.\n\nBut, as Russian troops have retreated from key towns, the toll of weeks of fierce fighting has been exposed.\n\nFlattened civilian cars on the streets of Bucha\n\nAuthorities in Ukraine have found what \"looks exactly like war crimes\" including the bodies of executed civilians and mass graves, a spokesman for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said.\n\nSergey Nikiforov told the BBC's Sunday Morning show: \"We found people with their hands and with their legs tied up... and with shots, bullet holes, in the back of their head.\n\n\"They were clearly civilians and they were executed. We found half-burned bodies as if somebody tried to hide their crimes but they didn't have enough time to do it properly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Johnson said: \"No denial or disinformation from the Kremlin can hide what we all know to be the truth - Putin is desperate, his invasion is failing, and Ukraine's resolve has never been stronger.\"\n\nHe said the UK would not rest until justice had been served, as he confirmed extra funding and the deployment of specialist investigators to assist the International Criminal Court's investigation.\n\nHe also said the government would increase humanitarian support for Ukraine.\n\nEarlier, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss insisted Russia must not be allowed to cover up \"appalling acts\" in Bucha and Irpin with \"cynical disinformation\".\n\nThe UK-led effort to expedite and support the International Criminal Court's investigation into war crimes in Ukraine was \"the largest state referral in its history\", she said.\n\nShe added that it was essential the international community continued to provide Ukraine with military and humanitarian support - and step up sanctions.\n\nOther nations have also condemned Russian forces' actions. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the images of bodies in the streets of Bucha as a \"punch in the gut\".\n\nEU chief Charles Michel pledged further sanctions on Moscow. \"Shocked by haunting images of atrocities committed by Russian army in Kyiv liberated region #BuchaMassacre,\" the European Council head wrote on Twitter.\n\nGermany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock denounced President Putin's \"uninhibited violence\", saying Russia must pay for its \"war crimes\" in Bucha in the form of more severe sanctions.", "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken during his visit to Bucha – a city in which Russian forces have been accused of slaughtering civilians.\n\nShocking images of bodies in the streets of the city have led to an outpouring of international condemnation of Russia\n\n\"There are people found in barrels, cellars, etc., strangled and simply tortured,\" he said.", "A banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin next to the Moscow embassy in Riga, Latvia\n\n\"Era defining\", \"new reality\", \"historic moment\" - that's where we are right now in Europe. At least, that's what countless European politicians and commentators say, since Russian President Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAre they right? Yes and No, I'd argue.\n\nOn 24 February, President Putin shocked this continent out of complacency.\n\nHis assault on Ukraine has brought large-scale death and destruction back to Europe, including whispers of possible nuclear war.\n\nHis aim: not only to dominate Ukraine, but to roll back Western dominance militarily and - ideally - politically, in terms of liberal democracy, from the former Soviet sphere of influence.\n\nThe action Western allies take together now will fundamentally affect Europeans' sense of self and safety for years to come.\n\nNato is re-invigorated. The transatlantic military alliance, once dismissed by French President Emmanuel Macron as \"brain dead\", is simultaneously proving Mr Putin wrong to view the West as weak and disunited, while also providing military support, defence and deterrence to Nato's eastern flank that feels so exposed to the Kremlin's expansionist fervour.\n\nThis - so far - is also proving to be a defining moment for the EU. The bloc had long talked up playing a bigger role on the world stage - and not solely in terms of economics and trade. Until now, that was a failed ambition.\n\nBut the Russia-Ukraine crisis has unexpectedly elevated the EU into a credible geopolitical player.\n\nThe speed with which Brussels co-ordinated sanctions against Russia - both within the EU, and with international allies - was frankly impressive. As were the unity of resolve amongst member states, and the bureaucracy-defying EU moves to enact never-before-used mechanisms to help Ukrainian refugees, and the Ukrainian military.\n\nGermany, one of the EU's biggest players, also took the world's breath away by suddenly saying goodbye to World War Two sensitivities and announcing huge investments in its military, the Bundeswehr.\n\nKey to the decision being applauded in the EU and further afield is that this is not a Germany newly flexing nationalist muscles.\n\n\"This is about Germany helping to re-define Europe, not its own role,\" Ricarda Lang told me. She is the co-chair of the German Green Party in the coalition government.\n\n\"It's about European sovereignty, not just in security and defence but also in terms of imports and energy.\"\n\nFor years Germany has knowingly been reliant on the US for security, and on Russia for energy and trade. It is not the only EU country in that position. But as the bloc's richest and most powerful nation, Berlin is the most stand-out example.\n\nAnd this has weakened the West's hand when it comes to sanctions against Russia.\n\nEU countries pay Moscow up to €800m (£674m; $884m) for energy every day, which amounts to an estimated 40% of the Kremlin's income. This money goes towards funding the war against Ukraine, that the West is ostensibly fighting.\n\n\"It's tragic it took a war like this, but now we Germans have woken up with a bang!\" insists Marie Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, who heads the German parliament's Defence Committee.\n\nShe assured me Berlin was now ready to take responsibility.\n\n'We Germans have woken up with a bang!' said the chairwoman of the German parliament's Defence Committee\n\nThe West looked at Germany with suspicion after two world wars, she observed, but that was decades ago, and - to be honest, she said - Germany was pretty comfortable enjoying being a Nato and EU member, without having to invest in its own army.\n\n\"Germany's allies have waited too long for us to do our bit.\"\n\nBerlin has now pledged to build an efficient, modern military, and to keep up defence spending to Nato requirements. Under international pressure, trade and energy ties are being tackled, too.\n\nBear in mind, though, that transforming the currently threadbare German military will take years, as will untangling the country from its deep-seated relations with Russia.\n\nFor decades, Berlin was the dividing line between East and West Europe.\n\nHopes for European unity were high after the fall of the iconic Berlin Wall, and the ensuing 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.\n\nBut fast-forward 30 years, and you hear talk of a new \"Berlin Wall\", though further to the east.\n\nTiny Baltic country Latvia has a 200km (124 mile)-long border fence, separating the EU and Nato member on one side from expansionist Russia on the other.\n\nCol Sandris Gaugers is the commander of the Latvian Land Forces Mechanized Infantry Brigade. We spoke at his military base, just outside the capital, Riga. The base is also home to Nato forces, which have almost doubled in size since Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nCol Sandris Gaugers said priorities have changed across Europe\n\n\"I see a new Iron Curtain coming. Though this time, we'll be on the western side,\" the colonel told me.\n\n\"We are living a new reality. For us Latvians the security environment is now gone. We spent 20 years in Iraq, in Afghanistan. Now our main focus is here. How do we defend our freedom and our country?\"\n\nPriorities have now changed across Europe, he said. \"People used to focus on economic wealth. Now it's about defending our values and way of life.\"\n\nLatvians and their Baltic neighbours in Estonia and Lithuania are trying hard not to say \"I-told-you-so\" to the West. They've been warning about President Putin for years.\n\nThey feel they understand the Russian leader better than most. All three countries were once part of the Soviet Union.\n\nLatvia's Prime Minister, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, insists the West has to accept that \"Putin is not like us\". France and German leaders famously went on diplomatic visits to Moscow earlier this year, trying to dissuade President Putin from attacking Ukraine.\n\nPrime Minister Kariņš says agonising over finding the right words, or turns of phrase to persuade Mr Putin, is pointless.\n\n\"He's hell-bent on destroying democracy and our way of life.\n\n\"If we don't stop Putin. He will not stop at Ukraine.\"\n\nMr Kariņš said the one good thing to come out of the current situation is that Nato and the EU are working closer together than they have in 30 years. That, he said, was a game-changer.\n\nAnd here we come back to whether this is an era-defining moment for Europe.\n\nThe EU is thrilled to have the US back and engaged in Europe.\n\nFor all Brussels' talk of the bloc now building \"strategic sovereignty\" in defence and security, EU countries look to Washington when faced with Russian threats.\n\nTraining session at the Adazi military base in Latvia\n\nEU defence plans, designed to complement - or to partly replace - Nato, depending which European politician you speak to, are nothing new. And so far, they've never worked.\n\nAll EU countries agree that at the very least, it makes sense to pool resources and know-how: cyber, military, equipment and intelligence. Yet, no nation wants to go first.\n\nEach EU member has businesses or individuals benefiting from national contracts. The European Commission now wants to oversee the overhaul of defence capabilities. Few in the military are holding their breath, wherever they reside in Europe.\n\nAs regards the renaissance in EU-Nato co-operation, in all likelihood, once the acute Russia-Ukraine crisis subsides, the US will turn its attention to what it truly sees as its foreign policy priority: the Asia-Pacific, not Europe.\n\nBut the EU has its raison d'être back.\n\nDesigned originally as a peace project, its vision fell by the wayside in recent times. Younger Europeans had no memory of war. They saw no urgency in uniting or fighting for peace on their continent.\n\nIn that regard, this moment really is a new reality.", "Viktor Orban (C), a self-styled illiberal democrat, has repeatedly clashed with the EU\n\nYou could almost hear the collective thud of EU hearts sinking on Sunday night as Viktor Orban made his victory speech.\n\n\"Our win is so huge you can see it from the Moon, never mind from Brussels,\" he gloated pointedly.\n\nA self-styled illiberal democrat, Hungary's prime minister has repeatedly clashed with Brussels over rule of law issues, like press freedom and migration.\n\nThey've fallen out over Moscow too.\n\nThat's why there was so much international attention on Hungary's election.\n\nOrban is famed for his warm relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He buys a lot of energy from Moscow. But so do many other EU countries.\n\nIt's more the similarity critics see between the two men. Both, they say, are disdainful and dismissive of Brussels, of political opposition, of questioning media, of the LGBTQ+ community.\n\nOf course Orban is no Putin. Though an election billboard on Hungarian highways, sponsored by opposition parties, suggested as much.\n\nNext to black-and-white photos of the two leaders facing one another, the caption summarised the choice allegedly facing voters: \"Hungarian Putin\" or Europe.\n\nNumerous populist, nationalist, or right-wing politicians with a penchant for strong man (or woman) politics, have admired Putin over the years - or sought to emulate some of his traits. Think Italy's Matteo Salvini, France's Marine Le Pen, the US's Donald Trump.\n\nBut Orban is the leader of an EU and Nato member country, at a time when both are deeply at odds with Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"I worry about our friend in Budapest,\" a foreign minister from a key EU power told me in a whisper, just before the Russian invasion.\n\nIn fact, Hungary signed up to Western sanctions, which came thick and unexpectedly fast, via Brussels.\n\nBut at the same time opponents back home complained Hungarian state media was churning out propaganda-like news, \"Russia-style\" about the war in Ukraine.\n\nOpposition politicians made a formal complaint to the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Co-operation that monitors human rights and elections in early March.\n\nMost state and private media in Hungary have been taken over by Orban allies during his last 12 years in government.\n\nLoyalists head up key institutions across the country in business, academia, media and NGOs too.\n\nThis system of patronage has given birth to an elite class of wealthy conservative cronies in Hungary.\n\n\"There's been an orgy of disinformation over Ukraine,\" political commentator Peter Kreko told me. So much so, he said, that many Hungarians believe the war was triggered by Kyiv.\n\nThe war ended up dominating the last weeks of the election campaign here.\n\nYou'd have thought the Hungarian opposition would have had a field day exploiting Orban's known ties to Moscow. Instead, the well-oiled government PR machine slickly transformed him into Orban the peacemaker - allowing him to avoid directly antagonising Moscow.\n\nUkraine borders Hungary, and around 400,000 refugees have fled here since Russia's forces invaded.\n\nBut Orban said Hungary should keep out of the conflict itself - a war, he said, between two giant countries. Too dangerous, he insisted.\n\nHe has refused to send weapons into Ukraine or to allow other countries to transit their arms destined for Ukraine through Hungary.\n\nHe is the only EU leader to openly criticise Ukraine's president.\n\nOrban's entourage accused Vlodymyr Zelensky of forming a \"pact\" with the Hungarian opposition to drag Hungarian soldiers into the war with Russia.\n\nIt was striking this Sunday, that in addition to his supporters, the majority of anti-Orban voters I spoke to in polling stations were ambivalent about who was to blame for the bloodshed in Ukraine.\n\nA huge contrast to public opinion I've come across elsewhere in central and eastern Europe over the last month, in capitals awash with Ukrainian flags.\n\nNot a sight that greets you in Budapest.\n\nFor years, Orban has prided himself on his \"political pragmatism\". An outspoken anti-communist after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he's now a nostalgic nationalist conservative.\n\nHe dallies with allies east and west. Always pushing the boundaries. Just about getting away with it.\n\nBut the war in Ukraine has changed things. It's thrown loyalties into sharp relief.\n\nOrban's attitude towards Ukraine sits uncomfortably with EU and Nato allies.\n\nOrban has even succeeded in alienating his closest EU ally. The similarly \"illiberal\"-minded government in Poland.\n\nWarsaw is one of the most hawkish Western powers when it comes to Russia. And right now it's furious with Viktor Orban.\n\nAnd yet, he is the longest-serving leader around the EU table. He knows how things work.\n\nNeither Nato nor the EU will want to ostracise him altogether.\n\nThe West aims to present a united front when facing Vladimir Putin.\n\nWith his fresh election victory, Viktor Orban will remain an unpredictable thorn in their side for some time to come.\n• None The man who thinks Europe has been invaded - BBC News", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is cryptocurrency and how does it work?\n\nThe Treasury has announced that it will regulate some cryptocurrencies as part of a wider plan to make the UK a hub for digital payment companies.\n\nSo-called \"stablecoins\" will become recognised forms of payment to give people confidence in using digital currencies, it said.\n\nStablecoins are designed to have a stable value linked to traditional currencies or assets like gold.\n\nThey are considered less volatile than cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.\n\nThe Treasury also said it planned to consult on regulating a much wider range of digital currencies later this year, without saying which they might be.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"We want to see the [cryptocurrency] businesses of tomorrow - and the jobs they create - here in the UK, and by regulating effectively we can give them the confidence they need to think and invest long-term.\"\n\nThe Treasury has not yet confirmed which stablecoins will be regulated; well-known ones include Tether and Binance USD.\n\nStablecoins are currently used in the United States to facilitate trading, lending or borrowing of other digital assets.\n\nHowever, they are not without controversy. Tether, a Hong Kong based company, has faced questions over its business practices and was fined $41m in 2021 by the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission for allegedly misstating its reserves.\n\nThe UK's Treasury said regulating stablecoins would ensure they could be used \"safely\" by the public.\n\nCryptocurrencies are virtual or digital currencies that can be traded or used to buy goods and services, although not many shops accept them yet and some countries have banned them altogether.\n\nThey are exchanged via \"peer-to-peer\" transactions, meaning there are no banks or other third parties involved.\n\nWild fluctuation in the value of some digital currencies has led regulators to warn they pose risks. However, they are increasingly going mainstream, with major financial companies now investing in them.\n\nMeanwhile, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has voiced his support for virtual currencies and said Bitcoin is a \"good thing\".\n\nSeparately, the Treasury said it will ask The Royal Mint to create a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) this summer.\n\nNFTs are assets in the digital world that can be bought and sold, but which have no tangible form of their own.\n\nThe digital tokens, which emerged in 2014, can be thought of as certificates of ownership for virtual or physical assets. NFTs have a unique digital signature which means they cannot be copied or replicated.\n\nUK Financial Services Minister John Glen said the UK saw \"enormous potential in crypto\" and had a \"detailed plan [for] harnessing the potential of blockchain and supporting the development of a world-best crypto ecosystem\".\n\n\"What does the future of crypto here in the UK look like? No-one knows for sure,\" he said in a speech.\n\n\"But we think that by making this country a hospitable place for crypto we can attract investment [and] generate swathes of new jobs.\"\n\nRegulators are racing to draw up rules to manage cryptocurrencies amid concern that their growing popularity could threaten established financial systems.\n\nIn December, the Bank of England's deputy governor said that while only about 0.1% of UK wealth was currently held as digital assets, that proportion was growing quickly.\n\nSir Jon Cunliffe told the BBC that if the value of cryptocurrencies fell sharply, it could have a knock-on effect.\n\nMeanwhile, the US is moving to craft regulations amid rising concern that the cryptocurrency industry is a haven for criminals.\n\nThe process of generating digital coins via banks of powerful computers, called mining, is also highly energy intensive. Recent research suggests Bitcoin now generates carbon emissions comparable to the country of Greece.\n\nMr Glen admitted there were concerns about the environmental impact and said the government \"will be looking closely at energy usage associated with certain crypto-technologies\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Police in Sri Lanka fire tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Kandy\n\nSri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is trying to stabilise his government after mass protests prompted most of the cabinet to resign.\n\nOnly the president's brother, the prime minister, Mahinda, stayed on as the government grapples with a major economic crisis.\n\nBut spontaneous public protests have continued against shortages of essential goods and rolling power cuts.\n\nOn Sunday, many defied a curfew to take to the streets in several cities. Many of the protesters have been calling for the resignation of the president.\n\nThe curfew, along with a ban on social media sites including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter, was meant to halt a planned day of protests, after a demonstration outside the president's house on Thursday night turned violent.\n\nTwo opposition parties - the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB), with 54 seats, and the Janatha Vinukthi Peramuna (JVP), with three - have also rejected the president's invitation to form a national unity government and told him to resign instead.\n\nSri Lanka is struggling to pay for imports of fuel and other goods because of a shortage of foreign exchange, which has exacerbated its worst economic crisis since independence from the UK in 1948.\n\nSri Lanka needs foreign currency to pay for imports of fuel. With power cuts lasting half a day or more and shortages of food, medicines and fuel, public anger has reached a new high.\n\nThe 26 cabinet ministers who resigned included the prime minister's own son, Namal Rajapaksa, who tweeted that he hoped it would help the president and PM's \"decision to establish stability for the people and the government\".\n\nMr Sabry, who was justice minister in the previous government, now becomes finance minister, replacing another of the president's brothers, Basil Rajapaksa, who was due to visit Washington this month for talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a loan programme.\n\nPrevious ministers of foreign affairs, education and highways were reappointed to their old positions.\n\nMany protesters who allege that the president and his family are to blame for the situation in the country are angry at the fact that he will remain in power.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ranga Jayasuriya This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother called it a \"play from the dictator's playbook\".\n\n\"We want all of you gone - the Rajapaksas, the cabinet,their political henchman, the corrupt cronies, their media guys. All of them,\" another social media user added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe demonstrations mark a massive turnaround in popularity for Mr Rajapaksa, who swept into power with a majority win in 2019, promising stability and a \"strong hand\" to rule the country.\n\nI met opposition leader Sajith Premadasa at another impromptu protest on Sunday, where he along with other members of his party were stopped at police barricades as they tried to enter the city's Independence square.\n\n\"The supreme law of the land protects the right of the people to share their opinions, to demonstrate and to engage in peaceful democratic activities, so that right cannot be violated,\" he said, adding that the curfew and social media ban were dictatorial, autocratic and draconian steps.\n\nI also met several people who had defied the curfew to come out and protest.\n\nSuchitra was one of dozens gathered at a protest outside an Asian restaurant by what's usually a busy road.\n\nAs he cradled his 15 month-old baby boy, who shares his name, Suchitra told me about the daily problems he faced with power cuts.\n\n\"Without electricity our fans don't even work. In this heat it's impossible for the baby, or us, to sleep.\"\n\n\"I came out today because my rights have been taken away, and I'm very angry,\" said Anjalee Wandurgala, one of a few hundred students who gathered in a part of Colombo.\n\n\"Why have they put this curfew? Is it to protect us?\" she asked. \"It doesn't make sense at all\".\n\nFreelance advertising copywriter Sathsara says it is the first time he has ever protested.\n\n\"I'm freelance, but I can't earn money as there's no gas, no electricity. I'm totally broke,\" he says.\n\nHe's one of many young Sri Lankans struggling to see a way forward through this crisis.\n\n\"We are at the prime of our lives, how are we going to achieve our dreams with all this happening?\"", "Police have issued fines to some people who attended an event in Downing Street on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe gathering on 16 April 2021 was a leaving party for the former No 10 director of communications James Slack.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson did not attend the event and has so far not been issued with a fine.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's investigation of 12 events held across government began in January.\n\nIt was launched after an internal inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray passed information to the force.\n\nSources have confirmed to the BBC fixed penalty notices had been sent by email in recent days, as part of the first batch of 20 fines issued by police.\n\nThe BBC has seen the content of the emails. They say the police believe there are reasonable grounds that an offence was committed in contravention of Covid regulations.\n\nThe identity of recipients will not be revealed by the police unless they challenge the fine in court.\n\nTwo parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. Mr Johnson was not at either of them, but has apologised.\n\nOne of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications Mr Slack, who has also apologised.\n\nCritics contrasted the behaviour of No 10 staff with pictures of the Queen sitting alone at her husband's funeral, held under Covid restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile, Monday's Daily Telegraph claims the former director of ethics in the cabinet office, Helen MacNamara, was fined in connection with a leaving party the year before - in June 2020.\n\nAt various stages during the pandemic, the government imposed legally enforceable rules - including restrictions on social gatherings - to stop Covid from spreading.\n\nThe rules had been eased in England on 12 April 2021, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households.\n\nThe Met Police investigation, called Operation Hillman, is examining 12 gatherings on eight dates to see if Covid regulations were broken.\n\nThe prime minister is known to have attended at least three of the gatherings:\n\nThe police probe was launched after a separate inquiry was undertaken by senior civil servant Sue Gray.\n\nIn her separate, initial report, Ms Gray criticised \"failures of leadership and judgement\" over the gatherings, between May 2020 and April 2021.\n\nAn updated version of her report will be published in full, once the police have finished theirs, the prime minister has said.\n\nOf the 16 gatherings listed in her initial findings, the police are looking at 12.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for senior people who have been fined to be named.\n\nOn Sunday night, Conservative MP Steve Brine told the BBC there should be more transparency in the fines process.\n\nHe said it otherwise risked becoming a distraction from upcoming local elections, telling Radio 4's Westminster Hour: \"They should just be honest about who's been tipped off with what and put it all out there and say, you know what, we got this wrong, or this person's got this fine.\"", "Estelle Harris thrilled fans with her grating voice and quick wit in dozens of Seinfeld episodes\n\nThe US film and television actress Estelle Harris has died at the age of 93.\n\nShe was best known for playing Estelle Costanza, the mother of George Costanza in the 1990s sitcom Seinfeld.\n\nWith an iconic high-pitched voice and short-fused temper, Harris turned Costanza into a fictional mother loved by fans for her absurd insults.\n\nThe star also voiced the animated Mrs Potato Head in Toy Story 2, later returning to the role twice.\n\nBut it was on Seinfeld that Harris became a familiar face to many, appearing in dozens of the smash sitcom's episodes across five of its seasons.\n\nHarris was introduced to viewers in 1992 as Estelle Costanza - the dominating mother of romantically insecure George Costanza.\n\nIn the show, Estelle nags her son George so excessively that he fruitlessly tries to persuade her to relocate permanently to Florida - far away from the New York City neighbourhood where the show was set.\n\n\"She is the mother that everybody loves, even though she's a pain in the neck,\" Harris told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998.\n\nViewers \"just look at her as being funny, cute and a loudmouth. But it's not how I play her. I play her with miser underneath,\" she said.\n\nAfter Seinfeld's nine-season run ended Harris continued her career on stage and on screen in many other roles.\n\nAs well as starring as Mrs Potato Head in three Toy Story films, Harris played the recurring character of Muriel in the popular Disney sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody - introducing her unique humour to a younger generation of television viewers.\n\nHarris starred in three Toy Story films as the voice of Mrs Potato Head, a speaking potato toy trained in the martial arts\n\nHarris was born in New York City in 1928 and grew up in a suburb of Pittsburgh.\n\nShe discovered her talent for comedy while starring in high school plays that \"could make the audience get hysterical,\" she told People Magazine in 1995.\n\nHarris briefly put her show business ambitions on hold when she got married in the early 1950s, but returned to acting once her children had grown up.\n\nHer agent confirmed her death in in Palm Desert, California, AP news agency reported.\n\nShe is survived by three children, three grandsons, and a great grandson.\n\nEstelle Harris with her on-screen son and husband on Seinfeld's final day of shooting in 1998", "Olha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander are all said to have been killed\n\nRussian forces have killed a village head, her husband and her son, Ukrainian officials say. This - and the discovery of the bodies of five men dressed in civilian clothes - has added to growing evidence of atrocities on the ground in Ukraine. The BBC's Yogita Limaye has been to visit the two scenes.\n\nIn the town of Bucha, just outside Kyiv, the horror of what unfolded during the Russian occupation is finally coming to light.\n\nIn the basement of a building that once housed a children's community centre, five bodies lay crumpled on the ground - five men dressed in civilian clothes, their hands bound behind their backs.\n\nSome were shot in the head, others in the chest. They were yet to be identified, but Ukrainian officials said the men were taken hostage by Russian soldiers and executed.\n\n\"We heard them being shot,\" said Vlad, one of the volunteers who carried the bodies up from the basement. \"We heard mines go off in the area. Around us there are mines. We are lucky we are alive.\"\n\nVlad described hearing a husband calling after his wife who went out into the street to get water, then a volley of shots. Later he found both husband and wife dead. \"I can tell you so many stories but I don't want to,\" he said. \"I want to forget them.\"\n\nNot far away, in the village of Motoyzhyn, four bodies lay in a shallow grave in the woods. Three have been identified - 51-year-old Olha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander, who was 25.\n\nOlha was the head of the village. It is believed that she and her family were killed on suspicion of helping Ukrainian soldiers, and left on the edge of the woods, half-buried, Olha's hand and her son's face visible through the dirt.\n\nThe Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha on Monday. \"We want you to show the world what happened here, what the Russian military did, what the Russian Federation did in peaceful Ukraine. It was important for you to see that these were civilians,\" he said.\n\nHe said Ukraine was still prepared to negotiate with Russia. \"Ukraine deserves peace,\" he told the BBC. \"We can't live with war. Every day our army is fighting, but we don't want the lives of millions to be lost. That's why we have to have dialogue with Russia.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukraine's president visits the site of alleged atrocities in Bucha\n\nElsewhere in Bucha, there were reports of a mass grave, dug to accommodate bodies from the overflowing morgue. Images and video footage showed dead civilians with their hands tied behind their backs. Evidence was mounting by the hour on Monday of grave atrocities in this once peaceful city.\n\nThe mayor, Anatoliy Fedoruk, said that at least 300 civilians had been killed. There is no official tally yet. Russia has denied any involvement, claiming that the visual evidence had all been faked, but its denials have been met with outrage. Its broken-down, burned-out tanks littered one long road into Bucha.\n\nWe now know some of what happened here, just west of Kyiv. But there are more cities and towns across Ukraine that are still under Russian control. The fear is that what was found here will be found elsewhere, that there will be more bodies in basements and shallow graves.", "A suburban avenue in Bucha became one of the first graveyards for Russia's hopes of encircling and entering Kyiv and then deposing the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe moment came two or three days after the first Russian forces crossed into Ukraine on 24 February, when Ukrainian forces destroyed a column of Russian tanks and armoured personnel carriers moving through the town of Bucha to the city of Kyiv.\n\nThe convoy was destroyed in one of the first of many Ukrainian ambushes that stopped the Russian advance dead.\n\nOur BBC team was able to get to Bucha because during Friday the final Russian soldiers pulled out, as part of what the Kremlin has presented as a calm and rational decision to concentrate on the war in eastern Ukraine.\n\nMoscow says, without proof or any reliability, that its war aims in central Ukraine have been achieved, and they never included capturing Kyiv.\n\nThe truth is that unexpectedly fierce and well organised Ukrainian resistance stopped them outside the capital, and the evidence includes the rusting and twisted wreckage of the column that still lies where it was destroyed on that suburban street.\n\nLocal residents say they hadn't had any bread for weeks\n\nTwo or three weeks into the war the Russian invaders ran out of momentum. On the street in Bucha you can see why.\n\nElite troops from Russia's airborne forces rode into the town in armoured vehicles light enough to be carried by aircraft. They came from Hostomel airport, a few miles away, which had been attacked and seized by Russian paratroopers landed by helicopter on the first day of the invasion. Even then, there was fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces.\n\nWhen the column moved through Bucha on the way to Kyiv, they had a harsh awakening.\n\nThe road is narrow and straight, an ideal place for an ambush. Witnesses said the Ukrainians attacked the convoy with Bayraktar attack drones bought from Turkey. Other neighbours said Ukrainian territorial defence volunteers were also in the area.\n\nHowever they did it, the lead vehicles and the ones bringing up the rear were knocked out and imprisoned the others. The wreckage has not been touched. Belts of 30mm cannon shells lie on the grass verge, along with many pieces of dangerous and damaged abandoned ordnance.\n\nYoung conscripts ran away, begging, local people said, not to be turned over to Ukrainian territorial defence. A man of around 70 who called himself uncle Hrysha, said: \"I felt sorry for them. They were so young, 18 to 20, with their whole lives ahead of them.\"\n\nIt looks as if Russians, as they prepared to pull out of Bucha, had no such pity. At least 20 dead men were lying in the street as Ukrainian troops entered the town. Some of them had their hands tied behind their backs. The mayor said they had buried 280 people in mass graves.\n\nA few civilians who stayed said they had tried to avoid the Russians. They set up wood fires outside their Khrushchev-era flats, cooking on them outdoors because their gas, power and water were cut.\n\nVolunteers are bringing supplies in from Lviv in western Ukraine, and from countries far from the war, geographically at least.\n\n\"This is the first bread we've had in 38 days,\" said a woman called Maria, looking at a plastic bag with some modest looking buns inside. Her daughter Larysa showed me round the Soviet-built apartment building.\n\nMany of the people who had left for safer areas, or abroad, had bolted shut security doors. The Russians removed them by ripping out the concrete lintels and door posts.\n\nA few miles away, the trail of devastation leads to Hostomel airport. Russian airborne troops tried to use it as a base for a push into Kyiv.\n\nThe world's largest transport plane was destroyed early on. The roof of the enormous hangar built for it was so riddled with a constellation of shrapnel holes. The plane itself, known by the Ukrainian word for dream (Mriya), lies there broken-backed, big chunks of fuselage and engine in places around it. Its fate is a parable of what is happening to Ukraine.\n\nAn enormous amount of national pride was invested in the aircraft, as a symbol of Ukraine's ability to make big projects all round the world.\n\nAs the world's largest transport plane, Mriya was once Ukraine's pride", "PC Joseph Demir is attached to the North West Basic Command Unit\n\nA Met Police officer has been charged with sexually assaulting a colleague while on duty.\n\nPC Joseph Demir was charged on 9 March with sexual assault, which is said to have happened on 10 March, 2020, the force said.\n\nHe is due to appear at Willesden Magistrates' Court on 5 April.\n\nThe Met said the assault was alleged to have happened when PC Demir was a student officer at Hendon Training School.\n\nPC Demir, who has been placed on restricted duties, was charged following an investigation by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards.\n\nA misconduct hearing will take place once criminal proceedings have concluded.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch the moment he used space in his victory speech to criticise Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him one of his \"opponents\".\n\nPresident Zelensky has frequently criticised Orban's policies. Hungary shares a border with Ukraine and has taken in over half a million refugees.", "Police say the area has been secured\n\nPolice are searching for multiple suspects after at least six people were left dead and 12 wounded in a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, California's capital.\n\nNo arrests have yet been made in the worst US mass shooting so far in 2022, which broke out early Sunday morning.\n\nVictims were still being identified on Monday, and police are seeking public help for evidence.\n\nThe violence was \"unprecedented\" for the city, its police chief said.\n\nVideos posted online appear to show a brawl break out in the area - packed with restaurants and bars - in the early hours on Sunday, just before rapid gun fire sent people fleeing.\n\nIt was so far unclear whether the fight led to the shooting, police say, and on Monday, officials set up an online portal to ask the public to submit information from the scene.\n\nThe shooting took place at around 02:00 (09:00 GMT) near the junction of 10th Street and K Street, in an area that leads to the Golden One Center, where the Sacramento Kings play basketball.\n\nIt is also only a few streets from the state Capitol building.\n\n\"This is a really tragic situation,\" Police Chief Katherine Lester said.\n\nPolice nearby responded to the gunfire and came across a \"very large crowd\", Chief Lester said. At least one handgun, now understood to be stolen, was recovered.\n\nThree men and three women were killed in the street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPamela Harris said her daughter called her at 02:15 to say that her 38-year-old son, Sergio, had been shot and killed outside a nightclub.\n\n\"She said he was dead. I just collapsed,\" Harris told Reuters at the scene of the shooting.\n\n\"I cannot leave here now until I know what's going on. I'm not going anywhere. It seems like a dream.\"\n\nKay Harris, 32, said she was asleep when one of her family members called to say they thought her brother had been killed. She said she thought he was at London, a nightclub on 10th Street, the Associated Press reports.\n\nShe said she has been to the club a few times and described it as a place for \"the younger crowd\".\n\nPamela Harris went to the crime scene on Sunday for news of her son\n\nCommunity activist Berry Accius reached the scene at about 02:30 after a city council member called him about the shooting.\n\n\"The first thing I saw was like victims,\" he was quoted as saying by CBS News.\n\n\"I saw a young girl with a whole bunch of blood in her body, a girl taking off glass from her, a young girl screaming saying, 'They killed my sister.' A mother running up, 'Where's my son, has my son been shot?'\"\n\nThe incident is certain to inflame the ongoing debate about gun violence and the prevalence of lethal weapons in US society.\n\nMayor Darrell Steinberg tweeted that the numbers of dead and wounded were \"difficult to comprehend\".\n\n\"Rising gun violence is the scourge of our city, state and nation, and I support all actions to reduce it,\" he said.\n\nIn a tearful statement to reporters, city council member Katie Valenzuela - who represents the district where the shooting happened - said: \"I'm heartbroken and I'm outraged.\"\n\n\"Our community deserves better than this,\" she said, pledging to do whatever she can so young people \"don't get shot down on K Street when they're out trying to have a good time\".\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, President Joe Biden decried \"another\" instance of gun violence leaving \"families forever changed. Survivors left to heal wounds both visible and invisible\".\n\nFirearms are involved in approximately 40,000 deaths a year in the US, including suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.", "Foo Fighters have won three prizes at the 2022 Grammy Awards, just a week after the unexpected death of their drummer, Taylor Hawkins.\n\nThe band received best rock album for Medicine at Midnight, rock performance for its opening track, Making A Fire and rock song for Waiting On A War.\n\nPresenter Jimmy Jam accepted the prizes in the band's absence, \"with prayers to their loved ones\".\n\nHawkins died in Colombia shortly before the band were due to play a festival.\n\nLocal officials said an ambulance was sent to the hotel after a man reported having chest pains. He did not respond to resuscitation efforts and was declared dead, the city's health department said.\n\nOpioids, marijuana and other drugs were found in the 50-year-old's system after he died, investigators said, but it is not known whether they contributed to his death.\n\nFoo Fighters had been due to play the Grammys this weekend. Instead, organisers played a video tribute to Hawkins, set to the Foo Fighters' song My Hero.\n\n\"Our thoughts go out to Taylor's family, his friends, the Foo Fighters family and all of their fans around the globe,\" said host Trevor Noah.\n\nPop star Billie Eilish paid her own tribute, wearing a black T-shirt with an image of Hawkins emblazoned across the front during her performance of Happier Than Ever.\n\nThe Grammys also honoured Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, who died last November at the age of 91, with a medley of his songs.\n\nFoo Fighters' awards were presented during a smaller \"Grammy premiere ceremony\" which took place ahead of the main event on Sunday night.\n\nIt also saw folk-rock legend Joni Mitchell win best historical recording for her Archives, Vol 1 box set.\n\nThe star, who had a brain aneurysm in 2015, collected the award in person, helped onto the stage by her physical therapist, who she called her \"angel\".\n\n\"I didn't expect this,\" she added, before thanking her record label and her assistant, \"who keeps me on schedule\".\n\nMitchell was previously honoured at a Grammy event on Friday night, with Herbie Hancock, Cyndi Lauper, Angelique Kidjo and Stephen Stills among those paying tribute to her music.\n\nGraham Nash played an emotional version of her folk-rock classic A Case Of You; while John Legend played River. Both tracks were taken from her 1971 album Blue, frequently cited as one of the best records of all time.\n\nThe trailblazing, Canadian-born star told journalists on the red carpet that she was feeling \"pretty good,\" adding she'd been \"making improvements\" seven years into her recovery.\n\nShe will appear again at the main Grammy ceremony on Sunday night.\n\nMore than 70 awards are distributed on the night, with many of the smaller, genre-based prizes handed out at a \"premiere ceremony\" before the big event.\n\nGeorge Harrison's classic 1970 album All Things Must Pass won the award for best limited edition package, following a 50th-anniversary edition that included extra outtakes, jam sessions and extensive liner notes.\n\nHis widow Olivia collected the award on his behalf, noting that eight years after the record was inducted to the Grammy Hall Of Fame, it was definitively \"here to stay\".\n\n\"The music is here for you,\" she said. \"It's full of hope and compassion and healing and rock and roll.\"\n\nJon Batiste had the most nominations for this year's Grammys, with 11 in total\n\nPuerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny, who is Spotify's most-streamed artist in the world, took home a new prize: Best música urbana album, for his third studio release El Último Tour Del Mundo.\n\nThere was an upset in the musical theatre category, where The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical - a project that originated on TikTok - beat Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella soundtrack and a new concert recording of Les Miserables.\n\n\"A year ago, when I asked the internet, 'what if Bridgerton' was a musical?' I could not have imagined I would be holding a Grammy in my hands,\" said the project's co-creator Abigail Barlow.\n\nBest music film went to Summer Of Soul - a documentary about 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival, which had been all-but erased from history, which also won best documentary at last weekend's Oscars.\n\nAccepting the prize, director Ahmir \"Questlove\" Thompson said: \"It just hit me that we really haven't given much spotlight to what really matters in this film which is the beautiful artists that performed.\"\n\nHe went on to name-check artists including Stevie Wonder, Mavis Staples, Gladys Knight, Nina Simone, BB King and Sly & The Family Stone, whose performances were all restored in the Disney+ movie.\n\nQuestlove is better known as the drummer and band-leader of rap group The Roots\n\nComedian Bo Burnham won best song written for visual media for All Eyes On Me, an anxiety-ridden track from his Netflix lockdown show, Inside.\n\nTrevor Noah will host the main ceremony later, with performances from Billie Eilish, BTS, Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X, Olivia Rodrigo and Justin Bieber.\n\nJazz musician Jon Batiste had the most nominations ahead of the ceremony, with 11 in total.\n\nHe won four during the non-televised premiere ceremony, including best music video for his vibrant, celebratory song Freedom.\n\nThat award saw him beat Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo - the presumed front-runners for album of the year, which he also eventually won, in one of the night's biggest upsets.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "EastEnders actress June Brown, who achieved fame as chain-smoking Dot Cotton, is celebrating her 90th birthday.\n\nThe actress is one of the BBC soap's longest-running characters and has become a firm favourite with viewers.\n\nBut like her on-screen persona, Brown's private life has seen its fair share of tragedy.\n\nShe was born in Suffolk in 1927 to a wealthy father who went bust after investing money in German banks before World War Two.\n\nHer younger brother, John, died of pneumonia in 1932 aged just 15 days, and two years later she lost her elder sister, Marise, who was eight.\n\nBrown served in the Women's Royal Naval Service at the end of the war before leaving to train at London's Old Vic Theatre School.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere she met and married her first husband, actor John Garley, in 1950, but he had depression and gassed himself to death at home in 1957.\n\nA year later, she married actor Robert Arnold who starred in the BBC series Dixon Of Dock Green. The couple shared 45 years of marriage, before Arnold died of pneumonia in 2003.\n\nThey had six children together, although her second daughter Chloe, born prematurely at 28 weeks, died after just 16 days.\n\nDot Cotton worked with Pauline Fowler and Ethel Skinner in the launderette\n\nWhen Dot Cotton arrived in Albert Square in 1985, Brown was in her late 50s.\n\nActor Leslie Grantham, who played Dirty Den, suggested her for the role. Until then, Brown's career had incorporated stage, film and television, with appearances in Coronation Street and Doctor Who.\n\nBut the character of Dot was to make the actress a star.\n\nDot's lot was largely an unhappy one - always guided by the scriptures, she tried in vain to put her good-for-nothing son, Nick, on the right track.\n\nAfter a four-year break from the soap between 1993 and 1997, Dot returned to the Square and suffered more torment, helping her best friend Ethel to end her life in a controversial storyline in 2000.\n\nA 2000 storyline saw Ethel ask Dot to help her die after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\nSparring with her on-screen husband Jim, whom Dot married in 2002, provided some lighter moments and when Dot was stuck for words, her response was the inevitable: \"Ooh I say!\".\n\nIn 2008, the actress became the first actor in a British soap to carry an entire episode alone, with an emotional monologue dictated to a cassette for her screen husband to listen to in hospital following a stroke.\n\nThat same year she was made an MBE for services to drama and charity. Brown told The Times in 1997 she was \"never going to be made a Dame doing Dot\", but she was on her way.\n\nOver the past decade Dot has had an eventful life in Albert Square, including seeing her son Nick return after faking his own death - and then watch him die from a heroin overdose.\n\nShe subsequently served four months in prison for his manslaughter and retired from the launderette in recent months.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dan Walker replaced Bill Turnbull when he joined BBC Breakfast in 2016\n\nBBC Breakfast host Dan Walker has announced he will be leaving the BBC to host Channel 5 news.\n\nWalker said in a Twitter video that he would also present \"a whole host of new programmes across the channel\".\n\nThe presenter will replace Sian Williams as the Channel 5 news anchor, who recently announced she was leaving.\n\nWilliams also made the move across from the BBC Breakfast sofa to Channel 5 in 2016. Walker began working on BBC Breakfast the same year.\n\nHe replaced Bill Turnbull and shared the sofa with Louise Minchin until her departure in September 2021. She was replaced by Sally Nugent.\n\nWalker also previously presented the BBC's Saturday morning sports show Football Focus but handed the baton to Alex Scott last year.\n\nIn a video shared on Twitter, Walker said it was a \"massive decision\" to leave the BBC but said: \"I don't think opportunities like this come around very often.\"\n\nWalker finished fifth on Strictly Come Dancing last year with partner Nadiya Bychkova\n\nWalker added: \"I'm really excited but this has also been a massive decision for me because I love BBC Breakfast, I love working alongside Sally and I love the team there.\n\n\"But Channel 5 came with big ambitions, with big plans and I don't think opportunities like this come around very often and I can't wait.\n\n\"And what an honour to step into the shoes of Sian Williams. I know how popular she is with both the team and also the audience, so all I can say is I will do my best to maintain her incredibly high standards.\n\n\"Thank you for watching and I'll see you soon on a TV screen somewhere.\"\n\nWalker took part in the most recent series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, finishing in fifth place with partner Nadiya Bychkova.\n\nWalker's departure from the BBC's flagship breakfast show comes hot off the heels of a string of other high profiles moves away from the corporation.\n\nSopel also said \"opportunities like this just don't come along very often\" as he moved to Global with Maitlis\n\nFellow BBC journalists Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel are leaving to launch a new podcast and host a radio show together on LBC.\n\nFilm critic Mark Kermode and radio presenter Simon Mayo are also leaving their long-running Friday film review programme on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nThey will be doing a new twice weekly film and TV podcast series for Sony from the beginning of May.\n\nFormer England and Liverpool star Peter Crouch is also moving from 5 Live, taking That Peter Crouch Podcast to Acast.\n\nAndrew Marr announced in November that he was leaving the BBC after 21 years to \"get my own voice back.\"\n\nHe joined the broadcaster as political editor in 2000 and has presented a Sunday morning programme since 2005. Laura Kuenssberg will take over that slot later this year.\n\nMarr will host an \"opinion-led programme\" on radio station LBC, a new show on Classic FM, and write for newspapers.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Channel 4, founded in 1982, is funded by advertising but is publicly owned\n\nThe government has decided to go ahead with plans to privatise Channel 4.\n\nA source said ministers believed public ownership was holding the broadcaster back \"in the face of a rapidly changing media landscape\".\n\nPlans for the sale, on which there has been a public consultation, will be included in May's Queen's Speech.\n\nBut Channel 4 called it \"disappointing\" that ministers had made their decision despite \"significant public interest concerns\" over privatisation.\n\nMoney made from the sale will be reinvested in a \"creative dividend\" to be shared among the TV industry, with some of it earmarked for independent production companies.\n\nChannel 4, founded by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government in 1982 to deliver programmes for under-served audiences, is funded by advertising but is publicly owned.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries said: \"Channel 4 rightly holds a cherished place in British life and I want that to remain the case. I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon.\n\n\"A change of ownership will give Channel 4 the tools and freedom to flourish and thrive as a public service broadcaster long into the future.\"\n\nA government source said the channel would lose its \"straitjacket\" but retain its commitment to primetime news programming.\n\nThe Channel 4 show It's a Sin has been nominated for 11 Bafta awards\n\nWhen it was announced last year that the government was carrying out a consultation on privatising Channel 4, its bosses warned of \"a real risk\" to some of its programmes.\n\nResponding to the announcement that the move was going ahead, a spokesperson for the broadcaster said: \"With over 60,000 submissions to the government's public consultation, it is disappointing that today's announcement has been made without formally recognising the significant public interest concerns which have been raised.\"\n\nThey added that there needed to be a \"lengthy legislative process and political debate\", saying: \"Channel 4 remains legally committed to its unique public-service remit.\n\n\"The focus for the organisation will be on how we can ensure we deliver the remit to both our viewers and the British creative economy across the whole of the UK.\"\n\nIn 2019, Channel 4, which brought shows including Friends, Big Brother and Countdown to UK audiences, opened a base in Leeds, to operate alongside its London headquarters.\n\nFor Labour, shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell said: \"Selling off Channel 4, which doesn't cost the taxpayer a penny anyway, to what is likely to be a foreign company, makes absolutely no sense. It will cost jobs and opportunities in the North and Yorkshire, and hit the wider British creative economy.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat culture spokesman Jamie Stone said: \"Occasionally, we as a country manage to magic up a world-renowned gem into being and Channel 4 is a perfect example. And yet this government seems hell-bent on trashing this uniquely British legacy and undermining jobs and investment in the creative sector.\"\n\nAnd SNP culture spokesman John Nicolson called the government's decision a \"direct attack on an innovative broadcaster which produces independent, high-quality journalism\".", "UN scientists have worked through the weekend to complete a key report on how to restrict the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.\n\nMembers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are likely to advise a rapid shift from fossil fuels over the next 8 years.\n\nThey will also suggest the widespread use of carbon removal technology to limit dangerous warming.\n\nBut disputes over the exact wording of the document have delayed agreement.\n\nThe IPCC is set to publish their findings on what we can do to stem climate change on Monday.\n\nMost of the world's leading researchers on climate change are involved in the production of IPCC reports - their summaries of the latest science, produced every six or seven years, are used by governments in their negotiations on climate change, such as those that took place at COP26 last November.\n\nThese IPCC reports are seen as the best, if slightly conservative studies on the state of climate science.\n\nFor the past two weeks, IPCC scientists and government officials from all over the world have been locked in a virtual approval session, going through this latest report on how to stop climate change line by line.\n\nThis new study will be the third of three important documents from the IPCC issued over the past eight months.\n\nThe previous two have looked at the causes and impacts of climate change, but this one will focus on mitigation - or what we can do to stop it.\n\nThis essentially means that researchers will look at how we can reduce the amount of warming gases that are emitted from human activities.\n\nOne key part of the summary report will detail what the world can do between now and 2030 to limit heating.\n\nCarbon removal technology, such as at this installation in Iceland, will be examined\n\nIPCC scientists have previously warned that to keep the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century, emissions from warming gases would have to halve by the end of this decade.\n\nIn this new study, the researchers will likely be encouraging a rapid reduction in fossil fuel use, especially over the next eight years.\n\nBut this is sensitive territory - many large developing countries say that they should have the right to continue to use coal, oil and gas for longer, to help grow their economies.\n\nSome major fossil fuel producers are also reluctant to embrace the urgency of cutting these fuels that scientists say is absolutely necessary.\n\nOther countries have also taken issue with questions around the use of nuclear energy.\n\nThese divisions have seen the approval session continue way past its official closing time on Friday.\n\nAccording to one person with knowledge of the proceedings, it is not a surprise that the talks are running late as everyone recognises the implications this report will have on decisions that will have to be taken in next few years.\n\nAnother key part of the report will be the focus on approaches to remove CO2 from the air.\n\nProf Jim Skea is one of the co-chairs of the latest IPCC report\n\nThe kind of carbon removal approaches the report will consider will likely include tree planting and agriculture, as well as the more advanced technological approaches that use large machines to remove the carbon from the air.\n\nThey will also look at combined approaches, where land is used to grow crops which can be burned for energy while the carbon is captured and buried.\n\nThe use of these types of technology is controversial. Campaigners express doubts that they can be made to work economically and there are also concerns that technology could be seen as an excuse not to make the major changes in energy production that are needed.\n\nScientists though say that the situation is now so serious that carbon dioxide removal will be needed in addition to massive cuts in emissions.\n\nThe discussions to approve the report's Summary for Policymakers, due on Monday, have been one of the longest in IPCC history.\n\nDelegates worked through Saturday night and well into Sunday to finish the document.", "Lucy says her pain has been close to unbearable\n\nGynaecology waiting lists in England have risen by 60% during the pandemic - more sharply than any other specialty.\n\nAcross the UK, more than 570,000 women are waiting for help.\n\nThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) said patients were \"consistently deprioritised and overlooked\".\n\nNHS England says hospitals are making progress on dealing with the Covid backlog and average waiting times for elective treatment are coming down.\n\nThe RCOG is calling for much greater attention to women's views, and for care to be designed around their needs.\n\nChetna Mistry says she is a \"prisoner\" to endometriosis, a painful condition in which tissue similar to the lining of the womb grows in other places, like the ovaries.\n\nChetna Mistry says she is a shadow of her former self\n\nShe described it as \"a whole-body disease which affects you physically and mentally\".\n\nIt has left her infertile, and, at 42, she needs a hysterectomy.\n\nChetna said she was referred to a specialist in June 2020, but 21 months later still does not have a date for surgery.\n\nIn the meantime, she has been admitted to hospital several times, in uncontrollable pain, and believes her condition has deteriorated.\n\nShe said: \"I'm pretty much house-bound now, due to the pain. I'm a shadow of my former self.\"\n\nShe sent us this video showing how painful it can be when she's having a flare-up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chetna Mistry recorded herself during a flare-up of pain\n\nPain is also a constant companion for Lucy Reddin.\n\nShe hasn't been to work for a month. But she feels that a hysterectomy would solve many of her problems.\n\nShe was referred for help in March 2021 and said she needs support while on the waiting list.\n\nLucy said: \"It's cruel. It's cruel to leave somebody waiting there for that long.\n\n\"You wouldn't do that to a dog. Why are we doing it to us?\"\n\nShe would like more advice on pain management, as well as mental health services.\n\nHer voice broke as she said: \"I felt suicidal at times with this condition, the level of pain that it gives me.\n\n\"I'd like to think I would never do it. But in that moment of that pain, you just want it to stop, you just want it to go away.\"\n\nProblems with gynaecology did not start with the pandemic, but it made things much worse.\n\nIn February 2020 the gynaecology waiting list in England stood at 286,008.\n\nIn the most recent figures, for January 2022, it has risen to 456,938.\n\nBefore COVID, 66 patients were waiting more than a year for treatment. Now, that has gone up to almost 25,000.\n\nMore than 1,300 have been on a waiting list for two years.\n\nData analysis firm LCP suggests these numbers don't nearly reflect the true scale of the problem.\n\nIt compared the number of new referrals during the pandemic to previous years - and believes that more than 400,000 women haven't come forward for help yet.\n\nThese 'hidden referrals' would suggest that the waiting list in England would stand at more than 850,000.\n\nIt is not possible to give direct comparisons with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, because the devolved nations all collect and report data slightly differently.\n\nBut it is very clear that across the UK, gynaecology waiting lists are growing.\n\nMany of these conditions are progressive. If left untreated, they can potentially need more complex or invasive surgery.\n\nRCOG president Dr Edward Morris said he felt helpless not being able to speed up access to care for women and people on his waiting lists.\n\n\"There is an element of gender bias in the system. I don't believe that we are listening to voices of women as well as we should be.\n\n\"The priority they urgently need is not being given to them.\"\n\nThe Royal College asked 830 women on waiting lists about the other impacts on their lives.\n\nEight out of ten said their mental health had suffered, and 77% said their condition was stopping them being able to work or socialise as normal.\n\nConditions like endometriosis and fibroids can affect fertility.\n\nSome women are waiting for surgery for these conditions, before they can start fertility treatment. But there is an age limit for IVF on the NHS, and for some women it is too late.\n\nThe NHS is seeing record waiting lists across the board - more than six million people in England.\n\nIt is expected to get worse before it gets better. The National Audit Office predicts that numbers could rise to between seven million and 12 million in the next few years.\n\nMuch of the priority is on people with life-threatening conditions.\n\nBut Dr Morris wants things to be \"evened out across the NHS\" so that gynaecology is given the same focus as comparable specialties.\n\nHe said this must start with authorities listening to women, hearing the impact these conditions have on their lives, and designing care around them.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"NHS hospitals have treated over 640,000 patients with Covid, all while rolling out the biggest and fastest vaccination programme in NHS history - but backlogs have built up over the last two years since the pandemic started.\n\n\"However, staff are making progress on dealing with the Covid backlog with the latest data showing staff delivered more than half a million more tests, checks and procedures in January compared to the same month last year, while average waiting times for elective treatment are down by more than six weeks on their peak in the pandemic - so as has been the case throughout the pandemic, please come forward for care if you have any concerns.\"\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Paul Rose (right) says he is a better father since leaving his role as a head teacher\n\nThe number of head teachers in England quitting their jobs within the first five years of starting is on the rise.\n\nOne in four (25%) primary school heads and more than one in three (37%) in secondary schools who started their roles in 2015 had left by 2020 - up from 21% and 35% since 2011.\n\n\"Crushing workloads\" and frozen pay were to blame, said the NAHT union.\n\nThe government said that while school leaders have faced challenges, the overall picture is positive.\n\nThe latest Department for Education (DfE) figures have been seen by the BBC following a Freedom of Information request by the NAHT, which is the union for head teachers.\n\nPaul Rose was the head teacher of a primary school in Derby for four years.\n\nHe told the BBC he loved the job, enjoyed supporting the children and felt he was helping to change lives - but at a huge personal cost.\n\n\"It's the loneliest job I've ever done,\" said the father-of-two.\n\nPaul said he worked seven days a week, sometimes racking up 100-hour working weeks, which meant he spent very little time with his young children.\n\n\"I regularly opened up school on a Saturday and Sunday, and worked in my office at my desk over the first three-year period. It was brutally difficult,\" he said.\n\n\"In my final year I sat down with my governing body and said, 'look, I can't continue working in this way for my health, both my physical and mental health'.\"\n\nPaul left his role after four years to set up an educational technology company.\n\nHe says he is still passionate about education, but doesn't miss being a head teacher \"at all\".\n\n\"I'm a better husband and a better father because I'm not a head teacher any more. People have no idea how hard education leaders, teachers and everybody involved in education works.\"\n\nThe DfE collects data every year on the number of head teachers, assistant and deputy heads, and middle leaders under the age of 50 who leave their posts within five years.\n\nIt shows that every year since 2011, a higher percentage of leaders are leaving.\n\nOf head teachers who started in 2011, no fewer than 21% had left five years later, but of those appointed in 2015, a total of 25% had quit by 2020.\n\nFor middle leaders, the picture is worse with almost half leaving within five years, and in 2021, 46% left their position.\n\nNAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman said leadership supply for schools is teetering on the brink.\n\n\"School leaders' pay has been cut by 15% in real terms since 2010, and this, in combination with high stakes accountability, crushing workload, long hours, and inadequate school funding, is driving leaders from the job they love,\" he added.\n\nA DfE spokesperson said that although the figures show the number of people leaving school leadership posts is rising, many remain in the teaching profession.\n\nThey say vacancy rates \"are low\" and \"the quality of leadership is high\".\n\n\"That is why we are taking a wide range of action to support the profession, including investing £250m in training opportunities across all stages of teachers' careers, plus the government's pay reforms giving schools greater flexibility to reward exceptional leaders,\" added the spokesperson.", "The average food bill could increase by £271 this year as prices continue to rise, research suggests.\n\nGrocery prices were 5.9% higher in April than a year ago, the biggest increase since December 2011, according to research company Kantar.\n\nIt said shoppers were turning to discount retailers Aldi and Lidl as pressures on budgets grows.\n\nSupply chain issues, the Ukraine war and rising raw material costs are all contributing to soaring food prices.\n\nFraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said: \"The average household will now be exposed to a potential extra £271 per year.\n\n\"A lot of this is going on non-discretionary, everyday essentials which will prove difficult to cut back on as budgets are squeezed. We're seeing a clear flight to value as shoppers watch their pennies.\"\n\nAldi was the fastest growing retailer during the period the data covers, with its sales increasing by 4.2% over the 12 weeks to 17 April.\n\nThis was closely followed by Lidl, which was up 4%.\n\nMore than one million extra shoppers visited the two retailers respectively over the period compared with this time last year, with both achieving record-breaking market shares, according to Kantar.\n\nTesco was the only other retailer to increase its market share, growing by 0.3 percentage points to 27.3% of total grocery sales.\n\nSupermarkets are facing a fierce battle for customers as the soaring cost of living hits household budgets.\n\nOn Monday, Morrisons and Asda, who have both been losing customers to Aldi and Lidl, said they were cutting prices on hundreds of products.\n\nMeanwhile Iceland boss Richard Walker told the BBC that the cost of living was the \"single biggest domestic issue\" facing the country, adding that he would offer a \"constant drum beat\" of deals to help shoppers cut costs.\n\nThe latest inflation figures showed that UK prices are rising at their fastest rate for 30 years, with increased energy, fuel and food costs all contributing.\n\nFirms are increasingly passing on the higher costs they are facing to customers.\n\nOn Tuesday, budget fashion chain Primark warned it would have to introduce \"selective price increases\" across some of its autumn and winter clothing ranges because of these higher costs.\n\nLast month, retailer Next also said its prices for homeware items would jump 13% and its fashion prices will rise by 6.5% in the second half of this year.\n\nNestle, the maker of KitKats and Nesquik cereal, also increased prices by more than 5% in the first three months of the year because of rising costs.\n\nKantar said food prices were rising fastest in markets such as dog food, fresh lamb and savoury snacks, but were falling in spirits.\n\nIt said there was also evidence of some customers stocking up on certain products due to limited availability and increased prices linked to the war in Ukraine.\n\nLast weekend some supermarkets introduced limits on how much cooking oil customers are able to buy, with supplies being hit by the war.\n\nThe majority of the UK's sunflower oil comes from Ukraine and disruption to exports has led to some shortages and an increased demand for alternatives.\n\nKantar said the cooking oil market grew by 17% in April, with sunflower oil up 27% and vegetable oil up 40%.\n\nTesco is among the supermarkets limiting the amount of cooking oil customers can buy\n\nMeanwhile, for the first time since the pandemic began supermarket sales are falling - by 0.6% compared with two years ago, Kantar said.\n\nHowever, this compares with the start of the first national lockdown in the UK, when only essential shops like supermarkets were allowed to open.\n\nKantar said the easing of Covid restrictions, with many returning to the office, as well as restaurants and pubs, may also have had an impact.\n\nOnline grocery sales were also down by almost 15% compared with 2021.\n\n\"It is to be expected that sales are down compared with last year when restrictions were still in place,\" Mr McKevitt said.\n\n\"While the number of trips we're making to the supermarket has remained steady this year, people aren't buying as much when in store and the average basket size has dropped by 4.5% to £22.39.\"\n\nHow are you changing your food shopping? Which items have increased in price? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City will take a slender Champions League semi-final advantage to the Bernabeu after winning a seven-goal first-leg classic against Real Madrid at Etihad Stadium.\n\nCity delivered a magnificent display as they peppered Real's goal for long periods but Carlo Ancelotti's side kept rising off the canvas to somehow keep themselves in serious contention to reach another final.\n\nKevin de Bruyne set the tone for a magical night of football with a diving header from Riyad Mahrez's cross in the second minute and in-form Gabriel Jesus quickly added a second from close range as Real reeled under wave after wave of attacks.\n\nMahrez enraged manager Pep Guardiola when he hit the side-netting instead of finding the unmarked Phil Foden, who shot inches wide before Karim Benzema, inevitably, gave Real a lifeline by sweeping home Ferland Mendy's cross after 33 minutes.\n\nThe Spanish side escaped again shortly after the break when Mahrez struck the post but City restored their two-goal advantage when an unmarked Foden headed home Fernandinho's cross in the 53rd minute.\n\nCity were pegged back again when Vinicius Junior dummied past Fernandinho and ran from inside his own half to score a superb second for Real.\n\nHowever, a brilliant use of advantage from referee Istvan Kovacs allowed Bernardo Silva to fire into the top-left corner for City's fourth.\n\nThere was still no let-up and Benzema capped a spectacular game by showing nerves of steel to chip a Panenka penalty past Ederson with eight minutes left following Aymeric Laporte's handball.\n\nLiverpool face Spanish side Villarreal in this year's other semi-final, with the first leg at Anfield on Wednesday.\n\nThe final will be held at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday, 28 May.\n• None Manchester City v Real Madrid as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n• None Go straight to all the best City content\n\nCity would have taken any sort of advantage to Spain before kick-off but deep down they will know their almost total dominance of Real should have given them much more than this narrow lead for the second leg.\n\nGuardiola's side were simply irresistible for spells and could have been four goals ahead before Benzema struck Real's first, the manager clearly infuriated by Mahrez's selfishness in shooting with Foden standing unmarked in front of goal at 2-0.\n\nGuardiola and his players will take heart from the manner in which they carved Real open so often and they will hope to capitalise on their opponents' need to press for a goal in Spain.\n\nDe Bruyne was outstanding once more and Foden just showed how at home he is on the elite stage, but City have to be concerned at how they looked defensively vulnerable on occasion to leave Real very much alive in this semi-final.\n\nA side of City's calibre will be confident of progress - but most observers will know this tie should already be over.\n\nReal will always have hope when they have Benzema, the 34-year-old Frenchman who deserves his place in the upper echelons of the great strikers in world football.\n\nIt is often a mystery how Real survive when looking punch drunk having come back from losing situations to beat Paris St-Germain and Chelsea in their previous knockout ties.\n\nBut a comeback looked beyond them when they were blown away by a blistering City opening that left them two down after only 11 minutes.\n\nAnd yet, for all their struggles elsewhere, the La Liga leaders carry an air of menace that means concentration levels cannot drop for a moment. They proved it again as they dusted themselves down to give themselves a lifeline.\n\nIt was no surprise that Benzema was the man responsible, showing all of his class with a left-foot volley past Ederson to make it 2-1.\n\nBrazilian youngster Vinicius Junior also produced magic for the second goal before Benzema's nerveless penalty.\n\nThe great survivors are still in this tie and will now hope the magic of the Bernabeu can inspire them once more next week under coach Carlo Ancelotti, who is trying to win the trophy for a fourth time.\n• None Nacho (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Oleksandr Zinchenko tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Karim Benzema.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross.\n• None Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 4, Real Madrid 3. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "The Russian government has accused the UK of \"provoking\" Ukraine into attacking Russian territory.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said it was ready to hit \"decision-making centres\" in Kyiv should such attacks occur.\n\nThe presence of Western advisers at such centres might not affect its decision to retaliate, it added.\n\nIt comes after a UK defence minister said it was \"not necessarily a problem\" for Ukraine to use UK-supplied arms against military targets in Russia.\n\nJames Heappey said Ukrainian military strikes to disrupt supply lines were a \"legitimate\" part of war, and described Russian claims of Nato being in conflict with Russia as \"nonsense\".\n\nRussia has claimed Ukrainian forces have attacked targets within its territory, including an oil depot in Belgorod, but Ukraine has not confirmed any strikes.\n\nWestern countries have donated hundreds of millions of pounds of military aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion back in February, and Nato and European Union officials have been meeting in Germany to discuss further military assistance.\n\nThe UK government has announced it will give Ukrainian forces a small number of anti-aircraft vehicles.\n\nIn a statement quoted by the Interfax news agency, the Russian defence ministry said: \"We would like to stress that the direct provoking by London of the Kyiv regime into such activities [attacking Russian territory], should there be an attempt to realise them, will immediately lead to our proportional response.\"\n\nThe ministry also said Russian armed forces were ready to \"deliver retaliatory strikes using long-range high-accuracy weaponry\" against \"centres taking relevant decisions\" in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.\n\n\"The advisers from among the subjects of one of the Western countries that are located in Ukrainian decision-making centres in Kyiv will not necessarily be a problem when Russia decides to take retaliatory action,\" the ministry said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: James Heappey says it is \"entirely legitimate\" for Ukraine to carry out strikes within Russia\n\nForeign minister Sergei Lavrov also accused Nato of conducting a proxy war, and said Western weapons being delivered to Ukraine would be fair targets.\n\nMr Lavrov claimed the West was \"pouring oil on the fire\" by providing Ukraine with firepower, and repeated warnings that the conflict could lead to a third world war.\n\nBut Mr Heappey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was Ukraine that makes the decisions of where and what to target, rather than the countries or companies that manufacture and export the weapons.\n\nMr Heappey added: \"It is entirely legitimate to go after targets in the depth of your opponents to disrupt their logistics and supply lines.\"\n\nHe added that it was also a legitimate part of war for Russian forces to be striking targets in western Ukraine to disrupt Ukrainian supply lines, as long as they avoided targeting civilians - \"which unfortunately they have not taken much regard for so far\".\n\nUK defence sources later sought to clarify Mr Heappey's remarks, who also told Times Radio it was \"not necessarily a problem\" for British-supplied arms to be used by Ukrainian forces against military targets in Russia, after acknowledging that weapons now being supplied have the range to be used over borders.\n\nThe sources said the UK was not involved in Ukrainian targeting, and the minister's use of the phrase \"deep strike precision targeting\" referred to stopping the relentless bombardment of Russian artillery, not striking targets in Russia.\n\n\"The UK and many other Western allies are now providing longer-range weapon systems to help counter the indiscriminate artillery fire that the Russian armed forces have been raining down on besieged Ukrainian cities,\" the sources told the BBC.\n\n\"Targeting is a matter for Ukraine, but the UK expects all parties in this conflict to decide on their military targets in full compliance with the laws of armed conflict.\"\n\nLater, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was asked in a Talk TV interview if he was happy for British weapons to be used against targets like oil refineries within Russia - and he replied that Ukraine had a right to defend itself.\n\n\"We don't want the crisis to escalate beyond Ukraine's borders,\" he said.\n\n\"But the Ukrainians, plainly, as James [Heappey] has said, they have a right to defend themselves. They're being attacked from within Russian territory... they have a right to protect and defend themselves\".\n\nUkraine is fighting an existential war with Russia so it is unsurprising Ukrainian forces should target supply lines over the Russian border.\n\nIt is equally unsurprising Western powers are relaxed that some of their weaponry are used in such strikes.\n\nWhat is interesting about James Heappey's remarks is their frankness.\n\nIn other conflicts, such as in Yemen, British ministers tend to be coy about the use of British weapons.\n\nOn one level, the defence minister is just revealing his usual candour. He often speaks more as a former soldier than a politician.\n\nBut on another level, his remarks reflect Nato's deepening involvement in this conflict.\n\nThe weapons provided by Western powers are getting bigger and more powerful.\n\nIt is one thing to give Ukraine short-range anti-tank bazookas. It is another to provide them with drones and artillery that can cross borders.\n\nThe line between defending Ukraine and attacking Russia is increasingly blurred.\n\nFor months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been asking Western allies for more weapons to fight off the Russian invasion.\n\nOn Monday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced the UK would gift a small number of Stormer vehicles fitted with launchers for Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles to give Ukrainian forces \"enhanced, short-range anti-air capabilities both day and night\".\n\nHe also told the Commons around 15,000 Russian troops had been killed since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, while 2,000 of its armoured vehicles had either been destroyed or captured.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson has said he does not expect Russia to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, even if President Vladimir Putin suffered more military failures there.\n\nThe prime minister told TalkTV he thought Mr Putin had enough \"political space\" to back down and withdraw, given the \"overwhelming\" support he enjoys in Russia and the \"apparent obliviousness of the Russian media\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Angela Rayner says she feels self-conscious after claims she was distracting the PM\n\nAngela Rayner has said she was \"crestfallen\" after a paper printed claims from Conservative MPs that she tries to distract the PM by crossing and uncrossing her legs.\n\nSpeaking to ITV, Labour's deputy leader said she had felt \"really down\" about how the story would impact her sons.\n\nHowever, she added she had been \"overwhelmed\" by the support she received from colleagues.\n\nThe story has been widely criticised, with the PM calling it \"sexist tripe\".\n\nA source close to the whips office - which is in charge of discipline among Conservative MPs - has said: \"Questions are being asked around the palace and if the anonymous source is identified action will be taken.\"\n\nThe UK press regulator Ipso has said it is exploring possible breaches of its code of practice after receiving 5,500 complaints about the article.\n\nThe piece in the Mail on Sunday newspaper quotes an unnamed Conservative MP saying Ms Rayner \"knows she can't compete with Boris's Oxford Union debating training, but she has other skills which he lacks\".\n\nThe story said: \"Tory MPs have mischievously suggested that Ms Rayner likes to distract the PM when he is in the despatch box by deploying a fully clothed parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's infamous scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct.\"\n\nAppearing on the Lorraine programme, the Ashton-under-Lyne MP said that when speaking in Parliament she was focused on \"doing a good job\" and that she felt like she held her own against the prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe accused the article of being \"steeped in classism\", suggesting she was \"thick\" as she had attended a comprehensive school, and insinuated she was \"promiscuous\" for having a child at sixteen.\n\nThe article described the Labour MP's background as \"a socialist grandmother who left school at 16 while pregnant and with no qualifications before becoming a care worker\".\n\nMany MPs have since also condemned the tone of the newspaper's reporting.\n\nMs Rayner also said she felt \"fearful of the story coming out thinking that's what people will think of me\" but that she was \"heartened\" by the response.\n\nShe added that she had chosen to wear trousers while appearing on the programme as she feels \"like I'm being judged for what I wear\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has arranged a meeting with the editor of the Mail on Sunday on Wednesday to discuss the article.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meeting, Sir Lindsay said he wanted to use it to request \"we are all a little kinder\".\n\n\"I firmly believe in the duty of reporters to cover Parliament, but I would also make a plea - nothing more - for the feelings of all MPs and their families to be considered, and the impact on their safety, when articles are written,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Armed Forces Minister James Heappey described the Conservative colleague who gave the quote about Ms Rayner as an \"idiot\" and says \"people are being put off\" coming into politics because of their gender, adding: \"That is not cool.\"\n\nMr Heappey said \"Westminster is in a bad place right now\" and that \"men have to call this out\".\n\nHarriet Harman - Ms Rayner's predecessor as Labour's deputy leader - said the quotes were \"sexist briefing\" and \"an age-old way to shut people up... it's rooted in the idea that women should just shut up and stay home and don't have a right to be in Parliament\".\n\nMs Harman suggested the House of Commons Standards Committee should make misogynistic, racist and homophobic briefings to journalists a breach of the MPs' code of conduct.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Ellis expressed concern about introducing anti-discriminatory rules for MPs, suggesting it could have \"a chilling effect\" on \"legitimate debate\".", "The UK Health Security Agency says parents should look out for symptoms such as jaundice\n\nHealth officials say there is mounting evidence that a common virus is linked to rare cases of hepatitis that have been occurring in some young children.\n\nGlobally, there have been 169 cases recorded, and one death.\n\nIn the UK alone, 114 children have become ill and 10 have needed a liver transplant.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says a strain of adenovirus called F41 is looking like the most probable cause.\n\nMost of the children affected are five years old or younger and have had symptoms of gastroenteritis illness - diarrhoea and nausea - followed by jaundice or yellowing of the skin and eyes (a sign that the liver is struggling).\n\nDr Meera Chand, director of clinical and emerging infections at UKHSA, said: \"Information gathered through our investigations increasingly suggests that this rise in sudden onset hepatitis in children is linked to adenovirus infection.\n\n\"However, we are thoroughly investigating other potential causes.\"\n\nExperts stress that most children who catch adenovirus will not become very unwell. Cases of liver inflammation - known as hepatitis - are extremely rare, but can be very serious.\n\nScientists and clinicians are now investigating whether there has been a change in the genetic make-up of the virus that might trigger liver inflammation more easily.\n\nAnother possible explanation is that restrictions imposed in the pandemic may have led to young children being first exposed to adenovirus at a slightly later point in their lives, leading to a \"more vigorous\" immune response in some.\n\nProf Calum Semple, who is an expert in infectious diseases at Liverpool University, said: \"Adenovirus virtually disappeared during the Covid outbreak when there was reduced mixing and it has come back in a surge now.\"\n\nHe said other hypotheses are also being explored, including whether a recent Covid infection might be a trigger for the liver problems along with adenovirus.\n\nThere is no link to the Covid vaccine. None of the currently confirmed cases in under-10-year-olds in the UK are known to have been vaccinated.\n\nCases have been seen in all four nations of the UK.\n\nDr Chand told an emergency session at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon earlier on Monday how the pieces of the puzzle were beginning to fit together to understand the unusual and challenging situation.\n\nShe said parents and families could be reassured that cases like these are rare, but should know the signs to check and seek advice for:\n\nNormal hygiene measures such as thorough handwashing and good respiratory hygiene help to reduce the spread of many common infections, including adenovirus.\n\nChildren experiencing symptoms of a gastrointestinal infection including vomiting and diarrhoea should stay at home and not return to school or nursery until 48 hours after the symptoms have stopped, experts say.\n• None Hepatitis in children: How many cases are there?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Business leaders have urged the prime minister to make this year's extra bank holiday marking the Queen's Platinum Jubilee permanent.\n\nIn an open letter, the CBI, UK Hospitality and a host of well-known brands said a \"thank holiday\" would honour the monarch and public service.\n\nThey argued that the new holiday would provide an economic boost after Covid.\n\nResearch by PwC also says government figures have overestimated the cost of a new bank holiday by about £500m.\n\nThis year's extra day off is set to take place on 3 June.\n\nIn an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, signatories said that making the holiday permanent would \"provide a moment every year for individuals and communities to come together, to thank those who have contributed in ways big and small to making our country a better place to live\".\n\nThey included the bosses of Siemens and Punch Pubs and the chairman of the Campaign for Real Ale, as well as investor and entrepreneur Deborah Meaden, who is leading the campaign.\n\nThe Dragons' Den star said the move would provide \"the country with a social and economic stimulus we need after a difficult few years\".\n\nAny decision to make the extra bank holiday permanent would be taken by ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Beis), and there are no plans to make such a move.\n\nMinisters are concerned that an extra bank holiday would come at a significant cost to the UK economy.\n\nIt comes as research by PwC commissioned for the campaign suggests that the government's existing figures have previously overestimated the potential cost of a new bank holiday.\n\nGovernment modelling would put the cost of an extra bank holiday at £1.36bn, PwC says, taking into account the impact on business of closures, disruption to production schedules, and premium payments to staff working on the bank holiday. However, PwC has estimated the cost to be about £831m.\n\nBank holidays are created under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, or are created by royal proclamation - that is, by the Queen, who acts on government advice.\n\nThe department responsible for bank holidays is the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.\n\nBank holidays are not actually statutory holidays, although most workers do get the day off.\n\nPwC points out that social positives might have been missed out, and that sectors such as retail and hospitality, which were badly affected during the pandemic, would benefit from an uplift in demand.\n\nThe findings also suggest that any knock-on costs would be lower if the new bank holiday were scheduled for a Friday because fewer hours are worked that day on average.\n\nEngland and Wales currently have eight bank holidays annually, in comparison with the European Union average of 11.\n\nBut in many countries if a bank holiday falls at the weekend, workers are not entitled to an additional day off. So in practice workers don't always enjoy as many holidays as the officially listed days suggest.\n\nAccording to analysis by Visit England of the 2019 August Bank Holiday, about a third of people used the opportunity to visit friends or family, or go out for a meal.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said that the sector would be \"ready to embrace this important tribute\", although opening hours may be restricted during a new bank holiday and businesses might need to find additional staffing cover.\n\nThe campaign has also been backed by the TUC, Iceland and the Royal Voluntary Service.\n\nThe trade union previously called for four additional bank holidays per year, describing the current number as \"stingy\".\n\nAt the time, the Department for Business said that the cost to the economy was \"considerable\", even if certain sectors might see additional income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frances Curran: \"I know people who stay in bed to keep warm.\"\n\nEvelyn Thompson doesn't eat dinner every day because of rising costs.\n\nThe pensioner from Coleraine, County Londonderry, says she can't afford to heat her home either.\n\nShe sits in her kitchen with a halogen heater and if she's feeling particularly cold, puts a hot water bottle at her back.\n\n\"I wouldn't have a dinner every day. I would make myself toast and a hot drink and that's it. As long as I'm getting something,\" she says.\n\nEvelyn says it got her down, particularly during Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"You feel, is this all there is to life now? You're sitting here and you can't afford to do things.\"\n\nEvelyn's friend Frances Curran says her own heating bills have doubled since last year.\n\n\"I have a heart condition and COPD which means I need to keep warm,\" she says.\n\n\"Last year £30 a week would have covered me for a full week with my heating on all the time at a low setting. This year I couldn't do that.\"\n\nThe friends meet once a week at a lunch group which is organised for older people by Age Concern Causeway.\n\nFrances, 72, says she knows of others who stay in bed to keep warm.\n\nEvelyn Thompson and Frances Curran say other friends are choosing not to socialise to save money\n\n\"It's disgusting that anybody should have to do that in this day and age, especially elderly people.\n\n\"What does that not do to your mental health?\" she asks.\n\n\"All of our group are young at heart. All of them want to get out and socialise and enjoy themselves, especially after lockdown.\n\n\"We have the time of our lives when we get together, but there is going to be people who can't do that because of the cost of petrol.\n\n\"And when they can't come out they'll have to lie in bed to keep warm or sit about in a fleecy dressing-gown,\" Frances adds.\n\nCommissioner for Older People Eddie Lynch says the impact of rising costs on older people is a \"genuine crisis\".\n\n\"We're hearing stories about people going to the libraries, about people going to the shopping centre for a number of hours just simply to stay out of the house, where they don't have to put their heat on.\n\n\"It's a very sad position for people to be in and it's also a position many older people don't feel comfortable with.\n\nMr Lynch says the options for older people getting out of the house are much less now due to Covid-19.\n\n\"People are fearful about getting on public transport and using their bus pass. Even library settings could be crowded as well.\n\n\"That is leading to a growing fear among many older people about how they're really going to cope.\n\n\"I was speaking with older people this week who are still shielding and still not going out. All of this means if you're sitting at home, if you're an older person, that's going to have a huge pressure on staying warm.\n\n\"The way energy prices are going, there's simply no way that they're going to meet those costs with the income that they're on.\"", "Imran Ahmad Khan was convicted earlier this month but has said he will appeal\n\nA Tory MP found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy previously advised the Home Office on a research paper into child sexual exploitation.\n\nThe department confirmed Imran Ahmad Khan was on a panel that reviewed the work, prompted by high-profile cases of sexual grooming gangs in the UK.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the department was not aware of the allegations against him at the time.\n\nKhan has said he will resign as an MP and appeal against his conviction.\n\nEarlier this month, Southwark Crown Court found Khan guilty of groping the teenager at a party in Staffordshire in January 2008.\n\nThe jury heard he had forced the youngster to drink gin, dragged him upstairs and asked him to watch pornography before assaulting him.\n\nKhan, who is 48 and has represented Wakefield since 2019, has continued to deny the offence and is awaiting sentencing.\n\nThe Guardian reported on Tuesday that in 2020, Khan joined an expert panel offering advice on grooming gangs.\n\nHe went on to contribute to a policy paper entitled \"group-based child sexual exploitation characteristics of offending\", published by Home Secretary Priti Patel in December that year.\n\nAccording to the newspaper, the Conservative MP attended online meetings with the panel of sexual exploitation experts in July, September and November of 2020.\n\nEarlier that year - in May 2020 - Staffordshire police said he had given a written statement under caution, addressing claims he had assaulted a minor.\n\nIn a written statement to Parliament in December 2020, Ms Patel confirmed Khan's involvement in the external reference group that \"reviewed and informed this work\".\n\nHer department again confirmed the part he played in the work to the BBC, with a spokesman saying: \"In his role as an MP, Mr Khan was asked along with several others to peer review a Home Office research paper.\n\n\"The Home Office was not aware of the allegations against him at the time and he no longer has any involvement with the department.\"", "Mr Austin (L) and Mr Blinken (R) became the highest level US officials to travel to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has said he hopes Russian losses in Ukraine will deter its leadership from repeating its actions elsewhere.\n\nUkraine can still win the war if given the right support, he added.\n\nHe also announced the US would allocate an extra $713m (£559m) of military aid to Ukraine and other European nations.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of attempting to \"split Russian society and destroy Russia from within\".\n\nMr Austin, a retired four-star general, was speaking after meeting Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv. Also involving Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the visit marked the highest-level trip to Ukraine by US officials since the invasion began over two months ago.\n\nThe meeting between the US and Ukrainian parties, which ran for over three hours, comes as Russia escalates its military campaign in the south and east of the country.\n\nAt a news conference in Poland after the visit, Mr Austin told reporters the US wants to see \"Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine\".\n\nThe Pentagon chief added that US officials still believed Ukraine could win the conflict with \"the right equipment\" and the \"right support\".\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale observed that Mr Austin's comments calling for a weakened Russia were unusually strong for a US defence secretary. It is one thing to help Ukraine resist Russian aggression, it is quite another to speak of weakening Russia's capabilities, he said.\n\nMr Putin's accusations of the West attempting to \"destroy Russia\", made during a speech on Monday, appeared to be in response to Mr Austin's comments.\n\nMr Zelensky has called for increased military assistance from Western nations\n\nUS defence officials said of the millions announced in fresh military funding, nearly $332m (£260m) would be allocated to Ukraine.\n\nIt brings the total US security assistance provided to Ukraine since the invasion began to more than $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\nMr Zelensky has been pleading with Western leaders to increase the flow of military equipment for weeks, vowing that his forces can overcome Russia's military if provided with fighter jets and other vehicles.\n\nLast week the US confirmed it had supplied Ukrainian troops with howitzer artillery cannons and anti-artillery radars for the first time.\n\nRussia's ambassador in Washington said Moscow had sent a diplomatic note demanding an end to the US supply of weapons to Ukraine.\n\nMr Blinken announced some US diplomatic staff would start to return to Ukraine from next week. They are expected to be based in Lviv initially, with a longer-term plan to re-open the US Embassy in the capital, Kyiv.\n\nRussia is believed to have suffered heavy military losses\n\nPresident Joe Biden intends to nominate Bridget Brink, a career diplomat, as US ambassador to Ukraine - a post that has remained vacant for more than two years.\n\nMr Blinken also defended America's diplomatic approach, telling reporters that the Western alliance the Biden administration had assembled had put pressure on President Putin's government.\n\n\"The strategy that we've put in place, massive support for Ukraine, massive pressure against Russia, solidarity with more than 30 countries engaged in these efforts, is having real results,\" Mr Blinken said. \"And we're seeing that when it comes to Russia's war aims, Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding.\"\n\n\"A sovereign, independent Ukraine will be around a lot longer than Vladimir Putin's on the scene,\" Mr Blinken added.\n\nSpeaking following the meeting, Mr Zelensky said his government appreciated \"the unprecedented assistance\" from Washington and added that he \"would like to thank President Biden personally and on behalf of the entire Ukrainian people for his leadership in supporting Ukraine\".\n\nPresident Biden's always made clear that the US won't directly intervene in the war in Ukraine. He won't be sending American troops to join the battle.\n\nBut the truth is that the US is getting more deeply involved - and that's been highlighted by the words of the US defence secretary.\n\nAmerica has dramatically increased the supply of weapons to Ukraine in recent weeks. Despite Russian warnings, it's made clear it'll be sending more. Mr Austin's words underline that America is not a bystander in this war. America wants to see Russia defeated.\n\nMore than that, it wants to see Russia's military machine reduced to such an extent that it will not be able to threaten any another European ally in the future. The fear, shared by Nato allies, is that any kind of defeat for Ukraine will only embolden President Putin's ambitions.\n\nMr Austin has now set out clearly that the US has its own strategic goals for this war - even if it's theoretically not participating. The goal is to stop President Putin and to weaken Russia's military to such an extent that it will no longer be able to threaten other nations.\n\nTo some extent that's already happened. Military experts already believe it will take years for Russia to recover from its military losses. That might also send a signal to another nation which the US is increasingly concerned about - namely China.\n\nFor President Putin it's more evidence that he's not just in a war with Ukraine. No doubt it will feed his own narrative for the purposes of domestic support. He's long portrayed Nato as a threat to Russia.\n\nIn recent days Russia has refocussed its advance on Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and US sources believe that Moscow has committed over 76 battalion tactical groups inside Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday, the UK's ministry of defence said in an update that Moscow had made minor advances in the region but had \"yet to achieve a breakthrough\" because of logistical issues.\n\nThe update said: \"Ukraine's defence of Mariupol has also exhausted many Russian units and reduced their combat effectiveness.\"\n\nHave you been affected by what is happening in Ukraine? Or do you have any questions about the conflict? Email us at: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A leading gymnastics coach was pulled from Great Britain's coaching squad just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics after a serious allegation was made against her, BBC Sport has learned.\n\nAt the time, Liz Kincaid's retirement from the sport was given as the official reason for her withdrawal.\n\nHowever, British Gymnastics had removed her from the team after an allegation was made about the mental health of one of her former gymnasts.\n\nAn investigation was launched but British Gymnastics had received other complaints about Kincaid almost a year earlier. Kincaid strongly denies all the allegations.\n\nBritish Gymnastics said the British Olympic Association's rules state no-one with \"any unresolved ongoing complaints about them\" could attend the Games.\n\nA wider independent investigation into allegations of abuse within British gymnastics is ongoing, after a number of current and former gymnasts alleged mistreatment at all levels of the sport in 2020.\n\nThe final report of the independent review, led by Anne Whyte QC and co-commissioned by Sport England and UK Sport, is due to be published at the end of May.\n\nBBC Sport has spoken to two of Kincaid's former gymnasts, who have made further allegations of serious injury mismanagement and mistreatment by their ex-coach.\n\nAt the age of 12, former Welsh gymnast Poppy Wynn - now 25 - tore her perineum after landing in oversplits after a missed catch on the bars. She was not being monitored by a coach.\n\n\"I went to Liz, I had blood dripping down my leg and she then took me into the office and gave me sanitary pads to effectively mop up the blood and then sent me back into the gym,\" Wynn told BBC Sport's Natalie Pirks.\n\nKincaid allegedly told Wynn's mother that she had apparently started her period during training.\n\nHer mother later looked at her daughter's injury and said what she saw looked \"worse than childbirth\", immediately taking Wynn to hospital where \"concerned\" doctors admitted her overnight and referred her to gynaecologists.\n\nWynn said she also trained on a broken hand for six weeks, while Sophie Jameson - a three-time British champion - remembers training on a broken ankle, taken out of its cast too early at Kincaid's request, and other mismanaged injuries followed.\n\n\"I dislocated my knee on beam. I looked down and I remember just screaming in the gym. It was a quite horrific experience,\" said Jameson, also now 25.\n\n\"I was in a big knee brace. She wanted me to carry on upper body training, swinging on bars and stuff. Your legs do have to come up and I just remember that being absolutely excruciating.\"\n\nBoth Wynn and Jameson also allege that Kincaid spoke to them in a way that made them feel \"less than human\", as well as \"shouting in their faces\" and weight-shaming gymnasts.\n\nJameson previously spoke to BBC Sport in August 2020, saying she now suffers from anxiety and developed an eating disorder as a result of her experiences in gymnastics.\n\nThree of Kincaid's gymnasts have competed at the Olympics, including Amelie Morgan, who in Tokyo helped Britain's women win their first Olympic gymnastics team medal since 1928 with bronze.\n\nKincaid denies all claims against her and told BBC Sport: \"The health, well-being and safety of the gymnasts under my care and tuition was of paramount importance to me and a matter close to my heart. To suggest I would mistreat the gymnasts goes against every principle I live by and is very upsetting.\"\n\nBritish Gymnastics told the BBC it will embark on a programme of reform after next month's independent review looking into abuse in the sport and and added it is \"determined to learn from all those who have bravely come forward and raised concerns\".\n\nThe governing body said: \"We are deeply sorry to those that have had a poor experience in our sport where we have fallen short.\"\n\nBoth Wynn and Jameson are part of a civil claim against British Gymnastics. Jameson said: \"You need to take these investigations a lot more seriously and speed up the process because I see no change.\n\n\"[Kincaid] is still very capable of walking into a gym and coaching, and right now I really don't think she should be.\"\n\nWynn added: \"She can come back from retirement. What if she goes to America? There's lots of avenues she can take to still coach.\"\n\nSince July 2020, BBC Sport has revealed a series of stories of former and current gymnasts alleging mistreatment at all levels of the sport - including Olympic medal-winning gymnasts Amy Tinkler and Nile Wilson, plus Olympians Becky and Ellie Downie.\n\nAs well as the ongoing independent review - which received information from almost 400 people - British Gymnastics is also the subject of a legal claim raised by 37 former athletes who say they were victims of alleged systemic physical and psychological abuse.\n\nA support helpline set up for gymnasts by the British Athletes Commission and the NSPCC received more than 120 calls in its first five weeks.\n\nIn August 2020, British Gymnastics' national head coach Amanda Reddin stepped aside while an investigation into claims about her conduct took place, while a number of coaches were suspended.\n\nA year later, British Gymnastics chairman Mike Darcey apologised to the gymnastics community for failing to act on allegations of mistreatment within the sport.\n\nThe governing body's former chief executive, Jane Allen, retired in December 2020 despite the ongoing investigation. Her successor, Sarah Powell, said she was \"under no illusions about the scale of change needed\" to improve the culture at the organisation.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Poland imports gas from Gazprom via the Yamal pipeline\n\nRussian energy giant Gazprom says it has halted gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria over the countries' refusal to pay for supplies in roubles.\n\nThe firm said services will not be restored until payments are made in the Russian currency.\n\nIt comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered \"unfriendly\" countries to pay for gas in roubles.\n\nPoland confirmed supplies had stopped, but Bulgaria said it was still unclear whether supplies had been halted.\n\nCountries pay in advance for their gas, but as they have gone to pay for future supplies, Russia has stood firm on its demand made last month that new purchases need to be paid in roubles.\n\nThe threat, in which Mr Putin said \"existing contracts will be stopped\", has been seen as an attempt boost the rouble, which has been hit by Western sanctions.\n\nNathan Piper, head of oil and gas research at Investec, told the BBC the halting of supplies to Poland and Bulgaria was the \"start of Russia exerting economic pressure on Europe,\" and a move which could \"escalate\" with other EU nations.\n\nPoland's deputy foreign minister said the country could cope without Gazprom's gas and had \"taken some decisions many years ago to prepare for such a situation\".\n\nMarcin Przdacz told the BBC there were \"options to get the gas from other partners,\" including the US and gulf nations.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure that we will manage to handle this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nPolish state gas company PGNiG, which bought 53% of its gas imports from Gazprom in the first quarter of this year, described the suspension as a breach of contract, adding that the company would take steps to reinstate the gas supply.\n\nMeanwhile in Sofia, energy minister Alexander Nikolov said Bulgaria had paid for Russian gas deliveries for April and claimed supplier Gazprom will be in breach of its current contract if it halts the flow.\n\n\"Because all trade and legal obligations are being observed, it is clear that at the moment [Russian] natural gas is being used more as a political and economic weapon in the current war,\" Mr Nikolov said.\n\nBulgaria, which relies on Gazprom for more than 90% of its gas supply, said it had taken steps to find alternative sources but no restrictions on gas consumption were currently required.\n\nThe executive director of Bulgarian gas network operator Bulgartransgaz said supplies to Bulgaria were still currently flowing.\n\nBulgaria also transports Russian gas via an extension of the Turk Stream pipeline to neighbouring Serbia and from there to Hungary. Hungary and Austria also said gas supplies were normal.\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, said the country has had no signals or information on any interruption to its gas supplies, but must be prepared for any scenario.\n\nThe central European country is almost entirely dependent on Russia for its gas.\n\nRussia's top lawmaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, said that gas giant Gazprom had made the right decision in suspending gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland and said Moscow should do the same with other \"unfriendly\" countries.\n\nMeanwhile, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said Russia was using gas \"as an instrument of blackmail\".\n\nMs von der Leyen said the EU was \"prepared for this scenario\" and had been \"working to ensure alternative deliveries and the best possible storage levels across the EU\".\n\nInvestec's Mr Piper told the BBC the halting of supplies to Poland and Bulgaria was the \"start of Russia exerting economic pressure on Europe.\"\n\nHe said despite demand for gas declining as Europe enters summer, \"risks around Russian gas supply are keeping prices high, putting pressure on consumers and industry\".\n\nThe latest move by Russia sent European gas prices up further on Wednesday, surging by 24%.\n\nMr Putin's decree for gas payments means foreign buyers of Russian gas have to open an account at Russia's Gazprombank and transfer euros or US dollars into it.\n\nGazprombank would then convert this into roubles which will then be used to make the payment for gas.\n\nThis move is designed as a Kremlin shot across the bows of Europe's biggest economies.\n\nWhile Germany, for example, has said it is willing to phase out Russian coal in the summer, and hinted Russian oil could follow over the next year, gas is another matter.\n\nLast week Germany's finance minister told me it would be physically impossible to immediately phase out Germany's 45% dependence on Russia for gas.\n\nBoth Poland and Bulgaria were already planning not to renew their contract with Gazprom which expires at the end of the year. In the case of Poland, it had been filling its stores of gas in preparation.\n\nThe escalation is real, and justified by the Kremlin on the basis of countries refusing to pay for gas by changing money into roubles in Russian bank accounts. But the additional impact of Wednesday's news should be containable.\n\nAll that would change, of course, if these moves are the first skirmishes in an escalating European energy crisis that could see Germany cut off from Russian gas.\n\nThat would send prices spiralling across Europe and lead to a supply crisis.\n\nUK Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab earlier told Sky News the decision to cut off gas supplies will have \"a very damaging effect on Russia,\" adding that such moves could lead to the country becoming \"an economic pariah\".\n\nFollowing Russia's announcement, Poland's climate ministry said the country's energy supplies were secure.\n\nClimate Minister Anna Moskwa said there was no need to draw gas from reserves and gas to customers would not be cut.\n\nPoland was already planning to stop importing Russian gas by the end of the year, when its long-term supply contract with Gazprom expires.\n\nPGNiG said its underground gas storage was almost 80% full and it also has alternative supply sources, including a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Swinoujscie.\n\nOn 1 May, a new gas pipeline connection with Lithuania is due to open that will give Poland access to gas from Lithuania's LNG terminal.\n\nAnd a new pipeline delivering gas from Norway, known as the \"Baltic Pipe\", comes online in October. It should reach full capacity by the end of the year and could replace all Russian deliveries.\n\nSupplies from Russia account for about 40% of the EU's natural gas imports.\n\nHowever, many countries have pledged to move away from Russian energy in response to its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe US has declared a complete ban on Russian oil, gas and coal imports.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK is to phase out Russian oil by the end of the year, with gas to follow as soon as possible, and the EU is reducing gas imports by two-thirds.", "DJ Tim Westwood is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by women who say he abused his position in the music industry to exploit them.\n\nThe 64-year-old is accused of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour and touching, in incidents between 1992 and 2017.\n\nThe BBC and the Guardian have heard detailed accounts from seven women in a joint investigation into the former BBC Radio 1 DJ.\n\nThe DJ was an early champion of hip-hop in the UK and hosted the first nationally-broadcast rap show on UK radio from 1994.\n\nThe seven women who spoke to the BBC are all black, and say they met Westwood through his work. Some of them accuse the DJ of abusing his power within the music industry.\n\nThe women tell their stories in a BBC Three documentary, Tim Westwood: Abuse of Power, which airs on BBC Three at 21:00 on Tuesday.\n\nTwo of them, who were aspiring to work in the industry, say they agreed to come to London to meet him to discuss music. They accuse the DJ of driving them to a flat and initiating unwanted and unexpected sex. One was 19 at the time, while Westwood was 53.\n\nAnother woman told the BBC she met Westwood, then in his mid-30s, when she was 17 and a member of a R&B group. She says she was subjected to unwanted oral sex after agreeing to meet him.\n\nFour further young women accuse the DJ of either touching their bottoms or breasts as they posed for photographs with him at different events where he was performing.\n\nThe women, whose names have been changed to protect their identities, do not know each other. Some work in the music industry and fear repercussions - with the DJ continuing to have a prominent role in an industry long-criticised for its treatment of darker-skinned black women.\n\nAllegations about Westwood's behaviour toward young black women have circulated on social media for some time. In 2020, Westwood issued a statement to the Mail Online hitting out at the \"fabricated allegations\" and said they were false and without foundation.\n\nNow, for the first time, following our investigation, women detail their experiences.\n\nWarning: Some of the content in their stories may be distressing.\n\nWhen Isabel discovered Tim Westwood was DJing at her local nightclub, she spotted a chance to have her music heard by someone influential. She was 19, and had already been getting studio time - featuring on rappers' tracks as a vocalist.\n\nIsabel was young when she realised she could sing. During her strict religious upbringing in the Midlands in the early 2000s, contemporary music was banned at home, but she spent Sundays singing gospel in church. Secretly, however, she would write her own music and dream of a future as a recording artist.\n\nBy 2010, when she was a university student, she was continuing to pursue a career in music. She knew a national platform like BBC Radio 1 could take her to the next level. \"[Tim Westwood] was the main gatekeeper to get to the level of exposure I needed,\" she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Isabel described what happened when Tim Westwood picked her up in his car\n\nIsabel put together a mixtape of unreleased work and included her contact details inside the CD case. Her best friend together with her stepmum went to the club night with her.\n\nThey managed to hand the CD to Westwood, and Isabel says the DJ - then aged 53 - called her the next day. The two arranged to meet in London.\n\nHer family and friends shared her excitement. \"We were thinking that this is a really good lead at this point,\" she says. \"He wants to act on this quickly.\"\n\nWithin days, she was on a train to London for an afternoon meeting. Isabel says the plan was to meet at Nike Town on Oxford Street, near BBC Radio 1's studios.\n\nShe says Westwood was there waiting in a huge American-style car. Isabel assumed they were going to talk about her music over coffee or a drink - a point she wishes she had clarified.\n\n\"I don't ask where we're going. And then at this point, we start driving,\" she recalls.\n\nBut she says her discomfort grew as she realised they were heading out of central London. \"This is where I'm now like 'Oh God, where are we going, what's happening?'\"\n\nShe says the conversation dried up - to the point where it was almost \"menacingly silent\".\n\nShe alleges at one point on the journey, the DJ tapped her arm to get her to turn and see that he had undone his trousers and had exposed his genitals. \"I've looked and I've seen and I'm like, 'Oh, no, oh no, like, oh my God. Just don't say anything. Don't look. Don't say anything.' And I'm hoping that's enough for him to just… not.\"\n\nIsabel says she felt \"completely powerless\" and \"very, very scared\".\n\nShe says they eventually arrived at what she believes was Westwood's flat. She remembers it being filled with lots of records. She says she was led to a room, where she refused an offer of a drink.\n\n\"He leaves the room and then he comes back completely naked,\" she alleges. \"That's when I noticed that he has got a condom and he has removed it [from the wrapper] and started putting it on.\"\n\nIsabel says she recognised the condom packet. It had the DJ's face on one side - part of a campaign Westwood did with Durex. \"I remember that very vividly because I remember that was kind of when my brain also started to shut down.\"\n\nIsabel describes sitting on a chair \"frozen with fear\". She says Westwood held her shoulders and turned her around.\n\n\"I knew what was going to happen at this point. So, I'm just like 'Oh my God,' And I remember being like, hunched up and like holding on to the back of the chair, like, scared.\n\n\"He almost, like, tapped me on the back of my leg as if he wanted me to move my leg, which I didn't do. And then he sort of did.\"\n\nShe says after he finished, she quickly got dressed and sat waiting to leave. She says the DJ seemed annoyed when she asked for a lift to the station.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.\n\nIsabel recalls going over and over the experience on what felt like a really long journey back north. \"I just remember feeling so deflated. So sad. Feeling really ashamed of myself and bad.\"\n\nShe says the encounter led her to drop out from her studies and music career.\n\nIsabel's stepmum told the BBC the whole family had been excited about Isabel's chance at a breakthrough. But she knew instinctively that something had happened when Isabel got home and wouldn't talk about the meeting.\n\nBut she says that after she heard Isabel's account, she felt guilty for not chaperoning her - and says she cried when Isabel disclosed that her silence was, in part, over worries her family would be disappointed with her.\n\nLike others the BBC spoke to, Isabel became aware in 2020 of allegations being made by women on social media alleging misconduct by Westwood.\n\nPamela's story echoes Isabel's. She was just 20 when she met Westwood through friends. It was 2000 and she was working with young people who wanted to break into the music industry. She says the DJ invited her to do work experience with him at BBC Radio 1.\n\nHe had joined the BBC in 1994, after making a name for himself on pirate and then commercial radio. But his show mostly focused on US artists, and Pamela says the DJ told her he wanted to understand more about the UK scene and \"get a younger audience\".\n\nShe says the DJ, in his 40s at the time, reassured her \"stern Jamaican\" mother on the phone that her daughter would be OK heading to London. Pamela travelled by train from the Midlands and says Westwood picked her up in a huge American-style car.\n\nShe says, as they drove, he kept stroking her leg and touching her face. She kept batting his hand away. She says he wasn't concentrating on the road and was swerving so much that a police officer on a motorbike pulled up beside them and knocked on the passenger window. Pamela says Westwood apologised - and was told to keep his eyes on the road.\n\nPamela assumed she would be staying in a hotel as part of the work experience, but says the DJ instead drove her to an apartment where she remembers \"records and trainers and oversized clothes everywhere\".\n\nShe says that at one point, he began trying to kiss her neck and remove her clothing. \"I didn't give him any kind of come on. There was no flirtation,\" she says.\n\n\"If you are trying to actively touch me and I am pushing your hand away, that means I don't want to do anything with you. If you are trying to remove [an] item of my clothing, and I put it back on, that means I don't want it to be gone. If I'm showing you I'm uncomfortable, why would you just not stop doing it?\"\n\nShe says she remembers thinking she couldn't get out of the situation. \"I'm in London alone with this man. Now, if I try and get out of this, who's to say how he's going to react. So I just submit to it.\"\n\nPamela says she went home as soon as she could. She describes the encounter as \"traumatic\" and \"disgusting\".\n\nThe work experience Westwood offered didn't take place. We asked the BBC whether any monitoring of any work experience scheme took place but they did not provide an answer to this question.\n\nPamela later spoke to a friend who works in the music industry about her experience.\n\nPamela is critical of the BBC and other organisations for the \"celebrity status\" Westwood's position afforded him over the years - a position she believes he abused.\n\n\"I would describe it as an abuse of power because… who they're going to believe? This little girl from the Midlands, or this big, shiny star from London? He's on national radio, international.\"\n\nWestwood fronted the UK version of the hit MTV show Pimp my Ride in 2005, and was also given a drive-time show on BBC Radio 1's sister station 1Xtra, which focused on contemporary black music.\n\nTim Westwood on stage in 2007 at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Preston\n\nHe is known for giving a platform to new artists, as well as getting some of the biggest rappers in the world onto his programmes - from Eminem to Cardi B.\n\nHe eventually left the BBC in 2013 as part of scheduled changes. In a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, BBC News asked the BBC whether it had received any complaints against Westwood during his time in its employment. The corporation said it could \"neither confirm nor deny whether the BBC holds the requested information\".\n\nIn a statement regarding our investigation, the BBC said \"it does not comment on individuals\", but added that presenters would be expected to comply with strict codes of conduct.\n\nIn a statement released after publication of this story, the BBC said it was \"shocked to hear of these allegations\". In relation to the FOI request, it clarified it did not \"hold information that is helpful for this investigation\".\n\nOne woman's story we heard goes back three decades. It was the early 1990s and Tamara had been talent-spotted by producers trying to put together a British R&B group. At that time, songs from American R&B girl groups like TLC and SWV were getting radio play and finding chart success.\n\nTamara says she was manipulated into the situation with Tim Westwood\n\nTamara spent her time in and out of studios recording music - as well as enjoying London's nightlife meeting other artists. One time when she'd seen him around, Westwood, who was then in his mid-30s, suggested they should meet up. She was 17 at the time and believed the meeting was to talk about her career.\n\nShe says that, at the time, the DJ had \"absolute power\".\n\nHe picked her up, and after stopping briefly at a radio station, he took her to a flat.\n\nAccording to her, he started to take down her trousers and underwear. \"Then he began instantaneously to give me oral sex. There was no talking. There was no kind of communication about that. It was just before I knew it - that's what was happening.\"\n\nTamara says that at first she tried to push his head or his shoulders away but he just continued.\n\n\"And then I just realised that I'm in a position where it's already gone too far. I'm in a place, I'm already far from home. I wouldn't know how to get home from here. I was manipulated into that situation - I was led to believe one thing, when he had something else in mind.\"\n\nWorking in the same industry, she says their paths continued to cross. She says Westwood had sex with her several times over the next few years before she cut off the encounters.\n\n\"I think it was almost implied by him that OK, because we'd had the first encounter, I would be up for the next encounter and being young and not having the strength and courage to just say 'Look, no, I don't feel right about this because I don't feel right about it.' It just happened.\"\n\nIn 2021, Tamara watched the BBC's Music's Dirty Secrets documentary in 2021 and contacted the producers asking them to investigate the DJ.\n\nNow 64, Westwood continues to perform at nightclubs around the UK and internationally, hosts freestyle sessions and interviews on his popular YouTube channel and has a Saturday night show on Global's Capital Xtra.\n\nTim Westwood at the Wireless Festival in London in 2019\n\nFour further women have told the BBC about their experiences with the DJ as they posed for photos at events with him.\n\nFarah says she was introduced to Westwood in 2000 at an afterparty at Bristol Carnival. She says he put his hand down her top and \"grabbed\" her breast while they were gathered for a group photograph.\n\n\"I felt cold and I felt dirty. I felt humiliated - embarrassed that I'd done something wrong,\" she says.\n\nThe BBC spoke to her friend who recalled Farah telling her years ago about the incident.\n\nAnother woman, Claire, described meeting Westwood at a club in Ayia Napa, Cyprus in 2009. She recalls that he said \"lemme grab some ass\" as she and a friend posed for a photograph with him, before the DJ put his hand down the back of her denim shorts. She says she \"froze\" and felt \"very intimidated\" by the experience.\n\nA third told the BBC she was a huge fan of Westwood's BBC Radio 1Xtra show when she went to an event he was DJing at in Essex - also in 2009. Then aged 19, Loretta also describes feeling his hand snake down her back before he grabbed her bottom while they posed for a picture.\n\n\"I felt his hand go back up. And stopped at my neck. And do you know, in that moment I was kind of frozen.\"\n\nPhotos of Tim Westwood with some of the women (blurred) who have spoken out\n\nNyla was in university when she met Westwood at a New Year's Day event in 2017, she told the BBC. She says he described her as the \"pengest girl in the rave\" during his DJ set and then later, while she and her friend recorded a Snapchat video with him, she says he put his hand up inside the back of her skirt. She says she was \"shocked\" and felt \"objectified\".\n\nShe says the DJ managed to find her Snapchat contact and called her the next day to ask her to \"hang out\". She didn't meet up with him.\n\nThe BBC has seen the Snapchat footage and the images the women say were taken during their encounters.\n\nNone of the women the BBC spoke to have reported their interactions to the police. Some say they are speaking about their experiences in the hope it encourages others to come forward and leads to the DJ being \"held accountable\" for his behaviour.\n\n\"It makes it feel like that wasn't completely for nothing,\" Isabel says about coming forward.\n\n\"Like, I don't just have this trauma scar for no reason. There's a purpose for other people to not have to experience it.\"\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised? If you are able to talk to us please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWimbledon has banned Russian and Belarusian players because it is not prepared \"to be used to benefit the propaganda machine of the Russian regime\", says chairman Ian Hewitt.\n\nThe tournament is unlikely to waver on the move, despite criticism from tennis governing bodies and many players.\n\n\"If conditions significantly change, we would happily review. At this point, we're very clear about our intent,\" chief executive Sally Bolton added.\n\nRussian president Vladimir Putin said the banning of Russian and Belarusian athletes is \"discrimination based on nationality\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, Bolton said: \"We absolutely acknowledge that others will have different views about the decision we have taken.\n\n\"But in the context of the government guidance and increasingly serious situation in Ukraine, we really believe it was the only viable option we could take.\n\n\"The government did set out clear guidance within which we had to operate, but it is our decision based on the reasons we've set out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the organisers of the grass-court Grand Slam also announced that players who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to compete at the All England Club.\n\nSerbia's Novak Djokovic, the men's world number one and defending Wimbledon champion, was not allowed to play at the Australian Open in January following a row which centred around him being unvaccinated.\n\nDecision to ban players is the 'most responsible'\n\nThe decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players from this year's tournament was \"intensely tough and agonising\", Hewitt said.\n\nThe All England Club and the Lawn Tennis Association announced the move last week in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt is the first major tournament to ban tennis players from the two countries. They are also banned from all the UK grass-court tournaments.\n\nTalks are ongoing between Wimbledon and the government over whether Russian and Belarusian coaches and other officials can attend. But Russian journalists will be not be accredited by the All England Club.\n\n\"It is an extreme and exceptional situation which takes us far beyond the interest of the tennis world alone,\" said Hewitt.\n\n\"Russia's ongoing invasion has led to catastrophic harm to millions of lives in Ukraine and has been condemned worldwide.\n\n\"The UK government has set out directive guidance for sporting bodies and events with the specific aim of limiting Russia's influence. We have taken that guidance into account as we must as a high-profile event and leading British institution.\n\n\"Bound to act, we believe we have made the most responsible decision in the circumstances.\"\n\nWhat has the reaction to the move been?\n\nThe ATP and WTA - the governing bodies of men's and women's professional tennis - said the move was \"unfair\".\n\nBoth organisations are holding meetings in Madrid this week to decide how to react, with one possibility being removing ranking points from the Grand Slam tournament.\n\nSome players including Ukraine's Elina Svitolina welcomed Wimbledon's action, but the former semi-finalist said Russian and Belarusian players who speak out against Russia's invasion should be allowed to compete.\n\nRussian world number eight Andrey Rublev said the Wimbledon ban is \"complete discrimination\" and \"illogical\".\n\nDjokovic said he did not support the \"crazy\" decision, while Martina Navratilova, who won a record nine Wimbledon singles titles, said excluding Russian and Belarusian players was \"not the way to go\".\n\nHewitt said Wimbledon had considered \"at length\" allowing players to compete if they provided specific written declarations.\n\n\"Even if we were able to accept players with written declarations we would risk their success or participation at Wimbledon being used to benefit the propaganda machine of the Russian regime - which we could not accept,\" he added.\n\n\"We also have a duty to ensure that no actions we take place the players or families at risk.\n\n\"We understand and deeply regret the impact this decision will have on every individual affected and so many people are suffering as a result of this terrible war.\"\n\nMen's world number two Daniil Medvedev of Russia and women's world number four Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus are the highest-ranked players to be affected.\n\nRussian world number 15 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova - who called for the war to stop earlier this year - and 17th-ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus will also miss out.\n\nWhat else was announced about this year's Championships?\n\nWimbledon's annual spring conference is an opportunity for the All England Club to outline and discuss the key issues before the upcoming Championships.\n\nThe other headlines announced by Bolton in Tuesday's news conference include:\n• Coronavirus: The whole tournament will return to a full capacity for the first time since 2019, after initially having reduced numbers because of Covid-19 measures when it returned in 2021\n• None That means the showcourts will have 100% seating throughout and up to 42,000 can enter the grounds\n• None There is no plan to implement any Covid-19 measures, although vaccination is encouraged\n• Middle Sunday: On the first planned day of play on what used to be a rest day, there will be a half-hour celebration of epic matches and moments, with former champions and special guests attending\n• Final-set tie-break: Agreed among the four Grand Slams, final sets that reach 6-6 will be decided by the first-to-10 and by two clear points\n• Singles quarter-finals: Matches will be a combination of women's and men's on both Tuesday and Wednesday\n• Mixed doubles final: Given a \"greater profile\" by being moved to the second Thursday and played as the concluding match\n• Junior championship: Expanded with the addition of an Under-14s draw, giving \"the world's best juniors the opportunity to compete on grass at an earlier age\"\n• Quad wheelchairs: The size of the draws has been doubled to eight singles and four doubles\n• None Has the FA Cup lost its significance? The Sports Desk talks to managers and fans to find out\n• None 'You can't just walk away, they'll kill you':", "Euan from Cumbernauld Academy says these exams are like the ones his mum and dad sat\n\nHeads are down in exam rooms across Scotland as the first exam diet in three years has begun.\n\nSQA examinations have been disrupted since 2020, with pupils contending with teacher estimates, course work and in-school assessments instead.\n\nFrom Tuesday 26 April until Wednesday 1 June, the full schedule of National 5, Higher and Advanced Highers will take place.\n\nMore than 128,000 candidates will sit assessments in the five-week period.\n\nIn 2020 the coronavirus pandemic led to the closure of schools and an abrupt end to the academic year.\n\nPupils moved to online learning and time was lost due to Covid illness.\n\nScottish Qualification Authority (SQA) exams were cancelled for the first time in history and coursework was not marked for National 5, Higher or Advanced Higher courses.\n\nInstead, the exams body said teachers should use their professional judgement to estimate a grade and band for each pupil.\n\nAminah has never sat a formal exam but says teachers have prepared the pupils for what to expect\n\nHowever, the system based on teacher assessments applied a moderation technique which led to about 125,000 estimates being downgraded.\n\nNicola Sturgeon ended up apologising after accepting the Scottish government \"did not get it right\".\n\nIn 2021 exams were cancelled again after a surge in Covid cases led to a second lockdown.\n\nGrades were given on \"teacher judgement\" backed up by evidence gathered in tests.\n\nBut pupils said they were sitting \"exams by another name\" after some schools set numerous tests in conditions similar to exams, but with much less preparation.\n\nMore than 128,000 candidates will sit formal assessments this year and for most, it will be their first time sitting national exams.\n\nChloe says her year is feeling the pressure and everyone is talking about the change\n\nAminah, a 6th year pupil at Cumbernauld Academy in North Lanarkshire, told BBC Scotland that she had never sat a formal exam.\n\nShe will be tackling Advanced biology, Advanced maths and Higher psychology.\n\nShe said: \"It's a lot of pressure, purely because it is our last year and we won't get a chance to try again.\n\n\"I was a wee bit scared because we haven't done anything like that. These exams do feel a bit different because they are just based on the exam paper they re not going to take into consideration what we've done through the year, so that's a lot of pressure, a lot is riding on it.\"\n\nFellow S6 pupil Euan is studying for Higher geography, Higher business and Advanced Higher maths.\n\n\"It was a bit weird when the exam timetable came out in September,\" he said. \"It hit me that I was going to have to actually sit exams this year. There's a wee bit of nerves about it. This time it's serious and there is definitely a bit more nerves.\n\n\"This is the old classic way that your mum and dad told you about where you came and sat in an exam hall.\"\n\nStudent Chloe will sit higher psychology, higher RMPS (Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies), and advanced higher English.\n\n\"Our teachers explained the process to us. These feel a bit more daunting compared to the kind of exams we have sat before.\n\n\"I think I prefer the way we've been doing it the last couple of years where we have gathered loads of evidence throughout the year with class assessments and prelims to get our grades rather than one final exam it all comes down to. I feel having lots of evidence built up gives us a safety net.\n\n\"It feels like a lot of pressure. It's been built up and all around school everyone is talking about this.\"\n\nFor the last two years, exams as we know them have been cancelled\n\nMore than two million question papers have been sent to more than five hundred schools, colleges, and training providers that are being used as exam venues.\n\nSQA exams will also be held in the USA, Croatia, Israel and The Netherlands, as special arrangements have been put in place to accommodate candidates who are representing their country at the time of their exams.\n\nFiona Robertson, the SQA's chief executive, and Scotland's chief examining officer, said: \"I wish all learners the very best as they prepare to sit their exams and complete their assessments.\n\n\"I also pay tribute to the professionalism of Scotland's teachers and lecturers. Their work, and that of their colleagues, plays a vital role in enabling our young people to achieve qualifications they deserve.\"", "The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will be led by Canadian-Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson\n\nAn orchestra of Ukrainian refugees will take centre stage at this year's Proms, alongside concerts by Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Cynthia Erivo.\n\nThe newly-formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra features players who recently fled the war, alongside Ukrainian musicians from European orchestras.\n\nUkraine is granting an exemption to the military-age male musicians, allowing them to leave the country and play.\n\nConductor Keri-Lynn Wilson said they would \"honour those who have died\".\n\nThe orchestra will perform at the Proms on 31 July, two weeks after the Proms season launches.\n\nAfter two years of muted, smaller-scale shows, the festival returns in full for 2022, with 84 concerts over eight weeks, featuring more than 3,000 musicians.\n\nWith Covid-19 rules relaxed and restrictions on choral performances scrapped, large-scale repertoire will be possible for the first time since 2019 - including a First Night performance of Verdi's Requiem; Beethoven's Symphony No 9, performed by the Chineke Orchestra; and Mahler's Symphony No 2, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.\n\nInternational orchestras will also return to the Royal Albert Hall, with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Australian World Orchestra among those gracing the stage.\n\nProms director David Pickard said the \"liberation\" of being able to plan a full season was \"fantastic for us all\" in the music community after an \"immensely challenging\" few years.\n\nThe Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra was added to the programme \"at the 11th hour,\" he said, predicting their performance would be a powerful and cathartic moment.\n\n\"I think sometimes you can feel rather powerless if you're involved in the cultural world when a huge event like this war is going on, and this is a marvellous way to support the country and celebrate the power of music to cross divides.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will only hold their first rehearsal 13 days before their Proms debut\n\nThe orchestra was the brainchild of conductor Wilson, who has led the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.\n\n\"I wanted to bring the best orchestral musicians of Ukraine together, from both inside and outside of their country, in a proud display of artistic unity,\" she said in a statement announcing their inaugural tour.\n\n\"I look forward to leading these gifted musicians across Europe and to the United States. This tour is an expression of love for their homeland and to honor those who have died and have suffered so much.\"\n\nThey are due to play Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov's Seventh Symphony; Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Ukrainian virtuoso Anna Fedorova; and the aria Abscheulicher! from Beethoven's Fidelio, a plea for humanity and peace in the face of violence and cruelty.\n\nEmmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winner Cynthia Erivo will make her Proms debut\n\nThe 2022 season coincides with the 100th anniversary of the BBC, with several special concerts designed to reflect the broadcaster's impact on the UK music scene.\n\nThe Proms will team up with Radio 1 Relax for an evening of stripped-back acoustic performances on 16 July; while the CBeebies Prom will return for what's described as \"an underwater family adventure\" on 23 July.\n\nArt-rock band Public Service Broadcasting will also premiere their new album, This New Noise, which combines live acoustic and electronic music with archive material to explore the history and impact of publicly-funded broadcasting.\n\nDalia Staevska will conduct the Last Night of the Proms on 10 September\n\nPicking up a theme from the pre-pandemic era, the Proms will extend its reach across the UK this summer, with concerts scheduled in Belfast, Truro, Birmingham, Liverpool and Gateshead.\n\nAnd there will be an immersive Prom, held in London's Printworks, based on tenor Roth Constanzo's album ARC - which imagines a collaboration between George Frideric Handel and Philip Glass. The multimedia concert will also feature live painting by George Condo, soundscapes by Jason Singh, costumes by Raf Simons, choreography by Justin Peck and the world premiere of a new work by Philip Glass.\n\nAs always, the season culminates in the world-famous Last Night, which will be led this year by Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska on 10 September.\n\nShe will be joined by superstar cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Lise Davidsen, the Norwegian soprano who has been described as having \"a voice in a million\".\n\nPickard said the diverse range of genres in this year's line-up reflected \"how quickly music is moving\".\n\n\"What might have been appropriate 10 years ago is very different from what we can do today. Back then, there wasn't the wealth of fantastic music for us to do a gaming Prom. But this year, with so many film composers turning to the genre, we can put on something really special that reaches a completely new audience.\"\n\nTickets for the Proms go on sale on Saturday 21 May; with 96,000 seats available for £20 or less. A certain number of tickets can be bought on the day of each concert for just £6.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The royal couple are on the third leg of their Caribbean tour\n\nAntigua and Barbuda should \"one day become a republic\", its prime minister has told the Earl and Countess of Wessex during their Caribbean tour.\n\nGaston Browne said during a meeting with the royal couple, who are touring the region to mark the Platinum Jubilee, it was the country's wish to remove the Queen as head of state.\n\nHowever Mr Browne acknowledged such a move is \"not on the cards\" currently.\n\nHe also called for \"reparatory justice\" to compensate for slavery.\n\nThe earl and countess met Mr Browne and his cabinet at a meeting on Monday during the third leg of their Caribbean tour.\n\nMr Browne told the couple: \"We continue to have the Queen as our head of state, even though I should say we aspire at some point to become a republic.\n\n\"But that is not currently on the cards so she will remain as head of state for some time to follow.\n\n\"We're not trying to embarrass you, we're just trying to build awareness.\"\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex were asked by the island's government to use their influence to help the country get reparations\n\nThe prime minister also called on the earl and countess to use their \"diplomatic influence\" to help the country receive \"reparatory justice\".\n\nMr Brown said: \"Our civilisation should understand the atrocities that took place during colonialism and slavery and the fact that we have to bring balance by having open discussions...\n\n\"You can even use your, let's say, diplomatic influence to build bridges in achieving the reparatory justice that we seek here in the Caribbean.\n\n\"Because the reality is we have been left and bereft of important institutions such as universities and good medicinal facilities.\"\n\nThe meeting comes after the royal couple were met by protests during their visit to St Vincent and the Grenadines on Saturday, where banners were held aloft saying \"compensation now\" and \"Britain your debt is outstanding\".\n\nAntigua and Barbuda were colonised by Britain in the 17th century, before being granted independence in 1981.\n\nThe countess played steel drums with secondary school pupils during the visit to Antigua and Barbuda\n\nIn an open letter to the couple, the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission asked \"why is it so hard for you to sincerely apologise for your nation's role in slavery?\"\n\nExplaining their call for reparations, it added that in the Caribbean \"many still live in deep persistent poverty and social despair\" and it asked for a \"constructive strategy\" with Britain and European countries to address economic development gaps in the region.\n\nThe impact of slavery also dominated coverage of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's tour to Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas in March.\n\nSymbols matter, particularly when they are a reminder of a painful past. For many Caribbeans, becoming a republic is as about leaving colonialism behind and having complete autonomy.\n\nI was reminded of this when I was in Barbados last year to report on the island transitioning to a republic.\n\nConversations around republicanism are not new, but recent royal visits have garnered widespread media attention.\n\nFor some Caribbeans, royal visits are an opportunity to express their views to the world. The debate around reparations sits within that conversation.\n\nThroughout the Caribbean, there is widespread support for compensation for the descendants of enslaved Africans.\n\nThose demands are sometimes met with surprise by people abroad. But a strong indication of that support was highlighted by a ten-point plan proposed by the Caricom Reparations Commission.\n\nCaricom is an intergovernmental organisation which comprises 15 member states including Barbados, Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda.\n\nThe main aim of the 10-point plan was to achieve reparatory justice for the victims of slavery. In 2014 it was unanimously approved. The commission was advised by the law firm Leigh Day.\n\nDuring a visit to Barbados in 2021, Buckingham Palace said that issue of reparations was a political matter for individual governments to address.", "The former Royal Engineer was 18 when he stormed the beaches during the Normandy landings in 1944\n\nHundreds have lined the streets for the funeral of Harry Billinge, one of the first British soldiers to storm Gold Beach during the Normandy landings.\n\nMr Billinge's coffin was taken though his hometown of St Austell in Cornwall before a church service in Charlestown.\n\nThe D-Day veteran was 96 when he died on 5 April following a short illness.\n\nMr Billinge, a former Royal Engineer, was just 18 when he landed on the beach at Normandy in 1944. He was one of only four from his unit to survive.\n\nThe funeral procession passed the war memorial in St Austell\n\nMargot Billinge, one of his daughters, said on behalf of the family: \"Harry was a very loving husband who always looked after mum.\n\n\"He was steadfast in his love for her.\n\n\"As a dad, he taught us great values: honesty, kindness, generosity and not to judge.\"\n\nMr Billinge spent more than 60 years collecting for the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal.\n\nHe helped raise more than £50,000 for the British Normandy Memorial and would make annual pilgrimages to the cemeteries of northern France.\n\nAppointed an MBE in 2020 for his fundraising work, he dedicated it to the 22,442 service personnel killed on D-Day and during the Battle for Normandy.\n\nIn 2019 Mr Billinge said on BBC Breakfast: \"I'm no hero, I was lucky, I'm here. All the heroes are dead and I'll never forget them.\"\n\nMr Billinge was appointed an MBE for services to charitable fundraising\n\nMs Billinge said: \"Harry wanted future generations to never forget his comrades who fell in Normandy.\n\n\"If members of the public would like to pay their respects to Harry, we ask that they become guardians of the British Normandy Memorial.\"\n\nThe funeral procession travelled through St Austell and past the war memorial cross at Holy Trinity Church with mourners gathered along the route.\n\nMr Billinge's coffin was taken to St Paul's Church in Charlestown\n\nIt then moved to Charlestown where a guard of honour lined the street outside the church and standard bearers were in attendance.\n\nHundreds of people have turned out for the funeral on this sunny day in Harry Billinge's home town in Cornwall.\n\nHe had a special place in people's hearts.\n\nHe was admired for his life of service and the incredible fundraising that helped create the British Normandy memorial.\n\nFamily, veterans in uniform and friends turned out in force to remember a man who did so much to ensure his fallen comrades would never be forgotten.\n\nThe church was full to capacity and the church hall set up with seats for 150 people to watch the service via a live video link.\n\nSpeakers were also set up outside the church and people lined the street to listen to the requiem mass service.\n\nThe hour-long service started at 11:00 BST, led by The Revd Canon Malcolm Bowers.\n\nLet There Be Peace on Earth, a song that singer and TV presenter Aled Jones recorded with Mr Billinge in 2020, was played during the service.\n\nA eulogy was read by BBC journalist Nicholas Witchell who is a founding trustee of the Normandy Memorial Trust.\n\nMr Witchell described Mr Billinge as a \"wisp of a man with a winning smile\" and spoke of his \"selfless commitment to honour his friends\".\n\nHe said Mr Billinge arrived back from the war with \"mental scars\" and was appalled to see the events unfolding in Ukraine.\n\n\"'War is a terrible thing' he said, and he knew just how terrible.\"\n\nMr Billinge's coffin was taken to the church service in Charlestown\n\nItems adorning Mr Billinge's coffin included a bible, cross, poppy wreath, his picture, his Royal Engineers beret and a Union Jack pillow displaying his medals.\n\nRevd Canon Bowers said: \"He arranged this service only a few months ago when, I think, he realised his health was failing.\n\n\"He faced death with the same bravery he showed on the Normandy beaches.\"\n\nAndy Duff, a friend who used to drive Mr Billinge, said: \"He was one of my best mates even though he was a lot older than me.\n\n\"There are not many people in life you will miss for a long time, but I will miss him all right.\"\n\nClint Osborne was Mr Billinge's barber and was in St Austell when the procession passed through.\n\nSpontaneous applause broke out as Mr Billinge's coffin was carried from the church\n\nHe said: \"Harry was a very proud man. Every time I saw him he always talked about the men he was on Gold Beach with… I'll miss him.\"\n\nMr Billinge grew up in Petts Wood in Kent but had been in Cornwall for 70 years after being advised to leave London for a better quality of life.\n\nHe set up shop as a barber and became president of the local clubs for the Royal British Legion and Royal Engineers.\n\nMr Billinge is survived by his wife Sheila, daughters Sally and Margot, son Christopher and granddaughters Amy and Claire.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "The attack happened on a Tube train at Green Park station\n\nA machete-wielding man told panicked onlookers \"this is not a terror attack, I only want him\", as he attacked a man on a busy Tube train, a court heard.\n\nRicky Morgan, 34, of no fixed address, is accused of launching an unprovoked attack on stranger James Porritt on a train going towards Green Park in July.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, he denies charges of attempted murder and possessing a machete and lock knife.\n\nThe court heard Mr Porritt describe the attack as being like a \"horror movie\".\n\nProsecutor Grace Ong said the men were complete strangers to each other and it was a \"completely unprovoked attack\".\n\nIn a video played in court, Mr Porritt said he was minding his own business and was in a \"bubble\" as he sat in the carriage of the Jubilee Line train.\n\nThe self-employed businessman said he was looking at his phone before he heard a scream, then the defendant started hitting him over the head, the court heard.\n\nHe put his hand up to protect himself during the onslaught, jurors were told.\n\n\"I was pleading, please stop, please stop,\" he said.\n\n\"I was in shock, it was like a horror movie. I genuinely thought he was going to kill me.\"\n\nHe said it was \"so surreal\" to be targeted by a stranger on a rush-hour train.\n\n\"He just would not stop. He was relentless. He said he did not want anybody else, he just wanted me. He was fixated with me,\" Mr Porritt said.\n\nA witness said the attacker let out an \"unholy scream\" as he hit out with the machete, jurors were told.\n\nHe was heard to say: \"This is not a terrorist attack, I only want him.\n\n\"I don't want to kill you, I want to kill him, he was trying to kill me.\"\n\nPassengers tried to run away but ended up piled on the floor, the court heard, while another passenger told Mr Morgan to \"calm down\".\n\nMr Porritt suffered a severe injury to his right hand, as well as bone-deep cuts to his head and shin.\n\nHe managed to get away through a carriage door, while holding the severed parts of his hand together. A doctor, who happened to be on the train, gave him first aid, jurors heard.\n\nOn being confronted by police, Mr Morgan dropped the blade, put his hands up and got on the floor, the court was told.\n\nHe allegedly told officers it was \"a road issue\" not a \"terrorist attack\", adding: \"If I had known it would cause this much drama, I would not have done it.\"\n\nMs Ong told jurors the defendant denied responsibility for the attack by reason of insanity.\n\nHe told a psychiatrist he had been carrying the machete and lock knife around for some time, Ms Ong told the court, and had had an almost empty bottle of vodka in his rucksack.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Workers protest outside a Housing Executive office on Monday, as it, councils and some schools face two weeks of disruption\n\nCouncils, the Housing Executive and some schools face up to two weeks of disruption from Monday due to strike action by the Unite union.\n\nUnite members in most councils and the Housing Executive started a walk-out on Monday in a dispute over pay.\n\nThe union's members in the Education Authority (EA) then begin strike action from Tuesday 26 April.\n\nThe action follows a previous walk-out by Unite members in March over a local government pay offer of 1.75%.\n\nThe union has called that a \"real-terms pay cut\" as the cost of living has been surging due to rising fuel, energy and food costs.\n\nUnite's Northern Ireland Officer Gareth Scott said employers were to blame for the resumption of strike action.\n\n\"These employers need to address the pay expectations of their workforce,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Their failure to do so to date has led to this escalation and the unnecessary disruption that will inevitably result.\"\n\nCouncil services likely to be affected include some bin collections\n\nBut the EA has said the Unite strike comes after a local government pay offer across England, Wales and Northern Ireland which has already been accepted by the majority of trade unions.\n\n\"Therefore, local government organisations, including EA, do not have the power or authority to renegotiate this for Northern Ireland,\" the authority said.\n\nSome EA yellow bus services, which take pupils to school, will not operate for two weeks from Tuesday.\n\nHowever, school bus services operated by Translink will run as normal following the postponement of a possible strike by bus drivers.\n\nThe EA also said that some special schools faced disruption as some non-teaching staff, including classroom assistants, would be on strike.\n\nOne special school - Glenveagh in Belfast - has already said the dispute will mean that its pupils will not be able to come into school for almost two weeks.\n\nThe EA said it had asked Unite for special school staff and bus drivers to be exempted from the strike action but the union refused.\n\n\"We firmly believe these requests to be reasonable and valid and we remain unclear about the basis for them to be rejected by Unite given the impact on some of the most vulnerable children,\" the authority added.\n\nThe Education Authority said it had asked Unite for special school staff and bus drivers to be exempted from the strike action, but the union refused\n\nMeanwhile, the Housing Executive has said some of its scheduled repair services for tenants in Craigavon, Coleraine and north and west Belfast are likely to be affected until 8 May.\n\nCouncil services likely to be affected include some bin collections, street cleaning and the operation of some venues.\n\nFor instance, Belfast City Council said that City Hall, Belfast Zoo, and some community centres, play centres, sports pitches, bowling greens, parks and public toilets could be closed on some days during the strike.\n\nDerry City and Strabane District Council said it expected there to be \"disruption to a range of services such as refuse collection, street cleansing, recycling centres, leisure facilities and a number of other services\".\n\nIt said \"the level of impact will be variable across all services\".", "A simple law change around prescribing could help ease the treatment crisis facing many women going through the menopause, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) says.\n\nSome are now struggling with untreated symptoms due to shortages of some types of hormone-replacement therapy (HRT).\n\nWomen who rely on the medicine have reported feeling suicidal without it.\n\nThe RPS wants pharmacists in England to be able to alter GP prescriptions and make medicine swaps when appropriate.\n\nCurrently, pharmacists must dispense the exact product and amount of medication on the prescription.\n\nIf it is not available, a substitute cannot be given out without consulting the GP who prescribed the medicine.\n\nHRT is not the only type of medicine that has been in short supply.\n\nPharmacy staff in England say they are facing abuse and aggression from patients frustrated when they cannot get their medication.\n\nA survey by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee suggests medicine supply-chain problems are a daily issue for many pharmacies - affecting two-thirds of the 5,000 premises representatives they spoke with.\n\nPSNC chief executive Janet Morrison said: \"Pharmacy teams will do everything to ensure that patients get what they need, so it is particularly worrying to see the impact that pressures are starting to have on patients and the public as well.\"\n\nMillions of women in the UK experience menopause symptoms such as hot flushes, low mood and anxiety.\n\nTelevision-presenter Davina McCall has campaigned for prescription costs to be cut to help more access HRT.\n\nBut demand is already outstripping supply.\n\nIn England, prescriptions have more than doubled since 2017.\n\nAnd in in Northern Ireland some women are borrowing each other's HRT medication, according to a menopause-support group.\n\nRPS president Prof Claire Anderson said: \"Difficulties in accessing HRT unfairly impacts women, affects their mental health and worsens health inequalities.\n\n\"This is an area that not only impacts our patients but also the health and care workforce.\n\n\"The government should now go further and end unfair prescription charges for patients in England altogether.\n\n\"Pharmacists spend many hours dealing with medicines shortages when we'd rather be talking to patients about their care.\n\n\"One solution would be to enable pharmacists to make minor changes to a prescription when something is out of stock.\n\n\"This is faster for patients and more efficient for the NHS.\"\n\nThe government has said it is determined to make sure supplies meet high demand.\n\nMinister for Women's Health Maria Caulfield said: \"There are over 70 HRT products available in the UK, most of which remain in good supply, however we are aware of some issues with women being unable to access certain products.\n\n\"We will be appointing a new HRT supply chairperson, and convening an urgent meeting of suppliers to look at ways we can work together to improve supply.\"\n\nManufacturers are currently increasing supplies, including those of hormone-gel product Oestrogel.\n\nThe British Menopause Society says women should consider \"equivalent alternative HRT preparations\" if they are unable to get their usual treatment.\n\nHave you been affected by HRT shortages? If you are able to talk to us please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "Putin's latest threat: How did we get here?\n\nIf you're just joining us, earlier we brought you the news that Vladimir Putin has made a fresh threat to the West, saying any country that sets out to intervene in Ukraine will face a \"lightning-fast\" military response. \"We have all the tools for this, that no one else can boast of having... we'll use them, if needed,\" he said. \"We have already taken all the decisions on this.\" His latest warning comes after Western countries have ramped up support for Ukraine in the past days. Yesterday, the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin pledged to move \"heaven and earth\" to make sure Ukraine defeats Russia. And in recent days, there has been an increasing number of pledges to increase military support to Ukraine, including Germany's announcement that it will send 50 anti-aircraft tanks, in a sharp U-turn in policy. The UK is also expected to call later for fighter jets to be provided to Ukraine. Earlier this week, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also claimed the West was “pouring oil on the fire” by providing Ukraine with firepower - and said the conflict could lead to World War Three. Putin's warning comes as tensions were heightened further today as Russian energy provider Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, saying it's because the countries refused to follow Moscow's new rule to pay for gas in roubles.", "Katie Kenyon was last seen getting into a van with a man on Friday morning in Burnley\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a missing woman has been further arrested on suspicion of her murder.\n\nKatie Kenyon, 33, was last seen on Friday getting into a Ford Transit van in Burnley, Lancashire.\n\nWhile she has not been found, police said they were now working on the basis that she is no longer alive.\n\nA 50-year-old man from Burnley is being questioned and remains in custody, Lancashire Police said.\n\nThe force said it was making an application to Burnley Magistrates' Court for permission to hold him until 21:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nMs Kenyon's family have been informed of the latest development and are being supported by officers, police added.\n\nDet Supt Gary Brooks said: \"While I hold some slim hope Katie may still be found alive I'm sad to say she has now been missing for over four days.\n\n\"Despite extensive police enquiries and media appeals we have not found Katie nor have there been any sightings of her.\"\n\nHe said Ms Kenyon's family were \"understandably extremely upset\".\n\n\"We are continuing to search a number of different locations in connection with this investigation.\"\n\nPolice released a photograph of a Ford Transit van linked to the inquiry\n\nPolice, mountain rescue teams and fire crews were earlier combing parts of Gisburn Forest in Lancashire's Ribble Valley as part of the investigation.\n\nMembers of the public were asked not to attempt to join the searches as the area was \"very large and remote with no phone signal\".\n\nDet Supt Brooks added: \"I would hate for someone to get lost or come to harm while trying to help. Please leave it to us.\"\n\nPolice and mountain rescue teams have been searching parts of Gisburn Forest\n\nPolice said Ms Kenyon was last seen leaving an address in Burnley before getting into a van registered MT57 FLC at about 09:30 BST and travelling to the Bolton by Bowland area of north Lancashire.\n\nAn image of the silver van has been released as officers appealed for information.\n\nMs Kenyon was described as 5ft 9in with shoulder length strawberry blond highlighted hair and was last seen wearing a blue shirt and white vest top, black leggings and flip flops.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Arthurs, also known as Bonehead, played on albums such as What's The Story (Morning Glory) and Definitely Maybe\n\nFormer Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs has pulled out of forthcoming gigs after being diagnosed with tonsil cancer.\n\nThe musician, also known as Bonehead, told fans he was going to be \"taking a break for a while\" in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\nAs a result, he will not appear with Liam Gallagher at gigs which had been scheduled for this summer.\n\nArthurs co-founded Oasis and played on several of the band's biggest albums, including debut Definitely Maybe.\n\nHe played rhythm guitar and keyboards for the band, also appearing on What's The Story (Morning Glory) and Be Here Now.\n\nArthurs left Oasis in 1999, but in recent years had begun to work with Gallagher on other projects.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paul Arthurs. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe played with Gallagher's band Beady Eye in the mid 2010s, standing in for guitarist Gem Archer after he sustained a head injury.\n\nArthurs has also played on Liam Gallagher's solo albums and performed with him on recent tours.\n\nArthurs has continued to play music with Liam Gallagher (pictured in 2017) in recent years\n\nArthurs told his followers he would be starting a course of treatment soon. Tonsil cancer treatments can include surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.\n\n\"Just to let you all know I'm going to be taking a break for a while,\" he said in a statement posted on his social media account.\n\n\"I've been diagnosed with tonsil cancer, but the good news is it's treatable and I'll be starting a course of treatment soon. I'll keep you posted on how it's going.\n\n\"I'm gutted I'm missing the gigs with Liam and the band. Have the best summer and enjoy the gigs if you're going, I'll see you soon xxx\"\n\nGallagher sent his best wishes to Arthurs, tweeting: \"Sending BIG love to the 1 n only Bonehead and his family wishing you a speedy recovery we're all thinking of you.\"\n\nFormer Oasis star Andy Bell also posted: \"Get well soon Bone.\"", "Boris Johnson has threatened to privatise the Passport Office if it does not start delivering better value for money, a source has said.\n\nDuring a cabinet meeting, the PM is understood to have told ministers the high cost of services was affecting families ahead of the summer holidays.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to call its bosses for urgent talks next week.\n\nIf they cannot promise better value, No 10 will see if the \"private sector can do it in their place\".\n\nA source also said the PM made the same threat about the DVLA \"if it does not get its act together\", with Mr Johnson said to be concerned about how delays in issuing licences had impacted hauliers and supply chains.\n\nThe Passport Office - which reports directly to the Home Office - is dealing with a large backlog as the number of new applications rocketed after the pandemic and Brexit.\n\nA government source said many families were being forced for pay for premium services because of delays in the system, and travellers have reported needing to cancel holidays.\n\nThey claimed the issue \"goes to the heart of the cost of living\" and \"basic competence\" of arms-length government bodies.\n\nBut the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said the threat of privatisation was \"absurd\" when \"it is clear that the current problems are mainly down to increased casualisation of the workforce\".\n\nThe union said a lack of staff and poor management were among the causes of the backlog in processing passport applications.\n\nHome Office Minister Kevin Foster told MPs on Monday the service had processed one million applications last month, compared to seven million for the whole of last year.\n\nHe said the government had no intention of letting the current processing time slide further, but urged people to apply to renew outdated passports \"as soon as possible\".\n\nA HM Passport Office spokesperson said the \"vast majority of all passports applications are being dealt with well within 10 weeks\".\n\n\"To deal with this demand, we have increased staff numbers by 500 since April 2021,\" the spokesperson said. \"This has helped us to handle more applications than ever before.\"\n\nThe rise in passport applications is thought to be down to people putting off renewing while they could not travel during the pandemic, with the Passport Office estimating five million applications were delayed in 2020 and 2021.\n\nIt has also been linked to a change in the rules for travelling to some EU countries post-Brexit, because passports must be no more than 10 years old from the point of issue.\n\nEarlier this month, the director general of the Passport Office, Abi Tierney, advised people to allow up to 10 weeks when applying for their passport, adding: \"Our dedicated staff are working tirelessly to ensure that passport applications are processed as quickly as possible.\"\n\nBut the SNP's Stuart McDonald called it a \"predictable mess\", telling the Commons: \"All our constituents are having to cancel holidays, miss funerals, rearrange visits, with even a new 10-week target routinely being failed.\"\n\nLabour MP Stephanie Peacock also told MPs about a mother in her constituency who had submitted her daughter's passport application in January - five months in advance of their holiday next week - but has yet to receive one.\n\nShe asked: \"What is the minister doing to address the unacceptable delays in passport applications?\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she would examine the case, adding: \"That's a very, very unusual delay, there must be a problem.\"\n\nThe boss of Heathrow Airport, John Holland-Kaye, called the delays \"disappointing\".\n\nHe told the Press Association: \"Normally the Passport Office is very slick in processing passports. If it's not resolved, it is going to mean that people can't get away.\n\n\"After two years of lockdown, we need to make sure people can have a good holiday because many of them have vouchers that they've been saving up, they've got trips of a lifetime that they've put on hold, and we don't know when things might get closed down again.\n\n\"Making the most of the summer is vital.\"", "Kateryna and her nephew Nikita - she has lived in the UK for almost 10 years and has accommodation waiting for her family\n\nA disabled teenager and his grandparents have been waiting in Paris for more than six weeks while their UK asylum application is processed. They told the BBC they are stuck in limbo, spending thousands of pounds on accommodation.\n\nWhen Kateryna Karpenko persuaded her parents and nephew to leave Ukraine after Russian shells started falling, she thought it would not take long for them to join her in the UK.\n\nStaff at the UK visa centre in Paris then said it would take a maximum of five working days for their paperwork to be processed and for asylum to be granted.\n\nSix weeks on, they are still waiting.\n\n\"It kind of turned into a couple more days, couple more days, and now we're over a month,\" Kateryna says. \"They had to go through a lot, fleeing Ukraine, and they have no idea what's happening with our home, our family, our lives.\"\n\nNikita with his grandparents Oleksandr and Vira have spent weeks in Paris, waiting for a UK visa\n\nHer parents Oleksandr and Vira Karpenko fled their home in Irpin with their grandson Nikita Shepel after the Russian regime bombed Oleksandr's workplace. The town on the outskirts of Kyiv was the centre of a key battle for the capital and heavily shelled by Russian forces before they were repelled.\n\nKateryna, who has lived in the UK for almost 10 years, says she promised to take care of them until they were able to return home, in return for knowing they were safe.\n\nHer nephew's parents stayed behind in a relatively safe area, but they wanted him to leave Ukraine to enable him to get medical care for a condition he has had since childhood. The war meant he could no longer get health check-ups there.\n\nOther cars on the road were being shot at while the trio fled. It took over a day for them to cross the border into Poland as so many others were also trying to leave.\n\n\"That was a sense of panic,\" Kateryna says. \"So I wish I could give them that calm and the knowledge that we're all together as part of our family here in the UK. Instead they're stuck in this state of limbo.\"\n\nKateryna, pictured here with her parents, graduated from Cambridge University four years ago\n\nShe was waiting for them in Krakow, Poland, when her parents and 19-year-old nephew arrived. There, they faced a two-week wait for an appointment to process the mandatory biometrics application.\n\nThe family decided it would be best to apply for UK asylum from Paris, where they could get an appointment within days. So they packed their belongings into two suitcases and drove for 22 hours to the French capital, where they remain. Kateryna then had to return to the UK.\n\nThe UK Home Office has been accused of a chaotic and overly-bureaucratic response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. At the beginning of March, it launched a family visa scheme for Ukrainians who have an immediate or extended family member in the UK.\n\nIt then launched the Homes for Ukraine scheme, under which people in the UK can nominate an individual or family to stay with them rent-free for at least six months.\n\nFigures released by the UK government on Thursday 21 April showed a total of 71,800 visas had been issued under the two schemes.\n\nBut, as of Monday 18 April, just 21,600 Ukrainians had arrived in the UK, according to figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Home Office.\n\nEU countries are allowing Ukrainian refugees in for up to three years without a visa and more than four million people have fled to neighbouring countries since the Russian invasion.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has insisted \"security and biometric checks\" were vital to keep British citizens safe.\n\nMany residential buildings in Irpin have been damaged or destroyed\n\nKateryna's family applied for the family scheme on 9 March and submitted their applications and biometric passports at the UK visa centre on 11 March.\n\nThey have received no update and, because of the uncertainty of the length of their stay, Kateryna has been unable to arrange stable accommodation.\n\nSome friends in Paris have housed them for a few nights, but otherwise she has been looking for short-term AirBnBs, which is costing her thousands of pounds.\n\n\"It may seem like very small things because, you know, there's a war going on in Ukraine, but they have to check out from the flat at 11am, and the next place would only allow them to move in at 3pm. So they would have to wait around, even if it's rain or something, they have to find a place with a couple of their bags to stay until they can check in.\"\n\nKateryna feels frustrated that after their traumatic experience, she cannot tell them they are now safely in their second home.\n\n\"I qualify as a sponsor, I already have a place for them to stay, I can support them. All it takes is just for them to be able to physically cross the border, which is so, so close.\"\n\nKateryna says she has tried to access medical care for her nephew in France, but without identity papers they cannot proceed. Typically in Ukraine, he would see someone once a month to monitor his condition.\n\n\"I promised my sister, his mother, that I would take care of him. And I feel like I'm failing on that right now. So of course, it worries me.\"\n\nNikita told the BBC he is finding living in Paris difficult, especially as he doesn't speak French\n\nShe is also unable to arrange care in the UK as she can't say when he will arrive.\n\nKateryna visited her family in Paris at Easter and speaks to them each day, but is frustrated by her lack of ability to help.\n\n\"I'm living here. I've been living here for the past 10 years. And I feel like, I can't do anything to get my family over here. So I feel sad and helpless, about what's going on.\"\n\nFrom Paris, Nikita told the BBC, \"I know that I need medical care, and I can't get it in France. That's why I know I need support in England.\"\n\nHe says the situation makes him feel bad.\n\n\"I don't know, what do I need to do? I don't know French at all. And my grandparents don't know the language too and they can't go to the shop to buy something. And we went to visa at the embassy more than five times and we can't get the answer. That's why we can stay only in the flat and wait for an answer from the embassy.\"\n\nKateryna says the British people have offered so much support and it was clear the public was open to Ukrainians coming to the UK.\n\n\"The people who want to come, they're fleeing from actual horror in their home countries, they're not coming here in search for something. They're just looking for refuge.\n\n\"So the ability to expedite the process, and for them to find some stability would mean a world to them, because of what they went through.\"\n\nA government spokesperson has said it had launched one of the \"fastest and biggest visa schemes in UK history\" following the invasion and that \"changes the Home Office has made to streamline the visa system, including simplifying the forms and boosting staff numbers, are working\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: James Heappey says it is \"entirely legitimate\" for Ukraine to carry out strikes within Russia\n\nIt would be acceptable for Ukrainian forces to use Western weapons to attack military targets on Russian soil, a UK defence minister has said.\n\nJames Heappey said strikes on supply lines were a \"legitimate\" part of war.\n\nThe UK announced it will give Ukraine a small number of anti-aircraft vehicles.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has accused the UK of \"provoking\" Ukraine into attacking Russian territory, while foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Nato is engaging in a proxy war.\n\nMr Lavrov also said weapons delivered by the West to Ukraine would be fair targets.\n\nWestern countries have donated hundreds of millions of pounds of military aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion back in February and Nato and European Union officials are meeting in Germany to discuss further military assistance.\n\nIt comes as Russia has focused its forces on the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, with the UK's Ministry of Defence reporting the city of Kreminna, in Luhansk, has fallen.\n\nRussia has accused Ukraine of attacking targets within its territory, including an oil depot in Belgorod, but Ukrainian forces have not confirmed any strikes.\n\nAsked about this on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Heappey said: \"The question is, is it acceptable for our weapons to be used against legitimate Russian military targets by the Ukrainians?\n\n\"Firstly, it's Ukrainians that take the targeting decision, not the people who manufacture or export the kit in the first place. And secondly, it is entirely legitimate to go after targets in the depth of your opponents to disrupt their logistics and supply lines.\"\n\nThe armed forces minister added that it was also a \"perfectly legitimate\" part of war for Russian forces to be striking targets in western Ukraine to disrupt Ukrainian supply lines as long as they avoided targeting civilians - \"which unfortunately they have not taken much regard for so far\".\n\nUkraine is fighting an existential war with Russia so it is unsurprising Ukrainian forces should target supply lines over the Russian border.\n\nIt is equally unsurprising Western powers are relaxed that some of their weaponry are used in such strikes.\n\nWhat is interesting about James Heappey's remarks is their frankness.\n\nIn other conflicts, such as in Yemen, British ministers tend to be coy about the use of British weapons.\n\nOn one level, the defence minister is just revealing his usual candour. He often speaks more as a former soldier than a politician.\n\nBut on another level, his remarks reflect Nato's deepening involvement in this conflict.\n\nThe weapons provided by western powers are getting bigger and more powerful.\n\nIt is one thing to give Ukraine short-range anti-tank bazookas. It is another to provide them with drones and artillery that can cross borders.\n\nThe line between defending Ukraine and attacking Russia is increasingly blurred.\n\nOn Monday Mr Lavrov claimed the West was \"pouring oil on the fire\" by providing Ukraine with firepower and repeated warnings that the conflict could lead to a third world war.\n\nBut Mr Heappey said the West had been very careful about the donation of weapons to Ukraine which was not a \"purely Nato endeavour\".\n\nHe said Russia had been saying it was in a conflict with Nato before the war began - \"it's nonsense and [Mr] Lavrov knows it\".\n\nMr Heappey added he thought the chances of a nuclear war were \"vanishingly small\", with no-one wanting such an outcome to the conflict.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has also accused the UK of provoking Ukraine into attacks on facilities located in Russian territory.\n\nIt added that Russia would give a \"proportional response\" to any such attempt, the Interfax news agency reports.\n\n\"The Russian army is ready to deliver retaliatory strikes against decision-making centres in Kyiv using high accuracy weaponry,\" the ministry said.\n\nFor months Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been asking Western allies for more weapons to fight off the Russian invasion.\n\nOn Monday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced the UK would gift a small number of Stormer vehicles fitted with launchers for Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles to give Ukrainian forces \"enhanced, short-range anti-air capabilities both day and night\".\n\nHe also told the Commons around 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, while 2,000 of its armoured vehicles had either been destroyed or captured.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin is chairing the meeting of defence ministers at the US Air Force base at Ramstein in Germany on Tuesday.\n\nAhead of the gathering there are reports suggesting Germany would pledge to supply anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine.\n\nThe UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has met with Vladimir Putin during a visit to Russia, having already met Mr Lavrov in Moscow.\n\nDuring a news conference, he said the priority was to minimise suffering in Ukraine and end the war as soon as possible.\n\nTalks are expected to focus on humanitarian corridors out of the besieged port city of Mariupol.\n\nMr Guterres is expected to meet President Zelensky later in the week.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told MPs that the government had concerns \"about an international security architecture that has Russia as one of the permanent members of the [UN] security council\", adding that Russia had used its veto \"as a green light for barbarism\".\n\nShe said part of the UK's response had been working closer with allies like the G7 and Nato \"because we simply haven't seen enough at a UN level\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice have released footage from the set of the film Rust, including of the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin.\n\nBut police said a decision on whether to file criminal charges will depend on the outcome of future forensic work.\n\nHalyna Hutchins, 42, was shot by Mr Baldwin while he rehearsed with what he believed to be a safe gun.\n\nThe actor, who was also a producer on the film, previously said he did not pull the trigger and had no idea how a live bullet came to be on the set near Santa Fe in the US state of New Mexico.\n\nIn videos released on Monday, police and medics can be seen racing to the scene, and bodycam footage shows first responders battling to save Hutchins.\n\nIn other clips, Mr Baldwin is seen dressed as a cowboy and practising with what appears to be the gun that killed the cinematographer.\n\nIn a statement accompanying the release of the footage, Sheriff Mendoza said the investigation into the shooting \"remains open and ongoing\".\n\nHe said several components of the investigation remain outstanding, including firearms forensics, fingerprint analysis, a report from the medical examiner and analysis of Mr Baldwin's phone data.\n\n\"Once these investigative components are provided to the sheriff's office we will be able to complete the investigation to forward it to the Santa Fe District Attorney for review,\" Sheriff Mendoza said.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, a spokesperson for the Sante Fe sheriff's office said authorities had decided to release the files after multiple requests from the media and because investigators wanted to show what information remained outstanding before the case could be passed on to prosecutors.\n\nAuthorities have refused to rule out filing criminal charges over the incident and in October District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told the New York Times that \"everything at this point, including criminal charges, is on the table\".\n\nThe release comes a week after producers of the film were condemned by authorities for failing to follow safety guidelines and charged the maximum fine of $136,793 (£105,000).\n\nAn investigation conducted by the New Mexico Environment Department found that the makers of the film showed \"plain indifference to recognised hazards associated with use of firearms on set\".\n\nIt added that the film's management \"knew that firearm safety procedures were not being followed on set and demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety by failing to review work practices and take corrective action\".\n\nThe company said it disagreed with the findings and would appeal.", "The board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover offer from the billionaire Elon Musk.\n\nMr Musk, who made the shock bid less than two weeks ago, said Twitter had \"tremendous potential\" that he would unlock.\n\nHe also called for a series of changes from relaxing its content restrictions to eradicating fake accounts.\n\nThe firm initially rebuffed Mr Musk's bid, but it will now ask shareholders to vote to approve the deal.\n\nMr Musk is the world's richest person, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of $273.6bn mostly due to his shareholding in electric vehicle maker Tesla which he runs. He also leads the aerospace firm SpaceX.\n\n\"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,\" Mr Musk said in a statement announcing the deal.\n\n\"I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans,\" he added.\n\n\"Twitter has tremendous potential - I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe move comes as Twitter faces growing pressure from politicians and regulators over the content that appears on its platform. It has drawn critics from left and right over its efforts to mediate misinformation on the platform.\n\nIn one of its most high-profile moves, last year it banned former US President Donald Trump, perhaps its most powerful user, citing the risk of \"incitement of violence\".\n\nAt the time Mr Musk observed: \"A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech.\"\n\nNews of the takeover has been cheered by the right in the US, although Mr Trump on Monday told Fox News he had no plans to re-join the platform.\n\nThe White House declined to comment on the takeover but spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters: \"No matter who owns or runs Twitter, the president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms.\"\n\nOn Twitter, MP Julian Knight, chairman of the UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, called the deal an \"extraordinary development in the world of social media\".\n\n\"It will be interesting to see how a privately owned Twitter (run by a man who is an absolutist over free speech) will react to global moves to regulate.\"\n\nBBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin says scientists are nervous about the potential impact of the takeover on the climate debate.\n\nHe notes that Twitter announced last week it would ban advertisements that deny the scientific consensus on the climate crisis, with the firm admitting that misleading information can undermine efforts to protect the planet.\n\nMr Musk, who has more than 80 million followers on Twitter, has a controversial history on the platform himself.\n\nIn 2018 US financial regulators accused him of misleading Tesla investors with his tweets, claims that were resolved in a $40 million settlement and that Mr Musk continues to deny.\n\nAnd in 2019 he was hit with a defamation suit - which he successfully defeated - after calling a diver involved in rescuing schoolboys in Thailand \"pedo guy\" on the platform.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Musk, who has been known to clash with journalists and block critics, suggested that he saw Twitter as a forum for debate.\n\n\"I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means,\" he wrote just hours before the deal was announced.\n\nAs part of the takeover, which is expected to close later this year, Twitter's shares will be delisted and it will be taken private.\n\nMr Musk has suggested this will give him freedom to make the changes he wants to the business.\n\nAmong other ideas, he has suggested allowing longer posts and introducing the ability to edit them after they have been published.\n\nTwitter shares on Monday closed more than 5% higher after the deal was announced.\n\nBut the price remained lower than Mr Musk's $54.20 per share offer, a sign that Wall Street believes he is overpaying for the firm.\n\nMr Musk has said he doesn't \"care about the economics\" of the purchase. However, he will take on a company with a chequered record of financial performance.\n\nDespite its influence, Twitter has rarely turned a profit and user growth, particularly in the US, has slowed.\n\nThe company, founded in 2004, ended 2021 with $5bn in revenue and 217 million daily users globally - a fraction of the figures claimed by other platforms such as Facebook.\n\nBret Taylor, chair of Twitter's board, said it had fully assessed Mr Musk's offer and it was \"the best path forward for Twitter's stockholders\".\n\nIt is not clear who will lead the company moving forward. Twitter is currently led by Parag Agrawal, who took over from co-founder and former boss Jack Dorsey last November.\n\nBut in his offer document, Mr Musk told Twitter's board: \"I don't have confidence in management.\"\n\nMr Agrawal told employees on Monday that the future of Twitter is uncertain.\n\n\"Once the deal closes, we don't know which direction the platform will go,\" he said, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nMr Musk's targeting of Twitter has moved at remarkable speed. It emerged at the beginning of April that he had become the largest shareholder in the firm with a 9.2% stake.\n\nHe was then invited to join Twitter's board but turned down the offer before launching a surprise bid for the company on 14 April, saying he wanted to \"unlock\" its potential as a bastion of freedom of speech.\n\nTwitter tried to fend off his bid, threatening to dilute the shareholdings of anyone who bought more than a 15% stake in the firm. However, its stance shifted after Mr Musk revealed more financial details about his proposed bid.\n\nHe has secured $25.5bn of financing for the deal and will take a $21bn stake in the business.\n\nThe board unanimously approved the bid, which will now be presented to shareholders for a vote.\n\nThe speed this move has happened at had many heads in Silicon Valley spinning.\n\nFrom nowhere, Elon Musk is the absolute monarch of Twitter.\n\nHe himself has said it's not about the \"economics\", this is about power and influence.\n\nBy taking the company private he will exercise total control over Twitter.\n\nHe has the power to do with the company as he pleases. In practice that will mean a much lighter moderation policy.\n\nHe also says that he will make its algorithm public - so that people can better understand how Twitter works.\n\nThe move leaves the door open to Donald Trump's return to the platform, though he apparently says he would rather use his own social media platform Truth Social for now.\n\nFor years conservatives have argued that Twitter is biased against them - and the news has left Republicans in the US delighted.\n\nOthers have been left dismayed at what Twitter might look like without strong platform moderation.\n\nYou only need to look at how much criticism Facebook has received for not taking down groups linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory, or the Stop the Steal movement to imagine how much criticism Elon Musk is in store for.\n\nThe danger that Twitter now faces is that unfettered free speech on social media can become very ugly, very quickly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021", "Tesla boss Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter, saying he is the right person to \"unlock\" the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".\n\nIn a surprise announcement, Mr Musk said he would pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, valuing it at about $40bn.\n\nIt recently emerged that Mr Musk was Twitter's biggest shareholder after he built up a large stake in the firm.\n\nHe said that if his offer was not accepted: \"I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder\".\n\nMr Musk also said that if the board of directors at Twitter chose to reject the offer, it would be \"utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote\".\n\n\"They own the company, not the board of directors,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nTwitter's share price rose jumped by 5.3% to $48.32 in early trading, before falling back to more than $46.20 later on.\n\nA filing with the US financial regulator appeared to show text and/or voice messages from Mr Musk to Twitter's board, showing that he had raised the idea at the weekend that the business should go private.\n\nMr Musk had been invited to join the board, but Twitter announced on Sunday he had decided against it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the messages published in the filing, Mr Musk said he was not \"playing the back-and-forth game\" and said of his offer: \"It's a high price and your shareholders will love it.\"\n\nHe said he would have to sell his shares if the deal did not go through.\n\n\"This is not a threat, it's simply not a good investment without the changes that need to be made,\" he added.\n\nVictoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor, said: \"This is a deeply hostile move from Elon Musk who has threatened to 'reconsider' his 9.2% stake in the company if his 100% acquisition offer is rejected.\"\n\nIn his filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Musk said he had invested in Twitter because \"I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.\n\n\"However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.\"\n\nHe added: \"Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.\"\n\nTwitter said its board \"will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the company and all Twitter stockholders\".\n\nMr Musk is the world's richest man, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of $273.6bn mostly due to his shareholding in electric vehicle maker Tesla. He also leads the aerospace firm SpaceX.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with head of TED, Chris Anderson, Elon Musk has not only laid out his vision for Twitter but revealed that he has a plan B if the Twitter board reject his offer.\n\nHe didn't go into details about what it was, saying simply that it was for \"another time\".\n\nThe interview was much anticipated among the TED audience which gathers in Vancouver every spring to hear a range of talks on technology, entertainment and design.\n\nMusk also revealed that his first job, if his offer is accepted, would be to open up the Twitter algorithm so that the decisions it makes can be seen by everyone. The code needs to go on a platform such as GitHub so that other programmers can see it and make suggestions rather like operating system Linux was built, he said.\n\nDan Ives, senior equity research analyst at Wedbush Securities, said Twitter will either be forced to accept Mr Musk's bid or find another buyer.\n\nHe said: \"There will be host of questions around financing, regulatory, balancing Musk's time (Tesla, SpaceX) in the coming days but based on this filing it is a now or never bid for Twitter to accept.\n\n\"Ultimately, we believe this soap opera will end with Musk owning Twitter.\"\n\nRumours have been swirling for weeks that Elon Musk was considering starting his own social network, but with the news he'd lifted his stake in Twitter to 9.2%, it seemed like he was scratching the itch by investing in one rather than building his own. Donald Trump's Truth Social platform's struggle for relevance and technical woes has proven that building a social network is perhaps not so easy.\n\nWhile some were shocked Mr Musk rejected a position on Twitter's board, seasoned watchers commented that accepting it would come with rules and conditions that might not be a good match for the world's richest man and his fondness for speaking his mind on the platform.\n\nThere's been considerable disquiet among staff at Twitter over the whole affair, with some employees taking to the platform to vent their frustration and concerns about controversial statements Mr Musk has made in the past.\n\nIf Mr Musk's takeover is successful, we'll likely find out how he intends to run the company courtesy of one of his many tweets.\n\nTwitter had offered Mr Musk a seat on its board after it emerged that he held a 9.2% stake in the company.\n\nThe role was set to become effective last weekend but then Mr Musk decided against taking it.\n\nOn Monday, Twitter's chief executive Parag Agrawal had tweeted that he thought the decision by Mr Musk not take a seat on the board was \"for the best\".\n\nHe added: \"We have and will always value input from our shareholders whether they are on our board or not. Elon is our biggest shareholder and we will remain open to his input.\"\n\nThough he also warned staff: \"There will be distractions ahead.\"\n\nAfter that announcement, Mr Musk posted a cryptic tweet of smiling emoji with its hand over its mouth.\n\nMr Musk has already given a hint of the things he would like to change at Twitter.\n\nHe has suggested changes to the Twitter Blue premium subscription service, which was launched last year in Canada and Australia, including slashing the price, banning advertising and giving users the option of paying the monthly fee with the cryptocurrency, dogecoin.\n\nMr Musk also asked his 81 million followers on Twitter whether the company is \"dying\" and if its headquarters should be turned into a homeless shelter.", "People who rely on face-to-face banking and cash are at risk of \"being cut adrift\" as branches and ATMs close, according to consumer group Which?.\n\nIts analysis suggests that branches have been shutting at a faster rate in rural areas than in urban ones.\n\nWhich? has joined up with other consumer and business groups to call on the government to legislate soon on protecting access to cash.\n\nThe Treasury said it recognises cash remains \"vital\" to millions of people.\n\nThe consumer group wrote a letter to the Treasury on Monday calling for urgent action.\n\n\"With rising living costs placing additional pressure on people's personal finances, the consequences of being unable to withdraw cash for those consumers who already rely on it could be significant,\" it said.\n\n\"Unless legislation is introduced urgently, the ability to access, spend and deposit cash could be permanently lost for many consumers, leaving some of society's most disadvantaged at risk of financial exclusion with no way to pay for the goods and services they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nIt is also backed by other organisations such as Age UK, StepChange Debt Charity, the British Retail Consortium, the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nThe national chair of the FSB, Martin McTague, who sits on the Access to Cash Pilots Board, said that the upcoming Queen's Speech next month was the \"last chance saloon where protecting access to cash is concerned\".\n\nWhich?'s new analysis suggested that since 2015, 4,685 bank branches have shut their doors.\n\nA further 226 are already scheduled to close by the end of the year, it said, while the rate of closures in rural areas has outstripped those in urban areas.\n\nSince 2015, the banking network in rural constituencies has been cut by half (50.7%), compared with 47.3% in urban areas.\n\nIt also identified 17 parliamentary constituencies that have particularly poor access to cash - with three or fewer bank branches and 30 or fewer free-to-use ATMs.\n\nPeople aged 65 and over make up about a quarter on average of the population across those 17 areas that Which? said have poor access to cash.\n\nCarmarthen East and Dinefwr in Wales, for example, have lost 13 out of 15 bank branches since 2015, and have a relatively high proportion of elderly residents.\n\nAccording to recent statistics from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, most people do have reasonable access to cash through a combination of bank, building society or Post Office branches and ATMs.\n\nBut it did find that people in rural areas have to travel further on average to deposit or withdraw cash.\n\nHelen Miller says she has to rely on her husband to get cash\n\nHelen Miller, who lives in Wales, faces the double challenge of having to find an ATM and then making sure it is one she can access.\n\nAn arthritic condition means the 50 year old uses a wheelchair when she is out and requires lots of rest.\n\nThe former midwife often has to ask her husband to collect cash on her behalf, although that means she has to rely on using his account too.\n\n\"I have not been to an ATM for months. It is a lot more complicated that you can imagine,\" she said.\n\n\"It is the lack of independence that it the problem. I don't really want to rely on somebody else.\n\n\"I would just like to be able to go to one place - go to the High Street, get some money out and go to the shop like everyone else.\"\n\nAlthough fewer people are strictly using cash, those who do tend to be from more vulnerable backgrounds, older or have very low incomes.\n\nJohn Howells, the boss of the free-to-use ATM network Link, said: \"While cash usage has fallen by around 40% since the start of the pandemic, millions of consumers including some of the most vulnerable still rely on cash every day.\n\n\"Link believes that consumers in every community across the UK should have free access to cash and works with the industry to maintain it.\"\n\nLate last year, the Access to Cash Action Group also set out plans on how the industry could ensure access for those most vulnerable people.\n\nSuggested solutions included shared bank hubs, free ATMs, as well as shops offering cashback without purchases.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"We know that cash remains vital for millions of people and we are committed to protecting access to cash across the UK.\n\n\"That's why we have consulted on plans for new laws to make sure people only need to travel a reasonable distance to pay in or take out cash, and have already legislated to enable shops to offer cashback to customers without them having to make a purchase.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that the Treasury would set out plans \"in due course\" following the consultation.\n\nAre you struggling with the rising cost of living? Tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Passengers from Northern Ireland stranded in Amsterdam have spoken of their anger after EasyJet cancelled a number of flights.\n\nFlights from Schiphol to Belfast were cancelled on Friday, Sunday and Monday.\n\nPassengers said they were not notified until the last minute and have had no information or help from EasyJet.\n\nThe airline has apologised and said flights had been impacted by \"strong winds, combined with runway maintenance\".\n\n\"It has been a total nightmare,\" Danielle Hamilton from Belfast told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We just do not know what is happening, our stress levels have been through the roof\".\n\nDanielle travelled for a break in the Dutch capital with her partner Jonathon and brother Jordan, who has cystic fibrosis.\n\nThey had been due to return home on Friday.\n\n\"When we got to the airport it was bedlam,\" she said.\n\nThe flight was due to leave at 17:35, there was no information, nothing on the board, then at 19:00 it appeared that the flight had been cancelled.\n\n\"But there was no-one from EasyJet at the airport to help, staff were telling us to ring them or go on their app\".\n\nAfter an hour-long phone call, they were told the first flight they could come home on would be 27 April.\n\nBut with her brother's medication running out they had to try and get him home as soon as possible.\n\n\"We were able to get him on an EasyJet flight set to leave Amsterdam on Monday,\" she said.\n\n\"But he got to the airport only to find out that flight was cancelled too.\n\n\"We have had to pay to get him home on another airline, he has been our priority, getting him home was the most important thing\".\n\nJordan was due to arrive home on Monday evening.\n\n\"I did manage to speak to an EasyJet staff member, and she was asking how Jordan was. What she told us was the flights are being cancelled because of air traffic control and the wind,\" Danielle said.\n\nShe said she and her partner are now \"stranded in a hotel room\" on the outskirts of the city reliant on the generosity of relatives.\n\nCaitlin Lowry, her aunt Natasha and grandmother Margaret had been scheduled to fly home on Sunday\n\nSeventeen-year-old Caitlin Lowry, from Bangor, travelled to Amsterdam last week along with her aunt Natasha and grandmother Margaret.\n\nWhat should have been a lovely family getaway, has become an \"horrific experience,\" she said.\n\n\"We were due to fly back on Sunday and were half way through security when an email arrived to say there was no flight. But there was no one from EasyJet there, no one to talk to. We just sat down and had to think what we were going to do,\" Caitlin said.\n\nCaitlin said she has spoken to passengers who have been in the airport since Friday\n\nIt was extremely difficult to get in touch with the airline, she explained.\n\nHer parents in Northern Ireland were able to do so before she was, and the family was booked to fly home on Monday.\n\n\"Now that's been cancelled too,\" Caitlin said.\n\n\"We got an email from the airport, not EasyJet to let us know\".\n\nHaving spent two nights in a hotel at their own expense, they have booked to fly home with an alternative airline on Tuesday.\n\n\"It has just been horrific, we are all just exhausted and want to get home.\n\n\"Anything we have got, hotels etc, we have had to pay for ourselves. It's been hard for all of us, my grandmother and aunt both have health problems,\" she said.\n\nEasyJet said it is doing \"all possible\" to help affected passengers\n\nAn EasyJet spokeswoman confirmed flights between Amsterdam and Belfast had been impacted due to \"ongoing operating restrictions at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport as a result of strong winds, combined with runway maintenance\".\n\nShe said the weather conditions and runway maintenance had meant the airport was unable to accommodate all planned flights.\n\n\"While this was outside of our control we would like to apologise to customers for the inconvenience, particularly to those passengers who were also affected over the weekend by cancellations on the same route due to the airport restrictions put in place,\" the spokeswoman added.\n\nThe airline is doing \"all possible\" for impacted passengers including providing hotel accommodation, meals and the option to transfer to an alternative flight free of charge, she explained.\n\n\"We advised passengers that anyone who sourced their own hotel accommodation will be reimbursed for any expenses.\"\n\nFlights scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday are scheduled to operate as planned, the airline said.", "Johnny Depp has said text messages he sent about burning and drowning his former partner Amber Heard were a joke based on a Monty Python sketch.\n\nTestifying before a Virginia court on Monday, the actor said he was \"ashamed\" of the messages, and that they were an attempt at humour.\n\nMr Depp, 58, sued Ms Heard, 36, over a story she wrote in which she described herself as a victim of domestic violence. He denies any abuse.\n\nTaking the stand for a fourth day, Mr Depp responded to questions about a 2013 text exchange with British actor Paul Bettany.\n\n\"Let's burn her,\" Mr Depp had written. \"Let's drown her before we burn her.\"\n\nHe then made a further obscene suggestion \"to make sure she is dead\".\n\nAsked about the messages in court, Mr Depp said the messages were \"directly\" from a Monty Python sketch about burning and drowning witches.\n\n\"This is a film we'd all watch when we were 10 - it's just irreverent and abstract humour,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Week two: Johnny Depp's face off with Amber Heard\n\nDuring cross-examination, Mr Depp was pressed on his claims that Ms Heard was wrong to portray him as a domestic abuser.\n\nJurors heard a series of audio recordings of conversations between the former couple, in which Mr Depp could be heard shouting vulgar insults and obscenities at Ms Heard.\n\nIn one exchange, Ms Heard shouts at Mr Depp to put his \"cigarettes out on someone else\". Mr Depp could be heard insulting Ms Heard about her weight.\n\nHe grimaced while the clips were played, while Ms Heard seemed to hold back tears.\n\nAnd lawyers for Ms Heard focused again on Mr Depp's history of substance use, claiming he would be violent during alcohol and drug binges.\n\nBut Mr Depp said: \"If anyone had a problem with my drinking, at any time in my life, it was me. The only person I've ever abused in my life is myself.\"\n\nAt times, Mr Depp appeared visibly agitated by the lines of questioning, occasionally snapping at Ms Heard's lawyer, J Benjamin Rottenborn.\n\nMr Rottenborn introduced a series of negative articles about Mr Depp, some dating back to 2014, trying to demonstrate that damage to his reputation - and his career - had been done years before Ms Heard publicly accused Mr Depp of abuse.\n\n\"These are all hit pieces. These are dreck [rubbish],\" Mr Depp said.\n\nAt the centre of the case is Ms Heard's 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post, where she describes herself as a \"public figure representing domestic abuse\".\n\nMr Depp says the article - which does not mention him by name - is defamatory and derailed his career.\n\nAt the trial - now in its third week - lawyers for Mr Depp have claimed Ms Heard was the aggressor, playing the \"role\" of victim to benefit her career.\n\nEarlier, the jury heard evidence presented by the celebrity ex-couple's former therapist, who described how Mr Depp and Ms Heard engaged in \"mutual abuse\", as well as from medical workers who treated Mr Depp as he was detoxing himself from opiates.\n\nSeveral high-profile witnesses, including the entrepreneur Elon Musk and the actor James Franco, are scheduled to appear later in the trial, which is expected to last at least another month.\n\nAn earlier version of this story named Paul Bettany as a witness. The actor was included in pre-trial court papers, but his lawyer says he will not give evidence.", "Valeria, with baby Kira, said she had achieved \"a new level of happiness\" since her daughter's birth\n\nYuriy Glodan had only left his flat and family to go to the shops when he heard the news of the explosion.\n\nAt the entrance to his block of flats he screamed at police to let him inside the burning building. When he reached his flat, he found the bodies of his wife and her mother, killed by a Russian missile that had ripped into the lower floors of the block.\n\nThe body of his three-month-old baby Kira was discovered later; he saw it for the first time when he returned to the flat on Sunday.\n\nThe deaths - three generations of a single family - have sparked outrage and revulsion in Ukraine, a country already hardened by two months of war.\n\nCommenting on the strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky was visibly upset when speaking about baby Kira's killing.\n\n\"How did she threaten Russia? It seems that killing children is just a new national idea of the Russian Federation,\" Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address to Ukrainians. He described those who had planned and carried out the attack as \"bastards\".\n\nFive others were also killed in the missile strike.\n\nYuriy was in the wrecked building on Sunday to find what he could salvage from the apartment. Photo albums, his wife's sugar sachet collection, handwritten notes. He found his baby's stroller in pieces.\n\nYuriy and his baby daughter, who died in a missile attack on Saturday 23 April\n\n\"If I leave things in the flat, it will become garbage and people will throw it away,\" he told the BBC. \"I want to keep it for my memories.\"\n\nHe and Valeria had been a couple for nine years.\n\n\"She could find joy in everything. Odesa was her favourite city. She worked in PR and she could communicate with a lot of people, understand them. I admired what a good writer she was,\" he said.\n\n\"She was a great mother, friend, with all the best qualities. It will be impossible for me to find somebody else like Valeria. She was perfect. Such a person could be given to you only once in a life and it's a gift from God.\"\n\nKira had been born at the end of January, just a month before the start of the war.\n\nA few weeks after that, Valeria had posted on Instagram that she was living with \"a new level of happiness\" after the birth of her first child. \"Our girl is one month old now,\" she wrote. \"It has been the best 40 weeks.\"\n\nYuriy swipes through pictures of his wife and daughter, with our reporter\n\nYuriy showed us photos of Kira on his phone sent to him by his wife.\n\n\"We were so happy when she was born,\" he says. \"I was in the maternity hospital when she gave birth. It's very hard for me to realise now that my daughter and wife are no longer here. All my world was destroyed yesterday by a Russian missile.\"\n\nHe wants the world to know about what happened to his family.\n\n\"What is happening is a grief for my family, for our city, for Ukraine, it's a grief for the whole civilisation. I hope our story helps to stop this war.\"\n\nAs we leave, he hands us some nappies in a carrier bag, one of the few things he's been able to recover from the flat.\n\n\"Please take them,\" he tells us. \"Give them to charity. I have no need for them now.\"\n\nHave you been affected by what is happening in Ukraine? Or do you have any questions about the conflict? Email us at: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Boris Johnson has suggested he would discipline the source of \"misogynistic\" claims about Labour's deputy leader in a Sunday newspaper article.\n\nHe condemned the claim Angela Rayner tries to distract him in Parliament by crossing and uncrossing her legs.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday said some unnamed Tory MPs had made the allegation.\n\nMr Johnson threatened to unleash \"the terrors of the earth\" on the source behind the comments if they were ever identified.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister told reporters it was \"hard to say\" if there was a cultural problem in Parliament, but described the story about Ms Rayner as \"the most appalling load of sexist, misogynist tripe\".\n\n\"I immediately got in touch with Angela and we had a very friendly exchange,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nDowning Street will not be asking for an inquiry into who made the comments to the newspaper, with a source saying this was because such inquiries rarely found the person in question.\n\nCommons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle called the \"unsubstantiated claims\" in the article \"misogynistic and offensive\" and expressed his \"sympathy\" for Ms Rayner.\n\nHe has arranged a meeting with the editor of the Mail on Sunday this Wednesday to discuss the article.\n\nUK press regulator Ipso said it had received 5,500 complaints about the article and was exploring possible breaches of its code of practice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Rayner dismissed the story as a \"perverted smear\" that showed women in politics faced misogyny every day.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told BBC Breakfast: \"This is endemic.\" She added that she did not think there was a single female MP or staff member in the House of Commons who did not have their own stories of misogyny or sexism.\n\nAnd Technology Minister Chris Philp said Tory MPs who hold those views could face \"serious consequences\" if identified.\n\nA raft of politicians, including female Tory MPs, have also spoken out in support of Ms Rayner.\n\nConservative Caroline Nokes said too many female MPs of all parties had been \"on the receiving end of vile articles\", while former minister Andrea Leadsom tweeted: \"Really sorry Angela. Totally unacceptable comments and reporting.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"The sexism and misogyny peddled by the Tories is a disgraceful new low from a party mired in scandal and chaos.\"\n\nThe Mail on Sunday is not commenting.\n\nThe article quoted unnamed Conservative MPs, saying Ms Rayner would cross and uncross her legs when opposite the PM at the dispatch box in the Commons to distract him.\n\nThe newspaper article said: \"Tory MPs have mischievously suggested that Ms Rayner likes to distract the PM when he is in the dispatch box by deploying a fully clothed parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's infamous scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rachel Reeves says she was told a new baby and being in cabinet don't mix\n\nThe piece quotes one MP as saying: \"She knows she can't compete with Boris's Oxford Union debating training, but she has other skills which he lacks.\n\n\"She has admitted as much when enjoying drinks with us on the [Commons] terrace.\"\n\nThe article also described the Labour MP's background as \"a socialist grandmother who left school at 16 while pregnant and with no qualifications before becoming a care worker\".\n\nMany MPs have since also condemned the tone of the newspaper's reporting.\n\nMs Rayner condemned the article in a thread on Twitter as \"gutter journalism\", and accused the sources of \"spreading desperate, perverted smears in their doomed attempts to save [Mr Johnson's] skin\" amid the partygate scandal.\n\nShe added: \"I won't be letting their vile lies deter me. Their attempts to harass and intimidate me will fail.\n\n\"I hope this experience doesn't put off a single person like me, with a background like mine from aspiring to participate in public life. That would break my heart.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Solidarity from across the political divide to Angela Rayner on this.\n\n\"It's a reminder of the deep misogyny women face every day.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Munira Wilson described it as a \"disgraceful story\", saying: \"I can't even believe it made it into print.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un made a defiant speech at a military parade on Monday night, vowing to ramp up the country's nuclear arsenal.\n\nThe parade, to mark the armed forces' founding anniversary, also displayed banned intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).\n\nIn March, North Korea tested its largest-known ICBM for the first time since 2017.\n\nIt sparked wide condemnation from the international community.\n\nThe US also imposed several sanctions on the country after the test. ICBMs, designed for nuclear arms delivery, extend North Korea's strike range as far as the US mainland.\n\nThe parade also featured submarine-launched ballistic missiles in addition to hypersonic missiles.\n\nHowever, Mr Kim has been undeterred by the condemnation so far.\n\n\"We will continue to take steps to strengthen and develop our nation's nuclear capabilities at the fastest pace,\" he said, adding that their nuclear forces \"must be ready\" to be exercised anytime, according to a report by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).\n\nThe announcement was made at a parade marking the 90th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean army\n\nNorth Korea's nuclear weapons were fundamentally a deterrence tool against war but could be used for other means, he said, echoing previous rhetoric that the country would strike back if attacked.\n\nKim Jong-un wants North Korea to be accepted as a legitimate nuclear state. He also wants the crippling sanctions on his country to be lifted. But he knows neither are likely to happen.\n\nDiplomacy with the US has stalled. President Biden has said he will only look at lifting sanctions if North Korea agrees to give up its nuclear weapons. Kim Jong-un has responded by forging ahead with his nuclear programme, testing an array of increasingly sophisticated weapons.\n\nNorth Korea has always claimed the reason it has nuclear weapons is to prevent a war. But recently it has started to talk about using these weapons in battle. This was the suggestion in Mr Kim's speech, when he vowed that any military seeking confrontation with North Korea would \"cease to exist\".\n\nBut this show of force is as much about bolstering his popularity as it is his security. North Korea is not just isolated from the international community. It sealed itself off from the world during the pandemic, and its economy is in a bad way. Weapons are one area where Mr Kim can show his people he is making progress.\n\nParade pictures released by state media show that the Hwasong-17 was among the weapons displayed at the parade. North Korea claimed to have test fired the massive ICBM for the first time in March.\n\nSouth Korean experts have questioned the success of the test launch.\n\nTypically, Pyongyang showcases its new weapons at its military parades which often feature long processions of tanks, artillery and soldiers.\n\nMonday's military parade was closely watched as North Korea has tested several missiles this year, heightening tensions on the peninsula.\n\nIn addition, satellite images have showed North Korea firing up activity at its nuclear testing facility in Punggye-ri in March, stoking fears the country would resume testing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.\n\nThe recent election of South Korea's new president Yoon Suk-yeol, who has voiced a harsher line on North Korea's actions, has frayed relations.\n\nSouth Korean defence minister Suh Wook earlier this month said the South had the capacity to strike the North's missile launch points - sparking a furious reaction from Pyongyang.\n\nIn 2018 Kim Jong-un put in place a moratorium on long-range ballistic missile and nuclear tests, following talks with then US President Donald Trump.\n\nBut in 2020, Mr Kim announced he was no longer bound by this promise.\n\nMeanwhile, the Biden administration has repeatedly said it is willing to resume talks without preconditions, but has so far shown little interest in engaging North Korea, which has demanded an end to sanctions.\n\nMr Biden has instead prioritised relations with South Korea and Japan, and thrown his support behind efforts by the South's outgoing president Moon Jae-in to smooth relations between the two countries.", "Ukraine is a major exporters of crops such as sunflower oil but the war has reduced supplies\n\nThe war in Ukraine is set to cause the \"largest commodity shock\" since the 1970s, the World Bank has warned.\n\nIn a new forecast, it said disruption caused by the conflict would contribute to huge price rises for goods ranging from natural gas to wheat and cotton.\n\nThe increase in prices \"is starting to have very large economic and humanitarian effects\", Peter Nagle, a co-author of the report, told the BBC.\n\nHe said \"households across the world are feeling the cost of living crisis\".\n\n\"We're particularly worried about the poorest households since they spend a larger share of income on food and energy, so they're particularly vulnerable to this price spike,\" the senior economist at the World Bank added.\n\nEnergy prices are set to increase more than 50%, pushing up bills for households and businesses, the World Bank says.\n\nThe biggest rise will be in the price of natural gas in Europe, which is set to more than double in cost. Prices are forecast to fall next year and in 2024, but even then will remain 15% higher than they were last year.\n\nThe World Bank said this means that from the lows of April 2020 until the highs of March this year we have seen \"the largest 23-month increase in energy prices since the 1973 oil price hike\", when tensions in the Middle East sent prices soaring.\n\nEnergy prices are soaring because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and set to remain high into 2024\n\nSimilarly oil prices are expected to remain elevated into 2024 with a barrel of the benchmark measure, Brent Crude, projected to average $100 this year, something which will lead to widespread inflation.\n\nRussia produces about 11% of the world's oil, the third biggest share, but the report said \"disruptions resulting from the war are expected to having a lasting negative effect\" as sanctions mean that foreign companies leave and access to technology is reduced.\n\nRussia currently provides 40% of the EU's gas and 27% of its oil, but European governments are moving to wean their countries off of supplies from Russia. That has helped push up global prices by creating more demand for supplies from elsewhere.\n\nThe World Bank commodity outlook also warned many foods are set to see steep rises in their costs. The UN food prices index already shows they are at their highest since records began 60 years ago.\n\nWheat is forecast to increase 42.7% and reach new record highs in dollar terms. Other notable increases will be 33.3% for barley, 20% for soybeans and 29.8% for oils and 41.8% for chicken. These increases reflect the fact that exports from Ukraine and Russia have fallen drastically.\n\nBefore the war the two countries accounted for 28.9% of global wheat exports according to JP Morgan, and 60% of global sunflower supplies - a key ingredient in many processed foods - according to S&P Global.\n\nThe rising cost of food has contributed to protests against the government in Sri Lanka\n\nPrices for other raw materials including fertilisers, metals and minerals are also predicted to go up. The costs of timber, tea and rice are amongst the few expected to fall.\n\n\"Wheat is one of the hardest agriculture exports to replace,\" according to a research note from the Bank of America. It points out that poor weather conditions in North America and China are likely to exacerbate the impact of Ukrainian supplies being reduced, something which will continue because the war has disrupted the spring planting season.\n\nThe note also suggests grain and oilseed shipments from Ukraine have fallen more than 80% because of the fighting and these lost exports, over the course of a year, \"equate to about 10 days of world food supply\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on why the war in Ukraine is pushing up food prices - and the likely impact on poorer countries\n\nThe chief executive of Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world's four big food commodity traders, said he does not expect prices to come down soon.\n\nAs the US firm announced a 53% increase in net earnings for the first three month of this year, to $1.05bn, Juan Luciano said: \"We expect reduced crop supplies - caused by the weak Canadian canola crop, the short South American crops, and now the disruptions in the Black Sea region - to drive continued tightness in global grain markets for the next few years\".\n\nThe World Bank's Peter Nagle says rising food prices are having \"very large economic and humanitarian effects\"\n\nMr Nagle, from the World Bank, said other countries can help solve the supply shortage caused by Ukraine's war in the medium term. However a forecast 69% increase in fertiliser prices this year means \"there's a real risk that as farmers start to use fewer fertilisers, agricultural yields will decline\".\n\nFor commodities overall, the World Bank report said: \"While prices generally are expected to peak in 2022, they are to remain much higher than previously forecast.\"\n\nIt added that \"the outlook for commodity markets depends heavily on the duration of the war in Ukraine\" and the disruption it causes to supply chains.", "Boris Johnson met his cabinet on Tuesday to discuss ideas to tackle rising living costs\n\nMinisters have pitched ideas to tackle the cost of living, as record inflation pushes up food and energy prices.\n\nBoris Johnson called for proposals from his team - that do not rely on spending taxpayers' money - during Tuesday's cabinet meeting.\n\nThe BBC has learned that the PM said he wanted to reduce childcare costs by easing health and safety rules.\n\nAnd sources said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps suggested relaxing the frequency of MOTs.\n\nDelays at the Passport Office were also raised, with Mr Johnson threatening to privatise the service if it did not start delivering better value for money.\n\nOpposition parties have said the help on offer from the government to tackle rising living costs was insufficient, with Labour, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats calling for an emergency Budget to give more support to households.\n\nWith inflation at a 30-year high and household bills continuing to rise, No 10 says the PM has asked ministers to come up with \"innovative ways\" to ease living costs.\n\nOne of the proposals came from the PM himself, with sources saying he wanted to lower the legal limits on adult supervision for children in England, as part of a drive to reduce living costs.\n\nA source in the meeting said Mr Johnson had joked about knowing about the high cost of childcare - he has fathered at least seven children - before telling ministers the government had to get on with reducing costs.\n\nCurrent legal requirements in England say there must be at least one member of staff for every three children in groups aged two years and under.\n\nFor two-year-olds and over, there must be one member of staff for every four children.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition government attempted to relax child-to-staff ratios in England as part of a package of reforms in 2013.\n\nBut the plans - spearheaded by then-education minister Liz Truss - were abandoned after they were opposed by Nick Clegg, who was deputy prime minister at the time.\n\nEarlier this month, experts warned the government against relaxing nursery staffing rules as ministers reviewed ways to improve the cost, choice and availability of childcare.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said the proposal would \"drive down quality whilst making no difference to availability\".\n\nAnd Lib Dem education spokesperson Munira Wilson said Mr Johnson has chosen to \"cut corners and endanger our children\", instead of addressing this issue \"head on\".\n\nRelaxing rules for adult supervision is among suggestions from Boris Johnson\n\nAnother proposal presented to cabinet came from Mr Shapps, who suggested reducing the need for an annual MOT.\n\nEvery vehicle that is three-years-old or over must have a current MOT test certificate and drivers must renew this once a year, costing up to £54.85 for a car and £29.65 for a standard motorcycle.\n\nTwo cabinet sources told the BBC that Mr Shapps suggested reducing the need for renewal to every two years, rather than one, to cut costs for households.\n\nMotoring organisation the AA has come out against the idea, arguing it could in fact make costs worse for drivers due to higher repair bills, as well as reducing road safety.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Chancellor Rishi Sunak \"underlined the importance\" of not fuelling further inflation during the cabinet meeting, and that departmental budgets \"are set\" with no plans to currently go beyond these limits.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the meeting showed the PM was \"completely out of ideas during the most profound crisis in decades\".\n\nHe added: \"Whilst families are facing sky rocketing bills and soaring inflation, Boris Johnson's answer is another quiz night at No 10.\"\n\nSir Ed echoed Labour and the SNP's call for an emergency budget, including a cut in VAT, and backed opposition plans for a windfall tax on the profits of the oil and gas companies.\n\nWhat is striking about some of the proposals ministers have pitched to ease the cost of living is they don't require any cash to be spent.\n\nInstead, they involve cutting rules and regulations.\n\nFor the past two years, the government has intervened with financial support on a number of fronts to help households and businesses through the pandemic.\n\nMinisters are concerned about the government debt that has accrued, and are now looking for ways to help people with rising bills without necessarily having to spend more cash.\n\nSome government sources say ministers want less regulation and intervention from the state in people's lives - a more traditional Conservative approach, with ministers also looking at what \"red tape\" they can cut post-Brexit.\n\nBut this change of tune has caused a backlash from government critics.\n\nOpposition parties have accused them of sacrificing health and safety regulations and \"endangering\" people in the process.\n\nAnd others say cutting rules and regulations won't go far enough to helping people with spiralling bills now.\n\nIt comes as Labour has warned of a £10bn hike in annual petrol and diesel costs, with \"soaring\" prices putting the squeeze on household budgets.\n\n\"Labour's plan would help households through this crisis with up to £600 cut off energy bills, funded by a one-off windfall tax on the booming profits of oil and gas producers,\" said Labour's shadow secretary of state for transport, Louise Haigh.\n\nThe SNP called for an emergency budget earlier this month, saying the Tories had ignored the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThe Green Party has also accused the government of failing voters on living costs, and campaigned for insulation projects to reduce energy needs and keep homes warm.", "With the Russian offensive centred on eastern Ukraine, Kyiv is beginning to return to a sense of calm.\n\nBut the city’s defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.\n\nThe BBC got rare access to the 131st battalion in the forests of the capital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The two children killed by a reckless drink and drug driver\n\nA man who killed two young children in a car crash while drink and drug driving will have his sentence reviewed.\n\nMartin Newman, 41, drank red wine while driving and had cocaine in his system when his Ford Transit van crashed into a family's Ford Fiesta in February.\n\nHe was jailed for nine years and four months this month.\n\nThe sentence will be examined by the unduly lenient sentence scheme.\n\nThe family were returning from a birthday party and had pulled over onto the hard shoulder in Newport when their car was hit by Newman on 5 February.\n\nThree-year-old Jayden Lee Lucas and his sister Gracie Ann, aged four, both died in hospital following the crash, which also left their mother Rhiannon Lucas with serious injuries.\n\nFollowing his sentence earlier this month, the children's family expressed anger and said they would appeal for harsher punishment that reflected the loss of the two young children.\n\nA GoFundMe page set up to raise money for the siblings' funeral raised more than £17,000\n\nOutside Cardiff Crown Court they said their lives had been destroyed and their home felt \"like an empty shell.\"\n\nJudge Daniel Williams said some would find the sentence \"inadequate\", but he said only Parliament could change the law.\n\nNewman, from Croeserw, Neath Port Talbot, was twice over the drink-driving limit and had traces of cocaine in his system when he crashed into the family's car.\n\nThe family were travelling from a birthday party to Techniquest in Cardiff when they pulled onto the hard shoulder in Newport, after Gracie Ann complained of having a bad stomach and needing the toilet, when they were hit by Newman's van.\n\nThe children, from Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, were taken to the intensive care unit of University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.\n\nGracie Ann suffered a cardiac arrest due to the severity of her injuries and died the following day. Jayden died on 11 February.\n\nMartin Newman had been taking cocaine and sipped red wine whilst driving\n\nThe court heard Newman had been taking cocaine, drunk vodka and 10 cans of cider until 05:00 GMT on the day of the crash.\n\nNewman told police he had been working in Leicester that week, and had only got two hours sleep the previous night after drinking alcohol and taking cocaine.\n\nThe court heard how the next morning he decided he was too hungover and tired to work and instead chose to drive the three-hour journey back to Bridgend.\n\nHe claimed he was not able to remember how he got on to the hard shoulder but said he believed he must have fallen asleep.\n\nAt the scene Newman was found crying with blood on his hands and saying he \"wished he was dead\".\n\nRhiannon Lucas said in her victim impact statement her children would still be here if Newman had not been on the road\n\nOn Tuesday, the Attorney General's office confirmed it had received a request for the sentence to be considered as being unduly lenient.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The law officers have 28 days from sentencing to consider the case and make a decision.\"\n\nNewman had pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, and also admitted seriously injuring the children's mother and drink and drug driving.\n\nHe was also disqualified from driving for 14 years and eight months.", "Lieutenant Denys Gordeev is used to war, but not like this. \"It's become much harder,\" he says. \"We have bomb attacks, rocket attacks every day, all the time, every hour.\"\n\nThough he has spent eight years battling Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas, now he and his men are facing the full might of the Russian army.\n\nAfter its retreat from Kyiv three weeks ago, Russia has refocused its military efforts in Eastern Ukraine - with its goal of taking the whole of the Donbas region. It has redeployed many of its units to the east. Western officials estimate that Russia now has about 76 Battalion Tactical Groups in the region - each of which has about 800 men.\n\nThey also say there's some evidence Russia's been addressing some of its early mistakes, helped by the fact they're now fighting on fewer fronts, and under a unified command.\n\nThe result is that Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold a 300-mile front in the Donbas. They've already lost ground to the Russians and are likely to lose more in the days ahead. Russian forces have been conducting probing attacks to find weak points in Ukraine's defences.\n\nFor now the invading army is mostly using its artillery and rockets to grind down Ukraine's defences. Some military analysts expect a major assault is still to come.\n\nAnd Ukrainian forces, including Lt Gordeev and his unit, appear to be holding the line, although Western experts say they are already outnumbered three to one.", "Olena and Oleksandr in the relative safety of Lviv, after escaping Mariupol\n\n\"You can't imagine how horrible the conditions were.\"\n\nOleksandr and Olena are two of the lucky few who recently managed to escape from Mariupol, which is now almost under full Russian control after weeks of bombardment.\n\nThe city is effectively sealed off from the world, and information about what is happening inside is difficult to confirm independently.\n\nBut the pair, and others, have given chilling accounts of life in Russia's so-called filtration camps, set up outside Mariupol to house civilians before they are evacuated.\n\nOleksandr and Olena, speaking from the relatively safe western city of Lviv, say they ended up at one of the centres when they tried to escape the city. After walking from their home to an evacuation point, they were driven to a Russian refugee hub at a former school in the village of Nikolske, north-west of Mariupol.\n\n\"It was like a true concentration camp,\" Oleksandr, 49, says.\n\nThe centres have been compared by Ukrainian officials to those used during Russia's war in Chechnya, when thousands of Chechens were brutally interrogated and many disappeared.\n\nOleksandr and Olena were fingerprinted, photographed from all sides, and interrogated for several hours by Russian security officers - \"like in a prison\", he says.\n\nThey worried that the Russians would look at their phones, and so they cleared all evidence from their devices of anything to do with Ukraine - including photos of their daughter in front of a Ukrainian flag.\n\nThey were right to worry. Oleksandr says that during their interrogation, Russian security officers examined photographs, phone call history and contact numbers on their devices for links with journalists or government and military officials.\n\n\"If a person was suspected of being a 'Ukrainian Nazi', they took them to Donetsk for further investigation or murder,\" says Oleksandr, although the BBC has not been able to verify this claim. \"It was very dangerous and risky. Any small doubt, any small resistance - and they could take you to the basements for interrogation and torture. Everybody was afraid to be taken to Donetsk.\"\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has stated one of the aims of his invasion is to clear Ukraine of Nazis, and Russian propaganda has made numerous baseless allegations that Ukraine is somehow aligned with Nazism.\n\nEventually the pair were detained and put on a list for evacuation. But the ordeal did not stop there.\n\nElderly people slept in corridors without mattresses or blankets, Olena says. There was only one toilet and one sink for thousands of people. Dysentery soon began to spread. \"There was no way to wash or clean,\" she says. \"It smelt extremely awful.\"\n\nSoap and disinfectant ran out on the second day they were there. Soon, too, did toilet paper and sanitary pads.\n\nOlena and Oleksandr were told they had permission to leave on the 148th evacuation bus. But a week later, just 20 buses had left the facility.\n\nIn contrast, there were many buses organised to go to Russian territory. Authorities even tried to force the couple on to a coach heading east, they say. In the end Olena and Oleksandr felt compelled to seek the help of private drivers, who they feared could be Russians or collaborators.\n\n\"We didn't have any choice - either be forcibly deported to Russia or risk it with these private drivers,\" Olena says.\n\nIt's a dilemma that Mariupol's mayor, Vadym Boychenko, recognises. \"Many buses of civilians go to Russian rather than Ukrainian territory,\" he told the BBC, over the phone. \"From the beginning of war, [the Russians] didn't allow any way to evacuate civilians. It's a direct military order to kill civilians,\" he claimed.\n\nOleksandr and Olena's driver managed to get them from their filtration camp to the Russian-occupied city of Berdyansk - through \"fields, dirt roads, narrow pathways behind all the checkpoints\", Olena says, because they didn't have the proper documents to pass a Russian inspection.\n\nThey then spent three days looking for a route out before finding another driver who was willing to risk everything to get them to Ukrainian-controlled territory. He managed to get around 12 Russian checkpoints and safely deliver them to Zaporizhzhia. The couple then took an overnight train to Lviv.\n\n\"From filtration camps you can only escape using these risky local private drivers,\" Oleksandr says. \"Fortunately, there are good people among them.\"\n\nArriving in Lviv on the same day were Valentyna and her husband Evgeniy. They also managed to flee Mariupol last week. They were boarding a coach to a smaller city in western Ukraine - desperate for safety after their ordeal.\n\nThe situation in Mariupol, they said, had become dire. They survived by sheltering in a basement, living of tinned goods, a handful of potatoes they grew in their garden, and water taken from the boiler.\n\nEvgeniy and Valentyna managed to survive by hiding in their basement\n\nThe filtration process was speedy for them, says Valentyna, 58, perhaps because of their age and because Evgeniy has a disability. But it was far worse for younger people, she said.\n\n\"The filtration camps are like ghettos,\" she says. \"Russians divide people into groups. Those who were suspected of having connections with the Ukrainian army, territorial defence, journalists, workers from the government - it's very dangerous for them. They take those people to prisons to Donetsk, torture them.\"\n\nShe and Evgeniy also say many were sent from the filtration camps to Russia. Sometimes people were told they were destined for Ukrainian-controlled territory, they say, only for the coach to head to Russian-held territory instead.\n\nLike Oleksandr and Olena, Valentyna says it was only because of their driver that they managed to escape.\n\n\"When we finally [escaped] and saw the Ukrainian fighters and the flag, when we heard Ukrainian language, everyone in the bus started to cry,\" she said. \"It was just unbelievable that we stayed alive and finally fled from hell.\"\n\nBoth couples have now escaped Mariupol, a city that has become a symbol of the resistance and the suffering of Ukraine after the Russian invasion. Now they face an uncertain future - just four of the 11 million Ukrainians displaced by the conflict.\n\n\"The city does not exist anymore,\" Valentyna says. \"Even walls. Just huge piles of ruins. I could never have imagined such violence.\"", "Ros Atkins looks why Nato’s border with Russia looks likely to expand significantly, as both Finland and Sweden consider applying to join the alliance.", "Serious violence increased by nearly a quarter after Covid-19 lockdown restrictions were eased in England and Wales last year, a study suggests.\n\nThe 23% rise is the biggest since records began, say researchers.\n\nSerious violence almost reached pre-pandemic levels last August, however, the Cardiff University report suggests 2021 levels were below previous years.\n\n\"Precise targeting of police resources at violence hot spots\" is needed, the authors argue.\n\nThe university's Violence Research Group analysed data from 74 emergency units in England and Wales in 2021 and found an estimated 146,856 people attended A&E for treatment of violence-related injuries - a rise of 27,745 people on 2020.\n\n\"The easing of restrictions in 2021 was associated with a significant increase in serious violence,\" says co-author Prof Jonathan Shepherd.\n\nThis rise in serious violence, defined as violence resulting in emergency hospital treatment, affected all age groups.\n\nThe age groups with the largest increases were:\n\nLast year's increase followed a massive drop in violence in 2020, which was the sharpest for at least 20 years and was driven by social gathering bans and the closure of pubs and nightclubs.\n\n\"Violence levels ebbed and flowed throughout 2020 as restrictions were eased and tightened,\" says the report.\n\nTwo Covid-19-related national lockdowns were imposed in England and Wales in March and November 2021 and a third began in England in January 2021.\n\nSerious violence began to increase in February 2021. \"This increase may reflect lockdown fatigue or perception of the lower Covid-19 risks associated with vaccination,\" says the report.\n\nAlthough violence saw a sharp rise in 2021, the year as a whole saw levels of violence down 24% compared with 2017 and 49% compared 2011, for example.\n\nResearchers found that violence-related hospital attendances were most frequent on Saturdays and Sundays.\n\nPandemic restrictions meant the Office for National Statistics Crime Survey could not conduct face-to-face interviews for two years.\n\nThe Cardiff University team says its \"public health perspective of violence represents the only overall measure of violence causing serious, non-fatal harm\" during this period.\n\nHowever, Covid-19-related service pressures in the NHS - including post-pandemic backlogs of patients waiting for treatment - limited the number of hospitals able to share data.\n\nDespite concerns that successive lockdown restrictions may have increased the risk of serious violence for women and girls, the researchers found no evidence of this.\n\nThe report's authors also studied violence in Scotland for the first time, with an estimated 8,549 people attending emergency units for violence-related injury in 2021.\n\nThe authors say their findings highlight the need for police resources to be targeted at hot spots identified from A&E data.\n\nBy using a continuous stream of detailed hospital information, police and local authorities can work out where to deploy resources, they argue.\n\n\"Without this detailed information, police are blind to when and where half of this serious violence takes place,\" says the report.\n\n\"If tried and tested prevention practice is implemented, the burdens on stretched emergency services will be reduced as well as the disfiguring, disabling effects of violence and its impact on mental health.\n\n\"Serious violence is preventable, not inevitable.\"", "Elon Musk says he wants to see Twitter fulfil its \"extraordinary potential\"\n\nAt first, the story of Twitter and Elon Musk feels a little like a tale of unrequited love.\n\nOur unlikely couple starts out with an imbalance of power.\n\nElon Musk loves Twitter. He has an enormous audience of 83.8m followers. He tweets prolifically, sometimes controversially, occasionally catastrophically. The SEC banned him from tweeting about Tesla affairs after one tweet wiped $14bn off its share price, and he was sued for defamation following a tweet about a cave diver in which he called him \"pedo guy\" (the cave diver lost).\n\nBut he has never strayed far from his keyboard.\n\nTwitter on the other hand is far less effusive about Elon Musk.\n\nYou might think, if someone offered you $44bn for a 16-year-old business that hadn't really enjoyed the exponential growth of its rivals, they were doing you a favour - and Twitter's shareholders seem inclined to agree.\n\nHe wants to see Twitter fulfil its \"extraordinary potential\", he says - and he's not even that interested in making money out of it. He has plenty of that already, and multi-billionaires can afford to have different priorities.\n\nTwitter responded by going straight on the defensive, deploying a \"poison pill\" strategy which prevented anybody from owning more than 15% of its shares while Musk circled, though a deal has now been agreed.\n\nPerhaps the board was unnerved by Musk's declaration that he wanted to see more \"free speech\" and less moderation. Many Republicans, who have long felt that Twitter's moderation policies favour the freedom of speech of left-leaning viewpoints, rejoiced.\n\nBut regulators around the world are lining up to crack down on social networks and force them to take more responsibility for the content they carry, issuing steep fines for non-compliance on material that incites violence, or is abusive, or classifies as hate speech, among other things. You can hear the alarm bells start to ring.\n\nCould Musk use Twitter to incentivise payments in volatile, unprotected currencies such as Bitcoin?\n\nLet's not forget the finances. Twitter's main business model is ad-based - and Musk wants to change that. He's more interested in subscriptions, he claims, which could prove a hard sell in an environment where all the main social networks are free-to-use. Twitter users may decide they prefer for their data to not be used to monetise them and they're willing to pay for that - but it's a gamble.\n\nHe also likes crypto-currencies. Could he use the platform to incentivise payments in volatile, unprotected currencies such as Bitcoin?\n\nAnd then there's Musk himself. He's the richest man in the world, a serial entrepreneur whose successes include PayPal and Tesla. He's charismatic and unfiltered - which can make him a very loose cannon indeed. He likes to test boundaries and break rules.\n\nThere's a reason why he declined to join Twitter's board after buying a 9.2% stake in January - he didn't want to be bound by the responsibility.\n\nAnd he has an army of loyal fans who adore him - I once tweeted about the fact that, because of the way his finances are structured (his wealth is largely shares-based rather than cash income, and he doesn't own property) - he doesn't pay income tax.\n\nHow dare I suggest that he might, he's brilliant and we should simply be grateful for him, came the replies.\n\nHe has not exactly wooed Twitter with flowers and chocolates, this has been an aggressive bid from an aggressive businessman - no negotiation, no compromise.\n\nIt's not a merger between two giants so there is unlikely to be much in the way of regulatory obstacles.\n\nMusk's Twitter would be a very different landscape for the 300 million people who continue to use it, if indeed they do. More feisty, perhaps, and less liberal-leaning. He could reinstate Donald Trump, who currently has a permanent ban - and given that Mr Trump's own attempt at a social network, Truth Social, appears to be floundering, he would probably be delighted to return.\n\nIt's hard to summarise the collective view of Twitter's users. In my unscientific observation, for every tweet welcoming Musk, there seems to be another threatening to leave. But then - since when did Twitter users ever agree on anything?\n\nCorrection 24th June 2022: This article has been amended to remove an incorrect description of the potential sale of Twitter as \"a private sale of a private company\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Tamara Bronckaers: \"It made me fearful going into work.\"\n\nA former government vet has received a £1.25m settlement from the Department of Agriculture and Environment, along with an \"unreserved\" apology.\n\nDr Tamara Bronckaers resigned from the Department in 2018.\n\nThis came after concerns she raised about animal welfare and failures in traceability in the meat supply chain were not acted on.\n\nAn industrial tribunal in September 2021 found she had been constructively dismissed.\n\nThe department dropped its appeal against that decision earlier this month.\n\nOn Monday, it issued a statement in which it apologised to Ms Bronckaers for the \"hurt and distress caused\".\n\nIn a statement issued by her solicitors, McCartan Turkington Breen, Dr Bronckaers said the last few years had been \"extremely harrowing\", and she could now \"move on in the knowledge that I did what was right\".\n\nDr Bronckaers had worked at the department for 19 years before she resigned in February 2018.\n\nThe industrial tribunal heard she was regarded as an expert on livestock market legislation.\n\nHer responsibilities included livestock markets, biosecurity and zoonoses - diseases that can move between animals and humans.\n\nDr Bronckaers had identified serious failings in animal welfare at some livestock markets, and the abuse of a process called \"deleted moves\".\n\nThat was a process whereby a dealer would buy an animal, without having someone to immediately sell it on to.\n\nThe move was allowed to be deleted when the animal did not leave the market before being sold on.\n\nBut Dr Bronckaers found out that the animal would sometimes leave the market to join the dealer's herd for a period of time before a buyer was found, and that move would then be deleted from the section of the tracing system that was visible in markets.\n\nDr Bronckaers said the past few years had been \"harrowing\"\n\nIt remained in the section visible at departmental level.\n\nAnimals with fewer moves in their history are more valuable.\n\nThat, Dr Bronckaers claimed, could affect the traceability of meat within the food supply chain and have an impact on the spread of disease in cattle, in particular tuberculosis.\n\nShe told the tribunal that 4,800 to 5,000 animals were having their moves deleted out of livestock markets every year.\n\nDr Bronckaers also took photographic evidence of alleged animal abuse at Ballymena Livestock Market after a tip-off that sheep had been kept there overnight.\n\nBy law, sheep may be left overnight at a livestock market but must have bedding, water and food.\n\nDr Bronckaers told the tribunal last year some livestock market operators were not adhering to statutory duties\n\nHowever Dr Bronckaers said she found pens overcrowded with sheep and a lack of food and drink.\n\n\"The sheep were empty looking - which means their sides were fallen in as they weren't fed.\n\n\"Sheep don't usually drink out of a bucket easily but they were coming for it in the bucket.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we were there a double-decker lorry arrived with 100-plus sheep and they were just loaded in to the pens in the yard.\n\n\"The legislation is very specific about the need for the market to be fenced and disinfected before another sale to break the risk of disease spreading.\n\n\"That was also worrying.\"\n\nIn a statement, Ballymena Livestock Market said it had \"zero tolerance when it comes to animal cruelty\" and regrets \"if there were any instances where those standards were less than what we ourselves demand\".\n\n\"We have re-examined what happened in the case referenced during the employment tribunal and must acknowledge our disappointment at what was alleged.\n\n\"The alleged incident occurred five years ago. Our animal welfare systems then were robust and in the intervening period, they have been further enhanced and strengthened.\n\n\"Hay and water are provided to animals left overnight and pens continue to be regularly disinfected.\"\n\nDr Bronckaers said her concerns over livestock movement and Ballymena Livestock Market were reported to colleagues, including her line manager Dr Julian Henderson, but not acted on.\n\nMany of her e-mails were ignored.\n\nThe tribunal judge said Dr Bronckaers had been reasonable to persist in raising her concerns, and that she had been professionally ignored, undermined and excluded by Dr Henderson in particular.\n\nHe has recently been temporarily promoted to the post of deputy chief vet.\n\nThe judge also found it was reasonable for Dr Bronckaers to regard the chief vet Robert Huey's actions towards her as \"intimidating, patronising, belittling and dismissive of her as a professional\".\n\nDr Bronckaers said the past few years have been \"harrowing\"\n\nSpeaking to The Nolan Show, Dr Bronckaers explained why it was so important that her concerns should have been taken more seriously.\n\nSome £40m a year is spent trying to keep TB out of herds in Northern Ireland, according to the department.\n\n\"That's why I was worried,\" she said.\n\n\"As vets we have to trace back all animals in a TB herd and there was no way we could see where these animals came from so we were missing potentially a source of TB infection.\"\n\nShe said the process had affected her mental health and family life.\n\n\"I wasn't sleeping. I was crying a lot going into work. I didn't know from day to day what would happen,\" she told the programme.\n\n\"Anyone who has a profession you don't go home and switch off. I'm a vet - that's my life,\" she added.\n\nDr Bronckaers' solicitor said the £1.25m settlement was the largest of its type in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The outcome for Dr Bronckaers is wholly justified, bearing in mind the detriments she has suffered that have not only affected her career, but her family and her financial situation,\" said John McShane.\n\n\"I am quite simply astounded by Dr Bronckaers' bravery. She was willing to do what was ethically right to the detriment of herself, her family, and her standard of living in retirement. It is a choice that very few people would make as the easier path would have been to keep quiet.\n\n\"Hopefully, the outcome of this landmark case provides reassurance that at the very least, those individuals who choose to whistle blow do have protection under the law.\"\n\nDr Bronckaers said she \"strongly believed the department was failing in its duty to protect animal welfare and therefore I couldn't continue doing a job that I wasn't being allowed to carry out ethically\".\n\n\"I couldn't sit back and watch these breaches persist,\" she said.\n\n\"The past few years have been extremely harrowing for me and my family.\n\n\"This outcome has been a long time coming and I can move on in the knowledge that I did what was right, and I now have a long-awaited and justified apology from the department.\"\n\nThe department said that following the outcome of the case in October 2021, the department established an Internal Audit Review of Cattle Traceability System within the Veterinary Animal Health Group.\n\n\"The department can reassure the public and the agri-food industry that it will continue to review its risk management tools and will seek to strengthen the controls where necessary for animal traceability to ensure continued confidence in the system,\" it said.\n\n\"The department takes extremely seriously all the matters which contributed to the outcome of the recent tribunal and will be progressing an internal review into them. This review is being undertaken with urgency and will be completed at pace.\"", "The village of Senkivka in Ukraine is situated at the nexus of the border crossing between Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Once the site of festivals that celebrated the friendship between the three countries, it's now a war front line, and its residents tell of families separated across borders living in fear. With rare access to the village, Yogita Limaye has seen first-hand the impact of a community torn apart by war.\n\nRussian forces withdrew from northern Ukraine at the start of April, but mortar shelling and grenade attacks continue in Senkivka. Prior to the invasion, it was home to a little more than 200 people. Now there are just a handful who've stayed back.\n\nNina Malenok's home is just by the side of a road that Russian troops used as they began their invasion of Ukraine, on their way to the northern city of Chernihiv, and the capital Kyiv.\n\nWedged into the yard of Nina's home is the tail of a rocket fired in the early hours of the 24 February - the day the war started.\n\n\"I heard it land in my yard. There was fire and smoke everywhere. My lights went off. I jumped out of bed and ran out my house,\" said Nina.\n\nIn the days that followed, hidden in a cellar, she heard planes flying overhead, heavy vehicles driving in and whistles being frequently blown.\n\nOn 8 March, Russian TV journalists came to her home accompanied by Russian soldiers.\n\n\"They were filming everything here, all the shells and everything. They told me Ukraine was attacking itself. Then they sent the numbers [printed] on the rocket to someone in Russia, and received a response right away that it was one of theirs.\"\n\nMany such rockets are scattered all over the village. Experts who've seen images of the rockets have told the BBC that they could have been carrying cluster bombs, banned in other parts of the world for the devastation they cause. Both Russia and Ukraine have been accused of using them.\n\nEven after the withdrawal, Nina does not feel safe.\n\n\"It's scary to live like this, but I'm used to my house. Where will I go? I can hear the shelling. I can show you from my yard the Russian checkpoint,\" she said.\n\nHer home, and others in the village are visible from Russia. Its troops can see what they have been firing at.\n\nFor Lidiya Bilousova, it's the second time in her life she saw tanks at her doorstep.\n\nBorn in 1930, she vividly remembers World War Two and German soldiers coming into their village.\n\n'We'd been warned by our retreating soldiers that they would be coming. So we hid in the trenches with dry bread in cloth bags. At dawn, they were in our streets, with their horses and machinery, crossing our gardens with machine guns. But there was no mass shelling like there is now,\" she said. \"Back in the day, I could run away. Now I'm old. I can't anymore.\"\n\n\"Here's what I'll tell you, there is nothing good about war,\" Lidiya said. \"After the last war [World War Two] what were we left with?\"\n\nThe shelling frightens her, but she is unwilling to leave the home she's lived in for most of her life.\n\nPrior to Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014, the three-way border crossing would be opened and a unity festival would be celebrated at the point where the countries meet, where a monument dedicated to the friendship between them called \"Three Sisters\" still stands.\n\n'It was a beautiful festival. We, the Russians, the Belarusians would celebrate together. People from all over, important dignitaries would all come,\" she said.\n\n\"The three countries were friends for years, we visited each other, married each other. Now it's over.\"\n\nFamilies and friendships spread across borders have been divided, both in thought and in distance. After 2014, crossing the border became harder for people on all sides. Now, it's impossible.\n\nMykhaylo Dudko (far right), is one of the few remaining people in the village of Senkivka\n\nMykhaylo Dudko's two brothers, a sister, nephews and nieces live in Russia. He hasn't met his family in years. Now, he's unable to understand them.\n\n\"My sister told me it was us who started the war. But we had no such intention. It was Russia which invaded us. I want my family to use their heads, to look at the situation independently,\" he said.\n\nNina Malenok said she's stopped talking to her brother who lives in Belarus.\n\n\"He says it's America who attacked you, and you blame Russia. He's just five miles away across the border, and he doesn't believe what's really happening,\" she said. \" I want to cross him out of my life because of that.\"", "Dolet Hill (l) and Denton Burke (r) lived together on Delaford Road in Bermondsey\n\nFour members of a family found stabbed to death at a home in south-east London have been named by police.\n\nDenton Burke, 58, and his partner Dolet Hill, 64, were both killed at their home in Delaford Road, Bermondsey, on Monday.\n\nMs Hill's daughter, Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, known as Rachquel, and Ms Ofori-Akuffo's daughter, Samantha Drummonds, 27, also died.\n\nA 28-year-old man who was arrested at the house remains in hospital.\n\nThe Met Police said the man, from Lewisham, was in a stable condition and under arrest on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe man was inside the house when officers arrived and a Taser was deployed in order to detain him, police said.\n\nTanysha Ofori-Akuffo, known as Rachquel, (l) lived in Kennington while her daughter Samantha Drummonds (r) lived in Forest Hill\n\nOfficers had forced their way into the home at about 01:40 BST on Monday, following a call from neighbours about a disturbance.\n\nMs Hill's niece Venecia Reid paid tribute to her aunt, saying she \"didn't deserve this\".\n\n\"She was very loving, very kind, very generous, she'd do anything for you,\" Ms Reid added.\n\n\"I'm very, very heartbroken. I hope her soul rests in peace.\n\n\"She worked very hard in this country to support her two girls and her two grandkids.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The victims were all known to each other, police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Linda Bradley, who is leading the investigation, warned local residents it would be \"a protracted inquiry\".\n\nShe said: \"This was a truly horrific incident and I fully recognise that the distress for the family and the community will be overwhelming.\n\n\"We are moving as fast we can at the scene, but we need to ensure we uncover all the facts and secure every bit of necessary evidence, and this may understandably take some time.\n\n\"We are aware that we have family, friends and a community that are all asking questions; we are determined to give them the answers they deserve as soon as possible.\"\n\nPolice forensic teams worked at the scene throughout Monday\n\nGuy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust paid tribute to Ms Hill, who was an active trade union member.\n\nAlastair Gourlay, director of estates and facilities, said: \"We are devastated to hear about the tragic death of Dolet Hill, who worked as a housekeeping assistant in our pharmacy department for more than 21 years, before her retirement in 2018.\n\n\"Dolet was a well-respected colleague, who also helped to improve the workplace for others as an active Unison representative.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Dolet's family, friends and all who worked with her.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Four stabbed to death in south-east London home\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Venues can stay open until 01:00 over the extended four-day bank holiday weekend in June to mark the Queen's 70-year reign\n\nPubs, bars and nightclubs in England and Wales can stay open later to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nOpening hours will be extended by two hours to 01:00 BST over the extended bank holiday weekend between 2 and 4 June, under new government plans.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said it will allow people to \"raise a glass to toast Her Majesty's incredible service\".\n\nThe temporary extension to licensing regulations will not apply to supermarkets or off-licences.\n\nThe Queen became the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, when in February she marked 70 years since ascending to the throne,\n\nAn extended four-day bank holiday weekend between 2 and 5 June to celebrate her reign will feature a variety of celebrations, including street parties and a star-studded concert outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nParliament is set to approve an order on Monday to allow people to continue their celebrations of the historic milestone, the government said.\n\nAnnouncing the licensing plans, Priti Patel said the Queen has served the UK with the \"utmost dignity, steadfastness and resolve\" for over 70 years.\n\nLicensing laws can be relaxed by the home secretary for occasions of \"exceptional national significance\", the Home Office explained.\n\nMs Patel said: \"The Platinum Jubilee is a truly historic national occasion, which will see families, friends and communities across the country come together to celebrate this unprecedented landmark in a remarkable reign.\n\n\"Over the extended bank holiday weekend, we will be able to raise a glass to toast Her Majesty's incredible service to our country, while also providing a boost to the hospitality industry after a challenging couple of years.\"\n\nThe order will not extend to businesses which sell alcohol for consumption off the premises, such as off-licences and supermarkets, the government has decided following public consultation of the plans.\n\nThe move was supported by the National Police Chiefs' Council and National Association of Licensing and Enforcement Officers.\n\nThe Queen recently celebrated her 96th birthday privately in Sandringham, but recent mobility issues have prevented her from attending a variety of public ceremonies over the last few months - including church services over Easter.\n\nHer only public appearance this year, outside of her own residences or on video, was at the recent Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA number of commemorative items are being produced to mark the Jubilee. Among them is a Barbie doll, featuring a recreation of her wedding tiara and an ivory gown fitted with a blue ribbon.\n\nPlans for a 70ft (21m) sculpture containing 350 native British trees to be erected outside Buckingham Palace have also been announced.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The victims were all known to each other, police say\n\nA \"kind, loving\" grandmother was among four people who were stabbed to death in a house in south-east London.\n\nOfficers forced their way into a home in Delaford Road, Bermondsey, at about 01:40 BST following a call from neighbours about a disturbance.\n\nDolet Hill and a man, both aged in their mid-60s, plus two other women, in their 30s and 40s respectively, were all pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nIt is thought that all five people were known to each other.\n\nMs Hill's niece paid tribute to her aunt, saying she \"didn't deserve this\".\n\nDolet Hill was described by her niece as someone who was \"very loving, very kind, very generous\"\n\nVenecia Reid said: \"She was very loving, very kind, very generous, she'd do anything for you.\n\n\"She worked very hard in this country to support her two girls and her two grandkids.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm very, very heartbroken. I hope her soul rests in peace.\"\n\nMet Police Commander Colin Wingrove said: \"I want to offer my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of all those concerned.\n\n\"This is a deeply shocking incident and we will do everything we can to provide support to everyone affected at this difficult time.\"\n\nPolice forensic teams have been at the scene throughout the day\n\n\"My thoughts are with the family and friends of those who have lost loved ones in this awful crime,\" he added.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service (LAS) said it was called at 02:07.\n\n\"We sent three ambulance crews, two fast response units, two incident response officers, two advanced paramedics and a team leader to the scene. Our team worked closely with colleagues from other emergency services.\n\n\"Sadly, despite the best efforts of our medics, four patients died at the scene. One man was taken to hospital as a priority.\"\n\nLAS was not able to confirm if the person who was taken to hospital was the same person who had been arrested, but said only five people had been in the property.\n\nA section of the road in Bermondsey, Southwark, has been closed off\n\nDetectives from the Met's specialist crime unit are investigating and police said next of kin were being contacted.\n\nThe middle section of the road has been blocked off with metal fencing and three white forensic tents have also been erected.\n\nA resident of the adjacent road, Bramcote Grove, who did not want to be named, said he was woken by police sirens and a helicopter.\n\n\"When I saw four ambulances - not one, not two, but four - I knew it was serious,\" he said.\n\nThe incident happened on a street made up of terraced housing\n\nAnne Birkett, 60, whose back bedroom looks on to the property where they were found, said she was woken by police sirens and a circling helicopter just before 02:00.\n\nShe said the street was filled with flashing lights, but she and her husband did not go outside their house or see anything further.\n\n\"It's devastating, you hear all of this but you never assume it's going to be right on your own doorstep,\" she said.\n\nMs Birkett said there were several primary schools in the residential area near the scene.\n\n\"What's London coming to now? There's a crime every day happening... it's dreadful,\" she added.\n\nLast year, the Met opened 79 murder investigations involving stabbings, 27 of which were teenagers.\n\nMany of the neighbours I've spoken to say they were unaware of the killings until they stepped out of their houses this morning to see the police cordon and journalists on their street.\n\nA section of the road has been screened off to the public behind a tall metal fence, behind which there appears to be several forensic tents and forensic teams examining the scene.\n\nNeighbours have told me they are deeply saddened to hear of the deaths.\n\nSeveral say it's a quiet community, where many of those on the street know their neighbours and they'll be offering support to each other.\n\nLocal MP Harriet Harman said: \"Tragically four people have been killed and that is shocking to happen anywhere but especially in this very peaceful, quiet, very settled community here.\n\n\"The police have arrested someone, but it's really important still that people give information, any information they've got to the police so that whoever committed this horrific crime can be brought to justice.\"\n\nAsked about the victims, the MP for Camberwell and Peckham added: \"I don't really want to say anything more than the police are actually saying.\n\n\"But it's a terrible tragedy and our thoughts are with the family and friends of those who've tragically had their lives cut short.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The legal age of marriage and civil partnerships has been raised to 18 in England and Wales.\n\nPreviously, people could get married at 16 or 17 as long as they had parental consent.\n\nThe new law also applies to cultural or religious marriages that are not registered with the local council.\n\nConservative MP Pauline Latham, who introduced the bill to Parliament, said it would \"transform the life chances of many girls\".\n\nUnder the new rules, children will not face penalties but adults who facilitate their marriage could face up to seven years in jail and a fine.\n\nThis would include adults who took children abroad to carry out the marriage.\n\nBacked by the government, the bill has sailed through Parliament with very little opposition - and will receive Royal Assent later this week, meaning it will become law.\n\nPayzee Malika, who was coerced into a marriage, said: \"Today, tears of joy roll down my face because I know what this means for girls like me.\"\n\nWhile Payzee escaped her marriage, her sister Banaz was murdered in a so-called honour killing.\n\n\"There has not been a single moment in this journey when Banaz was not at the forefront of my thoughts,\" she tweeted.\n\n\"Every day I thought of her. I fought for her. This law could have saved her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMihai Calin Bica, of the Roma Support Group, said the bill was \"a good initiative to protect our youth\", but the group expressed concern \"about how it will be applied in practice\".\n\nIt noted that in Roma communities the word \"married\" was often used to explain boyfriend-girlfriend relationships their children have.\n\nThey warned this could create complications when enforcing the law and urged the government to run an educational campaign aimed at raising awareness of the new rules.\n\nThe new law will not affect the validity of any marriages or civil partnerships that happened before the legislation comes into force.\n\nIt does not apply to Northern Ireland and Scotland, where the minimum age will stay at 16 - in Northern Ireland you still need parental consent to marry at 16, but in Scotland you don't.\n\nThe bill might have sped through Parliament without much opposition, but it has taken years for campaigners to get to this stage.\n\nThe hope is this new law will empower young people who are at risk, and the threat of prison will act as a deterrent for those trying to arrange any marriage for under-18s.\n\nBut it will take time for that information to trickle through to the communities it will most effect.\n\nThat's a worry for those who represent the Roma community who want an educational campaign to raise awareness of the new rules.\n\nBut those who have broken free from their child marriages have told me they think this law will make all the difference for children who most need it.", "One of the women who alleges that DJ Tim Westwood subjected her to unwanted sexual behaviour says she felt “completely powerless” and “very scared”.\n\nThe ex-Radio 1 presenter, who is 64, is facing multiple allegations. He strenuously denies them all.\n\nSeven women have spoken to the BBC and the Guardian as part of a joint investigation.\n\nIsabel – whose name has been changed to protect her identity - described what happened when Tim Westwood picked her up in his car.", "Lt Denys Gordeev and his men are facing the full force of the Russian Army\n\nUkrainian forces have been holding the line in Donbas since 2014, against Russian-backed separatists. They're still holding the line, but what was sporadic fighting has now turned into a full-blown war.\n\nLieutenant Denys Gordeev is used to war, but not like this. \"It's become much harder,\" he says. \"We have bomb attacks, rocket attacks every day, all the time, every hour.\" Though he has spent eight years battling Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas, now he and his men are facing the full might of the Russian army.\n\nAfter its retreat from Kyiv three weeks ago, Russia has refocused its military efforts in Eastern Ukraine - with its goal of taking the whole of the Donbas region. It has redeployed many of its units to the east. Western officials estimate that Russia now has about 76 Battalion Tactical Groups in the region - each of which has about 800 men.\n\nThey also say there's some evidence Russia's been addressing some of its early mistakes, helped by the fact they're now fighting on fewer fronts, and under a unified command.\n\nThe result is that Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold a 300-mile front in the Donbas. They've already lost ground to the Russians and are likely to lose more in the days ahead. Russian forces have been conducting probing attacks to find weak points in Ukraine's defences.\n\nSo far they've been gaining ground around the city of Izium in the north, and around Severedonetsk and Popasna to the east. The attacks are coming from multiple directions, though as yet there's been no major Russian breakthrough.\n\nLt Gordeev says he and his men are experiencing the effects.\n\nThe day before we visited, one of his men was killed and another five wounded. It's just a fraction of the casualties Ukrainian forces are now taking every day, though there are no official figures. We tried to visit a field hospital nearby but were told they were too busy.\n\nSo is this the big Russian surge that has been widely forecast? Or is this just a prelude to such an onslaught?\n\nIt's not clear. For now the invading army is mostly using its artillery and rockets to grind down Ukraine's defences. Some military analysts expect a major assault is still to come.\n\nAnd Ukrainian forces, including Lt Gordeev and his unit, appear to be holding the line, although Western experts say they are already outnumbered three to one. They also concede that Ukraine will probably have to trade space and ground in open areas to defend key cities where the Russians will find it more difficult to fight.\n\nI was allowed to visit Lt Gordeev's forward position during a brief lull in the fighting. They've built a religious shrine at a command post. They're praying for victory. But it's not the place for contemplation or peace. You could still hear the regular blast of artillery.\n\nUkrainian soldiers have made this shrine at a frontline position in the Donbas\n\nOn the short walk to his trench line, he tells me mortar and sniper fire are constant threats. Their closest position is within 600m of Russian forces.\n\nThe landscape is mostly wide open countryside. Tree lines provide some cover but we're close enough to hear the occasional burst of small arms fire.\n\nThe Russians \"are coming and coming and coming into territory of Ukraine. And we don't know when they will stop. We don't know when their journey ends,\" says Lt Gordeev. He was a lawyer before he joined the Ukrainian army. One day he hopes he can return to that life. But for now, he says, he's focused on winning this war.\n\nDown in the trenches, out of sight of the enemy, the mood is more relaxed, though the tired faces of soldiers clearly show the strains of recent fighting.\n\nThey show us some of the weapons they've been using - a DschK Soviet heavy machine gun, still used in conflicts around the world, and a variety of rocket-propelled grenades. It's mostly older Soviet-era kit. but also they proudly show off their one British-made and supplied anti-tank missile - a NLAW (Next generation Light Anti-tank Weapon).\n\nOne of Lt Gordeev's men was trained in how to use it by British troops just before the war started. They've already employed it to destroy a Russian tank, they say.\n\n\"We need these weapons,\" says Lt Gordeev repeatedly. Russia, he says, is a \"military state\" - in contrast, Ukraine's ability to keep its own weapons flowing has been severely damaged. What the West supplies, or does not, will heavily influence the outcome of this war.\n\nAnd Lt Gordeev says the morale of his troops remains high. They're fighting for their homeland.\n\nBut President Putin wants and needs something he can call a win, and soon - possibly by 9 May for Russia's victory day parade. Ukraine may have time on its side - but only if the flow of Western weapons continues and if they can hold back the expected Russian onslaught.", "The European Causeway is docked at the Port of Larne\n\nA P&O ferry which spent hours adrift in the Irish Sea on Tuesday has been ordered to remain at Larne Port until it passes an inspection.\n\nThe European Causeway was sailing from Scotland to Northern Ireland when it lost power off the County Antrim coast.\n\nThe Maritime And Coastguard Agency (MCA) said the ferry will have to stay docked until it is reviewed.\n\nThe agency also detained the vessel in March after it failed safety checks.\n\nThe European Causeway, which can carry up to 410 passengers, left Cairnryan at about 12:00 BST on Tuesday and was due to arrive in Larne at 14:00, but got into trouble at 13:30.\n\nP&O said the incident was caused by a \"temporary mechanical issue\" that had been resolved.\n\nIt returned to port \"under its own propulsion, with local tugs on standby, where it will discharge its passengers and cargo as planned,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nThe MCA said there were no concerns for passengers' safety at any point.\n\n\"When any vessel reports an issue to the MCA, dependent on the nature of the issue, the MCA may undertake an inspection of that vessel.\n\n\"We generally follow up all issues reported on passenger vessels to ensure the safety of those onboard the vessel and that any issues are not so serious that they pose a threat to life or the environment.\n\n\"In the case of European Causeway we will be following up the incident with an inspection.\"\n\nEarlier, P&O announced the cancellation of its 20:00 sailing from Larne to Cairnryan on Tuesday because of a \"technical difficulty\".\n\nIt advised that passengers could travel on an alternative Stena Line service.\n\nI was expecting European Causeway passengers to be disgruntled after being stuck for hours at sea.\n\nBut many I spoke to as they came off the ferry said the situation remained calm on board.\n\nThey praised staff for keeping them informed.\n\nPassenger Tommy Goodwin said it had been \"quite nerve-wracking\" when the ship suddenly stopped.\n\n\"The captain did make a couple of announcements to let us know it was the engines,\" he said.\n\n\"The crew were very helpful - they had a good grasp on the situation.\"\n\nAt one point, Mr Goodwin thought passengers were going to be airlifted off the boat.\n\n\"There were helicopters out… we thought we were going to have to be rescued if the engines didn't pick up.\"\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, RNLI lifeboats were launched and tugs from Larne and Belfast were also deployed to guide the ferry back to port.\n\nThe Queen Victoria cruise ship, operated by Cunard, had been standing by in case further support was needed, along with a coastguard helicopter from Prestwick, Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. P&O passengers were stuck on board the stricken ship for almost two hours\n\nShip tracking websites earlier showed the vessel's automatic identification system (AIS) status as set to \"Not Under Command\".\n\nThat status is reserved for use when a vessel, \"through some exceptional circumstance is unable to manoeuvre as required by these rules and is therefore unable to keep out of the way of another vessel\".\n\nDarren Proctor, from the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said he was \"very angry\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Evening Extra, he said workers aboard the ferry had told the union they felt unsafe and wanted to get off.\n\nFormer Rear Admiral Chris Parry also told the programme an incident on a ferry of this size \"shouldn't be that common\".\n\n\"There is normally sufficient redundancy in the machinery and the back-up systems to make sure that this sort of thing doesn't happen,\" he said.\n\nP&O has experienced difficulties in the last few months, having sacked 800 of its workers across the UK without notice.\n\nLast month, a report recorded 31 failures, including an inability to safely deploy lifeboats or life rafts, on the ferry.\n\nThe European Causeway was held in Larne by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) from 25 March after an inspection raised safety concerns.\n\nAlthough P&O recruited new staff, the MCA detained the European Causeway saying it was concerned about \"failures on crew familiarisation, vessel documentation and crew training\".\n\nThe 22-year-old ship was not cleared to sail until April 8 following another examination.\n\nPassenger Jonny Wilson told the BBC News NI he and his family were in the middle of watching Peter Rabbit 2 on board when the power went off.\n\n\"The emergency lights go on. Different bits of the ship were dark. Slowly we came to a stop. They put the anchors down and we just sat there,\" he said.\n\nThey were told at about 13:45 the problem would be resolved in about 10 minutes.\n\nA coastguard lifeboat and helicopter came to the assistance of the P&O ferry, while the Queen Victoria cruise ship (background) was also standing by to offer help\n\n\"They said initially it was an issue with engines. After that, about 14:15 they said they couldn't restore power, that they had called the coastguard,\" he explained.\n\nMr Wilson said his children, five-year-old Sophia and two-year-old Aiden, were OK throughout the whole incident, but he said it had been a frustrating experience.\n\nAnother passenger told BBC News NI that people \"weren't bothered at first\", but as time went on they started to worry.\n\n\"Not panicking but people started to ask questions,\" he said.\n\n\"Most people were outside on the top deck wondering what was happening because all these tug boats were around us, helicopters were around us, the ship came back.\"\n\nEarlier this month, passengers expressed their frustration over the lack of clarity around sailings.\n\nBefore passenger routes resumed Louisa Newell had been hoping to sail from Cairnryan to Larne last month to visit her grandmother.\n\nShe had not been to Northern Ireland since August 2020 and did not find out her route had been cancelled until she contacted the company on social media.\n\n\"We definitely won't book with them again,\" she added.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu has split from coach Torben Beltz after only five months.\n\nThe 19-year-old US Open champion confirmed Beltz as her coach in November but believes a \"new training model\" is needed.\n\nThe LTA's head of women's coaching Iain Bates will work with Raducanu in Madrid this week.\n\n\"I want to thank Torben for his coaching, professionalism and dedication over the last half a year,\" said the world number 11.\n\n\"He has a huge heart and I have enjoyed our strong chemistry during the time together.\n\n\"I feel the best direction for my development is to transition to a new training model with the LTA supporting in the interim.\"\n\nGerman Beltz, 45, previously coached former world number one Angelique Kerber when she won the Australian Open and US Open titles in 2016.\n\nHis successor will be British number one Raducanu's fourth coach in a year.\n\nNigel Sears was replaced by Andrew Richardson after last year's Wimbledon, but Richardson's contract was not renewed despite Raducanu's success in New York.\n\nRaducanu spent a few days preparing for the clay court season at Riccardo Piatti's academy in Liguria earlier this month.\n\nThe highly-respected Italian coach has worked with Ivan Ljubicic, Richard Gasquet and Milos Raonic, and recently parted company with Jannik Sinner after guiding him through his teenage years and into the world's top 10.\n\nRaducanu has won three of her first five professional matches on clay - one for Great Britain at the Billie Jean King Cup qualifier in Prague, and two in Stuttgart last week in a run to the quarter-finals.\n\nShe will contest the Madrid Open, which begins on Thursday, at a career-high ranking.\n\nEven though Torben Beltz has not had nearly long enough to shape the career of Emma Raducanu, his days have seemed numbered for a while.\n\nPre-season was ruined when the 19-year-old caught Covid just before Christmas, and a sequence of minor injuries have prevented the pair spending crucial time on the practice and match court since.\n\nRaducanu's father Ian is driving these decisions, as you might expect of a parent in his daughter's first full year on tour.\n\nHe can be imaginative but also restless, and by constantly seeking alternative and innovative ways to train, has denied Raducanu the stability which would have been welcome as she navigates life as the unseeded qualifier who won the US Open.", "Trading in Twitter's shares have been halted amid reports the firm could agree a takeover deal with Elon Musk as early as Monday.\n\nThe board of the social media giant is reported to have met with Mr Musk over the weekend to discuss his $43bn offer.\n\nBut according to reports, Twitter is now in the final stages of negotiations with Mr Musk to buy the business.\n\nReuters, the news agency, reported that an announcement may come later on Monday after Twitter's board met and recommended a deal to its shareholders.\n\nIn trading earlier on Monday, shares rose more than 5%, approaching Mr Musk's offer price of $54.20 a share.\n\nMr Musk's targeting of Twitter has moved at remarkable speed. It emerged at the beginning of April that Mr Musk, who is the boss of electric carmaker Tesla, had become the largest shareholder in Twitter with a 9.2% stake.\n\nHe was then invited to join Twitter's board but turned down the offer before launching a surprise bid for the company on 14 April, saying he wanted to \"unlock\" the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".\n\nTwitter responded by putting in place a so-called \"poison pill\" defence to fend off Mr Musk. The mechanism would have created difficulties for Mr Musk if he attempted to increase his stake in the company.\n\nThe board now appears to have U-turned after Mr Musk revealed he had lined up a $46.5bn financing package for his offer - with funding from a mixture of his own assets and the backing of Wall Street banking giant Morgan Stanley and other firms.\n\nMr Musk recently said that he believes that Twitter should be more open and transparent. \"I think it's very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech,\" he told the TED2022 conference in Vancouver.\n\nThe billionaire, who is the world's richest man according to Forbes magazine, has also hinted at his plans for Twitter.\n\nHe asked his 83.3 million followers on Twitter if the social media platform should allow people to edit their posts - 74% of those who responded wanted an edit button.\n\nMr Musk's has also criticised Twitter's process of verifying a Twitter account which he said was like \"if Kafka had a Magic 8-Ball!\".\n\nEven Twitter itself didn't appear to take Elon Musk seriously when he first said that he wanted to buy it. It's just Musk being, well, Musk, everyone thought. He may be the world's richest man but he is also by his own admission cash-poor - and he is well-versed in posting unsubstantiated grand ideas on social media.\n\nBut underestimate him at your peril. He is a multi-billionaire and Twitter is one of his favourite toys - so he's come back with a funded $43bn offer that the firm's shareholders are now looking likely to accept.\n\nTwitter hasn't explicitly explained why it didn't initially want to become part of Mr Musk's empire. Certainly any social media firm with regulators breathing down their necks is going to be wary of a new owner who wants to \"open up\" the platform to more freedom of speech and less moderation.\n\nHe's also keen on subscription rather than advertising as a business model, which may prove a hard sell for a platform that has not experienced significant user growth in ages.\n\nA Musk-owned Twitter would have a very different feel, for sure. But he also brings to it his own brand of magic -criticise him on social media and you'll soon bear the brunt of devoted fans who idolise him.\n\nTwitter may decide to try to find an alternative buyer but Musk's star quality would be difficult to substitute.\n\nHe also recently tweeted: \"If our Twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying\"…..And authenticate all real humans.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not clear who would run Twitter if Mr Musk's bid succeeds. He is the chief executive as well as the \"Technoking\" of Tesla according to the company's website.\n\nHe is also chief executive, chief technology officer and chairman of rocket and spacecraft firm SpaceX. Mr Musk is also involved in a number of other businesses and start-ups.\n\nTwitter is led by chief executive Parag Agrawal, who took on the role last November with the backing of co-founder and former boss Jack Dorsey.\n\nAt the time, Mr Dorsey said: \"My trust in Parag as Twitter's chief executive is deep. I'm deeply grateful for his skill, heart, and soul. It's his time to lead.\"\n\nMr Musk has been critical of Twitter's management. In his offer document, he told Twitter's chairman Bret Taylor: \"I don't have confidence in management.\"\n\nMr Agrawal has not discussed the takeover on the platform since earlier this month, when he announced that Mr Musk had turned down an offer to sit on the company's board, a decision he said would be \"for the best\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Parag Agrawal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alistair Wilson, pictured with his wife Veronica, was shot in November 2004\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of a father-of-two almost 18 years ago believe a planning dispute was the likely motive.\n\nBank manager Alistair Wilson was shot on the doorstep of his family home in Nairn on the evening of 28 November 2004. He later died in hospital.\n\nPolice said he had objected to a large decking area outside a hotel opposite his house shortly before he was shot.\n\nMr Wilson had said the decking was the cause of noise and litter problems.\n\nDetectives travelled to Canada in March this year to interview someone they have described as a key witness regarding the planning application.\n\nPolice have now confirmed the witness was the former landlord of the Havelock Hotel, but on Tuesday were keen to make it clear he was not a suspect in the case.\n\nPolice Scotland's major investigation team has now confirmed it believed the answer to Mr Wilson's killing lay in his personal life and was not connected to his work as a business manager at the Bank of Scotland in Inverness.\n\nDetectives said they had come to this conclusion after investigating many theories - including far-fetched suggestions - to why the 30-year-old was killed.\n\nAlistair Wilson died in hospital after he was shot on the doorstep of his home\n\nThe decking at the Havelock Hotel was built in the spring of 2004 without the required planning consent.\n\nIt was the subject of a retrospective planning application at the time of the murder.\n\nMr Wilson lodged a written objection with Highland Council, and police said a copy of the letter was sent to the hotel on Friday - two days before the shooting.\n\nDet Insp Gary Winter said detectives knew that Mr Wilson's name was known and shared within the pub at the time.\n\nHe said: \"Today we believe the most likely motive, based on what was a current grievance in Alistair's life at the time of his murder, was the fact that he had objected in writing about a large decking area that had been built in the pub car park directly opposite where he stayed.\"\n\nThe detective said Mr Wilson had done what any parent of a young family would have and had objected to \"increases in anti-social behaviour, drunkenness and rowdiness\".\n\nDet Insp Winter said the objection may have caused an inconvenience to those involved in building or using it.\n\nHe said: \"So, you may have a relatively minor matter that results in conflict and the potential for a level of violence that is totally disproportionate to what happens.\n\n\"These things do happen - fallouts over objections to car parking, planning permission that result in conflict.\"\n\nDet Insp Winter said officers were trying to identify who could have been involved in the construction of the original decking in 2004, and also people who visited the Havelock Hotel the weekend of the murder.\n\nDecking at the Havelock Hotel (pictured in 2008) was built in 2004 without the required planning consent\n\nOn the evening of the shooting, Mr Wilson's wife Veronica answered the door to a stocky man wearing a baseball cap who asked for her husband by name.\n\nMr Wilson, who had been reading to his two sons, went downstairs to speak to the man and was handed an empty blue envelope with the name Paul on it.\n\nMr Wilson went inside briefly and then returned to the door for a second time when he was shot. His wife ran to the Havelock Hotel for help.\n\nLast month, police said two men were seen with a gun on a beach at Nairn a month before the murder.\n\nPolice have made a series of new appeals in connection with Mr Wilson's murder\n\nA witness described seeing two men - one in their 20s and the other aged between 40 and 60 - on the town's East Beach.\n\nThe younger of the men was said to have been in possession of a handgun.\n\nThe beach is only a short walk from the Wilson's family home.\n\nThe weapon used to shoot Mr Wilson - a German-made handgun - was later found down a drain by a council road sweeper a few streets from the family home on 8 December 2004, 10 days after the murder.\n\nTests on the gun failed to extract any DNA.\n\nPolice Scotland has asked anyone who believes they can assist the investigation to contact 101 quoting incident 515 of 4 March 2022 and Operation Sorn or they can e-mail a dedicated inbox at SCDHOLMESAberdeen@scotland.pnn.police.uk\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alistair Wilson murder: ‘My only memory of my dad was when he was shot’", "The government has dropped the policy ahead of a challenge in the High Court\n\nThe UK government has dropped plans to turn back people crossing the English Channel just over a week before they were due to be challenged in court.\n\nCampaigners say the policy, which would allow Border Force patrols to intercept boats and take them back to France, is inhumane and a risk to life.\n\nThe PCS civil servants' union called the government's change of mind a \"humiliating climbdown\".\n\nBut the Home Office said ministers were \"unified\" in wanting to stop crossings.\n\nThe government has dropped the policy ahead of the High Court challenge, meaning the so-called \"pushback\" tactics are not currently in use.\n\nLast week ministers announced separate controversial plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda in a bid to reduce the number of migrants crossing the Channel.\n\nAt the same time it was revealed the Royal Navy would take charge of responding to small boats in the Channel alongside Border Force - although the military said it would not be using \"push back tactics\".\n\nThe PCS and the campaign groups Care4Calais, Channel Rescue and Freedom from Torture have argued that the Border Force does not have the legal authority to push the vessels back, and that doing so would infringe on migrants' human rights.\n\nFollowing the Home Office's decision, they have now withdrawn their judicial review claims, which had been due to be heard on 3 May.\n\nPCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"This humiliating climbdown by the government is a stunning victory for Home Office workers and for refugees.\n\n\"PCS is proud to have brought this legal action alongside refugee groups in order to prevent this morally reprehensible and utterly inhumane proposal from ever seeing the light of day. There is little doubt that lives have been saved.\"\n\nBut a Home Office spokesperson said: \"The entire government is united in our efforts to prevent these lethal crossings and break the business model of the criminal gangs exploiting people.\n\n\"It is right that we consider all safe and legal options to stop these unnecessary journeys, including turning boats around.\"\n\nThey added: \"As we have set out previously, this tactic fully complies with both domestic and international law. However, there are extremely limited circumstances when you can safely turn boats back in the English Channel.\"\n\nLast year, the government authorised Border Force officials to use the tactic of turning back boats containing migrants - but only in limited circumstances.\n• None Migrant boats could be turned back in new UK move", "Nicola Sturgeon has been reported to police after being filmed apparently breaching Scotland's face mask rules.\n\nFootage on social media shows the first minister without a mask in an East Kilbride barber shop, which she had visited on the election campaign trail.\n\nShe posted footage of the visit on her own Instagram account with her mask on.\n\nThe SNP said Ms Sturgeon realised she was not wearing a mask \"within a few seconds\" of entering the shop.\n\nUntil Monday, it was legally required for people to wear face coverings in many indoor settings in Scotland. The law has now become guidance.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We can confirm that we have received a complaint which is currently being assessed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring the visit to the barber shop on Saturday, Ms Sturgeon shaved a man's beard while journalists took photographs.\n\nThe SNP leader later posted footage on her own social media feeds, describing it as \"surreal\" but one of the best and \"scariest\" things she had done on the campaign trail.\n\nHowever, further footage was later posted online showing her interacting with people without her mask on.\n\nA SNP spokesperson said: \"The first minister was invited into the barbers during an outdoor visit on the street.\n\n\"Within a few seconds, she realised she hadn't put her mask back on and immediately put it on.\"\n\nIn December 2020 Ms Sturgeon apologised for breaching Covid-19 restrictions when she briefly removed her mask at a funeral.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have condemned the latest apparent breach of the rules as \"blatant hypocrisy\".\n\nThe party's health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane MSP said: \"The video clearly shows Nicola Sturgeon isn't practising what she preaches on facemasks.\n\n\"She's happy virtue signalling for official photos but behind closed doors it's clear she doesn't believe in her own rules so why should anyone else.\n\n\"The public, who have been under these legal Covid restrictions for over two years, deserve an apology for this rule break.\"\n\nA Scot Liberal Democrat spokesperson added: \"It's incumbent on all politicians to set a good example. It looks like Nicola Sturgeon has lost track of what her own rules are.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Scottish Labour and the Scottish Greens for comment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Rishi Sunak recently rejected calls to resign, despite being fined by police for breaking lockdown rules in Downing Street in June 2020.", "Video of the rave at East Lulworth showed hundreds of people dancing\n\nPolice have dispersed an illegal rave involving about 1,000 revellers descending on a rural village.\n\nOfficers were first called to reports of the huge party in East Lulworth, Dorset, in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nSurrounding roads were shut and the police helicopter was deployed but the noise continued into the afternoon.\n\nPolice said they kept a presence in the area into the evening and thanked residents for their patience while the last partygoers were moved on.\n\nNoise from the rave was heard in neighbouring villages\n\nResidents in neighbouring villages reported being disturbed by the noise, leading to Dorset Police warning anyone attending the unauthorised event that they risked criminal prosecution.\n\nThe revellers were also told they were putting themselves in danger by crossing land used for Army training.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sam de Reya, of Dorset Police, said: \"Throughout the incident we worked in partnership with other public sector and military agencies to achieve the positive resolution.\n\n\"Police officers entered the site and directed people to leave the scene of the unlawful gathering using powers under the Public Order Act.\n\n\"Due to the large scale of the event and the inherent impact of dispersing such [a] high number of people, this process took some time\"\n\nCars were seen in fields around East Lulworth\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Racism and discrimination are being blamed for high suicide rates amongst Irish Travellers.\n\nThey suffer some of the worst discrimination and poverty of any ethnic group in Europe, according to EU research.\n\nSuicide accounts for more than one in 10 deaths in the community.\n\nIrish Traveller Mags Casey has lost 28 family members to suicide over a 10-year period, one of whom was her 13-year-old cousin.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this video, please visit the BBC Action Line here.", "Two British men reportedly captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine have appeared on Russian state TV appealing to Boris Johnson for help.\n\nShaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, were shown in two separate videos on Monday, asking to be exchanged with a pro-Russian politician held in Ukraine.\n\nIt is not clear if their pleas to the prime minister, shown on the Rossiya 24 channel, were made under duress.\n\nThe Foreign Office called on the Kremlin to treat prisoners humanely.\n\nA source from the department condemned \"the exploitation of prisoners of war for political purposes\".\n\nIn the two clips, Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner address the prime minister, asking to be exchanged for pro-Kremlin politician Viktor Medvedchuk. In his video, Mr Aslin speaks while an unidentified man stands over him.\n\nMr Medvedchuk has also appeared in a video, released by Ukraine's intelligence service.\n\nBoth Britons had been living in Ukraine before it was invaded and have Ukrainian partners.\n\nThey had both been serving as marines in Ukraine's military.\n\nIn an earlier social media video Mr Pinner, who is originally from Bedfordshire, gives his name and says he was fighting in the besieged port city of Mariupol before being captured.\n\nHe says he is now in the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic area in eastern Ukraine. Again, it is not clear if he was speaking under duress.\n\nThe family of Mr Pinner say he is a \"funny, much-loved, well-intentioned\" man.\n\nThey said they are hoping for a quick resolution to his situation.\n\nThey called for him and Mr Aslin to be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention.\n\nThe convention includes treating them humanely and prohibiting humiliating and degrading treatment.\n\nAiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nIn a statement, Mr Pinner's family said he was a \"well-respected\" soldier in the British Army before he moved to Ukraine four years ago to use his previous experience and training with the Ukrainian military.\n\nHe is a \"proud member of his unit\" in the Ukrainian Marines, they said.\n\n\"Shaun enjoyed the Ukrainian way of life and considered Ukraine as his adopted country over the last four years. During this time, he met his Ukrainian wife who is very focussed on the humanitarian needs of the country,\" they said.\n\nMr Pinner's three-year contract was due to expire at the end of the year and he was planning to enter a humanitarian role in the country, according to his family.\n\n\"Shaun is a funny, much-loved, well-intentioned husband, son, father, brother and friend to many,\" they said.\n\n\"We are hoping for a quick resolution to allow Shaun and Aiden to return safely to their families and we ask for privacy at this difficult time.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to all those caught up in this horrific conflict.\"\n\nA Foreign Office source said it was aware of the detention of two British nationals and had been in touch with their families to support them, adding that it was advising against all travel to Ukraine.\n\nFormer care worker Mr Aslin, who has a Ukrainian fiancée and dual citizenship, is also believed to have been captured in Mariupol.\n\nFighting has continued in the city despite an ultimatum from Moscow for the remaining fighters to give up.\n\nUkraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the defenders would fight to the end against Russian forces.\n\nMariupol is seen as a major strategic prize for Russia as it would gain control of a vast swathe of southern and eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe situation for civilians in the city is desperate, with homes destroyed and widespread water shortages.", "Much of the focus of the war in Ukraine has so far been about the battle on the ground - but the fight to dominate the skies is just as important. The BBC has been given an exclusive interview with a Ukrainian air defence officer about the battle for control of Ukraine's skies.\n\nCaptain Vasyl Kravchuk has a surprisingly ready smile for a man who has endured 50 days of war. We spoke to him via video link from his base at an undisclosed location.\n\nHe knows the coming weeks will offer no respite. Russia may have received a bloody nose in its aborted attempts to take Kyiv, but with the Eastern region of the Donbas now firmly in Moscow's sights, the men and women of Dnipro's Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade will continue to play a key role in the next phase of the war.\n\nDefending Ukraine's skies from Russian attacks is already proving a challenge. As another Ukrainian air defence officer told the BBC, it is like trying to use a giant fly swatter which had large holes in it.\n\n\"We can't cover the whole airspace,\" Capt Kravchuk says simply.\n\nThe fact he is even sitting here speaking to us is somewhat remarkable - especially given the fact that \"many air defence facilities were destroyed fully or partially\" in the first days of the war.\n\nIt's a rare public admission by Ukrainian forces that they suffered significant losses in the early stages of the war.\n\nBut despite these losses, the air defences which survived have still been used to good effect.\n\nOryx, which has been tracking military losses during the war using visual confirmation, says that Ukraine has destroyed, damaged or captured at least 82 Russian aircraft, including jets, helicopters and drones.\n\nIndeed, their successes have confounded military experts, who predicted that Russia would quickly achieve air superiority over Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video, shared by Ukrainian armed forces, shows a Russian helicopter being shot down by a missile\n\nRussia already had a significant advantage in the air, deploying more than three times as many combat aircraft as Ukraine. The US Pentagon says that Russian aircraft have been flying around 250 military missions and carrying out some 30 air strikes every day. Western officials still say that Russia is struggling to gain air superiority.\n\nBut in contrast, Ukraine's aging fleet of mostly MiG-29 fighter jets have been struggling to compete, managing at best around 10 military missions a day.\n\nUkraine knows that Russia has the upper hand in the air. That's why its repeatedly called on Western nations to close its skies.\n\nBut Russia's anticipated offensive in the Donbas presents a new, more difficult challenge.\n\nJustin Bronk, senior research fellow for airpower at the Royal United Services Institute, says Russia is likely to have greater freedom of access in the airspace over the eastern region than the rest of the country due to its proximity to Russian controlled airspace.\n\nIn order to win the fight here, Ukraine requires a mix of long, medium and short range weapons to provide what's known as a \"layered defence\".\n\nThe West has been providing a significant number of shorter-range surface-to-air missiles. The US alone has already sent 2,000 Stingers. The UK has provided an unspecified number of Starstreak high velocity missiles too.\n\nBut while Capt Kravchuk says his country is grateful for those shoulder launched weapons, known as Manpads, he says they're only effective on the frontline.\n\nThis is because Manpads - man-portable air defence systems - are most effective against low flying aircraft. Russia is mostly using long range cruise missiles and high-altitude bombing.\n\nCapt Kravchuk told the BBC: \"We now lack medium and long range air defence systems... we do not have enough.\"\n\nA renewed Russian offensive in the Donbas will put another serious strain on Ukraine's limited air defence.\n\nWhile the focus of the war has turned to Eastern Ukraine, the rest of the country still needs protection. On the ground, we've seen evidence that Ukraine has been sending additional air defence systems to the east in recent days. But it can't afford to redeploy all its air defence systems to the Donbas region.\n\n\"We cannot leave half of Ukraine completely without protection,\" Capt Kravchuck says.\n\nUkraine is having to use its air defences not just to target Russian aircraft, but also Russian cruise and ballistic missiles. They are having some success, but they can't destroy everything.\n\nCapt Kravchuk estimates that his unit is shooting down between 50-70% of Russia's longer-range missiles. As an example, he says when Russia fired six missiles around Dnipro recently they managed to stop four.\n\nThat still suggests a significant number are getting through. The Pentagon says that Russia has launched 1,550 missiles since the war began.\n\nRussia says it's also been using hypersonic missiles. There isn't much Ukraine's air defences can do against those as they travel at five times the speed of sound.\n\nBut the harsh fact is that, without more significant support, Ukraine will find it increasingly hard to defend itself from Russian air and missile strikes the longer this war goes on.\n\nA senior western intelligence official told the BBC that long and mid-range air defences were top of the list of Ukraine's requests for more weapons supplies: \"They're very specific that they need air defence ammunition… they do need those in large quantities.\"\n\nAnd as Capt Kravchuk told us: \"Past wars have shown, whoever dominates the air wins the war.\"", "The Russian Orthodox Church has echoed the rhetoric of the Kremlin in justifying the war in Ukraine. It is a stance that appears to be driving large numbers of Ukrainian priests and parishioners to turn their backs on Moscow.\n\n\"I will never forget the moment when I woke up early to go to mass, only to suddenly hear the shocking sounds of bombing,\" says Father Nicolay Pluzhnik.\n\n\"The wonderful woman who cooked at our church and her son, who was in a wheelchair, were both killed when an artillery shell hit their apartment. I now know of several other of our parishioners who have died.\"\n\nLike most clergy in the region of north-eastern Ukraine where he is from, Father Pluzhnik belonged to the branch of the Russian Orthodox Church which takes its direction from its religious leadership in Moscow.\n\nBut now, he says, has applied to join the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - which was finally granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church in 2019, in a move never recognised by Russia.\n\nHe says many fellow priests who followed Patriarch Kirill in Moscow are doing the same because of the Church leader's stance on the war.\n\nFather Nicolay Pluzhnik in his church in Chuhuiv, in the Kharkiv region, before he fled west\n\nFather Pluzhnik and his family fled under artillery fire and now have a temporary new home in the town of Chernivtsi, in western Ukraine.\n\n\"When the war started, I was waiting to hear from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the 'father' of our church. But first there was no reaction at all, and then there was worse,\" he says.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill blessed the Russian army and gave his blessing to the war. It was not just him but the majority of priests of the Moscow Patriarchate [Russian Orthodox Church] including some that even have Ukrainian roots. I was in shock.\"\n\nAs well as having failed to unequivocally condemn the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, or call for a ceasefire, the Patriarch has held large televised services in Moscow to bless Russian troops. He has also suggested in sermons that the Kremlin's war is a righteous one about the future of Christianity.\n\n\"What is happening today is much more important than politics,\" he said last month. \"We are talking about human salvation, about where humanity will end up and on which side of God the Saviour.\"\n\nPatriarch Kirill, in green robes, at a recent service attended by military personnel\n\nThere are religious undertones in much of the Kremlin's narrative justifying its invasion of Ukraine. It is a fight for the conservative ideals of the Russian Orthodox Church based in Moscow, against an immoral outside world. President Putin has said Ukraine is not only an \"inalienable part\" of Russia's history and culture - but also its \"spiritual space\".\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said he finds Patriarch Kirill's sentiment concerning.\n\n\"There are elements in the Russian Christian tradition that can become really toxic when they get in their head a particular kind of Christian nationalism, a sort of messianic approach to the fate of the nation,\" said Dr Williams during a visit to western Ukraine this week.\n\nHe was part of an extraordinary high-level, multi-faith delegation - including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders. They met refugees who had fled the horrors in the eastern part of the country.\n\nDr Williams has long studied and written about the positive contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church, and appears deeply saddened by the role the Moscow Patriarchate is playing in the war.\n\n\"I think that the increasing influence in the Patriarchate of Moscow of ultranationalist ideals - often including a strand of anti-Semitism - has been going on for some time.\n\n\"And it has now expressed itself in this very uncritical support of Russian national ambitions, a very aggressive attitude towards many other Orthodox churches. The writing has been on the wall for some time,\" he said.\n\nPatriarch Kirill has echoed President Putin's claim that Russian speakers and followers of Moscow's Russian Orthodox Church living in eastern Ukraine need liberating after years of oppression.\n\n\"Our brothers and sisters were really suffering, they suffer for their loyalty to the Church,\" said Patriarch Kirill a week into the war.\n\nBut Father Pluzhnik, a Russian speaker and a follower of the Moscow Patriarchate all of his adult life, is angered by those claims.\n\n\"When I hear them say they are protecting us and fighting some 'Holy War', I think they are either blind, or they are not serving God but the devil,\" he says.\n\n\"We were living peacefully until they came. But far from protecting us they bombed and tortured and killed. Before the war, parishioners were completely free to choose what church they went to, they just went to the church closest to their home. For many of them it was not even a significant difference to go to a church that followed Moscow or not, they just wanted to pray to God. Now that has changed.\"\n\nDr Sergii Bortnyk, a professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy and an adviser to the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, acknowledges that there has been a widespread movement of people and parishes across the country abandoning their loyalty to Moscow.\n\n\"I think it is maybe half of the 12,000 parishes [of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine] that have said that they want to break away now,\" says Dr Bortnyk.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill has not said anything about all the Christians in Ukraine that have been killed, so I believe the members of our church are free to end their connection to him as the patriarch,\" he says.\n\n\"The connection to all of our [Moscow Patriarchate Russian Orthodox] Church in Ukraine to Moscow is in question now.\"\n\nThe Kremlin's aim, backed by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, had been to unite Russia and Ukraine in a single \"spiritual space\".\n\nBut the manner by which they have tried to achieve that appears to have had precisely the opposite effect.", "Tamryn Saby worked for an airline for 11 years before joining the vaccination programme\n\nMore than 10,000 people who signed up to help deliver Covid-19 vaccinations have now taken permanent roles with the NHS in England.\n\nAbout 71,000 people took paid roles and thousands more volunteered to help with the programme which has now given more than 120 million doses.\n\nThe 11,483 who have chosen to stay in the NHS include former airline cabin crew members, gym managers and chefs.\n\nNHS England said they would help tackle the backlog caused by the pandemic.\n\nTamryn Saby worked for an airline for 11 years but decided to volunteer with the vaccine programme in Cambridge and study to become a therapeutic radiographer when she was furloughed.\n\n\"I hoped that by getting involved it would help us all return to 'normal' sooner, but being part of the vaccine roll-out also helped build my confidence for a career in healthcare, and showed that by working for the NHS you can make a real difference to people's lives every day,\" she said.\n\nAnd Kazeem Reaves Odunsi, who worked as a gym manager before becoming a vaccinator, said: \"I have always loved helping people so the vaccinator role seemed like a good fit and although I don't have any clinical experience, I received training and was able to use the leadership skills and good customer service that I had learned from my previous jobs.\n\n\"By giving someone the vaccine I felt I was helping to improve their quality of life and bring an end to the pandemic.\n\n\"Being part of a team that was making history and getting to meet people from a range of backgrounds and cultures, I was really inspired to stay on and start a new career in the NHS.\"\n\nHe is now working as an assistant service manager at Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London.\n\nNHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said it was fantastic that 11,000 people who had helped \"deliver the most successful NHS vaccination programme in history\" had decided to stay in the health service, while Health Secretary Sajid Javid said he was \"delighted\".\n\nThe 120 million doses of coronavirus vaccine administered since December 2020 - when Margaret Keenan from Coventry became the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer vaccine - include more than 32 million boosters and 1.4 million spring boosters.\n\nSpring boosters are being offered to people aged 75 and over, residents in care homes and those with weakened immune systems.\n\nAnd earlier this month the programme opened to all children aged five to 11 years old, who are being offered two low-strength doses of the Pfizer vaccine, at least 12 weeks apart.", "Ukrainian authorities said the Russians hit three warehouses and a car service station\n\nThe western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which has so far been largely unscathed by the war, has recorded its first civilian deaths after Russian strikes, officials say.\n\nAt least seven people were killed and 11 injured in the early morning attack on Monday, the city's mayor said, warning that the death toll could rise as emergency services clear through the rubble.\n\nLviv is the hub through which tens of thousands of people have fled to neighbouring Poland after withstanding weeks of strikes in cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol.\n\nBut Mayor Andriy Sadovyi told reporters that the morning strikes showed there were now \"no safe and unsafe locations\" in Ukraine.\n\n\"Everyone is unsafe,\" he added.\n\nRussia has said its plan is to focus its forces in the east - an attempt to capture the industrial area on the border known as the Donbas - after Ukraine held off its attempt to take the capital Kyiv, in the north.\n\nThis is why the strikes in Lviv - which is hundreds of miles from the front line in the east - came as a surprise and left many residents in shock.\n\n\"When we see it in Mariupol, when we see it in Kharkiv, we see it through the prism of a great tragedy,\" Mr Sadovyi told the BBC. \"But when it happens at home people see it through the loss of the person - that you have seen and that you worked with just 30 minutes before.\"\n\nOfficials said the missiles struck three warehouses and a car garage, where a group of colleagues had gathered for a coffee before work.\n\nYury Baran - who worked in IT at the garage - was among them.\n\nLater, his parents Anatoly and Maria arrived at the site of the attack which is now surrounded by ruined cars and debris. They hadn't been able to get through to their son, who was less than a month shy of his 27th birthday.\n\nNow, those helping sift through the rubble told them the worst news: he had died in the attack.\n\n\"Humans cannot do such things. They are not humans, they are barbaric invaders,\" Anatoly said of the Russians.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nValya has lived in a building close to the site since she was born. The 70-year-old heard the sirens shortly before 08:00 local time (06:00 BST) but ignored them - she assumed she would be safe.\n\nThe explosion knocked her to the ground. \"I was so scared,\" she told us. \"Everything was shaking, all the glass shattered.\"\n\nStill wearing her pyjamas, she wandered into the street in a daze until a neighbour yelled at her to head to the basement.\n\n\"My heart was pounding,\" she said. \"I'm lucky this was just the [shockwave] and not a rocket.\"\n\nValya didn't take cover when the sirens rang out this morning, before an explosion shattered her front window\n\nUpstairs in the same block, Olena said she had taken her dog Valdo to the kitchen for cover after hearing the blast.\n\n\"The explosion was so loud I thought it hit my house,\" she said. \"I'm lucky.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the attacks, Mr Sadovyi said people in his city would now take air raid sirens more seriously. While the Russians have previously struck the Lviv region, and wounded five in an attack in March, these are the first civilian deaths confirmed in the city proper.\n\n\"I think after today Lviv residents will not question, should I go to the basement or not?\" he said.\n\nTatiana was at a bus stop when the Russians struck. Like others, she couldn't believe the city was under attack - initially she thought it must have been a gas explosion.\n\nShe described the attacks as \"inhuman\", saying national leaders make decisions and ordinary people \"die for nothing\".\n\n\"It scares me a lot. It's wrong,\" she said. \"This is a great sin.\"\n\nThe strikes shattered a sense of security in the west of the country. Sunday was the first day that the numbers crossing from Poland exceeded those leaving Ukraine since the war began, while some refugees we spoke to are now heading home after initially fleeing the east of the country.\n\nThe city itself has become a haven for fleeing civilians, humanitarian groups, foreign diplomats and journalists. Officials recently extended a curfew until 23:00 local time and city centre bars and churches were bustling over the weekend.\n\nMyroslava, walking past the blast site as firefighters tackled the billowing, black smoke pouring from a roof top, told us she heard the explosion from 1.5km away and echoed the thoughts of all those caught up in Russia's invasion.\n\n\"We're anxious, we're empty inside - why us?\" she said, wide eyed and raising her hands in despair. \"We don't understand what it's all for.\"", "Capturing the whole of Mariupol is seen as a major strategic prize for Russia\n\nDefenders of the besieged city of Mariupol will fight to the end against Russian forces, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says.\n\nThe port city has not fallen despite an ultimatum from Moscow to remaining fighters to give up, he said.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia has chosen to raze Mariupol to the ground.\n\nLocal officials said Russian forces have announced they will stop anyone from entering or leaving the city.\n\nCapturing the whole of the city is seen as a major strategic prize for Russia, leaving it in control of a vast swathe of southern and eastern Ukraine.\n\nAn advisor to the mayor of Mariupol said residents would be forced to queue for a pass to enable them to move between districts and some could have their phones confiscated or be taken against their will to Russia.\n\nPetro Andryushchenko also said Russia was holding at least 20,000 Ukrainian citizens in filtration camps outside Mariupol.\n\nIn an interview with the US network ABC, Mr Shmyhal said a Russian deadline for Ukrainian forces in Mariupol to surrender by Sunday had been ignored.\n\n\"The city still has not fallen,\" he said. \"There is still our military forces, our soldiers, so they will fight until the end. And as for now, they still are in Mariupol.\"\n\nRussia's military says it controls almost all of Mariupol, while Ukraine's Azov Battalion is still holding out in Azovstal, a huge steelworks overlooking the Azov Sea.\n\nJustin Crump, a military expert at security consultancy Sybilline, told the BBC there could be 500 to 800 Ukrainian troops holding out in the city.\n\n\"[The steelworks] has nuclear bunkers, tunnels, it's built to survive a nuclear conflict - they are really well set for defence,\" he said.\n\n\"They have had more than 50 days to fortify it and build escape routes,\" Mr Crump added. \"I suspect that unless they are wiped out they'll be there a long time. It's credible there would be guerrilla resistance.\"\n\nUkraine has demanded that Russian forces open humanitarian corridors from Mariupol to allow civilians and wounded Ukrainian troops to leave, but no large-scale evacuations have taken place for several weeks.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk confirmed there would be no corridor again on Monday and repeated calls for a way out of Mariupol to be set up.\n\n\"We demand an urgent humanitarian corridor from the territory of the Azovstal plant for women, children and other civilians,\" she said in a post on Telegram.\n\nThe situation for civilians in the city is desperate, with homes destroyed and widespread water shortages.\n\nThe family of one of two British men reportedly been captured by Russian forces while fighting in Mariupol have said they are hoping for a quick resolution to his situation.\n\nShaun Pinner, 48, who is serving in the Ukrainian Army, has appeared on Russian state television, as has Aiden Aslin. They asked to be exchanged for Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician being held by Ukraine's authorities, though it was unclear if they were speaking under duress.\n\nMr Medvedchuk's wife has also called for the exchange, appealing to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to help arrange it.\n\nAs Mariupol defenders continue to hold out, Ukrainian officials still deny any possibility of territorial concessions to Russia.\n\nIn an interview broadcast on Sunday by CNN, President Volodymyr Zelensky brushed aside the idea of letting Moscow take over parts of eastern Ukraine to stop the conflict.\n\n\"Ukraine and its people are clear. We have no claim to anyone else's territories but we are not going to give up ours,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, authorities in the western city of Lviv said seven people were killed in rocket strikes on Monday morning.\n\nIt is not yet clear what the strikes were targeting. In recent weeks, Russia has focused its offensive on eastern Ukraine.", "The PM's phone was among those tested for spyware, it is claimed\n\nDowning Street and Foreign Office computer systems were suspected to have been infected with spyware, according to a Canadian investigative group.\n\nThe Citizen Lab says it informed officials that suspected Pegasus spyware was discovered in 2020 and 2021, with the Downing Street incident linked to operators in the UAE.\n\nPegasus is sold by NSO Group to governments to carry out surveillance through infecting phones with malicious software.\n\nThe Israeli-based company has denied the allegations, saying they are false and could not have taken place.\n\nThe Citizen Lab, which tracks electronic surveillance, said in 2020 and 2021 it notified the UK government that networks belonging to both 10 Downing Street and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were suspected to have been infected using Pegasus spyware.\n\nPegasus allows governments to take control of people's phones, extract data and carry out surveillance.\n\nNSO Group has always defended its use, saying it is only sold to selected governments for legitimate law enforcement and intelligence purposes, such as against criminals or terrorists.\n\nThe latest claims are linked to an investigation by the New Yorker magazine which looked at the targeting of individuals campaigning for Catalan independence from Spain.\n\nThe Citizen Lab said it identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected, including members of the European Parliament, Catalan presidents, legislators, jurists, and members of civil society organisations.\n\nThe New Yorker said that in the UK a number of official phones were tested including those of the prime minister, but it was not possible to establish which device was infected or what - if any data - was taken.\n\nThe Citizen Lab said the suspected Foreign Office infections were believed to be linked to operators of Pegasus in the United Arab Emirates, India, Cyprus and Jordan.\n\nIt said these could have been related to staff serving abroad and using overseas SIM cards, similar to the way US diplomats were reportedly hacked in Uganda. NSO Group has said that US phone numbers cannot be targeted.\n\nThe High Court ruled the ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed hacked his ex-wife's phone using NSO spyware\n\nThe Citizen Lab said it believed the Downing Street suspected infection was linked to the United Arab Emirates.\n\nPrevious investigations by a consortium of journalists claimed that around 400 UK phone numbers appeared in a leaked list of numbers linked to NSO Group between 2017 and 2019, with the UAE alleged to be behind the largest number.\n\nNSO Group reportedly ended its contract with the UAE last year after reports that Pegasus had been used by the ruler of Dubai, part of the UAE, to hack his ex-wife's phone amongst others, claims he denied.\n\nGlobally, activists, journalists and politicians were on the list of potential targets, although the Israeli-based company disputed the interpretation of the leaked material.\n\nIt was placed on a US Department of Commerce blacklist following the reports last year which restricted its access to US technology.\n\nIn response to the latest claims, a spokesperson for the UK government said it did not routinely comment on security matters.\n\nA spokesperson for NSO Group said: \"The information raised regarding these allegations are, yet again, false and could not be related to NSO products for technological and contractual reasons.\n\n\"NSO continues to be targeted by a number of politically motivated advocacy organizations, like Citizens Labs and Amnesty, to produce inaccurate and unsubstantiated reports based on vague and incomplete information.\n\n\"We have repeatedly co-operated with governmental investigations, where credible allegations merit.\"\n\nThe UAE Embassy in London has been approached for comment.", "New laws are aimed at preventing scandals like the collapse of Christmas savings club Farepak in 2006\n\nSavings clubs for shoppers will soon be protected under new laws to be introduced by the government.\n\nMany families pay into schemes throughout the year to spend on Christmas, weddings or home projects.\n\nThese clubs are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.\n\nBut new laws mean even if the company goes bust, shoppers' money will still be protected. It is aimed at preventing scandals like the collapse of Christmas savings club Farepak in 2006.\n\nWhen the Swindon-based company folded, it left 116,000 customers with losses of £37m and many unable to pay for festive gifts.\n\nMany UK supermarkets and other businesses have a Christmas savings club, allowing customers to top up an account throughout the year and receive products and services in time for Christmas.\n\nThe average family spends about £740 extra in December, analysis from the Bank of England has shown.\n\nConsumer minister Paul Scully said that families' hard-earned savings needed to be protected now more than ever due to the cost of living crisis.\n\n\"New laws will crack down on dodgy dealers who have no plans in place to protect shoppers' savings if their business goes to the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll make sure scandals like Farepak never happen again, where thousands of families, many on low incomes, lost all they had saved for Christmas.\"\n\nThe law will apply to Christmas savings clubs and other prepayment schemes that are forms of a savings club.", "The government has put water companies under pressure to curb sewage spills\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have urged the UK government to ban bonuses for water company bosses until sewage offences are stopped.\n\nThe party's analysis showed firms in England had paid executives nearly £27m in bonuses since 2020.\n\nThe bonuses are \"obscene\" given 1,000 sewage spills a day were recorded in 2021, the Lib Dems said.\n\nThe government has not backed the ban, but said it was taking urgent action to curb sewage discharges.\n\n\"We are clear that we want water companies to spend more on better infrastructure and far less on pay-outs to shareholders,\" a government source told the BBC.\n\nLabour stopped short of backing the call for a ban on bonuses, but accused the government of allowing the companies bosses to dump sewage \"while pocketing eye-watering bonuses amid a cost of living crisis\".\n\nWater companies could face fines or criminal prosecutions after admitting possible illegal discharges into rivers and waterways.\n\nThe admission last year prompted a major government investigation into more than 2,200 sewage treatment works spanning all water and sewerage companies in England.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey accused the Conservative government of \"allowing water companies to pump raw sewage into our precious rivers and lakes while awarding themselves obscene bonuses\".\n\n\"Just like the millions paid out to bankers during the financial crisis, the public will find this hard to stomach,\" he said.\n\nHis party's analysis of company records showed executives at England's water companies were paid £48m in 2020 and 2021 - including £27.6m in bonuses, benefits and incentives.\n\nThey claimed United Utilities paid out the largest package of bonuses, worth nearly £6m, followed by Severn Trent (£5.5m) and Anglian Water (£3.5m).\n\nIn the same 2020-21 period, water companies made £2.7bn in operating profits, according to the analysis.\n\nSir Ed said the bosses should hand back their bonuses \"to help clean up their mess\".\n\nBut Green Party peer Jenny Jones said \"much stronger action\" was needed to tackle the \"sewage dumping scandal\".\n\nShe called for water companies to be brought back into public ownership to ensure \"proper accountability\", but in the meantime, introduce a \"much tougher watchdog... to properly enforce the protection of our rivers and coastlines with heavy fines on companies that continue to carelessly pollute them.\"\n\nUnited Utilities declined to comment. On its website, the company said it had a \"long-term ambition\" to \"eliminate pollution incidents\".\n\nSevern Trent pointed to its plan to ensure no river in its catchment areas would be unhealthy because of its operations by 2030.\n\nThe same commitment was made by Anglian Water, which said it would not comment on the remuneration of its staff.\n\n\"It is a matter for them and the independent remuneration committee, who ensure pay is benchmarked against other companies and industries,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe Lib Dems have also called for a sewage tax on the profits of water companies to fund the cleaning up of waterways polluted by sewage.\n\nBut a government source accused the Lib Dems of \"hypocrisy\" for \"preaching about water quality\".\n\n\"They voted down our measures to improve water quality during the passage of the Environment Act,\" the source said.\n\nThe government's Environment Bill was approved by Parliament last year, following a lengthy battle over the amount of sewage released into rivers.\n\nBut Labour's shadow environment secretary Jim McMahon said the law \"allowed water firm bosses to dump raw sewage into our communities, while pocketing eye-watering bonuses amid a cost of living crisis.\"\n\nHe added: \"Labour is on your side and would respect our communities by cleaning up the sewage being dumped by companies in our fields, rivers, and lakes - which the Tories passed laws to allow.\"\n\nLast month, the Environment Agency said the \"state of our rivers is not in the condition we want\" and \"we are still seeing too much pollution from a number of sources\".\n\nIn 2021, the agency recorded more than 372,000 spill events lasting more than 2.6 million hours from storm overflows, which release untreated sewage and rainwater into the environment to ease pressure on the system.\n\nWater companies are allowed to discharge untreated sewage into rivers in exceptional circumstances - for example, during heavy rainfall.\n\nThey can, however, be acting illegally if they fail to meet certain requirements, such as treating enough wastewater before overflows are released into the environment.", "The Ukainian city of Lviv has been the target of Russian missile strikes.\n\nThe BBC's Dan Johnson reports from the scene, where he witnessed \"missiles streaking across the sky and hitting buildings\".", "Priti Patel and Rwanda Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta said their plan was \"bold and innovative\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has hit back at critics of the government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, saying they have failed to offer solutions.\n\nWriting in the Times with the Rwandan foreign minister, she said they had proposed an innovative answer to the \"deadly trade\" of people-smuggling.\n\nNo \"humanitarian nation\" could allow that suffering to continue, they said.\n\nIt comes after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said there were \"serious ethical questions\" about the plan.\n\nTo push the scheme through, Ms Patel issued a ministerial direction - meaning she took responsibility for the policy - after her top civil servant questioned whether it offered value for money.\n\nMs Patel and Vincent Biruta, Rwanda's foreign minister, said the global asylum system was \"collapsing\" under the strain of humanitarian crises and human trafficking.\n\nThe plan to transport some asylum seekers who enter the UK unlawfully to Rwanda, where they can apply to settle, will allow people fleeing persecution to find safety, they said.\n\nAnd they added that the UK's investment in Rwanda - an initial £120m - would help to address the lack of opportunities which drive economic migration.\n\n\"We are taking bold and innovative steps and it's surprising that those institutions that criticise the plans fail to offer their own solutions,\" they wrote.\n\n\"Allowing this suffering to continue is no longer an option for any humanitarian nation.\"\n\nIt also emerged that some refugees in Rwanda will be sent to the UK under the terms of the two nations' agreement.\n\nA UK government source told the BBC that it would be supporting Rwanda to resettle \"a portion of the most vulnerable refugees\".\n\nThe scheme will initially focus mainly on single men arriving in the UK on small boats or lorries. Those sent to Rwanda will be provided with accommodation while their asylum claims are considered.\n\nIf successful they will be able to remain in the east African nation.\n\nEnergy minister Greg Hands told Times Radio sending migrants to Rwanda would be a \"significant deterrent\" to people attempting to cross the Channel in small boats. He said the government was \"confident\" that the policy would work.\n\nTwo boats carrying 76 people were brought into Dover, Kent, on Sunday, the Home Office said, while a further two small boats were seen being brought ashore on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justin Welby addresses the \"serious ethical questions\" of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda\n\nOn Easter Sunday, Mr Welby became the latest figure to criticise the plan, accusing the government of \"subcontracting our responsibilities\" and saying it cannot \"stand the judgment of God\".\n\nHe was joined by the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, who said the policy was \"depressing and distressing\", adding: \"We can do better than this.\"\n\nOpposition parties and some Conservative MPs have also criticised the plan, while more than 160 charities and campaign groups called it \"shamefully cruel\" and urged the prime minister and Ms Patel to scrap it.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the scheme as \"unworkable\", while the Liberal Democrats said the government was \"slamming the door\" in the face of refugees and the SNP's Ian Blackford called it \"absolutely chilling\".\n\nAmong their concerns was Rwanda's own human rights record, with the UK having raised allegations of extrajudicial killings, disappearances and torture in the east African nation at the UN last year.\n\nBut in their Times article, Ms Patel and Mr Biruta said Rwanda \"ranks as one of the world's safest countries\" and has already accommodated 130,000 refugees from multiple countries.\n\nWhile they said the plan would \"deter migrants from putting their lives at risk\" by making dangerous journeys, a letter from the Home Office's top official said evidence for a deterrent effect was \"highly uncertain\".\n\nPermanent Secretary Matthew Rycroft warned the policy had a high cost and would only be value for money if it reduced the number of Channel crossings and other illegal entries to the UK.\n\nWhile the UK is investing £120m into the \"economic development and growth of Rwanda\" as part of the deal, the government said funding would also be provided to support asylum operations, accommodation and integration which would be \"similar to the costs incurred in the UK for these services\".\n\nThe Times has reported a cost of £20,000 to £30,000 for each migrant sent to Rwanda.\n\nLabour's Dame Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"highly unusual\" in the Home Office for a ministerial direction to be issued.\n\nShe said if a policy is drawn up \"at the last minute\" it can be difficult to prove its monetary value but as the idea of processing asylum seekers abroad had been discussed by the government for some time, she said she would be interested to see the \"accounting for it\".", "A Kentucky man has been awarded $450,000 (£345,314) after his company threw him a surprise birthday party despite his warnings that it would trigger stress and anxiety.\n\nThe plaintiff, Kevin Berling, claims that the unwanted 2019 birthday party at Gravity Diagnostics caused him a series of panic attacks.\n\nMr Berling's lawsuit alleged that the company discriminated against him based on a disability.\n\nThe company has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit filed in Kentucky's Kenton County, Mr Berling - who suffers from anxiety disorders - had asked his manager to not celebrate his birthday at work as it normally does for its employees, as it could potentially result in a panic attack and would bring back uncomfortable childhood memories.\n\nDespite Mr Berling's request, the company, which conducts Covid-19 tests, threw him a surprise party in August 2019, triggering a panic attack. He quickly left the party and finished his lunch in his car.\n\nThe lawsuit notes that Mr Berling was \"confronted and criticised\" at a meeting the following day, where he was accused of \"stealing his co-workers joy\" and \"being a little girl\". The tense meeting prompted a second panic attack, after which the company sent him home for the remainder of 8 August and 9 August.\n\nOn 11 August, Gravity Diagnostics fired him, citing concerns about workplace safety. His lawsuit alleged that the company discriminated against him because of a disability and unfairly retaliated against him for asking that his request be accommodated.\n\nAfter a two day trial at the end of March, the jury awarded him $450,000, including $300,000 for emotional distress and $150,000 in lost wages.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Gravity Diagnostics and an attorney representing the firm for comment on the outcome of the lawsuit.\n\nThe company's chief operating office, Julie Brazil, told local news outlet Link NKY that Gravity Diagnostics stands by its decision to terminate Mr Berling, whom she said violated a \"workplace violence policy\".\n\n\"My employees were the victims in this case, not the plaintiff,\" she said, adding that the company is challenging the verdict and is mulling an appeal.\n\nMr Berling's attorney, Tony Bucher, told the BBC that there \"was absolutely no evidence\" that he posed a threat to anyone at Gravity that would warrant being fired.\n\n\"He had a panic attack. That is all. And, because representatives from Gravity Diagnostics did not understand his panic response and were unnerved by his response, they assumed he was a threat,\" Mr Bucher said. \"Assuming that people with mental health issues are dangerous without any evidence of any violent behaviour is discriminatory.\"\n\nData from the National Alliance on Mental Illness shows that over 40 million Americans - nearly 20% of the population - suffers from anxiety disorders.", "The physical reminders of what happened here will eventually be erased\n\nAt the base of a block of flats in Bucha, the sound of sawing echoes around the deserted communal garden.\n\nIn one of the doorways a blackened kettle boils on an open fire, blowing clouds of steam into the bitter air. This place should be buzzing with life and sound, with the chatter of children playing and clambering over the climbing frame that dominates the square.\n\nBut since the Russians came, everything has changed here. Most people fled, and they're yet to return. There's just one small, hardy group who are trying to pave the way for others to come back.\n\nSergei and his wife arrived at their flat five days ago. Now they and their neighbours are trying to rebuild their damaged homes, and clearing away the debris of countless Russian shells.\n\n\"You always want to come back home\", he tells me. \"So we used our first chance to return as well. And we used our chance to make sure that all the property is safe, even from locals that might come and steal something.\"\n\nSergei takes me to an open grave in the shadow of his building. It's just a few steps away, and we walk in the deep grooves the Russian tanks carved into the mud as they rolled in. Sergei's neighbour - killed as he tried to take a photo of them - lay here.\n\nHis name and the date he died are written of a piece of wooden pallet, a rough and temporary gravestone. When Sergei returned home, one of the first things he wanted to do was finally give him a dignified burial.\n\nIn just a few weeks, Bucha locals have become accustomed to death.\n\nDenys Davidoff stayed in the town throughout the occupation. When the Russians left he ventured back onto the streets, and was confronted with a vision of horror. Many people around the world saw photos and videos of bodies lying scattered on the ground in Bucha, some with hands bound behind their backs. But Denys witnessed them himself.\n\nDenys Davidoff saw much of the horror first hand\n\n\"When I arrived I saw the street with the dead bodies. I just walked around them, and they were everywhere. I wasn't scared, but it was intense. You got used to it during the month of the occupation.\"\n\nAs the world condemned what it saw, Russia claimed the news was fake, and the bodies were planted after its forces left. But Denys lived through it, and that was not what he saw.\n\n\"Some corpses were lying for such a long time that you could see their bodies were covered with the sand and the earth after it rained. At some point I realised I knew some of the people who were killed.\"\n\nThe people of Bucha are still processing the devastation they've lived through. But they aren't entirely safe just yet. More than 3,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance have been found around the Kyiv region so far.\n\nThis local man has come back to repair his home\n\nIn a nearby village we pass a ditch at the side of the road, with around 20 unexploded shells neatly placed in it, lying side by side. A single thin ribbon of plastic tape runs around the perimeter to protect the unaware from stumbling in.\n\nMaking these towns safe again for people to return to will be a huge job.\n\nOn the road to Bucha, there's an unconventional graveyard. The burned and twisted hulks of Russian military vehicles lie idly by the roadside.\n\nThis was a camp, a defensive position, and among the wreckage are signs of the soldiers who once lived here. There are small gold foil pots of food rations, vodka bottles, underwear and socks. Mis-matching camouflage, and a civilian brightly-patterned sleeping bag that someone brought along to keep warm. By the remains of a campfire there's a discarded bottle of shower gel, and someone's toothbrush.\n\nI find pieces of paper with burned edges and Russian script on them. Our local producer Illya scans them and tells me they're from a rulebook for Russian soldiers, a tome of instructions on how to fight and survive. But they didn't here.\n\nLocal people pose for selfies among the abandoned Russian equipment\n\nThere's no silence in this place. Cars and lorries roll by, slowing down for a better look at the wreckage. Locals arrive in a constant stream, then clamber over the destroyed vehicles and pose for selfies.\n\nEven the single Russian forearm lying in the grass nearby, its flesh and skin charred black, doesn't deter them. A closer inspection reveals that one of the tanks still has a badly burnt body inside - barely recognisable as human. A small group gathers and one man films it on his mobile phone.\n\nIn time, this will all be cleared away, and the road will look like it always did. The bodies will be buried, the shattered windows will be mended, and the buildings will be repaired. Eventually the physical reminders of the cruelty that was inflicted will be gone from sight.\n\nBut for the people of Bucha, the memories will long remain.", "Unprepared walkers have been blamed for reports of human faeces on some of Wales' most popular mountain paths.\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said there were toilets at the bottom of the areas main paths which should be used before starting a hike.\n\nHelen Pye, the authority's engagement officer, said reports of faeces on some paths were \"upsetting and alarming\" but there was no need to add more toilets.\n\nVisitors have flocked to the area over the Easter weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Snowdon is a national nature reserve and so it's really quite a special and fragile environment,\" Ms Pye told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"But also, I think the impression these headlines give to those wanting to visit Wales is the last thing the tourism sector needs at the minute so we we really don't want to see this sort of thing impacting on people's enjoyment of the area.\"\n\nMs Pye rejected claims toilets were closed adding there were facilities at the bottom of all the main paths up Snowdon.\n\n\"It's an amazing special, beautiful mountain environment. I think the most appropriate thing is to have toilets at the foot of the paths and not be littering the mountain with things like that,\" she added.\n\n\"This is unfortunately a small minority that perhaps aren't as well prepared, let's say and get caught short.\n\n\"And most of the visitors to Snowdon are fantastic, they come well prepared.\n\n\"They're aware that they're off on a mountain hike and they listen to the messages that we put out to kind of go before you hike and use those facilities at the bottom of all the main paths.\"\n\nQueues have become a regular sight on Snowdon as hundreds of thousands of visitors hike up to the top\n\nThe call comes after Snowdon guide Gemma Davies said she caught a man defecating on the mountain's railway line.\n\nShe said she was \"totally disgusted\" at the state of the Llanberis path on Saturday morning with stools in paper cups and under stones.\n\nMs Davies, who led a sunrise hike up Wales' highest mountain on Saturday, said the problem was so bad, she was having to warn people to \"mind the poo\".\n\nSnowdon guide Gemma Davies says the Llanberis path was \"covered in human stool\"\n\nShe claimed toilets at the summit were closed along with the cafe and \"there were no toilets open at the bottom when we got to the bottom after a seven hour hike\".\n\nMs Davies said: \"It is a long hike, so I understand people have got to go but there is a way of going.\n\n\"It's like when you go camping. You take a shovel and you dig yourself a hole.\n\n\"Doing it in paper cups and leaving it on the main path for everyone to step over, is definitely not the way to go about it.\n\n\"It's upsetting to see. We work up there nearly every day and it's just embarrassing.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and partner Georgina Rodriguez have announced the death of their baby boy, saying it is the \"greatest pain that any parents can feel\".\n\nThe Portugal international, 37, and Rodriguez, 28, were expecting twins.\n\nTheir baby girl survived, and they said her birth \"gives us the strength to live this moment with some hope and happiness\".\n\n\"Our baby boy, you are our angel. We will always love you,\" they wrote.\n\nIn a statement on social media, they said: \"It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that our baby boy has passed away.\n\n\"We are all devastated at this loss and and we kindly ask for privacy at this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe pair had announced the pregnancy in October.\n\nManchester United tweeted: \"Your pain is our pain. Sending love and strength to you and the family at this time.\"\n\nAnd team-mate Marcus Rashford said on social media: \"Thoughts are with you and Georgina brother I'm so sorry.\"\n\nManchester United later confirmed Ronaldo will miss Tuesday evening's match against Liverpool.\n\nA fan-led minute's applause will be held in the seventh minute of the game at Anfield, while both teams will wear black armbands.\n\n\"Family is more important than everything and Ronaldo is supporting his loved ones at this immensely difficult time,\" the club said.\n\n\"As such, we can confirm that he will not feature in the match against Liverpool at Anfield on Tuesday evening and we underline the family's request for privacy.\n\n\"Cristiano, we are all thinking of you and sending strength to the family.\"\n\nRonaldo's former side Real Madrid said the club, their president and board of directors \"are deeply saddened\" by the news, adding: \"Real shares in the family's pain and wishes to send them all of our warmth.\"\n\nManchester City, Leeds United and the Premier League have also tweeted messages of condolence.\n\nRonaldo has a son, Cristiano Jr, who was born in 2010, and twins Eva and Mateo who were born in 2017. He also has a daughter with Rodriguez, Alana Martina, who was born in 2017.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "It is unclear what will happen to those who did not manage to cross the border in time\n\nA huge queue of trucks has formed on the Poland-Belarus border as Russian and Belarusian drivers try to leave the EU following a sanctions deadline.\n\nIn the run-up to the Saturday deadline, the line extended to 80km (50 miles), with some stuck for up to 33 hours.\n\nThe EU has banned lorries from Russia and Belarus - except those carrying medicine, mail or petroleum products - from entering or staying in the bloc.\n\nThe move is part of sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nDrone footage filed by Reuters news agency showed long queues remaining as the midnight deadline neared.\n\n\"There are still many kilometres to drive... so it's unrealistic,\" it quoted a Belarusian driver on his chances of crossing the border in time.\n\nAnd hours after the deadline passed, the waiting times had been shortened to 12 hours, says the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw, with the number of trucks at two border crossings between 230-400 vehicles.\n\nHowever, it is unclear what will happen to thousands of other trucks from the two countries estimated to currently be on EU territory.\n\nOne possibility is that they will be seized by national authorities.\n\nA Polish official representing transport groups expressed concern that such a move may lead to similar measures against Polish trucks using Russia and Belarus on their way back home.\n\nThe EU - and many other Western countries - have imposed punishing sanctions against Russia, and its main ally Belarus.\n\nThe two countries have reciprocated with measures of their own.", "Three elderly people were reported to have died in the latest outbreak in Shanghai\n\nChina has reported the deaths of three people from Covid in Shanghai for the first time since the financial hub entered lockdown in late March.\n\nA release from the city health commission said the victims were aged between 89 and 91 and unvaccinated.\n\nShanghai officials said only 38% of residents over 60 are fully vaccinated.\n\nThe city is now due to enter another round of mass testing, which means a strict lockdown will continue into a fourth week for most residents.\n\nUntil now, China had maintained that no-one died of Covid in the city - a claim that has increasingly come into question.\n\nMonday's deaths were also the first Covid-linked fatalities to be officially acknowledged by authorities in the entire country since March 2020.\n\nThe timing of this announcement is odd.\n\nFirstly because, up to this point, it was a miraculous stretch of credulity to think that no-one in a city of almost 25 million people had succumbed to this wave of the virus.\n\nBut second, and more importantly, we know that people HAVE already died after contracting Covid in this outbreak. We have reported that.\n\nIt happened to dozens of elderly patients at a single hospital in Shanghai. But they were not official Covid deaths, according to the authorities. They died of underlying problems, apparently.\n\nSo what's changed? The answer is nothing seems to have changed in terms of clinical assessments.\n\nPeople with underlying health problems died after testing positive but the death rate remained at zero.\n\nNow three people have died in very similar circumstances but the official death toll has increased.\n\nIt's fair to ask - is this because the authorities have decided they need to make public the dangers of this vast wave of a virus against which barely half of China's over 60's are fully vaccinated?\n\nBecause up to now this was a virus that Shanghai's authorities had warned could devastate the population - otherwise why else would they lock down the city - yet it hadn't officially killed anyone.\n\nIn a statement announcing the deaths, Shanghai's Health Commission said that the three people died in hospital on Sunday despite \"full efforts to resuscitate them\".\n\nIt added that all three people had underlying health conditions.\n\nSince the discovery of an Omicron-led outbreak three weeks ago, the city has been under strict lockdown, which has angered residents.\n\nMillions have been confined to their homes, with anyone testing positive being sent to quarantine centres.\n\nIn recent weeks many have taken to social media to complain about the restrictions and the lack of food supplies.\n\nPeople have had to order in food and water and wait for government drop-offs of vegetables, meat and eggs, and analysts say many are running low on supplies.\n\nThe lockdown extension has overwhelmed delivery services, grocery shop websites and even the distribution of government supplies.\n\nBut with more than 20,000 new cases a day, authorities are struggling. The city in recent weeks has converted exhibition halls and schools into quarantine centres, and set up makeshift hospitals.\n\nThe recent surge in cases in China, although small compared to some countries, is a significant challenge to China's \"zero-Covid\" strategy, which uses swift lockdowns and aggressive restrictions to contain any outbreak.\n\nThe policy sets China apart from most other countries which are trying to live with the virus.\n\nBut the increased transmissibility and milder nature of the Omicron variant has led to questions over whether the current strategy is sustainable in the long run.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The trained volunteers will help those patients who need assistance getting to hospital\n\nVolunteers will transport patients who need extra assistance to hospital to increase ambulance availability for higher-risk patients.\n\nThe pilot scheme, using ambulance cars, is due to start in London in May.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said the trained volunteers would be sent to lower category 999 calls where the patient needed help to get to hospital.\n\nThe service's board meeting was told the scheme would reduce waiting times and increase ambulance availability.\n\nCurrently, taxis are used to transport \"low acuity patients\" to hospital, the meeting heard.\n\nBut there were some patients who required \"the assistance of one person to walk or mobilise\", which taxis could not provide.\n\n\"This results in the dispatch of an emergency ambulance, reducing ambulance availability for higher priority incidents and longer waiting times for patients,\" the meeting heard.\n\nAs part of the pilot scheme, a volunteer car would be dispatched to these patients.\n\nThe service said trained volunteers already respond to 999 calls in their own car alongside ambulances.\n\nSt John Ambulance and the community first responder scheme have helped to train and assess 22 volunteers.\n\nCars would operate from New Malden, Deptford, Greenford, Kenton, Edmonton and Ilford, the board meeting was told.\n\n\"The project is supported by NHS England and NHS Improvement who are looking to implement a national volunteer transport model based using our model,\" the service said.\n\nA spokesperson for the service said: \"This project builds on our well-established network of volunteers who respond to emergencies to help ensure our ambulances can reach the patients that need us the most.\n\n\"These fully trained volunteers, who already respond to 999 calls in their communities, will help patients who have been assessed not to need of an ambulance but who may need more support than a taxi can provide.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaigners have welcomed a temporary sale on more than one million train tickets across Great Britain, but argue that costs should be cut even further.\n\nThe government's \"Great British Rail Sale\" will see some off-peak prices slashed by as much as half between 25 April and 27 May.\n\nBut the Campaign for Better Transport said wider price increases are \"driving people off the railway\".\n\nPassenger numbers on trains have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAbout 285 million rail passenger journeys were made in Britain in the last three months of 2021 - just 62% of the levels seen before coronavirus struck, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said more than one million train tickets would be reduced this spring.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) is hoping the move will help struggling households to afford trips across the UK and boost the domestic tourism industry.\n\nIt comes after the highest train fare rises for nine years came into force for rail travellers in England and Wales last month.\n\nThe sale brings some Manchester to Newcastle journeys down to a little over £10, while seats on some London to Edinburgh services will be slashed from £44 to £22, the government said.\n\nThe discounted tickets went on sale for selected advance fares earlier on Tuesday, with passengers able to purchase them from the National Rail website.\n\nThe promotion only applies to tickets for travel from 25 April to 27 May, with tickets available to buy until 2 May.\n\nThis means the offer will have ended by the time many schools break up for May half term.\n\nAnd it will also miss the four-day UK bank holiday weekend from 2 to 5 June, which will mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nTickets covered by the sale include routes in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIn a video to advertise the sale, Mr Shapps said: \"We've had two years of living life virtually. It is time to get real and visit our beautiful country.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, some passengers have complained that discounted tickets were unavailable for the route they wanted to travel.\n\nPeter King, 52, was planning to use the sale to buy tickets from his local station, Hockley in Essex, for a day trip to Norwich. There is no direct train so he would normally travel via London Liverpool Street but that route was not included in the sale.\n\n\"It was easy enough to get the cheap tickets from London Liverpool Street to Norwich but they were obviously not offering it for what you'd class as the commuter line from Hockley to London Liverpool Street, even though it was off-peak,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You're still paying a fair whack just to get to London itself so the offer for me was just no good.\"\n\nScott Arthur, 33, was hoping to buy cheaper tickets from London to Liverpool for the end of April. From there he plans to travel on to north Wales for a friend's stag do as there is no direct train.\n\nHowever, when he searched online he found there were no discounted tickets available. Train operator Avanti told him the promotion only applied to advance tickets and it was likely there were none left for April as it was too close to the departure date.\n\n\"For me, it's flawed because if many of the advance tickets are already sold out before the promotion was even announced, that means it's only a few tickets that are available for this offer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe added that even with 50% off train prices were still \"extortionate\", with his trip from London to north Wales costing around £80 in total.\n\nMeanwhile, some commuters said limiting the promotion to off-peak trains meant they could not benefit from the savings.\n\nThe Campaign for Better Transport said that it had been pushing for action to improve passenger levels for months.\n\nIt welcomed the move by the government, but Norman Baker, its chief executive's adviser and former transport minister, said: \"It can show the Treasury that the way to increase income is to cut fares, not keep ratcheting them up and driving people off the railway.\"\n\n\"This initiative, though very welcome, is but a first step,\" he added, calling for an end to annual fare rises and a review of tickets and travel patterns following the rise of hybrid working during the pandemic.\n\nDfT said reforms to the rail sector through the so-called \"Williams-Shapps\" plan for rail will mean that network-wide sales of tickets should be able to take place more easily in the future.\n\nBut Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said that in the meantime, the temporary move would provide little respite \"to passengers who had thousands taken out of their pockets from soaring fares since 2010.\"\n\n\"And the decision to end the sale just before half-term will mean many families face the same punishing costs over the holidays,\" she added.", "Boris Johnson will face MPs for the first time since he was fined for Covid breaches\n\nThere will be no easing back into work for the prime minister after this Easter break.\n\nOn Tuesday he'll face MPs for the first time since he was fined for breaching Covid rules - and then address fellow Tory MPs in the evening.\n\nIt'll come a week after the prime minister, his wife and the chancellor received fines for attending a birthday gathering for the PM in No 10 in the Cabinet Room.\n\nOn Wednesday, he faces a Prime Minister's Questions from the opposition, after a weekend where the Sunday Times reported claims he was involved in \"instigating\" a leaving do in November 2020, which Downing Street deny.\n\nAll the while he will be hoping more fines don't land in his inbox from police investigating Covid breaches in government.\n\nSo, what's the plan? And where does more potential jeopardy lie?\n\nNo 10 sources stress he will apologise again to MPs for Covid breaches in Downing Street, and say he understands the strength of feeling around breaches of Covid restrictions at the heart of government.\n\nBoris Johnson may want to focus on issues such as the Ukraine crisis and the plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nAs one source put it, there is \"quite a bit to update Parliament on\".\n\nBut opposition parties will want to turn the attention to him becoming the first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe timing of the fines came as a surprise, with the prime minister's director of communications coordinating the response while floating on a felucca boat down the Nile on holiday with no electricity and only a power bank.\n\nSpeaking after the fine - the prime minister said people \"had the right to expect better\" from him and it \"did not occur\" to him at the time that the \"brief\" gathering in the Cabinet Room to mark his birthday in June 2020 could be in contravention of Covid lockdown rules.\n\nOpposition parties strongly believe the prime minister deliberately misled parliament by previously saying rules in No 10 were followed at all times - and are looking at various mechanisms to hold him to account about this. Labour sources say options under consideration include forcing a vote on whether he misled Parliament or referring him to a parliamentary committee to investigate.\n\nThere's no suggestion the prime minister would lose any vote against him, but opposition parties are likely to strongly criticise any Tory MPs who may be forced to publicly defend his actions.\n\nAfter fresh allegations in the Sunday Times that at a leaving drinks for his director of communications, Lee Cain, in November 2020 the prime minister poured drinks at the gathering Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said - if the reports were true - then the prime minister had a \"hand in instigating\" at least one of the parties.\n\nShe added he had \"deliberately misled the British people at every turn\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner has heavily criticised the PM's involvement in the parties\n\nThe newspaper cited a source claiming it was not a leaving do, but a press office Friday afternoon drinks, until the prime minister showed up.\n\nNo 10 have not denied that this event took place, but have strongly denied that the prime minister instigated it - with sources pointing to the reports that alcohol was already on the table when the prime minister showed up.\n\nOne individual present at the event told the BBC that people were instead having a drink at the office at the end of the day and the prime minister had popped in to say goodbye to Lee Cain.\n\nThose close to him also stress he turned up at his own press office with people \"by definition\" allowed to be there on that day.\n\nSome of those present at the gathering have also told the BBC they have not been questioned by the police about this specific gathering.\n\nHowever, there is concern among some Tory MPs that further fines or bad headlines could be yet to come.\n\nThe gathering he has been fined for so far is considered by many as a more minor event - a gathering in the Cabinet Room ahead of a meeting on Covid where people wished him happy birthday.\n\nWhile he paid the fine, No 10 insiders have said the prime minister did not believe it was wrong to step into this gathering to allow people who worked for him to say happy birthday, and that it \"didn't feel like a party\".\n\nPolice are still wading through evidence surrounding other events - such as two now infamous Downing Street garden drinks events.\n\nThe prime minister's defence in coming weeks is likely to focus on not being aware that turning up at these gatherings in a place, one source described \"he was allowed to be\" with \"people who were allowed to be there\" was disallowed.\n\nBut should further fines be issued, or more egregious breaches found, this argument could prove much harder to make both to the British public - but also to some of his own MPs.", "Baby goods retailer JoJo Maman Bebe is being sold to High Street giant Next and a group of finance firms, the BBC has learned.\n\nNext has taken on 44% of the firm's shares, with the other 56% acquired by investment companies managed or advised by hedge fund Davidson Kempner.\n\nThere will be no immediate job losses at JoJo Maman Bebe.\n\nIts founder said she was \"excited by the opportunities this new partnership will offer\".\n\nAs part of the deal though, Laura Tenison will leave the business that she founded nearly 30 years ago.\n\nShe added that she was \"exceptionally proud\" of the firm's achievements, having grown the company \"from a kitchen table start-up to being the UK's leading specialist boutique mother and baby brand\".\n\nGwynn Milligan, who joined JoJo Maman Bebe in 2017 as commercial director, has taken over as chief executive.\n\nThe retailer has 87 brick-and-mortar shops across the UK, which will continue trading.\n\nAccording to its LinkedIn page, it currently employs more than 950 people.\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, staff were told on Thursday that the deal would \"ensure the longevity of the brand for generations of new customers\".\n\nNext will also make a £16.3m investment in the brand using its own cash, although the value of JoJo Maman Bebe's sale was not immediately made clear.\n\nNext plans to keep the JoJo brand distinct and grow the business globally using its online shopping infrastructure, such as warehousing and software, to support the up-market baby goods retailer's physical shops and online sales.\n\nIt has not yet been decided whether or not the boutique baby clothes will be sold in Next shops.\n\nLast September, JoJo Maman Bebe was forced to hike prices for the first time in about five years due to rising costs and supply chain issues.\n\nAt the time, Ms Milligan said that the company had seen shipping costs quadruple.\n\nShe added that the company was also having to absorb increased costs on some products, because of competition from retail rivals.\n\nIn a statement, Simon Wolfson, Next's chief executive, said: \"We are excited to see what can be achieved through the combination of JoJo's exceptional product with Next's infrastructure and Davidson Kempner as our investment partner.\"\n\nHe added that the investment was not expected to have any immediate impact on the High Street giant's profits this financial year, but he expects it \"to make a positive contribution thereafter\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf says Scotland appears to be exiting the latest wave of Covid\n\nScotland's health secretary has said the time is right to remove the last remaining Covid legal restrictions.\n\nThe rule on wearing face masks in many indoor places and on public transport has now become guidance - almost three months after the rule was lifted in England.\n\nHumza Yousaf said although hospital admissions were still very high, the law was no longer necessary.\n\nHowever, he said most Scots would continue to wear a mask voluntarily.\n\nOn Thursday Public Health Scotland reported more than 2,000 Covid-positive patients in hospitals across the country.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday Show, Mr Yousaf said the latest data showed Scotland was exiting the current wave.\n\nHe said: \"It's been pretty relentless over the last four to five months given the emergence of Omicron and BA.2.\n\n\"But we can say based on ONS data, based on case data, we are beginning to see reductions in the hospital occupancy for those with Covid although the numbers are still very high.\n\n\"Based on that we are taking the right decision by removing the last legal requirement, but replacing it with very strong guidance.\"\n\nThe lifting of the face masks rule had been delayed twice in Scotland amid record levels of Covid cases and high numbers of people in hospital with the virus.\n\nIn January it was slightly relaxed in Scotland for adults taking part in organised activities with children under five.\n\nAround the same time the UK government had scrapped the rule in England altogether.\n\nThen at the beginning of April, people in Scotland no longer had to wear a face covering in places of worship.\n\nThis Easter Sunday was the first in two years when large numbers attended church without the rule in place.\n\nCanon Gerald Sharkey at St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow pictured in March\n\nHowever, going forward, Mr Yousaf said he believed most Scots would continue to wear masks in high-risk settings to protect vulnerable people.\n\nHe said: \"I think there will be some people who won't and we have to accept that is the case.\n\n\"But you have to remember it's been very clear we can't keep a legal restriction in place for a minute longer than it necessarily needs to, that we have to act proportionately when it comes to the law.\n\n\"But I've got great faith in the vast majority of the Scottish public.\"\n\nThe health secretary was asked whether the lifting of all rules could mean that more people who develop Covid symptoms may feel pressured to go into work.\n\nHe said the \"overwhelming majority\" of businesses had acted responsibly throughout the pandemic.\n\n\"If you're pressuring someone with symptoms that we know are associated with Covid - if they are forced to come into the workplace then they could end up infecting the entire workforce and that's not good for your business,\" he said.", "The Rail Accident Investigation Branch was notified after a Lumo train came to a sudden halt\n\nRail passengers have complained of being thrown from their seats and hit by falling luggage after a train came to a sudden stop.\n\nThe driver of the 08:20 from Newcastle to King's Cross hit the emergency brake near Peterborough, operator Lumo said.\n\nPassenger Neuma Domingos said she had a panic attack and hurt her leg and Lumo apologised for any distress caused.\n\nPolice said 15 people had minor injuries and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch had been informed.\n\nLumo said all travellers had been rerouted and the train was taken out of service for safety checks with later journeys cancelled.\n\n\"Regrettably there has been a knock-on effect for passengers on the 12:09 from King's Cross and the return journey at 18:52 from Edinburgh, both of which have been cancelled,\" Lumo said in a statement to the BBC.\n\nNeuma Domingos said she twisted her leg when the train came to a sudden halt\n\nMs Domingos was returning to London for a hospital appointment after visiting family in Newcastle.\n\nThe King's College London student told the BBC: \"Everything was fine until very abruptly we started veering to the right. All things fell on the floor. I was leaning on to the woman next to me and she almost fell out of her seat.\n\n\"And then very rapidly the train swung from side to side, heavily on to the left side all the luggage fell at this point. I hit my knee, people were gasping, a couple of people cried out - it was like really bad turbulence on a plane.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm still pretty shocked by everything, surprised and my leg still hurts. A suitcase hit a man's head. I can't get that image out of my head. The suitcase slowly moving and then bang. It happened right in front of me.\"\n\nBillie Rainer said the movement of the train felt much worse than plane turbulence\n\nBillie Rainer, 25, said she was left \"shaken\" by the incident after she caught the train from Newcastle to visit friends in the capital.\n\n\"The train was swinging from side to side as it went around the corner very fast,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I felt like a massive jolt and I was lifted out of my seat. I wasn't injured but other people were, by falling items. A woman was limping because she'd been hurt.\n\n\"The train tipped to the side a bit, then loads more. My suitcase fell to the floor and a couple of people fell off chairs.\n\n\"After the train swung from side to side it came to a massive halt and stopped at Peterborough station for an hour and a bit.\n\n\"It did feel like the train had approached the corner way too fast. It was so much worse than plane turbulence.\"\n\nEllie Foster tweeted a picture of her dented suitcase after it fell from a shelf\n\nEllie Foster, 24, who lives in Canterbury was on the train with her partner Luke after visiting family over the Easter holidays.\n\nShe tweeted about the \"very scary\" moment when she saw \"luggage and people flown all over the train\".\n\nShe shared a photograph of a dent in her suitcase after it fell from a shelf.\n\n\"We were approaching Peterborough and we were sitting on the right side of the train and the train sort of jolted to the left causing all the luggage to come down from above our head. The train then wobbled and came to a stop and we were left waiting for over an hour,\" she said.\n\n\"In that instance you don't really know what's happening. I've obviously grabbed on to something because I've hurt my two little fingers, nothing serious, but I was bracing for the impact because I honestly thought the train was going to crash. I feel fine now.\n\n\"The ladies on the train said they were just waiting for the signal to change, there was no reason for what happened and they just hoped everyone was ok.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said it received a report of an emergency stop at 11.53 BST.\n\nOfficers met the train at King's Cross and talked to passengers who were offered medical assistance by paramedics at the station, BTP said.\n\nLumo is owned by the travel business FirstGroup and runs trains on the East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. The route started in October and all Lumo trains on the service are electric.\n\nThe operator said it was \"very sorry for any distress the sudden stop may have caused\".\n\n\"Such events can be jolting for passengers and we took great care to check on everybody's welfare. There was some falling luggage and naturally many people will have felt the effects of the sudden halt.\"\n\nIt added: \"A full investigation is now under way and we are supporting our driver and the Rail Accident Investigations Branch to determine precisely what happened.\"\n\nIt said all passengers were entitled to a full refund through the normal delay repay channels.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nChelsea set up a second Wembley meeting with Liverpool this season as they overcame Crystal Palace's stubborn resistance to reach the FA Cup final.\n\nLiverpool won the Carabao Cup final on penalties in February but Chelsea will have the chance for revenge as second-half goals from Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Mason Mount underlined their supremacy.\n\nUnlike the first semi-final between Liverpool and Manchester City, chances were at a premium until substitute Loftus-Cheek, on for the injured Mateo Kovacic, broke the deadlock with a deflected shot after 65 minutes.\n\nPalace had their opportunities, Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy saving well from Cheikhou Kouyate in the first half, but they could not come back after Mount slipped a low finish beyond Jack Butland with 14 minutes left.\n\nChelsea have deservedly reached their third successive FA Cup final and will now hope to reverse recent history after losing the previous two to Arsenal and Leicester City.\n\nManager Thomas Tuchel has a remarkable record in reaching domestic and European finals since his appointment and Chelsea will be formidable opponents for Liverpool, who are in search of a historic quadruple.\n\nChelsea had to work had for their triumph but they showed patience, organisation and then quality to take control after half-time.\n\nBy the end, Chelsea were in complete command and only some generosity in front of goal from substitute Romelu Lukaku, who struck the post when it seemed easier to score, and the otherwise excellent Timo Werner prevented a scoreline that would have been harsh on Palace.\n\nChelsea may be surrounded by turmoil off the pitch amid the sanctions against owner Roman Abramovich, but a winning mentality persists on it and the players showed admirable powers of recovery following the disappointment of their Champions League quarter-final elimination by Real Madrid.\n\nAnd if the EFL Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool earlier this season is anything to go by, the FA Cup equivalent will be a tightly-contested affair between two high-quality sides.\n\nPalace on the right track\n\nPalace manager Patrick Vieira and his players were understandably devastated at the final whistle but the Eagles' performance here, and over the season as a whole, gives great cause for optimism.\n\nVieira has squad boasting several emerging young talents playing attractive football, although they were required to show a more pragmatic side here as they contained Chelsea well until their former loanee Loftus-Cheek struck with an effort that took a slight deflection.\n\nThere was no way back for Palace after that but, backed by truly magnificent support, they give the impression of a well-run club on the right lines under an astute manager with an excellent structure around him.\n\nDanger man Wilfried Zaha was just too isolated to make an impression but the key component missing was the guile, quality and exuberance of England midfield man Conor Gallagher, who was unable to play against his parent club.\n\nDefeat will hurt, but Vieira and Palace can nevertheless be delighted with the progress the club is making.\n• None Attempt missed. Timo Werner (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hakim Ziyech.\n• None Attempt blocked. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea) hits the right post with a right footed shot from very close range. Assisted by Timo Werner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Tyrick Mitchell.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Timo Werner.\n• None Attempt missed. Joachim Andersen (Crystal Palace) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Jordan Ayew following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Michael Olise with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Companies owned by US radio host Alex Jones, including his right-wing website InfoWars, have filed for bankruptcy.\n\nThe move comes as he fights defamation suits brought by families of those killed in a 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school.\n\nMr Jones, who falsely claimed the shooting was a hoax, has been ordered to pay damages in the lawsuits.\n\nThose efforts will be complicated by his decision to seek protection from creditors in bankruptcy court.\n\nIn the US, declaring bankruptcy provides a route for companies to remain in operation and negotiate their debts, with settlements overseen by the court. It puts a hold on other litigation.\n\nTroubles for the radio host and conspiracy theorist stem from his false claims about the 2012 shooting in Connecticut, one of the worst school shootings in US history.\n\nHe repeatedly claimed the massacre, in which twenty children and six adults were killed, was a ploy to push gun control, staged by actors and the mainstream media.\n\nThose claims were among the most prominent spread on his radio show and Infowars website.\n\nIn three separate lawsuits, families of those killed at Sandy Hook have said his lies enriched his business, including InfoWars, while leading to their harassment by his followers.\n\nThey won the lawsuits last year after Mr Jones denied the claims but refused to present evidence such as financial records in court.\n\nThis month, juries were set to start determining how much he owes the families.\n\nHe had proposed to pay $120,000 (£92,150) to each of the 13 people involved in the lawsuits, but they rejected that offer last month.\n\n\"The so-called offer is a transparent and desperate attempt by Alex Jones to escape a public reckoning under oath with his deceitful, profit-driven campaign against the plaintiffs and the memory of their loved ones lost at Sandy Hook,\" the families said in court filings.\n\nSince the lawsuits, Mr Jones has acknowledged that the shooting took place. He has said the lawsuits threaten his constitutional rights to free speech.\n\nIn the bankruptcy filing, InfoWars listed its estimated assets in the range of $0-$50,000 and estimated liabilities in the range of $1m to $10m.\n\nHe has already been banned by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in recent years for hate speech and abusive behaviour.", "The Duke of Sussex has voiced his support for Ukraine, saying that \"the whole world is behind them\".\n\nSpeaking in The Hague in the Netherlands, where the Invictus Games are being held, Prince Harry commended the Ukrainian team's presence as \"extraordinary\" and acknowledged the difficulty their country currently faces.\n\nYou can watch the Invictus Games on BBC One at 18:30 BST.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere will always be a need for the Invictus Games for injured or sick military personnel and veterans, the Duke of Sussex has said.\n\nPrince Harry said more nations were being invited to participate to provide them with an opportunity to \"heal\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the prince, who founded the event, said: \"With the state of the world right now, there is always going to be a need for it.\"\n\nThe games - in their fifth year - are taking place in The Netherlands.\n\nFive hundred injured and sick military personnel and veterans from 20 nations are competing in a week of adaptive sports in The Hague.\n\nThe aim is to help recovery, support rehabilitation and promote wider understanding of injured and sick servicemen and women.\n\nSpeaking in an interview with Alex Jones and JJ Chalmers on the Invictus Games programme on BBC One, the prince said he was excited about the future of the event.\n\nHe said: \"After three years, I thought we might be able to put it in a box and put it on a shelf and just leave it until we would need to bring it out again.\n\n\"But with the state of the world right now, there's always going to be a need for it as far as I can tell...\n\n\"We're constantly inviting new nations because this is about healing, and as the bigger teams - US, UK - perhaps decrease in number it's going to provide an opportunity for more nations to come in who desperately need this opportunity and this place to heal together.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian team were given special permission by President Volodymyr Zelensky to compete in the games\n\nThe prince added that it was \"extraordinary\" to have a team from Ukraine, and said it was emotional to think about their journey to The Hague.\n\nThe 19 competitors from Team Ukraine were given special permission by President Volodymyr Zelensky to take part.\n\n\"What people need to remember, or perhaps don't even know yet, is the vast majority of the Ukraine team was serving in some shape or form,\" said the duke.\n\n\"So they'd remove their uniforms, put their team strips on, jumped on the coach, came over here, slept for a couple of days, tried to decompress, and then were straight into it. And then they've got to go back. So I think to have them here is extraordinary.\"\n\nHe said they had lost four members of their community, however; one of whom was their archery instructor who was killed in action.\n\nThe prince appeared on the BBC alongside servicewoman and breast cancer survivor Gillian Charlton representing Team UK in swimming, powerlifting and rowing.\n\nGillian Charlton said of Invictus: \"I can honestly say it's changed my life\"\n\nShe said: \"It [training for the games] has been a real fundamental part in me moving forward and re-finding my identity and building on that.\n\n\"I found this incredible community and all these people that really get it, and I can honestly say it's changed my life.\"\n\nCompetitors take part in events including archery, athletics, wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball.\n\nThe duke was inspired to help set up his own event after seeing the 2013 Warrior Games in the US, where injured and retired service personnel competed.\n\nThe first competitions were held in London in 2014, with subsequent ones being staged in the US, Canada, and Australia.", "Rayisa Horislavets decided to stay in Serhiivka. \"I can't afford to rent an apartment somewhere safer,\" she said\n\nThe small village of Serhiivka, in eastern Ukraine, was completely quiet on Sunday - hardly a person on the streets or milling around the centre of the village, where you would normally find life.\n\nThere used to be 1,500 people here, before the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine in February, and the renewed violence around the frontlines not far from here.\n\nToday there are only about 300 residents left, and more are leaving as Russia renews its campaign to the east and south.\n\nThe population would have already skewed older, but few of the younger people who were here have stayed. It's a phenomenon seen in villages and towns around Ukraine, as younger generations have moved to safer areas while their parents and grandparents choose to stick it out.\n\n\"I have lived here all my life, I'm not going anywhere,\" said Mykola Luhynets, a 59-year-old carrying a rifle and wearing the armband of the territorial defence. Luhynets signed up and took a gun in February. \"I will stay in Serhiivka and defend it if necessary,\" he said.\n\nMykola Luhynets has vowed to stay in the small town\n\nIn normal times, Serhiivka is an industrial and agricultural village - many of its working-age population are either farmers or staff at the local coal enrichment factory. It could be in the line of fire if the Russian forces decided to encroach beyond Donetsk towards the city of Dnipro.\n\n\"We only have simple shelters here but we have prepared them,\" said Valeriy Duhelnyy, 59, the head of the village and local territorial defence units. Duhelnyy is the equivalent of the village mayor, a position he has held since 2020.\n\n\"It's hard for older people here to hit the road,\" he said. \"And maybe some are sentimental - they have stronger emotional ties to where they live. They don't want to die anywhere but home.\"\n\nMore than two million older people in the east of the country are at extreme risk as a result of the Russian assault, according to the charity HelpAge International. There is particular concern among charities focused on supporting the elderly that older people have been unable to move out of harm's way, or feel unable to take on the hardship of upheaval.\n\nThe village has remained peaceful, but people like Mykola Luhynets are preparing to defend if necessary\n\nSome simply do not have the money to move, or a place to go. \"I'm a retiree and I don't have much, only a small pension,\" said Rayisa Horislavets, 66, who lives with her daughter in a small house in Serhiivka.\n\n\"I can't afford to rent an apartment somewhere safer. I can't rule out that something bad will happen here, but I just have no other options,\" she said. \"Nobody needs me anywhere else, so I decided come-what-may I would stay here.\"\n\nHorislavets used to speak regularly to her sister, who lives on the other side of the frontline that separates the territory still in Ukrainian control from the \"Donetsk People's Republic\" - the breakaway region where Russia has forged a separatist movement since 2014.\n\nThe phone connection to her sister died about two weeks ago, Horislavets said. But the relationship had already deteriorated, after her sister began telling her that she thought the news about Russia's attacks on Ukraine was fake.\n\nValeriy Duhelnyy, head of the village, sits on the monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko\n\n\"She told me not to believe anything I see in our media, that it is the Ukrainians doing all the damage,\" Horislavets said. \"I told her there are witnesses, we see what is happening in Kharkiv and elsewhere, but she doesn't believe me.\"\n\nHer story is not uncommon in eastern Ukraine, where frontlines have divided families and Russian propaganda has convinced many on the Russian side that the atrocities and attacks reported in international media are fake - that Ukraine is the aggressor.\n\nSo far, Serhiivka has been peaceful. The remaining residents hope it will stay that way, though they are preparing the best they can for worse. They have seen the destruction of Kharkiv to the north and Mariupol to the south, and the grinding war not far from their doorstep in Donetsk.\n\nHorislavets said that when that conflict began, she had taken care for her sister, who lived there.\n\n\"When bad things came to their home we supported them,\" she said. \"Now bad things come to our home, and they do not support us.\" She would like to speak to her sister again. \"Of course, she is my sister,\" she said. But not right now. \"We would only fight.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended the service with their older children Prince George and Princess Charlotte\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were accompanied by two of their children as they joined other royals for the Easter Sunday service at Windsor Castle.\n\nPrince George was dressed in a dark blue suit like his father while Princess Charlotte's dress matched her mother Catherine's light blue outfit.\n\nSeveral of their second cousins, such as Mia Tindall and Savannah and Isla Phillips, also attended.\n\nThe Queen was not at the service - one of the staples of the family's year.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch, who has been suffering mobility issues recently, was also absent from the traditional Maundy Service last Thursday, where special coins were given to 96 men and 96 women.\n\nShe was represented then by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nBut Prince Charles and Camilla were absent from this service.\n\nSunday's outing in Windsor was the second public appearance in a matter of weeks for Prince William's older children - who were also at the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial service on 29 March.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex brought their children Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn\n\nPrincess Eugenie walked alongside Peter Phillips and his children Savannah and Isla\n\nMia Tindall went to the service with her father Mike and mother Zara\n\nJust like the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - who did not bring three-year-old Prince Louis - many of the other royals chose to leave their very youngest children at home.\n\nThe Queen, who has her 96th birthday on Thursday, reached her Platinum Jubilee in February.\n\nShe was visited by her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, in Windsor on Thursday - their first meeting since the couple decided to step down as senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex had chosen to stop off in the UK en route to The Hague in the Netherlands where the Invictus Games, which Prince Harry founded, is currently being held.\n\nWhile in Windsor, the couple reportedly met the duke's father Prince Charles.", "The rising cost of living in Britain has led to households cancelling their streaming subscriptions, new research suggests.\n\nA total of 1.51 million services were canned in the first three months of 2022, market research firm Kantar said.\n\nIt said more than half a million cancellations were attributed to \"money saving\", with households budgeting for higher prices and energy bills instead.\n\nAbout 58% of Britain's homes now have at least one paid streaming service.\n\nThe height of coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns saw surges in subscriptions for platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime.\n\nBut researchers said the proportion of consumers planning to cancel subscriptions stating the primary reason as \"wanting to save money\" had risen to its highest ever level at 38%, up from 29% in final three months of 2021.\n\nKantar said households were \"starting to seriously prioritise where and how their disposable income is spent\".\n\nDominic Sunnebo, global insight director at Kantar's Worldpanel Division, added that the latest research would be \"sobering\" for the industry.\n\n\"The evidence from these findings suggests that British households are now proactively looking for ways to save,\" he said.\n\nResearchers said Amazon Prime's thriller series Reacher was the most-watched title in the first three months of 2022, followed by Ozark and Inventing Anna on Netflix.\n\nThey said that although \"churn\" rates increased almost across all streaming platforms, there was a \"clear difference\" in the number of cancellations seen outside of Netflix and Amazon.\n\n\"Netflix and Amazon can be seen to be hygiene subscriptions for Brits; the last to go when households are forced to prioritise spend,\" Kantar said.\n\n\"Disney, Now TV, Discovery+ and BritBox all saw significant jumps in churn rates quarter-on-quarter.\"\n\nBesides mounting cancellations, the early months of 2022 saw the lowest ever rate of new subscribers, Kantar said.\n\nIn January, Netflix said it added 18.2 million members last year - roughly half the number who subscribed in 2020.\n\nInvestors had hoped that pace would start to pick up again, which sent the company's share price down almost 20% at the time.\n\nThe company admitted that new competition from the likes of Disney, Apple, Amazon and HBO was starting to have an impact.\n\nKantar said advertising was \"an obvious route for driving revenue growth, but one Netflix has historically strictly shied away from\".\n\n\"However, Netflix chief financial officer Spencer Neumann added fuel to the fire by saying in March 'it's not like we have religion against advertising',\" its Entertainment on Demand study said.\n\n\"Data across Great Britain shows Netflix subscribers' attitudes to advertising are softening, with 44% now stating they don't mind seeing on streaming services if it makes them cheaper, a significant rise from 38% at the same point in 2021.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nDerby County have been relegated from the Championship after suffering a dramatic late defeat at Queens Park Rangers.\n\nLuke Amos' 88th-minute winner for QPR, coupled with Reading's remarkable 4-4 draw against Swansea, consigned Wayne Rooney's beleaguered Rams to the drop to League One.\n\nRelegation with three games to go means Derby will play in England's third tier for the first time since 1986.\n\nTheir fight for survival, in a campaign crippled by a 21-point deduction, could only have been prolonged if they equalled or bettered Reading's result.\n\nWhen Amos coolly slipped the ball past goalkeeper Ryan Allsop, their hopes of staying up had taken a major blow but were not over.\n\nHowever, Tom McIntyre's 95th-minute leveller for Reading left the Rams 10 points behind the 21st-placed Royals with three games remaining.\n\nEven then, Tom Lawrence was sent off for a second yellow card for a foul on Charlie Austin to compound Derby's misery.\n\nQPR ended a six-match winless run to move up to 10th in the table and to within two points of the top six, although sixth-placed Sheffield United could increase that gap if they beat Bristol City later on Monday.\n\nIn a nervy first half of the high-stakes game in west London, Amos had an early goal ruled out for offside while Luke Plange skimmed Derby's best chance off the top off the crossbar with a header.\n\nA crucial block from Derby full-back Nathan Byrne to foil Lyndon Dykes after the half-hour mark summed up the steadfast determination Rooney's Rams have played with throughout a fraught campaign.\n\nIf not for the 21-point deduction this season, for entering administration and breaching the EFL's financial regulations, Derby would be 17th in the table and almost as close to the play-off places as the relegation spots.\n\nAllsop made two crucial second-half saves, denying Ilias Chair and Dykes, but Amos finished a quick counter attack with two minutes left to break Derby's resistance and ultimately shatter what hopes they had of avoiding the drop.\n\nDerby's spirited attempt to stay in the Championship is over, but the protracted efforts to sell the club are ongoing.\n\nUS businessman Chris Kirchner was confirmed as the preferred bidder to buy the club earlier this month, but while the sale continues it means Derby remain in administration - having been placed there by former owner Mel Morris 208 days ago.\n\nWith just five players contracted for next season and the Rams under a transfer embargo, rebuilding the East Midlands club in League One will present significant challenges for whoever is involved.\n\nRooney's future with the Rams is also uncertain, with the 36-year-old linked with the vacant job at Premier League side Burnley. Earlier this season he rejected an approach from boyhood club Everton to speak to them about taking charge at Goodison Park.\n\nThe effort, energy, creativity, fighting for the cause, camaraderie. It's all been there in recent months.\n\nThose relationships have meant this team have taken it to game 43 with a 21-point deduction and that has to be commended.\n\nThe amount of players that have been introduced and brought through, that's a good starting block for next season.\n\nIf they can get one or two senior players to sign new contracts and play for Wayne Rooney next season, even in League One, then Derby have a fighting chance.\n\nMinus 15 points is a very strong possibility next season, but that's from the off and not in late September.\n\nDerby fans should be very proud of their team and I'm sure they are.\n• None Second yellow card to Tom Lawrence (Derby County) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Bartosz Cybulski (Derby County) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Malcolm Ebiowei with a cross.\n• None Malcolm Ebiowei (Derby County) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Queens Park Rangers 1, Derby County 0. Luke Amos (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lyndon Dykes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Malcolm Ebiowei (Derby County) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Lawrence.\n• None Attempt saved. Ilias Chair (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Malcolm Ebiowei (Derby County) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ravel Morrison.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nathan Byrne (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Malcolm Ebiowei. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A protest in Bonn, Germany: The German government has previously argued against weapons deliveries to Ukraine\n\nRepenting historical wrongs is a national pastime in Germany. But even by German standards, the soul-searching over Berlin's Russia policy is remarkable.\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, many German politicians have publicly admitted they got Vladimir Putin wrong. Even German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has apologised, saying it was a mistake to use trade and energy to build bridges with Moscow.\n\n\"It's a bitter acknowledgement that for 30 years we emphasised dialogue and co-operation with Russia,\" says Nils Schmid, foreign affairs spokesperson for Mr Steinmeier's party, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). \"Now we have to recognise this has not worked. That's why we have entered a new era for European security.\"\n\nThat new era was dubbed \"Zeitenwende\" - literally meaning a turning point - by Germany's SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a now-famous speech in the German parliament a few days after the invasion.\n\nIt means scrapping rules about weapons exports, a huge boost in defence spending and an end to Russian energy imports. A Russian gas pipeline to Germany called Nord Stream 2 has already been suspended.\n\n\"For the foreseeable future, co-operation with Russia will not occur. It will be more about containment and deterrence and, if needed, defence against Russia,\" Mr Schmid tells me.\n\n[Dialogue and co-operation with Russia] has not worked... we have entered a new era for European security.\n\nUnexpectedly hawkish words for a party that until seven weeks ago believed Germany's historical guilt and moral duty to make up for Nazi crimes meant peace with Russia at all costs.\n\nBut in Berlin, the war in Ukraine feels very close. The images of shelled Ukrainian buildings look like German cities in World War Two. And the third-of-a-million refugees, mostly women and children, arriving at German train stations remind many here of their parents or grandparents as children fleeing Russian soldiers in 1945.\n\nEven Germany's view of its own history is changing.\n\nUntil the invasion mainstream opinion was that German reunification was thanks to dialogue with Moscow by another SPD chancellor, Willy Brandt. But now the debate has shifted, with reminders that Mr Brandt's diplomacy was backed up by strong deterrence, including a West German defence budget of 3% of GDP.\n\nThe issue of German historical war guilt has also become more nuanced. Before the invasion the government argued against weapon deliveries to Ukraine because of Nazi crimes against Russia.\n\n\"Under Putin, official Russian policy tried to monopolise the memory of the Second World War for the bilateral German-Russian relationship,\" explains Mr Schmid. This blinded parts of German society to the suffering of Ukrainians during the war, he adds.\n\nNow there is a greater awareness of Ukraine's traumas under the Nazis.\n\nBerlin's rhetoric has shifted dramatically. But some ask whether actions are following fast enough. Certainly warm words of support are not enough for Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. He has criticised Germany's continued reliance on Russian oil and gas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nIn a BBC interview last week, Mr Zelensky called payments for Russian energy \"blood money\". And a planned visit to Kyiv by President Steinmeier was cancelled at the last minute.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about what happened: some Ukrainian officials say Mr Steinmeier was not \"disinvited\". But certainly German politicians and commentators interpret the failed visit as a sign of Ukraine's distrust in the German president, who as foreign minister under Angela Merkel spent years trying to achieve peace by engaging with Russia.\n\nAt the Brandenburg Gate - a symbol of another \"Wende\", the word used in German for the process of German reunification - I meet Claudia Major, defence specialist at SWP, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.\n\n\"Our partners look at us, and say: OK, you do a Zeitenwende but what are you practically doing?\" she says. \"On sanctions we are timid and on weapons delivery, we are reluctant. So, rightly, they wonder what that Zeitenwende is about, and given that Germany is a big economic, military, political power in the middle of Europe, whatever we do makes a difference, in good ways and bad.\"\n\nGermany has committed to sanctioning Russian energy imports, but wants a gradual phase-out, rather than an instant embargo. The government argues this would tip Germany into recession and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.\n\n\"This is a dilemma that Germany has created itself,\" argues political scientist Liana Fix from the Körber Foundation. \"That's obviously difficult to accept for other countries, who are willing to go ahead with an embargo and have done their homework on energy diversification.\"\n\nGerman President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was told he was not welcome in Ukraine due to his close ties with Russia\n\nIronically, it's a Green Party politician, Economy Minister Robert Habeck, from a party that for years has been calling for energy independence from Russia, who is having to solve this dilemma.\n\nOn military support for Ukraine, Berlin says it is prepared to send whatever weapons Kyiv needs. But there are allegations that some ministries are getting tied up in bureaucracy. Here, too, it is a Green politician, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who is pushing the governing coalition to go faster. She has called for heavy weaponry, such as tanks or fighter jets, for Ukraine.\n\nThe chancellor, meanwhile, appears to dodge the question when asked - possibly nervous of losing his party's support.\n\nOlaf Scholz has to keep his party onside, govern in a three-way coalition and overturn Germany's guilt-laden pacifist identity overnight.\n\nBut even his allies say the chancellor should at least communicate better what's going on. One speech in parliament and a few TV chat shows are not enough, says Claudia Major.\n\nMeanwhile, it feels like many individual Germans are going through their own Zeitenwende. Ariane Bemmer, a columnist for the Tagesspiegel newspaper, has written about reassessing her own feelings towards Russia. \"I definitely got it wrong, it's like losing a friend,\" she tells me.\n\nLike many in the former West Germany in the 1980s, she was wary of US-style cutthroat capitalism. She bought a book called Ami Go Home - she never read it, but felt it would look good on her bookshelf - and was intrigued by the reforms in Russia.\n\n\"In America you had Ronald Reagan as a president, which was a shock for us. We thought: what will he do, this crazy actor with his cowboy boots? Will he set the world on fire? Russia was a place where all the good changes were, perestroika, freedom, wind of change,\" she says.\n\nFew in Germany think that now. In one recent poll, 55% of Germans said Berlin should send heavy weapons, such as tanks and fighter jets, to Ukraine to fight against Russia.\n\nFor Ariane, and many other Germans, any lingering Russophile romanticism vanished for good the day Putin's tanks rolled over Ukraine's border.", "Most of Sviatohirsk's residents have fled the town\n\nIn a picturesque resort town on the northern edge of Ukraine's Donbas region, people can hear the shelling coming closer. The Russians are just five miles to the north.\n\nSviatohirsk was once a staple of the tourist trail but now it is just another place in the Donbas where people flee the fighting. Most of its permanent residents have themselves fled, fearing the war will not stop its ruthless advance here.\n\nIt was famed for its historic Russian Orthodox church and monastery, set amid the wooded Holy Mountains of the Donbas. That monastery has been damaged by shrapnel from a Russian air strike that hit a target nearby. There is now a gaping hole in the church spire.\n\nJust to the north is the city of Izyum where there is already fierce fighting. The residents who had fled Izyum told us they had been bombed day and night, been without running water and electricity for weeks. They also said there were bodies on the streets.\n\nThe support of religious leaders is helping some cope with the trauma of war\n\n\"Everyone is worried,\" the town's mayor, Vladimir, tells me.\n\nHe says those who have remained regularly call to check he's not leaving. He is not. He is staying put and organising food parcels for the town's dwindling population. These are people who are tired, hungry and scared, too scared sometimes to apportion any blame on Russia.\n\n\"I will not talk about it,\" one woman tells me, \"because we still have to go home.\"\n\nRussia is open about the fact that its renewed focus in the war will be in Ukraine's east, the Donbas. The Russian offensive here is coming from three directions - from the north, south and the east.\n\nBut the landscape of the town that so charms its visitors also offers some kind of protection to its terrified residents. Unlike most of the Donbas region, which is largely flat open landscape, Sviatohirsk is set among hills and forests - providing some natural defences - making it harder for an army to manoeuvre with artillery and tanks.\n\nThe people left in the area find themselves queuing for emergency food parcels\n\nThe residents who have stayed behind now rub shoulders with soldiers getting a brief respite from the fighting. They grab a coffee from one of the few shops left open. The military's not allowed to speak to us without permission.\n\nOne man proudly tells us he was trained by British troops before the latest war started. He's confident that Ukraine can win this war.\n\nBut I meet another soldier who sounds less assured. The unrelenting Russian bombardment is taking its toll. Another soldier tells us that the Russians have been targeting their positions with white phosphorous shells - which burn into the flesh.\n\nThere is now a real danger that Russia may soon try to encircle Ukrainian forces in the region who have been fighting Russian-backed separatist in the region since 2014. Ukrainian troops there are among the most battle hardened in the Ukrainian Army. But they, too, are worried that their supply lines could be cut off as Russian forces push in from three different directions.\n\nThe unit we saw look well trained and well equipped. Their automatic weapons were fitted with suppressors, which are silencers. An officer who agreed to be interviewed says his son, too, was trained - by US and British forces.\n\nThe Ukrainian army now is better prepared than when separatists took over the Donbas in 2014\n\nVolodomyr told us that the Ukrainian Army is now much better prepared than the one of 2014 - when Russian backed separatists took over part of the Donbas.\n\n\"If this war had happened then, I don't know how it would end, but now we know the Russian aggressors will get what they deserve.\"\n\nVolodomyr says the Russians are using similar tactics they have used elsewhere in Ukraine - \"creating panic among the local population\". He says \"it's inhuman\".\n\nIt is now happening right across the Donbas.\n\nFrom the distance we could see and hear the city of Severodonetsk being pounded. We tried to enter but had to turn back when we heard the whistle of a shell landing nearby. It was a similar scene further south in the city of Avdiivka - where the remnants of a once bustling industrial city were now hiding in bunkers.\n\nGallina showed the crater caused by a bomb landing in her garden\n\nEven a nearby village hadn't been spared. Sixty-year-old Gallina showed us the crater which had landed in her garden - blowing out the windows of her small home the night before. Inside, her granddaughter, Anastasia, was cowering under a table - still too frightened to come out.\n\nGallina told me \"there's nothing funny about this situation\".\n\n\"We live here like cannon fodder,\" she added.\n\nAnastasia has been hiding under a table since a bomb landed near her home, frightened to come out\n\nUkrainian forces are trying to slow any Russian advance - as they did in Kyiv. One soldier shows us drone footage of a bridge they recently blew up - to the north of Izyum. It brings a column of military trucks to a standstill. But more will be coming.\n\nWhat is happening in the Donbas now - the incessant, unrelenting shelling - is the prelude to the long expected offensive. Russia is trying to weaken Ukraine's defences and its people's resolve.\n\nThere have been also Russian probing attacks across the frontline. Most have been so far repelled by Ukraine forces. But they know more will be coming.\n\nRussia is still massing and reconstituting its battered units. There are still questions as to whether Russian forces will perform any better in the east than they did outside the capital Kyiv - where they were forced to retreat.\n\nThe UK's Ministry of Defence believes Russian commanders will also be concerned by the time it is taking them to subdue the port city of Mariupol - which has diverted men and materiel - slowing the Russian advance elsewhere.\n\nUkraine still fears worse is to come. That's why President Volodymyr Zelensky has once again been calling for more weapons.\n\nUntil recently Western support has been limited to \"defensive weapons\" - such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. But some countries are now sending heavier weapons.\n\nWe have seen some of it - such as armoured vehicles - arrive on the frontline. The Czech Republic is providing Ukraine with a dozen T-72 tanks. The latest batch of US military aid will include 18 howitzers.\n\nBut that will probably not be enough to tip to balance overwhelmingly in favour of Ukraine.\n\nBack in Sviatohirsk, Mayor Vladimir says he is still holding out hope that this conflict can be resolved through diplomacy.\n\n\"All this is terrible,\" he says. \"This destruction has no future.\"\n\nAre you or your family in the area? If it is safe to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A federal judge in Florida has struck down the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other forms of public transit, calling it unlawful.\n\nUS District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the national public health agency had exceeded its legal powers in issuing the mandate.\n\nThe US transit authority said it would now no longer enforce mask wearing.\n\nThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just last week extended the mandate until 3 May.\n\nJudge Mizelle is based in Florida, but federal judges can issue rulings that block nationwide government policies.\n\nHer order on Monday effectively removes the masking requirement in all airports, trains, taxis and transit hubs.\n\nSome social media users reported that the order was announced on aircraft mid-flight, prompting travellers to applaud and remove their masks.\n\nOn Monday, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants appealed for \"calm and consistency\" in airports and on planes to avoid \"confusion and chaos\".\n\nWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki called the decision \"disappointing\" and noted that the CDC still recommends travellers cover their mouths and noses.\n\nMs Psaki added that the Justice Department \"would make any determinations about litigation\" following the order.\n\nThe CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment to Monday's ruling.\n\nLast week US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said the mandate had been extended into May because of rising Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe lawsuit was first brought in July 2021 by the conservative group Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF) and two Florida residents who said wearing masks increased their anxiety and panic attacks.\n\nThe plaintiffs argued that the CDC mandate was \"arbitrary and capricious\" because it gave exemptions to certain groups - like children under two years of age - but not to others.\n\nIn her ruling, Judge Mizelle, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, found that the CDC had improperly invoked what is known as the \"good cause exception\", allowing the agency to skip public notice and comment on the mandate.\n\n\"Because 'our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in pursuit of desirable ends,'\" Judge Mizelle wrote, invoking another case, \"the Court declares unlawful and vacates the Mask Mandate.\"\n\nShortly after the legal decision was issued, the Transportation Security Administration - which runs US airport security - confirmed it would no longer enforce the mask mandate.\n\nUnited Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines said face coverings would no longer be required on domestic flights and certain international flights.\n\nSince the CDC first issued a public health order in February 2021 requiring masks for travellers, more than 7,000 unruly passenger incidents have been reported - 70% of them involving masking rules, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.\n\nAdditionally, ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft both announced that passengers and drivers are no longer required to wear masks while using the services, effective immediately.\n\n\"You can now ride without a mask and use the front seat if you need to,\" Uber said in a statement. \"While mask usage is still recommended, we've updated our Covid safety policies. Let's move forward, safely together.\"\n\nLyft, for its part, said that masks are now \"optional\".\n\n\"We know that everyone has different comfort levels, and anyone who wants to continue wearing a mask is encouraged to do so,\" the company said.\n\nThe Biden administration's Covid-19 mandates have had mixed success in the court system.\n\nThe Supreme Court in January blocked the White House from enforcing its sweeping vaccine-or-test rule for employees at large private companies.\n\nBut the Biden administration's requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against Covid-19 was upheld on appeal earlier this month.", "A dozen sanctioned Russians are linked to an estimated £800m worth of property in the UK, analysis by the BBC reveals.\n\nMulti-million pound country manors in the south of England and luxury flats in London's most expensive areas are among the homes which have been snapped up by figures linked to Vladimir Putin.\n\nSome of the individuals deny ownership of the mansions, which may mean they are beyond the reach of the sanctions.\n\nTo get to the bottom of who owns what, we carried out a detailed trawl of leaked offshore documents, the Land Registry and court papers - as well as previous reporting.\n\nOur findings highlight the UK's status as a place for super-rich Russians to set up home, and the difficulties of identifying the true owners of properties bought by offshore firms in tax havens.\n\nIn response to the BBC's findings, anti-corruption group, Transparency International highlighted how hard it is to track who owns what in the UK.\n\n\"Because of the system of secrecy here in the UK and in relation to the Overseas Dependencies it's really easy for people to hide their assets and their funds in the UK and not even the police necessarily have sight of where those assets are,\" Rachel Davies, head of advocacy at the organisation, told the BBC.\n\nThe UK, US and European Union have together sanctioned more than 1,000 Russian individuals and businesses, including wealthy business leaders - so-called oligarchs - who are considered close to the Kremlin.\n\nMost of those listed below were sanctioned after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, although some were already on the government's sanctions list.\n\nIn early March, the British government imposed sanctions on the 55-year-old billionaire. The previous week Mr Abramovich had put Chelsea FC up for sale.\n\nHe has a vast property portfolio in the UK with more than 50 luxury residences, most on Fulham Road in west London. Through his UK company Fordstam Limited, he owns dozens of apartments in Chelsea Village, plus the hotel and residential complex around Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium, according to the Land Registry.\n\nHis most expensive London property is a 15-bedroom house on a street that is nicknamed Billionaires Row. With its vast stucco-faced Italianate mansions, it is home to royalty and ambassadors - as well as oligarchs.\n\nMr Abramovich bought the property in west London using an offshore company in 2011, reportedly paying £90m. In 2016 he was granted planning permission for a £28m refurbishment, including a subterranean pool, although this did not go ahead.\n\nIn planning documents submitted to the council, its existing pool was described as a \"miserable space\" that was \"too small to afford comfortable or meaningful swimming\".\n\nIn 2017, Mr Abramovich used Fordstam Limited to buy an apartment just off the King's Road for £8.7m. In 2019, he paid £22.3m for a three-storey penthouse apartment on the former Lots Road power station site in Chelsea.\n\nMr Abramovich did not answer the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nThe UK government imposed a full asset freeze and travel ban on Alisher Usmanov on 3 March, citing the Russian billionaire's \"close links to the Kremlin\". This followed a similar move by the EU.\n\nThe Uzbekistan-born businessman and former Arsenal shareholder has been a close associate of Everton's majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, who resigned as chairman of Mr Usmanov's USM Holdings in early March following the imposition of sanctions on the oligarch. Everton have suspended all dealings with Mr Usmanov's businesses, including USM's sponsorship of their training ground.\n\nHis wealth has been estimated at $18.4bn (£14bn), including \"Beechwood House in Highgate [north London]… and the 16th Century Sutton Place estate in Surrey\", the UK government said.\n\nBut a spokesman for Mr Usmanov said most of the billionaire's UK property, plus a $600m (£456m) yacht, had already been \"transferred into irrevocable trusts\", potentially putting them beyond the reach of sanctions.\n\nTracing the ownership of the two houses targeted by the UK government is extremely difficult. They have been held through a complex web of trusts and companies registered in places like the British Virgin Islands which, until recently, did not require the ultimate owner to be disclosed.\n\nMr Usmanov bought Beechwood House for £48m in 2008 using an offshore company. As part of an investigation with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the BBC has seen a document showing Usmanov secured a mortgage in 2005 to part-finance payments for Sutton Place via two firms in Cyprus.\n\nHis two nephews each own multi-million pound properties in north London.\n\nWhen the UK government imposed sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, they described him as worth £2bn and a \"one-time business partner\" of Roman Abramovich.\n\nIn early March, a court heard that he has a multi-million pound property portfolio in the UK, including the art deco mansion Hamstone House in Weybridge, Surrey. Sitting in eight acres of grounds, the Grade II listed property was acquired for £7.1m by a Cyprus-based company, Edenfield Investments Limited, in 2001.\n\nMr Deripaska also owns a large home in Belgrave Square that was occupied by protestors. However, a spokesman for the billionaire at the time said the property belonged to family members.\n\nThere is evidence suggesting Mr Deripaska owns a building five minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace. The 17th-Century terrace house was bought in 2004 for £4.7m by Astibe Limited - an offshore shell company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, which appears in the annual accounts of EN+ (an energy and metals group that Mr Deripaska has a stake in). The property is listed as the address of the company, according to research by Transparency International.\n\nA judge has frozen UK bank accounts operated by a British businessman amid allegations they are linked to Mr Deripaska - National Crime Agency investigators believe the accounts were being used to help the oligarch avoid sanctions.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Deripaska said the sanctions were \"deeply misguided\" and based on \"unfounded and hollow accusations\".\n\n\"Mr Deripaska has never been involved in politics. It is wrong to suggest that Mr Deripaska is close to the Government of Russia and/or Vladimir Putin,\" the statement read.\n\n\"The decision to sanction him has nothing to do with justice or law, neither does the freezing of assets belonging to him or his family.\"\n\nThe UK-based billionaire oligarch Mikhail Fridman had his shares frozen in the investment firm LetterOne, which owns international health food chain Holland & Barrett, after the EU sanctioned him following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On 15 March, he was also sanctioned by the British government, which said he was \"closely associated with President Vladimir Putin\".\n\nMr Fridman told the BBC that the imposition of sanctions by the UK government left him \"shocked\" and that the statement he was closely associated with Vladimir Putin was \"absolutely incorrect\".\n\nLetterOne, which is just under 50% owned by Mr Fridman and Petr Aven (see below), announced the business partners had \"ceased to have any involvement with the company\".\n\nMr Fridman, who is thought to be worth around $12bn, owns a huge property, Athlone House in north London, for which he paid £65m in 2016.\n\nMr Fridman told his local newspaper, the Hampstead and Highgate Express, the building was originally designed for a Victorian industrialist, adding: \"It felt like fate that I, as a businessman, would be similarly drawn years later to the same property and grounds.\"\n\nMr Fridman secured planning permission for a significant restoration, including the addition of a wine cellar, cinema room, swimming pool, yoga room and cigar room.\n\nMr Aven was named in EU sanctions as \"one of Vladimir Putin's closest oligarchs\" who \"does not operate independently of the President's demands\".\n\nAlong with Mikhail Fridman, the Russian billionaire's shares in LetterOne were frozen.\n\nLand Registry records show a Cyprus-based company paid £8m in 2009 for his home, Ingliston House in Virginia Water, Surrey.\n\nPetr Aven pictured next to his Henry Moore sculpture\n\nMr Aven reportedly owns an extensive private art collection, which includes works by Kandinsky, Louise Bourgeois and Henry Moore. He was photographed by the FT at his home alongside some of his pieces.\n\nAfter he was sanctioned by the EU, he stepped down as a trustee at the Royal Academy, which returned a donation from him.\n\nMr Aven told the BBC that his family also owned a two-bedroom apartment and studio in central London.\n\nHe said he \"strongly disagreed\" with UK government's description of him as a \"pro-Kremlin oligarch\".\n\nHe said the sanctions against him were \"understandable, but unfair\", adding he saw no fair reason to be sanctioned and that he never operated under the demands of Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"My partners and I always tried to be out of politics,\" he said.\n\nBorn in Kyiv, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, Mr Khan is \"a close associate of Vladimir Putin who has been involved in destabilising Ukraine\", according to UK authorities, which sanctioned him in March.\n\nHe and and his wife Anzhelika own several properties in England.\n\nThe Panama Papers revealed the couple have shares in the Seychelles company Apilosa Corporation. Land registry papers show it paid £62m in 2008 for two apartments near Buckingham Palace.\n\nGerman Khan bought two more flats in the area in 2005. In 2018, they were transferred to his wife's name, according to Land Registry documents.\n\nThe couple also bought a mansion in Virginia Water, Surrey, for £26m in 2014. Records show that the mansion was sold on 24 December 2021 to Ravenmorrow Limited for £31m.\n\nIt is unclear who now owns the property. Ravenmorrow Limited was set up in December last year and no individual is identified on UK company records as the beneficial owner.\n\nMr Khan did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe UK government said Igor Shuvalov \"is a core part of Putin's inner circle\" when it imposed sanctions on him in March.\n\nOfficials confirmed his assets in the UK include two luxury apartments in Whitehall worth an estimated £11m. That was first reported by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, set up by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nLand registry documents show the properties are owned by Sova Real Estate LLC in Russia, which - according to official records obtained by the Anti-Corruption Foundation - indicated they were owned by Mr Shuvalov and his wife.\n\nIn response to our questions, a spokesperson for Mr Shuvalov confirmed that ownership of the apartments had been transferred to a Russian company \"controlled by the Shuvalov Family\" in 2014.\n\nThe value of the flats significantly exceeds the £634,000 that Mr Shuvalov declared as his and Mrs Shuvalov's joint wealth to the Russian parliament in 2014.\n\nMr Shuvalov's spokesperson told the BBC that these issues \"have been the subject of competent government audits\", and that \"no complaints were ever filed\".\n\nIn August 2021, Mr Gutseriev was sanctioned by the UK because of his close relationship with Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nMr Gutseriev was the founder of Safmar Group, a Russian conglomerate, but is no longer involved in the company. Mr Gutseriev's son Said, a British citizen who has not been sanctioned, now part-owns SFI - a company previously known as Safmar Financial Investments.\n\nThe Pandora Papers revealed Said Gutseriev owns a multi-million-pound City of London office block bought for more than £40m through a secret offshore company.\n\nSaid Gutseriev's representatives told the BBC he did not have \"any business links with his father\". His lavish wedding, which made headlines in 2016, featured performances by Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias.\n\nYuri Soloviev is a high-ranking executive at sanctioned Russian bank VTB and was sanctioned by the UK government on 15 March this year. The 51-year-old has Russian and British citizenship.\n\nAccording to US Treasury officials, his wife Galina Ulyutina \"was previously implicated in a golden passport scheme\" in Bulgaria. Golden passport schemes allow nationals of one country to acquire citizenship in another through investment.\n\nMr Soloviev owns two London properties in his own name. One is a penthouse in Hampstead, the other is in Westminster. A third apartment near Kensington Palace was bought outright in the name of a relative for £2.2m in 2006 and revealed in the 2016 Panama Papers leak.\n\nA spokesperson for VTB told the BBC that Mr Soloviev \"left VTB group on 24 February 2022\", the day that Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"Mr Soloviev was not sanctioned by any countries while working at VTB,\" the statement added.\n\nThe chairman of the management board of state-owned Gazprombank, Andrey Akimov, was sanctioned by the US in 2018. He was sanctioned by the UK earlier this month.\n\nAccording to Catherine Belton in her book Putin's People, he is a former intelligence operative and \"one of the most important financiers behind Vladimir Putin's regime\".\n\nWorking with the International Consortium of Journalists, the BBC has seen evidence in the Pandora Papers leak that link Mr Akimov to property in London.\n\nLand Registry documents show that Mr Akimov's partner Marianna Chaykina owns an apartment in Knightsbridge. It was bought for £10m by British Virgin Islands (BVI) company Inma Investments in 2012.\n\nMs. Chaykina is listed as co-owner of a number of Mr. Akimov's firms in leaked corporate records and she has been described by Russian media as Mr. Akimov's wife.\n\nThe BBC received no response to its questions from Mr Akimov.\n\nPolina Kovaleva is the stepdaughter of Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, according to the UK government.\n\nLavrov was sanctioned by the British government at the same time as Vladimir Putin. A few weeks later, on 24 March, the UK government sanctioned Ms Kovaleva too - saying she reportedly owns a London property worth £4m.\n\nLand Registry documents show Polina Kovaleva bought an apartment in Kensington with no mortgage in 2016, when she was 21.\n\nMs Kovaleva did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nArkady Rotenberg is one of Vladimir Putin's closest friends - the pair sparred in the same judo gym in St Petersburg.\n\nThe US and the EU imposed sanctions on him in 2014 following Russia's annexation of Crimea. He is also under sanction in the UK, with the government citing his \"close personal ties to President Putin\". His brother Boris and son Igor were added to the sanction list last month.\n\nIn July 2020, an investigation by the US Senate accused the Rotenberg brothers of using secretive purchases of expensive art to evade sanctions.\n\nUpper Ribsden in the village of Windlesham was bought in 2012 for £27.5m by Ravendark Holdings Limited, a company registered in the BVI. It received a loan of over £30m from another BVI company said to be owned by Mr Rotenberg.\n\nIn November 2021, a High Court judge ruled the house was held on trust for the benefit of Mr Rotenberg by Ravendark. That was appealed and the case has yet to be decided. Mr Rotenberg did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe difficulty faced by senior judges and lawyers in establishing who owns a UK mansion illustrates how hard it can be to trace the assets of sanctioned oligarchs.\n\nUpdate 27 May 2022: This article has been amended to clarify the business dealings of Said Gutseriev.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Russian missile attack on the western city of Lviv has left at least seven people dead, city officials say, on a day the Russians intensified strikes across Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had now started its assault to seize Ukraine's Donbas region in the east.\n\nMr Zelensky's remarks came after Russia said it had hit 300 targets across Ukraine, however.\n\nUp until now the picturesque Ukrainian city had escaped largely unscathed from the worst of the Russian invasion.\n\nOne of the missiles there struck a garage where workers were meeting for coffee before work, officials said.\n\n\"Everyone is unsafe,\" Lviv's mayor said.\n\nYury Buran, a 26-year-old IT worker, was one of those killed when a missile struck.\n\n\"Humans cannot do such things. They are not humans, they are barbaric invaders.\" his father Anatoly said to the BBC.\n\nThe final Ukrainian fighters preventing Russia from taking full control of Mariupol will not lay down their arms, the country's prime minister has said.\n\n\"They will fight until the end. And as for now, they are still in Mariupol,\" Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal told a US TV network.\n\nRussia's military says it controls almost all of Mariupol, while Ukraine's Azov Battalion is still holding out in Azovstal, a huge steelworks overlooking the Azov Sea.\n\nThey've been camped out in a network of underground bunkers and tunnels running beneath Mariupol's massive Azovstal steel complex, ignoring multiple Russian ultimatums to surrender.\n\nCredible footage of the Moskva warship in the hours before it sank appears to show the missile cruiser listing heavily with black smoke billowing into the sky.\n\nLast week Russia blamed the loss of its Black Sea flagship on an unexplained fire, but Ukraine claimed it hit the warship with two missiles.\n\nThey agreed it probably showed the Moskva and that the damage was consistent with that from a missile strike, but stressed it wasn't possible to draw definitive conclusions from the grainy footage.\n\nAiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nTwo British men reportedly captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine have appealed on Russian state television for Boris Johnson to help free them, but its unclear whether the pleas were made under duress.\n\nShaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, were shown in two separate videos asking to be swapped in a prisoner exchange with a pro-Kremlin politician being detained in Ukraine.\n\nFamilies of both men have appealed for their Russian captors to treat them humanely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment a Ukrainian BBC journalist is reunited with his mother in the UK\n\nAfter a 2,000 mile (3,128 km) journey that lasted 35 hours, the mother and severely disabled aunt of a BBC journalist have made it safely to Reading in the UK.\n\nBut the journey was only possible because BBC Monitoring's Russia editor Vitaliy Shevchenko shared the story of the danger his family was facing back in Zaporizhzhia on an episode of the BBC's Ukrainecast, prompting two listeners to work together to help pull off the rescue.\n\nListen to Vitaliy's family thanking the man who was able to aid their escape.", "Aiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nThe family of a British man has appealed for him to be treated humanely after he was reportedly captured while defending Ukraine.\n\nRussian sources claim Aiden Aslin, who is originally from Newark in Nottinghamshire, has been captured in the besieged city of Mariupol.\n\nOn Tuesday his family told the BBC his unit was having to prepare to surrender to Russian forces.\n\nMr Aslin has now appeared in photos and video footage restrained in handcuffs.\n\nHis mother Ang Wood told the BBC: \"I believe it is him in the photographs. We just want him to be treated according to the Geneva Conventions.\n\n\"We are just hoping that maybe there can be some sort of prisoner exchange. We don't know what else to do right now except keep pressing the Foreign Office.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) for a response.\n\nMr Aslin has a Ukrainian fiancée and now has dual citizenship, after moving to Ukraine in 2018.\n\nHis grandmother Pamela Hall told the BBC: \"I never expected this, I thought if the worst came to the worst that Aiden would die fighting.\n\n\"Obviously I didn't want that, I wanted the war to end and for him to go home to his fiancée.\"\n\nMr Aslin had been defending Mariupol with his unit during heavy fighting in recent weeks.\n\n\"I think all the guys should be treated as prisoners of war according to the Geneva Conventions; I appreciate it's opposing forces, but they're all human beings,\" his grandmother said.\n\n\"We are all just hoping and praying for his safety.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Aslin is a former care worker who previously fought with Kurdish armed units in Syria against so-called Islamic State.\n\nHe passed out as a marine with the Ukrainian military in 2018. His family understand his unit is the 36th Marine Brigade.\n\nA video is being shown on Russian television news in which Mr Aslin is being questioned.\n\nThe interviewer first asks in Russian whether he understands the language, to which he replies in Russian \"50/50\".\n\nHe is then asked whether he killed anyone, and the interviewer also says: \"Did you see others killing anyone in your presence?\"\n\nMr Aslin replies in English: \"I didn't do any fighting.\"\n\nAiden Aslin is clearly being used to maximum advantage as a tool for Russian propaganda, interviewed by a Russian TV reporter while being held captive.\n\nIn a lengthy segment, the news anchor and reporter refer to Aiden in brutal terms, calling him a \"head cutter\".\n\nDuring the interview, Aiden appears to back up propaganda that Russian state media has been putting out since the start of the invasion.\n\nHe states he has seen Ukrainian soldiers killing Ukrainian civilians. A classic Kremlin claim regularly made by Russian officials, despite huge amounts of evidence of atrocities against civilians committed by Russian forces.\n\nWe cannot know under what duress Aiden may have been prior to this interview, but one thing is very clear.\n\nThese are not the words of the Aiden Aslin from a few weeks ago, when he was speaking to family from the conflict and regularly posting social media updates.\n\nLoved ones will tell you he was very proud of his role as a marine in the Ukrainian forces, and believes strongly in defending civilians.\n\nHis grandmother told the BBC: \"Aiden was not a mercenary as some of these Russian posts are saying.\n\n\"He has never been a mercenary and his involvement with the Ukrainian forces came about because he made Ukraine his adopted home, and he was due to marry his fiancée.\n\n\"It's an unjust war - it should never have happened.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Morgan said his new show would \"cancel cancel culture\"\n\nPiers Morgan has said his controversial exit from ITV's Good Morning Britain last year was \"a farce\" but it \"focused everyone's minds\" on free speech.\n\nThe presenter is about to launch his first TV show since the row over his comments about the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nPiers Morgan Uncensored will air on the new TalkTV channel in the UK as well as being screened in the US and Australia.\n\nHe also criticised ITV for \"censoring\" him. The network has previously said it champions freedom of expression.\n\nMorgan left the breakfast show last March after saying he \"didn't believe a word\" Meghan had said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\nHis comments sparked a record 58,000 complaints to Ofcom. The UK media regulator later rejected the complaints, however, saying that limiting his views would be a \"chilling restriction\" on free expression.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the launch of his new show, Morgan said: \"I used to think I was uncensored, and then of course when I left Good Morning Britain, it turned out that I actually was being censored in the sense that I was told I had to apologise for disbelieving Princess Pinocchio or I would have to leave the building.\n\n\"So I took the leave-the-building option, which I thought was a sad moment for me and for the show. I thought it was the wrong call by ITV.\n\n\"It was all a bit dramatic, but of course what it really did was focus everyone's minds to, 'what is free speech?'\"\n\nThe 57-year-old said his new TalkTV programme would \"uncancel those who have been cancelled\".\n\nITV has said it was Morgan's decision to leave Good Morning Britain and the company accepted this decision.\n\nRupert Murdoch has hired Morgan to host the new show\n\nTalkTV will launch in the UK on 25 April, with Morgan's show also airing on Fox Nation in the US and Sky News Australia.\n\nReferring to his ITV exit, Morgan added: \"I thought the whole thing was a farce, and I'm delighted that actually as a result of the farce, we've ended up with a whole network which is now dedicated to preventing that kind of farce from recurring.\"\n\nSetting out the boundaries for his new show and his approach to free speech, he said: \"You shouldn't be shamed or vilified or cancelled for having an opinion, unless you genuinely are spewing hateful, bigoted stuff.\"\n\nHe added: \"We know where this line is. You can have a vigorous debate with somebody, vehemently disagree, be severely critical. You can call me all sorts of things. That's fine.\n\n\"But the moment you try and get me fired, as Meghan Markle did on Good Morning Britain, where she personally writes to the boss of ITV and demands my head on a plate, that is cancel culture right there.\n\n\"And the idea that ITV rolled over to it is ridiculous. But that's why I'm here, and I feel in a way grateful to them because I think this is a very exciting new platform and opportunity.\"\n\nMorgan will be joined on the TalkTV line-up by Sharon Osbourne\n\nAlthough Ofcom rejected the complaints against ITV, it did so because Morgan's views were balanced by co-presenters who challenged him. The regulator criticised his \"apparent disregard\" for the subject of suicide, after the Duchess of Sussex discussed her mental health.\n\nOfcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said in September: \"Some of the things he said had the capacity to be harmful as well as deeply offensive.\"\n\nThe duchess was among those who complained to Ofcom, and was reported to have also complained to ITV directly.\n\nITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall said in September the broadcaster had \"vigorously\" defended Morgan to Ofcom, and there was \"no way we wouldn't be absolutely not just endorsing but championing freedom of speech and freedom of expression\".\n\nMorgan even likened himself to former South African President Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison for his political activities against the country's racist apartheid regime.\n\n\"I feel like Nelson Mandela when he came out of prison,\" Morgan said. \"It's like the long walk to free speech freedom.\"\n\nThe TalkTV line-up will also include The Talk, a new show featuring Sharon Osbourne, who left a separate US chat show called The Talk after defending Morgan on air.", "Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was filmed without a face covering on while in a barber shop\n\nPolice officers have spoken to Nicola Sturgeon after she was filmed breaching Scotland's face mask rules.\n\nThey reminded her of the importance of wearing a face covering when there was a legal requirement to do so, Police Scotland said.\n\nThe force added it was satisfied that no further action was necessary.\n\nFootage shared on social media showed the first minister without a mask in an East Kilbride barber shop.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Sturgeon said she realised she had forgotten to put her face covering on \"within seconds\" of being in the shop on Saturday.\n\n\"I then immediately put it on,\" she added.\n\n\"However, I accept that not wearing a face covering even for a few seconds was an error on my part and I am sorry for that.\"\n\nShe said Police Scotland made contact with her after receiving complaints.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"This is what they would have done with anyone else in these circumstances, and they were absolutely right to treat me no differently to any other citizen.\n\n\"I explained that the error was inadvertent and the police have confirmed that the matter is closed.\n\n\"While the law no longer requires face coverings to be worn, I will continue to do so in circumstances where this can help reduce the risk of infection, and I encourage everyone to do likewise.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe legal requirement to wear face coverings in crowded indoor places, and on public transport was lifted on Monday.\n\nHowever, people are still being strongly advised to wear masks voluntarily while case numbers remain high.\n\nIt is ironic that on the day Nicola Sturgeon lifted the legal requirement to wear a face covering in shops and on buses, she is in the news for breaking her own rules.\n\nFor the second time in this pandemic, the first minister has apologised for forgetting to put on her mask when she should have.\n\nIt was a temporary lapse and the police have judged that reminding Ms Sturgeon of her responsibilities was sufficient to deal with the matter.\n\nIt is none the less embarrassing for Scotland's principal rule maker to have the police calling her out for being a Covid rule-breaker.\n\nHer case is not equivalent to the multiple parties and gatherings held in and around Downing Street over which the prime minister has already been fined.\n\nIt does however provide Boris Johnson with a comeback to the SNP when he appears in the Commons on Tuesday to explain his behaviour and his previous claim that Covid rules were followed at all times.\n\nDuring the visit to the barber shop on Saturday, Ms Sturgeon shaved a man's beard while journalists took photographs.\n\nThe SNP leader posted footage on her own Instagram account, describing it as \"surreal\" but one of the best and \"scariest\" things she had done on the campaign trail.\n\nFurther footage was later posted online showing her interacting with people without her mask on.\n\nPolice Scotland said its response to the incident was \"in line with our proportionate approach throughout the pandemic\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon has been photographed in a face covering while on the election trail\n\nIn December 2020 Ms Sturgeon apologised for taking her face mask off at a wake following the funeral of a Scottish government civil servant who died with Covid.\n\nAddressing MSPs shortly afterwards, she said: \"I am kicking myself very hard - possibly harder than my worst critic ever could - but more importantly I'll be making sure I don't drop my guard again.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, recently rejected calls to resign, despite being fined by police for breaking lockdown rules in Downing Street in June 2020.", "After BBC Monitoring's Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko spoke about the dangers the war in Ukraine posed to his family in Zaporizhzhia, two people who heard his story on the BBC Ukrainecast podcast worked together to rescue his mother and severely disabled aunt from the country.\n\nFollowing a 35-hour journey, that spanned 2,000 miles (3,218km) and crossed five countries, Vitaly was reunited with family members as they arrived in Reading, and was able to thank the man who aided their rescue.\n\nListen to the full story on Ukrainecast on BBC Sounds", "More than 40 people have been arrested after violent clashes in Sweden between police and people angry at plans by a far-right group to burn copies of the Quran.\n\nThree people were injured in Norrkoping on Sunday when officers fired warning shots at rioters, police said.\n\nThe violence was sparked by a series of rallies organised by the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan.\n\nHe says he has burned a copy of Islam's holy book and wants to do so again.\n\nMuslims consider the Quran the sacred word of God and view any intentional damage or show of disrespect towards it as deeply offensive.\n\nSaudi Arabia has condemned what it called the \"deliberate abuse of the holy Quran by some extremists in Sweden, and provocation and incitement against Muslims\".\n\nIran and Iraq earlier summoned the Swedish ambassadors to lodge protests.\n\nPolice broke up crowd of protesters in the Rosengård area of Malmo on Saturday\n\nSweden's national police chief, Anders Thornberg, said he had never seen such violent riots following Sunday's clashes in Norrkoping, which is about 160km (99 miles) south-west of Stockholm, and nearby Linkoping.\n\nThe two cites also witnessed riots on Friday, along with the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby and the western city of Orebro. On Saturday, there was a riot in the southern city of Malmo.\n\nOn Monday, police said 26 police officers and 14 members of the public had been injured in the violence and that more than 20 vehicles had been damaged or destroyed.\n\nThey said that around 200 people had been involved in the violence, adding they believed it was organised by networks of criminal gangs. Some of the individuals are already known to police and Sweden's security service, Sapo.\n\nSunday's violence in Norrkoping came after Rasmus Paludan said he planned to hold a rally there. However, he never showed up in the city.\n\nIn a statement posted by his far-right, anti-immigrant Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, Paludan said he cancelled the rally because Swedish authorities had \"shown that they are completely incapable of protecting themselves and me\".\n\nHe had earlier appeared on Thursday in the central city of Jonkoping, but as he talked into a megaphone while holding a Quran, his words were drowned out by a priest ringing the bells of a local church in protest.\n\nProtests against plans by Stram Kurs to burn the Quran have turned violent in Sweden before. In 2020, protesters set cars on fire and shop fronts were damaged in clashes in Malmö.\n\nPaludan represented Stram Kurs party in the last Danish elections in 2019, where it received 1.8 % of the vote, failing to win a seat.\n\nIn 2020, he was jailed in Denmark for a month for a string of offences including racism.\n\nHe plans to stand in Swedish elections in September, but he reportedly does not yet have the necessary number of signatures to secure his candidature.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Jason Leitch says he is still worried about the \"overwhelmed nature\" of the health service\n\nPeople in Scotland are no longer legally required to wear face coverings in crowded indoor places like shops and restaurants, or on public transport.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government and health experts are still strongly advising people to continue to wear masks voluntarily.\n\nIt also means wearing face coverings in school corridors will not be mandatory - but it will be encouraged.\n\nThe move brings Scotland into line with the rest of the UK.\n\nBoth ScotRail and the ferry operator CalMac are strongly recommending that passengers continue to wear face coverings.\n\nThe testing regime has also changed, with free lateral flow tests no longer available to the general population.\n\nPeople without symptoms are no longer required to take the regular tests, but PCR tests will be available to people with symptoms until the end of April.\n\nCommunity cases of the virus are falling but the number of Covid-positive hospital patients remains high.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Professor Jason Leitch, said coronavirus was now being dealt with through common sense and guidance, rather than law.\n\nHe acknowledged the daily case rate remained high but he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that vaccination and therapeutics had \"changed the game\".\n\nHe said: \"We're still cautious as public health advisers because we're still worried about the overwhelmed nature of our health systems around the world - not just here, but Scotland is no exception.\n\n\"Our emergency departments are struggling, our hospitals are struggling, not just with Covid - with backlog, with everything else coming in that has waited until this point to come forward.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic, many people have been waiting before approaching the health service with their illness.\n\nFace coverings were still being worn by some at Glasgow's Queen Street Station on Monday\n\nSome bus passengers were still opting to wear face masks on buses in Edinburgh\n\nProfessor Stephen Reicher, a behavioural psychologist at St Andrews University, said people should wear face coverings to protect vulnerable members of the community, rather than themselves.\n\n\"If I choose not to wear a mask, I make it dangerous for somebody who's vulnerable and I take their choice away,\" he said.\n\n\"So we should be acting as a community so everyone can go out in public and everybody can be safe.\"\n\nAsked whether it was too soon to lift the face mask rules, he said: \"Personally, at the levels of Covid that we have now.... I think it's premature. But I don't want to quibble about that.\n\n\"The thing I want to stress is the advice... the public health advice is that for your safety and the safety of others, and so that as a community we can come out of this together, wear a mask in crowded places - very clear, very simple.\"\n\nAlix, assistant manager at Maia Gifts in Glasgow city centre, said business had been quiet while office workers have been working from home and tourism has been curtailed.\n\nBut they are beginning to see footfall rise.\n\n\"People are starting to come back in for work, so it's started to pick up again. Hopefully the masks will be another wee boost for us,\" she said.\n\nAlex said they will continue to maintain good hygiene practice, wiping surfaces and keeping the door open for ventilation.\n\n\"In general we're hoping that people will be more comfortable coming into the city centre, having a bit more of a wander, branching out a bit more,\" she said.\n\nThe latest spike in cases and hospitalisations in Scotland has been driven by the BA.2 Omicron variant of Covid.\n\nAbout one in 17 people in Scotland had the virus in week ending 9 April - down from one in 13 the previous week, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nPublic Health Scotland said there were more than 2,000 people in hospital with the virus on Thursday - but very few in intensive care.\n\nProfessor Linda Bauld, a public health expert and an advisor to the Scottish government, said she was worried about a new variant taking hold.\n\n\"I think we will have a good spring and summer, we will get through this wave and the pressure on the NHS from Covid will lessen,\" she said.\n\n\"But if we had a new variant in the future, the big scientific questions are: is it more transmissible? Is it more severe? And how do our vaccines and the protection conferred by vaccines respond to that variant?\n\n\"That's why we need to keep up a threshold of testing in Scotland and around the world - the PCR testing that we can genomically sequence to find those variants.\"\n\nThe national clinical director was also asked about a video showing Nicola Sturgeon not wearing a face mask during a campaign visit to a barber's in East Kilbride.\n\nThe matter has been reported to Police Scotland.\n\nProf Leitch said: \"I haven't spoken to the first minister today, I imagine I'll speak to her later.\n\n\"My understanding is it was a matter of seconds. She realises the place is crowded, puts her face covering on. Which is actually what we're asking people to do.\n\n\"The guidance is if you are in a crowded area inadvertently or deliberately, then put a face covering on and that will protect you and others.\"", "Jodie Whittaker became the first female to play the Doctor in 2018\n\nTwo former Doctor Who companions will appear in Jodie Whittaker's final adventure later this year.\n\nTegan and Ace will join the 13th Doctor in the special episode being broadcast this autumn.\n\nThe news was revealed in a trailer that followed the show's Easter special.\n\nThe short teaser also revealed that the episode will feature the Doctor's arch enemy The Master (Sacha Dhawan) and two of her most famous foes, the Daleks and the Cybermen.\n\nYasmin Khan, played by Mandip Gill, and Sacha Dhawan as the Master\n\nThe Daleks are among the Doctor's most famous foes\n\nTegan Jovanka, an Australian air stewardess, appeared on the BBC One show between 1981 and 1984 as a companion to Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors.\n\nIt's the first time she's been seen on screen in almost 40 years.\n\nShe's played by Janet Fielding, who says: \"In some ways it was a very different experience to what it was like when I finished recording in 1983, but in many ways it was very similar. It was so lovely to be a working member of the Doctor Who family again.\"\n\nAce was in the TV drama from 1987 to 1989 alongside Sylvester McCoy's seventh Doctor.\n\nActress Sophie Aldred says: \"It's been quite a challenge to have such a big secret to keep, even from my family, and I couldn't be more thrilled and excited to have been asked back. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I adored being part of the TARDIS team again.\"\n\nShe was the show's final companion before it went on a 16-year hiatus. Writer/producer Russell T Davies revived it in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston playing the returning Doctor.\n\nJanet Fielding as Tegan and Peter Davison as The Doctor in 1984\n\nSophie Aldred as Ace and Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor in their 1988 adventure Remembrance of the Daleks\n\nWhittaker, the first woman to play the Doctor, has appeared in three series of the sci-fi drama. Her first series in 2018 was one of its most-watched ever.\n\nShe announced that she was quitting the role last summer, and that she would be saying goodbye to the character in three specials.\n\nHer replacement as the Doctor is expected to be revealed in the coming weeks.", "Whitehall was shut for several hours after the incident at Horse Guards Parade\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two Ministry of Defence police officers were confronted with a knife.\n\nThe incident happened at about 08:50 BST at Horse Guards Parade in Westminster, London.\n\nA Taser was used and a 29-year-old man was restrained by officers, the Met Police said.\n\nThere were no reports of any injuries and the incident was not being treated as terror-related, the force said.\n\nThe man was also arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and remains in custody.\n\nWhitehall was closed for several hours due to the incident.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This magnified skin cell is from a 53-year old woman but it looks and behaves like one that is 30 years younger\n\nResearchers have rejuvenated a 53-year-old woman's skin cells so they are the equivalent of a 23-year-old's.\n\nThe scientists in Cambridge believe that they can do the same thing with other tissues in the body.\n\nThe eventual aim is to develop treatments for age-related diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and neurological disorders.\n\nThe technology is built on the techniques used to create Dolly the cloned sheep more than 25 years ago.\n\nThe head of the team, Prof Wolf Reik, of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, told BBC News that he hoped that the technique could eventually be used to keep people healthier for longer as they grow older.\n\n\"We have been dreaming about this kind of thing. Many common diseases get worse with age and to think about helping people in this way is super exciting,\" he said.\n\nProf Reich stressed though that the work, which has been published in the journal eLife, was at a very early stage. He said that there were several scientific issues to overcome before it could move out of his lab and into the clinic. But he said that demonstrating for the first time that cell rejuvenation is possible was a critical step forward.\n\nDolly the sheep was created, using cloning, to find cures for the diseases of ageing\n\nThe origins of the technique stem from the 1990s, when researchers at the Roslin Institute just outside Edinburgh developed a method of turning an adult mammary gland cell taken from a sheep into an embryo. It led to the creation of Dolly the cloned sheep.\n\nThe Roslin team's aim was not to create clones of sheep or indeed humans, but to use the technique to create so-called human embryonic stem cells. These, they hoped, could be grown into specific tissues, such as muscle, cartilage, and nerve cells to replace worn-out body parts.\n\nThe Dolly technique was made simpler in 2006 by Prof Shinya Yamanaka, then at Kyoto University. The new method, called IPS, involved adding chemicals to adult cells for around 50 days. This resulted in genetic changes that turned the adult cells into stem cells.\n\nIn both the Dolly and IPS techniques, the stem cells created need to be regrown into the cells and tissues the patient requires. This has proved difficult and despite decades of effort, the use of stem cells to treat diseases is currently extremely limited.\n\nProf Reik's team used the IPS technique on 53-year-old skin cells. But they cut short the chemical bath from 50 days to around 12. Dr Dilgeet Gill was astonished to find that the cells had not turned into embryonic stem cells - but had rejuvenated into skin cells that looked and behaved as if they came from a 23-year old.\n\nHe said: \"I remember the day I got the results back and I didn't quite believe that some of the cells were 30 years younger than they were supposed to be. It was a very exciting day!\"\n\nThe technique cannot immediately be translated to the clinic because the IPS method increases the risk of cancers. But Prof Reik was confident that now it was known that it is possible to rejuvenate cells, his team could find an alternative, safer method.\n\n\"The long-term aim is to extend the human health span, rather than the lifespan, so that people can get older in a healthier way,\" he said.\n\nProf Reik says some of the first applications could be to develop medicines to rejuvenate skin in older people in parts of the body where they have been cut or burned - as a way to speed up healing. The researchers have demonstrated that this is possible in principle by showing that their rejuvenated skin cells move more quickly in experiments simulating a wound.\n\nCell-replacement treatments using cloning technology have still to be developed\n\nThe next step is to see if the technology will work on other tissues such as muscle, liver and blood cells.\n\nProf Melanie Welham, who is the executive chairman of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, which part-funded the research that led to Dolly the sheep, told BBC News that the long-stalled clinical benefits of the technology may not be that far away.\n\n\"If similar approaches or new therapies could rejuvenate immune cells, which we know become less responsive as we age, then in the future it might be possible to boost people's response to vaccination as well as their ability to fight infections.\"\n\nThe big question is whether research efforts in this area would lead to a method of whole-body regeneration, an elixir of youth or an anti-ageing pill. Prof Reik said this idea was not completely far-fetched.\n\n\"The technique has been applied to genetically modified mice and there are some signs of rejuvenation. One study showed signs of a rejuvenated pancreas, which is interesting for its potential to tackle diabetes.\"\n\nBut Prof Robin Lovell-Badge, of the Crick Institute in London, believes that the scientific hurdles between Prof Reik's result in the lab and even the simplest clinical applications are considerable. Nor does he think it will be a trivial process to translate the rejuvenation process to other types of tissue or indeed an anti-ageing pill.\n\n''If you find other chemicals to do the same thing, then that would be good, but they may be just as bad. So it is ambitious to think you are going to find these chemicals easily and that they are going to be safer.\n\n''It is also quite possible that other types of cells would require different conditions that may be hard to control. And whether you could do it with the whole body safely would be such a long way off, that I would think it would be pure speculation.\"", "The Duchess and Duke of York have been named in this financial dispute\n\nThe latest steps in a Turkish millionaire's fraud claim have linked a further payment to the Duchess of York.\n\nCourt documents show lawyers of Nebahat Isbilen have updated who they claim received her assets, in allegations against business adviser Selman Turk.\n\nThis suggests the Duchess of York could have received a further £20,000, in addition to £225,000 and more than £1m paid to her ex-husband Prince Andrew.\n\nMr Turk has denied the allegations of misusing Mrs Isbilen's money.\n\nThere are no suggestions of wrongdoing against the Duke or Duchess of York or their family.\n\nThis complex case before the High Court in London revolves around claims that 77-year-old Mrs Isbilen has been the victim of \"systematic fraud\".\n\nShe has accused Mr Turk of having \"dishonestly misappropriated\" about £38m of her assets.\n\nPeters and Peters, the law firm representing Mrs Isbilen, have updated details of where they claim some of her money was directed by Mr Turk, clarifying a confusion over similarly-named businesses.\n\nCourt papers say it now \"appears likely\" that a payment, previously identified as £20,000, was to a business \"connected with Sarah, Duchess of York\".\n\nA source close to the duchess said the £20,000 was for her advisory role with Alphabet Capital, the firm which had made the payment.\n\nAlphabet Capital is claimed in court papers as being used by Mr Turk to make payments - but a source close to the duchess said she was unaware of any link with Mr Turk.\n\nCourt papers also show Alphabet Capital as the route for the duchess receiving £225,000.\n\nIt is understood the Duchess of York is not planning to repay the £225,000, because this was to cover her work as a brand ambassador for a US solar energy company.\n\nThe duchess is understood to have wanted to be paid in a single payment by the US firm, rather than in instalments - and Mr Turk stepped in to forward the full amount.\n\nA spokesman for the Duchess of York said: \"The duchess was completely unaware of the allegations that have since emerged against Mr Turk. She is naturally concerned by what has been alleged against him.\"\n\nCourt documents also show claims of payments to her daughter Princess Eugenie, with about £15,000 referenced as a \"birthday gift\", and another payment of £10,000.\n\nPrince Andrew is claimed to have received £350,000 through Alphabet Capital.\n\nAnd he has repaid a separate payment of £750,000 given to him directly by Mrs Isbilen on 15 November 2019.\n\nPrincess Beatrice was named in the financial court case\n\nMrs Isbilen says she was misled into believing the £750,000 was for help with a passport. She also claims Mr Turk had explained the payment to her bank as a \"wedding gift\" for Princess Beatrice.\n\nBut Mr Turk says the money for Prince Andrew was paid by Mrs Isbilen \"on her own initiative\" and not under his direction.\n\nMrs Isbilen's lawyer Jonathan Tickner said Prince Andrew was contacted in March 2021 requesting an account of his dealings with Mr Turk.\n\n\"Prince Andrew declined to provide any such account but ...repaid Mrs Isbilen the sum of £750,000,\" said Mr Tickner.\n\nPrince Andrew's representatives have declined to comment on the ongoing court case.\n\nThe week before the £750,000 was paid, Mr Turk's bank business, Heyman AI, had received an award at the Pitch at the Palace business event, headed by Prince Andrew, with Mr Turk and the prince appearing on stage at the awards.\n\nThe court papers report Mrs Isbilen's claim that Mr Turk also attended a charity event that week hosted by Prince Andrew at St James's Palace, at which Mr Turk \"sought to promote his UK banking business\".\n\nBut this prize-winning business also seems to have been funded by Mrs Isbilen, who says her assets were being used \"without my knowledge or consent\".\n\nShe claims millions were taken from her accounts and transferred via other companies, including an offshore firm linked to Mr Turk, to pay for Heyman AI.\n\nBut Mr Turk says Mrs Isbilen voluntarily offered to support his Heyman AI business, offering him a loan of £4m at 0% interest, although he says he convinced her to accept some interest.\n\nThe business went into liquidation and court papers note that \"all of the money appears to have been spent\".\n\nMrs Isbilen is from a wealthy Turkish business family, but when her politician husband was jailed she wanted help moving her assets out of Turkey.\n\nThe claim before the High Court is that Mr Turk misused his role as business adviser, with her lawyers saying she had a limited grasp of English and had entrusted \"almost total control\" of her finances to Mr Turk.\n\nBut Mr Turk rejects any claim of deceit, saying that \"at every step\" he acted in accordance with Mrs Isbilen's instructions.\n\nHe says she gave her approval to all the financial transactions and investments he carried out, which had been signed by her \"confirming her instructions and authorisation\".", "Dizengoff Street, where the attack happened, is a place bustling with bars and restaurants\n\nIsraeli PM Naftali Bennett says security forces will have \"full freedom\" to act after an attack in Tel Aviv killed three Israelis.\n\nTwo were killed when a Palestinian opened fire on a bar in one of the city's busiest streets on Thursday night. A third died on Friday.\n\nThe attacker evaded a huge manhunt for hours, before being shot dead in a gunfight in nearby Jaffa.\n\nIsrael has been rocked by a wave of attacks which have killed 14 people.\n\nIn the latest, Raad Hazem, 28, from Jenin in the occupied West Bank, shot people at the Ilka bar on Dizengoff Street, a main thoroughfare full of restaurants and bars in the heart of Tel Aviv, before escaping.\n\nMore than 1,000 members of the Israeli police, army special forces and the Shin Bet intelligence service poured into the city centre to try to find him, as police warned residents to stay indoors.\n\nHazem was found hiding near a mosque in the port of Jaffa, about four miles (6km) away, and was killed in a shootout with counter-terrorism and security agents.\n\nSpeaking in Tel Aviv on Friday morning, Prime Minister Bennett said security forces would have free rein to deal with threats.\n\n\"There are not and will not be limits for this war. We are granting full freedom of action to the army, the Shin Bet [domestic intelligence agency] and all security forces in order to defeat the terror.\"\n\n\"Every murderer knows we will find them, everyone who helps a terrorist should know that they will pay a heavy price.\"\n\nShin Bet said Hazem had entered Israel illegally and had no known links to militant organisations.\n\nPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned \"the killing of Israeli civilians\", warning that \"the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians only leads to a further deterioration of the situation\", the official Palestinian Wafa news agency said.\n\nHowever, the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, praised the attack.\n\nTwo childhood friends and a 35-year-old father-of-three were killed by the gunman\n\nIsraeli media reports say Hazem had been sitting outside Ilka bar for about 15 minutes before he opened fire at about 21:00 (18:00 GMT), sparking pandemonium.\n\n\"I was heading north and as we were passing by a bar shots started,\" Mark Malfiev, who was injured, told the BBC.\n\n\"I saw the window shattering, suddenly people started running and I felt a back pain,\" he said. \"I did not know there was an injury. I was just walking and then I felt a lot of blood, I saw blood.\"\n\nCCTV footage showed people drinking then suddenly dashing away at the moment of the attack, overturning chairs in the scramble to escape. Video from Dizengoff Street showed people running away as emergency vehicles streamed into the area, sirens wailing.\n\nThe two men killed at the bar were named as childhood friends Eytam Magini and Tomer Morad, both aged 27. A 35-year-old father-of-three, who was one of 12 people wounded, died in hospital on Friday.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the attack, adding that Washington stood with Israel \"resolutely in the face of senseless terrorism and violence\".\n\nIsrael's security forces were already on a high state of alert after a spate of deadly attacks in recent days.\n\nAt the end of last month, five people were shot dead by a Palestinian gunman in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish suburb of Tel Aviv. Days earlier, six people were killed in two attacks by three Israeli Arabs in the northern city of Hadera and the southern city of Beersheba. All the perpetrators were shot dead.\n\nIt marks the deadliest period of attacks in Israel since 2006, with fears of further incidents in the lead-up to the rare convergence next week of the Muslim festival of Ramadan, the Jewish festival of Passover and the Christian festival of Easter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Ed Sheeran sits down for exclusive interview about Shape Of You copyright lawsuit\n\nEd Sheeran says his recent High Court copyright case over one of his songs was not about money but honesty and standing up for what was right.\n\nThe singer-songwriter told BBC Two's Newsnight he did not have a choice but to defend his work in court.\n\nTo protect against future claims, Sheeran said he now films all of his songwriting sessions.\n\nA judge ruled on Wednesday that Sheeran had not plagiarised the song Oh Why by Sami Chokri.\n\nIn their first interview following the verdict, Sheeran and his co-writer, Snow Patrol's John McDaid, told Newsnight of the \"extraordinary strain\" the case had exerted on them.\n\nDescribing the court case as long and unpleasant for all involved, Sheeran said \"there was no other choice\" but to fight the claim.\n\n\"You can get a judgement or you can have a settlement and [when] you know that you're in the right, then you can't settle just out of principle. You can't settle.\n\n\"Our royalties were frozen and we were given two options and we chose the option that was integral to us.\"\n\nMcDaid added: \"In the last year, it got really heavy and it was consuming. The cost to our mental health and creativity was really tangible.\"\n\nThis is not Sheeran's first time in court for a copyright dispute.\n\nIn 2017, the 31-year-old settled a $20m copyright infringement case for his song Photograph, something he told Newsnight he now regrets doing.\n\nWhen asked if he thought that settlement had led, in part, to his most recent case he said \"the floodgates opened\".\n\nIt also led to him reassessing his relationship with the song.\n\n\"I didn't play Photograph for ages after that. I just stopped playing it. I felt weird about it, it kind of made me feel dirty,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Ed Sheeran's Shape of You and Sami Chokri's Oh Why\n\nAnd there have been lasting effects on the way he works.\n\nTo guard himself against any similar claims in the future, the Grammy award-winning singer began filming all of his creative writing sessions.\n\nHe said he did not apply this protective measure to collaborative writing sessions involving other artists such as the Shape of You writing sessions with McDaid and producer Steven McCutcheon.\n\nBut he said: \"Now I just film everything, everything is on film.\n\n\"We've had claims coming through on the songs and we go, well here's the footage and you watch. You'll see there's nothing there.\"\n\nAnd his experience of songwriting has been tainted: \"There's the George Harrison point where he said he's scared to touch the piano because he might be touching someone else's note. There is definitely a feeling of that in the studio.\n\n\"I personally think the best feeling in the world is the euphoria around the first idea of writing a great song.\n\n\"That feeling has now turned into 'oh wait, let's stand back for a minute'. You find yourself in the moment, second-guessing yourself.\"\n\nMark Urban met McDaid and Sheeran to discuss the recent copyright case\n\nMcDaid called for more open discussion between all members of the music industry rather than more litigation.\n\n\"I think there's obvious holes in the system at the moment. If I can go to a musicologist and get a report and take that report and they can freeze someone's income based on that... that's a problem.\n\n\"It creates a culture where it can be used as a threat and I think we need to be having conversations with societies, with managers, with artists, songwriters and say this isn't OK for anybody.\"\n\nThey both spoke of their relief that the years-long process had come to an end.\n\n\"I'm happy it's over. I'm happy we can move on and get back to writing songs,\" said Sheeran.\n\nWatch the full interview on Newsnight at 22:30 BST on Friday 8 April on BBC Two.", "Yuliia, left, and her mother Tatiana, described how bodies lay in the streets of Mariupol\n\nCivilians who have managed to flee Mariupol in recent days have described the increasingly desperate situation inside the besieged city, including accounts of bodies buried in shallow graves, looting by Chechen fighters, and starving residents being killed when they venture out of shelters to find water.\n\nThe evacuees' accounts are emerging as they reach the town of Zaporizhzhia which is acting as a hub for refugees.\n\nThey have risked journeys through Russian and Ukrainian lines that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) describes as an evacuation \"from hell\".\n\nWaiting inside one aid facility was Yuliia, with her two daughters and her mother Tatiana. They finally managed to escape the city on Monday.\n\n\"There are starving people,\" said Yuliia, who spoke to the BBC on condition that her surname was not used, a frequent request from residents still concerned about their safety.\n\n\"People are having mental breakdowns. There is a woman we knew who hanged herself. People are being buried in the streets.\"\n\nHer mother Tatiana said: \"[There are] shallow graves, half a metre deep at best, with some earth on top. Dead bodies, all over the streets.\"\n\nThey said many of those with no choice but to remain in basements or wrecked apartment buildings are \"the incapacitated\" - a reference to elderly and disabled people.\n\n\"People were starving… There was no re-supply. There was no humanitarian aid whatsoever. We were cooking whatever we could on bonfires. No water, no gas, no electricity, no power,\" said Yuliia.\n\nTheir family survived underground for a month as Tatiana rationed the only food they had.\n\n\"Whatever we had in our fridges [when the invasion began], some porridge and butter, that's it. We were just bringing water from a well 3km away,\" Tatiana said.\n\nMany who managed to flee from Mariupol found themselves at aid stations in Zaporizhzhia\n\nHer other daughter's family have not been able to leave the city. \"There is no communication. We don't know what's happened to our relatives,\" she said.\n\nThis week, the UK Ministry of Defence warned that the humanitarian crisis was deepening as fierce fighting continued for control of the city and Russian forces blocked aid.\n\nThe chances of getting out diminished quickly for many residents, according to the accounts to the BBC. As the full extent of the siege took hold in early March, Russian-made Grad rockets \"destroyed a lot of cars\", said Yuliia.\n\n\"When we were in Mariupol, Chechens were looting. They were taking people's gold. It was becoming really dangerous, we heard they were raping women,\" she said.\n\n\"I was frightened for my kids and I realised we had to get them out in any way possible\".\n\nThe BBC cannot independently verify the claims. Chechen militants loyal to Moscow have been fighting in Ukraine since the start of the invasion and are reported to have been heavily involved in the siege of Mariupol.\n\nElsewhere in Zaporizhzhia, aid workers have been finding homes and handing out money for evacuated families.\n\nAt one refugee staging centre, Liubov, aged 61, was waiting with her son Valerii.\n\nShe had a picture of their apartment block, eviscerated by shelling or an airstrike.\n\n\"On some days [there were] 50 planes, on other days 70. Each carrying two bombs. They were hitting the drama theatre, museums, hotels, apartment buildings. They didn't discriminate at all.\"\n\nWhen the water supply stopped, Luibov said people had to choose between nothing to drink or a deadly venture outside.\n\nTrips for water are laden with danger; Luibov says one man who did so never came back\n\n\"Those people who tried to get water got killed. Some people managed to bring small amounts of water for cooking,\" she said.\n\n\"We didn't have any water [for weeks]... A man went to get some, he didn't come back.\"\n\nShe said there were up to 300 people in some shelters.\n\n\"Russians would take them out from those shelters, take photos of those people and say, 'we came here to liberate you'. People were crying, scared to say anything back. Scared they might get executed or shot.\n\n\"The Russians would say: 'See, these are the tears of joy. People are happy to be free from the fascists'.\"\n\nIn the refugee staging centre, Liubov wept as she displayed the pictures on her phone, returning again and again to Mariupol's nightmare: the need for mass burials of the dead.\n\n\"They bombed and destroyed Mariupol central market, so people dug a hole in the ground where they would be bringing bodies,\" she said.\n\n\"We were told they would be buried there. But we still don't know if that happened.\"\n\nLiubov and Valerii managed to escape on 19 March. They reached the city of Melekino, also under Russian control, and were searched at a checkpoint where Valerii said the soldiers made him undress.\n\nAll the men in the centre reported the same thing. Russian soldiers looking for fighters strip them to their underwear searching for tattoos or rifle butt marks on men's shoulders.\n\nMariupol lies in ruins, as seen in this photo of a local resident on 4 April\n\nOn Wednesday, eight buses carrying evacuees were escorted by the ICRC into Zaporizhzhia.\n\nThe arrivals had all the belongings they could carry. They looked exhausted and shell-shocked.\n\nSome said the communication collapse in Mariupol is so bad they spent weeks not knowing whether the rest of the country had fallen to the Russians.\n\nOne of the first off the buses was Anna. She had made her own way to the town of Berdyansk about 50 miles (80km) away, the closest the ICRC buses could get to Mariupol.\n\n\"Mariupol is a graveyard now. All the neighbourhoods are covered in the graves of civilians,\" she said. \"It was terrifying. People were sourcing water from a well.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, not everybody got out. We have relatives in Mariupol who we haven't had communications with since the end of February. We don't know if they are alive or not,\" she added.\n\nAnna described her city as a \"graveyard\"\n\nMoscow claims it has evacuated civilians held by \"Nazi battalion fighters\" in Mariupol. Ukraine says up to 40,000 people have been forcibly deported to Russia, with some held in \"filtration camps\" where they are investigated.\n\nMany people have lost contact with close relatives and have no way of knowing whether they have survived.\n\nYevhenii Lysenko was also waiting at a refugee centre in Zaporizhzhia. He left Mariupol for a work trip before the war started. The invasion happened the day he was due to return home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Drone footage shows extent of devastation in the city of Mariupol\n\nHe is stuck in Zaporizhzhia, and hasn't heard from his wife Svetlana since their last contact in early March.\n\n\"The message [from her] was we're being bombed,\" he said.\n\nHe scrolled through pages of text messages to his wife, asking where she was, whether she was safe.\n\n\"Last time I talked to her was 2 March. So for over a month I haven't spoken to her. I don't know what happened to her. I don't know whether she's alive.\"\n\nHe had considered trying to make a trip to Mariupol, back across Russian lines.\n\n\"[But] if I get caught by the separatists they're going to hand me a rifle and tell me to go and shoot my own people… or execute me if I refuse to do that,\" he said.\n\nI asked what he knows about his home.\n\nHe replied: \"It doesn't exist anymore, it's been destroyed by shelling or an airstrike. So essentially there is nowhere for me to return to.\"", "Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were trying to get humanitarian aid when a Russian soldier stopped them\n\nAt around 11:00 on 17 March, Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were cycling to Bucha's administration building where aid was being handed out. Electricity, gas and water had been cut, and essentials were in short supply in the town, one of the first to be occupied by Russian forces as they advanced on Ukraine's capital Kyiv.\n\nYuriy and his father hoped to pick up some medicine and food. Yuriy said a Russian soldier stopped him and his father on Tarasivska St. They immediately raised their hands.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC by phone alongside his mother, Alla, the 14-year-old gave his account of what happened next. \"We told them that we weren't carrying any weapons and that we didn't pose any danger,\" he said.\n\n\"Then my father turned his head my way, and that's when he got shot… He was shot twice in the chest, right where the heart is. Then he fell.\"\n\nAt that point, the teenager said, the soldier shot him in his left hand and he fell too. While he was on the ground, he said, he was shot again, this time in the arm.\n\n\"I was lying on my stomach, I couldn't see anything that was happening around me,\" Yuriy said. The soldier, he said, shot again, aiming at his head. \"[But] the bullet went through my hood.\"\n\nYuriy said the soldier shot again, this time at his father's head. But Ruslan was already dead. \"I had a small panic attack, lying there with my wounded arm underneath me. I saw that my hand was bleeding,\" he said.\n\nIt was only after a while, when the soldier went behind a tank, that Yuriy got up and ran, he said.\n\nYuriy shows wounds that, he says, were caused by a Russian soldier in Bucha\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the details of Yuriy's account, but it comes as evidence grows of atrocities committed by Russian forces while they were in control of Bucha and other towns north of Kyiv.\n\nIn Bucha alone, bodies of dead men were found lying in the street, many with extensive wounds. Some had been shot through the temple, as if executed. Others had their hands or legs tied behind their backs. Some had clearly been run over by tanks.\n\nMany of the bodies were seen along a stretch of Yablonska St, just 2km (one mile) from the street where Ruslan is said to have been killed.\n\nYuriy's mother Alla told the BBC how she had gone to see her husband after the teenager returned home and told her what had happened. She thought Yuriy could be wrong, and that Ruslan was wounded, in need of medical help.\n\n\"My son begged me not to,\" Alla said. \"He said they would kill me too.\"\n\nWhen she tried to walk down the street, she said, her neighbours stopped her. \"[They] told me not to go further, saying the Russians were killing everyone in the territories under their control.\"\n\nThe next morning, Alla got her mother to help. Wearing white scarves, they went to the site of the shooting. Her mother talked to Russian soldiers and they managed to get through. They finally collected Ruslan's body, and brought it home.\n\nA photograph of the partially covered body, taken by Alla and shared with the BBC, appears to confirm Yuriy's testimony. It shows a gunshot wound to the left side of the chest, near the heart.\n\nRuslan, a lawyer, was 49 when he was killed. He was \"active in the community,\" Alla said. \"He couldn't just sit in the shelter and wait. So, he was volunteering and helping people.\"\n\nThey buried him in the garden of the family home.\n\nYuriy said the soldier who killed him was clearly Russian. His uniform was dark green, he said, typical of the Russian army. \"I saw that on his flak jacket it was written 'Russia' in Russian,\" he said.\n\n\"We were no danger to the military, we were civilians, wearing white scarves to show that,\" Yuriy said. \"It's very stupid.\"", "The claim was filed days before Snoop Dogg performed at the Super Bowl half-time show\n\nA sexual assault claim which had been filed by an unnamed woman against US rapper Snoop Dogg has been withdrawn.\n\nThe woman, identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, had accused the US rapper of sexually assaulting her after attending one of his concerts in 2013.\n\nSnoop Dogg's representatives said the allegations were false and welcomed the voluntary dismissal.\n\nThe claim was pulled earlier this week, nearly two months after it was filed in the Central District of California.\n\nIt had originally been filed days before Snoop Dogg performed at the Super Bowl half-time show.\n\nThe voluntary dismissal also removed charges against all other parties named in the case, including the rapper's business associate.\n\nThe woman was described as a dancer, model, host and actress who had worked with Snoop Dogg. But the star said she had never worked for him.\n\n\"It is not surprising that the plaintiff dismissed her complaint against the defendants,\" a representative for Snoop Dogg said in a statement to the Reuters news agency on Thursday.\n\n\"Her complaint was full of false allegations and deficiencies.\"\n\nMatt Finkelberg, a lawyer for Jane Doe, has not yet publicly commented on why the case was dropped. BBC News has contacted him.\n\nThe unnamed woman had originally claimed she had been left \"panicked and terrified\" during the alleged incident, which she claimed had occurred in a bathroom at a TV studio.\n\nShe claimed Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, had burst in on her when she was feeling unwell, and forced her to perform oral sex and masturbated in-front of her.\n\nShe added that she had \"felt pressured\" by the star due to his dominance and his position of power.\n\nSnoop Dogg previously described the claims as \"meritless\" and he had not had \"any sexual encounter\" with her.", "Will Smith (R) hit Chris Rock on stage during the Oscars ceremony, after Rock made a joke about Smith's wife\n\nWill Smith has been banned from the Oscars gala and other Academy events for 10 years after the US actor slapped comic Chris Rock at the ceremony.\n\nIn a statement, the Academy said the 94th Oscars had been \"overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behaviour we saw Mr Smith exhibit on stage\".\n\nSmith has apologised for his actions and resigned from the Academy.\n\nThe actor hit Rock for joking about his wife's shaved head, a result of the hair-loss condition alopecia.\n\nLess than an hour later, he was awarded the best actor award for his role in King Richard, where he played the father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.\n\nThe Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the awards ceremony, met virtually on Friday to discuss disciplinary action.\n\nIn a statement, it said banning Smith was aimed at protecting performers and guests and \"restoring trust in the Academy\".\n\nThe Academy said that directly after the slap it did not \"adequately address the situation in the room\" and had been \"unprepared for the unprecedented\". It apologised for this.\n\nIt also thanked Rock for \"maintaining his composure under extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nIn his resignation statement, Smith said he had \"betrayed the trust of the Academy\" and was \"heartbroken\" over his actions.\n\nHe added he would \"fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct\".\n\nSmith's resignation means he will be unable to vote for future Oscars.\n\nThe Academy's disciplinary review over the incident, originally scheduled for 18 April, was fast-tracked after he resigned.\n\nFew have ever stepped down from the Academy. Four members - producer Harvey Weinstein, actor Bill Cosby, director Roman Polanski and cinematographer Adam Kimmel - have been booted over sexual misconduct allegations, while actor Carmine Caridi was expelled in 2004 for pirating screener videos given to him.\n\nBut the standards of conduct laid out by the film academy contained various disciplinary options for Smith, such as excluding him from future Oscars ceremonies, revoking his eligibility for awards or taking back his newly won Oscar.\n\nOnly one Oscar has ever been taken back; a feature called Young Americans won the best documentary honour in 1969 but was found to be ineligible for the award that year.\n\nLate last month, actor Whoopi Goldberg - a member of the Academy's board of governors - predicted Smith would face \"big consequences\" but said \"we're not going to take that Oscar away from him.\"\n\nBeyond the Academy's actions, at least two studios - Sony and Netflix - are pausing their projects with Smith.\n\nRock, who began his latest stand up comedy tour shortly after the Oscars telecast, has not commented publicly on the slap.\n\nHe told fans at a show last month that he is \"still kind of processing what happened\" and will talk about the incident \"at some point\".", "Ukraine is usually a major producer of cereals such as maize and wheat\n\nThe Ukraine war led to a \"giant leap\" in food prices last month to another record high, the United Nations says.\n\nThe war has cut off supplies from the world's biggest exporter of sunflower oil which means the costs of alternatives have also climbed.\n\nUkraine is also a major producer of cereals such as maize and wheat which have risen sharply in price too.\n\nThe UN said \"war in the Black Sea region spread shocks through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils\".\n\nThe UN Food Prices Index tracks the world's most-traded food commodities measuring the average prices of cereal, vegetable oil, dairy, meat, and sugar.\n\nFood prices are at their highest since records began 60 years ago according to the index, which jumped nearly 13% in March, following February's record high.\n\nThe price of vegetable oils soared 23% while cereals were up 17%. Sugar rose 7%, meat was up 5%, while dairy - which has been less affected by the war - only climbed 3%.\n\nFood commodity prices were already at 10-year highs before the war in Ukraine according to the index because of global harvest issues.\n\nThat has fuelled a cost-of-living crisis that is worrying politicians and has sparked warnings of social unrest across the world.\n\nIn the UK, industry experts have warned that the cost of food could rise by up to 15% this year.\n\nThe UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation warned last month that food prices could rise by up to 20% as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, raising the risk of increased malnutrition across the world.\n\nIt has cut its world wheat projection for 2022 from 790 million tonnes to 784 million, because of the possibility that at least 20% of Ukraine's winter crop will not be harvested because of \"direct destruction\".\n\nBut it said global cereal stocks could end the year 2.4% higher than the start because of stockpiles building up in Russia and Ukraine as both countries exports would shrink.", "Sabina Nessa's body was found near her home in Kidbrooke\n\nKoci Selamaj beat and strangled the 28-year-old as she walked through a park in Kidbrooke, south-east London, on 17 September.\n\nMs Nessa had left her home to meet a friend at a bar when she was targeted by Selamaj, who was said to have travelled to London to carry out \"a predatory attack on a stranger\".\n\nThe 36-year-old admitted a charge of murder at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on 7 April.\n\nMs Nessa had been walking through Cator Park during the evening of 17 September when she was attacked and killed by Selamaj, who did not know her.\n\nKoci Selamaj, who had no previous convictions, also took a rolling pin to the murder scene\n\nAt an earlier hearing, prosecutor Alison Morgan QC described how the Albanian national drove to London from his home in Eastbourne to carry out what she described as \"a premeditated and predatory attack on a stranger\".\n\nThe killing was carried out with \"extreme violence\", Ms Morgan said, adding that the murder involved a sexual or sadistic element.\n\nThe court heard that CCTV showed Selamaj had spotted Ms Nessa and checked to see if there was anyone else around.\n\nHe then ran towards his victim and struck her 34 times using a metal traffic triangle, before carrying her away unconscious and strangling her in the park.\n\nSelamaj was assisted by an Albanian interpreter at a previous court hearing\n\nSelamaj disposed of the weapon in a river on his way back to Eastbourne.\n\nThe court heard he had previously been violent towards his former partner, putting his hands around her throat in a strangling motion.\n\nMs Nessa's body, which was covered in grass, was discovered the following day with her tights and underwear removed and parts of her body exposed.\n\nMs Morgan said: \"Some of her movements through the park and the attack on her were captured on CCTV footage.\n\n\"The male shown on that CCTV footage is alleged to be this defendant.\"\n\nHundreds attended a vigil for the 28-year-old teacher in the days after her murder\n\nThree days before, Selamaj put his plan into action by booking a room at the five-star Grand Hotel in Eastbourne, the town where he already had accommodation.\n\nHis reservation was for the night of 17 September and he arrived earlier in the day to check in.\n\nSelamaj spoke to hotel staff and was captured walking through the lobby wearing the same clothes as the suspect later spotted on CCTV in Kidbrooke.\n\nHis Nissan Micra was tracked by ANPR cameras and evidence was gathered to identify his movements from Eastbourne to London.\n\nThe defendant entered Cator Park shortly after 20:00 BST and lay in wait for 30 minutes before Ms Nessa arrived.\n\nPeople laid tributes in Pegler Square, near where the teacher was killed\n\nMs Morgan said: \"The defendant is seen in effect loitering in locations around the park before spotting the deceased, checking to see if anyone else was nearby before turning and running after her.\n\n\"He is then seen to move towards the deceased and striking her repeatedly using a weapon which was approximately 2ft in length.\"\n\nShe added that the weapon \"appeared to break up during the course of the many strikes on the deceased\".\n\n\"The CCTV footage shows the defendant then carrying the deceased, who appeared to be unconscious by that point, up a bank and effectively out of sight.\"\n\nSelamaj's actions afterwards were out of camera shot, but Ms Nessa was not seen alive again.\n\nThe prosecutor said: \"The male did appear after 10 minutes.\n\n\"He is seen to pick up pieces of the weapon that had broken on the ground and then moved back to the area the deceased was located for another 10 minutes.\"\n\nShortly before 21:00, Selamaj was seen using wet wipes to clean a bench.\n\nHe then returned to Eastbourne, staying the night at the Grand Hotel and checking out in the morning.\n\nSelamaj was arrested on 26 September in Eastbourne.\n\nIn a police interview, he made no comment except to deny murder when asked directly if he was responsible for killing Ms Nessa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabina Nessa's sister, Jebina Yasmin Islam: \"We have lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister\"\n\nIn December, a lawyer for the defendant confirmed that he accepted being the person caught on CCTV and that he had hit Ms Nessa a number of times, although Selamaj still denied murder at that point.\n\nThe killing of Ms Nessa heightened concern for the safety of women and girls in the capital following the stranger murders of Sarah Everard, and sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman.\n\nIn the days after the teacher's death hundreds of people joined a vigil in Kidbrooke, with her family leading tributes.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Climate extremes in France this spring have again made it a race against time for vineyard owners to protect their crops.\n\nMarch warmth and April frosts in 2021 resulted in one of the country’s lowest wine production in years. This year is proving every bit as tough.", "Two airline passengers accused of \"unruly behaviour\" have been hit with the largest fines ever proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration.\n\nThe five-figure penalties on the two flyers accused of violence are part of $2m (£1.5m) in fines levied this year.\n\nUS airlines have seen record numbers of disruptive passengers since early 2021, with many incidents involving the refusal to wear an anti-viral facemask.\n\nThe fines were announced by transport secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday.\n\n\"If you are on an airplane, don't be a jerk and don't endanger the flight crews and fellow passengers,\" he said in an appearance on ABC's The View. \"If you do, you will be fined by the FAA.\"\n\nIn one incident, an American Airlines passenger travelling from Texas to North Carolina has been asked to pay a $81,950 fine for threatening to hurt a flight attendant. The attendant had offered to help the passenger after she fell into the aisle of the plane.\n\nThe unnamed passenger then allegedly pushed an airline worker and tried to open the cabin door. While flight attendants attempted to restrain her, she repeatedly hit one staff member in the head.\n\nWhen she was placed in cuffs, \"she spit at, headbutted, bit and tried to kick the crew and other passengers\", the FAA said in a news release.\n\nIn the other incident, the passenger was flying on Delta Air Lines from Las Vegas to Atlanta. She allegedly tried to \"hug and kiss the passenger seated next to her, walked to the front of the aircraft to try to exit during flight; refused to return to her seat; and bit another passenger multiple times\".\n\nThat passenger, who is also unnamed, was physically restrained by crew members and has now been asked to pay a fine of $77,272.\n\nNeither incident involved a failure to adhere to Covid measures.\n\nIn his interview with The View, Mr Buttigieg said the US would decide by 18 April on whether to extend the federal requirement to wear masks on planes and in airports.\n\nThe FAA announced a \"zero-tolerance\" policy on unruly passengers in January 2021, and has issued some $7m in fines since then.\n\nThey have recorded 7,060 air rage incidents and say around 70% involved masking rules. But the rate of incidents has now declined by 60% since its high last year.", "There have been long queues for check-in and security at Manchester Airport in recent weeks\n\nDisruption at airports and the Port of Dover is continuing, ahead of another busy weekend for travel.\n\nThousands of people heading abroad for the Easter holidays have faced long queues, delays and cancellations.\n\nManchester Airport, which has had particular problems for weeks, told the BBC the long waits it has seen at security could continue.\n\nAt Dover, the suspension of P&O ferry services and bad weather have also caused delays.\n\nWith passenger numbers increasing after the easing of pandemic restrictions, several airports have been hit by cancellations and long queues.\n\nAirports say they are struggling to recruit and train new staff quick enough to cope with demand, leading to staff shortages and delays at check-in and security.\n\nMeanwhile, airlines have also been hit by Covid-related staff absences, with a total of more than 100 daily flights being cancelled by EasyJet and British Airways. However, this figure will include dozens of flights cancelled in advance.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said he was \"very concerned\" about the level of disruption over the Easter holidays. He called on travel operators to \"redouble their efforts\" to make sure people travelling abroad \"can get away as smoothly as possible\".\n\nKen O'Toole, the deputy chief executive of Manchester Airports Group, said the next four to six weeks would be a \"difficult period\" for the airport, with some passengers facing queues of 60 to 90 minutes.\n\nHowever, he told the BBC the chaotic scenes last weekend, which saw some passengers miss flights, were an \"isolated incident\".\n\nMr O'Toole said the speed the travel industry had recovered had taken Manchester Airport by surprise, leaving it short-staffed.\n\nHe added that 220 new staff had been recruited, who were currently being trained and would start work over the coming weeks.\n\nIn the meantime, he urged travellers to be prepared for longer waits and to arrive three hours in advance to ensure they do not miss their flights around the Easter holidays.\n\nKen O'Toole says people may face waits of up to 90 minutes in the next month or so\n\n\"We want to protect the full flying schedule. We want to make sure that after two years of people not getting away, those trips that they have booked, they can take them,\" he said.\n\n\"That unfortunately does mean on occasion there will be queues which are not acceptable, they're not what we're aiming for.\n\n\"But the compromise between having that situation or cancelling lots of flights for people - which other airports have done in recent weeks - we believe people would prefer to accept a queue and make sure they get away.\"\n\nWhile Manchester Airport appears to be the worst affected, Heathrow, Gatwick and Birmingham have also been hit by delays and cancellations.\n\nThe boss of the airlines watchdog has written to UK airlines expressing frustration and concern for holiday-makers.\n\nRichard Moriarty, chief executive of the Civil Aviation Authority, said \"late-notice cancellations and excessive delays at airports\" were distressing for passengers and could hit consumer confidence.\n\nHe called on airlines and airports to work together to ensure disruption is \"kept to a minimum\".\n\nA group of schoolchildren told the BBC how upsetting it was for their EasyJet flight from Gatwick to be cancelled, preventing them from joining their classmates on a skiing trip.\n\n\"It's really sad, because we had to get up really, really early in the morning for absolutely nothing, just to sit in the airport for about six hours, sitting next to our suitcases looking forward to something that wasn't going to happen,\" one of the girls said.\n\nMeanwhile, ferry passengers have also seen disruption since the Easter holiday period began last weekend, with the no-notice sackings of hundreds of P&O Ferries staff placing pressure on other operators while demand for travel has picked up.\n\nBad weather has exacerbated problems at Dover, where lorry drivers and holiday-makers have been forced to queue for hours in recent days due to traffic around the port.\n\nDover District Council has said it is prepared to declare \"a major incident\" if the disruption continues into the weekend.\n\nOn Friday, ferry company DFDS reported delays of two hours on its services from Dover to Calais.\n\nThe company's director of capacity, Chris Parker, told the BBC tourist traffic through Dover was currently \"free-flowing\" but he warned the port would be \"extremely busy\" this weekend.\n\nHe added that it would take longer to clear the backlog of freight traffic.\n\nRichard Ballantyne, chief executive of the British Ports Association, said it would take several days for the disruption to ease.\n\nP&O Ferries has said all its Dover-Calais routes will remain suspended this weekend but it is preparing to get its Pride of Kent and Spirit of Britain ships back in action on the route by next week.\n\nIn a statement, the Port of Dover said it was expecting \"another busy weekend\" as travellers set off for Easter getaways.\n\nIt advised passengers to allow plenty of time for their journey, check with their operator before travelling and only arrive for their allotted sailing.", "The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world Image caption: The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world\n\nWe reported earlier that the BBC has been able to verify the deaths of more than 1,000 Russian troops, of whom about 20% are officers.\n\nEven if we talk about confirmed losses only - there is evidence that Russia has lost some of its best specialists, including elite special forces operators, highly skilled fighter pilots and some experienced commanders.\n\nIt takes five years and at least $10,000 to prepare an infantry lieutenant in Russia. For other specialties, the cost rises to $60,000 per officer. It costs between $4m and $14m (and takes up to 14 years) to prepare a skillful fighter pilot.\n\nWe also noticed another trend. About 15% of all confirmed losses are paratroopers from units which are considered the elite of the Russian army. And preparation of a paratrooper in Russia demands more money and time compared to an infantryman. So these are sensitive losses.\n\nSome servicemen were very experienced, for example fighter pilot Capt Sergei Volynets fought in Georgia and Syria, and had several medals.\n\nThere are at least 15 military intelligence special forces operators (including five officers) and three maroon berets in the confirmed losses list. These take months or even years to train and educate. The test to get a maroon beret is considered to be one of the hardest in the military world.", "The war in Ukraine has entered a \"new and different phase\", UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said, following a meeting of Nato allies.\n\nMs Truss said there was now \"a more concentrated Russian offensive\", and Nato had agreed to supply new and heavier equipment to Ukraine.\n\n\"Our objective as a United Kingdom remains clear. Putin must lose in Ukraine,\" she said.\n\nUkraine earlier warned more atrocities could happen without more military aid.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting in Brussels, Ms Truss said: \"Putin has changed his tactics but not his intent. He wants a hold over the whole of Ukraine.\"\n\nShe earlier said the UK would be \"stepping up\" its supply of weapons but has not yet detailed what this would include.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK would send another £30m to Poland to help ensure vital supplies reach those fleeing Ukraine.\n\nMeeting with his Polish counterpart in Downing Street earlier, he said it was an important moment to launch a \"proper thoroughgoing security defence partnership\".\n\nNato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also said allies were \"ready to do more\" to provide military equipment but did not go into specifics.\n\nUkraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, also speaking at the Nato meeting, said help was needed in \"days not weeks\" if it was to avoid coming too late.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia has warned that \"pumping weapons into Ukraine\" will have a \"negative effect\" on peace talks.\n\nUkraine is not a part of Nato but has been receiving military aid from its members. More than 30 countries, including the UK, have provided military aid, including €1bn (£800m) from the EU and $1.7bn (£1.3bn) from the US.\n\nSo far Western supplies have been limited to arms, ammunition and defensive equipment, such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems.\n\nNato members fear that supplying Ukraine with heavier offensive equipment such as tanks and fighter jets could lead to direct open conflict between Russia and the alliance.", "A former housing secretary has admitted to the Grenfell Tower inquiry he did not know a policy of cutting red tape had prevented government officials tightening fire safety standards.\n\nLord Pickles claimed building standards regulations were exempt from a policy promoted by David Cameron's government.\n\nBut under questioning he was unable to give an example of where the exemption had been specifically set out.\n\nThe fire in the west London tower block in 2017 claimed the lives of 72 people.\n\nLord Pickles said he took full responsibility for any failures in the housing department, which he led in the years of the Cameron coalition government between 2010 and 2015.\n\nThe inquiry into the disaster is examining what the government did to prevent construction firms from using dangerous materials on tall buildings.\n\nCombustible cladding and insulation were a cause of the Grenfell Tower fire, and the subsequent building safety crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of flat owners.\n\nIn his second day giving evidence, Lord Pickles appeared to suggest the inquiry's senior counsel, Richard Millett QC, should speed up his questions as the peer had meetings planned for the afternoon.\n\nHe later apologised for being \"discourteous\" and said he had decided to cancel his meetings as \"this is more important than anything I'm doing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA key issue for the inquiry centres on the \"one in, one out\" policy of the government at the time which aimed to cut the number of regulations affecting businesses.\n\nFor every new regulation introduced, another, and as time went on, another two or three, had to be removed.\n\nIn 2011 and 2012 the government decided to exempt \"fire safety regulations\" from the policy.\n\nHowever the inquiry was shown government documents suggesting the exemption only applied to the safe management of buildings and underground railway stations.\n\nThe building regulations, and guidance designed to prevent major fires, would continue to be part of the government's approach to regulation, \"not least the one in, one out approach\", according to a submission to ministers in 2012.\n\nLord Pickles pointed to a single line in a government press release that stated \"essential safety and accessibility protections will remain untouched\" as evidence his department did not intend to erode safety regulations.\n\nBut asked whether he had ever seen a document in which the building regulations were specifically exempted from the \"war on red tape\", he was unable to give an example.\n\nThis is a highly significant issue for the Grenfell Inquiry because four government officials, working on fire safety in building construction, have given evidence that the deregulation drive was having an impact on regulations governing \"life safety\".\n\nOne, the fire policy specialist Brian Martin, had been warned about fires engulfing tower blocks around the world, and concerns dangerous materials were being used in Britain.\n\nHe gave evidence that tightening the regulations for England would have been \"incredibly difficult\" because \"regulation was a dirty word\" within the government.\n\nLord Pickles claimed the officials, whom he had never met, were making political assumptions, were poorly managed, involved in a \"grudge\" with a parliamentary committee and \"struggling to cope\" at work.\n\nMr Millett asked him to explain the situation and whether the former minister had been \"spectacularly out of touch\" with what was happening in his department.\n\nLord Pickles responded: \"I think that would be uncharacteristically unjust of you to say that. This is an enormous department. I am utterly reliant on receiving good intelligence from my permanent secretary and director generals.\"\n\nIn an opening statement to this phase of the long-running public inquiry, the government apologised for \"past failures in relation to the oversight of the system that regulated safety in the construction and refurbishment of high rise buildings.\"\n\nAsked if he took responsibility for what had happened, Lord Pickles briefly lost his composure, saying: \"I swore on the Bible. I'm a Christian. I wouldn't come here to remove responsibility. These things are important to me.\"\n\nLord Pickles' description of the fire's 72 victims as \"the nameless 96 people\" angered Grenfell United\n\nIn a final statement at the end of his evidence, Lord Pickles said \"ultimately it comes down to the nameless 96 people who were killed in the Grenfell fire\".\n\nHowever 71 people died as a direct result of the fire and a further death was later linked to it. All have been named.\n\nThe statement prompted an angry response from Grenfell United, which represents many bereaved, survivors and residents affected by the fire, which said his \"disrespect\" had left members speechless.\n\n\"His utter disregard for what happened and to those no longer with us is horrifying, given that he had the ability as minister of housing to reform building safety,\" Grenfell United said.\n\nLord Pickles delayed improvements to the building regulations that were recommended following a previous fatal fire in south London. The changes had not been made by the time of the Grenfell disaster in June 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is coming to the end of a phase examining the role of the government and will next look at the way it handled the aftermath of the fire in west London.\n\nIt is expected to finish later this year and report in 2023.\n\nA police investigation is also ongoing, and once the inquiry reports, is expected to recommend criminal charges to the Crown Prosecution Service.", "Traffic disruption seen around Dover is the worst it's been since 2020, one local body has told the BBC.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum, which manages emergency planning for the county, said it was down to a number of problems creating a \"perfect storm\".\n\nToby Howe, the tactical lead for the forum, said bad weather, Easter holiday demand and P&O Ferries routes being suspended had all created congestion.\n\nBroken down trains and custom clearance problems have also contributed.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum manages Operation Brock, the traffic management plan which allows lorries using the M20 into Dover between junctions eight and nine to use one side of the motorway, allowing other traffic to flow in both directions. It's been extended today to junction 11 to deal with the extra congestion.\n\nMr Howe said Operation Brock normally has the capacity for around 2,000 lorries, but it's now holding up to 4,000.\n\n\"Generally, Operation Brock would deal with any incidents we have at the port and at the tunnel and has been doing so, but this is probably the worst incident since Christmas 2020 when the French closed the borders and we couldn't release any traffic across the channel at all,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday, Dover District Council said it was prepared to declare a \"major incident\" in the area if the disruption continued over the weekend.\n\nMr Howe said the Easter holiday getaway was adding to the pressure around the port.\n\nThousands of people heading abroad for the Easter holidays have faced long queues, delays and cancellations already.\n\n\"It's the second week of busy tourism with more schools breaking up for the holidays. Overnight and into tomorrow, we will have a high peak of traffic\", he said.\n\n\"We don't know how many tourists will come down but that will add to the problems we're having.\"\n\nHowever, he said there were plans in place to keep traffic moving for cars and holiday-makers at least.\n\n\"Generally HGV lorries have the facilities on board so they can be delayed a bit longer than, say, a family of four heading on their holiday so we try and make that space to let tourist traffic through, so we've extended Operation Brock beyond its normal parameters\", he said.\n\nOn Friday, ferry company DFDS reported delays of two hours on its services from Dover to Calais.\n\nThe company's director of capacity, Chris Parker, told the BBC tourist traffic through Dover was currently \"free-flowing\" but he warned the port would be \"extremely busy\" this weekend.\n\nHe added that it would take longer to clear the backlog of freight traffic.\n\nP&O Ferries hopes to get two ships back in action on the Dover-Calais route next week, subject to inspection by the coastguard.\n\nRichard Ballantyne, chief executive of the British Ports Association, also said it would take several days for the disruption to ease.\n\nFreight queues have also been affected by IT problems, Mr Howe of the Kent Resilience Forum suggested.\n\nGVMS is the government's IT system which deals with all the customs, transit and security declarations needed since the UK's exit from the European Union.\n\nHMRC said the system had experienced an \"outage\" last week, but the problem has now been resolved.\n\nA spokesperson from HMRC said: \"Following an outage last week, we have successfully made changes to the HMRC network to allow availability of the GVMS.\n\n\"Contingencies will remain in place over the weekend to continue to ensure the movement of goods and allow continued testing. From Monday midday, Goods Movement References will be required for all movements using GVMS.\"\n\nAre your plans affected by long queues at Dover? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Widow of Covid official ‘let down by everybody’\n\nThe widow of a top Scottish government official has accused the first minister of failing in her commitment to fully investigate his death.\n\nAndrew Slorance died after catching Covid while having cancer treatment in a Glasgow hospital in 2020.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said on 18 November last year she would \"not tolerate cover-ups or secrecy\" as she pledged to ensure his family got answers.\n\nHowever, Mr Slorance's wife Louise says she still does not know why he died.\n\nShe told the BBC she feels NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has been reluctant to give her information, and that the Scottish government has let her down.\n\nMr Slorance, who lived in Edinburgh, was head of the Scottish government's response and communication unit which was responsible for its handling of the Covid pandemic.\n\nAndrew Slorance died in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in 2020\n\nWhen he died in December 2020 the first minister led tributes, saying the government was devastated.\n\nThe 49-year-old went in to the £850m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) on 26 October 2020 for a stem cell transplant and chemotherapy as part of treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL).\n\nDespite being treated in an isolation room during this time, he tested positive eight days later on 3 November, and he was moved for his Covid treatment - eventually to intensive care.\n\nThe father-of-five died nearly six weeks into his stay, with the cause of his death listed as Covid pneumonia.\n\nBut after requesting a copy of his medical notes, Mrs Slorance discovered her husband had also been treated for an infection caused by a fungus called aspergillus, which had not been discussed with either of them during his hospital stay.\n\nThe infection is common in the environment but can be extremely dangerous for people with weak immune systems.\n\nMrs Slorance believes it may have played a part in her husband's death but that it was deliberately covered up - a claim the health board has denied.\n\nIn November last year, Ms Sturgeon ordered an external review of Mr Slorance's case, which was carried out by NHS Lothian.\n\nShe pledged to ensure his family would get the answers they were seeking, adding: \"I will not and this government will not tolerate cover-ups or secrecy on the part of any health board and where there are concerns about that we will address those concerns.\"\n\nHowever, Mrs Slorance said the process was inadequate because the review team were not given any access to her husband's case notes and were unable to speak to staff involved.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I feel very let down by everybody involved - the health board, the government and the fact that the first minister has referred to Andrew as a friend.\n\n\"As a friend, surely she can understand why his family desperately need the answers as to what happened.\n\n\"I don't know whether her involvement has been too hands-off and that's why the external review hasn't met the purpose it was supposed to, or I suppose I'm incredibly suspicious that everything that has been done to date has been done in order to make sure that the truth doesn't come out and that it's for a cover-up.\"\n\nAsked whether she felt the first minister had failed in her commitment to fully investigate Mr Slorance's death, Mrs Slorance replied: \"Absolutely.\"\n\nMrs Slorance has now written to the first minister demanding further action after she said a series of meetings to discuss her husband's case were cancelled by the chief nursing officer.\n\nSpeaking about the health board's handling of the matter, she added: \"They seem very reluctant to give me information - any time I've asked for information it has come through in dribs and drabs.\n\n\"I think there's elements where you can see blame being firmly placed on the family for the acquisition of Covid, for us demanding answers that we are supposed to receive.\n\n\"My family and I need answers, we need to be able to grieve. We can't grieve with no answers and no explanation.\"\n\nA spokesman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it was sorry that questions the family had around Mr Slorance's care had added to their grief.\n\nHe said: Our thoughts and sincere condolences continue to be with the family and loved ones of Mr Slorance.\n\n\"We have repeatedly stated that we are entirely content to engage with Mrs Slorance about her husband on the clinical care provided to him and we remain happy to meet her.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"At all times, our clinicians follow rigorous national processes governing documentation on death certificates.\n\n\"It is inconceivable that any clinician would agree to withhold information from a death certificate in order to protect the reputation of the service or a hospital.\n\n\"We also strongly refute that individuals within the organisation would ask any clinician to do so.\"\n\nThe board insisted it remained committed to being transparent and said there was dismay that the integrity of its staff had been repeatedly called into question.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Clinicians from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have extended an invitation to discuss Andrew's care and this offer remains open.\n\n\"We would encourage Mrs Slorance to take the opportunity to meet with NHS GGC clinicians and ask those questions pertinent to Andrew's care.\"", "Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice\n\nPlanning permission for a national Holocaust memorial outside Parliament has been quashed by the High Court.\n\nCampaigners successfully challenged the government after it overturned a decision by Westminster Council to refuse permission for the monument.\n\nThe London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust said the government has a chance to \"reflect and reconsider the best site for a fitting Holocaust Memorial\".\n\nThe government has said it remains committed to a permanent memorial.\n\nLeaders from UK's Jewish community have expressed disappointment at the ruling, arguing the memorial was needed to continue to educate people about the Holocaust and the age of Holocaust survivors meant time was short to build one.\n\nThe London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust, which launched the case, had argued it was the \"right idea, wrong place\".\n\nThe charity opposed the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre being built in Victoria Tower Gardens, a small triangular Grade II-listed green space next to Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster.\n\nWestminster City Council had refused to give planning permission in November 2019 but it was granted in July last year, following a public inquiry and the recommendations of a planning inspector.\n\nThe plans for the now-quashed memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens\n\nThe memorial, which was due to open in 2024, aimed to be a place for national remembrance of the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust, as well as the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution.\n\nIt was set to include 23 bronze fins and an underground learning centre.\n\nFormer Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans for the memorial in 2016 but disagreements over its meaning, public safety and potential harm to parkland have followed the project.\n\nA number of other high-profile organisations and individuals also objected to the planned site, including former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.\n\nThe trust's lawyer, Richard Drabble QC, argued it did not comply with a 1900 legal act affecting park land, which contains \"a prohibition on using Victoria Tower Gardens as anything other than a garden open to the public\".\n\nIn a ruling issued on Friday, Mrs Justice Thornton said the case against the planning permission decision succeeded in relation to a 1900 act.\n\nThe judge said the act \"imposes an enduring obligation\" to retain land \"as a public garden and integral part of the existing Victoria Tower Gardens\".\n\n\"Accordingly, the appropriate remedy is to quash the decision, so as to enable further consideration of the implications of the London County Council (Improvements) Act 1900 for the proposed scheme,\" she concluded.\n\nMrs Justice Thornton also refused the government permission to appeal against her judgment.\n\nHowever, the government has 21 days to apply for permission to appeal from the Court of Appeal.\n\nThe proposal featured 23 large bronze fin structures and an underground learning centre\n\nHelen Monger, director of the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust, described the ruling as a \"major boost for the protection of London parks at a time when they've never been more valued by the public\".\n\n\"The High Court has given the government a welcome chance to reflect and reconsider the best site for a fitting Holocaust Memorial which the UK deserves, without tearing up historic protections for our parks,\" she added.\n\nKaren Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, described the ruling as \"disappointing news\", adding that Holocaust survivors are \"elderly and their numbers are dwindling - time is of the essence\".\n\nShe said: \"Many hope to see the opening of the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre standing proudly next to Parliament, serving as a warning from history of what can happen when antisemitism and hate is left unchecked. This memorial will stand as a reminder for generations to come.\"\n\nThe UK's chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said the ruling was an \"unfortunate setback\" for the country's \"commitment to teaching the essential lessons of the Holocaust\".\n\nHe said: \"With hateful rhetoric on the rise across the world our sacred responsibility to live up to that commitment is more urgent and vital than ever.\"\n\nThe chief rabbi added the possible educational impact of having a memorial \"next to the seat of our country's democracy\" significantly outweighs any planning objections.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, which applied for the planning permission originally, said it will \"study the judgement carefully and consider our next steps\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The government remains committed to the creation of a new national memorial commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, and it is disappointing - especially for Holocaust survivors - that this judgement will delay its completion.\"\n\nThe decision to overturn was taken by the then-housing minister Chris Pincher, following the recommendations of a public inquiry - a move which was then challenged in the courts.\n\nResponsibility had been delegated to Mr Pincher by former Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick, who originally applied for the planning permission.\n\nA spokesperson for current Housing minister Stuart Andrew said: \"We note today's judgement and will consider it carefully before deciding on next steps. It would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nCampaigners said the planned site risked affecting the park \"irrevocably\" as well as raising concerns over the alleged impact on trees, potential flooding, and other monuments.\n\nAt a hearing in February, the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust argued there was an \"unlawful\" approach taken to considering other sites for the memorial.\n\nLawyers representing the government argued that there was \"no error of law\" in the decision-making process and policy was not \"misinterpreted or misapplied\".", "A garden in Sabina Nessa's memory is planned for the primary school where she taught\n\nIn the months before he beat and strangled Sabina Nessa, Koci Selamaj had unleashed his violent personality behind closed doors.\n\nYet his Romanian wife, who was the victim of his violence, was also the key to his long-term life in the UK. The collapse of his marriage came shortly before he brutally murdered 28-year-old teacher Sabina.\n\nSelamaj has now been sentenced for her murder - but questions linger about the Albanian's immigration history and whether he married so he could stay in the UK.\n\nThe Home Office says at the time of the murder, Selamaj had the right to be in the UK but officials have refused to give details. However, it has emerged that he entered illegally in 2015, arriving on a lorry after living in Greece. He based himself in Eastbourne, east Sussex, working as a pizza delivery driver and garage attendant. He married his wife on 5 November 2018 and they lived in a flat behind a row shops in Eastbourne.\n\nAs an EU citizen, his wife had greater UK immigration rights. Earlier that year, the UK government had announced the EU Settlement Scheme which gave EU nationals and - crucially for Selamaj - their spouses, permission to remain here after Brexit.\n\nWith his position in the UK secure, Selamaj now had the freedom to travel in and out of the country.\n\nIn the Albanian capital Tirana, the BBC has seen police documents showing Selamaj had no criminal record there. They also detail his regular return visits to his home country - beginning two months after his wedding. He went back six times in two and a half years.\n\nKoci Selamaj had no previous convictions but the prosecution described how, more than once, he had put his hands round his wife's throat\n\nBut by the summer of 2021, Selamaj's marriage had broken down because of his violent behaviour. His wife moved out of their home.\n\nThe prosecution at the Old Bailey described how more than once he put his hands around her throat - a precursor to how he killed Sabina Nessa. His wife, who we are not naming, worked at Eastbourne's Grand Hotel and on 17 September - the day of Sabina's murder - Selamaj booked a room there.\n\nWhen Selamaj became argumentative at the check-in desk, staff noticed his home address was close by and called 101. No officer was sent, although police say the operator dealt with the call correctly.\n\nSelamaj later met his wife in his car in the hotel car park where he asked her to have sex with him. She rejected him and Selamaj drove off alone.\n\nHe first drove to Brighton and then travelled to south-east London, parking in Pegler Square, in Kidbrooke. He had no connection with this suburban area with its new build blocks of flats, miles from where he lived. CCTV captured him buying a rolling pin at the local Sainsbury's, which he apparently considered using as a weapon.\n\nMeanwhile, at the end of a working week, Sabina Nessa, who lived locally, was on her way to meet a friend for a Friday night out. In the past she had discussed with friends the importance of sticking to the main road but on that evening she was running late. She took a shortcut through Cator Park, close to Pegler Square.\n\nCCTV footage later revealed how Selamaj, who had been loitering in the park, spotted Sabina, checked she was alone and ran towards her. He struck her 34 times with a metal traffic triangle, carried her off unconscious and strangled her. Sabina's body, covered in grass, was discovered the following day by a dog walker.\n\n\"The way he had left Sabina's body, together with the fact that he had propositioned his wife for sex earlier in the day, says to me without a shadow of a doubt that it was a sexually motivated killing,\" says Det Ch Insp Neil John, who led the Metropolitan Police murder investigation.\n\nVigils were held for Ms Nessa after her death, including this one in Eastbourne\n\nSelamaj then drove back to Eastbourne, stopping on the way in Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, to dump the murder weapon in a river. Just after midnight he strode through the lobby of Eastbourne's Grand Hotel and made his way to the room he had booked earlier.\n\nFrustratingly for detectives, Selamaj left no forensic evidence at the scene. However, his murder weapon, the metal traffic triangle, gave them a vital clue. \"On the cameras we could see that fluorescent glint going out of the park in a certain direction,\" said DCI John. \"That was the breakthrough. It all followed from that.\"\n\nWorking around the clock, going through footage from local cameras, the murder team began closing in on the killer. After five days of studying the footage, they worked out what they thought he looked like and what he was wearing.\"\n\nThat was really good going by the team,\" says DCI John. \"We had literally hundreds of hours of CCTV in the office.\"\n\nThe registration plate of his silver Nissan Micra had been picked up by roadside cameras. A week after Sabina's body was found, police identified Selamaj as the prime suspect.\n\nOvernight, police forced the door of Selamaj's Eastbourne flat and arrested him. He didn't say anything. He was lying on the bed and was described as calm and compliant. The search team found his trainers. Blood on them was analysed and linked him to Sabina.\n\nSelamaj's silence continued during police interviews. But when he was charged he suddenly asked: \"What will happen if I tell you everything?\" Because he had been charged, detectives could not probe him further.\n\nAt his first court appearance he indicated he would be pleading not guilty. But in February, at the Old Bailey and with Sabina's family watching, he was asked to enter a formal plea. There was a pause as a packed courtroom waited. Selamaj broke the silence with the word: \"Guilty\".\n\n\"He is an evil coward,\" added DCI John, who also described him as \"an unknown quantity\" because of his refusal to engage with police and the fact that he has no criminal record.\n\nSelamaj refused to come to court for the sentencing and so Sabina's family faced an empty dock with their victim impact statements.\n\nThe barrister who headed Selamaj's legal team, Lewis Power QC, has spent months representing a man who has failed to engage or give any explanation for what he has done. \"He has shown no remorse. He is as cold as ice,\" Mr Power told the BBC.\n\nSelamaj was recently transferred from prison to Broadmoor high security hospital so his mental state can be assessed as he begins his 36 year sentence.\n\nKoci Selamaj's parents are in a state of misery, his uncle Bardhosh told the BBC\n\nThousands of miles away in the maritime village of Borsh, in southern Albania, Bardhosh Selamaj told the BBC he was astounded his nephew was now a convicted murderer in the UK.\n\nHe said Selamaj - his brother's son - was born in the Albanian city of Elbasan, before the family moved to neighbouring Greece. While Selamaj's parents returned to Albania, he and his siblings remained, thinking their prospects were better there.\n\nAs for Selamaj's retired parents, Bardhosh reflects: \"We are poor and we had high hopes for them and their family. Now they don't know what to say or do. They are in a state of misery.\"\n\nSelamaj's last trip to his home country was in September last year. He stayed for just under a week and on 9 September boarded a budget flight back to Luton.\n\nBy then his marriage looked to be over. He knew this meant his future in the UK was in jeopardy. Eight days later he had brutally murdered Sabina Nessa.\n\nSabina's elder sister, Jebina Islam, says the family are angry at Selamaj's refusal to say anything about his crime.\n\nSabina was the second of four sisters. \"When I saw him I was just thinking what a horrible vile animal he is. I'm upset that he wouldn't answer any questions,\" says Jebina.\n\n\"That will stay with me for the rest of my life. Why did he carry out such a horrific attack on my sister?\"\n\nJebina Islam is angry that Selamaj refuses to say why he attacked her sister", "The number of people infected with Covid in the UK is showing signs of plateauing, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nNearly 4.9 million people would test positive, which is about 25,000 lower than last week's record high.\n\nInfections appear to be falling in Scotland, which has had some of the highest Covid rates in the UK.\n\nA study published earlier this week also suggested cases may have peaked in children and young adults.\n\nThe ONS infection survey tests thousands of people, whether or not they have symptoms, so is not affected by the end of free testing in England. It is seen as the best measure of the spread of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nSarah Crofts, from the ONS, said: \"While infections remain high, there are early signs in our latest data that they may no longer be increasing in some parts of the UK.\n\n\"It is too early to say if infections have peaked in England and Scotland.\"\n\nInfections have been soaring recently, setting record highs. This has been driven by the highly contagious form of Omicron called BA.2 which is now thought to make up 90% of infections.\n\nIn the week leading up to 2 April, the ONS estimates:\n\nThis wave of Omicron is far less deadly than those before mass vaccination, but the sheer number of people catching the virus is still contributing to pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid also shows signs of levelling off after nearly doubling over the course of March. The number of hospital patients in the UK appears to have plateaued at about 20,000.\n\nMore than half of the patients in England have been admitted for other reasons, but are testing positive for Covid.\n\nHowever, hospital bosses have warned the health service is under \"enormous strain\" with Covid, other conditions, difficulties discharging patients and \"severe\" shortages of staff leading to backlogs.", "An adult's waist should be less than half their height in order to reduce health risks, the guidance says\n\nPeople should be encouraged to measure their waist to check they don't have too much dangerous fat around their middle, updated guidelines say.\n\nAn adult's waist should be less than half their height to reduce health risks, health body NICE recommends.\n\nMeasuring body mass index (BMI) is also useful - but doesn't take into account excess weight around the abdomen.\n\nThis increases the risk of conditions such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.\n\nNew draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says people from some Asian and black ethnic groups are more prone to this type of fat build-up around the waist, which is called \"central adiposity\".\n\nThey should use lower BMI thresholds for obesity to help predict their specific health risks.\n\nBut NICE warns that even those in a healthy BMI weight category could be carrying too much weight around the waist.\n\n\"Explain to people that to measure their waist, they should find the bottom of their ribs and the top of their hips, wrap a tape measure around the waist midway between these points and breathe out naturally before taking the measurement,\" say the guidelines on identifying people who are overweight and obese.\n\nIf you're 175cm (5ft 9 inches) tall, for example, then your waist measurement should be less than 87.5cm (34 inches) - or half your height.\n\nMeasuring waist-to-height ratio can be used for both sexes and all ethnic groups, as well as highly muscular adults, it adds.\n\nBut waist circumference measurements are not accurate in people with a BMI over 35, pregnant women or children under two.\n\nThe latest estimates for England suggest that 28% of adults are obese and a further 36% are overweight - a problem that is costing the NHS more than £6bn.\n\nProfessor Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow, said whether this new message gets taken up is \"uncertain\" but he said it never harms to try \"new ways\" to get people to think about their health.\n\nOther experts say measuring the waistline doesn't work for people who are very short or older people over 60 who may have lost height with ageing.\n\nBut Professor Rachel Batterham, consultant in obesity, diabetes and endocrinology, who is on the guidelines committee, said: \"Increased fat in the abdomen increases a person's risk of developing several life-limiting diseases including type 2 diabetes and heart disease.\n\n\"Waist-to-height ratio is a simple, easy-to-use measure that identifies people who are at increased health risk and would benefit from weight management support to improve their health.\"\n\nIn the guidance, GPs and nurses are advised to ask someone's permission before talking about their weight, and also to \"discuss it in a sensitive manner\".\n\nAdvice on managing weight is usually tailored to the individual and focuses on improving their diet and getting them to exercise more, in addition to potential treatments and surgery.\n\nDr Paul Chrisp, director of the centre for guidelines at NICE, said the updated draft guidelines help people understand what factors affect their health and how to address them.\n\nHealthcare professionals and the public can comment on the proposed recommendations in the guidelines before they are published in May.\n\nThe updated guidelines say doctors should also consider using waist-to-height ratio in children and young people aged over five to assess and predict health risks.\n\nDuring the pandemic, there was a substantial rise in obesity in children in England with 25% classed as obese by the time they leave primary school, according to recent NHS data.\n\nDr Nivedita Aswani, consultant paediatrician specialising in diabetes and weight management at Sheffield Children's Hospital, said even young children were at risk of the effects of fat in the abdomen.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Met Police accept 15 recommendations made by the Independent Office for Police Conduct\n\nThe Met Police has vowed to \"root out people who do not belong in the force\" following an investigation into harassment and racism in a police unit.\n\nThe police watchdog discovered \"disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination and sexual harassment in a police unit based at Charing Cross police station.\n\nFollowing the investigation, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) made 15 recommendations.\n\nThe force has accepted all of the recommendations.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said the proposals will \"drive forward lasting change\".\n\nMr Javid said: \"Like so many people I was disgusted to see officers involved in sharing deeply offensive and discriminatory messages. Their behaviour was unacceptable.\n\n\"We are determined to root out people who don't share our values and don't belong in the Met.\n\n\"As we do this, unfortunately, we will continue to see more cases where officers and staff fail to uphold our expectations of them.\"\n\nBas Javid said while the IOPC had recognised steps had already been taken to improve culture and standards, \"it's clear we still have a large amount of work to do\"\n\nOfficers were found to have joked about rape and exchanged offensive social media messages.\n\nMost officers investigated were police constables and based at the Charing Cross station, the IOPC said.\n\nThe inquiry was launched in March 2018 into nine linked independent investigations concerning serving police officers from the Met.\n\nInvestigations began after an officer allegedly had sex with a vulnerable woman in a room inside a London police station, the IOPC said - although this allegation was never proven.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said he \"felt ashamed and disappointed\" by the actions of officers based at the Charing Cross station\n\nThe force said it would commit to zero-tolerance on racism, misogyny, bullying and harassment.\n\nIn line with the recommendations, the force made a public commitment to being an anti-racist organisation.\n\nOther recommendations included making sure future investigations into bullying and harassment were \"suitably independent\".\n\nIOPC regional director Sal Naseem said: \"We welcome the Met's full acceptance of our recommendations and the programme of work it has announced to create a better working environment and improve the service for the communities it serves in London.\"\n\nOf the 14 officers investigated, two were dismissed for gross misconduct and put on the barred list, preventing future employment with the police.\n\nAnother two resigned and several others faced disciplinary action, the IOPC said.\n\nNine are still serving with the force, while another is working as a contractor in a staff role.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussian troops were heard discussing killing civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, in messages intercepted by German intelligence, German media say.\n\nDer Spiegel magazine says some of the radio traffic tracked by the BND intelligence agency appears to match locations of bodies just outside Kyiv.\n\nThe BND has so far made no public comments on the issue.\n\nUkraine says more than 300 civilians were killed by the Russians in Bucha - Moscow denies any involvement.\n\nRecent images of Bucha streets strewn with bodies have shocked the international community. Some of the victims appeared to have been shot in the back of the head after their hands were tied.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of genocide, an accusation flatly rejected by Moscow.\n\nWarning: This piece contains graphic images which some may find upsetting.\n\nBucha was seized by Russian troops soon after President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.\n\nAfter more than a month, the Russians eventually withdrew from Bucha, and Ukrainian forces soon entered the town.\n\nWorkers have been removing civilians' bodies found on the streets of Bucha into body bags\n\nThe BND's intelligence was shared with German parliamentarians during a briefing on Wednesday, Der Spiegel reported on Thursday.\n\nIn one intercepted radio message, the magazine said, Russian soldiers appeared to be talking about interrogating people and then shooting them.\n\nIn another, a soldier talked about shooting someone on a bike, which appeared to match a notorious photo showing a dead cyclist in Bucha.\n\nAccording to Spiegel, the intercepts also appeared to indicate that mercenaries from Russia's private Wagner group played a key role in the Bucha killings.\n\nAn unnamed security source told Reuters news agency: \"It's true that the [German] federal government has indications of Russian perpetration in Bucha\".\n\n\"However, these findings on Bucha refer to satellite images. The radio transmissions cannot be clearly assigned to Bucha.\"\n\nRussia says its forces withdrew from Bucha on 30 March. The Ukrainians say this happened in the early hours of 31 March.\n\nOn 1 April, footage was posted filmed from a car driving through the town which showed bodies on either side of a road.\n\nRussia has claimed, without providing evidence, that the footage shows \"fake dead bodies\" and it was \"staged\" after its troops had left the town.\n\nHowever, a satellite image from 19 March, first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by the BBC, directly contradicted the Russian claim.\n\nThe photo by the Maxar technology company shows objects that appear to be bodies in the exact locations where they were subsequently found by Ukrainian forces when they regained control of the town north of Kyiv.", "The youths were found near junction 34 of the M1 at Sheffield\n\nTwo boys brought the M1 to a standstill when police found them lying in the central reservation \"stargazing\".\n\nOfficers were called to reports of pedestrians near junction 34 for Meadowhall, Sheffield, at 03:30 BST.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police tweeted: \"When we arrived, having stopped all traffic, we found two young males laid on the central reservation 'stargazing'.\"\n\nThe Highway Code says pedestrians must not be on motorways except in an emergency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SYP Ops Support This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said the two boys, who were about 13 or 14 years old, were removed from the carriageway and issued with fixed penalty notices.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists believe the brain infection explains why the shark was out of her natural deep-water habitat and the cause of her stranding and eventual death\n\nA rare Greenland shark found washed up on a Cornish beach died of meningitis, a post mortem has found.\n\nScientists who examined the body said the discovery was \"likely a world's first\".\n\nThe female found just outside Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall in March is thought to be 100 years old by marine biologists.\n\nBut it is still considered a \"juvenile\" because Greenland sharks can live to more than 400 years old.\n\nScientists said there was not enough evidence to link the disease to man-made stressors, such as pollution.\n\nIt is the first report of meningitis in the species\n\nThe autopsy by the Cornwall Marine Pathology Team, is thought to be the first of its kind undertaken in the UK.\n\nVeterinary pathologist James Barnett, of the Cornwall Marine Pathology Team, said the brain was \"discoloured and congested\", while the fluid around the brain was cloudy.\n\nA strain of bacteria was isolated from fluid around the brain and is thought to have been the cause of the meningitis.\n\nThe pathology team, part of the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) found that the 3.96m long shark had damage to her fins and silt in her stomach, suggesting she may have been alive when she stranded.\n\nRob Deaville, project lead for the CSIP, said: \"This unfortunate and extraordinary stranding has allowed us to get an insight into the life and death of a species we know little about.\n\n\"Discovering that this shark had meningitis is likely a world's first, but the significance of this in terms of any wider stressors is unknown.\n\n\"Ultimately, like most marine life, deep sea species such as Greenland sharks may also be impacted by human pressures on the ocean but there is not enough evidence at this stage to make any connections.\"\n\nScientists believe the brain infection explains why the shark was out of her natural deep-water habitat and the cause of her stranding and eventual death.\n\nThey usually dwell more than 2.5km below the surface of the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Gilmour said the song was a show of \"anger at a superpower invading a peaceful nation\"\n\nPink Floyd have reunited to record their first new material in 28 years, a protest song against the Ukraine war.\n\nHey Hey, Rise Up! features David Gilmour and Nick Mason alongside long-time Floyd bassist Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards.\n\nBut the song is built around a spine-tingling refrain from Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the band Boombox.\n\nGilmour says the song is a show of \"anger at a superpower invading a peaceful nation\".\n\nBut it is also intended as a morale booster for the people of Ukraine, and a call \"for peace\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Pink Floyd This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWork on the song began a couple of weeks ago, when Gilmour was shown Khlyvnyuk's Instagram feed. The singer had posted footage of himself in in Kyiv's Sofiyskaya Square, fully armed and ready to fight the Russian invasion.\n\nFacing the camera, Khlyvnyuk sang The Red Viburnum In The Meadow, a protest song written during the first world war, which has become a rallying cry in Ukraine over last six weeks.\n\n\"It just struck me that, as it is a capella, one could turn this into a beautiful song,\" Gilmour told BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt.\n\nBy coincidence, Gilmour had performed live with BoomBox in 2015, at a London benefit gig for the Belarus Free Theatre - and he contacted Khlyvnyuk to seek permission.\n\n\"I spoke to him, actually, from his hospital bed, where he had a pretty minor injury from a mortar,\" the star said. \"So he's right there on the front line.\n\n\"I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing.\"\n\nThe song was released at midnight on Friday, with proceeds going to humanitarian relief.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe song carries special significance for Gilmour, as his daughter-in-law is the Ukrainian-born artist Janina Pedan.\n\nHe told the BBC she had inspired the artwork for the single, which contains the national flower of Ukraine, the sunflower.\n\n\"My daughter-in-law told us the story of a woman at the beginning of this conflict, giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers and saying that she hoped that sunflowers would sprout where they died.\"\n\nGilmour said he found the \"powerlessness of the West\" in the face of Russian aggression \"infuriating\" but said he supported the ongoing sanctions against the country.\n\n\"It's a shame that the people who suffer most are the ordinary people of Russia - but that is the way the sanctions work. It helps to create a discontent in that country which will hopefully, at some point, create some sort of change of regime.\"\n\nAsked how he felt about the UK government's response to the crisis, he expressed frustration at the bureaucracy facing Ukrainian refugees who want to settle here.\n\n\"A lot of Europe is saying 'welcome' and our [government] is saying, 'you need to get onto a computer and fill in forms'.\n\n\"My view would be to open the doors and sort of paperwork out later. But government doesn't seem to be following that way of thinking.\"\n\nRoger Waters does not feature on the new recording - he left the band in 1985 and has only occasionally performed with them since, such as at the Live 8 concert in 2005.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTransgender women are no longer able to compete at elite female events run by British Cycling after the organisation suspended its current policy.\n\nThe previous regulations required riders to have had testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to competition.\n\nBritish Cycling says it will conduct a full review of the policy \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nLast month, Emily Bridges was due to compete in her first elite women's race after meeting the requirements but was later ruled ineligible by cycling's world governing body, the UCI.\n\nA British Cycling statement said transgender and non-binary athletes could still take part in non-competitive activities.\n\nIt also said it would speak to \"all stakeholders, including women and the transgender and non-binary communities\" as part of the review.\n\n\"We will also continue to work tirelessly to ensure that our sport remains free of hate, discrimination and abuse in all forms, and that we prioritise the welfare of riders, volunteers, event organisers, commissaires and others that our sport can't continue without,\" the statement read.\n\n\"The challenge is far greater than one event or one sport, and only by working together can we hope to find a timely solution, which achieves fairness in a way that maintains the dignity and respect of all athletes.\"\n• None Listen - Should trans athletes be allowed in women's sport?\n\nBridges, 21, began hormone therapy last year as part of her gender dysphoria treatment, and raced in men's events until February.\n\nShe had been due to compete in her first women's event at the National Omnium Championships.\n\nHowever, three days beforehand, the UCI told British Cycling that because international ranking points are allocated at national championship events, Bridges' participation could only be allowed once her eligibility to race in international competitions was confirmed. That process is ongoing.\n\nBridges' mother responded to the decision on social media by saying her daughter had been \"dumped by email\". She added they would make a full statement during the next 24 hours.\n\nThe LGBTIQ+ Sport and Physical Activity Alliance, a coalition of national LGBTIQ+ sports organisations, said the decision was \"hugely disappointing and will have a detrimental impact on the welcoming and inclusive environment that the governing body had been hoping to create in the sport\".\n\nBritish Cycling said it \"understood there are concerns\" regarding how its policy reflected the guidance published by the Sports Councils' Equality Group (SCEG) last year.\n\nAn 18-month review developed by Sport England, Sport Scotland, Sport Northern Ireland, Sport Wales and UK Sport concluded \"testosterone suppression is unlikely to guarantee fairness between transgender women and natal females in gender-affected sports\".\n\nIt said that \"for many sports, the inclusion of transgender people, fairness and safety cannot co-exist in a single competitive model\".\n\nThat guidance applies to transgender inclusion in non-elite sport.\n\nA group of elite female cyclists wrote a letter to the UCI, calling on it to \"rescind\" its rules around transgender participation.\n\nUK Sport chief executive Sally Munday said on Thursday she had \"huge empathy\" for both Bridges, who said she had been \"harassed and demonised\" over the past week, and her fellow competitors.\n\nMunday added UK Sport was looking to support \"everybody who is involved in this discussion\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said earlier this week he did not believe transgender women should compete in female sporting events - a view he conceded might be \"controversial\".\n\nIn response, LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall said: \"Trans people deserve the same opportunities as everyone else to enjoy the benefits of sport, and blanket exclusions on trans people participating are fundamentally unfair.\"\n\nMore reading on this subject\n\n'Transgender inclusion, fairness and safety often cannot co-exist' says major review (Sept 2021)\n\nThomas becomes first known transgender athlete to win NCAA swimming title (March 2022)\n\nBridges will not race in women's National Omnium event (March 2022)\n\nUCI can ban Bridges even if she meets eligibility criteria (March 2022)", "Ex-tennis star Boris Becker has been found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act relating to his 2017 bankruptcy.\n\nThe former world number one was accused of hiding millions of pounds worth of assets to avoid paying his debts.\n\nHe was declared bankrupt in June 2017 over an unpaid loan of more than £3m on his estate in Mallorca, Spain.\n\nBecker, 54, was acquitted of a further 20 charges at London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday.\n\nHe was cleared of nine counts of failing to hand over trophies and medals from his tennis career, including two Wimbledon men's singles trophies.\n\nThe six-time Grand Slam champion told reporters outside court he would not be commenting on the verdict.\n\nHe was found guilty of transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds from his business account after his bankruptcy, failing to declare a property in Germany, and concealing €825,000 of debt.\n\nHe could face a jail sentence carrying a maximum term of seven years for each count.\n\nBecker told the jury his career earnings of $50m (about £38 million) were spent on an expensive divorce from his first wife in 2001, child maintenance payments, and \"expensive lifestyle commitments\", including his £22,000-a-month rented house in Wimbledon, south-west London.\n\nThe former tennis star told the court he was \"shocked\" and \"embarrassed\" when he was declared bankrupt, and he had co-operated with those tasked with securing his assets, including offering up his wedding ring.\n\nBecker, a German national who has lived in the UK since 2012, was cleared of failing to declare a second German property, as well as his interest in the £2.5m Chelsea flat occupied by his daughter.\n\nDuring the trial, he said he earned a \"vast amount\" in his career, paying in cash for several properties, but his income \"reduced dramatically\" following his retirement in 1999.\n\nHis barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC, said at the time of Becker's bankruptcy he was too \"trusting and reliant\" on his advisers.\n\nAt the start of the trial, Judge Deborah Taylor instructed the jury of 11 men and one woman to ignore Becker's celebrity.\n\n\"You must treat him in exactly the same way you would treat someone you have not heard of and is not in the public eye,\" she said.\n\nDean Beale, the chief executive of the Insolvency Service, said: \"This conviction serves as a clear warning to those who think they can hide their assets and get away with it. You will be found out and prosecuted.\"\n\nBecker has been bailed ahead of a sentencing hearing on 29 April.", "Rishi Sunak has argued it is wrong for people to criticise his wife Akshata Murty\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak's wife could save herself £280m in UK tax thanks to a loophole created by a treaty between the UK and India dating from the 1950s.\n\nAkshata Murty has \"non-dom\" status, meaning she does not have to pay UK tax on income earned abroad.\n\nNon-dom status \"wears off\" after 15 years and the person is subject to all tax requirements of a UK citizen - including on their estate.\n\nBut there is an exception for Indian citizens around inheritance tax.\n\nA technicality means that even if Ms Murty agrees to pay UK taxes on her worldwide income, but retains her non-dom status, she can still benefit from a provision in a 1956 treaty that was designed to stop Indian citizens being double-taxed on their estates in the UK and India.\n\nMs Murty earns money from shares in an Indian software giant founded by her billionaire father.\n\nIndia abolished inheritance tax in the 1980s, but this tax exemption was never revoked.\n\nSo Ms Murty could have her estate taxed there at zero upon her death, rather than in the UK at 40% - saving £280m on her £700m stake in the company founded by her father.\n\nLike her current reduced tax rate on her worldwide income - this would be perfectly legal, and HMT Treasury has said that the chancellor provided all relevant information on his interests when he became a minister.\n\nNevertheless, the very significant sums Ms Murty could have saved up to now - and may save in the future - pose some awkward questions for Rishi Sunak.\n\nAs Chancellor, Rishi Sunak has ultimate oversight of all fiscal matters in the UK. That includes regular reviews of the non-dom rules.\n\nReviewing rules which directly affect the financial arrangements of his own family members seems uncomfortable at best, a direct conflict of interest at worst. Others, including the chancellor's political opponents, have suggested that Mr Sunak should move his power over non-dom policy to another department.\n\nOn reported dividends of £11.5m from £700m worth of shares, Ms Murty would have paid tax at 38.1% (39.5% from April 6, 2022) as a UK citizen, which works out as £4.4m.\n\nAs an Indian citizen, the Indian government would tax dividends at 20% (a withholding tax). The UK government would tax the difference between that and the UK rate, or 19.5%. So Ms Murty saves £2.1m per year through her \"non-dom\" status.\n\nShe has also reportedly received income from companies based in Mauritius, which enjoys a more favourable tax treaty with India where the Indian government withholds just 15% of dividend income from Indian companies.\n\nIt is not known whether Murty holds these shares through a company based in a Mauritius or any other tax haven.\n\nLabour party leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for \"full transparency\" from the chancellor over his family's finances.\n\nA spokesperson for HM Treasury said: \"The chancellor provided a full list of all relevant interests when he first became a Minister in 2018, as required by the Ministerial Code.\n\n\"The Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests has confirmed that they are completely satisfied with the steps the Chancellor has taken to meet the requirements of the Code.\"\n\nTo be clear, Akshata Murty is not accused of any wrongdoing whatsoever. But someone with preferential tax status living in Number 11 Downing Street does pose uncomfortable questions for the other adult resident.\n\nClarification October 3: This article was edited to reflect the 38.1% tax rate that would have applied in the year to April 2022. This rate rose to 39.5% from April 6.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has apologised for the \"frustrating\" visa delays which have prevented thousands of Ukrainian refugees entering the UK.\n\nJust over a quarter of those Ukrainians granted visas - 12,000 - have reached the UK so far, Ms Patel told BBC News.\n\nWould-be sponsors of refugees have criticised the bureaucracy and ensuing delays in the Homes For Ukraine scheme.\n\nHome Office figures published on Friday show the government has granted 41,000 visas to Ukrainians fleeing the war.\n\nIn terms of arrivals into the UK:\n\n\"I'll be very candid, it has taken time. Any new scheme takes time, any new visa system takes time,\" said Ms Patel.\n\n\"It's been frustrating,\" she admitted. \"I apologise, with frustration, myself.\"\n\nMs Patel is the second government minister to apologise for the visa delays this week, following the refugees minister Lord Harrington, who told parliament that \"not enough\" visas had been issued.\n\nThe latest figures suggest there has been no significant increase in the speed of issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees, despite assurances that processes have been streamlined.\n\nThe Ukrainian Family Scheme had been issuing about 6,000 visas issued per week, but new data suggests that figure has fallen to just over 4,000 in the latest seven-day period.\n\nThe Homes for Ukraine Scheme has increased from 4,700 in the first two weeks of operation to almost 8,000 in the most recent week.\n\nThe Home Secretary has described the UK response to the war in Ukraine as \"very generous\".\n\nHowever, the number of refugees physically arriving into the UK remains far below the numbers arriving in other comparable European countries.\n\nThe German government said earlier this week it had accepted 300,000 Ukrainians, with refugees crossing the country's open border with Poland - both countries are part of the Schengen area.\n\nMeanwhile 20,000 refugees have arrived in Ireland, which is not part of the Schengen area\n\nIn March, the European Union granted Ukrainian refugees rights to live and work in the EU, and to access healthcare, housing and education immediately for up to three years without going through a formal immigration process.\n\n\"Germany is an EU country,\" said Ms Patel. \"They don't have visa checks, their borders are open.\n\nShe said any comparison with the UK was \"not like-for-like\": \"We are an independent third country, and we want to give people the status and security of coming to our country, along with the warm welcome.\"\n\nFruit farmer Chris Tattersall, from Torrington in Devon, is waiting for visas to be approved for a refugee family he is sponsoring.\n\nMr Tattersall and his wife Anne said they had a long wait after submitting visa applications for a woman they had contacted named Elena, her elderly parents and young daughter.\n\nChris Tattersall (R) and his wife Anne have sponsored a Ukrainian family but complain that bureaucracy is causing delays\n\nThe family, who are waiting in Poland, were told the application had been accepted six days later.\n\n\"I've been worrying that six days for them is like six years,\" Mr Tattersall said.\n\n\"I don't know why the government wants to slow it down. There are people who are desperate. There are families sleeping on park benches, in freezing temperatures, in Poland.\n\n\"Why, when they could be on a train for free across Europe and come here?\"\n\nElena (R) and her family are waiting in Poland for their UK documents to be approved\n\n\"Over 30,000 people with British sponsors waiting are still stuck in limbo, around half of whom have been waiting more than 10 days already to hear anything,\" said Ms Cooper.\n\n\"Behind these numbers are many desperate mothers and children in temporary accommodation or still sheltering in Ukraine.\n\n\"British families have offered Ukrainians sanctuary in their hour of need, but the Home Secretary is letting everyone down.\"\n\nThe Refugee Council accused the government of \"choosing control over compassion\", arguing that visas for Ukrainians should be waived in the short term.\n\n\"Asking Ukrainian families, who are scared, exhausted and traumatised, to fill out a long and complex visa application is unacceptable and totally out of touch with the terrifying situation they find themselves in,\" said the charity's chief executive Enver Solomon.\n\nPriti Patel said she wanted to avoid a repeat of the Windrush scandal, in which people who moved to the UK from the Caribbean later faced deportation.\n\nThe Home Office kept no record of those granted leave to remain and issued no paperwork - making it subsequently difficult for Windrush arrivals to prove their legal status - and in 2010 destroyed landing cards belonging to those Windrush migrants, creating further problems.\n\nMs Patel also stressed the importance of security checks, while insisting those checks were not causing delays to the system.\n\n\"I see security and intelligence - not just advice, but reports - every single day. I know what is going on in the world. I know what is going on in the region. I know what Russia is capable of.\"", "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has proposed a two-year ban on some foreigners buying homes.\n\nThe measure comes as the country grapples with some of the worst housing affordability issues in the world.\n\nPrices have jumped more than 20%, pushing the average home in Canada to nearly C$817,000 ($650,000; £495,000) - more than nine times household income.\n\nBut industry analysts say it's not clear a ban on foreign buyers will address the problem.\n\nData on purchases by foreign buyers in Canada is limited, but research suggests they amount for a small fraction of the market.\n\n\"I don't think it's going to have a huge impact,\" said Ben Myers, president of advisory firm Bullpenn Research & Consulting in Toronto, who found foreigners accounted for just 1% of purchases in 2020, down from 9% in 2015 and 2016.\n\n\"It's a fairly low number and let's face it, the people that really want to buy ... are going to find alternative ways to do it.\"\n\nMr Myers said the soaring housing costs reflect strong population growth and a shortage of supply, due in part to rules that restrict development.\n\nThe issues have worsened since the pandemic hit in 2020, when policymakers in Canada and elsewhere slashed interest rates to stabilise the economy, lowering borrowing costs and boosting demand even further.\n\nThe moves have fuelled the soaring housing prices seen in many markets around the world, but in Canada the disconnect between home prices and incomes is one of the most dramatic, according to OECD data.\n\nMr Trudeau pledged to tackle housing affordability during his campaign for election last year.\n\nIn addition to the temporary ban on foreign buyers, the budget proposal his government unveiled on Thursday sets aside billions to spur new construction and proposes new programmes, such as a tax-free savings account for first-time buyers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why it takes 30 years to buy a house in Canada\n\nMr Trudeau has also discussed banning certain bidding processes that favour investors, who by some measures have accounted for about one in five homes purchased in Canada since 2014.\n\nThe proposed ban on foreign buyers would exempt permanent residents and foreign students and workers, as well as those buying their primary residence.\n\nThe proposal builds on actions such as special taxes that some parts of Canada have already taken against out-of-town and foreign buyers.\n\nIn Ontario, for example, provincial Premier Doug Ford recently announced plans to raise an existing tax on foreign buyers from 15% to 20% and expand it beyond Toronto to the entire province.\n\nWhile foreign purchases are not the driver of the affordability issues, taxing them at least captures revenue that can be re-deployed to address such problems, said Steve Pomeroy, head of Focus Consulting, a housing policy firm.\n\n\"If you ban them, you don't really have much of an impact on suppressing rising home prices and you give up the revenue,\" he said.\n\n\"It's good politics because it's easy to blame a victim that nobody cares about,\" Mr Pomeroy added. \"I don't think it will have much of an impact.\"\n\nPaul Kershaw, professor at the University of British Columbia and founder of Generation Squeeze, also said he saw little in Mr Trudeau's proposal likely to slow price increases or significantly address affordability.\n\n\"It's not clear the housing measures will be sufficient to break Canada's addiction to high and rising home prices,\" he said, noting that for existing homeowners, the high prices help amass wealth.\n\nMr Pomeroy said he does expect price appreciation to slow in coming months, as the central bank raises interest rates. The Canadian housing market is particularly susceptible to such moves, since many buyers rely on five-year mortgages rather than the long-term ones common in the US and UK.\n\nBut higher interest rates will only make it less affordable for prospective buyers trying to break into the market, he warned.\n\nMr Myers said over the long-term, he expects hot markets such as Toronto and Vancouver to become dominated by renters, as regular buyers get priced out of the market, unless politicians address supply.\n\nBut Mr Pomeroy said high development costs means that adding supply will not necessarily reduce prices, unless the additions are dramatic.\n\n\"Unless you've got born into the right family ... the prospects for young buyers are quite dim,\" he said.", "Dmitry Muratov says he was attacked on a train that was due to depart Moscow to the city of Samara\n\nRussia's Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Dmitry Muratov says he has been attacked with red paint laced with the solvent acetone aboard a train.\n\n\"My eyes are burning terribly,\" said the editor of the Novaya Gazeta liberal newspaper, which has halted its operations after warning from Moscow over its Russia-Ukraine war coverage.\n\nThe male attacker shouted, \"Muratov, this is for our boys,\" he said.\n\nNovaya Gazeta is known for being highly critical of the Russian authorities.\n\nLast month, it announced it was suspending its print and online operation \"until the end of Russia's special military operation\" in Ukraine - the official term Russia's media regulator Roskomnadzor says all media outlets in the country must use. Anyone who describes Russia's actions in Ukraine as a \"war\" faces heavy fines or closures.\n\nThe incident happened on Thursday on the Moscow-Samara train, Mr Muratov said.\n\nPictures of the aftermath of the attack were published on the Telegram channel of Novaya Gazeta. Europe\n\nThe outlet has been launched by a team of journalists from Novaya Gazeta. They say it will be operating outside Russia, publishing articles in different languages.\n\nMr Muratov was co-awarded the peace prize in 2021 in recognition of his fight to defend freedom of expression in Russia.\n\nThe day after the war began, Novaya Gazeta's front page exclaimed 'Russia. Bombs. Ukraine'\n\nSince the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, restrictions on reporting have been increasingly severe in Russia, and access to almost all independent outlets is blocked or limited - or they censor themselves.\n\nRussia has also banned Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the country.\n\nA number of Russian activists and journalists speaking out against their country's invasion of Ukraine have recently had their homes vandalised by unknown pro-Kremlin figures.\n\nSince the war began, life for those who oppose it has become increasingly difficult in Russia. The government has passed a law threatening people who spread \"fake\" information about the war with 15 years in prison.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin and other politicians have painted any opposition to the war as a betrayal of the country.", "When Rishi Sunak pledged to do \"whatever it takes\" to help people through the pandemic in the spring of 2020 - and unveiled support worth £350bn - his personal poll ratings were stratospheric.\n\nHis net favourability was around +30 by some measures. It is now, according to pollsters Ipsos, -18.\n\nThe chancellor's confident, inclusive tone, redolent of Tony Blair in the 1990s, has sounded a little more shrill lately.\n\nUsually supportive newspapers panned his Spring Statement, with some Conservative critics saying he had not grasped the scale of the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nNow his wife's tax affairs - and his own political judgment - have been placed in the spotlight.\n\nYou might not blame him for uttering the words of Kenneth Williams's Julius Caesar in the film Carry on Cleo: \"Infamy. Infamy. They've all got it in for me.\"\n\nIndeed, he accused opponents of smearing his wife to get at him, and seems to believe he has endured an attempted character assassination.\n\nWhen Partygate dominated the headlines, he was seen as not just a potential replacement for Boris Johnson as prime minister, but the likely favourite.\n\nIt was always inevitable that his popularity would take a bit of a pasting when he started raising, rather than spending, cash, as pandemic restrictions receded.\n\nBut while the official line is that Labour dirty tricks are to blame for his current woes, his wife has broken no tax laws.\n\nRishi Sunak has become the focus of much discontent over the rise in the cost of living\n\nPrivately some of Mr Sunak's allies blame supporters of his next-door neighbour in Downing Street, who may himself face a tricky time when the police conclude their investigation into parties that happened on government premises during lockdown.\n\nNo 10 has dismissed these allegations as \"baseless\", so what do some of Mr Sunak's Conservative colleagues think of his prospects now?\n\nOne very senior figure not generally seen as unsympathetic to the chancellor wondered: \"Where is his political brain?\"\n\nAnd while one former cabinet minister said he had \"mild sympathy\" for Mr Sunak, as he had been subjected to a \"nasty ad hominem\" attack, he added that every leadership candidate, declared or otherwise, should expect this.\n\nHe was naive if he thought families were \"off-limits for attacks\".\n\nHis view was that the tax row could be as toxic for the chancellor as partygate had been for Mr Johnson.\n\nIt was all about a disconnect with ordinary voters. They could not hold a children's birthday party during lockdown, but boozy get-togethers were apparently held at the heart of government.\n\nRishi Sunak has accused political rivals of smearing his wife, Akshata Murty\n\nSimilarly, their taxes were being put up by the chancellor, while his wife did not pay UK tax on some of her own earnings\n\nAnd this question of judgement was a recurrent theme among some of his colleagues.\n\nWhy did the chancellor tell officials of his wife's tax status if he did not think it was a potentially tricky issue? Should he not have realised that not everything which is legal is politically sensible?\n\nWho had he allowed himself to fall in to the \"one-rule-for-us, one-rule-for-everyone-else\" trap?\n\nSome felt that, once Mr Sunak was associated with this impression, it would be difficult to turn it around.\n\nThe chancellor was seen by colleagues as having a carefully curated image, But the feeling was that his extended honeymoon with voters was turning in to a far more difficult relationship.", "Ciaran Morris' mother said she feels she was unable to protect him from what happened that day\n\nA motorist killed an 18-day-old baby who was being pushed along in his pram by his parents for the first time.\n\nJames Davis' driving was described as \"exceptionally bad and dangerous\" when his car hit another and then hit Ciaran Morris' pram in Brownhills, West Midlands.\n\nAfterwards, he ran off telling a passer-by he \"had killed a baby\".\n\nHe was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving and jailed for six-and-a-half years.\n\nHe was also convicted of driving while uninsured.\n\nCiaran's parents told the court \"the heart is forever missing a precious piece\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn impact statement by parents Codie Holyman and Cameron Morris was described as \"utterly harrowing\".\n\nThe court heard Ciaran's mother was so traumatised she did not initially realise her collarbone had been broken in the crash.\n\n\"She feels that she was unable to protect little Ciaran from what happened that day,\" prosecutors said.\n\nJames Davis, 35, fled the scene after his BMW hit Ciaran's pram\n\nDavis told his trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court he blacked out and could not remember the collision.\n\nJurors heard the 35-year-old had a teenage passenger in the BMW and had been driving at 67mph in a 30mph shortly before the crash on 4 April 2021.\n\nProsecutor James Curtis QC said Davis suddenly made a fatal manoeuvre as he veered out on High Street, Brownhills, and hit a car coming the opposite way.\n\n\"This did major damage to both cars,\" he added and Davis' car swerved in a curve, mounted the pavement and crashed into the pram as it was being pushed by Ciaran's parents.\n\nThe trial heard Davis's mobile was hidden from police for more than two months.\n\nPassing sentence Judge John Butterfield QC told him: \"As you drove along you allowed yourself to be avoidably distracted.\n\n\"I am sure that it was some operation of your phone because what was to happen afterwards with your phone is so highly suspicious.\"\n\nDozens of well-wishers left tributes to Ciaran after the crash on Easter Sunday 2021\n\nThe judge also remarked on the \"cruelness of fate\" of the crash, which happened as Ciaran was being walked in his pram for the first time, while Davis had taken a longer route due to nice weather.\n\nThe defendant accepted he had been speeding before the crash but said at the time he was within the speed limit when it happened.\n\n\"The last thing I remember was going starry-eyed. I can't remember any of it. It's like everything went blank,\" he told the court.\n\nBut the prosecution said he was fully fit and \"there is no medical excuse for this driving at all\".\n\nDavis, of Croxtalls Avenue, Walsall, was told he was likely to serve half his sentence before being released on licence.\n\nHe was also banned from driving for seven years and three months.\n\nAfter being convicted, it emerged Davis had made 11 previous court appearances for 35 offences including driving without insurance and drink-driving.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New York's top lawyer has asked a state judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court, for allegedly failing to turn over files for an investigation into his business practices.\n\nAttorney General Letitia James requested he be fined $10,000 (£7,650) per day until he complies.\n\nA judge previously ordered Mr Trump to provide the files as part of Ms James's probe into the Trump Organization.\n\nThe former president's lawyer called the motion \"frivolous\".\n\nThe New York attorney general opened a civil inquiry in 2019 into claims that - before he took office - Mr Trump had inflated the value of his assets to banks when seeking loans.\n\nMr Trump and his family have denied wrongdoing and the former president has called the inquiry a \"witch hunt\".\n\nIn February, a judge ruled that Mr Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr, 44, and daughter Ivanka Trump, 40, must answer questions under oath in the New York investigation into their business practices.\n\nThey appealed the order to appear but did not object to a separate part of the ruling that the former president comply with a subpoena \"seeking documents and information\". Those were meant to be produced by 31 March.\n\nIn court documents filed on Thursday, the New York attorney general said Mr Trump has not produced the requested documents and has raised objections \"based on grounds such as overbreadth, burden, and lack of particularity\".\n\n\"The judge's order was crystal clear: Donald J Trump must comply with our subpoena and turn over relevant documents to my office,\" Ms James said in a statement.\n\nMs James has repeatedly blamed Mr Trump for creating unnecessary delays in the legal process.\n\nMr Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, said in a statement sent to Reuters that: \"We are prepared to adamantly oppose the frivolous and baseless motion filed by the attorney general's office.\n\n\"Our client has consistently complied with the many discovery requests served by the attorney general's office over the years.\"\n\nThe civil case is separate to a Manhattan criminal investigation into the Trump Organization's practices.", "Predictions at the start of the invasion of a quick Russian victory have been upended by the Ukrainians' willingness to fight, but the war is settling into a long struggle that could still endanger the wider world too.\n\nRemember how it was in Kyiv after the Russians invaded: thousands cramming bitterly cold railway platforms, pushing and shoving to get any train heading away from the Russians. At the height of it, in the week that straddled the end of February and the beginning of March, 50,000 people were moving west from Kyiv station every single day. Rusty carriages that looked as if they had spent years pensioned off in some siding were hauled back into service so the railway company could lay on dozens of extra services.\n\nMost of the passengers were women and children. Men stayed. The law stated they could not leave the country as Ukraine needed them to fight. I did not see any press gangs. Mostly, it was a nation of willing volunteers. Kyiv's population of around four million halved. Some of the women who didn't leave put on uniforms to fight. Outside a volunteer centre I met a woman called Katrine hugging Nikita, her 18-month-old son. It was a brief reunion as her unit rotated through Kyiv. Katrine was a sniper, who said she was ready to kill to give her son a future.\n\nKatrine hugs her son before going into battle\n\nAs I drove into Kyiv from the south a few days into the invasion, a Russian convoy 40 miles long was heading towards the city from the north and north-west, from Belarus, Russia's ally. Belarus is the sort of neighbour Russia's President Vladimir Putin wants. Its leader, Alexander Lukashenko, is happy to have Putin's patronage and to accept a role as Russia's client state. Even so Lukashenko did not send his troops into Ukraine, which many outsiders had assumed was part of the Kremlin's battle plan. Perhaps even Putin accepted that loyalty has its limits.\n\nEveryone in Kyiv feared the worst. The city centre was mostly empty, except for armed and anxious men at checkpoints who were ready to believe that anyone behaving in a way they didn't like was a Russian saboteur. The rumble of explosions rolled in from the edge of the city. Everyone feared the all-powerful Russians were about to encircle Kyiv and attack.\n\nOn my first night I decided not to sleep in the hotel shelter, at the second basement level. It was overcrowded and airless, and the city centre had not been hit. It felt like a gamble. But as I write this, six weeks later, in the same hotel room on the fourth floor, Kyiv's beautiful and historic centre has still not been attacked, even though it is well within range of Russia's missiles and air force.\n\nIn six weeks, so much has changed. The long convoy got bogged down and destroyed. The Russians retreated. The war is far from over, but the Ukrainians won the battle of Kyiv. The first battle. There could be another.\n\nUkrainian willingness to fight and die upended every prediction of a swift Russian victory. At a military funeral of a soldier killed stopping the Russian advance, his mother and sister sobbed, clutching his portrait. Volleys were fired over his coffin, and hundreds of his comrades lined up to sing their national anthem and roar patriotic slogans.\n\nThey looked like who they were, volunteers with ages that ran from late teens to late middle age, wearing a range of uniforms and carrying a variety of weapons. Ukraine also has much more professional-looking, highly trained soldiers.\n\nTogether with clever leadership, sharp tactics and Nato weapons they have fought so well that the world's perception of their country has changed. At a photo opportunity at the Nato meeting in Brussels this week foreign ministers of some of the world's most powerful democracies were jostling to get close to the guest of honour, their Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba. Differences are emerging in the North Atlantic Alliance and the European Union about how to increase the pressure on Russia, but they all wanted a little Ukrainian stardust.\n\nIn war, leadership has always been critical, and in modern war the messages on the media battlefield are more significant than ever. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is winning that part of the war. Instead of heading for safer ground he stayed, swapping suits for khaki t-shirts.\n\nIt is ironic that one of Putin's arguments for Ukraine to be in Russia's orbit is that it is not a proper country. His own actions, along with Zelensky's well-judged messages as he leads a remarkable feat of mobilisation, are sharpening the national identity of Ukrainians.\n\nAnother factor for Ukrainian success is that humans caught up in wars adapt fast, once the shock wears off. In a trendy part of Kyiv hipster craft makers repurposed their workshop to turn out steel barriers with vicious spikes to rip tyres. In the basement of a volunteer depot young women tore up sheets to make fuses for Molotov cocktails. The air in the unventilated space was heavy with petrol vapour. Checkpoints in Kyiv went from jumpy armed men with barriers made of a few tyres - to well-fortified sandbagged strongpoints.\n\nUkrainian defiance has also been a key factor. Thousands of volunteers signed up to learn how to handle weapons and fight. Among them were two young men we've followed ever since, university students Dmytro Kisilenko, aged 18, and his friend Maksym Lutsyk, who's 19. When they signed up to fight at the beginning of March the volunteers of their age looked like young guys off to a festival. Now they have seen action on the front line, and like every other Ukrainian have had their view of the world and the lives they will lead in it shaken.\n\nThe two young soldiers, Maksym and Dmytro, have been in Kyiv this week buying the new gear they'll need when they're rotated into the battles of the east in a few days. For Maksym, like all Ukrainians, this is the fight of their lives.\n\n\"We are not fighting here only for our country's life, we are fighting for the life of the whole civilised world because the biggest goal for us is to defend our freedoms and rights in Europe, in and out of our country. Every one of us understands that there will not be freedom in the whole world while Russia occupies our territories.\"\n\nWeeks as a frontline soldier have changed Dmytro. \"Human life matters, your relatives or friends. Your country matters, first of all… I become more systematic and unfortunately more ruthless because of the latest news and what I have already been through. Ruthless to Russian soldiers, ruthless to all the situations. I've become more like a soldier.\"\n\nRussia suffered a serious defeat around Kyiv and had to pull back. But it has not lost the war, and is grinding out territorial gains in the east and south. Since they left the Kyiv Oblast the damage they have done is clearer than ever.\n\nThe damage to property is extensive. I have seen terrible devastation in the centres of towns like Irpin and Borodyanka. Far more serious, and alarming, is what has been done to civilians and other non-combatants. I have seen dead bodies, some definitely civilians, left where they were killed by the Russians. The evidence that war crimes were perpetrated by Russian troops is becoming overwhelming. Accusations have also been levelled at Ukrainian forces, after a video emerged that appeared to show their soldiers killing wounded Russians who were lying helpless on the ground.\n\nThis war is a world crisis not just because the Russians have driven a tank through international law, or for what they have done to civilians, but because it has brought the biggest military powers with nuclear weapons closer to a potential confrontation than at any time since the Cold War that ended with the fall of the Soviet Union, culminating in 1991.\n\nThe 21st Century now has its own Cold War, with the same risks attached if it gets hot. The head of defence intelligence in Ukraine, Maj Gen Kyrylo Budanov, told me that the risks of not confronting Putin's Russia are much worse for Nato than risking escalation by standing up to him and sending Ukraine the much more lethal arsenal it wants.\n\n\"This is a war of aggression in the heart of Europe that completely destroys existing political and military security systems. If the world swallows Putin's aggression and offers no radical solution, it will be repeated over and over again,\" he said.\n\nKyiv is much calmer now than in the icy first days of the invasion. It's very different in the east, where soldiers are gathering, and thousands of civilians are leaving everything they've ever known. The invasion of Ukraine took many by surprise. But the crisis between Russia and the West was brewing for years. Many, not just politicians, refused to recognise the signs.\n\nA collective amnesia settled over the wars of former Yugoslavia of the 1990s. Europe, it was assumed, was too wise, rich and self-interested to still be that old continent where blood could be spilled to change borders and topple governments. Now we know that view was complacent and wrong. Western leaders are having to think very hard and very quickly about how to readjust to this new era's challenges and dangers.\n\nThis is going to be a long, attritional struggle. The stakes are high. If it escalates into a fight to the finish between Putin's presidency and Ukraine's independence the wider world will face even worse danger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Maksym Lutsyk,19 (left) and Dmytro Kisilenko, 18 are at war with three days training.", "One pregnant Shanghai resident received these vegetables as a food delivery\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping has praised his country's handling of the Covid pandemic, even as Shanghai reported record case numbers.\n\nSpeaking at an event marking China's hosting of the Winter Olympics, Mr Xi said some athletes said China deserved a gold medal for its approach.\n\nChina's zero-Covid policy has come under strain with infections surging and signs of public anger.\n\nOn Friday, the city - China's financial hub - announced a record 21,000 cases. An official said that out of 130,000 infections during the current outbreak, just one person was considered to be in a \"severe condition\".\n\nThe low numbers of serious cases have led some to ask whether a lockdown is necessary, says BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell.\n\nIn the north-eastern Jilin City, officials there said that the city had reached \"Social Zero Covid\" after 33 days of lockdown. But residents there have been given no indication when restrictions will be lifted.\n\nChina is one of the last remaining nations still committed to eradicating Covid, in contrast to most of the world which is trying to live with the virus in its Omicron variation.\n\nShanghai residents have taken to social media to complain about food supplies.\n\nPeople in the city are confined to their homes, and most have to order in food and water and wait for government drop-offs of vegetables, meat and eggs.\n\nBut the lockdown extension has overwhelmed delivery services, grocery shop websites and even the distribution of government supplies.\n\nPolitical scientist Dali Yang of the University of Chicago suggested several million people in Shanghai were running low on supplies and many were restricted to eating one meal a day.\n\nHe warned that elderly Shanghainese, who were more likely to live alone and less likely to use smartphones, were among those most at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, a video showing a worker in a hazmat costume beating a dog to death with a shovel has caused revulsion online.\n\nThe dog's owner had reportedly been taken to quarantine after testing positive for Covid and had left the pet outside in the hope that it would survive.\n\nThe city of 25 million remains under lockdown\n\nIn his speech, Mr Xi said China's zero Covid policy had withstood the test of the Winter Olympics.\n\nThere is little sign of China changing its approach. An editorial in state news agency Xinhua said the country would \"firmly adhere\" to its policy.\n\n\"It will not be long before Chinese citizens affected by the virus can enjoy warm sunshine in spring days as things get back to normal,\" it said.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak held a US green card - allowing permanent residence in that country - while he was chancellor, his spokeswoman has said.\n\nHe returned it in October last year, ahead of his first American trip as a UK government minister.\n\nThe news comes as Mr Sunak faces scrutiny over the revelation that his wife is not liable for UK taxes on her overseas earnings.\n\nHe has accused his critics of running a \"smear\" campaign against his family.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats are calling for Mr Sunak, who became chancellor in early 2020, to resign, with leader Sir Ed Davey saying: \"Never mind a green card; it's time to give Rishi Sunak the red card.\"\n\nAs stipulated in the rules, Mr Sunak filed US tax returns while he held his green card, his spokeswoman said, \"but specifically as a non-resident, in full compliance with the law\".\n\nShe added: \"As required under US law and as advised, he continued to use his green card for travel purposes. Upon his first trip to the US in a government capacity as chancellor, he discussed the appropriate course of action with the US authorities.\n\n\"At that point it was considered best to return his green card, which he did immediately.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Sunak's green card at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"As I understand it, the chancellor has done absolutely everything he was required to do.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow Treasury minister Pat McFadden said there were further questions for Mr Sunak to answer. \"Why did he keep a green card for so long while being a UK MP?\" he asked.\n\n\"Was there any tax advantage in doing so? And why did he give this up after holding it for so long?\"\n\nThe chancellor studied for a master of business administration (MBA) post-graduate degree at Stanford University, California, from 2004 to 2006, where he met fellow student Akshata Murty. The couple married in 2009 and have two daughters.\n\nMs Murty, the daughter of an Indian billionaire, has revealed she has \"non-dom\" status, meaning she does not pay UK tax on overseas earning, which the BBC estimates saves her more than £2m a year.\n\nMr Sunak has said it is unfair to attack his wife when she is a \"private citizen\", adding: \"I'm an elected politician. So I know what I signed up for.\"\n\n\"To smear my wife to get at me is awful,\" he added.", "The French president is facing a closer than expected election race\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has called Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki \"a far-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people\", after being criticised for his talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe French president has held regular conversations with Mr Putin since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nOn Friday, Poland summoned the French ambassador over Mr Macron's comments, made to a French newspaper.\n\n\"How many times have you negotiated with Putin and what have you achieved?\" Mr Morawiecki said on Monday.\n\n\"It's my duty to speak with him, we need it. I won't stop doing it, that's what allows us to take part in the negotiation,\" he said.\n\n\"By talking to him and to [Ukraine's] President Zelensky, we can help in the negotiation. At some point, there will be a ceasefire and peace will have to be built. It cannot be done without a guarantor, France is committed to be one of these guarantors.\"\n\nIt is not clear why Mr Macron accused Mr Morawiecki of anti-Semitism, although the Polish government has faced international criticism for laws making it harder for Jewish people to recover property lost during and after World War Two, as well as one making it an offence to link the Polish nation to Nazi crimes.\n\nMr Macron also said Mr Morawiecki wanted to help his rival Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election on Sunday.\n\nOpinion polls show that Ms Le Pen has closed the gap on Mr Macron, who joined the campaign late and has seen his lead erode as Ms Le Pen focussed on a cost-of-living message.\n\nHe enjoyed a boost from his diplomatic efforts in the Ukraine conflict but that has faded, and he has tried to portray Ms Le Pen as someone sympathetic to Mr Putin.\n\nA Polish government spokesman, Piotr Müller, rejected Mr Macron's accusation of anti-Semitism, saying he had gone \"too far\" with his choice of words.", "The rapper, whose real name is Dylan Kwabena Mills, had denied assault by beating\n\nGrime artist Dizzee Rascal has been handed a one-year restraining order and a 24-week curfew for assaulting his former fiancee.\n\nThe rapper, whose real name is Dylan Kwabena Mills, had denied assault by beating.\n\nBut the 37-year-old, of Sevenoaks, Kent, was found guilty of attacking Cassandra Jones in Streatham, south London, in June 2021.\n\nThe couple had two children before they split up in February 2021.\n\nIn last month's trial at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court, the judge said he had been \"abusive and aggressive\".\n\nThe court heard the artist behind chart-topping singles Bonkers and Dance Wiv Me, was \"frustrated\" over custody arrangements and the pair had an argument when he dropped off their daughter at the property.\n\nMills had assaulted Ms Jones by pressing his forehead against hers and pushing her to the ground during a \"chaotic\" row, the trial heard, when he accused her of causing injuries to his arm.\n\nDistrict judge Polly Gledhill, sentencing him at Croydon Magistrates' Court, told him she wanted him to work on how he thinks and behaves as he \"lost his temper and used violence\".\n\nThe rapper appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court last month for the trial\n\nAfter reading pre-sentence reports, she told Mills that he had shown \"no remorse for this matter\" and \"you continue to place the blame on Ms Jones - the victim in this case\".\n\nHe was given a community order with a 24-week curfew and told he must wear an electronic tag.\n\nThe judge said she was \"satisfied\" giving him an additional 12-month restraining order was a \"necessary and proportionate\" measure.\n\nMills was also ordered to pay £2,190 in costs and a £95 surcharge.\n\nJudge Gledhill said Ms Jones had been \"rocked to her core\" by the attack and left with panic attacks and needing anxiety medication.\n\nA Press Association photographer said Mills smashed his camera outside court\n\nShe told Mills the incident was made more serious because it was \"a violation of the trust and security of the people in an intimate family relationship\", it happened in front of children, and it took place \"in the victim's home\" where \"a person is entitled to feel safe\".\n\nThe judge also said he displayed aggressive behaviour after his trial ended, when he took a camera from a PA news agency photographer and threw it into the road, smashing it, outside the court.\n\nMills' defence lawyer. Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC. told the court a pre-sentence report showed a low risk of reoffending and described the assault as \"wholly isolated\" and \"short-lived\".\n\nShe said: \"His concern and only concern was that his children were thriving and had focused on raising his children ... who he wants to have a happy family.\"\n\nAs a parent, he provides \"warmth, love and affection to his children\", who \"love and respect him\", she added, and work has been undertaken with his ex-partner to sort out their settlement and childcare arrangements.\n\nThe rapper will appear again at Croydon Magistrates' Court next year\n\nMs Bennett-Jenkins said Mills, who had no previous convictions, had carried out charity work during the pandemic, including backing a kitchen which helped youngsters in London.\n\nThe court heard about other charity work Mills has done, though it was told it \"does not distract from the seriousness of the offence\".\n\nMills released his debut album, Boy In Da Corner, in 2003. His seventh studio album E3 AF, which refers to his east London postcode and African heritage, is due out on 30 October.\n\nHe was made an MBE for services to music in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2020 and performed at festivals in August including Live At Lydiard in Swindon and Boardmasters in Cornwall.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dame Cressida Dick will reflect on what more she and others could have done during her time as the Metropolitan Police commissioner, she has said.\n\nThe 61-year-old, who resigned in February, said that during her time in policing, the force had become \"more diverse and more professional\".\n\nAllegations of dishonesty, prejudice and incompetence dogged the Met for much of her tenure as commissioner.\n\nHer final day in the job will be Sunday, before she takes annual leave.\n\nHer employment with the Met will formally end two weeks later.\n\nDame Cressida announced she would be standing down after a string of controversies, culminating in public outrage over the offensive behaviour of a group of officers based at Charing Cross police station.\n\nOther scandals included the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer, the jailing of two PCs who took pictures of the bodies of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, and the Daniel Morgan report which criticised the Met's failure to tackle corruption.\n\nThe report found Dame Cressida had personally obstructed access to documents that the inquiry panel believed to be important - a claim she rejected.\n\nDame Cressida was appointed Met commissioner in 2017, becoming the first woman to hold the position\n\nDuring a visit to the Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre in Gravesend, Kent, Dame Cressida reiterated that her resignation was not her decision, stating that London's mayor Sadiq Khan instigated change at the top of the force.\n\n\"The mayor of London is a democratically elected person. He has a job to do, he has certain responsibilities in relation to the Metropolitan Police Service.\n\n\"He caused me to say that I would step aside, I did not voluntarily resign. What happened in the run-up to that and subsequently in the last few weeks perhaps, I don't know, will be looked at by (HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary) Sir Tom Winsor.\"\n\nThe commissioner recently visited a café during a patrol with officers in Chingford, Essex\n\nHer visit to Gravesend was part of a series of swansong outings during her final days in office.\n\nShe was applauded by firearms officers and public order officers who presented her with a certificate marking her 40 years of service.\n\nShe also thanked each officer and trainer at the centre, with many also thanking her in return for her leadership.\n\nSpeaking about whether she had any regrets, Dame Cressida told journalists: \"I guess when I sit there, after I have left, I will look back and I will analyse further, what happened potentially, what I could have done or what others could have done in particular circumstances.\n\n\"But I'm really proud of what the Met has achieved in this time. I think London should know that it has a fantastic police service, a world-leading police service that people from all over the world come to see, that has improved.\n\n\"I joined 40 years ago, and in so many respects it's much more diverse, much more professional, bigger. And it is very determined to improve even further, and it will do.\"\n\nDame Cressida penned a \"Letter to London\", which was published earlier on Friday, in which she said she was \"extremely optimistic about the Met's future\".\n\nSir Stephen House will be the interim Metropolitan Police commissioner\n\nMet Police Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House will serve as the force's acting commissioner while the recruitment process continues, with Dame Cressida's permanent successor expected to be appointed in the summer.\n\nEarlier on Friday, at the launch of Labour's local election campaign in Barnet, north London, the mayor spoke about the outgoing commissioner.\n\nMr Khan said: \"In the recent past, she's worked with many others to help us reduce violent crime but I'm not going to hide from the fact that I lost confidence in her.\n\n\"I'm not going to hide from the fact that we've had in our city a series of devastating scandals, overt racism, sexism, discrimination, homophobia; we've had trust and confidence from Londoners in the police service at rock bottom.\n\n\"It's one of the reasons why I lost confidence in her and it's one of the things I'll be looking for in a new commissioner, how they will address some of these serious issues that, frankly speaking, the current commissioner failed to address.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The climate protesters took their latest action on the eve of what XR calls the \"April Rebellion\"\n\nTower Bridge has reopened after an Extinction Rebellion (XR) protest, that saw two activists dangling over the Thames.\n\nThe pair used suspension cords to hang from the landmark and unfurl a banner reading, \"End fossil fuels now\".\n\nPolice closed the bridge to traffic during rush hour but cleared protesters by midday, arresting four people.\n\nIt comes after eight days of disruption at oil facilities caused by XR and the Just Stop Oil coalition.\n\nBoth groups are calling for an end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure as the government reviews its energy security in the wake of the Ukraine war.\n\nPolice were forced to close off the landmark\n\nPolice shut the bridge from 07:30 BST but cleared the protesters by 11:40 BST, escorting them into police vehicles, and re-opening the bridge shortly afterwards.\n\nCommander Umer Khan, for policing operations and security at the City of London Police, said four people were arrested and are in police custody.\n\nAn XR statement said: \"The action has taken place at the gateway to the City of London - the root source of fossil fuel funding in the UK - and on the eve of the April Rebellion which begins tomorrow at 10am in Hyde Park.\"\n\nThe traffic disruption caused frustration among members of the public, who had to find alternative routes to work.\n\nBen Hersh, 24, an office worker who regularly uses the bridge to get to work, told the PA news agency: \"I know that climate issues are important, but why are we always targeted?\n\n\"They need to grow up, stop doing stupid stunts, stop taking aim at regular people and maybe more people would do things to help them and the environment.\"\n\nSpeaking at the scene near Tower Bridge, an Uber driver who referred to himself only as Muhamed Q, 44, said he was worried about losing income.\n\n\"My main money source is this and I use this bridge most of the time,\" he said.\n\n\"I have to take longer routes and have less jobs.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the protest was \"counterproductive\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Passengers queue for security screening in the departures area of Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport in Manchester\n\nThe UK's aviation watchdog has written to airports and airlines to express concern over the impact of staff shortages on international travel.\n\nThousands of people heading abroad in the run-up to Easter, some of them for the first time in two years, have faced long queues, delays and cancellations.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority said late-notice cancellations and \"excessive\" delays could hit consumer confidence.\n\nAirports blame recruitment issues and Covid-linked absences for the delays.\n\nStaff sickness caused by coronavirus has seen airlines including EasyJet and British Airways axe dozens of flights, while the aviation industry has struggled to recruit quickly enough after making staff redundant earlier in the pandemic.\n\nKen O'Toole, deputy chief executive at Manchester Airports Group, said: \"The speed and the scale of recovery has caught us and it has meant we are short-staffed at the moment.\"\n\nManchester Airport has seen some of the worst disruption, with passengers describing scenes of \"chaos\" after several missed their flights, and warnings that emergency services staff could be drafted in to help tackle the problems.\n\nThe airport's managing director, Karen Smart, announced she would stand down following criticism of the long security queues.\n\nTravellers at Manchester Airport have faced long queues for check-in and security over the past month\n\nBut in a letter, Richard Moriarty, chief executive of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), warned late notice cancellations and \"excessive\" delays at airports were not only distressing for consumers but could affect confidence just when passengers were returning to flying.\n\nHe said that while firms had been working hard to recruit staff ahead of the rush for spring and summer holidays, it was clear this had not always happened fast enough to cope with the increased passenger travel.\n\nMr Moriarty stressed it was important airlines were fixing their schedules in a way that was deliverable given their available staff, with contingencies for staff sickness including from coronavirus.\n\n\"Where capacity is unavoidably restricted\", he said, planning was needed to identify problems early so pre-emptive cancellations could be made.\n\n\"At at a minimum\" passengers should be given notice so that they do not travel to airports unnecessarily, he added.\n\nThe CAA boss also reminded airlines that they were legally required to inform passengers of their rights when flights were disrupted, to provide care and assistance during the disruption and to offer a choice of refund or alternative travel.\n\nA group of schoolchildren told the BBC how upsetting it was for their EasyJet flight from Gatwick to be cancelled, preventing them from joining their classmates on a skiing trip.\n\n\"It's really sad, because we had to get up really, really early in the morning for absolutely nothing, just to sit in the airport for about six hours, sitting next to our suitcases looking forward to something that wasn't going to happen,\" one of the girls said.\n\nSome schools have already broken up for Easter - the first school holiday since the end of the pandemic travel restrictions - and that has fuelled the rise in demand for foreign trips.\n\nStansted Airport said it is expecting 240,000 travellers this Easter weekend, compared with 8,000 this time last year.\n\nThere are also warnings of delays over Easter for other modes of travel:\n\nIn addition to recruitment issues, the Airport Operators Association (AOA), which represents most UK airports, said Covid documentation checks and customers being unfamiliar with airport processes were also contributing to the delays and longer queues.\n\nAbta, a trade association for tour operators and travel agents, said in a statement its members had reported bookings for this year were approaching 2019 levels.\n\n\"Our own research shows an increasing number of people have a foreign holiday booked for the next 12 months, up a third when compared to six months ago,\" it added.", "The Queen distributing Maundy money in 2019. But she is not taking part this year\n\nThe Queen will not take part in next week's Maundy Service, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nInstead for the first time Prince Charles will carry out the traditional coin-giving ceremony, to be held this year in Windsor.\n\nThe 95-year-old Queen has had mobility problems, but took part in the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip.\n\nIt is understood the Queen regrets not attending, but wanted to give clarity in time for those planning the event.\n\nIt will be the first Maundy Service missed by the Queen since 1970.\n\nThe service takes place each year on the Thursday before Easter Sunday, with special coins given to pensioners, with one man and one woman chosen for each year the Queen has lived.\n\nThe church service would have involved the Queen handing out the \"Maundy money\" to a line-up of recipients.\n\nRather than allowing speculation about her attendance to overshadow preparations, it is understood the Queen has decided to give an early confirmation that Prince Charles will represent her instead.\n\nShe has been taking part in virtual audiences this week, but has difficulty in moving and last month had to pull out of the Commonwealth Service.\n\nThis will be the fifth Maundy Service missed by the Queen, with these previous times because of being away on overseas tours or because of the recent births of Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.\n\nThe annual service marks Maundy Thursday, which commemorates Jesus washing the feet of the apostles at the Last Supper.\n\nThe royal ceremony of awarding gifts on this day dates back to AD 600.\n\nThe recipients are traditionally local elderly people, who are being recognised for their contribution to community.\n\nEach recipient is given two purses, one containing a small amount of ordinary coinage and the second containing specially-minted coins up to the value of the Queen's age.\n\nThe Maundy Service will come a week before the Queen's 96th birthday.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-5 -4-3 -2 J Kokrak (US), C Conners (Can), P Cantlay (US)\n\nTiger Woods shot a one-under-par 71 on his Masters comeback as the five-time champion made a stunning return to competitive golf in what he described as an \"electric\" atmosphere at Augusta.\n\nWoods, 46, suffered life-threatening injuries in a car crash 14 months ago, then feared his leg might be amputated.\n\nThe 15-time major champion confirmed on Tuesday he planned to play and looked sharp in Thursday's opening round.\n\n\"There is a long way to go, it is a marathon, but it is nice to get off to a positive start,\" Woods said after playing his first competitive round in 508 days.\n\nAsked whether being able to play felt like a victory after the severity of his injuries, Woods replied: \"Yes. To see where I've been, to get from there to here, it was no easy task.\n\n\"I'm very lucky to have this opportunity to be able to play, and not only that, to play in the Masters and to have this type of reception.\n\n\"I mean, the place was electric.\"\n\nThe opening day was delayed by half an hour because of overnight thunderstorms, with testing windy conditions in the morning making way for a calmer afternoon in the sunshine.\n\nOne of the later starters, 24-year-old Im, began with three birdies and added another on the seventh to hit 32 on the front nine.\n\nSuccessive bogeys on 10 and 11 pegged him back before an eagle on 13 and a birdie on 15 put him one shot ahead of Australia's Cameron Smith.\n\nSmith, going for a rare prestigious double after winning the Players Championship at Sawgrass last month, was the early clubhouse leader after an extraordinary four-under 68 that started and finished with double bogeys.\n\nEngland's Danny Willett, who earned a shock win at the Masters in 2016, American world number one Scottie Scheffler, 2020 champion Dustin Johnson and Chile's Joaquin Niemann are one shot behind Smith after 69s.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Rory McIlroy began his latest bid for a clean sweep of the four men's majors - the 32-year-old's eighth attempt to complete the career Grand Slam - with a 73.\n\nWoods impresses in a round few thought they would see again\n\nWhen Woods crashed while speeding in Los Angeles in February 2021, the shocking images of his overturned car at the side of the road left his millions of admirers around the world fearing his golf career was over.\n\nWoods spent three months in a hospital bed following the single-vehicle accident, in which he hit a tree at approximately 75mph and was later found to have been driving at almost twice the legal speed limit.\n\nThat he has been able to return to health is remarkable, let alone resume a glittering career in which he has won 15 men's majors, second only to Jack Nicklaus.\n\nIn February, Woods made it clear he thought the hilly terrain at Augusta National would come too soon in his recovery.\n\nYet as Masters week approached, speculation increased he was planning to play if he came through his practice rounds unscathed.\n\n\"I am proud of my whole team,\" said Woods. \"People have no idea how hard we worked each and every day. We never took a day off.\"\n\nVast numbers watched him practise at the iconic Georgia course on Monday, creating a celebratory atmosphere as the preeminent star of the sport continued his bid to make an astonishing comeback.\n\nThe moment Woods walked out on to the first tee on Thursday was even more special.\n\nHuge cheers greeted his name being read out as thousands gathered to watch his opening shot. Despite his drive turning out to be wayward, it did not dampen the mood as Woods was cheered down the first fairway.\n\nPacked galleries continued to greet him around the course.\n\nPractice partners Justin Thomas and Fred Couples had talked up the level of Woods' game, with the former world number one saying it was the physicality of getting around 72 holes which would be his biggest challenge.\n\nTechnically, he looked very good. Starting with five pars, he put his tee shot on the par-three sixth to within a few feet and knocked in the birdie amid more rapturous scenes.\n\nA poor chip and putt from the side of the eighth green led to a bogey, before he moved back under par with a birdie on the par-five 13th after reaching the green in two.\n\nMore sloppiness around the 14th green led to another bogey, but a brilliant two on the par-three 16th ensured he would finish under par in his first competitive round since the 2020 Masters, which was held in November.\n\n\"I hadn't played in an atmosphere like this since 2019 when I won because in 2020 we had Covid and we had no-one here, and I didn't play last year,\" added Woods.\n\n\"So to have the patrons fully out and to have that type of energy out there was awesome to feel.\"\n\nWith all the attention on Woods, McIlroy said he felt less pressure at Augusta this year as he again bids to become only the sixth man to win the Masters, Open, US Open and US PGA Championship.\n\nBut McIlroy - who has not claimed victory at one of the four majors since 2014 - finished over par as he paid the price for some inaccurate approach play over the closing holes.\n\nThat was typified by his tee shot into a bunker on the par-three 16th, leading to a dropped shot. He also pushed his second shot into a bunker at the 18th, but brilliantly recovered with a delicate splash out of the sand and a clinical putt for par.\n\n\"I feel like it was the worst I could have shot today. I feel like I played really, really well,\" McIlroy said.\n\n\"I'm encouraged with how I played so I've just got to try to get more out of the round tomorrow.\"\n\nMoments after McIlroy's round finished, two-time major champion Tony Jacklin tweeted to urge the former world number one to \"relax and enjoy yourself\" when he looks to close the gap on the leaders on Friday.\n\nMcIlroy's English playing partner Matt Fitzpatrick sunk a 20-foot putt on the last, enabling him to card a 71 after a consistent round that included just one bogey.\n\nEngland's Willett has struggled to hit the same heights since his memorable Masters win six years ago, but says he is \"trending nicely\" after his best opening round at Augusta.\n\nThe 34-year-old from Sheffield, who has not yet recorded a top-30 finish in 2022, carded five birdies and two bogeys in his 69.\n\n\"The body's good and this place lends itself to the certain golf shots that we've been trying to work on and trying to hit,\" he said.\n\n\"It doesn't mean you're going to hit them obviously, but it's always nice when the kinds of things you've been working at pay off.\"\n\nHow did the rest of the Britons get on?\n\nEngland's Lee Westwood and Tyrrell Hatton carded level-par 72s, while Scotland's Robert MacIntyre, who finished 12th on his debut last year, shot a 73.\n\nEnglish pair Tommy Fleetwood (+3) and Justin Rose (+4) could face a battle to make the cut after disappointing opening rounds.\n\nEnglish amateur Laird Shepherd, who qualified after producing an amazing comeback to win the Amateur Championship, finished nine over on his debut.\n\nScotland's 1988 champion Sandy Lyle, 64, props up the 90-man field after shooting an 82.\n\nEngland's Paul Casey pulled out of the tournament shortly before he was due to tee off on Thursday because of a back injury.\n\nCasey, 44, finished third in the Players Championship but suffered back spasms during the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play last month.\n\n\"The back issues are persistent and thus preventing me from being able to compete,\" he said.\n• None Who is the best Premier League player without a trophy?\n• None How could an award-winning racehorse vanish into the night?", "In a statement, Osman said: \"I can't thank everyone enough for twelve amazing years\"\n\nTV presenter Richard Osman is to leave the hit BBC One quiz show Pointless, the corporation has confirmed.\n\nThe 51-year-old has appeared on the show since 2009, filming more than 1,300 episodes across almost 30 series.\n\nBut in recent years, he has had to juggle his TV commitments with writing his successful Thursday Murder Club series of crime novels.\n\nHost Alexander Armstrong will remain on Pointless, and Osman will continue to appear on its celebrity spin-off.\n\nOsman will also continue to present his own BBC Two show House of Games, which launched in 2017.\n\nIn a statement, Osman said: \"Pointless has been a joy from start to finish, working alongside my friend Alexander Armstrong, backed by the most wonderful team, and for the best viewers in the world.\n\n\"I will miss everyone so much, but I'm thrilled that I'll still be presenting the celebrity shows. I can't thank everyone enough for 12 amazing years.\"\n\nOsman will not immediately be replaced with a permanent new co-host on Pointless, the BBC said.\n\nInstead, Armstrong will be joined by a series of rotating guest presenters - details of which will be announced later this year.\n\nArmstrong, seen during a brief swap with Osman on the show's 1000th episode, will continue to host the quiz show\n\nOsman is introduced in every episode as Armstrong's \"Pointless friend\". He sits at a desk behind a laptop and his role is to provide additional data and trivia about the correct answers.\n\nAs the former creative director at TV production company Endemol UK, a position he retained until 2020, it was Osman who created the format for Pointless.\n\nBut he also ended up being cast as Armstrong's on-screen co-host after standing in during rehearsals prior to the show's launch.\n\nThe format of Pointless is essentially the opposite of Family Fortunes. Contestants are asked a series of questions which have already been put to 100 members of the public.\n\nBut instead of having to guess the most popular answer, contestants must identify the least popular - with extra money added to the jackpot if they find a \"Pointless answer\".\n\nObscure knowledge can help contestants keep a low score throughout the episode in the hope of ultimately winning the Pointless trophy.\n\nIn a statement, Armstrong said: \"Daytime television's loss is international best-selling crime fiction's gain. I say that like it's a consolation - I'm going to miss the big man next to me Monday to Friday.\n\n\"But at least I still get him at weekends - and weekdays if you're watching on Challenge.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOsman has become a hugely successful author - with The Thursday Murder Club and its follow-up The Man Who Died Twice both topping the Sunday Times best-seller list for fiction.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Osman said that the books had \"become such a juggernaut around the world I simply couldn't keep up with my schedule\".\n\nA film adaptation is also in the works after the rights were bought by legendary director Steven Spielberg.\n\nFilming for the next series of Pointless begins next month.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Osman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murty has said she will pay UK taxes on her overseas income, following a row over her non-domicile status.\n\nShe owns £700m in shares of the Indian IT giant Infosys, founded by her father, from which she received £11.6m in dividend income last year.\n\nAs a non-domiciled (non-dom) UK resident she is not required by law to pay UK taxes on her overseas income.\n\nBut she told the BBC she did not want to be a \"distraction\" for her husband.\n\nHer decision to change her tax arrangements follows accusations of hypocrisy against the chancellor, with opposition parties saying Mr Sunak's family is benefiting at a time when the cost of living is going up.\n\nThe BBC estimates Ms Murty would have avoided £2.1m a year in UK tax through her non-dom status.\n\nMs Murty said her tax arrangements had been \"entirely legal\", but added: \"It has become clear that many do not feel it is compatible with my husband's role as chancellor.\n\n\"I understand and appreciate the British sense of fairness and I do not wish my tax status to be a distraction for my husband or to affect my family.\"\n\nA non-dom is someone who lives in the UK but declares their permanent home to be in another country.\n\nMr Sunak has accused political opponents of \"smearing\" his wife to get at him.\n\nHe has also said she is entitled to use the non-dom arrangement as she is an Indian citizen and plans to move back to her home country in the future to care for her parents.\n\nMs Murty will retain her Indian citizenship and her non-dom status which, as the BBC revealed, allows her family to avoid paying inheritance tax in the UK - which at current valuation could amount to £280m.\n\nOn Thursday, it emerged she pays £30,000 a year to maintain her non-dom status.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Murty also said she would now be paying UK tax \"on all my worldwide income, including dividends and capital gains, wherever in the world that income arises\".\n\n\"I do this because I want to, not because the rules require me to. These new arrangements will begin immediately and will also be applied to the tax year just finished (2021-22),\" she added.\n\nLabour MP Louise Haigh said Mr Sunak had \"not been transparent\".\n\nThe shadow transport secretary said: \"It is clear that was legal.\n\n\"I think the question many people will be asking is whether it was ethical and whether it was right that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whilst piling on 15 separate tax rises to the British public, was benefiting from a tax scheme that allowed his household to pay significantly less to the tune of potentially tens of millions of pounds.\"\n\nLib Dem Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine called on the Sunak household to backdate the taxes in full, adding: \"Doing something just because you've been found out isn't good enough.\"\n\nWhile one former cabinet minister said he had \"mild sympathy\" for Mr Sunak as he had been subjected to a \"nasty ad hominem\" attack, he added that every leadership candidate, declared or otherwise, should expect this.\n\nHe was naïve if he thought families were \"off-limits for attacks\".\n\nHis view was that the tax row could be as toxic for the chancellor as partygate has been for Mr Johnson.\n\nIt was all about a disconnect with ordinary voters. They could not hold a children's birthday party during lockdown, but boozy get-togethers were apparently held at the heart of government.\n\nSimilarly, their taxes were being put up by the chancellor, while his wife did not pay UK tax on some of her own earnings.\n\nSpeaking to the Sun newspaper, Mr Sunak said it was unfair to attack his wife as she was a \"private citizen\", adding: \"I'm an elected politician. So I know what I signed up for.\"\n\nIt comes on the same day it was revealed that the couple retained their rights to live and work in the US by having green cards - which requires holders to consider America their permanent home - for more than a year after Mr Sunak became chancellor in 2020.\n\nHe returned his green card in October last year, ahead of his first US trip as a UK government minister.\n\nAsked about the issue at a White House daily media briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki said it was a matter for other government departments and declined to comment.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Sunak said he had filed US tax returns while he held his green card \"in full compliance with the law\".\n\nMeanwhile, No 10 has rejected newspaper reports that its staff are leaking damaging stories about Mr Sunak to the media.\n\nAnd Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters at a Downing Street news conference: \"If there are such briefings, they are not coming from us in No 10, and heaven knows where they are coming from. I think that Rishi is doing an absolutely outstanding job.\"\n\nA non-dom is a UK resident who declares their permanent home, or domicile, outside of the UK.\n\nA domicile is usually the country his or her father considered his permanent home when they were born, or it may be the place overseas where somebody has moved to with no intention of returning.\n\nFor proof to the tax authority, non-doms have to provide evidence about their background, lifestyle and future intentions, such as where they own property or intend to be buried.\n\nThose who have the status must still pay UK tax on UK earnings but do not need to pay UK tax on foreign income. They can give up their non-dom status at any time.\n\nMs Murty has chosen to be domiciled in India via her father, the billionaire Narayana Murty.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US Supreme Court is to include a black female justice for the first time in its 233-year history after the Senate confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the nine-member bench.\n\nThree Republicans crossed the aisle to seal her appointment by a vote of 53 to 47.\n\nJustice Jackson's appointment fulfils President Joe Biden's campaign promise to put a black woman on the court.\n\nChuck Schumer, the majority leader, called it a \"joyous day\" for the US.\n\nThe vote was overseen by Vice-President Kamala Harris, the first black woman to hold the office.\n\nMs Jackson, 51, will replace Justice Stephen Breyer, a fellow liberal judge for whom she once clerked, upon his retirement in June.\n\nThe lifetime appointment will likely see Ms Jackson on the bench for decades, but will not shift the ideological balance of the current court, with its 6-3 conservative majority.\n\nMs Jackson has said she has a \"methodology\" to deciding cases but not an overarching philosophy. And she agreed with Republican senators about the importance of abiding by the text of the Constitution, as it was intended by the founders.\n\nDuring her confirmation, Democrats touted her experience working as a public defender. She will be the first Supreme Court justice since Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court justice - to have career experience representing criminal defendants.\n\nThe jurist, a Washington DC native, currently sits on the influential US court of Appeals for the DC circuit. She has two degrees from Harvard University and once served as editor of the Harvard Law Review. She worked as a public defender in Washington before joining a private practice prior to her judicial appointments.\n\nSome Republicans took issue with clients Ms Jackson took on as a public defence lawyer - namely terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, with some accusing her of being soft on crime.\n\nOthers, however, applauded the diversity of experience her legal career would bring to the bench over the course of what was at times highly fractious and almost entirely polarised six week confirmation process.\n\nSenator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, one of three Republicans to vote in favour of Justice Jackson said this decision rested, in part, as a \"rejection of the corrosive politicisation\" that has come to shape the confirmation process.\n\nThe new justice \"will bring to the Supreme Court a range of experience from the courtroom that few can match given her background in litigation,\" Ms Murkowski said.\n\nThe top court plays a crucial role in American public life and is often the last word on highly contentious laws and disputes between states and the federal government.\n\nKetanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation is a historic one as the appointment of the first black female justice. It's also notable because her professional background differs markedly from recent justices. She is the first since Thurgood Marshall in 1967 to come to the court with extensive experience as a criminal defence attorney.\n\nA recent Cato Institute study found that throughout the federal court system, former prosecutors outnumber defence attorneys by four to one.\n\nSome conservatives have accused Ms Jackson of being \"soft\" on criminals, pointing to her experience as a public defender and willingness as a federal judge to issue prison sentences below federal guidelines. While her supporters vociferously dispute this, Ms Jackson is likely to bring a different perspective to the court, particularly on the criminal procedure cases that regularly appear on the docket.\n\nAs one of nine justices, replacing one of only three liberals on the court, her arrival may have a negligible impact on the court rulings. She has a lifetime appointment to assert her influence, however. And even if she's not penning majority rulings, that influence can come through private interactions with justices and through dissenting opinions that could preview new legal principles if the court's ideological balance someday shifts.", "The deadline to register to vote in the election is 14 April\n\nPeople who test positive for Covid-19 or have symptoms will still be allowed to vote at polling stations in the assembly election, Northern Ireland's chief electoral officer has said.\n\nVirginia McVea said the normal postal and proxy vote legislation remained the same for Northern Ireland and did not make allowances for Covid-19.\n\nThe Department of Health said it is the \"responsibility of the UK government\".\n\n\"Public health guidance on Covid-19 remains as stated on NI Direct\".\n\nThe deadline to register to vote on 5 May is midnight on 14 April.\n\nAnyone who wants to vote by proxy or post must apply by 12 April.\n\nSIGN UP FOR ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC Northern Ireland election coverage\n\nCommenting on the development, which was first first reported by the Andersonstown News, Ms McVea told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that people who were positive for coronavirus on polling day or had symptoms would \"have a choice\" on what they would like to do.\n\n\"Government has directed that in Northern Ireland the normal absent vote legislation should apply,\" she said.\n\n\"So there has been no change in Northern Ireland to make allowance for Covid.\n\n\"That means 12 April is such an important deadline for anyone who has been shielding or is frail or vulnerable - we haven't had many applications relating to Covid in relation to absent vote.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK without emergency proxy voting on the day.\n\nThe government is advising people in Great Britain who have Covid-19 or symptoms not to attend polling stations.\n\nOn Friday, Northern Ireland's Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) reported that Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificates of 38 people in the week up to Friday 1 April.\n\nThis brought the agency's total, based on deaths registered since the start of the pandemic, to 4,462.\n\nMs McVea said the usual Covid precautions would be in place at polling stations including screens, automatic hand sanitiser and enhanced ventilation.\n\nBut she encouraged people feeling unwell on polling day to take measures too.\n\n\"If you have symptoms or have tested positive on the day of poll, the government has directed that you have a choice,\" she said.\n\n\"You can go to the polling station, but we're asking you to take every precaution for others going into the polling station.\"\n\nVirginia McVea said the usual Covid precautions would be in place at polling stations\n\nA UK government spokesperson said with people no longer having to self-isolate across the UK, the \"chief electoral officer will be ensuring all reasonable measures will be in place\" to limit risks at polling stations.\n\n\"The approach to proxy voting in Northern Ireland has always been different to the rest of the UK because of concerns about historic voter fraud,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Relaxing rules on proxy voting would risk undermining confidence in the electoral system and is not necessary as there is no legal prohibition on attending a polling station.\"\n\nMeanwhile, scientists in Northern Ireland are monitoring laboratory results for any indication that the new Omicron variant XE has arrived.\n\nThere have been no confirmed cases but there could be a very small number of XE cases in NI among the high volume of Covid cases.\n\nIn England, several hundred cases have been detected.\n\nPeople who apply to vote by post and proxy and who registered to vote online, will need to provide their digital registration number (DRN).\n\nIt is automatically sent to people by email when they register to vote online but they can also obtain it from the Electoral Office website.\n\nThe deadline for parties to submit their list of candidates for next month's assembly elections was Friday evening.\n\nA total of 239 candidates will contest the Northern Ireland Assembly election next month - 11 more than last time.", "Iryna Abramov stands outside her destroyed home in Bucha, where her husband was killed. 'I wish they had killed me too,' she said.\n\nVolodymyr Abramov was trying desperately to put out the fire in his home, in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, calling out for his son-in-law to help.\n\nRussian troops had smashed through the front gates of Volodymyr's home, opened fire at the house, and dragged Volodymyr, 72, his daughter Iryna, 48, and her husband Oleg, 40, out into the yard.\n\nThe soldiers took Oleg out beyond the gate on to the pavement, Volodymyr said, and threw a grenade in through the front door of the house that exploded with a deafening bang and set the house on fire.\n\nVolodymyr grabbed a small fire extinguisher and tried in vain to extinguish the flames. \"Where is Oleg? Oleg will help!\" he shouted to his daughter.\n\nBut the reply came from one of the Russian soldiers, he said.\n\n\"Oleg will not help you any more.\"\n\nThey found Oleg on the pavement outside the gate, and it was clear from the way he was lying that he had been forced to kneel and shot in the head at point blank range, Iryna said. He was a welder who lived a quiet life on the corner of Yablonska Street in Bucha, who was taken out of his home and killed.\n\nVolodymyr Abramov stands in the house once shared by his daughter and son-in-law. \"I felt empty when they killed Oleg,\" he said. \"I only wanted to die.\"\n\nThe killing is one of scores - if not hundreds - being uncovered in Bucha after Russian troops withdrew from the Kyiv suburb recently. The mayor, Anatoliy Fedoruk, said on Monday that at least 300 civilians had been killed. There is no official tally yet.\n\nRussia has denied any involvement in the atrocities. But its burned-out tanks litter the city. On the grounds of a church, there is an open mass grave with the dead still inside, some in black body bags, some loose in the sand. On the roads, there are bullet-riddled civilian cars - at least one with a body still inside. Houses are caved in by shelling, their driveways ploughed over by tanks. Residents have described Russian soldiers shooting civilians outside their homes with no provocation, and satellite imagery shows that bodies were lying in the streets while the Russians were still in control.\n\nThe Russian soldiers who killed Oleg Abramov \"did not ask him anything\", his wife Iryna said.\n\n\"They didn't ask anything or say anything, they just killed him,\" she said. \"They only told him to take off his shirt, kneel down, and they shot him.\"\n\nVolodymyr Abramov points to the spot on the pavement outside their house where he says his son-in-law was forced to kneel and shot in the head\n\nShe wept on Tuesday as she stood on the spot where he was killed, where a dark patch of blood was still visible on the street. When she ran out and found his disfigured body, the four Russian soldiers who dragged him out were standing casually drinking water, she said. She screamed at them to shoot her, and one raised his gun, then lowered it, then raised it again, and lowered it, until Volodymyr dragged her back inside the gate.\n\n\"Those soldiers told us we had three minutes to leave and they forced us to run in our slippers,\" Volodymyr said. \"Bucha was like an apocalypse - dead bodies everywhere, the streets full of smoke.\"\n\nVolodymyr and Iryna had no choice but to leave Oleg's body lying on the street and it lay there for nearly a month while they sheltered at a relative's house nearby. When it was safe to return, Volodymyr tried to bury his son-in-law on a rough patch of earth by the pavement, and the half-dug hole was still visible there on Tuesday.\n\nBut exhausted by the effort, and afraid of Russian soldiers, Volodymyr carried Oleg back inside the yard and laid him there. Later, Ukrainian soldiers loaded the body into a van, Volodymyr said, and took it away. \"I have no idea how we are going to find it now,\" he said.\n\nA mass grave on the grounds of a church in Bucha, where bodies were discovered when the Russians retreated\n\nUkrainian authorities have now cleared the bodies off the streets of Bucha but there are fears more will be found in the basements and yards of private homes. Officials have only just begun the process of cataloguing the horrors. And so great is the damage in Bucha, it is hard to imagine the scale of the reconstruction needed to restore it to the attractive suburb it once was.\n\nAlong one road through the town on Tuesday, where burned-out tanks were piled up and almost every house was destroyed, 84-year-old Hryhoriy Zamohylnyi was sweeping the street, as if oblivious to the total destruction around him. Somehow, his home was intact - the only building left undamaged along the whole stretch of road.\n\n\"I saw the war with the Germans and now this war with the Russians,\" said Zamohylnyi, a former engineer, born and raised in Bucha. \"What you see here is animal cruelty,\" he said.\n\nAddressing the UN security council on Tuesday, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused the Russians of committing the worst crimes since World War Two, and called for those responsible to be tried as the Nazis were in Nuremberg.\n\n\"The Russian military searched for and purposefully killed anyone who served our country,\" he said. \"They killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies.\"\n\nThe ruins of the Abramovs' home in Bucha\n\nUkraine has begun a war crimes investigation into Russia's actions in Bucha and nearby Irpin. It says 410 bodies have been found across the two suburbs so far.\n\nThere are fears now that more atrocities will be found as the Russians retreat further and more suburbs are opened up - more bodies in the streets, more mass graves. Volodymyr and Iryna Abramov are only looking for one body, and their fear is that they will never find it.\n\n\"He was just a peaceful man, a family man, a welder, who struggled with a spine fracture and was disabled all his life,\" Volodymyr said.\n\n\"Just before he died, while I was in the yard, I saw him briefly through the open gate, on his knees, and he said his final words. He asked them why.\"\n\nRodion Miroshynk and Daria Sipigina contributed to this report. Photographs by Joel Gunter.", "A rabid fox has been \"humanely euthanised\" after biting at least nine people - including a congressman and a journalist - in Washington DC.\n\nThree fox kits have also been put down after their mother was trapped and confirmed to have the disease.\n\nThe fox attacks stirred up a frenzy on Capitol Hill, frequented by many politicians, as well as on Twitter.\n\nOfficials are urging residents to report encounters with any aggressive, sick or injured foxes.\n\nReports of an aggressive fox began on Monday. The next day, Capitol Police trapped the fox for testing and confirmed she had rabies, an infectious disease that affects the nervous systems and is passed on through bites and scratches from an infected animal.\n\nOn Thursday, officials said her baby foxes had to also be euthanised since \"the kits could have been exposed [to rabies] during grooming or other means\".\n\n\"They were no longer able to be safely rehabilitated.\"\n\nOne of the bite victims was California congressman Ami Bera, who was walking near one of the Senate office buildings on Monday when he felt something lunge at him, and which he first thought was a small dog.\n\nHe told the Associated Press that he used his umbrella to try and fend off the fox during the encounter, which he estimated lasted about 15 seconds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ami Bera, M.D. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolitico reporter Ximena Bustillo was another person to be bitten. She later tweeted: \"You're telling me I survived three years of a pandemic to be bit by a rabid fox.\"\n\nBoth have started the first series of four rabies shots as a precaution.\n\nOfficials are contacting everyone who had been bitten, though there are no plans to take action against healthy foxes.\n\nFoxes are not uncommon in DC and the National Park Service says the animals adapt well to both city and rural life. There are numerous fox dens on the National Mall, a downtown park that hosts many of the city's iconic monuments, but their location can change year to year.\n\nThe Capitol complex only recently reopened after having been closed for most of the pandemic.\n• None US bans dog imports from more than 100 countries", "The entrance to the building was damaged by the fire\n\nPolice are treating an arson attack at a multi-cultural centre in Belfast as a hate crime.\n\nThe fire at the Belfast Multi-Cultural Association (BMCA) building in Donegall Pass in the south of the city was reported at about 01:20 BST on Friday.\n\nPolice have launched a major investigation into the incident.\n\nIt is the second time a fire has broken out at the building, after a suspected arson attack caused significant damage in January 2021.\n\nBMCA trustee Muhammad Atif described the latest incident as \"devastating\".\n\n\"There's no words to put your emotions to.\n\n\"There is anger - if I can put it into one word there is anger.\"\n\nMuhammad Atif described the latest incident as \"devastating\"\n\nCh Supt Darrin Jones said the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) will be conducting a major investigation \"with very experienced detectives\".\n\n\"We refer to this as a hate crime, hate crimes target the most vulnerable in our society and it's a major investigation because it's a reflection of how seriously we're taking it.\n\n\"We're a diverse society, we need to welcome members of minority ethnic communities here and they need to feel safe and we need a full rigorous investigation to underline that reassurance.\"\n\nHe added: \"Hate crime is a societal issue, it's not just a policing matter, we need the communities to come together to support those residents who are living in their communities to make them feel safe and to report crime to us.\"\n\nCh Supt Jones said he was disappointed that no-one had been brought to justice for the previous attack, despite a file being brought forward to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).\n\nHe appealed for anyone in the area between midnight and 01:20 BST on Friday and particularly anyone who may have dash-cam footage, to contact police.\n\n\"Repair work following the first fire at the building had only finished this week.\"\n\nThe full extent of the damage from Friday's fire is still being assessed.\n\nFriday's fire was put out by the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) and specialist fire investigators were sent to the scene.\n\nDamage to the building's roof following the fire\n\nAfter the suspected arson attack last year, supporters of the Belfast Multi-Cultural Association raised more than £60,000 to repair the damage.\n\nMr Atif said they would need the support of the community again.\n\n\"Last time, when we asked for help, we got really great help from communities all over Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"We need all that support again.\"", "Russia has admitted suffering \"significant losses of troops\" in Ukraine, as the invasion enters its 44th day.\n\nPresidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told British channel Sky News the casualties were \"a huge tragedy for us\".\n\nHe said he hoped Moscow would reach its war goals \"in the coming days\".\n\nMr Peskov's comments followed Russia's expulsion from the United Nations Human Rights council on Wednesday.\n\nSome 93 of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the diplomatic rebuke, which followed allegations of mass human rights abuses by Russian troops in the formerly occupied town of Bucha in northern Ukraine. Moscow announced its resignation from the council in response.\n\nThe body expressed its \"grave concern at the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis\", and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of further atrocities in Borodyanka, a town near the capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Peskov denied any suggestion that Russian troops were responsible for executions in the town of Bucha and told the broadcaster that \"we're living in days of fakes and lies\". He baselessly claimed that images of civilians murdered in the town were staged.\n\nHowever, his admission that Russia has suffered significant casualties is striking. On 25 March, Russia's Ministry of Defence said 1,351 of its soldiers had been killed in combat. Ukraine puts the Russian deaths at almost 19,000.\n\nNeither Russia nor Ukraine's estimates of Russian losses can be independently verified - and analysts have cautioned that Russia may be downplaying its casualty rate, while Ukraine could be inflating it to boost morale. Western leaders believe that between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed.\n\nThe remnants of a Russian tank are cleared away near Kyiv\n\nMr Peskov, who has served as Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson since 2000, also claimed that Russia is searching for ways to end the war.\n\n\"Our military are doing their best to bring an end to that operation,\" he said. \"And we do hope that in coming days, in the foreseeable future, this operation will reach its goals or will finish it by the negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegation.\"\n\nRussia has pulled troops away from Kyiv and shifted most of the focus of its war to eastern Ukraine - but the fighting shows no signs of ending.\n\nUkraine's deputy prime minister has urged Ukrainians living in the east to flee while they still can, and the intensity of the shelling there is already hampering evacuations.\n\nOn Thursday, Western nations imposed further sanctions on the Russian economy in retaliation for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nThe US Senate voted unanimously to remove Moscow's \"most favoured nation\" trade status, opening the door to damaging new tariffs and import controls on products like platinum, chemicals, iron and steel.\n\nAnd the EU agreed to gradually impose a ban on imports of Russian coal, worth around $4bn (£3.3bn) a year to the Russian economy, over the next 120 days.\n\nSpeaking to Russia's parliament, the state Duma, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin admitted that the cumulative impact of extensive sanctions means the country is facing its worst economic outlook in decades.\n\n\"No doubt, the current situation could be called the most difficult in three decades for Russia,\" he said. \"Such sanctions were not used even in the darkest times of the Cold War.\"\n\nBut he claimed that the impact of Western sanctions has been limited, telling MPs that the \"financial system, the lifeblood of the entire economy, has held up\".\n\nAfter collapsing to a historic low at the end of February, Russia's currency the rouble has rebounded to its pre-war level.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky has renewed his calls for fresh supplies of heavy weapons from the West, saying his forces need \"weapons which will give it the means to win on the battlefield and that will be the strongest possible sanction against Russia\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Residents of Obukhovychi, north of Kyiv, say they were taken from their homes at gunpoint\n\nClear evidence of Russian troops rounding up Ukrainian civilians and using them as human shields has been found by the BBC. In multiple interviews in Obukhovychi, villagers say they were taken from their homes at gunpoint and held in a school by Russians trying to stop advancing Ukrainian forces. Local people also gave accounts of Russian troops shooting civilians and holding others captive in and around Ivankiv, the neighbouring town.\n\nOn the night of 14 March, Russian soldiers in Obukhovychi were under attack and losing men and armoured vehicles. The Ukrainians were regaining territory.\n\nAs darkness fell, local people, sheltering in their cellars, heard explosions and the grinding sound of armoured vehicles manoeuvring.\n\nThey had been under Russian occupation since the start of the invasion - the area was on the main axis of Russian advance. Obukhovychi is 100km (60 miles) from Kyiv, close to Belarus and just south of the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.\n\nWe have now managed to speak to many people about what happened that night. They all told us the same stories about 24 hours that traumatised the village.\n\nFamilies described how the Russians went door-to-door, rounded them up at gunpoint, and marched them to the local school - where the Russian forces used them as protection.\n\nLydmila says she was forced into the local school by Russian soldiers\n\nMany of the houses in the village had the Ukrainian word for \"people\" painted on their gates - a way of warning soldiers to be careful and not hurt them. But, in the end, the signs were a magnet to Russian troops.\n\nWe were told that if people didn't open their doors, the Russians broke them down. About 150 civilians, including the elderly and small children, were taken from their cellars to the school.\n\n\"The [Russians] are fascists, vandals. It was chaos, children and people crying… I don't want to talk about the Russians. They're not human beings,\" 60-year-old Ivan told us.\n\nLydmila Sutkova described the terror of being rounded up at the school. \"When explosions came, we thought if the ceiling falls this will become a mass grave.\"\n\nCivilians say they were held in this school building\n\nOthers told us that some of the Russian soldiers were drunk, and threatened to take them to Belarus.\n\nMaria Bilohovost, an 89-year-old great grandmother, told us she had survived World War Two and that the Russian invaders were like the Germans. \"Except they spoke Russian, so I knew what they were saying.\"\n\nShe said the Russians left her in the house but took the rest of her family - including her granddaughter Maryana and great-granddaughter Marharyta. Maryana says two-year-old Marharyta still shows signs of anxiety.\n\nGreat-grandmother Maria can remember German occupation in World War Two\n\nMaryana's mother Olena tells us that she was afraid they would all be shot in the gym. \"I was scared for my daughter. I don't have the words. I'm still frightened. Machine guns - a two-year-old girl should not see this.\"\n\nOlena says that while the Russians were occupying the village, young women and girls hid inside their homes. \"We were really terrified. One lady went to collect wood for the fire in her house - she was shot in the leg. They just did it for fun.\"\n\nIn Obukhovychi, there was no mass slaughter of civilians - but we were told stories of individuals, including a local priest, being killed.\n\nUp the road, the nearby village of Termakhivka is built around a desolate crossroads, where routes lead to Belarus, Chernobyl, Warsaw and Kyiv. There were burnt out military vehicles and military emplacements - once held by the Russians, we were told, but now manned by Ukrainians.\n\nOne local man, 25-year-old Bogdan, says he was held captive for 15 days outside in sub-zero temperatures - often bound and gagged - by Russian troops. He rolled up his trouser leg to show where a Russian had shot him.\n\n\"He put me on a bench near the house, aimed his machine gun at me and shot my knee… the reason is that I have a younger brother. He served in the army. They found his military cap and his military photos.\"\n\nBogdan also took us across a waterlogged field to show us a patch of disturbed ground - which he said was a shallow grave. The Russians forced him to dig the hole, he explains, so they could bury the body of a man who had been shot.\n\nGetting to these villages was a hard slog. It meant going the long way round, across pontoon bridges and along back roads through miles of deep forest.\n\nThis part of Ukraine is a land of rivers and swamps. It's one reason why the Russian advance stopped.\n\nA destroyed bridge on the edge of Ivankiv\n\nNow the Russians have pulled out of this area, it is slowly being reconnected to the rest of the country. While we were there, the Ukrainian army fixed a temporary bridge over a river on the road to the capital, next to the ruins of one the Russians blew up as they were retreating to Belarus. Dozens of volunteers were helping out, lighting fires, making soup, cutting trees, digging up stumps and smoothing out new roadways\n\nIn areas where Ukrainian forces are in control, evidence is accumulating that Russian troops repeatedly broke the laws of war.\n\nThe question is how the Russians are treating civilians in the places which they still occupy.", "Boris Johnson has announced £100m worth of weapons for Ukraine after the \"unconscionable bombing\" of refugees at a railway station.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK will send additional military equipment including Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles and 800 anti-tank missiles.\n\nIt comes after dozens of people died when a crowded railway station in eastern Ukraine was hit by rockets.\n\nVladimir Putin's daughters have also been sanctioned by the UK.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Mr Johnson warned Russia will not escape punishment after the attack at Kramatorsk station.\n\nHe said: \"I know that Britain and Germany share exactly the same sense of horror and revulsion at the brutality unleashed including the unconscionable bombing of refugees fleeing their homes this morning.\n\n\"It is a war crime indiscriminately to attack civilians, and Russia's war crimes in Ukraine will not go unnoticed or unpunished.\"\n\nMr Johnson added the UK will send precision munitions \"capable of lingering in the sky until directed to their target\" and more helmets, body armour, and night vision.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said the UK will also be providing Ukraine with armoured Mastiff vehicles to fight Russia's invasion.\n\nMastiffs are heavily armoured vehicles suitable for road patrols and convoys.\n\nThe vehicles will be stripped of sensitive equipment and British troops will help with training in a neighbouring country, the Times reported.\n\nMr Putin's daughters Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova are subject to travel bans and asset freezes\n\nEarlier, the Foreign Office announced fresh sanctions on Mr Putin's daughters, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova, 35, and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, 36.\n\nThey will be subject to travel bans and asset freezes, the government said.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said the move ensures those benefitting from Mr Putin's rule will \"feel consequences\".\n\nMeanwhile, the daughter of Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vinokurova, 39, has also been sanctioned.\n\nIt comes after the three women were sanctioned by the United States on Wednesday.\n\nMs Truss said: \"By freezing the assets and limiting the travel of Putin's allies, the UK government is sealing off reservoirs of cash funding the conflict, while also making sure those who have benefited from Putin's rule feel the consequences.\n\n\"Oligarchs and other wealthy Russians are amongst those hit hardest by the sanctions, which have drastically limited their access to luxury consumer goods and access to international markets.\"\n\nThe UK government said £275bn of Russian foreign currency reserves, representing 60% of its total, have been frozen due to UK and international sanctions.\n\nIt added the sanctions were having \"deep and damaging consequences for Putin's ability to wage war\".\n\nMore than 1,200 individuals and businesses have been targeted by the UK, including Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich and Mr Lavrov's stepdaughter Polina Kovaleva.", "A Kinder chocolate factory in Belgium has been ordered to close after it was linked to dozens of salmonella cases.\n\nBelgium's food safety authority has also ordered the recall of all Kinder products made at the factory in Arlon, which is owned by Ferrero.\n\nSuspected salmonella cases linked to Kinder chocolate have been reported in countries including the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.\n\nBelgium's food safety authority, the AFSCA, said the factory was ordered to shut after Ferrero was unable to provide complete information for its investigation.\n\nThe AFSCA said the investigation was ongoing and the factory would only be allowed to reopen if Ferrero could provide the necessary guarantees that it complied with food safety regulations.\n\nBelgian Agriculture Minister David Clarinval said in a statement: \"Such a decision is never taken lightly, but the current circumstances make it necessary. The food security of our citizens can never be neglected.\"\n\nThe recall includes all Kinder Surprise, Kinder Surprise Maxi, Kinder Mini Eggs and Kinder Schokobons products.\n\nThe AFSCA has also asked companies to remove the products from their shelves and advised people not to eat them.\n\nOn Thursday, Ferrero recalled some of its Kinder chocolates from shops in the US over concerns about potential salmonella contamination.\n\nEarlier this week, a number of Kinder Surprise chocolate egg products were also recalled in the UK.\n\nOn Friday evening, the UK's Food Standards Agency said that none of the products recalled should be eaten, regardless of best before date.\n\nAll the sweets affected had been made in the same Belgian factory.\n\nTina Potter, head of incidents at the Food Standards Agency, said: \"We have emphasised to the business and the authorities in Belgium the importance of taking as precautionary an approach to their recall as possible and trust that they will continue to put consumers' needs first in any action they take.\"\n\nCustomers can contact Ferrero directly for a full refund and the products will be taken off the shelves and notices put up in shops to warn consumers.\n\nSome Kinder chocolates have also been recalled in parts of Asia, including Hong Kong and Singapore.\n\nFerrero has previously described the recalls as \"precautionary\" and said none of its Kinder products released for sale had tested positive for salmonella.\n\nIt came after more than 60 people in the UK, mostly young children, became infected with salmonella in an outbreak linked to Kinder Surprise eggs.\n\nOn Wednesday, Europe's health agency said it was also looking into dozens of suspected cases of salmonella linked with eating chocolate in at least nine countries including the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.\n\nIt did not mention Ferrero or any other confectioner in a statement, but warned that the reported cases were mostly among children under 10.\n\nThe salmonella bacteria can cause serious and severe infections, especially in children or elderly people and others with weak immune systems.", "A student has said she feels like she is in a \"massive game of Cluedo\" with online retailer Asos, after accidentally sending them one of her belongings when returning a package.\n\nFfion Morgan, 21, from south Wales, returned a parcel to Asos in December 2021.\n\nShe received an email shortly after telling her that an item not sold by Asos was found in her package.\n\nFour months later, she is still no closer to learning what the item is.\n\nAsos has been contacted for comment. The company's returns policy says they are not responsible for any items that are returned to them by mistake.\n\nA customer care representative clarified to the BBC that if a customer's belongings are found, they will be contacted via email and asked to identify their missing item.\n\nFfion received an email in December 2021, which informed her that the warehouse team found an item not sold by Asos included in the parcel, asking her to confirm what she returned by mistake.\n\nUnfortunately, Ffion could not remember what she may have accidentally included but provided her address anyway.\n\nHowever, \"for security reasons,\" Asos said it was unable to identify the item but suggested \"having a little rummage around the house and ask family members if anything is missing\".\n\nFfion Morgan, 21, says she's in a game of Cluedo with ASOS\n\nRealising that she had lost her university ID card, Ffion suggested to the Asos reps that this might be the item she had included back in December, though did not hear anything in return until 6 April 2022 when Asos confirmed that it was \"not a university ID card\" but that she is \"along the right lines\" of it being a card.\n\n\"I'd say every week it randomly pops into my head, I shop from Asos frequently and it's a common topic amongst the family if anything ever came of the situation,\" Ffion told the BBC.\n\n\"I was gobsmacked reading my emails yesterday morning, I couldn't believe they'd got back in touch after all this time! I genuinely thought they must've just disregarded it and didn't bother to let me know.\"\n\nAsked if she was any closer to finding out what the item is, Ffion said: \"Honestly, no. I thought I hit the jackpot with the student ID, because that's the only significant thing that I lost during that time, but obviously yesterday's email confirmed that it's not that, although it's 'along the right lines'\n\n\"It feels like a massive game of Cluedo trying to figure it out. It's frustrating because I haven't lost any bank cards so I know it's not necessarily important, but for them to be this persistent it has to be something worth continually asking me.\"\n\nFfion posted her situation to TikTok, where her video has received over 400,000 views.\n\n\"I didn't even think the TikTok would get as much attention as it did, I made it as a joke between friends because the whole situation has been so funny and baffling, and I guess a lot of people are invested as well.\"\n\nThis is not the first time that someone has accidentally sent something to ASOS. Earlier this year, comedian Carla Freeman realised that she had accidentally sent her own underwear back to Asos when returning an order.\n\nAn Asos worker told her that \"you'd be surprised at how many people do return items back to us by accident that were not purchased from us,\" though in Carla's case the items were not returned to her.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo \"stolen\" notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been mysteriously returned to Cambridge University, 22 years after they were last seen.\n\nThe small leather-bound books are worth many millions of pounds and include the scientist's \"tree of life\" sketch.\n\nTheir return comes 15 months after the BBC first highlighted they had gone missing and the library launched a worldwide appeal to find them.\n\nThe pink gift bag, envelope and box that the notebooks were returned in\n\nShe grins broadly as she breaks the news. In fact, she cannot stop smiling. \"They're safe, they're in good condition, they're home.\"\n\nBut who returned the two postcard-sized notepads is a real whodunit. They were left anonymously in a bright pink gift bag containing the original blue box the notebooks were kept in and a plain brown envelope.\n\nOn it was printed a short message: \"Librarian, Happy Easter X.\"\n\nInside were the two notebooks, wrapped tightly in cling film. The package had been left on the floor, in a public part of the library with no CCTV, outside Dr Gardner's office.\n\n\"I was shaking,\" says Dr Gardner of her reaction to seeing the bag and its contents for the first time on 9 March. \"But I was also cautious because until we could unwrap them, you can't be 100% sure.\"\n\nAn agonising delay of five days followed between finding the package and the police granting permission to open the cling film, examine the notebooks and confirm they were genuine.\n\nCambridge University librarian Dr Jessica Gardner was thrilled to have the books back in safe hands\n\n\"There have been tears,\" says Dr Gardner sheepishly. \"And I think there still will be, because we are not over the emotional rollercoaster. It means so much to us to have these home.\"\n\nShe admits she had feared the notebooks would not be returned in her lifetime. \"I thought it might take years. My sense of relief at the notebooks' safe return is profound and almost impossible to adequately express.\n\n\"I was heartbroken to learn of their loss and my joy at their return is immense.\"\n\nThe tree of life sketch was central to developing Darwin's theory of evolution\n\nThe notepads date from the late 1830s after Darwin had returned from the Galapagos Islands. On one page, he drew a spindly sketch of a tree, which helped inspire his theory of evolution and more than 20 years later would become a central theory in his groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species.\n\n\"The theory of natural selection and evolution is probably the single most important theory in the life and earth environmental sciences and these are the notebooks in which that theory was put together,\" says Jim Secord, emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at Cambridge University.\n\n\"They're some of the most remarkable documents in the whole history of science.\"\n\nThe books were only unwrapped five days after being returned\n\nThe manuscripts were last seen in November 2000 after \"an internal request\" to remove them from the library's special collections strongroom to be photographed.\n\nIt was only during a routine check two months later that they were found to be missing. Initially, librarians thought they had been put back in the wrong place in the vast university library, which contains more than 10 million books, maps and manuscripts.\n\nBut despite various searches, the notebooks never turned up, and in 2020 Dr Gardner concluded they had probably been stolen. She called in the police and informed Interpol.\n\nThe notebooks will go on public display in July\n\nProf Secord was one of several academics and experts who examined the returned manuscripts and concluded they were authentic. He took me through the \"lines of evidence\" they looked for.\n\n\"Darwin uses different types of ink in the notebooks. For example, on the famous tree of life page, there is both a brown ink and also a grey ink. Those kind of changes are quite difficult to forge convincingly.\n\n\"You can see the tiny bits of copper that are coming off where the hinges are located. The paper type is the right sort of paper.\n\n\"These are the tiny telltale signs that the whole team of researchers at the university library can use to tell that they're genuine.\"\n\nThe notebooks, adds Dr Gardner, are \"in remarkably good condition\". She confirms: \"Every page that should be there is there.\"\n\nCharles Darwin's work on evolution theory by natural selection changed the way we think about the natural world\n\nShe says: \"I do wonder where they have been. They haven't been handled much, they've clearly been looked after with care, wherever they have been.\n\n\"I think what we can probably surmise is they've been dry, they haven't been subject to damp. So what can we speculate, other than that whoever had them, put them in a safe place?\"\n\nThe notebooks are now being kept in a secure strongroom at the library, although they will go on public display in July as part of a free exhibition titled Darwin in Conversation.\n\nBut so many intriguing questions remain. Who took the notebooks? And who returned them?\n\nSecurity cameras may eventually provide some clues. Although there was no CCTV in place on the landing where the gift bag was left last month, there are cameras outside the building monitoring the front and back of the library as well as the specialist reading rooms and the vaults inside.\n\n\"We have passed the CCTV that we have available to the police,\" says Dr Gardner. \"That's a matter for their live investigation.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Cambridgeshire Police said: \"Our investigation remains open and we are following up some lines of inquiry. We also renew our appeal for anyone with information about the case to contact us.\"", "The UK, US, and Australia will begin co-operating on research into hypersonic weapons and how to defend against them, the government has said.\n\nThe programme will be part of the AUKUS partnership, a security pact announced by the three countries last year.\n\nIt follows the development of hypersonic missiles by China and Russia and their purported use by Russia in Ukraine last month.\n\nHypersonic weapons are those that exceed five times the speed of sound.\n\nThey are harder to defend against because of their speed as well as the fact they fly at low altitudes - beyond the line of sight of ground-based radars - and can manoeuvre mid-flight.\n\nThe UK does not currently possess hypersonic missiles.\n\nThe US and Australia have an existing joint programme to develop the weapons but the UK government stressed the focus of the new venture would be on defence.\n\nIt said there were no plans for the UK to develop its own hypersonic weapons but the new programme would help it assess whether it would need to develop them in future.\n\nIt added the latest announcement was not related to Russia's use of the weapons in Ukraine but said the fact other nations were investing in them meant the UK had to think about how to defend against them.\n\nOn 19 March, Russia claimed to have used a hypersonic missile to destroy an arms depot in western Ukraine, and US military intelligence has suggested Russian forces have used them repeatedly since.\n\nThe attacks would mark the first use of hypersonic missiles in combat.\n\nIt came just months after China caught US intelligence by surprise when it tested two nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles.\n\nEach circled the globe in low-orbit space before coming back down to Earth, the second missing its target by only about 24 miles (40 km).\n\nThe missile is thought to combine a so-called fractional orbital bombardment system, which sends missiles into a partial orbit of the Earth to strike from an unexpected direction, with a hypersonic glider, which remains in the outer atmosphere and is hard to detect until later into its flight.\n\nThe tests demonstrated China had far more advanced space capability than had previously been understood.\n\nNorth Korea has also claimed to be in the process of testing hypersonic missiles.\n\nHypersonic missiles are potentially a game-changer in the way future wars will be fought.\n\nAs their name suggests, they travel at immense speed - Mach 5 or greater, which equates to around a mile a second. They are what is called \"dual capable\" meaning they can carry either a conventional explosive or nuclear warhead. They can also be launched from either air, sea or land.\n\nThere are two types of these weapon: cruise missiles and glide vehicles. The cruise variant, of which Russia has several, can be launched from an aircraft and hit a target more than 1,200 miles away. The glide variant is launched up into space from where it then glides down to earth on an unpredictable path.\n\nHypersonic missiles are changing the way nations plan for their strategic defence for two reasons. Firstly, they are so fast there would be very little time - just minutes - between a launch being detected and a country's leader having to decide whether to retaliate. There is almost no way of knowing whether that missile is nuclear-tipped or not.\n\nSecondly, their flight path, especially that of a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), is so hard to predict it makes interception extremely difficult.\n\nCurrently China is in the forefront of hypersonic missile development, closely followed by Russia, which has already used them to hit long distance targets in Ukraine. The US is late to the game and some of its tests have not gone well.\n\nBritain does not possess any and is only now forming an alliance with the US and Australia to carry out research into them and how, if possible, to defend against them.\n\nThe AUKUS partnership, announced in September 2021, is a trilateral security pact for the Indo-Pacific region. The primary purpose of the deal is for the US and UK to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nThe deal also aims to deepen co-operation on cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and additional undersea capabilities.\n\nFollowing Tuesday's announcement, the UK's national security advisor Stephen Lovegrove said: \"When we bring together the technical knowledge and capabilities of our three countries, we can achieve a huge amount to help keep ourselves and our allies and partners safe.\n\n\"In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's more important now than ever that allies work together to defend democracy, international law and freedom around the world.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There were still problems on Tuesday morning, with one Twitter user describing \"many panicking passengers\"\n\nPolice and fire and rescue service staff could be drafted in to help tackle the chaos at Manchester Airport, the region's mayor has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is meeting airport bosses to discuss the \"concerning\" current situation.\n\nTravellers have criticised long delays and missed flights over the weekend.\n\nMr Burnham said he would be seeking reassurance about what is being done to bring the situation under control, but will also offer his support.\n\nTravellers at the airport have faced long queues for check-in and security over the past month, with some missing flights at the start of the Easter school holidays.\n\nManchester Airport has previously apologised and said the industry was \"facing staff shortages and recruitment challenges\".\n\n\"I have been in touch with colleagues at Greater Manchester Police at the weekend to see what we can do to support the airport,\" Mr Burnham said.\n\n\"It's a difficult moment for airports around the world having laid low for the pandemic, they've had to scale up very quickly.\n\n\"But at the same time, we don't want to see the scenes that we saw at the weekend and we obviously need to work with them to work through those issues and make sure we're managing those things and giving the right information to the public and being clear about the plan to get things to an acceptable level.\"\n\nAndy Burnham is meeting airport bosses to discuss the \"concerning\" current situation\n\nManchester Airports Group is partly owned by the 10 local authorities of Greater Manchester, with the biggest stake held by Manchester Council, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nMr Burnham said although the airport was run independently of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, it matters \"hugely\" to the city-region.\n\n\"To some degree, airports all over the world are going through this because gearing up an airport after they're almost ground to a halt over the last couple of years is a really hard thing to do,\" he added.\n\n\"Airports need staff across security, check-in, retail - there's a huge number of people who work at an airport and it's not easy to go back.\"\n\nAirport management are meeting political leaders and unions later on Tuesday and a statement on the talks is expected from Mr Burnham on Wednesday.\n\nAndy Prendergast, the national secretary for the GMB union which represents aviation staff, told BBC Radio 5 Live the aviation industry was \"one that's had a torrid couple of years\".\n\n\"Over that period they've lost huge numbers of staff via redundancy and people getting other jobs,\" he said.\n\n\"Quite simply there isn't the capacity to look after all the travellers.\"\n\nJohn O'Neill, North West Regional Industrial Officer for Unite, said after mass redundancies due to Covid, some workers have found alternative jobs with similar wages and may not be willing to return to work at the airport doing unsocial hours for similar rates of pay.\n\n\"Summer is going to be far worse than this. It is the time to get everything in place otherwise summer is going to very difficult,\" he said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Wasim Chaudhry said: \"As a member of the local resilience forum, Greater Manchester Police supports partner agencies in producing plans to prevent and mitigate the impact of incidents on our local communities.\"\n\nRay Ellis has quit his job at the airport\n\nOne airport worker also said he had quit his job over the \"dangerous\" situation at the airport.\n\nRay Ellis said: \"It just felt so dangerous and so wrong in my soul.\n\n\"I couldn't do it any longer so I put my notice in.\n\n\"On the final day I didn't know if I was working a full shift or a half shift, I got no feedback, so I just walked off the job.\"\n\nThere were still problems on Tuesday morning, with one Twitter user describing only two security scanners in operation and \"many panicking passengers\" and another saying they could not get into the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Skip twitter post 2 by Hannah G-A This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nManchester Airport has previously admitted passengers' experiences have fallen \"below the standard we aim to provide\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are doing all we can to recruit the staff we need to meet this demand, but this is taking time due to the lengthy vetting and training processes involved.\n\n\"Our whole industry is facing staff shortages and recruitment challenges at present, after the most damaging two years in its history.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nActress June Brown, who played the much-loved character Dot Cotton on EastEnders for more than three decades, has died at the age of 95.\n\nHer family said they were \"deeply saddened\" to announce that their \"beloved mother\" had died \"very peacefully\" at her home on Sunday.\n\nEastEnders actor Adam Woodyatt described her as an \"incredible woman\".\n\nDot Cotton was one of the BBC soap's longest-running characters and a favourite with viewers.\n\nBrown first appeared in the series in 1985, the year EastEnders was created.\n\nShe stayed until 1993, returning to play the same character from 1997 until 2020.\n\nAn EastEnders spokesperson said: \"There are not enough words to describe how much June was loved and adored by everyone at EastEnders, her loving warmth, wit and great humour will never be forgotten.\n\n\"June created one of the most iconic characters in Dot Cotton, not just in soap but in British television, and having appeared in 2884 episodes, June's remarkable performances created some of EastEnders finest moments.\"\n\nAfter Brown's death was announced, many fans began sharing their favourite TV moment of hers - when the actress met Lady Gaga on the BBC's Graham Norton show.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne of EastEnders' best-known stars, Brown was in her late 50s when she joined Albert Square.\n\nActor Leslie Grantham, who played Dirty Den, suggested her for the role. Until then, Brown's career had incorporated stage, film and television, with appearances in Coronation Street and Doctor Who.\n\nSome of her biggest storylines included Nasty Nick's murder plot, when her son, played by John Altman, planned to poison her so he could steal her big bingo winnings to use on drugs. He changed his mind at the last minute.\n\nOne of her most moving and controversial moments came when her close friend Ethel, who was terminally ill, asked Dot to help her take an overdose of morphine to end her life.\n\nDot wrestled with her Christian beliefs but ultimately decided to leave out morphine pills for Ethel to take.\n\nHer relationship with husband Jim Branning, played by the late John Bardon, was much cherished by fans of the soap.\n\nBrown remained a favourite with viewers for years, but during a podcast interview in February 2020, she confirmed that she had left the series \"for good\".\n\nIn the last episode she featured in, Dot Cotton - or Dot Branning - left a voicemail message for another character, Sonia Fowler, saying she had moved to Ireland.\n\nBrown's EastEnders co-stars helped her celebrate her 90th birthday in 2017\n\nFollowing the news of Brown's death, Woodyatt - who played Ian Beale in the soap for 35 years - said in a statement: \"I'm lost for words, something June never was.\n\n\"So many memories, so much fun. Just purely and simply an incredible woman who had the most incredible life and career, I was fortunate to have shared a small part of it. They never made you a Dame (we did try), but to me you will always be Dame Brown.\"\n\nGillian Taylforth, who plays Kathy Beale in the BBC soap, said: \"I'm truly heartbroken by this news. June Brown OBE, MBE, was an amazing woman and a truly wonderful actress. I shared many scenes with her over the years and she was always someone I looked up to and learnt from. There will never be another June Brown and I'm sending all my love to her family.\"\n\n\"There was nobody quite like June Brown. She captured the zeitgeist of British culture like no other in her many years on our screens,\" she said.\n\n\"Today we've lost a true national treasure but my goodness what a life she has led. Rest in peace.\"\n\nBrown (pictured outside Buckingham Palace) was made an MBE in 2008\n\nEastEnders executive producer Chris Clenshaw said Brown was an \"iconic\" character both on and off screen.\n\nThe BBC's director-general Tim Davie said: \"June Brown was a brilliantly talented actor who was loved by millions. Her performances as the incomparable Dot Cotton delivered some of the most memorable moments in soap history.\"\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and many friends.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC EastEnders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter she left the soap, Brown starred in a Christmas drama podcast in December 2020 as part of a series about family separation during the pandemic.\n\nShe played the mother of a son with Down's syndrome in the play, which explored the strains of the mother-son relationship during enforced isolation.\n\nOther tributes were paid by former EastEnders star and activist Michael Cashman, who played the UK's first gay character in a soap opera, Colin Russell.\n\nHe wrote: \"She took this country on an amazing journey and changed it for the better.\"\n\nCashman has previously spoken about how Brown helped him get time off rehearsals so he could go to an anti-Section 28 protest in London in 1988.\n\nJune Brown played Dot Cotton (or Dot Branning) on the BBC One soap for more than three decades in total\n\nActor and writer Stephen Fry also said Brown will be remembered \"as a tireless and fearless LGBT ally\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"June Brown, amongst all her other wonderful human qualities and achievements, will be remembered as a tireless and fearless LGBT ally - especially during the darkest days of HIV/AIDS and Section 28... it was a privilege to know her.\"\n\nComedian Mo Gilligan also posted on Twitter: \"If you grew up on an estate there was always a Dot Cotton. Absolute iconic character in EastEnders.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJournalists entering a Ukrainian town which saw fierce fighting with Russian forces have found dead bodies of men in civilian clothes strewn on a street.\n\nAn AFP news agency reporter in Bucha, near Kyiv, counted at least 20 bodies. At least one man had his hands tied.\n\nUkrainian forces regained control of the town this week and photos show widespread devastation.\n\nBBC journalists in another part of Ukraine found the bodies of two civilians killed by Russian forces.\n\nWarning: Some readers may find content in this story distressing including a photo lower down.\n\nEarlier this week the BBC's Jeremy Bowen and his team counted a total of 13 bodies, some of whom may have been Ukrainian soldiers, along a stretch of road between the villages of Mria and Myla.\n\nUkraine says Russian forces have made a \"rapid retreat\" from around Kyiv, with one official saying the whole region around the capital has been retaken since the invasion began on 24 February.\n\nThe invasion has seen thousands killed in ferocious fighting and has made refugees of at least four million Ukrainians. Western states have responded with tough sanctions against Russia and military supplies for Ukraine.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has sought to justify his attack by arguing that Ukraine, a former Soviet state with Nato and EU ambitions, was a constant threat and Russia could not feel \"safe, develop and exist\".\n\nIn Bucha, where a photographer for Reuters news agency also recorded dead bodies, holes gaped from apartment blocks hit by shelling and crushed cars littered the streets.\n\nSixteen of the 20 bodies seen by AFP lay either on the pavement or by the verge. Three were sprawled in the middle of the road, and another lay on his side in the courtyard of a destroyed house.\n\nAn open Ukrainian passport lay on the ground next to the person who had his hands tied behind his back with a piece of white cloth. Two other people had white cloth tied around their upper arms.\n\nWarning: There is a photo below that some readers may find distressing\n\nA Ukrainian official told AFP the dead men could have been killed in a bombardment or shot by Russian soldiers, and police would investigate.\n\nBut the town's mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, told AFP by phone that all of the 20 dead had been shot in the back of the head. He added that other bodies still lay inside the wrecks of cars destroyed by shelling.\n\nThe town, he said, had buried 280 people in mass graves as a result of the Russian invasion.", "Bobbi-Anne McLeod was reported missing after she failed to meet friends in November 2021\n\nA man from Plymouth has pleaded guilty to the murder of Bobbi-Anne McLeod.\n\nMusician Cody Ackland, 24, from Southway, admitted the killing during a hearing at the city's crown court.\n\nMiss McLeod, 18, was last seen at a bus stop in Leigham, Plymouth, on 20 November 2021. She was reported missing after failing to meet up with friends.\n\nHer body was found in a wooded area on the edge of the city on 23 November. Police said there was no known link between Miss McLeod and Ackland.\n\nMiss McLeod's body was found about seven miles (11km) from her home, near the beach at Bovisand.\n\nCody Ackland admitted murdering the teenager between 19 and 23 November 2021\n\nBobbi-Anne Macleod's murder shocked the community in Plymouth and further afield.\n\nIt happened just three months after the fatal shootings in Keyham which left five people dead.\n\nA number of vigils were held in Plymouth for people to pay their respects to the student and her family and to raise concerns about women's safety.\n\nThe city was once again in shock at tragedy, united in mourning.\n\nToday's guilty plea means Bobbi-Anne's family and friends have been spared the distress of a lengthy trial.\n\nThe judge said that he would impose a life sentence and that the only issue would be around the length of the minimum term.\n\nAckland, of Radcliffe Close, entered the guilty plea during a plea and trial preparation hearing and he is due to be sentenced on 19 May after outstanding pathology reports are filed.\n\nHe spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth and to admit murdering the teenager on a date between 19 and 23 November.\n\nRemanding Ackland in custody, Judge Robert Linford said the sentence would be \"imprisonment for life\" and \"the only issue will be the minimum term which I must impose\".\n\nClose family members of the teenager - including her mother, father and brother - were in the courtroom for the hearing.\n\nFriends of Miss McLeod watched the proceedings on a video link from an adjacent courtroom.\n\nPolice said Bobbi-Anne McLeod was \"cruelly taken\" from her family and friends\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez said she could not \"even start to imagine the pain\" Miss McLeod's family and friends \"have been through over these past few months\".\n\nShe said: \"While there is no justice that can bring Bobbi-Anne back, I'm pleased this case will be concluded swiftly and I truly hope the family will get the answers they need to provide some closure on this terrible incident.\"\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police assistant chief constable Nikki Leaper added: \"Our thoughts remain with the McLeod family and those close to Bobbi-Anne who have had a daughter, sister and friend so cruelly taken from them.\"\n\nAckland was a guitarist and singer in Plymouth-based indie band Rakuda.\n\nBand members announced in November that the band would split up \"with immediate effect\" but weeks later members said they would be taking a \"short hiatus from the music scene\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Williams condemned the violence at the Rangers v Celtic Old Firm derby\n\nThe violence at Sunday's Old Firm match at Ibrox was \"completely unacceptable\", a senior police officer has said.\n\nA Celtic physiotherapist was hit on the head by a glass bottle and glass was removed from the Celtic penalty area.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Williams said enquiries were continuing into both incidents during the game.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon condemned the actions of the Rangers supporters as \"mindless, thuggish behaviour\".\n\nThree men were also charged over vandalism before the game.\n\nThe men, aged 18, 22 and 25, were arrested after officers were called around 02:45 on Sunday after a large group was seen at the stadium and different areas were vandalised.\n\nThree other arrests were made for breach of the peace and drugs offences.\n\nRangers ground staff search for glass after shards from a broken bottle were found in the Celtic penalty area\n\nStewards recovered a host of discarded bottles at Ibrox after the match\n\nPolice Scotland also said 70 people were refused entry to Ibrox and 21 were ejected from the stadium.\n\nACC Williams said: \"The disorder and violence shown during the game on Sunday was completely unacceptable.\n\n\"All the relevant authorities must work together and with genuine fans to prevent incidents such as this in future. There is no place in Scottish football for this type of behaviour.\"\n\nThere has been widespread condemnation regarding events at Ibrox but what can realistically be done to make sure it doesn't happen again?\n\nThe police can prosecute but keeping a close eye on the movements of 50,000 football fans is no easy task - they need the help of the stewards.\n\nStewards sometimes search bags of people going in but in the main, football fans are not routinely searched going through the turnstiles and that is unlikely to change.\n\nPunish the club? If Rangers can show the league that they took all reasonable steps to prevent any potential problems, it's unlikely sanctions from the governing body will follow.\n\nThe club will search for and ban the culprits if and when they are found but the reality is, despite the condemnation and calls for all parties to work together to prevent similar scenes in the future, not much is likely to change.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the behaviour \"has no place in any civilised society\".\n\n\"Whether it happens at a football match or in the street, people throwing glass bottles is just not acceptable,\" Ms Sturgeon told LBC radio.\n\n\"But these are matters for the authorities, obviously for the football authorities and potentially for the police and criminal justice authorities.\"\n\nA Rangers supporters liaison officer said they were working with Police Scotland to identify the individual who threw a bottle from the Copland Road Stand onto the pitch at half-time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘How did someone get a bottle into the ground?’\n\nThe club and the SPFL, which is awaiting the match delegate's report, both urged any fans with information about the incidents to contact police.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that regardless of what team you support, \"people should be able to enjoy football\".\n\n\"Football should be something that people can take their kids to and have a happy, joyful occasion,\" the first minister added.\n\n\"Behaviour like that, whether it's at an Old Firm match or any other football match, besmirches that, and it should absolutely be seen as unacceptable.\"\n\nCeltic came from behind to beat Rangers 2-1 and extend their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership over their city rivals to six points.", "Kayla Mueller was an aid worker in Syria before being taken captive by IS\n\nParents of a US humanitarian worker killed by the Islamic State begged for her life in emails to her captors, a court has heard.\n\nKayla Mueller, 26, was one of several people who died at the hands of a Syria-based IS terror cell dubbed the Beatles due to their British accents.\n\nOn Tuesday, her mother Marsha spoke at the federal trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, known as \"Jihadi George\".\n\nHe has denied charges of hostage-taking and conspiracy to murder.\n\nMr Elsheikh is the highest profile IS fighter to face trial in the US and the only alleged member of the notorious Beatles cell to do so.\n\nHe has been linked to at least 27 abductions, but has asserted that he was not part of the group.\n\nThe Sudanese-born Londoner, who was stripped of his British citizenship in 2018, is accused of taking hostages, resulting in the deaths of four Americans - Ms Mueller, journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig.\n\nHe is also charged with conspiring in the deaths of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nIn opening statements last week, his lawyer argued that he was \"a simple ISIS fighter\" who went to Syria alone to support \"suffering Muslims\".\n\nBut prosecutors played back past media interviews with Mr Elsheikh that contradict the claim he was not involved in the hostage taking scheme.\n\nDuring one interview, Mr Elsheikh describes asking the jailed Ms Mueller for an email address to reach her family, although he goes on to say he never sent any emails.\n\nInside the Virginia courthouse on Tuesday, Ms Mueller's mother described exchanging several emails with the IS captors, in which she begged for her daughter's life.\n\nIn their first contact with the so-called Beatles, she and her husband Carl were asked to submit proof of life questions for Ms Mueller to answer.\n\nLater emails include a video addressed to then-IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which Marsha wore a hijab \"to show respect\".\n\nThe Beatles wrote back demanding either a ransom of five million euros or the release of jihadist Aafia Siddiqui from a US federal prison, within 30 days.\n\nSiddiqui, a Pakistani woman sometimes known as \"Lady Al-Qaeda\", is serving 86 years for the attempted murder of US soldiers.\n\nWhen the Muellers replied they were retired and the payoff was \"more than [what] we could earn in several lifetimes\", the captors wrote: \"get back to work\", the court heard.\n\nThe Obama administration had reassured the Muellers that \"IS won't harm a woman\", Marsha testified. But US officials confirmed in February 2015 that Ms Mueller had been killed in custody. Her body was never recovered.\n\nMarsha sat just yards away from the accused, who sat still leaning back in his chair and took no notes during the testimony.\n\nAs the court broke for lunch, Omar Alkhani, who was Ms Mueller's boyfriend and was attending court with her family, got up from his seat, lent over the bar and pointed towards Mr Elsheikh as he was being escorted out.\n\nMr Alkhani raised his voice in Arabic and said: \"He is in hell you will see him there,\" in an apparent reference to the former commander of the prison where Ms Mueller had been held before she died.\n\nEmotions continued to run high into the afternoon, with the father of Mr Sotloff - an American Israeli freelance journalist beheaded in 2014 - struggling to hold back tears on the stand.\n\nSteven Sotloff was a freelance journalist working in Syria when he was taken captive\n\nArthur Sotloff told the court that the first ransom email he received from the kidnappers described his son as having played a prominent role in \"the US government's battle for the hearts and minds of Muslims\".\n\nIn the note, the hostage takers called for the release of \"all Muslim people imprisoned directly or indirectly by Americans\" in return for the junior Sotloff's return. Arthur said he had no choice but to keep quiet as the group had demanded media silence.\n\nThe Sotloffs too sent a video message to their child's captors, playing to their supposed piety by stating that Islam is a merciful religion and the Prophet Muhammad would want them to act differently.\n\nMonths later, they heard their son's voice for the last time. In an apparently coerced recording, Mr Sotloff asked his family to fight for him and said \"my life lies in the hands of President Obama\".\n\nOn 3 September 2014, Arthur found out by a news alert that his son had been executed in a publicly released video. He was visibly shaking when he walked off the stand and was comforted by Ms Mueller's father as they left the court.\n\nA day earlier, James Foley's mother had testified that she had at first hoped reports her son had been executed were \"some cruel joke\". She told the court: \"It just seemed too horrific.\"\n\nMrs Foley said it only sank in when President Barack Obama confirmed on television that James had been executed.\n\nThe Elsheikh trial continues and is expected to last three to four weeks.\n• None Who were the Islamic State 'Beatles'?", "Can Arslan has been found guilty of murdering his neighbour Matthew Boorman\n\nA man who subjected his neighbours to years of anti-social behaviour before stabbing one of them to death has been found guilty of murder.\n\nCan Arslan, 52, lay in wait for Matthew Boorman as he came home from work then stabbed him 27 times on his front lawn.\n\nIt was the culmination of 12 years of threats to Arslan's neighbours in Walton Cardiff, Gloucestershire.\n\nAfter the verdict, Mr Boorman's wife Sarah released a statement in which she said his death was \"truly shocking\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPaying tribute to the 43-year-old father-of-three, the statement praised his fundraising efforts for charity, hiking The Three Peaks with friends, gardening at a hospice and running half marathons.\n\nRead by Mr Boorman's sister Sarah Elston outside Bristol Crown Court it said: \"Matt shone brightly, he radiated enthusiasm and had a real zest for life.\n\n\"He loved to celebrate life, and fill the house with both music and laughter.\n\n\"Perhaps what people will remember most of all about Matt is his smile.\n\n\"His energy, his love, his laughter - a very proud father of his children.\"\n\nMatthew Boorman was described as a very caring husband and a devoted father\n\n\"Matt was a man who infused fun into the most mundane tasks. He was a kid at heart who would fly model aeroplanes and race remote control cars,\" it continued.\n\n\"Matt's death is truly shocking. He was so young and had such a bright future ahead of him.\"\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the family, Ms Elston said he \"touched the lives of everyone he came into contact with\" and \"was a good man\" with \"so much to live for\".\n\nMr Boorman's family paid tribute to him in a statement read by his sister Sarah Elston\n\nOne of Mr Boorman's children saw the attack unfold from an upstairs bedroom, the trial heard.\n\nArslan, who had denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, then forced his way into the home of another neighbour, Peter Marsden, and knifed him eight times.\n\nThe trial heard the murder on 5 October came after Arslan had terrorised his neighbours for years.\n\nMany of them were so worried about his behaviour they had installed security cameras that captured the killing, footage from which was used as evidence by police.\n\nOther neighbours, including an off-duty police officer, confronted Arslan during the outbreak of violence.\n\nAt the time of the murder, Arslan was the subject of an injunction prohibiting him from threatening or abusing his neighbours, and had been served with a notice of eviction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSmall rows over parking and a scratch to a car had escalated to the point where Arslan had repeatedly threatened to attack or kill those living near him.\n\nIn May, Mrs Boorman had made a statement to police setting out a summary of the threats they had received from the defendant.\n\nShe said they were worried about being murdered, or that someone was going to be seriously hurt very soon.\n\nArslan made counter-allegations, accusing the Boormans of racially abusing him.\n\nArslan had claimed that he heard voices, including that of his childhood teddy bear, telling him to kill, but expert psychiatrists told jurors that he was not psychotic and diagnosed him with a paranoid, unstable and antisocial personality disorder,\n\nTwo forensic psychiatrists agreed Arslan was not mentally ill but were divided on whether his personality disorder should lessen the offence to one of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.\n\nDr John Sandford said CCTV footage of the attacks makes it clear that Arslan was aware of what he was doing.\n\n\"It's quite clear he knows what's going on and why he's been arrested,\" Dr Sandford said.\n\nHowever Dr Sally Foster, who conducted a psychiatric examination for the defence, said Arslan's personality disorder diagnosis might provide a defence to murder.\n\nShe said \"impaired mental functioning was a significant contributing factor to the defendant's acts\".\n\nCorrection 9 April: We initially stated that Can Arslan had an \"unstable personality disorder\" but we have clarified this to say he was diagnosed with \"a paranoid, unstable and antisocial personality disorder\".\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The Stena Europe ship has been moved from its usual Fishguard-to-Rosslare route\n\nSailings on a Welsh ferry route have been suspended as the operator tries to plug gaps left in Northern Ireland.\n\nStena Line has cancelled all crossings between Fishguard, Pembrokeshire and Rosslare, Republic of Ireland until 12 April.\n\nIt has moved a ship to Northern Ireland following concerns food supplies could be affected by the P&O crisis.\n\nP&O's services were suspended after it sacked 800 staff saying the business was not \"viable\".\n\nPassengers who usually travel from Fishguard are being advised to travel on the Pembroke service instead, as Irish Ferries is accepting Stena Line customers.\n\n\"Due to the suspension of P&O's services into Northern Ireland there were supply fears in the region,\" Stena Line's Simon Palmer explained.\n\nTo add \"additional ferry capacity\", the company has sent the Stena Nordica - one of its ships on the Holyhead to Dublin route - to help.\n\nHowever this left a gap on that route, so Stena Europe - which usually sails between Fishguard and Rosslare - was moved to cover it.\n\nFishguard in Pembrokeshire takes passengers from west Wales to the Republic of Ireland\n\n\"The issue is also compounded by the timing of the crisis happening during our annual dry-docking period, where our ships take turns going into the shipyard for a makeover,\" Mr Palmer added.\n\n\"Otherwise we would've had a spare ship. The Stena Horizon from our Cherbourg route is currently in dry-dock, with that route being covered by the vessel Stena Estrid, which has been moved from her normal route on Holyhead to Dublin.\"\n\nThe Horizon is due to be out of dry dock on 11 April, which should free up more capacity.\n\nAfter P&O sacked workers and suspended services at the end of March, hauliers in Northern Ireland warned they were running at 50% capacity because of issues.\n\nJohn Martin, from the Road Haulage Association, said there were \"two boat-loads of vehicles\" sitting in Cairnryan in Scotland waiting for a ferry to Larne, sparking food supply concerns.", "Land warfare analyst Nick Reynolds, who works for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank, has been filling us in on what the next few weeks of the war in Ukraine might look like, as Russia shifts its focus to the area in the south and east known as the Donbas.\n\nWas Ukraine's foreign minister accurate when he said the fighting in the Donbas could be reminiscent of World War Two?\n\n“Yes I think that’s accurate,\" Reynolds said. \"With all the forces freed up from the north of Ukraine… we’re going to see a clash of arms on European soil that hasn’t been seen for generations.\"\n\nCould Ukraine actually take back territory?\n\nThere are a lot of unknown factors here, Reynolds says.\n\nMany Ukrainians will be buoyed up by the withdrawal of Russian forces in the north, but in the south and east “the map has still been slowly turning red”, he says, and that's even before any reinforcements have arrived from the north.\n\nSo Russia certainly still has some forwards momentum in the south and east, he says.\n\nHow much difference could Western arms make?\n\nThe weapons Western countries have so far sent to Ukraine have been game-changing but Nato has handed over a \"significant amount of its stocks - and that supply was finite\", Reynolds says.\n\nWestern arms will be \"absolutely essential\" in the coming weeks but it's hard to know how they can get them to where they need to go, he adds.\n\nRamping up industrial production of sophisticated weapons such as Javelins, NLAWs and Stingers is not easy, he says, as they have complex supply chains, He believes Western governments are struggling to keep up with demand.\n\nSwitchblade drones could “start to change things on the ground within a short timeframe” – but there’s “very little else” that could do so, he adds.", "A runny nose is now one of the recognised symptoms of Covid\n\nThe official list of Covid symptoms has been expanded to include another nine signs of a coronavirus infection.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency's updated guidance now lists symptoms including a sore throat, muscle pains and diarrhoea.\n\nThe move comes more than two years into the pandemic, and just days after free testing ended in England.\n\nHowever, the NHS cautions that many of the new symptoms \"are very similar\" to those for colds and flu.\n\nThe original signs of a Covid infection that were recognised in the UK were:\n\nIt was known from the early days of the pandemic that this trio was just the tip of the iceberg. The World Health Organization and other countries, including the US, have used a longer list of symptoms for some time.\n\nHowever, there has been debate in the UK about precisely which symptoms should be recognised and qualify somebody for a Covid test.\n\nA headache is a known symptom of Covid, but you might not want to test everybody with one, as there are so many other causes.\n\nFever, cough or loss of sense of smell or taste were settled on, because they were either present in most Covid cases or almost exclusively caused by the virus.\n\nBut now the list of symptoms includes a further nine:\n\nCovid infections are at a record level in the UK, with 4.9 million people (about one in 13 of us) estimated to have the virus. Free testing for most people in England ended last week.\n\nThe NHS says people should stay at home and avoid others only if you have Covid symptoms and a high temperature, or if your symptoms are so bad that you are not well enough to work.\n\nProf Tim Spector, from King's College London, has been campaigning for an expanded list of symptoms because of data from people tracking their symptoms in the Zoe Covid-19 app.\n\nHe said: \"Main symptoms of coronavirus have finally changed after two years of lobbying... hurrah.\"", "Musk is now the single biggest shareholder in Twitter - so what's his next move?\n\nElon Musk didn't actually tweet about his new stake in Twitter, which for an avid tweeter seemed somewhat ironic.\n\nMaybe it was because the 9.2% he now owns is described as a passive stake, although those who know Musk do not expect it to stay that way for long.\n\nHis first move was to launch a poll - asking whether people want an edit button, something long called for and perhaps something he personally needs.\n\nThe new announcement that he will join Twitter's board comes as no surprise.\n\nIn a tweet on Tuesday, Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal said \"through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Parag Agrawal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe added that \"as a passionate believer and intense critic\" of the service, he is \"exactly what we need\".\n\nLater Musk replied saying he was looking forward to making changes at the social network giant.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMusk's 9.2% stake in the social media company may sound small, but Dan Ives, from analyst firm Wedbush, describes it as \"eye-popping\" - equating to 73.5 million shares in the social network.\n\nShares in the platform soared following Monday's revelation that the Tesla founder had become the largest shareholder in the company - meaning that stake has already grown in value and is now worth more than $3bn.\n\nMusk's shareholding is four times greater than that of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who stepped down as chief executive in November.\n\nMr Ives believes the South African entrepreneur now has his eyes \"laser set\" on Twitter, and his significant holding will see him push for an active role in the management of the company.\n\n\"We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter,\" he said.\n\nWhen Elon Musk has an idea, he often turns to Twitter to express it\n\nMusk has something of a love-hate relationship with Twitter. He is a frequent tweeter, with more than 80 million followers - and no stranger to controversy in his interactions on the social media site.\n\nThe platform seems to suit his impulsive personality - last year he famously asked if he should sell 10% of his stock in his electric car firm Tesla, to which Twitter users said 'yes'. It led to Musk selling around $5bn (£3.7bn) of shares in the firm in November.\n\nMonths earlier he had offered to sign a cheque for $6bn if the World Food Programme (WFP) could explain how it would be used to solve hunger around the globe - after an assertion made by the head of the UN programme.\n\nBut tweeting has also got him into trouble. A 2018 post about Tesla stock led to an investigation from the Securities and Exchange Commission which ended with an agreement requiring the firm's lawyers to pre-approve certain tweets. It is unclear if that actually happens.\n\nInterestingly, the Wall Street Journal reports that his Twitter share filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which under normal circumstances would include a line saying he doesn't intend to influence the company, came with a 'Not Applicable' mark.\n\nThe timing of the deal has also raised questions and could once again put Musk at loggerheads with financial regulators.\n\nHis investment in Twitter was filed on 14 March, but not announced until this week. US securities law requires disclosure within 10 days of acquiring 5% of a company.\n\nMusk uses Twitter not just as a barometer for how he runs his own companies, but also increasingly to take the temperature of the nation.\n\nLast month, after he had lodged his investment with the SEC - but before his shareholding became public knowledge - he asked users whether they believed that free speech was essential to a functioning democracy and whether Twitter adheres to this principle.\n\nCornell University's assistant professor Alexandra Cirone thinks this is evidence he may use his new stake \"to try to influence Twitter practices\" and for a \"more active play in the social media eco-system\".\n\nBut others see more immediate issues with his musings.\n\nHoward Fischer, partner at law firm Moses & Singer, told Reuters that, given he had already bought a stake in Twitter, these questions could be seen as a form of market manipulation. \"I do suspect the SEC is going to look long and hard into whether they can bring manipulation charges, along with the failure to file,\" he said.\n\nMr Agrawal is clearly watching his every move. In response to his edit button poll, which currently has 2.6 million responses, he urged voters to do so \"carefully\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Parag Agrawal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The consequences of this poll will be important,\" he said, echoing the exact same words Musk used after he launched his free speech Twitter poll.\n\nJack Dorsey had always rejected the idea, and critics point out that it could allow people to fundamentally change the meaning of tweets after they have been shared.\n\nIt would be a big change for Twitter to include an edit button, and Musk is clearly keen to be part of that conversation.\n\nMany wishing to join Trump's new Twitter have found they are on a waiting list\n\nFor a while last month, it looked as if Musk was intent on building a new social media platform as a rival to Twitter - and there he does have precedent from another prolific and controversial tweeter.\n\nDonald Trump, who was banned from Twitter in January 2021 after the Capitol riots, announced last autumn that he was launching his own social network - dubbed Truth Social - to \"stand up to the tyranny of big tech\".\n\nBut six weeks after its launch, there is a waiting list of 1.5 million who are unable to use it - with the platform branded a disaster by Joshua Tucker, director of NYU's Center for social media and politics.\n\nAccording to Reuters, two key executives quit after the troubled launch.\n\nFor those with shares in Musk's many other businesses - Space X, Tesla, Neuralink, The Boring Company - there will doubtless be a sigh of relief that he didn't go down the same route as Mr Trump.\n\nBut there will also be concerns that he has yet another passion project to distract him from the serious business of running his established firms.\n\nNot to mention the issues that might now be raised about the Twitter deal by the SEC.\n\nSocial media expert Casey Newton points out that it is not the first time a big tech firm has eyed Twitter. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer once bought a four percent share of the company \"and essentially did nothing with it,\" he writes.\n\nBut he goes on to say that Ballmer never tweeted like Musk did: \"gleefully, annoyingly, constantly\".\n\nAnd it seems most likely that it will be from this Twitter account that Musk will let the world know what he intends to do next.", "Olha Sukhenko, her son Oleksander and husband Igor were found dead more than a week after going missing Image caption: Olha Sukhenko, her son Oleksander and husband Igor were found dead more than a week after going missing\n\nAs we've been reporting, a family who disappeared in their village west of Kyiv last month have been found dead in a shallow grave.\n\nOur correspondent, Yogita Limaye, visited the site, located in a wood near destroyed homes.\n\nOlha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander are alleged to have been shot dead by Russian soldiers. A fourth body was also found but has not been identified.\n\nRussian forces took Olha - who served as the head of her village of Motyzhyn - and her family from their home on 23 March, an investigation by the Ukrainian chief prosecutor found.\n\nIn Olha's last Facebook post before her death, posted in late February after the Russian invasion, she talked about there being \"someone else's scum in our village\" and warned residents to keep calm and not to leave their houses.\n\nTwo days after the family were allegedly disappeared by Russian forces, a woman called Daria appealed on social media for information on their whereabouts, saying they were her \"second family\" and \"helped people to the end\".\n\nShe said Russian forces had stolen Oleksander's car and were \"riding around the village\".\n\nAfter it emerged that the family had been killed, Daria posted an update:\n\nI don't have enough words and strength to describe how I and my whole family feel.\n\nThis is a crime - in every sense. All involved will be appear in court.\n\nSasha, my Hero. You didn't leave your parents behind. You will forever be in my heart. In our hearts. Heroes don't die.", "When humanitarian corridors are opened in Ukraine to get people out of danger zones, rescue teams know they must act to save the most vulnerable.\n\nA BBC crew followed one ambulance team as medics evacuated 12 children, many of them disabled orphans, from the north-eastern city of Sumy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Many more cities like Bucha says President Zelensky\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the Russian military of carrying out the worst crimes since World War Two.\n\nHe told the UN security council that civilians had been murdered and Russian tanks had crushed people \"for pleasure\".\n\nHe called for those responsible to be tried as Nazis wer at Nuremberg.\n\nGruesome images of bodies lying in the street in towns such as Bucha have generated condemnation worldwide.\n\nAfter his speech by video link to the Security Council, Mr Zelensky showed a graphic video of images of dead Ukrainians, some burned and disfigured.\n\n\"The Russian military searched for and purposefully killed anyone who served our country,\" he said.\n\n\"They killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies.\"\n\nSatellite images show what appear to be the bodies of civilians in the streets of Bucha\n\nRussian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia said there was no evidence Russian troops had carried out atrocities.\n\n\"We've heard once again a huge amount of lies about Russian soldiers and military,\" he said.\n\nAs expected, President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a ferocious, passionate attack on the Russian military for its alleged violations in Bucha and elsewhere.\n\nThe catalogue of horrors Mr Zelensky lists includes throats slashed, limbs cut off, and women raped in front of their children.\n\nHe says there's no difference between this and the actions of terrorists, except that Russia is a member of the UN Security Council.\n\nThis is the speech of a man who feels he has the highest of moral high grounds.\n\nMr Zelensky said the UN had to act, because not doing so would mean there was no point to the world body.\n\n\"Are you ready to close the UN? And the time of international law is gone? If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately,\" he said, adding that \"accountability must be inevitable\".\n\n\"We are dealing with a state that turns its veto at the UN Security Council into the right to [cause] death,\" he said.\n\nHe called for the establishment of a special international tribunal to deal with the crimes, and for Russia to be removed from the UN's Security Council.\n\nThere was \"not a single crime they would not commit\", Mr Zelensky added.\n\n\"The world has yet to see they have done in other occupied cities and regions of our country.\"\n\nUN Secretary-General António Guterres said he would \"never forget\" seeing images of dead civilians in Bucha.\n\nHe warned the Security Council that Russia's invasion is one of the greatest challenges ever to the international order \"because of its nature, intensity, and consequences\".\n\nThe US reiterated its call for Russia to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council.\n\nLinda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, told the Security Council: \"Russia should not have a position of authority in a body whose very purpose is to promote respect for human rights.\"\n\nChina, which has avoided criticising the Russian invasion, said that the reports of civilian deaths in Ukraine were \"very disturbing\", but said any accusations should be based on verified facts.\n\nThe Ukrainian government started a war crimes investigation on Monday after it said the bodies of 410 civilians had been found in areas around Kyiv.\n\nThe images from Bucha prompted US President Joe Biden to call for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes.\n\nA growing number of Western nations have expelled Russian diplomats in response to the discovery of the atrocities, while new sanctions against Russia are being discussed.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell will travel to Kyiv to meet the Ukrainian president later in the week, Ms von der Leyen's spokesman said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: US seeks more sanctions on 'war criminal' Putin\n\nUS President Joe Biden has called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes as evidence emerges of atrocities allegedly committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.\n\nThere is mounting international anger over the alleged killing of civilians in Bucha, a town near the capital Kyiv.\n\n\"This guy is brutal,\" Mr Biden said of the Russian leader, adding that he believes Mr Putin \"is a war criminal\".\n\nWithout evidence, Russia said images of atrocities had been staged by Ukraine.\n\nMr Biden's intervention follows the publication of new satellite photos by the earth observation company Maxar, which show bodies lining Bucha's streets during its occupation by Russian forces.\n\nAn analysis of the photos by the New York Times showed at least 11 bodies on the streets since 11 March, when Russian forces controlled the city.\n\nRussia claims that no civilians suffered under the Russian occupation of Bucha and says footage and photos from the city were staged.\n\nBut the timing of these satellite images appears to disprove the idea that the bodies only appeared after Russian soldiers left.\n\nBlack objects which appear to be the same size as human bodies remained in the same position on the same street in Bucha for some weeks\n\nUS officials say they are supporting a team of international prosecutors heading to Bucha to collect evidence.\n\nThe Ukrainian government has started a war crimes investigation after it said the bodies of 410 civilians had been found in areas around Kyiv. Some were discovered in mass graves while others had their hands tied and had apparently been shot at close range.\n\nOfficials in Kyiv also accused Russian forces of killing a village head, her husband and her son in the village of Motoyzhyn for aiding Ukrainian troops in the area.\n\n\"You may remember I got criticised for calling Putin a war criminal,\" Mr Biden said. \"You saw what happened in Bucha - he is a war criminal... but we have to gather all the detail so this can have a war crimes trial.\"\n\nMr Biden said the Bucha discovery was \"outrageous\" and said that it was important Mr Putin was \"held accountable\" for atrocities committed by his military in Ukraine.\n\nHe would seek to impose further sanctions on Russia, he added.\n\nThe US state department said it had credible reports of rape, torture and summary executions carried out by Russian forces as part of what it described as a \"broader, troubling campaign\" by Moscow.\n\nAt the request of Ukraine, the international prosecutors will support the prosecutor general of Ukraine's war crimes unit.\n\n\"There are reports and images of a nightmare litany of atrocities,\" said state department spokesman Ned Price.\n\nThe Pentagon said it was \"fairly obvious\" that Russia had been behind the atrocities in Bucha, but that more investigation was needed to ascertain which units were responsible.\n\nThere is mounting international anger over the killing of civilians in Bucha\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also accused Russia of war crimes during a televised address on Monday night and suggested Mr Putin's regime would attempt to cover up evidence of other atrocities.\n\n\"I'm sure you know about the new old tactics of Russian propagandists who are constantly trying to reject accusations of the Russian military,\" President Zelensky said.\n\n\"Now they are doing the same thing. The same lies. They are trying to distort the facts. But, as then, they will not succeed. They will not be able to deceive the whole world.\"\n\nFrance and Germany announced on Monday they are expelling Russian diplomats in response to the discoveries in Bucha.\n\nGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the expulsion of 40 envoys was in response to the \"unbelievable brutality\" the Kremlin had unleashed in Ukraine.\n\nThe French government said it would expel \"many\" Russian staff, but didn't specify the exact number.\n\nLithuania said it was expelling the Russian ambassador, citing atrocities it says have been committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.\n\nMoscow's ambassador to the UN said Russia would present \"empirical evidence\" to the UN Security Council demonstrating that Western statements on events at Bucha were lies.\n\nAt a press conference in New York, Vasily Nebenzya accused Ukraine and its \"Western sponsors\" of fabricating evidence and carrying out a false flag attack on its own people.\n\nIn Bucha, witnesses have described Russian soldiers firing on men fleeing after refusing to allow them to leave through humanitarian corridors.\n\nAt least 20 dead men were found lying in the street, many of them with extensive wounds. Some had been shot through the temple, as if executed, while others had clearly been run over by tanks.\n\nSatellite images taken by Maxar show a 14m (45ft) mass grave in the city near the church of St Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happening? If you are able to talk to us please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.\n\nStaff shortages and disruption from the pandemic are causing delays for early cancer diagnosis, MPs say. This means the NHS in England is struggling to make progress on its target to identify three-quarters of cancer cases at an early stage. Some 54% of cases are diagnosed at stages one and two at the moment, and there has been no improvement in six years. If progress isn't made, the Health and Social Care Committee says it could affect more than 340,000 people. The Department of Health says it recognises \"business as usual is not enough\".\n\nMore flights are expected to be cancelled by EasyJet in the coming days due to high levels of Covid-related staff absences. It's likely the airline will ground around 60 UK flights today. Sixty-two flights were cancelled on Monday. British Airways has also had to do the same, leaving passengers wanting an Easter getaway frustrated. Read more here.\n\nFollowing the story that fines had been issued as part of the Metropolitan Police's investigation into lockdown gatherings, the government's former head of ethics has apologised for attending one of them. Helen MacNamara was found to be in breach of the rules when she went to a leaving do for a fellow civil servant on 18 June 2020. Read more here.\n\nShortness of breath, aching body and diarrhoea are three of the new nine signs of coronavirus that have been added to the official list of symptoms. The NHS says many of the new symptoms \"are very similar\" to those for colds and flu. Check out the full list.\n\nEmily had struggled to get treatment for breast cancer on the NHS during the pandemic but she's finally been given \"one of the final pieces\" of the jigsaw puzzle. She has new nipple tattoos following surgery. Here's her story.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Breast cancer: The moment I saw my new nipple tattoos\n\nCheck whether you're eligible to book another Covid booster here.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Travellers at Manchester Airport have faced long queues for check-in and security over the past month\n\nManchester Airport's managing director is to stand down amid criticism of long security queues which have led to passengers missing flights.\n\nManchester Airports Group (MAG) said Karen Smart had decided to leave the business after eight years.\n\nEarlier, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said police and fire and rescue service staff could be drafted in to help tackle the chaos.\n\nIan Costigan will take on the role of interim managing director.\n\nTravellers at the airport, which is owned by Greater Manchester's 10 councils and an investment firm, have faced long queues for check-in and security over the past month.\n\nThe problems first came to light in mid-March when passengers were left waiting for hours, with some forced to queue outside in the car park while others missed their flights.\n\nMAG previously apologised and said the industry was \"facing staff shortages and recruitment challenges at present, after the most damaging two years in its history\".\n\nCharlie Cornish, the group's chief executive officer, said Ms Smart had guided the airport \"through the most challenging period of its 84-year history\".\n\nHe added that while there would be further challenges ahead, he was \"confident we will soon start to see the benefits of the recovery plans Ms Smart has helped put in place\".\n\nA spokesman for MAG, which also runs London Stansted and East Midlands airports, said Ms Smart, who has been managing director for two years, had decided to return to the south of England, where her family lives, to pursue \"fresh career opportunities\".\n\nAndy Burnham is meeting airport bosses to discuss the \"concerning\" current situation\n\nMr Costigan, who joined MAG in 2013, has held a number of senior roles in the business, including his most recent post as group transformation director.\n\nAirport management are due to meet political leaders and unions to discuss the ongoing situation.\n\nMr Burnham said he would be seeking reassurances about what was being done to bring the situation under control.\n\nHe said it was \"a difficult moment for airports around the world\", which had been \"laid low for the pandemic\" and were having to \"scale up very quickly\".\n\nHowever, he added that passengers \"don't want to see the scenes that we saw at the weekend\", when hundreds had to join long queues to pass through check-in and security.\n\nOn Friday, Manchester councillor Pat Karney revealed that passenger numbers at the airport had surged since the easing of Covid restrictions.\n\n\"Two million people went through the airport in February [and] in the previous year, it was 70,000,\" he said.\n\nHe said the airport's management had put together a \"six-point plan\" to relieve the issues being faced, but added that those \"should have seen all this [and] should have known the recovery was going to be very quick\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ginger nuts and bourbon biscuits were strewn over the road\n\nA road was closed after a lorry shed its load of biscuits over the carriageway.\n\nThe sweet treats were crumbled all over Ilkeston Road in Sandiacre, Derbyshire, at just before 16:00 BST, police said on Twitter.\n\nOfficers involved in the clean-up operation jokingly said they were trying to \"digest\" the issue.\n\nPopular varieties - like ginger nuts and bourbons - appeared to have been crushed in the incident.\n\nIlkeston Road in Sandiacre was closed so the road could be cleared\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marina Yankiv said diabetics in Ukraine were \"fighting two wars\" due to their need for insulin\n\nUkrainians have spoken of their gratitude for life-saving medicine and equipment sent from Britain to the war-torn country.\n\nLviv medical centre volunteer Anna Vorobiova said: \"It helps us to stay and continue to do what we do, knowing we have this great support.\"\n\nUnited With Ukraine, led by Charlie Cawsey, 25, from Kent, has delivered supplies to more than 110 hospitals.\n\nHe said the organisation was working as fast as it could to meet demand.\n\nSpeaking to BBC South East, he said that within 48 hours of launching an appeal they had \"hundreds of thousands of supplies sent in\".\n\n\"That was very much a point of no return. We have tried to scale as fast as we can.\"\n\nMarina Yankiv, a 27-year-old phamarcist in Odesa, has been treating patients, many of them children, in the city's underground bomb shelters.\n\nThe largest delivery of diabetes supplies sent to Ms Yankiv is from United with Ukraine.\n\nA diabetic herself, she said: \"We have two wars - to survive in this war and to survive with type one diabetes.\n\n\"We are dependent on insulin. If we don't have this medicine we die - one, two, three days, we die.\"\n\nCharlie Cawsey is co-ordinating an effort to get urgent medical supplies to Ukraine\n\nMr Cawsey only set up the appeal a month ago, but has since been approached by medical professionals across Ukraine.\n\nThat includes Dr Elizaveta Zagorodnyaya from Dnipro, who told the BBC: \"We have a problem with medicines in our hospitals. We need help.\"\n\nUnited with Ukraine said that by 1 April it had delivered more than £600,000 of medical aid directly to 110 hospitals in Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Ternopil.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Vorobiova has been working alongside United with Ukraine to target the aid.\n\nShe said: \"It helps us to stay here to continue to do what we do, knowing that we have this great support and back up. It warms my heart.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool will take a two-goal lead into the Champions League quarter-final second leg at Anfield but Jurgen Klopp says his side are \"not in dreamland\" after an important victory over Benfica in Lisbon.\n\nLuis Diaz scored late on to put Klopp's side in control of the encounter but they could have been out of sight were it not for a number of fine saves from Benfica goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos.\n\nIbrahima Konate rose highest to head the visitors into the lead from a corner before Sadio Mane added a clinical second to dampen the mood at a lively Estadio da Luz in a dominant first half.\n\nThe home fans ramped up the noise again shortly after the interval when Konate's mistake allowed sought-after striker Darwin Nunez to pull one back for the Portuguese outfit and make it a contest.\n\nBut the Premier League side will have a healthy advantage when they welcome Benfica in the second leg next Wednesday after Diaz added a late third with a composed finish after rounding Vlachodimos, who also denied Diogo Jota in the final moments.\n\n\"Coming here and winning an away game in the Champions League is tough. Obviously, Benfica fought for their lives,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"We could have scored in the last minute - the fourth one would be nice but we're not in dreamland here.\n\n\"It's half-time, we know much more about our opponent, they will go for it again. They won at Ajax, they ground out all the results out in the group stage that they needed, so we are aware of the quality and now we have a nice game in between and then we will be ready again for Benfica.\"\n• None 'We will fight' - title race intensifies as rival bosses focus on big match\n\nThis was a near perfect start to a mammoth run of games for Liverpool that will define their season, with the return leg sandwiched between Sunday's game at Premier League leaders Manchester City and an FA Cup semi-final against Pep Guardiola's side six days later.\n\nThe Reds are chasing a historic quadruple and have already won the Carabao Cup this year, despite Klopp saying four trophies is not a realistic target and insisting winning just one other competition this term would be \"outstanding\".\n\nTheir progress in Europe now looks set but it was not comfortable for the visitors until Diaz skipped round goalkeeper Vlachodimos to score his side's third with three minutes to go.\n\nDiaz, jeered throughout because of his history with Benfica's domestic rivals Porto, was making his first Liverpool start in the competition but continued his seamless beginning to life with Klopp's side and proved a threat throughout.\n\nHe had earlier been denied by Vlachodimos, who stopped Mohamed Salah adding a third before the break as well as keeping out Jota late in the second half.\n\nLiverpool were completely in control early on and were already threatening before Konate was left unmarked to head in Andrew Robertson's corner to score his first goal for the club.\n\nThe visitors then ruthlessly punished a poor touch from former Tottenham and QPR midfielder Adel Taarabt, as Trent Alexander-Arnold angled a superb ball into Diaz and the forward cushioned a header into Mane's path to give him a simple finish.\n\nBenfica, who upset an in-form Ajax side in the previous round, responded four minutes into the second half when Konate missed his kick from Rafa Silva's low cross and 22-year-old Uruguay forward Nunez showed why he is so in demand with a composed finish from close range for his fifth goal in the competition this season.\n\nThat gave the home side belief and, buoyed by the intense atmosphere their fans created, Benfica suddenly looked a different team as Everton tested Alisson from range and Nunez failed to convert after breaking in behind the defence, instead going down under pressure from Virgil van Dijk only to see his penalty appeal waved away.\n\nBut it was Diaz who stole the show late on and Klopp's attention will now switch to a huge game against City in the race for the Premier League title.\n• None Attempt saved. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Benfica 1, Liverpool 3. Luis Díaz (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Naby Keïta with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Henderson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "UN scientists have unveiled a plan that they believe can limit the root causes of dangerous climate change.\n\nA key UN body says in a report that there must be \"rapid, deep and immediate\" cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.\n\nGlobal emissions of CO2 would need to peak within three years to stave off the worst impacts.\n\nEven then, the world would also need technology to suck CO2 from the skies by mid-century.\n\nAfter a contentious approval session where scientists and government officials went through the report line by line, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now published its guidance on what the world can do to avoid an extremely dangerous future.\n\nFirst, the bad news - even if all the policies to cut carbon that governments had put in place by the end of 2020 were fully implemented, the world will still warm by 3.2C this century.\n\nThis finding has drawn the ire of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.\n\nDrought is having an impact in many countries including Bangladesh\n\n\"Some government and business leaders are saying one thing - but doing another. Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.\"\n\nThat sort of temperature rise would see our planet hit by \"unprecedented heatwaves, terrifying storms, and widespread water shortages\".\n\nTo avoid that fate, the world must keep the rise in temperatures at or under 1.5C this century, say researchers.\n\nThe good news is that this latest IPCC summary shows that it can be done, in what Mr Guterres calls a \"viable and financially sound manner\".\n\nBut keeping temperatures down will require massive changes to energy production, industry, transport, our consumption patterns and the way we treat nature.\n\nTo stay under 1.5C, according to the IPCC, means that carbon emissions from everything that we do, buy, use or eat must peak by 2025, and tumble rapidly after that, reaching net-zero by the middle of this century.\n\nTo put it in context, the amount of CO2 that the world has emitted in the last decade is the same amount that's left to us to stay under this key temperature threshold.\n\n\"I think the report tells us that we've reached the now-or-never point of limiting warming to 1.5C,\" said IPCC lead author Heleen De Coninck, who's Professor of Socio-Technical Innovation and Climate Change at Eindhoven University of Technology.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News she said: \"We have to peak our greenhouse gas emissions before 2025 and after that, reduce them very rapidly.\n\n\"And we will have to do negative emissions or carbon dioxide removal in the second half of the century, shortly after 2050, in order to limit warming to 1.5C.\"\n\nGovernments will need to look at the provision of low carbon transport\n\nThe next few years are critical, say the researchers, because if emissions aren't curbed by 2030, it will make it nigh on impossible to limit warming later this century.\n\nKey to that in the short term will be how we generate energy. Luckily, solar panel and wind turbines have never been cheaper, having fallen in cost by around 85% over the past decade.\n\n\"It's game over for the fossil fuels that are fuelling both wars and climate chaos,\" said Kaisa Kosonen from Greenpeace, who was an observer at the IPCC approval session.\n\n\"There's no room for any new fossil fuel developments, and the coal and gas plants we already have need to close early.\"\n\nBut diets and lifestyles will also need changing, with huge scope for major carbon savings, according to the authors.\n\n\"Having the right policies, infrastructure and technology in place to enable changes to our lifestyles and behaviour can result in a 40-70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This offers significant untapped potential,\" said IPCC Co-chair Priyadarshi Shukla.\n\n\"The evidence also shows that these lifestyle changes can improve our health and wellbeing.\"\n\nIn practice, this means governments doing more to encourage walking and healthy eating, and putting in place the infrastructure for far more electric vehicles.\n\nOne of the most contentious aspects of the report concerns the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\n\nThis can be done in a number of different ways, including through planting trees and making changes to farming practices.\n\nSolar power has fallen dramatically in price in the last decade\n\nBut the report finds that to keep warming from going over the dangerous 1.5C threshold, we will need more than new forests.\n\nKeeping temperatures down will require machines to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere.\n\nThis is very contentious as the technology is new and currently very expensive.\n\nSome participants in the IPCC process are highly sceptical that these approaches will work.\n\n\"The idea of quick emissions reductions and large negative emissions technologies are a concern,\" said Prof Arthur Petersen, from UCL, who was an observer in the approval session.\n\n\"There are a lot of pipe dreams in this report.\"", "Dan Walker replaced Bill Turnbull when he joined BBC Breakfast in 2016\n\nBBC Breakfast host Dan Walker has announced he will be leaving the BBC to host Channel 5 news.\n\nWalker said in a Twitter video that he would also present \"a whole host of new programmes across the channel\".\n\nThe presenter will replace Sian Williams as the Channel 5 news anchor, who recently announced she was leaving.\n\nWilliams also made the move across from the BBC Breakfast sofa to Channel 5 in 2016. Walker began working on BBC Breakfast the same year.\n\nHe replaced Bill Turnbull and shared the sofa with Louise Minchin until her departure in September 2021. She was replaced by Sally Nugent.\n\nWalker also previously presented the BBC's Saturday morning sports show Football Focus but handed the baton to Alex Scott last year.\n\nIn a video shared on Twitter, Walker said it was a \"massive decision\" to leave the BBC but said: \"I don't think opportunities like this come around very often.\"\n\nWalker finished fifth on Strictly Come Dancing last year with partner Nadiya Bychkova\n\nWalker added: \"I'm really excited but this has also been a massive decision for me because I love BBC Breakfast, I love working alongside Sally and I love the team there.\n\n\"But Channel 5 came with big ambitions, with big plans and I don't think opportunities like this come around very often and I can't wait.\n\n\"And what an honour to step into the shoes of Sian Williams. I know how popular she is with both the team and also the audience, so all I can say is I will do my best to maintain her incredibly high standards.\n\n\"Thank you for watching and I'll see you soon on a TV screen somewhere.\"\n\nWalker took part in the most recent series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, finishing in fifth place with partner Nadiya Bychkova.\n\nWalker's departure from the BBC's flagship breakfast show comes hot off the heels of a string of other high profiles moves away from the corporation.\n\nSopel also said \"opportunities like this just don't come along very often\" as he moved to Global with Maitlis\n\nFellow BBC journalists Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel are leaving to launch a new podcast and host a radio show together on LBC.\n\nFilm critic Mark Kermode and radio presenter Simon Mayo are also leaving their long-running Friday film review programme on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nThey will be doing a new twice weekly film and TV podcast series for Sony from the beginning of May.\n\nFormer England and Liverpool star Peter Crouch is also moving from 5 Live, taking That Peter Crouch Podcast to Acast.\n\nAndrew Marr announced in November that he was leaving the BBC after 21 years to \"get my own voice back.\"\n\nHe joined the broadcaster as political editor in 2000 and has presented a Sunday morning programme since 2005. Laura Kuenssberg will take over that slot later this year.\n\nMarr will host an \"opinion-led programme\" on radio station LBC, a new show on Classic FM, and write for newspapers.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were trying to get humanitarian aid when a Russian soldier stopped them\n\nAt around 11:00 on 17 March, Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were cycling to Bucha's administration building where aid was being handed out. Electricity, gas and water had been cut, and essentials were in short supply in the town, one of the first to be occupied by Russian forces as they advanced on Ukraine's capital Kyiv.\n\nYuriy and his father hoped to pick up some medicine and food. Yuriy said a Russian soldier stopped him and his father on Tarasivska St. They immediately raised their hands.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC by phone alongside his mother, Alla, the 14-year-old gave his account of what happened next. \"We told them that we weren't carrying any weapons and that we didn't pose any danger,\" he said.\n\n\"Then my father turned his head my way, and that's when he got shot… He was shot twice in the chest, right where the heart is. Then he fell.\"\n\nAt that point, the teenager said, the soldier shot him in his left hand and he fell too. While he was on the ground, he said, he was shot again, this time in the arm.\n\n\"I was lying on my stomach, I couldn't see anything that was happening around me,\" Yuriy said. The soldier, he said, shot again, aiming at his head. \"[But] the bullet went through my hood.\"\n\nYuriy said the soldier shot again, this time at his father's head. But Ruslan was already dead. \"I had a small panic attack, lying there with my wounded arm underneath me. I saw that my hand was bleeding,\" he said.\n\nIt was only after a while, when the soldier went behind a tank, that Yuriy got up and ran, he said.\n\nYuriy shows wounds that, he says, were caused by a Russian soldier in Bucha\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the details of Yuriy's account, but it comes as evidence grows of atrocities committed by Russian forces while they were in control of Bucha and other towns north of Kyiv.\n\nIn Bucha alone, bodies of dead men were found lying in the street, many with extensive wounds. Some had been shot through the temple, as if executed. Others had their hands or legs tied behind their backs. Some had clearly been run over by tanks.\n\nMany of the bodies were seen along a stretch of Yablonska St, just 2km (one mile) from the street where Ruslan is said to have been killed.\n\nYuriy's mother Alla told the BBC how she had gone to see her husband after the teenager returned home and told her what had happened. She thought Yuriy could be wrong, and that Ruslan was wounded, in need of medical help.\n\n\"My son begged me not to,\" Alla said. \"He said they would kill me too.\"\n\nWhen she tried to walk down the street, she said, her neighbours stopped her. \"[They] told me not to go further, saying the Russians were killing everyone in the territories under their control.\"\n\nThe next morning, Alla got her mother to help. Wearing white scarves, they went to the site of the shooting. Her mother talked to Russian soldiers and they managed to get through. They finally collected Ruslan's body, and brought it home.\n\nA photograph of the partially covered body, taken by Alla and shared with the BBC, appears to confirm Yuriy's testimony. It shows a gunshot wound to the left side of the chest, near the heart.\n\nRuslan, a lawyer, was 49 when he was killed. He was \"active in the community,\" Alla said. \"He couldn't just sit in the shelter and wait. So, he was volunteering and helping people.\"\n\nThey buried him in the garden of the family home.\n\nYuriy said the soldier who killed him was clearly Russian. His uniform was dark green, he said, typical of the Russian army. \"I saw that on his flak jacket it was written 'Russia' in Russian,\" he said.\n\n\"We were no danger to the military, we were civilians, wearing white scarves to show that,\" Yuriy said. \"It's very stupid.\"", "The Works has been forced to shut shops temporarily and suspend new stock deliveries after a cyber-attack.\n\nThe retailer said five of its 526 shops have been closed since last week after hackers gained access to its computer systems and caused issues with its tills.\n\nCustomers are experiencing longer delivery times for online orders as a result.\n\nThe company said that no shoppers' payment details had been compromised.\n\nIn a statement, The Works said: \"Customers can continue to shop safely at The Works, both in store and online.\"\n\nIt pointed out that all debit and credit card payments are processed outside of its own systems, although it is still working out whether or not customers' personal data may have been affected.\n\nThe toys and crafts shop said that it made \"immediate changes to further strengthen its security position\", as well as taking on cyber security experts who are investigating the attack.\n\nIt was made aware of the hack last week, which has been described as a \"ransomware\" attack, although the hackers are understood not to have made any demands for cash.\n\nThe firm disabled all access to its systems, including email, as a precautionary measure once it found out.\n\nIt is working to reopen the five shops as soon as it can, while store deliveries are expected to resume \"imminently\", according to its statement.\n\nIt also said that normal online deliveries would be reintroduced gradually, and that it did not expect the attack to have a severe impact on its forecasts for sales or its financial position this year.\n\nThe Works said it had told the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) about the attack. The ICO can enforce fines in cases of serious data breaches.\n\nIn February, shops were warned that deliveries of nuts and crisps could be affected after KP Snacks was hit by a ransomware attack. The producer of McCoys and Hula Hoops apologised after it said the problems could last into March.\n\nCyber security expert Simon Edwards suggested that this recent attack on The Works should serve as an example to other companies.\n\n\"Since hostilities started in Ukraine there has been a massive increase in cyber attacks targeting all industry sectors. Although we are yet to know more from the company itself, typically these attacks start with a malicious email sent to an employee,\" he pointed out.\n\nHe added that hackers may have used \"wiper\" malware in this instance, which effectively destroys the systems it targets.\n\nHe also recommended that staff should carry out training to highlight the risk of clicking on links in emails.", "Chinese authorities have extended their lockdown of Shanghai to cover all its 25 million people after a fresh surge in Covid cases.\n\nInitially, there had been separate measures for the eastern and western sides, but the whole city is now subject to indefinite restrictions.\n\nShanghai is the largest single city to be locked down to date.\n\nThe important financial hub has battled a new wave of coronavirus infections for more than a month.\n\nReported cases have risen to more than 13,000 a day, although the numbers are not high by some international standards.\n\nResidents in some areas of the city said the strict policy meant no-one was allowed to leave their housing compounds, not even to collect essential provisions.\n\nThey reported difficulties in ordering food and water online, with restrictions on when customers are able to place their orders, because of a shortage of supplies and delivery staff.\n\nThis country's \"zero-Covid\" system is, at best, struggling to cope.\n\nChina has done Covid lockdowns before, but not on the scale of its financial mega-city.\n\nThe logistical challenges required to confine 25 million people to their homes, while keeping them fed, are huge.\n\nSocial media here is full of angry residents complaining that they can't order food because the delivery system is clogged up.\n\nCentralised isolation facilities - many using only camp beds, with no showers or other facilities - are bursting with infected people squashed in next to one another.\n\nOne of China's few reliable media outlets, Caixin, has reported that close contacts of infected people will be moved to neighbouring provinces. This could potentially involve hundreds of thousands of Shanghai residents.\n\nThe Chinese government's complete elimination strategy has become something of a mantra, with the government ridiculing other countries for sacrificing their own people on the altar of opening up.\n\nSome medical specialists here have tried to get the message through that, for a vaccinated person, catching the Omicron variant of Covid will probably not necessitate going to hospital - that you can simply ride it out at home until you recover.\n\nFew people in China seem to be aware of this. Their officials and state media have kept it from them.\n\nSo the lockdowns continue and it's not only Shanghai closed right now. Jilin City (3.6 million people), Changchun (nine million), Xuzhou (nine million), the steel city of Tangshan (7.7 million) and various other towns and villages are keeping their residents indoors.\n\nThe strain on people, and the economic cost of it all, must be enormous.\n\nThe city is testing the limits of China's zero-Covid strategy, amid growing public anger over quarantine rules.\n\nThe policy sets China apart from most other countries which are trying to live with the virus.\n\nBut the increased transmissibility and milder nature of the Omicron variant has led to questions over whether the current strategy is sustainable in the long run.\n\n\"Currently, Shanghai's epidemic prevention and control is at the most difficult and most critical stage,\" said Wu Qianyu, an official with the municipal health commission.\n\n\"We must adhere to the general policy of dynamic clearance without hesitation, without wavering.\"\n\nOn Monday, Shanghai reported a record 13,086 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases, after a city-wide testing programme took samples from more than 25 million people in 24 hours.\n\nAt least 38,000 people have been deployed to Shanghai from other regions, in what state media have said is the biggest nationwide medical operation since the shutdown of Wuhan in early 2020.", "Channel 4, founded in 1982, is funded by advertising but is publicly owned\n\nThe government has decided to go ahead with plans to privatise Channel 4.\n\nA source said ministers believed public ownership was holding the broadcaster back \"in the face of a rapidly changing media landscape\".\n\nPlans for the sale, on which there has been a public consultation, will be included in May's Queen's Speech.\n\nBut Channel 4 called it \"disappointing\" that ministers had made their decision despite \"significant public interest concerns\" over privatisation.\n\nMoney made from the sale will be reinvested in a \"creative dividend\" to be shared among the TV industry, with some of it earmarked for independent production companies.\n\nChannel 4, founded by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government in 1982 to deliver programmes for under-served audiences, is funded by advertising but is publicly owned.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries said: \"Channel 4 rightly holds a cherished place in British life and I want that to remain the case. I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon.\n\n\"A change of ownership will give Channel 4 the tools and freedom to flourish and thrive as a public service broadcaster long into the future.\"\n\nA government source said the channel would lose its \"straitjacket\" but retain its commitment to primetime news programming.\n\nThe Channel 4 show It's a Sin has been nominated for 11 Bafta awards\n\nWhen it was announced last year that the government was carrying out a consultation on privatising Channel 4, its bosses warned of \"a real risk\" to some of its programmes.\n\nResponding to the announcement that the move was going ahead, a spokesperson for the broadcaster said: \"With over 60,000 submissions to the government's public consultation, it is disappointing that today's announcement has been made without formally recognising the significant public interest concerns which have been raised.\"\n\nThey added that there needed to be a \"lengthy legislative process and political debate\", saying: \"Channel 4 remains legally committed to its unique public-service remit.\n\n\"The focus for the organisation will be on how we can ensure we deliver the remit to both our viewers and the British creative economy across the whole of the UK.\"\n\nIn 2019, Channel 4, which brought shows including Friends, Big Brother and Countdown to UK audiences, opened a base in Leeds, to operate alongside its London headquarters.\n\nFor Labour, shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell said: \"Selling off Channel 4, which doesn't cost the taxpayer a penny anyway, to what is likely to be a foreign company, makes absolutely no sense. It will cost jobs and opportunities in the North and Yorkshire, and hit the wider British creative economy.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat culture spokesman Jamie Stone said: \"Occasionally, we as a country manage to magic up a world-renowned gem into being and Channel 4 is a perfect example. And yet this government seems hell-bent on trashing this uniquely British legacy and undermining jobs and investment in the creative sector.\"\n\nAnd SNP culture spokesman John Nicolson called the government's decision a \"direct attack on an innovative broadcaster which produces independent, high-quality journalism\".", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has ordered the three month review into fracking\n\nThe government has ordered a new report on the impact of fracking, days ahead of publishing its energy supply plan.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has given the British Geological Survey (BGS) three months to assess any changes to the science around the controversial practice.\n\nFracking was halted in the UK in 2019 amid opposition from green groups and local concerns over earth tremors.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have been calling for a rethink in recent weeks.\n\nThey claimed fracking would give the country a \"competitive and reliable source of energy\" amid concerns over security of access and rising energy prices.\n\nBut other MPs and campaigners have warned against a change in direction, with Labour's Ed Miliband saying the new report had \"nothing to do with the energy needs [and] everything to do with the Conservatives bowing to their backbenchers\".\n\nFracking firms claimed the report was a \"tentative first step\" to overturning the ban and \"exploiting [the] potential\" of shale gas.\n\nAt the time of the moratorium, ministers said they would not change their minds without \"compelling new evidence\".\n\nThe move comes ahead of the publication of the government's energy supply strategy, expected this week.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson promised the plan in \"days\" on 9 March to help tackle energy prices and reduce reliance on Russia.\n\nBut the date kept being pushed back, with sources telling the BBC that the Treasury was unhappy with the cost of commitments to nuclear power.\n\nThe strategy itself is thought to include strategies for nuclear energy and renewable energy, plans to make homes more energy efficient and a route to increasing North Sea oil and gas production.\n\nSome Conservatives from the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) have also been pushing for a rethink of the government's legally-binding target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nBut Mr Johnson and his business secretary have both ruled that out.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday to the Harvard Kennedy School, Mr Kwarteng said the net-zero target was \"set in stone\", adding: \"The government's view is we don't need to change the targets… but we can be more flexible by looking at things like energy efficiency [and a] greater diversity of energy sources.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Kwarteng insisted the government \"must be led by the science\" in its approach to fracking. and it would remain banned, unless it was shown to be \"safe, sustainable and of minimal disturbance to those living and working nearby\".\n\n\"It remains the case that fracking in England would take years of exploration and development before commercial quantities of gas could be produced for the market, and would certainly have no effect on prices in the near term.\n\n\"However, there will continue to be an ongoing demand for oil and gas over the coming decades as we transition to cheap renewable energy and new nuclear power.\n\n\"In light of Putin's criminal invasion of Ukraine, it is absolutely right that we explore all possible domestic energy sources.\"\n\nIn his letter to the BGS, Mr Kwarteng asked for more information on any new techniques which could make the fracking process safer and how any risks compare to those associated with other forms of underground energy production.\n\nFracking plans led to rafts of protests in areas like Preston in Lancashire\n\nBut shadow climate change secretary, Mr Miliband, condemned the move, saying: \"The government itself concluded that fracking is unsafe, and will not help our energy security or cut bills, and fracking is strongly opposed by local communities.\n\n\"It is a sign once again that this government cannot be trusted to deliver on the green energy sprint we need for energy security, to cut bills and tackle the climate crisis.\"\n\nSNP MP Deidre Brock also called for the review \"completely unacceptable\", adding: \"When the leaders of the world descended on Glasgow for COP26, we pledged to do everything we can to end our reliance on fossil fuels, and everything in our power to tackle the climate emergency.\n\n\"By reintroducing fracking, we would be going back on our word, which could have devastating consequences.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth added that it was \"pure fantasy\" that fracking was the answer to the UK's energy needs.\n\nFracking is the process of drilling into the earth, then directing a high pressure mixture of chemicals into layers of rock to release shale gas.\n\nThe UK has only ever had one fracking site in operation - run by Cuadrilla - which halted in 2019 following a report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA).\n\nThe indefinite suspension came after the OGA found it was not possible to predict the probability or size of tremors caused by the practice.\n\nBut last week, regulators lifted an order for the two controversial wells to be capped with concrete.\n\nThe chief executive officer of Cuadrilla, Francis Egan, welcome the government review, claiming they recognised \"the huge potential that shale gas offers this country\".\n\nHe added: \"We trust that this review will allow Britain's huge shale gas resources to be exploited.\n\n\"This can create tens of thousands of jobs, bolster energy security, and provide cheaper gas for local communities, and millions of pounds in tax revenues for northern councils.\"", "Kirstie Allsopp said she was afraid that \"profit will be king\"\n\nChannel 4 stars Matt Lucas and Kirstie Allsopp are among the figures who have raised concerns about the government's plan to privatise the broadcaster.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted on Monday that \"government ownership is holding Channel 4 back\".\n\nShe said selling it to a private owner would give it \"the tools and freedom to flourish and thrive as a public service broadcaster long into the future\".\n\nBut Allsopp described her argument as \"a load of utter twaddle\".\n\nThe Location, Location, Location host tweeted: \"C4 was set up to foster the British film & TV industry and it has done that job admirably.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGreat British Bake Off co-host Lucas tweeted a link to a petition that claims privatisation would \"seriously undermine programming aimed at all the communities, across generations, that make up this country\".\n\nHowever, Channel 4 News' new main anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy pointed out that \"editorial independence and funding of news can be ring-fenced\" if the government wishes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Krishnan Guru-Murthy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChannel 4 is currently publicly-owned but funded by adverts. It commissions all its programmes from independent production companies rather than making them itself. Privatisation would see it sold to a private company.\n\nMs Dorries said \"government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon\".\n\nShe said the proceeds would be put \"into independent production and creative skills in priority parts of the country\".\n\nIn response, Channel 4 said the decision to move forward with the sell-off was \"disappointing\" and ignored \"significant public interest concerns\".\n\nThe channel's former head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, told BBC Radio 4: \"The argument doesn't stack up because Channel 4 is not there to compete with Netflix and Amazon.\n\n\"It is there to provide a public service to the people of Britain with really important programmes like Channel 4 News or Unreported World, which Netflix or Amazon would never make.\"\n\nShe told the Today programme that \"if you wanted to support independent production companies, you would invent Channel 4, which is exactly what Margaret Thatcher did\".\n\nThe Channel 4 show It's a Sin has been nominated for 11 Bafta awards\n\nOne of Ms Dorries' predecessors as culture secretary, fellow Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt, said he was not in favour of the privatisation.\n\n\"As it stands, Channel Four provides competition to the BBC on what's called public service broadcasting - the kinds of programmes that are not commercially viable - and I think it'd be a shame to lose that,\" he told Sky News.\n\nShadow Culture Secretary Lucy Powell told the Today programme that privatisation \"doesn't make sense\" and will do \"a great deal of damage to jobs and opportunities in the creative industries\".\n\nMayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, signed an open letter to Ms Dorries, strongly urging her \"to reconsider this extraordinary and confusing decision\".\n\nSome programme and film-makers have flagged up times when Channel 4 supported them.\n\nAlan Davies tweeted \"most of us in comedy had our first gigs on Channel 4 before the BBC hired us\".\n\nFilmmaker Asif Kapedia noted that all his short films had been financed by Channel 4, while Empire State of Mind creator Sathnam Sanghera posted that it was the only mainstream channel \"that would touch my argument on empire\".\n\nConservative MP Julian Knight, chair of the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee, wrote on Twitter that privatisation \"can work for C4\" but is \"a big risk\".\n\nHe said it \"must be part of a thorough overhaul of all public service broadcasting\", adding: \"If this is in the media bill I will support the government.\"\n\nHe also questioned whether the privatisation was \"being done for revenge for Channel 4's biased coverage of the likes of Brexit and personal attacks on the PM\".\n\nMr Knight's predecessor as the committee's chair, Conservative MP Damian Collins,said he supported privatisation because the channel's spending on programme-making had declined in recent years.\n\n\"If we do nothing in a landscape where traditional broadcasters have got declining incomes, declining amounts of money they can spend making new programmes, will Channel 4 be sustainable? For me, that's the test.\n\n\"Actually, private ownership and the injection of money that could come from that could be good for making Channel 4 sustainable long term and then, as a consequence, excellent news for the UK production sector.\"\n\nGB News presenter Dan Wootton tweeted that the sale of Channel 4 was \"not before time\", adding that \"if they can operate in the private sector, good on them\".\n\nPlans for the sale, on which there has been a public consultation, will be included in May's Queen's Speech.", "More than 60% of Putin's war chest has been frozen by sanctions but more needs to be done, Liz Truss has said.\n\nThe foreign secretary said \"crippling\" sanctions are pushing the Russian economy back \"into the Soviet era\".\n\nMore than $350bn (£266bn) of Russia's $604bn foreign currency reserves are unavailable to the regime, she added.\n\nHer call for more to be done comes amid condemnation after images of bodies in the streets of Bucha, near Kyiv, emerged after Russian troops withdrew.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned he believes the worst atrocities committed by Russian forces are yet to be discovered, but Russia has denied killing civilians - claiming, without evidence, that Ukraine has staged such scenes.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has released a video on social media, addressed to the Russian public, in which he accuses Russian troops of committing atrocities, including the massacre of civilians and the raping of women.\n\nSpeaking in Russian at the close of the video, he says: \"Your president stands accused of committing war crimes. But I cannot believe he's acting in your name.\"\n\nMs Truss, who spoke after talks with her Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau, urged G7 countries to go further in their sanctions ahead of G7 and Nato meetings this week.\n\nMeasures she is calling for include banning Russian ships from their ports, cracking down on Russian banks, going after industries \"filling Putin's war chest\" such as the gold trade, and agreeing a timetable to eliminate imports of Russian oil and gas.\n\nMs Truss said the only way to end the war is for Russian President Mr Putin to lose in Ukraine and will stress the urgency of stepping up sanctions, as well as giving weapons to Ukraine to defend itself.\n\n\"Although Russian troops have been defeated in their initial assault on Kyiv, there has been no change in their intent and ambition,\" she said.\n\n\"We are seeing Putin's forces set their sights on the east and south of Ukraine, with the same reckless disregard for civilian lives and their nationhood.\n\n\"So far our sanctions have had a crippling impact on those who feed and fund Putin's war machine.\"\n\nBoth the EU and the US are planning more sanctions on Russia this week, with EU ambassadors meeting on Wednesday to decide what steps to take.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has outlined a fifth wave of sanctions, including an import ban on Russian coal, which she said was worth 4bn euro (£3.34bn) per year.\n\nEarlier, Ms Truss agreed with her equivalent from Japan, a fellow G7 member, that the international community must increase pressure on Russia with further co-ordinated sanctions.\n\nThe UK has also announced a £10m fund to support organisations in Ukraine, including those helping victims of conflict-related sexual violence.\n\nThe UK will also be providing funding and technical assistance for the International Criminal Court's investigation into reports of rape.\n\n\"We have all been shocked by the scenes from Bucha,\" she said. \"These are appalling acts of the kind that we thought we left in the 20th Century.\"\n\nA satellite image of the town from 19 March appears to show bodies lying in the street nearly two weeks before Russians left Bucha.\n\nThe picture directly contradicts Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's claim that footage of bodies in Bucha was \"staged\" after the Russians withdrew.\n\nIt shows objects that appear to be bodies in the precise locations where Ukrainian forces subsequently found them when they regained control of the town.\n\nDuring the foreign secretary's visit she also praised Poland for being on the \"front line of helping Ukraine\" and for always being \"clear-eyed\" about \"Putin's malign intent\".\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has called for countries to stop buying oil, gas and coal from Russia to avert \"new Buchas\". He described the move as the \"mother of all sanctions\", saying it would stop the war in a matter of months.", "Gotabaya Rajapaksa (pictured) has so far refused to step down despite his cabinet's resignation\n\nMore than 40 MPs have left Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's coalition government.\n\nMPs from parties aligned with Mr Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led coalition said they would now independently represent themselves.\n\nThe move comes as the South Asian nation is grappling with power cuts and shortages because of an economic and foreign exchange crisis.\n\nThis has led to mass protests demanding Mr Rajapaksa's resignation.\n\nIt is unclear what the implications of the MPs' actions are at this point. They have distanced themselves from the government, but have not extended support to the opposition.\n\nIt could, however, call into question the prime minister's authority over the parliament.\n\nMr Rajapaksa's cabinet has already resigned, but both the president and his brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, have so far refused to step down.\n\nInstead, the president called on opposition parties to help him form a national government and accept cabinet portfolios.\n\nThey have all refused and have reiterated demands for him to resign.\n\n\"What the people want is for this president and the entire government to step down,\" said Sajith Premadasa, leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, Sri Lanka's main opposition alliance.\n\nOn Tuesday, a freshly appointed finance minister also announced he was quitting the job, less than 24 hours after accepting the post.\n\nAli Sabry, a close ally of President Rajapaksa, said he would give up his parliament seat for someone outside politics who might be \"suitable to handle the situation\".\n\nMeanwhile, anti-government protests continued on Tuesday in major cities across the country.\n\n\"People can't afford their daily rice, their dhal, their basic necessities. People can't get on buses to come to work, to go to school,\" one protester told the BBC.\n\n\"How much worse can it get? There's no petrol, there's no diesel, kids can't sit their exams because there's no paper,\" said another.\n\nProtesters have taken to the streets in Sri Lanka's cities calling for President Rajapaksa to resign over his government's financial handling\n\nIn the past days, demonstrations calling for the resignation of the president have picked up momentum.\n\nProtesters even defied a curfew meant to last from Friday to Sunday in order to halt a planned day of protests, after a demonstration outside the president's house on Thursday night turned violent.\n\nThe demonstrations mark a massive turnaround in popularity for Mr Rajapaksa, who swept into power with a majority win in 2019, promising stability and a \"strong hand\" to rule the country.\n\nSri Lanka is now struggling to pay for imports of fuel and other goods because of a shortage of foreign exchange, which has exacerbated its worst economic crisis since independence from the UK in 1948.\n\nThe country needs foreign currency to pay for imports of fuel.\n\n\"There are endless shortages of essentials, including fuel and cooking gas. Hospitals are on the verge of closing because there are no medicines,\" Maithripala Sirisena, Sri Lanka's former president and leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party that withdrew its support for Mr Rajapaksa's coalition, told parliament.\n\n\"At such a time, our party is on the side of the people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Police in Sri Lanka fire tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Kandy\n• None Angry Sri Lankans want president to go", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "Six people were killed at the scene\n\nPolice have arrested one suspect in connection with a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, California's capital, on Sunday, that left six dead.\n\nDandre Martin, 26, has been charged with assault and illegal firearm possession, police said on Monday.\n\nMultiple people are believed to have opened fire in the busy downtown area, close to the state Capitol building.\n\nOfficials have identified the three men and three women killed in this year's worst US mass shooting so far.\n\nThree of the victims were men: Sergio Harris, 38, De'Vazia Turner, 29, and Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32.\n\nThree women were also shot dead: Johntaya Alexander, 21, Melinda Davis, 57, and Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21.\n\nPolice say all six victims died at the scene, when multiple shooters opened fire just after 02:00 (09:00 GMT) on Sunday near the junction of 10th and K Street.\n\nAn additional twelve people were wounded in the shooting and taken to local hospitals. By Monday, seven had been discharged.\n\nThe violence was \"unprecedented\" for the city, its police chief said.\n\nPolice have executed several search warrants as of Monday. At least one handgun, now understood to be stolen, was recovered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe family of Sergio Harris told local media the vivacious and friendly father had gone to a nightclub, London, late on Saturday and never returned.\n\nMr Harris's wife, Leticia Fields, told the San Francisco Chronicle a stranger had told her on the phone that he had been shot.\n\n\"It sounds like a lot of innocent people lost their lives tonight,\" Ms Fields told the Chronicle. \"I'm taking it day by day. I haven't told our 11-year-old yet\".\n\nMr Harris had gone to the nightclub with his cousin, DeVazia Turner - another of the victims - Mr Turner's father told local TV station Fox40.\n\n\"There's just nothing to say. I'm just here. I'm grief, that's all - grief,\" the elder Mr Turner said.\n\nVideos posted online appear to show a brawl break out in the area - packed with restaurants and bars - in the early hours on Sunday, just before rapid gun fire sent people fleeing.\n\nIt was so far unclear whether the fight led to the shooting, police say, and on Monday, officials set up an online portal to ask the public to submit information from the scene.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, President Joe Biden decried \"another\" instance of gun violence leaving \"families forever changed. Survivors left to heal wounds both visible and invisible\".\n\nFirearms are involved in approximately 40,000 deaths a year in the US, including suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.\n\nDid you witness what happened in Sacramento? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Angharad Williamson and John Cole are both charged with Logan Mwangi's murder\n\nA five-year-old boy was treated like a prisoner in the days before his death, a murder trial has heard.\n\nLogan Mwangi was made to face the wall as his step-father John Cole put food in his room, jurors at Cardiff Crown Court were told.\n\nCole, 40, is on trial with partner Angharad Williamson, 31, and a youth, 14, who all deny murdering Logan.\n\nHis body was found in the River Ogmore in Sarn, Bridgend, last July with 56 external injuries.\n\nCole has previously admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice.\n\nOn Monday, he said he is \"not proud\" of how he treated Logan, but did not punch him in the stomach before he died.\n\nLogan had suffered severe internal damage to his abdominal area\n\nUnder cross-examination by Ms Williamson's barrister, Peter Rouch QC, he explained how Logan behaved during his isolation for Covid in the days before he died.\n\nHe said they kept the boy in his room with a baby gate over the doorway, making him face the wall when anyone came in, but Logan had tried to find ways to get out of the room.\n\n\"He gave both of us angry looks,\" Cole said.\n\nProsecutor Caroline Rees QC suggested in the days leading to Logan's death he was treated like a \"prisoner\" in his bedroom.\n\n\"Taking food to his room and making him face the wall as you put the food to the room,\" she said.\n\n\"You treated that little boy like a prisoner and in the week before Logan's death he was largely confined to the room and made to face the wall when food was delivered to him.\n\n\"How did you think that made that little boy feel?\"\n\nCole replied: \"We were trying our best we possibly could.\"\n\nLogan was found dead in the River Ogmore in Sarn, Bridgend county, last July\n\nThe defendant - who is 6ft 4in tall and \"between 14 and 15 stone\" - told the jury he could talk \"in a forceful voice\".\n\nMs Williamson's barrister, Peter Rouch QC asked Cole about an argument with Ms Williamson, suggesting he was getting angry with Logan \"flinching when he came near\".\n\n\"Angharad said words to the effect that you are always picking on Logan,\" the barrister added.\n\nThis was something Cole denied.\n\nThe barrister also said Cole had hit Logan \"twice in the stomach\", but the defendant replied: \"I did not hit Logan in the stomach.\"\n\nCole also denied encouraging the teenage defendant to \"sweep the boy's legs\" if he moved.\n\nMr Rouch said Ms Williamson then threatened to leave Cole and ran out of the house saying, \"I am sick of these rows, I am sick of it,\" to which John Cole is alleged to have replied: \"If you do, I will kill him.\"\n\nCole denied this, saying the row was caused by his partner picking up Logan by the arms and shaking him.\n\nJohn Cole has admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice\n\nMr Rouch referred to a neighbour texting another neighbour saying \"baldy is going bananas\", referring to his behaviour before the boy's death.\n\nCole previously told the jury he did \"clip the boy's head\" and \"tapped him on the hand\" to discipline him.\n\nHe said: \"I am not proud of what I did, but I have admitted what I have done.\"\n\nThe jury were shown the black Nike holdall bag that the couple put Logan's body into.\n\nMr Rouch said it had been measured by police and was 2ft 2in (67cm) in length, adding: \"Logan was 3ft 5in. How did you get him into the bag?\"\n\nAsked, \"did you cram him in?\", Cole replied: \"I don't remember. I wasn't thinking clearly.\"\n\nAsked again about moving Logan's body, John Cole said: \"I regret doing that - what I did was disgusting and I deserve whatever I get for that.\"\n\nUnder cross examination, Cole said Logan was alive and \"still misbehaving\" when he went to bed but did not believe his partner would have hurt the boy.\n\nHe told the court Ms Williamson said Logan's death had been a \"freak accident\" but he did not ask her more because he \"didn't want to know the answer\".\n\n\"There was a dead child, and you didn't want to know the answer?\" asked Caroline Rees QC.\n\n\"I knew I didn't kill Logan, so the answer I was going to get was too horrific and I didn't want to know.\"\n\nThe defendant told the court Ms Williamson had on a number of occasions said she could not cope with Logan's behaviour and talked about \"handing him into social services\".\n\nCole has admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice, which Ms Williamson and the 14-year-old deny.\n\nThe two adults are also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they both deny.", "The number of pupils missing lessons because of Covid is stabilising in England's state schools, despite a record number of infections in the UK.\n\nNew government figures show 179,000 pupils (about 2.2%) were off last Thursday because of the virus - down from 202,000 (about 2.5%) in mid-March.\n\nHowever, staffing problems remain in some schools, with almost one in 12 teachers absent.\n\nAnd school leaders have criticised the end of free testing in schools.\n\nAbout one in every 13 people in the UK has coronavirus currently, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBut most people in England can no longer access free PCR or lateral flow tests, after changes introduced on Friday.\n\nSome free testing for the general public will continue in Scotland until the end of April, and in Wales and Northern Ireland until the end of June.\n\nNew data from the Department for Education estimates that 46,000 teachers and school leaders in England (nearly 9%) were absent from open schools on 31 March, down from 48,000 on 17 March.\n\nOne in five state schools had more than 15% of their teachers and school leaders absent, down from 23% two weeks before.\n\nStapeley Broad Lane Primary School in Nantwich has not had to close or send year groups home this term, but learning is still being disrupted because of Covid.\n\nTeaching assistant Sam Morris has just returned to the classroom after being off sick with the virus - and she's not the only one.\n\n\"It's just been really hard work for teaching staff. There is no support. There's no extra staff,\" she says.\n\n\"We can't just call on somebody to come from another classroom, because with eight members of staff off there is nobody else to call on.\"\n\nJust down the road, at Malbank School and Sixth Form, Year 11 student Chloe had to take three weeks off school before her mock GCSE exams because she had Covid.\n\n\"That was pretty hard to deal with,\" she says.\n\n\"Teachers being off didn't really help at all because this is one of the most important years we're going to have.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said he was pleased to see a slight fall in pupil and staff absences, but added \"the situation remains grave with very severe disruption continuing in many schools and colleges\".\n\nReferencing the staff absences, he said: \"It is very difficult to operate in these conditions. The government's decision to withdraw free testing in such circumstances is a retrograde step, particularly with exams a few weeks away, and we have repeatedly urged ministers to reconsider.\n\n\"We understand the government's desire to declare Covid over and done with, but that is simply not the reality in schools and colleges, where the illness continues to be a real problem because of the impact on both pupils and the workforce.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said absence rates \"remain at concerningly high-levels\".\n\n\"We continue to hear a sense of deep frustration from school leaders as they struggle to deal with the significant and on-going disruption caused by Covid - whilst the government removes every measure they have for controlling it,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education said more than 99.9% of schools have \"consistently been open this term\".\n\n\"We are now moving to living with - and managing - the virus, while maintaining good ventilation and hygiene as the norm, and continuing to use vaccines to build the population's wall of protection,\" it said.", "Richard Woodcock died at a flat in Milton Keynes after going to the aid of a two-year-old boy\n\nA \"heroic\" neighbour who sacrificed his own life to save a child died after being repeatedly hit with a dumb-bell, a coroner said.\n\nThe body of Richard Woodcock, 38, was found when police forced their way into a flat at Denmead, in Two Mile Ash, Milton Keynes on 26 June.\n\nCoroner Tom Osborne ruled that he was unlawfully killed, but that \"he saved the life of a two-year-old boy\".\n\nKelvin Odichukumma Igweani, 24, died at the flat after police fired four shots.\n\nThe inquest in Milton Keynes heard how officers from Thames Valley Police were called to reports of an ongoing disturbance at about 09:40 BST.\n\nMr Woodcock had gone to his neighbour's flat after a woman \"fearful for her life\" came to him screaming\n\nMr Woodcock, a council highways officer, had reacted after the \"altercation\" led to a screaming woman arriving at his front door \"fearful of her life and... obviously in an agitated state\".\n\nThe court heard that Mr Woodcock's wife was on a 999 call to the police when her husband decided to see if he could help the child who was still in the flat, who was thought to be in danger.\n\nMr Woodcock was dragged inside and seriously assaulted \"to the point where he was hit with a 4kg [9lb] dumb-bell\", Mr Osborne said.\n\nA post-mortem examination found that he had traumatic head injuries, consistent with repeated blows.\n\nIt was thought that a large kettle-bell was used as weapon, the court heard.\n\nPolice were called to the flats on Denmead in Two Mile Ash at about 09:40 BST on Saturday, 26 June\n\nAt the opening of an inquest into Mr Igweani's death last July, police said Mr Igweani \"became aggressive\" and a Taser was fired, but it was ineffective.\n\nMr Igweani then barricaded himself in the main bedroom with the child, before armed response officers fired four shots, police said. He died at the scene.\n\nAt the conclusion of the inquest into Mr Woodcock's death, Mr Osborne added that the little boy, who suffered life-threatening injuries and needed surgery, was saved by Mr Woodcock's \"heroic conduct\".\n\nThe inquest heard that a woman and another child had got out of the flat before the police arrived.\n\nThe coroner said the killing had had a \"devastating\" effect on Mr Woodcock's family, who were \"haunted\" by what happened, and that a life had been \"needlessly\" taken.\n\nHe told the court that Mr Woodcock would be \"remembered for his heroism and his bravery - but I think he will be remembered for more than his death\".\n\nMr Woodcock was struck repeatedly with a dumb-bell and died at the flat in Milton Keynes, the coroner said\n\nMr Osborne said he hoped that at some point the family, who did not want to speak after the inquest, would be able to think of their loved one and recall \"happier times\".\n\nIn a tribute released by the police last year, Mr Woodcock's family said more people than he \"ever realised\" loved him, with his death a \"huge loss\".\n\nIn her own tribute, his wife said it had been a \"blessing to share my life with you, my dearest friend, my biggest love, my soulmate\".\n\nA full inquest into Mr Igweani's death is due to be held at a later date.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 organisations have pulled out of the UK's first ever global LGBT+ conference over the government's stance on conversion therapy.\n\nThe UK government had promised to ban conversion therapy but last week decided to exclude conversion therapy for transgender people in the ban.\n\nGroups are now withdrawing from the government's Safe To Be Me conference.\n\nThe government says it is going to look into how it can ban trans conversion therapy.\n\nThe BBC understands the conference may even be scrapped all together, with a decision on the future of the conference to be made this week.\n\nAccording to NHS England, conversion therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nThe government's three-day Safe To Be Me conference was due to be held this summer to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first ever London Pride marches.\n\nIt was set to be the biggest event of its kind, and was seen by many in government as a way for the Government Equalities Office - part of the government which oversees LGBT equality - to \"double down\" on its commitment to LGBT rights.\n\nBut the LGBT+ Consortium, an umbrella body for LGBT+ community organisations, has issued a statement branding the government's U-turn on conversion therapy \"abhorrent\".\n\nEighty-two member organisations of the consortium have signed an open letter, which is written by LGBT+ charity and campaign group Stonewall, pulling out of the conference.\n\nIt says they will only participate in the conference if Prime Minister Boris Johnson reverts to his promise to include transgender people in any legislation against conversion therapy.\n\n\"This is a decision we take with a heavy heart. As the UK's first global LGBT+ conference, Safe To Be Me should be a moment for redoubling efforts globally to improve LGBTQ+ people's rights and experiences,\" it said.\n\n\"This is why we have worked hard with government and civil society organisations over the last few months to try to make the conference work.\"\n\nThe Terrence Higgins Trust and 22 other HIV charities and organisations have also since joined the boycott, meaning a total of 105 organisations have now pulled out.\n\nA Terrence Higgins Trust spokesperson said: \"Trans rights are human rights - progress without or at the expense of trans people is not progress. We stand together and will not be divided.\n\n\"As HIV charities and community groups we stand in solidarity with Stonewall and the whole LGBT+ sector and will not be supporting or attending the upcoming global LGBT+ 'Safe To Be Me' conference unless the government reverts to their promise of a trans-inclusive ban.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has previously called the practice of conversion therapy \"repulsive and abhorrent\" and had promised plans to outlaw it on a number of separate occasions.\n\nHowever the plans to do so have since changed; meaning the legislation will mean conversion therapy to attempt to change people's sexuality will be outlawed, but those practices carried out to try to change people's gender identity will not.\n\nThe BBC understands a series of crunch talks between No 10, the Government Equalities Office and charities hoping to get transgender people included in the ban have failed.\n\nA government spokesperson said they will carry out \"separate work\" on the issue of transgender conversion therapy but that they were keen for any legislative method brought forward not to have \"unintended consequences\".\n\nThey added: \"This is a legally complex area and we have a responsibility to ensure unintended consequences are not written into legislation, particularly in the case of under 18s.\"\n\nA number of gender critical groups had fought for the ban not to include conversion therapy relating to issues of gender identity.\n\nResponding to the legislation on Friday, Nikki da Costa, a former director of legislative affairs at No 10, said elements of the law would have had \"profound consequences for children struggling with gender dysphoria\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Doctors, therapists and parents would be deterred from exploring with a child any feelings of what else may be going on for fear of being told they're trying to change a child's identity\", adding that it was \"deeply concerning\".\n\nGovernment insiders say it was seen as \"too complicated\" to avoid any unintended consequences of the legislation - which may affect teachers, parents and therapists helping children who are struggling with their gender identity.\n\nThe Welsh government is now looking at legal advice to see what action it can take to ban trans conversion therapy.", "EU officials say sanctions on Russian imports of coal and oil are definitely being considered\n\nThe EU is proposing further sanctions against the Kremlin after allegations of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, with EU ambassadors meeting on Wednesday to decide what steps to take.\n\nEuropean Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said planned measures included an import ban on coal and a ban on Russian ships and road operators.\n\nThe US is also planning more sanctions.\n\nAnd UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is calling for a \"tough new wave\" of sanctions from G7 and Nato ministers.\n\nShe said her Japanese counterpart had agreed the international community had to increase pressure on Russia's Vladimir Putin \"and his war machine with further co-ordinated sanctions\".\n\nEU officials had earlier indicated the focus would be on enforcing existing measures.\n\nBut revelations of atrocities, with hundreds of bodies of civilians found in towns abandoned by Russian troops, have given added impetus for new measures.\n\n\"The new sanctions will probably be adopted tomorrow,\" French European Affairs Minister Clément Beaune said on Tuesday.\n\nThe EU was also working on other sanctions including on imports of Russian oil, she said.\n\nThis is the fifth set of EU sanctions so far. Earlier measures have ranged from individuals including Vladimir Putin and hundreds of Russian MPs, to the financial and energy sectors. The 27 member states plan to cut use of Russian gas by two-thirds by the end of this year and then make Europe entirely independent of Russian fossil fuels by 2030.\n\nThere is an active debate in Germany on imposing a total embargo on Russian energy, but the government warns it would trigger a recession and mass unemployment and for the moment it has ruled it out. \"If it would stop the war, then we would do it immediately,\" said Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.\n\nAt the start of the war Germany was quick to halt the big Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia before it went online\n\nGermany relied on Russian gas for 55% of its imports last year, while for the EU as a whole it was 40%.\n\nExperts widely agree that sanctions agreed by the West until now are unprecedented but Eddie Fishman rates them at \"seven or an eight of 10 in intensity\". He was a lead official in the US State Department in 2014 when sanctions were drawn up in response to Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.\n\n\"Oil remains the life-blood of Russia's economy,\" he argues. \"Putin has made billions of dollars since the war began and Russia's oil sales remain very strong.\"\n\nThe EU's latest proposals tighten sanctions on four Russian banks. Although major Russian banks have been shut out of the Swift financial messaging system, two of the biggest are not.\n\nAgain, it's energy-related. Sberbank and Gazprombank facilitate energy payments from Europe to Russia.\n\nLithuania announced that from the start of this month it had put a stop to all Russian gas imports.\n\n\"Look friends, you can do the same,\" President Gitanis Nauseda told his EU counterparts. It had become possible through investment in liquified natural gas and electricity link infrastructure, he explained.\n\nBut could the EU, as a whole, really turn off the taps to Russian energy?\n\nThere have been warnings of factory closures, jobs losses and plummeting public consent for sanctions.\n\nYou would have to pray for warm and windy weather, says Jacob Kirkegaard of the German Marshall Fund. Warm to lessen the need for heating homes - and windy to power Europe's electricity generating turbines.\n\nAnd while Mr Kirkegaard agrees with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that a ban could trigger a recession, he believes the blow to Russia would be worse.\n\n\"The Russian government would, in my opinion, be compelled to start printing large amounts of new roubles with the risk of inciting significant additional inflation in Russia.\"\n\nBeyond energy, sanctions so far have hit Russia's tech, aviation and finance sectors, as well as its oligarchs - the wealthy Russians who made their fortunes under President Putin's patronage.\n\nBut, as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky reminded Belgian lawmakers in an address last week, there are other awkward areas where business goes on.\n\nRough diamonds are still moving from Russia to Antwerp and sea ports remain open to Russian shipping.\n\nSo while trade ties between the EU and Russia have been seriously frayed, strained but lucrative connections remain.\n\nAn energy embargo remains the \"ultimate\" economic severance weapon, and Germany is usually cited as the main obstacle to that. But other countries are accused of hiding behind Chancellor Olaf Scholz's frank assessments.\n\n\"Germany is really afraid of what might happen to its economy,\" says Prof Karen Pittel, a director at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich.\n\n\"But in principle, if it happens tomorrow, then we'll survive it.\"\n\nShe also believes that the outlook has shifted after President Putin began demanding payment for gas in roubles. Germany refused but Prof Pittel says it's possible there may come a time when Germany has no other choice than to abandon Russian energy.\n\nIt still seems extremely unlikely that Europe will be cut off from Russian supplies in one, big dramatic move, but pressure is mounting.\n\n\"Clear and determined sanctions are necessary. These sanctions are not working,\" Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said this week.\n\nUntil recently, the idea of an energy embargo would not have just seemed unlikely. It would have been unthinkable.", "Synthetic cannabis-laced sweets are also known as gummies\n\nA 23-year-old woman has died after eating a synthetic cannabis sweet that was delivered to her door.\n\nThe woman and her friend, aged 21, ordered the sweets - also known as gummies - to her Ilford home via a messaging app last Tuesday.\n\nThey each ate one sweet and immediately felt unwell. Both were taken to an east London hospital, where the woman died on Saturday.\n\nThe second woman was discharged from hospital following treatment.\n\nLeon Brown, 37, from South Norwood, has been charged with possession with intent to supply Class B synthetic cannabinoid, being concerned in the supply of a synthetic cannabinoid and possession with intent to supply a psychoactive substance.\n\nThe Met Police said he was found with a large quantity of cash and what were believed to be edible cannabis products.\n\nHe appeared in custody at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA post-mortem examination will be arranged in due course; tests have been conducted on a number of sweets recovered by the police.\n\nOfficers are working to identify any other cases where people have become seriously unwell after eating synthetic cannabis sweets, gummies or similar products.\n\nThey are aware of one potentially linked case in which a woman was taken unwell earlier in March after eating a cannabis sweet in Tower Hamlets. She was taken to hospital and later discharged.\n\nInquiries are ongoing to establish whether this sweet was part of the batch of sweets associated with the woman's death.\n\nCh Supt Stuart Bell, from Met Police, warned people against taking illegal substances, including those packaged in the form of cannabis sweets.\n\n\"Please do not buy or consume these products. They are illegal and, because of the child-friendly packaging, they can pose a risk of accidental consumption,\" he said.\n\nHe added that this particular batch of sweets was contained in packaging featuring \"Trrlli Peachie O's\" branding. It has not been confirmed at this stage where the sweets were manufactured.\n\n\"Drug dealers harm communities and risk the safety of individuals. We will take positive action to target those engaged in this activity as well as those found in possession of these substances.\"\n\nAnyone with information has been urged to contact police.\n\nUpdate 19 April: The headline and picture caption in this story have been changed to make it clear that the gummies were made using synthetic cannabis.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two members of a British family have died and two others are critically injured after a landslide while they were hiking on holiday in Australia.\n\nThe man, 49, and his nine-year-old son were killed by falling rocks in the Blue Mountains near Sydney on Monday.\n\nA woman, 50, and her son, 14, were taken to hospital with serious head and abdominal injuries.\n\nHer daughter, 15, who is thought to have raised the alarm, has been treated for shock.\n\nThe family had set out for a hike at popular trekking spot Wentworth Falls, some 60 miles (96km) from Sydney, on Monday morning. The accident happened at about 13:40.\n\n\"Unfortunately there's been a landslip while they've been bushwalking. It's quite a tragic scene,\" said Supt John Nelson from New South Wales Police.\n\nThe woman and teenage boy needed to be sedated and intubated before being winched to safety and flown to hospital, paramedics said. They have both undergone surgery.\n\nThe teenage girl was also taken to hospital and was \"extremely distressed\", according to authorities.\n\n\"We've focused on caring for her while the best medical care is given to her mum and brother and just trying to get that support for the young 15-year-old,\" said Supt Nelson.\n\nAccording to ABC News, NSW Ambulance Acting Chief Superintendent Stewart Clarke praised the girl for having the composure to call the emergency services and guide them to the location despite not knowing her surroundings after \"witnessing something completely devastating and heartbreaking\".\n\n\"How she maintained her composure during such a terrible time is nothing short of heroic,\" he said.\n\n\"It was heartbreaking to know as she was leaving the bush her world had literally changed within the scope of an hour.\"\n\nAuthorities had to wait until Tuesday to recover the bodies of the man and boy, describing it as \"extremely dangerous\" terrain.\n\nDetails of the victims, including where they are from in the UK, have not been released at this stage. The Foreign Office said it was \"providing consular support to the family of a British couple and their children following an incident in Australia\" and that it was in contact with local authorities.\n\nLike much of Australia's east coast, the Blue Mountains have been lashed by weeks of heavy rain.\n\nSome walking tracks have been closed \"due to flood damage and ongoing rockfall risk\", according to NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service website.\n\nBut a spokesman said the track at Wentworth Falls had recently been deemed safe.\n\n\"The walking track where this incident occurred was inspected in the days before the rockslide as part of a routine track assessment programme,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\n\"Unfortunately, it is not possible to predict and eliminate all natural risks such as rockslides, which can occasionally occur around the state.\"\n\nPolice working near the entrance to the walking track in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney\n\nFollowing the removal of the bodies, the New South Wales Department of Environment and Heritage announced the area would be closed to the public until further notice and a \"comprehensive review\" would be undertaken.\n\nNew South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet described it as a \"tragic\" incident and said he would seek advice on whether the walking track should have been open, given recent heavy rain.\n\n\"These tragedies occur too often so anything we can do to keep people safe, we will,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\n\"Obviously, the Blue Mountains is a place where people love to go trekking. It's one of the wonders of the world but when those tragedies occur it would be remiss of any government not to act.\"", "Western Isles Support for Cats and Kittens is seeking help\n\nAround 40 cats have been found alone at a home in the Western Isles after the death of their owner.\n\nThe cats, aged from six months to elderly, were living throughout the home and outbuildings at Breasclete on Lewis.\n\nLocal group, Western Isles Support for Cats and Kittens (Wisck), was called by a neighbour who was feeding the pets.\n\nThe charity said none of the cats had been neutered and some showed obvious signs of injury.\n\n\"With any colony that is living as if it was feral, if a female cat is available, male cats will fight and there are obvious signs of where the male cats have been fighting each other,\" Annie Delin from Wisck told BBC Scotland's Lunchtime Live programme.\n\n\"We have discovered now about 40 cats and we believe they have been on their own for a while. It could be some injuries have also been caused by them being outside and looking for food.\"\n\nWisck has appealed for help and donations to care for the cats.\n\nThe group said in a social media post they were \"unbelievably grateful and humbled by the outpouring of support\" but the cats were \"nowhere near ready for adoption\" yet.\n\nPregnant females will be taken into care until their kittens are born. Adult cats, once neutered, will be appraised for where they go next.\n\nWisck vice chairwoman Karen Cowan added: \"This is going to be a huge undertaking for us and will stretch our resources to the absolute limit.\n\n\"The practicalities of catching and transporting all the cats to and from vets and fosters are going to dominate our volunteers' time.\n\n\"Some of the cats will already be pregnant, with kitten season due to begin any time.\"\n\nShe added that veterinary treatment for cats that needed it would be first priority, then the adults would be neutered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Services such as bathrooms and domestic abuse refuges can be single sex in certain circumstances, Britain's human rights body has said in new guidance.\n\nHowever, the guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission says such services should be open to trans people wherever possible.\n\nExceptions are only acceptable if there are \"proportionate and justified reasons\".\n\nThe new guidance is an interpretation of existing equality laws.\n\nIt looks at how single-sex services such as bathrooms and domestic abuse refuges should be run, and transgender people's access to these spaces.\n\nUnder the Equality Act 2010, providers cannot discriminate against someone based on sex or gender reassignment, but there are exceptions where access for certain groups can be modified or limited if there is what is described as a \"legitimate aim\".\n\nThis is the first time the EHRC has published guidance with specific examples related to the circumstances where this can be allowed to happen in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt would apply whether or not the person has a gender recognition certificate - a legal document that allows someone to change the legal sex on their birth certificate.\n\nOne example the watchdog has given about domestic abuse refuges suggests trans women could be barred if biologically female survivors indicated they felt uncomfortable, but a list of alternative support for trans women in the local area should be made available.\n\nSimilarly, in a gym with separate-sex changing rooms if there was concern over the safety and dignity of trans men in a communal area, an extra gender-neutral changing room with private units could be introduced.\n\nAnnouncing the guidance, the EHRC were keen to clarify they were not addressing the \"wider debate\" on sex and gender identity and that their guidelines are intended to help service providers interpret existing equality law.\n\nBaroness Kishwer Falkner, chair of the EHRC, said she thinks the advice will help \"uphold everyone's rights.\"\n\nShe said: \"There is no place for discrimination against anyone based on their sex or gender reassignment.\n\n\"Organisations are legally allowed to restrict services to a single sex in some circumstances. But they need help to navigate this sensitive area. That is why we have published this guidance - to clarify the law and uphold everyone's rights.\"\n\nBut the response from charities and campaigners suggests the rules could still be open to interpretation.\n\nLGBT+ campaigning charity Stonewall has criticised the announcement, claiming it will lead to \"more confusion\".\n\nA Stonewall spokesperson said: \"Far from clarifying how the single sex exemptions in the Equality Act should be used, the EHRC's latest non-statutory guidance is likely to create more confusion.\n\n\"It appears to go against the core presumption of the act which is that inclusion should be the starting point, and shifts the focus towards reasons trans people, and specifically trans women, can be excluded.\"\n\nWhile gender critical organisation Sex Matters has welcomed the move and called it a \"straightforward explanation\".\n\nMaya Forstater, executive director of Sex Matters, said: \"The EHRC's straightforward explanation should help service providers avoid the difficulties currently plaguing politicians when they are asked questions about the difference between sex and gender identity\".\n\nThe guidance has been released following the news that the EHRC's status as an A-class human rights institution is to be reviewed later this year.\n\nThere had been calls from some LGBT+ campaign groups and charities for a special review after accusations they were influenced by the UK government in the appointments of the chair and board members. The EHRC previously told the BBC it takes all decisions impartially and all appointments made through a fair, open and transparent recruitment process.\n\nHowever the BBC understands calls for a special review were rejected by The UN and instead a pre-planned review, which was already scheduled for later this year, will go ahead.\n\nEvidence submitted by campaigners will be heard as part of the review, and other interested groups will be invited to submit evidence as early as next week.\n\nIf a review does find they should be downgraded, the EHRC would be prevented from being able to make representations at the UN Human Rights Council, or its committees on human rights.", "The BBC understands there were several hours of crunch talks in an attempt to salvage the event\n\nThe UK has cancelled its first-ever international LGBT+ conference after a boycott by more than 100 organisations, the BBC understands.\n\n\"Safe To Be Me\" was scheduled to take place in London in June to promote LGBT rights within the UK and globally.\n\nThe event will not go ahead after LGBT+ charities and other groups pulled out over the government's stance on conversion therapy.\n\nTherapy aimed at transgender people was excluded from a ban outlined last week.\n\nThe BBC understands there were several hours of crunch talks in an attempt to salvage the event, but ultimately organisers were unable to move forward after the majority of organisations involved pulled out.\n\nA number of LGBT+ organisations and charities had signed an open letter written by campaign group Stonewall which said they would not lend their support for the event unless Boris Johnson included transgender people in the ban.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday the government's first LGBT+ business champion resigned over the exclusion of transgender people from any conversion therapy ban that would instead only apply to sexual orientation.\n\nThe unpaid role was created especially in the lead-up to the conference, and was expected to last at least 18 months.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, Iain Anderson said he had \"no choice\" but to quit and did so with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nAt the conference, Mr Anderson would have been expected to showcase what UK businesses have done in reducing workplace discrimination and promoting equality for LGBT people.\n\nHe wrote: \"Trust and belief in the government's overall commitment to LGBT+ rights has been damaged.\n\n\"I believe a comprehensive plan to support LGBT+ people to play their full part in our society is urgently needed.\"\n\nIn a statement, a government spokesperson thanked him for his contribution and said they were considering the issue of transgender conversion therapy further in what they described as a \"legally complex\" area.\n\nAccording to NHS England, that therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nSome groups have expressed concern it could impede those helping people with gender dysphoria by blocking explorative therapies or those that do not automatically affirm someone's gender identity.\n\nThe government had promised to outlaw the practice of conversion therapy for all, but announced last week any ban would only apply to attempts to alter a person's sexuality, not attempts to try to change people's gender identity.\n\nA spokesperson said the government would carry out \"separate work\" on the issue of transgender conversion therapy but it was keen for any legislation not to have \"unintended consequences\".\n\nThe U-turn led to more than 100 organisations withdrawing from the Safe To Be Me Conference, which was due to be held in London over three days this summer.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously called the practice of conversion therapy \"repulsive and abhorrent\" and had promised plans to outlaw it on a number of separate occasions.\n\nA number of gender critical groups had fought for the ban not to include conversion therapy relating to issues of gender identity.\n\nResponding to the legislation on Friday, Nikki da Costa, a former director of legislative affairs at No 10, said elements of the law would have had \"profound consequences for children struggling with gender dysphoria\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"Doctors, therapists and parents would be deterred from exploring with a child any feelings of what else may be going on, for fear of being told they're trying to change a child's identity\", adding it was \"deeply concerning\".\n\nThe Welsh government is now looking at legal advice to see what action it can take to ban trans conversion therapy.\n\nOne Conservative MP, Dehenna Davison, expressed her disappointment the conference had been cancelled, tweeting: \"We had such a huge opportunity to prove the UK (and the Conservative Party) is a defender of freedom. As a Conservative member of the LGBT+ community, it is so wrong it has come to this.\"\n\nAnother Conservative MP, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"Having failed to deliver for the LGBT community at home, we will now fail to deliver for LGBT communities around the world. What a record.\"", "Footballers, celebrities and social media influencers will be banned from gambling adverts under new rules.\n\nFrom October, gambling companies will not be allowed to use stars to target under-18s, The Committee for Advertising Practice said.\n\nAnyone with a \"strong appeal\" for young people, such as footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and Love Island star Chris Hughes, must not appear in the adverts.\n\nThe body representing betting firms said it welcomed the new rules.\n\nMichael Dugher, chief executive of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) said the changes built on industry-led measures designed to \"drive up standards and ensure further protections in advertising.\"\n\nThe Committee for Advertising Practice (CAP) said the \"tough\" new rules were part of its commitment to safeguarding young people and vulnerable audiences.\n\nThe new rules state that gambling and lottery ads must not \"be likely to be of strong appeal to children or young persons, especially by reflecting or being associated with youth culture.\"\n\nReferences to video game content and gameplay popular with under-18s are also against the new rules.\n\nThere is opposition to gambling advertising amongst some politicians, parents and groups that campaign for awareness around gambling addiction.\n\nFormer England and Arsenal footballer Paul Merson, who became addicted to gambling himself, last month told BBC Sport it \"sickens\" him to see former players and managers in gambling adverts.\n\nEarlier this year, Paddy Power launched a tongue-in-cheek ad featuring former Arsenal and West Ham player Jack Wilshere.\n\nFormer Tottenham Hotspur manager and I'm a Celebrity winner Harry Redknapp has previously appeared in ads for Betvictor.\n\nAnd former Love Island contestant Chris Hughes is a brand ambassador for Coral Racing.\n\nShahriar Coupal, director of CAP, said: \"By ending these practices, our new rules invite a new era for gambling ads, more particular to the adult audience they can target and more befitting of the age-restricted product they're promoting.\"\n\nLord Don Foster, chairman of Peers for Gambling Reform welcomed the CAP's step but warned it would not block all advertising reaching young audiences.\n\n\"It won't stop gambling advertisements appearing on the shirts of children's sporting heroes nor many of the other concerning actions of gambling companies who spend over £1.5bn a year promoting their products,\" he said.\n\n\"The government should ban all links between sport and gambling, all inducements, such as so-called \"free\" bets, and direct marketing to individual customers and take steps to reduce all forms of gambling advertising,\" said Lord Foster.\n\nThe industry body, the BGC said previously introduced measures were already helping to tackle the problem. A \"whistle-to-whistle\" ban on TV commercials during live sport before the 9pm watershed introduced in 2019 had reduced the ads seen by young people at that time by 97%, Mr Dugher said.\n\n\"Our members also introduced new age gating rules on advertising on social platforms, restricting the ads to those aged 25 and over for most sites,\" he added.\n\nPlaying cards, scratchcards, fruit machines and betting between friends were more popular platforms among young people for gambling than BGC member firms, Mr Dugher said\n\n\"The BGC take a zero tolerance approach to gambling by those under the age of 18 and we enforce the toughest possible action,\" he said.\n\nThe Conservative's 2019 election manifesto promised to overhaul gambling laws, following growing concerns over gambling's impact, especially on the young. After a series of delays a white paper, outlining new regulations, is now expected in May.", "The government's LGBT+ business champion has resigned over the decision not to ban conversion therapy for transgender people.\n\nIain Anderson said he had \"no choice\" but to tender his resignation with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nHe had been appointed to focus on workplace equality for LGBT people.\n\nThe government said it had a proud record on LGBT rights and thanked Mr Anderson for his work.\n\nIt previously said it would consider the issue of transgender conversion therapy further.\n\nIn his resignation letter to the prime minister, Mr Anderson called for \"tolerance and respect\".\n\nHe wrote: \"So many LGBT+ people continue to face violence and discrimination, but politics which creates dividing lines between LGB people and trans people will never be my approach.\n\n\"Now - more than ever - we need tolerance and respect in our national conversations.\"\n\nHe added: \"Trust and belief in the government's overall commitment to LGBT+ rights has been damaged. I believe a comprehensive plan to support LGBT+ people to play their full part in our society is urgently needed.\"\n\nMr Anderson was appointed in September last year as the UK's first ever LGBT+ business champion, with a focus on reducing workplace discrimination.\n\nThe role was launched by the government in the lead-up to the UK's first international LGBT+ conference - named Safe To Be Me - and is an unpaid, non-political role.\n\nIt was thought the position would focus on creating a network of business people to share best practice on LGBT equality in the workplace and was set to last for an initial 18-month period.\n\nThe government said: \"We thank Iain for his contributions as LGBT business champion. The government has a proud record on LGBT rights and we remain committed to building upon that work with sensitivity and care.\"\n\nAccording to NHS England, conversion therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nThe government had promised to outlaw the practice but announced last week any ban would only apply to attempts to alter a person's sexuality, not attempts to try to change people's gender identity.\n\nA spokesperson said the government would carry out \"separate work\" on the issue of transgender conversion therapy but it was keen for any legislative method brought forward not to have \"unintended consequences\", adding it was a \"legally complex area\".\n\nThe U-turn led to more than 100 organisations withdrawing from the Safe To Be Me Conference, which was due to be held in London over three days this summer.\n\nThe BBC understands that because of the number of organisations boycotting it, the government is considering cancelling the conference entirely.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously called the practice of conversion therapy \"repulsive and abhorrent\" and had promised plans to outlaw it on a number of separate occasions.\n\nThe government previously said: \"This is a legally complex area and we have a responsibility to ensure unintended consequences are not written into legislation, particularly in the case of under-18s.\"\n\nA number of gender critical groups had fought for the ban not to include conversion therapy relating to issues of gender identity.\n\nResponding to the legislation on Friday, Nikki da Costa, a former director of legislative affairs at No 10, said elements of the law would have had \"profound consequences for children struggling with gender dysphoria\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Doctors, therapists and parents would be deterred from exploring with a child any feelings of what else may be going on, for fear of being told they're trying to change a child's identity\", adding it was \"deeply concerning\".\n\nThe Welsh government is now looking at legal advice to see what action it can take to ban trans conversion therapy.", "Cardi B has won an injunction forcing a YouTuber to delete and never repost defamatory videos about her.\n\nIt comes a few months after the rapper won a £2m lawsuit against Latasha Kebe, known online as Tasha K.\n\nIn a court document seen by Radio 1 Newsbeat, a judge has now ordered Kebe to remove over 20 videos.\n\nThe singer, known for hits including I Like It, Money and WAP, was subjected to a \"malicious campaign\" of false accusations by Kebe.\n\nKebe hosts gossip site UnWineWithTashaK which has one million subscribers.\n\nDuring the trial, lawyers for the singer, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, said Kebe had waged \"a campaign to damage and destroy [Cardi B's] reputation among her fans and the consuming public\".\n\nKebe has to take down 21 videos in the next five days from her YouTube and social media channels.\n\nIn the original case, Cardi B's lawyers said Kebe started making \"degrading and harassing statements\" in early 2018 and continued to do so, at one point falsely claiming the star had worked as a prostitute.\n\nA judge has now banned Kebe from making certain statements about Cardi B's sexual health and personal life.\n\nThe judge stated that both sides had agreed to the terms of the \"permanent injunction\".\n\nCardi B's lawyers said the comments and videos on Kebe's channel caused the singer \"embarrassment, humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional distress\".\n\nFollowing a trial in January, a jury in the state of Georgia sided with Cardi B, holding Kebe liable for defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.\n\nIn total, Kebe was ordered to pay Cardi B just over £3m in damages and legal fees.\n\nKebe is currently appealing the original verdict, and if the appeals court overturns that decision, this injunction would also be revoked.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukraine's president visits the site of alleged atrocities in Bucha\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that the worst atrocities committed by Russian troops departing from the north of the country are yet to be discovered.\n\nHe said the town of Borodyanka may have suffered more than others.\n\nHorrific images of bodies in streets in towns like Bucha have generated shock and condemnation worldwide.\n\nUkrainian intelligence officials said Russian units based in the region would be sent back to eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe 64th motorised rifle brigade - which they allege committed atrocities in Bucha - would return to the conflict within weeks, probably to the Kharkiv area, they said.\n\nRussia denies killing civilians, and without evidence says Ukraine staged the scenes.\n\nThe Ukrainian government started a war crimes investigation after it said the bodies of 410 civilians had been found in areas around Kyiv.\n\nSome were discovered in mass graves while others had their hands tied and had apparently been shot at close range.\n\nOfficials in Kyiv also accused Russian forces of killing a village head, her husband and her son in the village of Motyzhyn for aiding Ukrainian troops in the area.\n\nThere are also reports of at least three apparently tortured bodies in the town of Konotop in another northern region, Sumy.\n\nThe images from Bucha prompted US President Joe Biden to call for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes.\n\nHis intervention came as new satellite photos by the earth observation company Maxar showing bodies lining Bucha's streets during its occupation by Russian forces were published.\n\nForeign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told a news conference in Warsaw on Monday that the killings were the \"tip of the iceberg\" and demanded more severe sanctions against Russia.\n\nIn a BBC interview, he cited the desperate situation in the southern town of Mariupol, which has been under Russian bombardment for weeks.\n\n\"What we've seen in recent weeks is that Russia is much worse than Isis [the Islamic State group] when it comes to its atrocities and massacres,\" he said.\n\nIn his nightly address to the Ukrainian people, Mr Zelensky said things were done throughout the region north of Kyiv that people had not seen since the Nazi occupation.\n\n\"There is already information that the number of victims may be even higher in Borodyanka and some other liberated cities,\" he said.\n\nMr Zelensky is due to speak to the United Nations Security Council later on Tuesday, where he is expected to offer more evidence of atrocities.\n\nSeveral Western nations have expelled Russian diplomats in response to the discovery of the atrocities, and new sanctions against Russia are being discussed.\n\nItaly announced on Tuesday it was expelling 30 Russian officials, Denmark 15 and Sweden three. Germany and France announced similar measures on Monday, and Lithuania expelled the Russian ambassador. Russia has vowed to retaliate.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell will travel to Kyiv to meet the Ukrainian president later in the week, Ms von der Leyen's spokesman said.\n\nBut Moscow's ambassador to the UN said Russia would present \"empirical evidence\" to the UN Security Council demonstrating that Western statements on events at Bucha were lies.\n\nDefence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that in the village of Moshchun, north-west of Kyiv, Ukrainian psychological operations troops had filmed fake footage of dead civilians. He said this was according to \"confirmed information\" but provided no evidence.", "The former Royal Engineer was 18 when he stormed the beaches during the Normandy landings in 1944\n\nD-Day veteran Horace \"Harry\" Billinge has died aged 96 following a short illness, his family has confirmed.\n\nMr Billinge, from St Austell, Cornwall, was 18 when he was a sapper attached to the 44 Royal Engineer Commandos ahead of the Normandy landings.\n\nHe was one of only four of his unit to survive the storming of Gold Beach on 6 June 1944.\n\nThe veteran spent more than 60 years collecting for the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal.\n\nHis daughter Sally Billinge-Shandley said: \"The passion he had for all the veterans that lost their lives was unwavering.\n\n\"He dedicated his life to making sure that was never forgotten, that's how he'll be remembered.\"\n\nMr Billinge's daughters, Margot Billinge and Sally Billinge-Shandley, have paid tribute to their father\n\nMr Billinge was appointed an MBE in 2020 after raising funds to build a national memorial honouring his fallen comrades.\n\nHe dedicated it to the 22,442 service personnel killed on D-Day and during the Battle for Normandy.\n\nA tribute from The British Normandy Trust, posted on social media, said: \"The trust sends its deepest condolences to Harry's wife Sheila, and to all his family and friends. Harry raised more than £50,000 for the memorial.\"\n\nIn 2019 Mr Billinge said on BBC Breakfast: \"I'm no hero, I was lucky, I'm here. All the heroes are dead and I'll never forget them.\"\n\nMr Billinge was appointed an MBE for services to charitable fundraising\n\nPrior to his death, he made annual pilgrimages to the cemeteries of Normandy.\n\n\"The memorial for the Normandy veterans just became part of him, it was just a huge part of his life,\" Mrs Billinge-Shandley said.\n\nD-Day was the start of Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history, as about 160,000 troops from Britain, the US, Canada, France and other Allied nations landed in Normandy.\n\nIt marked the beginning of the liberation of France from the Nazis and paved the way for victory on the Western Front in World War Two.\n\nMr Billinge later fought in Caen and the Falaise pocket in Normandy.\n\nMr Billinge was a sapper attached to the 44 Royal Engineer Commandos\n\nSteve Double, MP for St Austell and Newquay said: \"Harry was a hero, plain and simple.\n\n\"Thank you Harry, for your service. My thoughts are with your family and all those whose lives you touched.\"\n\nMr Billinge grew up in Petts Wood in Kent but had been in Cornwall for 70 years after being advised to leave London for a better quality of life.\n\nAfter moving to Cornwall, Mr Billinge set up shop as a barber and became president of the local clubs for the Royal British Legion and Royal Engineers.\n\nA spokesperson for the Royal British Legion said: \"Everyone at the Royal British Legion is incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Harry Billinge.\n\n\"He epitomised the spirit of our wartime generation and his dedication supporting veterans causes, including the Poppy Appeal, was nothing short of remarkable.\"\n\nHarry Billinge at a ceremony at Penzance Station in Cornwall where a train was named in his honour\n\nIn 2020, Great Western Railway (GWR) dedicated six trains to \"remarkable individuals\" involved in World War Two - Mr Billinge was one of them.\n\nHe said he was \"deeply moved\".\n\nIn a social media post, GWR said: \"We were so sad to hear about the passing of our dear friend, Harry Billinge MBE.\n\n\"It was our absolute honour to name one of our trains after him in October 2020 and we will never forget the impact he had on so many.\"\n\nMr Billinge is survived by his wife Shelia, two daughters Sally and Margot, his son Christopher and granddaughters Amy and Claire.\n\nMr and Mrs Billinge were married for 67 years and were due to celebrate their 68th wedding anniversary in August.\n\nMrs Billinge-Shandley said: \"Some of his last words were, 'love one another'.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Britney Spears has confirmed that she is in the process of writing a book, confirming recent reports in US media that the star intended to pen a new tell-all memoir.\n\nSpears shared the news in a message posted on Instagram on Monday night.\n\nThe singer said the memoir will tackle painful events in her life that she has \"never been able to express openly\".\n\nIn November, a judge ended a legal guardianship that controlled many aspects of her life for over a decade.\n\nSpears was put into a conservatorship managed by her father, Jamie Spears, in 2008, when the star faced a mental health crisis.\n\nThe controversial arrangement allowed him to take power over her finances and career decisions plus major personal matters, such as her visits to her teenage sons and whether she could remarry.\n\nWhile the star didn't reveal any details about a potential release date or publisher, Page Six reported in February that she had reached a $15m ($11.4m) deal with the publishing house Simon & Schuster to chronicle her life, career and relationship with her family during and after her conservatorship.\n\nSpears wrote that the process of writing the book has been \"healing and therapeutic,\" though she added that it had been difficult bringing up past events in her life.\n\nThe 40-year old added that she has taken an \"intellectual approach\" to writing the memoir.\n\nHowever, the star also hit out at her mother and sister, who she accused of taking an \"indulgence by writing their own books as I couldn't even get a cup of coffee or drive my car\".\n\nSpears has been engaged in a public dispute with her sister, Jamie Lynn, since the later she appeared on Good Morning America to promote her book, Things I Should Have Said.\n\nThe book details her own life story, including her young daughter's near-fatal accident in 2017, her relationship with Britney and the role she played in the singer's controversial conservatorship.", "Coverage: Listen to commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live; follow live text on the BBC Sport website and app; watch highlights on BBC Two and online.\n\nFive-time champion Tiger Woods is planning to play in this week's Masters just 14 months after suffering life-threatening injuries in a car crash.\n\nWoods will play nine holes on Wednesday before confirming the decision.\n\nBut in a news conference at Augusta National on Tuesday the American said \"as of right now, I am going to play\".\n\nWhen asked if he thought he could equal Jack Nicklaus' record of six victories he replied: \"I do. I don't show up to an event unless I think I can win it.\"\n\nWoods' hopes of playing nine holes on Wednesday are dependent on the weather. Storms forced Tuesday's practice day to be stopped around 11:00 (16:00 BST) with players, officials and patrons evacuated from the course. Similar weather is forecast for Wednesday.\n\n'I have been in worse positions and won'\n\nWhile conceding that if he never played again he would be content with his haul of 15 major titles - three behind Nicklaus' all-time record - and joint-record 82 PGA Tour titles, Woods said he still has the desire to compete.\n\n\"I think 82 is a pretty good number and 15's not too bad either,\" said the 46-year-old, who will tee off at 15:34 BST in round one on Thursday.\n\n\"I feel like I can still do it. I still have the hands to do it, the body is moving good enough. I have been in worse situations and won tournaments.\n\n\"I feel like if I can still compete at the highest level I am going to, but if I feel like I can't, you won't see me out here.\"\n• None Masters tee-times for rounds one and two\n• None Iain Carter column: Woods at Augusta is 'stuff of sporting legend'\n\nWoods said his numerous back and leg injuries over his career have left him with \"pain each and every day\".\n\nHe underwent several operations on his back before fusion surgery in 2017 finally sorted his issues. However, he did tell Nicklaus \"I'm done\" before returning to win the 2019 Masters.\n\nHe also, famously, won the 2008 US Open despite a double stress fracture in his leg and knee injury.\n\n\"My back surgeries and the stuff I had to play through, even going back to the US Open when my leg was a little bit busted, those are all times that I can draw upon where I was successful, how I've learned to block things out and focus on what I need to focus on,\" he added.\n\n\"The fact that I was able to get myself here at this point was a success and now that I am playing, everything is focused on getting in that position on the back nine on Sunday with a chance like I did a few years ago.\"\n\nThe American surprised many when he announced last week that he was hoping to compete at the first men's major of 2022.\n\nWoods' last professional tournament was the rescheduled Masters in November 2020, when he was defending champion, having won his fifth title in 2019 - more than a decade after winning his 14th major.\n\nBut three months later he flipped his car while driving at close to double the 45mph speed limit near Los Angeles. Woods said he could have died in the crash, with the need to have a leg amputated another fear at the time. He spent several months in hospital.\n\nHe returned to play in an exhibition tournament with his son Charlie in December but used a buggy to get around the course.\n\nAnd in February, Woods made it clear that he thought the hilly terrain at Augusta National would come too soon in his recovery.\n\nHowever, he played 27 holes last week, nine on Sunday and then nine more on Monday in the company of good friends Justin Thomas and 1992 Masters champion Fred Couples.\n\n\"Walking is the hard part,\" said Woods, who repeatedly thanked the surgeons and his physios for their work in getting him ready to play again.\n\n\"This is not an easy walk to begin with, and given the condition my leg is in, it's even more difficult. Seventy-two holes is a long road. It's going to be a tough challenge and a challenge I'm up for.\"\n\nRegardless of his misdemeanours off the course, Woods has remained the most popular player in the world and thousands of fans followed his practice round on Monday.\n\nDespite playing just once last year, in the exhibition event with Charlie, Woods won the PGA Tour's 'Player Impact Programme' - he was given $8m (£6m) for generating more media interest that any other player - with one tweet in November of him hitting balls for the first time since his accident attracting 7.8m views.\n\nSo it was no surprise to see crowds lining every fairway and standing 10-deep around the greens, trying to catch a glimpse of the man who won the first of his 15 majors and five Green Jackets at Augusta National in 1997.\n\nSunday's final round will be the 25th anniversary of that record 12-stroke victory.", "Olha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander are all said to have been killed\n\nRussian forces have killed a village head, her husband and her son, Ukrainian officials say. This - and the discovery of the bodies of five men dressed in civilian clothes - has added to growing evidence of atrocities on the ground in Ukraine. The BBC's Yogita Limaye has been to visit the two scenes.\n\nIn the town of Bucha, just outside Kyiv, the horror of what unfolded during the Russian occupation is finally coming to light.\n\nIn the basement of a building that once housed a children's community centre, five bodies lay crumpled on the ground - five men dressed in civilian clothes, their hands bound behind their backs.\n\nSome were shot in the head, others in the chest. They were yet to be identified, but Ukrainian officials said the men were taken hostage by Russian soldiers and executed.\n\n\"We heard them being shot,\" said Vlad, one of the volunteers who carried the bodies up from the basement. \"We heard mines go off in the area. Around us there are mines. We are lucky we are alive.\"\n\nVlad described hearing a husband calling after his wife who went out into the street to get water, then a volley of shots. Later he found both husband and wife dead. \"I can tell you so many stories but I don't want to,\" he said. \"I want to forget them.\"\n\nNot far away, in the village of Motoyzhyn, four bodies lay in a shallow grave in the woods. Three have been identified - 51-year-old Olha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander, who was 25.\n\nOlha was the head of the village. It is believed that she and her family were killed on suspicion of helping Ukrainian soldiers, and left on the edge of the woods, half-buried, Olha's hand and her son's face visible through the dirt.\n\nThe Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha on Monday. \"We want you to show the world what happened here, what the Russian military did, what the Russian Federation did in peaceful Ukraine. It was important for you to see that these were civilians,\" he said.\n\nHe said Ukraine was still prepared to negotiate with Russia. \"Ukraine deserves peace,\" he told the BBC. \"We can't live with war. Every day our army is fighting, but we don't want the lives of millions to be lost. That's why we have to have dialogue with Russia.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukraine's president visits the site of alleged atrocities in Bucha\n\nElsewhere in Bucha, there were reports of a mass grave, dug to accommodate bodies from the overflowing morgue. Images and video footage showed dead civilians with their hands tied behind their backs. Evidence was mounting by the hour on Monday of grave atrocities in this once peaceful city.\n\nThe mayor, Anatoliy Fedoruk, said that at least 300 civilians had been killed. There is no official tally yet. Russia has denied any involvement, claiming that the visual evidence had all been faked, but its denials have been met with outrage. Its broken-down, burned-out tanks littered one long road into Bucha.\n\nWe now know some of what happened here, just west of Kyiv. But there are more cities and towns across Ukraine that are still under Russian control. The fear is that what was found here will be found elsewhere, that there will be more bodies in basements and shallow graves.", "A suburban avenue in Bucha became one of the first graveyards for Russia's hopes of encircling and entering Kyiv and then deposing the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe moment came two or three days after the first Russian forces crossed into Ukraine on 24 February, when Ukrainian forces destroyed a column of Russian tanks and armoured personnel carriers moving through the town of Bucha to the city of Kyiv.\n\nThe convoy was destroyed in one of the first of many Ukrainian ambushes that stopped the Russian advance dead.\n\nOur BBC team was able to get to Bucha because during Friday the final Russian soldiers pulled out, as part of what the Kremlin has presented as a calm and rational decision to concentrate on the war in eastern Ukraine.\n\nMoscow says, without proof or any reliability, that its war aims in central Ukraine have been achieved, and they never included capturing Kyiv.\n\nThe truth is that unexpectedly fierce and well organised Ukrainian resistance stopped them outside the capital, and the evidence includes the rusting and twisted wreckage of the column that still lies where it was destroyed on that suburban street.\n\nLocal residents say they hadn't had any bread for weeks\n\nTwo or three weeks into the war the Russian invaders ran out of momentum. On the street in Bucha you can see why.\n\nElite troops from Russia's airborne forces rode into the town in armoured vehicles light enough to be carried by aircraft. They came from Hostomel airport, a few miles away, which had been attacked and seized by Russian paratroopers landed by helicopter on the first day of the invasion. Even then, there was fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces.\n\nWhen the column moved through Bucha on the way to Kyiv, they had a harsh awakening.\n\nThe road is narrow and straight, an ideal place for an ambush. Witnesses said the Ukrainians attacked the convoy with Bayraktar attack drones bought from Turkey. Other neighbours said Ukrainian territorial defence volunteers were also in the area.\n\nHowever they did it, the lead vehicles and the ones bringing up the rear were knocked out and imprisoned the others. The wreckage has not been touched. Belts of 30mm cannon shells lie on the grass verge, along with many pieces of dangerous and damaged abandoned ordnance.\n\nYoung conscripts ran away, begging, local people said, not to be turned over to Ukrainian territorial defence. A man of around 70 who called himself uncle Hrysha, said: \"I felt sorry for them. They were so young, 18 to 20, with their whole lives ahead of them.\"\n\nIt looks as if Russians, as they prepared to pull out of Bucha, had no such pity. At least 20 dead men were lying in the street as Ukrainian troops entered the town. Some of them had their hands tied behind their backs. The mayor said they had buried 280 people in mass graves.\n\nA few civilians who stayed said they had tried to avoid the Russians. They set up wood fires outside their Khrushchev-era flats, cooking on them outdoors because their gas, power and water were cut.\n\nVolunteers are bringing supplies in from Lviv in western Ukraine, and from countries far from the war, geographically at least.\n\n\"This is the first bread we've had in 38 days,\" said a woman called Maria, looking at a plastic bag with some modest looking buns inside. Her daughter Larysa showed me round the Soviet-built apartment building.\n\nMany of the people who had left for safer areas, or abroad, had bolted shut security doors. The Russians removed them by ripping out the concrete lintels and door posts.\n\nA few miles away, the trail of devastation leads to Hostomel airport. Russian airborne troops tried to use it as a base for a push into Kyiv.\n\nThe world's largest transport plane was destroyed early on. The roof of the enormous hangar built for it was so riddled with a constellation of shrapnel holes. The plane itself, known by the Ukrainian word for dream (Mriya), lies there broken-backed, big chunks of fuselage and engine in places around it. Its fate is a parable of what is happening to Ukraine.\n\nAn enormous amount of national pride was invested in the aircraft, as a symbol of Ukraine's ability to make big projects all round the world.\n\nAs the world's largest transport plane, Mriya was once Ukraine's pride", "Dr Cathy Gardner with her father Michael Gibson, who died aged 88 in a care home in Oxfordshire in April\n\nA woman whose father died with Covid has won the first stage of a legal challenge over measures taken to protect those living in care homes.\n\nDr Cathy Gardner, from Sidmouth in Devon, claims there was a failure to implement \"adequate\" measures to protect residents.\n\nIt follows the death of her father in an Oxfordshire care home in April.\n\nThe government and health bodies oppose Dr Gardner's challenge and asked the judge to dismiss the case.\n\nDr Gardner said: \"This is for the thousands of families affected by the loss of loved ones in care homes since March.\"\n\nAt a remote hearing on Thursday, Mr Justice Linden granted Dr Gardner permission for a full hearing of her challenge.\n\nHe said: \"I consider it in the interests of justice for the claim to be heard.\"\n\nDr Gardner, who is bringing her case alongside Fay Harris, argues certain key policies and decisions led to a \"shocking death toll\" of care home residents.\n\nThese include an alleged policy of discharging patients from hospital into care homes without testing and suitable isolation arrangements.\n\nThe legal action is being brought against the Department for Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England.\n\nDr Gardner, who has a PhD in virology, said her legal team would ask \"to see the evidence behind the decisions that they took, how those decisions were taken, who was involved in discussions, why they decided to discharge people from hospital without testing and why they didn't commence any sort of real protection of people in care homes\".\n\nSir James Eadie QC, barrister for the government and PHE, said the challenge was \"unarguable\".\n\nIn court documents, he said: \"The government was faced with unprecedented challenges and fast-evolving scientific advice.\n\n\"Throughout the period in issue it considered how best to protect older people both within and outside care homes.\n\n\"That involved making a series of judgments based on expert scientific advice, in an area in which the science was uncertain and evolving.\n\n\"There is no arguable basis on which to conclude that those judgments fell outside the range of reasonable responses to the pandemic as it, and understanding of it, developed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russian energy giant Gazprom says it has halted gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria over the countries' refusal to pay for supplies in roubles - but how worried should we be?\n\nBoth Poland and Bulgaria were already planning not to renew their contracts with Gazprom, which expire at the end of the year. In Poland's case, it had been filling its stores of gas ahead of time, which provides some cushion, especially as we approach the summer lull in use of gas.\n\nThis escalation is real, and justified by the Kremlin on the basis of a refusal to pay for gas by changing money into roubles in Russian bank accounts.\n\nBut the additional impact of today's news should be containable.\n\nGas prices in the UK are well down on their record peaks of £5 per therm last month, at about £1.70. UK terminals have been flooded with liquefied natural gas (LNG) - over 100 tanker-loads so far this year - with the largest amount coming from the US.\n\nBut it can't be stored here, and much is being re-exported to the European Union (EU). Indeed, market contacts suggest that the export pipeline of gas from the UK to continental Europe is currently at the limits of its capacity.\n\nThese UK prices are still consistent with further rises in gas bills in October - perhaps of a few hundred pounds a year.\n\nAll that would change, of course, if these moves today are the first skirmishes in an escalating European energy crisis that could see Germany cut off from Russian gas in the next few months. That would send prices spiralling across Europe and lead to a crisis of supply.\n\nThere is some helpful ambiguity in what is termed \"forcing buyers to pay for Russian gas in roubles\".\n\n\"Various governments and companies stating 'we will not pay in roubles' therefore are not providing any clarity as to whether they will use the new payment process or not, which in turn means there is ambiguity over upcoming supply to other, larger, markets,\" says Tom Marzec-Manser, head of gas analytics at market information provider ICIS.\n\nGerman firms are paying in euros that are then exchanged into roubles at a specific Russian bank. This arrangement allows all to continue the mutual gas trade dependence, but it is a precarious balance.\n\nGerman ministers say that they are not afraid of paying the economic price to eliminate the \"strategic mistake\" of energy dependence on the Kremlin, but that they just cannot do it any time soon.\n\nSo the actions of the Kremlin through Gazprom need to be put in perspective.\n\nIt has cut off some supplies as a result of refusal to change the terms of payment, but notably this was to two countries which had already said their contracts with Gazprom would be allowed to expire this year.\n\nAs the conflict continues, and Germany ups the ante in terms of supplies of weapons to Ukraine, the real question is about the flow of gas from Russia to Germany, which continued uninterrupted even during the height of the Cold War.\n\nThis move is designed as a Kremlin shot across the bows of Europe's biggest economies.\n\nWhile Germany, for example, has said it is willing to phase out Russian coal in the summer, and hinted Russian oil could follow over the next year, gas is another matter. Last week, Germany's finance minister told me it would be physically impossible to immediately phase out the 45% dependence of Germany on Russia for its gas.", "The venomous king cobra is in decline because of deforestation and human persecution\n\nOne in five reptiles is threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive assessment of more than 10,000 species across the world.\n\nScientists are calling for urgent conservation action for crocodiles and turtles, which are in a particularly dire situation.\n\nThey say reptiles have long been overlooked in conservation, because they are seen as less charismatic than \"furry and feathery\" creatures.\n\nSo far, 31 species have gone extinct.\n\nThe study, published in Nature, took more than 15 years to complete, because of problems getting funding for the work.\n\n\"Reptiles to many people are not charismatic and there's been a lot more focus on more furry, feathery species of vertebrates for conservation,\" said Dr Bruce Young of the international nature organisation, NatureServe.\n\nGeckos are vanishing in parts of the world due to wildlife trade\n\nDespite their low publicity profile, the cold-blooded vertebrates play an essential role in the balance of life.\n\n\"Reptiles are good for people because they help control pests such as insects and rodents,\" said Prof Blair Hedges of Temple University in Philadelphia, US.\n\nBy publicising the plight of these \"truly spectacular species\", the scientists hope to help slow the slide towards oblivion of reptiles such as the loggerhead sea turtle and the gharial, or fish-eating crocodile.\n\nAnd there is a glimmer of hope in that measures put in place to protect rare birds and mammals also safeguard many of the reptiles that share the same land.\n\nThe mugger crocodile: Threatened by habitat destruction and human conflict\n\nLizards are generally less threatened than other reptiles\n\nSpeaking at a news conference, the study authors highlighted the need for a new worldwide agreement to stem extinctions.\n\nNeil Cox of the IUCN-Conservation International Biodiversity Assessment Unit said negotiations at the upcoming summit on biodiversity in Kunming, China, will be critical for trying to turn the tide on biodiversity loss.\n\n\"The hope is that we can really start making efforts to reverse this extinction catastrophe,\" he said.\n\nThe final version of the draft UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will be negotiated at the COP15 summit, which is expected to take place at the end of August.\n\nJamaican iguana: Reptiles on islands face risks from invasive species and sea level rise\n\nThe outcome will decide for the coming decades how the world will address the challenges of reducing the extinction risk threatening more than one million species, eliminating billions of dollars of environmentally-damaging government subsidies and restoring degraded ecosystems.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGovernment policies on discharging untested patients from hospital to care homes in England at the start of the Covid pandemic have been ruled unlawful by the High Court.\n\nThe ruling came after two women took Public Health England and the health secretary, then Matt Hancock, to court.\n\nDr Cathy Gardner and Fay Harris said it had caused a \"shocking death toll\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson renewed his apologies for all those who lost loved ones during the pandemic.\n\nWhen Covid hit in early 2020, patients were rapidly discharged into care homes without testing, despite the risk of asymptomatic transmission, with government documents showing there was no requirement for this until mid-April.\n\nDr Gardner and Ms Harris said there had been failures in protecting residents and brought the legal challenge.\n\nThey partially succeeded in claims against Public Health England and the secretary of state for health and social care.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Dr Gardner said she \"believed all along that my father and other residents of care homes were neglected and let down by the government\".\n\n\"The High Court has now vindicated that belief, and our campaign to expose the truth,\" she said.\n\nDr Cathy Gardner with her father Michael Gibson, who died in a care home in Oxfordshire\n\nIn their judgement, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Garnham found the decisions of the then health secretary to make and maintain a series of policies contained in documents issued on 17 and 19 March and 2 April 2020 were unlawful.\n\nThey ruled this was on the grounds the drafters of those documents failed to take into account the risk to elderly and vulnerable residents from non-symptomatic transmission, which had been highlighted by Sir Patrick Vallance in a radio interview as early as 13 March.\n\nSir Patrick told the Today programme that \"it's quite likely that there is some degree of asymptomatic transmission\".\n\nA barrister representing Dr Gardner, from Sidmouth in Devon, and Ms Harris, from Medstead in Hampshire, told the court at a hearing in March that more than 20,000 elderly or disabled care home residents died from Covid between March and June 2020 in England and Wales.\n\nJason Coppel QC also said in a written case outline for the judicial review that the care home population was known to be \"uniquely vulnerable\" to Covid.\n\n\"The government's failure to protect it, and positive steps taken by the government which introduced Covid-19 infection into care homes, represent one of the most egregious and devastating policy failures in the modern era,\" he added.\n\nFor many of the families whose loved ones died in care homes in the first difficult, traumatic months of the pandemic this judgment is highly significant.\n\nThe government has repeatedly said that it put a \"protective ring\" around care homes in England from the very start, but to nearly all the families and care staff I have spoken to over the last two years it felt very different.\n\nRepeatedly they have said they felt abandoned or forgotten by the government in those early days.\n\nAs well as the rapid discharge of hospital patients into care homes, they point to guidance which they felt was slow to arrive and the difficulties getting protective equipment.\n\nThere is no doubt that decisions early in the pandemic had to be made in the most difficult, rapidly changing circumstances.\n\nPolicies and support for the care sector also improved as time went on.\n\nBut the hope will be that if or when there is a next time, there will be a much greater understanding of the importance of protecting the many older and disabled people living in care homes, as well as the NHS.\n\nDr Gardner's father Michael Gibson was 88 when he died on 3 April 2020 while living in a home in Oxfordshire during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHis cause of death was given as \"suspected Covid\" after the home took in a patient discharged from a hospital with the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Royal Marine Donald Harris, 89, died in Alton, Hampshire, on 1 May 2020 after an outbreak in his care home.\n\nHis daughter, Ms Harris, said she was \"very pleased\" with the judgment and it brought \"some comfort\".\n\nShe said the government's actions \"exposed many vulnerable people to a greater risk of death - and many thousands did die\".\n\n\"It has only increased the distress to me and many others that the government have not been honest and owned up to their mistakes,\" she added.\n\nBoth women also said Mr Johnson should resign in the wake of the ruling.\n\nDon Harris died after an outbreak in his care home\n\nIn their ruling the judges said: \"This was not a binary question - a choice between on the one hand doing nothing at all, and on the other hand requiring all newly admitted residents to be quarantined.\n\n\"The document could, for example, have said that where an asymptomatic patient, other than one who has tested negative, is admitted to a care home, he or she should, so far as practicable, be kept apart from other residents for up to 14 days.\n\n\"Since there is no evidence that this question was considered by the secretary of state, or that he was asked to consider it, it is not an example of a political judgment on a finely balanced issue.\n\n\"Nor is it a point on which any of the expert committees had advised that no guidance was required.\n\n\"Those drafting the March Discharge Policy and the April Admissions Guidance simply failed to take into account the highly relevant consideration of the risk to elderly and vulnerable residents from asymptomatic transmission.\"\n\nDr Cathy Gardner (left) and Fay Harris said care home residents were \"disregarded\"\n\nThe judges said these issues were not addressed until a further document was issued in mid-April 2020.\n\nThey rejected other claims made under human rights legislation, and against NHS England.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Hancock said the case \"comprehensively clears ministers of any wrongdoing and finds Mr Hancock acted reasonably on all counts\".\n\n\"The court also found that Public Health England failed to tell ministers what they knew about asymptomatic transmission,\" she said.\n\n\"Mr Hancock has frequently stated how he wished this had been brought to his attention earlier.\"\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons earlier, Mr Johnson said: \"Of course I want to renew my apologies and sympathies for all those who lost loved ones during the pandemic, people who lost loved ones in care homes.\n\n\"I want to remind the house of what an incredibly difficult time that was and how difficult that decision was. We didn't know very much about the disease.\n\n\"The thing that we didn't know in particular... was that Covid could be transmitted asymptomatically in the way that it was. And that was something that I wish we had known more about at the time.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said they \"specifically sought to safeguard care home residents based on the best information at the time\".\n\nThey added \"the vast majority of the judgement found in the government's favour\", but the government acknowledged the judges' comments \"on assessing the risks of asymptomatic transmission and our guidance on isolation, and [it] will respond in more detail in due course\".\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting claimed \"ministers ignored\" warnings and \"cannot claim to have acted to save lives\".\n\n\"They broke the law and people died,\" he said.\n\n\"We owe it to bereaved families to make sure that this never happens again.\"\n\nHelen Wildbore, director of the Relatives and Residents Association, a charity representing older people in care and their families, said older people were \"abandoned\" at the start of the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"The ruling is very welcome as a first step to justice, but bereaved families will be left asking why more wasn't done to protect their loved ones and how many lives could have been saved.\"\n\nCharlie Williams, whose father died in a care home in April 2020, was told that nobody in the home had coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he later found out that 27 residents had died from the virus.\n\nMr Williams, a spokesman for the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, said: \"We now need to see those responsible for those dark days held accountable and lessons learned to save lives, ensuring the grim scenes of spring 2020 are never repeated again.\"\n\nA public inquiry to \"learn lessons\" from the pandemic for the future is due to be begin next year.\n\nIts mandate includes looking at how well prepared the UK was for a pandemic and how the NHS has coped with it.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City will take a slender Champions League semi-final advantage to the Bernabeu after winning a seven-goal first-leg classic against Real Madrid at Etihad Stadium.\n\nCity delivered a magnificent display as they peppered Real's goal for long periods but Carlo Ancelotti's side kept rising off the canvas to somehow keep themselves in serious contention to reach another final.\n\nKevin de Bruyne set the tone for a magical night of football with a diving header from Riyad Mahrez's cross in the second minute and in-form Gabriel Jesus quickly added a second from close range as Real reeled under wave after wave of attacks.\n\nMahrez enraged manager Pep Guardiola when he hit the side-netting instead of finding the unmarked Phil Foden, who shot inches wide before Karim Benzema, inevitably, gave Real a lifeline by sweeping home Ferland Mendy's cross after 33 minutes.\n\nThe Spanish side escaped again shortly after the break when Mahrez struck the post but City restored their two-goal advantage when an unmarked Foden headed home Fernandinho's cross in the 53rd minute.\n\nCity were pegged back again when Vinicius Junior dummied past Fernandinho and ran from inside his own half to score a superb second for Real.\n\nHowever, a brilliant use of advantage from referee Istvan Kovacs allowed Bernardo Silva to fire into the top-left corner for City's fourth.\n\nThere was still no let-up and Benzema capped a spectacular game by showing nerves of steel to chip a Panenka penalty past Ederson with eight minutes left following Aymeric Laporte's handball.\n\nLiverpool face Spanish side Villarreal in this year's other semi-final, with the first leg at Anfield on Wednesday.\n\nThe final will be held at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday, 28 May.\n• None Manchester City v Real Madrid as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n• None Go straight to all the best City content\n\nCity would have taken any sort of advantage to Spain before kick-off but deep down they will know their almost total dominance of Real should have given them much more than this narrow lead for the second leg.\n\nGuardiola's side were simply irresistible for spells and could have been four goals ahead before Benzema struck Real's first, the manager clearly infuriated by Mahrez's selfishness in shooting with Foden standing unmarked in front of goal at 2-0.\n\nGuardiola and his players will take heart from the manner in which they carved Real open so often and they will hope to capitalise on their opponents' need to press for a goal in Spain.\n\nDe Bruyne was outstanding once more and Foden just showed how at home he is on the elite stage, but City have to be concerned at how they looked defensively vulnerable on occasion to leave Real very much alive in this semi-final.\n\nA side of City's calibre will be confident of progress - but most observers will know this tie should already be over.\n\nReal will always have hope when they have Benzema, the 34-year-old Frenchman who deserves his place in the upper echelons of the great strikers in world football.\n\nIt is often a mystery how Real survive when looking punch drunk having come back from losing situations to beat Paris St-Germain and Chelsea in their previous knockout ties.\n\nBut a comeback looked beyond them when they were blown away by a blistering City opening that left them two down after only 11 minutes.\n\nAnd yet, for all their struggles elsewhere, the La Liga leaders carry an air of menace that means concentration levels cannot drop for a moment. They proved it again as they dusted themselves down to give themselves a lifeline.\n\nIt was no surprise that Benzema was the man responsible, showing all of his class with a left-foot volley past Ederson to make it 2-1.\n\nBrazilian youngster Vinicius Junior also produced magic for the second goal before Benzema's nerveless penalty.\n\nThe great survivors are still in this tie and will now hope the magic of the Bernabeu can inspire them once more next week under coach Carlo Ancelotti, who is trying to win the trophy for a fourth time.\n• None Nacho (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Oleksandr Zinchenko tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Karim Benzema.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross.\n• None Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 4, Real Madrid 3. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "The Russian government has accused the UK of \"provoking\" Ukraine into attacking Russian territory.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said it was ready to hit \"decision-making centres\" in Kyiv should such attacks occur.\n\nThe presence of Western advisers at such centres might not affect its decision to retaliate, it added.\n\nIt comes after a UK defence minister said it was \"not necessarily a problem\" for Ukraine to use UK-supplied arms against military targets in Russia.\n\nJames Heappey said Ukrainian military strikes to disrupt supply lines were a \"legitimate\" part of war, and described Russian claims of Nato being in conflict with Russia as \"nonsense\".\n\nRussia has claimed Ukrainian forces have attacked targets within its territory, including an oil depot in Belgorod, but Ukraine has not confirmed any strikes.\n\nWestern countries have donated hundreds of millions of pounds of military aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion back in February, and Nato and European Union officials have been meeting in Germany to discuss further military assistance.\n\nThe UK government has announced it will give Ukrainian forces a small number of anti-aircraft vehicles.\n\nIn a statement quoted by the Interfax news agency, the Russian defence ministry said: \"We would like to stress that the direct provoking by London of the Kyiv regime into such activities [attacking Russian territory], should there be an attempt to realise them, will immediately lead to our proportional response.\"\n\nThe ministry also said Russian armed forces were ready to \"deliver retaliatory strikes using long-range high-accuracy weaponry\" against \"centres taking relevant decisions\" in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.\n\n\"The advisers from among the subjects of one of the Western countries that are located in Ukrainian decision-making centres in Kyiv will not necessarily be a problem when Russia decides to take retaliatory action,\" the ministry said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: James Heappey says it is \"entirely legitimate\" for Ukraine to carry out strikes within Russia\n\nForeign minister Sergei Lavrov also accused Nato of conducting a proxy war, and said Western weapons being delivered to Ukraine would be fair targets.\n\nMr Lavrov claimed the West was \"pouring oil on the fire\" by providing Ukraine with firepower, and repeated warnings that the conflict could lead to a third world war.\n\nBut Mr Heappey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was Ukraine that makes the decisions of where and what to target, rather than the countries or companies that manufacture and export the weapons.\n\nMr Heappey added: \"It is entirely legitimate to go after targets in the depth of your opponents to disrupt their logistics and supply lines.\"\n\nHe added that it was also a legitimate part of war for Russian forces to be striking targets in western Ukraine to disrupt Ukrainian supply lines, as long as they avoided targeting civilians - \"which unfortunately they have not taken much regard for so far\".\n\nUK defence sources later sought to clarify Mr Heappey's remarks, who also told Times Radio it was \"not necessarily a problem\" for British-supplied arms to be used by Ukrainian forces against military targets in Russia, after acknowledging that weapons now being supplied have the range to be used over borders.\n\nThe sources said the UK was not involved in Ukrainian targeting, and the minister's use of the phrase \"deep strike precision targeting\" referred to stopping the relentless bombardment of Russian artillery, not striking targets in Russia.\n\n\"The UK and many other Western allies are now providing longer-range weapon systems to help counter the indiscriminate artillery fire that the Russian armed forces have been raining down on besieged Ukrainian cities,\" the sources told the BBC.\n\n\"Targeting is a matter for Ukraine, but the UK expects all parties in this conflict to decide on their military targets in full compliance with the laws of armed conflict.\"\n\nLater, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was asked in a Talk TV interview if he was happy for British weapons to be used against targets like oil refineries within Russia - and he replied that Ukraine had a right to defend itself.\n\n\"We don't want the crisis to escalate beyond Ukraine's borders,\" he said.\n\n\"But the Ukrainians, plainly, as James [Heappey] has said, they have a right to defend themselves. They're being attacked from within Russian territory... they have a right to protect and defend themselves\".\n\nUkraine is fighting an existential war with Russia so it is unsurprising Ukrainian forces should target supply lines over the Russian border.\n\nIt is equally unsurprising Western powers are relaxed that some of their weaponry are used in such strikes.\n\nWhat is interesting about James Heappey's remarks is their frankness.\n\nIn other conflicts, such as in Yemen, British ministers tend to be coy about the use of British weapons.\n\nOn one level, the defence minister is just revealing his usual candour. He often speaks more as a former soldier than a politician.\n\nBut on another level, his remarks reflect Nato's deepening involvement in this conflict.\n\nThe weapons provided by Western powers are getting bigger and more powerful.\n\nIt is one thing to give Ukraine short-range anti-tank bazookas. It is another to provide them with drones and artillery that can cross borders.\n\nThe line between defending Ukraine and attacking Russia is increasingly blurred.\n\nFor months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been asking Western allies for more weapons to fight off the Russian invasion.\n\nOn Monday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced the UK would gift a small number of Stormer vehicles fitted with launchers for Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles to give Ukrainian forces \"enhanced, short-range anti-air capabilities both day and night\".\n\nHe also told the Commons around 15,000 Russian troops had been killed since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, while 2,000 of its armoured vehicles had either been destroyed or captured.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson has said he does not expect Russia to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, even if President Vladimir Putin suffered more military failures there.\n\nThe prime minister told TalkTV he thought Mr Putin had enough \"political space\" to back down and withdraw, given the \"overwhelming\" support he enjoys in Russia and the \"apparent obliviousness of the Russian media\".", "UK households could save an average of £147 per year by switching off so-called vampire devices, British Gas research suggests.\n\nThese are electronics that drain power even when they are on standby.\n\nThe figures are based on research conducted on appliances in 2019 but have been updated by British Gas to reflect recent price increases.\n\nThe Energy Saving Trust (EST) said consumers need to consider which devices they leave switched on.\n\nIt estimates households would save around £55 per year by switching off all their devices when not in use.\n\nThe organisation, which promotes sustainability and energy efficiency, did not give exact details of how it came to this figure.\n\n\"Stats or prices related to individual appliances depend on several factors, including model, functionality and individual usage,\" it said.\n\nBrian Horn, Senior Insight and Analytics consultant at the EST, said there were practical things consumers could do.\n\n\"If something doesn't need to be on, then you should switch it off at the wall or unplug it,\" he said. \"Everything else, just try and make it as easy as possible to turn it off.\n\n\"If you make sure that the plug is accessible, if you can just switch it off, so you don't need to unplug it.\n\n\"But if you've got a whole bunch of things plugged in behind your television, you maybe want to plug them all into one extension lead.\"\n\nA 54% rise in the energy price cap has meant a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will now pay £1,971 per year.\n\nBills could be set to rise even higher, Energy UK deputy director Dhara Vyas told BBC News.\n\nShe said some estimates suggested households could see bills of up to £3,000 this winter.\n\nAs long as devices are plugged in at the wall, they are slowly drawing power.\n\nIt may be convenient to leave the television on standby and wake it up with a press of a button on a remote, but this can be expensive.\n\nBritish Gas used average costs of wattage from different manufacturers' average models when left on standby to calculate its figures.\n\nIt says a TV clocks up £24.61 per year, while a set-top box from Sky or Virgin Media can incur £23.10.\n\nBritish Gas says games consoles left on standby work out at an average of £12.17, while computers could cost about £11.22.\n\nIt says its figures are in line with figures from the EST in terms of the percentage of electricity used by \"vampire devices\".\n\nAccording to the EST, between 9% and 16% of electricity consumed in homes is used to power appliances when they are in standby mode.\n\nThe British Gas research is based on 13 standard appliances, but according to the EST, the average household has 41 electrical appliances, so the costs could be even higher than estimated.\n\nNewer devices will be more energy efficient than older ones - newer TVs will have to comply with EU standards on energy efficiency.\n\nBritish Gas energy expert Marc Robson recommends adding devices to an extension lead that can be switched off at night - or using smart plugs that allow you to turn devices off with your phone.\n\nHe also made some other suggestions:\n\nThis piece has been amended to make clear that the £147 estimate was from British Gas research and to include figures from other bodies", "Government policies on discharging patients from hospital to care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic have been ruled unlawful by the High Court.\n\nDr Cathy Gardner and Fay Harris took the government to court after they both lost their fathers to Covid, and gave this reaction following the ruling.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frances Curran: \"I know people who stay in bed to keep warm.\"\n\nEvelyn Thompson doesn't eat dinner every day because of rising costs.\n\nThe pensioner from Coleraine, County Londonderry, says she can't afford to heat her home either.\n\nShe sits in her kitchen with a halogen heater and if she's feeling particularly cold, puts a hot water bottle at her back.\n\n\"I wouldn't have a dinner every day. I would make myself toast and a hot drink and that's it. As long as I'm getting something,\" she says.\n\nEvelyn says it got her down, particularly during Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"You feel, is this all there is to life now? You're sitting here and you can't afford to do things.\"\n\nEvelyn's friend Frances Curran says her own heating bills have doubled since last year.\n\n\"I have a heart condition and COPD which means I need to keep warm,\" she says.\n\n\"Last year £30 a week would have covered me for a full week with my heating on all the time at a low setting. This year I couldn't do that.\"\n\nThe friends meet once a week at a lunch group which is organised for older people by Age Concern Causeway.\n\nFrances, 72, says she knows of others who stay in bed to keep warm.\n\nEvelyn Thompson and Frances Curran say other friends are choosing not to socialise to save money\n\n\"It's disgusting that anybody should have to do that in this day and age, especially elderly people.\n\n\"What does that not do to your mental health?\" she asks.\n\n\"All of our group are young at heart. All of them want to get out and socialise and enjoy themselves, especially after lockdown.\n\n\"We have the time of our lives when we get together, but there is going to be people who can't do that because of the cost of petrol.\n\n\"And when they can't come out they'll have to lie in bed to keep warm or sit about in a fleecy dressing-gown,\" Frances adds.\n\nCommissioner for Older People Eddie Lynch says the impact of rising costs on older people is a \"genuine crisis\".\n\n\"We're hearing stories about people going to the libraries, about people going to the shopping centre for a number of hours just simply to stay out of the house, where they don't have to put their heat on.\n\n\"It's a very sad position for people to be in and it's also a position many older people don't feel comfortable with.\n\nMr Lynch says the options for older people getting out of the house are much less now due to Covid-19.\n\n\"People are fearful about getting on public transport and using their bus pass. Even library settings could be crowded as well.\n\n\"That is leading to a growing fear among many older people about how they're really going to cope.\n\n\"I was speaking with older people this week who are still shielding and still not going out. All of this means if you're sitting at home, if you're an older person, that's going to have a huge pressure on staying warm.\n\n\"The way energy prices are going, there's simply no way that they're going to meet those costs with the income that they're on.\"", "Imran Ahmad Khan was convicted earlier this month but has said he will appeal\n\nA Tory MP found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy previously advised the Home Office on a research paper into child sexual exploitation.\n\nThe department confirmed Imran Ahmad Khan was on a panel that reviewed the work, prompted by high-profile cases of sexual grooming gangs in the UK.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the department was not aware of the allegations against him at the time.\n\nKhan has said he will resign as an MP and appeal against his conviction.\n\nEarlier this month, Southwark Crown Court found Khan guilty of groping the teenager at a party in Staffordshire in January 2008.\n\nThe jury heard he had forced the youngster to drink gin, dragged him upstairs and asked him to watch pornography before assaulting him.\n\nKhan, who is 48 and has represented Wakefield since 2019, has continued to deny the offence and is awaiting sentencing.\n\nThe Guardian reported on Tuesday that in 2020, Khan joined an expert panel offering advice on grooming gangs.\n\nHe went on to contribute to a policy paper entitled \"group-based child sexual exploitation characteristics of offending\", published by Home Secretary Priti Patel in December that year.\n\nAccording to the newspaper, the Conservative MP attended online meetings with the panel of sexual exploitation experts in July, September and November of 2020.\n\nEarlier that year - in May 2020 - Staffordshire police said he had given a written statement under caution, addressing claims he had assaulted a minor.\n\nIn a written statement to Parliament in December 2020, Ms Patel confirmed Khan's involvement in the external reference group that \"reviewed and informed this work\".\n\nHer department again confirmed the part he played in the work to the BBC, with a spokesman saying: \"In his role as an MP, Mr Khan was asked along with several others to peer review a Home Office research paper.\n\n\"The Home Office was not aware of the allegations against him at the time and he no longer has any involvement with the department.\"", "Jonathan Smith is trained to prescribe medication as well being a pharmacist\n\nNearly a third of community pharmacies in Wales should be able to prescribe medicines for NHS patients, including antibiotics, by the end of this year, health officials say.\n\nIt is the first new service of its kind in the UK.\n\nThe aim is to take the pressure off GPs at a time of increasing strain on the NHS.\n\nScotland has adopted a similar approach but England and Northern Ireland have not so far.\n\nCommunity pharmacies in Wales are allowed to offer prescriptions of medicines for acute illnesses such as urinary tract and respiratory infections, gout and chronic pain, as well as emergency contraception - if they have a pharmacist who has had extra training for prescribing.\n\nFor most patients, that will be more convenient and avoid waits for GP appointments.\n\nThe plan is to roll out the service progressively across Wales, building on local schemes already in place.\n\nJonathan Smith, who runs the Mayberry Pharmacy, in Newport, said he was pleased to have a chance to provide a range of services in the local community.\n\n\"I spent years referring people to the GP for conditions I knew I could treat myself,\" he said.\n\n\"Now I can do that, patients have much better access to care and the added benefit is that you know you are freeing up GP appointments for more complicated patients.\"\n\nMr Smith specialises in prescribing painkillers for patients as well as offering consultations and prescriptions for many routine health problems.\n\nJack Rollings had tonsillitis and was prescribed painkillers by his pharmacist in Newport\n\nJack Rollings had tonsillitis and wanted to discuss options for pain relief, including prescription medication.\n\nAfter an examination by Mr Smith, he was prescribed an appropriate drug.\n\nIt had been much more convenient than going to a GP practice, Mr Rollings said.\n\n\"It's brilliant - it'll help a lot of people because GPs are quite hard to get into at the moment so probably relieve a lot of pressure off them,\" he said.\n\nLocal doctors in general practice have welcomed the new policy.\n\nDr Penny Coyle said each week about 25 patients with minor ailments were referred to the pharmacist, saving 100 GP appointments a month and giving doctors more time to visit seriously ill patients in their homes.\n\n\"We are finding that demand is outweighing capacity and so anything that relieves some of the pressure on general practice is very welcome,\" she said.\n\nPharmacy organisations say this is a welcome recognition of the skills on offer at the heart of local communities.\n\nThere can be delays for patients needing repeat prescriptions from their GPs or when there are medicine shortages and alternatives are required urgently.\n\nAnd many of these problems would be eased if there were more prescribing pharmacists, Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies chief executive Dr Leyla Hannbeck said.\n\n\"Pharmacist prescribers can help massively when you think about the shortages and the HRT issues, for example, that we are currently facing - having a pharmacist prescriber being able to prescribe alternative medicines without the patient having to wait to see the GP,\" she said.\n\nBut while the latest move in Wales will improve services in local communities, it will take time and not ease the immediate strain on ambulance services, hospitals and general practice, health professionals say.\n\nGiving patients access to consultations and prescriptions in local pharmacies is a trend likely to gain momentum.\n\nThe Scottish government says there is an ambition to have at least one pharmacist prescriber in every community pharmacy across the network.\n\nAn official at the Department of Health and Social Care in England said a pharmacist prescribing service was being considered in the NHS.\n\nAnd in Northern Ireland, officials say the potential for extending existing services is being explored.\n• None Plan for pharmacists to take pressure off GPs", "Food giant Kellogg's is taking the government to court over new rules that would prevent some cereals being prominently displayed in stores because of their high sugar content.\n\nKellogg's says the rules fail to consider the nutritional value of the milk added to the product.\n\nThe company says independent market data shows cereals are eaten with milk or yoghurt in 92% of cases.\n\nBut the government said the new rules would help tackle childhood obesity.\n\nUnder the new regulations for England, which come into force from October, retailer promotions on food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar will be restricted.\n\nProducts covered by the restrictions will also not be allowed to be featured in key locations such as checkouts, store entrances, aisle ends and their online equivalents.\n\nPopular brands such as Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes and Fruit and Fibre are classified as foods that are high in fat, sugar or salt in their dry form and so retailers may be prevented from displaying such products in prominent positions, harming sales.\n\nIncluding added milk would change the calculation by reducing the proportion of sugar and salt content relative to the weight of the overall serving.\n\nIn a statement, Kellogg's said it had \"tried to have a reasonable conversation with government\" over the issue without success - hence their legal challenge.\n\nChris Silcock, Kellogg's UK Managing Director, said: \"We believe the formula being used by the government to measure the nutritional value of breakfast cereals is wrong and not implemented legally. It measures cereals dry when they are almost always eaten with milk.\n\n\"All of this matters because, unless you take account of the nutritional elements added when cereal is eaten with milk, the full nutritional value of the meal is not measured.\"\n\nCaroline Cerny, from the Obesity Health Alliance, said: \"This is a blatant attempt by a multinational food company to wriggle out of vital new regulations that will limit their ability to profit from marketing their unhealthy products.\n\n\"It's shocking that a company like Kellogg's would sue the government over its plans to help people be healthier rather than investing in removing sugar from their cereals.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Breakfast cereals contribute 7% - a significant amount - to the average daily free sugar intakes of children.\n\n\"Restricting the promotion and advertising of less healthy foods is an important part of the cross-government strategy to halve childhood obesity by 2030, prevent harmful diseases and improve healthy life expectancy, so we can continue to level up health across the nation.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the government is determined to fight Kellogg's legal case as it might allow other producers to suggest ways their products' fat, sugar and salt content could be reduced if served with other ingredients, in a way it feels could undermine the new regulations.\n\nA hearing on the issue begins later at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.", "Ursula von der Leyen said the EU will support member states impacted by the gas freeze\n\nRussia's decision to cut off gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria is an \"instrument of blackmail\", the EU says.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said the move showed Russia's \"unreliability\" as a supplier.\n\nBut the Kremlin said Russia had been forced into the action by the \"unfriendly steps\" of Western nations.\n\nEurope depends on Russia for more than a third of its gas needs and state energy giant Gazprom holds a monopoly on pipeline supplies in Russia.\n\nWhile many European countries have taken steps to wean themselves of Russian oil imports since it invaded Ukraine, Russia has continued to supply large amount of gas to many European countries.\n\nAfter Western powers placed financial sanctions on Russia in response to its invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that \"unfriendly\" countries would have to pay for gas in Russian currency.\n\nGazprom said this was why it had suspended supply to Bulgaria and Poland.\n\nPoland said the move was in retaliation for Polish sanctions against Russian individuals and firms. Poland has also been a key transit country for weapons to Ukraine.\n\nBulgaria has historically had warm relations with Russia, but a new government took office last year which has denounced the invasion.\n\nPresident Putin meanwhile warned that if Western forces intervene in Ukraine, they will face a \"lightning-fast\" military response.\n\nIn what is seen as a reference to ballistic missiles and nuclear arms, he told lawmakers in Moscow: \"We have all the tools no-one can boast of... we will use them if necessary.\"\n\nBut there are signs that Russia's offensive in Ukraine is not going as smoothly as planned, with one official saying Russian forces are having difficulties overcoming a \"staunch Ukrainian resistance\" in their offensive in the east of the country.\n\nIn reaction to Gazprom's statement regarding the suspension of gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, Polish state gas company PGNiG confirmed that Gazprom's supplies to the country had been halted and warned that it reserved \"the right to seek compensation\".\n\nPolish President Andrzej Duda said \"appropriate legal steps\" will be taken against Gazprom, while his deputy foreign minister, Marcin Przydacz, told the BBC that Russia was seeking to \"foster divisions\" between Western allies.\n\nBulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said the country was reviewing all of its contracts with Gazprom, including for transit of Russian gas to Serbia and Hungary, emphasising that \"one-sided blackmail was not acceptable\".\n\nPoland imports gas from Gazprom via the Yamal pipeline\n\nBulgaria, which relies on Gazprom for more than 90% of its gas supply, said overnight it had taken steps to find alternative sources but no restrictions on gas consumption were currently required for Bulgarians.\n\nMs von der Leyen, speaking in Brussels, said Gazprom's move was \"unjustified and unacceptable,\" but emphasised that the bloc was \"prepared for this scenario\".\n\nShe added that the EU, along with its international partners, will implement an \"immediate, united and coordinated\" response.\n\nThe EU leader also hit out against reports carried by the media outlet Bloomberg which alleged 10 European energy companies are preparing to make payments for Gazprom gas in roubles, and that four energy companies have done so already.\n\nShe said such moves would be \"high risk\" for the corporations and would constitute \"a breach of our sanctions\".\n\n\"Our guidance here is very clear,\" Ms von der Leyen said.\n\nWhile the EU has been firm that it will not comply with Mr Putin's demands that payments be made in roubles, Hungary has reached a workaround deal with Gazprom.\n\nThe countries will pay into a euro-denominated account with Gazprombank, a subsidiary of the energy giant, which in turn will deposit the amount in roubles.\n\nRussia has refused to say how many other countries have agreed to make payments in this way.", "Poland imports gas from Gazprom via the Yamal pipeline\n\nRussian energy giant Gazprom says it has halted gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria over the countries' refusal to pay for supplies in roubles.\n\nThe firm said services will not be restored until payments are made in the Russian currency.\n\nIt comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered \"unfriendly\" countries to pay for gas in roubles.\n\nPoland confirmed supplies had stopped, but Bulgaria said it was still unclear whether supplies had been halted.\n\nCountries pay in advance for their gas, but as they have gone to pay for future supplies, Russia has stood firm on its demand made last month that new purchases need to be paid in roubles.\n\nThe threat, in which Mr Putin said \"existing contracts will be stopped\", has been seen as an attempt boost the rouble, which has been hit by Western sanctions.\n\nNathan Piper, head of oil and gas research at Investec, told the BBC the halting of supplies to Poland and Bulgaria was the \"start of Russia exerting economic pressure on Europe,\" and a move which could \"escalate\" with other EU nations.\n\nPoland's deputy foreign minister said the country could cope without Gazprom's gas and had \"taken some decisions many years ago to prepare for such a situation\".\n\nMarcin Przdacz told the BBC there were \"options to get the gas from other partners,\" including the US and gulf nations.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure that we will manage to handle this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nPolish state gas company PGNiG, which bought 53% of its gas imports from Gazprom in the first quarter of this year, described the suspension as a breach of contract, adding that the company would take steps to reinstate the gas supply.\n\nMeanwhile in Sofia, energy minister Alexander Nikolov said Bulgaria had paid for Russian gas deliveries for April and claimed supplier Gazprom will be in breach of its current contract if it halts the flow.\n\n\"Because all trade and legal obligations are being observed, it is clear that at the moment [Russian] natural gas is being used more as a political and economic weapon in the current war,\" Mr Nikolov said.\n\nBulgaria, which relies on Gazprom for more than 90% of its gas supply, said it had taken steps to find alternative sources but no restrictions on gas consumption were currently required.\n\nThe executive director of Bulgarian gas network operator Bulgartransgaz said supplies to Bulgaria were still currently flowing.\n\nBulgaria also transports Russian gas via an extension of the Turk Stream pipeline to neighbouring Serbia and from there to Hungary. Hungary and Austria also said gas supplies were normal.\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, said the country has had no signals or information on any interruption to its gas supplies, but must be prepared for any scenario.\n\nThe central European country is almost entirely dependent on Russia for its gas.\n\nRussia's top lawmaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, said that gas giant Gazprom had made the right decision in suspending gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland and said Moscow should do the same with other \"unfriendly\" countries.\n\nMeanwhile, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said Russia was using gas \"as an instrument of blackmail\".\n\nMs von der Leyen said the EU was \"prepared for this scenario\" and had been \"working to ensure alternative deliveries and the best possible storage levels across the EU\".\n\nInvestec's Mr Piper told the BBC the halting of supplies to Poland and Bulgaria was the \"start of Russia exerting economic pressure on Europe.\"\n\nHe said despite demand for gas declining as Europe enters summer, \"risks around Russian gas supply are keeping prices high, putting pressure on consumers and industry\".\n\nThe latest move by Russia sent European gas prices up further on Wednesday, surging by 24%.\n\nMr Putin's decree for gas payments means foreign buyers of Russian gas have to open an account at Russia's Gazprombank and transfer euros or US dollars into it.\n\nGazprombank would then convert this into roubles which will then be used to make the payment for gas.\n\nThis move is designed as a Kremlin shot across the bows of Europe's biggest economies.\n\nWhile Germany, for example, has said it is willing to phase out Russian coal in the summer, and hinted Russian oil could follow over the next year, gas is another matter.\n\nLast week Germany's finance minister told me it would be physically impossible to immediately phase out Germany's 45% dependence on Russia for gas.\n\nBoth Poland and Bulgaria were already planning not to renew their contract with Gazprom which expires at the end of the year. In the case of Poland, it had been filling its stores of gas in preparation.\n\nThe escalation is real, and justified by the Kremlin on the basis of countries refusing to pay for gas by changing money into roubles in Russian bank accounts. But the additional impact of Wednesday's news should be containable.\n\nAll that would change, of course, if these moves are the first skirmishes in an escalating European energy crisis that could see Germany cut off from Russian gas.\n\nThat would send prices spiralling across Europe and lead to a supply crisis.\n\nUK Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab earlier told Sky News the decision to cut off gas supplies will have \"a very damaging effect on Russia,\" adding that such moves could lead to the country becoming \"an economic pariah\".\n\nFollowing Russia's announcement, Poland's climate ministry said the country's energy supplies were secure.\n\nClimate Minister Anna Moskwa said there was no need to draw gas from reserves and gas to customers would not be cut.\n\nPoland was already planning to stop importing Russian gas by the end of the year, when its long-term supply contract with Gazprom expires.\n\nPGNiG said its underground gas storage was almost 80% full and it also has alternative supply sources, including a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Swinoujscie.\n\nOn 1 May, a new gas pipeline connection with Lithuania is due to open that will give Poland access to gas from Lithuania's LNG terminal.\n\nAnd a new pipeline delivering gas from Norway, known as the \"Baltic Pipe\", comes online in October. It should reach full capacity by the end of the year and could replace all Russian deliveries.\n\nSupplies from Russia account for about 40% of the EU's natural gas imports.\n\nHowever, many countries have pledged to move away from Russian energy in response to its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe US has declared a complete ban on Russian oil, gas and coal imports.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK is to phase out Russian oil by the end of the year, with gas to follow as soon as possible, and the EU is reducing gas imports by two-thirds.", "DJ Tim Westwood is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by women who say he abused his position in the music industry to exploit them.\n\nThe 64-year-old is accused of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour and touching, in incidents between 1992 and 2017.\n\nThe BBC and the Guardian have heard detailed accounts from seven women in a joint investigation into the former BBC Radio 1 DJ.\n\nThe DJ was an early champion of hip-hop in the UK and hosted the first nationally-broadcast rap show on UK radio from 1994.\n\nThe seven women who spoke to the BBC are all black, and say they met Westwood through his work. Some of them accuse the DJ of abusing his power within the music industry.\n\nThe women tell their stories in a BBC Three documentary, Tim Westwood: Abuse of Power, which airs on BBC Three at 21:00 on Tuesday.\n\nTwo of them, who were aspiring to work in the industry, say they agreed to come to London to meet him to discuss music. They accuse the DJ of driving them to a flat and initiating unwanted and unexpected sex. One was 19 at the time, while Westwood was 53.\n\nAnother woman told the BBC she met Westwood, then in his mid-30s, when she was 17 and a member of a R&B group. She says she was subjected to unwanted oral sex after agreeing to meet him.\n\nFour further young women accuse the DJ of either touching their bottoms or breasts as they posed for photographs with him at different events where he was performing.\n\nThe women, whose names have been changed to protect their identities, do not know each other. Some work in the music industry and fear repercussions - with the DJ continuing to have a prominent role in an industry long-criticised for its treatment of darker-skinned black women.\n\nAllegations about Westwood's behaviour toward young black women have circulated on social media for some time. In 2020, Westwood issued a statement to the Mail Online hitting out at the \"fabricated allegations\" and said they were false and without foundation.\n\nNow, for the first time, following our investigation, women detail their experiences.\n\nWarning: Some of the content in their stories may be distressing.\n\nWhen Isabel discovered Tim Westwood was DJing at her local nightclub, she spotted a chance to have her music heard by someone influential. She was 19, and had already been getting studio time - featuring on rappers' tracks as a vocalist.\n\nIsabel was young when she realised she could sing. During her strict religious upbringing in the Midlands in the early 2000s, contemporary music was banned at home, but she spent Sundays singing gospel in church. Secretly, however, she would write her own music and dream of a future as a recording artist.\n\nBy 2010, when she was a university student, she was continuing to pursue a career in music. She knew a national platform like BBC Radio 1 could take her to the next level. \"[Tim Westwood] was the main gatekeeper to get to the level of exposure I needed,\" she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Isabel described what happened when Tim Westwood picked her up in his car\n\nIsabel put together a mixtape of unreleased work and included her contact details inside the CD case. Her best friend together with her stepmum went to the club night with her.\n\nThey managed to hand the CD to Westwood, and Isabel says the DJ - then aged 53 - called her the next day. The two arranged to meet in London.\n\nHer family and friends shared her excitement. \"We were thinking that this is a really good lead at this point,\" she says. \"He wants to act on this quickly.\"\n\nWithin days, she was on a train to London for an afternoon meeting. Isabel says the plan was to meet at Nike Town on Oxford Street, near BBC Radio 1's studios.\n\nShe says Westwood was there waiting in a huge American-style car. Isabel assumed they were going to talk about her music over coffee or a drink - a point she wishes she had clarified.\n\n\"I don't ask where we're going. And then at this point, we start driving,\" she recalls.\n\nBut she says her discomfort grew as she realised they were heading out of central London. \"This is where I'm now like 'Oh God, where are we going, what's happening?'\"\n\nShe says the conversation dried up - to the point where it was almost \"menacingly silent\".\n\nShe alleges at one point on the journey, the DJ tapped her arm to get her to turn and see that he had undone his trousers and had exposed his genitals. \"I've looked and I've seen and I'm like, 'Oh, no, oh no, like, oh my God. Just don't say anything. Don't look. Don't say anything.' And I'm hoping that's enough for him to just… not.\"\n\nIsabel says she felt \"completely powerless\" and \"very, very scared\".\n\nShe says they eventually arrived at what she believes was Westwood's flat. She remembers it being filled with lots of records. She says she was led to a room, where she refused an offer of a drink.\n\n\"He leaves the room and then he comes back completely naked,\" she alleges. \"That's when I noticed that he has got a condom and he has removed it [from the wrapper] and started putting it on.\"\n\nIsabel says she recognised the condom packet. It had the DJ's face on one side - part of a campaign Westwood did with Durex. \"I remember that very vividly because I remember that was kind of when my brain also started to shut down.\"\n\nIsabel describes sitting on a chair \"frozen with fear\". She says Westwood held her shoulders and turned her around.\n\n\"I knew what was going to happen at this point. So, I'm just like 'Oh my God,' And I remember being like, hunched up and like holding on to the back of the chair, like, scared.\n\n\"He almost, like, tapped me on the back of my leg as if he wanted me to move my leg, which I didn't do. And then he sort of did.\"\n\nShe says after he finished, she quickly got dressed and sat waiting to leave. She says the DJ seemed annoyed when she asked for a lift to the station.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.\n\nIsabel recalls going over and over the experience on what felt like a really long journey back north. \"I just remember feeling so deflated. So sad. Feeling really ashamed of myself and bad.\"\n\nShe says the encounter led her to drop out from her studies and music career.\n\nIsabel's stepmum told the BBC the whole family had been excited about Isabel's chance at a breakthrough. But she knew instinctively that something had happened when Isabel got home and wouldn't talk about the meeting.\n\nBut she says that after she heard Isabel's account, she felt guilty for not chaperoning her - and says she cried when Isabel disclosed that her silence was, in part, over worries her family would be disappointed with her.\n\nLike others the BBC spoke to, Isabel became aware in 2020 of allegations being made by women on social media alleging misconduct by Westwood.\n\nPamela's story echoes Isabel's. She was just 20 when she met Westwood through friends. It was 2000 and she was working with young people who wanted to break into the music industry. She says the DJ invited her to do work experience with him at BBC Radio 1.\n\nHe had joined the BBC in 1994, after making a name for himself on pirate and then commercial radio. But his show mostly focused on US artists, and Pamela says the DJ told her he wanted to understand more about the UK scene and \"get a younger audience\".\n\nShe says the DJ, in his 40s at the time, reassured her \"stern Jamaican\" mother on the phone that her daughter would be OK heading to London. Pamela travelled by train from the Midlands and says Westwood picked her up in a huge American-style car.\n\nShe says, as they drove, he kept stroking her leg and touching her face. She kept batting his hand away. She says he wasn't concentrating on the road and was swerving so much that a police officer on a motorbike pulled up beside them and knocked on the passenger window. Pamela says Westwood apologised - and was told to keep his eyes on the road.\n\nPamela assumed she would be staying in a hotel as part of the work experience, but says the DJ instead drove her to an apartment where she remembers \"records and trainers and oversized clothes everywhere\".\n\nShe says that at one point, he began trying to kiss her neck and remove her clothing. \"I didn't give him any kind of come on. There was no flirtation,\" she says.\n\n\"If you are trying to actively touch me and I am pushing your hand away, that means I don't want to do anything with you. If you are trying to remove [an] item of my clothing, and I put it back on, that means I don't want it to be gone. If I'm showing you I'm uncomfortable, why would you just not stop doing it?\"\n\nShe says she remembers thinking she couldn't get out of the situation. \"I'm in London alone with this man. Now, if I try and get out of this, who's to say how he's going to react. So I just submit to it.\"\n\nPamela says she went home as soon as she could. She describes the encounter as \"traumatic\" and \"disgusting\".\n\nThe work experience Westwood offered didn't take place. We asked the BBC whether any monitoring of any work experience scheme took place but they did not provide an answer to this question.\n\nPamela later spoke to a friend who works in the music industry about her experience.\n\nPamela is critical of the BBC and other organisations for the \"celebrity status\" Westwood's position afforded him over the years - a position she believes he abused.\n\n\"I would describe it as an abuse of power because… who they're going to believe? This little girl from the Midlands, or this big, shiny star from London? He's on national radio, international.\"\n\nWestwood fronted the UK version of the hit MTV show Pimp my Ride in 2005, and was also given a drive-time show on BBC Radio 1's sister station 1Xtra, which focused on contemporary black music.\n\nTim Westwood on stage in 2007 at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Preston\n\nHe is known for giving a platform to new artists, as well as getting some of the biggest rappers in the world onto his programmes - from Eminem to Cardi B.\n\nHe eventually left the BBC in 2013 as part of scheduled changes. In a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, BBC News asked the BBC whether it had received any complaints against Westwood during his time in its employment. The corporation said it could \"neither confirm nor deny whether the BBC holds the requested information\".\n\nIn a statement regarding our investigation, the BBC said \"it does not comment on individuals\", but added that presenters would be expected to comply with strict codes of conduct.\n\nIn a statement released after publication of this story, the BBC said it was \"shocked to hear of these allegations\". In relation to the FOI request, it clarified it did not \"hold information that is helpful for this investigation\".\n\nOne woman's story we heard goes back three decades. It was the early 1990s and Tamara had been talent-spotted by producers trying to put together a British R&B group. At that time, songs from American R&B girl groups like TLC and SWV were getting radio play and finding chart success.\n\nTamara says she was manipulated into the situation with Tim Westwood\n\nTamara spent her time in and out of studios recording music - as well as enjoying London's nightlife meeting other artists. One time when she'd seen him around, Westwood, who was then in his mid-30s, suggested they should meet up. She was 17 at the time and believed the meeting was to talk about her career.\n\nShe says that, at the time, the DJ had \"absolute power\".\n\nHe picked her up, and after stopping briefly at a radio station, he took her to a flat.\n\nAccording to her, he started to take down her trousers and underwear. \"Then he began instantaneously to give me oral sex. There was no talking. There was no kind of communication about that. It was just before I knew it - that's what was happening.\"\n\nTamara says that at first she tried to push his head or his shoulders away but he just continued.\n\n\"And then I just realised that I'm in a position where it's already gone too far. I'm in a place, I'm already far from home. I wouldn't know how to get home from here. I was manipulated into that situation - I was led to believe one thing, when he had something else in mind.\"\n\nWorking in the same industry, she says their paths continued to cross. She says Westwood had sex with her several times over the next few years before she cut off the encounters.\n\n\"I think it was almost implied by him that OK, because we'd had the first encounter, I would be up for the next encounter and being young and not having the strength and courage to just say 'Look, no, I don't feel right about this because I don't feel right about it.' It just happened.\"\n\nIn 2021, Tamara watched the BBC's Music's Dirty Secrets documentary in 2021 and contacted the producers asking them to investigate the DJ.\n\nNow 64, Westwood continues to perform at nightclubs around the UK and internationally, hosts freestyle sessions and interviews on his popular YouTube channel and has a Saturday night show on Global's Capital Xtra.\n\nTim Westwood at the Wireless Festival in London in 2019\n\nFour further women have told the BBC about their experiences with the DJ as they posed for photos at events with him.\n\nFarah says she was introduced to Westwood in 2000 at an afterparty at Bristol Carnival. She says he put his hand down her top and \"grabbed\" her breast while they were gathered for a group photograph.\n\n\"I felt cold and I felt dirty. I felt humiliated - embarrassed that I'd done something wrong,\" she says.\n\nThe BBC spoke to her friend who recalled Farah telling her years ago about the incident.\n\nAnother woman, Claire, described meeting Westwood at a club in Ayia Napa, Cyprus in 2009. She recalls that he said \"lemme grab some ass\" as she and a friend posed for a photograph with him, before the DJ put his hand down the back of her denim shorts. She says she \"froze\" and felt \"very intimidated\" by the experience.\n\nA third told the BBC she was a huge fan of Westwood's BBC Radio 1Xtra show when she went to an event he was DJing at in Essex - also in 2009. Then aged 19, Loretta also describes feeling his hand snake down her back before he grabbed her bottom while they posed for a picture.\n\n\"I felt his hand go back up. And stopped at my neck. And do you know, in that moment I was kind of frozen.\"\n\nPhotos of Tim Westwood with some of the women (blurred) who have spoken out\n\nNyla was in university when she met Westwood at a New Year's Day event in 2017, she told the BBC. She says he described her as the \"pengest girl in the rave\" during his DJ set and then later, while she and her friend recorded a Snapchat video with him, she says he put his hand up inside the back of her skirt. She says she was \"shocked\" and felt \"objectified\".\n\nShe says the DJ managed to find her Snapchat contact and called her the next day to ask her to \"hang out\". She didn't meet up with him.\n\nThe BBC has seen the Snapchat footage and the images the women say were taken during their encounters.\n\nNone of the women the BBC spoke to have reported their interactions to the police. Some say they are speaking about their experiences in the hope it encourages others to come forward and leads to the DJ being \"held accountable\" for his behaviour.\n\n\"It makes it feel like that wasn't completely for nothing,\" Isabel says about coming forward.\n\n\"Like, I don't just have this trauma scar for no reason. There's a purpose for other people to not have to experience it.\"\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised? If you are able to talk to us please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Former US President Donald Trump's new deal for Air Force One was a bad one for Boeing, the plane-maker's chief executive has said.\n\nDave Calhoun spoke as the firm said it expected to lose $1.1bn (£875m) on the two planes for the White House.\n\nMr Trump had forced the company to renegotiate its contract, calling the initial deal too expensive.\n\nThe new agreement made Boeing, not taxpayers, responsible for changes to costs.\n\n\"We took some risks not knowing that Covid would arrive and not knowing that inflation would take hold like it has - and both of those have impacted us fairly severely,\" Mr Calhoun said on a conference call with investors on Wednesday.\n\nTechnically, \"Air Force One\" is a call sign for any aircraft carrying the US president.\n\nHowever the term is mostly used to refer to the current fleet - two highly customised Boeing 747-200B jets, which have been in service since 1990.\n\nBefore Mr Trump was elected in 2016, the government had a roughly $4bn contract with Boeing to build two or more new planes. But in 2016, shortly after Mr Trump's victory, he tweeted that they were too expensive and called for cancelling the order.\n\nTwo years later, the two sides announced a new $3.9bn deal to convert two new 747-8 planes with a communications suite each, internal and external stairs, large galleys and other equipment and modifications to protect passengers.\n\nAt the time, Mr Trump - who prides himself on his deal-making - hailed the agreement, though critics said the savings weren't clear.\n\nBoeing - a major government and defence contractor - faced \"a very unique negotiation, a very unique set of risks that Boeing probably shouldn't have taken\" during the Air Force One talks, Mr Calhoun said.\n\n\"But we are where we are, and we're going to deliver great airplanes.\"\n\nThe planes are designed to be an airborne White House, able to fly in worst-case security scenarios, such as nuclear war, and are modified with military avionics, advanced communications and a self-defence system.\n\nThe planes were supposed to be delivered by 2024 but are behind schedule, according to reports. Boeing disclosed it has lost $660m this quarter on the programme.", "The prison service has failed to recognise the dangers Islamist gangs and convicted terrorists pose inside jail, a report warns.\n\nThe independent reviewer of terrorist legislation, Jonathan Hall QC, said prisons must not provide opportunities for militants to plan new attacks.\n\nBut the service had \"lost its role in the national endeavour to reduce the risk of terrorism\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it was committed to isolating radicalisers.\n\nMore than 200 inmates are in prison after being convicted under terrorism legislation.\n\nA similar number convicted of other offences are considered a terrorist risk.\n\nMr Hall's report, Terrorism in Prisons, was commissioned after a recently released prisoner Usman Khan killed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge, in November 2019.\n\nThe impact of Islamist groups in prison had been underappreciated, Mr Hall said.\n\nAnd the discussion of religion, and Islam in particular, had become a \"no-go area\" for prison staff.\n\nRather than tackling Islamist gangs in prisons, staff sometimes use the leaders or \"emirs\" to help maintain good order, the report says.\n\nPrisoners had even tried to exclude staff from Friday prayers or imposed conditions such as staff removing shoes.\n\nMr Hall also found prisoners being excluded from kitchens unless they avoided certain foods.\n\nThere was no national \"dashboard\" for highlighting where Islamist gangs were active or on the rise in the prison system, he said.\n\nAfter an earlier review, the prison service built three separation centres, prisons within prisons where the most influential radicalisers could be kept away from the other inmates.\n\nThe three centres, at HMP Frankland, HMP Woodhill and HMP Full Sutton, have 28 places.\n\nBut only 15 inmates have ever been in one - partly because of the complicated process of referring prisoners to them and the fear of challenges, after some argued it would breach their right to a private life under the Human Rights Act.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said this was one of the reasons for his proposed Bill of Rights.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some prisoners \"will poison the well, they will radicalise if they're left in general population, and they will ultimately recruit more terrorists\".\n\nThe deputy PM said £1.2m was being spent to \"beef up\" the teams which identify extremists who should be moved into separation centres.\n\nHe also wants to increase the number of places in close-supervision centres in England and Wales, where the most violent prisoners are held, from 50 to 60.\n\nIn his report Mr Hall warned that \"public confidence in the criminal justice system is shaken if terrorism occurs in prison or if people enter prison only to come out more dangerous\".\n\n\"HM Prison and Probation Service's real-life encounters with terrorist ideology and violence over the past 15 years ought to make staff more confident that their goal is legitimate and not Islamophobic,\" he added.\n\nMr Hall said it was important that Counter Terrorism Policing got more involved in investigating terrorist offending behind bars. He was concerned that some offending in prison might get lost in \"a patchwork of responsibility\".\n\nHe said changes might need to be made to terrorism legislation. For example, prisoners who display homemade Islamic State group flags in their cells are not committing offences, because the legislation says it is only illegal if done in a \"public place.\"", "Ms Price has been granted bail, and will appear at Lewes Crown Court in May\n\nReality TV star and former glamour model Katie Price has appeared before magistrates in Crawley charged with breaching a restraining order.\n\nThe 43-year-old is accused of breaching a restraining order against ex-husband Kieran Hayler's fiancee Michelle Penticost on 21 January.\n\nMs Price, from West Sussex, pleaded not guilty and requested a Crown Court trial.\n\nShe was ordered to appear before Lewes Crown Court on 25 May.\n\nShe was given bail with the condition that she has no direct or indirect contact with Ms Penticost.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.\n\nFear over the impact of lockdowns in China on global economic growth has resulted in shares in the US and Asia falling. More than $125bn (£99.3bn) was wiped off Tesla's market value and technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite index closed at its lowest level since late 2020.\n\nA High Court ruling's due on legal action brought against the government and health bosses over key policies and decisions made about care homes during the pandemic. The action was launched by Dr Cathy Gardner and Fay Harris, whose fathers died at the start of the pandemic. They say care homes were not helped to keep out Covid and residents were \"disregarded\". The government says it \"worked tirelessly\" to protect the public.\n\nA £1,000 bonus for care workers in Wales has been branded unfair by workers and politicians after exemptions came to light. About 53,000 registered care home and home care workers are eligible but the government says the bonus will not be offered to auxiliary staff such as cleaning and kitchen workers. Kitchen assistant Anwen Jones says the decision makes some workers feel \"not as worthy\". Read more here.\n\nThe impact of suspending routine breast screening in Scotland during the pandemic meant cancer detection fell by almost 44% - or 718 fewer cases. Screening stopped between March and August 2020 and no new invitations were sent out during that period. The Scottish government says screening uptake in the 50 to 70-year-old age range exceeds the national target.\n\nNHS waiting lists grew to record highs during the pandemic. To tackle this, the Welsh government's set out a plan to reduce the backlog, and by 2025 promises no-one will wait longer than a year for planned treatment. To understand the scale of the current situation, we've spoken to patients including Charlotte Camp, who has told us what life's like managing conditions while waiting for treatment. Read more here.\n\nThere's a Covid jab that's seen as an alternative for people who are vaccine-hesitant, but what's happened to it? We've investigated.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Almost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, ONS figures show.\n\nBut only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics figures are the first to reveal the full toll on care homes, including deaths that happened in hospital.\n\nCare homes in England will carry out routine testing from Monday.\n\nThere were just over 66,000 deaths of care home residents in England and Wales between 2 March and 12 June this year, compared to just under 37,000 deaths last year.\n\nCovid-19 was the leading cause of death for male care home residents, accounting for a third of all deaths, and the second most-common cause of death for female residents, after dementia and Alzheimer's disease.\n\nWhile 20,000 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, another 10,000 of the excess deaths were registered to other, non-Covid, causes.\n\nPrevious analysis from the ONS has suggested that many of those \"non-Covid\" deaths could have involved undiagnosed coronavirus.\n\nThree-quarters of these deaths occurred within the care homes themselves and a quarter were care home residents who died in hospitals.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We have been doing everything we can to ensure care home residents and staff are protected during this unprecedented global pandemic.\n\n\"We announced today that we will be rolling out repeat testing for care home staff and residents across the country from Monday, to help further reduce the spread of infection in care homes.\"\n\nDeaths from all causes in England and Wales have fallen to below the five-year average for the first time since before the coronavirus outbreak took hold, as of the week ending 19 June.\n\nONS figures showed deaths from all causes were lower than average for the time of year in care homes and hospitals.\n\nThe number of people dying at home was still slightly higher than average, but decreasing.\n\nDeaths where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate accounted for 8% of all deaths compared with 33% of deaths in the week ending 10 April.\n\nAlso on Friday, a survey of care homes in England which provide care for the elderly and younger people with dementia - the \"Vivaldi study\" - was published.\n\nMore than half of providers surveyed said they had coronavirus infections in their homes.\n\nIt also found care homes that offered their staff sick pay or relied less heavily on bank or agency staff (who may work in more than one home) had fewer infections.\n\nFrom next week, residents in care homes in England for over-65s, or younger patients with dementia, will receive monthly coronavirus tests.\n\nAny care home dealing with an outbreak, or at increased risk of an outbreak, will be more intensively tested.", "Putin's latest threat: How did we get here?\n\nIf you're just joining us, earlier we brought you the news that Vladimir Putin has made a fresh threat to the West, saying any country that sets out to intervene in Ukraine will face a \"lightning-fast\" military response. \"We have all the tools for this, that no one else can boast of having... we'll use them, if needed,\" he said. \"We have already taken all the decisions on this.\" His latest warning comes after Western countries have ramped up support for Ukraine in the past days. Yesterday, the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin pledged to move \"heaven and earth\" to make sure Ukraine defeats Russia. And in recent days, there has been an increasing number of pledges to increase military support to Ukraine, including Germany's announcement that it will send 50 anti-aircraft tanks, in a sharp U-turn in policy. The UK is also expected to call later for fighter jets to be provided to Ukraine. Earlier this week, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also claimed the West was “pouring oil on the fire” by providing Ukraine with firepower - and said the conflict could lead to World War Three. Putin's warning comes as tensions were heightened further today as Russian energy provider Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, saying it's because the countries refused to follow Moscow's new rule to pay for gas in roubles.", "Katie Kenyon was last seen getting into a van with a man on Friday morning in Burnley\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a missing woman has been further arrested on suspicion of her murder.\n\nKatie Kenyon, 33, was last seen on Friday getting into a Ford Transit van in Burnley, Lancashire.\n\nWhile she has not been found, police said they were now working on the basis that she is no longer alive.\n\nA 50-year-old man from Burnley is being questioned and remains in custody, Lancashire Police said.\n\nThe force said it was making an application to Burnley Magistrates' Court for permission to hold him until 21:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nMs Kenyon's family have been informed of the latest development and are being supported by officers, police added.\n\nDet Supt Gary Brooks said: \"While I hold some slim hope Katie may still be found alive I'm sad to say she has now been missing for over four days.\n\n\"Despite extensive police enquiries and media appeals we have not found Katie nor have there been any sightings of her.\"\n\nHe said Ms Kenyon's family were \"understandably extremely upset\".\n\n\"We are continuing to search a number of different locations in connection with this investigation.\"\n\nPolice released a photograph of a Ford Transit van linked to the inquiry\n\nPolice, mountain rescue teams and fire crews were earlier combing parts of Gisburn Forest in Lancashire's Ribble Valley as part of the investigation.\n\nMembers of the public were asked not to attempt to join the searches as the area was \"very large and remote with no phone signal\".\n\nDet Supt Brooks added: \"I would hate for someone to get lost or come to harm while trying to help. Please leave it to us.\"\n\nPolice and mountain rescue teams have been searching parts of Gisburn Forest\n\nPolice said Ms Kenyon was last seen leaving an address in Burnley before getting into a van registered MT57 FLC at about 09:30 BST and travelling to the Bolton by Bowland area of north Lancashire.\n\nAn image of the silver van has been released as officers appealed for information.\n\nMs Kenyon was described as 5ft 9in with shoulder length strawberry blond highlighted hair and was last seen wearing a blue shirt and white vest top, black leggings and flip flops.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Caroline Lucas asks Boris Johnson if sexual harassment is “grounds for dismissal”\n\nAn independent investigation could be launched into claims a Tory MP watched porn on his phone while in the Commons.\n\nThe claims were made at a meeting on Tuesday night at which female Conservative MPs shared accounts of alleged sexism and harassment.\n\nOne of those who reported the unnamed MP was a female minister who said she saw him viewing the material while sat beside him in the Commons chamber.\n\nTory Chief Whip Chris Heaton-Harris has escalated a review of the claims.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris, who is in charge of Tory MPs' discipline, was initially said to be looking into the matter - before he asked for it to be referred to Parliament's Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS).\n\nA spokesperson for his office said: \"Upon the conclusion of any ICGS investigation the chief whip will take appropriate action.\"\n\nThe female minister said the incident occurred last week and that she had also seen the MP watching pornography during a hearing of a select committee, The Times reported.\n\nA second female Tory MP said she had witnessed the same man watching pornography inside the Commons and that she had tried but been unable to capture video proof.\n\nIt comes amid a renewed debate about the culture at Westminster after a Mail on Sunday story claimed Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner sometimes tries to distract Boris Johnson during Prime Minister's Questions by crossing and uncrossing her legs.\n\nThe article was criticised as being misogynistic by numerous figures on both sides of the House, including the prime minister.\n\nIn the Commons on Wednesday, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas cited a report in The Sunday Times that said a total of 56 MPs, including three cabinet ministers, were facing allegations of sexual misconduct, and asked the prime minister whether such behaviour was grounds for dismissal under the ministerial code.\n\nMr Johnson replied that sexual harassment was \"intolerable\" and \"of course... grounds for dismissal\".\n\nThe claims about the MP viewing pornography were made on Tuesday at a meeting of the 2022 group - a group of female Conservative MPs set up to push for measures to improve the gender balance in the party. They were first reported by The Sun and The Mirror.\n\nConservative MP Pauline Latham, who was at the meeting, told BBC News many attendees had come out \"totally shell shocked\".\n\n\"They couldn't believe something like that could happen in what's really a professional place,\" she said.\n\nShe said she did not think \"anybody knows who [the accused MP] is\" besides the MP himself, the people who reported him, and the chief whip.\n\nShe added that, if the allegations were found to be true, the MP should \"lose their job\" and be thrown out of the Conservative Party.\n\n\"We are supposed to set an example in this place and that is absolutely appalling. I am totally shocked,\" she said.\n\nThe Labour Party said it would be a \"sackable offence\" for MPs to watch pornography in the Commons chamber.\n\nShadow Commons Leader Thangam Debbonaire told the BBC she was \"shocked but not surprised\" by the story because \"there is a culture of sexism in Parliament\".\n\nSNP MP Kirsty Blackman told Politics Live the culprit should be kicked out of Parliament, adding: \"They have been elected to represent their constituents not to sit in that chamber and watch porn.\"", "Arthurs, also known as Bonehead, played on albums such as What's The Story (Morning Glory) and Definitely Maybe\n\nFormer Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs has pulled out of forthcoming gigs after being diagnosed with tonsil cancer.\n\nThe musician, also known as Bonehead, told fans he was going to be \"taking a break for a while\" in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\nAs a result, he will not appear with Liam Gallagher at gigs which had been scheduled for this summer.\n\nArthurs co-founded Oasis and played on several of the band's biggest albums, including debut Definitely Maybe.\n\nHe played rhythm guitar and keyboards for the band, also appearing on What's The Story (Morning Glory) and Be Here Now.\n\nArthurs left Oasis in 1999, but in recent years had begun to work with Gallagher on other projects.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paul Arthurs. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe played with Gallagher's band Beady Eye in the mid 2010s, standing in for guitarist Gem Archer after he sustained a head injury.\n\nArthurs has also played on Liam Gallagher's solo albums and performed with him on recent tours.\n\nArthurs has continued to play music with Liam Gallagher (pictured in 2017) in recent years\n\nArthurs told his followers he would be starting a course of treatment soon. Tonsil cancer treatments can include surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.\n\n\"Just to let you all know I'm going to be taking a break for a while,\" he said in a statement posted on his social media account.\n\n\"I've been diagnosed with tonsil cancer, but the good news is it's treatable and I'll be starting a course of treatment soon. I'll keep you posted on how it's going.\n\n\"I'm gutted I'm missing the gigs with Liam and the band. Have the best summer and enjoy the gigs if you're going, I'll see you soon xxx\"\n\nGallagher sent his best wishes to Arthurs, tweeting: \"Sending BIG love to the 1 n only Bonehead and his family wishing you a speedy recovery we're all thinking of you.\"\n\nFormer Oasis star Andy Bell also posted: \"Get well soon Bone.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool took a giant stride towards another Champions League final with a commanding victory over Villarreal at Anfield.\n\nJurgen Klopp's quadruple-chasing Reds had to demonstrate patience to break down a Villarreal side well organised by European specialist Unai Emery.\n\nLiverpool were held at bay despite creating all the chances and needed a touch of fortune to break the deadlock after 53 minutes when Jordan Henderson's cross was deflected beyond Villarreal keeper Geronimo Rulli by Pervis Estupinan.\n\nSadio Mane increased Liverpool's control when he touched Mohamed Salah's pass beyond Rulli two minutes later.\n\nThe second leg in Villarreal is still to come next Tuesday but Liverpool now look firmly on course to meet either Manchester City or Real Madrid in the final in Paris in May.\n• None Premier League has two of modern era's greatest sides\n\nLiverpool just seem to be gathering unstoppable momentum as all challenges, even from a Villarreal side that claimed the scalps of Juventus and Bayern Munich in the previous rounds, are overcome.\n\nVillarreal set out to take the sting out of the home team from the first whistle, taking an age over goal-kicks and other restarts, but unlike the frustration that overtook them at times against Everton at Anfield on Sunday, Liverpool remained composed, seemingly safe in their knowledge that their chance would come.\n\nAnd so it proved as they moved through the gears at the start of the second half, a change of tempo that proved too much for Villarreal, with Fabinho having a goal disallowed even before Henderson's attempted cross took that crucial touch off Estupinan.\n\nKlopp was able to remove the tireless Henderson and goalscorer Mane from the fray as Liverpool remained in control.\n\nLiverpool possess such threat that it is almost impossible for a team to simply sit out and hope to keep them away, such is the array of attacking riches now at Klopp's disposal.\n\nIt is a collection of such power that he was able to keep Diogo Jota on the bench until that two-goal cushion was established, such has been the stunning impact of January signing Luis Diaz.\n\nDiaz gave an electrifying performance, with two first-half shots that were simply too powerful for Rulli to hold, while his change of pace troubled Villarreal all night.\n\nKlopp and Liverpool will take nothing for granted but such is their form and confidence, it is hard to see how even a side as durable as Villarreal can haul this back.\n\nLiverpool now turn their attentions back to the Premier League pursuit of Manchester City when they travel to in-form Newcastle United on Saturday (12:30 BST). The historic quadruple is still on and the celebrations at the final whistle here suggested the Kop believes that what most observers thought was impossible is now a genuine possibility.\n\nEmery's body language and impassioned gestures in the closing moments, enraged when Villarreal players conceded possession, suggested he thinks his side are still in this Champions League semi-final despite a two-goal deficit.\n\nHe has every right to hold out hope with his stellar record in these two-leg formats, having won the Europa League four times with Sevilla and Villarreal and defied the odds to take 'the Yellow Submarine' into the last four of the Champions League.\n\nIt will surely require something spectacular, even for this European expert, for Villarreal to disrupt a side of Liverpool's stature.\n\nVillarreal were drilled to the last detail in defence but they were not given any opportunity to launch the devastating counter-attacks that did such damage to Juventus and Bayern Munich.\n\nEmery can never be discounted but Villarreal did not show enough here to suggest they can stop Liverpool reaching their third Champions League final under Jurgen Klopp.\n• None Serge Aurier (Villarreal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Villarreal. Pau Torres tries a through ball, but Boulaye Dia is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fabinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Naby Keïta (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Luis Díaz (Liverpool) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Assisted by Diogo Jota. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "There has been debate over whether Holyrood has the power to hold a referendum without the UK government's consent\n\nThe Scottish government has been ordered to publish details of legal advice it has received over a potential second independence referendum.\n\nThe government had refused to make the advice public, arguing that it would breach legal professional privilege\n\nIt has now been given a deadline of 10 June to publish parts of the advice by the country's information commissioner.\n\nThe commissioner said the \"exceptional\" public interest in seeing the advice outweighed the legal privilege.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly said she wants to hold indyref2 next year after passing a referendum bill in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nBut the UK government has shown no sign that it would be willing to give the formal consent that ensured the legality of the 2014 referendum, in which voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45%.\n\nConstitutional experts have been split over whether a referendum held by the Scottish government without that consent being in place would be legal.\n\nAnd there has been speculation that the question could result in a court battle between the governments in Edinburgh and London if Ms Sturgeon decides to press on with her plans.\n\nThere has therefore been considerable interest in the legal advice that has been given to the Scottish government.\n\nOpposition parties have argued that it would be a waste of public money for the government to press on with its referendum plan if it has already been told by its own lawyers that it does not have the powers to hold one.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a referendum next year\n\nThe Scotsman newspaper had originally asked for the advice to be published under freedom of information laws in January of last year.\n\nThe newspaper appealed to the commissioner after its request was refused by the government.\n\nIn his ruling, information commissioner Daren Fitzhenry said he noted the newspaper's view that keeping legal advice on indyref2 secret would \"actively harm accountability and scrutiny and would be counter to the public interest\".\n\nHe said: \"Given the fundamental importance of Scotland's future constitutional relationship to all individuals living in Scotland, and its fundamental importance to political and public debate at the time of the request and requirement for review, the Commissioner is satisfied that disclosing this information would significantly enhance public debate on this issue.\"\n\nMr Fitzhenry also said that the government had previously chosen to disclose legal advice relating to complaints of sexual harassment against former First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nHe added: \"Further disclosure of legal advice which is of much greater public interest is unlikely to create any further difficulty.\"\n\nAnd he said publishing details of the legal advice would \"significantly enhance public debate on this issue\".\n\nIt was with extreme reluctance that the Scottish government handed over legal advice it had received to the Holyrood inquiry into its mishandling of complaints about Alex Salmond's behaviour.\n\nIt resisted - partly - because of the risk that this would raise expectations about the release of legal advice on other topics in future, despite the convention that this is confidential.\n\nThat is what has now happened. The information commissioner has decided the Salmond case was a recognition of exceptional circumstances where public interest outweighs confidentiality concerns.\n\nThe commissioner has also concluded that the debate over Scottish independence is a similarly exceptional case.\n\nHis ruling does not mean all legal advice on this topic will automatically be published. Each case will be judged on its own merits.\n\nThe Scottish government was surprised by the ruling and believes that it significantly changes how future decisions on information disclosure will be considered, without opening the floodgates.\n\nA big test for this could be whether or not they will be required to publish the legal advice they would have to seek if and when they introduce an indyref2 bill to Holyrood.\n\nResponding to the ruling, the government said it had acted lawfully in its application of freedom of information laws.\n\nA spokesman said: \"There is a long-standing convention, observed by UK governments and Scottish governments, that government does not disclose legal advice, including whether law officers have or have not advised on any matter, except in exceptional circumstances.\n\n\"The content of any such advice is confidential and subject to legal professional privilege. This ensures that full and frank legal advice can be given.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross described the commissioner's ruling as a \"devastating rebuke to the unacceptable culture of secrecy at the top of the SNP government\".\n\nHe added: \"If the SNP are going to devote large sums of public money deploying civil servants to work on a divisive referendum that the majority of Scots don't want, we are entitled to know the legal advice they have been given.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack called on the government to release the information straight away, and urged it to \"stop wasting time, energy and money on this separatist distraction.\"\n\nAnd Willie Rennie of the Scottish Liberal Democrats said the ruling was a \"victory for transparency in the face of a Scottish government whose default setting is to flout the Freedom of Information Act and throw up road block after road block.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jayden Lee Lucas and his sister Gracie Ann died in hospital after the crash\n\nThe heartbroken family of two children killed by a drink-driver have welcomed a sentence review that could see him locked up for longer.\n\nJayden Lee Lucas, aged three, and sister Gracie Ann, aged four, died after the family's Ford Fiesta was hit by Martin Newman's van on 5 February.\n\nThe 41-year-old had been drinking red wine while driving his Ford Transit and had cocaine in his system.\n\nHe was jailed for nine years and four months.\n\nThe crash happened on the M4 near Newport.\n\nThe family were travelling from a birthday party to Techniquest, in Cardiff, when they pulled onto the hard shoulder after Gracie Ann complained of a bad stomach and needing the toilet.\n\nIt was then Newman's van struck.\n\nThe childrens' mother, Rhiannon Lucas, was left with serious injuries.\n\nShe said she could no longer sleep for more than a few hours and medication did not help.\n\n\"When I go to bed I just watch telly to blank everything out,\" Ms Lucas said.\n\n\"Sometimes it does work and sometimes it doesn't, so it's a mess,\" she said.\n\nShe said her children had \"hearts of gold\".\n\n\"Gracie was always hyperactive, pleasant. Jayden Lee was like the wicked one out of the two,\" she said.\n\n\"He had a heart of gold and was always pleasant and smiling.\"\n\n\"It's heartbreaking,\" she added. \"I've got to keep myself occupied now as I've got nothing else to do with my life.\"\n\nBoth children were taken to the intensive care unit of University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff following the crash\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it was introducing new laws which would increase the maximum sentence to life in prison for those who kill while driving dangerously.\n\nIt was announced on Tuesday that Newman, from Croeserw, Neath Port Talbot, will have his sentence examined by the unduly lenient sentence scheme.\n\nThe current maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years.\n\nBut the children's grandfather, Jason Lucas, said they still wanted the law changed, even if Newman's sentence is extended.\n\nMartin Newman had been taking cocaine and sipped red wine whilst driving\n\n\"There's other families going through what we've had to, and we feel sorry for them,\" he said.\n\n\"He deserves to have two life sentences for what he's done to our kids.\n\n\"We'll keep on fighting whatever happens, but the law should be if you take a life and drink-drive, you get punished for it.\n\n\"He could be out in four years, that's nothing to him is it? But he should have had 15 years for each child.\"\n\nMr Lucas said he believed people needed to know they could not get away with drink-driving.\n\nRhiannon Lucas said in her victim impact statement her children would still be here if Newman had not been on the road\n\n\"Every day we see the kids going past, down to school,\" he said.\n\n\"That's what we used to do with our kids, take them to school.\n\n\"Gracie Ann used to go around the back and go on the trampoline, but there's none of that now.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said its thoughts were with the family.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Dangerous drivers ruin lives, which is why our new laws will increase the maximum sentence for causing death to life.\"", "Local people in rural areas are being priced out of the market and forced to move away\n\nThe rural economy is being held back by a lack of affordable housing, supermarket price-wars, poor public transport and broadband connections, according to a new report.\n\nThe cross-party group of MPs and peers found the rural economy was 18% less productive than the national average. If this gap was reduced it could add £43bn to the UK economy.\n\nThe government said it welcomed the report, and that it was providing £2.6bn to rural areas.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Rural Powerhouse heard evidence from over 50 rural organisations including charities, campaign groups, academics, and business leaders.\n\nCalling it \"one of the most comprehensive inquiries into the productivity of the rural economy\" the co-chairman of the APPG, Lord Cameron of Dillington, said, \"It is vital that government understands that rural Britain is not a museum, but instead is an important part of the national economy that deserves the chance to succeed.\"\n\nThe parliamentary group heard evidence that there were \"systemic failings\" in the government's rural policy development and there needed to be a more \"targeted, cross-departmental, ministerial-led approach.\"\n\nMark Tufnell, president of the Country Land and Business Association, said: \"The country can no longer afford to ignore the potential of the rural economy and the prospects of the millions of people who live within it. Rural businesses are ready to expand, creating good jobs and opportunities for people from all walks of life - but a lack of interest from government is holding them back.\"\n\nThe wide-ranging report highlighted many factors including the planning system, saying it was \"failing those living and working in the countryside\".\n\nWith Covid leading to more people relocating from cities, the report said that prices were being pushed up and that in Cornwall, for example, houses were now nine times the average wage in England.\n\nThe definition of \"affordable housing\" was misleading, according to the report, with new homes often out of reach for local people and small-scale housing developments \"routinely rejected\".\n\nEnsuring housing was within the reach of local people would allow them to live where they worked, the report said, keeping money in the community.\n\nThe report called for the National Planning Policy Framework to \"refer to the need for economic growth in rural areas.\" Developments with under 3,000 inhabitants should be favoured, with an emphasis placed on affordable housing.\n\nThe report said that poor public transport and urban-centric policymaking was reducing the opportunities for young people and leading to a 'brain drain'.\n\nIt called on the government to provide focussed support, including ring-fencing funding for rural communities.\n\nThe report also said that Brexit and Covid-19 have had an impact on supply chains and access to foreign labour, and that trade deals were also putting UK farming standards at risk.\n\nIt called for the influence of major supermarkets to be limited, and the Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme to be broadened, extending the number of visas offered from 30,000 to 80,000.\n\nFor those in remote areas with poor broadband, lockdown meant more difficulties for those working from home and and home-schooling\n\nThe report also highlighted the importance of improving poor digital infrastructure in rural areas. It cited a study showing that only 46% of rural areas had good 4G and said that services were harder to access, and fewer businesses were choosing to relocate to the countryside.\n\nThe report also said the tax system should be adapted to encourage regenerative development.\n\n\"We welcome this report and its recommendations. Rural areas are at the heart of our vision for levelling up; I want businesses and people in remote areas to do as well as those in inner cities.\n\n\"We are providing funding to put in place the infrastructure that rural areas need, and the public services and opportunities that they deserve. We have already announced over £2.6 billion via the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, and we will be saying more about rural funding shortly.\"", "Biff's description of the people at this marketplace as not seeming \"very friendly\" was removed in 2012\n\nA children's book that attracted criticism for describing people wearing turbans and a niqab as unfriendly has been withdrawn from sale.\n\nRemaining copies of The Blue Eye - part of the Biff, Chip and Kipper series - have been destroyed by its publisher, Oxford University Press (OUP).\n\nThe book had been taken out of print in March, following a review, OUP said.\n\n\"We take steps to remove any products that are no longer appropriate from our collection,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIn the book, published in 2001, Biff and Wilf are transported by magic to a \"scary\" town.\n\nBeneath an illustration of a busy marketplace full of people wearing turbans and a niqab - a type of Islamic veil - Biff says: \"Let's stay together... The people don't seem very friendly.\"\n\nOUP said that sentence had been amended in 2012 to read: \"It would be easy to lose each other in such a crowded place.\"\n\nBut an image of the original version of that page has picked up traction on social media during the past few weeks.\n\nSome have described it as \"inappropriate\", while others said it was an example of Islamophobia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Author Roderick Hunt and illustrator Alex Brychta on the success of Biff, Chip and Kipper\n\nThe OUP spokeswoman said: \"We regularly review and make changes to our list of titles to ensure they are up-to-date, diverse, inclusive and reflective of the world we live in.\"\n\nThe publishers were committed to creating \"more inclusive content\", she added, and would continue to try to improve their existing and new titles.\n\nWritten by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, the Biff, Chip and Kipper books have been read by millions of children around the world.\n\nThe first books were published in 1986 and there are now more than 800 titles.", "Vladimir Putin said Russia had \"all the tools\" to respond\n\nAny country trying to intervene in the Ukraine war will face a \"lightning-fast\" response, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned.\n\n\"We have all the tools no-one can boast of... we will use them if necessary\", he said, in what is seen as a reference to ballistic missiles and nuclear arms.\n\nUkraine's allies have stepped up the supply of weapons, with the US vowing to make sure Ukraine defeats Russia.\n\nWestern officials say Russia is being hampered in its efforts in the east.\n\nLast week, Russia launched a major offensive to seize the Donbas region after withdrawing from areas around the capital Kyiv.\n\nBut according to one official, Russian forces are \"finding it difficult to overcome the staunch Ukrainian resistance and they are suffering losses\".\n\nIn another development, the European Commission has accused Russia of blackmail after Moscow cut off gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria.\n\nThe Commission's President, Ursula von der Leyen said it showed Russia's \"unreliability\" as a supplier.\n\nThe Kremlin said Russia had been forced into the action by the \"unfriendly steps\" of Western nations.\n\nGazprom's cut-off follows Poland and Bulgaria's refusal to pay for gas in Russian roubles - a demand made by President Vladimir Putin in March, which was designed to shore up the faltering currency battered by Western sanctions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A statue that was a symbol of Russian and Ukrainian friendship is dismantled in Kyiv\n\nMr Putin made his comments speaking to Russian lawmakers in the northern city of St Petersburg on Wednesday.\n\n\"If someone from the outside tries to intervene in Ukraine and create strategic threats for Russia, our response will be lightning fast,\" he said.\n\n\"We have all the tools [to respond] that no one can boast of. And we will not be bragging about them, we will use them if necessary.\"\n\nThe Russian leader added that all decisions on what that response would include had already been made - without providing any further details.\n\nRussia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, and within days President Putin ordered his military to put Russia's nuclear deterrence forces on high alert.\n\nAnalysts suggest such threats are an attempt by Mr Putin to warn Ukraine's allies not to intervene more in the conflict.\n\nPresident Putin was speaking a day after Western nations held a summit in Germany, promising to ramp up military support for Ukraine.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin pledged to move \"heaven and earth\" to make sure Ukraine won the war.\n\nThere has recently been an increasing number of pledges to increase military support to Ukraine, including Germany's announcement that it will send 50 anti-aircraft tanks, in a sharp U-turn in policy.\n\nWestern officials have been briefing on the latest in the war and they say Russia has continued to build up forces in and around the Donbas and are making minor gains.\n\n\"But when they come up against genuine military objectives, they are finding it difficult to overcome the staunch Ukrainian resistance and they are suffering losses,\" an official said.\n\nHeavy rain is also hampering Russian progress. \"Russians don't like to fight in the rain,\" an official said, adding that the Russians have poor tactical awareness and continue to suffer from logistical difficulties.\n\nThey have the ability to operate off road, but officials say it's surprising that they still choose not to do so.\n\nEven in places where Ukrainian forces have found themselves encircled, they have managed to resupply their forces \"for a surprising length of time\". (Mariupol being the most obvious example).\n\nOfficials noted that even in places where Russia has taken ground, Ukrainian forces have shown a \"remarkable\" ability to counter-attack - sometimes doing it so fast that the Russians quickly find themselves on the back foot.\n\nUkrainian special forces, operating behind Russian lines, are exploiting the vulnerability of long supply lines, which helps to buy time for Ukraine.", "Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said she was \"crestfallen\" over the story\n\nThe Mail on Sunday's editor has refused to meet the Speaker of the House of Commons over the paper's article about Angela Rayner.\n\nThe article said some unnamed Tory MPs claimed Labour's deputy leader tried to distract Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs in Parliament.\n\nThe story and the tone of the piece has been widely condemned, with the PM calling it \"sexist tripe\".\n\nEditor David Dillon said journalists should decide what to report.\n\nHe rejected Sir Lindsay Hoyle's invitation to discuss the piece, published in the paper at the weekend on page five.\n\nAfter its publication it was criticised from across the political divide as being misogynistic and the UK press regulator Ipso has received thousands of complaints.\n\nThe piece said: \"Tory MPs have mischievously suggested that Ms Rayner likes to distract the PM when he is in the despatch box by deploying a fully clothed parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's infamous scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct.\"\n\nIt quoted an unnamed Conservative MP saying Ms Rayner \"knows she can't compete with Boris's Oxford Union debating training, but she has other skills which he lacks\".\n\nMs Rayner said she was crestfallen over the story and that women in politics \"face sexism and misogyny every day\".\n\nShe also accused the article of being \"steeped in classism\", suggesting she was \"thick\" as she had attended a comprehensive school, and insinuated she was \"promiscuous\" for having a child aged 16.\n\nMr Johnson said he respected Ms Rayner as a parliamentarian and \"deplored the misogyny\" in the piece, while Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called it a \"disgraceful new low\" for the Conservative Party.\n\nIn response to the invitation, the Mail's front page headline on Wednesday reads: \"No Mister Speaker: In the name of a free press, The Mail respectfully declines the Commons Speaker's summons...\"\n\nSpeaking in the House on Monday, Sir Lindsay called the story \"misogynistic and offensive\" and said he was arranging a meeting with Mr Dillon and the Mail on Sunday's political editor, Glen Owen, whose name appeared next to the story.\n\nIn a letter on Tuesday, Mr Dillon said he had initially intended to attend the meeting \"to draw a line under matters\", but that Sir Lindsay's comments in the Commons indicated he had already \"passed judgment on our article\".\n\n\"The Mail on Sunday deplores sexism and misogyny in all its forms,\" Mr Dillon wrote.\n\n\"However, journalists must be free to report what they are told by MPs about conversations which take place in the House of Commons, however unpalatable some may find them.\"\n\nHe added that the freedom of the press would \"not last if journalists have to take instruction from officials of the House of Commons, however august they may be, on what they can report and not report\".\n\nThe newspaper also pointed to a interview in which Ms Rayner had laughed about the Basic Instinct comparison.\n\nSpeaking to Matt Forde's The Political Party podcast in January, she added she was \"mortified\" by suggestions on the internet that she was using her body to distract the prime minister saying: \"I don't need to do that.\"\n\nSir Lindsay earlier said he was a \"staunch believer and protector of press freedom\" and that he \"firmly [believed] in the duty of reporters to cover Parliament\".\n\nHe said he had wanted to use the meeting to \"make a plea - nothing more - for the feelings of all MPs and their families to be considered, and the impact on their safety, when articles are written\".\n\nThe UK press regulator Ipso has said it is exploring possible breaches of its code of practice after receiving 5,500 complaints about the article.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Angela Rayner says she feels self-conscious after claims she was distracting the PM", "Ukraine is a major exporters of crops such as sunflower oil but the war has reduced supplies\n\nThe war in Ukraine is set to cause the \"largest commodity shock\" since the 1970s, the World Bank has warned.\n\nIn a new forecast, it said disruption caused by the conflict would contribute to huge price rises for goods ranging from natural gas to wheat and cotton.\n\nThe increase in prices \"is starting to have very large economic and humanitarian effects\", Peter Nagle, a co-author of the report, told the BBC.\n\nHe said \"households across the world are feeling the cost of living crisis\".\n\n\"We're particularly worried about the poorest households since they spend a larger share of income on food and energy, so they're particularly vulnerable to this price spike,\" the senior economist at the World Bank added.\n\nEnergy prices are set to increase more than 50%, pushing up bills for households and businesses, the World Bank says.\n\nThe biggest rise will be in the price of natural gas in Europe, which is set to more than double in cost. Prices are forecast to fall next year and in 2024, but even then will remain 15% higher than they were last year.\n\nThe World Bank said this means that from the lows of April 2020 until the highs of March this year we have seen \"the largest 23-month increase in energy prices since the 1973 oil price hike\", when tensions in the Middle East sent prices soaring.\n\nEnergy prices are soaring because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and set to remain high into 2024\n\nSimilarly oil prices are expected to remain elevated into 2024 with a barrel of the benchmark measure, Brent Crude, projected to average $100 this year, something which will lead to widespread inflation.\n\nRussia produces about 11% of the world's oil, the third biggest share, but the report said \"disruptions resulting from the war are expected to having a lasting negative effect\" as sanctions mean that foreign companies leave and access to technology is reduced.\n\nRussia currently provides 40% of the EU's gas and 27% of its oil, but European governments are moving to wean their countries off of supplies from Russia. That has helped push up global prices by creating more demand for supplies from elsewhere.\n\nThe World Bank commodity outlook also warned many foods are set to see steep rises in their costs. The UN food prices index already shows they are at their highest since records began 60 years ago.\n\nWheat is forecast to increase 42.7% and reach new record highs in dollar terms. Other notable increases will be 33.3% for barley, 20% for soybeans and 29.8% for oils and 41.8% for chicken. These increases reflect the fact that exports from Ukraine and Russia have fallen drastically.\n\nBefore the war the two countries accounted for 28.9% of global wheat exports according to JP Morgan, and 60% of global sunflower supplies - a key ingredient in many processed foods - according to S&P Global.\n\nThe rising cost of food has contributed to protests against the government in Sri Lanka\n\nPrices for other raw materials including fertilisers, metals and minerals are also predicted to go up. The costs of timber, tea and rice are amongst the few expected to fall.\n\n\"Wheat is one of the hardest agriculture exports to replace,\" according to a research note from the Bank of America. It points out that poor weather conditions in North America and China are likely to exacerbate the impact of Ukrainian supplies being reduced, something which will continue because the war has disrupted the spring planting season.\n\nThe note also suggests grain and oilseed shipments from Ukraine have fallen more than 80% because of the fighting and these lost exports, over the course of a year, \"equate to about 10 days of world food supply\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on why the war in Ukraine is pushing up food prices - and the likely impact on poorer countries\n\nThe chief executive of Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world's four big food commodity traders, said he does not expect prices to come down soon.\n\nAs the US firm announced a 53% increase in net earnings for the first three month of this year, to $1.05bn, Juan Luciano said: \"We expect reduced crop supplies - caused by the weak Canadian canola crop, the short South American crops, and now the disruptions in the Black Sea region - to drive continued tightness in global grain markets for the next few years\".\n\nThe World Bank's Peter Nagle says rising food prices are having \"very large economic and humanitarian effects\"\n\nMr Nagle, from the World Bank, said other countries can help solve the supply shortage caused by Ukraine's war in the medium term. However a forecast 69% increase in fertiliser prices this year means \"there's a real risk that as farmers start to use fewer fertilisers, agricultural yields will decline\".\n\nFor commodities overall, the World Bank report said: \"While prices generally are expected to peak in 2022, they are to remain much higher than previously forecast.\"\n\nIt added that \"the outlook for commodity markets depends heavily on the duration of the war in Ukraine\" and the disruption it causes to supply chains.", "Rishi Sunak said he would \"see where we are\" come the price cap rise in October\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said it would be \"silly\" to provide more support to tackle rising energy bills now, before knowing what will happen to prices in the autumn.\n\nHouseholds faced a 54% hike in energy costs this month, along with record-high inflation hitting their pockets.\n\nOpposition parties have called for an emergency budget from the government to focus on the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said he wanted to see what happened with energy prices first.\n\nHe pledged the government would look again at more support in the autumn, when the price cap - which rose by 54% in April - is expected to go up again.\n\nLabour's shadow economic secretary to the Treasury, Tulip Siddiq, said the remark showed how \"out of touch\" the chancellor was, as people were \"already feeling the cost of living crisis\".\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine called Mr Sunak's comments \"tone deaf in the middle of a cost of living emergency\".\n\nThe cap is the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge households for energy, and it is reviewed every six months.\n\nEnergy prices have been rising worldwide, driven by squeeze on natural gas supplies made worse by the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe chancellor made the remarks during a Q&A session with online forum Mumsnet.\n\nDuring the 25-minute interview, he was asked whether he would consider introducing a windfall tax on energy companies that have profited from the rise in global prices.\n\nHe said the measure was \"something I would look at\" if those companies failed to make \"investments in our country and in our energy security\".\n\n\"What I don't want to do is discourage investment in our own energy supplies, because we want to improve our energy security so we're not reliant on importing lots of things from abroad,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak was also asked by one disabled user - who relies on life-saving equipment at home - whether the government would offer more support to cover energy bills.\n\nHe responded by listing policies the government had already announced for households, including the £150 council tax rebate to go towards bills, and said it amounted to £9bn.\n\nHe said: \"Now I know people are anxious about this and wondering if they are going to go up even more, and I have always been clear from the beginning we will see what happens.\n\n\"And depending on what happens to bills then, of course, if we need to act and provide support for people, we will.\n\n\"But it would be silly to do that now or last month or the month before when we don't know exactly what the situation in the autumn will be,\" the chancellor added.\n\n\"So I'd say we'll see where we are with that if we need to do more.\"\n\nBut Labour's Ms Siddiq said it was \"time to act\", adding: \"Families are already feeling the cost of living crisis, hit by record rises in energy prices, record high petrol prices and staggeringly steep hikes in the cost of food and essentials.\n\n\"With the chancellor heaping them with the biggest tax burden in 70 years on top of that, people are paying more and getting less.\"\n\nMr Sunak's remarks come a day after ministers gathered to pitch ideas on how to tackle the cost of living without spending any additional taxpayers' money.\n\nDuring the cabinet meeting in No 10, Boris Johnson is said to have proposed reducing childcare costs by easing the rules governing how many children one adult can look after.\n\nAnd sources said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps suggested relaxing the frequency of MOTs.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the meeting showed the PM was \"completely out of ideas during the most profound crisis in decades\".\n\nSir Ed echoed Labour and the SNP's call for an emergency budget, including a cut in VAT, and backed opposition plans for a windfall tax on the profits of the oil and gas companies.\n\nThe interview was carried out shortly before Mr Sunak was cleared by the prime minister's independent ethics adviser of breaching the ministerial code over his family's financial interests.\n\nLord Geidt investigated whether he followed the rules and declared any potential conflicts of interest, after it emerged his wife had held non-dom tax status and he had held a US green card.\n\nThe adviser found all the interests above were declared by the Chancellor in 2018 and all - with the exception of his US green card - were re-declared at later dates.", "BBC director general Tim Davie has described sexual misconduct claims made against former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood as \"appalling\", calling for anyone else with evidence to come forward.\n\nMr Davie said he had found no evidence of complaints made to the corporation about the DJ while he was at the BBC.\n\nMeanwhile, Westwood has had two planned DJ sets cancelled after seven women made allegations about him.\n\nThe Capital Xtra and former BBC Radio 1 host strenuously denies the claims.\n\nOn Tuesday, a joint investigation into the British hip-hop DJ by the BBC and The Guardian featured the accounts of seven women relating to alleged incidents between 1992 and 2017.\n\nThe women accused Westwood of predatory sexual behaviour and touching, claiming he abused his position in the music industry to exploit them.\n\nHe hosted shows on Radio 1 and 1Xtra from 1994 to 2013 and currently presents a weekly slot on Capital Xtra.\n\nCapital's parent company Global is yet to respond to requests for comment on the allegations and to confirm whether Westwood will host his next show on Saturday as planned.\n\nSpeaking at the Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference on Wednesday, Mr Davie, who became BBC boss in 2020, said the allegations were \"shocking\" and the testimony of the women was \"powerful and appalling\".\n\nHe said he had \"seen no evidence of complaints\" being made to BBC managers about Westwood's behaviour in the past.\n\n\"I've asked and we've looked at our records and we've seen no evidence,\" he said. \"If something like this were raised or anything comes up, we investigate it fully. And I would hope we were doing that in that time [when Westwood worked for the BBC] as well.\n\n\"I would simply say if people have evidence where things weren't followed up, or they have concerns in this area, bring it to us. We want to investigate it.\"\n\nAsked whether that applied to historic problems, Mr Davie replied: \"Totally. We will follow up anything and we'll dig and dig and dig, and I want to know if people have got… It's shocking to see those testimonies.\n\n\"I make the point more generally - if people have got evidence of wrongdoing, absolutely. We need to bring it forward.\"\n\nThe director general stressed that \"there's nothing worse in life than abuse of power\", adding: \"You need to be absolutely clear that it's completely unacceptable.\"\n\nFollowing the allegations, which were published on Tuesday, Westwood has seen sets at the Rum Rum nightclub in Birmingham and Butlins in Bognor Regis cancelled.\n\nThe events page of his website, which listed four more UK events scheduled for April and May, has also been removed.\n\nOf the women making the accusations, two accused him of initiating unwanted and unexpected sex, one said she was subjected to unwanted oral sex, and four accused the DJ of touching their bottoms or breasts.\n\nThe women who spoke to the BBC are all black, and said they met Westwood through his work. They told their stories in a BBC Three documentary, Tim Westwood: Abuse of Power.\n\nA spokesman for Westwood said he was a well-respected and highly successful DJ and that he strenuously denied in their entirety the serious allegations made against him.\n\nHe said he did not behave in the manner described and any suggestion that he acts, or has acted, in the way described would be false.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised? If you are able to talk to us please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Frances Connolly says helping others gives her a \"buzz\"\n\nA lottery winner who scooped a £115m fortune and has given away more than half her winnings said she is \"addicted\" to helping others.\n\nFrances Connolly, 55, agreed a yearly charity budget with her husband, Patrick, but had already spent up to 2032's allocation, she said.\n\nThe Hartlepool couple won the EuroMillions in 2019 and immediately gave away cash to friends and family.\n\nMrs Connolly said helping others \"gives you a buzz and it's addictive\".\n\n\"I'm addicted to it now,\" she said.\n\nThe former social worker and teacher has set up two charitable foundations: one named after her late mother Kathleen Graham in her native Northern Ireland, and the PFC Trust which supports local young carers, the elderly and refugees in her home town.\n\nShe estimates she has given away £60m but does not keep a tally, joking she would be worried in case her 57-year-old husband saw it.\n\nWhen the couple won the jackpot in 2019 they gave away large amounts of cash to friends and family\n\nMrs Connolly has a history of charitable acts, she volunteered with St John Ambulance as a child and set up an Aids helpline while a student in Belfast.\n\nShe now backs local community groups which help people get jobs, support refugees and young carers, and provide electronic tablets for old people so they can connect with their families.\n\nTheir biggest personal expenditure was a six-bedroom house in County Durham with seven acres of land, while Mr Connolly drives a second-hand Aston Martin.\n\nBut Mrs Connolly baulks at the idea of spending money on luxuries like yachts, saying reports of someone spending £25,000 on a bottle of champagne made her think the money could have helped a young person buy a house.\n\nFrances and Patrick Connolly moved from Moira, County Down, to Hartlepool 30 years ago\n\nAsked by PA News why she was happy to give so much away, she said: \"Why wouldn't you? I've done that all my life.\n\n\"I'd have been a millionaire anyway if I took back all the money I've given away over the years.\"\n\nMrs Connolly said winning a huge amount of money might change a person's life but it does not alter their personality.\n\n\"If you're stupid before you get it, you're going to be stupid afterwards,\" she said.\n\n\"If I had any advice for a winner... I'd say money liberates you to be the person that you want to be.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson met his cabinet on Tuesday to discuss ideas to tackle rising living costs\n\nMinisters have pitched ideas to tackle the cost of living, as record inflation pushes up food and energy prices.\n\nBoris Johnson called for proposals from his team - that do not rely on spending taxpayers' money - during Tuesday's cabinet meeting.\n\nThe BBC has learned that the PM said he wanted to reduce childcare costs by easing health and safety rules.\n\nAnd sources said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps suggested relaxing the frequency of MOTs.\n\nDelays at the Passport Office were also raised, with Mr Johnson threatening to privatise the service if it did not start delivering better value for money.\n\nOpposition parties have said the help on offer from the government to tackle rising living costs was insufficient, with Labour, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats calling for an emergency Budget to give more support to households.\n\nWith inflation at a 30-year high and household bills continuing to rise, No 10 says the PM has asked ministers to come up with \"innovative ways\" to ease living costs.\n\nOne of the proposals came from the PM himself, with sources saying he wanted to lower the legal limits on adult supervision for children in England, as part of a drive to reduce living costs.\n\nA source in the meeting said Mr Johnson had joked about knowing about the high cost of childcare - he has fathered at least seven children - before telling ministers the government had to get on with reducing costs.\n\nCurrent legal requirements in England say there must be at least one member of staff for every three children in groups aged two years and under.\n\nFor two-year-olds and over, there must be one member of staff for every four children.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition government attempted to relax child-to-staff ratios in England as part of a package of reforms in 2013.\n\nBut the plans - spearheaded by then-education minister Liz Truss - were abandoned after they were opposed by Nick Clegg, who was deputy prime minister at the time.\n\nEarlier this month, experts warned the government against relaxing nursery staffing rules as ministers reviewed ways to improve the cost, choice and availability of childcare.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said the proposal would \"drive down quality whilst making no difference to availability\".\n\nAnd Lib Dem education spokesperson Munira Wilson said Mr Johnson has chosen to \"cut corners and endanger our children\", instead of addressing this issue \"head on\".\n\nRelaxing rules for adult supervision is among suggestions from Boris Johnson\n\nAnother proposal presented to cabinet came from Mr Shapps, who suggested reducing the need for an annual MOT.\n\nEvery vehicle that is three-years-old or over must have a current MOT test certificate and drivers must renew this once a year, costing up to £54.85 for a car and £29.65 for a standard motorcycle.\n\nTwo cabinet sources told the BBC that Mr Shapps suggested reducing the need for renewal to every two years, rather than one, to cut costs for households.\n\nMotoring organisation the AA has come out against the idea, arguing it could in fact make costs worse for drivers due to higher repair bills, as well as reducing road safety.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Chancellor Rishi Sunak \"underlined the importance\" of not fuelling further inflation during the cabinet meeting, and that departmental budgets \"are set\" with no plans to currently go beyond these limits.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the meeting showed the PM was \"completely out of ideas during the most profound crisis in decades\".\n\nHe added: \"Whilst families are facing sky rocketing bills and soaring inflation, Boris Johnson's answer is another quiz night at No 10.\"\n\nSir Ed echoed Labour and the SNP's call for an emergency budget, including a cut in VAT, and backed opposition plans for a windfall tax on the profits of the oil and gas companies.\n\nWhat is striking about some of the proposals ministers have pitched to ease the cost of living is they don't require any cash to be spent.\n\nInstead, they involve cutting rules and regulations.\n\nFor the past two years, the government has intervened with financial support on a number of fronts to help households and businesses through the pandemic.\n\nMinisters are concerned about the government debt that has accrued, and are now looking for ways to help people with rising bills without necessarily having to spend more cash.\n\nSome government sources say ministers want less regulation and intervention from the state in people's lives - a more traditional Conservative approach, with ministers also looking at what \"red tape\" they can cut post-Brexit.\n\nBut this change of tune has caused a backlash from government critics.\n\nOpposition parties have accused them of sacrificing health and safety regulations and \"endangering\" people in the process.\n\nAnd others say cutting rules and regulations won't go far enough to helping people with spiralling bills now.\n\nIt comes as Labour has warned of a £10bn hike in annual petrol and diesel costs, with \"soaring\" prices putting the squeeze on household budgets.\n\n\"Labour's plan would help households through this crisis with up to £600 cut off energy bills, funded by a one-off windfall tax on the booming profits of oil and gas producers,\" said Labour's shadow secretary of state for transport, Louise Haigh.\n\nThe SNP called for an emergency budget earlier this month, saying the Tories had ignored the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThe Green Party has also accused the government of failing voters on living costs, and campaigned for insulation projects to reduce energy needs and keep homes warm.", "Prince Andrew was given the Duke of York title when he married in the 1980s\n\nThe Duke of York has been stripped of his Freedom of the City of York honour following a vote by councillors.\n\nThe motion to remove the accolade given to Prince Andrew in 1987 was carried unanimously at a full council meeting.\n\nCouncillors also called for him to relinquish his Duke of York title in the wake of his out-of-court settlement with Virginia Giuffre in the US.\n\nIn February, the prince agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to Ms Giuffre, who had accused him of sexual assault.\n\nMs Giuffre had been suing the Duke of York in a civil case, claiming he sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17, allegations he has repeatedly denied.\n\nYork Liberal Democrats, the largest group on City of York Council, said the prince had been contacted by the local authority before the meeting to inform him of the motion.\n\nBoth Buckingham Palace and a spokesperson for the Duke of York declined to comment.\n\nThe Freedom of the City of York was bestowed upon the prince as a wedding gift in 1987\n\nRachael Maskell, Labour MP for York Central, said the prince was the \"first to ever have their freedom removed\" by the city and backed calls for his title to be relinquished.\n\nThe rank of duke, like other peerages, can only be removed by an act of parliament, which last happened in 1917.\n\nSpeaking after the extraordinary council meeting, held at York Racecourse on Wednesday evening, Liberal Democrat Darryl Smalley said the government and the Royal Family must \"step in to remove his title to finally end Prince Andrew's connection to York\" if the prince \"fails to do so\".\n\nMr Smalley, the council's executive member for culture, leisure & communities and proposer of the motion, said: \"Having been stripped of his military roles and royal patronages by the Queen, we believe that it is right to remove all links that Prince Andrew still has with our great city.\n\n\"I was pleased to see councillors of all parties support this motion and make it clear that it is no longer appropriate for Prince Andrew to represent York and its residents.\"\n\nTwo members of the public also addressed the council to express their support for the motion.\n\nThe extraordinary council meeting was held at York Racecourse on Wednesday evening\n\nLabour's Aisling Musson told the meeting \"we owe it to the people of York\" to also remove his title.\n\nIndependent councillor Mark Warters said he supported the \"purely symbolic act\" of removing the freedom of the city.\n\nHe added: \"It must be stated though that Prince Andrew has not been convicted of any offence in a criminal or civil court.\"\n\nConservative Martin Rowley called on the council to create a sub-committee so future awards could be properly scrutinised.\n\nIndependent Dave Taylor said if Prince Andrew was stripped of his title, he would prefer Princess Beatrice to become Duchess of York.\n\n\"In contrast to her father, she is personable, intelligent and does her homework,\" he said.\n\nThe Green Party's Denise Craghill said: \"It's entirely inappropriate that the Duke should retain the freedom of our city.\"\n\nThe honorary freedom is bestowed by the city to recognise notable service by local residents, distinguished people and royalty.\n\nPrevious recipients include the Duke of Wellington, Winston Churchill, John Barry and Judi Dench, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some 227,000 private renters in England have been served a \"no fault\" eviction notice in the past three years, a YouGov poll has suggested.\n\nHomelessness charity Shelter wants the government to scrap these evictions, saying losing a private tenancy is the second biggest cause of homelessness.\n\nA Section 21 \"no fault\" eviction notice means a landlord does not need to give a reason for ending a tenancy.\n\nThe government has said it plans to ban the practice \"as soon as possible\".\n\nShelter's CEO has described the situation as \"appalling\".\n\n\"Millions of private renters are living in limbo - never truly able to settle - in case their landlord kicks them out on a whim,\" said Polly Neate.\n\nShelter is asking the government to use the Queen's speech next month to honour its pledge to deliver a Renters Reform bill - including banning Section 21 no fault evictions.\n\nThe government committed to ending unfair evictions in April 2019 - outlining plans to abolish Section 21 evictions.\n\nA government spokesperson said its Private Rented Sector White Paper would set out reforms, including banning Section 21 no fault evictions, \"as soon as possible\".\n\nIt is providing £22bn to help households with rising living costs, they said, which included putting an average of \"£1,000 more per year into the pockets of working families\" through Universal Credit and \"direct support with bills\".\n\nAn eviction ban put in place during the coronavirus pandemic for 14 months ended in May 2021.\n\nAnna, 44, says she was given a Section 21 notice by her letting agent in March - after requesting repairs to her rented property in Manchester.\n\n\"As a tenant, you have no right to say anything,\" she says. \"I'm being kicked out of my home of 15 years for complaining, after getting nowhere trying to get problems in the property fixed.\"\n\nThe part-time worker lives with her adult daughter. She says they have always paid rent on time but are struggling to find a new place to live because of letting agents' requirements.\n\n\"If we can't rent somewhere else, then it leaves us with no other option but the streets,\" Anna says. \"I'm worried, can't sleep and don't feel I can cry anymore.\n\n\"Landlords have all the power, and this isn't right. There are plenty of people in a similar situation to me, and the government isn't doing enough to help us.\"\n\nA Section 21 eviction notice gives tenants two months to move out and the landlord does not have to provide a reason for eviction.\n\nThe YouGov poll has also suggested a quarter of private renters, 2.8 million people, have had three or more rented homes in the past five years.\n\nWith one in five renting households being families with children, Shelter said it was concerned about the destabilising impact on children of constantly having to move.\n\nMs Neate said: \"It's appalling that every seven minutes another private renter is slapped with a no-fault eviction notice despite the government promising to scrap these grossly unfair evictions three years ago.\"\n\nThe government must introduce a \"Renters Reform Bill\" that banned no fault evictions \"to give private renters stability during a time of deep uncertainty\", she added.\n\n\"With inflation and bills skyrocketing, renters desperately need a secure home as many will struggle to stump up the costs of having to move unexpectedly.\"\n\nNew rules were introduced in Scotland in 2017, requiring landlords to give a reason for ending tenancies.\n\nIn Wales, legislation was passed in 2021 to extend the amount of notice landlords had to give from two to six months.\n\nLegislation to extend the notice period for tenancies is currently going through the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe National Residential Landlords Association, which represents 95,000 landlords across the UK, said Section 21 eviction notices would need to be \"replaced by a system that is both fair and workable for both tenants and landlords\".\n\nIt said it had published \"detailed plans\" for a new system and urged Shelter to work with them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ros Atkins looks why Nato’s border with Russia looks likely to expand significantly, as both Finland and Sweden consider applying to join the alliance.", "Liberal Democrat Daisy Cooper said the government had once again been found to have broken the law, this time following a High Court ruling that discharging patients from hospitals to care homes in England during the pandemic was unlawful.\n\nThe MP said Boris Johnson should apologise to bereaved families, and to care workers for his previous comments claiming \"too many care homes didn't follow procedures\".\n\nBoris Johnson said he wanted to renew his apologies, adding that the start of the pandemic was \"an incredibly difficult time\" and that it was not known that Covid could be transmitted asymptotically.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: UK Foreign Secretary says victory for Ukraine is a \"strategic imperative\" for the West\n\nRussian forces must be pushed out of \"the whole of Ukraine\", the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said.\n\nIn a keynote speech in London, Ms Truss said victory for Ukraine was now a \"strategic imperative\" for the West.\n\nThis amounts to the clearest statement yet of Britain's war aims which have, until now, been limited to stating that President Putin's invasion of Ukraine \"must fail and be seen to fail\".\n\nShe said Western allies must \"double down\" in their support for Ukraine.\n\n\"We will keep going further and faster,\" Ms Truss said, \"to push Russia out of the whole of Ukraine.\"\n\nThis implies that Russian forces must leave not just the territory occupied in recent weeks since their invasion on 24 February but also those areas they invaded and annexed eight years ago, such as Crimea in the south and parts of the eastern Donbas region.\n\nA month into this latest invasion, Russia declared its main goal was the \"liberation of Donbas\" - broadly referring to Ukraine's regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.\n\nMore than a third of this area was already seized by Russian proxy forces in a war that began in 2014.\n\nNot all western powers may share Ms Truss' ambitious target, fearing it is unlikely to be achieved either by arms or negotiation.\n\nSome French and German officials have been more cautious about stating war aims that risk provoking Russia, preferring to focus instead on language about defending Ukraine.\n\nThe foreign secretary's latest remarks in a speech at Mansion House in London reflect the desire by some in the West to aim high, so that Ukraine enters any possible future talks about a political settlement to the conflict with the best negotiating hand possible.\n\nMs Truss also used her speech to make clear the West should do more to deter future Russian aggression.\n\nThis, she said, should include more spending on defending itself, with the Nato target of spending 2% of national output on defence seen as \"a floor not a ceiling\".\n\nShe also said Western powers should use their \"economic heft\" to exclude Russia from western markets.\n\n\"Access to the global economy must depend on playing by the rules,\" she said.\n\nBut Labour's shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, said earlier on Wednesday that the speech \"appears to be an admission of failure after more than a decade of decline\" in the government's commitment to defence and security.\n\nMs Truss also set out her view that the West should send weapons to other countries threatened by Russia.\n\n\"We must ensure that, alongside Ukraine, the Western Balkans and countries like Moldova and Georgia have the resilience and the capabilities to maintain their sovereignty and freedom.\"\n\nShe added that if Sweden or Finland chose to join Nato, \"we must integrate them as soon as possible\".\n\nShe said: \"The war in Ukraine is our war - it is everyone's war… because Ukraine's victory is a strategic imperative for all of us.\n\n\"Heavy weapons, tanks, aeroplanes - digging deep into our inventories, ramping up production. We need to do all of this.\"\n\n\"We cannot be complacent - the fate of Ukraine remains in the balance. And let's be clear - if Putin succeeds there will be untold further misery across Europe and terrible consequences across the globe.\n\nRussia's president Vladimir Putin warned earlier on Wednesday that any country meddling in Ukraine would be met with a \"lightning\" fast response.\n\n\"We have all the tools [to respond] that no one can boast of,\" he told Russian lawmakers. \"And we will not be bragging about them, we will use them if necessary.\"", "Two teenagers allegedly found with drugs and a \"Rambo-style\" knife in Cardiff city centre have been arrested.\n\nA 13 year old, from Grangetown, Cardiff, allegedly found with bags of white powder, and arrested on suspicion of possession of Class A and B drugs.\n\nA 17 year old, from Caerau, Cardiff, was arrested on suspicion of possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nOfficers were responding to reports of suspicious individuals gathering in the city centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the stop was shared widely on Twitter, after being posted by former Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie\n\nFive Metropolitan Police officers will face a gross-misconduct hearing over the stop-and-search of Team GB athlete Bianca Williams, following an investigation by the police watchdog.\n\nThe British sprinter, 28, and her partner, were stopped in their car, in west London, in July 2020.\n\nThe couple were handcuffed, searched for weapons and drugs and separated from their three-month-old son.\n\nAn independent panel will now determine whether to uphold the allegations.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police referred itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) after footage of the stop-and-search was posted online by former Olympic champion sprinter Linford Christie, who trains Ms Williams and her partner, Portuguese sprinter Ricardo dos Santos.\n\nThe couple believe they were racially profiled and stopped because they are black.\n\nMs Williams, a Commonwealth Games gold medallist, said the decision to hold a hearing \"opens the door for the Met to start being more honest and reflective about the culture of racism which is undoubtedly still a reality within the organisation\".\n\nPublishing the findings of the IOPC investigation, on Wednesday, regional director Sal Naseem said all five officers - an acting sergeant and four constables - would face allegations they had breached police standards of professional behaviour for duties and responsibilities and for equality and diversity.\n\nFour officers also face allegations they breached the standards for use of force and for authority, respect and courtesy.\n\nThree of the constables will face allegations they breached the standards for honesty and integrity and one will face an allegation they breached the police standards of professional behaviour for orders and instructions.\n\nA sixth officer will attend a misconduct meeting related to the stop-and-search.\n\nIf a police officer is found guilty of gross misconduct, disciplinary action can include being sacked, demoted or receiving a written warning.\n\nMet Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said sorry for the \"distress that this incident clearly caused Ms Williams and Mr Dos Santos\" - repeating an apology made by the force three days after the search.\n\n\"We have co-operated fully with the IOPC's investigation and, in accordance with their direction, are now arranging for an independently led misconduct hearing to take place,\" he added.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan welcomed the IOPC's findings and called for the hearing to be as soon as possible.\n\n\"This case is yet another example of why it is vital that the next [Met Police] commissioner has a more effective plan to tackle the serious cultural issues within the Met Police and to regain the trust of Londoners,\" he said.\n\nMs Williams and her partner, Portuguese sprinter Ricardo dos Santos, welcomed news of the gross-misconduct hearing\n\nDame Cressida Dick quit as Met Police commissioner in February, when Mr Khan said he had lost confidence in her leadership.\n\nA few weeks after the stop-and-search of Ms Williams and Mr Dos Santos, Dame Cressida had told LBC radio she did not \"personally accept\" the video footage \"reveals racism\".\n\nMs Williams said Dame Cressida had made \"public efforts to discredit and undermine our complaints and to trivialise the experiences of black people in the UK and how we are policed\".\n\n\"I sincerely hope that the Met's culture of sweeping these issues under the carpet ends with the former commissioner,\" she added.\n\nThe IOPC said the Met should consider apologising for comments made shortly after the search by Dame Cressida's Deputy Commissioner at the time, Sir Stephen House.\n\nIn July 2020, he told the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee internal reviews of the footage had not highlighted \"anything wrong\" with the officers' conduct.\n\nIn response, a Met official said on Wednesday: \"Sir Stephen stands by his statement as being factually correct at the time and has written to the IOPC to reinforce the importance of senior officers being able to respond to questions from our scrutiny bodies openly and transparently and for advice and clarification of the IOPC's view of how he and his fellow chief officers, both in the Met and nationally, should respond to similar direct questioning in future.\"\n• None The crises and controversies of Cressida Dick", "Dolet Hill (l) and Denton Burke (r) lived together on Delaford Road in Bermondsey\n\nFour members of a family found stabbed to death at a home in south-east London have been named by police.\n\nDenton Burke, 58, and his partner Dolet Hill, 64, were both killed at their home in Delaford Road, Bermondsey, on Monday.\n\nMs Hill's daughter, Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, known as Rachquel, and Ms Ofori-Akuffo's daughter, Samantha Drummonds, 27, also died.\n\nA 28-year-old man who was arrested at the house remains in hospital.\n\nThe Met Police said the man, from Lewisham, was in a stable condition and under arrest on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe man was inside the house when officers arrived and a Taser was deployed in order to detain him, police said.\n\nTanysha Ofori-Akuffo, known as Rachquel, (l) lived in Kennington while her daughter Samantha Drummonds (r) lived in Forest Hill\n\nOfficers had forced their way into the home at about 01:40 BST on Monday, following a call from neighbours about a disturbance.\n\nMs Hill's niece Venecia Reid paid tribute to her aunt, saying she \"didn't deserve this\".\n\n\"She was very loving, very kind, very generous, she'd do anything for you,\" Ms Reid added.\n\n\"I'm very, very heartbroken. I hope her soul rests in peace.\n\n\"She worked very hard in this country to support her two girls and her two grandkids.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The victims were all known to each other, police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Linda Bradley, who is leading the investigation, warned local residents it would be \"a protracted inquiry\".\n\nShe said: \"This was a truly horrific incident and I fully recognise that the distress for the family and the community will be overwhelming.\n\n\"We are moving as fast we can at the scene, but we need to ensure we uncover all the facts and secure every bit of necessary evidence, and this may understandably take some time.\n\n\"We are aware that we have family, friends and a community that are all asking questions; we are determined to give them the answers they deserve as soon as possible.\"\n\nPolice forensic teams worked at the scene throughout Monday\n\nGuy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust paid tribute to Ms Hill, who was an active trade union member.\n\nAlastair Gourlay, director of estates and facilities, said: \"We are devastated to hear about the tragic death of Dolet Hill, who worked as a housekeeping assistant in our pharmacy department for more than 21 years, before her retirement in 2018.\n\n\"Dolet was a well-respected colleague, who also helped to improve the workplace for others as an active Unison representative.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Dolet's family, friends and all who worked with her.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Four stabbed to death in south-east London home\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Major differences in the rate of foot amputations for people with diabetes in England are incredibly concerning, patient groups say.\n\nSuch amputations are a sign patients have not received adequate care, as poorly controlled diabetes increases the risk of foot ulcers and infections.\n\nOne in 10 areas had \"significantly higher rates\", government data shows.\n\nThere was nearly a five-fold difference between the best and worst when taking into account risk factors such as age.\n\nDiabetes UK said the figures \"shined a light on the scale of the crisis facing diabetes care\" and it warned access to support was likely to have become worse during the pandemic.\n\nA report produced by the charity earlier this month said lives would be needlessly lost because of disruption to services over the past two years.\n\nThe government data - published by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities - looked at the three years leading up to the pandemic.\n\nIt found 13 out of 135 local areas in England had significantly higher rates of foot amputations. Harrow was estimated to have the lowest rate at 3.5 per 10,000 people with diabetes, while Blackpool had the highest at 16.8.\n\nIt is believed up to 80% of foot amputations could be avoided with better care.\n\nWhen diabetes - both Type 1 and Type 2 - is present for many years, especially if it is poorly controlled, it can cause complications such as reducing blood flow to vessels in the feet and nerve damage which reduces sensation. This increases the risk of ulcers and infections which may lead to amputation.\n\nDiabetes UK chief executive Chris Askew said the latest figures were \"incredibly concerning\".\n\n\"The majority of these major amputations are preventable, but many people living with diabetes are struggling to access the care they need - and in areas of higher deprivation, people are experiencing worse outcomes. These inequalities must be addressed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hunter McGleenon was 11 months old when he died in November 2019\n\nA man has admitted murdering his then girlfriend's 11-month-old son in Keady, County Armagh.\n\nSharyar Ali, 34, of Westenra Terrace in Monaghan, was due to go to trial on Wednesday for the 2019 murder of Hunter Patrick McGleenon.\n\nAli's lawyer asked that the murder charge be put to the Pakistani national again, to which he responded \"guilty\".\n\nHe had originally claimed Hunter had sustained head injuries by falling off a sofa.\n\nNone of the facts were heard in open court on Wednesday but a previous court had heard that Ali had been in a relationship with the baby's mother Nicole for a year.\n\nHe looked after the baby while she visited her terminally-ill grandmother.\n\nWhen he brought the boy back the next day, he said the child could not breathe and when the family ran to the car to check, the court heard, the baby was cold to touch.\n\nA court was also previously told \"at no time\" did he seek medical help.\n\nAli admitted to murdering Hunter on 26 November 2019 and the prosecutor asked for a second charge of causing actual bodily harm on a date unknown between 24 and 27 November to be left on the books.\n\nMr Justice McFarland adjourned the case to 15 June for Hunter's family to make victim impact statements.", "Angela Rayner says the \"sexist slurs\" printed by the Mail on Sunday were \"mortifying and deeply hurtful\".\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner says her attempt to \"brush aside\" misogynistic remarks does not mean she isn't hurt by them.\n\nShe was responding to a new Daily Mail article, which echoed claims by the Sunday paper that the deputy leader would cross and uncross her legs in the Commons to distract Boris Johnson.\n\nThe piece pointed to a podcast, saying she had laughed about being compared to Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct.\n\nBut Ms Rayner said the \"sexist slurs\" were \"mortifying and deeply hurtful\".\n\nShe added in a tweet: \"As women we sometimes try to brush aside the sexism we face, but that doesn't make it OK.\"\n\nThe Labour MP also appeared to challenge Boris Johnson to take action against the Conservative MPs briefing the newspaper, saying she \"hoped to hear\" what he would do about it during Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nChallenged about the article by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs, the prime minister said there \"can be absolutely no place\" for sexism in Parliament and MPs should treat each other with respect.\n\nThe row erupted at the weekend when the Mail on Sunday published an article about Ms Rayner.\n\nThe paper quoted Tory MPs claiming she tried to put the PM \"off his stride\" during Prime Minister's Questions with her legs, comparing her to \"a fully-clothed Parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's infamous scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct\".\n\nThere was a backlash against the article, with MPs from across all sides of the House - including Mr Johnson - condemning it as misogynistic.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle invited the Mail on Sunday's editor, David Dillon, and its political editor to a meeting to discuss the piece, saying he wanted to \"make a plea - nothing more\" for journalists to consider the impact of their stories on the feelings and safety of MPs.\n\nMr Dillon refused the invitation - using the front page of Wednesday's Daily Mail to announce it.\n\nThe paper also claimed three more Tory MPs had said Ms Rayner was \"the original source of claims\".\n\nAnd it pointed to an interview on Matt Forde's Political Party podcast last January where she laughed about the comparison with Sharon Stone's character.\n\nBut she also said in the recording that she was \"mortified\" by suggestions on the internet that she was using her body to distract the prime minister, saying: \"I don't need to do that.\"\n\nResponding to the Mail's latest piece, Ms Rayner posted a thread on Twitter, saying she had told the podcast \"the sexist film parody about me was misogynistic and it still is now\".\n\nShe added: \"The Mail implies today that I somehow enjoy being subjected to sexist slurs. I don't. They are mortifying and deeply hurtful.\n\n\"'She loves it really' is a typical excuse so many women are familiar with. But it can't be women's responsibility to call it out every time.\"\n\nThe deputy Labour leader was contacted by Mr Johnson after the first article was published, and he told reporters it was \"sexist tripe\".\n\nAsked to comment on Sir Lindsay's attempt to arrange a meeting with the Mail on Sunday, a spokesman for Boris Johnson said he was \"uncomfortable\" with the idea of journalists being \"summoned\" to explain editorial decisions to politicians.\n\n\"We have a free press in this country and reporters must be free to report what they are told as they see fit,\" the spokesman told reporters on Wednesday.\n\nThe spokesman added the PM would not want \"any perception of politicians seeking to in any way curb or control what a free press seeks to report\".", "Five-year-old Logan Mwangi was removed from the Child Protection Register a month before his death\n\nWales needs an independent review of children's social work after the death of Logan Mwangi, an expert has said.\n\nProf Donald Forrester has said there are \"profound problems\" with the system, and now it is in \"crisis\".\n\nThe British Association of Social Workers Cymru agrees that an independent review should be a priority.\n\nThe Welsh government said it is committed to transforming children's services.\n\nLogan Mwangi, five, was murdered by his mother, stepfather and a teenager in July 2021.\n\nHe died after suffering a \"brutal and sustained\" attack at home, leaving him with \"catastrophic\" injuries.\n\nHis body was dumped in the River Ogmore, close to his home in Sarn, Bridgend county.\n\nThe family was known to social services, but Logan was removed from the Child Protection Register a month before his death.\n\nProf Forrester says that in Wales and in the UK there has been \"quite a number\" of child deaths requiring reviews with the involvement of social services.\n\nHe has called for an independent review of all children's social work - similar to those that are being undertaken in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nHe added that Wales is \"out of line\" in not carrying one out.\n\nFive-year-old Logan Mwangi was described as a \"really sweet, happy-go-lucky child\" by a neighbour\n\n\"I think to continue just doing what we're doing when we know it's not working is not good enough, we need to think about potentially radical ways of doing things.\n\n\"If you keep on doing the same things, you can't expect different outcomes.\n\n\"We'll have very high numbers of children in care, and we'll still feel like we're not protecting them and the two are not unrelated,\" he said.\n\nIts national director for Wales Allison Hulmes said social workers were not included in the planning during Covid.\n\nShe said initially there was no guidance for social workers about how to protect children during the pandemic, but they did not stop all face to face home visits entirely.\n\nShe added there were \"huge concerns\" in relation to children's safeguarding before the pandemic, particularly around the recruitment and retention of social workers.\n\nThere is no centrally collated data on the numbers of social worker vacancies, but Prof Forrester was told by one local authority that they had a 40% vacancy rate.\n\nShe said before the pandemic there was a lack of social workers and that complex caseloads were too high and that this got worse because of Covid.\n\nShe added that social workers had gone \"over and above\" in supporting and safeguarding vulnerable children, and they continued to do so.\n\n\"It's not right that Wales is the only nation in the UK that hasn't undertaken a review of children's services, we need independent scrutiny,\" she said.\n\nThere was a lack of social workers before the pandemic and this got worse because of Covid-19\n\nThe Welsh government said that the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 introduced new and strengthened safeguarding arrangements.\n\nIt added that it is \"committed to transforming children's services\".\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives,Welsh Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru all support the call for an independent review.", "P&O Ferries has been urged to hand back the money it received to furlough staff during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the firm should repay the £11m in government money it had received.\n\nThe ferry firm sparked outrage after sacking almost 800 seafarers and replacing them with cheaper agency workers paid below the minimum wage.\n\nMr Shapps' comments came as P&O Ferries resumed cross-Channel sailings for the first time since the sackings.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Spirit Of Britain was the first P&O vessel to resume sailings on the Dover-Calais route, after being detained for nearly a fortnight by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency over safety concerns.\n\nThe vessel was carrying freight customers only, with passenger services expected to start again early next week.\n\nIt is the only P&O ship back in service on the Dover to Calais route, with three others still waiting to pass inspections.\n\nIt came after another P&O ship spent hours adrift without power in the Irish Sea.\n\nP&O said the incident was caused by a \"temporary mechanical issue\" that had been resolved.\n\nThe ship - which will now be visited by maritime inspectors - returned to port \"under its own propulsion, with local tugs on standby,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nMr Shapps also reiterated his call for P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite to resign saying his position was \"completely unsustainable\".\n\n\"He will have to go,\" he added.\n\nMr Shapps also said said the government will introduce new legislation aimed at forcing ferry firms which use UK ports to pay the UK minimum wage.\n\nThe new P&O Ferries crew are paid an average of just £5.50 per hour. This is below the UK's national minimum wage of £9.50 per hour, but in line with international maritime law.\n\nIn response to criticism from Mr Shapps, a spokesman for P&O Ferries said: \"The actions our company took on 17 March, while unpopular, saved 2,200 jobs and a British company.\"\n\nThe spokesman called on the government to have a \"constructive dialogue\" about the \"future\" after two \"very difficult years for business\".\n\n\"Calls for our chief executive to go need to stop,\" the spokesman added.\n\n\"Despite the attempts from some parties to undermine our business by creating false rumours and uninformed commentary, our morale is high and our spirit as a company is strong.\"\n\nP&O Ferries also said it will be back to full service \"shortly\" and will return to commercial viability \"soon\".\n\nResponding to Grant Shapps's comments, National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) general secretary Mick Lynch, said Mr Shapps was \"in fact, trying to rehabilitate the embattled ferry company\".\n\n\"The transport secretary is avoiding his responsibilities by not impounding P&O vessels, reinstating staff on union contracts and getting the government to take over the running of the company\".\n\n\"Only then will be able to have safely staffed vessels with decent pay and conditions which the public can feel confident in using,\" Mr Lynch added.\n\nOn Monday, Pat Rafferty, Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) president, said the way the seafarers were sacked was \"inhumane\".\n\n\"Peter Hebblethwaite should be struck off the directors register and put behind bars,\" Mr Rafferty told an annual conference in Aberdeen.\n\n\"That would send a clear message to employers, act irresponsibly towards workers and face the possibility that you will be jailed.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted P&O Ferries for a response.\n\nMr Hebblethwaite previously said he had not taken a cut to his £325,000 salary, after criticism for replacing his staff with agency workers who receive less than minimum wage.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency has decided to request a further inspection of the European Causeway following its mechanical failure at sea.", "The legal age of marriage and civil partnerships has been raised to 18 in England and Wales.\n\nPreviously, people could get married at 16 or 17 as long as they had parental consent.\n\nThe new law also applies to cultural or religious marriages that are not registered with the local council.\n\nConservative MP Pauline Latham, who introduced the bill to Parliament, said it would \"transform the life chances of many girls\".\n\nUnder the new rules, children will not face penalties but adults who facilitate their marriage could face up to seven years in jail and a fine.\n\nThis would include adults who took children abroad to carry out the marriage.\n\nBacked by the government, the bill has sailed through Parliament with very little opposition - and will receive Royal Assent later this week, meaning it will become law.\n\nPayzee Malika, who was coerced into a marriage, said: \"Today, tears of joy roll down my face because I know what this means for girls like me.\"\n\nWhile Payzee escaped her marriage, her sister Banaz was murdered in a so-called honour killing.\n\n\"There has not been a single moment in this journey when Banaz was not at the forefront of my thoughts,\" she tweeted.\n\n\"Every day I thought of her. I fought for her. This law could have saved her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMihai Calin Bica, of the Roma Support Group, said the bill was \"a good initiative to protect our youth\", but the group expressed concern \"about how it will be applied in practice\".\n\nIt noted that in Roma communities the word \"married\" was often used to explain boyfriend-girlfriend relationships their children have.\n\nThey warned this could create complications when enforcing the law and urged the government to run an educational campaign aimed at raising awareness of the new rules.\n\nThe new law will not affect the validity of any marriages or civil partnerships that happened before the legislation comes into force.\n\nIt does not apply to Northern Ireland and Scotland, where the minimum age will stay at 16 - in Northern Ireland you still need parental consent to marry at 16, but in Scotland you don't.\n\nThe bill might have sped through Parliament without much opposition, but it has taken years for campaigners to get to this stage.\n\nThe hope is this new law will empower young people who are at risk, and the threat of prison will act as a deterrent for those trying to arrange any marriage for under-18s.\n\nBut it will take time for that information to trickle through to the communities it will most effect.\n\nThat's a worry for those who represent the Roma community who want an educational campaign to raise awareness of the new rules.\n\nBut those who have broken free from their child marriages have told me they think this law will make all the difference for children who most need it.", "Paige Burnley's defence team said she did not realise she could not ride the scooter after drinking\n\nA woman who rode an e-scooter while drunk after a hen do has been banned from driving for 18 months.\n\nPaige Burnley, 26, was stopped by police in Cheltenham at 22:40 BST on 9 April after being spotted weaving in and out of traffic.\n\nCheltenham Magistrates' Court said a breath test showed Burnley, from Lincolnshire, was more than twice the legal limit for alcohol.\n\nOn 25 April, Prosecutor May Li told the court that Burnley, of North Hykeham, was spotted by police riding the Zwings e-scooter erratically in the bus lane in Royal Well Place.\n\nShe was stopped and an officer noticed her eyes were \"glazed and red\" and her speech slurred.\n\nAfter failing a roadside test, she was taken into custody where she provided a reading of 75 micograms of alcohol in her breath. The legal limit is 35mcg.\n\nBurnley pleaded guilty to one charge of drink-driving.\n\nBurnley was seen riding the scooter in Royal Well Place in Cheltenham\n\nChris Hogg, defending, said the hen do group Burnley was part of had booked taxis to take them home, but they had not arrived.\n\n\"My client thought, incorrectly, that they could ride the e-scooters instead and legitimately hired one of them.\n\n\"They did not see anything warning them of the legal requirements and she rode the electric scooter thinking she wasn't committing any offence,\" he said.\n\n\"She accepts that ignorance of the law is no defence.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Nicholas Wattam said Burnley's penalty would be less severe as she had admitted her offence straight away.\n\n\"I accept you were under a false impression that you were able to use an e-scooter on the road having drunk alcohol that had taken you over the drink-drive limit,\" he said.\n\n\"This was a dangerous activity to be doing for which there has to be a penalty.\"\n\nThe judge also ordered that Burnley pay court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £50.\n\nCheltenham is one of more than 30 towns and cities currently having official e-scooter trials.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Lt Denys Gordeev and his men are facing the full force of the Russian Army\n\nUkrainian forces have been holding the line in Donbas since 2014, against Russian-backed separatists. They're still holding the line, but what was sporadic fighting has now turned into a full-blown war.\n\nLieutenant Denys Gordeev is used to war, but not like this. \"It's become much harder,\" he says. \"We have bomb attacks, rocket attacks every day, all the time, every hour.\" Though he has spent eight years battling Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas, now he and his men are facing the full might of the Russian army.\n\nAfter its retreat from Kyiv three weeks ago, Russia has refocused its military efforts in Eastern Ukraine - with its goal of taking the whole of the Donbas region. It has redeployed many of its units to the east. Western officials estimate that Russia now has about 76 Battalion Tactical Groups in the region - each of which has about 800 men.\n\nThey also say there's some evidence Russia's been addressing some of its early mistakes, helped by the fact they're now fighting on fewer fronts, and under a unified command.\n\nThe result is that Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold a 300-mile front in the Donbas. They've already lost ground to the Russians and are likely to lose more in the days ahead. Russian forces have been conducting probing attacks to find weak points in Ukraine's defences.\n\nSo far they've been gaining ground around the city of Izium in the north, and around Severedonetsk and Popasna to the east. The attacks are coming from multiple directions, though as yet there's been no major Russian breakthrough.\n\nLt Gordeev says he and his men are experiencing the effects.\n\nThe day before we visited, one of his men was killed and another five wounded. It's just a fraction of the casualties Ukrainian forces are now taking every day, though there are no official figures. We tried to visit a field hospital nearby but were told they were too busy.\n\nSo is this the big Russian surge that has been widely forecast? Or is this just a prelude to such an onslaught?\n\nIt's not clear. For now the invading army is mostly using its artillery and rockets to grind down Ukraine's defences. Some military analysts expect a major assault is still to come.\n\nAnd Ukrainian forces, including Lt Gordeev and his unit, appear to be holding the line, although Western experts say they are already outnumbered three to one. They also concede that Ukraine will probably have to trade space and ground in open areas to defend key cities where the Russians will find it more difficult to fight.\n\nI was allowed to visit Lt Gordeev's forward position during a brief lull in the fighting. They've built a religious shrine at a command post. They're praying for victory. But it's not the place for contemplation or peace. You could still hear the regular blast of artillery.\n\nUkrainian soldiers have made this shrine at a frontline position in the Donbas\n\nOn the short walk to his trench line, he tells me mortar and sniper fire are constant threats. Their closest position is within 600m of Russian forces.\n\nThe landscape is mostly wide open countryside. Tree lines provide some cover but we're close enough to hear the occasional burst of small arms fire.\n\nThe Russians \"are coming and coming and coming into territory of Ukraine. And we don't know when they will stop. We don't know when their journey ends,\" says Lt Gordeev. He was a lawyer before he joined the Ukrainian army. One day he hopes he can return to that life. But for now, he says, he's focused on winning this war.\n\nDown in the trenches, out of sight of the enemy, the mood is more relaxed, though the tired faces of soldiers clearly show the strains of recent fighting.\n\nThey show us some of the weapons they've been using - a DschK Soviet heavy machine gun, still used in conflicts around the world, and a variety of rocket-propelled grenades. It's mostly older Soviet-era kit. but also they proudly show off their one British-made and supplied anti-tank missile - a NLAW (Next generation Light Anti-tank Weapon).\n\nOne of Lt Gordeev's men was trained in how to use it by British troops just before the war started. They've already employed it to destroy a Russian tank, they say.\n\n\"We need these weapons,\" says Lt Gordeev repeatedly. Russia, he says, is a \"military state\" - in contrast, Ukraine's ability to keep its own weapons flowing has been severely damaged. What the West supplies, or does not, will heavily influence the outcome of this war.\n\nAnd Lt Gordeev says the morale of his troops remains high. They're fighting for their homeland.\n\nBut President Putin wants and needs something he can call a win, and soon - possibly by 9 May for Russia's victory day parade. Ukraine may have time on its side - but only if the flow of Western weapons continues and if they can hold back the expected Russian onslaught.", "Officers believe the man in the image may have information than could help the investigation\n\nA photograph of a man has been released by police in connection with an alleged \"prolonged\" sex assault on a train.\n\nA teenage girl boarded the 16:40 GMT train from Llandovery to Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, on Saturday, 26 March.\n\nShe sat at a table seat and has alleged she was then assaulted.\n\nBritish Transport Police believe the man in the image may have information which could help their investigation, and witnesses should contact them.", "A statue which once represented friendship between Ukraine and Russia has been brought down in Kyiv.\n\nThe huge statue in the centre of the Ukrainian capital was ordered to be removed by the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, who said \"Russia destroyed the normal life of millions of Ukrainians and destroyed the peace in Europe.\"\n\nCrowds of people gathered to watch as the monument was dismantled, with some of them cheering the moment the job was completed.", "Facebook stopped losing users as 2022 got under way, even as its owner reported its slowest revenue growth in a decade.\n\nThe number of daily active Facebook users grew to 1.96 billion in the first three months of the year, parent company Meta reported on Wednesday.\n\nThat marked a turnaround from last year, when the social network reported a decline in users for the first time.\n\nThe drop wiped billions from the firm's market value.\n\nSince executives disclosed the fall in February, the firm's share price has nearly halved.\n\nBut shares jumped 19% in after-hours trade on Wednesday.\n\n\"More people use our services today than ever before, and I'm proud of how our products are serving people around the world,\" said Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in 2004.\n\nBut Meta - which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp - still reported its slowest revenue growth in at least a decade.\n\nRevenues in the first three months of the year were up just 7% compared to 2021, hitting $27.9bn.\n\nAnalysts say businesses are pulling back on advertising as they grapple with rising costs and economic uncertainty, stemming in part from the war in Ukraine.\n\nAnd while Google and Facebook have long been the go-to sites for online ad dollars, they are facing more competition as newer platforms such as TikTok draw users and online shopping giant Amazon gets into the business.\n\nGoogle-owner Alphabet earlier this week said advertising revenue in the first three months of the year rose 22%, more slowly than analysts had expected, while the smaller Snap also warned of troubles.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said the firm was investing in its video \"Reels\" to compete with TikTok, and expected ad sales to catch up.\n\nBut Meta is also grappling with new privacy rules from Apple, which make it more difficult to target adverts. The company has said the changes could cost it $10bn in lost sales this year.\n\nThe company said it expected revenue in the coming months of $28bn to $30bn - below analyst estimates.\n\nMeta said this reflected factors including the war in Ukraine and the potential impact of regulatory changes in Europe.\n\nIn March Russia banned access to Facebook and Instagram, as part of its crackdown on independent media following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Zuckerberg has said that the firm will invest heavily in artificial intelligence and virtual reality - the so-called Metaverse - for its next phase of growth. But that is costing it dearly for now.\n\nOverall, Meta's profits in the quarter were $7.46bn - more than analysts had expected but still down 20% year-on-year.\n\n\"Meta's ad business continues to face some very real challenges,\" said Jasmine Enberg, principal analyst at Insider Intelligence.\n\n\"Facebook, of course, is no stranger to obstacles, but the [Apple] changes are the first direct threat to its ad business.\n\n\"Combined with the rise of TikTok, brand safety concerns, and a shift in social media user behaviour, there's a perfect storm heading straight for Meta's ad revenues. Even so, it's clear that advertisers are still turning to Facebook and Instagram to reach their wide audiences.\"", "Caroline and her daughter face a choice between heating and eating\n\n\"I'm trapped,\" says Caroline, one of the tens of thousands of people in work who have to use food banks in the UK.\n\nThe classroom assistant and single mother describes it as a \"circle I can't get out of\".\n\nOver the past year, millions of food parcels have been distributed to people like Caroline, the Trussell Trust says.\n\nThe charity, which runs more than half of UK food banks, says it expects food poverty to worsen in the UK as the cost of living crisis deepens.\n\nCaroline, who lives and works in County Fermanagh in rural Northern Ireland, would like to get a job with better pay, but to do that she would have to move away from her family and community.\n\nShe would also like to stop claiming Universal Credit, but her budget won't allow it.\n\nAs her living costs rise, she is trying to make savings, but it's hard.\n\nShe puts the central heating on only occasionally and uses coal fires to keep herself and her 11-year-old daughter warm. But she needs her car for work, and the recent hikes in fuel prices have hit her hard.\n\nHer grocery bills are also rising, but in her small community there are only local convenience shops, and big supermarkets where she might find better deals are too far away.\n\nAnd so she sometimes finds herself falling back on food banks.\n\nThe Trussell Trust gave out some 1.9 million food parcels in 2019-2020, to an estimated 370,000 households.\n\nBut a record 2.5 million parcels were distributed during during the height of the pandemic in 2020-21, and that only fell back to 2.1 million parcels last year.\n\nThe charity is concerned that the situation is only going to get worse again as benefits fail to keep pace with inflation.\n\nThe majority of people who use food banks have benefits as their only income, but a significant minority - historically about 14% - are in work.\n\n\"What we are witnessing is an accelerating crisis across the country,\" Trussell Trust boss Emma Revie tells the BBC.\n\nTim, 36, had seasonal work at Christmas in north-west London, but has been out of a job since then.\n\nThe Chelsea fan has been studying part-time but has been unable to get a job in retail, where he has previous experience.\n\nHe says \"it is not an extremely good feeling\" to have to use food banks, and he feels \"slightly apprehensive and anxious\" about the cost of living crisis getting worse.\n\nHis electricity bill has doubled since the energy price cap rose in April, with another rise expected later this year.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We recognise the pressures on the cost of living and we are doing what we can to help, including spending £22bn across the next financial year to support people with energy bills and cut fuel duty.\"\n\nThey also said it had given many workers on Universal Credit a tax cut, lifted the minimum wage and provided extra funds to councils to help the hardest hit.\n\nHowever, Ms Revie says the charity has been \"disappointed\" in the government's actions. In particular she criticises a decision to reverse a £20 a week uplift for all Universal Credit claimants last year.\n\nMs Revie is also concerned that if energy prices continue to rise, people will be forced to choose between \"heating and eating\".\n\n\"There are health implications from not being able to stay warm, just as there are health implications of not being able to eat,\" she says.\n\n\"People need a safety net so they can bounce back, not fall into destitution.\"\n\nLabour is calling for the government to set out an emergency budget to offer \"real solutions\" to the cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"Food Banks are a symptom of economic failure and ministers must now offer real help to working people, disabled people, families and pensioners struggling to feed themselves,\" shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said.\n\nFor Caroline in Northern Ireland, her situation remains \"a bit of a nightmare\".\n\nShe had to use all of her savings recently to get her car fixed, and she hasn't had a holiday away for five years.\n\n\"It's just like a balancing act,\" she says. \"You never know what's going to come at the other end of the scale to tip you off\".", "The focus at PMQs today on the cost of living is no surprise given the local elections next week.\n\nThis week, we’ve heard leaks from cabinet about their plans in this area, which crucially don’t cost the government any more - like less regular MOT tests.\n\nI think this helps Sir Keir Starmer, because Labour have a policy of a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies.\n\nIt means he can specifically come up with something, whilst accusing the government of not doing enough.\n\nThis is obviously a huge problem for the government, and everyone expects it to get worse because inflation is rising.\n\nThe government seems to be suggesting that although it has already taken action on this issue, people are going to have to wait a bit longer for something else.\n\nOf course, the point many people would make is they need the help now.", "Tim Westwood has stepped down from his Capital Xtra radio show \"until further notice\" after sexual misconduct claims, the station's parent company has said.\n\nHis exit follows allegations from seven women of predatory sexual behaviour and touching by the British hip-hop DJ.\n\n\"Following the claims that have recently come to light, Tim Westwood has stepped down from his show until further notice,\" a statement from Global said on Wednesday.\n\nOn Tuesday, a joint investigation by the BBC and The Guardian featured the accounts of seven women relating to alleged incidents between 1992 and 2017.\n\nWestwood, 64, presented a Saturday night slot on hip-hop station Capital Xtra for nine years. He previously hosted shows on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra from 1994 to 2013.\n\nTwo of his forthcoming DJ sets in Birmingham and Bognor Regis have also been cancelled in light of the allegations.\n\nThe women accused Westwood of predatory sexual behaviour and touching, claiming he abused his position in the music industry to exploit them.\n\nTwo said he had initiated unwanted and unexpected sex, one claimed she was subjected to unwanted oral sex, and four accused the DJ of touching their bottoms or breasts.\n\nThe women who spoke to the BBC are all black, and said they met Westwood through his work. They told their stories in a BBC Three documentary, Tim Westwood: Abuse of Power.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, BBC director general Tim Davie described the testimony of the women as \"powerful and appalling\", and called for anyone else with evidence to come forward.\n\nMr Davie said he had found no evidence of complaints made to the corporation about the DJ while he was at the BBC.\n\nWestwood hosted the influential rap show on Radio 1 and a drivetime show on sister station 1Xtra before moving to Capital Xtra in 2013 when it changed its name from Choice FM. He also fronted the UK version of hit MTV show Pimp my Ride in 2005.\n\nHe is known for giving a platform to new artists, as well as getting some of the biggest rappers in the world onto his programmes - from Eminem to Cardi B.\n\nThe self-styled \"Big Dawg\" also performed at nightclubs around the UK and internationally, and hosted freestyle sessions and interviews on his popular YouTube channel alongside his radio show.\n\nA spokesman for Westwood said he strenuously denied in their entirety the serious allegations made against him.\n\nHe said he did not behave in the manner described and any suggestion that he acts, or has acted, in the way described would be false.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised? If you are able to talk to us please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Katie Kenyon was last seen getting into a van with a man in Burnley\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of missing Katie Kenyon who was last seen getting into a van with a man five days ago.\n\nThe 33-year-old was seen on Friday in Burnley, Lancashire, getting into a Ford Transit, with police believing she travelled towards Bolton by Bowland.\n\nAndrew Burfield, 50, of Todmorden Road, Burnley, has since been charged with murder, Lancashire Police said.\n\nHe is due to appear at Blackburn Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nWhile the mother-of-two, from Padiham, has not been found, police said they were now working on the basis she was no longer alive.\n\nThe force said Ms Kenyon's family had been made aware of the development and were being supported by officers.\n\nThe family passed on their thanks for all the well-wishing messages but asked people respect their privacy at this time, the force added.\n\nPolice, mountain rescue teams and fire crews have been combing parts of Gisburn Forest in Lancashire's Ribble Valley as part of the investigation.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liz Carr won best supporting actress at the Olivier Awards for her performance in The Normal Heart\n\nActress Liz Carr has suggested theatres consider hosting separate performances of shows for audiences who still want to wear facemasks or socially distance.\n\nThe Silent Witness star won best supporting actress at Sunday's Oliviers for her role in The Normal Heart.\n\nAs live audiences have mostly abandoned wearing masks, Carr suggested venues could offer \"Covid-safer\" performances.\n\n\"Theatre should remain accessible even to those of us who have health conditions,\" she told BBC News.\n\nCarr, who has used a wheelchair since she was seven, is one of the most high-profile disabled actors in the UK.\n\nLast year, she starred in The Normal Heart at The National Theatre, a play about the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York.\n\nSpeaking backstage at the Royal Albert Hall after her win, Carr explained she felt more comfortable appearing in a play than going to one herself as an audience member.\n\n\"If I'd had a five-minute speech, I would've talked about how I haven't been to the theatre in over two years. This is a frightening night for me,\" she said.\n\n\"Now, you could say 'yeah but you did a play, Liz, in front of 1,200 people every night.'\n\n\"Yes, but I was on stage with everybody who was testing, everybody in the cast tested every day, so I felt safer than being a random member of the public in an audience around people I didn't know.\"\n\nCarr suggests theatres could retain a small number of facemask-only performances in their schedules\n\nCarr's win comes after the legal obligation to wear face coverings lifted in England earlier this year, as Covid restrictions eased due to the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nA large number of theatre, cinema and concert-goers have abandoned masks in recent months as a result, because many people find them stuffy, uncomfortable, and now arguably unnecessary.\n\nHowever, Carr suggested that, while most live shows could remain facemask-free, theatres should look at reserving performances specifically for more vulnerable people who are still worried about Covid safety.\n\n\"I'm not sure about [the issue of] everybody wearing facemasks, personally I think yes, they should, in indoor environments because Covid-19 is airborne,\" she said.\n\n\"But I think theatres could think about having safer performances. I think they should have facemask performances that are more socially distanced. In the same way you might have a British sign language performance, I think you should have Covid-safer performances.\"\n\nMany arts and entertainment venues currently offer accessible showings alongside their main programmes, such as cinemas scheduling subtitled performances of films for deaf people.\n\nBut most venues do not currently split audiences who do and don't wish to wear facemasks.\n\nCarr recalled: \"Some of my friends who weren't ready to come and see the show, they came to see the dress rehearsal, because they didn't feel safe enough to come.\n\n\"So I think performances with less capacity and mandatory facemasks, every show should be doing that to make sure theatre remains accessible even to those of us who have health conditions.\"\n\nStephanie McKeon (left), who plays Anna in Frozen, previously called on audiences to wear facemasks\n\nIn recent months, some high-profile West End stars have encouraged live audiences to wear masks.\n\nFrozen star Stephanie McKeon tweeted in October: \"A plea to amazing London audiences: Please please please wear your masks in the theatre. We are working so hard on our end to ensure everyone is safe and to keep our shows running.\n\n'We would be so grateful if you could help us out and do your bit too. Thank you.\"\n\nCarr has a rare genetic condition called arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC), which causes decreased flexibility of the joints and difficulties with movement.\n\nAccepting her Olivier award on Sunday, Carr said: \"There are so many fears about the risk of employing disabled actors, well I think this proves we can do it, we can project, we can fill a stage.\"\n\nIn her acceptance speech, Carr said her award win \"proves disabled people can fill a stage\"\n\nThe actress is a champion of accessibility, and said she hoped theatres would continue some of the measures brought in during lockdown.\n\nMany theatres moved their shows online, opting to live-stream performances to ticket-buyers who were stuck at home amid tight Covid restrictions.\n\nWhile not a viable business model in the long term, it helped theatres maintain a small amount of financial income during lockdown. But despite theatres now operating at full capacity again, Carr told the BBC: \"I don't want to lose online performances.\n\n\"That was one of the good things [about lockdown], that it broke down some of the barriers during Covid, because we had to find ways of entertaining people at home, and we did that through online performances.\n\n\"So don't forget there are a whole bunch of people who still can't access the theatre, let's not forget about them.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.\n\nVery tired and exhausted. That was the Queen's experience of Covid after she caught the virus earlier this year. The 95-year-old monarch revealed how it left her feeling during a virtual visit to Royal London Hospital.\n\n\"Covid-safer\" performances could be offered to audiences who still want to wear facemasks or socially distance, actress Liz Carr has suggested. The Silent Witness star - who won best supporting actress at Sunday's Olivier Awards - says theatre should remain accessible \"even to those of us who have health conditions\". Read more here.\n\nFor the past two years India's army has suspended recruitment because of the pandemic. With 1.4 million personnel, it's one of the country's - and world's - biggest employers. Does this mean India's taking the opportunity to try to shrink its army? Find out here.\n\nCare home visitors and staff are being asked their thoughts on the relaxation of Covid-19 rules in Northern Ireland. The survey is aimed at finding out \"what went well and what needs to change\", the Public Health Agency and Patient and Client Council says.\n\nUnpaid carers, many of who faced added pressure during the pandemic, will benefit from a new fund to help them look after themselves. The Welsh government has earmarked £9m for the 400,000 or so unpaid carers like Stephanie Taylorday so they can pursue hobbies, activities or just read a book. Here's the full story.\n\nHere's a look at which treatments work best against Covid.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A police cordon remains in place on Above Bar Street as officers investigate a serious assault\n\nOne man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and two other people have been held after an assault in Southampton.\n\nA man in his 20s was found with serious injuries in Above Bar Street at about 04:00 BST on Sunday, police said.\n\nA 21-year-old man from the city has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nPolice also arrested a 17-year-old male from Winchester on suspicion of GBH with intent and a 19-year-old man.\n\nOfficers have not said why the 19-year-old was arrested, but Hampshire Constabulary confirmed he was from Fareham.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former Marchon chemical works on the outskirts of Whitehaven is the site of the proposed mine\n\nA deadline of July has been set for a decision on whether to go ahead with a new coal mine in Cumbria.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, the office of the Planning Inspectorate confirmed it had sent its completed report to Housing, Communities and Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove.\n\nIn it, a deadline of 7 July is set for him to issue his decision.\n\nIf it goes ahead, it would be the first deep coal mine to open in the UK for more than 30 years.\n\nIn autumn, the Planning Inspectorate held a public inquiry into whether West Cumbria Mining could mine coking coal at the former Marchon chemical works site in Whitehaven, for use in steel making.\n\nThe coal would not be used for power generation.\n\nSupporters claim it will create jobs and reduce the need to import coal.\n\nThe proposed mine would remove coking coal from beneath the Irish Sea for the production of steel in the UK and Europe.\n\nCopeland mayor Mike Starkie, who has previously said local support for a new mine is strong, said the process had \"dragged on for over six years\".\n\nHe said: \"Now the planning inspector has completed his report which I hope - and expect - is a recommendation that the approval is granted immediately with no further unnecessary delay.\n\n\"I would urge the secretary of state to approve the mine immediately - there is a clear demand for coking coal and approval will give a huge economic boost to west Cumbria.\n\n\"It also supports both the government's levelling-up agenda and the need to become more self-reliant. There is no need to delay approval for this mine a minute longer.\"\n\nGoverning is about difficult choices; confronting seemingly irreconcilable demands - and making a decision.\n\nSo, should the government say yes to a new coal mine in Cumbria, providing a domestic source of coking coal for the steel industry?\n\nAround 40% of the UK's coking coal is currently imported from Russia.\n\nOr do promises to drive down carbon emissions make opening a new mine look ridiculous?\n\nThere's been disagreement and dither. Plenty of both. But now, for the first time, the government faces a deadline, the 7th July. By then it has to decide what to do.\n\nOpponents of the mine have previously protested outside the Home Office in London as well as at the site in Whitehaven\n\nConservative MP Lee Anderson, a supporter of the project, has suggested boosting UK supplies of coking coal could help \"put the squeeze\" on Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.\n\nIn a Commons debate last month, he said: \"if we can get it out of the ground cheaply and safely, we should do that without delay\".\n\nReacting to news of the July deadline, Friends of the Earth said the case against the coal mine was \"overwhelming\".\n\nVictoria Marsom, a spokesperson for group, added that the UK's \"abundant\" sources of renewable energy were \"the future\", and could provide thousands of new jobs.\n\nPlanning inspector Stephen Normington previously said he would make his recommendation in late December or early January.\n\nThe mine was approved to operate until 2049 by Cumbria County Council in October 2020, but in February 2021 the authority suspended its decision.\n\nWest Cumbria Mining previously said exploratory works led it to estimate there were about 750m tonnes of \"excellent quality\" coking coal in the area.\n\nHowever, the company would be limited by planning conditions to produce no more than 2.78m tonnes a year.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned against Nato enlargement, saying it would not aid European stability\n\nRussia has warned Finland and Sweden against joining Nato, arguing the move would not bring stability to Europe.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that \"the alliance remains a tool geared towards confrontation\".\n\nIt comes as US defence officials said Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has been a \"massive strategic blunder\" which is likely to bring Nato enlargement.\n\nUS officials expect the Nordic neighbours to bid for membership of the alliance, potentially as early as June.\n\nWashington is believed to support the move which would see the Western alliance grow to 32 members. US State Department officials said last week that discussions had taken place between Nato leaders and foreign ministers from Helsinki and Stockholm.\n\nBefore it launched its invasion, Russia demanded that the alliance agree to halt any future enlargement, but the war has led to the deployment of more Nato troops on its eastern flank and a rise in public support for Swedish and Finnish membership.\n\nFinnish MPs are expected to receive a security report from intelligence officials this week, and Prime Minister Sanna Marin said she expects her government \"will end the discussion before midsummer\" on whether to make a membership application.\n\nFinland shares a 1,340km (830 miles) long border with Russia and has been rattled by the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAnd Sweden's ruling Social Democratic party, which has traditionally opposed Nato membership, said it is rethinking this position in light of Russia's attack on its western neighbour. Party secretary Tobias Baudin told local media that the Nato review should be complete within the next few months.\n\n\"When Russia invaded Ukraine, Sweden's security position changed fundamentally,\" the party said in a statement on Monday.\n\nBut Moscow has been clear that it opposes any potential enlargement of the alliance. Mr Peskov warned the bloc \"is not that kind of alliance which ensures peace and stability, and its further expansion will not bring additional security to the European continent\".\n\nLast week Mr Peskov said that Russia would have to \"rebalance the situation\" with its own measures were Sweden and Finland to join Nato.\n\nAnd in February Maria Zakharova, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman, warned of \"military and political consequences\" if the countries joined the bloc.\n\nNato was formed in 1949 to counter the threat of Soviet expansion, though since the fall of the Berlin wall a number of formerly communist eastern European countries have joined.\n\nMember states agree to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any individual member state.\n\nDespite the threats, both countries have pushed ahead with their bids and stepped up defence spending.\n\nOn Monday, army leaders in Helsinki announced a new plan to allocate €14m (£10.88m) to purchase drones for Finland's military.\n\nAnd last month Swedish officials said they would boost defence spending by three billion kronas ($317m; £243m) in 2022.", "\"Peek a Boop\" was broken of its pedestal at Victoria Park in Cardiff\n\nFour Snoopy sculptures forming part of a trail have had to be withdrawn after just two days because they were smashed by vandals, the organisers have said.\n\nThe sculptures had been placed at landmarks around south Wales on Friday, as part of an exhibition to raise awareness and funds for the Dogs Trust.\n\nIt was \"devastating\" for the creators and sponsors, the organisers said.\n\nBut they added they hoped to repair the broken sculptures and called on the public to protect those that remain.\n\nThe display, entitled A Dog's Trail, includes 40 large and 75 miniature sculptures of Snoopy - a beagle from the cartoon Peanuts - in Cardiff, Caerphilly and Porthcawl.\n\nThey were placed at key locations, each containing information on their pedestal about the artist and efforts by the Dogs Trust to open a new rehoming centre in Cardiff.\n\nThe exhibition was scheduled to run until 5 June, when each Snoopy sculpture was to be auctioned off as part of a fundraiser.\n\n\"The trail's aim is to raise pounds for hounds so that we can continue to improve dog welfare in Wales,\" said the charity's Owen Sharp in a statement before the exhibition's opening.\n\n\"Welsh Wildflowers\" in front of Caerphilly Castle was badly cracked\n\nA Dog's Trail said the vandalism was particularly \"sad news\" for the events company commissioned to create the artworks - Wild in Art.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, they said: \"We're sorry to bring you such sad news so early on in the trail but unfortunately we have had to remove four of our Snoopy sculptures from the trail due to vandalism.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We're hopeful we can repair the sculptures and have them rejoin the pack, but we are urging the public to look after our Snoopy sculptures, take pride in the artwork and not climb or hang on them, to keep them looking their best.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Queen describes how she felt after contracting Covid\n\nThe Queen has revealed Covid left her \"very tired and exhausted\" after she caught the virus earlier this year.\n\nThe monarch, 95, was taking part in a virtual hospital visit when she described her experience to a former virus patient, whose father and brother had died with the illness.\n\nThe call to the Royal London Hospital last week marked the official opening of its Queen Elizabeth Unit.\n\nBuckingham Palace said in February that the monarch had coronavirus.\n\nShe was said to be suffering \"mild cold-like symptoms\" at the time.\n\nDuring her video call to the hospital, the Queen said: \"It [Covid] does leave one very tired and exhausted, doesn't it?\"\n\nSpeaking to former Covid patient Asef Hussain and his wife Shamina, she added: \"This horrible pandemic. It's not a nice result.\"\n\nMr Hussain was the third member of his family to be admitted to hospital with the virus in December 2020. While he was there, his brother and father died.\n\nAfter spending seven weeks on a ventilator, he is still recovering and uses a portable oxygen machine.\n\nMrs Hussain told the Queen that at one point 500 friends and family from across the world were on a Zoom call praying for her husband. The monarch asked the couple: \"So you have a large family, or a large influence on people?\"\n\nAnd referring to the restrictions on people visiting loved ones being treated in hospital at the time, the Queen - patron of the hospital - said: \"Of course not being able to see your relative was very hard.\"\n\nFormer Covid patient Asef Hussain and his wife Shamina chat to the Queen during the video call\n\nThe Queen heard how hospital staff coped with the huge influx of Covid patients.\n\nMireia Lopez Rey Ferrer, a senior sister who has worked at the hospital in Whitechapel, east London, since 2008, told the Queen: \"As nurses, we made sure that they were not alone.\n\n\"We held their hands, we wiped their tears and we provided comfort. It felt at times that we were running a marathon with no finish line.\"\n\nShe added: \"I look back to the last 18 months with great pride, pride not only in the care we provided to each and every single patient that was in one of our hospital beds, but pride in each member of staff that every day left their families at home despite their fears and worries and they came to work.\"\n\nSenior sister Mireia Lopez Rey Ferrer (centre) said she is proud of the care the staff provided\n\nAbout 800 people from across north-east London have so far been treated at the 155-bed Queen Elizabeth Unit. It was built in five weeks to meet the demand for Covid patients, instead of the normal time period of five months.\n\nAt the end of the call, the Queen spoke to the construction team who created the unit, which is on two floors of the hospital.\n\nShe told them: \"It is very interesting, isn't it, when there is some very vital thing, how everybody works together and pulls together - marvellous isn't it?\"\n\nWhen the team hailed the \"Dunkirk spirit\" that inspired them, the monarch replied: \"Thank goodness it still exists.\"", "A murder trial jury has been played the desperate call for help made by a constituent after Sir David Amess MP was fatally stabbed in October 2021.", "Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called on those who did not vote for Emmanuel Macron to back her in the second round of votes in the French presidential election.\n\nFrench projections suggest Mr Macron will face a run off against Ms Le Pen in the next round of votes.\n\nAccording to national broadcaster France Télévisions, Macron received 28.4% of the vote while Le Pen came second with 23.4%.", "Police were called to Skelton Road in Forest Gate on Sunday\n\nA police officer has been injured by a man wielding a machete in east London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Skelton Road in Forest Gate at about midday on Sunday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police force said it was believed a man was \"suffering a mental health crisis\" and officers remained on scene in an attempt to engage with him.\n\nThe injured officer is being treated in hospital for a slash wound to his arm. His condition is not life threatening.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world Image caption: The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world\n\nWe reported earlier that the BBC has been able to verify the deaths of more than 1,000 Russian troops, of whom about 20% are officers.\n\nEven if we talk about confirmed losses only - there is evidence that Russia has lost some of its best specialists, including elite special forces operators, highly skilled fighter pilots and some experienced commanders.\n\nIt takes five years and at least $10,000 to prepare an infantry lieutenant in Russia. For other specialties, the cost rises to $60,000 per officer. It costs between $4m and $14m (and takes up to 14 years) to prepare a skillful fighter pilot.\n\nWe also noticed another trend. About 15% of all confirmed losses are paratroopers from units which are considered the elite of the Russian army. And preparation of a paratrooper in Russia demands more money and time compared to an infantryman. So these are sensitive losses.\n\nSome servicemen were very experienced, for example fighter pilot Capt Sergei Volynets fought in Georgia and Syria, and had several medals.\n\nThere are at least 15 military intelligence special forces operators (including five officers) and three maroon berets in the confirmed losses list. These take months or even years to train and educate. The test to get a maroon beret is considered to be one of the hardest in the military world.", "It is to be a re-run of the 2017 second round, where Emmanuel Macron pulverised Marine Le Pen. But this time around, let no-one be under any illusion that it will be so easy.\n\nEstimations from round one show how tactical voting rewrote the electoral map.\n\nVoters gathered into three broad camps: Macron, the far-right and the far-left. In the last days of campaigning, many people who were considering other candidates finally decided that they would rather back a frontrunner.\n\nThere was thus a big transfer of votes from Éric Zemmour - the hard-right nationalist pundit - to the camp of Marine Le Pen. Some right-wingers in the conservative Republicans party may have done the same.\n\nOn the left, voters decided that neither the Socialist Anne Hidalgo nor the Green Yannick Jadot could ever make it into round two. So they shifted massively to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, simply to keep a leftist in the race. This despite many Socialists and Greens actively disliking the man.\n\nAnd in the centre, many who would normally have chosen the Republicans' Valérie Pécresse will have plumped instead for the incumbent. Why? Because they were genuinely afraid that Le Pen and/or Mélenchon were coming up too strong from behind.\n\nMarine Le Pen will once again face up against Macron\n\nRemember under France's system, it's only the top two who go through, and a small margin can make a vast difference. The prospect of a Le Pen-Mélenchon second round was not totally far-fetched.\n\nOne is the utter devastation facing France's two traditional parties of government since 1958 - the conservative right, and the socialist left. This was a process started by Macron five years ago, but now comprehensively complete.\n\nBoth parties' candidates - and certainly the Socialists' Anne Hidalgo - may have failed to reach the 5% threshold, which allows them to claim back election costs. The price tag will be millions of euros, but worse is the ignominy. We can expect serious internal ructions.\n\nMacron has so engineered it that the divide in French politics is now definitively the one that he sought: between his own \"realistic centrism\" and \"openness to the world\" and the \"extremism\" of his opponents. The \"nationalist extremism\" of Le Pen and the \"utopian extremism\" of Mélenchon.\n\nFar-leftist Mélenchon came in third place with about 20% of the votes\n\nThis divide has served him very well so far. It allows him to aggregate the so-called \"responsible\" forces of left and right, gutting the mainstream opposition and leaving him master of the terrain.\n\nBut the second lesson of this first-round vote must bring him cause for concern.\n\nThis is that the so-called \"irresponsible\" forces of the extremes - his opposition - are growing stronger all the time.\n\nAs veteran political commentator Alain Duhamel put it on Sunday night \"the anti-system parties now have the loyalty of a majority of the French\".\n\nFar-right candidate Éric Zemmour has urged his supporters to vote for Le Pen\n\nIf you add Marine Le Pen's vote to that of Éric Zemmour and a third \"sovereigntist\" candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the far-right makes up 33% of the vote - seven points more than in 2017.\n\nAnd then if you add the far-left votes - for Mélenchon and the two Trotskyites - to the total votes for all \"anti-system parties\", that figure exceeds 50% of the votes cast.\n\nMany of these people will end up voting for Macron in round two, for the same reason they did so in 2017 - because for them seeing the far-right in power is unconscionable. But there will be others who abstain, or vote blank, or vote Le Pen.\n\nThe truth is that the anti-Le Pen vote and the anti-Macron vote are converging; the first going down and the second going up.\n\nWhich is why this time, round two is not going to be the same walkover.", "Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in October\n\nThe judge in the trial of a man accused of murdering the MP Sir David Amess has said the defendant has no legal defence.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 26, said in evidence on Thursday that he stabbed Sir David on 15 October 2021 in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, as retribution for airstrikes in Syria.\n\nIn a legal direction Mr Justice Sweeney told the jury there was no lawful defence for the killing of Sir David.\n\nThe jury has retired to consider its verdict.\n\nIn his direction to the jury, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"Having considered the defendant's account taken at its highest in his favour, I direct you, as the judge, that the killing was neither in lawful self-defence, nor in lawful defence of another, nor in the lawful prevention of crime.\n\n\"Because that is a direction in law, the prosecution are entitled to rely on it and you must follow it in your deliberations. No other defence arises.\"\n\nIn his closing speech to the jury, Tom Little QC, prosecuting, said the evidence against Mr Ali was \"utterly overwhelming and compelling\".\n\nHe told jurors: \"I suggest you will never forget the body-worn footage of the defendant still holding the bloody knife he had had for five years for just such an attack in that church on Sir David Amess.\"\n\nDuring evidence on Thursday Ali Harbi Ali told jurors he killed Sir David Amess to prevent Muslims being harmed\n\nDuring his evidence Mr Ali was \"smiling, almost enjoying reliving and explaining what he intended to do and what he had done, revelling, you may think, in his terrorist acts\", Mr Little said.\n\nHe told jurors: \"In Ali Harbi Ali's world he has done nothing wrong.\n\n\"But you live in the real world, and in the real world you cannot take the law into your hands, hence he has no defence to the charge of murder.\"\n\nDefence barrister Tracy Ayling QC told the jury that the defendant's case was that he acted to \"save lives\" in Syria.\n\n\"His purpose was, as he puts it now, to save lives at the expense of Sir David's but also his own,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There have been urgent calls for investigations into allegations of war crimes in previously Russian-held areas of Ukraine after shocking footage of murdered civilians.\n\nBut there are wider questions over whether widespread Russian attacks on civilian targets amount to war crimes.\n\nWe've been looking at a series of attacks in one city - Chernihiv - to see whether they are consistent with Russian tactics across Ukraine and reveal something of their strategy.\n\nThe following report contains some graphic details.\n\n\"They were shooting at us with everything they had,\" says Diana, 20. Within minutes of encountering the Russian tank, half her family would be dead.\n\nDiana, her mother Irina, her partner Sasha and his little brother Maxim were fleeing Chernihiv on 9 March after weeks of shelling. They had one simple aim - to reach safety in the west of the country, where relatives were waiting for them.\n\nBut within minutes of leaving the city heading south they were plunged into danger.\n\nAs their Volkswagen Golf passed the village of Kolychivka, Sasha saw Russian tanks ahead. One fired at them immediately. He put his foot down, hoping to accelerate through the danger zone - and then the car stalled.\n\nSasha, Diana and Maxim, and Diana with her mother Irina\n\nThe firing continued, and Sasha shouted for them get out - but 15-year-old Maxim had already been hit. There was a hole in his chest and blood coming from his mouth.\n\nDiana, Sasha and Irina crawled into bushes - but soldiers were approaching, shouting to each other, asking where the family were hiding. Bullets cracked towards them.\n\nDiana's foot was seriously injured. Sasha tried to bandage it, but then as he turned to help Irina, the horror worsened.\n\n\"Irina opened her jacket and we realised that there was nothing to bandage,\" Diana told BBC News. \"A part of her abdomen and intestines had been shot through.\"\n\nThey heard more shooting and Diana turned to Sasha believing these were their final minutes.\n\n\"We had time to say that we loved each other,\" she said. \"I asked Sasha, 'Are we going to die here?' He said, 'Probably'.\n\n\"My mum crawled with us a little more. I kept turning and saying, 'Mum, crawl, please, please'. She said, 'Yes, yes'. And then she [lay] down on the ground. She died there.\"\n\nDiana kept crawling, following Sasha as he broke a path for her through the thicket. They went past a burning field and through the forest.\n\nDiana and Sasha survived and she made it to a hospital. She has lost four toes from her left foot.\n\nDiana has no doubt the attackers were Russian because of their accents, uniforms and the Z symbol daubed on one of the tanks.\n\nThe BBC's verification team has found no evidence of any legitimate military targets near the site of the attack.\n\nAttacks on civilians in cars elsewhere\n\nWater is the most basic of human necessities and there is evidence of deliberate Russian targeting of the supply in Chernihiv.\n\nA pumping station on the outskirts of the city was hit on 14 March.\n\nThe attack badly damaged a water reservoir and destroyed a control room, according to the head of the water company in Chernihiv, Serhiy Malyavko, who said a worker at the plant - along with three family members - were killed. The family was sheltering there after their home was destroyed by shelling.\n\nSatellite imagery shows the damage to the plant, located by Twitter user @obretix in a forested area far away from other buildings.\n\nPhotos released by the water company showed a severely damaged treatment tank with small craters in the ground. Damage that looks like shrapnel holes pepper the buildings.\n\nThe sequence of craters visible in a satellite image suggests ground-launched strikes, says Wim Zwijnenburg, an arms researcher at Pax, a Dutch peace organisation.\n\n\"The shrapnel impact and blast direction seem to indicate the missiles were fired from the west of the water facility, [which] corresponds with the presence of Russian troop movements located to the west, according to public data on their locations.\"\n\nWithout access to the site itself, the experts we've spoken to say it's not possible to be precise about the weapons used. Rather than missiles, the damage may have been caused by heavy guns or mortars.\n\nThe Chernihiv Water Company released pictures of other sites that had been attacked\n\nThe head of the water company says the site was struck three days in a row.\n\n\"There was no military target. I'm 100% sure that the Russian troops have been destroying the city's infrastructure so that there would be no gas, no electricity or water supply in the city,\" Mr Malyavko told BBC News.\n\nHe said two other facilities elsewhere were also destroyed, cutting off water to most of the city's population.\n\nThe rules of war ban premeditated attacks on targets indispensable to civilian life, such as water supplies.\n\n\"This has been done to make the population panic,\" says Mr Malyavko. \"And Russia is probably hoping that if there's a humanitarian catastrophe, the local authorities will agree to start negotiations - and that the city will surrender.\"\n\nIt was the morning of 16 March, and Ukrainian journalist Alina Klimenko received news of a much-needed bread delivery to the city. Her father, Vitalii, dashed to join the queue.\n\nBut after a short while he moved away as a nearby house came under fire. Others, now used to the sound of shelling in the city, stayed.\n\nAnd then the queue itself was hit.\n\nAlina ran out to film the aftermath. Her footage showed bodies on the ground and an ambulance racing to the scene.\n\nAt least 14 civilians died, according to Ukrainian authorities.\n\nWe have confirmed the authenticity of Alina's video and located it to a residential area in the city.\n\nAlina's father, who has a military background, says the incoming fire was from the north-east, consistent with the attack being launched by Russian units operating several kilometres to the north of Chernihiv, according to the mapping team at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).\n\nWeapons expert Mark Cancian looked at the BBC's research. He said the damage was consistent with the impact of a missile with a range of up to 30km (19 miles).\n\nA satellite image from 16 March shows Russian forces with this kind of weaponry 14km north-east of the city.\n\nThe US Embassy in Kyiv initially wrongly reported that Russian forces in the city had shot dead the civilians.\n\nThis was quickly denied by Moscow who said no Russian troops were present in the city. But the Russians went further, saying the event had either been staged, or that those killed were victims of \"Ukrainian nationalists\".\n\nThere have been numerous examples of this type of denial from the Russian government.\n\nA critical factor in any prosecution for war crimes is obtaining clear evidence of a deliberate intent to target civilians.\n\nImages and eye-witness statements can be the starting point, says Prof Alex Whiting, a former investigations co-ordinator at the International Criminal Court.\n\nBut investigators would then need to tackle a series of basic questions:\n\nA hotel and a football stadium in Chernihiv were hit\n\nThroughout the conflict, the Ukrainian intelligence services have been releasing allegedly intercepted communications between Russian forces.\n\nIn one, a man with a Russian accent can be heard being ordered to shoot at a civilian car.\n\nThe authenticity of these conversations has not been verified by the BBC.\n\nBut by building a picture of consistent patterns of behaviour, the case for prosecution becomes stronger.\n\nSareta Ashraph, an expert in human-rights law, says investigators would be looking to establish these patterns of behaviour across the country - whether water facilities, hospitals or supermarkets had been regularly hit - in order to build up a picture of military strategy.\n\n\"This can show evidence of deliberate targeting, where the intent to bring the civilian population to its knees becomes much clearer,\" she says.\n\nAs the war continues, Ms Ashraph says she's reminded of Russian tactics in previous conflicts.\n\n\"I would say that Russia's actions in Ukraine contain some quite dark echoes of actions in Syria,\" she said.\n\nWe contacted the Russian defence ministry about all of the cases documented in this article. We have not yet received a response.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jurors were shown footage from a police interview where the suspect said 'I killed an MP'.\n\nAli Harbi Ali was born in Southwark, south London, growing up in Croydon. A British national of Somali heritage, he became radicalised by the war in Syria and ultimately decided to kill an MP.\n\nHe booked an appointment for 15 October, last year, to meet Tory MP Sir David Amess at a weekly constituency surgery, in Leigh-on-Sea. Once there, he murdered the 69-year-old, stabbing him 21 times. It was an \"assassination for terrorist purposes\", the jury at his trial was told.\n\nNow convicted of the murder of Sir David, Harbi Ali's motives - made clear during police interviews and his trial - reveal a textbook study of radicalisation.\n\nCivil war was raging in Syria as Harbi Ali entered his late teens and he turned to social media to try to understand what was happening.\n\n\"It was probably one of the most documented wars ever in terms of the brutality that was carried out by a tyrant to this day,\" he said in a police interview.\n\n\"And it was seeing the fighting that happened and everything surrounding it that sort of first of all got me interested. And then through that, I learnt about Islamic practices and more about my religion than I knew before.\"\n\nThe self-styled Islamic State (IS) group became a dominant voice in the coverage of the war because of how it quickly took territory and how it sold a story that it was the legitimate government of God on earth.\n\nIS said there was an obligation on all Muslims to help build this \"state\" and fight its enemies. As it recruited, willing soldiers then broadcast tales of their new exciting life to people back home.\n\nHarbi Ali bought in to the propaganda - turning a blind eye to the IS group's shocking brutality.\n\n\"I guess they were just quite media savvy,\" he told counter-terrorism detectives. \"They would put things out there [on social media] quite quickly that was easily picked up, yeah.\"\n\nHarbi Ali convinced himself he was under an obligation to act.\n\nAnd so - for a potentially bored teenager living a humdrum life in suburban London - the war not only appeared like an exciting video game on social media, it came packaged with an appealing message that there was a role for everyone else.\n\nBy 2015, Harbi Ali had decided that he would take part in \"hijrah\".\n\nIn Islamic history, the term refers an important episode in the life of the prophet Muhammad when he escaped his enemies to the sanctuary of another city.\n\nModern-day jihadists distort the the story and tell recruits hijrah is a divinely-ordained migration in order to fight.\n\n\"My initial focus was to go abroad,\" Harbi Ali told police. He wanted to travel abroad to join the fight.\n\n\"My second year [of university], around five years ago, I made the decision to drop out and follow the path and make hijrah - which was my preference.\"\n\nBy late 2018 or early 2019, he was not going anywhere and, by his own admission, was running out of excuses.\n\nHarbi Ali told himself he could instead join the ranks of home-grown attackers - on the basis of an instruction from an IS propagandist who played a major role in the spread of terrorism attacks in western Europe.\n\n\"He came out with an audio message essentially saying, 'Strike them wherever you find them,' which is a quote from the Quran,\" he said.\n\n\"It was essentially saying if the doors of hijrah have been closed to you then you have a second option. You're in the place where we hate everyone already - do something there.\"\n\nThe pandemic slowed his plans - but during his police interviews Harbi Ali said he settled quite early on a plan to kill one of 524 MPs who had voted in 2014 in favour of UK air strikes against IS.\n\nHarbi Ali believed this was an attack against Muslims and that he therefore had a just cause to kill an MP as a response.\n\n\"Would you describe your decision and your actions as rational?\" asked one of the police officers. \"Yes,\" replied Harbi Ali. \"If I thought I'd done something wrong I wouldn't have done it, you know.\"\n\nAt times he referred to World War Two, comparing his actions to defeating Nazi Germany. \"I think what I [did] was a just cause and for other people they would see fighting Nazis as a just cause.\"\n\nIn the witness box: Harbi Ali appeared relaxed and unconcerned about his actions or fate\n\nThe Metropolitan Police confirmed that between 2014 and 2015 Harbi Ali had some kind of engagement with the counter-radicalisation scheme, Prevent.\n\nHe told his trial that he was booked to meet a man from the Home Office in Brixton, south London, who talked to him about the true meaning of Islamic theology.\n\nThis sounds like an official \"intervention provider\" - usually a theologian - but neither the police nor the Home Office will confirm if this is true.\n\nThat also means we don't know if Harbi Ali was ever given the all-clear by Prevent bosses, or, as sometimes happens, he walked away refusing to co-operate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown bodycam footage of plain-clothed police officers tackling Ali Harbi Ali to the ground\n\nHe told his trial: \"There's a hadith [saying of the prophet Muhammad] that says that war is deception. If to further my war I have to deceive, I will do that.\"\n\nHis deception continued during his trial. When he stepped into the witness box he chose not to swear on the Quran - despite describing himself as a practising \"moderate\" Muslim.\n\nThe reason was simple: it allowed him the space to continue to lie and fantasise until the very end - including his denial that his crime was murder and his intention was terrorism.", "Leaked documents seen by BBC News show how a sanctioned oligarch from Putin's \"inner circle\" hid his wealth.\n\nThey reveal how a Swiss tattoo artist was falsely named as owner of a company that transferred over $300m (£230m) to firms linked to Suleiman Kerimov.\n\nThey also show how $700m of transactions - and the secret ownership of luxury properties - went undetected.\n\nThe investigation exposes failures of the banking system and the obstacles impeding Western sanctions.\n\nAs part of the Pandora Papers Russia project, an investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the BBC has discovered evidence that:\n\nTom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the defence think tank RUSI, said the oligarchs Western countries are trying to sanction have many of these shell companies.\n\n\"That just shows you how big a challenge we are going to have in genuinely enforcing the sanctions against oligarchs - beyond just seizing their yachts and houses in Belgravia.\"\n\nSuleiman Kerimov appeared in February with a dozen other billionaires alongside President Putin, as Russian tanks crossed into Ukraine.\n\nHe has been subject to US sanctions since 2018 \"for being an official of the government of the Russian Federation\" having served as a member of both the lower and upper houses of parliament.\n\nHe was sanctioned by the UK government on 15 March this year, as well as by the EU, which said he was \"a member of the inner circle of oligarchs\" close to Putin.\n\nMr Kerimov rose from humble origins as a Soviet era economist to become one of Russia's richest and best-connected oligarchs.\n\nHe made his fortune buying up energy assets and major stakes in Russian banks after the fall of the Soviet Union. He reportedly made $21bn investing in the giant gas company Gazprom - and Sberbank, the biggest state bank.\n\nIn November 2006, he almost died from injuries sustained in an accident in southern France. He skidded off Nice's Promenade des Anglais in a $650,000 Ferrari Enzo, which burst into flames. Mr Kerimov and his female passenger were pulled from the wreckage.\n\nOur investigation of Mr Kerimov exposes the failure of the international banking system to identify who was behind hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions which banks identified as suspect.\n\nMr Kerimov is among more than 4,000 Russians whose names appear in data obtained by the ICIJ and examined as part of Pandora Papers Russia - a new investigation by ICIJ and global partners to shed light on covert financial transactions linked to the oligarchs and others close to the Kremlin in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nCorporate records show how fake owners were used to heighten secrecy and that banks did not know exactly who was behind big US dollar transactions.\n\nThat throws into doubt the ability of governments to identify and seize the assets of those they are targeting in the aftermath of the invasion.\n\n\"We are coming for your ill-begotten gains,\" US President Joe Biden pledged in his annual State of the Union speech. The US has announced a major intergovernmental programme to identify oligarch assets. But that won't be easy, as the Kerimov case highlights.\n\nExperts say Western countries have a lot of work to do because, for years, they have taken a lax approach to the fight against dirty money and failed to hold banks to account.\n\n\"They are going to have to play a lot of catch-up if they want to follow through with this,\" said Julia Friedlander, a former US Treasury Department sanctions adviser now with the Atlantic Council think tank.\n\nThese are the key new findings relating to Suleiman Kerimov.\n\nA secret French court document - seen by the BBC - reveals how the oligarch is alleged to have hidden his wealth behind one of his closest associates.\n\nMr Kerimov was arrested in November 2017 in France on suspicion of laundering the proceeds of tax evasion. The case against him related to the purchase of a string of luxury properties in the French Riviera between 2006 and 2010.\n\nSuleiman Kerimov outside the appeal court of Aix-en-Provence, France, 2017\n\nIt focused on Villa Hier in Cap d'Antibes, a luxurious property once used as a filming location for the 1988 film Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels.\n\nIt had been sold to a Swiss company called Swiru Holding AG in 2008 for €35m (£29.3m) - but investigators discovered hidden payments showing tax had been evaded on the real purchase price of €127m.\n\nAlexander Studhalter, a Swiss accountant and businessman was also arrested. He claimed to be the owner of Swiru Holding and of four villas, but French investigators believed they were really owned by the Russian oligarch.\n\nThey believed Mr Studhalter was a false beneficial owner, or straw man, for Mr Kerimov - but criminal cases against both men were halted, with indictments against them being cancelled by a French appeal court.\n\nIn 2020, Swiru Holding accepted its involvement in evading the tax and was fined €1.4m and made to pay another €10.3m to settle the case.\n\nMr Kerimov's lawyer put out a statement saying that the French courts had \"officially dismissed the allegations made by the former Nice Prosecutor against Suleiman Kerimov of having carried out money-laundering operations.\"\n\nMr Studhalter maintains he was \"never the straw man for my Russian friend\".\n\nBut according to the leaked French court document, seen by the BBC, this is not true.\n\nAt a secret hearing in June 2018, judges laid out evidence collected by the investigating magistrate, which concluded: \"the effective and exclusive beneficiary of the villas is Mr Kerimov and his family.\"\n\nThe evidence included records from three banks - including documents apparently signed by Mr Studhalter, Mr Kerimov and his nephew Nariman Gadzhiev - stating that Mr Kerimov and his nephew were the true owners of Swiru Holding.\n\nIn response, the court recorded, Mr Studhalter claimed the \"documents held by the bank and signed by Suleyman Kerimov or Nariman Gadzhiev… were forgeries\".\n\nIn response to questions from the BBC and ICIJ partners, Mr Studhalter claimed the same bank employee had forged documents at two banks, but said he didn't know why.\n\nMr Studhalter also said: \"I was the sole beneficial owner of Swiru Holding AG from its foundation until I sold the company in 2019, as confirmed by the Swiss Federal Tax Administration and a court in France.\"\n\nMr Kerimov's French lawyers said: \"After several years of investigation, no charges were brought against our client.\"\n\nMr Studhalter says the four villas in France have now been sold. Official records in France show the ultimate beneficial owner of the companies that own them is Mr Kerimov's daughter.\n\nFrance was not the only country where Mr Kerimov used Swiru Holding to conduct secret financial transactions.\n\nOur investigation has discovered that - at the same time the Russian billionaire was buying up properties in the south of France - he was building another secret property empire in London.\n\nOne Cornwall Terrace is a luxury four-storey mansion at the end of a row of terraced houses overlooking Regent's Park in London. The home is connected to half an acre of landscaped grounds, with a grand double staircase leading on to an imposing courtyard.\n\nIt hit the headlines in 2013 when its sale for a reported £80m made it one of the most expensive terraced properties ever sold in the UK.\n\nIn October last year, documents from the Pandora Papers financial leak revealed it was one of two adjacent properties purchased by the ruling family of Qatar.\n\nBut the documents show it was bought for £21m in 2005 by an offshore company owned by Swiru Holding, the same company that bank documents in France showed was owned by Mr Kerimov.\n\nFollowing the successful launch of Mr Kerimov's company Polyus Gold - Russia's largest producer of gold - on the London stock exchange in 2007, One Cornwall Terrace benefitted from a lavish restoration. The work carried out between 2008 to 2013 was a bonanza for London's architects, interior designers, and landscape gardeners.\n\nThe renovation cost £30m, according to architects working on the project and included the addition of a \"state-of-art swimming pool and spa to the basement\", while the garden renovation was \"inspired by Piazza dell'Anfiteatro in Lucca, Italy\".\n\nBut, while references were made to a \"a private Russian client\", Mr Kerimov's ownership of the property was hidden behind layers of offshore secrecy.\n\nThe financial activities of the company secretly owned by Mr Kerimov were not limited to the property market.\n\nDocuments from the Pandora Papers show Swiru Holding at the centre of a web of companies involved in transfers of hundreds of millions of dollars linked to the oligarch.\n\nIn one case, leaked corporate records reveal a nominee shareholder - someone who owns shares for the benefit of another person - was falsely named as the true owner of a company involved in over $300m of money transfers.\n\nRenato Coppo is a tattoo artist in the picturesque Swiss city of Lucerne with a love of \"Asian art\" and \"many years of professional experience in the field of tattooing\". His studio is in the same city as the offices of the accountant and businessman Alexander Studhalter.\n\nAccording to documents dated 2016 - one signed by Mr Studhalter - Mr Coppo was also the beneficial owner of Fletcher Ventures, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, but administered in Switzerland by Swiru Holding.\n\nThe tattoo artist's company Fletcher Ventures was involved in huge transactions. In 2013, the company transferred $100m to a firm called LT Trading Ltd.\n\nIt was one of a number of transactions by Fletcher Ventures that set off alarm bells at US bank BNY Mellon. The bank filed a suspicious activity report with the US Treasury, which traced Fletcher Ventures to Switzerland. Renato Coppo was not identified and the bank could not identify exactly where the money was going.\n\nThe bank's \"internet research\" traced LT Trading to a UK address. Bank officials noted the UK company specialised \"in the sale of fruits and vegetables\". It was \"suspicious\" they concluded \"because it appears to be inconsistent with the purported line of business of LT Trading Limited\".\n\nIn fact, the bank had identified a firm of the same name in the wrong country. Leaked documents from the Pandora Papers show LT Trading had no connection to the British produce company of the same name.\n\nThe beneficial owner of LT Trading named in corporate records was Mr Kerimov's nephew, Nariman Gadzhiev. Like Fletcher Ventures, the company was administered in Switzerland by Swiru Holding.\n\nThe transaction was just one in a series of wire transfers carried out from 2010 to 2015 totalling $700m reported to US authorities as suspicious and where bank officials failed to identify links to the Russian oligarch. The filings were found in a cache of secret reports obtained by the ICIJ for the FinCEN Files investigation in 2020.\n\nLeaked records also show that in 2013, Fletcher Ventures sent $202m to LLC Gilia in Moscow, a company with links to a Kerimov investment company. Bank officials were unable to identify who was behind the Russian firm.\n\nBNY Mellon says it is forbidden to comment on its secret intelligence filings but that it fully complies with relevant laws and regulations.\n\nWhen approached last year about Fletcher Ventures and his company's multi-million dollar transactions Mr Coppo refused to answer questions and referred journalists working with the BBC and ICIJ to Mr Studhalter.\n\nDespite signing a document saying Mr Coppo was the beneficial owner, Mr Studhalter said he had signed it by mistake and produced other records stating that he, not Mr Coppo, was the true owner of Fletcher Ventures.\n\nMr Coppo did not respond to our questions.\n\nFletcher Ventures is not the only company for which Mr Studhalter disputes the paperwork.\n\nA leaked document shows Fren Global Corp extended loans worth around $3bn to a company linked to Mr Kerimov and his family that owned shares in Polyus Gold.\n\nAccording to documents signed by Mr Studhalter, he was the beneficial owner of Fren Global Corp. But Mr Studhalter says he sold Fren Global Corp in 2014 \"as a shell company without assets\" to Nariman Gadzhiev, Kerimov's nephew.\n\nWhen asked about the matter, Studhalter claimed not to recognise what he described as a \"distorted electronic signature\" on the document he was shown.\n\nOther assets attributed to Swiru Holding and believed to have been owned by Mr Kerimov include a custom-built Boeing 737 and a super-yacht, last valued at $150m. Mr Studhalter says he, not Mr Kerimov was the real owner.\n\nMr Kerimov did not respond to requests to comment apart from in relation to the French investigation. Mr Gadzhiev did not respond to the letter sent him by the BBC.\n\nOn 8 April, the EU imposed sanctions on Mr Kerimov's son Said Kerimov, who has stood down from the board of Polyus Gold.The revelation that his daughter now owns the French villas may make the properties the target of sanctions in France.\n\nAnd in a statement last week, the French prosecutor in Nice responsible for the cases for which Mr Kerimov and Mr Studhalter were formally indicted, drew our attention \"to the fact that the procedure remains in progress\". In other words it is still an open case.\n\nAdditional reporting by Will Dahlgreen and Anthony Reuben", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "Mariupol has been \"burned to ashes\", Ukraine's president claims\n\nUkrainian forces are holding out against Russia in the southern port city of Mariupol, officials say, despite some reports suggesting the battle was nearing its end.\n\nDeputy mayor Serhiy Orlov told the BBC that \"battles for Mariupol continue\".\n\nHe also denied reports about a marine brigade which posted to Facebook about running out of ammunition and facing a \"last battle\".\n\n\"The information about the marines is fake. I don't comment on fakes.\"\n\n\"The Russians temporarily occupied part of the city. Ukrainian soldiers continue defending the central and southern parts of the city, as well as industrial areas and so on,\" Mr Orlov said.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Ukrainian armed forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the military still had stable, open lines of communication with its soldiers inside the city.\n\nThe military is doing \"the possible and impossible\" to save lives and fight against Russian forces, he wrote.\n\nMariupol lies between the pro-Russia breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, and annexed Crimea in the south. Seizing the city has been a major goal of the Russian offensive.\n\nWestern officials are warning that this is an \"incredibly important window\" for vital support to Ukraine, as Russia prepares to double or triple the number of troops it has in the country's eastern Donbas region.\n\nIn briefings, officials say Russia is re-equipping its combat units and adding fresh troops - which will take time. In the meantime, Western economic and military aid for Ukraine could prove valuable in preparing for any renewed offensive.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said that tens of thousands of people had likely been killed in Mariupol.\n\nThe BBC has not verified the figure, but reports from the region and the refugees fleeing the city spoke of bodies lying in the streets and most buildings damaged or destroyed.\n\nThe 36th marine brigade earlier posted on Facebook warning that after 47 days of defending the city, the unit had been surrounded by the Russian army, and was facing \"hand-to-hand combat\".\n\nThe post - which Mr Orlov labelled a fake - promised Ukrainians its soldiers \"did everything possible and impossible\" to stop the Russian advance.\n\n\"Today will probably be the last battle, as the ammunition is running out... it's death for some of us and captivity for the rest,\" it said.\n\nIt also complained about a lack of support from other parts of the Ukrainian military, with aid promised which never came.\n\nThe post said the marines have been pushed back to the Azovmash factory in the city. It is believed there is also fighting inside the Azovstal industrial zone, which is on the coast.\n\nSome experts expressed scepticism about the post, suggesting that the Facebook page could have been hacked by Russian operatives. But others are sure that it is authentic.\n\nMariupol has seen little let-up in the fighting since the war began, with little humanitarian aid, long delays to evacuations, and reports of civilians starving or being forcibly removed to Russia-held territory.\n\nThe head of pro-Russia Donetsk separatists, Denis Pushilin, told Russian media that he thought more than 5,000 people may have been killed, though he blamed Ukrainian forces.\n\nRussian forces have continued to slowly advance and seize more of the city in recent weeks - unlike in the rest of Ukraine, where they have \"refocused\" military action around the breakaway regions in the east, largely pulling out of other areas such as near the capital, Kyiv.\n\nAs a result, Ukrainian officials are focusing on evacuating civilians from eastern towns and cities in anticipation of a renewed assault in some places.\n\nNine new humanitarian corridors have been agreed between Ukraine and Russia, to allow civilians to flee, including from Mariupol.\n\nUkraine is also putting on extra trains to extract people from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where Russia is focusing its efforts.\n\nMr Zelensky said that tens of thousands of pro-Russian troops are believed to have redeployed and massed in the area, and a renewed offensive is widely expected to come soon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Zelensky asked if he'll give Russia any of Ukraine", "Fees for disposing of DIY waste at council recycling centres in England could be banned under government plans, in an attempt to tackle fly-tipping.\n\nAround a third of local authorities charge up to £10 an item for disposing of paving slabs, plasterboard, bricks and other materials.\n\nMore than one million fly-tipping incidents were recorded in 2021, costing local authorities almost £400m.\n\nMinisters say they want to make it easier for people to dispose of waste.\n\nThe proposed changes are contained in a technical consultation by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs that could lead to current legislation being amended.\n\nIn 2015, the government banned charges on local residents disposing of household rubbish at household waste centres.\n\nGuidance made clear this includes DIY household waste. But some local authorities are still able to charge for certain types of DIY material, under rules designed for construction waste.\n\nEnvironment minister Jo Churchill said: \"I want to make sure that recycling and the correct disposal of rubbish is free, accessible and easy for householders. No one should be tempted to fly tip or turn to waste criminals and rogue operators.\"\n\nThe government has also announced it will give grants from a £450,000 fund to 10 councils to install CCTV at fly-tipping hot-spots, to make it easier to prosecute people dumping waste illegally.\n\nThe councils are: Durham, Newham, Eastleigh Borough, Buckinghamshire, Stevenage, Winchester, Dover, Thanet, Telford and Wrekin, and Basingstoke and Deane.", "The RMT union says it will continue to target Cairnryan and other ports when P&O resume services\n\nA union has warned P&O Ferries it faces a \"summer of disruption\" when it resumes passenger services from Scotland to Northern Ireland this week.\n\nThe RMT union said it will target ports when the ferry operator starts running its \"ships of shame\" again.\n\nP&O sparked outrage when it sacked 800 staff last month with a plan to replace them with cheaper agency workers.\n\nPassenger services from Cairnryan to Larne have been suspended since, but are now due to resume on Thursday.\n\nRMT Regional organiser Gordon Martin told BBC Scotland: \"The RMT and our comrades in the trade union movement and beyond will be at Cairnryan and other ports on a regular basis, blockading the ports - nothing in, nothing out.\"\n\nMr Martin branded the company \"capitalist bandits\" for the manner in which it sacked staff with no notice via video call.\n\nHe added: \"We will be after you, we will be coming to Cairnryan, Larne, and elsewhere and we will be targeting your supply chain.\n\n\"Anybody dealing with P&O - I'll send a clear message to them - whether it be fuel providers, food providers, whatever it may be.\n\n\"We will find out who you are and you will be part of our efforts to get proper legislation in place to protect workers.\"\n\nProtesters at Cairnryan last month after P&O's decision to sack 800 workers\n\nFollowing the mass sacking, P&O's ferry the European Causeway - which operates between Cairnryan and Larne - was detained in the Northern Irish port over safety concerns.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said was concerned about \"failures on crew familiarisation, vessel documentation and crew training\".\n\nOn Saturday, it began sailing again with limited services. It is understood that only freight was transported on the vessel.\n\nOn Sunday P&O announced on Twitter that the route would resume for \"tourist travel\" on Thursday 14 April. P&O's Dover-Calais service is also expected to resume on this date.\n\nStena Line have put on extra ferries from Cairnryan to Belfast to compensate for the postponement of P&O services.\n\nThe operator increased its daily sailings on the route from 12 to 18 and said its staff had been working hard to meet demand.\n\nThe Scottish government condemned the \"serious disruption\" P&O's actions had caused to the supply chain between Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The employment practices P&O have needlessly pursued have no place in a modern working practices.\n\n\"The Scottish government has been absolutely clear that we will stand by the workers who have been let down in the most appalling manner imaginable by P&O.\"\n\nHe added ministers are seeking urgent meetings with the UK government to discuss the matter.\n\nA spokesman for the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"The Insolvency Service has confirmed it has commenced formal criminal and civil investigations into the circumstances surrounding the recent appalling behaviour of P&O Ferries, following the Business Secretary asking they undertake a thorough review.\n\n\"We will not provide further comment while investigations are ongoing.\"\n\nP&O has been approached for comment.", "Energy firm Ineos says it wants to build a fracking test site to show the process can be performed safely.\n\nThe company claimed extracting shale gas in the UK could make the country \"self-sufficient in 10 years\".\n\nThe firm has written to the government asking to develop a site, with its boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe saying such a move would \"reduce the cost of energy\" and ensure \"long-term energy independence\".\n\nThe offer comes after the government ordered a new report into fracking.\n\nLast week, it announced the UK's new energy strategy, which included plans to have more nuclear reactors, wind farms and solar energy production.\n\nHowever, the government's strategy made no mention of fracking, a method of extracting gas and oil from shale rock.\n\nFracking involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals at a rock layer in order to release the gas inside.\n\nThe technique was halted in the UK in 2019 amid opposition from green groups and concerns over earth tremors, but there have been calls to rethink the ban, given the recent rise in the cost of energy.\n\nSir Jim, the founder and chairman of Ineos, said that with the UK in the \"midst of an energy crisis\", it was a \"ridiculous situation with so much gas under our feet\".\n\nHe said extracting shale gas would allow \"the UK to benefit from its own resources, massively reduce the cost of energy and ensure our long-term energy independence\".\n\n\"We are today offering to drill a shale test site to show that a competent operator can be trusted to develop the technology safely,\" he added.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe is one of the UK's richest men\n\nIneos said while it was invested in what it called the \"growing renewables revolution\", the technology was not yet reliable enough to take over.\n\nThe company said the UK would need gas for three decades as it moves completely away from burning fossil fuels.\n\n\"Fracking has been safely used in the oil and gas industry for over 50 years. In the US, over one million wells have been safely used and have transformed the energy security of the country,\" Ineos said.\n\nThe UK met 48% of its gas demand from domestic supplies in 2020, and bought the rest on international markets, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has led to many countries, particularly European Union members who rely heavily on Russian gas and oil, considering where they get their supplies of energy from.\n\nIneos's call for a fracking test site comes after the boss of British Gas owner Centrica said the process could boost UK energy supplies and reduce bills.\n\nChris O'Shea said there needed to be an \"informed debate\" about it.\n\nSome senior Conservatives have also called for a rethink on fracking amid concerns over security of access and rising energy prices.\n\nHowever, environmental group Greenpeace has said there has been \"a decade of hype and bluster\" around shale gas.\n\nThe fracking site owned by Cuadrilla Resources in Lancashire had to halt activities in 2019 following concerns about small earth tremors\n\nPreviously, Greenpeace said that fracking would not improve energy security, because any gas extracted would belong to the gas firm doing the drilling, not to Britain, and it would be sold on international markets.\n\nMany environmental groups have said they are concerned about the potential for fracking to cause earthquakes.\n\nAt Cuadrilla's site in Lancashire, more than 120 small tremors were recorded while it was drilling.\n\nSir Jim said Ineos would invite government inspectors to monitor any potential test site.\n\n\"If at any stage the science shows there are problems, we will stop and make good the site,\" he said.\n\n\"But if, as we believe, the opposite is true, we would ask that the government looks again at shale gas which would allow the UK to benefit from its own resources, massively reduce the cost of energy and ensure our long-term energy independence.\"", "Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in October\n\nAn IS fanatic has been found guilty of murdering Sir David Amess MP.\n\nThe Southend West MP was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex on 15 October 2021.\n\nA jury at the Old Bailey took just 18 minutes to convict Ali Harbi Ali of murder and preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Kentish Town, north London, had denied the charges and claimed he targeted the MP over his vote for airstrikes on Syria.\n\nSir David's family sat in court just a short distance from Ali as the verdicts were delivered.\n\nAli stabbed Sir David, 69, after tricking his way into a meeting by pretending to be an NHS employee moving to the area\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, said Ali, who refused to stand up in the dock on \"religious grounds\", will be sentenced on Wednesday.\n\nBefore being sent out, the judge told the jury the defendant had no legal defence for killing the Conservative MP.\n\nFollowing the verdicts, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that Sir David was \"a beloved colleague, public servant and friend\", adding that his thoughts were with his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAli stabbed Sir David, 69, after tricking his way into a meeting by pretending to be an NHS employee moving to the area.\n\nDuring the trial, jurors heard how he had also scoped out and planned attacks on other MPs, including cabinet minister Michael Gove who he believed was \"a harm to Muslims\".\n\nHe drew up plans to get close to the Levelling Up Secretary which he abandoned after he split from his wife and left the family home, the jury heard.\n\nThe court heard the defendant was still determined to carry out an attack and scouted the office of Finchley MP Mike Freer and carried out online research on other MPs, including Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nHe chose Sir David after a search on Twitter showed he was due to hold a constituency surgery.\n\nIn his evidence, Ali told the court he wanted to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group but it was too \"difficult\" so he decided to \"help Muslims here\" instead\n\nThe trial heard Ali was a \"model student\" but had become self-radicalised in 2014, dropping out of university and abandoning ambitions of a medical career.\n\nHe was referred to the government's Prevent strategy to counter radicalisation, but continued plotting in secret.\n\nIn evidence, Ali told the court he wanted to travel to Syria to join the self-styled Islamic State but it was too \"difficult\" so he decided to \"help Muslims here\" instead.\n\nHe said he had no regrets or shame about killing Sir David, telling the court: \"If I thought I did anything wrong, I wouldn't have done it\".\n\nAli said: \"I felt like one minute I was sat down at the table talking to him and the next he was, sort of, dead.\n\n\"But, yeah, it's probably one of the strangest days... of my life now, you know?\"\n\nThe court heard the defendant had planned to die as a \"martyr\", assuming he would be shot by police.\n\nAfter the stabbing, witnesses described how he waved the knife around and threatened Sir David's staff and members of the public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown bodycam footage of plain-clothed police officers tackling Ali Harbi Ali to the ground\n\nHe was detained by two plain-clothed officers from Essex Police, the first on the scene, who were armed only with batons and incapacitant spray.\n\nIn video shown to the jury, officers were heard shouting \"drop the knife\" while the defendant was on the phone to his sister.\n\nHe told jurors he dropped the weapon when he realised the officers - PC Ryan Curtis and PC Scott James - were unarmed.\n\nBoth officers have received Essex Police's highest accolade, the Merit Star, for their bravery.\n\nRecalling when they arrived at the scene, PC James said: \"We couldn't stand outside if there was a chance other people were getting attacked, and we also wanted to get paramedics inside the building as soon as possible.\n\n\"Our biggest fear that day was that there were other defenceless people inside with Sir David waiting for the police to come through the door - so any fears we had were put to one side.\"\n\nTwo plain clothes officers were the first on the scene and detained the suspect\n\nDet Ch Supt Dominic Murphy, head of operations for the Met Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said: \"Sir David's family have been left utterly devastated, but they have shown remarkable courage and dignity throughout the investigation and this trial.\n\n\"Following the murder, our officers worked extremely hard and at pace to firstly ensure there was no existing threat linked to the attacker, and then to put together a compelling package of evidence which showed his extremist mind-set, and the lengths he went to in order to plan and commit the attack.\"\n\nSir David was killed five years after Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox was murdered in her constituency.\n\nHer widower Brendan Cox said on Twitter: \"The terrorist will rot in jail and die in ignominy. David's name will be remembered, especially by the people of Southend who he served.\"\n\nJo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater, the current MP for Batley and Spen, told the BBC there were \"two things that really need to be looked at\", including ensuring the country had a \"free and open society and democracy\" and \"also how we make sure people elected to public office feel safe to do their jobs\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ajay Spence: \"I'm under no illusions... you get on with the job in hand\"\n\n\"I'm not a war tourist or anything like that,\" Ajay tells me, from his base near Kyiv where Ukraine's armed forces have been defending the country's capital.\n\n\"I was quite comfortable back home sitting with my cat,\" he says in a strong Belfast accent.\n\nAjay Spence travelled to the war in Ukraine from Northern Ireland a month ago, having first got in touch with the Ukrainian embassy in Dublin.\n\nHaving told them about his previous experience with the British army in Afghanistan and Iraq, he was soon on his way to Poland before crossing into Ukraine.\n\nSeeing the news coverage of the Russian invasion is what spurred Ajay into action.\n\n\"It was just too much to watch you know, it's like asking a firefighter to walk past a burning house and not do anything.\"\n\nAjay was placed in Ukraine's foreign legion, which is said to have fighters from 50 countries, the largest numbers coming from the UK and the US.\n\nHis unit were deployed on front line operations in towns around the capital, Kyiv, that saw some of the heaviest fighting, including Irpin and Bucha. They helped to drive the Russian forces out of areas that had been captured.\n\nTheir duties centred around \"observation missions, advancing, drawing out fire\", he says.\n\n\"It's been pretty heavy work at times. It's not like Iraq, that was a guerrilla warfare situation - this is a conventional war situation against mechanised infantry.\"\n\nBut the threat was real. Not long after he arrived on the front lines, two fighters in his unit died in front of him.\n\n\"They were killed by indirect fire, one bled to death, the other was killed instantly. We carried one of them, trying to save him, while there was heavy shelling around us.\"\n\nIt was a traumatic experience. So what about the risk to his own life?\n\n\"I'm under no illusions about that, I'm willing to accept that. I'm here to do a job which is to help the Ukrainian people. You just think about stuff like that later, and get on with the job in hand.\"\n\nIn the early days of the Russian invasion the position of the UK government on British citizens travelling to fight in Ukraine was unclear, but there have since been warnings to people not to travel.\n\nThose like Ajay, who have been placed into the Ukraine's legion of foreign fighters, are paid the same as locals - 11-15,000 UAH (about £300-400) per month in base pay. There can also be additional pay added on top for those that are deployed to the front during active combat.\n\nCommunication, at least, has been manageable for Ajay thanks to the number of English speakers. And the reception from Ukrainians has been warm.\n\n\"When you're out and about people notice you, people come up and shake your hand. I think they need to see things like that because they need to know the world is behind them.\n\n\"Ukraine is a lovely country, and to see the destruction and damage, and just the pure hatred that's been thrown against the people here, it's hard to watch. I grew up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles so I've got a bit more empathy towards stuff like that.\"\n\nWith Russia's army having retreated from Kyiv in recent days, Ajay says his unit are being redeployed to a new front line. Their mission - to recapture areas currently under Russian occupation.\n\nHe surprises me after our interview by sharing a photo of himself dressed in a rather different type of soldier's outfit.\n\nHolding a sword instead of the automatic rifle now sitting beside him, Ajay explains he had previously worked as an extra in Game of Thrones which was filmed in Northern Ireland.\n\nA rather different battlefield from the one he is now on, and he says he intends to stay in Ukraine until the war winds down.\n\n\"When I left Belfast I got rid of my apartment, so I'll be here as long as I need to.\"\n\nNo one knows how long the conflict will last, and there will inevitably be questions about what happens to fighters once they return home to the UK.\n\nBut for now the international legion says it is proud of its achievements since forming just over a month ago and is advertising on social media for more people to join up.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Emmanuel Macron says he will unite \"all the different convictions and beliefs\" if re-elected\n\nEmmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French election and far-right rival Marine Le Pen will fight him for the presidency for a second time.\n\n\"Make no mistake, nothing is decided,\" he told cheering supporters.\n\nIn the end, he won a convincing first-round victory, but opinion polls suggest the run-off could be much closer.\n\nMs Le Pen called on every non-Macron voter to join her and \"put France back in order\".\n\nWith 97% of results counted, Emmanuel Macron had 27.6% of the vote, Marine Le Pen 23.41% and Jean-Luc Mélenchon 21.95%.\n\nVeteran far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon polled even better than five years ago and now has the unlikely role of kingmaker.\n\n\"You must not give a single vote to Marine Le Pen,\" he warned his supporters, but unlike other candidates, he pointedly did not back the president instead. Later in the evening, Mélenchon activists gathered outside his campaign HQ thinking he might even come second, but it was not to be.\n\nMaking up more than a fifth of the vote, Mélenchon voters could decide the final round of this election, yet many of them may just sit the second round out and abstain.\n\nTwelve candidates were in the running, but these were the only three who polled more than 10%. Many voters appeared to embrace the idea of tactical or \"useful\" voting, deciding that the other nine candidates had no hope of making the run-off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeveral of the nine had little chance anyway, but the 2022 presidential election will be partly remembered for the disaster that befell the two old parties that used to run France, the Republicans and Socialists. They sank almost without trace, with Socialist Anne Hidalgo falling below 2%.\n\nIt was only a few months ago that Valérie Pécresse was still in the race for the right-wing Republicans. She performed so badly, her party could not even scrape the 5% needed to claim its election costs.\n\nThis is potentially terrible news for a party already tearing itself apart. Parties that fail to reach 5% only get €800,000 (£670,000) of their campaign funding covered by the state, and the Republicans will have paid out far more than that.\n\nA renewed battle for votes is under way. Marine Le Pen can count on supporters of Eric Zemmour, whose more hardline nationalism won him fourth place and 7%. Nationalist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has also backed her. She can already count on an impressive 33% of the entire vote.\n\nMr Macron's team is planning a series of big rallies and major TV appearances. Most of the other candidates on the left have backed him, as has Valérie Pécresse, but one-time Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal said the president now had to \"earn\" victory.\n\nIfop pollster François Dabi said his company's 51%-49% estimate for the run-off was the closest they had ever predicted. An Elabe poll put the gap at 52%-48% and an Ipsos poll suggested it was wider still.\n\nAddressing his supporters, Mr Macron looked a relieved man and he promised to work harder than in the first part of the campaign. He had only started campaigning eight days before the vote, his mind more focused on Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\n\"When the extreme right in all its forms represents so much of our country,\" he said, \"we cannot feel that things are going well.\"\n\nHe addressed Le Pen voters too: \"I want to convince them in the next few days that our project answers solidly to their fears and challenges of our time.\"\n\nMs Le Pen said it was time for a \"great changeover\", with a fundamental choice on 24 April of two opposite views: \"Either division and disorder, or a union of the French people around guaranteed social justice.\"\n\nShe has built her campaign around the cost-of-living crunch facing much of Europe, promising to cut taxes and waive income tax for under-30s. There has been less emphasis on nationalism, but she wants a referendum on restricting immigration, radical change to the EU and a ban on the Islamic hijab in public areas.\n\nThe campaign only sparked into life in the final fortnight, first because of the Covid pandemic and then the Russian war. But in the end, the spring sunshine meant turnout was not as low as feared, at almost 75%.\n\nOne in four young voters backed the president, although more than one in three 18-24 year-olds opted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, according to Elabe pollsters.\n\nMarine Le Pen performed best among 35-64 year-olds, while the president was favoured by over-65s.\n\nIt was already clear from Mr Macron's speech that he planned to target Ms Le Pen's close links with the Kremlin. Although she has condemned Vladimir Putin's war, she visited him before the previous election in 2017 and her party took out a Russian loan.\n\nHe wanted a France that made alliances with great democracies to defend itself, he said, not a state that would leave Europe and have only populists and xenophobes for allies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Russians have withdrawn from areas around Kyiv, but they've left deeply wounded lives that might never recover from the trauma. The BBC has heard first-hand testimony and found evidence of Ukrainian women being raped by invading soldiers.\n\nWarning: This report contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence\n\nIn a quiet, rural neighbourhood 70km (45miles) west of Kyiv, we spoke to Anna, who is 50. We have changed her name to protect her identity.\n\nAnna told us that on 7 March she had been at home with her husband when a foreign soldier barged in.\n\n\"At gunpoint, he took me to a house nearby. He ordered me: 'Take your clothes off or I'll shoot you.' He kept threatening to kill me if I didn't do as he said. Then he started raping me,\" she said.\n\nAnna described her attacker as a young, thin, Chechen fighter allied with Russia.\n\n\"While he was raping me, four more soldiers entered. I thought that I was done for. But they took him away. I never saw him again,\" she said. She believes she was saved by a separate unit of Russian soldiers.\n\nAnna went back home and found her husband. He had been shot in the abdomen.\n\n\"He had tried to run after me to save me, but he was hit by a round of bullets,\" she said. They both sought shelter in a neighbour's house. They couldn't take her husband to hospital because of the fighting. He died of his injuries two days later.\n\nAnna never stopped crying while telling us her story. She showed us where she and her neighbours buried her husband in the backyard of their home. A tall, wooden cross stands at the head of the grave. Anna told us that she is in contact with the local hospital and is receiving psychological support.\n\nAnna has buried her husband in the garden\n\nThe soldiers who saved her stayed in her house for a few days. She says they would point their gun at her and ask her to give them her husband's belongings.\n\n\"When they left, I found drugs and Viagra. They would get high and they were often drunk. Most of them are killers, rapists and looters. Only a few are OK,\" she said.\n\nDown the road from Anna's house, we heard another chilling story.\n\nA woman was allegedly raped and killed, and neighbours say it was done by the same man who raped Anna, before he went to Anna's house.\n\nThe woman was in her 40s. She was taken out of her home, say neighbours, and held in the bedroom of a house nearby whose occupants had evacuated when the war began. The well-decorated room, with ornate wallpaper and a bed with a golden headboard, is now a disturbing crime scene. There are large bloodstains on the mattress and duvet.\n\nIn a corner is a mirror with a note written in lipstick, appearing to suggest where the victim was buried.\n\nThe message scrawled on the mirror by Russian soldiers\n\nOksana, a neighbour, told us it had been left there by Russian soldiers who found the woman's body and buried her. \"They [Russian soldiers] told me she had been raped and that her throat was either slit or stabbed, and she bled to death. They said there was a lot of blood.\"\n\nThe woman was buried in a grave in the garden of the house.\n\nA day after we visited, the police exhumed her body to investigate the case. The body was found without clothes, and with a deep, long, cut across the neck.\n\nAndrii Nebytov, the police chief of the Kyiv region, told us about another case they're investigating in a village 50km (30 miles) to the west of Kyiv.\n\nA family of three - a couple in their thirties and their young child - lived in a house on the edge of the village.\n\n\"On 9 March, several soldiers of the Russian army entered the house. The husband tried to protect his wife and child. So they shot him in the yard,\" said Mr Nebytov.\n\n\"After that, two soldiers repeatedly raped the wife. They would leave and then come back. They returned three times to rape her. They threatened that if she resisted they would harm her little boy. To protect her child she didn't resist.\"\n\nWhen the soldiers left, they burnt down the house and shot the family's dogs.\n\nThe woman escaped with her son and then contacted the police. Mr Nebytov says his team has met her and recorded her testimony.\n\nThey have been gathering evidence at the family home - only its shell is now left. Just a few signs of a previous peaceful, ordinary life lie in the charred ruins. We saw a child's bicycle, a stuffed horse, a dog's leash and a man's fur lined winter shoe.\n\nThe husband was buried in the garden by neighbours. The police have now exhumed his body for examination. They plan to take the case to international courts.\n\nUkraine's ombudsman for human rights Lyudmyla Denisova says they're documenting several such cases.\n\n\"About 25 girls and women aged 14 to 24 were systematically raped during the occupation in the basement of one house in Bucha. Nine of them are pregnant,\" she said. \"Russian soldiers told them they would rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man, to prevent them from having Ukrainian children.\"\n\nShe says they are receiving several calls on support helplines - and also getting information through channels on the Telegram messaging app.\n\n\"A 25-year-old woman called to tell us her 16-year-old sister was raped in the street in front of her. She said they were screaming 'This will happen to every Nazi prostitute' as they raped her sister,\" Ms Denisova said.\n\nWe asked if it was possible to assess the scale of sexual crimes committed by Russian troops during the occupation.\n\n\"It is impossible at the moment because not everyone is willing to tell us what happened to them. The majority of them currently call for psychological support, so we cannot record those as crimes unless they give us their testimony,\" Ms Denisova said.\n\nShe says Ukraine wants a special tribunal to be set up by the United Nations to try Vladimir Putin personally for allegations of war crimes including rape.\n\n\"I want to ask Putin, why is this happening?\" said Anna, the woman who told us she was raped. \"I don't understand. We're not living in the Stone Age, why can't he negotiate? Why is he occupying and killing?\"", "Emmanuel Macron limited his public appearances ahead of the first round to one big campaign rally\n\nThey duelled for the top job in France five years ago, but now Emmanuel Macron faces a far stronger challenge from a reinvigorated leader of the far right in Marine Le Pen.\n\nThe second round of France's presidential election takes place on 24 April, and the polls suggest the race will be close. The two candidates come up against each other in a televised debate on Wednesday. So who are they and what is their vision for France?\n\nWhen he became France's youngest ever president in 2017, it sealed a meteoric rise that came less than a year after he launched a centrist political movement called La République En Marche! to challenge the traditional parties.\n\nHe easily defeated Marine Le Pen in the 2017 run-off, winning 66% of the vote. Five years on, aged 44, he continues to dominate French politics but the polls suggest this time his far-right rival has a real chance of unseating him from the Élysée Palace.\n\nHe swept to power as an unknown quantity, a charismatic former economy minister who had never run for elected office before, offering a more centrist vision for France.\n\nA protégé of Socialist President François Hollande with a background in investment banking, he brushed aside old political loyalties and, to many voters, that set him apart from the ruling class, even though he shared the background of France's political elite. The Socialists and Republicans who had run France for so long are now in tatters.\n\nHis rise to power appeared effortless, but he had to navigate choppy political waters to push through the controversial reforms he promised voters.\n\nHe made it easier for companies to fire workers, cut taxes and introduced tough security laws to tackle terrorism. But he was forced to scrap a proposed fuel tax in 2018 after weeks of unrest stoked by yellow-vest protesters, known as gilets jaunes.\n\nOther reforms, including a promise to bring the jobless rate down from more than 10% to 7% by 2022, were hit by the Covid pandemic, although unemployment is currently down to 7.4%.\n\nHe is now proposing full employment within five years, cutting taxes by €15bn (£12.5bn) a year for households and businesses, and paying for his programme by gradually raising the retirement age from 62 to 65.\n\nIncreasing the pension age is unpopular with voters already facing a cost of living crunch. He has been accused of relying on expensive advice from consultants including US firm McKinsey. Marine Le Pen has denounced him as a wealthy \"candidate of finance\", even though she is something of a property owner herself.\n\nHe has had to rethink a controversial plan to make a back-to-work benefit for the unemployed called RSA conditional on 15-20 hours of work a week. Mr Macron also wants to invest in the armed forces, doubling France's reserve force.\n\nHe won more than 27% of the vote in the first round, three points higher than in 2017. But he is no longer an unknown quantity and many of the voters who backed Mr Macron first time around have tired of him. He is still favourite to win, but tightening opinion polls show the race is wide open.\n\nThis is Marine Le Pen's third tilt at power but her biggest chance yet.\n\nShe has made this election a choice about the future of her country's society and civilisation and promised to \"restore France's sovereignty\".\n\nHer family has been synonymous with the far right in France for decades, but when in 2011 she took over the mantle of leader of the far right from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, she set about reforming his old National Front and made it her own.\n\nA political player in France for years, Marine Le Pen became a Euro MP before acting on her presidential ambitions. After she was trounced by Emmanuel Macron in the presidential run-off in 2017, she rebranded her party as Rassemblement National, or National Rally.\n\nMarine Le Pen's chances of winning the French presidency are better than ever\n\nShe can no longer claim the hard-right vote to herself, but in this election that has made her look more moderate.\n\nHer more hardline rival Eric Zemmour attracted defectors from her camp, including her own niece. He made her look less extreme on Islam and immigration, and now she stands to attract his 7% of the vote.\n\nShe has crafted a consistent anti-immigration, anti-EU message and Emmanuel Macron has labelled her policies as racist.\n\nShe has in the past expressed her admiration for Russia's Vladimir Putin and relied on a Russian bank loan for her 2017 presidential campaign. She condemns his invasion of Ukraine, while warning of the risk of sanctions to the French economy.\n\nNow 53, she has promised to halt abuse of the right to asylum, with a referendum on restricting immigration. And she wants to ban the Islamic hijab being worn in public areas.\n\nShe also seeks to turn the European Union into an alliance of nations unchallenged by EU laws and pull France out of Nato's integrated command.\n\nMarine Le Pen wants to waive income tax for those under 30 and exempt companies from tax contributions if they raise minimum wages by 10% for many of their staff.\n\nThe opinion polls give her genuine chance of victory. The final stretch of this campaign will decide whether she can improve on 2017.", "Sales in shops have slowed as household budgets come under pressure from the rising cost of living, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said.\n\nIts figures show sales growth for March rose by 3.1%, the smallest increase so far this year and down from a 6.7% rise in February.\n\nIt comes as millions are having to deal with higher energy bills and taxes.\n\nThe BRC said pressure on people's finances and the war in Ukraine had \"shaken consumer confidence\".\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said customers faced \"an enormous challenge this year\" around their finances, which was \"likely to be reflected in retail spend in the future\".\n\nOnline fashion giant Asos said on Tuesday that its sales forecasts for the next few months carried greater uncertainty than usual as it was still unclear how the rising financial pressures on consumers would affect their spending.\n\nSmall business owners told the BBC they had seen a recent dip in sales compared to previous months at a time when they were also having to grapple with higher operating costs.\n\nLucy Rushton (front) says she is worried about the rising costs of running her business\n\nLucy Rushton, owner and founder of the Cheshire Gift Company, said she believed a lot of people were starting to be more prudent with their spending.\n\n\"Going into Easter, sales have definitely been lower than they were last year,\" she said.\n\nMs Rushton, who started her business online and stored products in her garage before moving to a warehouse, told the BBC the company's social media presence had helped with sales from loyal customers.\n\nBut she added: \"I would be lying if I was not worried looking to the next year.\"\n\nMs Rushton said she and her staff wear thermals to avoid putting the heating on in the company's warehouse due to high energy costs.\n\n\"It is cold in the warehouse [but] I would rather keep my staff in jobs,\" she said.\n\nShe said higher shipping and packaging costs were having the biggest impact on her profits, but her team had \"adapted\" and found new ways to get the best value for money without having to pass on big price increases to customers.\n\nWith inflation rising at its fastest rate for 30 years, people in the UK are facing increased pressure from living costs. Fuel, energy and food prices have seen some of the biggest increases.\n\nThe rate at which prices rise has been forecast to reach 8.7% in the final three months of 2022, which means households may be forced to cut back.\n\nBev Logan: It's understandable that people have to be careful but it's a worry for many small businesses\n\nBev Logan, who set up her online women's sportswear business Badass Mother Runners during the first Covid lockdown, said sales had been strong until they \"nosedived\" in April.\n\n\"It's just a bit weird\", she said. \"April hit and things went eerily quiet.\n\n\"It's scary being a small business owner as your bills are going up just like everyone else's, but your sales are going down. It's understandable that people have to be careful but it's a worry for many small businesses.\"\n\nDon Williams, retail partner at KPMG, said the slower rate of sales in March suggested \"clouds on the horizon as household budgets come under pressure from rising costs, an increasing tax burden and competition from holidays\".\n\n\"Additionally, retailers are facing their own battle with rising costs and inflation, and are walking a tightrope between absorbing rising costs themselves or passing these on to consumers,\" he added.\n\nFood sales for the month fell year-on-year and online sales for non-food items also decreased\n\nHe said the big question was whether shoppers will reduce their physical and online shopping baskets in turn.\n\nThe figures from the BRC-KPMG retail sales monitor showed that overall sales fell by 0.4% in March from 12 months earlier.\n\nFood sales for the month fell year-on-year and online sales for non-food items also decreased by 29%, compared with growth of 64.7% the year before.\n\nSusan Barratt, chief executive of the Institute of Grocery Distribution, said food and drink sales figures faced tough comparisons to last year, when some lockdown restrictions started to ease.\n\n\"Easter was also earlier and we're yet to see holiday spending ramp up this year,\" she pointed out.", "Putin's supporters like to share photos of the president playing with dogs in the snow\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has been widely condemned in many parts of the world, but a network of Facebook groups run by people with obscure motivations would like to change perceptions of the country's leader.\n\nMillions of people have viewed posts committed to portraying President Vladimir Putin as smiling, benevolent and peace-loving.\n\nThese are Putin's superfans - and we've been tracking what they do and where they come from.\n\nThousands of posts praising the Russian leader have surfaced on a pro-Putin network of Facebook groups\n\nThe BBC has been investigating these huge pro-Putin groups with the help of researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).\n\nISD experts identified 10 pro-Putin public groups, boasting names such as Vladimir Putin - Leader of the Free World. The groups have more than 650,000 members between them. Content includes photos and messages praising the Russian leader, written in a number of languages, including English, Russian, Farsi, Arabic and Khmer.\n\nNot only are they popular, but they are very active. Over the past month, researchers counted 16,500 posts, receiving more than 3.6 million interactions.\n\nThe overall aim of the groups seems to be to promote Mr Putin as a hero standing up to the West, with overwhelming international support.\n\nThe images often show the Russian leader \"walking confidently, holding puppies, staring longingly into the camera, saluting troops, and riding an array of wild animals, including bears and lions\".\n\nThese groups have gained more than 100,000 new members since the start of the invasion on 24 February.\n\nMany of the posts are put up repeatedly across groups by \"superfan\" administrators\n\nDigging into the details of the people driving most of the content, it emerged that many of the fans listed as administrators of the groups have duplicate accounts under the same name. The researchers found at least 100 such accounts in the network.\n\nThese accounts generally follow each other and sometimes post heart-warming messages or send heart emojis to each other. And they administer these pro-Putin accounts alongside others pretending to be the Russian Federation or the Russian security services, which are clearly fake.\n\nRunning duplicate accounts is a potential violation of Facebook's rules on inauthentic behaviour, the ISD says.\n\nLead researcher Moustafa Ayad calls the practice an example of \"astroturfing\" - an online operation involving multiple accounts that falsely gives something the impression of wider grassroots support.\n\nThe campaign \"creates the appearance of widespread support for Putin and the Kremlin in the shadow of the invasion and relies on... inauthentic accounts to accomplish its goal\", according to the ISD report.\n\nA closer examination of some of the group admins shows some unusual activity. One, named Marine, who says her location is Syria, uses three separate accounts to generate support for the president. Her three accounts, in Arabic, post at the same time every day.\n\nAnother moderator, Victoria, from Cambodia, has been pushing content in a Khmer language group. Since 4 February, her posts have generated more than 34,000 reactions and have been shared more than 4,000 times.\n\nAnd Marine and Victoria jointly run a Khmer-language Facebook page, part of a wider pattern of co-ordination between some of the accounts.\n\nPosts are widely shared across different groups. For instance, another account listed as located in Bulgaria posted the same Putin image 12 times in the space of a couple of minutes.\n\nVladimir Putin's appearances with animals are often shared by the network of fans\n\nWe tried to contact the people behind all of these accounts for comment, but didn't have much luck.\n\nBut a man in Kenya, called Raj, who's in several of these groups and includes \"Putin\" at the end of his name on Facebook, did answer the phone when we rang. In a brief conversation, he called the president a \"great leader\" but said he didn't want to discuss the war. We emailed him further questions about his interest in Russia, but he didn't respond.\n\nHasmik, from Armenia, says she's a journalist and now helps to run six pro-Putin groups. We asked who invited her to do it. She told us it was the people already running the groups and said that she wasn't paid for her efforts.\n\nIt's difficult to glean the motivations of the people behind the accounts. There is no obvious link to the Russian government and unlike other well-known Russian disinformation campaigns, the network isn't subtle; nor do the people involved hide their intentions.\n\nBut we can't rule out the possibility that the network has some links to the Russian authorities or pro-Putin elements inside Russia.\n\nMany people around the world are drawn to Mr Putin and his anti-West view of the world.\n\nWe contacted Facebook, which says it has policies against fake accounts and has suspended a number of accounts based on information from the report and their own investigations.\n\n\"We're continuing to take strong action to prevent the spread of misinformation relating to the crisis in Ukraine,\" says a spokesman for parent company Meta.\n\nIn the course of our research, we came across another interesting phenomenon - Vladimir Putin impersonation accounts.\n\nOne of the Putin impersonation Facebook accounts had a massive following before being taken down\n\nMr Putin is one of the few world leaders who doesn't use social media, and there's no official Facebook account in his name. He reputedly doesn't even have a smartphone.\n\nAccording to his spokesman, Mr Putin simply \"does not need\" social media as it \"doesn't give him anything he doesn't have already\".\n\nBut some have filled the gap left by his online absence. The page on Facebook displayed above had more than three million followers until it was taken down for impersonation shortly after the invasion at the end of February.\n\nA significant number of its subscribers - more than 700,000 - joined during the pandemic, when the page was talking up Russian-made Covid vaccines.\n\nMore recently, the page was posting messages amplifying the Kremlin's view of the war, and many commenting on it appeared to believe it contained the genuine words of the Russian president.\n\nShortly after the invasion, a post on the page declared the goal of the \"operation\" was \"peacekeeping... aimed only at the demilitarisation of a neighbouring country\". This message was shared and liked more than 200,000 times.\n\nAnd the page also had a habit of tagging people in its messages about Mr Putin, including users identified by researchers as having duplicate accounts. In other words, it was interacting with the Putin superfans.\n\nWe don't know who's behind this account. The people managing it are based in Russia and Latvia, according to the page's transparency section.\n\nFan pages are fertile ground to drum up support for the Kremlin internationally, says Nika Aleksejeva, a researcher at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), part of the Atlantic Council think tank.\n\n\"They may help to build public support in foreign countries for Russia's so-called 'military operation in Ukraine' unless taken down by mainstream social media platforms,\" she says.\n\nDFRLab documented how one Putin-impersonator account posting in Arabic had paid for adverts targeting users in several countries, including Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, and Tunisia. The page had more than one million followers, but has since been deleted.\n\nAnother prominent Putin page, posted in Arabic, used to be managed by a man who is also a big fan of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. It attracted almost a million followers before recently disappearing.", "A mother who scrawled contact details on her two-year-old daughter's back while fleeing Ukraine has described to the BBC her desperation in that moment.\n\nSasha Makoviy said she wrote little Vira's name, age and some phone numbers on her, in case the family were separated or killed while fleeing Kyiv.\n\n\"In case of our death, she could be found and would know who she is,\" Ms Makoviy explained.\n\nThe family are now in France where they feel \"surrounded with love and care\".\n\nAfter arriving, Ms Makoviy posted a photo of the writing on Vira's back to Instagram, and the image has since gone viral.\n\n\"It was the first day of the war, and we were preparing everything to flee from Kyiv and I was just not sure if it was safe,\" Ms Makoviy told The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.\n\nPacking their belongings under the sound of falling bombs and with little information available, she said she \"wasn't sure if we would come outside our house and be attacked by rockets\".\n\n\"It was my biggest fear that Vira gets lost or that we become dead and she never finds out who she is, or what family she is from,\" Ms Makoviy said.\n\nSasha Makoviy holds her two year old daughter Vira at their home in Kyiv last Christmas\n\nWorried that her daughter might live but have no surviving family members, Ms Makoviy hoped that at least Vira would one day be able to look up her mother's social media accounts to know what she looked like.\n\n\"I thought that she can find some information from the internet, maybe find my account on Instagram - and maybe she could see her parents,\" she said.\n\nHaving finally reached the safety of France after a long escape through Moldova, Romania and Belgium, Ms Makoviy says she is mentally \"crushed\".\n\nThe war was so traumatic, she says, that simply walking outside is frightening, because she mistakes stones for landmines.\n\n\"Vira is fine. She is too small to understand what is going on. She can feel something from me, but she is too small to understand. I'm really happy about her age. Really happy.\"", "Britney Spears has announced she is pregnant, months after she escaped the legal arrangement that gave her father control over many aspects of her life.\n\nThe singer told her 40 million Instagram followers she was having a baby with partner Sam Asghari.\n\nThe 40-year-old, who has two teenage sons, also revealed she suffered depression during a previous pregnancy.\n\nIn June last year, she told a judge her conservatorship prevented her from marrying or removing her birth control.\n\nShe has previously said she wanted a family with Asghari, a 28-year-old personal trainer.\n\nBut the form of legal guardianship known as a conservatorship, set up by her father in 2008 after she experienced a public mental health crisis, meant she could not make her own decisions about her medical care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sam Asghari talks marriage, family and public support for Britney Spears before the pregnancy announcement\n\nSpeaking against the conservatorship in court last year, Spears said the legal arrangement included control over her reproductive health.\n\n\"I have an [IUD] inside of myself right now so I don't get pregnant... but this so-called team won't let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don't want me to have children,\" she said.\n\n\"So basically, this conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good.\"\n\n\"I want to be able to get married and have a baby,\" she added.\n\n\"I was told right now in the conservatorship I am not able to get married and have a baby.\"\n\nIn her Instagram post on Monday, Spears said she \"won't be going out as much\" to avoid paparazzi photographers.\n\nShe also said the pregnancy would probably be \"hard\" as she had previously experienced perinatal depression - the medical term for depression occurring any time between becoming pregnant to about a year after giving birth.\n\nShe said it was \"absolutely horrible\" and was rarely talked about in the past because \"some people considered it dangerous if a woman complained like that with a baby inside her\".\n\nBut the singer - who has two children from her marriage to Kevin Federline - said she was grateful that it was no longer necessary to keep that pain a secret.", "Sabina Nessa was attacked in a park in south-east London in September 2021\n\nThe sister of murdered primary school teacher Sabina Nessa has said if their family was a \"normal British white family\" they would have received better treatment.\n\nKoci Selamaj was jailed for life for killing Ms Nessa, 28, in a park in south-east London in September 2021.\n\nHer sister, Jebina Yasmin Islam, said they had got no government support.\n\nOn Friday she criticised Priti Patel after the home secretary tweeted about Ms Nessa's death.\n\nMs Islam told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"They've not said nothing. Priti Patel has done a tweet on Friday and I was not happy about it because all of a sudden she's using my sister's name for publicity reasons.\n\n\"And to be honest she has no right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabina Nessa was described as a \"beautiful kind soul\" by her family.\n\nMs Islam also said newspapers had treated her sister's murder \"differently\" from the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\n\"My sister didn't get as much headlines, I feel, at the start,\" she said. \"Maybe was it down to her ethnicity?\n\n\"She didn't get the front pages on some of the papers, and in Sarah Everard's case she did.\"\n\nCommenting on the treatment of her family, she said: \"I think it's just down to our ethnicity, to be honest.\n\n\"And I feel like if we were a normal British white family we would have been treated equally, I guess.\"\n\nJebina Islam is angry that Koci Selamaj refuses to say why he attacked her sister\n\nAfter 36-year-old Selamaj was sentenced on Friday, Ms Patel tweeted: \"Sabina Nessa lost her life due to the harrowing and callous actions of a man who's rightly now behind bars.\n\n\"While I can't possibly know how Sabina's family and friends are feeling, I hope today's sentence brings them a small comfort, knowing this evil monster has faced justice.\n\n\"As home secretary, tackling violence against women and girls is central to my Beating Crime Plan and I am doing everything in my power to target perpetrators, protect the public and make our streets safer for everyone.\"\n\nAt the time, Ms Islam responded by saying: \"You don't know what we as a family are going through and to be honest you haven't even bothered to ask since the death of my sister.\n\n\"Lack of support from yourself and Boris Johnson just shows how 'important' it is to tackle male violence to you guys\".\n\nThe Home Office said it would not comment.\n\nSelamaj repeatedly hit Ms Nessa over the head with a metal traffic triangle and then strangled her.\n\nHe was jailed at the Old Bailey for a minimum term of 36 years.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Jurors have been shown footage of the moment two police officers tackled a knife-wielding terror suspect accused of murdering Sir David Amess MP.\n\nSir David, the MP for Southend West, died after he was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October.\n\nOfficers were heard shouting \"drop the knife\" as they entered Belfairs Methodist Church after the attack.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 26, denies charges of murder and preparing acts of terrorism.", "There's a growing number of international volunteers joining Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines.\n\nThe UK government has warned people not to travel to the conflict; but the BBC's Emma Vardy has been speaking to those joining the conflict, including one former British Army soldier from Belfast.\n\nShe has had special access to Ukraine’s international legion of foreign fighters, which says it’s seeing large numbers of people wanting to join them, following the recent Russian attacks.", "Two new medications which fight drug-resistant superbugs could soon become available to NHS patients in England.\n\nDrugs' watchdog NICE says cefiderocol and ceftazidime with avibactam offer value for money and will save lives.\n\nThese 'last line of defence' drugs will tackle severe infections which cannot be cleared by other treatments.\n\nUnder the deal, a fixed annual fee will be paid to manufacturers to cover their development costs, rather than individual payments for each dose.\n\nThe subscription-style payment model is part of the government's strategy to incentivise companies to make essential drugs such as these, alongside the so-called blockbuster drugs which typically make huge profits for pharmaceutical giants.\n\nAntimicrobial resistance is a major issue which threatens to set modern medicine back to the pre-antibiotic era.\n\nWithout effective drugs to address superbugs, routine surgery - such as hip replacements - will become too dangerous to perform, for example.\n\nSome of the bacteria and other micro-organisms behind common, treatable diseases - including tuberculosis and gonorrhoea - have acquired the ability to dodge medicines. Hard-to-treat infections already kill more than a million people per year globally, researchers estimate.\n\nThe two new drugs, approved in draft guidelines from NICE, will help patients with risky urinary tract infections, pneumonia and sepsis.\n\nNHS commercial medicines director Blake Dark said: \"This is an important step in our world-leading approach to incentivise innovation in antimicrobial drugs and the battle against drug-resistant infections.\n\n\"The NHS will now use its commercial power to secure deals that will enable NHS patients to benefit from these treatments, delivering on its Long Term Plan commitment and paving the way for a pipeline of future treatment options.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest health threats facing the world and I'm incredibly proud that the UK's world-leading innovations are helping to develop two antibiotics which will save many lives.\n\n\"NHS patients with severe resistance to other drugs could soon access these medicines, giving them a much greater chance of survival.\n\n\"It's great to see international interest in this new development which will help incentivise investment in developing new antibiotics - together we can ensure our children can continue to treat common infections in the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many buildings in Andriivka are a mess of rubble\n\nThe day after Anton Ischenko celebrated his 23rd birthday, he was taken by the Russians, led away at gunpoint from his home in the village of Andriivka, west of Kyiv.\n\nHis family found his body a month later, once the Russian troops were driven out. He was so badly mutilated that they had to identify him by his clothes.\n\nAs Russian forces retreat to eastern Ukraine, horrors are being uncovered in the villages which they left.\n\nAbout 1,000 people lived in Andriivka, some 60km away from the capital. At least 40 of them were killed.\n\n\"He was a very nice boy, very clever - he recited poetry,\" recalls Anton's grandmother, Tetiana, sitting outside the family house. Suddenly, her exhausted face crumples.\n\nTetiana is grieving for her grandson\n\n\"Maybe if he had gone to fight somewhere else, he would have returned here in one piece,\" she says, struggling to speak through her tears. \"When my husband told the Russians, 'Take me instead,' they pointed a machine gun at him and said, 'Go home - or we will take you both.'\"\n\nAndriivka, on the route up to the Belarus border, has been blighted by battle and the month-long occupation. Buildings are ripped apart amid a mess of rubble and mangled metal.\n\nCraters lie in the dirt road where tanks were blown up. Remnants of artillery lie beside corpses of chickens and rabbits.\n\nBurnt-out armoured vehicles lie at either end of the village. It is a scene of utter devastation.\n\nWith the Russians pushed out, some residents are beginning to return - or emerge from shelters. On the main road, beside wooden boxes that contained grad missiles, Grigoriy Klymenko is taking in the sight of destruction.\n\nHe decided to stay throughout the occupation to be with his 90-year-old mother, who is bedridden. They had watched in terror as tanks encircled the village.\n\n\"They're animals,\" he says of the forces that moved in. \"Humans don't behave like this. My parents told me about the war and the fascists didn't even do such things.\"\n\nNext door, Leonid Koval and his son are beginning to repair their damaged house, retiling the roof and fixing plastic sheeting into blown-out windows. Russian soldiers stayed in his home - and looted it.\n\nLeonid Koval and his son have begun repair work\n\nInside, the cupboards lie wrenched apart by the Russian occupiers, boxes of photographs and clothes turned upside down. Cushions were ripped from the sofa. The soldiers emptied everything they could find.\n\nWhen the Ukrainian army began to push towards Andriivka, the Russians staying there moved out of the main house and into the tiny cellar to hide.\n\nLeonid takes me down to the cold and dark space, the mattresses and blankets they used still stuffed against the wall. To one side are the open packets of biscuits and jars of pickled fruit they feasted on.\n\nAs he surveys the damage to his home, Leonid breaks down. \"I don't know what they were looking for,\" he says, \"they just destroyed everything. I have no words to describe what they did.\"\n\nThe scarred villages and towns near Kyiv and Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, from where the Russians have retreated, are now sites of possible war crimes. Andriivka joins a growing list - with Bucha, Irpin and others - which bear the hallmarks of deliberate targeting of civilians and other atrocities banned by the rules of war.\n\nAnd they are grim omens of what may be in store in the east, where Russian forces are now intensifying their attacks ahead of a new offensive. What nightmares will be found there once the shroud of war finally lifts?\n\nOn the edge of Andriivka cemetery, the remains of Tetiana's grandson, Anton, lie in a fresh grave. His family have only now been able to bury him. The 23-year-old was studying to become an electrician.\n\n\"We wanted to bury him separately and with a priest, not just in a mass grave,\" she says. \"I had two daughters, so he was our boy. We only had one boy.\"", "Lorries have faced long queues at the port of Dover in recent days\n\nIntroducing a prioritisation system to help perishable goods get through long queues at Dover is not a realistic option, the environment secretary says.\n\nGeorge Eustice told BBC Breakfast such a system would be difficult to stand up at short notice and on a large scale.\n\nOn Sunday, hauliers warned fresh produce was losing quality and value, with some lorry drivers waiting more than 24 hours to cross into Europe.\n\nBut Mr Eustice said the backlog was now starting to clear.\n\nHe added that the beginning of the Easter holidays had caused a \"sharp increase in traffic\" around the port, which had been exacerbated by P&O Ferries routes being suspended.\n\n\"My understanding is that things are now moving in the right direction so this was a temporary problem caused by a surge of traffic around the commencement of the Easter period,\" he said.\n\nAsked about calls from some in the industry to introduce a priority lane for lorries carrying perishable goods, Mr Eustice said: \"I don't think it's a realistic option at such short notice.\"\n\nHe said the government had looked at this option previously, particularly for perishable fish, in the context of a possible no-deal Brexit.\n\nHowever, he added: \"You need a way of identifying the lorries... and then escort them past other traffic to get on to the ferry and it's quite a complicated thing to pull off actually and quite difficult to do on that scale.\"\n\nQueues around Dover eased on Sunday but the British Meat Processors Association said some of its members had waited for 24 hours or more to cross into Europe.\n\nThe association's chief executive Nick Allen has warned the delays mean the UK is losing business at a time when its members' products are in demand, as customers are turning to other countries to source goods.\n\nThe Operation Brock traffic management system, where lorries heading to Dover queue on one side of the M20, was put in place last week to deal with the congestion.\n\nP&O's Dover-Calais routes are still suspended, following its dismissal of almost 800 staff last month without notice.\n\nThe company has said it will not resume services on the route before Friday at the earliest.\n\nIts ships must pass safety inspections by the Maritime Coastguard Agency before they are allowed to sail again.\n\nBad weather and problems with a key IT system for custom checks after Brexit have also contributed to traffic at the UK's busiest port.\n\nToby Howe, from the Kent Resilience Forum, which manages emergency planning for the county, said Sundays and Mondays were always quieter for freight traffic.\n\n\"Currently traffic is flowing through the traffic management system to get to Eurotunnel and get to the port. But during today and over this week it will all pick up again,\" he told the BBC.\n\nIn a statement, the Port of Dover said its staff were working \"non-stop to minimise disruption and keep traffic flowing across the Channel\".\n\nA spokesperson said all the roads to the port had been free-flowing since Sunday morning.\n\n\"Working with just half of the usual ferry capacity last week and only two thirds available this past weekend, the port managed to process over 30,000 passengers each weekend; treble that of the traffic seen in the corresponding period in 2021,\" the statement added.", "Alice Walker, a retired IT consultant, was 66 when she triumphed on Mastermind\n\nA veteran quizzer became the oldest female BBC Mastermind champion when she triumphed in the show at the age of 66.\n\nAlice Walker, from Derbyshire, scored a perfect 14 out of 14 in her specialist subject, the Peak District.\n\nMs Walker - who won by six points in the grand final - was cheered on by a performance from the Morris dancing troupe she belongs to during the show, which aired on BBC Two on Monday.\n\nThe now 67-year-old said it was a \"shock\" to win.\n\n\"I applied for Mastermind after watching the programme and thought about entering for many years, but never expected to win, and it was quite a shock when I did,\" the retired IT consultant said.\n\n\"The opposition in the final was very tough but the questions just seemed to fall my way. It was a great experience and such an honour to receive the beautiful trophy.\"\n\nThe previous oldest female winner was Isabelle Heward, who took the title at her fourth attempt at the age of 61 in 2017.\n\nClive Myrie took over hosting Mastermind in 2021\n\nMs Walker's win follows 2021 champion Jonathan Gibson, a PhD student from Glasgow, who became the youngest person to win the show last year aged 24.\n\nShe has been part of the Macclesfield and Stockport quiz league since the 1980s, the show's producers said, and entered this year's Mastermind after contemplating applying for years.\n\n\"I'm not getting any younger. It's time,\" she said.\n\nAlice Walker correctly answered these questions. How about you?\n\nAnswers are below the photo.\n\n1. A traditional almond and jam pudding is named after which town known as the unofficial capital of the Peak District?\n\n2. In the mid-18th Century, which landscape architect was commissioned to redesign the gardens at Chatsworth House?\n\n3. What neolithic stone circle located on moorland near Monyash is sometimes referred to as the Stonehenge of the north?\n\n4. Which peak, the second highest point in Derbyshire, has been described as one of Britain's only true deserts because of its expanse of virtually featureless moorland?\n\n5. Which village between Leek and Buxton claims to be the highest in Britain at more than 1,500ft above sea level?\n\nHer partner Haydn, daughter Laura and granddaughter Evelyn watched from home, while the Poynton Jemmers Northwest Morris dancers appeared on the show with a performance to cheer Ms Walker on.\n\nBBC News journalist Clive Myrie took over the hosting duties last year, replacing John Humphrys who had overseen the quiz show for 18 years.\n\nThe final is available to view on BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Clive Myrie: Becoming host of Mastermind is a big, big job", "Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been expelled from the Conservative Party after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.\n\nKhan had denied groping the teenager at a party in Staffordshire in January 2008 but was convicted after a trial.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard he forced the youngster to drink gin, dragged him upstairs and asked him to watch pornography before assaulting him.\n\nKhan, 48, has said he intends to appeal against his conviction.\n\nFollowing the verdict the Conservative Party said Khan, who was elected as Tory MP for Wakefield in 2019, had been \"expelled with immediate effect\".\n\nThe Labour Party and the Conservative MP for Keighley, Robbie Moore, have called for Khan to resign.\n\nThe court heard that Khan had gone to the boy's bed and \"reached in and touched his legs, reaching for, or actually touching, his groin\".\n\nThe complainant, now 29, said the attack had left him \"scared and shocked\".\n\nIn evidence, he said Khan had started \"slow caressing\" him and continued despite being asked to stop.\n\n\"His breathing was getting quite heavy and I kept pushing his hand away and pushing it back and it would keep coming,\" the man said.\n\nKhan had denied the allegation at his trial at Southwark Crown Court in London\n\nThe court was told that police were called at the time but the teenager did not want to pursue the case.\n\nThe man, who cannot be named, contacted the Conservative party in 2019 after learning Mr Khan was standing in the general election.\n\nHe then called police after Mr Khan was elected to Parliament.\n\nJurors also heard from the complainant's older brother, who said the MP had asked if he was \"a true Scotsman\" and lifted his kilt, before \"lunging\" at him at the same party.\n\nAnother witness described waking to find Khan performing a sex act on him after a party in Pakistan in 2010 where the pair had drunk whisky and smoked marijuana.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Resign: People in Wakefield urge their MP to step down after he was found guilty of sexual assault\n\nKhan claimed he had only touched the teenager's elbow when the boy had become \"extremely upset\" after a conversation about his confused sexuality.\n\nThe MP was found guilty after about five hours of deliberations.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Baker, said he would sentence Khan at a date to be fixed and he warned him \"all sentencing options, including immediate custody, are being considered by the court\".\n\nKhan made no comment as he left the court, however, his solicitors later issued a statement saying he \"maintains his innocence and will be appealing as soon as possible\".\n\nThe MP was found guilty after about five hours of deliberations by the jury at Southwark Crown Court\n\nStaffordshire Police said it began its investigation into Khan after the victim came forward in December 2019.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"We know how hard it is to come forward and report these offences, but it is vital to bring those responsible for these offences to justice.\n\n\"We would like to commend the victim for reporting the offence committed against him - he has shown real bravery and courage in doing so.\n\n\"This case has had a huge impact on the victim and his family for a number of years.\"\n\nKhan will be thrown out of the House of Commons if he is handed a prison sentence of more than a year, or he could face a recall petition to oust him.\n\nFollowing the verdict, Mr Moore tweeted that Khan's crime was \"vile and disgusting\".\n\nHe said Khan should \"immediately resign so people of Wakefield can have a new MP as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Labour party also called for Khan's resignation.\n\n\"Imran Ahmad Khan should immediately resign so a by-election can take place and the people of Wakefield can get the representation they deserve,\" a party spokesman said.\n\nBorn in Wakefield, Khan attended Silcoates School before going on to graduate from Kings College London with a degree in War Studies.\n\nHe later worked with the United Nations in Mogadishu and briefly as a consultant with advertising agency M&C Saatchi before ousting Labour's Mary Creagh at the 2019 general election.\n\nFollowing the verdict it can now be reported that Khan had attempted to have the case heard in secrecy, arguing that as a serving MP there were concerns about his safety and that to name him in court would breach his human rights.\n\nHe also attempted to have the age of his victim withheld.\n\nHowever his applications were rejected by Westminster Magistrates' Court Chief Magistrate, Paul Goldspring, who said: \"Damage to reputation is not a ground for making of an order, open justice is and should remain a cornerstone of democracy and the rule of law.\"\n\nHe tried again to have the case heard anonymously on the first day of the trial on the grounds that as an Ahmadi Muslim, both the consumption of alcohol and homosexuality are strictly prohibited, and the reporting of those matters would expose him to \"a risk to his safety both here and abroad\".\n\nA temporary banning order was put in place but was lifted at the end of the second day of the trial.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Accounts of atrocities committed by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians are emerging daily. There are calls for President Putin and others to be prosecuted for war crimes - but how likely is that to happen? Given its past record, and failure to stop this war which has seen more than 11 million people flee their homes, the BBC's Fergal Keane considers whether the international community will be able to unite.\n\nEven when the spring sunlight fills the little park, it remains an unsettling place. The Jewish world commemorated at Arsenalna Square in central Lviv was destroyed by genocide. The people who worshipped at the Golden Rose synagogue were either exiled or killed. There is no escape from history here. It is present in the memorial stones for the dead and in the void left by a murdered generation.\n\nIn western Ukraine's biggest city, the past collides with the present in other ways too. You can hear it in the rattle of today's refugee suitcases being pulled across the same cobblestoned streets where, in the high summer of 1941, the Germans and their Ukrainian collaborators chased Jews to their deaths. The photos of those days are some of the most terrible of the Holocaust - women being stripped and beaten before jeering mobs, eyes wide in horror, mouths frozen in mid-scream.\n\nWe are not in the middle of a new world war, or a Holocaust, but the lessons for the world of that terrible conflict - and the promises made in its aftermath - have a relevance we cannot ignore today.\n\nIt was a reality framed in scathing terms by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he addressed the Security Council of the United Nations this week. He reminded his audience that the UN had been established in 1945 to guarantee peace after the horrors of World War Two.\n\nRussia was turning 'the right of veto in the UN Security Council into a right to kill' - President Volodymyr Zelensky told the council on 4 April\n\nListing allegations of war crimes by Russian troops in Ukraine - summary killings, torture, rape - he called for the council to order a war crimes investigation.\n\n\"Are you ready to close the UN?\" he asked. \"Do you think that the time of international law is gone? If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately.\"\n\nThe threat to the peace of Europe is greater now than at any time since the end of the Cold War in 1989. For nearly a month, I watched families flee westward from Lviv in trains, cars and buses as Russia waged war on their homeland. I listened to survivors from the besieged port of Mariupol talk of a hell on earth with bodies lying in the streets and the cityscape they knew, of shops, restaurants, the Hurov Park with its spectacular fountains, reduced to rubble.\n\nLess than a year ago, I walked through the Hurov with Lyubov Vasilievna and Dominic, her two-year-old grandson. I have known Lyubov for eight years, since the day she was wounded and two other grandchildren - Nikita, 10, and Karolina, six - were killed at the war's beginning in 2014 after Russian-backed forces staged a rebellion in eastern Ukraine against the Kyiv government.\n\nThe three of them had been out walking when a shell exploded. In hospital, Lyubov told me she blamed herself for their deaths. \"I don't know how I am going to survive this. The images of them are always in front of my eyes,\" she said.\n\nSo, it was heartening to meet her again last year, in a time of relative peace, with a new grandchild. \"I am smiling because I live for him now,\" she told me. \"I have someone to take care of. He brings me joy.\"\n\nNow, as Mariupol is being destroyed, I do not know what has happened to Lyubov and Dominic. I have called and called, but her phone no longer rings.\n\nA bird's eye view of dozens of destroyed homes in Mariupol\n\nEvery day at Lviv railway station I watched for their faces in the crowds of refugees, but there was no sign. Lyubov and Dominic, and the dead Nikita and Karolina, are among many millions failed by history's greatest broken promise. It was made in the aftermath of World War Two and is firmly rooted in the story of Lviv.\n\nIn the far western corner of Ukraine, Lviv is a city to remind us of the worst of mankind, but also of what can be done to protect us from the consequences of aggression.\n\nWalk five minutes west from the ruins of the synagogue and you reach a squat two-storey building that was the cradle of the world's most important human rights legislation - the very principles under which President Putin and his armies might yet face judgement.\n\nThe law faculty of the University of Lviv was the alma mater of Raphael Lemkin who invented the word genocide to describe the attempt to exterminate \"in whole or in part\" a national, religious or racial group. Aghast at the Nazi Holocaust Lemkin coined the term in 1944 and, four years later, succeeded in having the UN define genocide as a crime under international law.\n\nHis fellow alumnus, Hersch Lauterpacht, was instrumental in bringing about the legal concept of crimes against humanity which was first used to prosecute Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg trials in 1945-46.\n\nBoth men were Jewish and studied in Lviv in the early decades of the 20th Century. Lviv was called Lemberg then and was a city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, home to a cosmopolitan mix of Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and other nationalities from across the empire.\n\nWorld War One destroyed Austria-Hungary and ushered in an age of instability as Poles, Ukrainians, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany fought for control of the city. The majority of the remaining Jewish population was wiped out in the Holocaust, among them the relatives of Lemkin and Lauterpacht.\n\nLviv's Jewish ghetto, created by the Nazis, during WW2 - when nearly all the city's Jews were murdered\n\nAt the end of World War Two, Lviv came under the rule of the Soviet Union, where it remained until the fall of communism and the creation of an independent Ukraine in 1991.\n\nAlthough they differed in important respects - Lemkin argued in favour of group protections, Lauterpacht focused on individual rights - their legacies were enshrined in the 1945 UN Charter, which promised to \"save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which, twice in our lifetimes, has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person…\"\n\nNow, Lviv finds itself once more at the centre of a great historical trauma.\n\nI think of that phrase - \"the dignity and worth of the human person\" - after watching people fight to board trains in the early days of the evacuation of Ukraine. I remember it when I see the images of executed civilians in Bucha, and I wonder what has happened to the dream of the lawyers from Lviv?\n\nWe are living in an age where millions are displaced by war. I have seen them jumping from smugglers' boats into the shallows on a Greek beach, shouting with joy that \"God is Great\". In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Yemen, I have heard civilian victims describe cruel military campaigns.\n\nAccording to the most recent UN statistics - gathered before the Russian invasion of Ukraine - 84 million people are now forcibly displaced worldwide. The figures reflect an international order in crisis with the UN unable to prevent the murder and abuse of civilians in many regions of the world.\n\nTo understand how we have come to this point it is necessary to go back a little to one of the most terrible crimes of our modern era.\n\nIt all happened in Rwanda - genocide, crimes against humanity and mass rape as a weapon of war. In late spring of 1994, I was sent to the small, central African country that had become a vast open-air cemetery. The dead flowed down rivers. They lay piled up in churches. The smell of decomposing bodies hung over abandoned villages.\n\nIn the space of 100 days, up to 800,000 people are estimated to have been murdered in the Rwandan genocide. It also sparked one of the worst refugee crises in living memory.\n\nRwanda happened because a hate-filled elite decided that the solution to the country's problems was to exterminate the Tutsi ethnic minority.\n\nTwo weeks into the genocide, with tens of thousands already slaughtered, the UN Security Council voted to reduce the peacekeeping force from over 2,000 members to 270. This came after 10 Belgian peacekeepers were attacked and killed by the Rwandan army. The great powers abandoned Rwanda to its fate.\n\nRefugees at a border crossing between Rwanda and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo)\n\nSkulls of genocide victims lined up outside a chapel in Rwanda, November 1994\n\nUnlike Ukraine now, Rwanda was a country with little geo-political importance. The US and other powers on the Security Council refused until it was too late to use the word coined by the Lviv lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, because describing the slaughter as \"genocide\" might have created a responsibility to intervene and protect the victims under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention.\n\nI cannot ever forget the sight of Tutsi refugees huddled a few yards from me outside a municipal office in Butare - a city in southern Rwanda - surrounded by extremist militia and soldiers, and wondering if they would live or die. Many were ultimately slaughtered.\n\nIn July 1995, one year after the Rwandan genocide ended, Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic murdered 8,000 Muslim men and boys when they overran the town of Srebrenica. It happened under the eyes of Dutch UN peacekeepers.\n\nA UN camp provided shelter for people who had fled\n\nThe two genocides of the 1990s - in central Africa and the former Yugoslavia - showed what happened when the Security Council was challenged to live up to words of the UN charter. The promise of 1945 was frustrated by lack of political will and division.\n\nBut those terrible years of the 1990s would come to have a profound effect on international law. If there was a failure to prevent genocide it could at least be punished. Tribunals were set up to try the accused of Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. There were also courts to try those accused of responsibility for mass killings in Cambodia and Sierra Leone.\n\nThere were UN military operations to stop the killing of civilians in Sierra Leone and Nato forces intervened to end the expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Although, the latter provoked an ominous confrontation with Russia, an ally of Serbia and already wary of Nato encroachment to the east.\n\nThe world moved to establish a permanent court to try cases of genocide and crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court - the ICC - was set up in 1998 to try the most serious cases of human rights abuses. It is not part of the UN but was created by UN members and works closely with the organisation.\n\nIn 2009, in a landmark moment, President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, became the first sitting head of state to be indicted for genocide by the ICC, for the killing of civilians in Darfur.\n\nJust as at the end of WW2, the idea was that prosecutions might not only provide accountability but would make future war leaders think twice before abusing the rights of civilians.\n\nBut there was a problem from day one, and it is one that shadows the current debate about war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nNeither the US, China or Russia ratified the Rome Statute - the treaty that established the court. This means the three biggest military powers are not subject to ICC jurisdiction.\n\nThe only way they could be is if the Security Council votes to refer them. But as each nation has a veto, that is never going to happen. It means the ICC would be powerless if it wanted to indict President Putin and his senior generals for the crime of waging an aggressive war against Ukraine. Aggression was described by the Nuremberg tribunal after WW2 as \"the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole\".\n\nIt is worth remembering what happened when the court tried to investigate alleged war crimes by all the parties in Afghanistan. The Trump administration went as far as placing sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the ICC to signal its opposition to any judicial pursuit of US forces.\n\nAnd - in China's autonomous region of Xinjiang - an attempt to investigate Chinese officials for the alleged genocide against the Uyghurs failed because China was not an ICC member.\n\nA lopsided international order - one rule for the weak, one rule for the strong - is ultimately not a sustainable legal order\n\nThe war crimes lawyer, Prof Philippe Sands QC, believes the attitude of the superpowers creates \"lopsided justice\" where the only prosecutions are those involving less powerful nations.\n\n\"One rule for the weak, one rule for the strong - is ultimately not a sustainable legal order or even really a legal order,\" he says.\n\nProf Sands' grandfather came from Lviv, and his great-grandmother was murdered by the Nazis. He is among those looking at the possibility of setting up a special international tribunal to indict the Russian president and his commanders.\n\nBut the legal framework is not the only issue that hangs over the current debate about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even some supporters of prosecuting President Putin acknowledge a charge of double standards against the US and the UK.\n\nProf Sands points out that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by a US-led coalition polarised world opinion. The then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan would later call the invasion illegal. \"You reap what you sow - and what you sow includes your own double standards,\" he says.\n\nThe British and American governments insisted the invasion was legal.\n\nBut President Putin used the Iraq example as a rhetorical stick to beat the US and UK when he announced his decision to attack Ukraine, declaring that there was a \"special place\" for the invasion of Iraq - which had been carried out \"without any legal grounds\".\n\nIn reality, there has never been a golden age of post-war peace guided by international diplomacy. The big powers have not fought an apocalyptic nuclear war but millions have died in wars big and small - in Korea, Algeria, Congo, Cambodia, Vietnam, Algeria, Indonesia, Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and many other battlegrounds. Some of those wars have been - at least partly - proxy conflicts between superpowers. More than 4,000 UN peacekeepers have lost their lives in different conflict zones trying to protect civilians and act as a buffer between warring parties.\n\nUS soldiers in a burning village during the Vietnam War, circa 1965\n\nRather than being a place where the great powers consistently work for peace, the Security Council, too often, became a forum of superpower rivalry. Ukraine is just the latest dangerous example.\n\nOn 26 February, two days after the Russian invasion began, the Security Council met to discuss a resolution calling on Moscow to stop its attack and withdraw all troops. Russia vetoed that move for peace.\n\nIn a singularly ominous moment, President Putin implicitly threatened to use nuclear weapons to deter any intervention by Nato. Whether he intends to deploy nukes or not, the simple issuing of such a threat reflects the perilous state of human affairs in the 21st Century.\n\nThe current UN Secretary General, António Guterres, sounded almost forlorn when he declared: \"We must never give up. We must give peace another chance.\" But even some of those critical of the Security Council, argue that this can also be a moment of possibility - if, for example, a special tribunal can be set up to investigate a superpower like Russia for its actions.\n\n\"I am partly fearful but also partly optimistic,\" says Prof Sands. \"This period could destroy the [legal] order created by the 1945 moment [the defeat of Nazism] or it might develop and strengthen it. I am inclined to the latter view. It's a long game. Two steps forward and one back, then another forward. We just have to stick to a principled approach.\"\n\nIn mid-1945, delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco to agree the UN Charter - and it was where Sir Anthony Eden, who led the British delegation, learned of the death of Adolf Hitler\n\nThere have also been important signs of change at the UN in recent days. The General Assembly - the body made up of all 193 UN members - condemned the invasion and voted to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. China voted against the move and India abstained - between them they represent a third of the world's population. And while the decision doesn't affect what the Security Council does or does not do, the moral signal from more than two thirds of UN members was clear.\n\nOne former UN official with experience of genocide and war crimes told me that it was a mistake to see the present world order solely through the lens of big power politics. Prof Mukesh Kapila of the University of Manchester is a former UN representative in Sudan and was instrumental in the campaign to have the killings in Darfur recognised as genocide.\n\n\"In the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil, there is a lot of activity. It is not all going on the side of the bad guys,\" he says. He points to the case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice - a UN court established in 1945 where one state can bring action against another. Myanmar is being pursued by the small west African nation of The Gambia for alleged persecution of the Rohingya Muslims.\n\nProf Kapila also cites the development in recent years of \"universal jurisdiction\" - where individual nations can try alleged war criminals from other countries if they arrest them on their soil. The successful German prosecution last January of a Syrian officer for murder, torture and sexual assault is recent example.\n\nIf the Security Council is deadlocked, then why not create a mechanism where one member can take it to a bigger jury - the General Assembly\n\nCalls for reform of the UN Security Council are not new. It has long been criticised for representing the imperial and superpower realities that prevailed at the end of WW2. There is no permanent representation for Africa, the Indian sub-continent or Latin America.\n\nExpanding the UN's top body would not at a stroke remove the potential for great power rivalry. But Prof Kapila suggests one way around the stalemates created by veto powers would be to strengthen the role of the General Assembly - the body that has just acted against Russia.\n\n\"If the Security Council is deadlocked, then why not create a mechanism where one member can take it to a bigger jury - the General Assembly. It is more democratic, and it also increases pressure on the Security Council to reach an agreement.\"\n\nThere seems little prospect at the moment of the \"Permanent Five\" - China, France, Russia, the UK and US - agreeing to dilute their influence. \"Turkeys don't vote for Christmas,\" as Prof Kapila puts it. But he argues that civil society movements have established powerful pressure for progress in recent years - in the area of climate change, for example. \"Things which seem improbable now can become real.\"\n\nA protester with a Ukrainian flag outside the UN's New York headquarters\n\nAt the heart of the promise made in the UN Charter was the idea that countries must work together to avoid war. If armed conflict did break out they would send forces to try to keep the peace and the world would ensure abuses were prosecuted - both for the sake of justice and to deter future crimes.\n\nIt is possible - no more than that - that the crisis in Ukraine becomes one of those moments where the high stakes of conflict create a genuine moment of international reflection and generate a momentum for change. Before she stepped down from power, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel wistfully reflected on a world where unilateral action by states threatened peace and stability.\n\nMrs Merkel, who grew up in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the looming shadow of superpower rivalry, warned of the dangers of forgetting - especially as those with lived experience of WW2 died away.\n\n\"We have to take care now not to enter a historical phase in which important lessons from history fade away. We have to remind ourselves that the multilateral world order was created as a lesson from the Second World War.\"\n\nRemember where we have come from, was the message, and act so that we are not dragged backwards.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-10-7-5 -4-3 W Zalatoris (US), C Conners (Can)\n\nWorld number one Scottie Scheffler cemented his place as the dominant force in the men's game by winning the Masters and clinching his first major.\n\nScheffler won with a one-under 71, missing two short putts for a double bogey on 18, to finish 10 under par and claim the Green Jacket at Augusta.\n\nThe 25-year-old American finished three shots clear of Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, who shot an extraordinary 64.\n\nAustralia's Cameron Smith, in the last pair with Scheffler, hit a 73.\n\nWorld number six Smith was aiming for a rare double of Players Championship and Masters victories, but ended up finishing third on five under alongside Ireland's Shane Lowry.\n\nMcIlroy, who started the day one over, raised hopes of a sensational comeback when he holed out of the greenside bunker amid incredible scenes on the 18th, moving within three shots of the lead.\n\nHowever, Scheffler remained steady and extended his advantage, which meant his late wobble on the 18th green did not matter.\n\nThe US Ryder Cup star held a three-shot overnight lead and continued his recent dominance with another commanding performance in Sunday's final round.\n\nAfterwards Scheffler revealed he \"cried like a baby\" on Sunday morning because he doubted if he was ready to win one of the sport's most iconic tournaments.\n• None As happy as I've been on a golf course - McIlroy\n• None 'I will be there' - Woods plans to play Open at St Andrews\n• None How the final leaderboard looks at the 2022 Masters\n\nHow Scheffler took the heat out of a promising duel\n\nBecause of the composure he shows on course, Scheffler's candid admission about the \"overwhelming\" emotion he felt before Sunday's round was a surprise.\n\nIt was also surprising because he has been the outstanding player on the PGA Tour this year and his ascension to major champion at Augusta this week looked to be a natural progression.\n\nBut the magnitude of the Masters, and the weight of history at Augusta, makes it a different proposition to the rest.\n\nScheffler had not won a tour event until this year, triumphing at the Phoenix Open in his 71st senior tournament, then adding two more victories sat the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play.\n\nWhile he is the standout player in 2022, Smith is not far behind.\n\nAs well as the Players Championship, the Australian also won the Tournament of Champions which means the two men had won five of the year's six strongest tournaments between them.\n\nThat set up the prospect of a tantalising duel on a gorgeous spring afternoon which offered the chance for birdies.\n\nThe highlight of Scheffler's round was a stunning chip-in for birdie on the third, which turned momentum back in his favour after 28-year-old Smith had already reduced the gap to one shot.\n\nOn holing out the bump and run, Scheffler said: \"I was very excited and a bit surprised, it was not a shot I expected to go in.\n\n\"I wouldn't say it changed the complexion of the day but it helped me get on a roll.\"\n\nSmith, also bidding for a maiden major, still applied pressure before seeing his chances irreparably damaged with a triple bogey on the iconic par-three 12th.\n\nUnruffled by McIlroy's charge and Smith's troubles, Scheffler converted more birdies at 14 and 15 to lead by five shots with three holes left.\n\nA majestic display ended with the uncharacteristic wobble on the 18th as Scheffler, finally showing signs of emotion as tears filled the eyes of his wife Meredith, took four putts to confirm victory.\n\nWhen the final shot dropped to an even louder cheer, a relieved smile broke out across Scheffler's face as he celebrated his fourth victory in the past six tournaments.\n\n\"I tried to keep my head down and execute shots. I knew if I took care of my stuff and played solid stuff, I'd get the job done,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm kind of glad I missed those putts at the end because it meant I didn't get too emotional.\"\n\nThrilling McIlroy charge proves too little too late\n\nFollowing a steady if not spectacular opening three rounds, McIlroy said his target for Sunday's finale was clinching a seventh top-10 finish at Augusta.\n\nThe Northern Irishman achieved his aim with an electrifying performance which saw him race up the leaderboard and create a buzz of excitement on the course.\n\nMcIlroy also threatened to break several Masters records as he attempted to achieve an audacious comeback.\n\nStarting 10 shots behind Scheffler, he was aiming to match the biggest final-round comeback to win a major, set by Paul Lawrie at the 1999 Open Championship.\n\nBirdies on the first and third got the confidence flowing, with three more on seven, eight and 10 giving McIlroy an extra spring in his step as he suddenly moved into joint third.\n\nThen came the conversion of an eagle putt on the par-five 13th to put him seven under for the day and the course record of 63 in his sights.\n\nMcIlroy rescued pars on 14 and 15 after wayward drives left, with two more pars on 16 and 17 leaving the course record - set by Nick Price in 1986 and Greg Norman in 1996 - out of reach.\n\nBut there was one more highlight - which McIlroy said made him as happy as he had \"ever been on a golf course\".\n\nIn the bunker on the right of the green, McIlroy splashed out and holed for birdie, sparking some of the most fervent celebrations ever seen by the four-time major champion.\n\nThat moved him within three shots of Scheffler, providing a slim hope of victory, but ultimately the final-day charge proved too late as another opportunity to win all four men's majors passed McIlroy by.\n\nWoods still smiling despite falling down leaderboard\n\nAway from the fight for the Green Jacket, eyes remained trained on five-time champion Tiger Woods as he continued his astonishing comeback from a life-threatening car crash.\n\nWoods, 46, was given another emotional reception after completing 72 holes at the Masters in his first competitive appearance since the accident in February last year.\n\nThere were also fears the 15-time major champion would need his right leg amputating following the single vehicle crash.\n\nBut Woods defied the odds to return to Augusta this week, despite being unsure three weeks ago if he was fit enough to walk the hilly terrain.\n\nAfter announcing on Tuesday he would play, Woods shot a one-under par 71 on Thursday amid celebratory scenes.\n\nA round of 74 on Friday ensured he would make the weekend cut, although he eventually finished 13 over par after two 78s.\n\n\"It was an unbelievable feeling to have the patrons and their support out there,\" he said.\n\n\"I was not exactly playing my best out there and to have the support, I don't think words can really describe that given where I was and what my prospects were at that time.\n\n\"To end up here and play all four rounds, even a month ago I didn't know if I could pull this off.\"\n\nWoods, wearing his iconic red shirt during the final round, was watched by his children Sam and Charlie, partner Erica and 77-year-old mother Kultida.\n\n\"My mum shouldn't be walking, she has no business going up and down those hills. She's stubborn. Now you know where I get it from,\" he joked.\n\nWoods confirmed he would play at the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews in July, but was undecided over next month's US PGA Championship.\n\nScheffler was quickly congratulated by many of his fellow professionals on social media, including third-placed Lowry and the returning Woods.\n\nScheffler's US Ryder Cup team-mate Bryson DeChambeau missed the cut but stayed at Augusta to watch, while England's former world number one Luke Donald also praised the champion.\n\nScheffler's caddie Ted Scott, credited for helping the player break his winless duck and who helped Bubba Watson to win two Masters, also received congratulations.\n• None Jon Ronson and Louis Theroux take a deep dive into Culture Wars battles and chat about putting their old rivalries to bed\n• None From deadly chaos a mysterious figure emerges in the bewildering heart of contemporary Russia", "Rishi Sunak has referred himself to Boris Johnson's ethics watchdog as he continues to face questions about his family's financial affairs.\n\nThe chancellor wants Lord Geidt - the PM's adviser on ministers' interests - to check if he followed the rules.\n\nMr Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, last week announced she would start paying UK tax on her overseas earnings.\n\nBut Labour says he still has questions to answer about transparency and whether he has used tax havens.\n\nNo 10 has confirmed the prime minister accepted Mr Sunak's request for a review by Lord Geidt.\n\nThe spokeswoman also said Boris Johnson had full confidence in his chancellor.\n\nMr Sunak said he was \"confident\" Lord Geidt - who also investigated allegations about Mr Johnson's refurbishment of his Downing Street flat - would find he had appropriately declared all his interests.\n\nMs Murty owns £700m in shares of the Indian IT giant Infosys - founded by her father - from which she received £11.6m in dividend income last year.\n\nThe BBC estimates she would have avoided £2.1m a year in UK tax through her non-domicile (non-dom) status.\n\nShe will now pay tax on her overseas earnings, but her domicile remains India, where she has said she intends to eventually return.\n\nMr Sunak said he had made the Cabinet Office aware of his wife's non-dom status when he first became a government minister in 2018.\n\nHe has ordered a leak inquiry into how that information came to be reported in the media.\n\nDowning Street has rejected newspaper reports that its staff leaked damaging stories about Mr Sunak to the media.\n\nRishi Sunak's reputation has gone from golden to tinfoil. His personal ratings have plummeted and his leader-in-waiting status has been dented, if not destroyed.\n\nBut his job as chancellor looks safe for now.\n\nHe has the backing of the prime minister so won't get fired.\n\nThe number of Conservative backbenchers grumbling about his handling of this appears to be outweighed by the number of colleagues who think he's a good operator so they won't get rid of him. And the review into his declarations of interests isn't likely to cause him too many problems either.\n\nBut all of that could change under pressure from the opposition, the media and any further revelations, or if he becomes a threat to the reputation of the government.\n\nWhat will be fascinating to see is whether this changes the approach Rishi Sunak takes to the rising cost of living.\n\nWill the chancellor accused of being too rich feel he has to do more to help people who are getting poorer?\n\nIt feels like Rishi Sunak has gained a lifetime's-worth of baggage in a fortnight.\n\nMost politicians have it - what matters is how much it weighs them down.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said questions faced by Mr Sunak include whether he had declared his wife's tax status when taking \"policy decisions\" affecting non-dom households.\n\n\"The lack of transparency does raise questions about conflict of interest,\" she told BBC.\n\n\"The fact that they have changed their tax arrangements now shows that they do recognise it's a problem - but they wouldn't have done that if this hadn't been public.\"\n\nIt has also been revealed that Mr Sunak held a US green card until last year, entitling him to permanent residence, a path to citizenship, in that country.\n\nIt also means he filed US tax returns, prompting opposition questions about whether he gained a financial advantage from this.\n\nLabour also says the public need to know if Mr Sunak has ever benefitted from tax havens.\n\nIt follows a report in the Independent which said Ms Murty had received income from companies based in tax havens.\n\nRishi Sunak married Akshata Murty in 2009, after meeting her as a student in California\n\nA non-dom is a UK resident who declares their permanent home, or domicile, outside of the UK.\n\nA domicile is usually the country his or her father considered his permanent home when they were born, or it may be the place overseas where somebody has moved to with no intention of returning.\n\nFor proof to the tax authority, non-doms have to provide evidence about their background, lifestyle and future intentions, such as where they own property or intend to be buried.\n\nThose who have the status must still pay UK tax on UK earnings but do not need to pay UK tax on foreign income. They can give up their non-dom status at any time.\n\nMs Murty has chosen to be domiciled in India via her father, the billionaire Narayana Murty.", "French President Emmanuel Macron has called on the supporters of his defeated presidential election rivals to back him in a run-off contest against Marine Le Pen.\n\nMr Macron pledged to unify France and reflect \"all the different convictions and beliefs\" if he beats his far-right rival.\n\nThe crucial second round of voting takes place on 24 April.", "Connections between different regions of the brain increased in depressed patients given psilocybin\n\nPsilocybin, a drug found in magic mushrooms, appears to free up the brains of people with severe depression in a way that other antidepressants do not, a study has found.\n\nThe results, based on brain scans of 60 people, mean the drug could treat depression in a unique way, the researchers say.\n\nPsychedelics are being studied to treat a range of mental health disorders.\n\nPatients with depression are warned not to take psilocybin on their own.\n\nA synthetic form of the drug is tested on people in trials under strict medical conditions, with psychological support from experts provided before, during and after it is taken.\n\nProf David Nutt, study author and head of the Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research, said the latest findings on psilocybin were \"exciting\" and \"important\".\n\nWith depression, the brain can get stuck in a rut and locked into a particular negative way of thinking, he said.\n\nBut when given psilocybin, people's brains opened up and became \"more flexible and fluid\" up to three weeks later.\n\nThis could be seen in increased connections between regions of the brain when patients were scanned. These patients were more likely to experience an improvement in mood months later.\n\nSimilar changes were not seen in the brains of people treated with a standard antidepressant.\n\n\"This supports our initial predictions, and confirms psilocybin could be a real alternative approach to depression treatments,\" Prof Nutt said.\n\nPsychedelics are a type of hallucinogenic substance which affects all the senses, altering a person's thinking, sense of time and emotions.\n\nWhile regular antidepressants are taken every day, psilocybin may only need to be taken once or twice to produce the same effect - but further research on more patients for longer is needed to confirm that.\n\nThe results, published in Nature Medicine, are taken from two studies. In the first, everyone received psilocybin; and in the second - a randomised controlled trial - some were given the drug while others were given a different antidepressant.\n\nAll participants also received talking therapies with registered mental health professionals. Brain scans were taken before, and then one day or three weeks after taking the therapy.\n\nProf Robin Carhart-Harris, senior study author, said: \"We don't yet know how long the changes in brain activity seen with psilocybin therapy last, and we need to do more research to understand this.\n\n\"We do know that some people relapse, and it may be that after a while their brains revert to the rigid patterns of activity we see in depression.\"\n\nEarlier findings from the studies showed a reduction in symptoms of depression with the psilocybin therapy - but the researchers were not sure how and why it worked.\n\nNow they want to test their theory of changes in brain connectivity on other mental health illnesses, such as anorexia.\n• None The worldview-changing drugs poised to go mainstream", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEmmanuel Macron is firing up his campaign for re-election, directly taking on far-right rival Marine Le Pen in France's presidential run-off.\n\nHe made his first trip to a Le Pen stronghold at Denain, one of France's poorest towns in the industrial north.\n\nPresident Macron won the first round of the election, but opinion polls suggest the second round will be a close race on 24 April.\n\n\"Make no mistake: nothing is decided,\" he told supporters after the vote.\n\nBoth candidates polled better than the first round in 2017, but Le Pen officials were in far more buoyant mood the morning after the result, even though she trailed the president by four points.\n\nJordan Bardella, president of her National Rally party, was confident Ms Le Pen would find willing support from the 70% of people who voted against Mr Macron.\n\n\"They know if he gets back in, it's going to be five more years of social breakdown, fiscal bloodletting, powerlessness over their sovereignty, violence throughout the country and immigration,\" he told French radio.\n\nEmmanuel Macron's first trip after the initial round was to Denain\n\nThe president acknowledged he had left campaigning too late. He chose to focus instead on Russia's war in Ukraine, partly in the belief that his role as a statesman would boost his poll numbers.\n\nMeanwhile, the Le Pen team concentrated on the cost of living crunch affecting much of the French population.\n\n\"Clearly we're not listening enough to the 38 million French people who earn less than €2,000 (£1,680) a month,\" said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.\n\nWith that in mind, Mr Macron headed to the northern towns of Denain, Carvin and Lens where the National Rally candidate came out on top.\n\nAnother minister, Clément Beaune, said it was an area that had experienced decades of high deprivation and Marine Le Pen was attracting high levels of support. The aim was to spend the next two weeks highlighting the government's record in creating jobs and reinvigorating industry, he explained.\n\n\"Marine Le Pen is all talk about the cost of living and protecting people in most difficulty,\" he said. \"But in concrete terms what would she achieve for them - and what would we do?\"\n\nWith all of the votes counted, Emmanuel Macron took 27.84% of the vote, Marine Le Pen 23.15% and far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon 21.95%. Between them they attracted close to three-quarters of the vote, as the electorate largely abandoned other candidates they decided had no chance of making the run-off.\n\nAnother of the big revelations on the night was that more than half of voters backed the far right and far left.\n\nMr Mélenchon was not far behind Marine Le Pen and his voters could decide the final round of this election, if they turn out to vote.\n\n\"You must not give a single vote to Marine Le Pen,\" he warned his supporters, although he pointedly did not back the president instead.\n\nMore mainstream candidates did urge voters to support Mr Macron in the run-off, including Valérie Pécresse from the right-wing Republicans and Anne Hidalgo from the Socialists. Both had an awful night, failing to even scrape the 5% of the vote needed to recoup their election costs.\n\nFor Ms Pécresse, this has become a financial as well as a political disaster.\n\nAppealing for donations from supporters, she revealed that her campaign finances were in a \"critical state\" and that she had used €5m (£4.2m) of her own money.\n\nMeanwhile, the Le Pen camp can count on up to a third of the national vote. She will attract the votes of Eric Zemmour, whose more hardline nationalism won him fourth place with 7%. Nationalist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has also backed her.\n\nMr Macron's team is planning a series of big rallies and major TV appearances, although the big set-piece event is likely to be the TV debate on 20 April.\n\nIfop pollster François Dabi said his company's 51%-49% estimate for the run-off was the closest they had ever predicted. An Elabe poll put the gap at 52%-48% and an Ipsos poll suggested it was wider still.\n\nAddressing his supporters, Mr Macron looked a relieved man and he promised to work harder than in the first part of the campaign.\n\n\"When the extreme right in all its forms represents so much of our country,\" he said, \"we cannot feel that things are going well.\"\n\nIt was already clear from Mr Macron's speech that in the days ahead he planned to target Ms Le Pen's close links with the Kremlin. Although she has condemned Vladimir Putin's war, she visited him before the previous election in 2017 and her party took out a Russian loan.\n\nMs Le Pen said it was time for a \"great changeover\", with a fundamental choice on 24 April of two opposite views: \"Either division and disorder, or a union of the French people around guaranteed social justice.\"\n\nShe has promised to cut taxes and waive income tax for under-30s. There has been less emphasis on nationalism, but she wants a referendum on restricting immigration, radical change to the EU and a ban on the Islamic hijab in public areas.\n\nOne in four voters aged 18-24 backed the president and he was most popular among over-65s, while Marine Le Pen performed best among 35-64 year-olds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The man accused of murdering Sir David Amess MP told police only hours afterwards that it was a terrorist attack.\n\nThe trial at the Old Bailey also heard how Mr Ali told police officers he \"killed an MP\".\n\nSir David, the MP for Southend West, died after he was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 26, denies charges of murder and preparing acts of terrorism.", "Logan Mwangi was found dead in the River Ogmore in Sarn, Bridgend county, last July\n\nA five-year-old boy whose body was found in a river was \"treated like rubbish in life, just like he was in death\", a court has heard.\n\nThe prosecution has been giving its closing speech as the Logan Mwangi trial at Cardiff Crown Court enters its final stages.\n\nThe little boy's body was found in the River Ogmore last July.\n\nLogan's mother Angharad Williamson, his stepfather John Cole and a 14-year-old boy all deny his murder.\n\nCaroline Rees QC, barrister for the prosecution, said that the court had heard Logan was a \"smiling and cheerful\" little boy and the prosecution suggested he was also \"brave\".\n\n\"Behind the smile, he endured a harsh environment and was not treated with the love,\" she told the jury.\n\n\"In the 10 days before he was discovered, he was being been kept like a prisoner in his small bedroom.\n\n\"What must he have thought about the way life was in those 10 days?\"\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole are both charged with murdering Logan\n\nMs Rees said Logan was \"dehumanised\" by the defendants and \"treated like rubbish in life, just like he was in death\", referring to his body being dumped in the River Ogmore.\n\nShe said the prosecution accepted that there was \"no direct evidence\" in relation to the attack on Logan, but there was a \"raft of powerful circumstantial evidence from each defendant\".\n\nMs Rees said the jury had heard evidence that Ms Williamson and Mr Cole were \"no strangers in working together to lie to protect themselves\".\n\nShe reminded the jury of evidence from Mr Cole about a burn to Logan's neck that he said had been caused by Ms Williamson putting a hot tea spoon on her son.\n\nIn his evidence, Mr Cole had told the jury that the couple had agreed to tell social services that the burn had been caused by an accident with a hot tap, although Ms Williamson maintained this was the truth in her evidence.\n\nMs Rees said both were \"seriously deficient in their parenting of Logan\".\n\nShe described Ms Williamson as a \"liar who will try any stunt to avoid her true personality being on display\", and who \"had been exposed by the trial process as being a selfish women whose only protective interests are for herself\".\n\nShe said jurors should not allow evidence relating to the teenage defendant to \"fly under the radar\" because it had been read to the court and was unchallenged, saying the evidence suggested he was a \"violent child, cruel and manipulative\" who had a \"fascination with death and killing\".\n\nThe boy's body was found 250 metres away from the flat he shared with his family\n\nShe said CCTV evidence in the case had \"proved to be an important key to unlocking what happened behind the closed door\" of the flat.\n\nShe said Mr Cole had \"no choice\" but to admit he moved Logan's body once he saw the footage, but said that he only admitted \"what the CCTV had forced him to admit\" and had not been fully truthful.\n\nShe said the evidence also showed the teenager \"knew full well what was going on\" when he followed Mr Cole as he carried Logan's body. She told the jury: \"The camera doesn't lie.\"\n\nMs Rees said that \"no defendant has told the police or you the truth about the events of that night\", but added that the CCTV footage showed there was \"frantic activity consistent with an event having happened\" at the flat.\n\nShe said the defendants had behaved \"like rats in a bag, fighting each other til' the very end\".\n\n\"One matter that is not an issue is that Logan died a result of an unlawful assault. Whoever killed Logan is here with us today,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday, barristers for the three defendants will begin their closing speeches and the jury is expected to retire to consider verdicts after Easter.\n\nCole has admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice, which is a charge that both Ms Williamson and the 14-year-old deny.\n\nThe two adults are also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they both deny.", "The crash happed on the Toome Bypass in County Antrim\n\nA woman who died following a crash on the Toome Bypass, County Antrim, was 47-year-old Shauna McDevitt from Londonderry.\n\nPolice responded to the collision shortly after 23:00 BST on Sunday, along with ambulance and fire crews.\n\nA man, aged in his 50s, who was arrested following the incident remains in police custody assisting officers with their enquiries, police have said.\n\nThe Toome Bypass, which was closed for some time, has since been reopened.\n\nPolice have appealed to anyone with information or dash-cam footage to come forward.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of facebook post by City of Derry Airport\n\nMs McDevitt, who worked at the City of Derry Airport, was described as \"the most pleasant colleague and friend you could ever hope to meet\".\n\nIn a Facebook post on Monday, the airport said: \"Shauna will be forever in our thoughts and her memory will live long through the many lives she touched\".\n\nThey expressed their deepest condolences to Ms McDevitt's family and said their thoughts and prayers are with them at this time.", "The marathon has been inspired by Rob Burrow's friend and teammate Kevin Sinfield who set himself fundraising running challenges.\n\nA new marathon has been launched to honour rugby league legend Rob Burrow.\n\nThe former Leeds Rhinos player was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in 2019 and has gone on to raise millions of pounds for charity.\n\nThe marathon, which will take place in May 2023, was inspired by Burrow's teammate Kevin Sinfield who set himself fundraising running challenges.\n\n\"Any opportunity to raise awareness and funds to fight MND is wonderful,\" Burrow said.\n\nThe 26.2-mile (42km) route will take place in Leeds with money raised going towards Leeds Hospitals Charity's appeal to build the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease.\n\nThe MND Association, which supports people with the disease and their families, will also benefit from the run.\n\nIt is the first time the city has hosted a marathon since 2003, and the route will start and finish at Headingley Stadium, where Burrow used to play.\n\nEx-Leeds Rhinos scrum-half Burrow was diagnosed with MND after he retired from the game\n\nThe Pontefract-born athlete and his family are spearheading a £5m appeal to build the MND centre in the city where he spent his sporting career.\n\nSinfield said it had been \"amazing\" to see the people of Leeds and beyond get behind the fundraising.\n\n\"This event is a vital next step in ensuring we raise even more money, and help to make Rob's dream of opening a new MND Care Centre in Leeds a reality,\" he said.\n\nLast year, Sinfield completed a run of 101 miles in 24 hours in aid of MND research and raised more than £1m.\n\nFor the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon, there will be 7,777 entrants, in a nod towards the number 7 shirt Burrow wore playing for Leeds Rhinos.\n\nRob Burrow with Princess Anne at the investiture at Windsor Castle\n\nLast week, Burrow received an MBE at Windsor Castle to recognise his services to the sport and charity.\n\nBurrow made 493 appearances during a 17-year career with the Leeds Rhinos, winning eight Grand Finals, three World Club Challenges and two Challenge Cups, as well as earning 15 caps for England.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's economic growth slowed in February following a sharp fall in the production of cars and computer goods.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy expanded by 0.1% compared with 0.8% in January.\n\nThe fall in manufacturing was off-set by growth in the services sector including areas such as tourism and travel.\n\nThe ONS also said that the UK economy is 1.5% above its pre-coronavirus pandemic level in February 2020.\n\nEconomists had been expecting gross domestic product (GDP) - which measures activity in services, construction and industrial production - to grow by 0.3% in February following the lifting of most Covid restrictions in England at the end of January.\n\n\"The pace of the recovery was already going to slow once the post-Omicron bounce faded and the squeeze on household real incomes intensified,\" said Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\n\"But we hadn't expected it to slow so much so soon.\"\n\nAlpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI, a business lobby group, said: \"Near-term challenges to the outlook have ramped up since, with a growing cost-of-living crunch set to weigh on growth,\" he said. \"Businesses are also grappling with headwinds from the Ukraine conflict, which is exacerbating cost pressures and supply chain disruption.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he \"welcomed\" February's growth figures. He said: \"Russia's invasion of Ukraine is creating additional economic uncertainty here in the UK, but it is right that we are responding robustly against Putin's unprovoked invasion.\"\n\nThe ONS said the fall in industrial production was due to a 5.4% drop in the manufacture of transport equipment \"driven entirely by the fall in manufacture of cars\".\n\nIt added that production of computer and electronic products had fallen in February.\n\nBarret Kupelian, senior economist at the accountancy firm PwC UK, said: \"This is an area other European economies have also been struggling with, because of the semiconductor shortage.\n\n\"Manufacturing is also likely to face headwinds due to high energy prices as it consumes above average energy per unit of GDP and we will see this reflected in future data releases.\"\n\nThe construction sector also contracted but at a slower rate than production industries. Capital Economics said the fall was, in part, \"driven by Storm Eunice, Dudley and Franklin resulting in construction projects being delayed\".\n\nThe services sector provided the only bright spot in the data as post-Omicron spending on leisure continued, with growth in accommodation as well as travel agencies and tour operators.\n\nMr Kupelian said growth momentum \"shifted towards the sectors of the economy which were hardest hit during the pandemic, including accommodation and food services, activities and arts, entertainment, and recreation\".\n\nHe said: \"We expect that there is still more growth to come from these sectors.\"", "Lord Pickles was Housing Secretary from 2010 to 2015\n\nFormer Cabinet minister Lord Pickles has apologised for getting the number of people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire wrong while giving evidence to the inquiry into the disaster.\n\nLord Pickles spoke last week of \"the nameless 96 people who were killed\".\n\nBut 72 people died in the west-London fire in 2017, all of whom have been named.\n\nIn an email to the inquiry, the former housing secretary said he \"misspoke\".\n\nThe apology came as the inquiry continued to hear evidence, with lawyers for the victims saying the local council hired a PR firm as the fire was still burning, while survivors were left without food, money and even clothing in the days after the disaster.\n\nIn his email, Lord Pickles said that, while preparing for the inquiry, his \"mind was also on other tragedies\", including the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.\n\n\"In my final remarks I misspoke and referenced the 96 people that died in and immediately after Hillsborough,\" he said.\n\n\"I apologise to the family and friends of the 72 people who died at Grenfell for this unintended mistake, which was unscripted.\n\n\"The dead are remembered not as a statistic but with dignity by their families, survivors and all of us.\"\n\nFor many years, the number 96 was associated with the number of victims who died following the Hillsborough stadium tragedy, although a 97th name was officially added to the death toll last year.\n\nThe Grenfell United campaign group, which represents many bereaved, survivors and residents, said at the time Lord Pickles' \"disrespect\" had left members speechless.\n\nIn his second day giving evidence, Lord Pickles appeared to suggest the inquiry's senior counsel should speed up as he had meetings planned for the afternoon.\n\nHe later apologised for being \"discourteous\" and said he had decided to cancel his meetings because \"this is more important than anything I'm doing\".\n\nElsewhere, he said he took full responsibility for any failures in the housing department, which he led in the years of the Cameron coalition government between 2010 and 2015.\n\nIn Monday's hearing, the inquiry was told victims were not treated with the \"dignity that they deserved\" during the chaotic days following the fire, as lawyers for the victims and survivors suggested they would have been treated better if they had not been living in social housing.\n\nIt heard of several failures in the first seven days after the fire:\n\nLawyer Imran Khan, representing a group of victims, said the council's response \"exacerbated what was already a dire situation, and was severely damaging to the lives of our clients, even until today\".\n\nDanny Friedman, acting for the bereaved and survivors of the fire, along with local residents, said they found themselves at \"ground zero\" the morning after the fire.\n\nThey were in the midst of a \"humanitarian and political crisis\", he said.\n\nMr Friedman told the inquiry that the council appointed a PR firm, with the fire still burning, and internally officials were warning about \"local instigators\" within the community who were \"fabricating stories\" about what had happened.\n\nPosters of missing people were stuck up near the tower in the days following the fire\n\nSurvivors and other residents struggled to get any information about relatives and friends who might have lost their lives and resorted to making their own lists of potential victims on the wall of a local gym.\n\nIn the months that followed, they were forced to live in hotels, booked by the council - or temporarily rehoused in other tall buildings, despite having escaped a fire in a high-rise block.\n\nThe council's lawyer, James Maxwell-Scott, told the inquiry that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea acknowledged \"shortcomings in its emergency relief response\" and apologised for failings of leadership.\n\nHe said the council had \"found itself in the middle of the biggest national news story of the day\", and that the organisation accepted that \"its leadership was unable to cope in the days after the fire\".", "Two US police officers filmed pushing an elderly activist to the ground in 2020 will be reinstated this week after being cleared of wrongdoing.\n\nAn arbitrator ruled last week that officers Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe did not violate use of force guidelines.\n\nThe incident happened during a racial justice protest in Buffalo, New York, as police were clearing an area to enforce a curfew.\n\nThe activist was injured by the push.\n\nArbitrator Jeffrey M Selchick said the two officers had no intention of harming the protester, 75-year-old Martin Gugino, on 4 June 2020.\n\nMr Gugino was knocked to the ground and was seen bleeding in video of the incident that went viral. It happened at the height of protests over the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in police custody in Minneapolis.\n\nAccording to Mr Selchick's 41-page ruling, released on Friday, the officers had no choice but to remove Mr Gugino because he refused to leave the area after the 20:00 local curfew and did not comply with demands to move.\n\nThere is no persuasive evidence that the officers \"sought to push or drive Gugino to the ground\", he wrote, adding that the use of force was \"absolutely legitimate\".\n\n\"While Gugino might well have believed that he was engaged in some type of civil disobedience or, perhaps, acting out a role in some type of political theater, Gugino was definitely not an innocent bystander,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Selchick based his decision on a frame-by-frame video analysis during a three-day hearing last November.\n\nFollowing the June 2020 incident, both Mr Torgalski and Mr McCabe were arrested and suspended without pay. Fifty-seven of their colleagues - the entire unit - later resigned from the riot team in response to the suspensions.\n\nLast year, a grand jury chose not to indict the two officers and charges they faced of second-degree assault were dropped.\n\nMr Gugino spent about a month in the hospital with a fractured skull and brain injury.\n\nHis attorney told Buffalo News that the arbitrator's ruling has no effect on the civil lawsuit Mr Gugino filed against the city last year.\n\nBuffalo police confirmed to BBC News that the two officers would be reinstated this week. The spokesman said he would not comment on the pending litigation against the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man approached police in Buffalo before being pushed backwards", "Reclaim These Streets founders (left to right) Henna Shah, Jamie Klingler, Anna Birley and Jessica Leigh celebrated outside the Royal Courts of Justice when they won their case\n\nA Met Police appeal against a ruling that it breached the rights of the organisers of a vigil for Sarah Everard has been rejected.\n\nTwo High Court judges dismissed part of the Met's case as \"hopeless attempts to challenge reasoned factual conclusions\" over the Reclaim These Streets event.\n\nRTS cancelled its planned vigil after the Met said it would be in breach of lockdown restrictions.\n\nA spokesperson said the decision was a \"victory for women\".\n\nDespite the Met's successful opposition to the formal event, an unofficial gathering went ahead for the murdered marketing executive.\n\nDespite the Met Police's objections to the official event that had been planned, a spontaneous gathering was held for Sarah Everard on 13 March 2021\n\nDismissing the Met's case, Lord Justice Warby and Mr Justice Holgate said its lawyers must have misread the original judgment before launching the action.\n\nThey said of the original ruling: \"The court applied and followed principles laid down by the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.\n\n\"We do not believe there is a need for any further or more authoritative guidance for the purposes of lawful policing of protest in such cases.\n\n\"It is not arguable that we erred in principle and see no other reason to believe that the Court of Appeal would be prepared to adopt a different factual analysis.\"\n\nThe judges described some of the Met's proposed grounds of appeal as \"hopeless attempts to challenge reasoned factual conclusions\", while others involved \"a misreading of one passage of the judgment, ignoring the overall context\".\n\nHowever, the force could still pursue a challenge by gaining permission to do so from the Court of Appeal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Reclaim These Streets\n\nReclaim These Streets (RTS) said the appeal case \"exposes the Met's total disregard for women's human rights to assembly and expression\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"The decisions and actions by the Met Police in the run-up to the planned vigil for Sarah Everard were unlawful, and the judgment sets a powerful precedent for protest rights.\"\n\nThe judgment should \"reverberate widely\", the spokesperson said, particularly in light of new powers to curb protests set out in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which was passed by MPs earlier this year.\n\nRTS added that the Met should \"stop wasting taxpayers' money\" on appeals and instead invest in \"measures to keep women in London safe\".\n\nMs Everard, 33, vanished as she walked home in Clapham, south London, on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in woodland near Ashford, Kent.\n\nSarah Everard was kidnapped as she walked home\n\nLast month, the Met Police made the decision to appeal, in order to \"resolve what's required by law when policing protests and events\" in future.\n\n\"It's important for policing and the public that we have absolute clarity of what's expected of us in law,\" the force said in a statement.\n\n\"This is why we feel we must seek permission to appeal [against] the judgment in order to resolve what's required by law when policing protests and events in the future,\" the statement added.\n\nServing Met Police officer Wayne Couzens murdered Ms Everard after kidnapping her under the guise of an arrest due to a lockdown breach. He was sentenced to a whole-life prison term in September.\n\nAddressing reporters outside the Old Bailey following his sentencing, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said she recognised that a \"precious bond of trust\" had been damaged by Couzens, who had \"brought shame on the Met\".\n\nThere were calls for Dame Cressida to resign over the Met's failure to stop Couzens, the policing of the subsequent vigil, and continuing concerns over police misogyny. She resigned in February and has now left her post.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Police say a man was rescued from the water after getting into difficulty on a dive but died a short time later\n\nA man has died after an incident during an organised scuba dive near a beach in Fife.\n\nEmergency services were called to Kinghorn beach at 09:55 BST on Sunday after receiving reports of a man in difficulty in the water.\n\nA coastguard helicopter landed on the beach during the emergency operation.\n\nPolice Scotland said the dive had been taking place close to the beach. The man was rescued from the water but he died a short time later.\n\nA force spokesperson said: \"Enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the death are ongoing. A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The far-right politician obtained her highest result ever at the first round of a presidential elections on Sunday.\n\nShe will now go head-to-head with President Macron in a final vote on 24 April.\n\nEurope correspondent Nick Beake considers how different France could be with Ms Le Pen in the Elysee Palace.", "Boris Johnson must bring the Rishi Sunak \"saga\" to a close by revealing if any ministers are taking steps to cut their personal tax bill, Labour says.\n\nMr Sunak says he is confident he will be cleared by an internal inquiry after his wife Akshata Murty's \"non-dom\" tax status was revealed.\n\nMs Murty has said she will now pay UK tax on all her earnings.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the chancellor - and other ministers - have not been fully transparent.\n\nSir Keir said he wanted an assurance from Mr Johnson that his ministers have never used non-dom status to reduce their own tax bill.\n\nHe also called on the government to reveal whether ministers had held assets in tax havens, benefitted from trusts located in tax havens or invested in schemes judged by HMRC to constitute tax avoidance.\n\nOver the weekend, Health Secretary, and former Chancellor, Sajid Javid said he had claimed non-dom status for six years before he was an MP.\n\nThe Labour leader said: \"To appoint one chancellor with suspect tax affairs is sloppy, to appoint two is a habit.\n\n\"Boris Johnson needs to bring this saga to a close and confirm that no other sitting Conservative minister is doing or has done anything to reduce their own personal tax bill, while they preside over the biggest tax hike in 70 years.\"\n\nSeparately, the Liberal Democrats have drawn up draft legislation, which, if passed, would force ministers to reveal if their households are using offshore tax havens or have ever benefited from non-dom status.\n\nThe party has also referred Mr Sunak to the MPs' standards watchdog, Kathryn Stone, arguing that he failed to declare details of his investments before joining the cabinet.\n\nAsked if other ministers had non-dom status, a No 10 spokeswoman said ministers were required to make relevant declarations about their finances.\n\nIn 2010 a law was passed to prevent MPs and members of the House of Lords from registering themselves as non domicile.\n\nMr Sunak has asked Lord Geidt - the PM's ethics adviser - to investigate whether he followed the rules on declaring financial interests.\n\nNo 10 said the review was under way and that the findings would be published in \"a timely manner\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokeswoman also said Boris Johnson has full confidence in Mr Sunak.\n\nRishi Sunak married Akshata Murty in 2009, after meeting her as a student in California\n\nIn a Twitter post on Sunday, Mr Sunak said he was \"confident\" Lord Geidt - who also investigated allegations about Mr Johnson's refurbishment of his Downing Street flat - would find he had appropriately declared all his interests.\n\nMs Murty, owns £700m in shares of the Indian IT giant Infosys - founded by her father - from which she received £11.6m in dividend income last year.\n\nShe is estimated to have saved £2m a year on this income by registering as a non dom with HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nShe will continue to be officially domiciled in India, her home country, but has chosen to pay UK tax on her worldwide income. to help ease political pressure on her husband.\n\nShe will now pay tax on her overseas earnings, but her domicile remains India, where she has said she intends to eventually return.\n\nMr Sunak said he had made the Cabinet Office aware of his wife's non-dom status when he first became a government minister in 2018.\n\nThe chancellor has also ordered a leak inquiry into how that information came to be reported in the media.\n\nDowning Street has rejected newspaper reports that its staff leaked damaging stories about Mr Sunak.\n\nRishi Sunak's reputation has gone from golden to tinfoil. His personal ratings have plummeted and his leader-in-waiting status has been dented, if not destroyed.\n\nBut his job as chancellor looks safe for now.\n\nHe has the backing of the prime minister so won't get fired.\n\nThe number of Conservative backbenchers grumbling about his handling of this appears to be outweighed by the number of colleagues who think he's a good operator so they won't get rid of him. And the review into his declarations of interests isn't likely to cause him too many problems either.\n\nBut all of that could change under pressure from the opposition, the media and any further revelations, or if he becomes a threat to the reputation of the government.\n\nWhat will be fascinating to see is whether this changes the approach Rishi Sunak takes to the rising cost of living.\n\nWill the chancellor accused of being too rich feel he has to do more to help people who are getting poorer?\n\nIt feels like Rishi Sunak has gained a lifetime's-worth of baggage in a fortnight.\n\nMost politicians have it - what matters is how much it weighs them down.\n\nIt has also been revealed that Mr Sunak held a US green card until last year, entitling him to permanent residence, a path to citizenship, in that country.\n\nIt also means he filed US tax returns, prompting opposition questions about whether he gained a financial advantage from this.\n\nLabour also said the public needed to know if Mr Sunak has ever benefitted from tax havens.\n\nIt follows a report in the Independent which said Ms Murty had received income from companies based in tax havens.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has held talks in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nNo 10 said the visit was a \"show of solidarity\" with the Ukrainian people.\n\nFollowing the meeting, Downing Street said the UK would send 120 armoured vehicles and anti-ship missile systems to support Ukraine.\n\nSenior officials in Mr Zelensky's team praised the UK for support during its conflict with Russia.\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Kyiv was not announced in advance and the first indication he was in the city came when a photograph of his meeting with President Zelensky was put on Twitter by the Ukrainian embassy in London.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"The prime minister has travelled to Ukraine to meet President Zelensky in person, in a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people.\"\n\nThe two leaders walked through central Kyiv after their talks\n\nIn a statement after the meeting, Mr Johnson paid tribute to \"President Zelensky's resolute leadership and the invincible heroism and courage of the Ukrainian people\", saying: \"Ukraine has defied the odds and pushed back Russian forces from the gates of Kyiv\".\n\nHe said: \"I made clear today that the United Kingdom stands unwaveringly with them in this ongoing fight, and we are in it for the long run.\n\n\"We are stepping up our own military and economic support and convening a global alliance to bring this tragedy to an end, and ensure Ukraine survives and thrives as a free and sovereign nation.\"\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed further economic support, taking total UK loan guarantees to £770m.\n\nSpeaking in a video address alongside President Zelensky a short while later, Mr Johnson said Ukrainians \"have shown the courage of a lion but you, Volodymyr, have given the roar of that lion\".\n\nHe reiterated that the UK and other countries supporting Ukraine would continue to tighten economic sanctions on Moscow, including moving away from the use of Russian hydrocarbons.\n\nThe PM added: \"Over the last few hours I've been able to see quite a lot of your beautiful country and it's an amazing country. I've also seen the tragic effects of the war, an inexcusable war, an absolutely inexcusable and unnecessary war.\"\n\nMr Zelensky welcomed the UK's \"decisive and significant support\" for his country and urged other Western allies to intensify the pressure on Moscow.\n\n\"We have to exert pressure in the form of sanctions. It is time to impose a complete embargo on Russian energy resources. They should increase the amount of weapons being supplied,\" he said.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Andriy Sybiha, deputy head of the Ukrainian president's office, said: \"The UK is the leader in defence support for Ukraine. The leader in the anti-war coalition. The leader in sanctions against the Russian aggressor.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell both made visits to Ukraine for talks with President Zelensky on Friday, and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer met him in Kyiv on Saturday.\n\nBut Mr Johnson is the first member of a G7 country to travel to the Ukrainian capital for talks during the conflict.\n\nMr Zelensky has called on the international community to hold to account Russian forces who carried out the missile strike on Kramatorsk station, which was packed with women and children trying to flee the area.\n\nThe Kremlin has denied responsibility for the attack.\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Kyiv came the day after the UK announced £100m of weapons for the country.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference on Friday, Mr Johnson said the UK will send additional military equipment including Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles and 800 anti-tank missiles.\n\nIt followed an appeal from Ukraine for more arms as it prepares for an expected Russian offensive in the east of the country, after Moscow pulled back its forces from around Kyiv.", "Specialist rape investigation teams should be installed in every police force in England and Wales to tackle the \"shocking\" collapse in rape prosecutions, a report by MPs says.\n\nReported rapes are at an all-time high, while prosecutions fell by 70% in the past four years, MPs said.\n\nA government review said investigations should be focussed on suspects as opposed to victims.\n\nAt least 40% of forces do not currently have these dedicated teams.\n\nData concerning the number of specialised officers and wider dedicated services is poor and needs improving if the criminal justice response is to get better, the report said.\n\nThe Home Affairs Select Committee said the government should go \"much further, much faster\" in changing how rape and sexual offences were handled by the police, Crown Prosecution Service and the courts.\n\nIt said the reforms needed to focus on the experience of victims seeking justice, because lengthy delays in reaching court, \"harmful\" evidence-gathering processes and poor provision of support were turning people away.\n\nBetween July and September last year, 63% of adult rape investigations were closed because the victim no longer wished to continue.\n\nThe review said the justice system should return to 2016 prosecution levels by 2024, but MPs said this would still be a poor performance and there was little confidence it would be achieved.\n\nIt does not apply to Scotland and Northern Ireland as both nations have separate legal systems.\n\nAmong the recommendations in the MPs' report were that:\n\nDame Diana Johnson, the Labour chair of the committee, said the collapse in prosecutions was \"truly shocking and completely unacceptable\" and while there was significant effort being put in to reverse the decline, there was much further to go.\n\n\"From now on the focus must be on supporting the victims. Reporting an incident should be the beginning of getting justice but instead has become a source of further pain,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact that even now nearly two thirds of cases collapse because a victim may not be able to bear going forward is unimaginable.\"\n\nThe review said a joint programme between the police and CPS was being launched to focus investigations on suspects rather than victims and understanding behavioural patterns that lead to repeat offending.\n\nThus, investigations would focus less on the victim's credibility.\n\nNatasha Saunders, who has been through the system, told the Today programme she initially had no intention of telling the police \"primarily because I knew then just how low rape convictions were\".\n\n\"It took three years to actually get it to court and in those three years I don't know how many times I said to my now husband... 'You know if I knew then what I know now, I don't know if I'd do this'.\"\n\nMs Saunders, who is an ambassador for domestic abuse charity Refuge, said during the trial she was cross examined for five and a half hours \"for an entire court day\".\n\n\"The process in a way has to be very clinical, I understand that\" but \"I don't feel the people [prosecutors and police] are being educated enough\", she said.\n\n\"Especially from people like myself with actual lived experience of what it's like to just go through those proceedings.\"\n\nListening to Ms Saunders' story, Ms Johnson said hearing the lived experiences of survivors had \"been really important... and has helped us to shape the recommendations\".\n\nShe said the committee heard a number of times from people who had gone through the system and explained if they had known how long it would take and what would happen to them, they would not have \"brought the case to the police's attention in the first place\".\n\nThe committee said it was \"deeply concerned\" by reports victims were avoiding accessing mental health support because they feared records of their therapy sessions could be disclosed to the defence and used to undermine their case.\n\nIt said new guidance on pre-trial therapy should be published as soon as possible.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it recognised many victims felt let down by the criminal justice process.\n\n\"It is paramount victims know they can access therapy at any time and that doing so is entirely their decision,\" a spokesman said.\n\nNew \"fundamental principles\" on pre-trial therapy published by the CPS say police must request specific information when requesting therapy notes for an investigation, not make \"unfocused requests\".\n\nAnd they say therapy notes must only be disclosed to the defence when they might be considered to undermine the prosecution case or help the defence.\n\nA government spokesman said it was recruiting more sexual violence advisers, rolling out the use of pre-recorded evidence faster and boosting funding for victim support by £440m over the next three years.\n\nIt said the most recent data showed a \"modest\" increase in the number of charges for rape and \"our reforms will drive this progress further\".", "A pro-Russian soldier standing near a burnt out building in the city of Mariupol yesterday on 10 April\n\nAfter suffering some of the worst fighting in Ukraine's conflict, could the port city of Mariupol be about to fall to Russia?\n\nA brigade fighting in the city said they could be facing a \"last battle\" and that they would soon have to choose between Russian captivity and death.\n\nBut the exact picture of what is happening in the city is unclear. Mariupol's deputy mayor called the reports \"fake\" and said Ukraine's forces were holding out.\n\nMariupol's defence against Russian occupation has turned the city into a national symbol of resistance.\n\nThe port city - which Russian forces have tried and failed to capture fully since the beginning of the war - is critical for Moscow as it would establish a land corridor between Russian-occupied Crimea and the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.\n\nFor weeks Russian troops have cut off essential supplies into Mariupol, bombarding its buildings and blocking survivors from escaping.\n\nThe battle for Mariupol can be seen as part of Russia's shift in focus to eastern Ukraine. Here's how Russia's attack may play out.\n\nFor years the Kremlin has fiercely opposed any expansion of the Nato Western military alliance, which it views as a threat to Russian influence in Europe\n\nResponding to the news that the two Nordic neighbours could apply for Nato membership - Russia says any enlargement of the Western military alliance would not result in more stability.\n\n\"Further [Nato] expansion will not bring additional security to the European continent,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said to reporters.\n\nRussian's disapproval is no surprise: for decades Moscow has opposed any more European countries joining the alliance.\n\nBut Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted Finland and Sweden to seriously consider asking for membership, which comes with security guarantees that Ukraine as a non-member didn't have.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer visited Moscow after travelling to Kyiv over the weekend\n\nThe face-to-face meeting is the first to have been held between a Western leader and President Putin since the invasion began.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer says he went to the Russian capital to confront Putin with the facts, but didn't leave with a positive impression.\n\n\"If you're asking me whether I am optimistic or pessimistic, I'm rather pessimistic,\" he said, adding there was \"little interest\" on the Russian side about a direct meting between Mr Putin and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nFor his part, President Zelensky was asked whether he would hand over any part of Ukraine to Russia. He said he was \"not ready\" for that, but accepted it would be part of any discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Zelensky asked if he'll give Russia any of Ukraine\n\nMillions of social media users are viewing posts portraying Russian president Vladimir Putin as smiling, benevolent and peace-loving.\n\nBut a joint BBC investigation into ten pro-Putin Facebook groups found that many of their most active posters were actually duplicate accounts.\n\nIt's an example of pro-Kremlin \"astroturfing,\" an online tactic designed to create the impression that a movement has more support than it does.\n\nMarina Ovsyannikova, the editor who was detained and fined after holding an anti-war protest during a live broadcast on Russian state television last month, has a new role.\n\nThe 43-year-old journalist has been hired as a correspondent by the company which owns Die Welt newspaper.\n\nMs Ovsyannikova will be reporting for the outlet from Ukraine and Russia - she previously said that despite fearing for her safety she would not leave Russia.", "Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne were named best actress and actor in a musical for Cabaret\n\nA stage adaptation of Life of Pi and a revival of the musical Cabaret were the big winners at Sunday's Olivier Awards.\n\nIt was a jubilant night for theatre at the Royal Albert Hall as the stage industry celebrated a year in which performances resumed after lockdown.\n\nCabaret stars Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley won acting prizes while the show was named best musical revival.\n\nLife of Pi, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel, was named best new play and scooped several technical prizes.\n\nThe play's lead, Hiran Abeysekera, also won best actor, while the seven performers who play the tiger shared the best supporting actor prize.\n\nHiran Abeysekera said he was \"overwhelemed\" to be named best actor for Life of Pi\n\nCabaret's success at the first Olivier ceremony since 2020 follows a critically-acclaimed sell-out run for the show which saw London's Playhouse Theatre transformed into the Kit Kat Club.\n\nThe production scooped seven of the 11 prizes it was nominated for, including all four of the musical acting prizes for Redmayne, Buckley, Elliot Levey and Liza Sadovy.\n\nAccepting his prize for his performance as the famous Emcee in the show, Redmayne said: \"This is the dream. For me, this is the one.\n\n\"This was the part that I played when I was a kid in school. It was the thing that got my passion for theatre really fuelled.\"\n\nBuckley, who played Sally Bowles, said in her acceptance speech: \"It's such a huge privilege to be part of this community which I consider my family. Thank you for welcoming me in all those years ago. This is just so lovely.\"\n\nRebecca Frecknall was also named best director, and she dedicated the prize to her late father, who she explained had played Emcee as a student in 1975.\n\nBest actress winner Sheila Atim praised the theatre industry for \"facing adversity\" during the pandemic\n\nLife of Pi, a philosophical novel by Yann Martel, was also adapted into a film in 2012 which starred Suraj Sharma and won four Oscars.\n\nPlaywright Lolita Chakrabarti thanked Martel for giving her the \"complete freedom to do what I wanted with his story\" as she accepted one of the five prizes to be won by the stage adaptation.\n\nShe also thanked her husband, actor Adrian Lester. \"When I started writing, he was my biggest fan and encouraged me completely. When all the doors were shut, he said 'keep knocking, because they'll open',\" she recalled.\n\nIn a touching speech, the show's star Abeysekera said he was \"overwhelmed\" to win best actor. He paid tribute to his home country of Sri Lanka, which he said was going through a \"tough time now... I think of you and wish I was there with you\".\n\nSri Lanka is facing a serious financial crisis and there have been protests in recent days calling for the resignation of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa.\n\nThe DeLorean from Back to the Future was seen outside the Royal Albert Hall ahead of the musical's wins\n\nBack To The Future was named best new musical - one of the night's most competitive categories.\n\n\"Oh my goodness, I was not expecting this,\" said producer Colin Ingram as he accepted the prize. \"This has been eight years of development. To all the nominees, congratulations, it's been a hell of a year.\"\n\nSheila Atim won best actress for her performance in a revival of Constellations, a production which saw four different two-person casts alternating throughout its run.\n\n\"I'm so proud to be part of the theatre community, I'm so proud of all you guys for still being here,\" she said. \"This play is about facing adversity together, and we all did that.\"\n\nThere were live performances throughout the night from the casts of shows including Moulin Rouge, Back To The Future, Drifters Girl, Frozen, Life of Pi, Anything Goes and Get Up Stand Up.\n\nThe ceremony also paid tribute to those within the industry who have died in the past two years, including actors Christopher Plummer, Dame Barbara Windsor, Paul Ritter, Geoffrey Palmer, Sir Antony Sher, Una Stubbs, Des O'Connor and composer Stephen Sondheim.\n\nThe best supporting actor prize was shared between the seven actors who operate Life of Pi's tiger\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nThe FIA - motorsport's governing body - is investigating after a 15-year-old Russian karting champion appeared to make a Nazi salute on a podium.\n\nArtem Severiukhin seemed to perform the offensive gesture after winning the first round of the European Championship in Portugal on Sunday.\n\nAccording to PA, he has apologised but denied his gesture was a Nazi salute.\n\n\"I have never supported Nazism and consider it one of the most terrible crimes against humanity,\" he said.\n\nThe FIA announced it had launched an immediate investigation into Severiukhin's \"unacceptable conduct\" on Monday.\n\nSeveriukhin was competing under the Italian flag because of the sanctions put on Russian athletes following their country's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHis team has terminated his contract after he made the apparent gesture during the Italian national anthem, after twice thumping his chest.\n\n\"I know it's my fault, I know I'm stupid, and I'm ready to be punished,\" he said.\n\n\"But please understand that I did not support Nazism or fascism with this gesture.\"\n\nWard Racing - a privately owned Swedish team - said it condemned Severiukhin's behaviour in the \"strongest possible terms\", adding: \"Ward Racing is deeply in shame of the pilot's behaviour.\n\n\"The actions of Artem Severiukhin during the award ceremony on April 10, 2022 were exclusively individual and do not represent the views and values of Ward Racing in any manner.\n\n\"On the contrary, Ward Racing stands with the international community condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine and expresses its solidarity with the people suffering because of this unprovoked and horrific attack.\"\n\nIt added: \"Ward Racing sees no possibility for continued cooperation with Artem Severiukhin and will proceed with terminating his racing contract.\"\n• None Jon Ronson and Louis Theroux take a deep dive into Culture Wars battles and chat about putting their old rivalries to bed\n• None From deadly chaos a mysterious figure emerges in the bewildering heart of contemporary Russia", "UK hauliers carrying perishable goods say products are losing quality and value as they are forced to sit in long queues to cross into Europe at Dover.\n\nBad weather, Easter holidays and P&O Ferries routes being suspended have all led to congestion around the port.\n\nThe queues eased on Sunday, but the British Meat Processors Association said some of its members had waited for 24 hours or more to cross.\n\nThe government said traffic management measures were under regular review.\n\nHowever, a Department for Transport spokesperson gave no indication that there would be a change made for those transporting perishable items.\n\nAs well as the other factors causing congestion, which have led to the traffic management system Operation Brock being put in place, there have also been problems with a key IT system for custom checks at the UK's busiest port after Brexit.\n\nLockerbie-based Eardley International takes fresh meat from the UK into continental Europe, operating 25 trucks at any one time.\n\n\"Our products have a very short shelf life,\" company director Graham Eardley told the BBC.\n\n\"If we load lamb in the UK on a Monday, we'd expect to deliver that product to Germany on a Tuesday. Now we are seeing delays of 20 to 25 hours to cross the Channel, and the quality and the sale value of that product falls by every hour it is delayed.\"\n\nFurthermore, haulier regulations mean drivers need to take an 11-hour break when they get to Calais, as they cannot rest while they are in the traffic jam in case they need to move their vehicle. This just adds to the problem.\n\nP&O routes are still being suspended due to a shortage of ferry services following its dismissal of almost 800 staff last month without notice. The company says it plans to resume its operations on the Dover-Calais route next week if it gets regulatory approval.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, said the delays meant that the UK was losing business, as customers were turning to other countries to source goods at a time when their members' products were in hot demand.\n\n\"We are told to expect disruption well into next week. With Easter weekend approaching and a very busy time for exporting fresh meat, this is really bad timing.\"\n\nGraham Eardley says his company's produce loses value for every hour it is delayed\n\nFor Mr Eardley, the delays mean losing up to £800 per truck.\n\nHe says the abattoirs who use his services are also getting claims for late delivery and loss in value.\n\n\"We are paying for the driver to be sitting in the truck not being productive and seeing the loss of the revenue that the vehicle could be making.\"\n\nMany in the industry argue that hauliers carrying fresh produce should be prioritised for boarding, as they have been before.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum, which manages emergency planning for the county, said they were waiting for the government to advise them of who and what would be allowed to jump the queue.\n\nThis is causing huge frustration to Mr Eardley, who says that as hauliers register customs forms listing the contents of their lorries, it should be a straightforward process to put in place.\n\nToby Howe, the tactical lead for the forum, explained: \"It is not as simple as saying we will just fast-track meat or anything perishable.\n\n\"In 2015 we were given very general guidance and drivers got clever by putting a small amount in the lorry. For EU exit planning, Defra came up with specifics which we were then able to prioritise.\"\n\nOthers believe you cannot retrofit a priority system.\n\nIn response, the Department for Transport (DfT) said the traffic management measures were regularly reviewed but did not say whether any changes would be made with regard to the transportation of perishable items.\n\nIt said: \"P&O's unacceptable actions have resulted in its vessels being detained, causing backlogs and traffic jams which would be substantially alleviated if its fleet was operating normally. We are receiving real-time updates as the Kent Resilience Forum, police and regional leaders work around-the-clock to ease disruption and support those affected.\"\n\nTrade body Logistics UK said it supported prioritising perishable goods, but said the practicalities of facilitating such a policy were currently unclear.\n\nMags Simpson, Logistics UK's head of policy engagement, said: \"The delays are frustrating for industry and Logistics UK is working with DfT and the ports to identify effective solutions that can be introduced as soon as possible.\"\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation - the trade association that represents businesses which store and move frozen and chilled food - said the poor conditions caused by Operation Brock were fanning the flames of driver shortages, in an already overstretched industry.\n\n\"The UK is getting a growing reputation for being a hassle to serve, and that creates problems for my members who can't find the hauliers to take their business because they don't want to take the risk of sitting in traffic on the M20.\"\n\nPart of the frustration is that hauliers feel like tourist traffic in Dover is being prioritised over freight traffic. Mr Eardley says this further undermines morale.\n\n\"Are we saying that it's not fair to have Jimmy and Jonny delayed in their car going on holiday, but that it's acceptable to ask drivers to wait 20 hours or more in their cab? Until there is more understanding of drivers and their experience, we are on the road to ruin.\"\n\nFrom July this year, the UK will start imposing Brexit controls on meat and dairy goods coming in from the EU. Industry leaders are concerned that this will be yet another crunch time for Dover.", "Protesters stand outside the Starr County Jail over abortion charge\n\nA murder charge against a 26-year-old woman who was arrested for a self-induced abortion will be dropped on Monday, a Texas prosecutor has said.\n\nLizelle Herrera spent three days in jail after allegedly causing \"the death of an individual\" via abortion.\n\nBut on Sunday, Starr County District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said it was \"clear\" Ms Herrera could not be prosecuted under Texas law.\n\nLast year, Texas barred abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy.\n\nIt is still unclear whether Ms Herrera was accused of having an abortion, assisting someone else with an abortion, or how far along the pregnancy had been. Texas law exempts pregnant women from being charged with murder in connection with \"the death of an unborn child\".\n\nMs Herrera was arrested on Friday and detained in Starr County, in southern Texas, a local sheriff's official said. Frontera Fund, an abortion rights organisation, said she was released on $500,000 (£383,500) bail the next day.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, the sheriff's office said Ms Herrera was arrested and served with an indictment on the charge of murder after she \"intentionally and knowingly [caused] the death of an individual by self-induced abortion\".\n\nOn Sunday, District Attorney Ramirez said that, after reviewing applicable Texas law, it became clear she could not be prosecuted for murder.\n\nHe added: \"The events leading up to this indictment have taken a toll on Ms Harrera and her family. To ignore this fact would be short-sighted.\"\n\nThe near-total abortion ban in Texas is among the most restrictive in the country. The law is enforced by giving any individual - from Texas or elsewhere - the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. However, it does not allow the women who get the procedure to be sued.\n\nLast year, Texas also narrowed the window in which doctors are able to give abortion-inducing drugs to people up to 10 weeks into pregnancy and barred mailing such medication.\n\nIn most states in the US, abortions are prohibited after the point of foetal viability - the point at which a foetus could survive outside the womb, usually at about 24 weeks.\n\nBut several states - like Texas - have barred the procedure much earlier in pregnancy in anticipation of a Supreme Court ruling that may overturn the landmark legal decision guaranteeing the right to abortion in the US.\n\nThe Supreme Court in June will rule on a Mississippi law that would bar abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest.", "Legal professionals have warned cuts \"threaten the quality of justice\"\n\nNearly 2,500 barristers who are essential to the criminal justice system in England and Wales are starting industrial action over concerns about legal aid funding.\n\nThey will refuse to step in at the last minute to pick up court appearances or preparatory work for colleagues whose cases are over-running.\n\nIt stems from an unresolved row with the government over funding.\n\nThe government said the action would make existing backlogs worse.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association (CBA) has accused ministers of dragging their feet over implementing a 15% rise in rates for legal aid - as recommended by an independent review.\n\nThe CBA said 15% was the bare minimum needed to stop the system from collapsing.\n\nFigures published last week revealed 10% of criminal barristers involved in legally-aided work have withdrawn from those cases in the past year.\n\nThey also showed the government's measures to reduce a nationwide backlog are making slow progress.\n\nThe action, supported by about 90% of criminal barristers, will begin this morning.\n\nThe informal system at the heart of this action is the legal equivalent of coming off the subs bench in the 87th minute after another player has hobbled off.\n\nIf a barrister is stuck in a delayed case in one court, meaning they can't make their commitment in another, a colleague volunteers to read the case file - often overnight - and goes along as their substitute.\n\nOnce a judge knows both the prosecution and defence are properly represented in court, he or she can keep the case moving towards verdict.\n\nIf there's no barrister available, judges can only cancel the hearing until another day.\n\nWithin weeks, those adjournments will be competing for slots against both new cases, as well as the existing backlog.\n\nWorst case scenario? Entire prosecutions will be put back for months as courts struggle to find a way to get them heard.\n\nThe government is pretty furious - but many criminal lawyers - particularly the young - say they are barely making a living and there's now too few of them left. The evidence for that? Some 280 trials were put off between October and December last year because of a shortage of prosecutors and defenders.\n\nAn independent review last year warned that courts could grind to a halt without an immediate injection of £135m into the legal aid system.\n\nThe review, launched after predictions the system could collapse, determined that ministers should find the funding to reverse a large loss of lawyers who are vital to the process.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it was increasing investment in criminal legal aid by £135m a year, and this included an increase in fees for criminal barristers resulting in a pay rise.\n\nJustice minister James Cartlidge: \"The Crown Court backlog is now falling thanks to our decisive action and the hard work of legal professionals and as a result of our reforms the typical criminal barrister will earn nearly £7,000 extra per year.\n\n\"This is a significant pay rise and I encourage the Criminal Bar Association to work with us, rather than pursue unnecessary disruption in the courts which will only serve to delay justice for victims.\"\n\nThe legal aid system in England and Wales ensures that suspects who cannot afford lawyers are properly advised and represented, from their police interview through to trial.\n\nThe system is critical to keeping justice moving by saving court time and making sure defendants get a fair trial.\n\nHowever, the amounts paid for this work have been both frozen and then cut over the past 25 years.\n\nIn an independent review, former judge Sir Christopher Bellamy QC supported many of the concerns of lawyers - and urged ministers to find a minimum of £135m to stem an exodus of lawyers from criminal justice and to help tackle the current backlog of 59,000 cases in the Crown Court system.\n\n\"£135m is, in my view, the minimum necessary as the first step in nursing the system of criminal legal aid back to health after years of neglect,\" he said.\n\n\"I do not see that sum as 'an opening bid' but rather what is needed, as soon as practicable, to enable... the whole criminal justice system to function effectively, to respond to forecast increased demand, and to reduce the backlog.\"\n\n\"There is in my view no scope for further delay.\"\n\nCorrection: This article has been amended to make clear that the figures show 10% of criminal barristers involved in legally-aided work have withdrawn from those cases in the past year. An earlier version wrongly stated that 10% of criminal barristers had quit in the past year.", "During a speech about surging inflation on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden appeared to accuse Russia's Vladimir Putin of genocide.\n\nThe Biden administration has previously stopped short of describing civilian killings in Ukraine as \"genocide\", but has accused Mr Putin of war crimes.\n\nThe White House is seeking to pin the blame for rising consumer prices on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, though American inflation predates the war.", "Russian troops started their encirclement of Mariupol in early March, gradually tightening the noose\n\nThere are growing signs Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing Mariupol, the besieged southern port city which has suffered a devastating, six-week assault.\n\nOfficially, Ukraine's armed forces say they are sustaining its defence and are in \"continuous contact\" with their troops on the ground. But they concede it is likely Moscow will try to take full control of the city, while a regional Russian-backed separatist leader claims Mariupol is close to falling.\n\nUkrainian troops have said they are running out of ammunition, and are believed to have been pushed back into two isolated pockets adjoining the coastline.\n\nThe city's fate is likely to be critical for the next phase of the war. In Russian hands it would provide control of a clear swathe of territory connecting Moscow's two fronts in the south and east. It would release large numbers of forces to redeploy, and provide President Vladimir Putin with a moment of strategic \"victory\" after a lethally shambolic first stage to his invasion.\n\nIt would mark a huge loss, if by now an expected one, for Ukraine's leadership which has described Mariupol as \"the heart of this war today\".\n\nIt is believed Ukraine's forces have been forced back to the port area and the Azovstal iron and steel plant\n\nRussian troops started their encirclement of Mariupol in early March. The siege has killed thousands of civilians and unleashed an appalling struggle for survival for trapped residents who remain.\n\nThousands of people have escaped further north, risking a deadly journey through the front line. Here, in Zaporizhzhia, I have watched civilians arrive day after day, describing how they have witnessed the obliteration of their city.\n\nIn recent days Russian forces are thought to have pushed in further by dividing the remaining holdout of Mariupol's defenders, according to think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).\n\nIt's believed Ukraine's forces have been forced back to the port area and the Azovstal plant, a massive iron and steel works from where they had launched counter-attacks for weeks.\n\nVideos have emerged of fighters apparently from the 36th marine brigade vowing not to surrender their positions.\n\n\"We are holding on to every bit of the city wherever possible,\" says one in a video posted to social media channels on Tuesday.\n\n\"But the reality is the city is encircled and blocked and there was no re-supply of ammunition or food,\" he adds. Part of the footage shows him alongside several other marines in a room that looks like a basement shelter. One of the men has crutches leaning against his chair.\n\nA post on Monday on the brigade's Facebook page described the situation as \"the last battle… It is death for some of us, and captivity for the rest,\" it said, adding they had been \"pushed back\" and \"surrounded\" by Russian troops.\n\nUkrainian analysts differed over whether the post could be relied on as genuine, with some claiming the page had been hacked. But more than 36 hours later the post remained on the site.\n\nThe siege and a resulting collapse in communications in Mariupol mean it is difficult to independently verify reports about changes on the ground.\n\nThere is little doubt Ukrainian forces have been desperate for new supplies of weapons, ammunition, food and water.\n\nMariupol - home to more than 400,000 people before the war - has been virtually wiped out by weeks of heavy Russian shelling\n\nUkraine's military reportedly managed over the weeks to resupply troops with kit including night and thermal vision goggles, portable battery charging packs and even anti-tank munitions; but it became increasingly hard.\n\n\"Ultimately, the city was surrounded so soon into the invasion that there was never a chance to build up supplies,\" says Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at defence think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\n\"They've already held out far, far longer than any external analysis would have predicted possible. So it's difficult to say how much longer they can go on,\" he says, adding that they have \"achieved extraordinary results with very little\".\n\nUkrainian attempts to rotate forces or evacuate the wounded also became much more high risk as Russia tightened its siege.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry claimed two weeks ago it had shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter 5km (three miles) from the Sea of Azov shore. It was thought to have been coming out of the city.\n\nOn Tuesday, it claimed up to 100 Ukrainian troops had tried to fight their way out of the steel works plant - but said half were killed by Russian artillery and airstrikes, and more than 40 surrendered.\n\nIn his video address to the nation late on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said: \"The future of Ukraine directly depends on the strength of our resistance in all its forms. The future of us all, each of our cities, each of our villages.\n\n\"And I am grateful to everyone who understands this. Who does not stop resisting even when it seems that the result is very far. Because the darkest time is always before dawn.\n\n\"I want to separately address those heroes who are having a very hard time. Those who defend Mariupol. A marine battalion of the 36th marine brigade, Azov special operations detachment, 12th operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. Subdivisions of the State Border Guard Service. Volunteers of the \"Right Sector\". The 555th military hospital and National Police employees.\"\n\nAs well as the marines, the defence of Mariupol also consists of the Azov battalion, an ultranationalist militia formed in 2014 which Kyiv says has been reformed and is now part of Ukraine's National Guard.\n\nThey are only a tiny part of Ukraine's overall forces, but their presence has been a key focus of Moscow's propaganda war: it refers to the invasion as a \"special military operation\" claiming it is to \"demilitarise\" and \"denazify\" Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, reports by local forces that Russia deployed chemical weapons in Mariupol this week have yet to be confirmed. They are a reminder of how the conflict could quickly trigger a further dangerous escalation.\n\nThe full capture of the city could see significant numbers of Russian troops, so far used to contain and prevent resupply in Mariupol, reconstituted and moved elsewhere, particularly in other parts of the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow is gearing up for a major offensive.\n\nIt could also see Moscow consolidate its progress north of Mariupol, which is one of the reasons the Ukrainians were finding it so hard to relieve the city, according to Mr Bronk.\n\nThe forces could also be used to bolster Russian-occupied Kherson, where Ukrainian troops have been attempting to retake ground with some success.\n\nPresident Zelensky continued his metaphor that Mariupol is the heart of the war. \"If it stops beating then we will be… weaker,\" he said.", "The image appearing to show Colin Davis several decades ago was sent to Jewish News this week\n\nA London Conservative Association chair has resigned after he said he \"could not rule out\" that he was once pictured in Nazi military uniform.\n\nThe image is said to show Colin Davis from a number of decades ago and was sent to Jewish News this week.\n\nAfter it emerged, the Enfield Southgate Conservative Association said he was \"no longer a member of the Conservative Party\", nor a local election candidate.\n\nMr Davis told Jewish News he had \"no recollection\" of the occasion \"at all\".\n\nHe told the paper he could not recall dressing up as a Nazi, but added that \"there were various wild parties, very perverse themes expressed… I can't absolutely rule it out\".\n\nIn a statement, the Enfield Southgate Conservative Association said: \"Colin Davis is no longer a member of the Conservative Party and is not a candidate in the May local elections.\"\n\n\"Enfield Southgate Conservative Association is proud to have a diverse team of candidates for the local elections.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by lee harpin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt added the candidates \"reflect the make-up of the communities which they seek to serve\".\n\n\"The Conservative Party is committed to equality and diversity at every level, and does not tolerate members who behave in a manner which threatens these values,\" it added.\n• None Harry says sorry for Nazi costume", "Elon Musk at the opening party for the Tesla gigafactory in Austin, Texas\n\nTesla boss Elon Musk has admitted he is \"not sure\" his takeover bid for social media firm Twitter will be successful.\n\nHe made the comments at a conference just hours after revealing that he had offered to buy the company for $54.20 a share, valuing the firm at $43bn.\n\nAlso on Thursday, Twitter's chief executive told employees that the company was evaluating the approach.\n\nParag Agrawal reportedly said at the staff meeting that the company was not being \"held hostage\" by the offer.\n\nSpeaking at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver, Mr Musk said: \"I am not sure that I will actually be able to acquire it.\"\n\nHe added that he had a \"Plan B\" if his bid for Twitter was rejected, but gave no further details of what that could mean.\n\nMr Musk also said at the event that Twitter should be more open and transparent. \"I think it's very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday, he revealed his offer to buy all the shares in Twitter that he does not already own.\n\nIn an official filing to US regulators, Mr Musk said he was the right person to \"unlock\" the company's \"extraordinary potential\" and that if his offer was not accepted, \"I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.\"\n\nHe also said that if Twitter's board of directors chose to reject the offer, it would be \"utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote\".\n\nSaudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal shunned the bid, tweeting: \"I don't believe that the proposed offer by Elon Musk comes close to the intrinsic value of Twitter given its growth prospects.\"\n\nThe billionaire claimed that he has a stake in Twitter through his investment firm Kingdom Holding Company. However, Mr Musk immediately replied asking how many Twitter shares Prince Alwaleed's firm owns, adding: \"What are the Kingdom's views on journalist freedom of speech?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter confirmed that it had received the bid, but said its board must still review the \"unsolicited, non-binding\" offer, which values its shares at well below the level of more than $70 that they reached last summer.\n\nMr Musk already owns more than 9% of the social media platform, but he is no longer its biggest shareholder.\n\nAsset management firm Vanguard Group disclosed on 8 April that its funds now own a 10.3% stake, bumping him off the top spot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Musk is the world's richest man, according to Forbes magazine, mostly due to his shareholding in electric vehicle maker Tesla where he is chief executive.\n\nHe has not revealed any details on how his bid for Twitter will be financed. Mr Musk is being advised by US investment bank Morgan Stanley.\n\nBruce Daisley, Twitter's former vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, told the BBC's Today programme that Mr Musk appeared to be \"toying with the company to some extent\".\n\n\"The latest bid he's put in, as far as I can tell, doesn't seem to be regarded as a serious bid but it is proving to be very disruptive with the organisation I think.\"\n\nHe said that Twitter may benefit from being taken private and out of the hands of shareholders.\n\n\"To some extent the constant scrutiny of being a publicly listed company, following in the footsteps of the likes of Google and Facebook, is definitely a challenge for the organisation so private ownership might be the right solution.\n\n\"I'm not convinced Elon Musk's approach is going to win many fans though,\" he added.\n\nTwitter's shares, which are listed in New York, initially rose on Thursday but ended down 1.6% at $45.08, below Mr Musk's offer.\n\nThe board of Twitter has enlisted the help of another Wall Street bank, Goldman Sachs, as it considers how to respond to the takeover approach.\n\nOther than acknowledging the takeover bid, Twitter has publicly kept pretty quiet since Elon Musk revealed his attempt to buy the company.\n\nBut details have emerged of an \"all hands\" meeting, where questions were put to the company's chief executive, Parag Agrawal.\n\nThe details give nothing more than a suggestion of what Twitter's management thinks of the offer. Mr Agrawal reportedly said he could not talk about the details, but that the company was not being \"held hostage\".\n\nI'm told the meeting was designed to give employees more information. But one Twitter worker told me they left the meeting more confused. \"I didn't leave feeling any sense of clarity,\" they said.\n\nThe employee said that they were in the dark about what could happen next. \"I would say I know about as much as the public on Twitter,\" they said.\n\nTwitter's board not only has to weigh up the offer, but also assess the damage that Elon Musk could do if scorned. Apparently he has a Plan B if Twitter rejects his offer.\n\nTwitter may be worth tens of billions of dollars, but it is nothing compared to Elon Musk, who is worth more than $200bn. And that kind of wealth makes him a dangerous foe.", "The identity of the 28-year-old man has not been revealed\n\nAn Algerian man who won €250,000 (£206,000; $270,000) on a €5 scratchcard in Belgium is struggling to claim his winnings because of his undocumented status.\n\nThe prize is too large to be paid in cash and the man does not have the papers he needs to open a bank account.\n\nA friend who tried to claim the money for him was briefly detained on suspicion of theft.\n\nThe winner says he wants to use the money to build a life in Belgium.\n\n\"When I get the money, I am going to buy a place to live in Brussels. And maybe a car,\" the man, whose identity has not been revealed, told Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.\n\nHowever, first he has to find a way to claim the money.\n\nThe 28-year-old man has no valid identity papers nor a permanent place to live, according to Belgian broadcaster VRT.\n\nBecause he cannot open a bank account, the lottery company will not make the payment, the man's lawyer, Alexander Verstraete, said.\n\n\"We are looking for those documents that can prove his identity. He will have to contact his family in Algeria,\" Mr Verstraete told the AFP news agency.\n\nA lottery spokesperson did not specify to AFP which documents would be required to claim the win.\n\nOne of the man's friends, who has the correct papers, tried to claim the winnings on his behalf by going to the lottery headquarters in Brussels, which is necessary for any prize over €100,000.\n\nBut he and two others were detained by police overnight as authorities suspected they had stolen the winning scratchcard. They were released after the winner explained the situation.\n\nThe card is now being held by a court in the town of Bruges, close to the port of Zeebrugge where it was bought.\n\nMr Verstraete says authorities have promised not to deport the man until he has received the prize money.\n\nThe winner left Algeria four months ago, travelling by boat to Spain, according to Belgian media. From there he went on foot through Spain and France before reaching Belgium.\n\nHe had wanted to travel on to the United Kingdom, but now says he would prefer to remain in Belgium, and hopes to start a family.\n\n\"I will also look for a wife,\" he told Het Laatste Nieuws. \"Still, I am not going to find one with my money, but with my heart.\"", "The Russian Orthodox Church has echoed the rhetoric of the Kremlin in justifying the war in Ukraine. It is a stance that appears to be driving large numbers of Ukrainian priests and parishioners to turn their backs on Moscow.\n\n\"I will never forget the moment when I woke up early to go to mass, only to suddenly hear the shocking sounds of bombing,\" says Father Nicolay Pluzhnik.\n\n\"The wonderful woman who cooked at our church and her son, who was in a wheelchair, were both killed when an artillery shell hit their apartment. I now know of several other of our parishioners who have died.\"\n\nLike most clergy in the region of north-eastern Ukraine where he is from, Father Pluzhnik belonged to the branch of the Russian Orthodox Church which takes its direction from its religious leadership in Moscow.\n\nBut now, he says, has applied to join the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - which was finally granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church in 2019, in a move never recognised by Russia.\n\nHe says many fellow priests who followed Patriarch Kirill in Moscow are doing the same because of the Church leader's stance on the war.\n\nFather Nicolay Pluzhnik in his church in Chuhuiv, in the Kharkiv region, before he fled west\n\nFather Pluzhnik and his family fled under artillery fire and now have a temporary new home in the town of Chernivtsi, in western Ukraine.\n\n\"When the war started, I was waiting to hear from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the 'father' of our church. But first there was no reaction at all, and then there was worse,\" he says.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill blessed the Russian army and gave his blessing to the war. It was not just him but the majority of priests of the Moscow Patriarchate [Russian Orthodox Church] including some that even have Ukrainian roots. I was in shock.\"\n\nAs well as having failed to unequivocally condemn the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, or call for a ceasefire, the Patriarch has held large televised services in Moscow to bless Russian troops. He has also suggested in sermons that the Kremlin's war is a righteous one about the future of Christianity.\n\n\"What is happening today is much more important than politics,\" he said last month. \"We are talking about human salvation, about where humanity will end up and on which side of God the Saviour.\"\n\nPatriarch Kirill, in green robes, at a recent service attended by military personnel\n\nThere are religious undertones in much of the Kremlin's narrative justifying its invasion of Ukraine. It is a fight for the conservative ideals of the Russian Orthodox Church based in Moscow, against an immoral outside world. President Putin has said Ukraine is not only an \"inalienable part\" of Russia's history and culture - but also its \"spiritual space\".\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said he finds Patriarch Kirill's sentiment concerning.\n\n\"There are elements in the Russian Christian tradition that can become really toxic when they get in their head a particular kind of Christian nationalism, a sort of messianic approach to the fate of the nation,\" said Dr Williams during a visit to western Ukraine this week.\n\nHe was part of an extraordinary high-level, multi-faith delegation - including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders. They met refugees who had fled the horrors in the eastern part of the country.\n\nDr Williams has long studied and written about the positive contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church, and appears deeply saddened by the role the Moscow Patriarchate is playing in the war.\n\n\"I think that the increasing influence in the Patriarchate of Moscow of ultranationalist ideals - often including a strand of anti-Semitism - has been going on for some time.\n\n\"And it has now expressed itself in this very uncritical support of Russian national ambitions, a very aggressive attitude towards many other Orthodox churches. The writing has been on the wall for some time,\" he said.\n\nPatriarch Kirill has echoed President Putin's claim that Russian speakers and followers of Moscow's Russian Orthodox Church living in eastern Ukraine need liberating after years of oppression.\n\n\"Our brothers and sisters were really suffering, they suffer for their loyalty to the Church,\" said Patriarch Kirill a week into the war.\n\nBut Father Pluzhnik, a Russian speaker and a follower of the Moscow Patriarchate all of his adult life, is angered by those claims.\n\n\"When I hear them say they are protecting us and fighting some 'Holy War', I think they are either blind, or they are not serving God but the devil,\" he says.\n\n\"We were living peacefully until they came. But far from protecting us they bombed and tortured and killed. Before the war, parishioners were completely free to choose what church they went to, they just went to the church closest to their home. For many of them it was not even a significant difference to go to a church that followed Moscow or not, they just wanted to pray to God. Now that has changed.\"\n\nDr Sergii Bortnyk, a professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy and an adviser to the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, acknowledges that there has been a widespread movement of people and parishes across the country abandoning their loyalty to Moscow.\n\n\"I think it is maybe half of the 12,000 parishes [of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine] that have said that they want to break away now,\" says Dr Bortnyk.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill has not said anything about all the Christians in Ukraine that have been killed, so I believe the members of our church are free to end their connection to him as the patriarch,\" he says.\n\n\"The connection to all of our [Moscow Patriarchate Russian Orthodox] Church in Ukraine to Moscow is in question now.\"\n\nThe Kremlin's aim, backed by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, had been to unite Russia and Ukraine in a single \"spiritual space\".\n\nBut the manner by which they have tried to achieve that appears to have had precisely the opposite effect.", "Much of the focus of the war in Ukraine has so far been about the battle on the ground - but the fight to dominate the skies is just as important. The BBC has been given an exclusive interview with a Ukrainian air defence officer about the battle for control of Ukraine's skies.\n\nCaptain Vasyl Kravchuk has a surprisingly ready smile for a man who has endured 50 days of war. We spoke to him via video link from his base at an undisclosed location.\n\nHe knows the coming weeks will offer no respite. Russia may have received a bloody nose in its aborted attempts to take Kyiv, but with the Eastern region of the Donbas now firmly in Moscow's sights, the men and women of Dnipro's Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade will continue to play a key role in the next phase of the war.\n\nDefending Ukraine's skies from Russian attacks is already proving a challenge. As another Ukrainian air defence officer told the BBC, it is like trying to use a giant fly swatter which had large holes in it.\n\n\"We can't cover the whole airspace,\" Capt Kravchuk says simply.\n\nThe fact he is even sitting here speaking to us is somewhat remarkable - especially given the fact that \"many air defence facilities were destroyed fully or partially\" in the first days of the war.\n\nIt's a rare public admission by Ukrainian forces that they suffered significant losses in the early stages of the war.\n\nBut despite these losses, the air defences which survived have still been used to good effect.\n\nOryx, which has been tracking military losses during the war using visual confirmation, says that Ukraine has destroyed, damaged or captured at least 82 Russian aircraft, including jets, helicopters and drones.\n\nIndeed, their successes have confounded military experts, who predicted that Russia would quickly achieve air superiority over Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video, shared by Ukrainian armed forces, shows a Russian helicopter being shot down by a missile\n\nRussia already had a significant advantage in the air, deploying more than three times as many combat aircraft as Ukraine. The US Pentagon says that Russian aircraft have been flying around 250 military missions and carrying out some 30 air strikes every day. Western officials still say that Russia is struggling to gain air superiority.\n\nBut in contrast, Ukraine's aging fleet of mostly MiG-29 fighter jets have been struggling to compete, managing at best around 10 military missions a day.\n\nUkraine knows that Russia has the upper hand in the air. That's why its repeatedly called on Western nations to close its skies.\n\nBut Russia's anticipated offensive in the Donbas presents a new, more difficult challenge.\n\nJustin Bronk, senior research fellow for airpower at the Royal United Services Institute, says Russia is likely to have greater freedom of access in the airspace over the eastern region than the rest of the country due to its proximity to Russian controlled airspace.\n\nIn order to win the fight here, Ukraine requires a mix of long, medium and short range weapons to provide what's known as a \"layered defence\".\n\nThe West has been providing a significant number of shorter-range surface-to-air missiles. The US alone has already sent 2,000 Stingers. The UK has provided an unspecified number of Starstreak high velocity missiles too.\n\nBut while Capt Kravchuk says his country is grateful for those shoulder launched weapons, known as Manpads, he says they're only effective on the frontline.\n\nThis is because Manpads - man-portable air defence systems - are most effective against low flying aircraft. Russia is mostly using long range cruise missiles and high-altitude bombing.\n\nCapt Kravchuk told the BBC: \"We now lack medium and long range air defence systems... we do not have enough.\"\n\nA renewed Russian offensive in the Donbas will put another serious strain on Ukraine's limited air defence.\n\nWhile the focus of the war has turned to Eastern Ukraine, the rest of the country still needs protection. On the ground, we've seen evidence that Ukraine has been sending additional air defence systems to the east in recent days. But it can't afford to redeploy all its air defence systems to the Donbas region.\n\n\"We cannot leave half of Ukraine completely without protection,\" Capt Kravchuck says.\n\nUkraine is having to use its air defences not just to target Russian aircraft, but also Russian cruise and ballistic missiles. They are having some success, but they can't destroy everything.\n\nCapt Kravchuk estimates that his unit is shooting down between 50-70% of Russia's longer-range missiles. As an example, he says when Russia fired six missiles around Dnipro recently they managed to stop four.\n\nThat still suggests a significant number are getting through. The Pentagon says that Russia has launched 1,550 missiles since the war began.\n\nRussia says it's also been using hypersonic missiles. There isn't much Ukraine's air defences can do against those as they travel at five times the speed of sound.\n\nBut the harsh fact is that, without more significant support, Ukraine will find it increasingly hard to defend itself from Russian air and missile strikes the longer this war goes on.\n\nA senior western intelligence official told the BBC that long and mid-range air defences were top of the list of Ukraine's requests for more weapons supplies: \"They're very specific that they need air defence ammunition… they do need those in large quantities.\"\n\nAnd as Capt Kravchuk told us: \"Past wars have shown, whoever dominates the air wins the war.\"", "Jacqueline Statham says relatives want to be reunited with the men so they can lay them to rest\n\nThe wife of a pilot whose plane disappeared over the English Channel has said she wants to find her husband so she can \"say her goodbyes\".\n\nBrian Statham and Lee Rogers were flying from Wellesbourne in Warwickshire to France on 2 April when their plane crashed, police said.\n\nIt is thought they encountered \"freak weather conditions\" and no mayday signal was given from the aircraft.\n\nJacqueline Statham has asked people to look out for any debris from the crash.\n\n\"We just want them back so we can lay them to rest and say our goodbyes,\" she said.\n\nThe pair were last seen on 2 April before their plane vanished over the Channel\n\nMs Statham, from Solihull, said: \"The problem for the families is that we know where they are, obviously in the English Channel, but we don't know when we'll ever get to be reunited with them.\"\n\nThe pair met at South Warwickshire Flying school and became \"firm friends\" 10 years ago.\n\nMr Statham's son, Douglas, said: \"Their friendship just grew and grew for their love of things like flying, they went out on motorbikes a lot as well.\n\n\"They were just full of life. An amazing couple of guys.\"\n\nMr Rogers posted video of them flying over the channel before their plane disappeared\n\nThe men had set off with the school, as part of a group flying in several aircraft, from Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, heading for Le Touquet.\n\nBoth families said they were grateful to the French and English coastguards who have been involved in the search and rescue effort as well as tourists who handed in Mr Statham's bag.\n\nMr Rogers posted a video of them flying over the channel before their plane disappeared which showed blues skies and a calm sea.\n\nThe search for the experienced pilots was called off on 3 April.\n\nRelatives are asking people to continue to look out for debris or any items connected to their disappearance.\n\nMr Statham said: \"The more evidence there is the more chance there is of putting that picture together of what happened on that beautiful day and how we can just go forward and move on with our lives.\"\n\nDouglas Statham said they wanted to piece together what had happened\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two Russian oligarchs linked to billionaire Roman Abramovich have been sanctioned by the UK government.\n\nChelsea FC director Eugene Tenenbaum and David Davidovich are longstanding business associates of Mr Abramovich, who owns the club.\n\nThe pair's assets - estimated to be worth up to £10 billion in total - have been frozen.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said it was the largest asset freeze in UK history.\n\nThey join a list of individuals to have been sanctioned following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters.\n\nThis will prevent their financial assets being sent back to Russia.\n\nThe total number of individuals sanctioned by the UK since February now stands at 106.\n\nMr Tenenbaum previously described himself as one of Mr Abramovich's closest business associates.\n\nCorporate filings show that he took control of Evrington Investments Limited, an investment company linked to Mr Abramovich, on 24 February.\n\nMr Davidovich then took over the company in March. He is also subject to a travel ban, meaning he is cannot enter - or remain in - the UK.\n\nMs Truss said: \"We are tightening the ratchet on Putin's war machine and targeting the circle of people closest to the Kremlin.\n\n\"We will keep going with sanctions until Putin fails in Ukraine. Nothing and no one is off the table.\"\n\nThese sanctions were co-ordinated with action taken by authorities in Jersey earlier this week.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Abramovich had $7bn (£5.4bn) worth of assets linked to him frozen by a Jersey court.\n\nIn the US, a Gulfstream private jet owned by Mr Abramovich has been effectively grounded as the US Commerce Department said it was one of a number of planes to contravene US sanctions.\n\nCurrently it is a criminal offence for any Russian aircraft to fly to, or land in, the UK. The government has powers to remove aircraft belonging to designated Russian individuals and entities from the UK aircraft register, even if the sanctioned individual is not on board.\n\nRussian ships are also banned from UK ports.", "As millions of people continue to stay at home under strict lockdown in Shanghai, videos appearing to show their desperation and frustration have surfaced and gone viral.\n\nUsually such clips would not get past China's censors, known as the 'Great Firewall'.\n\nBut the sheer volume of the clips has made it difficult for censors to keep up. Many are also being passed around in private group chats, which has made them harder to catch.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused European countries that continue to buy Russian oil of \"earning their money in other people's blood\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, President Zelensky singled out Germany and Hungary, accusing them of blocking efforts to embargo energy sales, from which Russia stands to make up to £250bn ($326bn) this year.\n\nThere has been a growing frustration among Ukraine's leadership with Berlin, which has backed some sanctions against Russia but so far resisted calls to back tougher action on oil sales.\n\n\"Some of our friends and partners understand that it is a different time now, that it is no longer an issue of business and money,\" Mr Zelensky told the BBC from his situation room in Kyiv on Thursday. \"That it is an issue of survival.\"\n\nThe president also reiterated calls for more weapons to be supplied to Ukraine, saying they were not getting supplies fast enough to fend off Russia's assault.\n\n\"The United States, the United Kingdom, some European countries - they are trying to help and are helping,\" he said. \"But still we need it sooner, sooner and faster. The key word is now.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian leader (R) said his country still desperately needed weapons from the West\n\nRussian troops have in recent weeks pulled back from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and other central and northern parts of the country - apparently abandoning an attempt to seize all of Ukraine by force.\n\nBut there are fears now of a bloody and protracted conflict in the east and south of the country, as Russian President Vladimir Putin refocuses his military campaign there in an effort to seize more territory.\n\nThe southern port city of Mariupol - a strategic goal for President Putin - has already been devastated by weeks of Russian artillery bombardment.\n\nPresident Zelensky told the BBC he thought tens of thousands may have been killed in the city.\n\n\"We also have information that as well as those tens of thousands of dead, many have disappeared,\" he said. \"We know their documents have been replaced, they were given Russian passports and taken deep into Russia - some to camps, some to other cities. No one knows what is happening to those people. No one knows how many have been killed.\"\n\nPresident Zelensky said 95% of buildings had been destroyed in Mariupol, one of Ukraine's biggest cities\n\nMr Zelensky said the atrocities apparently committed by Russian troops in Mariupol, and in the Kyiv suburbs of Bucha and Borodyanka, had further narrowed the possibility of peace talks with the Russians.\n\nHundreds of dead have been found in Bucha since it was taken back by Ukrainian forces a little over a week ago, including civilians who were found shot in the head with their hands tied behind their backs, as well as widespread reports of sexual violence.\n\n\"Bucha is in the process of closing [the possibilities of peace talks],\" President Zelensky said. \"It's not about me - it's about Russia. They will not have many more chances to speak with us.\"\n\nHe said he had \"experienced the entire spectrum of emotions\" when he visited Bucha last week, but ended the day with \"nothing but hatred towards the Russian military\". He accused President Putin and the rest of the Russian army \"from top to bottom\" of being \"war criminals\".\n\nPresident Zelensky (seen here in the centre without a helmet) visited the town of Bucha earlier this month\n\nMr Zelensky defended his leadership in the run-up to the Russian invasion that began in February, when his government urged the Ukrainian people to remain calm.\n\nHe said the government had been working in the background to agree deals for weapons and supplies, as well as focusing on avoiding panic that could trigger a run on the banks and destabilise Ukraine's economy.\n\n\"That was what Russia - and not just Russia - wanted, but we didn't let that happen,\" he said. \"But we did not expect the full-scale invasion when it happened.\"\n\nUkraine is now facing a renewed attack in the east and south as Russia attempts to carve off more territory, following its 2014 annexation of Crimea.\n\nPresident Zelensky said the east now represented the \"most difficult situation\" for Ukraine's armed forces, \"but this is where our most powerful units are concentrated\".\n\n\"They can destroy us, but we will answer; they can kill but they will also die,\" he said. \"I can't understand for what - I can't understand why they came.\"", "Ninety percent of cars in the area around Berlin are powered by fuel from the Russian-owned Schwedt refinery outside Berlin\n\nGerman Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck has called on the public to cut energy use and stop using cars to help wean their country off Russian oil and gas.\n\n\"If you can take the train or bike over Easter, that's good too: it's easy on the wallet and annoys Putin,\" said Mr Habeck, who is also economics minister and co-leader of the Greens.\n\nGermany has resisted European calls for a ban on Russian energy.\n\nUkraine's president has criticised the stance of both Germany and Hungary.\n\n\"We need to talk together with these countries on how it's possible for there to be different attitudes to this issue - the oil embargo within the European Union,\" Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC.\n\nHe has argued that Russia does not need to take peace talks seriously because of the billions it receives from oil exports. Some of Ukraine's friends and partners now understood it was an issue of survival for Ukraine, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nAlthough German imports have fallen this year, it still gets a quarter of its oil and 40% of its gas from Russia. It has already halted the opening of a big Russian gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, in response to the war.\n\nEarlier this week, German economic institutes warned that immediately halting Russian imports would spark a sharp recession in Europe's biggest economy by 2023.\n\nAmid EU pressure to ban Russian oil, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has indicated that Germany could do so by the end of this year. However, some members of his coalition from the Greens and business-friendly FDP have accused him of failing to show leadership.\n\nThe head of parliament's defence committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, who was part of a German delegation visiting Kyiv this week, said Germany's old, rigid world view had collapsed.\n\n\"Now is the time to lead and by doing so move forward together with our coalition,\" she added.\n\nUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has appealed to Berlin to make a quick decision on sending further heavy weapons. \"Germany plays a leading role in Europe and we are counting on this leadership,\" he told German TV.\n\n\"We are paying the price with people's lives,\" he said, adding that if Germany had changed its approach earlier then war could have been prevented.\n\nMr Scholz's coalition partners are also pushing for Germany to send further heavy weapons to Ukraine. However, the economics minister said the German military had already delivered what it could without affecting its own operational capability.\n\nGerman manufacturer Rheinmetall has offered to send Leopard 1 battle tanks, but Mr Habeck said they had to be refurbished and that could take months.\n\nIn his interview with the Funke news group, the Greens minister said every German could make a dent in their reliance on Russia by cutting their energy consumption by 10%.\n\nIt starts with personal behaviour. If you heat your home and draw your curtains in the evening you save up to 5% of energy. If you lower the room temperature by 1C it's around 6%\n\nMr Habeck said lowering the temperature was perhaps not quite as comfortable but nobody would freeze.\n\nBosses should also consider offering staff the chance to work from home, as they did during the Covid-19 pandemic, for one or two days a week.\n\nMore than 330,000 refugees from Ukraine have registered in Germany since the start of the war, although the true figure is unclear.", "Polish border guards now say fewer people are entering from Ukraine, while more are starting to head east\n\nAt Ukraine's western border with Poland near the town of Mostyska, Olena and Maria walk back into their home country after more than a month abroad.\n\nThe pair are from Slovyansk in the eastern Donetsk region. On 10 March, as Russian invaders drew closer, Olena's husband told her to take their daughter Maria and leave the country.\n\nOlena and Maria headed to a friend's house in Szczecin, a Polish city on the border with Germany. But they had to sleep on the floor, and Olena says they struggled to find work there because they don't speak the language.\n\nNow, they're heading back east - despite the threat of a renewed Russian assault. Donetsk remains a key target for Russian forces.\n\nOlena's husband is an ambulance driver and still in Slovyansk, waiting for them. When we ask how they feel to cross back into their home country, Olena breaks into a huge grin.\n\n\"Super!\" she says. \"No matter what, we're very happy to be back in Ukraine.\"\n\nSince Russia's invasion, more than 10 million people are thought to have left their homes in Ukraine, and 4.3 million of those have left the country.\n\nBut as the front lines stabilise and the country learns to function in a state of war, some Ukrainians are beginning to make the journey back home, even to parts of the country directly threatened by Russian forces.\n\nThe war is now well into its second month. Ukraine has held off the Russian assault and fears of a rapid collapse - as President Volodymyr Zelensky told his people this week, it is more than 48 days since military analysts in the West predicted the capital Kyiv had just 48 hours until its fall to the invaders.\n\nPeople the BBC spoke to at the Polish border said they had tired of life as refugees abroad. Others were desperate to get back for practical reasons - to collect important documents left behind in the confusion after the invasion, protect their homes from looters, or even to pick up children who stayed behind with their fathers.\n\nAnd for others, the pull of home, friends and family is just too strong.\n\nSofia is eating a hot dog from one of the fast-food stalls at the border crossing. She's defying her mum's orders, choosing to come back home after just three weeks in the safety of Poland. War is war, but Easter is Easter - she's eager to see her loved ones back home in Lviv this weekend.\n\nSofia left Ukraine on her mum's orders, but is now heading home for Easter\n\nThe 20-year-old first crossed the frontier into the EU late in March to stay with a godmother's friend in Poznan, after the Russians bombed her home city.\n\n\"Mum forced me, she was panicking,\" Sofia says. But she never felt settled abroad, despite the help for refugees that humanitarian groups and the Polish government have organised.\n\n\"You feel foreign,\" she says. \"Everyone's helping you, but it doesn't feel like home.\" She hopes to stay in the relative calm of Lviv.\n\nOfficial figures suggest more people are making the same choice. Polish border authorities say numbers going to and from Ukraine are now drawing closer - on Wednesday, 24,700 people entered Poland from Ukraine, while 20,000 people made the opposite trip. It's a sharp reversal from the record 142,000 people who crossed into Poland on 6 March.\n\nLviv-Holovnyi rail station is a key transit hub in western Ukraine. Trains bring thousands in daily from war-torn regions: outside, charities give out food, clothes and SIM cards, while coaches line up to take travellers off to the countryside or the border.\n\nAlthough most people come here from the east, a steady stream of people are starting to make the journey in the opposite direction - a potentially lethal choice.\n\nIryna, her daughter Katerina, mother Lina and mother-in-law Yevgenya are from Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine close to the front lines. They initially left the country to stay with relatives in Moldova, but have now decided to return. They've had to buy tickets for the trip - in contrast, journeys westward away from the fighting are free.\n\nIryna, far right, says she is telling her daughter Katerina, second from left, the truth about what's happening\n\nIryna says they would have come sooner, but had to wait for her eight-year-old daughter to recover from an illness. \"Home is home,\" she says, when we ask why they've decided to go back.\n\nShe admits she's worried about her daughter's safety. When they left, the Russian attacks were far away, but now they're getting closer.\n\nWe ask what they've told Katerina about the situation. \"We're telling her the truth,\" Iryna says.\n\nVolunteers at a clinic above the main station concourse give out medical and psychological support for new arrivals. Irena Bous is one of them.\n\nBefore the war, she was a judge for the International Dance Organization and chair of a number of dance competitions within Ukraine. \"All kinds - hip hop, jazz, break dancing,\" she says.\n\nA friend of hers in the Lviv governor's office knew she had a flair for organisation and so asked her to help out when the Russians invaded.\n\nIrena has met several people who are returning to areas wracked by violence. \"It's a bad idea [to return east],\" Irena says. \"We try to save their lives and keep them in Lviv.\"\n\nShe tells us of a woman who came to Lviv from her home near Bucha, a wealthy suburb of Kyiv where Russian troops shot dead scores of civilians and left bodies in the street. After nine days, she decided to return - against Irena's advice.\n\n\"I said, please wait, there are no Russians but we have many things there - bombs, mines - wait until they are deactivated,\" Irena says. The woman travelled back regardless, saying her friends had found her a place to stay.\n\nAnother woman Irena spoke to, who is in her 60s, had fled to Poland even before the war began, but returned to Ukraine and boarded a train east last week. \"I don't know how long I will live, but I will die in my house,\" she told Irena.\n\nBefore the war she organised dance competitions, but now Irena helps run a clinic at Lviv station\n\nOthers we met couldn't bring themselves to leave Ukraine in the first place. At Arena Lviv - a stadium built for the Euro 2012 football tournament, but now playing host to refugees - we meet Roma, a 19-year-old from Mykolaiv on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, and his new friend Iryna, a grandmother from Severodonetsk in the eastern Luhansk region.\n\nThe pair had never met until that day, but now they have decided to stay together. Iryna travelled across Ukraine to the Polish border in the days after the invasion, intent on escaping. After queuing for hours, she made it to the front of the line, only to change her mind at the last minute. Her son is in the military in Ukraine and she hears her home city has been recaptured by Ukrainian forces, opening up the prospect of heading home.\n\n\"I couldn't bring myself to leave [the country],\" she tells us. But since then, she has been moving around the west of the country, sleeping for a time at a nursery in Lviv before ending up at the arena with Roma.\n\nA coach destined for the countryside has one spot left on board, but despite repeated offers, Iryna refuses the seat - choosing instead to stick with her new friend.\n\nNow she and Roma - like millions of others - face an uncertain future as displaced people within the country. With a choice of refugee status abroad or rootlessness inside Ukraine, it is perhaps no surprise that some are risking everything to return to their homes.\n\nIryna and Roma are waiting out the war in Lviv for now", "A senior director at one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges has told Radio 4 Money Box there's a \"special place in hell\" for fraudsters.\n\nCurtis Ting spent eight years at the FBI before joining Kraken where he is now managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa.\n\n\"I'm a former law enforcement official myself, I also have two living grandparents,\" he says. \"Frankly there's a special place in hell reserved for scammers and fraudsters who try to rob the vulnerable and the elderly.\"\n\nHe was speaking in relation to a fraud recently featured on Money Box where 77-year-old Graeme Stagg had nearly £800,000 stolen.\n\nGraeme was tricked into investing in cryptocurrency and more than half a million pounds was taken in less than a month using Kraken's exchange.\n\n\"We have a lot of fraud identification controls on the platform. We have flags identifying anyone who registers over a certain amount so anybody over a certain age gets flagged,\" says Mr Ting.\n\n\"Not only do they get flagged but you also see certain transaction amount levels in association with those accounts creating a particularly high risk profile.\n\n\"When that happens we hold [freeze] that account and reach out to individuals, and we require that a written note be provided to us identifying explicitly these individuals are doing these transactions of their own volition and not being guided by anybody.\"\n\nDespite having these controls in place, Graeme had been so completely groomed by criminals he was able to transfer more than £500,000 into e-wallets using the Kraken exchange within the space of just 26 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graeme served with the RAF for 22 years before fraudsters stole every penny he had - nearly £800,000\n\nThe criminals then transferred it out of Graeme's control, stealing it all and leaving him with nothing.\n\nCurtis says it's up to law enforcement to catch the criminals but that it's the \"duty of exchanges, like ourselves, to work very closely with [law enforcement]\", adding they are fully cooperating with police in this case.\n\nMr Ting welcomes plans announced by the UK government to regulate some cryptocurrencies as part of wider efforts to make the country a hub for digital payment companies.\n\nSo-called stablecoins will become recognised forms of payment to give people confidence in using digital currencies, according to the Treasury.\n\nStablecoins are designed to have a stable value linked to traditional currencies or assets like gold, and as such they are considered less volatile than cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.\n\n\"The integration of stablecoins into the payment framework potentially impacts our business quite a bit,\" Mr Ting says.\n\n\"There is the potential that we expand our service so that on top of simply facilitating trades, buying and selling of crypto, there's closer integration with payment networks, merchant providers and so forth.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"We want to see the [cryptocurrency] businesses of tomorrow - and the jobs they create - here in the UK, and by regulating effectively we can give them the confidence they need to think and invest long-term.\"\n\nThe Treasury has not yet confirmed which stablecoins will be regulated; well-known ones include Tether and Binance USD.\n\nMr Ting says he sees more regulation as a positive thing as \"it means more people will have to join us\".\n\n\"We welcome that. In our operations in Europe we're actually much further ahead in our discussions with European regulators because actual legislation is already on the table.\n\n\"If anything, the UK articulating this vision brings it further into alignment with where the rest of the industry is headed.\"\n\nRegulators are racing to draw up rules to manage cryptocurrencies amid concern that their growing popularity could threaten established financial systems.\n\nIn December, the Bank of England's deputy governor said that while only about 0.1% of UK wealth was currently held as digital assets, that proportion was growing quickly.\n\nSir Jon Cunliffe told the BBC that if the value of cryptocurrencies fell sharply, it could have a knock-on effect.\n\nMeanwhile, the US is moving to craft regulations amid rising concern that the cryptocurrency industry is a haven for criminals.\n\nThe process of generating digital coins via banks of powerful computers, called mining, is also highly energy intensive. Recent research suggests Bitcoin now generates carbon emissions comparable to the country of Greece.\n\nMr Glen admitted there were concerns about the environmental impact and said the government \"will be looking closely at energy usage associated with certain crypto-technologies\".\n\nYou can hear more from Curtis Ting's interview on BBC Radio 4's Money Box podcast by clicking here.", "Police in Bucha examine a body unearthed in a field. At least 500 dead have been found since the Russians left.\n\nWhen the Russians retreated from Bucha, a massive operation began to find and document the dead. BBC News joined the local police officers and bereaved families as they carried out their grim task.\n\nPolice Chief Vitaliy Lobas was sitting at a child's desk in an abandoned school in Bucha, collecting the details of the bodies.\n\nEvery few minutes, Chief Lobas, who has broad shoulders and short dark hair, and rarely uses an unnecessary word, received a call on his mobile phone, and the brief conversations went the same: a location, a few details, a phone number of a relative or friend.\n\nBefore the Russians came, Lobas was an ordinary local police chief, the head of Buchanksy District 1, who spent his days dealing with ordinary local crime and the occasional murder. Since the liberation of Bucha, he has spent his days in this abandoned school classroom, where school posters still hang on the walls, coordinating the massive operation to find the dead.\n\nIn front of Lobas on the school desk there was a map of Bucha, a once peaceful and little-known suburb of Kyiv that is now a sprawling crime scene. The area was occupied by Russian forces for a month as they attempted to assault Kyiv, and its liberation a little over a week ago has begun a slow and painful process of uncovering horrors.\n\nEach time the phone rang, Lobas consulted the map in front of him, and on a plain piece of paper he wrote down the necessary information in neat handwriting, one line per body. By mid-morning, he had filled one side of A4 and moved on to the reverse. The previous day there had been 64 bodies, he said. The day before, 37. He did not know how many there would be that day, but he was expecting the number to jump by around 40 because a mass grave was being dug up nearby. Lobas is only in charge of one part of this region, and many more bodies are being found outside his jurisdiction.\n\nVitaliy Lobas, the head of Buchansky District 1 police department, takes a call in his command post in a school classroom.\n\nLobas paused occasionally to go to the school playground for a cigarette, but even these moments were interrupted by calls about bodies or problems relating to the collection of bodies. It was raining in Bucha, and one of the vans that ferried corpses to the morgue had become stuck in the mud. A tractor needed to be found quickly, because there was a limited number of vans and a large number of bodies. Lobas generally delegates the field work to his deputies, but in cases of particularly grave crimes he goes himself.\n\n\"When people have been shot in the head with their hands tied behind their back, for example, I will go,\" he said.\n\n\"When the bodies have been burned I also go.\"\n\nAbout mid-morning, a call came in from Dmytro Kushnir, a 24-year-old police deputy in one of Lobas's units, to log a body that had been reported behind an apartment building on the outskirts of Bucha.\n\nWhen Kushnir arrived at the building, which stood alone on an otherwise undeveloped green area on the edge of woodland, he found two men behind the building at the place where the property line met the woods. They were wearing blue surgical gloves and standing over the partially decomposed body of a man who appeared to have been shot in the back of the head. The body lay on a stained white duvet decorated with red flowers and was surrounded by empty bottles of beer and spirits. The blue surgical gloves initially gave the men the appearance of medical officials, but they introduced themselves as Volodymyr and Serhiy Brezhnev, the dead man's father and brother. Lying on the blanket was Vitaliy Brezhnev, a 30-year-old former cook who, until the Russians arrived, lived a peaceful life with his girlfriend on the sixth floor of the apartment building that now towered over his corpse.\n\nSerhiy Brezhnev stands over his brother's body. \"He was a kind-hearted man, he gave his all,\" Serhiy said.\n\nA passport picture of Vitaliy that Serhiy carried while he searched for his brother\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy had lost contact with Vitaliy a month earlier, when the Russians seized control of Bucha and communications went down. It was impossible to enter the suburb to check his building, so they searched for him for a month online, scouring social media in vain for evidence that he was alive.\n\nWhen the Russians finally retreated, a little over a week ago, Serhiy got a call from Vitaliy's girlfriend and she told them the story. The Russians had assaulted the apartment building and blasted their way into every apartment with a shotgun, she said, demanding people handed over their SIM cards and keys. They interrogated her and Vitaliy in separate rooms, beat them, and shot their dog, she said. Then they took her down to the basement with a group of other residents and bolted the door, but took Vitaliy away separately and told her she wouldn't see him again, and she didn't.\n\nAs soon as the Ukrainian army declared Bucha safe to re-enter, Volodymyr and Serhiy set out for the apartment building. Inside, they found blood smeared on the floor in the stairwells and personal photographs from people's apartments strewn around. On every door you could see the holes from the shotgun blasts - sometimes one, sometimes four or five. Doors with steel plates had been crowbarred. On one wooden door, where the lock hadn't given way to repeated shots, the Russian soldiers appeared to have become frustrated and blown a hole right through the middle of the door into the apartment. Behind another door, it was clear the homeowners had pushed a heavy table up against the frame in a failed attempt to keep the invaders out.\n\nEvery door in Vitaliy Brezhnev's apartment building had been blown open with a shotgun.\n\nWhen Volodymyr and Serhiy reached the sixth floor they saw that the shotgun had been used on the door of Apartment 83. A rank odour came from inside. The Russians had trashed the apartment and pried open the air vents and even the bathroom drain, looking for money, Serhiy guessed. When he entered Vitaliy's bedroom he suffered the first of several blows to his hopes of finding his brother alive. On the pillow there was a deep blood stain and blood was sprayed up the walls behind the bed. Among the mess on the floor there were two 7.62mm bullet casings - the calibre used by the Russian army in their rifles.\n\n\"You could see that a man had been killed here,\" Serhiy said. \"But there was no body.\"\n\nSo Volodymyr and Serhiy began to search for Vitaliy, knowing that their search was now probably for a body and not a son and brother they could hold again in their arms. Serhiy was carrying a passport photograph of Vitaliy. \"We searched and searched,\" he said, \"and at first we were looking for his face.\"\n\nWarning: Readers may find some of the following images distressing\n\nThe scene inside Vitaliy's bedroom. \"You could see a man had been killed here,\" Serhiy said.\n\nVitaliy Brezhnev's body was found behind his apartment, where the property line met the woods.\n\nBehind the building, next to the woods, they found what appeared to be a shallow grave, and they began to dig. It took time to exhume the remains there. First they saw a flower-patterned duvet they didn't recognise and their hearts found some hope. But when they brought the body up they saw that inside the duvet there was a curtain from Vitaliy's apartment. Then they saw the dead man's shoes and thought they recognised them. The light was fading by that point and they had to be home before curfew, so they covered the body with the sheet. Embers of hope remained.\n\n\"Today was the final touch,\" Serhiy said, the following day, looking down at the body. \"Today we took his shoes off and we saw his feet.\"\n\nBecause Vitaliy's feet had been inside socks and shoes they were better preserved than the rest of his body after a month in the earth.\n\n\"We saw the shape of his feet,\" Volodymyr said.\n\n\"Then we looked at the shape of the nose and the hands,\" Serhiy said. \"And we knew it was our bloodline.\"\n\nVolodymyr replaces the thin sheet that covered the body where it lay\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy waiting for the van that collects the bodies. Eventually they gave up.\n\nVolodymyr had purchased the small apartment in Bucha two years earlier - an investment in his son's future. Vitaliy had been a cook in a restaurant in Kyiv, until the pandemic hit and he was laid off. He did some work in construction and was looking for something more stable, but he had a girlfriend he loved and a dog, and now an apartment in a nice neighbourhood. He loved to fish and hunt, and forage for mushrooms in his spare time, and cook.\n\n\"He was living a peaceful life here,\" Serhiy said. \"He was a normal guy, that's all, a kind-hearted man. He gave his all.\"\n\n\"He was a son and a brother,\" Volodymyr said, trying to hold back his tears.\n\nAt the front of the apartment building, Officer Kushnir was filling out his police report. Volodymyr went to his car and took two small pieces of cardboard and wrote his name and phone number and Vitaliy's name and address on each. Then he asked some neighbours for clear tape to cover the ink, because the rain was beginning to fall harder on Bucha, and he went back to the body, without surgical gloves this time, to tie one piece of card to Vitaliy's ankle and one to his wrist.\n\n\"I do not want to lose my son,\" he said.\n\nOfficer Kushnir finished his report and called it in. Chief Lobas would arrange for the van that collected the bodies to stop by. Volodymyr and Serhiy took shelter from the rain and waited for the van to arrive.\n\nFamilies in Bucha attached tags to their loved ones or put passports in their pockets, so as not to lose them again.\n\nAs the day wore on, Chief Lobas's classroom command post got busier. Officers came and went, filing crime scene reports. The list on Lobas's desk got longer and his phone kept ringing.\n\nA dead woman had been found in a well next to a destroyed column of Russian tanks. There was a body on the ninth floor of an apartment building. A driver of one of the vans called to say he couldn't find the body he had been sent to collect. A woman came in to the classroom in person to report that her neighbour was dead. \"I understand everything,\" Lobas told her, keen to move on. \"We will try to collect him today.\" Lobas's father called. \"Dad, I am too busy,\" he said. \"Everything is OK.\"\n\nTwo of Bucha district's police departments had been destroyed in the Russian assault and Lobas was struggling for resources. There were not enough body bags. His team had also been whittled down over the preceding days to those who had shown themselves capable of withstanding this new work. \"Those who were weak went at the very beginning,\" he said. There was little room for sentiment amid the scale of the task.\n\nLobas received another call. \"Nine?\" he said. \"Where?\"\n\nThe call was coming from a unit in a neighbouring police department. Nine bodies were buried in a field nearby. Lobas hung up and dialled one of his mobile units. \"The team there is exhausted and they have no body bags left,\" he said. \"They have been collecting bodies all day. Please go and help them now. Find body bags and help them to pack the bodies.\"\n\nNine graves, dug by neighbours behind apartment buildings in Bucha.\n\nThe nine graves were laid out neatly in a row at the edge of the field, behind a corrugated fence at the end of a dirt track. The dead had been buried by their neighbours during the Russian occupation and now they were being exhumed by their neighbours, with the help of the police.\n\n\"Some of these people died because they could not get medicine and some were killed by Russians,\" said Gennadiy, a 45-year-old Ukrainian from one of the buildings by the field, who had helped to bury the the bodies and was doing the most work now to bring them up.\n\n\"These were our neighbours,\" Gennadiy said, a look of deep anger set in his face. \"Here is Uncle Tolya from the building next door and a neighbour of his. Here is another person I knew from the next building. This man has a bullet wound, we didn't know him but we found a passport on his body. This elderly woman had severe diabetes and we tried to take her out of Bucha but there was no green corridor, so she died. This man went for a walk with his dog and didn't come back. We are not pathologists but it looks like he was shot.\"\n\nGennadiy, a resident who buried his neighbours, helps to bring them up from their graves.\n\nThe work to remove the bodies was hard. They had been buried well in deep graves, and the rain was soaking into the mud and making it slippery. Gennadiy, in a green plastic rain cape, climbed into each grave, one after the other, and shovelled the earth from around the bodies so that thick straps could be tied around them to hoist them up.\n\nEach body had been wrapped in whatever was at hand - curtains, blankets of different colours and patterns. They were examined by the police and any obvious wounds photographed with an iPhone. Enough body bags had been found, and after a while the van arrived. In the dirt on its back doors, someone had scrawled '200' - the military identifier for the transport of the dead. The bodies were loaded inside. The sky was grey and the rain kept falling.\n\nAt Vitaliy's apartment building, Volodymyr and Serhiy had waited as long as they could for the van to arrive. It was getting dark and they needed to get home. Vitaliy's body would have to spend another night on the ground. They were too late now to make the 9pm curfew in Kyiv, but at the military checkpoints along the route they showed the death report and were waved through.\n\nAt sunrise the next morning, the father and son got up and began the drive back to Bucha. They could not wait for the van any longer, and they loaded Vitaliy's body into the back of their car and set out for a morgue in the town of Boyarka, about an hour's drive south.\n\nBefore the invasion, the staff at the Boyarka morgue were used to handling about three bodies a day, the vast majority of them deaths from natural causes. Since Bucha was liberated, they have been autopsying about 50 bodies a day, 80% of which were violent deaths, said Semen Petrovych, 39, who has been the forensic expert there for 16 years.\n\nThe Boyarka morgue used to receive three bodies a day. Now it is autopsying about 50.\n\nThe morgue, a small outbuilding at the back of a hospital on the edge of town, where Boyarka meets the forest, had just acquired two rented refrigerator trucks and both were full of bodies. Body bags lay on the floor by the trucks and against the fence nearby and either side of the entrance to the morgue.\n\n\"There are not enough staff and there is not enough room,\" said Petrovych, the forensic expert. \"Even if we had more people, where would we put the bodies?\"\n\nNormally he would do a careful autopsy on every body and print a death certificate. \"Now we just dissect them quickly and write something simple by hand,\" he said.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy were not alone in bringing a body themselves. Private cars pulled up to the morgue and bodies were brought out wrapped in blankets and rugs. Relatives and friends came searching. Tatiana Zhylenko was looking for the body of the father of a friend who was abroad. \"He had his passport on his chest,\" she told the staff. Oleksander Zakovorotnyi came for his father-in-law, who, when the Russians cut the gas supply in the depth of winter, rigged up a makeshift heater using a gas cylinder, but fell asleep and was poisoned when the flame went out.\n\nSerhiy Brezhnev helps carry Vitaliy's body bag out from the morgue, to await fingerprinting.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy waited outside until they were called in to identify Vitaliy. They stood inside the cramped, low-ceilinged morgue, where there were bodies on the floor and on every gurney and the smell was overpowering. They had to squeeze between two gurneys, beside an open corpse, to get close to Vitaliy's body, and they searched it for scars they could remember. They repeated to the pathologist that they thought they recognised his feet. Volodymyr looked away and looked back. He was wrestling with doubt and hope.\n\nAfterwards, he walked behind the refrigerator truck and stood alone sobbing, his chest heaving with his tears. Vitaliy was brought out, his body bag tagged number 552 - the 552nd body processed by this small morgue since the beginning of the year, nearly double the figure in a normal year, the extra hundreds all condensed into one week.\n\nThe police took fingerprints and told Volodymyr and Serhiy that the formal identification would take around a month, because of the backlog, but otherwise they were free to take him to the cemetery to be buried.\n\nThe line of body bags at the Bucha cemetery, waiting to be processed and buried.\n\nBecause Vitaliy was already identified, he was placed by his family straight into a casket.\n\nRather than wait for the body van, Volodymyr and Serhiy lifted Vitaliy carefully again into the back of their car and drove him the hour or so back to Bucha, past the rows of destroyed homes and places where bodies had laid in the streets for weeks. At the cemetery, which was already full, new graves were being dug outside the boundary fence on a thin strip of earth along the side of the road. A priest intoned the funeral rites over a coffin. The mother of the dead man wailed. In the near distance, past the line of the forest, enormous booms sounded as unexploded ordnance was detonated. Volodymyr and Serhiy drove into the cemetery and unloaded Vitaliy next to a long line of body bags arrayed on the ground.\n\nBecause Vitaliy had already been identified and would be buried here in Bucha, he was placed into a simple wooden casket with maroon fabric and afforded the small dignity of resting inside a brick building on the cemetery grounds. He would be buried in two days' time.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy left the cemetery and Volodymyr decided that, even though it was far from their home in Kyiv, he would buy a plot there for his wife Lily, Vitaliy's mother, who was suffering from end-stage cancer, so that when the time came she would be near to her son.\n\nTwo days later, on a bright, cold morning in Bucha, the family gathered at the cemetery. Once again, Volodymyr and Serhiy took the lead and went inside the brick building to prepare to carry the casket. Lily sat outside on a bench, smoking a cigarette, alone among the body bags. The casket was carried to a stone plinth and the family gathered around it while the priest read the funeral rites and two elderly women from the church held the incense burner and sang. Then Vitaliy was taken by the van marked 200 to one of the fresh graves along the roadside outside the cemetery and laid to rest. Volodymyr was still wrestling with doubt. \"I am still hoping that the fingerprints will show this was not my son,\" he said.\n\nThe family gathers for a small funeral service for Vitaliy\n\nVitaliy Brezhnev was buried on Monday 11 April, in a fresh grave by the road\n\nLater that day, back at the abandoned school in Bucha, Chief Lobas was sitting at his schooldesk, listening carefully to a man who had come in person to ask for help finding a relative he heard was in a mass grave. The man had been to the large mass grave by the church, he said, but they redirected him to the police. He wanted to give Chief Lobas a picture, but Lobas explained that this was not the way things were done. \"We cannot go around opening all the body bags holding this picture,\" he said. \"Do you understand? It will waste too much time.\"\n\nLobas explained that they had to begin burying the unidentified bodies because there was not enough space at the morgues. But he assured the man that fingerprints and photographs were being taken and would be kept. \"Even though the people themselves are buried the information remains,\" he said. \"The photographs remain.\"\n\nThe calls kept coming in - a body on Yablunska Street, another body next to a school. \"We have cleared these two addresses already, give us more to collect,\" Lobas said. He saw a window for a cigarette and went to the playground. The number of bodies each day was already beginning to fall, and he thought the job might be finished soon. \"There are no weekends here now, we will keep working until the collection of the bodies is complete,\" he said. He flicked his cigarette away. His phone was ringing.", "Joe Root has stepped down as England Test captain, citing the \"toll\" and \"impact\" the role has had on him.\n\nThe 31-year-old was appointed Sir Alastair Cook's successor in 2017, and holds the record for the highest number of matches and wins as captain.\n\nBut his last series as skipper ended in defeat by West Indies, the 10-wicket third Test loss stretching England's winless run to nine matches.\n\nRoot initially said he wanted to stay on but now says \"the timing is right\".\n\n\"It has been the most challenging decision I have had to make in my career - but having discussed this with my family and those closest to me, I know the timing is right,\" said Root, who has not stepped down as an England player.\n\n\"I am immensely proud to have captained my country and will look back on the past five years with enormous pride.\n\n\"It has been an honour to have done the job and to have been a custodian of what is the pinnacle of English cricket.\n\n\"I have loved leading my country, but recently it's hit home how much of a toll it has taken on me and the impact it has had on me away from the game.\"\n\nRoot's tally of 5,295 runs as captain is the most by any England captain, and he scored 14 centuries while holding the position.\n\nEngland's second-highest Test run scorer of all time, he led his country in a record 64 Tests and has overseen the most wins (27) but also the most defeats (26).\n\nHis notable series losses include two 4-0 Ashes defeats in Australia, in 2017-18 and 2021-22.\n\n\"I am excited to continue representing the Three Lions and producing performances that will enable the team to succeed,\" Root added.\n\n\"I look forward to helping the next captain, my team-mates and coaches in whatever way I can.\"\n\n'He has led by example'\n\nLast month's series defeat in the Caribbean followed England's 4-0 Ashes defeat at the hands of Australia and is their fourth series loss in a row - fifth if including the unfinished series against India, in which England trail 2-1.\n\nEngland have won one of their past 17 Tests, their worst run since the 1980s.\n\nThey are in the process of appointing a new managing director and men's head coach, following the departures of Ashley Giles and Chris Silverwood after the Ashes.\n\nIt had been expected a decision on Root's future would be made once those positions had been filled.\n\n\"Joe has been an exceptional role model during his tenure, balancing the demands of Test captaincy whilst continuing to shine brilliantly through his own personal performances,\" said England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief executive Tom Harrison.\n\n\"He has led by example, and that has resulted in more Test wins than any other England captain, alongside a number of famous series home and away victories.\n\n\"Joe's leadership qualities were exemplified by how he led the team through some of the most difficult and uncertain times we have known, playing during the pandemic all over the world, which speaks volumes for him as a leader and as a person.\n\n\"I know that every single person who has played or worked under Joe's captaincy will speak of his integrity and humility as a person, as much as his determination and example as a leader.\n\n\"Off the field, Joe has been no different. It has been a privilege and a huge pleasure to have worked with him in his capacity as our Test captain, and I know he'll continue to drive English cricket forward as a senior player, offering his wealth of experience and advice to support his successor.\"\n\nI think it's the right decision on all sorts of fronts. I think Root had run his course and there were plenty arguing for him to have gone after the Ashes, but they tried this red-ball reset - to try to move on in a new direction in the Caribbean - which went wrong.\n\nAnyone who had been there as I was on that last day in Grenada to see England collapse again and lose that match would have realised that it was time for change. It's not the captain's fault that England batted badly - they batted badly throughout his captaincy - it was just an indication to me that the team needed a new direction.\n\nI'm not surprised by this news. It is the right thing. I interviewed him after that game and he looked exhausted. There is so much more to this job than simply leading a team out on to the field. It's a massive job, a huge responsibility. No-one has done it longer, he's got a young family.\n\nHe's really had this job in his heart. Joe Root is a thoroughly good man and it is sad that he's gone but England captains are like prime ministers - you walk into the Downing Street waving and cheering and everyone is glad to see you, and you slip out the back afterwards in a rather unseemly exit. That's just how it works.\n\nYou don't really want to put these vast characters, match-winning people into these manacles that the captaincy gives you. Having said that, I don't see any other option than Ben Stokes. If you are going to bring someone in from outside, it has to be somebody who can be sure of keeping his place.\n\nYou need somebody, in my view, who is experienced and doesn't have to do it forever. There is a strong argument for a short-term captain, if it be Ben - but he's got an injured knee at the moment.\n\nStuart Broad and James Anderson are not stupid suggestions at all. Those two are vastly experienced. The problem is that they're aged bowlers who could fall in a heap, so then where are you? That's the issue about making one of them captain.\n\nPlus, they are both pretty angry that they were left out of that tour of the West Indies and that boil has to be lanced as well.\n\nIf you look at English cricket at the moment, they haven't got a chairman, there is talk all the time about the chief executive leaving (whether he is or not it is still extremely unsettling), there is no coach, managing director and now no captain. That is the reality of where English cricket at the moment.\n\nThey have won one match in the last 17. There is a hell of a lot to do.\n\n'He's done his absolute best' - reaction\n\nRoot's England team-mate Ben Stokes paid tribute to Root, thanking the Yorkshire batsman for having \"given everything\".\n\nFormer England assistant head coach Paul Farbrace told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I think Joe has made a sensible decision. Joe has carried not only the captaincy and the team but the batting as well on his broad shoulders for quite some time. I think he has made the right decision and I'm pleased that he has been able to make that decision.\n\n\"He is such a good team person and such a good person in that dressing room, he will have no problems getting on with his job because all he cares about is England cricket. He's not a bloke with a huge ego.\n\n\"There's been a lot of stick about him tactically but the most important thing with any captain is that you've got the dressing room behind you and he's definitely got that. We haven't got the quality in our Test match team at the moment.\n\n\"This isn't about Joe Root being a poor captain and why England haven't played well, we simply haven't got a team that is capable of challenging in the world at the moment but Joe has done his absolute best to help the team play the best they can. How he has maintained his form has been fantastic.\"\n\nFormer England captain David Gower told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"There's been so much talk about the possibility and it was always a question of whether Joe would make his own decision or if someone would make that decision for him.\n\n\"He's had time to think since the end of that West Indies tour about his role and, the stark fact is, under his leadership over the last 12-18 months, nothing much has gone right.\n\n\"At some stage you get to the point - and I remember this from all those years ago - where you realise that whatever you say or do, it's not going to inspire a team any more. You end up saying the same thing, you end up repeating the same. Even if you have new personnel, the atmosphere remains the same.\n\n\"A lot of people, including me, had decided it was time for a new voice.\"\n\nDarren Gough, Yorkshire's interim director of cricket, said: \"I was surprised by the criticism. I think you have to look deeper than that. With everything that has been going on in English cricket, I don't think you can blame the captain.\n\n\"He's had a lot of criticism. I think what probably hurt him - it's come from a lot of guys who played the game and captained England as well, some of his closest mates. Unfortunately, we're always looking for someone to blame.\n\n\"Rather than criticise, you have to look at 27 Test wins. And the pressure he was under with the team he's got around him, to still keep scoring hundreds in that period tells me that he's got a strong character and he's a great player.\"\n• None Specs Gonzales dives into the multiverse to put things right on the timeline\n• None Who is the greatest Premier League player never to have lifted the trophy?", "Unite workers went on strike in a dispute over pay last month\n\nStormont's Department of Education has said it is extremely concerned that some pupils will be unable to attend school due to upcoming strike action.\n\nMembers of the Unite union are planning to strike for almost two weeks after the Easter break.\n\nThe Education Authority has been notified of action from 26 April to 1 May and from 3 May to 8 May.\n\nThe strike is expected to disrupt school transport, meal services and the availability of classroom assistants.\n\nThe department has written a letter to schools outlining its response, including that most schools should stay open and provide face-to-face teaching during the strike.\n\nIt also said it believes the vast majority of parents will be able to put in place alternative transport so pupils can attend.\n\nHowever, it added that not all pupils may be able to get to school, \"including some of our most vulnerable children and young people\".\n\n\"We would, therefore, strongly encourage schools wherever possible to provide remote learning materials to individual pupils unable to access school due to transport disruption,\" it said.\n\nThe department added that it understands special schools are likely to face \"unique challenges during this period given the level of classroom assistants within school and the high level of transport provision engaged for their pupils\".\n\n\"We appreciate that for some special schools, a move towards remote learning for individual pupils, classes and schools will have to be considered on a localised basis.\"\n\nStrikes at Translink from Monday 25 April could also cause significant disruption\n\nThe letter stresses however that \"it is extremely important that we maximise face-to-face teaching for pupils\".\n\nMembers of Unite were previously on strike in March over a local government pay offer of 1.75%.\n\nThe cost of living has been surging due to rising fuel, energy and food costs.\n\nPreviously, one special school - Glenveagh in Belfast - could not offer face-to-face teaching to pupils as almost all of its classroom assistants were on strike.\n\nIt is not yet clear if the school will be able to open for pupils to attend after Easter.\n\nSpecial schools are particularly affected by the unavailability of Education Authority transport as they rely heavily on the so-called \"yellow buses\".\n\nThe Education Authority said they would \"request exemptions for special school classroom assistant staff, and for drivers transporting pupils to special schools,\" but these have not previously been agreed by Unite.\n\nIt also said that a strike at Translink by the Unite and GMB unions due to take place from Monday, 25 April would also cause significant disruption to school transport.\n\nOne school principal in County Fermanagh predicted that the lack of transport would cause the most problems for his students.\n\nPrincipal Gary Kelly said the strike was happening very close to GCSE and A-Level exams\n\n\"Around 70% of our pupils travel to school by buses, mainly Education Authority buses and if they're not going to be on on the 25th of April that's going to cause significant disruption,\" said Gary Kelly, principal of St Kevin's College in Lisnaskea.\n\n\"There's two choices, I suppose, for parents - they transport the child into school themselves, or the child doesn't come to school.\"\n\nMr Kelly told the BBCs' Good Morning Ulster programme that although schools could organise remote lessons for pupils who had no means of getting to class,\"online learning is not the same as face-to-face learning\".\n\nThe headmaster said the industrial action was happening \"at a bad time\" as students are due to take their GCSE and A-Level exams in just four weeks' time.\n\nHe pointed out that this meant more upheaval for many pupils who have already faced years of disruption to their education because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, Mr Kelly said: \"Our bus drivers and our classroom assistants are very valuable members of our school and we do respect them and we do think they are paid a very low wage and we think they deserve a pay rise, there's no question about that.\"\n\nHe told the programme that they were among many low-paid workers who were struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and he called on politicians to take action.\n\n\"We need to solve this really, really quickly or else children's futures are going to be seriously damaged.\"", "Joel Robinson's mother said he was a \"warm young man\" and a \"gifted horseman\"\n\nThe case of a soldier who took his own life just over three years ago shows the Army is still failing to deal with serious bullying complaints in its ranks, says a lawyer who specialises in military justice.\n\nLance Corporal Joel Robinson was serving in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment when he was found hanged in a common room at Combermere Barracks in Windsor on 25 March 2019.\n\nAround seven months earlier, the 24-year-old had made a formal complaint that he was being bullied and victimised, \"leaving him lonely and depressed\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said it has no record of his complaint.\n\nBut Angela Robinson told the BBC her son also sent her a copy, which she was able to show at his inquest in November.\n\n\"I was assured by the Army in the immediate aftermath of his death that there was no record of any bullying - this was fundamentally untrue,\" Mrs Robinson said.\n\nLawyer Emma Norton, director of the Centre for Military Justice, said: \"Joel's experience is sadly not isolated and is reflected in a lot of our casework.\n\n\"While the Army likes to state publicly that it welcomes complaints, the reality is a far cry from that and complainants are all too often seen as trouble-makers, or the cause of their own problems, and treated with a lack of sympathy and respect.\n\n\"That is why there have been repeated calls for the handling of these kinds of serious complaints to be taken away from the services themselves and handled by a central MoD authority.\"\n\nL/Cpl Robinson (not pictured) served with the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment\n\nThe service complaints system was introduced in 2006 and can be used by current or former members of the armed forces who feel they have been wronged at some point during their service.\n\nAccording to the most recent official figures, there were 198 service complaints concerning bullying, harassment or discrimination in 2020.\n\nThe Service Complaints Ombudsman said the Army has the highest rates for bullying, harassment or discrimination complaints.\n\nIt added that only one in nine (12%) personnel who experience such behaviour make a complaint.\n\nMrs Robinson believes her son's complaint was swept under the carpet, and also led to him being continually overlooked for promotion, putting more pressure on his mental health.\n\nShe said: \"Because he sent it to me, I was able to make sure the coroner saw it but if we hadn't done that, no-one would have ever known he had complained of serious bullying in the months before he died.\n\n\"I think that if his complaint had been dealt with properly, things might have turned out differently for my son.\"\n\nThe Army has the highest rates for bullying, harassment or discrimination complaints among the UK armed forces, according to official figures\n\nDuring the inquest into L/Cpl Robinson's death, senior officers gave evidence that they had seen his letter of complaint and taken steps to deal with the matter informally.\n\nHowever, in its subsequent response to recommendations made by senior coroner Heidi Connor, the Army reiterated that it had no record of his complaint.\n\nWhen approached by the BBC for clarification, the MoD declined to comment further.\n\nMs Norton said: \"It's disappointing that the MoD continues to claim that it had no record of Joel making a complaint.\n\n\"Senior Army witnesses at his inquest gave evidence that they knew about his complaint of bullying, saw a copy of it, shared it and discussed it, accepting that it was a formal complaint.\"\n\nRuling L/Cpl Robinson's death a suicide, Mrs Connor did not conclude the Army's handling of his complaint caused his death.\n\nBut she said: \"It appears that those involved in the complaint that Joel raised were wholly or mostly unaware of the appropriate procedure.\"\n\nShe added that her impression was that the Army had not gone \"much further than acknowledging\" the problem of suicide in its ranks, stating: \"The evidence is clear, there is more suicide within the Army than other armed forces.\"\n\nAccording to the latest official figures, the deaths of seven armed forces personnel in 2021 were found to be suicide by a coroner.\n\nAn additional 22 deaths last year may also result in a suicide verdict once coroner inquests are held, the MoD said.\n\nIn total, 285 suicides were recorded among UK regular armed forces personnel between 2002 and 2021 - 264 men and 21 women.\n\nEmma Norton is the director of the Centre for Military Justice\n\nIn response to Mrs Connor's report, the MoD acknowledged there have been delays in addressing suicide prevention.\n\nBut it said it is now a \"priority health theme for defence\" and promised a detailed suicide prevention plan would be produced by this summer.\n\nAnother soldier, who wished to remain anonymous, told the BBC how she also experienced bullying and isolation after making a service complaint.\n\nShe said: \"I have been through the military's service complaints process, which started when I tried to raise a complaint about sexism in my chain of command.\n\n\"After making my complaint, I found myself the subject of all sorts of unfair criticisms - criticisms that had never been made against me before - and I was bullied by my chain of command and became increasingly isolated.\n\n\"At times I can say that I have felt utterly alone and desperate and have had some really dark thoughts of self-harm or even suicide.\n\n\"It's really hard to convey to people outside the armed forces just what it can be like. It felt like everywhere I turned there was no help. Without help, in desperation people can do terrible things.\"\n\nIn 2019, the MoD commissioned Air Chief Marshall Wigston to carry out an independent review of the prevalence of inappropriate behaviours in the armed forces.\n\nIt recommended that complex bullying and harassment complaints should be taken out of the chain of command and single services, dealt with instead by a central defence authority.\n\nBut Ms Norton said this plan \"appears to have been quietly shelved\".\n\n\"Despite initially saying it would accept that recommendation, the MoD later rolled back and rejected it, choosing instead to allow the services to keep marking their own homework,\" she said.\n\nShe continued: \"As we saw in Joel's case, not only did none of the senior officers he approached for help know about how to deal with a service complaint, but it was quite clear they were not interested in getting to the bottom of the serious bullying allegations he had made.\n\n\"Joel made clear to his mum he had felt under pressure to withdraw it and that if he stuck with it, it would adversely affect his career.\"\n\nAt the conclusion of L/Cpl Robinson's inquest, the coroner issued a report to prevent future deaths.\n\nIn response the MoD said: \"The concerns surrounding L/Cpl Robinson's access to support outside the direct chain of command is a known and acknowledged risk.\n\n\"We seek to continually enhance support to our soldiers and families through chaplaincy, charitable and external providers and our regimental associations.\"\n\nIt said that \"awareness of the SC [service complaint] procedures throughout the Army has significantly improved\".\n\n\"Since L/Cpl Robinson's death, a significant amount of work has gone into improving the mental health resilience and risk identification training we provide to those who serve,\" it added.\n\nBut Ms Norton said the Army had been \"misleading\" in its response to the coroner about its handling of service complaints.\n\nShe said: \"Despite saying awareness of the process has significantly improved since Joel died, the fact is that the last armed forces survey showed the vast majority of service personnel still knew nothing or only a little about it.\n\n\"The simple truth is that despite warm words from the MoD that complaints are to be encouraged as a change to learn and improve, that is not how they are seen on the ground.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "The endangered primates weigh just 40g and are 10cm tall\n\nAn extremely rare cotton-top tamarin monkey has been born at Chester Zoo.\n\nThe miniature species, weighing just 40g, is among the world's most endangered primates, with only about 2,000 left in the wild.\n\nZoo keeper Siobhan Ward said: \"It's a little too tiny and a bit early on to determine its gender at the moment.\"\n\nThe 10cm-tall creatures have a distinctive look with heads striped with white fur and are often found in the illegal wildlife trade.\n\nThe zoo said the species is predicted to decline by 80% over the next 20 years.\n\nNick Davis, the zoo's deputy curator of mammals, said their striking appearance \"tends to draw poachers\" and their wild habitats have been destroyed by commercial logging.\n\nOnly about 2,000 breeding animals remain in the wild\n\nHe continued: \"Their crest of hair raises up when then they get excited, or feel that they need to warn off danger, making them look bigger and more intimidating.\n\n\"It wasn't that long ago that these miniature primates were seen as quite a common species.\n\n\"So their dramatic demise over the last few years shows just how a species thought to be safe can change so rapidly.\"\n\nThe zoo said the animals were highly intelligent and can live for about 25 years but should never be kept as pets.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mayor of the port city of Odesa has told the BBC that one of the biggest threats in the Black Sea region has been taken away, after the Russian warship Moskva sank. The flagship carrier was destroyed after it suffered an explosion and fire.\n\nMayor Gennadiy Trukhanov told me: \"The Moskva cruiser had the most modern missile equipment. It was a big threat for us as it could have supported an attack by land if it happened here.”\n\nThe historic city of Odesa has Ukraine’s biggest seaport and has been living in fear of a full-scale invasion by Russia’s navy positioned offshore.\n\nA view of a barricaded street in Odesa on 18 March Image caption: A view of a barricaded street in Odesa on 18 March\n\nEven though the warship is now destroyed, Mr Trukhanov warned that the situation is still dangerous.\n\n“Unfortunately, the enemy has missiles - not only those that were on the Moskva cruiser but also on the land, in Crimea too. We can see it, as there were attacks in Ukraine last night. They were done from the territory of Crimea.”\n\nAnd there was another reminder of the threat from Russia. Rockets hit the coastal city of Mykolaiv to the east of Odesa. The army there told the BBC several civilians were killed or injured. There has been no comment from Moscow on the strike.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter, saying he is the right person to \"unlock\" the social media platform's \"extraordinary potential\".\n\nIn a surprise announcement, Mr Musk said he would pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, valuing it at about $40bn.\n\nIt recently emerged that Mr Musk was Twitter's biggest shareholder after he built up a large stake in the firm.\n\nHe said that if his offer was not accepted: \"I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder\".\n\nMr Musk also said that if the board of directors at Twitter chose to reject the offer, it would be \"utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote\".\n\n\"They own the company, not the board of directors,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nTwitter's share price rose jumped by 5.3% to $48.32 in early trading, before falling back to more than $46.20 later on.\n\nA filing with the US financial regulator appeared to show text and/or voice messages from Mr Musk to Twitter's board, showing that he had raised the idea at the weekend that the business should go private.\n\nMr Musk had been invited to join the board, but Twitter announced on Sunday he had decided against it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the messages published in the filing, Mr Musk said he was not \"playing the back-and-forth game\" and said of his offer: \"It's a high price and your shareholders will love it.\"\n\nHe said he would have to sell his shares if the deal did not go through.\n\n\"This is not a threat, it's simply not a good investment without the changes that need to be made,\" he added.\n\nVictoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor, said: \"This is a deeply hostile move from Elon Musk who has threatened to 'reconsider' his 9.2% stake in the company if his 100% acquisition offer is rejected.\"\n\nIn his filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Musk said he had invested in Twitter because \"I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.\n\n\"However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.\"\n\nHe added: \"Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.\"\n\nTwitter said its board \"will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the company and all Twitter stockholders\".\n\nMr Musk is the world's richest man, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of $273.6bn mostly due to his shareholding in electric vehicle maker Tesla. He also leads the aerospace firm SpaceX.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with head of TED, Chris Anderson, Elon Musk has not only laid out his vision for Twitter but revealed that he has a plan B if the Twitter board reject his offer.\n\nHe didn't go into details about what it was, saying simply that it was for \"another time\".\n\nThe interview was much anticipated among the TED audience which gathers in Vancouver every spring to hear a range of talks on technology, entertainment and design.\n\nMusk also revealed that his first job, if his offer is accepted, would be to open up the Twitter algorithm so that the decisions it makes can be seen by everyone. The code needs to go on a platform such as GitHub so that other programmers can see it and make suggestions rather like operating system Linux was built, he said.\n\nDan Ives, senior equity research analyst at Wedbush Securities, said Twitter will either be forced to accept Mr Musk's bid or find another buyer.\n\nHe said: \"There will be host of questions around financing, regulatory, balancing Musk's time (Tesla, SpaceX) in the coming days but based on this filing it is a now or never bid for Twitter to accept.\n\n\"Ultimately, we believe this soap opera will end with Musk owning Twitter.\"\n\nRumours have been swirling for weeks that Elon Musk was considering starting his own social network, but with the news he'd lifted his stake in Twitter to 9.2%, it seemed like he was scratching the itch by investing in one rather than building his own. Donald Trump's Truth Social platform's struggle for relevance and technical woes has proven that building a social network is perhaps not so easy.\n\nWhile some were shocked Mr Musk rejected a position on Twitter's board, seasoned watchers commented that accepting it would come with rules and conditions that might not be a good match for the world's richest man and his fondness for speaking his mind on the platform.\n\nThere's been considerable disquiet among staff at Twitter over the whole affair, with some employees taking to the platform to vent their frustration and concerns about controversial statements Mr Musk has made in the past.\n\nIf Mr Musk's takeover is successful, we'll likely find out how he intends to run the company courtesy of one of his many tweets.\n\nTwitter had offered Mr Musk a seat on its board after it emerged that he held a 9.2% stake in the company.\n\nThe role was set to become effective last weekend but then Mr Musk decided against taking it.\n\nOn Monday, Twitter's chief executive Parag Agrawal had tweeted that he thought the decision by Mr Musk not take a seat on the board was \"for the best\".\n\nHe added: \"We have and will always value input from our shareholders whether they are on our board or not. Elon is our biggest shareholder and we will remain open to his input.\"\n\nThough he also warned staff: \"There will be distractions ahead.\"\n\nAfter that announcement, Mr Musk posted a cryptic tweet of smiling emoji with its hand over its mouth.\n\nMr Musk has already given a hint of the things he would like to change at Twitter.\n\nHe has suggested changes to the Twitter Blue premium subscription service, which was launched last year in Canada and Australia, including slashing the price, banning advertising and giving users the option of paying the monthly fee with the cryptocurrency, dogecoin.\n\nMr Musk also asked his 81 million followers on Twitter whether the company is \"dying\" and if its headquarters should be turned into a homeless shelter.", "The soldiers at the checkpoint scrutinised our passports, then waved us on. We were inside the grounds of the building that was being used as the headquarters of the resistance against Russia's invasion.\n\nBarbed wire, mines and machine gun mounts ring the building. Heavily armed soldiers were everywhere - the person I was about to meet is a marked man.\n\nThe Kremlin would love to see Volodymyr Zelensky dead and his government replaced with a puppet regime installed by Moscow. But over the 50 days of this war, Ukrainian resistance has stunned the world.\n\nWe passed our equipment through two sets of metal detectors and were ushered inside. Then it was down a series of long corridors, with sandbags piled up every few yards. A little hole was left in the pile near the top, through which the muzzle of an assault rifle might fit.\n\nAn aide to the President led us to a door with a brass plate on it: the words read The Situation Room, in Ukrainian. Inside, the room looks modern, with giant plasma screens covering the walls and trendy office chairs on wheels sporting ergonomic backrests.\n\nBut there was a problem. Interviewing people sitting on chairs with wheels can be tricky. Lost in their responses to questions, they tend to shift from side to side on the wheels.\n\nSo we asked the president's aide for chairs with no wheels. \"Umm,\" he says, \"I'll have a look.\"\n\nHe left the Situation Room and returned with two rather old-fashioned-looking chairs, all brown wood with patterned seats. \"That'll do the trick,\" I say. But I could see the president's chief of staff's lip curl.\n\n\"No, that won't do,\" he said. \"The chair looks too old-fashioned in this room of modern computers and plasma screens. We're trying to project a modern image here.\" And with that, two more modern-looking chairs were produced - with no wheels.\n\nThe discussion over the chairs highlighted so much for me about modern Ukraine. Since the end of the Cold War, a vibrant, young population has looked West for its influences. Cheap Ryanair flights to Western Europe opened up possibilities. This administration wanted us to know that they were informal, different, ready to talk.\n\nI then heard several footsteps coming down the hall. Two soldiers entered the room and behind them was the president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nAs we greet, an aide handed him a phone. On it was a text message, from France. \"Is it Emmanuel?\" he asked the aide? \"Yes,\" came the reply.\n\n\"We have a connection and he calls me all the time,\" the president tells me. \"Do you mind if I give him a quick call?\"\n\n\"Absolutely,\" I say, surprised that he asked me whether or not he should call the president of France back straightaway or try him later.\n\nBut that's part of the measure of Volodymyr Zelensky, an affability and charm that comes so naturally.\n\nHowever, there were times over the next hour when I could tell he was angry and upset: when he recalled visiting the town of Bucha, about 25km (16 miles) north-west of central Kyiv, that Russian forces had occupied for several weeks. After they pulled out, a mass grave was discovered near a church and there were bodies lying in the street.\n\nI asked him if he believed Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. His response was that anyone connected with the Russian military, and their civilian masters, were war criminals.\n\n\"Given everything that's happened, would you be able to sit around a negotiating table with with these people and talk peace?\" I asked.\n\n\"The window of opportunity is receding,\" he replied, pointing to the atrocities in Bucha and Borodyanka as the main driver of that thought.\n\nMr Zelensky is, of course, a former comedian and actor. But during the hour I was with him, I saw a man mentally exhausted and in deep pain about the treatment of his people. A man who has been compared to Churchill and who many will remember for his leadership through the dark days of war.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US federal jury in Virginia has convicted an ex-British jihadist over his involvement with a notorious Islamic State terror cell.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh, 33, was linked to the abduction, torture and beheading of several IS hostages in Syria, including journalists and aid workers.\n\nOn Thursday, after an 11-day trial, he was found guilty of lethal hostage taking and conspiracy to commit murder.\n\nElsheikh was the highest profile IS fighter to stand trial in the US.\n\nHostages nicknamed the Sudanese-born Londoner and two other men the Beatles - after the rock band - because of their UK accents.\n\nThe group's actions are said to have resulted in the deaths of four American hostages: journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nThey are also blamed in the deaths of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nSome of the victims were beheaded, with their deaths filmed and broadcast on social media. The killings triggered outrage around the world.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\nElsheikh was the only one of the three militants to go on trial in the US, after Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty to his own charges last September and Mohammed Emwazi was killed in a 2015 drone strike in Syria. Aine Davis, an alleged fourth member, is currently imprisoned in Turkey.\n\nFour rows in the courtroom were permanently reserved for former hostages and their family members.\n\nIt was tense inside the courtroom when everybody got news of a verdict. The jury had been deliberating for five-and-a-half hours. David Haines' daughter Bethany was shaking as she sat down.\n\nWhen the guilty verdict came through, the families quietly sobbed, as did the former hostages. They held each other's hands.\n\nDiane Foley closed her eyes and sighed with relief. Steven Sotloff's father Art smiled and said: \"This is good.\" For them, it's been a long road to justice.\n\nElsheikh showed little emotion - which he has always done in the trial - as his fate was sealed.\n\nOver the course of the trial, several of them took the stand for the government, depicting the Beatles as a cohesive unit that revelled in brutality.\n\nWitnesses recounted receiving random beatings, being given dog names and being forced to sing a parody of the Eagles' pop song \"Hotel California\" retitled \"Hotel Osama\".\n\nFamilies also detailed their painstaking negotiations with the group, with Marsha Mueller telling the court how she and her husband had \"begged\" for their daughter Kayla's life in emails.\n\nLawyers for Elsheikh, meanwhile, claimed that he \"a simple Isis fighter\" who went to Syria alone on behalf of \"suffering Muslims\".\n\nCarl Mueller, father of late US aid worker Kayla Mueller, hugs her friend after a jury convicted El Shafee Elsheikh on terrorism charges\n\nOutside the courtroom, Diane Foley - whose son James was executed on camera, with the video widely distributed by IS - told the BBC she was feeling \"relief and a tremendous sense of gratitude that mercy and justice has prevailed\".\n\n\"This is a big day for accountability,\" she said. \"We will never stop hostage taking without accountability.\"\n\nMike Haines, whose brother David also died in the group's captivity, said Thursday's result marked the end of \"an eight-year chapter of pain\" for his family.\n\n\"This unanimous judgement is a triumph for society over ills like terrorism and helps differentiate us from the hateful, divisive ideologies that fuel these individuals,\" he said.\n\n\"It must also act as a warning to anyone else seduced by the false glamour of extremism.\"\n\nElsheikh's extradition to Virginia was part of a complex negotiation between the US and UK.\n\nAs part of the agreement, he will not face the death penalty - but his conviction on all eight charges means he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.\n\nHe will be sentenced in August but must also appear in court on 29 April for victim impact statements read during Kotey's sentencing.\n• None 'IS Beatle' stood out from the others, court hears", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived at the Invictus Games in the Netherlands, after stopping off to visit the Queen on their way.\n\nIt is the first time Prince Harry and Meghan have appeared in Europe in public together since stepping back as senior royals in 2020.\n\nThe pair visited Windsor Castle to see the monarch on their way to The Hague, from the US where they now live.\n\nPrince Harry founded the games to help injured military veterans.\n\nThis year's games start on Saturday and run until 22 April.\n\nThe couple, who have not been on this side of the Atlantic together since 2020, also saw Prince Charles while they were at Windsor Castle, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nOn their arrival at the games the couple, both wearing suits, walked towards a reception for friends and family of participants in warm sunshine at the Zuiderpark, where the games are being held.\n\nAt one point Meghan waved towards the press pen and the pair walked into the reception hand-in-hand.\n\nA film crew is joining the couple at the games as part of filming for a Netflix series called Heart Of Invictus.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan made their way to a reception for friends and family ahead of the opening of the Invictus Games\n\nThe couple spoke with dignitaries on the yellow carpet at the Invictus Games\n\nThe couple also greeted members of the Ukraine team who are participating at the games.\n\nThe Ukrainian team were cheered and applauded at the event and team manager Oksana Horbach said they had been given permission to travel to the Netherlands for the games by President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nMs Horbach, who works in the Ukraine Armed Forces supply chain in Kyiv, told the PA news agency she had spoken to the duchess about the importance of having a voice and \"she totally understood that\".\n\n\"Be heard, be vocal, have a voice, just tell your own truth, your experience. It's very important to her.\"\n\nShe added: \"And Prince Harry says that he totally supports Ukraine and he says that during the next day we will feel how much support there is to give by Invictus Games community and that he totally supports Ukrainian people in this fight.\"\n\nAs the Kaiser Chiefs belted out their hits, Meghan and Harry strolled down a wooden walkway, Meghan effortlessly navigating the cracks in her white stilettos, chatting to the crew.\n\nThere was a sombre moment, accompanied by universal applause, as Team Ukraine was invited into the \"Home Nations\" marquee for audience with the Sussexes.\n\nFour members of the Invictus community in Ukraine have died in combat or rocket attacks since the start of the Russian invasion.\n\nThe atmosphere inside the Invictus-commandeered public park in a southern suburb of The Hague is cosy and convivial, \"gezellig\" as the Dutch would say.\n\nPolice officers on bicycles wearing bulletproof vests patrol the periphery, fences have been erected around the canals to make sure visitors are protected from any ill-will that might exist beyond the daisy-clad grounds.\n\nThe Sussexes visit to see the Queen came after it was announced she was not expected to attend this year's Easter morning church service, having already pulled out of the Maundy Service on Thursday - for the first time since 1970.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch has mobility problems and has not appeared at several events recently, including the annual Commonwealth Service.\n\nLast month Prince Harry was absent from a memorial service for his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, in London but at the time a spokesperson said he hoped to visit his grandmother soon.\n\nThe visit to Europe comes as Prince Harry is bringing a court challenge against the UK government's decision to refuse police security during his visits from the US.\n\nHis lawyers previously said the UK would \"always be his home\" and it \"goes without saying that he does want to come back to see family and friends\".", "The UK has recorded the hottest day of the year so far on Good Friday as the sun came out at the start of the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThe temperature hit 23.4C (74.1F) in London's St James's Park, the Met Office said, beating the previous year high of 20.8C in March.\n\nOther areas also saw temperatures in the high teens, including in parts of northern England and Scotland.\n\nBut western parts of the UK were cooler due to cloud and rain.\n\nAt the start of the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, highs of 21-22C are expected in the south-east of England and 15-20C in many other areas, according to BBC Weather.\n\nHowever, it is some way off the 29.4C record for the month, set on 16 April 1949 at Camden Square in London. The UK's temperature record for Good Friday was 26.9C in 2011 - also in St James's Park.\n\nA man enjoys the sunshine from his beach hut on Bournemouth beach\n\nVisitors to Wanstead Park in north east London walk amongst this year's bluebells\n\nThe scene on Bournemouth beach as temperatures in the south-east of England are predicted to reach 22C\n\nIt comes as drivers were warned to expect delays on what was predicted to be the busiest day of the weekend for road travel.\n\nAn estimated 4.62 million car journeys were expected to be made across the UK on Good Friday, the RAC said.\n\nBluebells on the Goodwood Estate in Sussex flourishing in the balmy April temperatures\n\nA pair of pygmy goats sit on the roof of their house to take in the early morning rays\n\nThe sun burns through the early morning mist and rises on what is set to be a warm Easter weekend\n\nEarlier, pilgrims carried crosses to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in Northumberland during their annual Christian Easter pilgrimage\n\nApril average maximum temperatures range from 10C in northern Scotland to 13C in south-east England.\n\nLast April saw highs of 18-19C and, in 2020, 26C was recorded on 10 April in Treknow, Cornwall.\n\nThe warm weather is expected to last throughout the weekend in central and eastern parts of the UK before turning cooler on Monday, with highs of 10-14C for many, but still reaching 15-18C in the South and East, said BBC Weather's George Goodfellow.\n\nPretty pastel colours paint the dawn sky on a misty morning in the countryside\n\nA Eurasian blue tit basks in sun as it feeds on peanuts in the countryside", "Mr James could spend the rest of his life in prison following the subway attaack\n\nThe man accused of unleashing a barrage of gunfire on a subway train in New York City will be held without bail until trial on federal terror charges.\n\nFrank James, 62, appeared in court on Thursday, for allegedly violating a law barring \"terrorist attacks or other violence\" against mass transit systems.\n\nHe was apprehended following a huge manhunt for the lone suspect behind the attack, which injured 23 people.\n\nHe did not enter a plea. His lawyer requested a psychiatric report.\n\nIf convicted, he faces life behind bars.\n\nThe suspect \"committed a heinous and premeditated attack on ordinary New Yorkers during their morning subway commute\", said US Attorney Breon Pearce in a statement announcing the charges.\n\nPolice alleged the defendant donned a gas mask and threw two smoke grenades on the floor of a Manhattan-bound N train before opening fire around 08:30 (12:30 GMT) local time on Tuesday.\n\nHe is accused of shooting 10 people and injuring at least another 13.\n\nThe suspect escaped after the attack, police said, but left behind several incriminating personal items, including a key to a U-Haul van that he had rented, as well as a bank card with his name on it. There was also a Glock 9mm handgun legally purchased in Ohio under the name \"Frank Robert James\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe reportedly called police himself to report his whereabouts on Wednesday, US media said, citing sources in law enforcement.\n\nThe suspect, who had recent addresses in Philadelphia and Milwaukee, had nine previous arrests in New York and three in New Jersey, police said on Wednesday.\n\nNo details about his alleged motive have yet been provided.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, he published a variety of videos online making statements about the New York City subway system, occasionally addressing New York City Mayor Eric Adams as he complained about the \"homeless situation\" on subway cars.\n\nIn one video, prosecutors said, the accused said: \"And so the message to me is: I should have just gotten a gun, and started shooting.\"\n\nNYPD acknowledged in a statement on Thursday that the cameras were not working at three stations during the attack because of what the department described as a technical issue.\n\nBut it said claims that the lack of station footage had delayed the manhunt were \"unfair and misleading\".\n\nNYPD said that cameras in other parts of the subway system had helped track the suspect's movements.", "Wet Leg is the brainchild of Rhian Teasdale (left) and Hester Chambers\n\nThree independent artists - Wet Leg, Father John Misty and Jack White - have taken the top positions in the UK albums chart for the first time in more than 11 years.\n\nWet Leg, the much-hyped Isle of Wight indie duo, went in at number one on Friday with their eponymous debut.\n\nThey managed to outsell the rest of the top five combined in the process.\n\nRhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers' guitar band are the fourth non-major label act to top the chart this year.\n\n\"We just want to say thanks to all of our fans that have bought the record, and that means we can be number one,\" the band said in a statement to the Official Charts Company on Friday.\n\nFather John Misty's album, Chloe and the Next 21st Century - released by Bella Union - went in at number two this week, while Jack White's Fear Of The Dawn, put out on his own Third Man imprint, entered at number three.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOfficial Charts Company boss Martin Talbot said the \"indie treble\" underlined \"the independent sector's power in uncovering and developing talent\".\n\nMusic Week's chart analyst Alan Jones noted it was only the third time this century that indie records - albums by non major-labels or their subsidiaries - had occupied all of the top three places in the chart.\n\n\"The first time, in 2011, saw two albums from Adele (21 and 19) and one from The Strokes (Angles) shutting out the majors, and the second instance happened just six weeks later,\" he told the charts company.\n\nWet Leg's album, released on Domino Records, continues a fine run of form for the smaller labels of late.\n\nCentral Cee's best-selling LP 23, Stereophonics' Oochya! and Don Broco's Amazing Things have previously reached the summit.\n\nEarlier this week, the BPI - the recorded music trade body - announced a fourth consecutive year of growth for indie label market share.\n\nFrontwoman Teasdale has said she started the band as a joke\n\nAlong with the likes of PinkPantheress and Mimi Webb, Wet leg have been one of the most talked-about acts of the year, impressing judges on the BBC Sound of 2022 panel.\n\n\"We just started it as a joke,\" Teasdale told the BBC's Ian Youngs in January. \"And it's doing really well, and there's all this buzz and hype, which feels a bit strange.\"\n\nTheir first single, Chaise Longue, hit the sweet spot between being deeply cool and satisfyingly silly.\n\nInspired by Chambers' grandfather's furniture, it features a string of innuendos including a classic quote from 2004 film Mean Girls (\"Is your muffin buttered? Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?\").\n\nThat was followed up by Wet Dream, an equally enjoyable message to an ex-boyfriend, and their ear-wormy recent single, Angelica.", "Junctions 10a and 11 on the coastbound M20 in Kent reopened on Friday\n\nAbout 1,500 lorries are still queuing for the Port of Dover as the holding system for lorries heading to cross-Channel ports is scaled back.\n\nNational Highways said the threat of disruption to services has reduced,\n\nOperation Brock, where lorries heading to Dover queue on one side of the M20, was put in place last week.\n\nIt was brought in to deal with heavy congestion exacerbated by P&O Ferries routes being suspended.\n\nFerry firm DFDS has warned passengers are waiting for about two hours to get through border controls at Dover.\n\nThe Port of Dover says some of the delays for ferry passengers are due to a lack of staff at French passport control.\n\nJunctions 10a and 11 on the coastbound M20 reopened on Friday. with the section between Junctions 8 and 9 now also open to all traffic on the London-bound carriageway.\n\nNicky Potts of National Highways said: \"Scaling it back now is a sensible response to the changing outlook and restores capacity on the motorway in time for the weekend.\"\n\nA view of lorries using Operation Brock on the M20 near Ashford in Kent\n\nSeveral factors have caused delays at Kent ports in the past few weeks.\n\nBad weather, Easter holidays and P&O Ferries routes being suspended have all led to congestion around Dover, triggering Operation Brock.\n\nThere have also been problems with an IT system for custom checks at the UK's busiest port following Brexit.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum previously told the BBC the problems had created a \"perfect storm\", with traffic disruption around Dover the worst it has been since 2020.\n\nThe Dover Traffic Access Protocol (TAP) scheme, which queues port-bound lorries on the nearside of the A20 outside the town, was also implemented due to heavy lorry volumes.\n\nOperation Brock normally has the capacity for about 2,000 lorries, but it had been holding up to 4,000, according to the forum, which manages emergency planning for the county.\n\nUsually under Brock, lorries queue between junctions eight and nine of the M20 southbound, with the northbound carriageway operating as a contraflow.\n\nThis was extended to junction 11 to deal with the extra congestion.\n\nThe transport industry body Logistics UK raised concerns over drivers being stuck in queues without access to toilets, washing facilities, food and water under Operation Brock and called for it to be reviewed \"urgently\".\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum had said it was not possible to provide toilet facilities due to safety reasons.\n\nFood and water had been provided to drivers, it added.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There were queues on the A303 past Stonehenge in Wiltshire on Friday morning\n\nTravellers are facing traffic jams on some roads and disruption to trains as the Easter weekend gets under way.\n\nThere was heavy congestion on motorways near London and Kent on Friday, while holiday traffic to south west England led to jams near Bristol, the AA said.\n\nBut despite some hotspots, the RAC said vehicles on many of the country's major roads appeared to be running reasonably freely.\n\nIt comes as several major train routes are closed for engineering works.\n\nThe AA said there was a build up of traffic on the M25 as well as the M20 in Kent. There have also been jams on the M4 and M5 near Bristol.\n\nThe AA dealt with 6,000 breakdowns by 15:00 BST on Friday. Hot weather led to more vehicles overheating when stuck in traffic jams, it said.\n\nMeanwhile, there have been long queues at the Port of Dover, where P&O Ferries' services are still not running.\n\nEdmund King, the AA's president, said traffic was likely to remain busier than usual and would start picking up on Saturday morning with football traffic flooding from Liverpool and Manchester to Wembley as there are no direct trains.\n\n\"It would have saved a lot of congestion and CO2 if the FA Cup semi-final was held in the north rather than having both sets of fans driving hundreds of miles south and back. It looks like Saturday will be another busy day on the roads so drivers should be prepared,\" he continued.\n\nHe said there were traffic jams on the M20, while the M25 also suffered heavy congestion on the west side around Heathrow and the east near Dartford earlier.\n\nHe advised travellers to \"give yourselves extra time for the journey and build regular stops at least every two hours or so into your trip\".\n\nThe AA said traffic had eased during the afternoon, although hotspots remained on the south and south west coast.\n\nRod Dennis, from the RAC, said: \"While much of the country's major roads appear to be running reasonably freely at the moment, Easter getaway traffic is starting to build in certain spots and that is likely to continue through the day.\"\n\nThe RAC predicted Good Friday would be the busiest day of the bank holiday weekend, with an estimated 4.62 million journeys by car likely across the UK.\n\nAfter two years of relatively quiet Easter bank holidays on the roads because of Covid restrictions, it said drivers were planning about 21.5 million trips over the bank holiday - the highest figure since it started its driver surveys in 2014.\n\nMeanwhile, rail passengers are facing delays and cancellations, with Network Rail carrying out 530 engineering projects across the bank holiday weekend, costing a total of £83m.\n\nNo trains will run in or out of Euston station in London until the end of Monday on the West Coast main line, which is likely to disrupt football fans going to the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley.\n\nTrains to the West Midlands, north west England and parts of Scotland will instead start from Milton Keynes Central.\n\nThere will be also be no Southern services to and from London Victoria all weekend, nor any direct trains from London to Stansted Airport.\n\nAlternative services are expected to be busy and Network Rail has advised people to travel either side of the bank holiday.\n\nTravellers heading across the Channel faced long queues at Dover\n\nThere were long queues at the Port of Dover on Friday, with some travellers complaining they missed their ferries after waiting for hours.\n\nFerry company DFDS urged customers to allow three hours to complete border checks.\n\nIt said customers delayed by traffic at border control would be transferred to the first available departure.\n\nThe Port of Dover also advised customers to allow extra time for their journey, saying there were delays at French border controls prior to check-in.\n\nSome lorries were being forced to queue on the A20 outside Dover, as part of the Traffic Access Protocol (TAP) scheme, which is designed to limit congestion in the town.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nP&O Ferries' Dover-Calais services remain suspended, nearly a month after the company sacked about 800 workers without notice.\n\nTwo of the company's ferries which normally serve the route are still detained after they failed safety inspections.\n\nBad weather, the Easter holidays and problems with an IT system for customs checks following Brexit have also contributed to congestion around Dover in recent days.\n\nThis has led to long queues for lorries crossing the Channel.\n\nOperation Brock, which sees lorries heading to Dover queue on one side of the M20, was put in place last week to help manage the traffic.\n\nHowever, National Highways said it had now been scaled back as the threat of disruption had reduced.\n\nHas there been any disruption to your travel plans? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Russia says it targeted the Vizar military factory near Kyiv with missiles overnight\n\nMoscow says it will respond to any Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory by striking Kyiv with more missiles.\n\nThe \"number and scale\" of attacks will go up if its own settlements become targets, the ministry said.\n\nThe warning came as Russia announced a missile strike on a military factory near Kyiv, which it claimed was in response to a Ukrainian helicopter attack on a Russian village.\n\nUkraine denies it carried out the attack.\n\n\"Tonight, sea-based high precision long-range \"Kalibr\" missiles hit a military facility in the outskirts of Kyiv,\" Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.\n\nThe strike targeted Ukraine's Vizar military facility that was producing and repairing anti-aircraft and anti-ship missile systems, Mr Konashenkov added, warning that Russia would intensify missile attacks on Kyiv if Ukraine continued what he described as attacks on Russian land.\n\nHe said: \"The number and scale of missile strikes against objects in Kyiv will increase in response to the commission of any attacks of a terrorist nature or sabotage on Russian territory by the Kyiv nationalist regime.\"\n\nAndrei Sizov, a 47-year-old owner of a wood workshop near the factory, told the AFP news agency that the blasts came overnight.\n\n\"Around 1:30am, my security guard called me because there was an air strike,\" he said.\n\n\"There were five hits. My employee was in the office and got thrown off his feet by the blast.\"\n\nHe also said he believed Russia was taking revenge for the sinking of the Moskva warship, which Ukraine claims it hit with Neptune missiles.\n\nWorkers clear through rubble following a Russian missile strike on the Vizar military factory near Kyiv\n\nOn Thursday Russian officials accused Ukraine of sending two helicopters 10km (6 miles) into Russia's Bryansk region, bombing a residential building in the village of Klimovo and injuring eight people.\n\nKyiv denies the attack and accused Russia of staging the incident to stir up \"anti-Ukrainian hysteria\".\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the claims.\n\nRussian forces started withdrawing in March from around the Ukrainian capital to focus on Russian efforts to seize eastern parts of the country, but Kyiv remains vulnerable to missile strikes.\n\nIn its statement the Russian defence ministry made no mention of the sinking of its Black Sea naval flagship overnight.\n\nThe military factory targeted in the strike produced anti-ship missiles, including some similar to the Neptune ones that Ukraine claims to have used to attack and sink the Moskva vessel.\n\nThe Russian account of the warship's sinking differs. Moscow defence officials claim an unexplained fire onboard caused ammunition to explode, ultimately causing the Moskva to \"lose its balance\" as it was being towed to port.\n\nIt is still not independently confirmed how the heavily-defended Black Sea flagship sank.\n• None Sunken Russian warship: What we know\n• None The battle for control of Ukraine's skies", "One clip shows a policeman in a hazmat suit removing a protester from the scene\n\nVideo has emerged of clashes between police and people being forced out of their homes in Shanghai, as the city enters a third week of Covid lockdown.\n\nSome residential compounds are being turned into quarantine centres.\n\nMillions are confined to their homes as Shanghai battles a fresh outbreak of the virus. Anyone who tests positive is placed in quarantine.\n\nBut with more than 20,000 new cases a day, authorities are struggling to find enough space.\n\nThe city in recent weeks has converted exhibition halls and schools into quarantine centres, and set up makeshift hospitals.\n\nThe low numbers of serious cases in Shanghai have led some to ask whether a lockdown is necessary, correspondents say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn recent weeks many residents have taken to social media to complain about the restrictions and the lack of food supplies.\n\nPeople have to order in food and water and wait for government drop-offs of vegetables, meat and eggs, and analysts say many are running low on supplies.\n\nThe lockdown extension has overwhelmed delivery services, grocery shop websites and even the distribution of government supplies.\n\nThree weeks into lockdown, some here in Shanghai are angry.\n\nHead to toe in protective suits in an eastern district of the city, officers were forcing people out of their rented apartments so they could turn them into temporary quarantine facilities, all in the name of a war against a resurgent Covid.\n\nBut for some it was just too much, their homes sequestered, their desperation easy for all to hear.\n\nA few miles away, there was an organised protest, a bold stand as the lockdown takes hold in a country where you can be arrested for picking quarrels.\n\nThey're angry about a local school being turned into another quarantine facility. Police with riot shields forced them off the streets in the end.\n\nThis was on a small scale but it's a sign of anger and frustration as this lockdown goes on.\n\nMeanwhile the Chinese government has sent teams to the city to help more than 660 companies in key sectors of the economy such as semiconductor and car manufacturing to resume production, reports state media.\n\nThe Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday they would ensure the supply of medical goods and the smooth flow of supply chains.\n\nThe move follows reports that parts of China's manufacturing sector might soon have to close, at least temporarily, because companies cannot get essential components from Shanghai.\n\nHe Xiaopeng, president of electrical vehicle manufacturer XPeng, said that if work did not start again in Shanghai during May, potentially all car factories across the country might have to stop operating.\n\nChina is one of the last remaining nations still committed to eradicating Covid, in contrast to most of the world which is trying to live with the virus.\n\nBut this zero-Covid policy has come under strain in recent weeks with the spread of the Omicron variant.", "Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's former couples therapist said the pair engaged in \"mutual abuse\" during the final months of their stormy marriage.\n\nVideo testimony by Dr Laurel Anderson was played for jurors on the third day of the $50m (£38m) defamation trial in Virginia.\n\nMr Depp has sued his ex-wife over a story she wrote in which she described herself as a victim of domestic violence. He denies any abuse.\n\nIn testimony recorded in February and played for jurors on Thursday, Ms Anderson said she had seen the famous couple for several therapy sessions between October and December 2015. Ms Heard filed for divorce in May 2016 after just 15 months of marriage.\n\nThe psychotherapist described a volatile dynamic between Mr Depp and Ms Heard, with both threatening to walk out of sessions amid arguments.\n\nIn sessions without Mr Depp present, Ms Anderson said, Ms Heard reported physical assault at the hands of her then-husband. On one occasion Ms Heard came to her office with several small bruises on her face, she testified.\n\nOn more than one occasion Ms Heard initiated violent interactions in an effort to prevent Mr Depp from leaving, Ms Anderson said.\n\n\"It was a point of pride to her, if she felt disrespected, to initiate a fight,\" Ms Anderson told jurors. \"If he was going to leave her to de-escalate from the fight, she would strike him to keep him there, she would rather be in a fight than have him leave.\"\n\nMs Anderson said that Mr Depp was often interrupted by Ms Heard during the therapy sessions.\n\n\"Ms Heard had a jackhammer style of talking,\" the clinical psychologist said. \"She was very amped up. He had trouble talking at a similar pace. He was cut off a lot.\"\n\nMs Anderson testified to both Ms Heard and Mr Depp's family history of domestic violence. Ms Heard was beaten by her father, she said, and Mr Depp was beaten by his mother.\n\nMr Depp had been \"well controlled\" for decades before meeting Ms Heard, Ms Anderson said, and did not engage in violence with past partners. \"With Ms Heard, he was triggered. They engaged in what I saw as mutual abuse.\"\n\nAt issue in the trial is Ms Heard's 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post, describing herself as a \"public figure representing domestic abuse\". Mr Depp says the article - which does not mention him by name - is defamatory and derailed his career.\n\nJurors have so far been presented with duelling accounts of Depp and Heard's relationship.\n\nMs Heard's team has portrayed Mr Depp as a physically and sexually abusive partner prone to drug and alcohol binges.\n\nMr Depp's team has presented Ms Heard's claims of domestic violence as a \"hoax\" and a calculated strategy to ruin his reputation.\n\nAlso on Thursday, a former personal assistant to Ms Heard, Kate James, testified about what allegedly happened when she asked her then-boss for a salary increase.\n\nMs James said: \"She [Ms Heard] leapt up out of her chair, put her face approximately four inches from my face. She was spitting in my face, telling me how dare you ask me for the salary you're asking for.\"\n\nThe trial, expected to last at least six weeks, is being broadcast live and will involve a number of high-profile witnesses, including James Franco, Paul Bettany and Elon Musk.", "Activists climbed on to the top of oil tankers at a fuel terminal in Grays, Essex\n\nPolice have arrested 40 more people after climate change protests at three oil terminals.\n\nEssex Police said 28 were detained at the Navigator depot in Thurrock and the Grays oil terminal.\n\nWarwickshire Police confirmed another 12 arrests at the Kingsbury depot near Tamworth.\n\nPeople in orange hi-vis jackets were seen on top of oil tankers, holding \"Just Stop Oil\" signs, a group affiliated with Extinction Rebellion.\n\nThey have been demanding that the government stop new oil and gas projects.\n\nProtesters from Just Stop Oil have been demonstrating in Kingsbury since April (archive image)\n\nDemonstrators have been trying to obstruct the entrance at the site near Tamworth since 1 April and up to 29 were arrested after a protest there last weekend.\n\nWarwickshire Police said: \"Officers remain at Kingsbury Oil Terminal today and are currently dealing with protest activity after a number of protesters arrived overnight.\n\n\"While we will always recognise and respect the public's right to peaceful protest we will take action against anyone who breaks the law or causes significant impact on the community.\"\n\nEssex Police confirmed the total number of arrests to date stood at 454 and that officers remained in Thurrock where a small number of protestors remained.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Glen Pavelin said: \"Our dedicated officers will continue to work across the weekend to keep Essex moving, keep people safe and minimise disruption to the public.\n\n\"As demonstrated this week, if you come to Essex and engage in disruptive and dangerous protest, we will arrest you.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Further 29 arrests at oil depot during protests\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWest Ham United will face Eintracht Frankfurt for a place in the Europa League final after the Hammers secured their first European semi-final in 46 years with a stunning second-leg victory in Lyon.\n\nHaving held on for a 1-1 first-leg draw in London after playing the entire second half with 10 men, David Moyes' players withstood periods of intense early pressure before sweeping their Ligue 1 opposition aside.\n\nThe visitors struck twice in seven minutes at the end of the first half, as Craig Dawson met Pablo Fornals' corner with a superb near-post header before a deflected Declan Rice strike put the Premier League club in total charge.\n\nJarrod Bowen extended the advantage within three minutes of the restart, slotting in at the end of a sweeping counter-attack, and a deflated Lyon could offer no response as West Ham comfortably saw out a memorable win.\n\nThe statement victory set up the biggest match in the club's recent history, against Bundesliga side Frankfurt, who upset Spanish giants Barcelona 3-2 at the Nou Camp to win 4-3 on aggregate.\n• None 'Things come back to bite you' - West Ham's special night\n\nFrankfurt were also the opposition in the last four of the 1976 European Cup Winners' Cup, in West Ham's last major European semi-final.\n\nThe Hammers prevailed 4-3 on aggregate on that occasion and it is the German side they must once again overcome if they are to reach the final in Seville next month, as their hugely impressive Europa League journey continues.\n\nMoyes and his players could already be immensely proud of their European run this season, having topped their group before eliminating Sevilla - among the favourites for the competition - on a memorable night at London Stadium in the last 16.\n\nBut the manner of this latest victory, against a club who were Champions League semi-finalists two years ago, means they will rightly believe they can go even further.\n\nKarl Toko Ekambi had struck the post inside the opening five minutes and it required last-ditch defending to deny Houssem Aouar, but West Ham successfully weathered the hosts' dominant start.\n\nThat was despite missing left-back Aaron Cresswell, after his first-leg red card, and injured centre-back Kurt Zouma, as the visitors fielded what Moyes described before kick-off as a \"patched up\" defence.\n\nBowen volleyed wide on the stretch from Michail Antonio's cross as West Ham began to assert themselves, though, and Lyon were simply left shell-shocked by sucker punches from Dawson and Rice.\n\nA brilliant pass from Fornals picked out Bowen for his 15th goal of the season to move the away side within reach of the semi-finals, but there was still work to be done as Lyon racked up the attempts, to no avail, in the closing stages.\n\nLyon, 10th in Ligue 1, had not lost in nine Europa League games this term despite their domestic struggles - but their defeat was greeted by unsavoury scenes at full-time as supporters attempted to get onto the pitch, while violence was reported among the home fans in the stands.\n• None Attempt saved. Saïd Benrahma (West Ham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Karl Toko-Ekambi (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Moussa Dembele with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jeff Reine-Adélaïde (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Emerson (Lyon) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bradley Barcola.\n• None Attempt saved. Moussa Dembele (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Paquetá.\n• None Bradley Barcola (Lyon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of West Ham United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Hammers - go straight to all the best content", "Imran Ahmad Khan was found guilty earlier this week but says he will appeal against the conviction\n\nA Conservative MP found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy has announced he is resigning from the Commons.\n\nImran Ahmad Khan, who has represented Wakefield since 2019, said he was appealing against the conviction.\n\nBut he added it was \"intolerable\" for his constituents not to be represented properly while he goes to the courts.\n\nThe decision will trigger a by-election for his seat, which had previously been held by Labour for 87 years.\n\nKhan had a majority of 3,358 votes in 2019 in the West Yorkshire seat, which is seen as being part of the Conservatives' Red Wall of former Labour strongholds in the North of England.\n\nEarlier this week, Southwark Crown Court found Khan guilty of groping the teenager at a party in Staffordshire in January 2008.\n\nThe jury heard he had forced the youngster to drink gin, dragged him upstairs and asked him to watch pornography before assaulting him.\n\nThe verdict saw the Conservative Party expel him \"with immediate effect\".\n\nKhan, who is 48 and has continued to deny the offence, is awaiting sentencing.\n\nIf he received a prison term of more than a year, he would be automatically disbarred from being an MP.\n\nPosting on Twitter, Khan said it would not \"ordinarily be appropriate to resign\" while legal proceedings were continuing.\n\nBut he added: \"Owing to long delays in the legal process, my constituents have already been without visible parliamentary representation for a year.\n\n\"Even in the best case scenario, anticipated legal proceedings could last many more months.\n\n\"I have therefore regrettably come to the conclusion that it is intolerable for constituents to go years without an MP who can amplify their voices in Parliament.\"\n\nIt will be up to the Conservative Party when the by-election for his Wakefield seat will be held.\n\nBut parliamentary rules state they have to move a writ - the legal process to trigger a by-election - within three months, and the vote has to take place between 21 and 27 days later.\n\nA Conservative spokesperson said: \"Decisions will be made in due course by the chief whip's office.\"\n\nDuring the trial, the victim, who is now 29, said he was \"not taken very seriously\" when he made an allegation to the Conservative Party press office in December 2019, days before Khan was elected as Wakefield's MP.\n\nThe victim went to the police days after the election.\n\nConservative sources told the BBC the party had found no record of a complaint being made about Khan in the run up to polling day.\n\nKhan tried and failed to ban media reporting of the case, with his lawyers arguing that his life could be at risk, as the consumption of alcohol and homosexuality are strictly prohibited within his faith.\n\nBut a risk assessment by West Yorkshire police counter-terrorism security advisers concluded that there was \"no objective threat to [the] defendant's life that would arise from being named as the defendant in these allegations\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian who had no experience of politics when elected less than three years ago, has suddenly emerged as a convincing war leader.\n\nHe has rallied the nation with his addresses and video selfies and given voice to Ukrainian anger and defiance of Russian aggression.\n\nWhile Russian President Vladimir Putin has appeared increasingly erratic - accusing Ukraine of \"genocide\" in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk republics, and talking of the need to \"de-Nazify\" the country - President Zelensky, from a Russian-speaking Jewish family, has remained dignified, resolute and articulate.\n\nThese pronouncements have revealed a side that many critics - including a large chunk of the intelligentsia - had not seen coming.\n\nA key moment in the transformation from a leader floundering in the polls, who sometimes appeared out of his depth, into a national figurehead came in the early hours of Thursday, a few hours before Russia's invasion. In a sober address posted on social media, speaking partly in Russian, he said he had tried to call Vladimir Putin to avert a war and had been met by silence.\n\nThe two countries didn't need a war, \"not a Cold War, not a hot war, not a hybrid war\", he said, wearing a dark suit as he stood in front of a map of Ukraine. But he added that if Ukrainians came under attack they would defend themselves. \"When you attack us you will see our faces - not our backs, but our faces.\"\n\nSoon afterwards the invasion began, and for his next broadcast, in the middle of the day, he wore military fatigues, reflecting the country's David-versus-Goliath struggle. That evening he made another address, warning Western leaders that if they did not provide assistance then tomorrow \"war will knock on your doors\".\n\n\"This is the sound of a new iron curtain, which has come down, and is cutting Russia off from the civilised world.\"\n\nZelensky as commander-in-chief appeared to strike all the right notes on Ukrainian Twitter.\n\nYulia McGuffie, editor-in-chief of the Novoye Vremya news website, says she was upset when he was elected president in April 2019, as she had no faith in his ability to lead a government.\n\nBut Ukrainians have rapidly warmed to their president in the past week, she says.\n\n\"Full support and respect came, I think after Russia started its war - all Ukrainians have closed ranks around Zelensky. He is playing a uniting and I would say inspiring role, partly by his own example. He is leading a government that is repelling Putin's army, and for that many sincerely admire and respect him.\"\n\nZelensky's arrival on the political scene was a case of life imitating art. His most celebrated role as a comic actor was in the TV series, Servant of the People, in which he played a school teacher catapulted into the presidency after a student posted a viral video of him ranting about corruption in politics.\n\nHis candidacy in the 2019 presidential election was initially seen by some as a joke - his political party is called the Servant of the People party. But he went on to win with 73% of the vote, promising to fight corruption and bring peace in the east of the country.\n\nThe Ukrainian president has significant powers, but delivering on these promises was always going to be tough, communications consultant Yaryna Klyuchkovska notes. And for someone starting a presidency with such a high approval rating, the only way was down.\n\n\"It's one thing to make such broad-ranging promises and another thing to execute these policies,\" she says.\n\nZelensky had enjoyed the support of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky during his presidential campaign, leading many to fear he would turn out to be a puppet leader, controlled by a man who is under investigation in the US for possible fraud and money-laundering.\n\nHe had in fact proved to be more independent than the sceptics thought, refusing for example to allow the re-privatisation of PrivatBank, which was owned by Kolomoisky before it was nationalised.\n\nOn the other hand corruption remains deep-rooted in Ukraine, and there are concerns that a new anti-oligarch law could be used to restrict the activities of some oligarchs and not others. Corruption charges aimed at Zelensky's main rival, Petro Poroshenko, his predecessor as president, are regarded by some Western officials as politically motivated.\n\nZelensky's attempts to negotiate with Russia in order to find a solution to the conflict in the east, which has left more than 14,000 people dead, also had only limited success. There were prisoner exchanges and moves towards implementing parts of a peace process, known as the Minsk agreements, but no breakthrough. Throughout 2020 his approval rating steadily fell.\n\nZelensky subsequently struck a more assertive tone in pushing for membership of the European Union and the Nato military alliance, a move that was bound to anger the Russian president.\n\nBut Yaryna Klyuchkovska says Zelensky's rhetoric on the conflict in the east and relations with Russia continued to be too timid for many Ukrainians, until recent days.\n\nAs the drumbeat of war grew louder he declared a Day of Peace, and continued to emphasise his hopes for a diplomatic solution even while Ukraine was reporting a rapid increase in ceasefire violations along the front line.\n\n\"He avoided the subject of war, warfare, anything military. It was a topic outside his comfort zone and he was not willing to go there in his public rhetoric,\" Klyuchkovska says.\n\nHe also took issue with the daily warnings from the US and other Western governments of an imminent Russian attack, saying that the US communication strategy was \"very expensive for Ukraine\".\n\nZelensky has been accused of being a puppet of controversial business mogul Ihor Kolomoisky\n\nThe big change of tack came with a speech he made to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday 19 February, Klyuchkovska says, converting her too from a sceptic to a fan. He began by describing a visit to a kindergarten in the east of the country that had days earlier been hit by a missile.\n\n\"When a bomb crater appears in a school playground, children have a question: 'Has the world forgotten the mistakes of the 20th Century?'\" he said.\n\n\"Indifference makes you an accomplice,\" he told the guests from the West's diplomatic and defence elites. He reminded them of Vladimir Putin's rejection of a US-led world order at the same conference exactly 15 years earlier, and his assertion of Russia's resurgence. \"How did the world respond? With appeasement.\"\n\nKlyuchkovska says no Ukrainian leader had spoken so bluntly to the West before.\n\n\"For me the moment of pride in Zelensky came during his brilliant speech at the security conference in Munich,\" says Yulia McGuffie. \"It was then that many of Zelensky's political opponents in Ukraine decided that now is not the time for rows and conflicts.\"\n\nWestern intelligence claims that Zelensky's name is the first on a list of people Russian forces aim to kill. He says his family is second on the list, but that he and they remain in Ukraine.\n\nHis presence is confirmed by the video selfies he has been shooting outside the presidential administration and the very distinctive House of Chimeras opposite it, adorned with representations of exotic animals and hunting scenes.\n\nIn response to one of these, British writer Ben Judah tweeted: \"If you'd told many of our great-grandparents in the Pale [the area of the Russian empire in which Jews were mostly confined] that a Jewish man would be a Ukrainian war leader against a Russian invasion they would have blinked incredulously.\"\n\n\"Of course, he is an actor. I don't know whether it's his true persona or not. But whatever he's doing, it's working,\" says Yaryna Klyuchkovska. \"His speech writers have found their stride. They come from the entertainment business, but even writing a Netflix show is different from writing presidential speeches.\"\n\nUkraine still faces overwhelming odds. Russia's invasion force is huge and well-armed. But the 44-year-old law graduate, a political newbie, has found a voice that has helped to bolster Ukrainian morale.\n\n\"One of my good friends has just written, 'Zelensky has suddenly grown cojones of cosmic proportions',\" says McGuffie. \"And this really reflects the attitude to him right now.\"", "The Moskva patrolling the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria\n\nA Russian warship that was damaged by an explosion on Wednesday has sunk, Russia's defence ministry has said.\n\nMoskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, was being towed to port when \"stormy seas\" caused it to sink, according to a ministry message.\n\nThe 510-crew missile cruiser was a symbol of Russia's military power, leading its naval assault on Ukraine.\n\nKyiv says its missiles hit the warship. The United States says it also believes it was hit by Ukrainian missiles.\n\nMoscow has not reported any attack - it says the vessel sank after a fire.\n\nThe blaze caused the explosion of the warship's ammunition, Russia says, adding that the entire crew were later evacuated to nearby Russian vessels in the Black Sea.\n\nAfter saying initially the warship was afloat, late on Thursday the Russian defence ministry announced that the Moskva had been lost.\n\nThe 12,490-tonne vessel is the biggest Russian warship to be sunk in action since World War Two.\n\n\"While being towed... towards the destined port, the vessel lost its balance due to damage sustained in the hull as fire broke out after ammunition exploded. Given the choppy seas, the vessel sank,\" the Russian defence ministry said.\n\nUkraine has said the captain of the warship was killed on board.\n\nAnton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's ministry of internal affairs, shared the claim on Telegram, saying that the ship's captain, Anton Kuprin, had died during an \"explosion and fire on board\".\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify this claim.\n\nUkrainian military officials said they struck the Moskva with Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles - a weapon designed after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the naval threat to Ukraine in the Black Sea grew.\n\nThe US now also believes the Moskva was hit by two of these missiles, a senior official said on Friday.\n\nSpeaking on condition of anonymity, the official told the Reuters news agency that the US believes there were Russian casualties, though numbers are unclear.\n\nA senior Ukrainian official said as many as 510 crew could have been on board the Moskva.\n\nOn the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the Moskva gained notoriety after calling on a small garrison of Ukrainian border troops defending Snake Island in the Black Sea to surrender - to which they memorably radioed an expletive-laden message of refusal.\n\nOriginally built in the Soviet-era, the Moskva entered service in the early 1980s. The vessel was actually laid down in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv, which has been heavily bombed by Russia in recent days.\n\nThis is a significant and humiliating loss for Vladimir Putin, who has repeatedly insisted that his \"special military operation\" in Ukraine is going according to plan.\n\nUnsurprisingly, perhaps, Russian state media are not dwelling on the loss of the pride of the Black Sea fleet.\n\nMorning TV bulletins limited themselves to briefly reporting the statement issued by the authorities, who claim the ship sank in stormy seas after fire and explosions on board caused significant damage to its hull.\n\nA furious ex-MP, Vladimir Bortko, said the sinking of the Moskva was grounds for war\n\nSome newspaper commentators appeared to support that, arguing that the fire extinguishing systems on board the forty-year-old warship were out of date and inefficient but several writers agree that the development won't change the course of war.\n\nIt is however a blow to national pride; the Moskva, once a symbol of Russian might and ambition, now lies at the bottom of the sea.\n\nWhile one TV talk show host didn't speculate on Ukraine's claims that it had struck the ship, a clearly emotional studio guest - film director and ex-MP Vladimir Bortko - said the fate of the Moskva was grounds for war.\n\n\"It's more about psychological damage than material damage,\" Mykola Bielieskov from Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies told the BBC.\n\n\"It won't remove Russia's naval blockade on Ukraine completely,\" he said. \"But it's a powerful symbol that we can employ sophisticated weaponry effectively.\"\n\nBut Mr Bielieskov, who advises the Ukrainian government on military strategy, did predict that \"Russian ships will now be forced to move further from the Ukrainian shore, where they can no longer feel secure.\"\n\nThe Moskva didn't itself fire missiles at Ukrainian land targets, but military experts told the BBC that it offered crucial support to other vessels that did.\n\nThe remaining vessels in Russia's Black Sea fleet will now be more vulnerable to aerial attacks - although it's not clear that Ukraine's depleted forces have the resources to take advantage of this.\n\n\"The Moskva was the only ship in the fleet which had long-range air defences on board,\" said Sidharth Kaushal, a sea power expert at the Royal United Services Institute.\n\n\"While smaller vessels were conducting bombardments of Ukrainian cities, the Moskva was providing them with wide-area air cover.\"\n\nThe guided missile cruiser was previously deployed by Moscow in the Syria conflict where it supplied Russian forces in the country with naval protection.\n\nIt is the second major vessel Russia has lost since the start of its invasion.\n\nAdmiral Lord West, former First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, said that as well as being a military blow the vessel's loss was \"very embarrassing\".\n\n\"This has a huge impact,\" Lord West said, speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM before confirmation that the Moskva had sunk.\n\n\"Putin loves the navy. When he came into power, the first bit of the old Soviet forces that he put effort into was the navy. He's always had a soft spot for it.\"", "Burnley sack manager Sean Dyche with eight games left of Premier League season Last updated on .From the section Burnley\n\nSean Dyche managed just four league wins with Burnley this season Burnley have sacked manager Sean Dyche with eight games left of their season in the Premier League. The Clarets, who have lost five of their last six top-flight games, are 18th and four points from safety. Dyche was the Premier League's longest serving manager, having taken over at Turf Moor in October 2012. Burnley chairman Alan Pace said it was \"an incredibly difficult decision\" to part company with the 50-year-old, but \"we feel a change is needed\". Dyche's last game in charge of Burnley saw them lose 2-0 to Norwich City, who are bottom of the Premier League. Assistant manager Ian Woan, first-team coach Steve Stone and goalkeeping coach Billy Mercer have also left the club. \"Firstly, we would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Sean and his staff for their achievements at the club over the last decade,\" said Pace. \"During his time at Turf Moor, Sean has been a credit both on and off the pitch, respected by players, staff, supporters, and the wider football community. \"However, results this season have been disappointing and, while this was an incredibly difficult decision, with eight crucial games of the campaign remaining, we feel a change is needed to give the squad the best possible chance of retaining its Premier League status. \"Under-23s coach Mike Jackson, assisted by academy director Paul Jenkins, Under-23s goalkeeping coach Connor King and club captain Ben Mee have been asked to take charge of the team for Sunday's game with West Ham United. \"The process of replacing Sean has begun and further announcements will be made to supporters in due course.\" Dyche had signed a new four-year contract until 2025 with Burnley in September last year. During his spell at the club he guided them to two promotions from the Championship and two top-half Premier League finishes. He also helped Burnley achieve their first European qualification in 51 years courtesy of leading them to a commendable seventh place in the Premier League in 2017-18. However, the Clarets have won just four Premier League games this season, the worst win record in the league. 'Burnley fans were still loyal to him' \"It's massive news, no one really expected it,\" reacted former Burnley midfielder Paul Weller. \"He has been backed by the board for so long, so to do it so late in the season is a really big surprise. \"To do it so late in the week is leaving it really tight because there's a massive game coming up against West Ham on Sunday. There's a big eight games left and we need somebody in there quick.\" Weller added: \"Sean has had to take the ultimate punishment. \"What he has done at Burnley is unbelievable, he has done it on a shoestring [budget]. He's not been supported by any of the chairmen financially like other Premier League managers have been. \"It's been a really difficult season and I think that's why everybody is so surprised because the fans love him. \"Even though we are struggling, we are down at the bottom and it's looking like relegation, Burnley fans were still loyal to him.\" 'The impact has to be absolutely immediate' - Analysis Burnley are in their sixth successive season in the Premier League, which is their longest run in the top flight since their heydays in the 1960s. It is a brave owner of any football club who just accepts relegation without doing something to stop it. Alan Pace, the owner and chairman of Burnley, is a relatively new owner and he has decided to act. The impact has to be absolutely immediate and I guess that means Burnley picking up points immediately. They start against West Ham on Sunday, then Southampton and Wolves. Sean Dyche is highly employable. Any like-minded club such as Burnley, Dyche will be top of the people who will be to be favourites to take over that job. He has been linked with many Premier League jobs over the years. He has always responded to those rumours by saying he was at Burnley - now he is not. I don't think it will be long until he gets another job. Clearly the problem for Burnley is getting another manager for themselves.\n• None Our coverage of Burnley is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Burnley - go straight to all the best content", "More than 200 brain tumour patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge are to have the entire genetic code of their cancer sequenced.\n\nThe Minderoo Precision Brain Tumour Programme aims to speed up diagnosis and help personalise treatment for patients with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer.\n\nIt’s hoped it may ultimately lead to new targeted treatments which extend survival.\n\nWarning: This video contains clips of medical diagnosis and graphic medical scenes", "Aiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nThe family of a British man has appealed for him to be treated humanely after he was reportedly captured while defending Ukraine.\n\nRussian sources claim Aiden Aslin, who is originally from Newark in Nottinghamshire, has been captured in the besieged city of Mariupol.\n\nOn Tuesday his family told the BBC his unit was having to prepare to surrender to Russian forces.\n\nMr Aslin has now appeared in photos and video footage restrained in handcuffs.\n\nHis mother Ang Wood told the BBC: \"I believe it is him in the photographs. We just want him to be treated according to the Geneva Conventions.\n\n\"We are just hoping that maybe there can be some sort of prisoner exchange. We don't know what else to do right now except keep pressing the Foreign Office.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) for a response.\n\nMr Aslin has a Ukrainian fiancée and now has dual citizenship, after moving to Ukraine in 2018.\n\nHis grandmother Pamela Hall told the BBC: \"I never expected this, I thought if the worst came to the worst that Aiden would die fighting.\n\n\"Obviously I didn't want that, I wanted the war to end and for him to go home to his fiancée.\"\n\nMr Aslin had been defending Mariupol with his unit during heavy fighting in recent weeks.\n\n\"I think all the guys should be treated as prisoners of war according to the Geneva Conventions; I appreciate it's opposing forces, but they're all human beings,\" his grandmother said.\n\n\"We are all just hoping and praying for his safety.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Aslin is a former care worker who previously fought with Kurdish armed units in Syria against so-called Islamic State.\n\nHe passed out as a marine with the Ukrainian military in 2018. His family understand his unit is the 36th Marine Brigade.\n\nA video is being shown on Russian television news in which Mr Aslin is being questioned.\n\nThe interviewer first asks in Russian whether he understands the language, to which he replies in Russian \"50/50\".\n\nHe is then asked whether he killed anyone, and the interviewer also says: \"Did you see others killing anyone in your presence?\"\n\nMr Aslin replies in English: \"I didn't do any fighting.\"\n\nAiden Aslin is clearly being used to maximum advantage as a tool for Russian propaganda, interviewed by a Russian TV reporter while being held captive.\n\nIn a lengthy segment, the news anchor and reporter refer to Aiden in brutal terms, calling him a \"head cutter\".\n\nDuring the interview, Aiden appears to back up propaganda that Russian state media has been putting out since the start of the invasion.\n\nHe states he has seen Ukrainian soldiers killing Ukrainian civilians. A classic Kremlin claim regularly made by Russian officials, despite huge amounts of evidence of atrocities against civilians committed by Russian forces.\n\nWe cannot know under what duress Aiden may have been prior to this interview, but one thing is very clear.\n\nThese are not the words of the Aiden Aslin from a few weeks ago, when he was speaking to family from the conflict and regularly posting social media updates.\n\nLoved ones will tell you he was very proud of his role as a marine in the Ukrainian forces, and believes strongly in defending civilians.\n\nHis grandmother told the BBC: \"Aiden was not a mercenary as some of these Russian posts are saying.\n\n\"He has never been a mercenary and his involvement with the Ukrainian forces came about because he made Ukraine his adopted home, and he was due to marry his fiancée.\n\n\"It's an unjust war - it should never have happened.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "People attending a vigil in Sligo, where Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee were found dead in their homes\n\nA number of vigils have taken place across the island of Ireland on Friday in memory of two men who were killed in Sligo town earlier this week.\n\nAidan Moffitt and Michael Snee were found dead in their own homes on Monday and Tuesday night.\n\nA 22-year-old man was remanded into custody on Thursday after being charged with their murders.\n\nMore than 30 events took place in towns and cities on both sides of the border, with many organised by LGBT groups.\n\nIn Belfast, a vigil took place at Belfast City Hall which was later lit up in rainbow colours.\n\nLarge crowds gathered outside Belfast City Hall against the killings of Aidan Mofitt and Michael Snee\n\nEvents also took place at Guildhall Square in Londonderry, outside Dáil Éireann (the Irish Parliament) in Dublin and at the town hall in Sligo.\n\nTributes have been paid to both victims by their friends and neighbours in Sligo.\n\nDanielle Roberts from Here NI, which supports lesbian and bisexual women, helped organise the vigil in Belfast and said it was important people in Northern Ireland had the chance to pay their respects to the victims.\n\nShe said their deaths were shocking and troubling.\n\n\"Hopefully people will take away some hope from the event as well but ultimately we were remembering Michael and Aidan,\" she added.\n\nDanielle Roberts and Jude Copeland (centre) were among those who attended the vigil in Belfast\n\nGay rights activist Jude Copeland said the deaths of Mr Moffitt and Mr Snee have the potential \"to have a real chilling affect on LGBT people\".\n\nHe also praised the people of Northern Ireland for coming together and showing love and solidarity for \"two people they do not know\".\n\nSligo parish priest Fr Noel Rooney told BBC News NI that he first met Mr Moffitt when he was a child growing up in Lisacul.\n\nHe described him as a hardworking businessman and a \"nice, decent, honourable guy\".\n\nFr Rooney has also been ministering to Mr Snee's family and said they had been left extremely upset by his loss.", "Robert Jenrick and his family with Maria, Christina and Boden\n\nA former cabinet minister has taken in a refugee family under a government scheme to help those fleeing Ukraine.\n\nRobert Jenrick, the MP for Newark, and his family have welcomed Maria, 40, Christina, 11, and Boden, 15, into their Nottinghamshire home.\n\nHe is thought to be the first MP to take in refugees under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.\n\nMr Jenrick said both families had found it \"very emotional\" when they finally met in person at Stansted.\n\n\"I think the family we are sponsoring were happy to be in a place of safety,\" he told the BBC. \"Like most Ukrainians who come under the scheme they are leaving behind husbands, fathers, relatives and friends so there are mixed emotions.\"\n\nThe former communities secretary said his family had discussed doing something to help after being moved by the news from Ukraine, and had been put in touch with the family through another Ukrainian family who was staying with friends.\n\n\"The process was relatively slow to begin with but well worth the wait from our perspective,\" he said, adding that Maria and her family had been \"absolutely lovely\".\n\nAs of Wednesday 25,100 visas have been issued under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme - which allows families in the UK to sponsor refugees to come and live with them - from 55,600 applications.\n\nSince it began the scheme has faced criticism for being slow - and Home Secretary Priti Patel has previously apologised for the delays in granting visas.\n\nSeveral MPs and government ministers have previously said they would be open to hosting a Ukrainian refugee. Environment minister Victoria Prentis was the first to welcome one, according to the Telegraph, although Vika came to the UK via an existing scheme, not Homes for Ukraine.\n\nMr Jenrick said that he was hoping to arrange places at school for the two Ukrainian children now under their roof in the coming weeks.\n\nWhile he said he would encourage anyone who was lucky enough to be in the position to host a refugee to do so, he said that it was a commitment which \"should be entered in to seriously\".\n\n\"But I think it is going to be a very rewarding experience for my family,\" he said, adding that it had made them grateful for the life they have in the UK.\n\nMr Jenrick told the Daily Telegraph's Chopper's Politics podcast - which first reported the story - that the process had been \"overly bureaucratic\" and red tape had \"tested the patience\" of sponsors and the families applying for the scheme.\n\nIn his experience, he said it took around three weeks to get the three visas needed.\n\n\"There were simple things that we could and should have done from the outset, like having the form in Ukrainian, for example,\" he told the Telegraph, adding he was not sure it was necessary for security checks to be done on minors who were \"extremely unlikely to be a threat to this country\".\n\nBut Mr Jenrick said it had not been too difficult to find a family wanting to come to the UK.\n\nIt has meant a busier house with the Ukrainians joining Mr Jenrick, his wife, their three children and two dogs in the family home.\n\nBut he told the Telegraph's Christopher Hope the experience had been humbling for him and his family, and said they would be \"a little less selfish\" for the experience.\n\nMaria and her children had been through \"harrowing\" experiences in Ukraine, he said, and had queued for seven hours at the Polish border on their way to the UK.\n\n\"It does feel very rewarding,\" he said. \"It's a very tangible way to reach out and help another family.\"\n\nHe added that he was looking forward to spending the Easter weekend with his \"new extended family\".\n\nAsked if he had received the £350-a-month payment being offered to hosts as part of the scheme Mr Jenrick said that either they would return the money or it would be given to the Ukrainian family.\n\nThere are two schemes for people in the UK to welcome refugees: the family scheme, for Ukrainians with a family member in the UK; and Homes for Ukraine, which lets people in the UK host Ukrainians who do not have family ties here.", "The US has linked North Korea-backed hackers to a massive cryptocurrency heist worth $615m (£469m) from players of the popular online game Axie Infinity last month.\n\nPlayers can earn crypto through game play or trading their avatars.\n\nThe hack is likely one of the biggest ever to hit the crypto world.\n\nUS officials say they linked the breach to a group called \"Lazarus\", believed to be controlled by North Korea's primary intelligence bureau.\n\n\"Through our investigations we were able to confirm Lazarus Group and APT38, cyber actors associated with [North Korea], are responsible for the theft,\" the FBI said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nLazarus Group gained notoriety in 2014 after they were accused of hacking into Sony Pictures and publicly leaking confidential data.\n\nThe group demanded that Sony withdraw its then-upcoming film The Interview, a satirical comedy staring Seth Rogen and James Franco, about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nA United Nations panel that monitors sanctions on North Korea has accused Pyongyang of using stolen funds to support its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes as a way to avoid international sanctions.\n\n\"The United States is aware that the DPRK has increasingly relied on illicit activities - including cybercrime - to generate revenue for its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs as it tries to evade robust US and UN sanctions,\" Reuters quoted a Treasury Department spokesperson as saying.\n\nA 2020 US military report says North Korea's hacking programme dates back to at least the mid-1990s and has grown to a 6,000-strong cyber warfare unit, known as Bureau 121, which operates from several countries including Belarus, China, India, Malaysia and Russia.\n\nBlockchain analysis company Chainalysis said North Korean hackers stole almost $400m (£291m) worth of digital assets in at least seven attacks on cryptocurrency platforms in 2021- one of most successful years on record for cyber-criminals in the closed-off east Asian state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPlans to send some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats to live in Rwanda have been described as \"absolutely chilling\" and \"cruel and nasty\" by charities and politicians.\n\nThe government has faced fierce criticism for the policy with questions raised over costs and impact as well as Rwanda's human rights record.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the £120m pilot scheme would \"save countless lives\".\n\nThe PM said it would break the business model of \"vile people smugglers\".\n\nThe pilot scheme would initially focus mainly on single men arriving on boats or lorries and would see them given a one-way ticket for the 4,000-mile trip to Rwanda where they would be processed and, if successful, would have long-term accommodation in the African country.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel, who travelled to Rwandan capital Kigali to sign the deal, said the \"vast majority\" of those arriving in the UK \"illegally\" would be considered for relocation to Rwanda.\n\nThe scheme is one of a number of measures announced to tackle small boat crossings in the Channel, with others including plans to hand operational control of the Channel to the Navy and asylum seekers who are resettled in the UK being spread more evenly across authorities.\n\nMore than 160 charities and campaign groups - including the UK network of non-governmental organisations Bond - have called on the government to scrap the plans in an open letter that described the scheme as \"shamefully cruel\".\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the charity was \"appalled by the government's cruel and nasty decision\" that would \"do little\" to deter people from coming to the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Johnson was trying to distract from his \"partygate\" fine with the \"unworkable, unethical and extortionate\" scheme, while the Lib Dems said the government was \"slamming the door\" in the face of refugees and the SNP's Ian Blackford called it \"absolutely chilling\".\n\nThe government has for years struggled to address the issue of small boats crossing the Channel.\n\nDifferent ideas have been floated about how to tackle illegal immigration - many have been dismissed and ruled out.\n\nSo this is an attempt by Boris Johnson to tackle the issue head on. It matters to Conservative voters - taking back control of borders was one of Mr Johnson's big Brexit promises.\n\nBut this isn't a simple plan to implement. It will be expensive - and it's extremely controversial.\n\nMinisters know they will face legal challenges - and that some are sceptical it will amount to much.\n\nThe PM admitted it would not be enough on its own to solve the issue, but he insisted that over time it will prove a considerable deterrent. Many will be looking to see if he's right.\n\nFormer Ukip and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has also criticised the plans, saying they were \"not much more than a short-term solution\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme the problem with sending people away to islands or other countries was \"it's not very long before you start to hear tales of abuse\" and after that the Human Rights Act could be invoked to stop it.\n\nHe suggested the UK should turn boats back - a method that was used by Australia - but Mr Johnson conceded the controversial \"pushback\" technique would be dangerous except in \"extremely limited circumstances\".\n\nThe plans have been welcomed by some with a snap YouGov poll showing 35% of those asked supported the proposal, while 42% opposed it.\n\nRecent research by Ipsos Mori suggested 60% of the public were dissatisfied with the government's migration policy - more than half of which cited Channel crossings.\n\nFormer UK Border Force chief Tony Smith said it was a \"bold move\" and may put people off paying people smugglers, when they heard they could be sent to a third country.\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the Rwandan government's human rights record and its president, Paul Kagame.\n\nSteve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK's refugee and migrant rights director, warned sending people seeking asylum in the UK to another country \"let alone one with such a dismal human rights record\" was \"the very height of irresponsibility\".\n\nLast year, the UK government expressed concern at the United Nations over \"continued restrictions to civil and political rights and media freedom\" in Rwanda.\n\nBut Mr Johnson described Rwanda as being one of the safest countries in the world and said there was a \"risk of stereotyping\".\n\nRwanda, a small landlocked country in east-central Africa, has been trying to recover from the ethnic strife that culminated in government-sponsored genocide in the mid-1990s.\n\nRwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told the BBC it is \"a safe country, it's developing rapidly, we care as much as every country about human rights\".\n\nShe said the nation had a \"strong record of protecting migrants and refugees\".\n\n\"We're expecting thousands here - this is a brand new approach, it's never been done before.\"\n\nAccording to a memorandum of understanding between the two governments the UK would screen asylum seekers \"without delay\" after their arrival in the UK and then provide Rwanda with basic details of each person it wanted to transfer.\n\nRwanda would have to approve all requests before they were transferred, and the arrangement would last for five years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rwandan foreign minister: Immigration plan not for those from neighbouring nations\n\nAfter arriving in the east African nation each asylum seeker would be given accommodation and support and would be free to come and go from their accommodation at all times, the memorandum says.\n\nThe UK would also resettle \"a portion of Rwanda's most vulnerable refugees\" in the UK.\n\nMr Johnson said action was needed to stop people smugglers turning the ocean into a \"watery graveyard\", and said the British taxpayer could not be asked \"to write a blank cheque to cover the costs of anyone who might want to come and live here\".\n\nOn Thursday hundreds of people have crossed the Channel, with women, children and men brought ashore by the RNLI and Border Force at Dover, Kent.\n\nLast year, 28,526 people are known to have crossed in small boats, up from 8,404 in 2020.\n\nIn 2021 64% of asylum applications were successful after an initial decision was made, according to government figures, with some more granted after appeals.\n\nThe number of people who could be relocated would be \"unlimited\", said Mr Johnson.\n\nRwanda will have the \"capacity to resettle tens of thousands of people in the years ahead\", including those who have arrived \"illegally\" since the start of the year, he said.\n\nThe home secretary said her department had prepared for legal challenges over the deal but she was confident any claims could be successfully contested.\n\nDuring her visit to Kigali, Ms Patel said the British public had been \"crying out for change for the years\" and it was \"incredibly unfair to the British public to see organisations in their own country effectively just putting blockages after blockages in the way\".\n\nDr Niovi Vavoula, lecturer in migration and security at Queen Mary University School of Law, said she anticipated legal challenges being made under the international principle of non-refoulement - which guarantees no-one can be returned to a country where they would face \"torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment and other irreparable harm\".\n\nThe BBC has seen accommodation the asylum seekers would be housed in, thought to have enough space for about 100 people at a time and to process up to 500 a year\n\nThe Rwandan government said migrants would be \"entitled to full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment, and enrolment in healthcare and social care services\".\n\nThe UK Home Office believes existing asylum law will be enough to implement the plan, and Ms Patel said it was not reliant on the Nationality and Borders Bill - which has faced a series of defeats in the lords - going through Parliament.", "Prince Harry and Meghan pictured here on stage at a concert in New York last September\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex met the Queen on Thursday after flying into the UK, a spokesperson for the couple confirmed to the BBC.\n\nThe couple stopped at Windsor on their way to The Hague, in the Netherlands, for the Invictus Games.\n\nPrince Harry was last reported to be in the UK in July, while Meghan is not thought to have been in the country since 2020.\n\nThe Sussexes stepped down as senior royals in January 2020.\n\nTheir trip to the UK comes after Prince Harry was absent from a memorial service for his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, in London last month.\n\nThe Queen is not expected to attend this year's Easter morning church service having already pulled out of the Maundy Service on Thursday - for the first time since 1970.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch has mobility problems and has pulled out of several events recently, including the annual Commonwealth Service.\n\nThe duchess last appeared in the UK at the Commonwealth Day Service in March 2020 while the duke was in the UK to unveil a statue of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in July last year.\n\nThe couple are on their way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands, which will take place from 16 to 22 April.\n\nA film crew is expected to be joining the couple at the games as part of filming for a Netflix series called Heart Of Invictus.\n\nPrince Harry founded the games to aid the rehabilitation of injured or sick military personnel and veterans from across the globe.\n\nThey might no longer be \"working royals\", but their touchdown in the UK made instant headlines.\n\nTheir unpublicised visit to the Queen had a touch of Hollywood drama.\n\nIt will delight their supporters. But their challenge will be to build bridges with the parts of the public who have become more sceptical.\n\nWhy are they able to travel to the Netherlands, via Windsor, when they didn't attend Prince Philip's memorial in Westminster Abbey?\n\nWill the Californian lifestyle seem out of touch with a public now worrying about gas bills?\n\nAfter the disruption of two years of the pandemic, many families will be travelling this bank holiday to try to make re-connections and get back in touch.\n\nExpect to see and hear more from Harry and Meghan over the bank holiday weekend ahead.\n\nJoe Little, managing editor of Majesty Magazine, described the visit as \"a very welcome if long overdue move\" on the part of Harry and Meghan.\n\nThe couple also saw Prince Charles while they were at Windsor Castle, the Sun reported.\n\nThe visit comes as Prince Harry is bringing a court challenge against the government's decision to refuse police security during his visits from the US.\n\nHis lawyers previously said that the UK would \"always be his home\" and it \"goes without saying that he does want to come back to see family and friends\".\n\nThe last time the duchess saw the Queen is thought to be pre-pandemic, at the Commonwealth Day service in early March 2020\n\nSince the couple moved to the US, the duchess gave an emotional interview in which she said life in the Royal Family had been so difficult she \"didn't want to be alive any more\" and the pair's daughter Lillibet, named after the Queen's family nickname, was born.\n\nBut while it may have been some time since the duchess has seen the Queen in person, during an appearance on The Late Late Show in 2021 Prince Harry revealed that the monarch had used Zoom to video call the family.", "Twitter's board has armed itself against a possible hostile takeover - a day after billionaire Elon Musk made a $43bn (£33bn) offer to buy the platform.\n\nIt has adopted what is known as a \"limited-duration shareholder rights plan\", also known as a \"poison pill\".\n\nThe move will prevent anyone from having more than a 15% stake in the company.\n\nIt does this by allowing others to buy additional shares at a discount.\n\nThe Twitter board detailed its defence plan to the US Securities and Exchange Commission and put out a statement saying it was needed because of Mr Musk's \"unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire Twitter\".\n\nA takeover bid is considered hostile when one company tries to acquire another against the wishes of that company's management - in Twitter's case, its executive board.\n\nJosh White, former financial economist for the Securities and Exchange Commission, told the BBC that a poison pill is \"one of those last lines of defence against a hostile bid takeover\".\n\n\"We call it the nuclear option,\" he said.\n\nMr White says the board has made it clear \"that they don't feel like it's a high enough value for the company\".\n\nBecause Mr Musk had signalled that he was not willing to negotiate a higher price, the Twitter board went ahead with the poison pill.\n\nMr White says he was surprised by Mr Musk's negotiation tactic because if the end game is to acquire the company it might not be the \"right approach\".\n\n\"I actually think if he was truly serious about the takeover attempt, he would have started at a price and left the window open for negotiation,\" he said.\n\nThe plan will expire on 14 April next year.\n\nChief Executive Parag Agrawal previously said the company was not being \"held hostage\" by the offer.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Musk said at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver: \"I am not sure that I will actually be able to acquire it.\" He added that he does have a \"plan B\", though he did not divulge it.\n\nMr Musk announced a 9.2% stake in the company earlier this month, but he is not the largest shareholder anymore. Asset management firm Vanguard Group disclosed that its funds now own a 10.3% stake.\n\nMr Musk has said he believes Twitter is limiting freedom of speech on the platform and he reiterated this at the Vancouver event. He has said his primary motivation would be to expand free speech - a US Constitutional right - on Twitter.\n\nMr Musk is being advised by the US investment bank Morgan Stanley. Meanwhile, Twitter is being helped by two banks, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, according to Bloomberg.\n\nTwitter is trying to make itself inedible to a predator. Its wrapping itself with spikes and covering itself with poison.\n\nThe poison pill strategy has been around for decades - and it works.\n\nTwitter will flood the market with new shares if Elon Musk buys more than 15% of the company. That would then dilute his share of the company. Clever.\n\nIt strongly suggests that Twitter's board will fight Mr Musk's bid to take control of the company.\n\nThis doesn't necessarily mean Twitter is saying it doesn't want to be bought. The mechanism simply gives the board more power to prevent a hostile takeover.\n\nElon Musk is likely now to appeal to shareholders. He's already said it would be \"indefensible\" if Twitter's board didn't put the offer to a shareholder vote.\n\nTwitter is finding out that being courted by the world's richest man can be flattering, but it's also hugely distracting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021", "Salah Abdeslam said he did not regret failing to carry out the plot to kill\n\nThe main defendant in the trial over the 2015 Paris attacks has apologised to victims at the end of his testimony.\n\nProsecutors say Salah Abdeslam, 32, is the only surviving member of the so-called Islamic State cell that targeted Paris that night, killing 130 people.\n\n\"I wish to express my condolences and offer an apology to all the victims,\" he told the court.\n\nProsecutors say his suicide belt malfunctioned, but Salah Abdeslam said he had changed his mind.\n\nHe is facing charges of murder as part of an organised terrorist gang but is not accused of killing anyone personally. He began his testimony by pointing out that he himself had killed or injured no-one.\n\n\"I know that hatred remains... I ask you today that you hate me with moderation,\" Salah Abdeslam told the court in a tearful statement. \"I ask you to forgive me.\"\n\nHis apology marked the end of his testimony, after remaining silent in the early days of the trial, apart from occasionally railing against the court.\n\nOne of his defence lawyers asked him if he regretted not carrying out his plan to kill.\n\n\"I don't regret it. I didn't kill these people and I didn't die,\" he replied.\n\n\"I would like to say today that this story of November 13 was written with the blood of the victims. It is their story, and I was part of it,\" he added.\n\n\"They are linked to me and I am linked to them,\" he said in a quivering voice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe attacks took place on 13 November when a 10-man squad of heavily armed jihadists targeted several sites across Paris, including the Bataclan concert hall and Stade de France.\n\nNine of the attackers either blew themselves up or were shot dead. French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam is thought to be the last survivor of the group.\n\nIt is believed that he travelled to Paris from his home in Brussels along with the other attackers and was intending to blow himself up. Why he failed to do so - technical malfunction or a last-minute change of mind - is a key question the victims' families want answered.\n\nHe has claimed he had planned to blow himself up in a crowded bar but changed his mind after seeing the people whom he was about to kill.\n\nSalah Abdeslam faces a life sentence if convicted. He has already been handed a jail sentence by a Belgian court for his part in a shootout in Brussels with police that led to his arrest.", "The European Highlander runs between Cairnryan in Dumfries and Galloway and Larne in County Antrim\n\nA P&O ferry that operates between Scotland and Northern Ireland must have a \"small number of deficiencies\" addressed before it can resume service.\n\nThe European Highlander has been inspected by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).\n\nA second P&O ferry operating on the Cairnryan to Larne route, the European Causeway, was earlier detained for two weeks over safety concerns.\n\nIt sailed again on 9 April but with limited services.\n\nSafety fears were raised after P&O replaced nearly 800 seafarers with cheaper agency staff last month.\n\nThe firm suspended most of its sailings but reportedly only expected the disruption to last up to 10 days.\n\nSome services resumed on the Cairnryan to Larne route on 11 April.\n\nInspections also prevented a number of other ferries from operating.\n\nThey included the Spirit of Britain on the busy Dover to Calais route, which has since been cleared to sail again.\n\nA spokesperson for the MCA said: \"The Spirit of Britain has been released from detention and can commence operations when P&O Ferries are ready.\n\n\"The inspection of the European Highlander is now complete; there are a small number of deficiencies and the MCA requires confirmation that these have been rectified before the vessel is free to resume service.\n\n\"There are no further inspections of P&O Ferries at the moment.\"\n\nOther ferries that have been inspected and cleared to sail by the MCA include the Pride of Hull, which operates between Hull and Rotterdam; Norbay, which runs from Liverpool to Dublin.", "\"I was thinking what would happen if I would receive a message that Maks has died, what would I do?\", she says. \"And I just started crying in the middle of the street because I don't have any answer to that.\"\n\nWe are sitting in the office of her volunteer centre in Kyiv, where boxes of supplies - food, medical kits and armoured vests - are being gathered to be sent off to Ukrainian forces on the eastern front: the epicentre of the Russian offensive.\n\nHer sense of purpose is twofold: her nation and her family, with her 26-year-old cousin Maksim, or Maks for short, fighting in Mariupol.\n\nThe boy she grew up with, whom she describes as a kind and respectful engineering student, is one of the last remaining Ukrainian defenders holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in the city, somehow withstanding the ferocious firepower of one of the world's biggest armies.\n\nPerhaps a couple of thousand soldiers and civilians are there, in the Cold War-era network of bunkers and tunnels, where food, water and time are running out. For more than a month she had no word from him but spoke to him briefly this week.\n\n\"He never told us about the real conditions, probably he didn't want to upset us\", she says. \"But they have very little food and medical supplies - and it's harder and harder to treat wounded soldiers.\"\n\nGrowing up in Sumy, north-eastern Ukraine, Maks's mother - Olena's aunt - wanted him to join the army, calling it \"a school of life for men\".\n\nWhen he was called to fight in Mariupol, she was initially relieved, thinking the city, a little further along the coast from the occupied territories of the Donbas, would be spared the worst.\n\nBut Russia is determined to establish a land corridor through eastern Ukraine to Crimea - and that would have to run through Mariupol. And so Russian forces have besieged it for some seven weeks. Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky said tens of thousands may have died in the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Olena Nikulina says her cousin has become \"a true hero of Ukraine\"\n\n\"I feel terrible about him being there\", says Olena, struggling to hold back her tears. \"First of all, I feel very sorry about not speaking to him as much as I could while we still had a connection. It felt terrible when my aunt sent me a message at 06:00 to say that Maks' friend was probably dead and she's so worried about him.\"\n\nI ask of the pride she must feel towards the boy who used to drive her in his car - and became a Ukrainian fighter who refused Russia's demands to surrender.\n\n\"I would have never imagined my cousin to become a true hero of Ukraine and of Mariupol\", she replies with a smile. \"It's obviously a very bitter sense of pride in the sense that he's in a life-threatening situation. I dream of the day he will return and I will be able to tell this to him.\"\n\nOn the shelves in the volunteer centre are spoils of war: Russian soldiers' equipment, downed missiles and fragments of a Russian fighter jet that the Ukrainians proudly exhibit as symbols of an invasion that has so far not gone Moscow's way.\n\nBut the Kremlin will surely be determined that the eastern offensive does not repeat the mistakes of the west, from where Russian troops have now retreated.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is thought likely to want a tangible gain by 9 May - the annual commemoration of Victory Day against Nazi Germany - and Mariupol could serve him that.\n\nThat's a fear shared by another relative, Vladimir Vasilyuk, whose 23-year-old son Danilo is also fighting in the Azovstal plant. They're still in regular contact.\n\n\"The boys are lacking ammunition\", Vladimir says, \"but they don't want to leave because they're protecting the civilians - they don't want to abandon them.\"\n\nRussian service equipment on show at the volunteer centre\n\nHis composed, almost impassive look begins to break as he talks more of his only child, lowering his eyes with a sharp intake of breath.\n\n\"I don't sleep at night\", he admits. \"If I had a chance to go there, I would. I don't think the city is worth the loss of his life. But the boys made their choice.\n\n\"Maybe it's my fault that he joined the army, because I always took him to training and I prepared him for it\", he adds. \"His main goal was always to make our country better.\"\n\nWe stand beneath a monument in Kyiv covered up by sandbags spray painted in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag. The bells of the golden-domed St Michael's Church chime five.\n\n\"I am sure we will see each other again\", Vladimir says, \"it's a matter of time. But if I could pass a message to him now it would be that I love him and I'm waiting for him.\"", "Viatcheslav Kantor, pictured with President Putin, donated to hospital used by the royals and Prince Charles's charity\n\nA Russian oligarch's charity, which donated to a private hospital used by the Queen and the Royal Family, has had its bank accounts frozen.\n\nThe Charity Commission has launched an inquiry into the charities of Viateschlav Kantor, a billionaire sanctioned by the UK over Ukraine.\n\nOne of Prince Charles's charities, The Prince's Foundation, had also been promised £3m.\n\nThe Russian-born billionaire had been made a \"life governor\" of the private hospital in Marylebone, of which the Queen is patron.\n\nBut Mr Kantor has stepped down from that role and as a trustee of the hospital, which is known for its links to royalty.\n\nThe King Edward VII recently opened the \"Kantor Medical Centre\", a new wing built with Mr Kantor's support, but in the wake of the sanctions, his name has been removed.\n\nDonations were paid through the Kantor Charitable Foundation, whose bank accounts have now been frozen by the charity regulator.\n\nThe King Edward VII's private hospital is used by members of the Royal Family\n\nThe Charity Commission inquiry will decide whether Mr Kantor's charities - the Kantor Charitable Foundation, the Kantor Foundation and the World Holocaust Forum Foundation - can continue to operate.\n\n\"We are committed to protecting the integrity of the charitable sector and are clear that an individual sanctioned in the UK cannot act as a trustee,\" said Tim Hopkins, Charity Commission assistant director.\n\nA King Edward VII's Hospital spokesman said: \"In the light of the difficult position [Mr Kantor] now finds himself in, he has decided to step back completely from all charitable activity in the UK.\"\n\nThe spokesman said the action was \"out of respect for the important and valuable work of the many charities he has supported\" and that Mr Kantor had agreed that his name would no longer be attached to these projects.\n\nMr Kantor's charity also made donations to The Prince's Foundation, an education and training charity set up by the Prince of Wales.\n\nCharity records show £600,000 was paid to the foundation over two years, as part of a pledge for £3m, intended to be paid in stages until 2028.\n\nMr Kantor's charity remains listed as a patron of the foundation.\n\nThe Prince's Foundation says it won't comment on individual donations, but it is understood that donors would have been subject to a process of due diligence, based on what was known at the time.\n\nAmong other causes supported by the sanctioned oligarch were the Thrombosis Research Institute, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Anna Freud Centre and the Royal Opera House.\n\nEarlier this month Mr Kantor was added to the list of oligarchs facing UK government sanctions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Kantor was described by the UK government as the \"largest shareholder of fertiliser company Acron, with vital strategic significance for the Russian government\".\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said when announcing the further sanctions: \"We are showing the Russian elite that they cannot wash their hands of the atrocities committed on Putin's orders.\"\n\nA 2020 report on Russian influence, by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, had warned of UK charities being \"willing beneficiaries of Russian money\" and enabling a \"reputation-laundering process\".", "Last updated on .From the section Crawley\n\nLeague Two side Crawley have suspended manager John Yems over \"serious and credible accusations\" that he used discriminatory language and behaviour towards his players.\n\nA statement on the club's website said it had been made aware of the allegations against the 62-year-old late on Friday.\n\n\"We take these allegations seriously and, effective immediately, have suspended him indefinitely as we investigate and consider further punitive action,\" it went on.\n\n\"Let us be clear: Crawley Town Football Club stands behind our players, employees and supporters, and we will never tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind.\"\n\nIt is understood the Football Association has been made aware of the allegations and is investigating.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Sussex on Saturday, Yems said it was \"the first he's heard of the allegations\", that he \"hasn't been contacted directly by the club\", and he is not currently in a position to comment - but \"hopes to do so early next week\".\n\nCrawley are currently 12th in League Two and travel to Mansfield on Saturday.\n\nYems took over in December 2019 for his second spell at the club.", "Nadine Dorries said her dyslexia can make it \"difficult\" to find the correct expression when speaking\n\nThe culture secretary has said dyslexia caused her to mix up her words in a video that has been shared on social media.\n\nIn the TikTok video, Nadine Dorries talks about being able to \"downstream\" instead of download films online and refers to tennis courts as \"pitches\".\n\nShe said it was tough seeing commentators \"mock me for something that is beyond my control\".\n\n\"I have dyslexia, which means that when I speak I often run my words together.\"\n\nIn the video, posted on Friday by Conservative MP Luke Evans on his TikTok account, he asks the cabinet minister about what her government department does.\n\nShe tweeted on Saturday to defend herself against the criticism she faced over the terms she used in the video, saying it can be difficult finding the right expression when speaking.\n\n\"Dyslexia affects people differently. For me, it affects my speech more than my writing, which is why I find solace in writing\", she said.\n\nIn the video Ms Dorries also says: \"We want to make the internet in the UK the safest internet in the world.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nadine Dorries This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn her tweet, Ms Dorries said it can be \"difficult\" being in front of a camera, writing a book or just speaking to a friend.\n\n\"I've been in politics a long time and you grow a thick skin. It's why I haven't spoken publicly much about how it affects me.\n\n\"For other dyslexia sufferers, we learn that it's what you achieve in life that counts, not what those who mock you say.\"\n\nThe NHS describes dyslexia as a common learning difficulty that mainly causes problems with reading, writing and spelling.\n\nA spokeswoman from one dyslexia support charity, the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre, said: \"Dyslexia affects around one in ten people and is different for everyone.\n\n\"It mainly affects writing and spelling as well as organisation and memory. People with dyslexia, especially with the right help and support, can be very successful in whatever they choose to do.\"", "P&O Ferries services were suspended after the company sacked 800 workers\n\nThe first P&O ferry that operates from Dover to Calais has been cleared to sail again.\n\nThe Spirit of Britain had been detained by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).\n\nIt has been conducting trial sails up and down the English coast between Dover and New Romney, a marine traffic website has shown.\n\nSafety fears were raised after P&O replaced nearly 800 seafarers with cheaper agency staff last month.\n\nThe marine traffic website, which shows the live positions of ships, reports the ferry's destinations as \"TRIALS\".\n\nP&O tweeted on Saturday morning that its services remain suspended.\n\nThe MCA previously said the Spirit of Britain \"has been released from detention and can commence operations when P&O Ferries are ready\".\n\nThe firm suspended most of its sailings but reportedly only expected the disruption to last up to 10 days.\n\nHowever inspections prevented a number of ferries from operating, which contributed to major travel disruption near Dover in the run-up to, and during the, Easter holidays.\n\nWhen the Spirit of Britain was detained earlier this month, P&O Ferries were told to fix a number of safety issues before a second inspection by the MCA.\n\nP&O operates four ferries across the English Channel between Dover and Calais.\n\nThe Pride of Kent remains under the detention of the MCA and two other P&O ferries on this route have yet to be inspected.\n\nThe removal of these four P&O ferries from service had a substantial impact on passenger and freight traffic, affecting both holidays and trade.\n\nThe Easter holidays created a major bottleneck, as thousands of lorries queued to cross the channel alongside families going on holiday in Europe. There were also problems with a key IT system for custom checks at the UK's busiest port after Brexit.\n\nThe last week has seen problems ease as holidays ended, which meant capacity has improved. Trade volumes are often lower in the week after a major bank holiday.\n\nThe European Highlander, a P&O ferry that operates between Larne in Northern Ireland and Cairnryan in Scotland, has been found to have a \"small number of deficiencies\" that need to be addressed before it can resume service, the MCA said.\n\nP&O currently has one ferry, the European Causeway, operating on this route between Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOther ferries that have been inspected and cleared to sail by the MCA include the Pride of Hull, Norbay and the European Causeway.\n\nThe Pride of Hull, which operates between Hull and Rotterdam; Norbay, which runs from Liverpool to Dublin; European Causeway (Larne - Cairnryan) and Spirit of Britain (Dover - Calais) have been inspected and cleared to sail by the MCA.", "Guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020, new research shows.\n\nData from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020.\n\nWhile suicides contributed to the toll, the data shows that homicides form the majority of gun-related deaths.\n\nMore than 390 million guns are owned by US civilians.\n\nAccording to the research - which was published this week in the New England Journal Medicine - the rise in gun-related deaths among Americans between the ages of one and 19 was part of an overall 33.4% increase in firearm homicides nationwide.\n\nOver the same time period, the rate of firearm suicides in the US rose by 1.1%.\n\nThe overall rate of gun deaths of all reasons - suicide, homicide, unintentional and undetermined - among children and teenagers rose by 29.5%, more than twice that of the wider population.\n\n\"We continue to fail to protect our youth from a preventable cause of death,\" said a research letter published in the journal on Wednesday.\n\nThe rate of gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents rose among both men and women and across ethnic demographics between 2019 and 2020, with the largest increase among black Americans.\n\nIn past years, gun-related deaths were second only to car crashes as the leading cause of death among young Americans. Car deaths, however, have fallen over time and in 2020 approximately 3,900 Americans under 19 died in vehicle crashes.\n\nIncidents of drug overdoses and poisonings rose 83.6% between 2019 and 2020, and now are the third leading cause of death in that age group. A separate study published earlier in April found that 954 young people died of overdoses in 2020, compared to 492 in 2019.\n\nGun violence in the US has increased since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020.\n\n\"The reasons for the increase are unclear,\" the research letter said. \"It cannot be assumed that firearm-related mortality will later revert to pre-pandemic levels\".\n\nA separate study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in February, found that 7.5 million US adults - just under 3% of the population - became first-time gun owners during the pandemic between January and April 2021.\n\nThis, in turn, exposed 11 million people to household firearms, including five million children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Jo Hamilton says subpostmasters have lost everything and need full compensation\n\nA year since wrongful convictions of subpostmasters were first overturned, most say they are no closer to agreeing a financial compensation settlement.\n\nThey were wrongly accused of theft and false accounting by the Post Office due to faulty software.\n\nOne victim, Jo Hamilton, told the BBC: \"Subpostmasters have lost everything and they need it to be given back.\"\n\nThe Post Office said it wanted to provide \"full, fair and final settlements\".\n\nThe case has been described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in legal history.\n\nThe faulty software installed in the post offices made it look like money had been going missing from branches.\n\nThirty nine individuals had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal in April 2021, paving the way for more than 30 others to have their convictions overturned since then.\n\nMs Hamilton, who had a criminal conviction hanging over her for 12 years, has told the BBC's Panorama programme that \"justice would be for everyone to be put back to where they would have been had none of this happened\".\n\nThe Post Office has agreed to make interim payments of up to £100,000 to most of those who have had their convictions quashed. However, the solicitor representing many of the victims says his clients are still a long way from reaching any final settlements.\n\nNeil Hudgell said the Post Office's proposed figures for damages are not adequate for his clients. As a result he is asking for more interim payments, and pressing the government and the Post Office to ensure cases are completed by end of this year as he believes subpostmasters are \"running out of time and money\".\n\nThe government has already agreed to pay the entire bill for compensation as the Post Office's sole shareholder.\n\nThe Post Office said: \"We want to provide full, fair and final settlements and are urging the government, who are the funders of the compensation, to help us reach agreement with the legal representatives of the postmasters and therefore be able to make payments as soon as possible.\"\n\nBut those individuals are not the only ones still waiting. There are more than 600 others who were prosecuted by the Post Office on the basis of Horizon software, with 33 individual cases currently being considered by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in England and Wales, and nine in the same process in the Scottish legal system.\n\nOf more than 2,000 others who lost out financially because of the faulty Horizon software just over half have now received an offer of compensation. Of those 892 payments have been made totalling £7.1m, and 44 applications are now in a dispute resolution process because the offer was rejected. Hundreds of others are still waiting to hear if they qualify. Many of these individuals were dismissed from their jobs, and lost their businesses without ever being criminally prosecuted.\n\nSome 555 individuals who brought a civil case against the Post Office have also been locked out of compensation. That case forced the Post Office to admit the flaws in the software, and paved the way legally for much of what has followed, and yet most of their settlement was swallowed up in legal fees.\n\nNoel Thomas wants those in charge to feel some consequences\n\nPostal Affairs Minister Paul Scully said last month that those individuals would be given the same level of compensation as others, but has yet to publish details as to how that will happen.\n\nNicola Arch is one of that group and is frustrated to still not have any answers. \"Our lives have been spent fighting all the time which is draining, especially when we have more fighting left to do it seems,\" she tweeted recently.\n\nA public inquiry into the scandal has spent the first two months hearing harrowing evidence from former subpostmasters in England and Wales, and will travel to Northern Ireland and Scotland in May to hear the human impact of the decisions taken by Post Office bosses.\n\nHowever, all victims are hoping that someone within government, the Post Office and Fujitsu, who made the Horizon software, will be held to account. But the calling of those witnesses will not get underway until the autumn, as the inquiry has announced another delay in its progress.\n\nNoel Thomas, who was wrongly jailed for nine months on a charge of false accounting, said he wants those in charge to feel some consequences. \"People in their position, being paid a lot of money, hiding the truth; make them feel like I felt when I lost everything overnight,\" he told Panorama.\n\nThat celebration at the High Court last year marked a huge achievement for victims fighting a seemingly impossible battle, but it has certainly not been the end of the story.\n\nYou can watch Panorama's The Post Office Scandal on BBC One on Monday 25 April at 20:00 BST in England, at 22:40 BST in Wales and Scotland, and at 22:45 BST in Northern Ireland, or via iPlayer.\n• None Why were hundreds of sub-postmasters prosecuted?", "On Thursday, trauma surgeon David Nott was in London - a long way from Ukraine. But that didn't stop him from helping to save the leg of a man who'd been caught by a blast in the war-ravaged country.\n\nOleksandr, the doctor who actually carried out the operation, had never performed the tricky procedure before. But a little over a week previously he had watched Prof Nott demonstrate how it was done inside a Ukrainian hospital.\n\nAnd so Oleksandr took a photo of the wound with his smartphone and sent it to Prof Nott, who had recently flown back to the UK. The experienced British war surgeon confirmed the operation was necessary. He'd also previously given Oleksandr a video talking him through how it was done.\n\n\"I was quite nervous and it was slowly, step-by-step surgery, but it went well thanks to David Nott,\" Oleksandr says.\n\nProf Nott, who was born in Carmarthen in west Wales, has previously worked in conflict zones including Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.\n\nFortunately for Oleksandr and his patient, the consultant surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in London had made Ukraine the latest destination in his mission to train doctors how to treat war wounds.\n\nRussia's tactics of bombarding and shelling cities means Ukraine's hospitals are currently seeing many blast injuries.\n\n\"It is the worst possible way of attacking the opposition, by simply shelling,\" says Prof Nott, in his first interview since returning from Ukraine. \"It causes enormous damage. It causes dreadful, dreadful injuries.\" These include shrapnel wounds to soft tissue, bones and limbs.\n\nDavid Nott has worked in conflict zones all over the world\n\nEven just the shockwave of such a blast can do huge damage, he says. The \"blast wind\" in its wake is capable of amputating limbs. Being thrown against buildings can cause traumatic injuries, too.\n\nBarotrauma - physical injury caused by changes in pressure during an explosion - is a particular concern because of Russia's use of thermobaric weapons, also known as vacuum bombs. These can cause bleeds on the brain and in the lungs, causing victims to cough up blood. They are also capable of bursting ear drums and perforating bowels.\n\nWhile he says he has been all over Ukraine - \"north, east, south-east, west\" - Prof Nott does not want to talk about the specific hospitals or areas he has visited for fear that Russian forces will target them - and for the same reason, the BBC is not using Oleksandr's full name or location.\n\nDuring the war in Syria, he used a Skype connection from his office in London to assist with an operation in Aleppo - only for the hospital to be bombed a few days later. He has spoken about how he will never know if the two were connected.\n\nNow Prof Nott says 115 hospitals in Ukraine have already been shelled by Russia.\n\n\"Blowing up hospitals and killing doctors is a real weapon of war too, it's just despicable,\" he says.\n\nWhile he was in Ukraine, Prof Nott brought as many doctors as possible into operating theatres to watch him carry out operations on warzone injuries, including filling holes in limbs, grafting skin and covering exposed bones.\n\nBut the mission, a combined venture between his own David Nott Foundation and the humanitarian group UOSSM International, did not end when he left the country as he would soon end up advising Oleksandr remotely before the complicated leg operation.\n\nThis involved taking a flap of skin from behind the patient's knee to close a wound and prevent infection getting into the exposed bone.\n\n\"They are very difficult operations, they are not easy and they go wrong and cause problems,\" Prof Nott says.\n\nBut despite these challenges, the result was \"miraculous\", he says. \"It worked really well.\"\n\nFor Oleksandr's part, he says it was important to have the advice of someone with practical experience of the operation: \"It's a relief to us when he tells us it will be OK.\"\n\nHe is full of praise for Prof Nott, who he says has \"showed us ordinary doctors how to fight on the medical frontline\".\n\nOleksandr says knowing how to carry out these types of procedure is \"very necessary in our situation\" because there are so many shelling injuries and open fractures that need to be treated.\n\nProf Nott, through his charity the David Nott Foundation, has translated a series of slides and videos on how to treat war wounds into Ukrainian \"which went on as many of the doctors' phones as it possibly could\".\n\nHe also hopes those like Oleksandr that he has taught will pass on what they have learned. \"He will train other people how to do it, they'll train other people to do it and then hopefully everyone will know how to do it in the not-too-distant future,\" Prof Nott says.\n\nUnfortunately, it seems the demand for these skills in Ukraine will not go away any time soon.\n\nEarlier this month, Ukraine's foreign minister said the battles in the eastern Donbas region would resemble World War Two, with the use of \"thousands of tanks, armoured vehicles, planes, artillery\".\n\nTo Prof Nott, the scenes coming out of cities like Mariupol are reminiscent of what he previously witnessed in Aleppo.\n\nFile picture of an operating theatre in Ukraine - unconnected to David Nott's mission\n\n\"It's exactly the same as Syria, exactly the same tactics,\" he says.\n\n\"Aleppo, when I was there by 2016, was completely flattened, the whole place was completely and utterly destroyed.\"\n\nOleksandr says he is now treating \"awful injuries\" that he had hoped never to see.\n\n\"We would like to treat normal trauma, like grannies and grandpas who need joint replacements, common fractures,\" he says.\n\nBut he adds: \"We are doing our job day by day and whatever happens we will stay at home and do what we should do.\"", "A 43-year-old man from Tamworth was arrested on Friday\n\nA man has been arrested after a body was found in a car at a hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA 56-year-old man from Kingstanding, Birmingham, was found dead in the car park of Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield on Friday.\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested a 43-year-old man from Tamworth on suspicion of murder. He remains in police custody.\n\nThe victim's family has been informed, police said.\n\nOfficers said the car was removed for a forensic examination and the area of the car park that was closed has been reopened.\n\nA post-mortem examination will take place soon and police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has been criticised for leaving a note for civil servants, saying \"sorry you were out when I visited\".\n\nThe note, printed on government paper with Mr Rees-Mogg's title, was left at empty desks and read \"I look forward to seeing you in the office very soon.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg has said all civil servants must stop working from home.\n\nFDA union boss Dave Penman said the note was crass and insulting, and undermined civil service leadership.\n\nA source close to Mr Rees-Mogg confirmed the note, which has been widely shared on social media, was genuine.\n\nThe note, which was signed off by the Cabinet Office minister \"with every good wish\", was left in a \"completely empty\" office, the source said.\n\nThe source added that it was \"very important for the taxpayer and British public that government is working properly and the estate is well used\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dino Sofos This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFDA General Secretary Dave Penman said civil servants were planning to leave because of a renewed effort to have them working from Whitehall.\n\n\"Day after day we have good people telling us they will go because they know this is not about effective working practices,\" he said.\n\n\"They know it's a culture war that some ministers think plays well with their base.\n\n\"These notes from JRM are not only condescending, crass and insulting, they completely undermine the leadership of the service.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan also condemned Mr Rees-Mogg's actions in a tweet, saying: \"What a pointless nasty gesture.\"\n\nFormer Conservative MP David Gauke said the Cabinet Secretary \"really needs to have a word\" with Mr Rees-Mogg over the note.\n\n\"Not convinced this will get the best out of civil servants,\" Mr Gauke said in a tweet.\n\nThe BBC has asked the Cabinet Secretary for a comment.\n\nCivil servants have been told to return to the office\n\nEarlier this week, civil servants were told they must stop working from home and return to the office to ensure government buildings are at full capacity.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg wrote to cabinet colleagues urging them to send a \"clear message\" to the civil service about returning.\n\nHe also sent a league table of how many officials were at their desks on a daily basis this month, which shows in some departments daily average of staff in the workplace was lower than a third.\n\nAverage daily attendance in the week of 4 April was 44%, figures show.\n\nThe government's recommendation for people to work from home ended in January, after being reintroduced in the face of the emergence of the Omicron variant last year.", "A pill to help treat an overactive bladder - which affects millions of women - could soon be available to buy in the UK without prescription.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) wants women and doctors to submit their views.\n\nAquiette tablets treat the \"urge to pee\" condition which can cause frequent toilet trips and distressing accidents.\n\nSymptoms include having to urinate at least eight times a day and more than once during the night.\n\nIt would be the first time a medicine for the treatment of overactive bladder would be available without prescription.\n\nDr Laura Squire, from the MHRA, said: \"For many women, an overactive bladder can make day-to-day living extremely challenging.\n\n\"It can impact on relationships, on work, on social life, and it can lead to anxiety and depression.\n\n\"Fortunately there are treatments around, and from today you will have a chance to have your say on whether one of those treatments, Aquiette, can be available for the first time without a prescription.\"\n\nMinister for Women's Health Maria Caulfield said: \"When it comes to sensitive issues such as bladder control, speaking to a GP may act as a barrier for some women to seek help.\n\n\"Reclassification of Aquiette would enable women to access vital medication without needing a prescription.\"\n\nThe Commission on Human Medicines has been consulted and has advised that it is safe for Aquiette to be made available over-the-counter at UK pharmacies.\n\nThe consultation will run for three weeks, closing on 6 May, 2022.\n\nThere are several types of incontinence, but this medication is designed to treat an overactive bladder condition only.\n• None Women need to talk about incontinence, physio says\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Louis is fifth in line to the throne\n\nPhotographs of Prince Louis have been released to mark his fourth birthday.\n\nThe pictures were taken earlier this month on the Norfolk coast by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThey show Louis - the youngest of her three children - enjoying a trip to the beach and holding a cricket ball.\n\nTo mark the prince's third birthday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released a photograph of him on his bike about to go to nursery for the first time.\n\nPrince Louis was born at St Mary's Hospital in London in 2018\n\nIn this year's series of four photos, Prince Louis is pictured on the dunes in Norfolk, wearing a grey jumper with a band of colourful stars, and a shirt and blue shorts.\n\nPrince Louis is fifth in line to the throne after his grandfather the Prince of Wales, his father Prince William, and older siblings Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nHe was born at the private maternity Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London at 11:01 BST on 23 April 2018, weighing 8lb 7oz.\n\nHis mother Catherine's photos have regularly been used to mark her children's birthdays.\n\nThe 40-year-old is patron of the Royal Photographic Society, and also released a pandemic photography book in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery last year.\n\nHold Still featured 100 photographs taken by members of the public during the pandemic, and the Duchess said it would serve as a \"lasting record of what we were all experiencing\".\n\nPrince Louis is the youngest of the couple's three children\n\nThe prince was pictured barefoot in the sand\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge with Prince Louis outside the Lindo Wing on the day he was born", "Police were called to Coventry Road and Gilbert Close (pictured), Bedworth on Saturday morning\n\nTwo men and a woman have been stabbed and at least eight other people injured in a town centre.\n\nOfficers were called at about 08:00 BST to reports of people being assaulted in Bedworth, Warwickshire, on Coventry Road and Gilbert Close.\n\nOne of the men who was stabbed, aged in his 20s, is in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nA 33-year-old man, from Bedworth, has been arrested and remains in custody, the force said.\n\nIt added he would undergo a mental health assessment and officers were not looking for any other suspects.\n\nThe other two stab victims have been discharged from hospital after treatment; the other victims all suffered minor injuries.\n\nOne woman told the BBC she was woken up by loud bangs on her front door and, when she answered, a man punched her twice and stabbed her in the throat with a pair of scissors.\n\nA neighbour, Sheila Corcoran, said the attacks had made her feel unsafe: \"You are always going to think now, is somebody going to come and bang the door?\"\n\nExtra police patrols have been put on in Bedworth following the attacks\n\nDet Sgt Rich Simpkins described it as a \"nasty incident\" and said he wanted to hear from anyone else who might have been attacked.\n\n\"We know that a number of people were in the area at around the time of the incident and that there may be more members of the public who may have been approached or assaulted,\" he said.\n\nExtra police patrols will be carried out in and around the town centre, the force said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teams of firefighters from all over Northern Ireland worked to put out the flames\n\nThe devastation from a deliberately-started fire can still be seen on the slopes of Slieve Donard, a year after the flames took hold.\n\nThe fires raged for three days, lighting the night sky above Newcastle and destroying an area of heathland the size of 325 rugby pitches.\n\nTeams of firefighters from all over Northern Ireland joined the battle against the flames.\n\nWhere a river acted as a natural firebreak the difference is clear.\n\nOne side is devoid of the \"mature heather and rich biodiversity\" that Cormac Dolan would expect to see.\n\n\"You're looking for more of a mosaic of vegetation in the ground, whereas here you've just got purple moor grass coming back so far, a year on from the fire,\" the National Trust wildfire recovery ranger said.\n\nHe is part of a team involved in helping the mountain recover.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rangers say Slieve Donard's landscape may take many years to fully recover\n\nWith funding from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), surveys are being done on the wildlife that lives here, as well as management of the faster-growing species, to give other plants time to return.\n\n\"Following the fire, you lose the ecological balance,\" Marc Vinas said, who is the lead ranger in the Wildfire Recovery Project.\n\n\"And then you have some species that respond quickly.\n\n\"Purple moor grass grows very well on the lowland areas of the mountain and has responded quicker than the heathland and the heather.\n\n\"That's why we see that yellowy colour, because it is getting dominant.\"\n\nMarc Vinas is part of the Wildlife Recovery Project\n\nThat has an impact on wildlife as well.\n\nBirds like the meadow pipit and skylark use the heather for nesting, and it is also a source of food for the red grouse.\n\nBut it is a slow-growing plant, and those bird species are fewer in number this year than before.\n\n\"The heather at the minute is at a stage called 'pioneer heather',\" Marc said.\n\n\"This is going to be for 10 years, if the burn was not deep that heather will be recovering from the roots.\n\n\"It will take 10 years just to get that base of heather back. And in 15 or 20 years, it will reach the mature stage. But this is not the end.\n\n\"After that it will start to die and open to give room to the sunlight to reach the ground again. Then the mosses and other wildflowers will be thriving under that.\"\n\nBird species are fewer in number than they were before\n\nGrazing livestock on the mountain helped control the faster-growing species, and how that is done is part of the work the rangers are carrying out to allow nature to recover.\n\n\"We have to compartmentalise the area, that is not easy because we cannot create fences,\" Marc said.\n\n\"At the minute we are creating a plan using innovative technologies that have been used in other properties in the National Trust in England and Wales, with GPS technology.\n\n\"It uses a very low-intensity pulse that tells the animal where it can graze, so you don't need to build a physical fence.\n\n\"Depending on the grazing results onsite, we can just send them to different areas to improve the condition of the habitat, breaking that dominance of purple moor grass.\"\n\nButterflies are being monitored by rangers\n\nThere have been more fires on the Mournes this year already.\n\nBut there is still birdsong in the air, and the numbers of butterflies and lizards on the mountain are being monitored by the rangers.\n\nIt will be a long, slow process.\n\n\"What we want is to reach as much as possible the maximum biodiversity as we had before,\" Marc said.\n\n\"Something that happened in days, we lost years of building that habitat.\n\n\"That habitat will take decades just to get back to what it was before.\n\n\"We'll make sure that that upland wildlife will be coming back to those recovering grounds in the Mournes.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been taken to hospital following a fire on a double-decker bus in the centre of Glasgow.\n\nThe incident took place shortly after midday in the city's Renfield Street and forced the closure of a number of streets while fire crews dealt with the blaze.\n\nThe bus driver and passengers were evacuated from the First Bus vehicle.\n\nPolice said a 54-year-old man was hurt, but his injuries were not life-threatening.\n\nA spokeswoman for First Bus said it would support the emergency services with their inquiries.\n\n\"The safety and well-being of our passengers, drivers and the public are our number one priority and we will be conducting a full investigation into how the incident happened,\" she said.", "Supporters of the bill gathered outside Walt Disney World in Florida earlier this month\n\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a controversial bill dissolving Walt Disney World's self-governing status in the state.\n\nThe move is seen as retribution for Disney's opposition to the state's so-called \"Don't Say Gay\" bill.\n\nThe company's status in the state in effect allowed Disney to operate as its own municipal government.\n\nIt included the ability to levy tax, build roads, control utilities and operate its own fire department.\n\nThe Florida bill will eliminate Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District and several others.\n\nThe measure, however, allows for districts to be re-established in the future.\n\nAt a bill signing ceremony on Friday, Mr DeSantis accused Disney of lying about the controversial bill, which bars many primary school classrooms from discussing sexual orientation.\n\n\"You're a corporation based in Burbank, California, and you're gonna marshal your economic might to attack the parents of my state,\" he said.\n\n\"We view that as a provocation, and we're going to fight back against that.\"\n\nMr DeSantis is seen as a contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination (file picture)\n\nOn Thursday, Florida's legislature passed a bill, which would largely remove Disney's powers in the special district where its theme park is based.\n\nDisney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nFollowing the move, the district will be dissolved by 1 June, 2023.\n\nThe decision to strip Disney of its status comes amid growing tension between the company and the state, as a result of its opposition to the gender and sexuality education bill signed by Mr DeSantis last month.\n\nThe bill prohibits any instruction about sexual orientation of gender identity between kindergarten and third grade in primary school.\n\nOpponents of the bill - which many have dubbed the \"Don't Say Gay\" law - say it will isolate and stigmatise LGBT youth, while supporters say it will protect children from inappropriate content.\n\nAfter initially staying quiet on the bill, Disney vowed to oppose it - and similar bills across the country - after facing intense pressure from employees.\n\nOn Friday, Mr DeSantis said that even if \"none of that [debate about the bill] had happened, this is the right thing to do\", adding that Disney's status was \"unlike anything else that we know in the state of Florida\".\n\nDisney is Florida's largest private employer, with about 80,000 jobs.", "With the Russian offensive centred on eastern Ukraine, Kyiv is beginning to return to a sense of calm.\n\nBut the city’s defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.\n\nThe BBC got rare access to the 131st battalion in the forests of the capital.", "Farmers in Pembrokeshire have got beef with the council's eat less meat message\n\nFarmers have been left furious after a rural council called on staff to eat less meat.\n\nThey want Pembrokeshire council to apologise after an internal newsletter urged staff to cut back on meat and dairy, saying a plant-based diet was healthier.\n\nThe council said it was part of a series of tips on saving the planet.\n\nOne of the county's many farmers, Charles George, of Wolf's Castle, called it a \"kick in the teeth\".\n\n\"They have got it completely wrong,\" he added.\n\n\"They should be out there encouraging people to eat local, to support local businesses, instead of having some vegan food that might have come from anywhere in the world.\"\n\nNFU Cymru has called for a meeting with the council's chief executive.\n\nFarmer Charles George said the message was a \"bit of a kick in the teeth\"\n\nPembrokeshire NFU vice-chairman Simon Davies said he reacted with disbelief to the memo and was disappointed by it.\n\n\"As farmers and as a union we work very hard as an industry to produce food of the highest quality and of the highest order,\" he said.\n\n\"My wish would be that Pembrokeshire council would endorse our products and instruct their families... to buy more locally-produced, locally-sourced products.\"\n\nThe note that sparked the row appeared in a staff newsletter\n\nFormer Pembrokeshire council leader and independent councillor, John Davies, called the message \"a wrong one\".\n\nHe said the council had shown a lack of respect and understanding and undermined the farming industry and should have only been urging people to cut down on meat and dairy bought \"from distant land\".\n\nHe accused the council of undermining an industry that \"produces food that produces for the economy of Pembrokeshire\".\n\n\"It has done so not just in the last 100 years but for centuries and continues to do so at a time when other industries have arrived in Pembrokeshire and have disappeared from Pembrokeshire\".\n\nPembrokeshire NFU vice-chairman Simon Davies said he was in \"disbelief\" at the memo\n\nSioned Haf Thomas, who lives in Cardiff and is from Pembrokeshire, posts on Instagram about veganism.\n\nShe said: \"I recognise that cutting out meat entirely is difficult, it's not easy.\n\n\"But every little change makes a difference, like cutting out meat. Even if it's a couple of meals a week without meat, then it reduces the environmental impact it has.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said councils should not be \"trying to dictate what staff can and cannot eat\".\n\nPlaid Cymru said communities \"must redouble\" efforts to support local businesses and food producers in the face of the rising cost of living.\n\nFormer Pembrokeshire council leader John Davies called the message \"a wrong one\"\n\nSamuel Kurtz, who is standing down as a Pembrokeshire county councillor this May and is the Welsh Conservative's rural affairs spokesman in the Senedd, said: \"What looks to have been a simple error has caused concern in the local farming community.\n\n\"Pembrokeshire is renowned for its fantastic agricultural produce, of high quality and sustainability, so the industry would expect support from the local authority.\"\n\nThe son of a Pembrokeshire beef farmer added all local authorities should be pushing a \"buy local\" message.\n\nLabour has also been approached for comment.\n\nThe council said the newsletter was part of a series of tips for saving the planet, with details gathered from an external source.\n\nThe statement was reproduced out of context and according to the authority, the newsletter is no longer shared.\n\nIt said it was supportive of the rural community and agriculture.", "Boris Johnson has not received any further fines for breaking lockdown rules, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe confirmation comes after sources told ITV News fines had been issued for a drinks party in the Downing Street garden attended by the PM in May 2020.\n\nMr Johnson has previously apologised for attending the \"bring your own booze\" event, saying he \"believed implicitly\" it was a work event.\n\nStrict Covid rules were in place when the event was held on 20 May 2020.\n\nPeople could not leave their homes - or be outside the place they lived - without a reasonable excuse, which included work where you couldn't work from home.\n\nOn the same day, the government Twitter account reminded people of the existing guidance that gatherings must be limited to two people outside.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to confirm whether fixed penalty notices have been issued over the event.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson arrived back in the UK after a two-day trip to India, during which he played down the partygate row, saying voters wanted the government to \"focus on the issues on which we were elected\".\n\nIn January, Mr Johnson confirmed he had attended the garden party for 25 minutes to thank staff for their work, but said in hindsight he should have sent everyone back inside.\n\nThe event came to light via a leaked email from Mr Johnson's then principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, inviting people to \"make the most of the lovely weather\". The email was sent to a distribution list of around 100 people, and the BBC has been told about 30 people attended.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Johnson, his wife Carrie and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined by the police for breaching lockdown rules by attending a gathering to celebrate his birthday in June 2020.\n\nAll three apologised but Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak rejected calls to resign.\n\nThe prime minister is known to have attended at least two more of the 12 events being investigated by Met Police - including the 20 May gathering - meaning he could be fined again.\n\nAsked during his trip to India whether he would still be in post by October - his target date for a trade deal with the country - he replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nBoris Johnson might have hoped his trip to India would help shift the focus away from the partygate saga but if anything, things appear to have got worse for the prime minister while he's been away.\n\nHe'll now face a parliamentary inquiry into whether he deliberately misled MPs in addition to the police investigation and Sue Gray report.\n\nThere are signs too that support among his own backbenchers is slipping away rather than hardening.\n\nSteve Baker, a former Johnson-backer who's now had enough, predicts in an interview with the Telegraph that the Conservatives will \"reap the whirlwind\" of partygate at the forthcoming local elections.\n\nRepeated calls to resign from opposition parties won't change the prime minister's fate, but the actions of his own MPs could do.\n\nAnd many of them are waiting for those local election results and to see whether further fines come the prime minister's way before making up their minds about his position.\n\nMr Johnson now faces an investigation by the Commons privileges committee, after MPs gave it the go-ahead on Thursday.\n\nNo 10 initially tried to delay a vote on approving the inquiry, but later backed down in the face of unease among Tory backbenchers.\n\nThe committee will determine whether Mr Johnson misled MPs by telling them Covid rules were followed in No 10 - a charge regarded as a resigning matter under the ministerial rulebook.", "Hakeem Hussain had suffered from asthma since the age of three, exacerbated by his mother's drug habit\n\nThe mother of a boy found dead in a freezing garden after an asthma attack has been found guilty of manslaughter.\n\nJurors were told Laura Heath \"prioritised\" her drug addiction over caring for Hakeem Hussain.\n\nThe court heard Heath had even repurposed one of the seven-year-old's inhalers as a makeshift crack pipe.\n\nThe 40-year-old was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence over Hakeem's death in Nechells, Birmingham, in November 2017.\n\nShe also admitted four counts of child cruelty at Coventry Crown Court, and is due to be sentenced on 28 April.\n\nProsecutors said Hakeem died alone and \"gasping for air\" in the garden of a friend where his mother had been staying.\n\nJust two days earlier, a nurse had told a safeguarding panel that he \"could die at the weekend\".\n\nLaura Heath paid for her £55-a-day drug habit by sex work and deceiving friends and family\n\nThe court heard Hakeem went to bed at about 22:00 GMT on 26 November, while his mother smoked more drugs, before she passed out in the same bed as him.\n\nHis breathing became more difficult in the night, thought to have been exacerbated by the second-hand smoke.\n\nHe had not been able to access his preventative inhaler for two days as it was left uncollected by his mother at his home on nearby Long Acre.\n\nUnable to rouse his mother, it is thought he went outside for fresh air, where he was found the next morning.\n\nHis lifeless body was discovered in the garden by the friend Heath had been staying with and he carried him inside the home to the sofa.\n\nThe trial heard one of Hakeem's inhalers had been repurposed for smoking drugs\n\nHeath called emergency services and later told police he was \"freezing and his lips were blue\".\n\nShe said Hakeem would go out when unwell and that \"he must have fallen asleep\" outside.\n\n\"I just suspect he didn't wake me up, took himself to get fresh air and then probably fell asleep,\" she said in a police interview.\n\nA neighbour heard tapping at his window in the early hours, but saw nothing in the darkness, the trial heard.\n\nSocial services were aware of Hakeem before his death different agencies discussed his case just days before his death.\n\nA Child Safeguarding Practice Review into their contact with the youngster and his mother is set to be published within weeks.\n\nBut Andy Couldrick, chief executive of Birmingham's Children's Trust, said there were \"clear missed opportunities\" by social workers and that the conference \"should have happened earlier\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hakeem Hussain: Agencies should have acted more \"urgently\"\n\nJurors were told that health, education and social workers voted to act to protect Hakeem at the child protection conference with the family's social worker set to speak to Heath on the Monday, by which time Hakeem had died.\n\nNeelam Ahmed, family outreach worker at Hakeem's school, told jurors she had voted at the meeting \"to take Hakeem immediately into care\".\n\nShe and school nurse Melanie Richards rated Hakeem's safety as \"zero\" out of 10.\n\nIain Butlin Moran, who chaired the conference on the Friday, said \"standard practice\" for the family's social worker to update the family of the outcome of the meeting \"would have been to do that on the Monday\".\n\nThe court heard that Hakeem had told one witness he had no bed at his Long Acre home\n\nBirmingham Children's Trust was formed six months after Hakeem's death, following years of criticism of council-run services in the city.\n\nThe trial heard Heath - whose other three children were taken into care - failed to ensure her son's asthma was properly treated and monitored.\n\nShe also admitted failing to provide proper medical supervision and exposing her son to class A drugs before his death.\n\nConditions at her home at Long Acre were described as \"disgusting\" by one witness who said Hakeem had said he had no bed, and slept on the sofa, while there was evidence Heath used an upstairs bedroom for sex work to fund her drug habit.\n\nTeachers said Hakeem would often arrive late for school in an unwashed uniform, looking dirty, with uncut hair.\n\nHeath's friend, Chloe Cooper, said she offered to take him home with her the day before he died after being shocked at his home environment, but Heath refused.\n\nThe boy's father was in prison at the time of Hakeem's death, for an unrelated offence, the court heard.\n\nHakeem had been suffering from breathing difficulties and asthma since he was three years old and throughout his life authorities were concerned about his medical condition and how it was being mismanaged at home, West Midlands Police said.\n\nConditions at the property Heath had been staying were described by one friend as \"foggy and smoky\" inside and a \"mess\"\n\nHe was admitted to a high dependency unit for four days in September 2017 - his third admission - due to his \"life-threatening\" condition, the court heard.\n\nIn a card written by Heath to her son after his death, she questioned why he had not stayed inside or woken her up, but the trial heard he may have struggled to rouse her after she had smoked drugs.\n\nDet Insp Michelle Thurgood, who led the investigation, said his death was \"untimely, tragic and preventable\" with his mother failing in her duty of care to administer his medication.\n\n\"He was a young boy who should have been enjoying a carefree and happy childhood. I am saddened by what happened to him and the desperately unfortunate circumstances that caused his death,\" she said.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Heath had been told by several medical professionals about the importance of managing her son's asthma better, but pharmacy records showed that in the last two months of his life, Hakeem had been given only one third of the prescribed amount of preventer medication.\n\nShe also exposed him to known asthma triggers, like second-hand smoke, and toxicology evidence proved that Hakeem had inhaled tobacco smoke in the hours before his death and a hair sample showed he had also ingested heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis.\n\nGeorgina Davies from the CPS said: \"This was a tragic case of a young boy who was let down by his mother who should have protected him.\n\n\"The terrible choices that Laura Heath repeatedly made led to the loss of Hakeem Hussain and I welcome the jury's decision.\"\n\nLaura Heath had sole custody of Hakeem and was increasingly dependent on drugs\n\nAfter his death, staff and pupils at Nechells E-Act Academy had described Hakeem as a \"beautiful little boy, a great friend to many staff and children with a wicked sense of humour and an infectious giggle\".\n\n\"He totally stole the show with his performance as the 'Christmas Star' in the year two nativity play with his clear speaking voice and stage presence,\" the school said.\n\n\"There wasn't a dry eye in the house as he delivered his lines with poignancy, grace and humour.\n\n\"The twinkle in his beautiful eyes was as bright as the stars in the sky, and our love for him will shine out forever, from all of his Nechells family.\"\n\nThe NSPCC echoed criticisms that \"opportunities were missed by local agencies to step in and protect Hakeem\".\n\n\"Suffering from severe asthma meant Hakeem Hussain needed an attentive and loving parent who was always alert to his wellbeing,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Tragically he was instead totally neglected by his mother as she lost herself consuming heroin and crack cocaine.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kate and Gerry McCann pictured in 2017, 10 years after their daughter disappeared\n\nMadeleine McCann's parents have welcomed news that a German man has been formally made a suspect over the three-year-old's disappearance.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann said it reflected progress in the investigation, adding they still hoped to be reunited with Madeleine, who went missing in 2007.\n\nPortuguese prosecutors made Christian Brueckner an \"arguido\" on Thursday, but did not formally reveal his name.\n\nBrueckner has not been charged and denies any involvement in the case.\n\nMadeleine disappeared during a family holiday in Praia da Luz and investigators believe she was abducted from the apartment where the family were staying in the Algarve resort.\n\nPosting on the Official Find Madeleine Campaign Facebook page, Kate and Gerry McCann wrote: \"We welcome the news that the Portuguese authorities have declared a German man an 'arguido' in relation to the disappearance of our beloved daughter Madeleine.\n\n\"This reflects progress in the investigation, being conducted by the Portuguese, German and British authorities.\n\n\"It is important to note the 'arguido' has not yet been charged with any specific crime related to Madeleine's disappearance.\n\n\"Even though the possibility may be slim, we have not given up hope that Madeleine is still alive and we will be reunited with her.\"\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nGerman police first announced they were investigating Brueckner in connection with Madeleine's disappearance in 2020.\n\nHe is serving a prison sentence for drug offences in Germany and was also given a seven-year term for raping a 72-year-old woman.\n\nOn Thursday, a statement was issued by prosecutors in Faro, Algarve's main city, who said a person was made an \"arguido\" - which translates as \"named suspect\", \"formal suspect\" or \"person of interest\" - a day earlier.\n\nOn 3 May it will be 15 years since Madeleine was reported missing and under Portuguese law it would no longer be possible to declare someone a person of interest beyond this date. Declaring someone a person of interest is a necessary step to any criminal charges.\n\nIn its statement, though, Portugal's office of public prosecutions said the move was not driven by timing, but by \"strong indications\" of the practice of a crime.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police continue to treat Madeleine's disappearance as a missing persons inquiry.\n\nChristian Brueckner has not been charged over Madeleine's disappearance\n\nJim Gamble, a former police officer who led a 2010 review of the case commissioned by the Home Office, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the case against Brueckner was strong and the \"confidence of the German police\" should not be underestimated.\n\nHe said: \"This seems like a really strong case and that's why I don't think it is a procedural tick in a box to make sure they don't miss out because of the statute of limitations.\"\n\nThe child protection expert claimed a phone attributed to the convicted rapist placed him in the area within a 30-minute window. He also said Brueckner had burgled holiday homes in the area and had children's clothes in his camper van.\n\nHe continued: \"I think the circumstantial evidence that I know exists is extremely strong… I wouldn't be surprised if charges follow.\"\n\nThe Madeleine McCann case has been out of the news in Portugal for some time, and in the last few years almost all developments have emerged from the prosecutor's office in Germany.\n\nThis latest news has been widely reported, though in some cases not very prominently and with few details.\n\nVirtually everyone in Portugal knows about the case, though, with many having for months if not years followed the ins and outs. Not only the various criminal investigations, but the civil case in which Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann sued - ultimately unsuccessfully - the former lead detective on the case, Gonçalo Amaral, after he published a book about it.\n\nHe had already attracted a lot of criticism, particularly from British tabloids, which raised some hackles in Portugal, since the Judicial Police, or PJ, is in fact one of the country's most respected institutions.\n\nIt's not clear whether or when the Portuguese authorities might charge this or any other suspect in the case.\n\nWhile there are legal deadlines, the pandemic could be grounds for the courts to rule that more time is allowed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Svyatoslav Palamar, from the controversial Azov regiment, says Mariupol was and will stay Ukrainian\n\nOne of the last Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol has told the BBC that the besieged steelworks where they are holed up is largely destroyed above ground and civilians are trapped under collapsed buildings.\n\nSpeaking from the Azovstal plant - the last part of Mariupol not under Russian control - Svyatoslav Palamar from the controversial Azov regiment said defenders had repelled waves of Russian attacks.\n\n\"I always say that as long as we are here, Mariupol remains under control of Ukraine,\" he said.\n\nEarlier President Vladimir Putin called off a planned Russian assault on the steelworks - a maze of tunnels and workshops - and ordered his troops to seal it off instead.\n\n\"Block off this industrial area so that a fly cannot pass through,\" he said.\n\nMuch of Mariupol has been destroyed in weeks of heavy Russian bombardment and intense street fighting. Taking the Sea of Azov port is a key Russian war aim and would release more troops to join a Russian offensive in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nCapt Palamar said the Russians had fired on the steel plant from warships and dropped \"bunker-busting\" bombs on it.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify any of his account. But it tallies with testimony earlier this week from a Ukrainian marine commander also in the steelworks, who said fighters were outnumbered and running out of supplies.\n\n\"All the buildings in the territory of Azovstal are practically destroyed. They drop heavy bombs, bunker-busting bombs which cause huge destruction. We have wounded and dead inside the bunkers. Some civilians remain trapped under the collapsed buildings,\" Capt Palamar said.\n\nThe Azov regiment was originally a far-right group that was later incorporated into Ukraine's National Guard. Its fighters along with a Marine brigade, border guards and police officers are the last Ukrainian defenders left in the city.\n\nWhen asked how many Ukrainian defenders remained in Mariupol, Capt Palamar answered simply \"enough to repel attacks\".\n\nHe said that civilians were in separate locations away from fighters. They were in basements containing 80-100 people each but it was unclear how many civilians there were in total as some buildings had been destroyed and fighters could not reach them because of shelling. Entrances to some of the bunkers were blocked by heavy concrete slabs that only heavy machinery could move, he said.\n\n\"We keep in touch with those civilians who stay in places that we can get to. We know that there are small children there as young as three months old,\" he said.\n\nThe fighter appealed for civilians to be given safe passage out of the steelworks and called for a third country or an international body to act as a guarantor for their safety.\n\n\"These people have got through a lot already, through war crimes. They don't trust Russians, and they are scared,\" he said, adding that they feared torture and murder at the hands of Russian troops or deportation to Russia through so-called filtration camps.\n\nElderly civilians in the steelworks were in need of medicine while there were also about 500 seriously wounded fighters who were not getting the care they needed - including major surgery such as amputations.\n\n\"After 52 days of blockade and heavy fighting we are running of medicines. And then we also keep unburied bodies of our fighters whom we need to bury with dignity in Ukraine-controlled territory,\" he said.\n\nCapt Palamar said Ukrainian defenders also wanted to secure their own evacuation if possible - but there could be no question of surrender.\n\n\"As for surrender in exchange for the safe way out for civilians, I hope we all know whom we are dealing with. We definitely know that all guarantees, all statements of the Russian Federation are worth nothing.\"\n\nHe said many of the defenders left in Azovstal came from Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, as well as the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He himself had been married there and his child had been born there.\n\n\"I witnessed how this city was developing. How this city became the pearl of Azov and it's a hometown for me as well,\" he said.\n\n\"Russia is not renewing or rebuilding anything. It aims to destroy and terrorise... If we fall this horde will go further and the whole civilised world will be in danger.\"\n\nUkraine has accused Russian forces of bombing civilian shelters and of using weapons banned or restricted by international law - including phosphorus bombs and cluster munitions - in attacks on Azovstal.\n\nUkraine as well as the US and UK have announced investigations into the possible use of chemical weapons in Mariupol, something Russia has denied. The BBC cannot independently confirm the allegations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin orders forces to block off last Mariupol fighters in steel plant", "A US congresswoman has denied calling for an \"insurrection\" in Washington as part of a trial challenging her right to stand for re-election.\n\nMarjorie Taylor Greene is being tried under a Civil War era law that bars officials from holding office if they violate their oath to protect the US.\n\nThe Georgia Republican, a close ally to Donald Trump, is one of the party's most right-wing members in Congress.\n\nDemocrats claim she played a key role in the 6 January US Capitol riot.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Greene, 47, became the first sitting lawmaker to testify under oath about her alleged role in the attack in 2021, as Congress was meeting to cement Joe Biden's election victory over Mr Trump.\n\nShe testified to the Georgia courtroom that she \"had no knowledge of any attempt\" to illegally interfere with vote counting in Congress that day.\n\nShe also repeated false claims that Mr Trump actually won the election.\n\nThe case centres around a provision of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution - the \"Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause\" - which prohibits elected representatives from seeking office again if they \"engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof\".\n\nDemocrats may seek to use the same argument to bar Mr Trump from running if he attempts to throw his hat into the 2024 presidential election.\n\nIn a filing ahead of the trial, lawyers for Ms Greene said that she \"vigorously denies that she aided and engaged in insurrection to obstruct the peaceful transfer of presidential power\".\n\nIn court, Ms Greene said: \"I don't support violence of any kind,\" and denied having ever called for violence in her social media posts and media appearances.\n\nProsecutors allege that she made coded calls to arms on public platforms.\n\nFor example, on 5 January, one day before the riot, Ms Greene said in an interview: \"This is our 1776 moment\", in what lawyers said was a reference to the year that the US declared independence from Britain, triggering a war.\n\nUnder oath, she said that she had no memory of that statement and denied that references to 1776 amounted to a secret call for violence. The Georgia state seal hanging in the court, she noted, has the year \"1776\" written on it, prompting a laugh from the judge.\n\nHer lawyers have described her support for the 6 January riot as protected speech under the US Constitution's First Amendment, which covers the right to free expression.\n\nThe effort to ban Ms Greene from running is being led by Free Speech for People, a group that advocates for campaign finance reform. A similar suit against North Carolina Republican Madison Cawthorn was dismissed by a federal judge last month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins on... the US Capitol riot anniversary", "Some supermarkets are limiting how much cooking oil customers are able to buy as supplies are hit by war in Ukraine.\n\nTesco is allowing three items per customer. Waitrose and Morrisons have limited shoppers to two items each.\n\nThe majority of the UK's sunflower oil comes from Ukraine and disruption to exports has led to some shortages and an increased demand for alternatives.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium says the restrictions are a temporary measure \"to ensure availability for everyone.\"\n\nOlive, rapeseed and sunflower oils are included in the limits being put in place by some supermarkets, both in-store and online.\n\nIceland have not yet commented on pictures posted on social media of signs that have appeared in its stores limiting sales of two-litre and five-litre bottles of sunflower oil to one per customer.\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesperson for Waitrose said: \"We are closely monitoring the situation and working with our suppliers to ensure customers continue to have a choice of cooking oils.\"\n\nSignage at a Tesco store in Hatfield showed customers were limited to three per customer.\n\nGrocery expert Ged Futter says shoppers can be reassured that there are plenty of alternatives when it comes to cooking oils.\n\n\"We are used to an abundance of varieties, what we may see is that they become more limited,\" he says.\n\nBut he also warned that sunflower oil may soon be unavailable on the shelves. \"These limits may delay things a bit, but in a couple of months, there won't be any sunflower oil available to buy,\" he suggests.\n\nSainsbury's and Asda are not currently limiting how much cooking oil their customers can buy.\n\nA spokesperson for Sainsbury's said: \"We are working closely with our suppliers to make sure customers continue to have cooking oils to choose from including olive oil, vegetable oil and rapeseed oil.\"\n\nTom Holder from the British Retail Consortium said that the restrictions being put in place by some supermarkets are a temporary measure, \"to ensure availability for everyone.\"\n\nHe added that \"retailers are working with suppliers to ramp up production of alternative cooking oils, to minimise the impact on consumers.\"\n\nMorrisons has also introduced limits on the purchase of cooking oils.\n\nAnalysis by retail research firm Assosia also suggests that the reduced supply of sunflower oil as a result of the conflict in Ukraine is having an impact on prices.\n\nIt has tracked changes in the average cost of sunflower oil across major retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi and Lidl.\n\nIts data suggests that a one-litre bottle of own-brand sunflower oil has gone up by an average of 12p to £1.26 since January 2022 - an increase of more than 10%.\n\nFor a five-litre bottle, the increase was 38p or 6%. There had been no change in the average price of a one-litre of own-brand organic sunflower oil, which stood at £3.10.\n\nUK food manufacturers that use sunflower oil as an ingredient in their products, such as crisps and oven chips, have also reported concerns over supplies.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland have told consumers that some products labelled as containing sunflower oil may in fact contain alternatives such as rapeseed oil, in a move to try and make sure products remain available.\n\nThey cautioned that anyone with allergies should look out for extra information.", "Sajid Javid this week told the House of Commons he thought children's gender treatment services were \"bordering on ideological\"\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid is to review what immediate changes can be made to gender treatment services for children in England.\n\nThis could include changing the law to let the independent Cass review have access to an NHS database of young people who already received treatment.\n\nIt comes ahead of the review's report, due later this year.\n\nThis week Mr Javid told MPs services in this area were too affirmative and narrow, and \"bordering on ideological\".\n\nHe is now thought to be planning an overhaul of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which is run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, with clinics in London and Leeds.\n\nThe trust has defended itself, saying while there is a need for change, doctors already take into account the wider physical and mental health of children who are referred there.\n\nThe health secretary has been considering changing the law to allow a review of GIDS being led Dr Hilary Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to access a database of children who were treated by GIDS to see if any later regretted having treatments, such as puberty blockers. It is unclear how the process of giving access to the information would work.\n\nPuberty blockers are powerful drugs that block the actions of sex hormones and are used to delay the onset of puberty. Last year the Court of Appeal upheld the right of the trust to give the drugs to under-16s if they were deemed capable of giving consent.\n\nThe health secretary's move follows interim findings of Dr Cass's report into GIDS.\n\nShe found a lack of expert agreement around what constitutes gender dysphoria, long waiting lists for treatment and an absence of data on the success of different approaches.\n\nDr Cass also considered GPs and other non-GIDS staff felt \"under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach\" to children unsure of their gender, \"overshadowing\" other issues such as poor mental health.\n\nIn her opinion the present NHS service needed \"transformation\".\n\nThe only NHS gender identity facility for young people is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThere is one GIDS service in England, with clinics in London and Leeds, with other satellite services offering support.\n\nThey see approximately 2,500 young people each year, of which less than 10% have access to hormone treatment.\n\nGirls are more often referred to the service than boys.\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust said \"being respectful of someone's identity does not preclude exploration\".\n\n\"We agree that support should be holistic, based on the best available evidence and that no assumptions should be made about the right outcome for any given young person,\" it added.", "The UK has supplied next generation light anti-tank weapons to Ukraine\n\nThe UK is to provide Ukraine with more military equipment, the prime minister has confirmed in a phone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nBoris Johnson told Mr Zelensky more armoured vehicles, drones and anti-tank weapons would be sent to Ukraine, a Downing Street spokesman said.\n\nMr Zelensky thanked the PM for the training of more than 20 Ukrainian troops who arrived in the UK last week.\n\nUkraine was invaded by Russia two months ago this weekend.\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed the UK would be reopening its embassy in Kyiv next week, a move first announced yesterday.\n\nThe No 10 spokesman said this was a demonstration of \"our support and solidarity with the Ukrainian people\".\n\nThe Ukrainian soldiers receiving training in the UK are being instructed on how to use 120 armoured vehicles that will be supplied to the resistance effort against Moscow, the government has said.\n\nPresident Zelensky updated Mr Johnson on the situation in the Donbas, where Russia has been concentrating its military efforts in recent days. Both leaders condemned ongoing attacks by Russian forces against civilian targets, including in Mariupol, Odessa and Lviv.\n\nThe prime minister told Mr Zelensky Russia would be held to account for its actions and that the UK government was helping to collect evidence of war crimes. He also updated the president on new UK sanctions against members of the Russian military, Downing Street said.\n\nThe two leaders discussed how the UK would work with partners to develop a long-term security solution for Ukraine and spoke about discussions taking place with other nations and groups to provide further financial support, including at a G7 finance ministers' meeting last Wednesday.\n\nThe two leaders met in Kyiv two weeks ago\n\nThey also agreed on the importance of establishing a ceasefire and humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to leave the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The talks came as Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had started attacking a steel plant in the battered port city, in an apparent bid to eliminate the last stand by Ukrainian defenders.\n\nAn estimated 1,000 civilians remain sheltered in the Azovstal plant alongside the remaining 2,000 fighters.\n\nPresident Zelensky and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are both due to meet United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in the coming week, with the long-awaited prospect of a humanitarian corridor to allow people to leave Mariupol expected to be on the agenda.\n\nIn a news conference in a Kyiv metro station later on Saturday, Mr Zelensky said he was \"satisfied\" with the level of military support coming from the UK.\n\n\"We want more than we're being given, but we're satisfied,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"We cannot refuse or reject anything during the war from the biggest military aid, which is coming from the United States and the United Kingdom.\n\n\"There are many other friends in Europe, but I'm talking about volumes of help and I'm grateful for it.\"\n• None UK embassy in Kyiv to reopen next week, says PM", "People did not like the use of the term on the ice cream logo\n\nAn ice cream maker has dropped the words \"Little England beyond Wales\" from its packaging after complaints.\n\nUpton Farm used the term, which is sometimes used to refer to parts of Pembrokeshire, on its logo.\n\nDescribing it as \"a heritage phrase\", a spokesman said the company believed it helped celebrate its \"geography and place in the world\".\n\nBut it will now be scrapped and replaced with messaging that \"more clearly celebrates our Welshness\".\n\nPictures of the logo were put on social media, which reads: \"Pembrokeshire's own... made for you in Little England beyond Wales.\"\n\nSteve Thomas said on Twitter: \"I certainly won't be buying any of their produce again.\"\n\nPhilip James Lewis, tweeted: \"I grew up in north Pembrokeshire and was aware from an early age that the south of the county was sometimes referred to as 'Little England beyond Wales'.\n\n\"Even as a small child I remember feeling uncomfortable about it and thinking 'this is wrong'.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by JonnyValleyBoy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA BBC local history article described it as a \"curious\" name for the south part of Pembrokeshire, which developed following the arrival of one of the many \"invaders\" to the area, including the Romans, Vikings and Normans.\n\nIt added: \"The Flemish people who arrived in the 12th Century, after the Norman Conquest, made a lasting and unique impression, still present today in the geographical divide across the county between the English and Welsh language.\"\n\nBased in Pembroke Dock, Upton Farm has been supplying frozen goods around Wales for more than 30 years.\n\n\"Being part of a community business, we recognise the importance of understanding and listening to our customers and as our use of 'Little England' on the packaging of one of our ice creams has unwittingly caused offence to some, we will be removing that reference from any future packaging,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"We believed that was a heritage phrase that helped us show pride in being from the heart of Pembrokeshire and our intent was to celebrate our geography and place in the world.\n\n\"That pride will of course remain, but with messaging that more clearly celebrates our Welshness. We are sorry to those who took offence.\"", "The Kazu 1 sightseeing vessel - seen here in an archive photo - went missing with 26 people on board on Saturday\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed after a tourist boat went missing off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the Japan Coast Guard says.\n\nThey say the search is continuing in frigid waters for 16 others who were on board the Kazu 1 vessel.\n\nContact with the boat was lost after it said it was taking on water at 13:15 local time (04:15 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nThe Kazu 1 is believed to have been on a three-hour sightseeing voyage around the Shiretoko Peninsula.\n\nThe area is a designated UNESCO world heritage site, and boat trips are popular with tourists hoping to spot whales and sea lions as well as brown bears on the rocky beaches.\n\nThe crew managed to signal that the vessel was tipping at a 30-degree angle and starting to sink, according to Japanese media.\n\nPatrol boats and police and military aircraft were immediately dispatched to find the vessel. Local fishing boats were also taking part in the search operation.\n\nOf the 26 on board, two were crew and two were children.\n\nEarlier reports suggested that several people were pulled out of the waters - but it is unclear if they are among the confirmed 10 victims.\n\nWaves in the area had been high and local fishing boats had apparently decided to return to port by mid-morning.\n\nThe crew reportedly said that all those on board were wearing life jackets.\n\nBut temperatures in the area can dip as low as 0C (32F) when night falls.\n\nHokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula is popular with tourists in Japan for its wildlife and dramatic coastline", "Danielle Spencer, from Preston, says she is struggling to get warm as she lives without flooring\n\nA woman has told how she has to live in a home with bare floors due to a policy which demands social housing tenants rip up carpets and flooring when they move out.\n\nDanielle Spencer, 41, from Preston, said it was \"heartbreaking\" to sleep on a blow-up mattress on concrete and she was struggling to keep warm.\n\nHer former home was destroyed by fire.\n\nProgress Housing Group, which lets the accommodation, said it offered \"lots of support to tenants moving in\".\n\nThis included decoration vouchers and referrals to charities, it added.\n\nThe policy to rent out social housing fully unfurnished is meant to give new tenants a blank slate and prevent infestations but campaigners are asking for it to be reconsidered.\n\nMs Spencer said: \"I'm walking round and I can't even take my shoes off.\n\n\"I lost all my possessions in the fire, so I'm having to use an airbed. There's no carpet underneath so it's only a matter of time until it's going to pop.\"\n\nMs Spencer, 41, says she cannot afford new carpets\n\nMs Spencer, who has a 12-year-old daughter, said she was struggling to heat her home and feared she would \"end up in debt\".\n\n\"With energy prices rising it costs an absolute fortune,\" she said.\n\nAnother social housing tenant in Preston, who did not want to be identified after being forced to relocate as she fled from domestic violence, said her family was also living with no floor coverings.\n\nShe lost her job earlier in the coronavirus pandemic and had struggled to find money for new carpets or any organisations to help provide them.\n\nShe lives with her 17-year-old daughter and four-year old grandson, and said she was concerned about the effect it would have on them, adding: \"I worry about how I'm going to make it a home.\"\n\nCrisis schemes, run by local authorities, can provide support with furniture but only a few provide carpets or floorboards.\n\nIn Hertfordshire, while clearing her late mother's council house, Sarah Dillingham was told to remove the carpets, even though they had only been installed seven months earlier.\n\nShe said she asked the housing officer if the carpets could remain for the next tenant, but was told she would be fined if she left them in.\n\n\"I was absolutely dumbstruck,\" she said. \"It just seemed so wasteful.\"\n\n\"It beggars belief that people are having to live in properties with bare floors, when people are willing to leave them if they are wanted,\" she added.\n\nA Preston resident says living without floor coverings is upsetting\n\nSome charities offer support to buy carpets, but they can struggle to cope with demand.\n\nEnd Furniture Poverty, a campaign group which is urging social landlords to rethink the policy of stripping carpets, said flooring was an \"essential item\".\n\nHead of policy, Claire Donovan, said: \"They say it is because the flooring is dirty, or it may contain fleas if the previous tenants had pets, but in these cases it could be cleaned.\n\n\"Sadly it is quicker and cheaper to rip out the flooring rather than clean it.\"\n\n\"We urge social landlords to stop this at once and start thinking about the social and environmental cost,\" she added.\n\nProgress Housing Group executive director, Tammy Bradley, said \"predominantly floor coverings would be provided in kitchens and bathrooms only\", but \"on occasion, we do agree for floor coverings to be left\".\n\nHowever, she said: \"Even in these situations when we come to do the property works, there may be cause to take up the flooring for various reasons.\"\n\nShe added that the company offered further support to tenants, including referrals to charities and help with employment or fleeing domestic violence.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia's stated aim is to capture and control Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas\n\nRussia is aiming to take full control of southern Ukraine as well as the eastern Donbas region, a senior Russian commander says.\n\nMaj Gen Rustam Minnekayev was quoted in state media as saying that goal would allow Moscow to form a land bridge to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.\n\nHe also said it would give Moscow access to the Russian-backed separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova.\n\nIt is unclear if Gen Minnekayev's comments were officially sanctioned by the Kremlin, but they were widely cited in Russian state media including the Interfax and Tass news agencies.\n\nRussian defence officials told the BBC's Steve Rosenberg that they were \"looking into\" the general's comments, which - if confirmed - offer the first insight into Russia's potential plans in the coming weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, a senior EU official told Reuters that Russia is likely to intensify its attacks in eastern Ukraine and along the southern coast in the coming days, adding that the next two weeks may be decisive in the war.\n\nMoldova has summoned Moscow's ambassador over the comments, which its foreign ministry described as \"deeply concerning\".\n\nA small Russian-speaking breakaway region, Transnistria borders Ukraine from the west. It claimed independence after the fall of the Soviet Union in a bloody conflict, but is not recognised internationally and officially remains part of Moldova.\n\nA small detachment of around 1,500 Russian troops has been stationed in the region since 1995 as part of a truce agreement.\n\nGen Minnekayev, who is deputy commander of Russia's central military district, was speaking at a military event in the Sverdlovsk region on Friday.\n\n\"Control over the south of Ukraine is another way out to Transnistria, where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population,\" Gen Minnekayev said.\n\nMr Putin made similar claims, without providing evidence, about alleged discrimination against Russian speakers in Ukraine before launching the invasion on 24 February.\n\nAnd the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to them in his regular overnight address. \"The Russian invasion of Ukraine was intended only as a beginning, then they want to capture other countries,\" he claimed.\n\nHe earlier said Russia was planning on holding a series of sham independence referendums in occupied regions to create a series of pro-Russian breakaway states.\n\n\"If they ask you to fill out some questionnaires, leave your passport data somewhere, you should know this is not to help you,\" he warned.\n\n\"This is aimed to falsify the so-called referendum on your land if an order comes from Moscow to stage such a show. This is the reality. Be careful.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Ukrainian defence ministry said that referendums were planned in Kherson and occupied areas around Zaporizhzhia in the coming weeks.", "The number of people who currently have coronavirus in the UK is continuing to fall, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIt suggests around 3.76 million people were infected in the week ending 16 April - roughly one in 17 people.\n\nThis is a fall of about 15% on the week before - when the figure stood at 4.4 million, or around one in 15 people.\n\nOther ONS data suggests more than 70% of people in England have had coronavirus since the pandemic began.\n\nONS officials welcomed the overall decline in infection in the UK in recent weeks, but warned levels of the virus remain high.\n\nThe latest study, based on testing by the ONS, gives the clearest available picture of the virus' spread since free testing ended for most people in England at the beginning of this month.\n\nSome limited free testing for the public will continue in Scotland until the end of April, and in Wales and Northern Ireland until the end of June.\n\nThe ONS compiles the data by testing thousands of people at random - whether they have symptoms or not - to estimate how much virus there is in the UK.\n\nDuncan Cook, deputy director for the Covid-19 infection survey, said he welcomed the \"continued decrease\" in infections across England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, as well as Wales, where infections have fallen for the first time in several weeks.\n\nHe added it was \"encouraging\" to see that infections had decreased \"in all age groups\" across England.\n\nBut cautioned: \"Despite the decrease in infections, it is important to note that levels remain high. We continue to monitor these going forward.\"\n\nIn the week ending 16 April, the study estimates:\n\nThe study shows infections fell in all English regions apart from the North East, where the trend was uncertain and where infection rates remain the highest in England.\n\nThe Omicron BA.2 sub-variant - which was partly behind the recent surge in cases - continues to be responsible for most cases across the UK, though levels are falling.\n\nOther UK data shows the number of people being admitted to hospital with Covid continues on a downward trend.\n\nFigures had risen from about 1,100 a day in mid-February to nearly 2,400 by the end of March, but have since dropped to about 2,200 admissions per day.\n\nMeanwhile the number of hospital patients in intensive care with the virus, who require ventilators, stands at around 350.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kathleen Cumming took this picture of Killantringan Lighthouse. She said: \"I had to walk through the woods, down to an empty beach, up the steepest steps I've ever known and scramble up round the cliffs. It was worth it!\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nWBC champion Tyson Fury produced a stunning one-punch stoppage in the sixth round to beat fellow Briton Dillian Whyte and then insisted he will retire from boxing.\n\nFury dominated what was a scrappy bout and then unleashed a vicious right uppercut.\n\nWhyte, admirably, got to his feet within the count before staggering into the referee as the fight was halted.\n\n\"This might be the final curtain for the Gypsy King,\" Fury said post-fight.\n\nHe added later: \"I've spent a lot of time on the road. I've been away for a long time. I fulfilled everything I've ever wanted to fulfil.\n\n\"I will retire as only the second heavyweight in history, after Rocky Marciano, to retire undefeated. I was unbeatable at this game.\"\n\nFury - who also retained his Ring Magazine belt - is unbeaten in 33 bouts, while Whyte - suffering his third loss in 31 fights - fell short on his first attempt at a world title.\n\nIf Fury does decide to hang up the gloves, the 33-year-old will miss out on an opportunity to fight for the undisputed crown - a fight which could potentially be staged later this year - and a chance to cement his status as Britain's greatest ever heavyweight.\n\n\"I promised my wife that would be it after the [Deontay] Wilder fight,\" he added. \"But I got offered a fight at Wembley and I owed it to the fans. What a way to go out.\"\n\nFury's wife Paris told BT Sport: \"I would like him to come out now. He has nothing more to prove. If he had anything left to do, I would say 'Yeah Tyson, you do it'. But he has nothing to prove.\n\n\"For Tyson to keep boxing, it just seems for one reason and I know in my heart, I think the only reason that Tyson will come back is for the unification fight.\"\n• None The Gypsy King - end of an extraordinary era?\n• None Recap - All the action as it happened\n\nWith 94,000 fans in attendance - a post-war British record - there was an electric atmosphere like no other for a fight dubbed by some as the greatest all-British heavyweight dust-up in history.\n\nBoos echoed around the iconic stadium as a pumped-up Whyte let out his trademark wolf-like howl before walking to the ring.\n\nFury's ring walk was extravagant. It began to the tune of Don McLean's 'American Pie', soon turned into 'Juicy' by Notorious B.I.G and ended on 'Sex on Fire' by Kings of Leon. Fury then sat on a throne as fireworks blasted skywards, before heading towards the ring.\n\nHe towered over Whyte as the two men touched gloves. Fury teased before the fight that he could switch to southpaw and neutralise Whyte's dangerous left hook but, surprisingly, it was Whyte who came out as a southpaw in a cagey opening round.\n\nIt was then Fury's turn to switch from orthodox in the second as the battle of mind games continued, with the champion edging the opening two rounds.\n\nHe landed with a solid two-punch combination in the third, prompting Whyte to charge at his opponent. But the challenger could not get close to Fury, who used his height and reach advantage to keep Whyte at bay as the fight progressed.\n\nThe contest truly heated up in a spicy fourth round. Whyte connected when asked to break, which clearly agitated Fury.\n\nThe fighters twice received a telling off from Mark Lyson, as the referee struggled to control the two men who boast a combined weight of 37 stone.\n\nWhyte's telegraphed overhand rights were getting nowhere close to the elusive Fury, who was connecting with ease.\n\nThen came arguably Fury's greatest punch of what is proving to be an illustrious career. He teed it up with a left jab and as Whyte stepped forward, Fury whipped in the brutal uppercut.\n\nWhyte fell back on the canvas. He channelled the warrior spirit he spoke of before the fight but, as he made it to his feet, was clearly in no position to continue.\n\nFury insists he will hang up his gloves\n\nFury, as expected, took the microphone and treated fans to his own rendition of 'American Pie' in the ring following his victory.\n\nIt was a singsong to end the perfect homecoming party for the Morecambe-based fighter, who was boxing in the United Kingdom for the first time since 2018.\n\nHe said before the fight that this would be his last. That by boxing at Wembley he had reached his pinnacle.\n\nMany in the sport took those comments with a touch of scepticism - it is something he said several times before - but it seems Fury is sticking to his word.\n\nHis compatriot Anthony Joshua is likely to rematch Ukraine's WBA, IBF and WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk this summer.\n\nThe lure of fighting the winner for all the belts - and the lucrative nature it brings, particularly if Joshua is victorious - could just tempt Fury to halt his retirement plans.\n\nIf this is the end, however, it is a remarkable career from a man who at 6ft 9in and 19 stone has an ability to glide across the ring resembling an elegant ballroom dancer. His style, for his size, is unmatched.\n\nHe is a boxer who went from narrowly beating John McDermott on points for the English title in Brentwood to becoming a unified world champion, shocking long-reigning champion Wladimir Klitschko in Germany in 2015.\n\nA boxer who came back from over two and half years out of the sport and reclaimed a heavyweight title, cracking America and sharing arguably one of the greatest trilogies in the sport with Deontay Wilder.\n\nHe has entertained reporters by dressing up as batman or taping his mouth shut at media conferences. Fury even had time to join the scripted world of professional wrestling.\n\nIn the second coming of his career, Fury has spoken openly about - and become an advocate for - mental health struggles.\n\nBut his career has not been short of controversy. Not long after his first world title, Fury made homophobic and sexist remarks during an interview.\n\nHe previously tested positive for a banned steroid - something he blamed on eating uncastrated wild boar - and later admitted to use of drink and drugs to help deal with depression.\n\nMore recently, his fight with Whyte had been somewhat overshadowed by Fury's links to Daniel Kinahan, who earlier this month was among seven people hit with worldwide financial sanctions by the United States.\n\nFury had previously been advised by Kinahan but this week insisted he has \"absolutely zero\" involvement with the Irishman.\n\nIt has been a career full of highs and lows. But despite the retirement, seeing the Gypsy King in a ring again - with potentially an opportunity to cement his status as the greatest British heavyweight in history - is wholly possible.\n\nWhat next for Whyte?\n\nApart from the few months following his defeat to Alexander Povetkin in 2020, which he then avenged, 34-year-old Whyte had been mandatory challenger for the WBC belt since 2017.\n\n\"Dillian is a warrior and I believe he will be a world champion,\" Fury said as he and Whyte embraced post-fight.\n\n\"One of the greatest and, unfortunately, he had to fight me tonight. You are not messing with a mediocre heavyweight, you are messing with the best man on the planet.\"\n\nSince his first career defeat to rival Joshua in 2015, Whyte has proven his world-level credentials with wins over the likes of Joseph Parker and Povetkin. He is still a big draw in the sport.\n\n\"There wasn't a lot in it - it was a close fight and I didn't feel like I was outclassed in there,\" Whyte told Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"My game plan was to press him and start moving forward. I was trying to attack but one slip and I got caught with the shot.\n\n\"It was always going to be an awkward fight, but I was trying to set up and be patient and land what I could early and from round three onwards start to press.\n\nA rematch with rival Joshua, should he lose against Usyk, is easy to sell and one which could capture the imagination of boxing fans.\n\nTime will tell what the future has in store for Whyte, but the night belonged to Fury - one of, if not the greatest, British heavyweights of all time and a future hall-of-famer.\n• None Who are the best African footballers? Gary Lineker is joined by Micah Richards and Alan Shearer to rank the top 10\n• None Look behind the claims and promises of changing to an electric vehicle", "About one in every 13 people in the UK has coronavirus, according to latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThat is some 4.9 million people, up from 4.3 million people the week before.\n\nONS officials say that is the highest number seen since its survey began at the end of April 2020.\n\nThe surge in infections is being driven partly by the contagious Omicron BA.2 sub-variant and people mixing more.\n\nThe figures for the week ending 26 March are thought to give the most accurate reflection of what's happening with the virus in the community.\n\nThe ONS survey tests thousands of people randomly in households across the UK - whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nKara Steel, senior statistician for the Covid-19 infection survey, said: \"Infection levels remain high, with the highest levels recorded in our survey seen in England and Wales and notable increases among older age groups.\"\n\nThe latest data comes on the day that most people in England will have to start paying for Covid-19 tests.\n\nThe government's \"living with Covid\" plan means free testing will only continue for certain groups - including some people with weakened immune systems, people admitted to hospital and health and care staff.\n\nIn general people who test positive for Covid are now advised to try to stay at home for five days and avoid contact with others.\n\nFor most children and young people under 18, three days is enough, says the latest official advice.\n\nIn England and Wales infections continued to rise, while overall trends in Scotland and Northern Ireland were uncertain.\n\nThe number of people in Covid beds in hospitals has returned to January 2022 levels, data from NHS England suggests.\n\nBut there is a key difference - in January about 56% of people in Covid beds in hospitals were being treated mainly for their Covid, but as of Tuesday (29 March) that figure is down to about 44%.\n\nAnd the number of people being treated for very severe Covid infections and needing intensive care remain low - as vaccinations continue to protect people from severe disease.\n\nRates in older people continue to be a concern.\n\nOn Thursday, Prof Sir Johnathan Van-Tam, speaking on his last day as England's deputy chief medical officer, said protecting older age groups kept him up at night.\n\nAt a Royal Society of Medicine conference, he said: \"Case rates here in the UK are really, really high and hospitalisations in London, for example, are becoming exceptionally high again.\n\n\"And what keeps me awake at night is whether the people we have called - over-75s - for their second booster dose are going to come forward really rapidly and really quickly in the next few days and weeks, because it is going to be important.\"\n\nPeople aged over 75 and those who have weakened immune systems can book a spring booster jab to top up their protection against the virus.", "A cost of living crunch is hitting millions of people across the UK, as soaring energy bills start to bite into family finances and prices rise in the shops.\n\nMuch has been said about the squeeze on our budgets, and relatively few people will emerge from it with their personal finances unscathed.\n\nApril is a key month because it is when many of the most significant changes and bill rises take effect.\n\nInflation is the rate at which prices rise. If a bottle of milk costs £1 and that rises by 5p, then milk inflation is 5%. The optimum level, and the Bank of England's target, is a 2% inflation rate.\n\nThis first chart shows how inflation - charting the rising cost of living - is at its highest rate for about 30 years. Official figures reveal these price rises are widespread among the various things we buy.\n\nThey are about to accelerate. The government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), says the rate will peak at nearly 9% later in the year, before slowing. That means prices will continue to go up, but eventually not at such a rapid rate.\n\nThere is little sign of income keeping pace with pay rises and benefit increases (although minimum pay - through the National Living Wage - is going up by 6.6%), so our \"real\" income and standard of living will fall.\n\nThe biggest impact this year is the sharp increase in the cost of energy.\n\nBusinesses are passing on some of these costs to consumers in higher prices. Households are protected from the fluctuations owing to the domestic energy price cap.\n\nYet, the chart shows how the cap, and therefore the typical annual household gas and electricity bill is rising by about £700. The OBR is predicting a further rise of more than £800 a year in October.\n\nThe chart also shows how there is little bill-payers can do about it. They used to be able to shop around for a cheaper tariff but, at present, no deals are cheaper than the default price cap. The government is giving some support with a £150 council tax rebate in April, and a £200 government support payment in October which, although described as a grant, will need to be paid back, like an interest-free loan.\n\nAs well as the soaring cost of heating and powering the home, filling a car with petrol or diesel is getting more expensive too.\n\nThese prices can be quite volatile, week to week, unlike domestic gas and electricity.\n\nThe graphic shows the cost of filling a tank for different types of vehicles, according to the RAC motoring group. Even if you do not run a car, there is concern that pricier fuel will eventually feed through to more expensive bus and coach tickets.\n\nThe most expensive monthly bill for millions of people is their rent, or their mortgage repayment.\n\nThree-quarters of mortgage borrowers in the UK are on fixed-rate deals, so only see a change in their repayments when their current term ends.\n\nAnother two million homeowners are on deals where the interest rate varies - known as tracker or standard variable rate mortgages. The Bank of England has raised the base interest rate three times in four months since December.\n\nThe chart shows how this has increased the monthly bill for these variable mortgage customers for the first time in a long time.\n\nMany workers will be paying more tax from now, most significantly through increased National Insurance payments.\n\nIn July, people will be able to earn more before they start to pay this tax, following a change announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his recent Spring Statement.\n\nCombining those two measures means that in the next 12 months, anyone earning less than about £34,000 will pay less National Insurance than they did last year. Anybody earning more than that will pay more, as the final chart shows.", "Scientists say they have completed the first full and seamless catalogue of genetic instructions of humans.\n\nUntil now, about 8% of the human genome code was missing from the blueprint, experts told the journal Science.\n\nThe quest to decipher and complete a gapless DNA sequence has taken decades.\n\nThe resource helps explain how to create every human cell in the body, which could shed light on how to treat, prevent and cure disease.\n\nThe first one, deciphered 20 years ago, included most of the regions that code for proteins but left out about 200 million bases - the rungs that make up the ladder of the famous double helix DNA structure.\n\nNow, just 10 million bases or letters of human DNA out of roughly 3 billion, are unknown.\n\nMost of the newly added DNA coding sit in the dense middle sections of each chromosome - the neat bundles of tightly coiled DNA found in the nucleus of almost every cell in our body - as well as the protective caps or ends, called telomeres.\n\nThe breakthrough was being able to interpret the very repetitive stretches of DNA sequences that occur in these regions.\n\nIn the early 90s, when the first attempt at cracking the human genome began, the science of reading DNA was still somewhat limited. The repeats could too easily be skipped or their bases linked together incorrectly.\n\nSince then, technology has moved on, making it possible to accurately read all of the DNA - including the long parts containing reams of repeating code.\n\nDr Adam Phillippy from the National Human Genome Research Institute in the US, one of the many scientists behind the work, said: \"The biggest change within the last decade has been the emergence of so-called long-read sequencing technology.\"\n\nIt means scientists can study longer portions of the code in one go.\n\n\"Our puzzle pieces just got way bigger, and that allowed us to put these regions of the genome back together again,\" Dr Phillipy explained.\n\nThat might be a gamechanger for understanding human traits and evolution.\n\nDr Phillipy said: \"Because these regions are so dynamic and changing so rapidly, there's some hope that any of the clues to what makes humans uniquely human in terms of cognition, and an increased brain size, etcetera, might have some connection to these regions that we've uncovered.\"\n\nProf Colin Johnson, an expert in Medical and Molecular Genetics at the University of Leeds, called the work 'truly ground-breaking'.\n\nHe told me: \"They've uncovered the missing 8% - the dark matter of the genome that we knew was there but couldn't get to.\n\n\"It gives us the full description of the book of life, with all of the paragraphs and pages assembled.\"\n\nThe deciphered sample, from an anonymous donor, contained an X chromosome but no 'male' Y.\n\nTo get round that, the researchers also studied some DNA from a 51-year-old Harvard University biologist, Leonid Peshkin, who says he was excited to be part of the project.\n\nNow the sequencing is done, the researchers want to decode full sets of DNA from other individuals, to capture all of the variation that exists in people.\n\nDr Phillipy said: \"Because we spent all of the hard work at the outset, getting this one complete and correct, we can now start to layer on these additional genomes on top of it, and do a so-called pan-genome representation that will have this as a basis but then have all of the variation kind of branching off of it.\"\n\nThe Human Pangenome team has made a start by deciphering 70 more, with a goal of 350 from people of diverse ancestries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Corpses and burned out cars litter this stretch of the E-40 highway\n\nFootage of Russian troops shooting a man with his hands up on a highway outside Kyiv at the beginning of March was shared around the world. Now the Russians have been pushed out of the area and the BBC's Jeremy Bowen has been to see the grim aftermath of their short-lived occupation.\n\nThis report contains material some viewers will find disturbing\n\nWe counted 13 bodies on a nightmarish stretch of road not much more than 200 yards long, between Mria and Myla, villages whose Ukrainian names translate as Dream and Sweetheart.\n\nTwo of the dead are confirmed as Ukrainian civilians who were killed by the Russians. The others have not been identified yet - they lie where they were killed - but only two are wearing recognisable Ukrainian military uniforms.\n\nOur BBC team was able to get to the area, on the main E-40 highway as it approaches Kyiv, because Ukrainian forces had captured the sector only 10 hours earlier.\n\nThe marks of battle and of heavy shelling were everywhere. Petrol stations and a hotel that was well-known for its spa and restaurant were in ruins. Shell holes and craters pockmarked both carriageways.\n\nUkrainian troops changing a wheel in the ruins of a roadside garage said the Russians were about 4km (2.5 miles) away and had pulled their remaining men and armour back after a hard fight, lasting several days, in the early hours of the morning.\n\nLeft behind in the heart of the desolation were the dead bodies, and a mass of questions and concerns about who they were and how they died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome answers already exist for a couple who were killed by the Russians and left to decompose on 7 March. Their rusty, shrapnel riddled car lies in the road next to one of the petrol stations, reduced to a shell by fire. Next to it are the burnt and twisted remains of a body that is just about recognisable as the remains of a man. A wedding ring is still on the corpse's finger. Stretched out inside the hulk of their car is what is left of the incinerated body of a woman, the mouth opened in what looks like a scream.\n\nTheir deaths were filmed by a Ukrainian drone on 7 March, operated by the Bugatti unit of Territorial Defence. The unit released the video, which was republished by news organisations around the world. It caused outrage because it showed the cold-blooded killing of a man who had raised his arms to show he was harmless, in the classic gesture of surrender.\n\nThe bodies, the BBC discovered in an investigation this month, are of Maksim Iowenko and his wife Ksjena. They were part of a convoy of 10 civilian vehicles who were trying to escape the Russians and get to Kyiv.\n\nKsjena and Maksim Iowenko were civilians and should have been protected\n\nAs they drove down the road, they spotted a Russian tank in position, dug into the grass verge. The drone video shows it was clearly marked with the letter V, one of the identifiers used by the Russian armed forces. The other cars did quick U-turns and drove away at speed. But Maksim's car stopped, most likely because it was hit.\n\nAs soon as the car stopped, Maksim leapt out and raised his hands. Within seconds he was shot dead. His wife was killed in the car. Also in the car were their six-year-old son and the elderly mother of one of Maksim's friends. Both of them survived and were eventually released by the Russian soldiers.\n\nThey were found walking back down the road, and the woman told her family that Maksim was shouting that a child was in the car when he was killed. Both survivors, according to the Bugatti drone unit, are now safe but deeply traumatised.\n\nThe car is now burnt out, but it was not on fire after the attack. One hypothesis must be that the bodies and the car were set on fire by the Russians to destroy the evidence of what they had done. The Bugatti Unit has submitted its drone video to the Ukrainian authorities and to the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nMore burnt cars and dead bodies line the road for the next few hundred yards. No video has emerged to show what happened. A credible working assumption for any investigation must be that the other dead people were killed by the tank crew, or other Russian soldiers.\n\nSome of the evidence the BBC gathered is too disturbing to show in full. Here a dead man has been covered by rubber tyres\n\nHere a Ukrainian soldier gestures towards sets of charred human remains by a burned out vehicle\n\nAttempts have been made to destroy the other bodies. Some have been left to rot where they were killed. But other corpses have been piled up and surrounded by tyres. Charred clothing indicates attempts were made to set fires around them. Tyres are flammable and must have been placed there as an accelerant.\n\nThe emplacement where the tank was dug in has a clear arc of fire across the area where the 13 bodies are lying. The tank has gone but debris was left by its crew, including Russian army field rations. In the woods nearby is at least one other tank, which has been burnt out after being hit by an anti-tank missile.\n\nA Ukrainian soldier produced a wallet he had found in the tank. He emptied out Russian identity papers, bank notes in the Russian currency, the rouble, and small change in Belorussian coppers. The major thrust to the north-west of Kyiv came from invaders who had crossed the border from Belarus, Moscow's ally.\n\nClose by the knocked out tank are the remains of a chaotic camp, with dugouts, chairs and a long table piled high with the remains of food and drink. They are all surrounded by big piles of garbage, rotten food and empty bottles of alcohol. Ukrainian soldiers said shops at the petrol stations were looted.\n\nAn abandoned Russian camp: the soldiers are said to have looted petrol stations\n\nNext to the table is a large pair of bolt-cutters. Piles of unburied rubbish scattered in a forward position are usually a sign of undisciplined soldiers.\n\nWe decided to drive two or three kilometres further down the road, after Ukrainian soldiers said more Russian armour had been destroyed.\n\nIn a small village, a Russian tank and two armoured personnel carriers were broken and burnt. Some of the wreckage was still smoking. The force of the weapon that destroyed the tank blew off its turret and main gun, which lay upside down and half buried in a crater around 15 yards away.\n\nIn the pine woods on either side of the road Ukrainian soldiers were digging trenches and fox holes with shovels. Others were patrolling. It was far too early to say whether the Russians were gone for good, or whether they would be back.\n\nWhat is clear though is that Russian forces, under continued pressure from Ukrainian soldiers, have been forced to yield strategic territory around Kyiv. Every time they move back, the Ukrainian capital and its people become a little safer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video captured by a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance group appears to show Russian forces shooting at civilians\n\nAs and when the Russians leave, more evidence is likely to emerge of civilians having been killed - backing up the many stories that have emerged of such incidents.\n\nThe gruesome scenes on the road were more than simply the terrible deaths of human beings who had become victims of President Putin's decision to invade. It is also a crime scene, with evidence that should be collected and preserved for an investigation whenever this war ends.\n\nUnder the laws of war civilians are protected, and when they are killed in defiance of those laws, their deaths amount to war crimes.", "An activist is led away from the blockade of the Tyburn fuel depot in Birmingham\n\nAn oil company has temporarily stopped operations at four fuel terminals amid a series of co-ordinated protests.\n\nExxonMobil UK, one of the country's largest privately-owned underground oil pipeline distribution networks, said it had shut down four of its sites.\n\nCampaign groups Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion said they had blocked 10 \"critical\" sites including Birmingham, London and Southampton.\n\nEssex Police said it had arrested 13 people at three sites.\n\nSeven activists were also arrested at a site in Tyburn, Birmingham, and taken into custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nWhile at Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire Police said it had arrested 17 people and expected to arrest a further 10 once they had been safely removed.\n\nOthers have been led away by police officers from protest sites in Purfleet in Essex and Hamble near Southampton.\n\nWest Midlands Police advised drivers to avoid the area near the Birmingham depot\n\nEarlier, the Essex force said it remained at the sites of several protests in Thurrock where officers were trying to bring the protests to a \"swift and safe conclusion\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rachel Nolan said: \"We are working to minimise the disruption at Navigator Fuel Distribution Centre, Askew Farm Lane [both in Grays], and at a depot in London Road, Purfleet.\"\n\nThe 13 had been arrested on suspicion of disruption, she said.\n\n\"This is an extremely dangerous situation for the protesters to be in. We are being clear on the risks, and are continuing to engage with them to try and bring this to a conclusion.\"\n\nProtesters were led away from BP's Hamble oil terminal near Southampton\n\nFootball matches have recently been disrupted by Just Stop Oil activists, who ran on to a pitch and tied themselves to goalposts in recent weeks.\n\nExtinction Rebellion spokesman Andy Smith said the group had \"held\" three locations of strategic importance to the UK's energy network:\n\nCampaigners from the Just Stop Oil group said they were protesting at six other sites:\n\nOperations had been halted at Hythe, Birmingham, Purfleet and West London terminals, said ExxonMobil.\n\nAt about 15:20 BST, the firm said it was \"grateful\" for the police's assistance as it had \"now restored normal operations at the majority of our fuel supply terminals, and we anticipate that all terminals will be open later today\".\n\nThe company said its terminal at Avonmouth, Bristol, was not affected by the demonstrations.\n\nIt apologised for any inconvenience.\n\nThe entrance to BP's Hamble terminal has been cleared by police.\n\nProtesters locked themselves to a tanker outside Esso's Purfleet terminal in Essex\n\nThe climate change protest groups claimed more than 30 people had climbed on top of tankers at Navigator Oil Terminal, Thurrock.\n\nA specialist West Midlands Police team led away some of those taking part in the Birmingham protest shortly before 11:00 BST.\n\nAmong those taken away were two people who had climbed on to the roof of a tanker.\n\nA specialist police team removed climate change protesters from the roof of a tanker\n\nAccess was blocked to the London Road terminal in Purfleet\n\nBBC Essex reporter Richard Smith, at the scene in Purfleet, said teams of police officers had removed several protesters who had been obstructing access to and from Esso's fuel terminal on London Road.\n\nDemonstrators who had locked themselves to a gate had been led away, but five were locked to the roof of a fuel tanker, he said.\n\nFour fuel tankers earlier waited on London Road as if to enter the site, but left after a short while, he added.\n\nCampaigners Christine and Steve said they were trying to protect the planet for future generations\n\nAt the Purfleet site, one campaigner, Christine, said she was demonstrating against the \"government's continuing opening of new oil fields,\" which she described as \"criminal negligence\".\n\nShe added she was prepared to be arrested because her 18-year-old son deserved a future.\n\nAlso at the terminal, Steve, from south London, said: \"I feel like I've got to do everything I can, it's a moral issue really at this point. I'd rather be doing other things but I've got two grandchildren and I'm really frightened about what kind of world they are going to actually grow up in.\"\n\nProtesters were blocking the entrance to the Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead\n\nAt a demonstration at the Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, campaigners blocked the entrance to the site on Green Lane.\n\nHertfordshire Police urged people to avoid the area while it dealt with the situation.\n\nDemonstrators had used a pink boat to block the entrance to the Hythe terminal near Southampton\n\nJust Stop Oil said in a statement: \"The Just Stop Oil coalition is demanding an end to the government's genocidal policy of expanding UK oil and gas production and is calling on all those outraged at the prospect of climate collapse and suffering from the cost-of-living crisis to stand with us.\n\n\"Ordinary people can no longer afford oil and gas, it's time to just stop oil.\"\n• None Why protesters are tying themselves to goalposts\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Olha Sukhenko, her son Oleksander and husband Igor were found dead more than a week after going missing Image caption: Olha Sukhenko, her son Oleksander and husband Igor were found dead more than a week after going missing\n\nAs we've been reporting, a family who disappeared in their village west of Kyiv last month have been found dead in a shallow grave.\n\nOur correspondent, Yogita Limaye, visited the site, located in a wood near destroyed homes.\n\nOlha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander are alleged to have been shot dead by Russian soldiers. A fourth body was also found but has not been identified.\n\nRussian forces took Olha - who served as the head of her village of Motyzhyn - and her family from their home on 23 March, an investigation by the Ukrainian chief prosecutor found.\n\nIn Olha's last Facebook post before her death, posted in late February after the Russian invasion, she talked about there being \"someone else's scum in our village\" and warned residents to keep calm and not to leave their houses.\n\nTwo days after the family were allegedly disappeared by Russian forces, a woman called Daria appealed on social media for information on their whereabouts, saying they were her \"second family\" and \"helped people to the end\".\n\nShe said Russian forces had stolen Oleksander's car and were \"riding around the village\".\n\nAfter it emerged that the family had been killed, Daria posted an update:\n\nI don't have enough words and strength to describe how I and my whole family feel.\n\nThis is a crime - in every sense. All involved will be appear in court.\n\nSasha, my Hero. You didn't leave your parents behind. You will forever be in my heart. In our hearts. Heroes don't die.", "Russia continues to face fierce resistance from Ukraine, more than a month into its invasion.\n\nUkrainian forces have begun attempts to retake some areas from Russia, which said this week it would scale back operations around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv.\n\nMeanwhile four million people have fled Ukraine, and a quarter of the country's population is thought to be displaced.\n\nTwo of the BBC's reporters on the ground answer your questions.\n\nIn light of the recent counter-attacks that Ukraine has undertaken, and assuming that diplomatic talks between Ukraine and Russia fail, is it possible that Ukraine may be able to \"win\" this war militarily? - Harry Tinsley\n\nIn military terms it's a case of so far, so good for Ukraine.\n\nIt has surprised President Putin, and the world, by mounting skilled and stubborn resistance against a larger, better equipped army. Equally, Russian forces have surprised the world by being disorganised and inept.\n\nWe saw an example of Ukraine's success in battle at a frontline position outside Kyiv last week. Ukrainian forces told us the Russians had tried to break through four times in the past month, and each time had been held back. The evidence was there in the form of about a half dozen burnt-out Russian tanks and armoured personnel carriers.\n\nRussia's invasion is now in its sixth week, and it has failed on the key fronts - the Russians have not managed to enter the capital Kyiv, to topple the government, or to take any major city - bar Kherson - in the south. Russia has destroyed more than it has captured. That's a poor return on a costly invasion.\n\nThat said, it's too early to predict the outcome here.\n\nWe may be at the start of a long war. Russia says it will focus now on the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. It may have little choice, having failed to make gains elsewhere. But in the future, it could resume trying to capture more territory elsewhere.\n\nMr Putin's fate is probably tied to the success or failure of the invasion. He may continue to pour in troops, and armour and heavy weapons over the longer term.\n\nWith Russia recruiting from the Middle East, does this show a lack of confidence in the quality of its own forces? - David Carter\n\nThe Kremlin would never admit to it, but there is evidence that at least some of the Russian troops are inexperienced and unprepared for their mission. The Ministry of Defence was recently forced to admit that - contrary to Mr Putin's claims - conscripts had been sent to fight in Ukraine.\n\nMoscow claims to have 16,000 Middle Eastern \"volunteers\", many of whom fought against Isis in the last decade, ready to join Russian troops. They may have more experience than some of their Russian counterparts, and some experts say they'd probably be more skilled in the kind of urban combat necessary to take cities and towns.\n\nSome argue too that they'd be less reluctant to attack or kill Ukrainian civilians (many Russians have close ties to Ukraine and consider the people there to be \"brethren\"), and that they have a reputation for brutality which could have a psychological effect on Ukrainian troops.\n\nThe Kremlin presumably knows all this, which is why it was so keen to publicise its access to Middle Eastern fighters - even though it has not yet officially confirmed that it will actually send them in.\n\nTo what extent will unexploded ordnance remain an issue for Ukraine after the war? Is there potential for large areas of land to be deemed inaccessible as a result? - Robbie\n\nSadly yes, as so often in conflict, the danger to human life will remain long after the guns eventually fall silent.\n\nThe danger comes not only from unexploded ordnance, but also from landmines. They can kill for years to come, unless and until demining organisations can clear frontline areas. I have seen these organisations at work after other wars. Their work is painstaking, and time-consuming.\n\nBefore the invasion began, there was already a war raging in the east of the country between Russian-backed separatists and the government of Ukraine. It began in 2014, and has dragged on ever since.\n\nWhile reporting from frontlines there in late January and February, we had to carefully skirt many minefields. At that time the snow was melting - turning the soil to mud. In these conditions, mines can easily shift from their original location (which may have been marked on maps or fenced off).\n\nCurrently in the commuter town of Irpin, north of Kyiv, the Ukrainian army says there is a high risk to life because of mines in the streets.\n\nIs it getting more or less likely that the people in Russia will overthrow Mr Putin or cause greater civil unrest, the longer the conflict lasts? - Damien Fieldhouse, Somerset\n\nThe Kremlin comes down hard on those who oppose the war and many Russians who think that way have fled. What were almost daily street protests have dwindled.\n\nState opinion polls have to be viewed with some cynicism, but they consistently show majority (and growing) support for Mr Putin and for his \"special military operation\".\n\nGiven that most independent Russian media outlets have been blocked or forced to close, there are few alternatives to state media, which sticks to the Kremlin narrative. That says that Russian troops have only gone into Ukraine to defend the Russian-speaking population from attacks and \"genocide\" perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis.\n\nIf you only watched state TV, you might well conclude that this is indeed an honourable and necessary operation to save Russian speakers and Russia itself from an aggressive Ukraine which, with the help of America, is developing biological weapons and is desperate to get its hands on nuclear ones.\n\nSanctions are starting to have a noticeable effect with prices rising, but the Kremlin frames this as another example of Western aggression. At this stage it's hard to see any public dissatisfaction evolving into revolution.\n\nWho is going to pay to rebuild the damage inflicted on infrastructure in Ukraine - never mind the human cost? - Steve Sandercott, Rugby\n\nThe greatest cost is the human one and that is increasing by the day. The verified civilian death toll, according to the United Nations, is about 1,200 people, but the real number will be far higher. Add to this the fact that four million Ukrainians have had to flee and become refugees in other countries.\n\nThere is also extensive physical destruction, in cities and towns across this vast country. Nowhere has suffered more than Mariupol in the south, where we spent 10 days in the countdown to the invasion.\n\nAt that point it was a bustling port city, with trendy cafes, busy restaurants, and families strolling in the parks. Satellite imagery of Mariupol now shows mostly scorched earth, with 90% of residential buildings damaged or destroyed.\n\nAs many as 5,000 people are known to have been killed in this city alone, according to Ukrainian officials. They say the actual death toll could be twice that.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised to restore \"every house, every street and every city\". He says Russia will have to \"learn the word 'reparations'\" and pay the full cost.\n\nUkraine will certainly want reparations to be a key part of any deal done to end the war. If Russia pays - and how much - will depend on who has the upper hand when that deal is done. Theoretically, Russian assets abroad, frozen by G7 countries, could be used to help foot the bill.\n\nIf a peace deal were to happen, how would Ukraine/Russia deal with Crimea, the regions taken by Russia in the Donbas this past month, and the areas that have been controlled by Russian-backed rebels for the past few years? - Ryan McGauley\n\nWe know that Mr Putin wants the world to recognise Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, as Russian. During negotiations earlier this week, the Ukrainian side suggested that Crimea's status be negotiated over 15 years as part of an overall peace deal, although it's hard to see Mr Putin agreeing to that.\n\nHe also wants the international community to recognise (as he has) the self-proclaimed peoples' republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent (although this would basically mean \"Russian-controlled\").\n\nGiven that the Kremlin's current plan is to intensify its efforts in eastern Ukraine in order to \"liberate\" the whole Donbas region, we can assume that Mr Putin intends to try to take - and hold on to - the region.\n\nWe've seen the Ukrainian military be very effective in certain areas. What prevents the military from destroying the Russian artillery that is shelling their cities? - Paul Ackrill\n\nIndependent military experts point to one possible factor. They say Russia is firing artillery from tracked vehicles, that can quickly move location once they have fired. That makes them harder to target.\n\nUkrainian forces have told us they also are constrained because of the presence of civilians in built-up areas from which Russia is firing. They don't want to risk killing their own people while targeting Russian artillery. This has been an issue in the towns like Bucha, outside Kyiv, where some civilians remained despite the presence of Russian forces.\n\nAround Kyiv, Ukrainian forces have managed to push back the Russians, limiting the scope for them to use artillery. Because the city centre is out of reach, Mr Putin's men have been unable to bombard Kyiv as they have Mariupol, and have resorted to air strikes.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian air defences have been working well. Several times here in Kyiv we have heard the massive bang when a Russian missile is brought down - sometimes with casualties on the ground.\n\nIn general, Ukraine has been pleading for more and better air defence systems to help it curb the Russian threat. And the constant demand here is for Nato to impose a no-fly zone. We have met civilians fleeing the shelling of Irpin, who pleaded for Nato to \"close the skies\". However, few here believe there is any chance of that, because of Western fears of becoming embroiled in a wider war.\n\nMr Putin has placed massive restrictions on the media in Russia, but is there a possibility that news reported by Ukraine - for example, the numbers of deaths of troops and civilians, - is not wholly accurate? - Sarah, Oxford\n\nBoth sides are fighting an information war, as well as the war on the battlefields.\n\nIn any conflict, information from any of the warring parties - about civilian deaths, territory captured, or enemy soldiers killed - has to be taken with caution.\n\nThis is especially true now in relation to Russia - which is trying to ensure that its people receive only the Kremlin's version of events. It still refuses to admit that it invaded Ukraine and refers only to its \"special military operation\".\n\nWe prioritise first-hand reporting, which is why the BBC has teams in so many parts of Ukraine - gathering testimony from people on the ground, including civilians, medical staff, local officials and the Ukrainian military.\n\nUkraine is acknowledging that it has suffered losses, and BBC teams in different cities have been able to report on the funerals of Ukrainian soldiers killed in battle. We can't know yet if the full extent of the losses is being made public.\n\nAre there any anti-war Russians? Are they safe? - Roanna, Brighton\n\nYes there are, but it's difficult to assess how widespread such dissent really is.\n\nSpeaking out against the war - or even telling the truth about what Mr Putin continues to insist is only a \"special military operation\" - can result in a criminal conviction and possibly a jail sentence.\n\nIt's reported that more than 15,000 people were detained for taking part in almost daily street protests during the first three weeks of the invasion.\n\nMost independent journalists, and many Russians who oppose the invasion, have fled the country for places like Turkey, Armenia and Georgia. The Kremlin calls them traitors, and some of those who have stayed have become the target of abuse or attacks.\n\nWe are seeing the point of view of frontline Ukrainian soldiers, but is it possible to get the perspective from the Russian side? Are you prevented by the Russians from reporting on and talking to Russian troops on the ground in Ukraine? - Robert, Bishop's Stortford\n\nI can't answer for my colleagues currently in Ukraine, but the Kremlin tightly controls the flow of information back to Russia.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence issues frequent updates which consistently emphasise the success of the \"special military operation\". Russian soldiers are banned from using smartphones, and Moscow has made it a criminal offence to publish information which would discredit the Russian military, or to spread what the Kremlin would deem to be fake news about it.\n\nAn independent organisation exists which aims to help families of servicemen to get information about them. However, they've recently told us that they're under considerable pressure from the authorities to stop their activities.", "The Kremlin has hit back after French actor Gerard Depardieu accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of \"crazy, unacceptable excesses\" in Ukraine.\n\nDepardieu said the Russian people were not responsible for their president's behaviour.\n\nMr Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the actor probably did not completely understand the situation in Ukraine and offered to explain it.\n\nDepardieu left France for tax reasons and took Russian citizenship in 2013.\n\nHe received his Russian passport from President Putin in person in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.\n\nAt the time, the actor and the president shook hands and hugged each other, with Depardieu describing Russia as \"a great democracy\".\n\nIn 2015, Ukraine banned him from entering the country for five years after he supported Russia's annexation of Crimea.\n\nDespite this, the actor denounced the war in Ukraine shortly after it began in February and called for negotiations.\n\nDepardieu's criticism of the Russian leader was made to French news agency AFP on Thursday.\n\n\"The Russian people are not responsible for the crazy, unacceptable excesses of their leaders like Vladimir Putin,\" he said.\n\nDepardieu has also said he will donate all the proceeds from three nights of concerts in Paris, starting on Friday night, to \"Ukrainian victims of this tragic fratricidal war\".", "John Fleming has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years\n\nA former police officer sacked after pleading guilty to animal cruelty has been told by a judge he narrowly missed serving a custodial sentence.\n\nJohn Fleming has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years and must serve 200 hours of community service.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to his German Shepherd Akita cross-type dog, Ko, and Staffy crossbreed, Alfie.\n\nThe incident happened on a country road in Eglinton on 30 January 2021.\n\nA witness's dashcam footage recorded part of the incident in County Londonderry and it was shown to the court.\n\nA prosecuting lawyer said a witness saw that Fleming's dog had \"grabbed a Springer Spaniel by the back and was shaking it\".\n\nThe court was told that Fleming, whose address was given as c/o Edwards & Co solicitors on Hill Street in Belfast, then kicked his \"cowering\" German Shepherd a number of times before also picking up his Staffy and slamming it on to the road.\n\nMr Fleming's dogs Ko, Alfie and another were taken from him following a report to animal welfare officers.\n\nA defence lawyer told Coleraine Magistrates' Court, which was sitting in Ballymena, that Fleming was sacked from his role as a police constable earlier this week as a direct result of the proceedings.\n\nThe case was heard at Coleraine Magistrates Court which was sitting in Ballymena\n\nHe said his client was a man in his 30s with bright prospects and that appearing in front of the judge was a \"penalty in and of itself\".\n\nDistrict Judge Peter King said thankfully the animals survived the mistreatment but that \"the custody threshold was well and truly crossed\".\n\nHe said Fleming's guilty plea saved him from immediate custody and ordered him to serve 200 hours of community service.\n\nJudge King added that sending Fleming to prison \"may send a strong message to the community at large that this behaviour will not and could not be accepted\", but that jailing him would not be a \"fair disposal\".\n\nHe said it was a \"very narrow decision\" as to whether Fleming went to custody or not and saw the community service as a direct alternative to three months behind bars.\n\nSupt Claire McGuigan, from the Police Service of Northern Ireland's professional standards department, said: \"Following information we received about an officer we launched a gross misconduct investigation into this matter.\n\n\"The investigation is now concluded and the officer has been dismissed.\n\n\"The former officer's behaviour and conduct fell far short of what the Police Service of Northern Ireland expects, and I hope today's outcome reassures the public that no-one is above the law.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket", "The Liberal Democrats have accused the government of being \"soft on crime\"\n\nNearly two million anti-social behaviour reports have gone unattended by 34 police forces in England and Wales over the past three years, new figures show.\n\nThe figures were released to the Liberal Democrats, who accused the government of being \"soft on crime\".\n\nThey show that 55.2% of all anti-social behaviour incidents recorded between 2019 and 2021 were not responded to.\n\nThe BBC has asked the Home Office to comment.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the Conservative government had \"let anti-social behaviour run rampant\" after years of failing \"to give police forces the officers or resources to tackle this scourge properly\".\n\nFunding for police forces in England and Wales has increased since 2016 after years of cuts, Home Office data shows.\n\nIn March, the government said it would allocate £150m over the next three years to help police and local authorities curb crime and anti-social behaviour.\n\nIt said previous rounds of funding had been invested in neighbourhood watch groups, increased CCTV and introducing wardens to undertake community engagement.\n\nAt the time, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the money would improve \"the safety and security of areas blighted by crime\".\n\nIn mid-2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out further measures to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour including more electronic tagging of burglars after release.\n\nBut, according to the Lib Dems, \"too many people feel unsafe just walking down their own streets\".\n\n\"Priti Patel can try to sound tough on crime, but the facts speak for themselves,\" Sir Ed said. \"The Conservatives are soft on crime and they are letting our communities down.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Panorama reports on what can happen when anti-social behaviour escalates\n\nThe Lib Dems used Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to obtain the figures.\n\nThey showed that, in six police force areas, officers did not even attend one in three incidents of anti-social behaviour.\n\nHumberside had one of the worst records with just 28.5% of anti-social behaviour incidents attended by an officer, followed by Bedfordshire (30%), Hertfordshire (30.4%), Cambridgeshire (32.3%) and Avon & Somerset Police (32.7%).\n\nOnly 14 of the 34 forces had an officer attend half or more of the incidents they recorded.", "David Walker, pictured here in 2010, worked for South Yorkshire Police in Maltby\n\nThe last of 47 police officers to be investigated over their handling of historic allegations of child sex abuse in Rotherham has been cleared of misconduct.\n\nFormer Det Sgt David Walker had been accused of not following up tip-offs about grooming gangs in the town.\n\nA misconduct panel found he had acted appropriately with any information.\n\nRotherham MP Sarah Champion said the result would be a \"bitter disappointment\" for abuse victims.\n\nMr Walker, who retired in 2018, was among the officers investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in the wake of the Jay Report.\n\nThe 2014 inquiry found that at least 1,400 girls were subjected to sexual exploitation between 1997 and 2013 and accused South Yorkshire Police of failing to prioritise the issue.\n\nThe IOPC found eight officers had a case to answer for misconduct and six for gross misconduct. Five have faced sanctions but to date no officers have lost their jobs or faced criminal charges.\n\nMr Walker worked at Maltby police station as part of a specialist unit\n\nMr Walker, a former Maltby-based police sergeant, had been accused by Rotherham youth worker Jayne Senior of ignoring key information sent to him in emails\n\nAt the time, Ms Senior worked for council-run youth project Risky Business, which supported young people at risk of abuse.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Ms Senior criticised the investigation.\n\n\"We put a sergeant on the stand, where is the inspector, the chief inspectors? Where's the people who held the budgets and could have done something and made a difference?\"\n\nShe said the victims at the time had been treated in an \"absolutely abhorrent\" manner.\n\n\"They were seen as consenting to their own abuse, they were seen as children who wouldn't come forward, that wouldn't make good witnesses.\n\n\"Children don't consent to abuse, they don't consent to rape.\"\n\nMs Senior said intelligence was passed on constantly, but claims it was ignored and the police attitude was \"shut up and go away\".\n\nShe added she had been proud of being a youth worker and proud of the relationship and trust she and her team had built with so many children.\n\n\"More importantly we believed them. Children don't come to you and lie and they were constantly accused of lying because the things they were telling us were so terrible.\"\n\nShe said she had sent information to Mr Walker via email, including warnings about a suspected sex offender inviting girls as young as 10 to his home, and another about a man who had raped a 15-year-old.\n\nGiving evidence earlier this week, Mr Walker said he had been dealing with up to 180 cases at any one time as part of the specialist unit.\n\nHe admitted he did not record all information sent to him on police databases, but he said details were passed on or there was an expectation that other officers would have dealt with it.\n\nDismissing the misconduct allegation, the panel ruled on Thursday that Mr Walker had not taken any action which fell below the expected practice at the time.\n\nHe had been \"hard-working, diligent and professional\", chair Simon Malik said.\n\nSarah Champion MP said police failings had contributed to the abuse of children in the town\n\nFollowing the misconduct panel's ruling, Rotherham Labour MP Sarah Champion said the hearing had \"painted a deeply disturbing picture of South Yorkshire Police's approach to CSE throughout this period\".\n\nShe said multiple investigations over the years had found the South Yorkshire force had \"repeatedly failed those they had a duty to protect\".\n\nShe added: \"Child sexual exploitation was treated as low priority. Investigations were under-resourced. Officers were untrained and, far too often, uncaring.\n\n\"The result was that potentially thousands of children were abandoned to abuse of the most shocking kind.\"\n\nA full report on the findings of the IOPC's investigation is expected to be published next month.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucy McIlhatton, 24, died following the crash on Springfield Road\n\nA drunk driver who killed a woman before fleeing the scene has been handed a six-year sentence.\n\nGerard McCrory, from Dermott Hill Road in Belfast, killed Lucy McIlhatton, 24, on the city's Springfield Road at around 21:00 on 3 January, 2021.\n\nThe 45-year-old will spend half his sentence in prison and the remaining three years on supervised licence.\n\nMs McIlhatton had been walking home from a shop with her partner when she was killed.\n\nBelfast Crown Court heard the couple had stopped to put sweet wrappers in a bin when they were struck by a silver Toyota Avensis driven by McCrory.\n\nThe court was told that when police arrived McCrory was \"completely out of it\" and fought with officers before fleeing the scene.\n\nHe handed himself in to police in the early hours of the following morning.\n\nIn police interview he said he had \"little or no recollection of what happened that night after about 6pm\".\n\nMcCrory told officers he had been drinking whiskey with a relative prior to the collision.\n\nHe subsequently pleaded guilty to four offences, including causing Ms McIlhatton's death by dangerous driving and failing to remain at the scene of an accident.\n\nMcCrory has since told a probation officer he is deeply sorry for the pain and hurt caused to the McIlhatton family, the court was told.\n\nMs McIlhatton's partner Oliver Crothers, who was injured in the incident, was in court alongside her parents for sentencing on Friday.\n\nJudge Neil Rafferty said their victim impact statements had been \"harrowing\".\n\nMr Crothers spoke of his \"complete devastation\" at the loss of a woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with and one he described as \"the kindest, most generous and caring person I have ever met\".\n\nStatements submitted by Ms McIlhatton's parents, Adrian and Ann, said their only daughter was \"the apple of our eyes and loved by everyone who met her\".\n\nJudge Rafferty told them no sentence he passed would compensate for their loss.\n\nSentencing, he told McCrory that he accepted his remorse was genuine.\n\nIt was clear McCrory's behaviour that day was out of character, the judge said.\n\n\"Your decisions on the night of 3 January 2021 have brought heartbreak to everyone you came into contact with that night - your own family and more importantly Oliver, and to Lucy's mum and dad.\n\n\"The reports that I have read about you lead me to believe that you think about that every day.\"\n\nJudge Rafferty added: \"I only hope that this case dissuades anybody of thinking that they can drink and drive. It is simply not true.\"", "The club opened in 1980 and has since hosted many internationally renowned artists\n\nLandlords of a beloved music venue have pledged that it will not close down.\n\nManagers at Sheffield's Leadmill said on Thursday that owners Electric Group had served an eviction notice ordering them to quit the building next March.\n\nBut the group said there was \"never any question\" of it closing and it would be refurbished at the end of the current agreement in March 2023.\n\nIn a response, venue bosses said they owned its name and brand, adding: \"Without us there is no Leadmill\"\n\nThe legendary music venue opened its doors in 1980 and has hosted artists including Pulp, Coldplay, The Stone Roses and Oasis.\n\nBands, comedians and past gig-goers rushed to voice their support on social media after its managers announced they had been served notice to quit in a year's time.\n\nYorkshire's Kaiser Chiefs recalled playing the club in their early days, saying they had \"very fond memories\" and losing the Leadmill would be a loss for \"the whole UK music scene\".\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson from the Brixton-based Electric Group, which also owns and runs venues in London, Bristol and Newcastle, said it would oversee \"a substantial investment\" in the venue once the current tenant had gone.\n\nMike Weller, from the group, said: \"The refurb will make the room better-equipped to accommodate the modern wants of live music and club nights, for audiences and performers.\"\n\nHis colleague Dominic Madden tweeted that, as landlords, they were \"music people\" and the Leadmill would continue \"as a special music venue\".\n\n\"The management may change but the song stays the same,\" he said.\n\nThe Leadmill criticised the landlords' actions in a statement on social media\n\nIn a response posted on Twitter, Leadmill management said the eviction order amounted to an \"extermination\" of the club's hard-won reputation.\n\n\"Millions of pounds have been spent by the Leadmill (not the landlord) on the fabric of what was once a derelict building\", they said.\n\n\"It is the hard-working, dedicated and local family of staff that have put 42 years' worth of their blood, sweat and tears into making it the cultural asset it is today.\n\n\"Everything that people love about it would be gone.\"\n\nSheffield City Council said the Leadmill was an \"iconic\" part of its history and it did not want to see it go.\n\nExecutive director Kate Martin said, the authority had been working with the venue in recent weeks but had limited powers and could not \"directly intervene in the legal process\" between landlord and tenant.\n\nMeanwhile, five Sheffield MPs have written to Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries asking for an urgent meeting to discuss how to save the venue.\n\nIn the letter, they said: \"It is an essential part of the UK's cultural heritage and an asset to our creative industries, which we cannot lose.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Centrica boss said there is \"a lot of emotion\" in the debate around fracking\n\nFracking could boost UK energy supplies and reduce bills, according to Chris O'Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica.\n\nThe UK government placed a moratorium on fracking in 2019, amid fierce local opposition and fears of earthquakes.\n\nMr O'Shea said there needed to be an \"informed debate\" about it.\n\nHowever, environmental group Greenpeace said there had been \"a decade of hype and bluster\" around shale gas.\n\nFracking is the process of drilling into the earth, then directing a high pressure mixture of chemicals into layers of rock to release shale gas.\n\n\"We do have to be careful, if it does cause earthquakes, it's not something we should do,\" Mr O'Shea said.\n\nThe UK met 48% of its gas demand from domestic supplies in 2020, and bought the rest on international markets, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.\n\nCuadrilla has been given an extra year to delay the closure of its site in Lancashire\n\nMr O'Shea told BBC Radio 5Live's Big Green Money show: \"The key question is, do we want to source our gas from overseas? Or do we want to have more gas domestically? And shale is certainly worth exploring.\"\n\nThe UK has only ever had one fracking site in operation, which halted in 2019 following a report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA).\n\nThe indefinite suspension came after the OGS found was not possible to predict the probability or size of tremors caused by the practice.\n\nHowever, this year regulators gave owners Cuadrilla an extra year to re-evaluate the site before it could be sealed up in 2023.\n\n\"I can't tell you what the right answer is, but I can tell you we don't achieve that by people taking entrenched positions that are not based on the full facts,\" he said.\n\nHe added that British Gas and Centrica had held off discontinuing a share in a fracking licence while it waits to see if the government will revive the possibility of shale gas extraction.\n\n\"We have a small residual share in a fracking licence which we were in the process of discontinuing,\" he said.\n\n\"What we've decided to do is just hold off for a year.\"\n\nThe fracking site owned by Cuadrilla Resources in Lancashire had to halt activities in 2019 following concerns about small earth tremors\n\nIn March, the Energy Minister Greg Hands said in Parliament that shale gas \"could be part of our future energy mix,\" but added that it would need the \"support of local communities.\"\n\nMr Hands also said the government was clear that the gas was \"not the solution to near-term issues,\" adding that it would take years before commercial quantities could be produced.\n\nA group of Tory MPs known as the Net Zero Scrutiny Group has been pushing for the government to end its fracking ban saying that it could help secure energy supplies for Britain.\n\nMany environmental groups have said they were concerned about the potential for fracking to cause earthquakes.\n\nAt Cuadrilla's site in Lancashire, more than 120 small tremors were recorded while it was drilling.\n\nRosie Rogers, head of energy at Greenpeace UK, told the BBC: \"After a decade of hype and bluster, all the fracking industry has given us are two holes in a muddy field and some minor earthquakes.\"\n\nPreviously, Greenpeace has said that fracking would not improve energy security, because any gas extracted would belong to the gas firm doing the drilling, not to Britain, and it would be sold on international markets.\n\n\"It will take many years to develop and if it ever gets produced, it will be sold to the highest bidder on the international market, with no impact on our energy bills,\" a Greenpeace spokesperson said.\n\n\"If the UK and Europe want to end their dependence on Russian gas, the quickest way to do that is by insulating homes, installing heat pumps and boosting renewables.\"", "The WTO's director general, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is worried that a food crisis is brewing\n\nThe Ukraine war has led the World Trade Organization (WTO) to cut its global trade growth forecast for this year.\n\nThe previous 4.7% growth forecast has been cut to 2.5% due to \"the impact of the war and related policies\", said WTO boss Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.\n\nThe cut is also linked to continuing global supply chain problems that started as a result of the pandemic.\n\nShe said disruptions would make food more costly, saying \"my worry is that we have a food crisis that is brewing\".\n\nDr Okonjo-Iweala told the BBC that although Russia and Ukraine only make up about 2.5% of global merchandise exports, they \"are very, very significant in certain sectors\".\n\n\"The first worry, of course, is for the people of Ukraine, who are being displaced [and] not having enough food to eat,\" she said.\n\nShe added the global economy was \"going to suffer some severe consequences\", and said poorer countries would particularly feel the impact of the shortages, and \"the supply constraints on food\".\n\nSupplies of many food products including wheat and corn have been affected following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIndustry groups have warned the EU faces a shortage of sunflower oil. In total, 46.9% of global exports come from Ukraine and 29.9% from Russia according to S&P Global, but with Ukraine's ports closed it is struggling to export it.\n\n\"I'm truly worried about looming hunger, particularly in poor countries that can least afford it,\" Dr Okonjo-Iweala warned.\n\nUsing Africa as an example, the former Nigerian finance minister said 35 of 55 countries there imported wheat and other grains from Russia and Ukraine and 22 imported fertiliser.\n\n\"Work being done by the African Development Bank now shows that in many countries, food prices are rising by 20% to 50% already,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Dr Okonjo-Iweala said she was hopeful there were solutions to the supply problems.\n\nShe said in the short term countries could be \"changing our dietary tastes\" to eat more homegrown products.\n\nShe added in the longer term Africa was investing in \"heat tolerant varieties of wheat and other crops\" as it adapts to climate change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on why the war in Ukraine is pushing up food prices - and the likely impact on poorer countries\n\nAs well as food prices surging, the cost of other commodities have hit record highs amid concerns the war and economic sanctions on Russia will lead to supply disruptions.\n\nRussia's mining industry is hugely important for many substances such as palladium, where it is responsible for 40% of global production of the metal that is essential for carmakers.\n\nEven before the war in Ukraine, the pandemic had caused a mismatch between supply and demand in many industries which pushed prices up, and the International Monetary Fund has warned that soaring inflation will reduce global economic growth this year.\n\n\"In the short to medium term, I think that we are going to see these inflationary pressures continue,\" Dr Okonjo-Iweala said.\n\nTrade has become a key tool many countries have used to pressure President Vladimir Putin over his decision to invade Ukraine.\n\nUkraine has cut economic ties with Russia and led calls for it to be suspended from the WTO because of the war. However no country has ever been expelled from the WTO, something the Director-General said is \"not an easy thing to do\".\n\nShe says there is no mechanism to kick Russia out despite some leading international trade lawyers disagreeing.\n\nYou can watch Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's full interview on \"Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst\" this weekend.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch the show on Sunday at 15:30 on the BBC News Channel.\n\nIn other countries, it will be on BBC World News at Saturday at 23:30 GMT, Sunday at 05:30 & 16:30 GMT and Monday at 07:30 & 16:30 GMT", "A former Conservative minister has denied his government department prioritised cutting red tape over tightening fire safety in the years before the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThe government failed to complete a review of fire safety guidance before the disaster in June 2017.\n\nThis was despite evidence it was encouraging the use of dangerous building materials.\n\nEx-minister Lord Wharton said he was advised the review should be delayed.\n\nSeventy-two people died in the fire in a west London tower block.\n\nThe initial report into the Grenfell fire was published in October 2019, following the conclusion of the first part of the inquiry. It looked at the events of the night of the fire, focusing on the fire itself, how it started and spread, and the emergency response to it.\n\nThe second part is now examining the causes of these events, including how the tower block came to be in a condition which allowed the fire to spread.\n\nAppearing before the Grenfell public inquiry on Thursday, Lord Wharton - the minister responsible for building regulations at the time - said officials suggested delaying the review as part of a wider rewrite of the regulations.\n\nGovernment documents shown at the inquiry suggest the priority was removing red tape, and simplifying the rules, rather than urgently tightening the requirements for tall buildings.\n\nThe government review was prompted by recommendations following the deaths in 2009 of six people in a fire at Lakanal House, a tower block in south London.\n\nAn inquest coroner, Francis Kirkham, heard evidence that building designers were struggling to answer \"relatively straightforward questions\" about the safety of materials used to construct housing blocks, including Lakanal House.\n\nApproved document B, detailing how builders could comply with the building regulations for fire safety, was a \"difficult document to use\", she said.\n\nA key section, at the centre of the inquiry's investigation of the causes of Grenfell, did not explicitly prevent the use of combustible cladding. Another clause appeared to allow its use on tall towers.\n\nIn 2013 the coroner recommended the government rewrite the document in more \"intelligible\" language.\n\nThe housing secretary at the time - Eric Pickles - agreed to change the wording of the guidance by early 2017.\n\nHowever in 2015 and 2016 the progress of the review was delayed several times.\n\nInternal housing ministry documents suggest the priority was not tightening the requirements for building materials, but removing red tape, simplifying the rules and reducing the burden on the construction industry.\n\nThis would have meant a much more detailed rethink of the regulations.\n\nA presentation to James Wharton, now Lord Wharton - the newly-appointed minister for local growth and the Northern Powerhouse, placed \"deregulation and simplification\" first in the list of \"key drivers for making changes to the building regulations\".\n\nLord Wharton defended the decision to delay the review of fire safety guidance\n\nLord Wharton told the inquiry he had no personal expertise in fire safety and relied on his officials who told him that the number of fires was falling, and it was better to do a longer and more detailed review of the regulations and guidance.\n\nHe was asked by inquiry barrister Richard Millett whether he had been \"fed a line\" by his officials who were trying to cover up their \"glacial progress\" in carrying out the review.\n\nHe told the inquiry: \"From the briefings I had, my understanding was that the system was fit for purpose and the building regulations were working well but improvements could and would be made.\"\n\nBriefings he received about flammable materials were \"reassuring in nature\", he explained.\n\nHowever, throughout a day of questioning, he was repeatedly asked why he had not realised the urgency of the changes needed, which had been recommended by the coroner two years before he took over as minister.\n\nHe said, repeatedly, that he \"couldn't recall\" many of the details of his thinking or actions at the time.\n\nLord Wharton defended the decision to delay the building regulations review despite consistent pressure from the All Party Parliamentary Fire Safety and Rescue Group, which met and wrote to him with warnings of the risks.\n\nThe group's chairman, the late Sir David Amess MP, said in a letter on 1 December 2015 that the problems with the approved document guidance on fire safety may be \"compromising both life and socio-economic safety\".\n\n\"Today's buildings have a much higher content of readily available combustible material,\" he wrote. \"This fire hazard results in many fires because adequate recommendations to developers simply do not exist.\"\n\n\"There is little or no requirement to mitigate external fire spread.\"\n\nLord Wharton said he committed to including the group's views when reviewing the guidance but wanted to go no further for fear of \"pre-empting the process\".\n\nIn hindsight, he said he didn't \"always get the full picture of concerns that were raised in areas for which I had responsibility\".\n\nIn the end, the review had not been completed when flames engulfed Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017.\n\nIt had been refurbished using flammable cladding and insulation which had been signed off by the council's building control inspectors.", "Nearly 900 patients with type 1 diabetes in England are testing a potentially life-changing artificial pancreas.\n\nIt can eliminate the need for finger prick tests and prevent life-threatening hypoglycaemic attacks, where blood sugar levels fall too low.\n\nThe technology uses a sensor under the skin.\n\nIt continually monitors the levels, and a pump automatically adjusts the amount of insulin required.\n\nSix-year-old Charlotte, from Lancashire, is one of more than 200 children using the hybrid closed loop system.\n\nHer mother, Ange Abbott, told us it has made a massive impact on the whole family.\n\n\"Prior to having the loop, everything was manual,\" she said. \"At night we'd have to set the alarm every two hours to do finger pricks and corrections of insulin in order to deal with the ups and downs of Charlotte's blood sugars.\"\n\nAbout 400,000 people in the UK have type 1 diabetes, a condition where the body can't produce insulin, the hormone which regulates blood sugar levels.\n\nNHS England says it is the first nationwide test of the technology in the world, and it comes 100 years after the first diabetes patient received insulin injections.\n\nThe hybrid system is not completely automated, because the amount of carbohydrates being eaten at mealtimes needs to be inputted.\n\nCharlotte's consultant Dr May Ng, a paediatric endocrinologist at Ormskirk District General Hospital, thinks the new technology has huge potential.\n\n\"I think it's absolutely fantastic. I've been practising for 25 years in children's diabetes and it's a game-changer,\" she said.\n\n\"To be able to improve the quality of life, to be able to see that most of their blood glucose readings are within that target range, it's very exciting.\"\n\nFor Ange, the constant monitoring means that Charlotte can go back to being the child she was.\n\n\"She loves days out with her friends and sleepovers, but we had to stop these as soon as she was diagnosed because other people couldn't manage her diabetes.\n\n\"Now we can allow her to go out for these social occasions when we're not there.\"\n\nYasmin was keen to try out the new technology\n\nYasmin Hopkins, 27, from London, has also received an artificial pancreas as part of the pilot.\n\nShe was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 15 years ago and had struggled to maintain her blood sugar levels.\n\nYasmin told us she finds the new technology liberating.\n\n\"I wake up now and I can do a normal day's work, or go on a dog walk without being concerned,\" she said.\n\n\"Before, I felt like I'd have been at risk from some of the long-term complications of diabetes, whereas now I don't see that happening.\"\n\nIf blood sugar levels are not kept under control, diabetes patients risk long-term damage to their heart, kidneys, eyes and nerves.\n\nProf Partha Kar, NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes, said: \"Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.\n\n\"It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.\"\n\nChris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: \"This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.\"\n\nTo date, 875 patients have joined the pilot, which will enrol up to 1,000 people. The results will be part of an assessment by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which is considering where to roll out the technology more widely.\n\nIt comes after NICE recommended that everyone in England with type 1 diabetes be offered some form of continuous glucose monitoring via a sensor attached to the skin.", "Daniel Cooke, a construction site manager from Somerset, has taken a second job to pay his family's rising energy bills. Many families will face higher bills now that the energy price cap has been lifted.", "Researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong have created a \"soft robot\" made of slime containing magnetic particles, which can be manipulated using external magnets.\n\nThe magnetic particles are toxic, but have theoretically been made safe to enter the human body after being covered in a layer of silicone compound - although further safety testing will be needed in the future.\n\nThe team in Hong Kong hope the slime will one day be used to collect objects which have been accidentally swallowed.\n\nYou can read more about the team's research here.\n\nThis video has no sound.", "Millions of households are facing a £700 a year rise in energy costs, alongside hikes in the cost of council tax, water bills and other utilities.\n\nIt has led to warnings that many people on lower incomes will be forced to choose between paying for heating, or food.\n\nA selection of your questions have been answered by:\n\nWhy do we pay more using a prepayment meter? - Gary Steventon\n\nFor the 4.5 million people on prepayment meters, the price of energy has now risen by an average £708 - to £2,017 a year.\n\nThat compares to an annual rise of £693 - to £1,971 - for those on standard tariffs, paid by direct debit.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem's argument is that there are higher fixed costs associated with running a prepayment meter.\n\nCharities and some suppliers have said that these customers are often among the most vulnerable and should be given more help by the government.\n\nWho allowed the price cap to increase by so much, especially when the energy companies have made record profits? - Chris Yaxley\n\nThe price cap, covering England, Wales and Scotland, is set every six months by energy regulator Ofgem. It is designed to reflect the costs faced by suppliers and to prevent profiteering.\n\nThere has been a huge rise this time, owing to the rising cost energy companies pay for gas. This is now being passed on to customers.\n\nThere has been a debate about whether energy companies should be taxed more, with the money raised used to help those struggling with bills.\n\nEnergy companies argue that their retail arms are making very little, or no, profit. While the energy generation business is having a much better time of it, they argue that they are already heavily taxed.\n\nGas prices do not increase by themselves. What is causing the increase? - John Ashburn\n\nThere are a host of reasons why the wholesale price of gas - paid by energy companies - has been volatile. At present it is about six times higher than it was a year ago.\n\nOne reason is the surge in demand for energy, as businesses and economies get going again after the lifting of Covid restrictions. There is also the ongoing issue of a shortage of gas storage across Europe.\n\nA further rise in the price cap - predicted to push up the typical household energy bill by another £600 a year - is expected in October.\n\nThis is mainly because of the potential restriction of Russian gas supplies - linked to the war in Ukraine.\n\nWhile we get very little gas from Russia in the UK, we are affected by the global price of gas.\n\nCan people forced to work from home ask employers to contribute to energy bills? - Andrew Green\n\nThere is nothing to stop you asking. What response you get from your employer is down to them.\n\nSome employers have offered temporary grants and payments, to help their staff pay their energy bills.\n\nUnions and employees themselves are likely to point to the rising cost of living - including higher energy bills - to ask for higher salaries.\n\nWill giving up Netflix, Amazon Prime, alcohol and mobile phones offset the rising cost? - Leslie Cox\n\nThe average UK household spends about £916 on alcohol each year.\n\nSome mobile phone deals exceed £80 a month but, depending on your contract, you may be able to switch to a SIM-only deal for as little as £36 a year.\n\nGiving up all of these costs could save between £1,132 and £2,056 a year.\n\nA 54% rise in the energy price cap means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will now pay £1,971 per year.\n\nSo, going without could make a difference.\n\nBut even then, a further rise pushing the annual bill up to £2,600 should be expected in October, analysts have told the BBC.\n\nHow is the assistance provided going to help pensioners who have been robbed of a triple-lock increase? Dave\n\nThe triple-lock, a policy used to set the rise in state pensions, was suspended last year because it followed the average rise in wages and would have meant an increase of 8%.\n\nAt the time that seemed like a big increase, but inflation is now 6.2%.\n\nInstead of the state pension going up by 8%, it's going up by 3.1% - based on the rate of inflation in September last year, which is a much smaller pay rise for state pensioners.\n\nChanges announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Spring Statement were mostly aimed at working people who pay National Insurance. There has not been any specific new support for pensioners.\n\nWhy have tariffs on 100% renewable electricity gone up? - Karl Oldham\n\nEco providers are still affected by wholesale prices, which are driving bill rises.\n\nThese providers try to buy in advance from renewable sources, and invest in schemes for renewable generation.\n\nBut ultimately, at present, they have to source electricity from the National Grid - some of which is generated from gas.\n\nAs a result, they are not immune to the situation in the wider market, and prices charged by renewable generators have been going up too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Police in Sri Lanka fire tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Kandy\n\nPeople protesting in Sri Lanka against the government's handling of the worst economic crisis in decades have defied a curfew in several cities.\n\nIn the capital Colombo, opposition protesters faced off with security forces for a couple of hours before dispersing peacefully.\n\nBut in the city of Kandy, police fired tear gas and water cannon at students.\n\nThe 36-hour curfew was imposed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after clashes near his residence on Friday.\n\nPeople are banned from being on any public road, in a park, on trains or on the seashore unless they have written permission from the authorities, and access to social media was blocked temporarily.\n\nThe curfew is due to remain in force until 06:00 (00:30 GMT) on Monday.\n\nThe island nation is grappling with what is said to be its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948. It is caused in part by a lack of foreign currency, which is used to pay for fuel imports. With power cuts lasting half a day or more, and shortages of food, medicines and fuel, public anger has reached a new high.\n\nIt is a massive turnaround in popularity for Mr Rajapaksa, who swept into power with a majority win in 2019, promising stability and a \"strong hand\" to rule the country.\n\nOn Sunday, soldiers armed with assault rifles blocked an attempt by a crowd of hundreds of protesters to march to Independence Square in the capital.\n\n\"President Rajapaksa better realise that the tide has already turned on his autocratic rule,\" opposition MP Harsha de Silva told AFP news agency at a rally. Another opposition MP, Eran Wickramaratne, said: \"We can't allow a military takeover. They should know we are still a democracy.\"\n\nIn Kandy, a city of 125,000 people in Central Province, police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesting students near the University of Peradeniya.\n\nThe social media crackdown has been criticised by the president's own nephew, Namal Rajapaksa, who tweeted: \"I will never condone the blocking of social media. The availability of VPN, just like I'm using now, makes such bans completely useless.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NDTV This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThursday's protest outside President Rajapaksa's house in Colombo began peacefully, but participants say things turned violent after police fired tear gas and water cannon, beating demonstrators.\n\nProtesters retaliated by pelting police with stones and at least two dozen police personnel were reportedly injured, with a number of vehicles also set on fire.\n\nFood and fuel have been in short supply for weeks. Now people fear they're losing their basic liberties after the government blocked access to social media sites, including YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, WhatsApp and TikTok. Many believe it's to prevent people organising protests and to shut down criticism.\n\nPolice and the military are on the streets of Colombo. Mass demonstrations had been planned today but with a curfew and state of emergency in place most people have stayed home. The streets of the capital are mostly deserted, but we encountered a few protests throughout the day, which passed peacefully with the police at a close distance.\n\nOvernight, the authorities in the west of the country say they arrested more than 600 people for violating the curfew. The government says it's brought in the curfew to maintain order after protests turned violent last week but many people we've spoken to - from all walks of life - blame the authorities for mismanaging this crisis.\n\nFrustration is growing. \"Enough is enough,\" Roshinta, a student, told me as she held a placard in the city centre before the curfew kicked in. \"Millions of people are suffering, and we are angry.\"\n\nBurnt-out vehicles outside Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's private residence in Colombo on Friday", "The strip search of Child Q led to a wave of protests across east London\n\nA strip-search of any child in two London boroughs will need approval from an inspector in the wake of the Child Q controversy, the Met Police says.\n\nA 15-year-old girl is suing the school and the Met after a safeguarding report found the strip-search in Hackney, east London, was unjustified and racism was \"likely\" to have been a factor.\n\nNo appropriate adult was present when she was strip-searched in 2020.\n\nThe pilot scheme is being rolled out in Hackney and neighbouring Tower Hamlets.\n\nCurrently, a strip-search requires a conversation with a supervisor and the presence of an appropriate adult.\n\nLast week, police admitted the two officers who carried out the search had been moved from public-facing roles to desk duties, 15 months after the incident.\n\nThe report said the girl was taken out of an exam to the school's medical room and strip-searched by officers who were looking for cannabis, while teachers remained outside.\n\nNo other adult was present, her parents were not contacted and no drugs were found.\n\nThe Met Police's treatment of the pupil has provoked anger\n\nShe was subjected to what police call an MTIP search, or 'More Thorough search where Intimate Parts are exposed', and the review said she was made to take off her sanitary towel.\n\nThe Met has admitted the officers' actions were \"regrettable\" and it \"should never have happened\" and the police watchdog is looking into the incident.\n\nIn a letter to Scotland Yard, Mark Carroll, the chief executive of Hackney Council, welcomed a commitment to \"adultification training\" locally in the hope that it is rolled out across the wider force.\n\nAdultification is where adults perceive black children as being older than they are.\n\nMr Carroll wrote: \"The issues of racism, and trust and confidence in policing amongst our black and global majority residents go back, as you note, many many years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hackney Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Action to date has had very little impact, and we all agree that trust and confidence remains too low, particularly in Hackney.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has described reports of the strip-search were \"deeply distressing and deeply concerning\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US and UK say Putin is being misinformed by his advisers\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is being misled by advisers who are too scared to tell him how badly the war in Ukraine is going, the White House says.\n\nMeanwhile, British intelligence says Russian troops in Ukraine are demoralised, short of equipment and refusing to carry out orders.\n\nMr Putin is also not being told about the full impact of sanctions on the Russian economy, the White House said.\n\nThe Kremlin said the US had a \"total misunderstanding\" of the situation.\n\nMr Putin's chief spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists: \"They simply don't understand what's happening in the Kremlin, they don't understand President Putin, they don't understand how decisions are taken and they don't understand the style of our work.\"\n\nThis was worrying, he added, \"because such total misunderstanding leads to wrong decisions which have bad consequences.\"\n\nEarlier, White House spokesperson Kate Bedingfield said the US had information that Mr Putin \"felt misled by the Russian military\" and this had resulted in \"persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership\".\n\n\"Putin's war has been a strategic blunder that has left Russia weaker over the long term and increasingly isolated on the world stage,\" she said.\n\nPentagon spokesman John Kirby called the assessments \"discomforting\", because an uninformed Putin could result in a \"less than faithful\" effort at ending the conflict through peace negotiations.\n\n\"The other thing is, you don't know how a leader like that is going to react to getting bad news,\" he said.\n\nPeople are continuing to be evacuated from Irpin, where Ukraine says it has pushed Russia back\n\nUkrainian forces have begun attempts to retake some areas from Russia, which on Tuesday said it would scale back operations around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv.\n\nJeremy Fleming, the head of the UK's cyber-intelligence agency GCHQ, said the move added to indications Russia had \"massively misjudged the situation\" and had been forced to \"significantly rethink\".\n\n\"We've seen Russian soldiers - short of weapons and morale - refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft,\" Mr Fleming said in a speech to the Australian National University in Canberra.\n\n\"And even though Putin's advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what's going on and the extent of these misjudgements must be crystal clear to the regime.\"\n\nOn the ground, US and Ukrainian officials say Russia is continuing to reposition forces away from Kyiv, probably as part of its effort to refocus on eastern regions.\n\nPeace talks between Russia and Ukraine are due to restart online on 1 April, according to Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia.\n\nIn an online post cited by Reuters, Mr Arakhamia said Ukraine had proposed the leaders of both countries meet, but Russia declined, saying more work was needed on a draft treaty.\n\nMr Zelensky meanwhile characterised the talks as \"only words, no specifics yet\", following a similarly downbeat assessment from Russia.\n\nDelegations from Moscow and Kyiv held three hours of discussions in Istanbul on Tuesday. Ukraine said it had proposed to become a neutral state in exchange for security guarantees.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2022: Ros Atkins on... Putin’s false Nazi claims about Ukraine", "Prices in general are rising at their fastest rate for 30 years but energy is the most significant\n\nPeople have been warned to brace for another huge rise in energy bills when the next cap takes effect in October.\n\nThis could add another £629 a year to a typical bill, on top of Friday's unprecedented £700-a-year rise, says energy consultancy Cornwall Insight.\n\nThe expected rise in bills just as colder weather kicks in has prompted calls for fresh government support to those struggling to pay.\n\nEnergy prices have been affected by the Ukraine war and pressure on suppliers.\n\nThe most up-to-date prediction from Cornwall Insight would, if accurate, push annual energy bills for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity to up to £2,600 from October.\n\nA typical bill is expected to fall back to the current level in summer 2023, although longer-term forecasts are tricky.\n\nBill Bullen, the boss of Utilita, warned that elderly people and children were at serious risk over the next winter because of a lack of heating.\n\n\"We are going to see an extra £500 or £600 added to bills in October, and frankly the chancellor's going to have to fund that entirely for low-income households,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"He won't be able to afford to take this problem away for everybody... but for customers who can't respond to that price [increase], that's where the help needs to be targeted.\"\n\nThe warning comes on top of a huge rise in what energy suppliers can charge customers from Friday. The £693 a year rise in a typical energy bill will affect 18 million households, with 4.5 million customers on prepayment meters facing an even bigger increase of £708 a year.\n\nAt the same time, a host of bill hikes take effect with council tax, water bills and car tax going up for some on 1 April.\n\nMinimum wage rates are rising which, along with some financial support from the government, is partially softening the blow.\n\nPrices in general are rising at their fastest rate for 30 years, but the sudden increase in the cost of energy is the most significant for individuals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew official figures suggest four in 10 bill-payers have been finding it very, or somewhat, difficult to afford their energy costs.\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said the country is facing the biggest single shock from energy prices since the 1970s.\n\nIt is the largest increase, by far, in the energy regulator Ofgem's price cap, since it was introduced.\n\nThe cap, set every six months for England. Wales and Scotland, is designed to protect domestic customers from the volatility of wholesale energy prices.\n\nChris O'Shea, chief executive of Centrica, which owns the UK's largest supplier British Gas, said his business was supporting struggling customers and was giving grants to those most in need.\n\n\"We would love to do more. The reality is that for a retail energy company, the market has gone through quite a change, and profits have reduced quite substantially,\" he told the BBC's Big Green Money Show.\n\nHowever, he accepted that profits had risen sharply for the heavily taxed exploration arm of the business.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said that low earners, renters, parents, people with disabilities, unemployed people and divorcees were least able to afford a bill shock.\n\nThe government has said it was taking \"decisive action\" to help people with the cost of living, including a £200 reduction to energy bills in October - which needs to be paid back in instalments, and a £150 reduction in council tax bills for 80% of billpayers.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour party, branded the government's response as \"pathetic\".\n\nHe accused the government of forcing people to choose between heating their homes or eating.\n\nHe said that the Labour party would introduce a one-off windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies and use the money to help households struggling to cope with rising energy bills.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC's Newscast: \"I'm confident in what we've done. I know it's tough for people. We're facing a very difficult situation with the price of things going up and I want to do what we can to ameliorate some of that, but I'm also honest with people that we can't ameliorate all of it, sadly.\"\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSri Lankan police imposed curfew and fired tear gas at demonstrators protesting dire food, fuel and power shortages outside the president's house.\n\nAgitated protesters stormed through barricades, and were accused of setting fire to a bus on Thursday night.\n\nSri Lanka is in the midst of a foreign exchange crisis that has crippled its economy.\n\nFaced with 13-hour power cuts, a lack of fuel, essential food items and medicines, public anger has reached a new high.\n\nThe protest outside the President's house began peacefully, but participants say things turned violent after police fired tear gas, water cannons and also beat people present.\n\nProtesters retaliated against the police by pelting them with stones.\n\nOn Friday morning, police arrested 45 people although no charges have been made against them yet.\n\nThe demonstrations mark a massive turnaround in popularity for Mr Rajapaksa who swept into power with a majority win in 2019, promising stability and a \"strong hand\" to rule the country.\n\nCritics have been pointing to rank corruption and nepotism - his brothers and nephews occupy several key ministerial portfolios - as one of the main reasons for the situation the country has found itself in.\n\nProtesters chanted slogans and burned signs on the roads at Thursday's demonstration\n\nNews reports that the president and his ministers are exempt from the power cuts, along with opulent displays of wealth by family members, have only increased anger.\n\nThe government has been blaming the crisis on the pandemic's impact on tourism - one of the island nation's main sources of foreign revenue - along with a series of attacks on churches on Easter Sunday 2019 which led to a marked drop in tourists.\n\nBut experts say that this crisis has been a long time in the making.\n\n\"This is an implosion, an accumulated outcome of what has been building up for a couple of decades and as usual there is no one to take responsibility for it. Of course, the present government is directly responsible for its wilful mismanagement of the crisis since they came into power in 2019 by sheer incompetency, arrogance and of course corruption,\" Jayadeva Uyangoda, a political scientist and commentator, told the BBC.\n\nSri Lanka's former deputy central bank governor WA Wijewardena told the BBC that Sri Lanka made a fundamental mistake in not integrating with the global economy after the end of a civil war in 2009 which saw its economy grow at rates of almost 9%.\n\n\"Exports which accounted for 33% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2000 have now fallen to 12% and remain at that level,\" he said.\n\nIn the more immediate term, a government refusal to let the Sri Lankan rupee depreciate also took a massive toll on its foreign reserves.\n\nAccordingly, foreign reserves which stood at $7.6bn (£5.8bn) at the end of 2019 have now fallen to a level of $2.3 bn; of those reserves, usable reserves have fallen to some $300mn.\n\nMr Wijewardena feels things will get a lot worse before they get better, as there is no sustainable flow of foreign exchange for the heavily import-reliant country.\n\nSri Lanka no longer has enough dollars to buy essential items like fuel to power vehicles or even generate power.\n\nAs a result, the country's electricity board has been imposing power cuts that have grown longer and longer in duration. On Thursday, power was switched off for 13 hours, with 16-hour cuts expected in the coming days.\n\nProtesters hurled rocks at police after they shot tear gas into the crowd\n\nThis has disrupted businesses, education and day to day life for millions.\n\nLong lines have been reported outside fuel stations, while people have also had to queue up for hours in the heat to buy items like cooking gas cylinders with sometimes tragic results.\n\nFive elderly people have died after collapsing in queues over the last few weeks.\n\nShortages in food items and essential medicines are also being reported from across the country.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Firefighters tackle a blaze at an oil storage depot in Belgorod, which Russia says was attacked\n\nAn oil storage depot was set on fire in a Russian city just north of Ukraine after what Russia described as an attack by two Ukrainian helicopters.\n\nA video shared on Twitter showed a blaze near apartment blocks in Belgorod, 40km (25 miles) from the border.\n\nSome clips appeared to show rockets hitting the oil depot.\n\nUkraine's top security official, however, denied Ukrainian forces were behind the attack.\n\n\"For some reason, they are saying we are behind it. This does not correspond to reality,\" security council secretary Oleksiy Danilov said.\n\nUkrainian aircraft have not struck targets in Russia previously.\n\nYet Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov accused Ukraine of launching the attack, and later Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov gave details.\n\nHe said that at around 05:00 Moscow time (02:00 GMT) two Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters entered Russian airspace at extremely low altitude and \"launched a missile attack on a civilian oil storage facility\" on the outskirts of Belgorod. Some storage tanks were damaged and caught fire, he said.\n\n\"The oil storage facility has nothing to do with the Russian armed forces,\" he said.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin's spokesman said the incident \"cannot be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for continuing the talks\" with Kyiv. So far those peace talks have made little progress.\n\nThe spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia was now trying to reorganise the fuel supply chain to prevent disruption of Belgorod's energy supplies.\n\nThe city of 370,000 lies just north of Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, which has been heavily shelled by Russian artillery and remains surrounded by Russian forces.\n\nGovernor Gladkov said in a Telegram message that nobody was killed at the oil depot, which is run by Russian state oil firm Rosneft. He said emergency workers were trying to contain the fire and there was \"no threat\" to residents. The emergencies ministry posted video of the blaze on Telegram.\n\nRussia's Interfax news agency reported that residents nearby were evacuated and two people were injured at the depot. It said eight fuel tanks were on fire and nearly 200 firefighters were on the scene.\n\nQueues of cars later formed at local petrol stations, but Mr Gladkov said Belgorod's fuel supplies were still plentiful.\n\nRussia's RIA Novosti news agency says the blaze in three of the tanks has been extinguished, but there is still a risk of the fire spreading.\n\nOn 29 March several explosions were reported at an ammunition depot near Belgorod.\n\nCommenting on the oil depot blaze, Ukrainian defence ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said Russian \"aggression\" was being resisted \"on the territory of Ukraine\".\n\n\"It does not mean that Ukraine has to bear responsibility for all those catastrophes and all those events that happen on the territory of the Russian Federation. This is not the first time we have seen such accusations. So, dear friends, I will neither confirm nor deny this information,\" he said.\n\nUkraine is yet to claim responsibility for this attack, but if it were confirmed it would be the first time that Ukrainian aircraft have flown into Russian airspace to hit a target. bringing the war home to Russia.\n\nUkrainian helicopter pilots have plenty of experience of flying low and fast to avoid being detected by military radar and air defence systems. They've been doing exactly that in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine for years. I experienced and witnessed the extraordinary skills of the Ukrainian military pilots in 2018 - flying barely metres above the tree line and telegraph poles.\n\nBut if these unconfirmed reports are correct - flying at night, well into Russian territory, to launch an attack on an enemy fuel depot would have required extraordinary bravery - as well as finely-honed flying skills.\n\nLow-flying helicopters are still vulnerable to short-range air defence systems. Flying at night would have lessened that risk, but heightened the danger of hitting an object near the ground.\n\nThe Mi-24, or Hind helicopter, is known as the \"flying tank\". Its rockets would have been the weapon deployed to target the oil depot in Belgorod, Russia.\n\nThis alleged attack alone will not dramatically alter the battle. But it could show Ukraine has managed to keep its air force functioning, and give a huge boost to the morale of Ukraine's military.\n\nA well-known Ukrainian journalist in Kyiv, Yury Butusov, posted on Facebook that it was a missile attack at 05:50 local time (02:50 GMT) by \"two Ukrainian Mi-24 combat helicopters, which flew from Ukraine to Russian Belgorod over low altitudes, inconspicuous for Russian anti-aircraft defence\".\n\nVladimir Soloviev, host of a staunchly pro-Kremlin current affairs programme on Russian state TV, asked in a tweet: \"Question. Who is in charge of the Belgorod air defences? Have the bases of the helicopters that delivered this strike been destroyed? When will a safe zone be set up in Belgorod region?\"", "A former hostage has testified in a US court that he was subject to beatings and given dog names by his Islamic State captors.\n\nFederico Motka, an Italian aid worker, was one of dozens of hostages held in harsh captivity by the group in Syria.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh, 33, is standing trial in Virginia accused of hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder as part of a notorious militant cell.\n\nThey were known as the Beatles because of their British accents.\n\nMr Elsheikh has denied being part of the group.\n\nIn court on Wednesday, Mr Motka testified that he was repeatedly beaten, held in isolation in what hostages dubbed \"the box\" and put into stress positions during the 14 months he was held by the group. He was once beaten with a rubber cable for an hour .\n\nThe aid worker said the Beatles were fond of \"playing games\" with their hostages.\n\n\"They gave us dog names,\" he said. \"We needed to come and immediately respond.\"\n\nProsecutors allege that Mr Elsheikh's actions resulted in the death of four US hostages, including journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nAdditionally, he has been charged with conspiring in the deaths of two British aid workers, David Haines and Alan Henning, as well as Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nIn 2013, Mr Motka was captured together with Mr Haines, who was beheaded the following year.\n\nFederico Motka (far left) alongside fellow former hostages Daniel Rye Ottosen, Pierre Torres and Didier Francois in 2016\n\nFearful of being discovered referring to their captors as \"Brits\", the hostages began referring to them with Beatles nicknames: George, Ringo and John. Prosecutors believe Mr Elsheikh was Ringo.\n\nIn his testimony, Mr Motka testified that over several months as a hostage he was repeatedly beaten by Beatles members, who referred to him as \"posh\" and an obscene term because of his boarding school education.\n\n\"They said I was arrogant, and that they were going to take me down a peg,\" he testified, adding that at least three British-accented men were among his captors.\n\nThe use of the British profanity led to a moment of unintentional comedy in the courtroom, after Mr Motka had to explain its meaning to the American judge. The British slang is expected to play a key role in the trial as prosecutors seek to establish the group's role in the hostage-takings.\n\nAuthorities believe Mr Elsheikh - a Sudanese-born Londoner stripped of his British citizenship in 2018 - was a key part of the Beatles and personally took part in the execution and mistreatment of hostages, as well as in coordinating ransom negotiations.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\nThe indictment against him alleges that in one instance, Mr Elsheikh helped transport several European hostages to witness the execution of a Syrian prisoner. After videotaping the man's death, Mr Elsheikh is said to have warned a European hostage \"you're next\".\n\nIn total, the Beatles are alleged to have held 27 people captive.\n\nDuring opening statements on Wednesday, Mr Elsheikh's defence team characterised him as a \"simple Isis fighter\" and called the evidence against him \"inconsistent and unconvincing\".\n\nThe man believed to the Beatles' leader, Mohammed Emwazi - known as Jihadi John - was killed in a drone strike in Syria in 2015. Two other members, Aine Davis and Alexanda Kotey, are being held in Turkey and the US, respectively.\n\nOver 50 witnesses are expected to testify during Mr Elsheikh's trial, which is likely to last three or four weeks.", "Russia has told \"unfriendly\" foreign countries they must start paying for gas in roubles or it will cut supplies.\n\nVladimir Putin has signed a decree stating buyers \"must open rouble accounts in Russian banks\" from Friday.\n\n\"Nobody sells us anything for free, and we are not going to do charity either - that is, existing contracts will be stopped,\" the Russian president said.\n\nMr Putin's demand is being seen as an attempt to boost the rouble, which has been hit by Western sanctions.\n\nHis decree means foreign buyers of Russian gas would have to open an account at Russia's Gazprombank and transfer euros or US dollars into it.\n\nGazprombank would then convert this into roubles which will then be used to make the payment for gas.\n\nThough the order comes into effect for gas exported from Friday onwards, the payments for that gas will not be paid by European buyers until mid-May, Dr Jack Sharples, a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies told the BBC.\n\nThat suggests there may not be an immediate threat to supplies.\n\nMr Putin said the switch to roubles was meant to strengthen Russia's sovereignty, and it would stick to its obligations on all contracts, if Western nations obliged.\n\nGermany said the change announced by Mr Putin amounted to \"blackmail\".\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine, Western nations have issued economic and trading sanctions on Russia, but the European Union has not placed bans on oil or gas, unlike the US and Canada, as its member nations rely heavily on it.\n\nThe EU gets about 40% of its gas and 30% of its oil from Russia, and has no easy substitutes if supplies are disrupted. Meanwhile, Russia currently gets €400m (£340m) per day from gas sales to the bloc and it has no way of rerouting this supply to other markets.\n\nFor the Kremlin this is designed to suggest a dramatic escalation in the economic battle between the West and Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nVladimir Putin has outlined a pathway for the cutting of gas supplies to Europe if Western customers refuse to pay for supplies in the Russian currency the rouble.\n\nHowever, the market reaction suggests the details of the mechanism mean that, in practice, European customers will just have to change their currency dealers to Gazprombank. That bank has already been left unsanctioned by the EU, for the purpose of continuity of energy trade.\n\nAs a result, gas prices remain very high, but did not today shoot into the stratosphere. There should be a workaround.\n\nAs one leading analyst told me, this solution has \"saved face\" for Putin, who can sound tough on domestic TV. Ultimately, as Russian officials have repeatedly said for decades, Russian supply of energy to the West continued uninterrupted even during the height of the Cold War.\n\nUltimately, Russia still needs the money for the gas, and still wants to leave the possibility of a market for its main export once a peace deal is signed. However, it is also true to say that the threat of a cut-off has escalated. EU nations have prepared emergency measures to manage demand, and would be more willing to face that now during spring and summer than winter.\n\nThe net effect of the mechanism announced is to limit the ability of the West to freeze the revenues they pay to Gazprom, which Putin described as receiving the gas for free.\n\nSome Ukrainian officials have suggested such an approach. Oil and gas dollars and euros continue to help the Kremlin resist an otherwise tough set of financial sanctions.\n\nAnalysts said Russia halting gas flows to EU member countries to \"force the issue\" would mark a \"major escalation not even performed at the height of the Cold War\".\n\n\"It would mark another major financial blow to Russia's coffers,\" the analysts at Fitch Solutions added.\n\nIt is also unclear whether Russia's new payment mechanism for gas would fully ban payments in euros.\n\nWestern companies and governments have rejected Russia's demands to pay for gas in roubles as a breach of existing contracts, which are set in euros or US dollars.\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz said German companies would continue to pay for Russian gas using euros as stipulated in contracts.\n\nNathan Piper, head of oil and gas research at Investec, told the BBC the move by Mr Putin was an attempt to put economic pressure \"back on Europe\" and that more foreign exchange demand for roubles would likely push up the value of the currency.\n\n\"However, long term Russia needs to remain a reliable supplier of gas so it is unclear if they would actually restrict gas supply,\" he added.\n\n\"That said, even the risk of it is keeping UK/European gas prices at near record highs and six times the 10-year average. This is translating to steep rises in consumers' energy bills.\"\n\nThe Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline was inaugurated just over a decade ago between Russia and Germany\n\nDr Sharples of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, said the two sides could adapt and continue their trade uninterrupted, or one or both parties could claim breach of contract and escalate the situation.\n\n\"One would hope that even if the situation escalated to a point where one or both parties call for arbitration, that the gas would continue to flow. However, a stoppage cannot be ruled out,\" he said.\n\nGermany, which gets about half its gas and a third of its oil from Russia, has urged its citizens and companies to reduce consumption in anticipation of possible shortages. Austria, which imports about 40% of its gas from Russia, is tightening its monitoring of the market.\n\nUnder an existing gas emergency plan, the \"early warning phase\", which both Germany and Austria have begun, is the first of three steps designed to prepare the country for a potential supply shortage. In its final stage, the governments would bring in gas rationing.\n\nElsewhere, Bulgaria, which gets 90% of its gas via imports from Russian company Gazprom, has opened a tender for underground drilling as part of plans to almost double the country's gas storage capacity and prepare for any supply disruptions.\n\nWhile the UK would not be directly impacted by supply disruption, as it imports less than 5% of its gas from Russia, it would be affected by prices rising in the global markets as demand in Europe increases.\n\nThe UK government said it was not planning to pay for Russian gas in roubles.", "The club opened in 1980 and has hosted dozens of internationally renowned artists\n\nA legendary club widely regarded as one of the UK's premier live music venues has been told it must close.\n\nThe Leadmill, in Sheffield, opened its doors in 1980 and has hosted artists including Pulp, Coldplay, The Stone Roses and Oasis.\n\nVenue bosses said their landlord had served them with an eviction notice requiring them to quit the building next year.\n\nFans, artists and a local MP have backed a campaign to save the Leadmill.\n\nBased near Sheffield's main railway station, the venue is regularly voted as the city's best for live music and has won national awards.\n\nIt also hosts comedy acts and regular club nights.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Since 1980, The Leadmill has spent millions of pounds on what was a derelict warehouse, transforming it into one of the U.K's most respected venues, where countless acts from across the globe have performed over the years.\"\n\nThe club has hosted some of the biggest names in British music over the past four decades\n\nA slew of bands leapt on the announcement to highlight the role the club has played in giving musicians a start in their careers.\n\nThe Kaiser Chiefs recalled playing the club in their early days, saying they had \"very fond memories\" and closing the Leadmill would be a huge loss not just for Sheffield and Yorkshire, but the whole UK music scene.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kaiser Chiefs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIndie rock band The Cribs also tweeted their support, saying: \"These are the sort of places that cities cannot afford to lose, the platform they give young musicians is invaluable.\"\n\nSheffield Labour MP Louise Haigh said she would \"fight all the way to save this historic Sheffield landmark\", voicing her support alongside comedian Nish Kumar and Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess.\n\nThe BBC spoke to people outside the club, who were saddened to hear the Leadmill might disappear.\n\nStudent Kitty Horne, 20, said she had worked at the club at her mum's urging.\n\n\"My mum came to university here as well and she said 'go get a job there because the Leadmill is great',\" she said.\n\n\"It was great, I made some really good friends working there and I've been back for club nights, back for gigs.\n\n\"I think it's quite a big part of the city. It was how my parents met.\"\n\nArctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner auctioned a black Fender Stratocaster in aid of the Leadmill in 2020\n\nThe Leadmill is not just a music venue, but a place of fond memories for thousands who have caught the biggest artists of the day, before they went on to arenas and superstardom.\n\nIt has been many a students' first night out, the site of blossoming romances and where countless revellers have been showered in beer as their favourite band struck the first note.\n\nAs a former employee during my degree, I had the task of keeping schtum while helping to prepare a secret gig for Arctic Monkeys on the launch of their second album. Naturally, being held in Sheffield.\n\nAnd just in the space of a year, I and many others managed to catch acts including Happy Mondays, Graham Coxon, local lads Reverend and the Makers and Milburn, Enter Shikari, Imogen Heap, Biffy Clyro, Lily Allen, Plan B, and many, many more.\n\nIf the venue disappears for good, it would be devastating not just for music fans, but for the staff, DJs, sound engineers, hospitality and trades that rely on it for their income.\n\nThe club has launched a social media campaign - #WeCantLoseLeadmill - urging fans to help them make the case against closure.\n\nMusic Venue Trust, a charity which acts to protect grassroots music venues, said it was aware of the situation and working with the venue to try and ensure its survival.\n\nBosses at the Leadmill have previously spoken about the venue's struggles during the pandemic.\n\nAn Arts Council grant of £241,571, and £128,544 from Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner - who auctioned off a guitar in aid of the club - helped it to stay afloat.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daffodil blooms in the snow near Stanhope, in County Durham\n\nSnow has fallen across parts of the UK, as a cold snap grips the country.\n\n\"Thundersnow\" - a thunderstorm with snow instead of rain - has been reported and people in northern and eastern Scotland and north-east England awoke to a blanket of snow.\n\nIt is a sharp change to last week's weather, which saw sunshine and highs of 20C (68F) in some parts.\n\n\"Spring is on hold,\" said BBC Weather - as the Met Office issued two yellow weather warnings for snow and ice.\n\nTemperatures fell below freezing overnight and snow showers have swept across the country - particularly in northern and eastern parts but also in central and eastern England.\n\nAbout 6cm of snow was reported in Bingley in West Yorkshire while parts of Northumberland have seen 3cm, BBC Weather said.\n\nThis wintry landscape was revealed as the sun rose over Guiseley, near Leeds, following overnight snow\n\nA snow shower interrupts a team photo for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club... isn't this meant to be a summer sport?\n\nEdinburgh also woke up to a dusting\n\nFrom Headingley in Leeds, one BBC Weather Watcher sent in this photo\n\nThroughout Thursday some of the snow showers could extend further south and west across the UK.\n\nTwo Met Office weather warnings for snow and ice have been issued:\n\nThey warn of travel disruption and slippery surfaces.\n\nTemperatures are set to widely drop below freezing again on Thursday night, as well as gusts of up to 50mph forecast in some areas. But temperatures may climb slightly over the weekend, forecasters say.\n\nParts of north Wales also saw snowfall - as seen in Llandyrnog in Denbighshire\n\nSome more central and southern parts of the UK saw a dusting - such as Brightlingsea in Essex\n\nHilly areas such as Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales saw the snow fall much deeper\n\nLast week, most of the country saw blue skies, sunshine and warmer weather - with the Met Office reporting temperatures were well above average.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Matty Box said there was now a \"cold air mass\" over the UK.\n\nHe said there would be a similar chance of snow over Thursday night and Friday morning as well - but the weather would then improve over the weekend, with some sunny spells.\n\n\"Showers will become less frequent, but still with the chance of some wintry showers effects in the east coast and the North Sea coast in particular through Saturday\", Mr Box said.\n\n\"There should be a fair amount of sunshine as well with sunny spells in between.\"\n\nOn average in the UK, snow falls for more days in March than it does in December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A white Easter is more common than you might think", "Rishi Sunak said it was OK for people to attack him, but not wife Akshata Murty\n\nIndian tech giant Infosys, in which UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife owns shares thought to be worth more than £400m, is closing its office in Russia.\n\nSources told the BBC that the company was trying to find replacement roles abroad for staff employed in Moscow.\n\nInfosys has been under pressure to cease its Russian operations following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAnd Mr Sunak has faced questions over wife Akshata Murty's shares in the firm, which was founded by her father.\n\nEarlier, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Sky News it was important for the chancellor to reveal whether his family had been \"benefiting from money made in Russia when the [UK] government has put in place sanctions\" on firms and individuals following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC's Newscast podcast this week that he had found criticism of his wife \"very upsetting\", adding that he understood how film star Will Smith had felt when his own wife had been mocked by comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars over her medical condition.\n\nBut he joked: \"At least I didn't get up and slap anybody, which is good.\"\n\nInfosys, one of India's biggest companies with a presence in about 50 countries, set up an engineering centre in Moscow in 2016 and it is thought that up to 100 people are employed there.\n\nAfter Russia invaded Ukraine, many global IT firms suspended operations in the country, but Infosys has kept what it called \"a small team... based out of Russia that services some of our global clients\" until now.\n\n\"We do not have any active business relationships with local Russian enterprises,\" it added in a recent statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Infosys declined to comment on the decision to close the Moscow office or what its future involvement with companies operating in Russia would be.\n\nRishi Sunak says it is unfair that his wife has faced criticism over her Infosys shares\n\nMs Murty's shareholding of 0.9% of Infosys is estimated to be worth more than £400m.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Sunak has previously said neither she nor any members of her family \"have any involvement in the operational decisions of the company\".\n\nBut Labour and the Liberal Democrats have insisted the chancellor has questions to answer about whether his family benefits from the shareholding at a time when he is calling for UK businesses to divest from Russia.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Sky News it was \"in the public interest\" to do so.\n\nHe added: \"I'm not attacking their family but I do want to know if the chancellor's household is benefiting from money from a company that's investing in Russia when the government is saying quite rightly that nobody should be doing that.\"\n\nThe chancellor told Newscast that, being in public life, he was himself \"fair game\" for criticism, but it was \"very upsetting and, I think, wrong for people to try and come at my wife\".\n\nInfosys, which has offices in London, Edinburgh and Nottinghamshire, announced last year that it was hiring 1,000 extra staff in the UK.\n\nIndia's government, unlike the UK's, has not condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and did not vote against it at the United Nations Security Council.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak and Will Smith both saw their wives mocked, but the chancellor says: \"At least I didn't get up and slap anybody.\"\n\nRishi Sunak has said he finds it \"very upsetting\" that his wife has faced criticism over shares she owns in a tech company operating in Russia.\n\nThe chancellor compared his feelings to those of film star Will Smith, whose own wife was mocked at the Oscars.\n\nBut he joked: \"At least I didn't get up and slap anybody, which is good.\"\n\nMr Sunak's wife Akshata Murty owns shares thought to be worth more than £400m in Indian firm Infosys, founded by her father, Narayana.\n\nThe chancellor has himself come in for several days of criticism over last week's Spring Statement, which opposition parties say did too little to address the spiralling cost of living.\n\nHe told the BBC's Newscast podcast: \"I think it's totally fine for people to take shots at me. It's fair game. I'm the one sitting here and that's what I signed up for.\"\n\nBut he added: \"It's very upsetting and, I think, wrong for people to try and come at my wife, and you know, beyond that actually, with regard to my father-in-law, for whom I have nothing but enormous pride and admiration for everything that he's achieved.\n\n\"And no amount of attempted smearing is going to make me change that because he's wonderful and has achieved a huge amount.\"\n\nMr Sunak also mentioned England cricket captain Joe Root, whose team lost a Test series to the West Indies at the weekend, and Mr Smith, who slapped comedian Chris Rock in the face when he mocked his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, over her alopecia at Sunday's Oscars.\n\nWill Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock after he mocked his wife\n\nHe told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg: \"Someone said, 'Joe Root, Will Smith, and me - not the best of weekends for any of us.'\n\n\"But I feel, on reflection, both Will Smith and me having our wives attacked - at least I didn't get up and slap anybody, which is good.\"\n\nMultinational software giant Infosys has kept what it calls a \"small team of employees based out of Russia\" following the country's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems have said Mr Sunak has questions to answer about whether his family benefits from the shareholding at a time when he is calling for UK businesses to divest from Russia.\n\nUK inflation is surging, on the back rising food and energy prices, with Office for Budget Responsibility predicting that living standards will drop by 2.2% this year - the largest fall since the 1950s.\n\nLabour has urged Mr Sunak to do more to reduce the pressure on households by imposing a windfall tax on profits made by gas and oil firms.\n\nRishi Sunak said it was wrong for people to criticise his wife Akshata Murty\n\nBut the chancellor said: \"I'm confident in what we've done. I know it's tough for people.\n\n\"We're facing a very difficult situation with the price of things going up and I want to do what we can to ameliorate some of that, but I'm also honest with people that we can't ameliorate all of it, sadly.\"\n\nMr Sunak added that he did not think increasing government borrowing to give households more help \"would be sensible\", arguing: \"Actually, it has the risk of making the problem worse when you've got inflation and interest rates going up.\"\n\nHe said: \"Some of these things are difficult. They're certainly unpopular. But they're responsible and will help us in the long-term and I'm not going to deviate from that just for some short-term popularity gain.\"\n\nRishi Sunak's full Newscast interview is available on BBC Sounds.", "Millions of people will now feel the impact of an unprecedented £700-a-year rise in energy costs - at the same time as a host of bill hikes take effect.\n\nThe 54% rise in the energy price cap means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will now pay £1,971 per year.\n\nA further rise pushing the annual bill up to £2,600 should be expected in October, one analyst has told the BBC.\n\nCouncil tax, water bills and car tax are also going up for some on 1 April.\n\nMinimum wage rates are rising which, along with some financial support from the government, is partially softening the blow.\n\nThe £693 a year rise in a typical energy bill will affect 18 million households, with 4.5 million customers on prepayment meters facing an even bigger increase of £708 a year.\n\nAmong them is Winston Carrington, a grandfather in his 70s, who said he was growing vegetables in the garden of his Manchester home to help ease the impact of the rising cost of living.\n\nWinston Carrington is worried about covering his bills\n\n\"I'm going to grow, and I'm going to fill my freezer this year with my own produce. I'm going to have to,\" said Mr Carrington, who uses a prepayment meter.\n\n\"I can't go away this year again, not because of Covid or anything. I just can't afford to go away. The state pension that we're getting at the moment does not cover what I need.\"\n\nPrices in general are rising at their fastest rate for 30 years, but the sudden increase in the cost of energy is the most significant for individuals.\n\nNew official figures suggest four in 10 bill-payers have been finding it very, or somewhat, difficult to afford their energy costs.\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said the country is facing the biggest single shock from energy prices since the 1970s. It is the largest increase, by far, in the energy regulator Ofgem's price cap, since it was introduced.\n\nThe cap, set every six months for England. Wales and Scotland, is designed to protect domestic customers from the volatility of wholesale energy prices.\n\nHowever, official forecasters and analysts have warned people to be braced for another huge rise in energy bills when the next cap takes effect in October. Wholesale prices have been affected by the war in Ukraine and ongoing pressure on suppliers.\n\nThis could add another £629 to a typical bill in October, according to the most up-to-date prediction, provided to the BBC from leading energy consultancy firm Cornwall Insight.\n\nIf this proved to be accurate, then the average bill next winter would be double that of the winter just gone. A typical bill is expected to fall back to the current level in summer 2023, although longer-term forecasts are tricky.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story?\n\nBill Bullen, the boss of Utilita, warned that elderly people and children were at serious risk over the next winter because of a lack of heating.\n\n\"We are going to see an extra £500 or £600 added to bills in October, and frankly the chancellor's going to have to fund that entirely for low-income households,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"He won't be able to afford to take this problem away for everybody... but for customers who can't respond to that price [increase], that's where the help needs to be targeted.\"\n\nChris O'Shea, chief executive of Centrica, which owns the UK's largest supplier British Gas, said his business was supporting struggling customers and was giving grants to those most in need.\n\n\"We would love to do more. The reality is that for a retail energy company, the market has gone through quite a change, and profits have reduced quite substantially,\" he told the BBC's Big Green Money Show.\n\nHowever, he accepted that profits had risen sharply for the heavily taxed exploration arm of the business.\n\nCouncil taxes and water bills are also going up for many people, added to the rising cost of food and household items.\n\nOne estimate suggests that a typical consumer is now facing a £73 a month increase in bills, of which about £58 is from rising energy costs.\n\n\"The added cost pressures set to come into play in April threatens to obliterate even the most finely tuned budgets.\" said Myron Jobson, senior personal finance analyst at Interactive Investor.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said that low earners, renters, parents, people with disabilities, unemployed people and divorcees were least able to afford a bill shock.\n\nEven before the latest increases, charity Citizens Advice said that in March, it referred 24,752 people to food banks or to other charitable support, up by 44% compared to the same month last year.\n\nThe government has said it was taking \"decisive action\" to help people with the cost of living, including a £200 reduction to energy bills in October - which needs to be paid back in instalments, and a £150 reduction in council tax bills for 80% of billpayers.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour party, branded the government's response as \"pathetic\".\n\nHe accused the government of forcing people to choose between heating their homes or eating.\n\nHe said that the Labour party would introduce a one-off windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies and use the money to help households struggling to cope with rising energy bills.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC's Newscast: \"I'm confident in what we've done. I know it's tough for people. We're facing a very difficult situation with the price of things going up and I want to do what we can to ameliorate some of that, but I'm also honest with people that we can't ameliorate all of it, sadly.\"", "Gen Eric Vidaud was commander of special forces until he took on the military intelligence role seven months ago\n\nThe head of French military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, is losing his job after failing to predict Russia's war in Ukraine, reports say.\n\nSeven months after he took on the role, one report said he was blamed for \"inadequate briefings\" and a \"lack of mastery of subjects\".\n\nThe US correctly assessed that Russia was planning a large-scale invasion, while France concluded it was unlikely.\n\nGen Vidaud was blamed for that by France's military chief, a source said.\n\nHowever, the military source told AFP news agency that his job was to provide \"military intelligence on operations, not on premeditation\". As Gen Vidaud's service concluded that Russia had the means to invade Ukraine, the source said that \"what happened proves him right\".\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, a military spokesman said French armed forces chief Gen Thierry Burkhard had no comment to make.\n\nHowever, in early March Gen Burkhard acknowledged that French intelligence had not been up to the level of US or UK briefings, which were publicised to pile pressure on Russia's Vladimir Putin. \"The Americans said that the Russians were going to attack, they were right,\" he told Le Monde newspaper.\n\n\"Our services thought instead that the cost of conquering Ukraine would have been monstrous and the Russians had other options\" to bring down the government of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, he added.\n\nFrance's misreading of President Putin was all the more embarrassing because President Emmanuel Macron had spoken to him regularly in the days leading up to the invasion on 24 February.\n\nIntelligence specialist Prof Alexandre Papaemmanuel told AFP it was too easy to blame military intelligence for the failure, which lay with France's entire intelligence community.\n\nBut Gen Vidaud, France's former special forces commander, appears to have been squeezed out for other reasons too.\n\nWeeks after he took charge of military intelligence, his service came in for criticism when Australia scrapped a multi-billion dollar submarine contract with France in favour of a security pact with the US and UK. The Aukus pact came out of the blue in France and prompted a diplomatic spat.", "The message many received was short and to the point\n\nFacebook users around the world have been waking up to find themselves locked out of their accounts for no apparent reason.\n\nThe message many received reads: \"Your Facebook account was disabled because it did not follow our Community Standards. This decision can't be reversed.\"\n\nOne user told the BBC there was no warning or explanation given.\n\nParent firm Meta said it was investigating.\n\nIn a tweet, Meta's Andy Stone said: \"We're aware that some users are experiencing issues accessing their Facebook accounts and we are working to resolve them as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHe did not say how many were affected, or what the issue was.\n\nPR consultant Jen Roberts was one of those to find herself locked out of her account. She told the BBC: \"I haven't posted anything or commented for quite some time, so it's extremely unlikely that I've done anything that could be construed as offensive.\"\n\nBut, despite not being an avid user, finding her account locked was still upsetting: \"All of the images from my university years and family occasions are on Facebook\n\n\"I will no longer have access to 15-plus years of content, which is genuinely sad.\n\n\"It is also quite stressful not knowing what the issue is, and having no recourse to resolve it. To be given no warning and then no way to access our own data is mindboggling.\"", "The government now says it will ban so-called conversion therapy for gay or bisexual people in England and Wales - but not for transgender people.\n\nIt comes hours after it had said it would drop plans for the ban entirely.\n\nThe announcement on Thursday evening that ministers would explore non-legislative routes to stop the practice was criticised by LGBT groups and MPs.\n\nAccording to NHS England, conversion therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nNHS England and other major psychological bodies in the UK have warned all forms of conversion therapy are \"unethical and potentially harmful\".\n\nA senior government source has told the BBC the ban will feature in the next Queen's Speech.\n\nThe legislation will mean therapy to attempt to change people's sexuality will be outlawed, but those practices carried out to try to change people's gender identity will not.\n\nJust hours earlier, a government spokesperson had said the ban would be dropped and they would instead review ways to stop conversion therapy practices through existing law and other measures.\n\nBut the announcement that the ban will not cover gender identity has been met with criticism from some MPs and charities.\n\nThe Rainbow Project, said any ban that did not include transgender people was \"not a real ban\". Labour MP Nadia Whittome said it was \"still not good enough\", before adding: \"LGB comes with the T, and the Tories are not on our side\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Jayne Ozanne, a conversion therapy survivor and chair of the #BanConversionTherapy coalition, accused Boris Johnson of throwing LGBT people under a bus, adding it was \"utterly ludicrous\" that transgender people were not included in the ban.\n\nSome gender critical groups had fought for the ban not to include conversion therapy experienced by transgender people.\n\nAnd Nikki da Costa, a former director of legislative affairs at No 10, said elements of the legislation, particularly relating to gender identity for under 18s and talking therapy, would have had \"profound consequences for children struggling with gender dysphoria\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday: \"Doctors, therapists and parents would be deterred from exploring with a child any feelings of what else may be going on for fear of being told they're trying to change a child's identity\", adding that it was \"deeply concerning\".\n\nIt is thought that the government sees it as too complicated to avoid any unintended consequences of the legislation - which may affect parents, teachers, and therapists who are helping children experiencing gender identity issues.\n\nBut the Welsh Government called the move \"unacceptable\" and said it was getting legal advice on action it could take to ban trans conversion therapy.\n\nJane Fae, who chairs Trans Media Watch, told the BBC that she was \"gutted, not surprised and very very worried about the community\".\n\nShe said that conversion therapy was widely used within the transgender community.\n\nBut Ms Fae added: \"It's not about therapy, it is not even about talking, it is about mistreatment, abuse and in some cases torture\".\n\nThe initial announcement that ministers planned to shelve a ban was criticised, with the LGBT charity Stonewall calling the news \"devastating\".\n\nLGBT+ Conservatives, which is affiliated to the party, said it was \"shocked and disappointed\" and that they would write to the prime minister.\n\nSimon Calvert, deputy director at The Christian Institute, said it was \"disappointing\" that after the government made the \"sensible\" initial conclusion to drop the ban, it had now \"caved in to people who see this law as a way of punishing evangelicals for their beliefs about sexuality\".\n\nHe had earlier welcomed the news the ban would be dropped, arguing it could breach the European Convention on Human Rights and impinge on religious rights.\n\nSome groups, including the Evangelical Alliance, which says it represents 3,500 churches, say a ban on conversion therapy could restrict religious freedoms. However, many other religious leaders support a ban.\n\nAny policy relating to transgender peoples' lives is always the subject of fierce public and political debate, so the chances that a second U-turn will quieten things down are slim.\n\nThe government's national LGBT survey in 2017 found transgender people were twice as likely to have been offered conversion therapy than their gay and bisexual counterparts.\n\nMore than 108,000 people responded to the consultation, which led Theresa May's government to announce plans to ban conversion therapy in 2018.\n\nThe promise was brought forward by Boris Johnson. In July 2020, he said the practice was \"absolutely abhorrent\" and \"[had] no place in this country\".\n\nIn May 2021, the Queen's Speech reiterated that measures would be \"brought forward\" to ban it.\n\nLiz Truss, in her role as minister for women and equalities, said after the Queen's Speech: \"As a global leader on LGBT rights, this government has always been committed to stamping out the practice of conversion therapy.\"\n\nBut she also stated that the ban would only happen following a consultation seeking \"further views from the public and key stakeholders\".", "Unite workers went on strike for a week last month\n\nSome school transport and special schools face disruption on Friday due to strike action by the Unite union.\n\nMembers of Unite who work for the Education Authority (EA) are striking over pay.\n\nGlenveagh Special School in Belfast has told parents that it has \"no option\" but for pupils to remain at home as a result.\n\nThe union also said it is likely there will be \"considerable disruption\" to school transport in some areas.\n\nMembers of Unite are taking action over a local government pay offer of 1.75%, which the union has called a \"real terms pay cut\".\n\nInflation in the UK is rising at its fastest rate for 30 years as fuel, energy and food costs surge.\n\nUnite is one of the largest public sector unions, and its members in councils, the Education Authority and the Housing Executive recently took strike action for a week from 21 March to 27 March.\n\nIts members who work for the EA are taking a further day of strike action on Friday 1 April.\n\nIn a statement, Kieran Ellison from Unite said the EA needed to make a \"realistic\" pay offer.\n\n\"Full responsibility for this lies with the Education Authority who have failed to make any response even after the first week of strike action,\" he said.\n\n\"We are calling on them to come forward with a realistic pay offer to address our members' pay expectations.\"\n\nSome Education Authority 'yellow bus' drivers, school meals staff and classroom assistants are members of Unite.\n\nTransport to some special schools is likely to be particularly affected as many pupils rely on EA buses to get to school.\n\nBut Glenveagh Special School has told parents that almost all of its \"non-teaching\" staff including classroom assistants will not be in school on Friday.\n\n\"The support staff in Glenveagh bring immeasurable value to the children with whom they work and are critical to the safe operation of the school,\" a letter from the school said.\n\n\"We fully respect their right to engage in industrial action.\"\n\nBut the letter said Glenveagh had \"a vastly higher number of support staff\" who were members of Unite than other schools.\n\n\"It is anticipated that less than 1% of our non-teaching staff will be in attendance on Friday,\" the letter said.\n\n\"We simply cannot safely provide face-to-face teaching for pupils in these circumstances.\n\n\"We understand that this will cause further disruption to our pupils and families.\"\n\nUnite, which also took action in March, says the EA needs to make a \"realistic\" pay offer\n\nThe school also urged the EA and the union to \"engage in discussions\" to resolve the situation and warned parents the school may be affected by further strike action in the future.\n\nThere will be 15 Unite picket lines across Northern Ireland at some schools and other EA buildings.\n\nThe EA said that they had again asked Unite for exemptions from the strike action for special school staff, and for drivers transporting pupils to special schools, to minimise the disruption to children and young people.\n\n\"However, these latest requests were considered and not accepted,\" the EA said.\n\nIn a statement, the EA's director of human resources, Clare Duffield, said the national pay deal had already been accepted by the majority of trade unions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Therefore, local government organisations, including the EA, do not have the power or authority to renegotiate this for Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\n\"This being the case, I remain very concerned about the disproportionate impact the industrial action is having on children, particularly those with special educational needs, and would call upon Unite to reconsider putting in place exemptions for special school staff and transport.\"", "Police are reviewing a report received following a BBC NI Spotlight investigation into the treatment of fertility patients at a Belfast clinic.\n\nLogan Wellbeing and Medical offers a fertility treatment protocol that incorporates treatments like massage.\n\nIt runs parallel with a medical side, which includes intravenous therapy and vitamin injections.\n\nBut Spotlight found the clinic used prescription-only drugs like dexamethasone, a powerful steroid.\n\nThe drugs were administered as part of a treatment protocol devised by Ruth Ellen Logan, who is at the forefront of the clinic's brand.\n\nDexamethasone is intended only for specified medical purposes and is not licensed for use in treating infertility.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Belfast woman who claims to help fertility patients get pregnant\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) says inquiries are continuing.\n\nPolice appealed to anyone with information that may assist them to come forward.\n\nScores of people have been in contact, in response to Spotlight: The Babymaker Uncovered.\n\nThere have been emails and messages from many, whose experience appears to resonate with the former patients and staff featured in the programme.\n\nSeparately, a private Facebook support group has been set up for those affected with over 150 members joining in less than 24 hours.\n\nThe treatments were offered at the Logan Wellbeing clinic\n\nA patient Spotlight called Linda had gone through a decade of infertility treatments with her husband when in 2018, she came across Ms Logan and her clinic in a Facebook post.\n\nLinda did not want her real name used because family members do not know she underwent fertility treatment.\n\n\"She was offering a drug that was treating women that were having difficulty in getting pregnant; she seemed to be the lady that answered all your prayers,\" she said.\n\nLinda booked a consultation and she said what Ruth Ellen Logan told her put her mind at ease.\n\n\"She told me that she was a medically-trained fertility specialist and that she worked very closely with the top consultants in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\n\"In the first appointment, she promised that she would have a baby for us and that she would find the problem.\"\n\nLinda was unaware at that time that Ms Logan is not a medical professional and has no authority to medically diagnose, recommend, order or prescribe any drugs.\n\nDexamethasone, a component in an IV drip recommended by Ms Logan, formed a key part of the treatment she received at the clinic.\n\nDexamethasone is intended only for specified medical purposes and is not licensed for use in treating infertility\n\nHowever, Ms Logan then increased the dose and nursing staff in the clinic administered the IV drips.\n\n\"She told me that this would be me fixed for life,\" said Linda.\n\nHowever, there are medical risks to taking dexamethasone if you are pregnant or are trying to get pregnant.\n\n\"I would not give it full stop,\" said Prof Alison Murdoch, an internationally renowned fertility doctor.\n\n\"There's no evidence of benefit, dexamethasone is a powerful drug, it has side effects.\n\n\"You've got to give it carefully, there are medical contraindications to dexamethasone.\"\n\nProf Alison Murdoch said dexamethasone must be administered carefully\n\nLinda told Spotlight that she was never informed of the medical risks of being administered dexamethasone.\n\nShe had in total paid close to £10,000 for a series of treatment protocols, including IV drips containing dexamethasone, when a clinic nurse refused to give her anymore.\n\n\"One of the nurses said to me that she can't stand back and watch it any more.\n\n\"She said: 'I'm not giving you this. If I give you this, I'll go to jail.'\n\n\"That was my final day in there and I walked away, and I was just so worried about what I had done to my body.\"\n\nMs Logan received a detailed letter from Spotlight with a series of questions arising from the investigation.\n\nShe did not directly address those questions.\n\nAs part of a statement from Logan Wellbeing and Medical, delivered via its lawyer, Spotlight was told \"highly defamatory and inaccurate claims\" have been made by \"former clients and staff\" but that the clinic's \"confidentiality obligations prevent any comment\".\n\nThe full BBC Spotlight NI programme, The Babymaker Uncovered, is available to watch on iPlayer here.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTransgender cyclist Emily Bridges says she has been \"harassed and demonised\" after being told she cannot compete in the National Omnium Championships.\n\nBridges, 21, says she has provided medical evidence that she is eligible to race in her first women's event.\n\nHowever, she still has \"little clarity\" around her \"alleged ineligibility\".\n\n\"No-one should have to choose between being who they are and participating in the sport that they love,\" she said in a statement on social media.\n\nBridges says that, for the last six months, she has been in contact with British Cycling and the sport's world governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), over the eligibility criteria she needed to meet to compete this Saturday.\n\nBritish Cycling's transgender regulations, which were updated in January this year, require riders to have had testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to competition.\n\nBridges says she has provided both British Cycling and the UCI with evidence that she meets the criteria \"including that my testosterone level has been far below the limit prescribed by the regulations for the last 12 months\".\n\nThe UCI told British Cycling that, because international ranking points are allocated at national championship events, Bridges' participation could only be allowed once her eligibility to race in international competitions is confirmed. That process is currently ongoing.\n\nBritish Cycling said on Wednesday they had been informed by the UCI that \"under their current guidelines Emily is not eligible to participate\" in this weekend's event in Derby.\n\nBut Bridges said: \"Despite the public announcement I still have little clarity around their finding of my ineligibility.\n\n\"I am an athlete and I just want to race competitively again. I hope that they will reconsider their decision in line with the regulations.\"\n\nShe added: \"I've been relentlessly harassed and demonised by those who have a specific agenda to push.\n\n\"They attack anything that isn't the norm. This is without care for the wellbeing of individuals or marginalised groups.\"\n\nBridges says her privacy has also been \"totally violated\" and she has received \"targeted abuse\" on social media, \"despite the fact I have not yet raced in the female category\".\n\nBridges began hormone therapy last year as part of her gender dysphoria treatment and continued to compete in men's races, but she was a provisional entry on the women's starting list for the National Omnium Championships.\n\nAccording to Cycling Weekly, Bridges has been participating in a study at Loughborough University to track her own power data with reduced testosterone levels - and says they show a 13-16% drop in her power outputs across six-second, one-minute, five-minute and 20-minute durations.\n\nBridges also says she has received a mixed response on speaking publicly about her transition, but many female cyclists have sent messages of support.\n\nHowever, after the UCI deemed she is ineligible, British 800m athlete Ellie Baker said on social media: \"I would refuse to race and hope that the other women would stand with me on this too.\n\n\"This is totally unfair. The advantages a trans women has had from going through puberty as a boy to a man can never been undone.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Liz Ward, director of programmes at campaign group Stonewall, said Bridges \"hasn't been given a fair chance to compete in Saturday's race\".\n\n\"It is disappointing that UCI have overruled British Cycling's competition criteria, which Emily was in full compliance of,\" she added.\n\n\"British Cycling had already extensively consulted on their trans-inclusion policy, which is fully in line with International Olympic Committee guidelines. Our thoughts are with Emily.\"", "Canada's top court has imposed a C$9.1m ($7.3m; £5.5m) fine on a man behind one of the country's stickiest crimes - the theft of 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup.\n\nThe so-called Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist saw the loss of nearly C$18m worth of syrup from the country's reserves by a group of thieves.\n\nThe court ordered Richard Vallières, a \"major player\" in the scheme, to pay a penalty or face six years in prison.\n\nVallières was found guilty in 2016 of fraud, trafficking and theft.\n\nHe is currently serving an eight year prison sentence.\n\nAt trial, Vallières said he sold the syrup for C$10m and made a personal profit of around C$1m.\n\nIn a unanimous decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that Vallières should pay a penalty equal to the value of the stolen goods within a decade. The ruling overturns a decision by the Quebec Court of Appeal to reduce his fine to just C$1m - equivalent to what Vallières says he pocketed.\n\nThe Quebec Maple Syrup Producers - the so-called Opec of maple syrup - holds an emergency reserve of the product to help meet global supply in years of poor harvests. The Canadian province produces almost three-quarters of the world's maple syrup.\n\nBetween 2011 and 2012, Vallières and the group of thieves targeted a central Quebec warehouse where the product is stockpiled, often replacing the syrup in the barrels with water.\n\nThe thieves went on to distribute the stolen syrup throughout Canada and the US.\n\nThe theft was discovered in 2012 during a routine survey when an inspector climbed on a stack of maple syrup barrels - which typically weigh some 270kg (595 lbs)- and one nearly tipped over. It was empty.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It becomes illegal syrup': Battling the maple syndicate", "Concerns have been expressed by current and former Whitehall staff about fines issued to those who broke Covid laws by going to parties in government offices.\n\nThe government has not confirmed reports that attendees at a leaving party in June 2020 have been fined.\n\nBut one former insider told the BBC they had heard junior members of staff had been fined, while senior staff had not, and that this was \"disgraceful\".\n\nNo 10 has confirmed the prime minister has not received a fine so far.\n\nOne other government source said police had targeted \"low-hanging fruit\", and another agreed this appeared to be the police's approach.\n\nBut a Whitehall insider cautioned it was too early to say until the process was complete and all the fines had been issued.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police launched an investigation earlier this year following reports of parties in Downing Street and other government buildings in breach of coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nOn Tuesday, the police confirmed they were issuing 20 fines as a result of the inquiry and said more could follow.\n\nReports have suggested the first tranche of fines related to a leaving do on 18 June 2020 for a No 10 adviser.\n\nThe police have said they will not be disclosing the names of those who are receiving a fine, nor the events to which the fines relate.\n\nCivil servants have not been provided with help for legal costs and are being advised to pay any fines they receive.\n\nSenior staff and politicians have paid for private legal advice.\n\nA recipient can contest a fine, in which case the police will review the case to decide whether or not to withdraw the fine or take the matter to court.\n\nThe prime minister is known to have attended at least three of the events being investigated by police and his wife Carrie Johnson is also reported to have been at some of them.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he agreed with the \"general argument\" that families should not be dragged into politics.\n\nBut he said the public was entitled to know if the wife of the prime minister who had set the rules the rest of the country was following had been fined for breaking them.", "Passengers are being warned of longer than usual queues at airports over Easter due to staff shortages.\n\nThe Airport Operators Association (AOA) said its members had been trying to hire for new roles following job losses and staff departing to other industries during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it warned recruitment problems and Covid-related staff absences could put operations at airports under strain.\n\nThe AOA represents most UK airports ranging from Heathrow to Edinburgh.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of the AOA, said at peak time passengers \"may not have the experience they are used to\".\n\nShe said airports were working hard to recruit more staff in the run-up to the Easter holidays, and were \"working with the UK government to resolve any delays in the necessary checks before staff can start work\".\n\nThe AOA has asked travellers to arrive early for flights due to longer check-in waits and has also urged people to make sure they have any Covid-related documents needed for their destination.\n\nHoliday bookings jumped with trips planned for Easter after UK Covid travel tests were scrapped.\n\nHowever, airports have said they are operating in a very tight labour market and are trying to keep up with rising demands following the sharp drops in people travelling abroad over the past two years.\n\nKevin O'Reilly, of the specialist aviation and airport recruitment company One Resourcing, said finding enough airport ground staff, including cleaners and baggage handlers, was proving very challenging.\n\n\"It's always been a tough market to recruit for, but it's become harder this year,\" he said.\n\nMr O'Reilly said there were a number of reasons businesses were struggling to replenish their staffing levels.\n\n\"A huge number of people left the aviation industry due to the pandemic and whilst many have come back, many have found alternative positions in other sectors and do not want to risk returning to work in an industry that made them redundant,\" he added.\n\n\"Now there's a bounce-back from having no people travelling, to suddenly everyone wanting travel.\n\n\"Recruitment at airports doesn't happen overnight, people must go through a thorough security vetting process to get an airside pass.\"\n\nHe said some other jobs were tempting workers away from the industry, and some EU nationals had left after Brexit.\n\nManchester Airport has already blamed staff shortages on long passenger queues in recent weeks, ahead of the busier Easter break.\n\nIts boss admitted further problems were likely as the airport struggled with increasing demand after \"dramatically scaling back\" operations during the pandemic.\n\nEarlier this month, Britain's biggest airport Heathrow said peak demand over the summer holidays could reach 85% of pre-pandemic levels.\n\nIt said it would need to gear up to meet this demand, as airlines, handlers and airports did not currently have the capacity.\n\nHeathrow added it was \"particularly concerned over Border Force's ability to scale up\".", "There are a growing number of reports that Russian forces shoot at civilians who are trying to escape the conflict zone in Ukraine.\n\nFootage from a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance group appears to show one such incident.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nEngland could face Scotland or Wales at the Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 after the draw for the tournament's finals was made on Friday.\n\nOne of Wales, Scotland or Ukraine will go into Group B after the remaining European play-off path is completed.\n\nIran and the USA have also been drawn in England's group.\n\nThe World Cup takes place between 21 November and 18 December in Qatar, with Senegal playing the Netherlands in the tournament's opening game.\n\nEngland's first fixture, taking place on the same day, sees them take on Iran. The two sides have never met in a senior men's competitive international.\n\nThe game will take place eight days after the Premier League begins a six-week break.\n• None Ten things to look out for after World Cup draw\n• None What can fans expect at the Qatar World Cup?\n\nReigning champions France are in Group D while Brazil, who returned to number one in the Fifa world rankings on 31 March, are in Group G.\n\nWales, seeking to reach their first World Cup since 1958, will have to overcome the winners of Scotland and Ukraine in the play-off final in June.\n\nHowever, that semi-final - which had been scheduled to take place on 24 March at Hampden - was postponed because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAfter playing Iran on 21 November, England play the USA on 25 November before finishing their Group B campaign on 29 November against one of Scotland, Wales or Ukraine.\n\nThe winner of the remaining European play-off will open their World Cup campaign against the USA on the first day of the tournament.\n\nShould Scotland progress they will play England at a World Cup finals for the first time. The two sides met at last summer's Euro 2020 tournament with the game ending goalless.\n\nWales and England have never met at a World Cup finals either. England won 2-1 when the sides met in the group stage at Euro 2016.\n\n\"We've got to get out of the group,\" said England boss Gareth Southgate. \"Out first objective is to get out of the group and then we build from there.\n• None A guide to the eight World Cup stadiums in Qatar\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Qatar 2022 - can football be a catalyst for change?\n\n\"When you're seeded you get the advantage of missing out on those big six or seven teams. Most of the first seeds would be pleased with the group they get.\n\n\"The USA are an interesting one. They've got some very good players and we know what they could be capable of, so that one in particular is an intriguing one.\"\n\nThe winner of England's group could meet world champions France in the quarter-finals.\n\nTopping Group B means a last-16 game with the runners up in Group A, which contains the Netherlands, Ecuador, Senegal and hosts Qatar.\n\nShould France top Group D they will face the runners-up in Group C, which features Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Poland.\n\nWhat else stands out?\n\nGroup E sees former world champions Spain and Germany drawn together. They will meet in their second group game on 27 November.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo's Portugal are in Group H, which also sees Ghana and Uruguay meet in a rematch of the controversial 2010 World Cup quarter-final tie.\n\nIn that game, Luis Suarez handled on the line to deny the Ghanaians a winner in the last minute of extra time.\n\nMeanwhile, Lionel Messi and Argentina are in Group C with Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Robert Lewandowski's Poland.\n\n'England can have no complaints'\n\nEngland will understandably make all the right noises about just how difficult their World Cup group in Qatar will be, but no-one can deny it could have been a lot more difficult for Gareth Southgate's side.\n\nFor all the unpredictability of the World Cup, as demonstrated frequently over the years, England will have no complaints whatsoever, given what they could have been presented with.\n\nThe United States will call on history - they beat England in the 1950 World Cup and drew in South Africa in 2010 - but reality insists they will be huge underdogs, even if they have a very respectable Fifa ranking of 15th.\n\nEngland open against Iran and face what might well be their toughest challenge in the final game when they will meet either Wales, Scotland or Ukraine.\n\nEach of those potential fixtures will have its own emotional currency, as demonstrated by passionate, tightly contested games with Wales and Scotland at Euro 2016 and Euro 2020 respectively. England only saw off Wales with a last-minute winner from Daniel Sturridge in France, while the improving Scots got a fully deserved draw at Wembley last summer.\n\nUkraine, meanwhile, will have support from around the globe, as well as talent in their side - but, make no mistake, England will be quietly satisfied with what the draw has thrown their way, in the group stage at least.\n\n'We can look ahead with optimism' - Wales & Scotland reaction\n\nFormer Wales captain Ashley Williams on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We were the most successful Wales squad, getting to the Euro 2016 semi-finals, but we didn't get to a World Cup. Just getting there would be a box ticked for Wales. If they manage to get there you're feeling a bit like we have a good chance.\n\n\"Let's not get carried away but we can look at it with some optimism. There could have been a worse group.\"\n\nFormer Scotland forward James McFadden: \"Scotland are in a really good place at the minute.\n\n\"The performance at Wembley in the Euros was really good and we got slaughtered for celebrating a 0-0 draw, but it was a great performance and showed the potential of the young team.\n\n\"Now we have a strong squad and optimism we can get the job done. The response from the players and manager [since the Euros] has been outstanding.\"\n\nWhy don't we know all the teams?\n\nUsually all the teams would be known before the World Cup draw but this year three positions are yet to be decided for two reasons.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine delayed the European play-off, while the coronavirus pandemic accounts for the other delays.\n\nTwo intercontinental finals will be played in Qatar on 13 and 14 June. Costa Rica and New Zealand meet in one and in the other Peru will play the winner of the United Arab Emirates v Australia, who meet in the Asian play-off in Doha on 7 June.\n\nThose games were moved from March because of knock-on effects of the Covid pandemic in each continent. All the Oceania qualifiers were played from 17-30 March in a mini-tournament in Qatar.\n\nWho won't be at the World Cup?\n\nEuropean champions Italy are the most notable absentees after their play-off defeat by North Macedonia, although they did also miss out on the last World Cup.\n\nRussia also miss out after being disqualified from the play-offs following their country's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nNorway failed to qualify, meaning Borussia Dortmund goal machine Erling Braut Haaland will have to wait for his major tournament debut.\n\nMohamed Salah and Egypt will not be there either after losing to Senegal on penalties.\n\nNigeria, Algeria and Ivory Coast are also missing from Africa, while South American World Cup regulars Colombia and Chile also failed to qualify.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Carrie Johnson is reported to have attended lockdown parties\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for Carrie Johnson to be named if she is fined over Partygate.\n\nHe said he agreed with the \"general argument\" that families should not be dragged into politics.\n\nBut he said the public was entitled to know if the PM's wife had been fined for partying while the rest of the country was following the rules.\n\nDowning Street has promised to reveal if Boris Johnson is fined for breaking lockdown laws.\n\nTwenty fixed penalty notices (FPNs) were issued earlier this week as a result of the Metropolitan Police's inquiry into parties at Number Ten that broke Covid rules.\n\nBut the police will not disclose who has been fined or which events the fines relate to and Mr Johnson has said he will not comment until the investigation is complete.\n\nThe PM is known to have attended at least three of the events being investigated and Mrs Johnson is also reported to have been at some of them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: PM and Carrie should say if they are fined - Starmer\n\nSir Keir told BBC Breakfast he had no desire to \"personally attack\" the prime minister's wife.\n\nBut he said the lockdown rules introduced by those in Downing Street had been \"really hard\" for families all over the country. People had missed funerals, births, and visits to elderly relatives - and it had \"really hurt,\" he added.\n\nThe Labour leader said the idea that those in Number 10 who had made the rules could keep it secret if they had broken them - to protect their privacy - was \"utterly unacceptable\".\n\nPolicing Minister Kit Malthouse said the situation for declaring FPNs was different for elected officials than for others being investigated as part of the Partygate allegations.\n\n\"From a personal point of view as a politician, I think I'm in a different situation - if I got a Fixed Penalty Notice, I would tell you,\" he added.\n\nFPNs are a sanction for breaking the law and mean a fine, which needs to be paid within 28 days or contested.\n\nIf someone chooses to contest the notice, the police will review the case and decide whether to withdraw the fine or take the matter to court.\n\nAccepting an FPN does not lead to a criminal record. It is the equivalent of a minor speeding offence, to divert people from the courts.", "The Duke and Duchess of York have been named in a court case in which a Turkish millionaire is claiming £38m has been \"dishonestly misappropriated\" by a business adviser.\n\nThe High Court in London has heard claims that \"substantial sums\" from Nebehat Isbilen were paid to Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah.\n\nIt is understood that £750,000 has been repaid by the prince to Mrs Isbilen.\n\nThe business adviser, Selman Turk, has rejected the allegations.\n\nThe complex court case involves claims brought by 77-year-old Mrs Isbilen that her business adviser Mr Turk misused her funds.\n\nCourt documents show that among the expenditure and investments being questioned were payments to Prince Andrew and Sarah, the Duchess of York.\n\nAccording to the court papers, Mrs Isbilen claims Mr Turk advised her to make a \"gift\" of £750,000 to Prince Andrew, which it is claimed she was misled into thinking was for assistance with her passport.\n\nThis amount was transferred from her account on 15 November 2019.\n\n\"The representation that Mrs Isbilen needed to make a gift to the Duke of York in connection with her passport (or for any other purpose) was false,\" says her legal team in their claim of dishonesty against Mr Turk.\n\nRepresentatives of Prince Andrew have not commented on the ongoing court case. But it is understood that the prince was not aware of any arrangements between Mrs Isbilen and Mr Turk.\n\nAnd it is understood that the prince has returned £750,000 to Mrs Isbilen.\n\nThe discovery of payments to Prince Andrew emerged after a court order allowed a search of Mr Turk's financial dealings, as Mrs Isbilen's lawyers tried to establish the whereabouts of her assets.\n\nCourt papers show that some of the lost money had been attributed by Mr Turk to professional costs and unsuccessful investments, but there were claims of significant amounts still to be explained.\n\nThe High Court had been told Mrs Isbilen needed help moving assets out of Turkey after her husband became a political prisoner, and that Mr Turk was trusted to help.\n\nJonathan Tickner, Mrs Isbilen's lawyer, said she had been \"the victim of serious fraud and financial wrongdoing\", and was determined to pursue her claim against all those involved.\n\nCourt documents show that Mr Turk has disputed the allegations and disagrees with her understanding of how her assets have been handled.\n\nMr Turk had also been a winner of an award at the Pitch at the Palace business initiative, headed by Prince Andrew.", "Parents and carers of five to 11-year olds in England can now book a low-dose Covid vaccine for their children.\n\nThe jabs - already widely used in other countries - can be booked online and will be available from hundreds of sites from Monday.\n\nIt comes as officials estimate that a record 4.9 million people in the UK have the virus - up from 4.3 million the week before.\n\nThe figures were released as free tests ended for most people in England.\n\nThe UK's vaccine advisers said the jabs would help \"future-proof children's defences\" against infections.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland already offer the jabs.\n\nIn general, most children are not at high risk of becoming severely ill from Covid.\n\nIn February, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said vaccines should go ahead to prevent \"a very small number of children from serious illness and hospitalisation\" in a future wave of Covid.\n\nIt recommends two doses of the low-dose vaccine, 12 weeks apart, with some five million children now eligible.\n\nThe vaccine contains a third of the adult dose.\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and deputy lead for the NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme, said vaccines remained the best defence against the virus.\n\nShe added: \"My 13-year-old son has had his two vaccinations, and I'll be booking my 10-year-old daughter in for hers at the earliest opportunity, and would encourage all parents to read the NHS information available and consider doing the same.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Children without underlying health conditions are at low risk of serious illness from Covid, and the priority remains for the NHS to offer vaccines and spring boosters to adults and vulnerable young people, as well as to catch up with other childhood immunisation programmes.\"\n\nMost appointments will be available at local vaccination centres and community pharmacies. Options for walk-in jabs will also be on offer.\n\nParents and guardians of eligible children will be sent invitations from the NHS in the next few weeks.\n\nYoung children who have conditions that put them at increased risk from Covid, or who live with people with weakened immune systems, have already been offered jabs.\n\nThe wider rollout of jabs for children comes after latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest that about one in every 13 people in the UK has coronavirus, with cases reaching nearly 5 million.\n\nThe figures for the week ending 26 March are thought to give the most accurate reflection of what is happening with the virus in the community.\n\nThe surge is partly driven by the contagious Omicron BA.2 sub-variant and people mixing more.\n\nJim McManus, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, said the surge in numbers was causing disruption for businesses, workplaces, in schools and in the NHS, with staff going off sick.\n\nPeople can help curb the rise by ventilating areas and wearing masks in crowded spaces, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It is only the actions that we take that will keep this virus low and enable the NHS and businesses to do business as usual,\" he said.\n\n\"If we want to be optimistic, we have to do some work to get there.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the government's \"living with Covid\" plan means free testing will only continue for certain groups - including some people with weakened immune systems, people admitted to hospital and health and care staff.\n\nGovernment minister Brandon Lewis told Today there would be a point where support packages introduced during the pandemic would taper off and end, as the country learned to live with Covid.", "The battle-scarred town of Irpin now stands as an example of Ukrainian resistance, and of Russian defeat. President Putin's forces managed to enter the town but didn't manage to push through it. If they had, Kyiv would have been their next stop - the capital is just a short drive away, 13 miles (21km) down the road. Blocking the Russian advance here was critical.\n\nWe reached the city centre under armed escort, driving through streets strewn with rubble and downed power lines - and devoid of life.\n\nUkrainian forces gave us a careful tour - avoiding some main roads. We were told Russian forces might be present in the forests on the outskirts, though the Mayor, Oleksandr Markushyn, insists the town itself is completely under Ukrainian control.\n\nTroops proudly showed us a Russian armoured personnel carrier which had been torn to shreds, its turret upturned. Another burnt out Russian vehicle was just down the road. But we were moved quickly from place to place because of the ongoing risk of Russian shelling.\n\nMost of the 70,000 people who used to live in this middle class commuter city fled over the past month - darting out of basements, running the gauntlet of relentless Russian shelling.\n\nMany may have little left to come back to. President Putin claims he is not targeting civilian areas, but the destroyed homes of Irpin give the lie to that.\n\nMany residential buildings in Irpin have been damaged or destroyed\n\nWe saw extensive damage in residential areas, including one high-rise block where a shell had punched a neat hole right through a corner apartment. There was a child's red toy car on the ground, close to a forsaken playground. There were cars with bullet-riddled windscreens, and charred houses where the roofs have been ripped off.\n\nSome of the dead still lie beneath the rubble. Others were buried hastily in courtyards and parks because a proper funeral was impossible. The mayor estimates that between 200-300 civilians were killed here, some directly targeted as they fled. The final death toll is likely to be higher.\n\nThe Russians had held 20-30% of the city, but the resistance here was dogged. Ukraine's defence ministry has recognised \"the mass heroism and resilience of the residents and the defenders\" with the honorary title \"Hero City of Ukraine\". The title dates from World War Two when it was awarded by the Soviet Union to several cities.\n\nInside the city, as heavily armed police and troops kept watch, there was a palpable layer of tension.\n\nThis victory was hard-fought, but troops we spoke to conceded that the Russians could be back at some point.\n\n\"Yes, I believe that,\" said Serhiy Smalchuk, whose day job is TV presenting. \"They need Kyiv, right, because Putin will lose if he doesn't take over Kyiv. So, perhaps they will try but we are prepared in case they come back, and we will defeat them.\"\n\nIvan Kolehin said he expected to die in the battle for Irpin\n\n\"We don't know what they are thinking,\" said Ivan Kolehin, a young territorial defence recruit. \"I don't think they will try again any time soon. Their ground forces have been removed but their artillery can still hit us.\"\n\nIvan had a day job in marketing before he took up arms. He seemed to be struggling to process the battle for Irpin, and the fact that he is still alive.\n\n\"I never thought I would live,\" he said. \"On our third day we heard a whistle and they started to bomb us directly. We sat in the basement and the ceiling started to crumble. We were pretty scared.\"\n\nNow he worries for the future of the city.\n\n\"It's still not safe here, but in due time we will rebuild,\" he said. \"Probably it will take years, considering the damage. I am trying not to think about the fact that every house that was destroyed was built by someone, sometimes with their own hands.\"\n\nHe had Russian friends in the past, but not anymore.\n\n\"I hate the Russians from the depths of my heart,\" he said. \"There are no excuses for this.\"\n\nCivilians are still being evacuated from Irpin\n\nMoscow now says it will drastically reduce its attacks around the capital, and focus on the eastern Donbas region. In reality the Kremlin had little choice, as its offensives around the capital had ground to a halt.\n\nBut in time Russian forces may regroup and target the capital again. If they do, the \"hero city\" will once again be in their path, and in the line of fire.\n\nAs we left Irpin a trickle of civilians was evacuating on foot, crossing a river bed on planks of wood balanced precariously on rubble and boulders. This is the wreckage of a bridge, blown up by Ukrainian forces to block the Russian advance - another sacrifice made by Irpin.\n\nAn ambulance was waiting for two elderly women, carried up the riverbank on stretchers - survivors of a merciless and failed Russian assault.\n\nFurther up the road a departing column of Ukrainian troops - with the swagger of victory - broke into an obscene chant about President Putin.", "Russian forces in Ukraine are regrouping to double down on their attacks in the east of the country, according to Nato's secretary general.\n\n\"Russia is trying to regroup, resupply and reinforce,\" Jens Stoltenberg said.\n\nThe UK said Russia was bringing in between 1,200 and 2,000 of its Russian troops from Georgia as reinforcements.\n\nMoscow said on Tuesday that it would reduce military activity in northern Ukraine and focus on \"liberating\" the Donbas region in the south-east.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said Russia's aim of pursuing a military outcome had not changed.\n\n\"We see continued shelling of cities and we see that Russia is re-positioning some of the troops, moving some of them around, most likely to reinforce their efforts in the Donbas region,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, Russia maintains pressure on Kyiv and other cities. So we can expect additional offensive actions, bringing even more suffering.\"\n\nEchoing Mr Stoltenberg's remarks, the UK's Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned that Russia's change in tactics was \"not a retreat\".\n\nThe UK also said bringing in Russian troops from breakaway areas of Georgia had not been part of Moscow's original plan.\n\n\"It is highly unlikely that Russia planned to generate reinforcements in this manner and it is indicative of the unexpected losses it has sustained during the invasion,\" the defence ministry tweeted.\n\nAround 20% of Russian troops around Kyiv have started to reposition, according to a US senior defence official.\n\nThe official added that the Russians had largely abandoned Hostomel airport, outside of Kyiv, and are also moving away from the Chernobyl nuclear plant.\n\nBut they said Russia was keeping the pressure on in the air, with air strikes continuing to fall on the cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv in the north.\n\nBombs are also falling on towns and cities in the south, which is becoming the key battlefront, according to Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Vadym Denysenko, cited by Reuters news agency.\n\nOn Thursday evening Ukraine's air force appealed for more support from Western countries, saying it was operating outdated equipment that was no match for Russia's more advanced systems, had sustained losses and urgently needed modern fighter jets and air defence systems.\n\nThe air force urged provision of F-15 or F-16 fighter jets, which it said had the same advanced technology as the latest Russian fighter jets. Previous discussions had centred around Poland providing Russian-made Mig-29s but the plan was eventually dropped.\n\nIt also called for the US Patriot or Norwegian Nasams missile systems.\n\n\"Truth: Air superiority is the deciding factor in this war. Air superiority has played a key role in all wars since WWII,\" Ukraine's air force tweeted.\n\nThough US intelligence reports say Russian troops have not made much progress in the east since the invasion began, Russia has said it will now concentrate its efforts on \"liberating\" the region.\n\nThe region is home to the self-declared and Russian-backed people's republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, which are part of Ukraine but which Russia recognised as independent three days before invading.\n\nBut Ukrainian troops have \"stymied\" and \"frustrated\" Russia's progress in the region, said the US defence intelligence official.\n\nThey added it remains to be seen whether the refitting and repositioning of troops will make a difference. But that this could mean the conflict is lengthy and more drawn out.", "There have been concerns about safety at the former plant since the Russian occupation\n\nRussian troops occupying the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl have left, the plant's staff say.\n\nAccording to Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom, staff at the plant said there are currently no \"outsiders\" at the site.\n\nEarlier, it said some Russian forces had set off towards the Belarusian border, leaving a small group behind.\n\nThe announcement appears to confirm reports by senior US defence officials on Wednesday of a withdrawal.\n\nRussian troops seized Chernobyl at the beginning of their invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.\n\n\"This morning, the invaders announced their intentions to leave the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,\" Energoatom said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nThe company later accused the Russian military of abducting members of the Ukrainian National Guard held captive since the start of the war. Energoatom sourced its information to workers at the plant and did not give numbers.\n\nIt also confirmed reports that Russian troops had dug trenches in the most contaminated part of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, receiving \"significant doses\" of radiation. There are unconfirmed reports that some are being treated in Belarus.\n\nReuters news agency quoted workers at the plant as saying some of the soldiers had no idea they were in a radiation zone.\n\nThe Russian military, however, said that after capturing the plant radiation levels at the plant itself had stayed within a normal range.\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement that it was unable to confirm the reports.\n\nThe head of Ukraine's agency in charge of the exclusion zone, Yevhen Kramarenko, said that radiation levels appeared to be normal and there was no indication of significant damage. However, as the sensors for detecting radiation levels were not working, staff needed to check the facilities, he added.\n\nThe head of the IAEA said it was in close consultations with Ukrainian authorities on sending a mission to the Chernobyl plant \"very, very soon\".\n\nWhile \"Chernobyl\" is a word that evokes apocalypse, nuclear experts stressed throughout this saga that there was no risk of \"another Chernobyl\".\n\nThere is no working nuclear reactor on the site. As Prof Claire Corkhill from Sheffield University told me at the time, even if buildings containing contaminated material were pierced \"we wouldn't be talking about plumes of radioactive smoke\".\n\nShe was much more concerned when Russian forces attacked a building at the working Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility on 4 March. That incident caused the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to plan a trip to Ukraine - essentially to ask Russian forces to keep nuclear facilities out of the line of fire.\n\n\"What is a concern in Chernobyl now,\" Prof Corkhill told me, \"is that we haven't had regular communication between the site and the IAEA, which basically keeps a [safety log] of where any potentially hazardous material is. We now need to go in and establish that none of that material is missing.\"\n\nOther scientists are concerned about the damage that may have been caused to a place that has become a wildlife refuge and a site of international research collaboration.\n\nProf Nick Beresford, who studies the exclusion zone's landscape, says his Ukrainian colleagues now don't know if they will have labs to return to. \"The zone itself, over the last nearly 40 years, has become a site for wildlife,\" he added.\n\n\"Lots of rare species moved in when people moved out. We just don't know how this will have affected the wildlife.\"\n\nIn recent days Russia has said it will scale down its operations in northern Ukraine around the capital Kyiv and focus its forces on the eastern Donbas region. Chernobyl is located north of Kyiv.\n\nBut on Thursday Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Moscow was repositioning rather than withdrawing in order to regroup, resupply and reinforce its offensive in Donbas.\n\n\"At the same time, Russia maintains pressure on Kyiv and other cities. So we can expect additional offensive actions, bringing even more suffering,\" he said.\n\nThere was no change in Russia's objective to pursue a military outcome, he added.\n\nThe occupation of the Chernobyl site since 24 February, the day of the invasion, has been dogged with concerns about power outages and problems for the staff, many of whom were trapped there for weeks and could not get home.\n\nAlthough no longer a working power station, Chernobyl was never fully abandoned and still requires constant management.\n\nIt is the site of what is considered to be the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986.\n\nThe Russian withdrawal follows an announcement several days ago by the mayor of Slavutych, a nearby town housing workers at the plant, that Russian troops had left the town.", "Lincoln City supporters have backed a move to stop playing the Dambusters March at home games\n\nA football club has suspended the playing of the Dambusters March and the use of an air raid siren at matches while the war in Ukraine continues.\n\nTraditionally, the famous World War Two film theme had been played before each Lincoln City home game, while the siren was sounded ahead of corner kicks.\n\nBut the club and fans said they should be silenced for the rest of the season.\n\nLincoln City claims a long association with the Dambusters 617 Squadron, which was based at nearby RAF Scampton.\n\nThe EFL League One side agreed the move at a supporters board meeting.\n\nLincoln City FC chief executive Liam Scully said the club wanted to strike an appropriate balance between its \"long-standing synonymous gestures and actions\".\n\nThe decision was a \"very challenging matter to navigate\" and could \"polarise views\", Mr Scully said.\n\nHe asked asked fans to support the move \"in the spirit the decision was made\" and said it would be reviewed at the end of the season.\n\nHowever, Lincoln City fan Alex Webber said he did not feel that playing the Dambusters March was disrespectful.\n\n\"I believe the club should look at reinstating our anthem before the matches and in the second half when the teams come out,\" he said.\n\n\"I can understand not using the air raid siren due to the ongoing bombing in Ukraine and how that would make people feel.\"\n\nBomber crews often used Lincoln Cathedral as a landmark to guide them home\n\nMeanwhile Ben Ward, who has followed Lincoln for 30 years, said he thought the silence was \"probably fair enough given we have a large Eastern European/Ukrainian component to the population in Lincoln who will likely be on edge\".\n\nHe added: \"I think there's been a massive overreaction to these two things. I don't think missing a siren for four games is a decision that's killing the club.\"\n\nThe Dambusters 617 Squadron famously flew Lancaster bombers from RAF Scampton to destroy dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley during World War Two.\n\nMany bomber crews used Lincoln Cathedral as a landmark to let them know they had returned home safely.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Last flight of the Dambusters\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russian forces have been besieging Mariupol for weeks\n\nFresh efforts are under way to evacuate civilians trapped by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.\n\nUkrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said a convoy of 45 Ukrainian buses was on its way to the besieged southern city.\n\nShe said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had confirmed that Russia had agreed to open a humanitarian corridor to Mariupol.\n\nTens of thousands of civilians remain there after weeks of bombardment.\n\nMs Vereshchuk also accused Russian troops of blocking the bus convoy at a checkpoint near Vasylivka, three hours' drive from Mariupol, earlier in the day.\n\n\"The Russian Federation, again, does not let our buses pass,\" she told Ukrainian news agency Unian.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry said the United Nations refugee agency and the Red Cross would assist in the evacuation of civilians.\n\nThe evacuation was initially planned for Thursday, but the Red Cross has since told Reuters that for logistical and security reasons, the evacuation will now happen on Friday.\n\nIt said a ceasefire would allow people to travel westwards to Zaporizhzhia via the Russian-controlled port of Berdyansk.\n\nA spokesperson for the ICRC said its teams were ready to help get civilians out of Mariupol from Friday, but only if all parties agreed on the terms.\n\n\"It's desperately important that this operation takes place. The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to people who have managed to leave the besieged port city in the last few weeks.\n\nAll of them described a city in ruins, with entire districts completely flattened.\n\nDiana Yalovets, a 23-year-old student, said: \"As we tried to get out, we needed to cross the city centre. It was scary to see destroyed streets and buildings.\n\n\"My school was destroyed. It's painful to see your once beautiful city this way.\n\n\"Mariupol was a safe city. We loved to walk near the sea. There was a park, and it was an amazing place just to sit and talk. I just can't believe we lost everything we had.\"\n\nAlthough some residents have escaped, all previous attempts to establish a ceasefire in Mariupol have collapsed amid accusations of bad faith from both sides.\n\nRussia has also been accused of forcibly relocating thousands of civilians to Russia or Russian-controlled areas.\n\nCapturing the city would give Russia control of the Azov Sea coastline between Russia and Crimea.\n\nThe announcement of a truce follows a telephone call on Tuesday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.\n\nDuring the conversation, Mr Putin said that shelling of Mariupol would not end until Ukrainian troops surrendered.\n\nAre you or your family in Ukraine and have been affected by the war in Ukraine? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ghislaine Maxwell pictured in a court artist sketch as the guilty verdict in her sex trafficking trial was read\n\nA US judge has upheld Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction, denying her bid for a new trial.\n\nMaxwell, 60, had complained that one of the jurors falsely stated before the trial that he had never been sexually abused.\n\nHer lawyers argued the fact the juror had been abused in the past meant he could not be impartial.\n\nMaxwell was convicted in December last year of trafficking girls for the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nShe faces up to 65 years in prison, but maintains her innocence. Epstein killed himself in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe juror in question was earlier given immunity from prosecution. He had asked to be identified by his first and middle names, Scotty David.\n\nWhen asked why he failed to disclose his past in the jury questionnaire when explicitly asked, he said it was an \"inadvertent mistake\".\n\n\"This is one of the biggest mistakes I have made in my life,\" he added, saying he \"flew through\" the document and was \"super-distracted\" by everything going on around him in the jury room.\n\nOn Friday, US Circuit Judge Alison Nathan said the juror had testified truthfully at a hearing in March over Maxwell's bid for a retrial.\n\n\"His failure to disclose his prior sexual abuse during the jury selection process was highly unfortunate, but not deliberate,\" the judge said.\n\n\"The court further concludes that Juror 50 harboured no bias toward the defendant and could serve as a fair and impartial juror.\"\n\nA US Circuit Judge said the juror, who asked to be known as Scotty David, harboured no bias toward Maxwell", "P&O Ferries faces a probe into the controversial no-notice sackings of nearly 800 members of staff.\n\nThe Insolvency Service has launched criminal and civil investigations into the circumstances around the redundancies.\n\nIn a letter, it said it would consider \"prompt and appropriate action\" if the law was broken.\n\nGrant Shapps has also asked the service to consider disqualifying its boss from acting as a company director.\n\nThe transport secretary made the announcement as part of new pay plans for the ferry industry this week after P&O Ferries sacked 786 employees without notice and replaced with them with agency workers.\n\nP&O Ferries said on Friday that all but one of the sacked employees had taken steps to accept the redundancy offer made by the company. One former P&O worker, John Lansdown, told the BBC he did not respond to the company's offer.\n\nThe company declined to comment on the Insolvency Service's investigation when approached by BBC News.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted that he and Mr Shapps would follow the new investigations into P&O Ferries closely as they develop.\n\nThe Insolvency Service has the power to investigate allegations of corporate abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Shapps said earlier this week that his new package of measures would force P&O Ferries to \"fundamentally rethink\" its decision.\n\nHe urged ports to block ferries from docking if they do not pay their crew the UK minimum wage, with plans to create new laws.\n\nFerry industry groups, however, hit out at the transport secretary's plans, with the UK Major Ports Group saying they should not have to \"be the police for the labour practices of ferry companies\".\n\nUnions also expressed disappointment that the plans did not go far enough for workers who had already lost their jobs.\n\nP&O Ferries' boss Peter Hebblethwaite admitted that the firm knowingly broke the law by not consulting with unions and planning to compensate workers instead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe firm said previously that staff would be offered £36.5m in total - with about 40 getting more than £100,000 each.\n\nP&O Ferries said some employees were set to get 91 weeks' pay and the chance of new employment, and no employee would receive less than £15,000.\n\nMr Hebblethwaite has insisted that a U-turn on the redundancies would cause the company's total collapse, leading to a loss of an additional 2,200 jobs.\n\nHe told MSPs this week that P&O had \"painstakingly explored all possible alternatives\", but that it could not expect \"unconditional support\" from parent company DP World for the business without a plan to become viable after making a £100m loss year-on-year.\n\nMr Shapps branded the executive a \"pirate of the sea\", accusing him of \"disgracefully shredding the reputation\" of the company.\n\nHowever, Mr Hebblethwaite said he would not step down.\n\nHe said he felt compelled \"to discharge my duties for this historical company\" and provide \"the effective operation of the trade routes upon which this country depends\".\n\n\"I will therefore continue to do my utmost to ensure that this company has a sustainable business for the future.\"", "The company that currently runs the National Lottery is taking legal action after losing out on the next licence.\n\nCamelot has started legal proceedings against the Gambling Commission after rival Allwyn was selected as the preferred applicant for the lottery's next licence beginning in 2024.\n\nCamelot's boss said he believed the regulator had \"got this decision badly wrong\".\n\nThe Gambling Commission said it had run a \"fair and robust\" competition.\n\nThe National Lottery is one of the world's largest lotteries and has raised more than £45bn for 660,000 causes across the UK.\n\nIt has also played a part in funding training and facilities over the past three decades for Great Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes.\n\nWhile not being picked as the preferred applicant for the next licence, Camelot was named as the \"reserve applicant\".\n\n\"When we received the result, we were shocked by aspects of the decision,\" said Nigel Railton, Camelot's chief executive.\n\nHe accused the Gambling Commission of failing \"to provide a satisfactory response\" when the move was challenged.\n\n\"We are therefore left with no choice but to ask the court to establish what happened,\" he said.\n\nAllwyn Entertainment Ltd is a UK-based subsidiary of Europe's largest lottery operator Sazka, which is owned by Czech oil and gas tycoon Karel Komarek.\n\nIt was awarded the next licence, which includes Lotto, Thunderball and EuroMillions games in the UK, last month.\n\nAllwyn signalled its intent to run the National Lottery by launching in early 2021. Its advisory board includes former members of the London 2012 Olympics organising committee, Lord Coe and entrepreneur Sir Keith Mills.\n\nTeam GB Olympic athletes, like Adam Peaty, have benefited from National Lottery funding\n\nThe Gambling Commission said that the competition it ran was \"fair and robust\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We regret Camelot's decision to bring legal proceedings following the outcome of a highly successful competition for the fourth National Lottery licence.\"\n\nIt added it had taken \"every step possible to ensure a level playing field for all interested parties\".\n\nCamelot's Nigel Railton cited concerns over the future of the company's 1,000 employees who had \"worked tirelessly\" on the National Lottery since its launch.\n\n\"At the very least, they are owed a proper explanation,\" he wrote, calling for \"independent scrutiny\" of the process in the High Court.\n\nLast month, Allwyn described the award as a \"fresh start\" for the lottery.\n\n\"To the employees of Camelot, you will all be welcome to join us on this exciting new journey for the National Lottery,\" the bid's chairman Sir Keith Mills wrote in March.\n\nHe assured Camelot employees they would be \"protected in any transfer\". \"We will make sure the National Lottery works for all,\" he said.", "Sea-Kit's USV Maxlimer is prepared for despatch to the Pacific\n\nThe UK is sending a robot boat to survey the Tonga underwater volcano that blew its top in January.\n\nHunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai's eruption caused one of the fiercest volcanic explosions in more than a century as gas-rich magma met cold seawater.\n\nIt sent a plume of ash and vapour halfway to space and generated a tsunami that swept across the Pacific.\n\nThe uncrewed surface vessel will gather data to help researchers understand precisely what happened.\n\nCalled Maxlimer, the 12m-long robot based in Essex, England, will spend several weeks directly on top of Hunga-Tonga's submerged opening, or caldera, mapping its current shape.\n\nIt will also lower cameras and instruments to measure environmental conditions, such as the oxygen content of seawater and its turbidity, or cloudiness. These are factors that would impact marine life.\n\nMaxlimer can be controlled from anywhere on the planet via satellite\n\nSea-Kit International, the small British company that developed Maxlimer, is able to monitor and control the USV from anywhere. And during its survey, to take place in June, mission operations will be run out of the firm's headquarters in the village of Tollesbury on the Essex coast.\n\nThat's a separation of 16,000km (10,000 miles). It's all done over satellite.\n\nThe project is being funded by the Nippon Foundation of Japan and organised by New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), together with Seabed2030, which is an international effort to properly chart Earth's ocean floor.\n\nNIWA will begin the investigations around the volcano this month using its Research Vessel Tangaroa.\n\nIt will deploy a multitude of instruments to measure water properties and to retrieve samples from the seafloor.\n\nBut the crewed ship will not be permitted to spend extended periods over the caldera. Only Maxlimer will be allowed to do that - for obvious reasons.\n\nNIWA's RV Tangaroa will set sail next week to begin the survey project\n\n\"Other vessels taking part would struggle to get health and safety sign-off. But an uncrewed surface vessel can do 'the dull, the dirty and the dangerous'; and this is potentially quite dangerous,\" explained Wendy Hems, the mission lead for Sea-Kit.\n\n\"Obviously, we don't want to lose Maxlimer but it's safer for people to do it this way and we're going to get a lot of data because of it,\" she told BBC News.\n\nHunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai began erupting at the end of 2021. The explosion unleashed a few weeks later on 15 January was astonishing.\n\nIt touched literally every corner of the globe as atmospheric waves spread out in all directions to complete a full circumnavigation.\n\nScientists continue to debate the energy involved in the blast but by most measures it was at least as powerful as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, and may even have got close in scale to the catastrophic 1883 Krakatoa event in Indonesia.\n\nCertainly, the volcanic plume was seen to climb to incredible heights by satellites - to at least 55km (35 miles) in altitude. The so-called Kármán line, which is often quoted as the atmospheric boundary with outer space, is at 100km (60 miles).\n\nOf course, for the Kingdom of Tonga, it was the effects on people and property that mattered.\n\n\"The tsunami ran up to 15m (50ft) above sea level, and inundation was up to 1,700m (a mile) inland,\" said Taaniela Kula, of the Tonga Geological Services.\n\n\"These waves in one evening destroyed over 600 structures, including at least 300 residential houses, displacing 1,525 persons and causing four deaths. As a country we're building back slowly. We hope this research will help in an effort to protect our nation and others like us in the future.\"\n\nScientists think the ferocity can be explained in part by the relatively shallow depth of the seawater covering the caldera, which was about 200m at the time.\n\nThis was just enough to drive strong interactions with molten rock when it rose up into the caldera. If the water was much deeper, its weight would have suppressed activity.\n\nScientists will take core samples to assess the changed nature of the seafloor\n\nThe Tonga Eruption Seabed Mapping Project (TESMaP) is keen to learn what the opening to the volcano looks like now.\n\nIt's possible that some portion of the volcano's flanks collapsed in the eruption. Almost certainly there were sediment slides. Such movements could have been generators for the tsunami.\n\nBoth RV Tangaroa and Maxlimer will deploy echosounders to trace the depth and shape of the seafloor at high resolution.\n\nThe volcano has an elevation of some 1,800m from the ocean bed. By the time the two vessels have surveyed the seamount, they will have acquired data across at least 8,000 sq km (3,000 sq miles).\n\nBetween New Zealand and Tonga there are 76 undersea volcanoes that run along the seafloor ridge known as the Kermadec Arc. Eighty percent of these volcanoes are known to be active.\n\nKevin Mackay is a marine geologist with NIWA and will lead the Tangaroa cruise.\n\nHe said: \"When Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai erupted with tragic and devastating results, we knew we were going to have to rewrite the science books to understand what happened on 15 January. Through this project, we will gain in-depth knowledge of the post-eruptive changes and the marine environment around Hunga-Tonga because our understanding currently is poor, especially in the deep ocean.\"", "More than five weeks into Russia's war on Ukraine, Moscow has threatened to cut off Western nations from natural gas supplies - something that could affect energy prices across Europe.\n\nVladimir Putin has followed through on weeks of threats by signing a decree that foreign countries they must start paying for gas in Russian roubles or it will halt supplies.\n\nAnd those new rules start on Friday, meaning Western nations were effectively handed a midnight deadline to comply.\n\n\"Nobody sells us anything for free, and we are not going to do charity either - that is, existing contracts will be stopped,\" the Russian president said.\n\nMany payments for April gas deliveries are reportedly not due until later in the month, so it is not thought that there is an immediate threat to supplies. It is also still unclear whether the new payment mechanism set out by Russia would fully ban euros.\n\nBut France and Germany condemned Mr Putin's demands as being akin to \"blackmail\".\n\nWestern companies and governments have previously rejected Russia's demands to pay for gas in roubles as a breach of existing contracts, which are set in euros or US dollars.\n\nYet the EU gets about 40% of its gas and 30% of its oil from Russia, and there is no ready-to-go replacement. Notably, the EU did not enact sanctions on Russian fuel supplies - even though other Western nations such as the US and Canada did.\n\nMr Putin's demand to be paid in roubles is widely seen as an attempt to boost the currency, which has been hit by the wide range of international sanctions that followed the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nRead the full story about the midnight gas deadline here.\n\nMany Russian troops occupying the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl have left, Ukraine's state nuclear operator has said.\n\nEnergoatom said two columns of Russian forces had set off towards the Belarusian border on Thursday morning, leaving just a few soldiers at the site.\n\nSeveral days ago the mayor of Slavutych, a nearby town housing workers at the plant, announced that Russian troops had also left the town.\n\nThe withdrawal follows reports that some Russian soldiers are being treated for radiation poisoning in Belarus after spending time in the most contaminated part of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was investigating the report.\n\nRussia's occupation of the site since 24 February, the day of the invasion, has been dogged with concerns about power outages and problems for the staff, many of whom were trapped there for weeks and could not get home.\n\nIt is the site of what is considered to be the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, and while no longer a working power station, Chernobyl still requires constant management.\n\nTroops leaving some occupied areas might sound like a win for Ukraine, but Western intelligence warns that Russia is redeploying, rather than retreating.\n\n\"Russia is trying to regroup, resupply and reinforce,\" Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.\n\nRussia said earlier this week that it was planning to \"radically\" reduce its military activity in some places - such as near the capital Kyiv or the city of Chernihiv - and concentrate on the eastern Donbas region.\n\nShelling continues on cities, including those Russia suggested it would reduce its assault on, but Mr Stoltenberg said Nato can see Russia re-positioning troops.\n\nEchoing Mr Stoltenberg's remarks, the UK's Defence Secretary warned that Russia's change in tactics was \"not a retreat\", and that it was \"changing its focus\" after its first efforts were rebutted.\n\nRead more about the change in plans here.\n\nThe evacuation of thousands of civilians from the besieged south-eastern city of Mariupol has been delayed until Friday, the Red Cross has said.\n\nUkrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said a convoy of 45 Ukrainian buses was on its way to the port city, but humanitarian officials said the operation had been delayed for security and logistical concerns.\n\nOne resident of the city, Yevgen, described the humanitarian disaster civilians have faced to the BBC.\n\n\"It was constant bombing,\" he said. \"Planes went past every 10 minutes and dropped bombs on Mariupol. People were falling and dying in front of my eyes. We buried people in gardens.\"\n\nAnother resident, Natalia, said Russia soldiers have been infiltrating the city and offering food to civilians in a PR campaign.\n\n\"Some people couldn't resist taking them, because they hadn't eaten for several days,\" she said. \"When you're suffering like that, you'll take anything.\"\n\nGen Eric Vidaud was commander of special forces until he took on the military intelligence role seven months ago\n\nThe head of French military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, is set to lose his job after failing to predict Russia's war in Ukraine, French media has reported.\n\nSeven months after he took on the role, one report said he was blamed for \"inadequate briefings\" and a \"lack of mastery of subjects\".\n\nThe US correctly assessed that Russia was planning a large-scale invasion, while France concluded it was unlikely.\n\nIn early March, Gen Burkhard acknowledged that French intelligence had not been up to the level of US or UK briefings, which were publicised to pile pressure on Russia's Vladimir Putin. \"The Americans said that the Russians were going to attack, they were right,\" he told Le Monde newspaper.\n\n\"Our services thought instead that the cost of conquering Ukraine would have been monstrous and the Russians had other options\" to bring down the government of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, he added.\n\nSocial media companies are used to pulling down vast amounts of content that break the rules, erasing it from the internet. They're expected to do so, by governments and regulators.\n\nBut what happens when efficient artificial intelligence moderators are removing evidence of possible war crimes, sweeping it away from investigators' eyes?\n\nTikTok, for example, does not allow \"shock value\" or violence, or anything that is \"gratuitously\" sadistic or gruesome.\n\nBut Ukrainians uploading videos from the ground could be generating more than \"likes\", BBC technology reporter James Clayton writes.\n\nThey may well be uploading a piece in a jigsaw of evidence that will one day be used to prosecute war crimes.", "Andy Pollard, pictured with his wife, spent years spraying pesticides on his land\n\nSome British farmers are calling for a ban on the UK production of toxic weedkiller Paraquat, saying studies suggest it could be a factor in the onset of Parkinson's Disease. It comes as hundreds of US farm workers pursue a legal case against its manufacturer, alleging it knew the risk and failed to warn them.\n\nAndy Pollard was once a farm manager who could leap into his tractor cab. But now his limbs are rigid and his body contorts with spasms. He has advanced Parkinson's Disease, and can no longer control his own movements.\n\nHe spent decades spraying herbicides on his land and, unaware of any danger, didn't use protective equipment.\n\n\"Paraquat was a really good thing to use - or so we thought,\" his wife Sue says. \"Andy would be driving around the fields and the spray would be going everywhere.\"\n\nShe had thought it was a coincidence that the only people she knew with Parkinson's were farm workers, then read about the potential connection with the chemical.\n\n\"Why hasn't it been regulated and stopped?\" she asks. \"We've got a lot of people in the same situation.\"\n\nMillions of farmers have used Paraquat to kill weeds on their land\n\nParaquat was first manufactured in the UK in the early 1960s and is sold globally - 377 companies have registered it for sale.\n\nIt is one of the world's most popular and effective herbicides, millions of farmers have used it to kill weeds. But it is also one of the most dangerous and has caused thousands of poisoning deaths.\n\nIts manufacturer Syngenta says claims of a link between Paraquat and Parkinson's are not supported by scientific evidence, stating it has undergone more than 1,200 safety studies.\n\nAndy regularly visits a Dorset farm run by charity Countrymen UK, founded by Julie Plumley after her father John was diagnosed with Parkinson's.\n\nThe 30-acre working farm sells beef and lamb. In the yard, instead of tractors is a fleet of mobility scooters. \"The farmers come here not because they're ill,\" Julie explains, \"but because they want to get on with living.\"\n\nJohn Stockley would hand-spray the chemical in his fields\n\nParkinson's Disease is believed to be the world's fastest-growing neurological condition. It affects neurons in a specific area of the brain called the substantia nigra.\n\nIt is degenerative, gradually leading to tremors and stiffness in the limbs. Global studies show rural, agricultural areas often have higher rates of the disease.\n\nJulie explains her childhood farm was owned by the local council, so her father had to meet certain conditions. \"He had to use chemicals, because if you got too many dock leaves or thistles, they could take money away from you. Paraquat was the pesticide all the farmers used.\"\n\nHe would carry a backpack filled with the chemical and spend hours hand-spraying the fields. \"He would have his sleeves rolled up, his arms bare, the liquid dripping down.\"\n\nJohn developed the disease in his 40s and always believed there was a connection to the chemicals. His suspicion deepened when his neighbour Ken Barnes was diagnosed around the same time - he was also in his 40s and had also been using Paraquat for years.\n\nParkinson's has caused Ken Barnes to lose his clarity of speech\n\nKen now visits Julie's farm. He has a twinkle in his eye, but his clarity of speech has gone. \"It's a horrible disease,\" says his wife Sue. \"It's taken his life away.\"\n\nShe says its manufacture in the UK and export should be stopped. \"I wouldn't want my son, who's got farming qualifications, ending up like his father.\"\n\nParaquat has not been authorised for use in the EU since a court ruling in 2007. That is still the case in the UK after Brexit but it is still made - under the brand name Gramoxone - at Syngenta's plant in Huddersfield. It is exported to countries such as the US, Japan and Australia, with a fifth of exports going to the developing world.\n\nIn the US, nearly 900 farmers and field workers have joined forces to sue the manufacturer, claiming not only is there a link between Paraquat and Parkinson's, but that Syngenta has deliberately hidden the health risks from the authorities.\n\nSyngenta rejects the claims made in the remaining multidistrict litigation case, which is due to come to court later this year.\n\nThe company's most recent financial statement shows that the company has already paid $187.5m into a settlement fund. But it said the company believes that all of these claims are without merit and the payment is simply to keep the claims from going any further.\n\nToxicologist Prof Jon Heylings worked for Syngenta and its predecessor companies for more than 20 years. After retiring, he turned whistleblower, and has given evidence as an expert witness in the US legal action.\n\nHe said farmers who used it without protective equipment, damaging their skin, should be worried. \"If they went out the next day and actually used it again, and the next day, you could absorb more Paraquat through the skin, into the blood and then into the brain,\" he says.\n\n\"The issue is really does it actually cause Parkinson's when it gets into the brain? That's one of the key issues around the whole exposure. And if this chemical does cause Parkinson's, who is responsible?\"\n\nThere is no scientific consensus and many conflicting studies on any possible association between Paraquat and Parkinson's.\n\nIn the UK, research charity Cure Parkinson's said exposure was \"a well-recognised environmental risk factor\" but Parkinson's UK said studies show \"a small increased risk\" at most.\n\nIn the US, a 17-year-long study found Paraquat contributed to Parkinson's onset and progression. And research by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - part of the US Department of Health - found people who used Paraquat developed Parkinson's two-and-a-half times more often than non-users.\n\nBut the US regulator, the Environmental Protection Agency, says an updated study couldn't replicate those results and no clear link was found.\n\nProf Jon Heylings with a strategy document written while Paraquat was still in use by UK farmers\n\nBut there are scientists who believe Syngenta is putting profit before product safety and public health.\n\nProf Heylings has a Syngenta regulatory strategy document from 2003 written while Paraquat was still being used by UK farmers. Its author acknowledges a growing number of studies \"citing a correlation between incidence of Parkinson's Disease and herbicide use, including Paraquat\".\n\nHe explains: \"Syngenta are trying to influence researchers who are working on Paraquat and also influence the direction of the research because the last thing Syngenta wants is a big blow up on Parkinson's. So the strategy was to downplay anything to do with the potential neurotoxicity of Paraquat that could lead to Parkinson's.\"\n\nIt said: \"In our view, Jon Heylings is technically not qualified to comment on Paraquat and Parkinson's Disease. He is certainly not aware of Syngenta's research on the issue, which was mostly conducted from 2008 onwards, after he left the company. We spent tens of millions of dollars investigating Paraquat and Parkinson's disease - and this figure doesn't include the monetary value of internal expert time.\"\n\nIn a statement, Syngenta said it had invested hundreds of millions of dollars over the product lifetime to ensure its safety.\n\n\"Paraquat has been the subject of more than 1,200 safety studies submitted to, and reviewed by, regulatory authorities around the world. Recent thorough reviews performed by the most advanced and science-based regulatory authorities including the United States and Australia continue to support the view that Paraquat is safe.\"\n\nSee the full story on Countryfile on BBC1 at 17:30 BST on 3 April and afterwards on the iPlayer.", "Two men appeared in court charged over the murder of Roy Reynolds\n\nA man whose body was found in a County Antrim reservoir earlier this week was subjected to a \"barbaric and horrific\" murder, a court has been told.\n\nThe body of Roy Reynolds, 54, was found in North Woodburn Reservoir near Carrickfergus on Monday morning.\n\nTwo men appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Friday charged over the killing.\n\nMichael Campbell, 32, of East Way in the Rathcoole estate, Newtownabbey, is accused of Mr Reynolds' murder.\n\nRobert Mervyn Fulton, 68, from Belfast Road, Ballyclare, faces a count of assisting in the disposal of the body.\n\nThe court was told that police were contacted by a member of the public who had witnessed a man dragging a naked body from Mr Campbell's flat early on Monday morning.\n\nIt was put then in the boot of a car belonging to and driven by Mr Fulton.\n\nAn investigating detective said that when the vehicle was stopped by police a blood-stained Mr Campbell was in the passenger seat.\n\nLarge quantities of blood were also detected in the boot and bumper of the car.\n\nMr Fulton told police that a man had been left at a dam in Carrickfergus, but was unsure if he was dead or alive.\n\nPolice went to Mr Campbell's home where they discovered blood-covered walls and clear signs of a disturbance.\n\nA blood-stained knife and screwdriver were also found, along with an electric hedge trimmer on a sofa.\n\nMeanwhile, another member of the public on a walk at North Woodburn Reservoir reported finding Mr Reynolds' body in shallow water.\n\n\"The body was naked, with jeans and underwear around his ankles, and a breeze block positioned under his arm,\" the detective said.\n\nDuring interviews, Mr Campbell made admissions, but claimed that he acted in self-defence.\n\nMr Fulton accepted using his car to transport the body for disposal, having left his home earlier that morning to travel to Rathcoole.\n\nHe claimed to have been asked to bring the hedge trimmer and plastic sheeting found inside the boot of his car.\n\nThe court heard Mr Fulton was previously in a relationship with Mr Campbell's mother and remained \"infatuated\" with her.\n\nFlowers left at the reservoir after the body was found\n\nAlthough a post-mortem has been carried out, no cause of death has been confirmed at this stage.\n\nBut the detective said: \"This man suffered a brutal, sustained attack. It is barbaric, the injuries he suffered.\"\n\nOpposing Mr Campbell's application for bail, she said he allegedly posted a recent video on Facebook while armed with a knife and making threats to harm Mr Reynolds.\n\n\"I think the actual threat was to cut out his heart,\" the detective claimed.\n\nMr Campbell's barrister argued that he had fully cooperated with police and gave reasons why he allegedly acted in self-defence.\n\n\"He indicates there was a verbal argument, both parties had been drinking and he was attacked by the deceased,\" he said.\n\nMr Fulton's solicitor said that he has physical and mental disabilities.\n\nBut the detective responded that he had been able to drive to the scene of the killing in the middle of the night and respond when Mr Campbell requested something to weigh the body down.\n\n\"Mr Fulton, at his home address, drilled two holes in a breeze block in order to put rope in it to dispose of the body,\" she disclosed.\n\nThe solicitor said his client had played no physical role in the murder and had \"never touched the body\".\n\nHe added that Mr Fulton was \"in terror of\" Mr Campbell.\n\nThe solicitor also said Mr Fulton had been set up in a \"honeypot trap\" which involved his home being partially signed over into a woman's name.\n\nBail was refused for both defendants.\n\nThe case will appear back before the courts on 29 April.", "Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with aphasia, which impedes a person's ability to speak and write\n\nOrganisers of the Razzie Awards, which are given to the year's worst films, have cancelled the recent \"honour\" they gave to actor Bruce Willis after the announcement about his health issues.\n\nOn Wednesday, his family revealed he has the brain disorder aphasia.\n\nCeremony bosses said it was \"not appropriate\" to award prizes to those whose medical conditions may have affected their performances.\n\nWillis was given his own category for worst Bruce Willis performance in 2021.\n\nOf the eight films nominated, Cosmic Sin was judged most worthy winner. The other movies in contention included American Siege, Apex, Deadlock and Out Of Death.\n\nThe recipients of this year's Razzies, also known as the Golden Raspberry Awards, were revealed on Saturday. Days later, it was announced that Willis was stepping away from his acting career after being diagnosed with the condition, which impedes a person's ability to speak and write.\n\nEmma Heming Willis has thanked people for their support for her husband\n\nWillis, 67, is best known for playing John McClane in the Die Hard films, which made him a star.\n\nRazzie organisers said they reached their decision after \"much thought and consideration\".\n\n\"If someone's medical condition is a factor in their decision making and/or their performance, we acknowledge that it is not appropriate to give them a Razzie,\" they said.\n\nThe award ceremony's Twitter account tweeted on 30 March that they were \"truly sorry for Bruce Willis diagnosed condition\", adding: \"Perhaps this explains why he wanted to go out with a bang in 2021.\n\n\"Our best wishes to Bruce and family.\"\n\nThey also made clear they heard about the diagnosis \"at the same time everyone else did\".\n\nWillis's wife, Emma Heming Willis, posted her thanks on Instagram stories for comments she had received since her husband's condition was revealed.\n\n\"Your love, support, compassion, prayers really help. I'm grateful. Thank you from the bottom of my heart,\" she said.\n\nActor John Travolta, who starred alongside Willis in Pulp Fiction and Look Who's Talking, also sent a message of support to his friend.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johntravolta This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Friends star Matthew Perry, who appeared in the hit TV show with Willis, added: \"I'm so sorry to hear what you are going through, but you're still the coolest man I've met in my entire life. You will remain in my prayers for a long long time.\"\n\nOrganisers said they were also cancelling their nomination of Shelley Duvall, who was shortlisted at the first Razzies for her performance in 1980 film The Shining.\n\n\"We have since discovered that Duvall's performance was impacted by Stanley Kubrick's treatment of her throughout the production,\" they said.\n\n\"We would like to take this opportunity to rescind that nomination as well.\"\n\nIn an interview with Vulture in February, founders John JB Wilson and Maureen Murphy expressed regret for that award, saying: \"I would take that back.\"", "Russia has said it will not cut off gas exports to Europe yet in a standoff over its demand to be paid in roubles.\n\nRussian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Thursday stating buyers must pay in roubles through Russian bank accounts from Friday.\n\nThe Kremlin said this would not affect shipments which were already paid for, with payments for deliveries after 1 April due in mid-April at the earliest.\n\nThe country is seeking to shore up the rouble as Western sanctions bite.\n\n\"Does this mean that if there is no confirmation in roubles, then gas supplies will be cut off from 1 April? No, it doesn't, and it doesn't follow from the decree,\" Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nThe EU said it was talking to energy companies about how to pay for gas.\n\nDitte Juul Jorgensen, the director general of the European Commission energy directorate, tweeted that the EU was \"working closely with member states and operators... to establish a common approach on currency payments for gas contracts with Russia\".\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine Western nations have placed sanctions on Russian companies and individuals.\n\nUnlike the US and Canada, the EU has not placed bans on oil or gas, as its member nations are heavily reliant on it.\n\nRussia supplies the European Union (EU) with about 40% of its gas and a third of its oil imports which are mainly paid for in euros and dollars.\n\nThe EU has no easy substitutes if supplies are disrupted, but at the same time, Russia is making €400m (£340m) per day from gas sales to the bloc and it has very few options for rerouting this supply to other markets.\n\nMember states in the EU have been on alert for any disruption to Russian gas imports as tension continues between Russia and the West over the Ukraine invasion.\n\nOn Wednesday, Germany and Austria took the first steps towards gas rationing. Germany urged consumers and companies to reduce consumption in anticipation of possible shortages, while Austria said it was tightening its monitoring of the gas market.\n\nA crunch point appeared to be in the offing when Moscow issued a decree on Thursday requiring foreign buyers of Russian gas to open rouble accounts from Friday or else risk being cut-off.\n\nMoscow did, however, offer a mechanism for buyers to obtain roubles via the state-run Gazprombank.\n\nThe bank has escaped sanctions from the EU to allow energy trading to continue.\n\nThe UK has imposed sanctions on Gazprombank, but imports less than 5% of its gas from Russia.\n\nUK and Dutch wholesale gas prices fell on Friday after the announcement that Russian gas supplies would not be halted immediately.\n\nWestbound flows of Russian gas via major routes were steady on Friday.\n\nEuropean experts have said Mr Putin's decree is mainly aimed at shielding Russian energy giant Gazprom from future sanctions.\n\nIf Gazprombank collects the money, the EU could not sanction it without cutting gas.\n\n\"It amounts to a warning from Putin not to tighten financial sanctions further,\" said Jeffrey Schott of the Peterson Institute of International Economics think tank.\n\nJack Sharples of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies said: \"What sounded grandiose has turned into a storm in a teacup.\n\n\"By making it the main recipient of money for gas, it puts an extra shield against sanctions around Gazprombank.\"\n\nOne European official said that he believed Mr Putin had demanded the switch to rouble payments to test who would go along with it, but no-one did.\n\n\"After the pushback, he is trying to find a system where he could claim that he had won, while in fact something close to the status quo is continuing,\" the official said.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-8-3 -2 K Na (US), D Johnson (US), H Varner III (US), C Smith (Aus) Selected others: -1 J Thomas (US), C Morikawa (US), D Willett (Eng); E +1+2\n\nTiger Woods was unable to match the standard he set on his comeback as world number one Scottie Scheffler dealt with tricky winds to take a commanding halfway lead at the Masters.\n\nWoods, 46, is one over par after carding a 74, following an opening-round 71 in his first competitive round since a car crash 14 months ago.\n\nFellow American Scheffler, 25, shot 67 to lead on eight under at Augusta.\n\nScheffler, bidding for his first major win, holds a five-shot lead at the top.\n\nThe US Ryder Cup star has tied the tournament record for the largest 36-hole lead. With no player blowing such an advantage since 1945, he looks primed to continue his dominant form in 2022.\n\n\"I feel my game is in a good spot,\" said Scheffler, who had not won a PGA Tour title before his three victories this year.\n\n\"I've done a good job of managing my way around the golf course. I've kept the cards pretty clean which is nice.\"\n\nAfterwards, Woods said he had been in a \"grind\" at a testing Augusta National, but was happy after his astonishing comeback continued with him making the cut.\n\n\"It was a good fight, I'm in the ball game and tomorrow is a big day,\" he said.\n• None How to follow the Masters on the BBC\n\nIreland's Shane Lowry carded a wonderful four-under 68 - only bettered on Friday by Scheffler and Justin Thomas - to sit in a four-way share of second place.\n\nLowry, 35, almost took the position outright but saw a short birdie putt on the 18th dribble past the hole.\n\n\"It was one of the best rounds I've ever played, the conditions were difficult,\" said the 2019 Open champion.\n\nDefending champion Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, South Africa's 2011 winner Charl Schwartzel and overnight leader Im Sung-jae are sat alongside Lowry on three under.\n\nEngland's Danny Willett started the day one shot off South Korea's Im and moved to the top of the leaderboard after an impressive front nine.\n\nBut three successive bogeys after the turn saw the 2016 champion drop off the pace and he ended on one under after a 74.\n\nAmerican veteran Stewart Cink claimed the first hole-in-one of the tournament, sparking fervent celebrations when he aced the par-three 16th.\n\nWoods 'definitely feeling it' after another encouraging display\n\nAfter a stunning performance on Thursday which defied expectations, the next question surrounding 46-year-old Woods was how his body would cope with the exertions of another 18 holes on Friday.\n\nAgain, the physicality of the hilly Augusta terrain - which five-time champion Woods said coming into the tournament would be his toughest opponent - appeared to provide fewer difficulties than feared.\n\nBut afterwards he said: \"I'm feeling it, I'm definitely feeling it. We have some work ahead of us tonight.\"\n\nInstead, it was initially the ball-striking which was not quite at the same level as it was during his opening 71.\n\nWoods started with four bogeys in his opening five holes - his worst start in 92 career rounds at the Masters - before a birdie on the eighth galvanised the 15-time major champion.\n\nIt is also served to crank up the noise among the Augusta patrons, who again flocked in huge numbers to watch the former world number one.\n\nThe atmosphere ramped up further when he sunk another birdie on the 10th, but Woods' progress was checked by successive bogeys on 11 and 12.\n\nThey were wiped out by two more birdies on 13 and 14, with Woods annoyed at missing chances on 15 and 16 before resiliently holing out two pars to finish.\n\nWhile not as spectacular as his opening round, it was another encouraging performance from Woods - just 409 days after he suffered life-threatening injuries when he crashed his car while speeding in February 2021.\n\nMcIlroy content but 'Rory Slam' is unlikely\n\nNorthern Ireland's Rory McIlroy said after his round - before Scheffler took command later on - that he felt he was still in contention to land an elusive first Masters, despite replicating his opening 73 on Friday.\n\nMcIlroy acknowledged he could be a \"few shots better\" as he bids to finally complete the career Grand Slam - eight years after his last major victory.\n\nThe 32-year-old, who has won the Open, US Open, and two US PGA Championships, looked in danger of being close to the cutline after a double bogey on the newly extended par-four 11th.\n\nHowever, he responded superbly with two birdies in the final seven holes to ensure he did not miss the weekend at Augusta for the second successive year.\n\n\"I showed some resilience and character. My game is there,\" McIlroy told Sky Sports.\n\n\"You go out on Saturday and you play a decent front nine and all of a sudden you're right in the thick of things.\n\nEngland's Matt Fitzpatrick played with McIlroy in the opening two rounds and, following a one-over 73 on Friday, is two shots better off than his European Ryder Cup team-mate at level par.\n\nWhat about the other UK players?\n\nScottish veteran Sandy Lyle, who won the 1988 tournament, conceded next year's Masters is likely to be his last appearance at Augusta.\n\nPlaying in the 100th major championship of his career, the 64-year-old shot a 76 to finish 14 over and miss the cut for the eighth straight year.\n\nFellow Scot Robert MacIntyre continued his impressive record of making the cut in every major he has played in by carding another 73 to sit two over.\n\nMacIntyre, 25, has reached the weekend in all eight of his major appearances.\n\n\"It's a brilliant record to have. You never want to miss a cut in a major,\" he said.\n\n\"It's brilliant to know that my game stands up in the toughest of tests against the best players.\n\nThe left-hander, who finished 12th on his Masters debut last year, played solidly during Friday's second round and plans to \"take the reins off\" at the weekend.\n\n\"I'm in a good spot. I'm playing solid, I'm putting it decent. I've just not had any magic yet,\" he added.\n\nEnglish pair Lee Westwood and Tyrrell Hatton are also two over at the halfway stage, while compatriot Tommy Fleetwood (+3) is the only other British player to make the cut.\n\nJustin Rose, the 2017 runner-up, missed the weekend after shooting another 76 and, another Englishman, amateur Laird Shepherd, propped up the leaderboard at 22 over on his Augusta debut.\n\nBig-name American trio Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and 2015 champion Jordan Spieth were also among the 37 players - from the 89 men who started on Friday - who missed the cut.\n• None Panorama reports from the frontline in southern Ukraine\n• None 'You can't just walk away, they'll kill you' -", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bristol's We The Curious evacuated after roof catches fire\n\nA city centre science museum had to be evacuated after its roof caught fire.\n\nFire crews were called to We The Curious in Millennium Square, Bristol, at about 14:00 BST.\n\nNearby buildings were evacuated and a number of road closures were put in place, including Anchor Road.\n\nAbout 35 firefighters tackled the blaze, which is thought to have started in the museum's roof space. An investigation is being carried out into the cause of the fire.\n\nAvon Fire and Rescue said it would carry out a joint investigation with the police once the site had been made completely safe.\n\nA number of specialist appliances and five fire engines were sent to tackle the blaze.\n\nAbout 35 firefighters fought the fire at its height\n\nWe The Curious is one of several visitor attractions at Millennium Square in Bristol\n\nThe museum is close to Bristol's popular harbourside\n\nNearby businesses were evacuated and Anchor Road was closed to allow fire crews to fight the flames from there.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aidan Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Residents of Bucha said Russian soldiers killed civilians outside their homes without provocation\n\nAttacks on civilians by Russian forces in the Ukrainian town of Bucha do not \"look far short of genocide\", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK has announced further sanctions against eight oligarchs and Russian banks, including the country's largest, Sberbank, and Credit Bank of Moscow.\n\nDozens of people have been found dead in the town - including some in a mass grave - after Russia's withdrawal.\n\nMoscow denied involvement and described reports as fake news.\n\nThe Foreign Office announced its latest sanctions following the reports of attacks on civilians, and these include ending all imports of Russian coal and oil by the end of the year as well as action against strategic industries.\n\nThe latest sanctions come in step with those imposed by the US, which has also imposed sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin's two daughters.\n\nAhead of the new sanctions being announced, Mr Johnson said: \"I'm afraid when you look at what's happening in Bucha, the revelations that we are seeing from what Putin has done in Ukraine doesn't look far short of genocide to me.\n\n\"It is no wonder people are responding in the way that they are. I have no doubt that the international community, Britain very much in the front rank, will be moving again in lockstep to impose more sanctions and more penalties on Vladimir Putin's regime.\"\n\nAs part of its sanctions response, the UK has pledged to stop importing Russian oil by the end of the year, while the EU is reducing its imports of Russian gas by two-thirds.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"enormous strides\" the EU is taken to reduce dependence on Russian gas.\n\nAt a working dinner in Brussels on Wednesday evening Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is expected to tell Nato colleagues the \"age of engagement with Russia is over\".\n\nShe is expected to say there is \"no time for false comfort\" and that Russia is not retreating but regrouping to push harder in the east of Ukraine.\n\nMs Truss is expected to urge allies to arm Ukraine quickly and decisively, and to rethink its support for countries \"caught in the web of Russian influence\", such as Georgia and Moldova.\n\nAs part of sanctions imposed on Russia all new outward investment to the country has been banned, while imports of Russian iron and steel products will be banned.\n\nAmong those added to the sanctions list is Viatcheslav Kantor, the largest shareholder of fertilizer company Acron, whose donations funded a new unit at a London hospital used by the royal family.\n\nThe Edward VII Hospital accepted a donation from the Kantor Charitable Foundation to fund the Kantor Medical Centre.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin (R) talks to billionaire, businessman and owner of Acron Group Viatcheslav Kantor (L) while visiting the Acron plant in 2016\n\nThe other oligarchs added to the sanctions list include:\n\nMs Truss said the latest wave of sanctions would decimate Mr Putin's \"war machine\" and show the Russian elite could not wash their hands of the atrocities committed on his orders.\n\nSanctions are penalties imposed by countries intended to stop aggression, or punish breaches of international law, and often involve financial curbs.\n\nThose taken by the UK so far include freezing assets, excluding Russian banks from the UK financial system, banning some exports to Russia, restricting visas for wealthy investors and banning flights.\n\nBy the end of the year, the UK has said it will also phase out Russian oil imports.\n\nAlong with the EU and US, it has frozen the assets of more than 1,000 individuals and companies, including politicians and wealthy business leaders thought to be close to the Kremlin.\n\nAsset freezes prevent anyone in the UK or any UK company from dealing with any funds or resources that are owned or held by the designated person, and prevent resources being provided to or for the benefit of that person.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer had called for \"even tougher sanctions\" following the \"horrific, harrowing images\" of civilian deaths in Bucha.\n\nHe said we have to give Ukraine \"every support we can\" and said the international community must be clear \"that these war crimes will end up with those responsible being hunted down\".\n\nThe deliberate targeting of civilians, as has been alleged by residents of Bucha, is a war crime under the Geneva Convention.\n\nBut for a massacre to be considered genocide, the law also requires proof of the intent to destroy a particular national, ethnic, racial or religious group - whether entirely or in part.\n\nThe Genocide Convention, introduced after the Nazi Holocaust during World War Two, requires the 152 nations who are signatories to \"prevent and to punish\" genocide where it occurs.", "The Duchess and Duke of York have been named in this financial dispute\n\nThe latest steps in a Turkish millionaire's fraud claim have linked a further payment to the Duchess of York.\n\nCourt documents show lawyers of Nebahat Isbilen have updated who they claim received her assets, in allegations against business adviser Selman Turk.\n\nThis suggests the Duchess of York could have received a further £20,000, in addition to £225,000 and more than £1m paid to her ex-husband Prince Andrew.\n\nMr Turk has denied the allegations of misusing Mrs Isbilen's money.\n\nThere are no suggestions of wrongdoing against the Duke or Duchess of York or their family.\n\nThis complex case before the High Court in London revolves around claims that 77-year-old Mrs Isbilen has been the victim of \"systematic fraud\".\n\nShe has accused Mr Turk of having \"dishonestly misappropriated\" about £38m of her assets.\n\nPeters and Peters, the law firm representing Mrs Isbilen, have updated details of where they claim some of her money was directed by Mr Turk, clarifying a confusion over similarly-named businesses.\n\nCourt papers say it now \"appears likely\" that a payment, previously identified as £20,000, was to a business \"connected with Sarah, Duchess of York\".\n\nA source close to the duchess said the £20,000 was for her advisory role with Alphabet Capital, the firm which had made the payment.\n\nAlphabet Capital is claimed in court papers as being used by Mr Turk to make payments - but a source close to the duchess said she was unaware of any link with Mr Turk.\n\nCourt papers also show Alphabet Capital as the route for the duchess receiving £225,000.\n\nIt is understood the Duchess of York is not planning to repay the £225,000, because this was to cover her work as a brand ambassador for a US solar energy company.\n\nThe duchess is understood to have wanted to be paid in a single payment by the US firm, rather than in instalments - and Mr Turk stepped in to forward the full amount.\n\nA spokesman for the Duchess of York said: \"The duchess was completely unaware of the allegations that have since emerged against Mr Turk. She is naturally concerned by what has been alleged against him.\"\n\nCourt documents also show claims of payments to her daughter Princess Eugenie, with about £15,000 referenced as a \"birthday gift\", and another payment of £10,000.\n\nPrince Andrew is claimed to have received £350,000 through Alphabet Capital.\n\nAnd he has repaid a separate payment of £750,000 given to him directly by Mrs Isbilen on 15 November 2019.\n\nPrincess Beatrice was named in the financial court case\n\nMrs Isbilen says she was misled into believing the £750,000 was for help with a passport. She also claims Mr Turk had explained the payment to her bank as a \"wedding gift\" for Princess Beatrice.\n\nBut Mr Turk says the money for Prince Andrew was paid by Mrs Isbilen \"on her own initiative\" and not under his direction.\n\nMrs Isbilen's lawyer Jonathan Tickner said Prince Andrew was contacted in March 2021 requesting an account of his dealings with Mr Turk.\n\n\"Prince Andrew declined to provide any such account but ...repaid Mrs Isbilen the sum of £750,000,\" said Mr Tickner.\n\nPrince Andrew's representatives have declined to comment on the ongoing court case.\n\nThe week before the £750,000 was paid, Mr Turk's bank business, Heyman AI, had received an award at the Pitch at the Palace business event, headed by Prince Andrew, with Mr Turk and the prince appearing on stage at the awards.\n\nThe court papers report Mrs Isbilen's claim that Mr Turk also attended a charity event that week hosted by Prince Andrew at St James's Palace, at which Mr Turk \"sought to promote his UK banking business\".\n\nBut this prize-winning business also seems to have been funded by Mrs Isbilen, who says her assets were being used \"without my knowledge or consent\".\n\nShe claims millions were taken from her accounts and transferred via other companies, including an offshore firm linked to Mr Turk, to pay for Heyman AI.\n\nBut Mr Turk says Mrs Isbilen voluntarily offered to support his Heyman AI business, offering him a loan of £4m at 0% interest, although he says he convinced her to accept some interest.\n\nThe business went into liquidation and court papers note that \"all of the money appears to have been spent\".\n\nMrs Isbilen is from a wealthy Turkish business family, but when her politician husband was jailed she wanted help moving her assets out of Turkey.\n\nThe claim before the High Court is that Mr Turk misused his role as business adviser, with her lawyers saying she had a limited grasp of English and had entrusted \"almost total control\" of her finances to Mr Turk.\n\nBut Mr Turk rejects any claim of deceit, saying that \"at every step\" he acted in accordance with Mrs Isbilen's instructions.\n\nHe says she gave her approval to all the financial transactions and investments he carried out, which had been signed by her \"confirming her instructions and authorisation\".", "Veronika and her mother spotted the doll in a warehouse as they picked up essential supplies\n\nA child refugee has been given a doll exactly like the one she had to leave behind in Ukraine.\n\nToddler Veronika and her mother Tatyana spotted the doll in a warehouse run by the Surrey charity Stripey Stork as they picked up essential supplies.\n\nThe charity said in a tweet that mother and daughter got \"very excited\" when they saw the doll which was \"just the same as one she'd had to leave behind\".\n\nCharity founder and chief executive Nicola Dawes said it made their day.\n\n\"It was particularly special to discover this doll was just the same as one that Veronika had not been able to bring from home,\" she said.\n\n\"A moment of joy and connection, and it made our day when Veronika blew us a kiss as she left.\"\n\nVeronika and Tatyana arrived in the UK on Thursday to stay with a sponsor family in Epsom and Ewell as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.\n\nAfter they arrived with one case and a pushchair, their host family contacted the baby bank charity to seek help sourcing practical items.\n\nThey travelled to the warehouse on Friday to pick up supplies prepared for them, including clothes, shoes, toys, a high chair, bed guard, potty training kit, nappies and toiletries.\n\nStripey Stork has been helping families across Surrey since it was formed in 2013.\n\nIt uses a model similar to a food bank to provide essentials to families with young children, and is now helping Ukrainian refugees arriving in the area.\n\nThe charity said on Twitter more than 700 families had been matched in Surrey so far.\n• None Where have Ukraine's millions of refugees gone?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There have been urgent calls for investigations into allegations of war crimes in previously Russian-held areas of Ukraine after shocking footage of murdered civilians.\n\nBut there are wider questions over whether widespread Russian attacks on civilian targets amount to war crimes.\n\nWe've been looking at a series of attacks in one city - Chernihiv - to see whether they are consistent with Russian tactics across Ukraine and reveal something of their strategy.\n\nThe following report contains some graphic details.\n\n\"They were shooting at us with everything they had,\" says Diana, 20. Within minutes of encountering the Russian tank, half her family would be dead.\n\nDiana, her mother Irina, her partner Sasha and his little brother Maxim were fleeing Chernihiv on 9 March after weeks of shelling. They had one simple aim - to reach safety in the west of the country, where relatives were waiting for them.\n\nBut within minutes of leaving the city heading south they were plunged into danger.\n\nAs their Volkswagen Golf passed the village of Kolychivka, Sasha saw Russian tanks ahead. One fired at them immediately. He put his foot down, hoping to accelerate through the danger zone - and then the car stalled.\n\nSasha, Diana and Maxim, and Diana with her mother Irina\n\nThe firing continued, and Sasha shouted for them get out - but 15-year-old Maxim had already been hit. There was a hole in his chest and blood coming from his mouth.\n\nDiana, Sasha and Irina crawled into bushes - but soldiers were approaching, shouting to each other, asking where the family were hiding. Bullets cracked towards them.\n\nDiana's foot was seriously injured. Sasha tried to bandage it, but then as he turned to help Irina, the horror worsened.\n\n\"Irina opened her jacket and we realised that there was nothing to bandage,\" Diana told BBC News. \"A part of her abdomen and intestines had been shot through.\"\n\nThey heard more shooting and Diana turned to Sasha believing these were their final minutes.\n\n\"We had time to say that we loved each other,\" she said. \"I asked Sasha, 'Are we going to die here?' He said, 'Probably'.\n\n\"My mum crawled with us a little more. I kept turning and saying, 'Mum, crawl, please, please'. She said, 'Yes, yes'. And then she [lay] down on the ground. She died there.\"\n\nDiana kept crawling, following Sasha as he broke a path for her through the thicket. They went past a burning field and through the forest.\n\nDiana and Sasha survived and she made it to a hospital. She has lost four toes from her left foot.\n\nDiana has no doubt the attackers were Russian because of their accents, uniforms and the Z symbol daubed on one of the tanks.\n\nThe BBC's verification team has found no evidence of any legitimate military targets near the site of the attack.\n\nAttacks on civilians in cars elsewhere\n\nWater is the most basic of human necessities and there is evidence of deliberate Russian targeting of the supply in Chernihiv.\n\nA pumping station on the outskirts of the city was hit on 14 March.\n\nThe attack badly damaged a water reservoir and destroyed a control room, according to the head of the water company in Chernihiv, Serhiy Malyavko, who said a worker at the plant - along with three family members - were killed. The family was sheltering there after their home was destroyed by shelling.\n\nSatellite imagery shows the damage to the plant, located by Twitter user @obretix in a forested area far away from other buildings.\n\nPhotos released by the water company showed a severely damaged treatment tank with small craters in the ground. Damage that looks like shrapnel holes pepper the buildings.\n\nThe sequence of craters visible in a satellite image suggests ground-launched strikes, says Wim Zwijnenburg, an arms researcher at Pax, a Dutch peace organisation.\n\n\"The shrapnel impact and blast direction seem to indicate the missiles were fired from the west of the water facility, [which] corresponds with the presence of Russian troop movements located to the west, according to public data on their locations.\"\n\nWithout access to the site itself, the experts we've spoken to say it's not possible to be precise about the weapons used. Rather than missiles, the damage may have been caused by heavy guns or mortars.\n\nThe Chernihiv Water Company released pictures of other sites that had been attacked\n\nThe head of the water company says the site was struck three days in a row.\n\n\"There was no military target. I'm 100% sure that the Russian troops have been destroying the city's infrastructure so that there would be no gas, no electricity or water supply in the city,\" Mr Malyavko told BBC News.\n\nHe said two other facilities elsewhere were also destroyed, cutting off water to most of the city's population.\n\nThe rules of war ban premeditated attacks on targets indispensable to civilian life, such as water supplies.\n\n\"This has been done to make the population panic,\" says Mr Malyavko. \"And Russia is probably hoping that if there's a humanitarian catastrophe, the local authorities will agree to start negotiations - and that the city will surrender.\"\n\nIt was the morning of 16 March, and Ukrainian journalist Alina Klimenko received news of a much-needed bread delivery to the city. Her father, Vitalii, dashed to join the queue.\n\nBut after a short while he moved away as a nearby house came under fire. Others, now used to the sound of shelling in the city, stayed.\n\nAnd then the queue itself was hit.\n\nAlina ran out to film the aftermath. Her footage showed bodies on the ground and an ambulance racing to the scene.\n\nAt least 14 civilians died, according to Ukrainian authorities.\n\nWe have confirmed the authenticity of Alina's video and located it to a residential area in the city.\n\nAlina's father, who has a military background, says the incoming fire was from the north-east, consistent with the attack being launched by Russian units operating several kilometres to the north of Chernihiv, according to the mapping team at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).\n\nWeapons expert Mark Cancian looked at the BBC's research. He said the damage was consistent with the impact of a missile with a range of up to 30km (19 miles).\n\nA satellite image from 16 March shows Russian forces with this kind of weaponry 14km north-east of the city.\n\nThe US Embassy in Kyiv initially wrongly reported that Russian forces in the city had shot dead the civilians.\n\nThis was quickly denied by Moscow who said no Russian troops were present in the city. But the Russians went further, saying the event had either been staged, or that those killed were victims of \"Ukrainian nationalists\".\n\nThere have been numerous examples of this type of denial from the Russian government.\n\nA critical factor in any prosecution for war crimes is obtaining clear evidence of a deliberate intent to target civilians.\n\nImages and eye-witness statements can be the starting point, says Prof Alex Whiting, a former investigations co-ordinator at the International Criminal Court.\n\nBut investigators would then need to tackle a series of basic questions:\n\nA hotel and a football stadium in Chernihiv were hit\n\nThroughout the conflict, the Ukrainian intelligence services have been releasing allegedly intercepted communications between Russian forces.\n\nIn one, a man with a Russian accent can be heard being ordered to shoot at a civilian car.\n\nThe authenticity of these conversations has not been verified by the BBC.\n\nBut by building a picture of consistent patterns of behaviour, the case for prosecution becomes stronger.\n\nSareta Ashraph, an expert in human-rights law, says investigators would be looking to establish these patterns of behaviour across the country - whether water facilities, hospitals or supermarkets had been regularly hit - in order to build up a picture of military strategy.\n\n\"This can show evidence of deliberate targeting, where the intent to bring the civilian population to its knees becomes much clearer,\" she says.\n\nAs the war continues, Ms Ashraph says she's reminded of Russian tactics in previous conflicts.\n\n\"I would say that Russia's actions in Ukraine contain some quite dark echoes of actions in Syria,\" she said.\n\nWe contacted the Russian defence ministry about all of the cases documented in this article. We have not yet received a response.", "Satellite image of Luninets airfield, Belarus, during the build-up to Russia's attack on Ukraine\n\nTraditionally, it is the job of a spy to keep secrets - but as the invasion of Ukraine loomed, Western intelligence officials made the unusual decision to tell the world what they knew.\n\nFor nearly a dozen days in February, a small group of intelligence officers had been going to bed early.\n\nThey had seen the intelligence predicting a war and knew that if Russia was really going to invade Ukraine, it would begin in the early hours of the morning.\n\nBut when the news finally came on 24 February, it still felt unreal, one recalls: \"It was hard to believe it was actually happening until I woke up early that morning and put the radio on.\"\n\nFor months they had been sounding the alarm.\n\n\"That day people went from 'Why are you being so hysterical?' to 'Why weren't you more hysterical?'\" says the official.\n\nThere was no satisfaction in being proved right, another intelligence official adds. But at least they felt they had tried to stop a war whose scale they had been warning of for months.\n\nA member of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service on patrol near the frontier with Russia\n\nThe run-up to war and the weeks after it started saw American and British intelligence make public some of their most closely held secrets as part of an unprecedented campaign.\n\nFor decades, intelligence had normally been something to share with as few individuals as possible. No longer. The decision had been taken to make the whole world know about it.\n\nThis not only marked a dramatic shift in the way Western intelligence had been operating - it also meant confronting the painful legacy of the invasion of Iraq.\n\nThe first signs of Russia's intentions arrived a year ago. Intelligence from satellite imagery pointed to a Russian troop build-up near Ukraine. But analysts had little understanding of Moscow's true intentions.\n\nThat changed in mid-2021. \"From summer we saw a small group of senior people planning for a full military invasion of the whole country,\" explains one Western intelligence official.\n\nThe intelligence-gathering and analysis was a joint US-UK affair, those involved say - one calling it a \"family\" operation. There was no single moment of understanding but rather a picture that became increasingly clear as time passed.\n\nThe exact provenance of the intelligence remains classified - officials suggest it came from multiple sources. But it provided a picture which continued to build as London and Washington saw invasion plans being finalised.\n\nVladimir Putin seemed to believe he had to act quickly to fulfil his ambition of bringing Ukraine back into Russia's sphere of influence. And he believed the only way to do so was by using force. \"He felt like he had a closing window of opportunity,\" says one person who was directly involved.\n\nBy autumn, Washington had decided it needed to do something with what it was being told by its spies. That decision, those involved say, was taken at the very highest level of the White House by President Biden.\n\nA crucial moment came in early November when CIA Director William Burns travelled to Moscow - to warn that Washington knew what was being planned. The trip was not kept secret. The first time some Russian officials were told that their country might be seriously intending to act against Ukraine was when they heard it from the director of the CIA, one official says.\n\nThe next stage was to make some of the intelligence public. One individual involved in the discussions, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity, recalls times where it was asked: \"What is the point of knowing all of this, if we can't do something with it?\"\n\nIn Washington, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines - who briefed allies at Nato in November - and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan are credited with pushing for the release of material. Experts on declassification, trained to understand the risks, began to work round the clock to establish what could be shared.\n\n\"The Intelligence Community surged personnel and resources to support classification reviews for increased intelligence sharing with allies and partners and declassification reviews for potential release to the public (and) leveraged its established declassification process, which is designed to protect sources and methods,\" Nicole de Haay, a spokeswoman for the US intelligence community, told the BBC.\n\nOne advantage was being able to use commercially available satellite imagery to support the case. By early December, details of Russia's plans for a 175,000-strong invasion had appeared in the Washington Post.\n\nIn London, the intelligence - coming in from GCHQ and MI6 - was met with near-disbelief in some quarters. A common problem inside and outside government was that people simply could not believe a major land war could break out in Europe in the 21st Century.\n\nMI6 headquarters - intelligence coming out of the agency was met with near disbelief\n\nIt was only late in the year - after the material went through a formal assessment process and the Joint Intelligence Committee issued its considered view that an invasion was now \"highly likely\" - that everyone began to realise this was for real.\n\nThe rigour of that process was a direct result of lessons learned nearly two decades ago when intelligence had been used to make the public case for war in Iraq in a haphazard, improvised way. In 2003, amid accusations of politicisation, the reputation of US and UK spies was damaged - especially after the intelligence proved to be wrong.\n\nThe ghosts of Iraq have since haunted discussions about using intelligence in public - but Ukraine offered an opportunity to try to put that legacy to bed. New procedures had been put in place to ensure secret information went through a strict assessment process to govern how it could be used.\n\nOther allies were also briefed. But many remained sceptical. Because the source of the intelligence could not be shared it was sometimes hard to overcome this incredulity, one official says.\n\nSome European partners did not buy the analysis that Russia's build-up was anything more than bluff. A scepticism about Anglo-American intelligence was also another legacy of Iraq's missing weapons of mass destruction. France has recently sacked its head of military intelligence for failing to appreciate what was being planned.\n\nThe fear for spies in publicising material is that this tips off the other side that they have a leak and potentially closes off that source. This was why, in World War Two, the UK kept the secret of Bletchley Park so tightly. There have been other occasions since Iraq when intelligence has been made public, for instance over the use of chemical weapons in Syria, but never on the scale seen over Ukraine.\n\nThe release included the UK sharing details of Russian plans to install specific individuals as part of a puppet government in Kyiv - and Washington revealing plans by Moscow to stage pretexts for war, so-called false flags, involving dead bodies whom they would falsely claim had been killed by Ukrainians.\n\nAmerican and British spies both believe that publicising this material robbed Moscow of the ability to justify the invasion to its own people and other countries as a defensive move.\n\nOne spy says of those days before the invasion that he had never seen anything like it - highly classified material would be on his desk one day and then emerge in the public domain the next.\n\nBut the unprecedented outpouring of intelligence was not enough to stop the invasion.\n\nThe public release had not deterred Moscow. That may never have been possible but officials believe it did disrupt Russia's plans. And it meant the reaction across the West was swifter and more unified than it might otherwise have been, they argue.\n\nThey say they made it much easier for other countries to rally round tougher measures than if there had been a confused and disputed picture of who was the real aggressor.\n\nThe release has continued after the invasion in speeches, statements and briefings - the head of GCHQ claimed just over a week ago that Putin was still not getting the full picture from his own officials and there have been warnings of possible \"false flag\" use of chemical weapons.\n\nThere is also a recognition of a new world in which so-called open-source intelligence - things like commercial satellite imagery and data - has made it more possible to verify or support assertions and that fighting an information war - including through intelligence - is now vital, partly to counter Russian assertions.\n\nOn one level, much of the intelligence was spot-on. There was, as forecast, a full invasion from multiple directions with the purpose of toppling and replacing the Zelensky government.\n\nWestern spies also correctly predicted that Moscow had misplaced confidence about the reception it would encounter. \"They genuinely believed there would be flags out to welcome them,\" says a Western intelligence officer.\n\nBut one assumption did prove wrong - that Moscow's military would prevail in a matter of weeks. Instead, the war would not turn out as many expected, with Ukraine outperforming militarily while Russia underperformed.\n\nThat is a reminder that intelligence has its limits - particularly in predicting some of the complexities of war and the uncertainties of people's morale and reaction. And for all its success before the war, Western spies concede that intelligence cannot tell them for sure what will happen next.", "The Queen distributing Maundy money in 2019. But she is not taking part this year\n\nThe Queen will not take part in next week's Maundy Service, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nInstead for the first time Prince Charles will carry out the traditional coin-giving ceremony, to be held this year in Windsor.\n\nThe 95-year-old Queen has had mobility problems, but took part in the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip.\n\nIt is understood the Queen regrets not attending, but wanted to give clarity in time for those planning the event.\n\nIt will be the first Maundy Service missed by the Queen since 1970.\n\nThe service takes place each year on the Thursday before Easter Sunday, with special coins given to pensioners, with one man and one woman chosen for each year the Queen has lived.\n\nThe church service would have involved the Queen handing out the \"Maundy money\" to a line-up of recipients.\n\nRather than allowing speculation about her attendance to overshadow preparations, it is understood the Queen has decided to give an early confirmation that Prince Charles will represent her instead.\n\nShe has been taking part in virtual audiences this week, but has difficulty in moving and last month had to pull out of the Commonwealth Service.\n\nThis will be the fifth Maundy Service missed by the Queen, with these previous times because of being away on overseas tours or because of the recent births of Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.\n\nThe annual service marks Maundy Thursday, which commemorates Jesus washing the feet of the apostles at the Last Supper.\n\nThe royal ceremony of awarding gifts on this day dates back to AD 600.\n\nThe recipients are traditionally local elderly people, who are being recognised for their contribution to community.\n\nEach recipient is given two purses, one containing a small amount of ordinary coinage and the second containing specially-minted coins up to the value of the Queen's age.\n\nThe Maundy Service will come a week before the Queen's 96th birthday.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has held talks in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nA No 10 spokesman has said that the prime minister was using the visit to set out a new package of financial and military aid for the country.\n\nDuring a press conference, where the Mr Johnson praised the bravery of Ukrainians, he also said: \"I have no doubt at all that an independent sovereign Ukraine will rise again.\"", "The blaze broke out at a terraced house in Coronation Crescent on Friday\n\nA man has been arrested after two children were critically injured in a house fire.\n\nA three-year-old girl and a boy, aged five, remained in hospital after a blaze in Coronation Crescent, Preston, at about 20:00 BST on Friday.\n\nTheir mother, thought to be in her 20s, is also in hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening, police said.\n\nA 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.\n\nA fourth person was also treated for injuries at the scene.\n\nLancashire Police said they attended after receiving \"reports of a fire with several people trapped inside the house\".\n\nPolice and the fire service were investigating the cause of the fire\n\nDet Ch Insp Graham Hill said: \"We are aware of rumours circulating online about an explosion having occurred and we would like to clarify that this is not the case.\"\n\nThe arrested man was from the town and he remains in custody.\n\nThe force said a joint investigation was under way with Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service to try to confirm the cause of the fire.\n\nOfficers have appealed for anyone with information to contact police.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The European Causeway returns to Larne on Saturday\n\nA P&O ferry, detained in Larne last month over safety concerns, has sailed again but with limited services.\n\nThe European Causeway had been held by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) after P&O sacked 800 of its workers.\n\nThe ferry completed a return journey between Larne and Cairnryan on Saturday.\n\nP&O said it was \"delighted\" to \"restart full services between Larne and Cairnryan\" from 08:00 BST on Sunday.\n\n\"P&O is pleased to play its part in supporting customers to move vital goods between Northern Ireland and Scotland,\" it added.\n\nSaturday is the first time the vessel has been allowed to sail since it was detained in Larne a fortnight ago.\n\nThe detention came after the company sacked 800 workers across the UK without notice.\n\nThe company recruited new staff, but the MCA detained the European Causeway saying it was concerned about \"failures on crew familiarisation, vessel documentation and crew training\".\n\nThe vessel was released from detention on Friday and it sailed out of Larne at 10:00 BST on Saturday and returned from Cairnryan at 16:00 BST.\n\nIt is understood that only freight was transported on the vessel.\n\nAnother P&O vessel, the European Highlander, remains docked in Larne awaiting a full Port State Control Inspection.\n\nThe ferry operator has been strongly criticised by politicians and unions following the sacking of workers.\n\nHowever, P&O says its business \"would not be viable\" without changes to staffing.", "President Macron's big lead in the polls has shrunk as Sunday's vote has approached\n\nThe least a president might expect, when juggling a war in Europe with an election at home, is a bounce in the polls.\n\nBut Emmanuel Macron has discovered that all the energy he spent dealing with Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has been of little help in France's unpredictable vote.\n\n\"Nothing is impossible,\" President Macron has warned, as polls suggest his far-right rival is closer than ever before to winning the presidency.\n\nA month ago, Marine Le Pen was trailing President Macron by 10 points and fighting for a place in the second round against him.\n\nNow she's seen as the clear favourite to challenge him for the presidency after Sunday's first round. If she does make it through to the 24 April run-off, opinion polls suggest for the first time that a Le Pen victory is within the margin of error.\n\nAt a rally on Thursday night in Perpignan, Marine Le Pen told voters to \"take back control\"\n\nFor this, the National Rally leader can thank two men once seen as dangerous for her campaign: her far-right rival, Eric Zemmour, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, now an international pariah.\n\n\"I would say that [Zemmour's] campaign was destroyed by Ukraine,\" said Gilles Paris, an election specialist for French daily Le Monde.\n\n\"His pro-Russian attitude was a burden, while Marine Le Pen was smart enough to pivot to a more moderate point of view. She was ready to accept refugees [immediately], while it took two days for Zemmour to understand that these refugees were well accepted in France.\"\n\nMs Le Pen has since picked up a good part of Eric Zemmour's votes.\n\nPresident Macron lost most of his \"war bounce\" two weeks ago, and has also faced criticism from EU partner, Poland, for talking so regularly to Russia's president.\n\nHis frustration burst through when he was asked about it on the campaign trail this week, surrounded by crowds in the Brittany village of Spézet.\n\n\"I'm not the one who is sympathetic to Putin,\" he snapped. \"I'm not the one who looks for funding from Russia. That's other candidates.\"\n\nI take full responsibility for having spoken to the president of Russia, in the name of France... I was never naive, unlike others. I was never complicit, unlike others\n\nVladimir Putin publicly backed Marine Le Pen during the last presidential race here, and her National Rally party is currently repaying a loan from a Russian bank. But she has deflected discussion of the war in Ukraine by focusing on her core campaign topic: rising prices at home.\n\nAnd as the war has added to price pressures on petrol and basic goods, the Le Pen electoral strategy is continuing to pay off.\n\nMelina, a care assistant who came to watch President Macron's rally in Spézet this week, said the economic situation had changed her politics.\n\n\"There are a lot of French people here who work but are forced to sleep in their cars because they cannot afford an apartment and nobody helps them,\" she said. \"It's a disgrace. I used to vote for the left but I could very well vote on the right this time.\"\n\nCANDIDATES: Who's in the race to challenge Macron in France?\n\nHOW IT WORKS: A really simple guide\n\nAt a boulangerie down the road, Sophie was serving a long queue of lunch customers.\n\nShe voted for Macron five years ago, because she was \"scared\" to vote for Marine Le Pen. But she's not scared any more: Sophie is so sure Marine Le Pen will win, she has made bets with her customers on the outcome of the election.\n\n\"She has evolved,\" Sophie told me. \"She learns from her mistakes. She's more human, and we understand her when she talks.\"\n\nFrance's far-right leader has worked hard over the past five years to win votes like Sophie's, softening her rhetoric and presenting a more moderate, \"electable\" image.\n\nShe still promises strict limits on immigration, a \"French-first\" policy when it comes to housing, jobs and benefits, and a ban on the Muslim headscarf in public places. But she has also dropped her plan to leave the EU, and has emphasised her personal life as a single mother who breeds kittens.\n\nMarine Le Pen has gained from Eric Zemmour's decline in the opinion polls\n\nIt has helped win over some traditional right-wing voters who once saw her as too extreme, and her party tainted with the toxic attitudes of its past.\n\nBut here again, said Gilles Paris, it was Eric Zemmour's influence on French politics that has given her a boost: \"He was a kind of a 'useful fool' [for Marine Le Pen] because he was able to bulldoze the fence that separated the majority of the right from the far-right.\"\n\nAs a former journalist for a right-wing broadsheet, Eric Zemmour was acceptable to voters on the traditional right, despite policies that were often far to the right of Le Pen's.\n\nOnce traditional right-wing voters had backed him, the theory goes, it was easier for them to switch their support to Le Pen.\n\nMarine Le Pen has certainly gained from her far-right rival's demise. Less than two months ago, they were neck and neck; now polls put them 15 points apart.\n\nFor President Macron, that makes it all the more urgent to secure votes from the left as well as from the centre right. But five years on from his promise to combine both the centre left and centre right in a new kind of politics, many left-wing voters are disillusioned with a man they've nicknamed \"president of the rich\".\n\nWhile Marine Le Pen has stuck to her mantra of rising prices and help for the working poor, Emmanuel Macron has made waves with his promise to raise the retirement age to 65, and link teachers' pay to their efforts at work.\n\nHe is still tipped to win this election, and poll predictions have left Marine Le Pen disappointed on election day before. But Hervé Berville, an MP with the ruling Republic on the Move party, says there is genuine concern this time.\n\n\"Look at what happened in the last six years,\" he told me. \"Brexit, Trump - we're not trying to scare people, we're just trying to tell them the election matters, voting matters.\"\n\nFive years ago, it was Emmanuel Macron who defied expectations, and changed French politics. \"Nothing is impossible,\" says the 44-year-old president. He, more than anyone, should know.", "Extinction Rebellion activists plan to \"flood the streets of London\" for the next week\n\nClimate activists are staging a sit-down protest in the heart of London's West End shopping district, to call for no new investment in fossil fuels.\n\nExtinction Rebellion has planned protests in the capital every day until Sunday, 17 April.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Oxford Street and Regent Street were blocked.\n\nThe group said the action was intended to be \"highly disruptive\" and \"designed to disrupt, engage and recruit new rebels\".\n\nThe Met said protesters were disrupting traffic on both streets and said it had specialist teams on standby \"to respond to any protesters who lock or glue themselves to street furniture or complicated structures\".\n\nTraffic diversions were being put in place.\n\nExtinction Rebellion spokespeople have said they want people to \"flood the streets of London\" and that they will \"create the most roadblocks we ever have with a new action design\".\n\nOn Saturday, the crowd sat down across Oxford Circus and the famous streets it connects, chanting \"save our planet\" and \"whose streets? Our streets\".\n\nThey carried banners that read \"I am here for nature and children\", \"navel gazing into disaster\" and \"life on earth is dying\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion billed the protest as part of \"the final push in the plan to end fossil fuels\"\n\nOn Friday, two protesters from the climate movement shut down Tower Bridge by abseiling off the sides of the London landmark and unfurling a huge banner that read \"end fossil fuels now\".\n\nThe bridge, a main traffic artery across the Thames, was closed to vehicles, causing long queues.\n\nLondon's Labour mayor Sadiq Khan said the protest was \"counter-productive\" adding that demonstrators needed to win over public opinion at the same time as putting pressure on the government.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nMerseyside Police are investigating an alleged assault after Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo appeared to break a fan's phone.\n\nFootage was shared on social media alongside comments claiming he smashed the device as he left the pitch after his side's 1-0 loss at Everton.\n\nMerseyside Police said they were investigating \"reports of an alleged assault\" at Goodison Park on Saturday.\n\nA spokesperson said they were liaising with both Manchester United and Everton.\n\n\"As players were leaving the pitch at 2.30pm, it was reported that a boy was assaulted by one of the away team as they left the pitch,\" they added.\n\n\"Inquiries are under way and officers are currently working with Everton to review CCTV footage and are carrying out extensive witness enquiries to establish if an offence has taken place.\n\n\"Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact Merseyside Police social media desk via Twitter MerPolCC or Facebook Merseyside Police contact centre quoting reference number 228 of 9 April 2022.\"\n\nManchester United said they were aware of \"an alleged incident\" and would \"co-operate with any police inquiries\".\n\nThe result damaged United's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League and came against an Everton side who had been one point above the relegation zone before kick-off.\n\n\"It's never easy to deal with emotions in difficult moments such as the one we are facing,\" said Portugal international Ronaldo.\n\n\"Nevertheless, we always have to be respectful, patient and set the example for all the youngsters who love the beautiful game.\n\n\"I would like to apologise for my outburst and, if possible, I would like to invite this supporter to watch a game at Old Trafford as a sign of fair play and sportsmanship.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murty has said she will pay UK taxes on her overseas income, following a row over her non-domicile status.\n\nShe owns £700m in shares of the Indian IT giant Infosys, founded by her father, from which she received £11.6m in dividend income last year.\n\nAs a non-domiciled (non-dom) UK resident she is not required by law to pay UK taxes on her overseas income.\n\nBut she told the BBC she did not want to be a \"distraction\" for her husband.\n\nHer decision to change her tax arrangements follows accusations of hypocrisy against the chancellor, with opposition parties saying Mr Sunak's family is benefiting at a time when the cost of living is going up.\n\nThe BBC estimates Ms Murty would have avoided £2.1m a year in UK tax through her non-dom status.\n\nMs Murty said her tax arrangements had been \"entirely legal\", but added: \"It has become clear that many do not feel it is compatible with my husband's role as chancellor.\n\n\"I understand and appreciate the British sense of fairness and I do not wish my tax status to be a distraction for my husband or to affect my family.\"\n\nA non-dom is someone who lives in the UK but declares their permanent home to be in another country.\n\nMr Sunak has accused political opponents of \"smearing\" his wife to get at him.\n\nHe has also said she is entitled to use the non-dom arrangement as she is an Indian citizen and plans to move back to her home country in the future to care for her parents.\n\nMs Murty will retain her Indian citizenship and her non-dom status which, as the BBC revealed, allows her family to avoid paying inheritance tax in the UK - which at current valuation could amount to £280m.\n\nOn Thursday, it emerged she pays £30,000 a year to maintain her non-dom status.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Murty also said she would now be paying UK tax \"on all my worldwide income, including dividends and capital gains, wherever in the world that income arises\".\n\n\"I do this because I want to, not because the rules require me to. These new arrangements will begin immediately and will also be applied to the tax year just finished (2021-22),\" she added.\n\nLabour MP Louise Haigh said Mr Sunak had \"not been transparent\".\n\nThe shadow transport secretary said: \"It is clear that was legal.\n\n\"I think the question many people will be asking is whether it was ethical and whether it was right that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whilst piling on 15 separate tax rises to the British public, was benefiting from a tax scheme that allowed his household to pay significantly less to the tune of potentially tens of millions of pounds.\"\n\nLib Dem Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine called on the Sunak household to backdate the taxes in full, adding: \"Doing something just because you've been found out isn't good enough.\"\n\nWhile one former cabinet minister said he had \"mild sympathy\" for Mr Sunak as he had been subjected to a \"nasty ad hominem\" attack, he added that every leadership candidate, declared or otherwise, should expect this.\n\nHe was naïve if he thought families were \"off-limits for attacks\".\n\nHis view was that the tax row could be as toxic for the chancellor as partygate has been for Mr Johnson.\n\nIt was all about a disconnect with ordinary voters. They could not hold a children's birthday party during lockdown, but boozy get-togethers were apparently held at the heart of government.\n\nSimilarly, their taxes were being put up by the chancellor, while his wife did not pay UK tax on some of her own earnings.\n\nSpeaking to the Sun newspaper, Mr Sunak said it was unfair to attack his wife as she was a \"private citizen\", adding: \"I'm an elected politician. So I know what I signed up for.\"\n\nIt comes on the same day it was revealed that the couple retained their rights to live and work in the US by having green cards - which requires holders to consider America their permanent home - for more than a year after Mr Sunak became chancellor in 2020.\n\nHe returned his green card in October last year, ahead of his first US trip as a UK government minister.\n\nAsked about the issue at a White House daily media briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki said it was a matter for other government departments and declined to comment.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Sunak said he had filed US tax returns while he held his green card \"in full compliance with the law\".\n\nMeanwhile, No 10 has rejected newspaper reports that its staff are leaking damaging stories about Mr Sunak to the media.\n\nAnd Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters at a Downing Street news conference: \"If there are such briefings, they are not coming from us in No 10, and heaven knows where they are coming from. I think that Rishi is doing an absolutely outstanding job.\"\n\nA non-dom is a UK resident who declares their permanent home, or domicile, outside of the UK.\n\nA domicile is usually the country his or her father considered his permanent home when they were born, or it may be the place overseas where somebody has moved to with no intention of returning.\n\nFor proof to the tax authority, non-doms have to provide evidence about their background, lifestyle and future intentions, such as where they own property or intend to be buried.\n\nThose who have the status must still pay UK tax on UK earnings but do not need to pay UK tax on foreign income. They can give up their non-dom status at any time.\n\nMs Murty has chosen to be domiciled in India via her father, the billionaire Narayana Murty.", "Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were trying to get humanitarian aid when a Russian soldier stopped them\n\nAt around 11:00 on 17 March, Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were cycling to Bucha's administration building where aid was being handed out. Electricity, gas and water had been cut, and essentials were in short supply in the town, one of the first to be occupied by Russian forces as they advanced on Ukraine's capital Kyiv.\n\nYuriy and his father hoped to pick up some medicine and food. Yuriy said a Russian soldier stopped him and his father on Tarasivska St. They immediately raised their hands.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC by phone alongside his mother, Alla, the 14-year-old gave his account of what happened next. \"We told them that we weren't carrying any weapons and that we didn't pose any danger,\" he said.\n\n\"Then my father turned his head my way, and that's when he got shot… He was shot twice in the chest, right where the heart is. Then he fell.\"\n\nAt that point, the teenager said, the soldier shot him in his left hand and he fell too. While he was on the ground, he said, he was shot again, this time in the arm.\n\n\"I was lying on my stomach, I couldn't see anything that was happening around me,\" Yuriy said. The soldier, he said, shot again, aiming at his head. \"[But] the bullet went through my hood.\"\n\nYuriy said the soldier shot again, this time at his father's head. But Ruslan was already dead. \"I had a small panic attack, lying there with my wounded arm underneath me. I saw that my hand was bleeding,\" he said.\n\nIt was only after a while, when the soldier went behind a tank, that Yuriy got up and ran, he said.\n\nYuriy shows wounds that, he says, were caused by a Russian soldier in Bucha\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the details of Yuriy's account, but it comes as evidence grows of atrocities committed by Russian forces while they were in control of Bucha and other towns north of Kyiv.\n\nIn Bucha alone, bodies of dead men were found lying in the street, many with extensive wounds. Some had been shot through the temple, as if executed. Others had their hands or legs tied behind their backs. Some had clearly been run over by tanks.\n\nMany of the bodies were seen along a stretch of Yablonska St, just 2km (one mile) from the street where Ruslan is said to have been killed.\n\nYuriy's mother Alla told the BBC how she had gone to see her husband after the teenager returned home and told her what had happened. She thought Yuriy could be wrong, and that Ruslan was wounded, in need of medical help.\n\n\"My son begged me not to,\" Alla said. \"He said they would kill me too.\"\n\nWhen she tried to walk down the street, she said, her neighbours stopped her. \"[They] told me not to go further, saying the Russians were killing everyone in the territories under their control.\"\n\nThe next morning, Alla got her mother to help. Wearing white scarves, they went to the site of the shooting. Her mother talked to Russian soldiers and they managed to get through. They finally collected Ruslan's body, and brought it home.\n\nA photograph of the partially covered body, taken by Alla and shared with the BBC, appears to confirm Yuriy's testimony. It shows a gunshot wound to the left side of the chest, near the heart.\n\nRuslan, a lawyer, was 49 when he was killed. He was \"active in the community,\" Alla said. \"He couldn't just sit in the shelter and wait. So, he was volunteering and helping people.\"\n\nThey buried him in the garden of the family home.\n\nYuriy said the soldier who killed him was clearly Russian. His uniform was dark green, he said, typical of the Russian army. \"I saw that on his flak jacket it was written 'Russia' in Russian,\" he said.\n\n\"We were no danger to the military, we were civilians, wearing white scarves to show that,\" Yuriy said. \"It's very stupid.\"", "Danielle has written a book that looks at dwarfism from the viewpoint of children\n\nA woman with dwarfism who faces frequent abuse on the street is visiting schools in a bid to stamp out prejudice.\n\nDanielle Webb, 23, said changing the minds of ignorant adults was difficult, so her focus was on educating children.\n\nDanielle, who is 3ft 11.5in (1.2m), said being called names and laughed at \"just becomes our norm\".\n\nEarlier this week, a documentary about a new drug developed to treat Danielle's condition aired on BBC One.\n\nVosoritide, which has been developed to treat children with the most common form of dwarfism achondroplasia, is already available in the US and the NHS has run trials for a potential roll out in the UK.\n\nEvery day, when Master of Arts student Danielle leaves her home in Newport to go to the University of South Wales or to work at youth arts organisation Urban Circle, she has to steel herself for the mockery, name-calling, stares and occasionally people trying to take photos that she has come to expect.\n\n\"Anyone with dwarfism will tell you the typical is just the stares and the laughs,\" said Danielle, who is originally from Portishead, Somerset.\n\n\"'Look at her, what's that all about?' Just like schoolground behaviour.\n\n\"I've been called names on the street, we've been in positions as a group where people have tried - not always successfully - to get a photo... where that goes afterwards is obviously completely out of our control.\"\n\nDanielle works with Newport's Urban Circle to support young people to discover their potential\n\nShe said she was able to brush it off \"nine times out of 10\", adding: \"There is always that one time where you're like 'I can't do this, this is ridiculous'.\n\n\"It is challenging on the bad days… [but] it just becomes our norm.\"\n\nOnce she has arrived at work or university it is a challenge not to let it get her down: \"You can't let it break you every single day.\"\n\nAs well as the abuse from strangers, she said she and others like her have to navigate a world built for people of average height.\n\nDaily challenges include supermarkets where trolley handles are too high and items are difficult to reach from shelves, as well as out-of-reach cash points, train ticket machines and sinks in public toilets.\n\n\"If I sit down and really think about everything I have to overcome in a day or a week, that can kind of scare you,\" she said.\n\nAll this fires her up to fight for change.\n\nLast year her book Mummy There's A New Girl was published and it is being developed for the stage by Thunk-It Theatre in York.\n\nIt tells the story of a girl who is picked on for her looks before a brave child looks past her differences and learns that size is no big deal.\n\nWith Wales now at Covid alert level zero she has begun visiting schools.\n\n\"Educating people about my condition has always seemed very daunting,\" said Danielle.\n\n\"Most of the time with adults, the ones that listen are the good ones anyway, they're not the ones that actually need educating.\n\n\"Instead of channelling my energy into trying to change opinions I need to be there when the opinions are formed.\"\n\nDanielle's parents are of average height and were told she had dwarfism four weeks before she was born\n\nFollowing a recent visit to Maindee Primary School in Newport, she believes her instincts were right.\n\n\"Half way in [the children] didn't really care that I was small, they were like 'yeah, OK, whatever', they were more excited that I was an author and I was someone new,\" she said.\n\n\"We did talk about dwarfism but it wasn't really needed because as far as they were concerned, I was just another adult.\"\n\nDanielle (pictured with a friend) says she is very comfortable in her own skin\n\nShe is convinced this is the way to end prejudice: \"I have no doubt that every child in that room will grow up accepting and understanding differences, because that's exactly the response that they showed me when I went in.\"\n\nShe said she believed some adults had discriminatory attitudes because \"their questions weren't answered and they weren't exposed to more visible disability when they were younger\".\n\nIn a recent documentary, five-time Paralympic champion swimmer Ellie Simmonds expressed concerns the drug vosoritide could potentially, \"eradicate dwarfism\" but spoke to others who saw its development as a helpful breakthrough.\n\nDanielle said: \"The people who choose to take it should be treated with exactly the same kindness as the people who don't choose to take it.\n\n\"Bad days aside, I'm very comfortable in my skin... I wouldn't have the life I do now if I didn't have dwarfism - but do I still understand why someone would chose to take it? Of course.\"\n\nShe said she wanted to see more of a focus on education, social awareness and making the world more accessible to people with dwarfism \"so if the injections come to the UK they aren't seen as the only solution\".\n\nDanielle said she knew many people with dwarfism who had achieved success in their professional, personal and academic lives.\n\n\"Yes, we live with the challenges out there, but that doesn't mean our quality of life is any different or our abilities in life are any different,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to educate the world it's actually something to be promoted and celebrated.\"", "Yuliia, left, and her mother Tatiana, described how bodies lay in the streets of Mariupol\n\nCivilians who have managed to flee Mariupol in recent days have described the increasingly desperate situation inside the besieged city, including accounts of bodies buried in shallow graves, looting by Chechen fighters, and starving residents being killed when they venture out of shelters to find water.\n\nThe evacuees' accounts are emerging as they reach the town of Zaporizhzhia which is acting as a hub for refugees.\n\nThey have risked journeys through Russian and Ukrainian lines that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) describes as an evacuation \"from hell\".\n\nWaiting inside one aid facility was Yuliia, with her two daughters and her mother Tatiana. They finally managed to escape the city on Monday.\n\n\"There are starving people,\" said Yuliia, who spoke to the BBC on condition that her surname was not used, a frequent request from residents still concerned about their safety.\n\n\"People are having mental breakdowns. There is a woman we knew who hanged herself. People are being buried in the streets.\"\n\nHer mother Tatiana said: \"[There are] shallow graves, half a metre deep at best, with some earth on top. Dead bodies, all over the streets.\"\n\nThey said many of those with no choice but to remain in basements or wrecked apartment buildings are \"the incapacitated\" - a reference to elderly and disabled people.\n\n\"People were starving… There was no re-supply. There was no humanitarian aid whatsoever. We were cooking whatever we could on bonfires. No water, no gas, no electricity, no power,\" said Yuliia.\n\nTheir family survived underground for a month as Tatiana rationed the only food they had.\n\n\"Whatever we had in our fridges [when the invasion began], some porridge and butter, that's it. We were just bringing water from a well 3km away,\" Tatiana said.\n\nMany who managed to flee from Mariupol found themselves at aid stations in Zaporizhzhia\n\nHer other daughter's family have not been able to leave the city. \"There is no communication. We don't know what's happened to our relatives,\" she said.\n\nThis week, the UK Ministry of Defence warned that the humanitarian crisis was deepening as fierce fighting continued for control of the city and Russian forces blocked aid.\n\nThe chances of getting out diminished quickly for many residents, according to the accounts to the BBC. As the full extent of the siege took hold in early March, Russian-made Grad rockets \"destroyed a lot of cars\", said Yuliia.\n\n\"When we were in Mariupol, Chechens were looting. They were taking people's gold. It was becoming really dangerous, we heard they were raping women,\" she said.\n\n\"I was frightened for my kids and I realised we had to get them out in any way possible\".\n\nThe BBC cannot independently verify the claims. Chechen militants loyal to Moscow have been fighting in Ukraine since the start of the invasion and are reported to have been heavily involved in the siege of Mariupol.\n\nElsewhere in Zaporizhzhia, aid workers have been finding homes and handing out money for evacuated families.\n\nAt one refugee staging centre, Liubov, aged 61, was waiting with her son Valerii.\n\nShe had a picture of their apartment block, eviscerated by shelling or an airstrike.\n\n\"On some days [there were] 50 planes, on other days 70. Each carrying two bombs. They were hitting the drama theatre, museums, hotels, apartment buildings. They didn't discriminate at all.\"\n\nWhen the water supply stopped, Luibov said people had to choose between nothing to drink or a deadly venture outside.\n\nTrips for water are laden with danger; Luibov says one man who did so never came back\n\n\"Those people who tried to get water got killed. Some people managed to bring small amounts of water for cooking,\" she said.\n\n\"We didn't have any water [for weeks]... A man went to get some, he didn't come back.\"\n\nShe said there were up to 300 people in some shelters.\n\n\"Russians would take them out from those shelters, take photos of those people and say, 'we came here to liberate you'. People were crying, scared to say anything back. Scared they might get executed or shot.\n\n\"The Russians would say: 'See, these are the tears of joy. People are happy to be free from the fascists'.\"\n\nIn the refugee staging centre, Liubov wept as she displayed the pictures on her phone, returning again and again to Mariupol's nightmare: the need for mass burials of the dead.\n\n\"They bombed and destroyed Mariupol central market, so people dug a hole in the ground where they would be bringing bodies,\" she said.\n\n\"We were told they would be buried there. But we still don't know if that happened.\"\n\nLiubov and Valerii managed to escape on 19 March. They reached the city of Melekino, also under Russian control, and were searched at a checkpoint where Valerii said the soldiers made him undress.\n\nAll the men in the centre reported the same thing. Russian soldiers looking for fighters strip them to their underwear searching for tattoos or rifle butt marks on men's shoulders.\n\nMariupol lies in ruins, as seen in this photo of a local resident on 4 April\n\nOn Wednesday, eight buses carrying evacuees were escorted by the ICRC into Zaporizhzhia.\n\nThe arrivals had all the belongings they could carry. They looked exhausted and shell-shocked.\n\nSome said the communication collapse in Mariupol is so bad they spent weeks not knowing whether the rest of the country had fallen to the Russians.\n\nOne of the first off the buses was Anna. She had made her own way to the town of Berdyansk about 50 miles (80km) away, the closest the ICRC buses could get to Mariupol.\n\n\"Mariupol is a graveyard now. All the neighbourhoods are covered in the graves of civilians,\" she said. \"It was terrifying. People were sourcing water from a well.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, not everybody got out. We have relatives in Mariupol who we haven't had communications with since the end of February. We don't know if they are alive or not,\" she added.\n\nAnna described her city as a \"graveyard\"\n\nMoscow claims it has evacuated civilians held by \"Nazi battalion fighters\" in Mariupol. Ukraine says up to 40,000 people have been forcibly deported to Russia, with some held in \"filtration camps\" where they are investigated.\n\nMany people have lost contact with close relatives and have no way of knowing whether they have survived.\n\nYevhenii Lysenko was also waiting at a refugee centre in Zaporizhzhia. He left Mariupol for a work trip before the war started. The invasion happened the day he was due to return home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Drone footage shows extent of devastation in the city of Mariupol\n\nHe is stuck in Zaporizhzhia, and hasn't heard from his wife Svetlana since their last contact in early March.\n\n\"The message [from her] was we're being bombed,\" he said.\n\nHe scrolled through pages of text messages to his wife, asking where she was, whether she was safe.\n\n\"Last time I talked to her was 2 March. So for over a month I haven't spoken to her. I don't know what happened to her. I don't know whether she's alive.\"\n\nHe had considered trying to make a trip to Mariupol, back across Russian lines.\n\n\"[But] if I get caught by the separatists they're going to hand me a rifle and tell me to go and shoot my own people… or execute me if I refuse to do that,\" he said.\n\nI asked what he knows about his home.\n\nHe replied: \"It doesn't exist anymore, it's been destroyed by shelling or an airstrike. So essentially there is nowhere for me to return to.\"", "The number of people infected with Covid in the UK is showing signs of plateauing, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nNearly 4.9 million people would test positive, which is about 25,000 lower than last week's record high.\n\nInfections appear to be falling in Scotland, which has had some of the highest Covid rates in the UK.\n\nA study published earlier this week also suggested cases may have peaked in children and young adults.\n\nThe ONS infection survey tests thousands of people, whether or not they have symptoms, so is not affected by the end of free testing in England. It is seen as the best measure of the spread of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nSarah Crofts, from the ONS, said: \"While infections remain high, there are early signs in our latest data that they may no longer be increasing in some parts of the UK.\n\n\"It is too early to say if infections have peaked in England and Scotland.\"\n\nInfections have been soaring recently, setting record highs. This has been driven by the highly contagious form of Omicron called BA.2 which is now thought to make up 90% of infections.\n\nIn the week leading up to 2 April, the ONS estimates:\n\nThis wave of Omicron is far less deadly than those before mass vaccination, but the sheer number of people catching the virus is still contributing to pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid also shows signs of levelling off after nearly doubling over the course of March. The number of hospital patients in the UK appears to have plateaued at about 20,000.\n\nMore than half of the patients in England have been admitted for other reasons, but are testing positive for Covid.\n\nHowever, hospital bosses have warned the health service is under \"enormous strain\" with Covid, other conditions, difficulties discharging patients and \"severe\" shortages of staff leading to backlogs.", "MP Nigel Adams - who represents Selby and Ainsty - was first elected in 2010\n\nConservative MP Nigel Adams has confirmed he will step down at the next general election in 2024.\n\nMr Adams - who is also a minister without portfolio - was first elected as Selby and Ainsty's MP in 2010 and has defended the seat three times.\n\nHe won with a majority of more than 20,000 votes at the last election.\n\nMr Adams, 55, said he wanted to spend time on other interests after more than a decade in parliament.\n\nThe MP was appointed to his post in the Cabinet Office during a cabinet reshuffle by Boris Johnson in September.\n\nHe was previously the Minister for Asia at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.\n\nIn September, a spokesperson for Mr Adams defended him after he was filmed swearing at a veteran pro-EU campaigner who approached him outside the Houses of Parliament.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Minister not sorry for swearing at Mr Stop Brexit\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Viktoria says she coped with the tragedy by focusing on saving her remaining daughter\n\n\"There was an explosion, or some kind of shots. It deafened me. The back windscreen shattered. My husband shouted, 'Get out of the car.'\"\n\nThe horror of that day is almost unimaginable.\n\nThe following account contains graphic detail which some may find distressing\n\nNine days into the war in Ukraine, as the fighting raged, Viktoria and her husband Petro had finally decided to flee Chernihiv, in the north of the country. They wanted to keep the children safe. Twelve-year-old Veronika was Viktoria's daughter from her first marriage. Her other daughter, Varvara, is just a year old.\n\nThey took what they needed, and drove away from their family home. As they left the outskirts of the city, heading south near the village of Yahidne, stones in the road blocked their path. Petro pulled over, climbed out and started to haul them out of the way.\n\nSeconds later, their car was fired on.\n\n12-year-old Veronika was killed as she tried to escape the shooting\n\n\"My older daughter Veronika started to cry, because my head had been cut by a piece of flying glass and I was bleeding,\" says Viktoria. As she speaks, she points to a spot high on her left cheekbone, a small, twisted red scar.\n\n\"Veronika started to shout, her hands were shaking, so I tried to calm her. She got out of the car and I went to follow. As I got out I saw her fall. When I looked, her head was gone.\n\nThe car had been struck by a Russian shell and burst into flames.\n\n\"I tried to stay calm, I was holding my baby daughter and I needed to get her to safety\".\n\nShe didn't see Petro again, but his silence told Viktoria that her husband too was dead.\n\nShe ran from the burning car. The next 24 hours were a desperate attempt to stay alive.\n\nViktoria and her baby, Varvara, found shelter in a parked car, but then the shooting began again. She ran to a small building that had clearly been used by soldiers. Hiding there, her phone switched off to save battery, she wondered how she'd keep herself and her daughter safe.\n\nThe next day, they were discovered by patrolling Russian troops. They were taken to a school in Yahidne and held captive in the basement.\n\nMother and baby spent the next 24 days there, in appalling conditions. Viktoria watched people die around her, unable to access the medical care they needed. The BBC has since visited the basement, and spoken to other people held there. Captives describe the bodies lying uncollected for hours, sometimes days.\n\nPetro, who died at the scene of the attack, and Viktoria\n\nThere were 40 people in the room, Viktoria says, with little space to move or walk. There was no light, so they used candles and cigarette lighters. It was dusty and hot, and Viktoria says people found it difficult to breathe. Most of the time people were not allowed to go out even to use a toilet. They were made to use buckets instead.\n\n\"The lack of movement made people ill, they sat on the chairs, they slept on the chairs. We could see their veins, and they started to bleed, so we made bandages,\" recalls Viktoria.\n\nIt was in these conditions that Viktoria had to mentally process the brutal loss of her husband and eldest daughter. She told me she stayed as calm and determined as she could, focusing all her energy on saving the life of her remaining child.\n\nBut she asked her Russian captors to bring the bodies of Petro and Veronika to the school, so she could bury them.\n\nShe sent her ex-husband, Veronika's father, to the wreckage of the car so he could take pictures of the remains. They are barely recognisable as human.\n\nTheir car was burned out, and just a few personal possessions remained\n\nAlmost nothing was left from the burned-out vehicle: some of Veronika's clothes, pock-marked with holes and smeared with soot; a small bracelet with a heart-shaped charm; two car number plates, bleached silver from the fierce heat of the blaze.\n\n\"It was the 12th of March. They called me and said, 'Let's go, and you will see where they will lay down.' They were buried in the forest, in two graves, one box was bigger, one box was smaller. And two crosses with signs.\n\n\"We stayed and started to cover the boxes with earth, but shelling started, so we ran away before we had finished burying them. It was very frightening.\"\n\nI ask Viktoria what she would say to the people who did this to her family.\n\n\"If I was given the possibility of shooting Putin, I would do it,\" she replies. \"My hand would not shake.\"\n\nPetro and Veronika were buried in the forest, their graves marked with crosses\n\nNow Viktoria and Varvara are in the relative safety of Lviv, in the west of Ukraine. The day before we meet, she'd had her first session with a psychologist. \"When I'm with people, when I do something and communicate, I forget what's happened. But when I'm alone, I'm lost.\"\n\nAs she says the words, the tears fall.\n\nShe shows me a keyring - a small cuddly cow with a heart on its chest. It was a gift from Veronika.\n\nAttached to it is a small gold ring, etched with letters.\n\n\"That was from the church, she bought it for me too. It's an amulet, I feel like it saved me. It was in my pocket. The whole time, she was there keeping me safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has held talks in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nNo 10 said the visit was a \"show of solidarity\" with the Ukrainian people.\n\nFollowing the meeting, Downing Street said the UK would send 120 armoured vehicles and anti-ship missile systems to support Ukraine.\n\nSenior officials in Mr Zelensky's team praised the UK for support during its conflict with Russia.\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Kyiv was not announced in advance and the first indication he was in the city came when a photograph of his meeting with President Zelensky was put on Twitter by the Ukrainian embassy in London.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"The prime minister has travelled to Ukraine to meet President Zelensky in person, in a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people.\"\n\nThe two leaders walked through central Kyiv after their talks\n\nIn a statement after the meeting, Mr Johnson paid tribute to \"President Zelensky's resolute leadership and the invincible heroism and courage of the Ukrainian people\", saying: \"Ukraine has defied the odds and pushed back Russian forces from the gates of Kyiv\".\n\nHe said: \"I made clear today that the United Kingdom stands unwaveringly with them in this ongoing fight, and we are in it for the long run.\n\n\"We are stepping up our own military and economic support and convening a global alliance to bring this tragedy to an end, and ensure Ukraine survives and thrives as a free and sovereign nation.\"\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed further economic support, taking total UK loan guarantees to £770m.\n\nSpeaking in a video address alongside President Zelensky a short while later, Mr Johnson said Ukrainians \"have shown the courage of a lion but you, Volodymyr, have given the roar of that lion\".\n\nHe reiterated that the UK and other countries supporting Ukraine would continue to tighten economic sanctions on Moscow, including moving away from the use of Russian hydrocarbons.\n\nThe PM added: \"Over the last few hours I've been able to see quite a lot of your beautiful country and it's an amazing country. I've also seen the tragic effects of the war, an inexcusable war, an absolutely inexcusable and unnecessary war.\"\n\nMr Zelensky welcomed the UK's \"decisive and significant support\" for his country and urged other Western allies to intensify the pressure on Moscow.\n\n\"We have to exert pressure in the form of sanctions. It is time to impose a complete embargo on Russian energy resources. They should increase the amount of weapons being supplied,\" he said.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Andriy Sybiha, deputy head of the Ukrainian president's office, said: \"The UK is the leader in defence support for Ukraine. The leader in the anti-war coalition. The leader in sanctions against the Russian aggressor.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell both made visits to Ukraine for talks with President Zelensky on Friday, and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer met him in Kyiv on Saturday.\n\nBut Mr Johnson is the first member of a G7 country to travel to the Ukrainian capital for talks during the conflict.\n\nMr Zelensky has called on the international community to hold to account Russian forces who carried out the missile strike on Kramatorsk station, which was packed with women and children trying to flee the area.\n\nThe Kremlin has denied responsibility for the attack.\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Kyiv came the day after the UK announced £100m of weapons for the country.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference on Friday, Mr Johnson said the UK will send additional military equipment including Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles and 800 anti-tank missiles.\n\nIt followed an appeal from Ukraine for more arms as it prepares for an expected Russian offensive in the east of the country, after Moscow pulled back its forces from around Kyiv.", "A search and rescue mission had been carried out for the divers\n\nThe teenage son of a British man is believed to have died after going missing during a Malaysian diving trip.\n\nAdrian Chesters, 46, told the coastguard his son Nathen, who has Dutch nationality, had become too weak and died while they were adrift.\n\nMr Chesters and an 18-year-old French woman were rescued on Saturday, two-and-a-half days after going missing.\n\nThey had been taking part in a group dive off the coast of Mersing, in the southern state of Johor.\n\nFrench national Alexia Molina, 18, and Mr Chesters were spotted at night by local fishermen around 50 miles south of where they went missing on Wednesday.\n\nPolice said they were both reported to be in a stable condition after being taken to hospital by the marine authorities.\n\nTheir diving instructor Kristine Grodem, 35, who is Norwegian, had previously been rescued.\n\nShe said that when the group surfaced from their dive they were unable to see their boat, and that the currents then separated them.\n\nThe Malaysian coastguard said it had been able to speak to Mr Chesters, who had told them Nathen had become too weak to hold out and died while they were adrift.\n\nThe divers disappeared in deep water off Mersing in southern Johor state\n\nThe Indonesian authorities are now expected to continue the search for the teenager's body.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said it was in contact with local authorities and stood ready to assist the British man.\n\nThe boat operator who took the group to the dive site was detained after testing positive for drugs, police said.\n\nThe group had been on a training dive in 49ft (15m) deep water near the small island of Pulau Tokong Sanggol, around 10 miles (16km) off the coastal town of Mersing on Wednesday.\n\nThe alarm was raised after they did not return about an hour into the dive.\n\nThe divers' disappearance came days after Malaysia reopened its border to foreign nationals on 1 April.", "Henry Patterson, the best-selling author of The Eagle has Landed, has died aged 92, his publisher has said.\n\nPatterson, who began writing when he was a teacher, penned 85 novels between 1959 and 2017.\n\nHarperCollins said Patterson died at his Jersey home surrounded by family.\n\nThe Eagle has Landed, about a Nazi plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill in World War Two, written under the pseudonym Jack Higgins, sold more than 50 million copies and became a film.\n\nPatterson sold more than 250 million books over his career, with his other works including Comes the Dark Stranger, Hell is Too Crowded and To Catch a King.\n\nSir Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland in a scene from the film The Eagle has Landed\n\nPatterson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and grew up in Belfast before moving to Leeds.\n\nHe wrote novels in his spare time after becoming a teacher and received a £75 advance for his first novel, Sad Wind from the Sea, in 1959.\n\nHis final book, The Midnight Bell, was published in 2017 and was a Sunday Times bestseller.\n\nHarperCollins said that by the time his last novel came out, they referred to him simply as \"the legend\".\n\nHarperCollins chief executive Charlie Redmayne described Patterson as a \"classic thriller writer: instinctive, tough, relentless\", adding his novels \"were, and remain, absolutely unputdownable\".\n\nJonathan Lloyd, Patterson's literary agent, also paid tribute, saying: \"I had the privilege of being at Collins Publishers when we received the manuscript of The Eagle has Landed.\n\n\"We all knew, with a rare certainty, that we would be publishing an instant classic.\"\n\nPatterson is survived by four children from his first marriage - Sarah, Ruth, Sean, and Hannah - as well as his wife, Denise.", "Will Smith (R) hit Chris Rock on stage during the Oscars ceremony, after Rock made a joke about Smith's wife\n\nWill Smith has been banned from the Oscars gala and other Academy events for 10 years after the US actor slapped comic Chris Rock at the ceremony.\n\nIn a statement, the Academy said the 94th Oscars had been \"overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behaviour we saw Mr Smith exhibit on stage\".\n\nSmith has apologised for his actions and resigned from the Academy.\n\nThe actor hit Rock for joking about his wife's shaved head, a result of the hair-loss condition alopecia.\n\nLess than an hour later, he was awarded the best actor award for his role in King Richard, where he played the father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.\n\nThe Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the awards ceremony, met virtually on Friday to discuss disciplinary action.\n\nIn a statement, it said banning Smith was aimed at protecting performers and guests and \"restoring trust in the Academy\".\n\nThe Academy said that directly after the slap it did not \"adequately address the situation in the room\" and had been \"unprepared for the unprecedented\". It apologised for this.\n\nIt also thanked Rock for \"maintaining his composure under extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nIn his resignation statement, Smith said he had \"betrayed the trust of the Academy\" and was \"heartbroken\" over his actions.\n\nHe added he would \"fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct\".\n\nSmith's resignation means he will be unable to vote for future Oscars.\n\nThe Academy's disciplinary review over the incident, originally scheduled for 18 April, was fast-tracked after he resigned.\n\nFew have ever stepped down from the Academy. Four members - producer Harvey Weinstein, actor Bill Cosby, director Roman Polanski and cinematographer Adam Kimmel - have been booted over sexual misconduct allegations, while actor Carmine Caridi was expelled in 2004 for pirating screener videos given to him.\n\nBut the standards of conduct laid out by the film academy contained various disciplinary options for Smith, such as excluding him from future Oscars ceremonies, revoking his eligibility for awards or taking back his newly won Oscar.\n\nOnly one Oscar has ever been taken back; a feature called Young Americans won the best documentary honour in 1969 but was found to be ineligible for the award that year.\n\nLate last month, actor Whoopi Goldberg - a member of the Academy's board of governors - predicted Smith would face \"big consequences\" but said \"we're not going to take that Oscar away from him.\"\n\nBeyond the Academy's actions, at least two studios - Sony and Netflix - are pausing their projects with Smith.\n\nRock, who began his latest stand up comedy tour shortly after the Oscars telecast, has not commented publicly on the slap.\n\nHe told fans at a show last month that he is \"still kind of processing what happened\" and will talk about the incident \"at some point\".", "When Rishi Sunak pledged to do \"whatever it takes\" to help people through the pandemic in the spring of 2020 - and unveiled support worth £350bn - his personal poll ratings were stratospheric.\n\nHis net favourability was around +30 by some measures. It is now, according to pollsters Ipsos, -18.\n\nThe chancellor's confident, inclusive tone, redolent of Tony Blair in the 1990s, has sounded a little more shrill lately.\n\nUsually supportive newspapers panned his Spring Statement, with some Conservative critics saying he had not grasped the scale of the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nNow his wife's tax affairs - and his own political judgment - have been placed in the spotlight.\n\nYou might not blame him for uttering the words of Kenneth Williams's Julius Caesar in the film Carry on Cleo: \"Infamy. Infamy. They've all got it in for me.\"\n\nIndeed, he accused opponents of smearing his wife to get at him, and seems to believe he has endured an attempted character assassination.\n\nWhen Partygate dominated the headlines, he was seen as not just a potential replacement for Boris Johnson as prime minister, but the likely favourite.\n\nIt was always inevitable that his popularity would take a bit of a pasting when he started raising, rather than spending, cash, as pandemic restrictions receded.\n\nBut while the official line is that Labour dirty tricks are to blame for his current woes, his wife has broken no tax laws.\n\nRishi Sunak has become the focus of much discontent over the rise in the cost of living\n\nPrivately some of Mr Sunak's allies blame supporters of his next-door neighbour in Downing Street, who may himself face a tricky time when the police conclude their investigation into parties that happened on government premises during lockdown.\n\nNo 10 has dismissed these allegations as \"baseless\", so what do some of Mr Sunak's Conservative colleagues think of his prospects now?\n\nOne very senior figure not generally seen as unsympathetic to the chancellor wondered: \"Where is his political brain?\"\n\nAnd while one former cabinet minister said he had \"mild sympathy\" for Mr Sunak, as he had been subjected to a \"nasty ad hominem\" attack, he added that every leadership candidate, declared or otherwise, should expect this.\n\nHe was naive if he thought families were \"off-limits for attacks\".\n\nHis view was that the tax row could be as toxic for the chancellor as partygate had been for Mr Johnson.\n\nIt was all about a disconnect with ordinary voters. They could not hold a children's birthday party during lockdown, but boozy get-togethers were apparently held at the heart of government.\n\nRishi Sunak has accused political rivals of smearing his wife, Akshata Murty\n\nSimilarly, their taxes were being put up by the chancellor, while his wife did not pay UK tax on some of her own earnings\n\nAnd this question of judgement was a recurrent theme among some of his colleagues.\n\nWhy did the chancellor tell officials of his wife's tax status if he did not think it was a potentially tricky issue? Should he not have realised that not everything which is legal is politically sensible?\n\nWho had he allowed himself to fall in to the \"one-rule-for-us, one-rule-for-everyone-else\" trap?\n\nSome felt that, once Mr Sunak was associated with this impression, it would be difficult to turn it around.\n\nThe chancellor was seen by colleagues as having a carefully curated image, But the feeling was that his extended honeymoon with voters was turning in to a far more difficult relationship.", "Predictions at the start of the invasion of a quick Russian victory have been upended by the Ukrainians' willingness to fight, but the war is settling into a long struggle that could still endanger the wider world too.\n\nRemember how it was in Kyiv after the Russians invaded: thousands cramming bitterly cold railway platforms, pushing and shoving to get any train heading away from the Russians. At the height of it, in the week that straddled the end of February and the beginning of March, 50,000 people were moving west from Kyiv station every single day. Rusty carriages that looked as if they had spent years pensioned off in some siding were hauled back into service so the railway company could lay on dozens of extra services.\n\nMost of the passengers were women and children. Men stayed. The law stated they could not leave the country as Ukraine needed them to fight. I did not see any press gangs. Mostly, it was a nation of willing volunteers. Kyiv's population of around four million halved. Some of the women who didn't leave put on uniforms to fight. Outside a volunteer centre I met a woman called Katrine hugging Nikita, her 18-month-old son. It was a brief reunion as her unit rotated through Kyiv. Katrine was a sniper, who said she was ready to kill to give her son a future.\n\nKatrine hugs her son before going into battle\n\nAs I drove into Kyiv from the south a few days into the invasion, a Russian convoy 40 miles long was heading towards the city from the north and north-west, from Belarus, Russia's ally. Belarus is the sort of neighbour Russia's President Vladimir Putin wants. Its leader, Alexander Lukashenko, is happy to have Putin's patronage and to accept a role as Russia's client state. Even so Lukashenko did not send his troops into Ukraine, which many outsiders had assumed was part of the Kremlin's battle plan. Perhaps even Putin accepted that loyalty has its limits.\n\nEveryone in Kyiv feared the worst. The city centre was mostly empty, except for armed and anxious men at checkpoints who were ready to believe that anyone behaving in a way they didn't like was a Russian saboteur. The rumble of explosions rolled in from the edge of the city. Everyone feared the all-powerful Russians were about to encircle Kyiv and attack.\n\nOn my first night I decided not to sleep in the hotel shelter, at the second basement level. It was overcrowded and airless, and the city centre had not been hit. It felt like a gamble. But as I write this, six weeks later, in the same hotel room on the fourth floor, Kyiv's beautiful and historic centre has still not been attacked, even though it is well within range of Russia's missiles and air force.\n\nIn six weeks, so much has changed. The long convoy got bogged down and destroyed. The Russians retreated. The war is far from over, but the Ukrainians won the battle of Kyiv. The first battle. There could be another.\n\nUkrainian willingness to fight and die upended every prediction of a swift Russian victory. At a military funeral of a soldier killed stopping the Russian advance, his mother and sister sobbed, clutching his portrait. Volleys were fired over his coffin, and hundreds of his comrades lined up to sing their national anthem and roar patriotic slogans.\n\nThey looked like who they were, volunteers with ages that ran from late teens to late middle age, wearing a range of uniforms and carrying a variety of weapons. Ukraine also has much more professional-looking, highly trained soldiers.\n\nTogether with clever leadership, sharp tactics and Nato weapons they have fought so well that the world's perception of their country has changed. At a photo opportunity at the Nato meeting in Brussels this week foreign ministers of some of the world's most powerful democracies were jostling to get close to the guest of honour, their Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba. Differences are emerging in the North Atlantic Alliance and the European Union about how to increase the pressure on Russia, but they all wanted a little Ukrainian stardust.\n\nIn war, leadership has always been critical, and in modern war the messages on the media battlefield are more significant than ever. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is winning that part of the war. Instead of heading for safer ground he stayed, swapping suits for khaki t-shirts.\n\nIt is ironic that one of Putin's arguments for Ukraine to be in Russia's orbit is that it is not a proper country. His own actions, along with Zelensky's well-judged messages as he leads a remarkable feat of mobilisation, are sharpening the national identity of Ukrainians.\n\nAnother factor for Ukrainian success is that humans caught up in wars adapt fast, once the shock wears off. In a trendy part of Kyiv hipster craft makers repurposed their workshop to turn out steel barriers with vicious spikes to rip tyres. In the basement of a volunteer depot young women tore up sheets to make fuses for Molotov cocktails. The air in the unventilated space was heavy with petrol vapour. Checkpoints in Kyiv went from jumpy armed men with barriers made of a few tyres - to well-fortified sandbagged strongpoints.\n\nUkrainian defiance has also been a key factor. Thousands of volunteers signed up to learn how to handle weapons and fight. Among them were two young men we've followed ever since, university students Dmytro Kisilenko, aged 18, and his friend Maksym Lutsyk, who's 19. When they signed up to fight at the beginning of March the volunteers of their age looked like young guys off to a festival. Now they have seen action on the front line, and like every other Ukrainian have had their view of the world and the lives they will lead in it shaken.\n\nThe two young soldiers, Maksym and Dmytro, have been in Kyiv this week buying the new gear they'll need when they're rotated into the battles of the east in a few days. For Maksym, like all Ukrainians, this is the fight of their lives.\n\n\"We are not fighting here only for our country's life, we are fighting for the life of the whole civilised world because the biggest goal for us is to defend our freedoms and rights in Europe, in and out of our country. Every one of us understands that there will not be freedom in the whole world while Russia occupies our territories.\"\n\nWeeks as a frontline soldier have changed Dmytro. \"Human life matters, your relatives or friends. Your country matters, first of all… I become more systematic and unfortunately more ruthless because of the latest news and what I have already been through. Ruthless to Russian soldiers, ruthless to all the situations. I've become more like a soldier.\"\n\nRussia suffered a serious defeat around Kyiv and had to pull back. But it has not lost the war, and is grinding out territorial gains in the east and south. Since they left the Kyiv Oblast the damage they have done is clearer than ever.\n\nThe damage to property is extensive. I have seen terrible devastation in the centres of towns like Irpin and Borodyanka. Far more serious, and alarming, is what has been done to civilians and other non-combatants. I have seen dead bodies, some definitely civilians, left where they were killed by the Russians. The evidence that war crimes were perpetrated by Russian troops is becoming overwhelming. Accusations have also been levelled at Ukrainian forces, after a video emerged that appeared to show their soldiers killing wounded Russians who were lying helpless on the ground.\n\nThis war is a world crisis not just because the Russians have driven a tank through international law, or for what they have done to civilians, but because it has brought the biggest military powers with nuclear weapons closer to a potential confrontation than at any time since the Cold War that ended with the fall of the Soviet Union, culminating in 1991.\n\nThe 21st Century now has its own Cold War, with the same risks attached if it gets hot. The head of defence intelligence in Ukraine, Maj Gen Kyrylo Budanov, told me that the risks of not confronting Putin's Russia are much worse for Nato than risking escalation by standing up to him and sending Ukraine the much more lethal arsenal it wants.\n\n\"This is a war of aggression in the heart of Europe that completely destroys existing political and military security systems. If the world swallows Putin's aggression and offers no radical solution, it will be repeated over and over again,\" he said.\n\nKyiv is much calmer now than in the icy first days of the invasion. It's very different in the east, where soldiers are gathering, and thousands of civilians are leaving everything they've ever known. The invasion of Ukraine took many by surprise. But the crisis between Russia and the West was brewing for years. Many, not just politicians, refused to recognise the signs.\n\nA collective amnesia settled over the wars of former Yugoslavia of the 1990s. Europe, it was assumed, was too wise, rich and self-interested to still be that old continent where blood could be spilled to change borders and topple governments. Now we know that view was complacent and wrong. Western leaders are having to think very hard and very quickly about how to readjust to this new era's challenges and dangers.\n\nThis is going to be a long, attritional struggle. The stakes are high. If it escalates into a fight to the finish between Putin's presidency and Ukraine's independence the wider world will face even worse danger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Maksym Lutsyk,19 (left) and Dmytro Kisilenko, 18 are at war with three days training.", "Ukraine is usually a major producer of cereals such as maize and wheat\n\nThe Ukraine war led to a \"giant leap\" in food prices last month to another record high, the United Nations says.\n\nThe war has cut off supplies from the world's biggest exporter of sunflower oil which means the costs of alternatives have also climbed.\n\nUkraine is also a major producer of cereals such as maize and wheat which have risen sharply in price too.\n\nThe UN said \"war in the Black Sea region spread shocks through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils\".\n\nThe UN Food Prices Index tracks the world's most-traded food commodities measuring the average prices of cereal, vegetable oil, dairy, meat, and sugar.\n\nFood prices are at their highest since records began 60 years ago according to the index, which jumped nearly 13% in March, following February's record high.\n\nThe price of vegetable oils soared 23% while cereals were up 17%. Sugar rose 7%, meat was up 5%, while dairy - which has been less affected by the war - only climbed 3%.\n\nFood commodity prices were already at 10-year highs before the war in Ukraine according to the index because of global harvest issues.\n\nThat has fuelled a cost-of-living crisis that is worrying politicians and has sparked warnings of social unrest across the world.\n\nIn the UK, industry experts have warned that the cost of food could rise by up to 15% this year.\n\nThe UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation warned last month that food prices could rise by up to 20% as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, raising the risk of increased malnutrition across the world.\n\nIt has cut its world wheat projection for 2022 from 790 million tonnes to 784 million, because of the possibility that at least 20% of Ukraine's winter crop will not be harvested because of \"direct destruction\".\n\nBut it said global cereal stocks could end the year 2.4% higher than the start because of stockpiles building up in Russia and Ukraine as both countries exports would shrink.", "More than 4 million Ukrainian refugees have left the war-torn country since it was invaded by Russia.\n\nA group of young musicians from Kharkiv and Odesa have found safety in Denmark, after receiving help from a local music school. They’ll now be able to continue to study and play music.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The BBC's Yogita Limaye at Chernobyl nuclear power plant, now back under Ukraine's control\n\nThe former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine was taken over by Russian forces on the first day of the invasion. It's now back under Ukraine's control. The BBC's Yogita Limaye is among the first journalists to look inside it since the Russians left.\n\nOn the afternoon of 24 February, Russian forces surrounded Chernobyl with tanks and armoured vehicles, entering Ukraine from the Belarusian border, just about 16km (10 miles) away.\n\nAbout 170 Ukrainian national guards who secured the plant were taken to the basement and held captive there. Then Russian soldiers searched the premises for weapons and explosives.\n\nEngineers, supervisors and other technical staff were allowed to continue working. In the next two days, teams from Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom were brought in.\n\nChernobyl's staff were keen to keep control of the plant's maintenance. It's not a working power station, but radioactive waste is stored at the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster. Billions of dollars have been spent since the accident in 1986 to clean up and contain further contamination. If conditions at the site are not monitored properly, there is a major risk of the release of nuclear material.\n\n\"They wanted to know how the facility was managed. They wanted information about all the procedures, documents and operations. I was scared because the questioning was constant, and sometimes forceful,\" said Oleksandr Lobada, a radiation safety supervisor at the station.\n\nEngineer Valeriy Semonov, who works at Chernobyl's former nuclear plant, said he scrambled to find fuel to keep the generator running\n\nOn the top floor of the main building of the power station are key rooms from where the site is controlled, located on both sides of a long, narrow passage. Some of the rooms were locked. When the Russians didn't find the keys, they broke into the rooms, cutting out the portion of the door in which the lock was embedded.\n\n\"We had to constantly negotiate with them, and try hard not to offend them, so that they allowed our personnel to manage the facility,\" said engineer Valeriy Semonov.\n\nWhen the power to the station was cut off for three days, Valeriy said he scrambled to find fuel to keep the generator running, even resorting to stealing some from the Russians.\n\n\"If we had lost power, it could have been catastrophic,\" Oleksandr explained. \"Radioactive material could have been released. The scale of it, you can well imagine. I wasn't scared for my life. I was scared about what would happen if I wasn't there monitoring the plant. I was scared it would be a tragedy for humanity.\"\n\nThe area behind the plant called the \"Red Forest\" is one of the most radioactive places on earth. Drone footage released by the Ukrainian military shows that Russian soldiers dug trenches and even stayed there. This was also confirmed to the BBC by officials at the station.\n\nIt's evidence of how little the soldiers knew about nuclear safety.\n\nEnergoatom, Ukraine's state-run nuclear power agency, has said Russian soldiers were exposed to \"significant doses\" of radiation.\n\nA dosimetrist measures the level of radiation around trenches dug by the Russian military in the Red Forest\n\nJust outside the sarcophagus which protects the damaged nuclear reactor, Russian soldiers piled up sandbags behind which they could hide if attacked. Valeriy scoffed at this, saying the Ukrainian military wouldn't dream of firing at a nuclear reactor.\n\nDown in the basement of the main building, are dormitory style rooms which have been completely ransacked. The floor is littered with rugs, mattresses, clothes, shoes and other personal belongings of the Ukrainian national guard who were held there. Officials at Chernobyl say Russian soldiers looted what they could when they left, and they also took the captive members of the national guard with them.\n\nThese rooms, where members of the Ukrainian national guard were held captive, are littered with rugs, mattresses, clothes, shoes and other personal belongings\n\n\"We were able to keep the site safe. But it's upsetting that they took 169 of our military,\" said Valeriy.\n\nIt's not confirmed where the men are being held, but Chernobyl's staff believe they are in Russia.\n\nPetro Poroshenko, Ukraine's former president, visited Chernobyl on Friday with food and other supplies for the plant's personnel. Access to it has only just opened up through an off-road track. The bridge to Chernobyl was blown up to stop Russia's advance.\n\nPetro Poroshenko, (left), Ukraine's former president, visited the site soon after access opened up again\n\nPresident Poroshenko has a warning for the world.\n\n\"Are we sure that tomorrow Russian troops cannot appear here? My answer would be no. Putin is completely unpredictable. And nuclear smoke is not limited by borders. It can reach Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and even Great Britain. The danger of nuclear contamination of Europe is very high, while Russia continues this war.\"", "One pregnant Shanghai resident received these vegetables as a food delivery\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping has praised his country's handling of the Covid pandemic, even as Shanghai reported record case numbers.\n\nSpeaking at an event marking China's hosting of the Winter Olympics, Mr Xi said some athletes said China deserved a gold medal for its approach.\n\nChina's zero-Covid policy has come under strain with infections surging and signs of public anger.\n\nOn Friday, the city - China's financial hub - announced a record 21,000 cases. An official said that out of 130,000 infections during the current outbreak, just one person was considered to be in a \"severe condition\".\n\nThe low numbers of serious cases have led some to ask whether a lockdown is necessary, says BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell.\n\nIn the north-eastern Jilin City, officials there said that the city had reached \"Social Zero Covid\" after 33 days of lockdown. But residents there have been given no indication when restrictions will be lifted.\n\nChina is one of the last remaining nations still committed to eradicating Covid, in contrast to most of the world which is trying to live with the virus in its Omicron variation.\n\nShanghai residents have taken to social media to complain about food supplies.\n\nPeople in the city are confined to their homes, and most have to order in food and water and wait for government drop-offs of vegetables, meat and eggs.\n\nBut the lockdown extension has overwhelmed delivery services, grocery shop websites and even the distribution of government supplies.\n\nPolitical scientist Dali Yang of the University of Chicago suggested several million people in Shanghai were running low on supplies and many were restricted to eating one meal a day.\n\nHe warned that elderly Shanghainese, who were more likely to live alone and less likely to use smartphones, were among those most at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, a video showing a worker in a hazmat costume beating a dog to death with a shovel has caused revulsion online.\n\nThe dog's owner had reportedly been taken to quarantine after testing positive for Covid and had left the pet outside in the hope that it would survive.\n\nThe city of 25 million remains under lockdown\n\nIn his speech, Mr Xi said China's zero Covid policy had withstood the test of the Winter Olympics.\n\nThere is little sign of China changing its approach. An editorial in state news agency Xinhua said the country would \"firmly adhere\" to its policy.\n\n\"It will not be long before Chinese citizens affected by the virus can enjoy warm sunshine in spring days as things get back to normal,\" it said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Residents of Obukhovychi, north of Kyiv, say they were taken from their homes at gunpoint\n\nClear evidence of Russian troops rounding up Ukrainian civilians and using them as human shields has been found by the BBC. In multiple interviews in Obukhovychi, villagers say they were taken from their homes at gunpoint and held in a school by Russians trying to stop advancing Ukrainian forces. Local people also gave accounts of Russian troops shooting civilians and holding others captive in and around Ivankiv, the neighbouring town.\n\nOn the night of 14 March, Russian soldiers in Obukhovychi were under attack and losing men and armoured vehicles. The Ukrainians were regaining territory.\n\nAs darkness fell, local people, sheltering in their cellars, heard explosions and the grinding sound of armoured vehicles manoeuvring.\n\nThey had been under Russian occupation since the start of the invasion - the area was on the main axis of Russian advance. Obukhovychi is 100km (60 miles) from Kyiv, close to Belarus and just south of the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.\n\nWe have now managed to speak to many people about what happened that night. They all told us the same stories about 24 hours that traumatised the village.\n\nFamilies described how the Russians went door-to-door, rounded them up at gunpoint, and marched them to the local school - where the Russian forces used them as protection.\n\nLydmila says she was forced into the local school by Russian soldiers\n\nMany of the houses in the village had the Ukrainian word for \"people\" painted on their gates - a way of warning soldiers to be careful and not hurt them. But, in the end, the signs were a magnet to Russian troops.\n\nWe were told that if people didn't open their doors, the Russians broke them down. About 150 civilians, including the elderly and small children, were taken from their cellars to the school.\n\n\"The [Russians] are fascists, vandals. It was chaos, children and people crying… I don't want to talk about the Russians. They're not human beings,\" 60-year-old Ivan told us.\n\nLydmila Sutkova described the terror of being rounded up at the school. \"When explosions came, we thought if the ceiling falls this will become a mass grave.\"\n\nCivilians say they were held in this school building\n\nOthers told us that some of the Russian soldiers were drunk, and threatened to take them to Belarus.\n\nMaria Bilohovost, an 89-year-old great grandmother, told us she had survived World War Two and that the Russian invaders were like the Germans. \"Except they spoke Russian, so I knew what they were saying.\"\n\nShe said the Russians left her in the house but took the rest of her family - including her granddaughter Maryana and great-granddaughter Marharyta. Maryana says two-year-old Marharyta still shows signs of anxiety.\n\nGreat-grandmother Maria can remember German occupation in World War Two\n\nMaryana's mother Olena tells us that she was afraid they would all be shot in the gym. \"I was scared for my daughter. I don't have the words. I'm still frightened. Machine guns - a two-year-old girl should not see this.\"\n\nOlena says that while the Russians were occupying the village, young women and girls hid inside their homes. \"We were really terrified. One lady went to collect wood for the fire in her house - she was shot in the leg. They just did it for fun.\"\n\nIn Obukhovychi, there was no mass slaughter of civilians - but we were told stories of individuals, including a local priest, being killed.\n\nUp the road, the nearby village of Termakhivka is built around a desolate crossroads, where routes lead to Belarus, Chernobyl, Warsaw and Kyiv. There were burnt out military vehicles and military emplacements - once held by the Russians, we were told, but now manned by Ukrainians.\n\nOne local man, 25-year-old Bogdan, says he was held captive for 15 days outside in sub-zero temperatures - often bound and gagged - by Russian troops. He rolled up his trouser leg to show where a Russian had shot him.\n\n\"He put me on a bench near the house, aimed his machine gun at me and shot my knee… the reason is that I have a younger brother. He served in the army. They found his military cap and his military photos.\"\n\nBogdan also took us across a waterlogged field to show us a patch of disturbed ground - which he said was a shallow grave. The Russians forced him to dig the hole, he explains, so they could bury the body of a man who had been shot.\n\nGetting to these villages was a hard slog. It meant going the long way round, across pontoon bridges and along back roads through miles of deep forest.\n\nThis part of Ukraine is a land of rivers and swamps. It's one reason why the Russian advance stopped.\n\nA destroyed bridge on the edge of Ivankiv\n\nNow the Russians have pulled out of this area, it is slowly being reconnected to the rest of the country. While we were there, the Ukrainian army fixed a temporary bridge over a river on the road to the capital, next to the ruins of one the Russians blew up as they were retreating to Belarus. Dozens of volunteers were helping out, lighting fires, making soup, cutting trees, digging up stumps and smoothing out new roadways\n\nIn areas where Ukrainian forces are in control, evidence is accumulating that Russian troops repeatedly broke the laws of war.\n\nThe question is how the Russians are treating civilians in the places which they still occupy.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nGirl power will be to the fore as 40 runners line up for the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.\n\nTrailblazing rider Rachael Blackmore, the first female jockey to triumph, is on 2021 victor Minella Times again.\n\nAnd grey mare Snow Leopardess, who gave birth to a foal during a two-year break from racing, is bidding to be the first mother to win the National.\n\nA crowd of 70,000 is expected as the famous race is run before spectators for the first time in three years.\n\nBookmakers predict a total of more than £150m will be wagered on the contest with betting shops in the UK open again on National day, after Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nCommodore, School Boy Hours and Romain De Senam took the final spots in the race after Easysland, Phoenix Way and Lord Du Mesnil were late withdrawals on Friday.\n• None Who could be headline makers at Aintree?\n\nBlackmore goes for the double\n\nBlackmore and Minella Times, trained by Henry de Bromhead, have been well backed to repeat last year's landmark success but face a tough task under top weight.\n\n\"What you do feel is excitement,\" said the 32-year-old Irish rider, who went on to make more history when winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Al Plus Tard last month.\n\n\"The Grand National is just so massive, you never think you're actually going to get to win it.\n\n\"Jockeys will wish each other good luck beforehand. It just has a different feel to it, especially riding Minella Times who gave me such a fantastic spin last year.\n\n\"He took to it really well. Jumping those fences with a horse that's enjoying it is a great feeling. Tiger Roll won back to back so you never know.\"\n\nWho are the other leading contenders?\n\nIrish-trained horses dominate the top of the betting with last year's third horse Any Second Now and fourth Burrows Saint both returning.\n\nAny Second Now, Enjoy D'Allen and Minella Times head a strong team in the green and gold silks of owner JP McManus.\n\nJockey Sean Flanagan, a qualified pilot, will fly himself in a friend's plane to Aintree from Ireland to ride School Boy Hours for McManus.\n\nDelta Work and Escaria Ten are among seven runners for trainer Gordon Elliott, seeking a record-equalling fourth victory after scoring with Silver Birch in 2007 and Tiger Roll (2018 and 2019).\n\nElliott is back after missing last year's meeting while serving a suspension for being pictured sat on a dead horse.\n\nAmateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen, who has won a record six times in other races over the National fences, announced on Thursday he will be riding for the last time when he partners Nobel Yeats.\n\nSnow Leopardess, trained by Charlie Longsdon, leads the British contingent, while Colin Tizzard saddles his last National runners in Fiddlerontheroof and Lostintranslation before handing over to son Joe.\n\nAnd while Blackmore is the only woman riding, Emma Lavelle has two chances of being the fourth woman to train the winner since 2009 with Eclair Surf and De Rasher Counter.\n\nHow long does it last? The winner usually completes the course in about nine minutes. There are 30 jumps, including Becher's Brook and The Chair, over a distance of four and a quarter miles.\n\nWhat does the winner get? The total prize fund is £1m with the winning team collecting £500,000.\n\nWhy are there different weights? It is a handicap steeplechase with runners allocated weights according to their ratings.\n\nHow many Grand Nationals have there been? This is the 174th running of the race.\n\nWhat about safety? Significant changes were introduced before the 2013 race which saw the core of fences softened, the distance reduced and new procedures for loose horses. There was one equine fatality in the race last year - the second from a total of 316 runners in the past eight editions.\n\n1 Escaria Ten 2 Any Second Now 3 Longhouse Poet 4 Minella Times\n\nEscaria Ten put in an eye-catching run when just beaten by Any Second Now last time out. They can be first and second again, with the placings reversed.\n\n1 Delta Work 2 Longhouse Poet 3 Any Second Now 4 Eclair Surf\n\nDelta Work, who beat two-time Grand National winner Tiger Roll at Cheltenham last month, has run in 15 Grade One races and this is his first time in a handicap. The Irish challenge looks strong again and they can fill the first three places.\n\n1 Eclair Surf 2 Any Second Now 3 Longhouse Poet 4 Snow Leopardess\n\nEclair Surf gets into the race off a nice weight and holds leading claims based on his Warwick win and a fine second at Newcastle to subsequent Scottish National victor Win The Wings.\n\n1 Longhouse Poet 2 Any Second Now 3 Fiddlerontheroof 4 Minella Times\n\nLonghouse Poet is the right type of horse for this - was a novice hurdler of Grade One standard, he has a touch of class and is still unexposed over fences.\n• None Panorama reports from the frontline in southern Ukraine\n• None 'You can't just walk away, they'll kill you' -", "Accounts of atrocities committed by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians are emerging daily. There are calls for President Putin and others to be prosecuted for war crimes - but how likely is that to happen? Given its past record, and failure to stop this war which has seen more than 11 million people flee their homes, the BBC's Fergal Keane considers whether the international community will be able to unite.\n\nEven when the spring sunlight fills the little park, it remains an unsettling place. The Jewish world commemorated at Arsenalna Square in central Lviv was destroyed by genocide. The people who worshipped at the Golden Rose synagogue were either exiled or killed. There is no escape from history here. It is present in the memorial stones for the dead and in the void left by a murdered generation.\n\nIn western Ukraine's biggest city, the past collides with the present in other ways too. You can hear it in the rattle of today's refugee suitcases being pulled across the same cobblestoned streets where, in the high summer of 1941, the Germans and their Ukrainian collaborators chased Jews to their deaths. The photos of those days are some of the most terrible of the Holocaust - women being stripped and beaten before jeering mobs, eyes wide in horror, mouths frozen in mid-scream.\n\nWe are not in the middle of a new world war, or a Holocaust, but the lessons for the world of that terrible conflict - and the promises made in its aftermath - have a relevance we cannot ignore today.\n\nIt was a reality framed in scathing terms by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he addressed the Security Council of the United Nations this week. He reminded his audience that the UN had been established in 1945 to guarantee peace after the horrors of World War Two.\n\nRussia was turning 'the right of veto in the UN Security Council into a right to kill' - President Volodymyr Zelensky told the council on 4 April\n\nListing allegations of war crimes by Russian troops in Ukraine - summary killings, torture, rape - he called for the council to order a war crimes investigation.\n\n\"Are you ready to close the UN?\" he asked. \"Do you think that the time of international law is gone? If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately.\"\n\nThe threat to the peace of Europe is greater now than at any time since the end of the Cold War in 1989. For nearly a month, I watched families flee westward from Lviv in trains, cars and buses as Russia waged war on their homeland. I listened to survivors from the besieged port of Mariupol talk of a hell on earth with bodies lying in the streets and the cityscape they knew, of shops, restaurants, the Hurov Park with its spectacular fountains, reduced to rubble.\n\nLess than a year ago, I walked through the Hurov with Lyubov Vasilievna and Dominic, her two-year-old grandson. I have known Lyubov for eight years, since the day she was wounded and two other grandchildren - Nikita, 10, and Karolina, six - were killed at the war's beginning in 2014 after Russian-backed forces staged a rebellion in eastern Ukraine against the Kyiv government.\n\nThe three of them had been out walking when a shell exploded. In hospital, Lyubov told me she blamed herself for their deaths. \"I don't know how I am going to survive this. The images of them are always in front of my eyes,\" she said.\n\nSo, it was heartening to meet her again last year, in a time of relative peace, with a new grandchild. \"I am smiling because I live for him now,\" she told me. \"I have someone to take care of. He brings me joy.\"\n\nNow, as Mariupol is being destroyed, I do not know what has happened to Lyubov and Dominic. I have called and called, but her phone no longer rings.\n\nA bird's eye view of dozens of destroyed homes in Mariupol\n\nEvery day at Lviv railway station I watched for their faces in the crowds of refugees, but there was no sign. Lyubov and Dominic, and the dead Nikita and Karolina, are among many millions failed by history's greatest broken promise. It was made in the aftermath of World War Two and is firmly rooted in the story of Lviv.\n\nIn the far western corner of Ukraine, Lviv is a city to remind us of the worst of mankind, but also of what can be done to protect us from the consequences of aggression.\n\nWalk five minutes west from the ruins of the synagogue and you reach a squat two-storey building that was the cradle of the world's most important human rights legislation - the very principles under which President Putin and his armies might yet face judgement.\n\nThe law faculty of the University of Lviv was the alma mater of Raphael Lemkin who invented the word genocide to describe the attempt to exterminate \"in whole or in part\" a national, religious or racial group. Aghast at the Nazi Holocaust Lemkin coined the term in 1944 and, four years later, succeeded in having the UN define genocide as a crime under international law.\n\nHis fellow alumnus, Hersch Lauterpacht, was instrumental in bringing about the legal concept of crimes against humanity which was first used to prosecute Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg trials in 1945-46.\n\nBoth men were Jewish and studied in Lviv in the early decades of the 20th Century. Lviv was called Lemberg then and was a city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, home to a cosmopolitan mix of Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and other nationalities from across the empire.\n\nWorld War One destroyed Austria-Hungary and ushered in an age of instability as Poles, Ukrainians, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany fought for control of the city. The majority of the remaining Jewish population was wiped out in the Holocaust, among them the relatives of Lemkin and Lauterpacht.\n\nLviv's Jewish ghetto, created by the Nazis, during WW2 - when nearly all the city's Jews were murdered\n\nAt the end of World War Two, Lviv came under the rule of the Soviet Union, where it remained until the fall of communism and the creation of an independent Ukraine in 1991.\n\nAlthough they differed in important respects - Lemkin argued in favour of group protections, Lauterpacht focused on individual rights - their legacies were enshrined in the 1945 UN Charter, which promised to \"save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which, twice in our lifetimes, has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person…\"\n\nNow, Lviv finds itself once more at the centre of a great historical trauma.\n\nI think of that phrase - \"the dignity and worth of the human person\" - after watching people fight to board trains in the early days of the evacuation of Ukraine. I remember it when I see the images of executed civilians in Bucha, and I wonder what has happened to the dream of the lawyers from Lviv?\n\nWe are living in an age where millions are displaced by war. I have seen them jumping from smugglers' boats into the shallows on a Greek beach, shouting with joy that \"God is Great\". In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Yemen, I have heard civilian victims describe cruel military campaigns.\n\nAccording to the most recent UN statistics - gathered before the Russian invasion of Ukraine - 84 million people are now forcibly displaced worldwide. The figures reflect an international order in crisis with the UN unable to prevent the murder and abuse of civilians in many regions of the world.\n\nTo understand how we have come to this point it is necessary to go back a little to one of the most terrible crimes of our modern era.\n\nIt all happened in Rwanda - genocide, crimes against humanity and mass rape as a weapon of war. In late spring of 1994, I was sent to the small, central African country that had become a vast open-air cemetery. The dead flowed down rivers. They lay piled up in churches. The smell of decomposing bodies hung over abandoned villages.\n\nIn the space of 100 days, up to 800,000 people are estimated to have been murdered in the Rwandan genocide. It also sparked one of the worst refugee crises in living memory.\n\nRwanda happened because a hate-filled elite decided that the solution to the country's problems was to exterminate the Tutsi ethnic minority.\n\nTwo weeks into the genocide, with tens of thousands already slaughtered, the UN Security Council voted to reduce the peacekeeping force from over 2,000 members to 270. This came after 10 Belgian peacekeepers were attacked and killed by the Rwandan army. The great powers abandoned Rwanda to its fate.\n\nRefugees at a border crossing between Rwanda and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo)\n\nSkulls of genocide victims lined up outside a chapel in Rwanda, November 1994\n\nUnlike Ukraine now, Rwanda was a country with little geo-political importance. The US and other powers on the Security Council refused until it was too late to use the word coined by the Lviv lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, because describing the slaughter as \"genocide\" might have created a responsibility to intervene and protect the victims under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention.\n\nI cannot ever forget the sight of Tutsi refugees huddled a few yards from me outside a municipal office in Butare - a city in southern Rwanda - surrounded by extremist militia and soldiers, and wondering if they would live or die. Many were ultimately slaughtered.\n\nIn July 1995, one year after the Rwandan genocide ended, Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic murdered 8,000 Muslim men and boys when they overran the town of Srebrenica. It happened under the eyes of Dutch UN peacekeepers.\n\nA UN camp provided shelter for people who had fled\n\nThe two genocides of the 1990s - in central Africa and the former Yugoslavia - showed what happened when the Security Council was challenged to live up to words of the UN charter. The promise of 1945 was frustrated by lack of political will and division.\n\nBut those terrible years of the 1990s would come to have a profound effect on international law. If there was a failure to prevent genocide it could at least be punished. Tribunals were set up to try the accused of Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. There were also courts to try those accused of responsibility for mass killings in Cambodia and Sierra Leone.\n\nThere were UN military operations to stop the killing of civilians in Sierra Leone and Nato forces intervened to end the expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Although, the latter provoked an ominous confrontation with Russia, an ally of Serbia and already wary of Nato encroachment to the east.\n\nThe world moved to establish a permanent court to try cases of genocide and crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court - the ICC - was set up in 1998 to try the most serious cases of human rights abuses. It is not part of the UN but was created by UN members and works closely with the organisation.\n\nIn 2009, in a landmark moment, President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, became the first sitting head of state to be indicted for genocide by the ICC, for the killing of civilians in Darfur.\n\nJust as at the end of WW2, the idea was that prosecutions might not only provide accountability but would make future war leaders think twice before abusing the rights of civilians.\n\nBut there was a problem from day one, and it is one that shadows the current debate about war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nNeither the US, China or Russia ratified the Rome Statute - the treaty that established the court. This means the three biggest military powers are not subject to ICC jurisdiction.\n\nThe only way they could be is if the Security Council votes to refer them. But as each nation has a veto, that is never going to happen. It means the ICC would be powerless if it wanted to indict President Putin and his senior generals for the crime of waging an aggressive war against Ukraine. Aggression was described by the Nuremberg tribunal after WW2 as \"the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole\".\n\nIt is worth remembering what happened when the court tried to investigate alleged war crimes by all the parties in Afghanistan. The Trump administration went as far as placing sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the ICC to signal its opposition to any judicial pursuit of US forces.\n\nAnd - in China's autonomous region of Xinjiang - an attempt to investigate Chinese officials for the alleged genocide against the Uyghurs failed because China was not an ICC member.\n\nA lopsided international order - one rule for the weak, one rule for the strong - is ultimately not a sustainable legal order\n\nThe war crimes lawyer, Prof Philippe Sands QC, believes the attitude of the superpowers creates \"lopsided justice\" where the only prosecutions are those involving less powerful nations.\n\n\"One rule for the weak, one rule for the strong - is ultimately not a sustainable legal order or even really a legal order,\" he says.\n\nProf Sands' grandfather came from Lviv, and his great-grandmother was murdered by the Nazis. He is among those looking at the possibility of setting up a special international tribunal to indict the Russian president and his commanders.\n\nBut the legal framework is not the only issue that hangs over the current debate about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even some supporters of prosecuting President Putin acknowledge a charge of double standards against the US and the UK.\n\nProf Sands points out that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by a US-led coalition polarised world opinion. The then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan would later call the invasion illegal. \"You reap what you sow - and what you sow includes your own double standards,\" he says.\n\nThe British and American governments insisted the invasion was legal.\n\nBut President Putin used the Iraq example as a rhetorical stick to beat the US and UK when he announced his decision to attack Ukraine, declaring that there was a \"special place\" for the invasion of Iraq - which had been carried out \"without any legal grounds\".\n\nIn reality, there has never been a golden age of post-war peace guided by international diplomacy. The big powers have not fought an apocalyptic nuclear war but millions have died in wars big and small - in Korea, Algeria, Congo, Cambodia, Vietnam, Algeria, Indonesia, Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and many other battlegrounds. Some of those wars have been - at least partly - proxy conflicts between superpowers. More than 4,000 UN peacekeepers have lost their lives in different conflict zones trying to protect civilians and act as a buffer between warring parties.\n\nUS soldiers in a burning village during the Vietnam War, circa 1965\n\nRather than being a place where the great powers consistently work for peace, the Security Council, too often, became a forum of superpower rivalry. Ukraine is just the latest dangerous example.\n\nOn 26 February, two days after the Russian invasion began, the Security Council met to discuss a resolution calling on Moscow to stop its attack and withdraw all troops. Russia vetoed that move for peace.\n\nIn a singularly ominous moment, President Putin implicitly threatened to use nuclear weapons to deter any intervention by Nato. Whether he intends to deploy nukes or not, the simple issuing of such a threat reflects the perilous state of human affairs in the 21st Century.\n\nThe current UN Secretary General, António Guterres, sounded almost forlorn when he declared: \"We must never give up. We must give peace another chance.\" But even some of those critical of the Security Council, argue that this can also be a moment of possibility - if, for example, a special tribunal can be set up to investigate a superpower like Russia for its actions.\n\n\"I am partly fearful but also partly optimistic,\" says Prof Sands. \"This period could destroy the [legal] order created by the 1945 moment [the defeat of Nazism] or it might develop and strengthen it. I am inclined to the latter view. It's a long game. Two steps forward and one back, then another forward. We just have to stick to a principled approach.\"\n\nIn mid-1945, delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco to agree the UN Charter - and it was where Sir Anthony Eden, who led the British delegation, learned of the death of Adolf Hitler\n\nThere have also been important signs of change at the UN in recent days. The General Assembly - the body made up of all 193 UN members - condemned the invasion and voted to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. China voted against the move and India abstained - between them they represent a third of the world's population. And while the decision doesn't affect what the Security Council does or does not do, the moral signal from more than two thirds of UN members was clear.\n\nOne former UN official with experience of genocide and war crimes told me that it was a mistake to see the present world order solely through the lens of big power politics. Prof Mukesh Kapila of the University of Manchester is a former UN representative in Sudan and was instrumental in the campaign to have the killings in Darfur recognised as genocide.\n\n\"In the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil, there is a lot of activity. It is not all going on the side of the bad guys,\" he says. He points to the case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice - a UN court established in 1945 where one state can bring action against another. Myanmar is being pursued by the small west African nation of The Gambia for alleged persecution of the Rohingya Muslims.\n\nProf Kapila also cites the development in recent years of \"universal jurisdiction\" - where individual nations can try alleged war criminals from other countries if they arrest them on their soil. The successful German prosecution last January of a Syrian officer for murder, torture and sexual assault is recent example.\n\nIf the Security Council is deadlocked, then why not create a mechanism where one member can take it to a bigger jury - the General Assembly\n\nCalls for reform of the UN Security Council are not new. It has long been criticised for representing the imperial and superpower realities that prevailed at the end of WW2. There is no permanent representation for Africa, the Indian sub-continent or Latin America.\n\nExpanding the UN's top body would not at a stroke remove the potential for great power rivalry. But Prof Kapila suggests one way around the stalemates created by veto powers would be to strengthen the role of the General Assembly - the body that has just acted against Russia.\n\n\"If the Security Council is deadlocked, then why not create a mechanism where one member can take it to a bigger jury - the General Assembly. It is more democratic, and it also increases pressure on the Security Council to reach an agreement.\"\n\nThere seems little prospect at the moment of the \"Permanent Five\" - China, France, Russia, the UK and US - agreeing to dilute their influence. \"Turkeys don't vote for Christmas,\" as Prof Kapila puts it. But he argues that civil society movements have established powerful pressure for progress in recent years - in the area of climate change, for example. \"Things which seem improbable now can become real.\"\n\nA protester with a Ukrainian flag outside the UN's New York headquarters\n\nAt the heart of the promise made in the UN Charter was the idea that countries must work together to avoid war. If armed conflict did break out they would send forces to try to keep the peace and the world would ensure abuses were prosecuted - both for the sake of justice and to deter future crimes.\n\nIt is possible - no more than that - that the crisis in Ukraine becomes one of those moments where the high stakes of conflict create a genuine moment of international reflection and generate a momentum for change. Before she stepped down from power, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel wistfully reflected on a world where unilateral action by states threatened peace and stability.\n\nMrs Merkel, who grew up in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the looming shadow of superpower rivalry, warned of the dangers of forgetting - especially as those with lived experience of WW2 died away.\n\n\"We have to take care now not to enter a historical phase in which important lessons from history fade away. We have to remind ourselves that the multilateral world order was created as a lesson from the Second World War.\"\n\nRemember where we have come from, was the message, and act so that we are not dragged backwards.", "The crash near Pentrefoelas, in Conwy county, led to the closure of the A5\n\nTwo paramedics riding motorcycles as part of a training course have been hurt in a four-vehicle crash.\n\nOne of the injured riders, from London Ambulance Service's motorcycle response unit, remains in a serious condition.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the crash happened on Thursday, shortly before 14:30 BST, on the A5 at Pentrefoelas, Conwy county.\n\nThe two motorcyclists suffered serious injuries while three other individuals had minor injuries.\n\nPolice said the crash involved a van, a pick-up truck and two motorcycles being ridden by the paramedics.\n\nIt led to the closure of the A5 between Pentrefoelas and Betws y Coed.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it sent three ambulances to the scene \"where crews were supported by two helicopters from the Wales Air Ambulance and a duty operations manager\".\n\n\"Two patients were taken by air to the Royal Stoke University Hospital and one patient was taken by road to Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.\"\n\nThe second paramedic hurt in the crash has since been discharged from the hospital.\n\nThe Chief Executive of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Daniel Elkeles, said: \"I would like to thank the Welsh Ambulance Service and Wales Air Ambulance for the support they provided to our colleagues, as well as the North Wales Police.\"", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak held a US green card - allowing permanent residence in that country - while he was chancellor, his spokeswoman has said.\n\nHe returned it in October last year, ahead of his first American trip as a UK government minister.\n\nThe news comes as Mr Sunak faces scrutiny over the revelation that his wife is not liable for UK taxes on her overseas earnings.\n\nHe has accused his critics of running a \"smear\" campaign against his family.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats are calling for Mr Sunak, who became chancellor in early 2020, to resign, with leader Sir Ed Davey saying: \"Never mind a green card; it's time to give Rishi Sunak the red card.\"\n\nAs stipulated in the rules, Mr Sunak filed US tax returns while he held his green card, his spokeswoman said, \"but specifically as a non-resident, in full compliance with the law\".\n\nShe added: \"As required under US law and as advised, he continued to use his green card for travel purposes. Upon his first trip to the US in a government capacity as chancellor, he discussed the appropriate course of action with the US authorities.\n\n\"At that point it was considered best to return his green card, which he did immediately.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Sunak's green card at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"As I understand it, the chancellor has done absolutely everything he was required to do.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow Treasury minister Pat McFadden said there were further questions for Mr Sunak to answer. \"Why did he keep a green card for so long while being a UK MP?\" he asked.\n\n\"Was there any tax advantage in doing so? And why did he give this up after holding it for so long?\"\n\nThe chancellor studied for a master of business administration (MBA) post-graduate degree at Stanford University, California, from 2004 to 2006, where he met fellow student Akshata Murty. The couple married in 2009 and have two daughters.\n\nMs Murty, the daughter of an Indian billionaire, has revealed she has \"non-dom\" status, meaning she does not pay UK tax on overseas earning, which the BBC estimates saves her more than £2m a year.\n\nMr Sunak has said it is unfair to attack his wife when she is a \"private citizen\", adding: \"I'm an elected politician. So I know what I signed up for.\"\n\n\"To smear my wife to get at me is awful,\" he added.", "Holidaymakers are continuing to experience delays and queues as they try to get away for the Easter break.\n\nIn the past week, more than 100 flights a day had been cancelled due to staff shortages and ferry operators are struggling to meet demand after P&O suspended services.\n\nEasyJet and British Airways said fewer flights were cancelled on Saturday.\n\nThe transport secretary earlier urged operators to \"redouble\" their efforts to get people away as soon as possible.\n\nLabour has accused the government of being \"missing in action\".\n\nThe easing of pandemic rules means that, for many families, this is the first school holiday where they can travel restriction-free.\n\nBut a rise in passenger numbers comes as travel operators are struggling with staff shortages and Covid-related absences, leading to long delays.\n\nBritish Airways said on Saturday it had to cancel three flights overnight on top of its planned cancellations because of staff sickness.\n\nThe airline recommended long-haul passengers arrive three hours before their flight, and short-haul passengers two hours.\n\nEasyJet said it had cancelled around 40 flights in advance.\n\nIt said: \"We will operate 1,422 flights today with a small proportion having been cancelled in advance to give customers the ability to rebook onto alternative flights.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timelapse footage captures long delays on the approach to Dover\n\nManchester Airport told the BBC the long waits it has seen at security last week could continue, with some passengers facing queues of 60 to 90 minutes over the next few weeks.\n\nHeathrow, Gatwick and Birmingham airports have also been hit by delays and cancellations.\n\nThe boss of the airlines watchdog has written to UK airlines expressing frustration and concern for holiday-makers.\n\nMeanwhile at Dover, the suspension of P&O ferry services and bad weather have also caused delays.\n\nOn Friday, ferry company DFDS reported delays of two hours on its services from Dover to Calais.\n\nA 23-mile (37km) stretch of road into Dover, the M20 Southbound, remains closed, with thousands of lorries trying to reach the port being held.\n\nToby Howe, tactical lead at the Kent Resilience Forum, advised travellers to France to \"allow a lot of extra time\" and make sure they had some food and drink because there would be delays.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the delays had been caused by \"the perfect storm\" - with ferries being suspended, a storm preventing those which were running from sailing and a train being stuck in the tunnels.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said he was \"very concerned\" about the level of disruption and called on travel operators to \"redouble their efforts\" to make sure people travelling abroad \"can get away as smoothly as possible\".\n\nBut shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh accused the government of being \"missing in action\".\n\nThe Labour MP said: \"Tory ministers need to step-up and act to ease the disruption. The government need to begin clearing the huge backlogs in security checks so airport staff can safely begin work.\n\n\"And they should be holding emergency talks with ferry operators and Eurotunnel to boost capacity following P&O's shameful action.\"\n\nP&O Ferries sparked outrage last month after suddenly sacking hundreds of staff.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson blamed P&O Ferries for contributing to the delays, adding that regional police and leaders were working to ease disruption in Kent.\n\nThe DfT spokesperson said: \"P&O's unacceptable actions have resulted in its vessels being detained, causing backlogs and traffic jams which would be substantially alleviated if its fleet was operating normally. It's left operators, local authorities and, of course, government having to clear up the mess.\n\n\"That alongside bad weather and the Easter rush has meant that roads are exceptionally busy.\"\n\nAre your travel plans affected by cancelled flights or suspended ferries? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Dozens of trees were damaged when the tornado struck\n\nWeather investigators Torro have confirmed extreme weather that damaged trees and a farmhouse was a tornado.\n\nThe wind damaged dozens of trees when it struck the property, in the Gwynedd village of Pennal, near Machynlleth.\n\nSome of those broken by the wind were believed to have been hundreds of years old. Slates and guttering were also torn from the house.\n\nThe Tornado and Storm Research Organisation said a T3 tornado was responsible. The strongest is a T10.\n\nBranches had been thrust from the trees with such force they had become embedded in the ground.\n\nSite investigator John Mason visited the scene after the extreme weather struck on Wednesday morning.\n\nDeilwen Breese said wind has lifted lambs into the air\n\nMr Mason said: \"If a car had gone through it, it would probably have been damaged severely.\n\n\"If it was a high-walled van it could have been rolled over.\"\n\nThe farm's Deilwen Breese had said previously more than £100,000 of damage had been caused by the event.\n\n\"The wind had even lifted up lambs in the sheds,\" she said.\n\nA T3 tornado is defined on Torro's website as \"strong\" and one that reaches speeds between 93 and 114 mph.\n\nIt says bigger trees can be uprooted, heavier debris can become airborne and garden walls blown over.\n\nTorro investigator John Mason said the wind was a T3 tornado\n\nEyewitnesses have seen buildings shaking, said the site.\n\n\"A T10 is like the ones you get in the States, but a T3 is still strong,\" Mr Mason said.\n\nHe added that if any walkers had been passing through when Wednesday's tornado struck they would have been \"caught up in a lot of debris going around in a circle\".\n\n\"Your chances would not be good,\" he said.\n\n\"You might be able to find shelter by getting behind a tree, but what if that comes crashing down?\"\n\nThere were a few tornados in Wales each year, Mr Mason said.\n\nA farmhouse was left with thousands of pounds of damage", "The French president is facing a closer than expected election race\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has called Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki \"a far-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people\", after being criticised for his talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe French president has held regular conversations with Mr Putin since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nOn Friday, Poland summoned the French ambassador over Mr Macron's comments, made to a French newspaper.\n\n\"How many times have you negotiated with Putin and what have you achieved?\" Mr Morawiecki said on Monday.\n\n\"It's my duty to speak with him, we need it. I won't stop doing it, that's what allows us to take part in the negotiation,\" he said.\n\n\"By talking to him and to [Ukraine's] President Zelensky, we can help in the negotiation. At some point, there will be a ceasefire and peace will have to be built. It cannot be done without a guarantor, France is committed to be one of these guarantors.\"\n\nIt is not clear why Mr Macron accused Mr Morawiecki of anti-Semitism, although the Polish government has faced international criticism for laws making it harder for Jewish people to recover property lost during and after World War Two, as well as one making it an offence to link the Polish nation to Nazi crimes.\n\nMr Macron also said Mr Morawiecki wanted to help his rival Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election on Sunday.\n\nOpinion polls show that Ms Le Pen has closed the gap on Mr Macron, who joined the campaign late and has seen his lead erode as Ms Le Pen focussed on a cost-of-living message.\n\nHe enjoyed a boost from his diplomatic efforts in the Ukraine conflict but that has faded, and he has tried to portray Ms Le Pen as someone sympathetic to Mr Putin.\n\nA Polish government spokesman, Piotr Müller, rejected Mr Macron's accusation of anti-Semitism, saying he had gone \"too far\" with his choice of words.", "UK hauliers carrying perishable goods say products are losing quality and value as they are forced to sit in long queues to cross into Europe at Dover.\n\nBad weather, Easter holidays and P&O Ferries routes being suspended have all led to congestion around the port.\n\nThe queues eased on Sunday, but the British Meat Processors Association said some of its members had waited for 24 hours or more to cross.\n\nThe government said traffic management measures were under regular review.\n\nHowever, a Department for Transport spokesperson gave no indication that there would be a change made for those transporting perishable items.\n\nAs well as the other factors causing congestion, which have led to the traffic management system Operation Brock being put in place, there have also been problems with a key IT system for custom checks at the UK's busiest port after Brexit.\n\nLockerbie-based Eardley International takes fresh meat from the UK into continental Europe, operating 25 trucks at any one time.\n\n\"Our products have a very short shelf life,\" company director Graham Eardley told the BBC.\n\n\"If we load lamb in the UK on a Monday, we'd expect to deliver that product to Germany on a Tuesday. Now we are seeing delays of 20 to 25 hours to cross the Channel, and the quality and the sale value of that product falls by every hour it is delayed.\"\n\nFurthermore, haulier regulations mean drivers need to take an 11-hour break when they get to Calais, as they cannot rest while they are in the traffic jam in case they need to move their vehicle. This just adds to the problem.\n\nP&O routes are still being suspended due to a shortage of ferry services following its dismissal of almost 800 staff last month without notice. The company says it plans to resume its operations on the Dover-Calais route next week if it gets regulatory approval.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, said the delays meant that the UK was losing business, as customers were turning to other countries to source goods at a time when their members' products were in hot demand.\n\n\"We are told to expect disruption well into next week. With Easter weekend approaching and a very busy time for exporting fresh meat, this is really bad timing.\"\n\nGraham Eardley says his company's produce loses value for every hour it is delayed\n\nFor Mr Eardley, the delays mean losing up to £800 per truck.\n\nHe says the abattoirs who use his services are also getting claims for late delivery and loss in value.\n\n\"We are paying for the driver to be sitting in the truck not being productive and seeing the loss of the revenue that the vehicle could be making.\"\n\nMany in the industry argue that hauliers carrying fresh produce should be prioritised for boarding, as they have been before.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum, which manages emergency planning for the county, said they were waiting for the government to advise them of who and what would be allowed to jump the queue.\n\nThis is causing huge frustration to Mr Eardley, who says that as hauliers register customs forms listing the contents of their lorries, it should be a straightforward process to put in place.\n\nToby Howe, the tactical lead for the forum, explained: \"It is not as simple as saying we will just fast-track meat or anything perishable.\n\n\"In 2015 we were given very general guidance and drivers got clever by putting a small amount in the lorry. For EU exit planning, Defra came up with specifics which we were then able to prioritise.\"\n\nOthers believe you cannot retrofit a priority system.\n\nIn response, the Department for Transport (DfT) said the traffic management measures were regularly reviewed but did not say whether any changes would be made with regard to the transportation of perishable items.\n\nIt said: \"P&O's unacceptable actions have resulted in its vessels being detained, causing backlogs and traffic jams which would be substantially alleviated if its fleet was operating normally. We are receiving real-time updates as the Kent Resilience Forum, police and regional leaders work around-the-clock to ease disruption and support those affected.\"\n\nTrade body Logistics UK said it supported prioritising perishable goods, but said the practicalities of facilitating such a policy were currently unclear.\n\nMags Simpson, Logistics UK's head of policy engagement, said: \"The delays are frustrating for industry and Logistics UK is working with DfT and the ports to identify effective solutions that can be introduced as soon as possible.\"\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation - the trade association that represents businesses which store and move frozen and chilled food - said the poor conditions caused by Operation Brock were fanning the flames of driver shortages, in an already overstretched industry.\n\n\"The UK is getting a growing reputation for being a hassle to serve, and that creates problems for my members who can't find the hauliers to take their business because they don't want to take the risk of sitting in traffic on the M20.\"\n\nPart of the frustration is that hauliers feel like tourist traffic in Dover is being prioritised over freight traffic. Mr Eardley says this further undermines morale.\n\n\"Are we saying that it's not fair to have Jimmy and Jonny delayed in their car going on holiday, but that it's acceptable to ask drivers to wait 20 hours or more in their cab? Until there is more understanding of drivers and their experience, we are on the road to ruin.\"\n\nFrom July this year, the UK will start imposing Brexit controls on meat and dairy goods coming in from the EU. Industry leaders are concerned that this will be yet another crunch time for Dover.", "The Royal Navy has completed its largest defence exercise in the Arctic since the Cold War.\n\nMore than 3,000 sailors and Royal Marines were deployed, alongside Nato allies in temperatures as low as -30C.\n\nIn total 27,000 personnel, warships, armour and air power from 27 countries in Europe and North America took part.\n\nNato has stressed the exercise was long-planned and not linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe exercise known as Operation Cold Response, which has taken place on seven previous occasions since 2006 and last in 2016, is led by Norway.\n\nThe aim is to help acclimatise allied forces to operate in any environment under any conditions.\n\nThere had been exercises planned for 2020 and 2021, but both were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe UK's biggest warship, HMS Prince of Wales, led the naval fleet acting as Nato command ship. HMS Prince of Wales will also be Nato's command ship for the rest of the year.\n\nThe Royal Navy said Operation Cold Response \"demonstrated the UK's commitment to safeguarding Europe's northern flank against any aggressor\".\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace visited those taking part on the ground and on the ship during the exercise to thank them for their efforts.\n\nHe said: \"I congratulate all those personnel from across the services who have achieved so much in the Arctic over recent weeks.\n\n\"I can testify to the challenging conditions and their utmost professionalism and good humour in maintaining operations throughout.\"", "Boris Johnson has announced £100m worth of weapons for Ukraine after the \"unconscionable bombing\" of refugees at a railway station.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK will send additional military equipment including Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles and 800 anti-tank missiles.\n\nIt comes after dozens of people died when a crowded railway station in eastern Ukraine was hit by rockets.\n\nVladimir Putin's daughters have also been sanctioned by the UK.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Mr Johnson warned Russia will not escape punishment after the attack at Kramatorsk station.\n\nHe said: \"I know that Britain and Germany share exactly the same sense of horror and revulsion at the brutality unleashed including the unconscionable bombing of refugees fleeing their homes this morning.\n\n\"It is a war crime indiscriminately to attack civilians, and Russia's war crimes in Ukraine will not go unnoticed or unpunished.\"\n\nMr Johnson added the UK will send precision munitions \"capable of lingering in the sky until directed to their target\" and more helmets, body armour, and night vision.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said the UK will also be providing Ukraine with armoured Mastiff vehicles to fight Russia's invasion.\n\nMastiffs are heavily armoured vehicles suitable for road patrols and convoys.\n\nThe vehicles will be stripped of sensitive equipment and British troops will help with training in a neighbouring country, the Times reported.\n\nMr Putin's daughters Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova are subject to travel bans and asset freezes\n\nEarlier, the Foreign Office announced fresh sanctions on Mr Putin's daughters, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova, 35, and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, 36.\n\nThey will be subject to travel bans and asset freezes, the government said.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said the move ensures those benefitting from Mr Putin's rule will \"feel consequences\".\n\nMeanwhile, the daughter of Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vinokurova, 39, has also been sanctioned.\n\nIt comes after the three women were sanctioned by the United States on Wednesday.\n\nMs Truss said: \"By freezing the assets and limiting the travel of Putin's allies, the UK government is sealing off reservoirs of cash funding the conflict, while also making sure those who have benefited from Putin's rule feel the consequences.\n\n\"Oligarchs and other wealthy Russians are amongst those hit hardest by the sanctions, which have drastically limited their access to luxury consumer goods and access to international markets.\"\n\nThe UK government said £275bn of Russian foreign currency reserves, representing 60% of its total, have been frozen due to UK and international sanctions.\n\nIt added the sanctions were having \"deep and damaging consequences for Putin's ability to wage war\".\n\nMore than 1,200 individuals and businesses have been targeted by the UK, including Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich and Mr Lavrov's stepdaughter Polina Kovaleva.", "Two airline passengers accused of \"unruly behaviour\" have been hit with the largest fines ever proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration.\n\nThe five-figure penalties on the two flyers accused of violence are part of $2m (£1.5m) in fines levied this year.\n\nUS airlines have seen record numbers of disruptive passengers since early 2021, with many incidents involving the refusal to wear an anti-viral facemask.\n\nThe fines were announced by transport secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday.\n\n\"If you are on an airplane, don't be a jerk and don't endanger the flight crews and fellow passengers,\" he said in an appearance on ABC's The View. \"If you do, you will be fined by the FAA.\"\n\nIn one incident, an American Airlines passenger travelling from Texas to North Carolina has been asked to pay a $81,950 fine for threatening to hurt a flight attendant. The attendant had offered to help the passenger after she fell into the aisle of the plane.\n\nThe unnamed passenger then allegedly pushed an airline worker and tried to open the cabin door. While flight attendants attempted to restrain her, she repeatedly hit one staff member in the head.\n\nWhen she was placed in cuffs, \"she spit at, headbutted, bit and tried to kick the crew and other passengers\", the FAA said in a news release.\n\nIn the other incident, the passenger was flying on Delta Air Lines from Las Vegas to Atlanta. She allegedly tried to \"hug and kiss the passenger seated next to her, walked to the front of the aircraft to try to exit during flight; refused to return to her seat; and bit another passenger multiple times\".\n\nThat passenger, who is also unnamed, was physically restrained by crew members and has now been asked to pay a fine of $77,272.\n\nNeither incident involved a failure to adhere to Covid measures.\n\nIn his interview with The View, Mr Buttigieg said the US would decide by 18 April on whether to extend the federal requirement to wear masks on planes and in airports.\n\nThe FAA announced a \"zero-tolerance\" policy on unruly passengers in January 2021, and has issued some $7m in fines since then.\n\nThey have recorded 7,060 air rage incidents and say around 70% involved masking rules. But the rate of incidents has now declined by 60% since its high last year.", "Ex-tennis star Boris Becker has been found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act relating to his 2017 bankruptcy.\n\nThe former world number one was accused of hiding millions of pounds worth of assets to avoid paying his debts.\n\nHe was declared bankrupt in June 2017 over an unpaid loan of more than £3m on his estate in Mallorca, Spain.\n\nBecker, 54, was acquitted of a further 20 charges at London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday.\n\nHe was cleared of nine counts of failing to hand over trophies and medals from his tennis career, including two Wimbledon men's singles trophies.\n\nThe six-time Grand Slam champion told reporters outside court he would not be commenting on the verdict.\n\nHe was found guilty of transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds from his business account after his bankruptcy, failing to declare a property in Germany, and concealing €825,000 of debt.\n\nHe could face a jail sentence carrying a maximum term of seven years for each count.\n\nBecker told the jury his career earnings of $50m (about £38 million) were spent on an expensive divorce from his first wife in 2001, child maintenance payments, and \"expensive lifestyle commitments\", including his £22,000-a-month rented house in Wimbledon, south-west London.\n\nThe former tennis star told the court he was \"shocked\" and \"embarrassed\" when he was declared bankrupt, and he had co-operated with those tasked with securing his assets, including offering up his wedding ring.\n\nBecker, a German national who has lived in the UK since 2012, was cleared of failing to declare a second German property, as well as his interest in the £2.5m Chelsea flat occupied by his daughter.\n\nDuring the trial, he said he earned a \"vast amount\" in his career, paying in cash for several properties, but his income \"reduced dramatically\" following his retirement in 1999.\n\nHis barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC, said at the time of Becker's bankruptcy he was too \"trusting and reliant\" on his advisers.\n\nAt the start of the trial, Judge Deborah Taylor instructed the jury of 11 men and one woman to ignore Becker's celebrity.\n\n\"You must treat him in exactly the same way you would treat someone you have not heard of and is not in the public eye,\" she said.\n\nDean Beale, the chief executive of the Insolvency Service, said: \"This conviction serves as a clear warning to those who think they can hide their assets and get away with it. You will be found out and prosecuted.\"\n\nBecker has been bailed ahead of a sentencing hearing on 29 April.", "The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world Image caption: The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world\n\nWe reported earlier that the BBC has been able to verify the deaths of more than 1,000 Russian troops, of whom about 20% are officers.\n\nEven if we talk about confirmed losses only - there is evidence that Russia has lost some of its best specialists, including elite special forces operators, highly skilled fighter pilots and some experienced commanders.\n\nIt takes five years and at least $10,000 to prepare an infantry lieutenant in Russia. For other specialties, the cost rises to $60,000 per officer. It costs between $4m and $14m (and takes up to 14 years) to prepare a skillful fighter pilot.\n\nWe also noticed another trend. About 15% of all confirmed losses are paratroopers from units which are considered the elite of the Russian army. And preparation of a paratrooper in Russia demands more money and time compared to an infantryman. So these are sensitive losses.\n\nSome servicemen were very experienced, for example fighter pilot Capt Sergei Volynets fought in Georgia and Syria, and had several medals.\n\nThere are at least 15 military intelligence special forces operators (including five officers) and three maroon berets in the confirmed losses list. These take months or even years to train and educate. The test to get a maroon beret is considered to be one of the hardest in the military world.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nThe 50-1 outsider Noble Yeats won the Grand National at Aintree to give amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen a fairytale farewell in his final ride.\n\nWaley-Cohen held off the challenge of favourite Any Second Now in a thrilling finish, with Delta Work third and Santini fourth.\n\nNoble Yeats, trained in Ireland by Emmet Mullins, is the first horse aged seven to win since Bogskar in 1940.\n\n\"That's beyond words - a fairytale and a fantasy,\" said the winning jockey.\n\nWaley-Cohen, who will turn 40 on Friday, only announced his retirement two days before the big race.\n\nHe had the best record over the National course of any current jockey going into the contest, with six wins in other races, and signed off with a brilliant retirement ride.\n\nIt was a first victory for an amateur jockey since Marcus Armytage won on Mr Frisk at Aintree in 1990.\n• None What happened to your horse?\n\n\"That's definitely it now, I'm done,\" he added. \"I always knew when I had second thoughts about getting out of bed to go and ride one it would be time to call it a day and I couldn't think of anywhere better to go out than this.\n\n\"The reason I kept coming back here year after year is to have a feeling like that.\"\n\nNoble Yeats was bought by the jockey's father Robert Waley-Cohen two months ago.\n\nWaley-Cohen, the former chairman of Cheltenham racecourse and owner of Long Run, who won the 2011 Cheltenham Gold Cup under Sam Waley-Cohen, was overjoyed at the success.\n\n\"It's the dream come true, I can't speak - it's just fabulous,\" said Robert.\n\n\"I feel like quoting Shakespeare - my cup runneth over. I'm really emotional.\"\n\nAny Second Now was second as the 15-2 favourite, Delta Work was third at 10-1, Santini fourth at 33-1 and Fiddlerontheroof finished fifth at 12-1.\n\nJust 15 of the 40 horses who set out made it home.\n\nLast year's winner Minella Times, the mount of Rachael Blackmore, fell at the ninth fence when at the back of the field, while strongly fancied mare Snow Leopardess was pulled up before the second circuit.\n\nHowever, there was a sad note to the race with the news that Discorama suffered a fatal injury.\n\nAn Aintree spokesman said the horse, trained in Ireland by Paul Nolan, was injured on the Flat while travelling between fences and had an untreatable pelvic injury.\n\nIt was the third equine fatality at the three-day meeting after mare Elle Est Belle earlier on Saturday and Solwara One on Friday.\n\nWaley-Cohen, who finished second in the 2011 Grand National on Oscar Time, had Noble Yeats at the back of the field early on, but jumped solidly and moved up to mid-division by the halfway point.\n\nWith two fences to go there were six runners in with a chance but Two For Gold, out in front for so long, pulled up at the penultimate fence and then it was between Noble Yeats and Any Second Now going to the last.\n\nNoble Yeats then took the inside at the Elbow and from then on it was victory all the way.\n\nHowever, the winning jockey was suspended by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) for nine days and fined £400 for using his whip above the permitted level and in the incorrect place in the finish.\n\nBut given Waley-Cohen has announced his retirement, he will not serve the ban.\n\nIt was a first National runner for winning trainer Mullins, the nephew of champion trainer Willie Mullins.\n\n\"Today was the plan, and it's nice when a plan comes together,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't get to see much of him early doors, but going away from the stands I had to take a breath and I said 'this is a winner's position'. It was the perfect spot on that second circuit.\n\n\"That last circuit, everything just seemed to fall into place. I would say I'm understandably shell-shocked.\"\n\nThere have been some great amateurs over the years and you can add Sam Waley-Cohen to that list. He has gone and won the Grand National on his last-ever ride. It is a sensational result.\n\nAny Second Now had no hard-luck stories. He had the perfect run round and he came with a challenge at the last.\n\nYou can feel the shock that a 50-1 chance has beaten the red-hot favourite.\n• None Panorama reports from the frontline in southern Ukraine\n• None 'You can't just walk away, they'll kill you' -", "More than 50 people were killed and many more wounded in a missile strike on a train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Friday. One day later, people are attempting to pick up the pieces from the deadly attack.\n\nThey're still searching through the wreckage and debris at Kramatorsk station.\n\nThe bodies of the dead were soon removed from the scene of a missile strike on Friday, but you can still see the dried blood and some evidence of human remains 24 hours later. The uncollected travel bags of those who did not survive have been gathered together and now lie in an empty ticket office.\n\nSergei, a volunteer with the Ukrainian Army, was still looking through the wreckage of destroyed cars, parked outside the station. There was evidence in one of a burnt child's body.\n\nSergei is used to death. He's been recovering the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in battle. But on Friday, he was having to gather the corpses and the remains of unarmed civilians - the innocents of this war. He has no doubt that Russia is to blame for the attack that has left more than 50 people dead and many more injured.\n\nWatching mothers grieve over children killed in the blast has clearly taken its toll on Sergei.\n\n\"When you see our future, the future of Ukraine being killed, you can't control your emotions,\" he says. He calls it a genocide.\n\n\"You just don't understand the motivation of the people who did this. What was this for?\"\n\nThousands of people were gathered at Kramatorsk station when the missile struck at 10:30 in the morning. They were waiting for a train to take them west, to relative safety. The region's authorities had told civilians to leave as Russia steps up its offensive in the Donbas. Kramatorsk and a number of other cities in eastern Ukraine have recently been targeted by Russian airstrikes, artillery and missiles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Burnt-out cars and remains of a missile outside Kramatorsk station\n\nRussia has denied it was responsible for Friday's attack. It even claims that it wasn't their missile. It's still not clear what exactly happened.\n\nUkraine's state railway says the station was hit by two missiles. The damage is certainly spread over a wide area. It's possible there were three missiles - and one was shot down by Ukraine's air defences.\n\nOn Saturday, investigators were examining the remains of what looks like a Tochka missile which landed just yards from the station. Part of the casing remains intact. In white paint, someone has written in Russian: \"For the Children\". Was it meant as some kind of revenge? If so, for what?\n\nEyewitnesses also describe seeing multiple explosions, raising questions as to whether the missile, or missiles, had been fitted with cluster munitions. Banned by many countries, they're designed to kill and maim over a wide area.\n\nAt Kramatorsk hospital, medical staff had been working through the day and night to treat the many injured.\n\nSurgeon Victor Borisovich said six people died before they had a chance to operate. Another two died after surgery - including a young child. Victor says many were life-threatening injuries, which he lists as \"amputations, torn limbs, torn feet, stomach wounds and brain injuries\". He tells me he has no doubt that the injuries and deaths were the responsibility of Russia.\n\n\"I can't imagine what kind of person takes the decision to launch a missile into a place where civilians are gathering,\" he says. \"It just cannot be explained.\"\n\nWhen we arrived at the hospital, a small number of patients were being loaded into ambulances to be taken to Dnipro, further west, for surgery. They still had pieces of shrapnel embedded in their bodies. Some were clearly still in shock. One woman said it was a miracle she'd survived. She described the scene.\n\n\"There were a lot of explosions. I fell down, then I started running, but people started to shout, 'Get down,' so I fell on the ground again.\"\n\nWhen she got up again, she says, she realised many were dead. \"God saved me,\" she says.\n\nFew of those we spoke to were willing to say who was responsible for their injuries. One woman did blame Russia, but she also suggested that the target might have been a train carrying military equipment. We saw no evidence of that when we arrived a few hours after the blast.\n\nIt is still possible that the people waiting for a train were not the intended target. Western officials say that a Tochka missile, also known as an SS-21 Scarab, can miss its target by up to 30m.\n\nEven that suggests that whoever fired the missile knew that lots of people could be in harm's way. But if the missile was designed to kill unarmed civilians waiting for a train, then Western politicians are in no doubt that it would amount to a war crime.", "A Kinder chocolate factory in Belgium has been ordered to close after it was linked to dozens of salmonella cases.\n\nBelgium's food safety authority has also ordered the recall of all Kinder products made at the factory in Arlon, which is owned by Ferrero.\n\nSuspected salmonella cases linked to Kinder chocolate have been reported in countries including the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.\n\nBelgium's food safety authority, the AFSCA, said the factory was ordered to shut after Ferrero was unable to provide complete information for its investigation.\n\nThe AFSCA said the investigation was ongoing and the factory would only be allowed to reopen if Ferrero could provide the necessary guarantees that it complied with food safety regulations.\n\nBelgian Agriculture Minister David Clarinval said in a statement: \"Such a decision is never taken lightly, but the current circumstances make it necessary. The food security of our citizens can never be neglected.\"\n\nThe recall includes all Kinder Surprise, Kinder Surprise Maxi, Kinder Mini Eggs and Kinder Schokobons products.\n\nThe AFSCA has also asked companies to remove the products from their shelves and advised people not to eat them.\n\nOn Thursday, Ferrero recalled some of its Kinder chocolates from shops in the US over concerns about potential salmonella contamination.\n\nEarlier this week, a number of Kinder Surprise chocolate egg products were also recalled in the UK.\n\nOn Friday evening, the UK's Food Standards Agency said that none of the products recalled should be eaten, regardless of best before date.\n\nAll the sweets affected had been made in the same Belgian factory.\n\nTina Potter, head of incidents at the Food Standards Agency, said: \"We have emphasised to the business and the authorities in Belgium the importance of taking as precautionary an approach to their recall as possible and trust that they will continue to put consumers' needs first in any action they take.\"\n\nCustomers can contact Ferrero directly for a full refund and the products will be taken off the shelves and notices put up in shops to warn consumers.\n\nSome Kinder chocolates have also been recalled in parts of Asia, including Hong Kong and Singapore.\n\nFerrero has previously described the recalls as \"precautionary\" and said none of its Kinder products released for sale had tested positive for salmonella.\n\nIt came after more than 60 people in the UK, mostly young children, became infected with salmonella in an outbreak linked to Kinder Surprise eggs.\n\nOn Wednesday, Europe's health agency said it was also looking into dozens of suspected cases of salmonella linked with eating chocolate in at least nine countries including the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.\n\nIt did not mention Ferrero or any other confectioner in a statement, but warned that the reported cases were mostly among children under 10.\n\nThe salmonella bacteria can cause serious and severe infections, especially in children or elderly people and others with weak immune systems.", "Former cricket star Imran Khan urged his supporters to protest on Sunday if he is ousted from office\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned that if he is ousted from power, he will not recognise an opposition government.\n\nHe was speaking ahead of a no-confidence vote in parliament on Saturday, which he is expected to lose.\n\nMr Khan said he accepted the Supreme Court decision that he must face the vote, but repeated claims the US is leading a conspiracy to remove him. He did not provide evidence.\n\nThere were angry scenes between supporters and opponents of the prime minister as parliament met to debate the motion on Saturday.\n\nThe speaker adjourned proceedings for several hours before parliament reconvened at 14:30 local time (10:30 BST).\n\nThe BBC's Secunder Kermani says the prime minister is widely regarded as having come to power with the help of Pakistan's army, but now observers say they have fallen out.\n\nA number of his coalition partners have also deserted him.\n\nDuring his Friday address, Mr Khan urged people to come out of their houses on Sunday to protest against the \"foreign-funded drama\".\n\nHe added: \"I will be there with you as I will never accept this foreign conspiracy against Pakistan.\"\n\nThe leader of the opposition, Shehbaz Sharif, said the decision to go forward with a vote of no-confidence had \"saved Pakistan and the constitution\".\n\nPakistan's Supreme Court had ordered parliament to reassemble on Saturday morning, and it has.\n\nIt initially appeared that Imran Khan's party would attempt to delay the vote of no-confidence, with the Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, known for his lengthy speeches at the best of times, embarking on a what appeared to be a deliberately meandering monologue.\n\nOpposition MPs reacted angrily, warning that a delay would be in breach of the Supreme Court's order. There's a suggestion the vote could happen in the evening and Imran Khan is still expected to lose it.\n\nHis allies, however, are doubling down on their allegation that the attempt to oust him is part of a US orchestrated conspiracy.\n\nThey cite a diplomatic cable from the Pakistani ambassador in Washington as proof, in which he reportedly said an American official warned there would be \"consequences\" if Mr Khan remained prime minister because of his recent visit to Russia.\n\nMembers of Mr Khan's party in parliament have brought posters with them, one reading, \"whoever is a friend of America is a traitor\".\n\nMr Khan's opponents and US officials have dismissed the conspiracy allegation, most analysts believe it's a deliberate exaggeration of the contents of the diplomatic cable.\n\nSaturday's confidence vote comes after opposition lawmakers put forward a no-confidence motion to parliament last Sunday, in a bid to oust Mr Khan from power.\n\nBut parliament's deputy speaker Qasim Suri - a member of Mr Khan's political party - swiftly blocked the vote, saying it showed \"foreign interference\". Mr Suri also said that it went against the constitution, which calls for loyalty to the state.\n\nMr Khan's government went on to dissolve parliament and called for a snap election to be held.\n\nThis made several opposition members furious, with some accusing the prime minister of treason for blocking the vote.\n\nOpposition figures submitted a petition to the Supreme Court to assess the situation.\n\nOn Thursday, Pakistan's top court ruled that Mr Khan's decision to stop the vote from going ahead was unconstitutional. It ordered that the no-confidence vote should go ahead again on Saturday, 9 April.\n\nOpposition supporters celebrated outside the Supreme Court after the court ruled the blocked vote as unconstitutional\n\nMr Khan has repeatedly said that Pakistan's opposition parties are working with foreign powers.\n\nHe claims that he is the target of a US-led conspiracy to remove him because of his refusal to stand with Washington on issues against Russia and China. The US said there was \"no truth\" in these allegations.\n\nThe expectation is that the former international cricket star will lose Saturday's vote.\n\nIn the event that Mr Khan is ousted from power, the opposition parties will appoint a new prime minister who can hold power until October 2023, when a new election is scheduled to be held.\n\nBBC Urdu reporter Abid Hussain says it is unclear what other options Mr Khan can exercise to avoid that outcome, unless he and his MPs decide to submit a resignation in an attempt to avoid the humiliation of a defeat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things to know about Imran Khan (from 2018)", "Four years ago Gillian Docherty's cystic fibrosis symptoms were so bad she thought she was living on borrowed time but a new drug improved her health so much she has now had a baby.\n\nGillian, from Glasgow, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme she had lived with CF all her life but her health had declined significantly after going into hospital with flu in her early 30s.\n\nThe 36-year-old dentist says her lung function was so poor she could not climb the stairs or go for a walk.\n\nGillian says she was severely underweight and constantly exhausted because of coughing 24 hours a day.\n\nShe says the only plans she made for the future were getting her end-of-life affairs in order to spare her husband Andy the trouble after she was gone.\n\nGillian says she was severely underweight and exhausted before she went on the new drug\n\nCystic fibrosis is a condition which causes sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive system. This leads to lung infections and problems with digesting food.\n\nEventually, without proper management, patients face a significantly shortened life expectancy and many require lung transplants as there is no cure for the illness.\n\nIn 2018, Gillian was told she met the criteria for a clinical trial of the now-approved drug Kaftrio, which reverses main symptoms of CF.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I was so unwell, my lung function was hovering around the 40% mark and it would not be much further before you would be looking at transplant assessment for new lungs, so there was nothing to lose.\"\n\nThe results of the trial were \"mind-blowing\", Gillian says.\n\n\"I didn't expect that within three or four hours of taking the first pills I would start to breathe more easily,\" she says.\n\nAccording to Gillian, her sinuses started to clear and her cough started to break up the mucus in her chest, allowing her to breathe more easily.\n\n\"It was absolutely mental,\" she says.\n\nThe improvement in her health allowed Gillian to take a once-in-a lifetime trip to Australia\n\nWithin two weeks of taking the medication, she saw her lung function increase from 38% to 74%.\n\nToday it is more than 80%, and continues to improve.\n\nThis meant she could sleep better and exercise more, benefiting her overall health.\n\n\"It changed everything,\" she says. \"There are so many improvements you can't measure. The colour of my skin is more alive, my hair is healthier, every part of me is healthier.\"\n\nAnd there is one change that she never thought possible.\n\nEven before she became extremely unwell she and her husband had decided against having a family.\n\nShe says she would never have been well enough to sustain a pregnancy but even if she did she was concerned about living long enough to raise a child.\n\n\"I didn't want my child's mother to die and that's certainly what would have happened,\" she says.\n\nBut Gillian says the dramatic effect of the drug led the couple to reconsider and, in December, baby Frederick was born.\n\nSince Kaftrio was approved, more than 250 patients have undergone treatment at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nDr Gordon MacGregor, consultant physician at the QEUH and one of the team looking after Mrs Docherty, said: \"We have a large expert team of staff delivering CF care within the QEUH and Kaftrio has really been a gamechanger in treating the patients for whom it is clinically appropriate.\n\n\"It helps keep them out of the hospital and enables them to live pretty normal lives, albeit they will always need a level of care from staff for their condition.\n\n\"It's fantastic to see the impact it's had on Gillian, who has gone from rapid deterioration and an uncertain future to having a family and bright days and years ahead.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson's fine for breaching lockdown rules is the \"most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister\", a historian has said.\n\nHistory of government expert Lord Hennessy told the BBC Mr Johnson had \"broken the law\", \"misled Parliament\" and \"shredded the ministerial code.\"\n\nMr Johnson is the first serving PM to be sanctioned for breaking the law.\n\nSpeaking after news of the fine was announced, the PM said people \"had the right to expect better\" from him.\n\nMr Johnson has since said it \"did not occur\" to him at the time that the \"brief\" gathering in the Cabinet Room to mark his birthday in June 2020 could be in contravention of Covid lockdown rules.\n\nHe is known to have attended at least two further events of the 12 being investigated by police, meaning he could be fined again.\n\nOne No 10 aide, who witnessed many of the events under investigation, told the BBC the birthday party was the least serious gathering, in terms of potential rule-breaking, that the PM attended.\n\nThe prime minister intends to update MPs on the fine after they return from their Easter break on Tuesday.\n\nOpposition parties are investigating ways to hold him to account for what they see as misleading statements to Parliament.\n\nSpeaking to Broadcasting House on BBC Radio 4, cross-bench peer Lord Hennessy said: \"I think we're in the most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister that I can remember.\"\n\nHe added when Mr Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined on Tuesday, he wrote in his diary that \"Tuesday 12 April 2022 will be forever remembered as a dark bleak day for public and political life\" and the prime minister had become \"the great debaser in modern times of decency in public and political life, and of our constitutional conventions\".\n\n\"The prime minister sealed his place in British history as the first lawbreaker to have occupied the premiership,\" Lord Hennessy wrote.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson had turned his position into \"an adventure playground for his narcissistic vanity\".\n\nLord Hennessy accused the prime minister of having \"broken the law, misled Parliament and has in effect shredded the ministerial code\" when he \"should be the guardian of the code\".\n\nThe chancellor and prime minister have both apologised for receiving fines\n\nThe prime minister is under pressure to justify why he previously said to MPs that rules in No 10 Downing Street were followed at all times.\n\nOpposition MPs have accused him of misleading the House of Commons, which they say would break the ministerial code and be a resigning offence.\n\nLord Hennessy said Mr Johnson's decision not to resign showed \"complete and utter disdain for the decency of our constitutional conventions\".\n\nHe also criticised ministers defending his conduct on the airwaves and their use of the situation in Ukraine to argue there should not be a leadership contest now by saying they \"cannot ignore the decency of your own system\".\n\nHe said: \"The Queen's First Minister is now beyond doubt a rogue prime minister, unworthy of her, her Parliament, her people, and her kingdom.\n\n\"I cannot remember a day when I have been more fearful for the well-being of the constitution.\n\n\"It's an assault on not just the decent state of mind which keeps our society open and clean but also on the institutions of the state.\n\n\"If he's not prepared to do the decent thing... why should anybody else behave decently and properly? The whole decency of our public life turns on this question.\"\n\nLord Hennessy of Nympsfield sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher\n\nLord Hennessy thinks future prime ministers should sign an oath to protect and uphold the constitution and that Boris Johnson \"must have knowingly misled when he said the guidelines were kept throughout\".\n\nAmong the options open to opposition parties to put political pressure on Mr Johnson include asking a parliamentary committee to investigate or holding a Commons vote.\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas has written to Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle asking him to establish a process to investigate both Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak.\n\nIt puts pressure on the parliamentary authorities to respond and on some Conservative Party backbenchers who have been on the fence about their leader's conduct.", "Civil servants must stop working from home and return to the office to ensure government buildings are at full capacity, ministers have been told.\n\nCabinet Office minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has written to cabinet colleagues urging them to send a \"clear message\" to the civil service about returning.\n\nThe FDA union said his comments were out of step with practice in the private sector.\n\nAverage daily attendance in the week of 4 April was 44%, figures show.\n\nThe government's recommendation for people to work from home ended in January, after being reintroduced in the face of the emergence of the Omicron variant last year.\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg - who also has the role of government efficiencies minister as part of his brief - said there was \"much further to go\" to reach pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said it was right to push for a return to pre-pandemic levels of occupancy.\n\nHe said it was not just about \"value-for-money\" for taxpayer-funded buildings but also of benefit to staff - particularly junior staff, whose career development can be hampered by a lack of face-to-face working, the government believes.\n\nIn a letter to the heads of government departments dated 13 April, seen by the BBC, he urged cabinet ministers to \"review any guidance within your departments that sets an expectation of the minimum number of days in the office per week.\"\n\nHe also sent a league table of daily civil service office attendance from the week beginning on 4 April, which shows in some departments daily average of staff in the workplace was lower than a third.\n\nThe Department for Education had the lowest office attendance at 25% of current daily capacity, while the Department for International Trade was highest at 73%.\n\nThe average across all departments in the same week was 44%, according to the figures.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg said he planned to continue visiting departments with lower attendance figures to \"ensure we are making efficient use of the central London estate\".\n\nDave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA which represents senior civil servants, said the move was \"vindictive\" and accused ministers of acting like \"luddites\".\n\nHe said there was \"no rationale\" for it, arguing that ministers \"couldn't point to productivity losses\" and were obsessed with micro-managing the civil service.\n\nSome senior Tory MPs have also called for more to be done to encourage civil servants back to their workplaces.\n\nSir Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 committee, wrote at the weekend: \"It is simply unacceptable for so many of our public servants to continue sitting at home.\"\n\nAsked about the letter, a government spokeswoman said: \"Ministers have been clear that departments should make maximum use of office space and progress is being monitored.\"\n\nHowever, some have suggested forcing civil servants to return to the office may be counter-productive.\n\nIn a report from February, the Institute for Government think tank argued offering hybrid working has key benefits to help the government achieve its agenda and said the government would be wrong to force a return to full-time office work.\n\nIt said the benefits of flexible working were needed to help the government relocate centres of the civil service outside of London - and to recruit the best staff.", "ThisEgg, the creators of the show, said they had received threats\n\nA sex education theatre show aimed at children has been cancelled after the venue said it had received \"unprecedented threats and abuse\".\n\nThe Family Sex Show, featuring topics such as consent, pleasure and queerness, was due to be performed at Bristol's Tobacco Factory in May.\n\nThe creators of the show, who said they had also received threats, have now cancelled its whole tour.\n\nMore than 38,000 people signed a petition calling for it to be axed.\n\nThe petition claimed the show was \"profoundly irresponsible\" and \"wholly inappropriate\".\n\nThe show would have featured full-frontal nudity and those organising it would \"present a severe safeguarding risk\", protesters added.\n\nIn a statement, the Tobacco Factory said: \"Performances of The Family Sex Show by ThisEgg at Tobacco Factory Theatres have been cancelled.\n\n\"This is due to the unprecedented threats and abuse directed at our building and team.\"\n\nIt apologised to people who had booked tickets and said they would be offered refunds.\n\nThe show was due to be held at the Egg Theatre in Bath and the Tobacco Factory in Bristol\n\nThe show also explored topics such as non-sexual nudity and gender and was aimed at children as young as five.\n\nIt was due to be performed at The Egg theatre in Bath and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.\n\nIts creators ThisEgg said they had received \"violent and illegal threats\" from \"a small group of people with extremist views\".\n\nIn a Twitter statement, it said: \"These public performances would have offered safe and positive learning to children, young people and guardians about rights, bodies, sex and relationships\".\n\nThey said audiences were given information about the content before booking \"so they could make an informed decision\" as to whether to watch it.\n\nThe opposition had \"prevented families from opting to attend something that was transparent, consensual and legal,\" ThisEgg added.\n\nCritics on Twitter responded by saying the show was unsuitable for children.\n\n\"I can't believe anyone thought this show would be appropriate for children,\" said one.\n\nAnother said it was \"utterly abhorrent\" that the show's creators had intended to perform it for children.\n\n\"I was horrified. Thank goodness it's cancelled,\" they added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by OOR LESLEY Cybernat🍒 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe show explores names and functions, boundaries, consent and relationships\n\nThey continued: \"We believe that what has happened is reflective of structural and societal attitudes towards relationships and sex education as well as art, culture and who is allowed to create and what we are allowed to engage with in the UK.\n\n\"Removing work that celebrates freedom of expression from stages cannot be the answer.\"\n\nThe company said there would be performances for an invited audience at The Egg in Bath.\n\nCorrection - 3 May 2022: This article has been amended to remove references to how the show was made in consultation with safeguarding specialists after new information came to light.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new series of Stranger Things will air in May\n\nNetflix has hinted it will crack down on households sharing passwords as it seeks to sign up new members following a sharp fall in subscribers.\n\nThe number of households using the streaming service fell by 200,000 in the first three months of the year as it faced stiff competition from rivals.\n\nIt was also hit after it raised prices in some countries and left Russia.\n\nNetflix warned shareholders another two million subscribers were likely to leave in the three months to July.\n\n\"Our revenue growth has slowed considerably,\" the firm told shareholders on Tuesday after publishing its first quarter results.\n\n\"Our relatively high household penetration - when including the large number of households sharing accounts - combined with competition, is creating revenue growth headwinds.\"\n\nThe streaming giant estimates more than 100 million households watch the service for free using shared passwords.\n\nBoss Reed Hastings previously described the practice as \"something you have to learn to live with\", adding that much of it is \"legitimate\" between family members. The firm also said account sharing had probably fuelled its growth by getting more people using Netflix.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr Hastings said it was making it hard to attract new subscribers in some countries.\n\n\"When we were growing fast, it wasn't a high priority to work on [account sharing]. And now we're working super hard on it,\" he told shareholders.\n\nThe firm said payment plans it is testing to curb password sharing in Latin America could be rolled out to other countries.\n\nSince last month, account holders in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru must pay to add user profiles for people outside their household (the company currently allows people who live together to share their Netflix account).\n\nUsers can add up to two extra profiles for $2-$3 (£1.53-£2.30) a month each, on top of their regular fee.\n\nNetflix - which did not say how it would enforce the rule - said it was seeking a \"customer centric\" solution.\n\n\"The principle way we have is asking our members to pay a bit more to share the service outside their homes,\" said Greg Peters, Netflix's chief product officer.\n\nDominic Sunnebo, an analyst at research firm Kantar, warned the plan could backfire at a time when consumers were looking for ways to save money.\n\n\"If the schemes to counter password sharing move too fast and too aggressively, it also risks alienating a potential future audience - many who password-share beyond the household are not actually aware they're breaking the terms of their subscription.\"\n\nNetflix said that pulling out of Russia in March in response to the Ukraine war had cost it 700,000 subscribers.\n\nAnd another 600,000 people stopped using its service in the US and Canada after it put up prices in January.\n\nThe firm raised prices across all of its US plans, with a basic plan increasing from $9 to $10 per month, and a standard from $14 to $15.50.\n\nIn the UK, basic and standard plans have both increased by £1 a month to £6.99 and £10.99 respectively.\n\nNetflix said the price rises would yield more money for the firm, despite the cancellations. But analysts say the rising cost of streaming services is wearing on households as the cost of living rises.\n\nIn the UK, households cancelled more than 1.5 million streaming subscriptions in the first three months of the year, with 38% saying they wanted to save money.\n\nOne of Netflix most popular series, Bridgerton, launched its second series last month\n\nSeeming to acknowledge this, Mr Hastings said Netflix was looking at launching a free ad-supported service like its rivals Disney and HBO.\n\nAnalysts say it could open a significant new revenue stream for the company, which has so far shunned advertising.\n\n\"Those who have followed Netflix know that I've been against the complexity of advertising, and a big fan of the simplicity of subscription,\" he said. \"But, as much as I'm a fan of that, I'm a bigger fan of consumer choice.\"\n\nNetflix's biggest threat is intense competition from firms such as Amazon, Apple and Disney, which are pouring money into their online streaming services, according to experts.\n\nPaolo Pescatore, an analyst at PP Foresight, said Netflix's subscriber loss was a \"reality check\", as it tries to balance retaining subscribers with raising its revenue.\n\nTell us how you have been affected by the issues raised in this story.\n\n\"While Netflix and other services were key in lockdown, users are now thinking twice about their purchasing behaviour based upon changing habits,\" he said.\n\nNorth America especially is \"now awash with too many services chasing too few dollars\", he added.\n\nShares in the streaming giant plunged in early trade in New York on Wednesday, dropping more than 30% off the back of the update.\n\nThe firm - which remains the world's leading streaming service with more than 220 million subscribers - had enjoyed uninterrupted quarterly growth in subscribers since October 2011.\n\nHowever, it said a surge in sign-ups during the pandemic had \"obscured\" the real picture around its growth.\n\nIt made revenue of $7.8bn (£6bn) in the first three months of the year, up 9.8% compared with the same period last year.\n\nThat marked a slowdown from earlier quarters, while profits fell more than 6% to roughly $1.6bn", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "So far, more than 50 fines have been issued for breaking Covid laws in No 10 and Whitehall.\n\nThe BBC is aware of three events that have led to fines so far.\n\nBut the Met Police's investigation is into 12 events in total - meaning there are nine more gatherings that could result in sanctions.\n\nThe prime minister is known to have attended at least two of these, and reports suggest he could have been at up to three more.\n\nSo in theory, Mr Johnson could face more fines, depending on the outcome of the police investigation.\n\nThe PM has promised to get back to focusing on voter priorities - including the cost of living crisis and the war on Ukraine.\n\nBut will his determination overcome any future twists and turns in this saga, whether it be fines or further damning details?", "Two British men reportedly captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine have appeared on Russian state TV appealing to Boris Johnson for help.\n\nShaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, were shown in two separate videos on Monday, asking to be exchanged with a pro-Russian politician held in Ukraine.\n\nIt is not clear if their pleas to the prime minister, shown on the Rossiya 24 channel, were made under duress.\n\nThe Foreign Office called on the Kremlin to treat prisoners humanely.\n\nA source from the department condemned \"the exploitation of prisoners of war for political purposes\".\n\nIn the two clips, Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner address the prime minister, asking to be exchanged for pro-Kremlin politician Viktor Medvedchuk. In his video, Mr Aslin speaks while an unidentified man stands over him.\n\nMr Medvedchuk has also appeared in a video, released by Ukraine's intelligence service.\n\nBoth Britons had been living in Ukraine before it was invaded and have Ukrainian partners.\n\nThey had both been serving as marines in Ukraine's military.\n\nIn an earlier social media video Mr Pinner, who is originally from Bedfordshire, gives his name and says he was fighting in the besieged port city of Mariupol before being captured.\n\nHe says he is now in the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic area in eastern Ukraine. Again, it is not clear if he was speaking under duress.\n\nThe family of Mr Pinner say he is a \"funny, much-loved, well-intentioned\" man.\n\nThey said they are hoping for a quick resolution to his situation.\n\nThey called for him and Mr Aslin to be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention.\n\nThe convention includes treating them humanely and prohibiting humiliating and degrading treatment.\n\nAiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nIn a statement, Mr Pinner's family said he was a \"well-respected\" soldier in the British Army before he moved to Ukraine four years ago to use his previous experience and training with the Ukrainian military.\n\nHe is a \"proud member of his unit\" in the Ukrainian Marines, they said.\n\n\"Shaun enjoyed the Ukrainian way of life and considered Ukraine as his adopted country over the last four years. During this time, he met his Ukrainian wife who is very focussed on the humanitarian needs of the country,\" they said.\n\nMr Pinner's three-year contract was due to expire at the end of the year and he was planning to enter a humanitarian role in the country, according to his family.\n\n\"Shaun is a funny, much-loved, well-intentioned husband, son, father, brother and friend to many,\" they said.\n\n\"We are hoping for a quick resolution to allow Shaun and Aiden to return safely to their families and we ask for privacy at this difficult time.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to all those caught up in this horrific conflict.\"\n\nA Foreign Office source said it was aware of the detention of two British nationals and had been in touch with their families to support them, adding that it was advising against all travel to Ukraine.\n\nFormer care worker Mr Aslin, who has a Ukrainian fiancée and dual citizenship, is also believed to have been captured in Mariupol.\n\nFighting has continued in the city despite an ultimatum from Moscow for the remaining fighters to give up.\n\nUkraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the defenders would fight to the end against Russian forces.\n\nMariupol is seen as a major strategic prize for Russia as it would gain control of a vast swathe of southern and eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe situation for civilians in the city is desperate, with homes destroyed and widespread water shortages.", "Boris Johnson has been fined by police for attending a birthday party thrown for him during a Covid lockdown, and has offered a full apology.\n\nThe BBC's Ros Atkins looks at the events leading up to the UK Prime Minister saying he \"fell short when it came to observing the rules\" laid out by his government.", "Destroyed buildings and vehicles in Mariupol on 13 April Image caption: Destroyed buildings and vehicles in Mariupol on 13 April\n\nThe embattled Ukrainian city of Mariupol could completely fall to Russian forces within days, a European official has told Reuters.\n\nThe official, who asked not to be named, said they believe that Russia hopes to declare the city \"liberated\" by 9 May, the date when Russia marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.\n\n\"We do expect a complete destruction of the city and many civilian casualties in Mariupol,\" they added.\n\nThe official added they fear the death toll could be worse than Bucha, where Russian troops have been accused of killing hundreds of civilians. Russia denies the claims.\n\nAdditionally, the official said they believed Russia's medium-term objective was to control Luhansk and Donetsk and secure a land corridor with Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014.\n\nSuch an operation is likely to take between four and six months to complete, after which the conflict could result in a stalemate, the official added.", "The PM's phone was among those tested for spyware, it is claimed\n\nDowning Street and Foreign Office computer systems were suspected to have been infected with spyware, according to a Canadian investigative group.\n\nThe Citizen Lab says it informed officials that suspected Pegasus spyware was discovered in 2020 and 2021, with the Downing Street incident linked to operators in the UAE.\n\nPegasus is sold by NSO Group to governments to carry out surveillance through infecting phones with malicious software.\n\nThe Israeli-based company has denied the allegations, saying they are false and could not have taken place.\n\nThe Citizen Lab, which tracks electronic surveillance, said in 2020 and 2021 it notified the UK government that networks belonging to both 10 Downing Street and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were suspected to have been infected using Pegasus spyware.\n\nPegasus allows governments to take control of people's phones, extract data and carry out surveillance.\n\nNSO Group has always defended its use, saying it is only sold to selected governments for legitimate law enforcement and intelligence purposes, such as against criminals or terrorists.\n\nThe latest claims are linked to an investigation by the New Yorker magazine which looked at the targeting of individuals campaigning for Catalan independence from Spain.\n\nThe Citizen Lab said it identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected, including members of the European Parliament, Catalan presidents, legislators, jurists, and members of civil society organisations.\n\nThe New Yorker said that in the UK a number of official phones were tested including those of the prime minister, but it was not possible to establish which device was infected or what - if any data - was taken.\n\nThe Citizen Lab said the suspected Foreign Office infections were believed to be linked to operators of Pegasus in the United Arab Emirates, India, Cyprus and Jordan.\n\nIt said these could have been related to staff serving abroad and using overseas SIM cards, similar to the way US diplomats were reportedly hacked in Uganda. NSO Group has said that US phone numbers cannot be targeted.\n\nThe High Court ruled the ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed hacked his ex-wife's phone using NSO spyware\n\nThe Citizen Lab said it believed the Downing Street suspected infection was linked to the United Arab Emirates.\n\nPrevious investigations by a consortium of journalists claimed that around 400 UK phone numbers appeared in a leaked list of numbers linked to NSO Group between 2017 and 2019, with the UAE alleged to be behind the largest number.\n\nNSO Group reportedly ended its contract with the UAE last year after reports that Pegasus had been used by the ruler of Dubai, part of the UAE, to hack his ex-wife's phone amongst others, claims he denied.\n\nGlobally, activists, journalists and politicians were on the list of potential targets, although the Israeli-based company disputed the interpretation of the leaked material.\n\nIt was placed on a US Department of Commerce blacklist following the reports last year which restricted its access to US technology.\n\nIn response to the latest claims, a spokesperson for the UK government said it did not routinely comment on security matters.\n\nA spokesperson for NSO Group said: \"The information raised regarding these allegations are, yet again, false and could not be related to NSO products for technological and contractual reasons.\n\n\"NSO continues to be targeted by a number of politically motivated advocacy organizations, like Citizens Labs and Amnesty, to produce inaccurate and unsubstantiated reports based on vague and incomplete information.\n\n\"We have repeatedly co-operated with governmental investigations, where credible allegations merit.\"\n\nThe UAE Embassy in London has been approached for comment.", "Being overweight substantially increases the risk of developing womb cancer, research suggests.\n\nIf a 5ft 5in (1.65m) woman is two stone (12.7kg) above a healthy weight, her risk is nearly doubled, for example.\n\nThe Cancer Research UK (CRUK)-funded research involved 120,000 women in the UK, US and five other countries.\n\nThe charity says keeping a healthy weight can cut the risk of 13 different cancers. Genes and hormones may be other risk factors.\n\nOne theory is fat cells can send out signals telling other cells to divide more often, which can lead to cancer.\n\nThe growth of some breast cancers is linked to the female hormone oestrogen, which fat cells also produce, for example.\n\nThe CRUK study, led by a team at the University of Bristol and published in BMC Medicine, is one of the largest into the link between fat and womb cancer.\n\nIt looked at the effect of lifelong weight gain and uncovered two hormones, fasting insulin and testosterone, linked with obesity and womb cancer.\n\nThe researchers hope scientists could in future use drugs to regulate levels of those hormones in people at risk of developing the cancer.\n\nLead investigator Dr Emma Hazelwood said: \"This study is an interesting first step into how genetic analyses could be used to uncover exactly how obesity causes cancer and what can be done to tackle it.\"\n\nCRUK health information head Dr Julie Sharp said: \"Studies like this bolster the fact that being overweight or obese is the second biggest cause of cancer in the UK and can help us start to pinpoint why.\n\n\"This will play a pivotal role in uncovering how to prevent and treat cancer in the future\".\n\nOne in 36 UK women develops womb cancer and one in four people diagnosed is pre-menopausal.\n\nThe most common symptom is abnormal vaginal bleeding.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukrainian authorities said the Russians hit three warehouses and a car service station\n\nThe western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which has so far been largely unscathed by the war, has recorded its first civilian deaths after Russian strikes, officials say.\n\nAt least seven people were killed and 11 injured in the early morning attack on Monday, the city's mayor said, warning that the death toll could rise as emergency services clear through the rubble.\n\nLviv is the hub through which tens of thousands of people have fled to neighbouring Poland after withstanding weeks of strikes in cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol.\n\nBut Mayor Andriy Sadovyi told reporters that the morning strikes showed there were now \"no safe and unsafe locations\" in Ukraine.\n\n\"Everyone is unsafe,\" he added.\n\nRussia has said its plan is to focus its forces in the east - an attempt to capture the industrial area on the border known as the Donbas - after Ukraine held off its attempt to take the capital Kyiv, in the north.\n\nThis is why the strikes in Lviv - which is hundreds of miles from the front line in the east - came as a surprise and left many residents in shock.\n\n\"When we see it in Mariupol, when we see it in Kharkiv, we see it through the prism of a great tragedy,\" Mr Sadovyi told the BBC. \"But when it happens at home people see it through the loss of the person - that you have seen and that you worked with just 30 minutes before.\"\n\nOfficials said the missiles struck three warehouses and a car garage, where a group of colleagues had gathered for a coffee before work.\n\nYury Baran - who worked in IT at the garage - was among them.\n\nLater, his parents Anatoly and Maria arrived at the site of the attack which is now surrounded by ruined cars and debris. They hadn't been able to get through to their son, who was less than a month shy of his 27th birthday.\n\nNow, those helping sift through the rubble told them the worst news: he had died in the attack.\n\n\"Humans cannot do such things. They are not humans, they are barbaric invaders,\" Anatoly said of the Russians.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nValya has lived in a building close to the site since she was born. The 70-year-old heard the sirens shortly before 08:00 local time (06:00 BST) but ignored them - she assumed she would be safe.\n\nThe explosion knocked her to the ground. \"I was so scared,\" she told us. \"Everything was shaking, all the glass shattered.\"\n\nStill wearing her pyjamas, she wandered into the street in a daze until a neighbour yelled at her to head to the basement.\n\n\"My heart was pounding,\" she said. \"I'm lucky this was just the [shockwave] and not a rocket.\"\n\nValya didn't take cover when the sirens rang out this morning, before an explosion shattered her front window\n\nUpstairs in the same block, Olena said she had taken her dog Valdo to the kitchen for cover after hearing the blast.\n\n\"The explosion was so loud I thought it hit my house,\" she said. \"I'm lucky.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the attacks, Mr Sadovyi said people in his city would now take air raid sirens more seriously. While the Russians have previously struck the Lviv region, and wounded five in an attack in March, these are the first civilian deaths confirmed in the city proper.\n\n\"I think after today Lviv residents will not question, should I go to the basement or not?\" he said.\n\nTatiana was at a bus stop when the Russians struck. Like others, she couldn't believe the city was under attack - initially she thought it must have been a gas explosion.\n\nShe described the attacks as \"inhuman\", saying national leaders make decisions and ordinary people \"die for nothing\".\n\n\"It scares me a lot. It's wrong,\" she said. \"This is a great sin.\"\n\nThe strikes shattered a sense of security in the west of the country. Sunday was the first day that the numbers crossing from Poland exceeded those leaving Ukraine since the war began, while some refugees we spoke to are now heading home after initially fleeing the east of the country.\n\nThe city itself has become a haven for fleeing civilians, humanitarian groups, foreign diplomats and journalists. Officials recently extended a curfew until 23:00 local time and city centre bars and churches were bustling over the weekend.\n\nMyroslava, walking past the blast site as firefighters tackled the billowing, black smoke pouring from a roof top, told us she heard the explosion from 1.5km away and echoed the thoughts of all those caught up in Russia's invasion.\n\n\"We're anxious, we're empty inside - why us?\" she said, wide eyed and raising her hands in despair. \"We don't understand what it's all for.\"", "Elisei Ryabukon was 13 when he was killed, trying to escape\n\nEvhen Ryabukon patted the coffin gently, and appeared to be having a final conversation with his son. He broke down, over and over again, before he could finish.\n\nHis wife Inna, steeling herself, adjusted the framed photo of a smiling, young boy placed on the coffin - a mother's last act of care.\n\nThe boy was Elisei Ryabukon. He would have been 14 in May.\n\nJust over a month after he was killed in firing by Russian soldiers, his family, friends, neighbours and classmates gathered at a church in the city of Brovary in the east of Kyiv, to say goodbye to this much loved child from Peremoha village. A community that had been scattered by war, came together in grief.\n\nElisei was remembered as honest, humble and helpful, a boy who didn't like to fight and who refused to play aggressive sport.\n\nInna, Elisei and her younger son were stuck in Peremoha when the fighting started.\n\n\"On 11 March, the Russians gave us permission to leave. They even waved us goodbye and wished us luck. Then when we were crossing a field, they started firing at us from every direction,\" Inna said.\n\nThere were five cars in the convoy of vehicles evacuating. Elisei was in the second car, in which no one survived.\n\n\"I crawled through the field and saved my three-year-old son by dragging him by the hood of his jacket. The fact that any of us made it out alive was pure luck,\" she said.\n\nShe says her younger child is the only reason she's able to carry on. She's filed a complaint with the police and wants justice for Elisei's killing.\n\n\"I want the world to know about the crimes of Russia. I want every victim to be counted. I want Russia to be held accountable for the people, children and women, they have killed on our land,\" she said.\n\nElisei's grandmother mourns him at the funeral\n\nElisei is among more than two hundred children known to have been killed in Ukraine so far, according to the country's government. Hundreds more have been injured.\n\nOhmatdyt hospital has received dozens of children wounded in the fighting.\n\nSix-year-old Daniil Avdeenko has been brought here from the northern city of Chernihiv, which had been surrounded and bombarded by Russian forces until they withdrew from the area at the start of April.\n\nDaniil and his parents were injured in mortar shelling just outside their home in a residential neighbourhood.\n\nWhen the explosion occurred, all of them were thrown to the ground. His father Oleksandr saw that his wife's leg was bleeding profusely. He used the strap of her bag as a tourniquet, an act that has saved her leg from being amputated.\n\nOleksandr had called out to Daniil, who'd told him he was alright. But when the boy began to stand up Oleksandr realised how badly he was hurt.\n\n\"I saw that he had shrapnel all over his body, and he was bleeding a lot,\" he said.\n\nAll three were taken to different hospitals.\n\n\"For the first four days we didn't know who was alive, and who wasn't. They didn't register my son's name when he was admitted to hospital,\" he said.\n\nEventually the family was reunited, and brought to Kyiv for treatment.\n\nDaniil had shrapnel pieces in his head which were removed, but the bits lodged in his back are still there. Doctors say it will be too painful to remove them right now. The boy has multiple injuries and fractures in his leg. It's not clear when he'll be able to walk.\n\nFor most part he's cheerful, but he lets out little cries of pain when a nurse comes to inject a medicine.\n\n\"He tells the nurses at the hospital the details of how we were all covered in blood. He remembers it all. But he blames himself. Just before it happened, I'd told him to go down to the basement with his mother. But he insisted on coming outside to me,\" says Oleksandr. \"I've explained to him that he's not guilty. We all have.\"\n\nAfter the war started, Oleksandr says Daniil would ask lots of questions.\n\n\"When there was shooting, he would ask 'Dad who's shooting now?'. I'd say 'ours'. 'And now?', he'd ask. I'd tell him 'It's our men being attacked,' In the night, he would see tanks in his dreams. When bombs dropped from the sky, he would wake up frightened. But despite it all he would still have fun. After the attack though, he's changed drastically,\" says Oleksandr.\n\nEven those who've managed to flee physically unscathed, bear scars of psychological trauma.\n\n13-year-old Ilya Bobkov escaped along with his family from Bucha just outside Kyiv, which was under Russian control for weeks.\n\nThey managed to leave through a humanitarian corridor which was opened in March for civilians to be evacuated. His family now lives in one room in a rundown government building in Kyiv.\n\n\"On 24 February when the fighting started, I was shocked. I had expected it to be a regular day, I'd go to school, do my homework and play games. My mother came to my room and told me to pack a few things. Then we started living in our basement. It was very scary. It was hard to get through the nights,\" Ilya says.\n\nIlya Bobkov fled from Bucha, the site of alleged Russian war crimes\n\nOn their way to safety, Ilya and his family saw burning buildings, destroyed tanks and corpses along the way.\n\n\"I can't escape the feeling that the war is still all around us. I dream about my family being killed or taken hostage by the Russians. I wake up in cold sweat,\" Ilya says.\n\nHis aunt Valentyna Solokova whose family evacuated along with Ilya's says they tried to keep the children distracted by playing games or looking at family photographs. They were also forced to have difficult conversations, especially when they were running low on food supplies.\n\n\"I'd tell the children that bread and water are the most important things. I had to make them understand that they lived one life before, where they had everything, they went to school and played games. And now they had to learn to live without all that,' she said. 'I told them the time has come for you to grow up.\"\n\nA generation of children in Ukraine is cut off from a normal childhood at the moment. The UN estimates that around two thirds of the country's 7.8 million children have been displaced.\n\nWith fighting raging in the south and east, and renewed shelling in Lviv and Kyiv, no part of Ukraine appears safe right now.\n\nIt's unclear when the children of this country might be able to return to the life that was suddenly interrupted.", "The Ukainian city of Lviv has been the target of Russian missile strikes.\n\nThe BBC's Dan Johnson reports from the scene, where he witnessed \"missiles streaking across the sky and hitting buildings\".", "Hayden Wood said he had put all his personal savings into Bulb\n\nThe co-founder of collapsed energy firm Bulb has defended continuing to be paid £250,000 a year, saying he is helping with a sale of the company.\n\nBoss Hayden Wood told MPs he was asked to stay on to \"support customers\".\n\nHe said he was \"very sorry\" for how the company collapsed when it buckled under rising wholesale gas prices.\n\nBulb collapsed late last year and was placed into \"special administration\", being run by the government through regulator Ofgem until a buyer is found.\n\nIt is one of 29 suppliers which have gone bust following a sharp rise in wholesale gas prices.\n\nThe Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee heard the collapse of Bulb was expected to cost the taxpayer £3bn - which is the biggest state bailout since the Royal Bank of Scotland collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nMr Wood told MPs the company had realised it \"couldn't afford\" losses which would have been incurred in supplying energy to customers with prices of wholesale gas reaching 400p per therm - despite having £120m in the bank.\n\nHe said Bulb, which has 1.6 million customers, had been in discussions to raise funds and eventually to sell the company.\n\nBut when talks fell through, he said: \"We had no reasonable prospect of being able to fund those losses for customers and that is when we made the difficult choice to enter special administration\".\n\nHe added: \"I am very sorry for the way things turned out with Bulb.\n\n\"I think I and we at Bulb...should take responsibility for how the business failed.\"\n\nAsked if it was \"morally justifiable\" that taxpayers continued to pay his salary after the company had gone bust, Mr Wood said: \"I think everything we are doing right now is to try and complete a sale of the company so that we can minimise the cost to taxpayers and minimise the disruption to consumers.\"\n\nMr Wood said he had never received a bonus from Bulb, had put all his personal savings into the company he created in 2015 and had since lost all his shareholdings in the firm.\n\nAt the time Bulb was placed in special administration, the Treasury set aside £1.7bn to purchase the gas required until the end of the tax year in April 2022 by which time it had been hoped a buyer would be found for the business.\n\nBut government officials have conceded that the prospect of offloading the business to a private buyer seems remote in the current environment and that means that taxpayers will foot the bill.\n\nA Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy spokesperson said: \"Bulb's administrators have agreed to keep Mr Wood temporarily in place to ensure a smooth handover and sales process.\"\n\n\"Mr Wood is paid for this work under his employment contract with Simple Energy, the parent company of Bulb, in a separate administration process over which the government has no influence.\n\nThe spokesperson added that the government will seek to recoup administration costs at a later date.\n\nJake Brown headed up Avro which had 580,000 customers when it collapsed\n\nThe committee also quizzed Jake Brown, chief executive of now-collapsed firm Avro, which had 580,000 customers.\n\nMr Brown faced questions about loans his family business took out of the firm, as well as his failures to engage with regulators and energy charities. Avro's collapse is expected to cost £700m.\n\nThe committee chair said Mr Brown had appeared to have got off \"pretty lightly\" when customers were now having to foot the bill for his business going bust.\n\nLabour MP Darren Jones added Mr Brown \"personified\" the reason the government needed to change energy market regulation and said he \"took customer money out the business\".\n\n\"In my view you should have never been allowed to start an energy company. I find it quite offensive that you have ended up with so much of customers' money,\" he said.\n\nMr Brown told MPs he had a \"lot of regret\" that that company had gone bust and claimed he \"had not touched any customers' money\".\n\nEarlier during the committee meeting, the bosses of four major energy firms called on the government to do more to help people struggling with soaring energy bills.\n\nKeith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power, told MPs \"so many people are really going to struggle\" after prices rose by 54% from 1 April.\n\nBut he warned further rises forecast in October were going to be \"horrific\".\n\nE.ON boss Michael Lewis said efforts by the government to soften the blow of higher prices were \"not nearly enough\".\n\nScottish Power's Mr Anderson spoke to MPs alongside E.ON's Mr Lewis, Simone Rossi the chief executive of EDF, and Chris O' Shea the boss of British Gas owner Centrica.\n\nMr Anderson said his company had 8,000 calls with concerns about paying bills since the price for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity increased by £693 on average - from £1,277 to £1,971 per year - at the start of April.\n\nBut he said his biggest concern was when prices are due to rise again in October, \"particularly around the most vulnerable and poorest\".\n\n\"In summer consumption goes down. Come October that's going to get horrific, totally horrific,\" he said.\n\nMr Anderson said the energy price crisis had now \"got to the stage now where I believe the size and scale of this is beyond what I can deal with, it's beyond what I think this industry can deal with\".\n\nThe Scottish Power boss said the government should set up a \"deficit fund\" and wipe £1,000 off the bill of anyone who is deemed to be in fuel poverty and on pre-payment meters, which would be repaid by all customers or the government.\n\nMr Anderson said such a policy was required for people in fuel poverty that \"puts their bill back to where it used to be before the gas crisis\".\n\nBut he said in the future the government should scrap the energy price cap - the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge households - and introduce a \"social tariff\".\n\nHe said a social tariff would be \"targeted to discount the price\" to people in fuel poverty.\n\nMr Lewis, chief executive of E.ON, supported the idea of a social tariff but said the government could do more in the short-term situation which he said was something he had \"never\" seen in his 30-year career.\n\nHe said if the government did not provide more support for households, E.ON forecast 30-40% of its customers would \"go into fuel poverty\".\n\nTo date, the government has said it will offer extra relief of £150 via the council tax system in England in April and in October customers in England, Scotland and Wales will receive a £200 rebate on their energy bills.\n\nThey will have to repay this at £40 a year for five years, starting in April 2023.\n\nThe warm house discount scheme is also being expanded to cover three million households. It offers low income households a one-off annual discount on their electricity bill, and was worth £140 in 2021-22.\n\nMr Rossi added the government support for bill payers announced in February was \"proportionate at that point\", but added things had got worse as a result of the war in Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr O'Shea said 10% of Centrica customers - about 716,000 households - were in £440 of debt on average compared to 125,000 at this time last year.\n\nHe said the insolvency service \"should pursue managers, the directors, the executives of every failed company\".\n\n\"Those that have misbehaved should feel the full force of the law,\" he added.", "Whitehall was shut for several hours after the incident at Horse Guards Parade\n\nA man has appeared in court accused of confronting police at Horse Guards Parade in central London.\n\nTwo Ministry of Defence police officers were approached by a man with a knife on Monday at the historic area in Westminster, central London.\n\nPrashanth Kandaiah, 29, of Thamesmead, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with attempting to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH).\n\nHe was also charged with possession of a knife.\n\nMr Kandhaiah was remanded into custody until the next hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 17 May.\n\nThe two officers were approached by a man at about 08:50 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice officers used a Taser to restrain him before placing him under arrest.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Johnny Depp has testified in his $50m (£38m) defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard that he never struck her.\n\nThe lawsuit is over an opinion piece Ms Heard wrote for the Washington Post in which she called herself a victim of domestic violence. He denies any abuse.\n\nMs Heard has sued back, with a $100m counterclaim against Mr Depp.\n\nThe closely watched civil trial, which is taking place in Virginia, is now in its second week.\n\nMs Heard's team has portrayed Mr Depp as an abusive partner prone to drug and alcohol binges.\n\nMr Depp's team has presented Ms Heard's claims of domestic violence as a \"hoax\" and a calculated strategy to ruin his reputation.\n\nSpeaking to the jury on Tuesday, Mr Depp said the truth was all that mattered to him now.\n\n\"I never struck Ms Heard in that way, nor have I struck any woman in my life,\" he testified, adding that \"her accusations sort of permeated the industry\".\n\n\"It's been six years of trying times - so strange when one day you're Cinderella, so to speak, and then in 0.6 seconds, you're Quasimodo,\" he said, describing how people's attitudes towards him changed after Ms Heard's op-ed was published.\n\nThe trial has focused so far on Mr Depp's demeanour and whether he was ever verbally or physically abusive towards Ms Heard. Lawyers for Mr Depp have accused his ex-wife, an actress, of giving the \"performance of her life\" in her descriptions of alleged abuse.\n\nMr Depp began his testimony saying that Ms Heard's claims are \"not based in any species of the truth\".\n\nHis lawyer went on to ask him to describe his childhood in Kentucky, and the abuse that he suffered from his mother.\n\n\"I could see when she [his mother] was about to head into a situation where she was going to get riled up and someone was going to get it. And generally it was me,\" he said.\n\nMs Heard watched as Mr Depp testified to the court\n\nMs Heard is also expected to testify later in the trial.\n\nThe jury has heard evidence presented by the celebrity ex-couple's former therapist, who described how Mr Depp and Ms Heard engaged in \"mutual abuse\", as well as from medical workers who treated Mr Depp as he was detoxing himself from opiates.\n\nOn Monday, a nurse who was hired to treat Mr Depp's drug addiction and attended the couple's wedding testified that she witnessed Ms Heard \"try to instigate\" conflict with her former husband on several occasions.\n\nShe would sometimes pick fights with him while he was receiving medical treatment, said nurse Debbie Lloyd, who frequently travelled with Mr Depp.\n\nOn Tuesday, a sound engineer, Keenan Wyatt, who has worked with Mr Depp on nearly all of his movies since the 1990s testified to having never witnessed the actor verbally or physically abuse his two children or their mother.\n\nThe trial is expected to last at least six weeks.\n\nAhead of the case, Ms Heard wrote on social media that she never identified Mr Depp by name in her 2018 op-ed.\n\n\"Rather, I wrote about the price women pay for speaking against men in power,\" she said.\n\n\"I continue to pay that price, but hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny\".", "Five-time Olympic champion and Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins says he was groomed by a coach when he was a child, and that he \"buried it\".\n\nBriton Wiggins, 41, claimed Olympic gold medals at the Athens, Beijing, London and Rio Games, and also won the 2012 Tour, before retiring in 2016.\n\nIn an interview with Men's Health UK, he said: \"I was groomed by a coach when I was younger - I was about 13 - and I never fully accepted that.\"\n\nHe did not name the abuser.\n\nWiggins spoke to columnist Alastair Campbell in the May issue of the magazine.\n\nAsked whether he had been \"groomed sexually\" by the coach, he replied: \"Yes. It all impacted me as an adult… I buried it.\"\n\n\"We are deeply concerned by the matter raised by Sir Bradley Wiggins and our safeguarding team has made contact with him today to offer our full support,\" the statement read.\n\n\"We would encourage anybody who has suffered abuse or has concerns about the welfare of others - regardless of when the incident took place - to utilise the support offered both by our trained team at British Cycling and the dedicated NSPCC helpline, which in turn helps us to ensure that our sport is a safe and welcoming place for all.\"\n\nMichelle North, the head of the NSPCC's Child Protection in Sport Unit, praised Wiggins' courage and bravery in speaking out.\n\n\"Sports coaches hold a great deal of power and influence over the children in their care and can all too easily exploit this trust to groom and abuse them, then emotionally manipulate, threaten and blackmail victims to prevent them from speaking out,\" she said.\n\n\"That's why sports clubs and bodies at all levels need a robust approach to safeguarding.\n\n\"It's common for victims to feel guilt and shame or to even be unaware that they are being abused and some may not come to accept it until decades later, but nonetheless the impact can be devastating and long lasting.\n\n\"We hope that Sir Bradley is receiving the support he needs and that by speaking out it will encourage others in a similar position to do the same and reassure them that they are not alone and people are ready to listen and help.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United and Liverpool supporters united in a fan-led minute of applause at Anfield in support of Cristiano Ronaldo and his family following the death of his baby boy.\n\nLiverpool fans sang their club's anthem 'You'll Never Walk Alone' in the seventh minute - Ronaldo's shirt number at United - of the league match.\n\nA United shirt with Ronaldo's name and number was held up in the away end.\n\nThe Portugal international missed Tuesday's match between the two rivals.\n\nOn Monday, Ronaldo and partner Georgina Rodriguez announced the death of their baby boy, saying it is the \"greatest pain that any parents can feel\".\n\nTheir baby girl survived, and they said her birth \"gives us the strength to live this moment with some hope and happiness\".\n\n\"Our baby boy, you are our angel. We will always love you,\" they wrote.\n\nBoth United and Liverpool players wore black armbands in a mark of respect to Ronaldo and his family.\n\nBefore the match, which Liverpool won 4-0 to go two points clear at the top of the Premier League table, United's interim boss Ralf Rangnick said there were more important things in life than football.\n\n\"The whole team, the whole club is with him [Ronaldo],\" added Rangnick.\n\n\"For me it was clear he has to be where he is now with his family.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp called the applause in memory of Ronaldo's baby son his \"moment of the game.\"\n\n\"So many things are much more important in life than football, we feel for Cristiano and his family,\" Klopp said.\n\n\"That is exactly how football should be with all rivalry aside at this moment. There is only one thing that is important and it was a show of class. All our thoughts, from the moment we heard about it, are with Cristiano and his family.\n\n\"I cannot even imagine how it must be and we really feel for him.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live football correspondent John Murray, who was commentating at the game, described the tribute as \"wonderful\".\n\n\"After being at Wembley on Saturday where there was the disruption of the Hillsborough silence, I have to confess when I heard this morning that there was this tribute to Cristiano Ronaldo at this game, you did think 'I hope that goes off ok'.\n\n\"In actual fact it was wonderful. It was a brilliant show of support from human beings to another human being.\"\n\nFormer Everton and Scotland forward James McFadden, who was co-commentator for 5 Live at the game, described the tribute as a \"real touch of class\" from Liverpool fans.\n\n\"To show their respect and support for Cristiano Ronaldo in such a difficult time - a classy, classy touch,\" he added.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Uranus, photographed here by the Hubble Space Telescope, has at least 13 rings and numerous moons\n\nThe US space agency Nasa should prioritise a mission to Uranus, an influential panel of scientists says.\n\nThe \"ice giant\" is the seventh planet in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun 19 times further out than the Earth.\n\nIt's only ever been visited once before, in a brief flyby by the Voyager-2 probe in 1986.\n\nResearchers think an in-depth study of Uranus can help them better understand the many similarly sized objects now being discovered around other stars.\n\nThe recommendation is made in a document published by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).\n\nKnown as a \"decadal survey\", it is the summation of what the American research community thinks are the big planetary science questions right now and the space missions required to answer them.\n\nNasa has broadly followed the recommendations of previous National Academies reports.\n\nThe last planetary decadal survey, published in 2011, had as its two top priorities a rock-collection mission to Mars, which became the Perseverance rover, now on the surface of the Red Planet; and a mission to Jupiter and its moon Europa, which is currently being prepared for launch in 2024. This is called the Europa Clipper spacecraft.\n\nThe closest we've been to Uranus is with the Voyager-2 mission\n\nSpecialists who study the outer planets in our Solar System have been campaigning for a return visit to either Uranus or Neptune ever since their late-80s Voyager-2 encounters. And the science case has only strengthened over the intervening years, proponents argue.\n\nLook at the size-range of planets now being discovered around other stars and they seem to dominate in a range that's about three and four times the width of the Earth. That's Uranus and Neptune.\n\n\"And that actually poses a problem for planet formation theories,\" explained Prof Leigh Fletcher, who contributed to the report.\n\n\"We think we understand how something gets as big as Jupiter, and we think we understand how something gets to be the size of Earth and Venus. But in the middle, in that kind of sweet spot between those end-members - we don't fully understand how a world can start to grow and grow and not just carry on to become Jupiter-mass in size. A mission to Uranus could help us answer that,\" the Leicester University, UK, scientist told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: European scientists will hope they can join the mission, just as they did with the Cassini mission to Saturn\n\nThere are favourable launch opportunities in 2031 and 2032 that would allow a spacecraft to use a gravity slingshot around Jupiter to shorten the cruise time to Uranus to \"just\" 13 years.\n\nThe spacecraft would go into orbit around the planet, which would preclude any observations at the more-distant Neptune. The eighth and outermost planet will have to wait its turn.\n\nUranus is an oddity compared with the other planets in the Solar System in that its axis of rotation is almost parallel with the plane of its orbit around the Sun. It's as if it has been knocked on to its side, which may well be the explanation - scientists speculate that it suffered a massive impact with another body early in its history.\n\nUranus has rings and plenty of moons.\n\nIndeed, the moons are quite a draw because a good many of them are likely to be \"ocean worlds\".\n\n\"This is the idea that you've got an icy crust and then you've got some kind of liquid briny ocean down at depth that may or may not be in contact with whatever silicate rocky material is down at the bottom,\" said Prof Fletcher.\n\n\"Well, all of the big five classical satellites of Uranus are thought of as being ocean world candidates. These moons could have cryo-volcanic (ice volcano) activity taking place on them.\"\n\nThe successful completion of the Perseverance rover's mission comes before all else\n\nDr Robin Canup from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, was the co-chair on the Academies' steering committee.\n\nShe said an ice giant was a worthy target for a Nasa flagship and of all the potential candidates assessed in what would be the most expensive class of endeavour, the Uranus mission was the most mature technically.\n\n\"It was the only one to receive a low-medium rating for its risk,\" she explained.\n\n\"So because of that, we are extremely excited to recommend that the highest priority new flagship should be a Uranus orbiter and probe. This will be a fantastic multi-year mission with the probe dropping into the planet at the beginning of the mission, followed by an extended orbital tour investigating the satellites, their interiors, the magnetosphere, the rings, and the atmosphere.\n\n\"It is technically ready to start now. We recommend that it be initiated in financial year 2024.\"\n\nEuropean-based planetary researchers, like Prof Fletcher, will be hoping the European Space Agency (Esa) can contribute to such a mission.\n\nNasa and Esa are frequent partners, such as on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn (2004-2017), but their priorities and funding cycles do not always coincide.\n\nAnd for Nasa, the speed at which it's able to implement the recommendation will depend on its other financial commitments.\n\nThe decadal survey panel said completing the Perseverance rover's objectives and the follow-up missions designed to bring its rock samples back to Earth came before everything else in importance.", "Ukrainian soldier stands guard close to the front line with Russian troops near Kharkiv\n\nUkraine's allies have pledged to send more weapons to help it defend against a renewed Russian offensive.\n\nThe US and others vowed to send artillery, anti-tank and air defence aid to Kyiv during a 90-minute video call on Tuesday.\n\nUkraine says it needs the weapons to help defend itself as Russia launched a new campaign in the country's east.\n\nClashes there have marked what Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky said was the start of the \"battle for the Donbas\".\n\nThe eastern Donbas - which comprises the Luhansk and Donetsk regions - is where Russia is concentrating its efforts.\n\nAccording to Ukraine, Russian forces have been attacking Ukrainian positions along the entire 300-mile (480km) front line since Monday.\n\nIt was amid these renewed attacks that Western leaders met to discuss further military assistance for Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the meeting, the US defence department said additional military aircraft and aircraft parts had been sent to Ukraine to increase their fleet size and repair others in Ukraine's arsenal that were damaged.\n\nThe US defence department added that the US had not provided aircraft to Kyiv itself, and did not provide details on which countries have provided the aircraft.\n\nPresident Zelensky has been appealing to the US for Soviet-made air defence systems and fighter jets as an alternative to a no-fly zone over Ukraine.\n\nLast month, the US refused a proposal by Poland to provide it with MiG-29 fighter jets, which it would then transfer to Ukraine.\n\nPresident Joe Biden, speaking to reporters after the meeting between Western allies, added that the US is planning to provide a further military aid package to Ukraine of a similar size to the $800m (£615m) aid package he announced last week, according to US media.\n\nHe said Washington would also be sending Ukraine more artillery - heavy guns deployed in land warfare.\n\nOther countries also pledged to help Ukraine with further military assistance during the meeting.\n\n\"They [Ukraine] need support with more artillery, that is what we will be giving them,\" said the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in parliament after the meeting.\n\nIn Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany was providing finance to enable Ukraine to buy anti-tank weapons and ammunition from German arms manufacturers.\n\nMeanwhile, the Czech Republic said it would repair Ukrainian tanks and armoured vehicles when they are damaged in combat.\n\nFurther economic sanctions against Russia was another topic on the agenda.\n\nThe arms pledges follow persistent calls from President Zelensky for allies to increase their weapons supplies to Kyiv.\n\n\"We need heavy artillery, armed vehicles, air defence systems and combat aircraft — anything to repel Russian forces and stop their war crimes,\" Mr Zelensky said on Twitter last week. \"Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with heavy weapons\".\n\n\"The United States and Western states under its control are doing everything to drag out the military operation for as long as possible,\" Russia's defence chief Sergei Shoigu said.\n\nThe leaders also discussed how to provide security guarantees to Ukraine after the war even if it is not a member of Nato, a French presidential advisor said.\n\nNato is a military alliance whose 30 members - including the US, UK and Germany - have agreed to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any one of them.\n\nSince Ukraine is not a Nato member, the alliance isn't obliged to come to its defence.\n\nIts members fear that involving themselves in direct armed confrontation could lead to an all-out conflict between Russia and the West.\n\nInstead, Nato members have supplied Ukraine with millions of dollars worth of military aid since Russia launched the invasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Galina is sheltering in a Mykolaiv basement, but will run out of medication in three weeks", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and partner Georgina Rodriguez have announced the death of their baby boy, saying it is the \"greatest pain that any parents can feel\".\n\nThe Portugal international, 37, and Rodriguez, 28, were expecting twins.\n\nTheir baby girl survived, and they said her birth \"gives us the strength to live this moment with some hope and happiness\".\n\n\"Our baby boy, you are our angel. We will always love you,\" they wrote.\n\nIn a statement on social media, they said: \"It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that our baby boy has passed away.\n\n\"We are all devastated at this loss and and we kindly ask for privacy at this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe pair had announced the pregnancy in October.\n\nManchester United tweeted: \"Your pain is our pain. Sending love and strength to you and the family at this time.\"\n\nAnd team-mate Marcus Rashford said on social media: \"Thoughts are with you and Georgina brother I'm so sorry.\"\n\nManchester United later confirmed Ronaldo will miss Tuesday evening's match against Liverpool.\n\nA fan-led minute's applause will be held in the seventh minute of the game at Anfield, while both teams will wear black armbands.\n\n\"Family is more important than everything and Ronaldo is supporting his loved ones at this immensely difficult time,\" the club said.\n\n\"As such, we can confirm that he will not feature in the match against Liverpool at Anfield on Tuesday evening and we underline the family's request for privacy.\n\n\"Cristiano, we are all thinking of you and sending strength to the family.\"\n\nRonaldo's former side Real Madrid said the club, their president and board of directors \"are deeply saddened\" by the news, adding: \"Real shares in the family's pain and wishes to send them all of our warmth.\"\n\nManchester City, Leeds United and the Premier League have also tweeted messages of condolence.\n\nRonaldo has a son, Cristiano Jr, who was born in 2010, and twins Eva and Mateo who were born in 2017. He also has a daughter with Rodriguez, Alana Martina, who was born in 2017.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Alyson Nelson, 64, was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nPolice have released the name of a woman who was killed in Whitehead, County Antrim.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched following the death of Alyson Nelson, who was 64 and had lived in the town for many years.\n\nShe was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 60s has been arrested.\n\nPolice were called to a house in Victoria Avenue at about 18:10 BST on Saturday after receiving reports of a stabbing.\n\nThey said the man had been arrested on suspicion of murder and was in police custody.\n\nThe incident happened at Victoria Avenue in the town centre on Saturday evening\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThe BBC was told Ms Nelson was often seen walking her dogs and chatting with neighbours.\n\nPeople in the area have said they are shocked and saddened by her death.\n\nMaeve Taylor, from Whitehead, said she was \"devastated\" at what had happened.\n\n\"I feel so sorry for her family, she was a lovely neighbour, a lovely lady,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"She walked her dogs, everybody knew her around the town. She would have been out and about and always very friendly, very chatty and she will be badly missed.\n\n\"It is just shocking, how she has passed away.\"\n\nVictoria Avenue is located near the railway station in Whitehead\n\nRev Mark Taylor, a Church of Ireland rector in Whitehead, said \"there was a great deal of shock\" at what had happened and that the community's thoughts and prayers were with Ms Nelson's family.\n\n\"This is a quiet, seaside town,\" he added.\n\n\"There are families that are torn apart and it is very hurtful for them, very difficult for them to deal with.\n\n\"They are known to people in the community, who care for them deeply.\"", "Campaigners have welcomed a temporary sale on more than one million train tickets across Great Britain, but argue that costs should be cut even further.\n\nThe government's \"Great British Rail Sale\" will see some off-peak prices slashed by as much as half between 25 April and 27 May.\n\nBut the Campaign for Better Transport said wider price increases are \"driving people off the railway\".\n\nPassenger numbers on trains have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAbout 285 million rail passenger journeys were made in Britain in the last three months of 2021 - just 62% of the levels seen before coronavirus struck, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said more than one million train tickets would be reduced this spring.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) is hoping the move will help struggling households to afford trips across the UK and boost the domestic tourism industry.\n\nIt comes after the highest train fare rises for nine years came into force for rail travellers in England and Wales last month.\n\nThe sale brings some Manchester to Newcastle journeys down to a little over £10, while seats on some London to Edinburgh services will be slashed from £44 to £22, the government said.\n\nThe discounted tickets went on sale for selected advance fares earlier on Tuesday, with passengers able to purchase them from the National Rail website.\n\nThe promotion only applies to tickets for travel from 25 April to 27 May, with tickets available to buy until 2 May.\n\nThis means the offer will have ended by the time many schools break up for May half term.\n\nAnd it will also miss the four-day UK bank holiday weekend from 2 to 5 June, which will mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nTickets covered by the sale include routes in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIn a video to advertise the sale, Mr Shapps said: \"We've had two years of living life virtually. It is time to get real and visit our beautiful country.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, some passengers have complained that discounted tickets were unavailable for the route they wanted to travel.\n\nPeter King, 52, was planning to use the sale to buy tickets from his local station, Hockley in Essex, for a day trip to Norwich. There is no direct train so he would normally travel via London Liverpool Street but that route was not included in the sale.\n\n\"It was easy enough to get the cheap tickets from London Liverpool Street to Norwich but they were obviously not offering it for what you'd class as the commuter line from Hockley to London Liverpool Street, even though it was off-peak,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You're still paying a fair whack just to get to London itself so the offer for me was just no good.\"\n\nScott Arthur, 33, was hoping to buy cheaper tickets from London to Liverpool for the end of April. From there he plans to travel on to north Wales for a friend's stag do as there is no direct train.\n\nHowever, when he searched online he found there were no discounted tickets available. Train operator Avanti told him the promotion only applied to advance tickets and it was likely there were none left for April as it was too close to the departure date.\n\n\"For me, it's flawed because if many of the advance tickets are already sold out before the promotion was even announced, that means it's only a few tickets that are available for this offer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe added that even with 50% off train prices were still \"extortionate\", with his trip from London to north Wales costing around £80 in total.\n\nMeanwhile, some commuters said limiting the promotion to off-peak trains meant they could not benefit from the savings.\n\nThe Campaign for Better Transport said that it had been pushing for action to improve passenger levels for months.\n\nIt welcomed the move by the government, but Norman Baker, its chief executive's adviser and former transport minister, said: \"It can show the Treasury that the way to increase income is to cut fares, not keep ratcheting them up and driving people off the railway.\"\n\n\"This initiative, though very welcome, is but a first step,\" he added, calling for an end to annual fare rises and a review of tickets and travel patterns following the rise of hybrid working during the pandemic.\n\nDfT said reforms to the rail sector through the so-called \"Williams-Shapps\" plan for rail will mean that network-wide sales of tickets should be able to take place more easily in the future.\n\nBut Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said that in the meantime, the temporary move would provide little respite \"to passengers who had thousands taken out of their pockets from soaring fares since 2010.\"\n\n\"And the decision to end the sale just before half-term will mean many families face the same punishing costs over the holidays,\" she added.", "Boris Johnson will face MPs for the first time since he was fined for Covid breaches\n\nThere will be no easing back into work for the prime minister after this Easter break.\n\nOn Tuesday he'll face MPs for the first time since he was fined for breaching Covid rules - and then address fellow Tory MPs in the evening.\n\nIt'll come a week after the prime minister, his wife and the chancellor received fines for attending a birthday gathering for the PM in No 10 in the Cabinet Room.\n\nOn Wednesday, he faces a Prime Minister's Questions from the opposition, after a weekend where the Sunday Times reported claims he was involved in \"instigating\" a leaving do in November 2020, which Downing Street deny.\n\nAll the while he will be hoping more fines don't land in his inbox from police investigating Covid breaches in government.\n\nSo, what's the plan? And where does more potential jeopardy lie?\n\nNo 10 sources stress he will apologise again to MPs for Covid breaches in Downing Street, and say he understands the strength of feeling around breaches of Covid restrictions at the heart of government.\n\nBoris Johnson may want to focus on issues such as the Ukraine crisis and the plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nAs one source put it, there is \"quite a bit to update Parliament on\".\n\nBut opposition parties will want to turn the attention to him becoming the first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe timing of the fines came as a surprise, with the prime minister's director of communications coordinating the response while floating on a felucca boat down the Nile on holiday with no electricity and only a power bank.\n\nSpeaking after the fine - the prime minister said people \"had the right to expect better\" from him and it \"did not occur\" to him at the time that the \"brief\" gathering in the Cabinet Room to mark his birthday in June 2020 could be in contravention of Covid lockdown rules.\n\nOpposition parties strongly believe the prime minister deliberately misled parliament by previously saying rules in No 10 were followed at all times - and are looking at various mechanisms to hold him to account about this. Labour sources say options under consideration include forcing a vote on whether he misled Parliament or referring him to a parliamentary committee to investigate.\n\nThere's no suggestion the prime minister would lose any vote against him, but opposition parties are likely to strongly criticise any Tory MPs who may be forced to publicly defend his actions.\n\nAfter fresh allegations in the Sunday Times that at a leaving drinks for his director of communications, Lee Cain, in November 2020 the prime minister poured drinks at the gathering Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said - if the reports were true - then the prime minister had a \"hand in instigating\" at least one of the parties.\n\nShe added he had \"deliberately misled the British people at every turn\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner has heavily criticised the PM's involvement in the parties\n\nThe newspaper cited a source claiming it was not a leaving do, but a press office Friday afternoon drinks, until the prime minister showed up.\n\nNo 10 have not denied that this event took place, but have strongly denied that the prime minister instigated it - with sources pointing to the reports that alcohol was already on the table when the prime minister showed up.\n\nOne individual present at the event told the BBC that people were instead having a drink at the office at the end of the day and the prime minister had popped in to say goodbye to Lee Cain.\n\nThose close to him also stress he turned up at his own press office with people \"by definition\" allowed to be there on that day.\n\nSome of those present at the gathering have also told the BBC they have not been questioned by the police about this specific gathering.\n\nHowever, there is concern among some Tory MPs that further fines or bad headlines could be yet to come.\n\nThe gathering he has been fined for so far is considered by many as a more minor event - a gathering in the Cabinet Room ahead of a meeting on Covid where people wished him happy birthday.\n\nWhile he paid the fine, No 10 insiders have said the prime minister did not believe it was wrong to step into this gathering to allow people who worked for him to say happy birthday, and that it \"didn't feel like a party\".\n\nPolice are still wading through evidence surrounding other events - such as two now infamous Downing Street garden drinks events.\n\nThe prime minister's defence in coming weeks is likely to focus on not being aware that turning up at these gatherings in a place, one source described \"he was allowed to be\" with \"people who were allowed to be there\" was disallowed.\n\nBut should further fines be issued, or more egregious breaches found, this argument could prove much harder to make both to the British public - but also to some of his own MPs.", "President Volodymyr Zelensky said a \"large part of the entire Russian army\" is now focused on the Donbas offensive\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia has launched an assault to seize the eastern Donbas region.\n\nRussian and Ukrainian forces clashed on Tuesday along the eastern front line, after Mr Zelensky said the battle for the Donbas had begun.\n\nUkraine's top security official, Oleksiy Danilov, said Russia was trying break through Ukrainian defensive positions throughout Ukraine's east.\n\nThe offensive had been expected after Russia failed to seize Kyiv.\n\nAfter its push to overrun the capital stalled, Moscow announced its military would focus instead on eastern Ukraine where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces since 2014.\n\nLuhansk is one of the most fiercely contested regions, and on Tuesday its Governor Serhiy Hayday said it had come under attack from all sides.\n\nHe announced that street fighting in the city of Kreminna had forced Ukrainian troops to withdraw and regroup, leaving Russian forces in control of the eastern city of 18,000.\n\n\"They moved in but our defenders had to retreat,\" Mr Hayday said. \"The enemy was shelling every metre of our defence line.\"\n\nThe strategic port city of Mariupol, meanwhile, has come under intense bombardment.\n\nPro-Russian forces have reportedly begun an attempt to storm the city's Azovstal steelworks, where Mariupol's final defenders have been holding out for days.\n\nUkraine says civilians and children are among those holed up in the complex, but pro-Russian officials in the city have disputed this.\n\nMariupol is a key Russian target which if captured would allow its troops to complete a land-bridge between the occupied Crimean peninsula and separatist held regions of eastern Ukraine.\n\nTwo Kharkiv residents react after a fresh wave of Russian shelling targeted the city\n\nIn Kharkiv, which is 400km (249 miles) away in Ukraine's north-east, officials said three people had been killed and 21 injured in a new wave of attacks on the city.\n\n\"The intensity of the shelling of Kharkiv has increased,\" the regional governor Oleg Sinegubov said in a post on Telegram.\n\nRussia initially appeared to want to capture major Ukrainian cities and topple the country's government.\n\nBut after facing stiff resistance, Russian defence officials said that its main objectives in the \"first stage of the operation\" had been \"generally accomplished\" and its forces were moved from areas around the capital.\n\nThey announced plans to redirect the focus of the invasion towards the \"liberation\" of the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas region.\n\nRussia's President Vladmir Putin has portrayed the invasion as an attempt to demilitarise and \"denazify\" Ukraine, something Ukraine and its allies dismiss as a ruse for an unprovoked attack.\n\nRussian defence officials said its forces struck more than 1,200 targets in Ukraine on Monday night, including 25 military command posts in Mykolayiv and Kirovsk as well as two weapon depots in east Ukraine.\n\nDescribing the fresh offensive in a television interview, Moscow's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said \"another stage of this operation is beginning, and I'm sure this will be a very important moment.\"\n\nSpeaking in a video message on Monday night, Mr Zelensky said that his forces had pledged to \"not give up anything Ukrainian\".\n\n\"A very large part of the entire Russian army is now focused on this offensive,\" he added, but said that Ukraine's forces will fight on \"no matter how many Russian troops are driven there, we will fight\".\n\nMoscow claimed last month that it controlled 93% of Luhansk and 54% of Donetsk and its forces are expected to try and encircle the remaining Ukrainian troops in the region.\n\nBut they face a protracted fight with some of Kyiv's most battle-hardened troops. Ukraine is believed to have between 40-50,000 soldiers in the Donbas, many of whom have spent years fighting against Russian-backed separatists forces in the region.\n\nUkraine is believed to have thousands of experienced troops in the Donbas\n\nThe change in Russia's objectives was set out by President Vladimir Putin during a speech last week, where he announced that his aim was \"to help the people who live in the Donbas, who feel their unbreakable bond with Russia\".\n\nThe Pentagon's press secretary, John Kirby, cautioned Russia could be \"setting the conditions for future offensive operations\" and officials in Kyiv warned that the new Russian offensive does not mean that Moscow has ended its attacks on other parts of Ukraine.\n\n\"Putin hasn't removed the goal to destroy us as a state and our political leadership,\" Mr Danilov said in an interview with Ukrainian TV.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Is your family? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "After years of disruption, many firms are hoping for things to return to normal. But it's not yet business as usual.\n\nThe recent spike in Covid cases has caused havoc, with staff sickness impacting entire supply chains.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) is now calling for all companies to be given free or cheap lateral flow tests.\n\nThe government said it recognised the impact of rising costs and had given firms £400 billion in Covid support.\n\nBut Jane Gratton of the BCC said Covid, paired with rising costs, meant this was a \"precarious time\" for business.\n\nThe organisation, which represents tens of thousands of businesses, added that three quarters of its members had at least one person off sick in the last four weeks.\n\nIt says that free or lower cost testing is necessary to ensure that both staff and customers are kept safe.\n\nAll of the above is on the mind of Sanjay Aggarwal, who runs Spice Kitchen on the outskirts of Liverpool.\n\nThe company, which blends and packages ingredients for gifts and subscription deliveries, has 15 staff split between the office, and others blending and bagging spices on the shop floor.\n\nSanjay Aggarwal runs Spice Kitchen on the outskirts of Liverpool\n\n\"We've had instances where we've had a number of cases in the warehouse, enough for us to shut down production for a week or two weeks,\" Sanjay says. \"There were times when it was just me in the unit running the whole business.\"\n\nOfficial data shows that the Omicron peak for factory-floor workers was back in January, but for office-based staff it has come in more recent weeks. The same pattern has emerged at Spice Kitchen.\n\nThe firm has grown during the pandemic as so many of us were stuck at home. But now restrictions are more relaxed, Sanjay feels like it's been down to him and his small team to work out what to do.\n\n\"The guidance is not totally clear and it's tricky for businesses, having to make up their own rules,\" he explains. \"It now comes down to leadership teams like myself to come up with the right requirements for staff.\"\n\nThe company has moved to a larger space, which has helped, but they've also recruited and found they've needed to get to know new starters a bit better.\n\n\"It was important for us to find out about people's personal situations,\" explains Sanjay, adding that this was a priority when discussing vaccines with young warehouse staff.\n\n\"It's not down to us as employers to enforce that, but we do need to know who is and who isn't so we can make the right decisions to protect them. Especially as some of our young staff are caring for family members,\" he added.\n\nKieran Sefton, who's been with the business since he left school, said he recently had Covid but was able to do some work from home.\n\n\"I've had Covid and I just wasn't very well, but I could still work at home and get on with things. For me, it was more of a worry about my family.\"\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that about one in six businesses (17%) are paying sick pay to staff voluntarily self-isolating when testing positive.\n\nAnd as the cost of living rises, many can't afford to skip a paycheque or pay for a lateral flow test. A pack of five will set you back just under £10 from most High Street chemists.\n\nSpice Kitchen Operations Manager Lesley McKay says the business has offered free tests and sanitised spaces, but there is a limit to what they can do and they know they need to keep working.\n\n\"We are actually really busy at the moment. We don't take it lightly, but as a small business, you do just have to crack on,\" she says.\n\nLesley McKay says it's important the small business keeps going\n\nSpice Kitchen is not alone in this experience.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses has said one in seven businesses they represent could not trade as they should at the moment. The challenge is more acute for customer-facing staff in shops, bars or restaurants.\n\nLaura Kearsley specialises in employment law at Nelsons Solicitors and is advising her clients how to navigate what they describe as a \"lack of guidelines\".\n\n\"Most businesses were glad to see the back of formal regulations but in a way they were a comfort blanket with someone making the decision for you,\" she explains. \"Now businesses have more discretion, but that brings a headache in itself for them.\"\n\nLaura says she's hearing three main issues from her clients; what policies to implement for staff with Covid now free tests are not available, what to do with staff they think are not being honest about Covid symptoms because they are worried about not being paid and how to support vulnerable members of the workforce.\n\n\"In all cases, it's important firms properly listen to their staff,\" she says.\n\nThe wave of infections may be passing its peak, but working out just how business lives with Covid, could take many more months to work out fully.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Employers still have a duty of care to their staff, so they should take steps to prevent infection in the workplace, meaning if someone is displaying Covid-19 symptoms or has tested positive, they should be considered sick and stay at home to avoid contact with others.\"\n\nThey added: \"We recognise the impact rising costs will have on businesses of all sizes and we have backed businesses throughout the pandemic with an unprecedented package of support including VAT cuts, business rates holidays and government backed loans worth around £400 billion.\"", "The prices of fridges, freezers and dishwashers are up by a third since last year and set to climb higher, the boss of a white goods retailer says.\n\nNick Glynne from Buy It Direct, which owns Appliances Direct, blamed Covid lockdowns in China, shortages of materials and sky-high shipping costs.\n\nAmdea, a UK appliance maker trade association, said wholesale prices had risen by nine per cent in three months.\n\nRetailers AO World and Currys also said their prices had been impacted.\n\nIt comes as the UK's cost of living rises at its fastest rate since 1992, with petrol and energy costs soaring.\n\nMr Glynne said Appliances Direct, which he says has an 8% share of the UK appliance market, was facing much higher wholesale costs which it was forced to pass on to customers.\n\nShoppers are paying about 30% more than a year ago for fridges, range cookers and dishwashers, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"If you look at a large American fridge freezer that we bring in over from China, pre-Covid that cost around £12 to ship, £12 door-to-door from a factory in northern China across to the UK and that would take six months lead time,\" he said.\n\n\"Now we're looking at 12-14 months lead time and the price for freight alone has gone up to around £80 for that unit. So a £299 fridge has now got a £70 increase in cost, which has a knock on effect to the consumer.\"\n\nIn November, rival electrical goods retailer AO World said that its prices had climbed by 10-12% due to supply chain pressures.\n\nA spokesperson told the BBC on Tuesday: \"There are inflationary pressures in the market such as shipping costs, material input prices and consumer price inflation which inevitably affects the price of electrical products. We don't expect that to change through the rest of this year.\"\n\nLara Brittain, white goods category director at Currys said: \"We are seeing increased costs with logistics being the main issue, however the availability of raw materials and components is also playing a part.\n\n\"We work closely with our supplier partners to ensure we are giving our customers the best value, but unfortunately there is some impact to product pricing.\"\n\nMr Glynne said appliance prices are likely to rise further this year as retailers are still selling stock bought last year.\n\n\"Our replacement stock is getting more expensive,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It is going to get worse this year rather than get better. Consumers may think they'll get bargain by waiting but they won't.\"\n\nHe said that Buy It Direct, which also owns Laptops Direct and Furniture 123, had laid off 150 of its 1,000 staff this year in \"anticipation of a slowdown\" in consumer spending.\n\nMr Glynne's warnings follow research in February from price comparison site Price Runner, which found that prices of white goods and gadgets had soared by nearly 50% in just two years.\n\nIt said the average price of a washing machine was up by 46%, or £152, between January 2020 and February 2022, and a tumble dryer by £70.\n\nBut the research, which looked at thousands of goods, found some products such as dishwashers had fallen slightly.\n\nMost bulky white goods are made in China, but Mr Glynne said recent strict lockdowns in cities like Shanghai had hit factories, meaning it was harder for the UK to source products.\n\nHe added that manufacturers also faced worsening shortages of commodities such as electrical steel, in part because of the Ukraine war, while freight shipping costs remained high due to the pandemic.\n\nThe UK's cost of living climbed by 7% in the 12 months to March, up from 6.2% in February, official figures show.\n\nOn top of high fuel and energy prices, consumers are paying much more for food, furniture and eating out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nurse Rebeccah says rising costs are making it hard to feed her family\n\nOn Sunday, the chairman of Made.com said the online furniture retailer had also been forced to put up its prices. Its customers are also spending less amid concerns about inflation and Ukraine.\n\n\"The customer has definitely held back in the short term financially,\" Susanne Given said.\n\nShe added that the economic backdrop meant that, however big a customer's budget, they were still hesitant about spending.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Office for National statistics revealed that furniture and furnishing prices jumped by 16.8% in the 12 months to March.", "The explosions happened as students were coming out of morning classes\n\nTwo bomb blasts at a boys' school in the Afghan capital Kabul have killed at least six people and wounded more than 20, officials say.\n\nThe blasts happened at the Abdul Rahim Shahid high school in the Shia-dominated west of the city. The number of dead and wounded is likely to rise.\n\nA nearby tuition centre was also targeted in a grenade attack.\n\nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamic State militants have attacked the area in the past.\n\nInitial reports suggested Abdul Rahim Shahid pupils and staff may have been targeted by suicide bombers, but Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said improvised explosive devices had been left outside the school, killing six people.\n\n\"These are preliminary figures. We are at the site and waiting for more details,\" he said.\n\nReuters news agency quoted an unnamed official who said the devices had been placed in backpacks, one of which had been detonated inside the school gates.\n\nEarlier, sources from Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in Kabul told the BBC they had received four dead bodies and 19 injured people so far from the school attack. Other blast victims are being treated elsewhere.\n\nStudents were leaving morning classes when the blasts happened, one witness told the AFP news agency.\n\nPhotographs from the aftermath of the explosions show bloodstains on the ground alongside discarded notebooks.\n\nThe area in which the attacks took place - Dasht-e-Barchi - has frequently been the target of attacks by the local branch of the Islamic State group because of its largely Hazara Shia Muslim population.\n\nThe Taliban still face a major security challenge from Islamic State fighters\n\nHazaras are an ethnic and religious minority frequently targeted by Sunni militant groups, who view them as heretics.\n\nLocal sources also said a hand grenade had been thrown at a nearby tuition centre for students preparing for a university entrance exam.\n\nAfter a spate of IS attacks last year following the Taliban takeover, the group's activities had declined.\n\nA girls' school in the same part of the city was attacked last May (file photo)\n\nIS has carried out a devastating campaign against Shias in Afghanistan over the last few years. Scores have been killed in bombings on targets including sports halls, cultural centres and places of education.\n\nLast May, more than 90 students and staff were killed in an attack by IS on a girls' school in Dasht-e-Barchi.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Girls' hopes and fears about returning to school in Afghanistan", "Fulham crushed Preston to seal their Premier League return as Aleksandar Mitrovic's double took his season's tally to 40 goals.\n\nThe Serbian striker netted twice in the first half, sandwiching an eye-catching strike by teenager Fabio Carvalho.\n\nMitrovic was denied a hat-trick by Preston goalkeeper Daniel Iversen - but it made no difference to the outcome as victory confirmed promotion for Marco Silva's side.\n\nFulham could effectively secure the title as early as Saturday if they win at second-placed Bournemouth.\n\nThe Cottagers might have fallen behind early on, with Marek Rodak called into action to thwart Ched Evans and then tip Ben Whiteman's long-range drive over the bar.\n\nBut any hint of nerves swiftly evaporated in the ninth minute as Joe Bryan won possession and burst down the left flank to set up Mitrovic, who slid the ball through Iversen's legs.\n\nCarvalho and Harrison Reed went close to extending the lead as the home side seized control, repeatedly slicing through Preston's defence.\n\nIt was Carvalho who did eventually grab Fulham's second in the 34th minute, rifling home on his left foot after Neeskens Kebano's cross had deflected perfectly into his path.\n\nMitrovic made it 3-0 just before half-time, reaching the 40-goal mark after another incisive break along the left, with Harry Wilson providing the assist.\n\nNorth End nearly reduced the deficit early in the second half as Rodak produced another fingertip save to foil Cameron Archer, palming his attempt on to the woodwork.\n\nBut there was to be no dramatic Preston comeback - nor a third goal for Mitrovic, who had two more attempts kept out by Iversen and was eventually substituted with a quarter of an hour remaining.\n\nAlthough Neco Williams' effort from distance whistled just over, Fulham had to be content with the three goals - and the win that wrapped up their third promotion in five years.\n\nThe clinical Cottagers have shot through the Championship like a bolt of lightning and look set to smash a number of records as they win promotion back to the top tier with four games to spare.\n\nMarco Silva's swashbuckling brand of fast transitions and quick passing has seen them score 98 goals so far.\n\nThey could still break Manchester City's Championship second-tier record, since the launch of the Premier League in 1992, of 108 goals.\n\nSilva's men also wrote themselves into the history books in January when they scored 19 goals in three games and were the first English side in 88 years to score six or more goals in three consecutive games.\n\nSerbian striker Mitrovic's 40 goals - already another Championship record - have helped propel Fulham out of sight at the top of the table and all eyes will be on him at the start of next season to see if he can finally recreate his scintillating Championship form against the country's top defences in the Premier League.\n\nThe west London club have been something of a yo-yo club in the past few seasons, with consecutive promotions and relegations to and from the Premier League every season since their 2017-18 play-off final victory against Aston Villa.\n\nWhen Marco Silva became the new Fulham manager, he knew he was taking on the job of leading the team straight back to the Premier League.\n\nHis first task was to rebuild a squad that had been heavily reliant on loans under Scott Parker in the top flight. But also to rebuild the confidence of players who will have felt they hadn't performed as they'd hoped, or hadn't been given the chance, during another relegation season.\n\nNew signing Harry Wilson made an instant impact with a goal on the opening day. While a 5-1 win in Fulham's first away match at Huddersfield provided an early indication of just what the team might achieve. That big victory also included a first goal of many for Aleksandar Mitrovic and one from young star Fabio Carvalho, as he began to make headlines that are set to lead to a big move to Liverpool.\n\nWilson looks to have been the best of the new additions, with Silva ultimately relying on the old guard to get the results. And while there will be plenty of praise for Mitrovic, Fulham are far from a one-man team with 'Captain America' Tim Ream one of many players who has had an excellent season.\n\nThe questions though remain the same. What lessons have the club learnt from previous promotions to ensure they stay up this time?\n\nAre the players who have got them up good enough to keep them up? And will any new additions be the right fit for the challenge ahead?\n\n\"All season he (Mitrovic) has been exceptional. I have to manage his condition - you know how he can play with his energy when he is fresh.\n\n\"There was a lot of energy from the first minute. We had to get the job done tonight and we need to be proud of what we achieved.\n\n\"We delivered to the club and the fans who deserved this. I am proud of the players as this was the goal on the first day - automatic promotion.\n\n\"The season has been fantastic for the fans. Last season was really tough for all of them and we have done this for them.\"\n\n\"Congratulations to Fulham. I thought we could have scored in the first five minutes and then maybe the game changes a little bit.\n\n\"But you can't give a team like Fulham the opportunities to score that we did - they'll punish you and we found ourselves 3-0 down.\n\n\"You only have to look at the star man who scores the goals and that is the difference - they've got that quality.\n\n\"I thought we were a lot better second half, but ultimately we were outclassed in the first half.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Wilson (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Tom Cairney.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rodrigo Muniz (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Cairney.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sean Maguire (Preston North End) header from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Hughes with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "People are set to be better protected from fake reviews and \"subscription traps\" under plans to tackle rip-offs.\n\nProposals include making it \"clearly illegal\" to pay someone to write or host fake reviews.\n\nA competition watchdog will get new powers to fine firms up to 10% of their global turnover for bad business practices.\n\nBut an industry group said the new rules shouldn't put \"any further unnecessary burdens on businesses\".\n\nThe average UK household spends about £900 each year after being influenced by online reviews and spends £60 on \"unwanted subscriptions\", the government said.\n\nUnder the proposed rules, there will be a new laws against offering to write and commissioning fake reviews.\n\nWebsites hosting consumer reviews will have to take reasonable steps to check they are genuine.\n\nReviews website Trustpilot said it \"welcomes legislation introduced with the aim of protecting consumers from fake reviews\".\n\nIt said it is \"continually working to ensure we are taking appropriate action against attempts to manipulate reviews on our site\".\n\nTripadvisor, a travel reviews website, said its operations \"are geared towards identifying, blocking and removing fake reviews\".\n\n\"The most direct way to protect consumers from biased and inaccurate information is to focus public policies and enforcement on the bad actors,\" said Becky Foley, senior safety director at Tripadvisor.\n\nThe government also wants to bring in new rules against \"subscription traps\", in which businesses make it difficult to leave a contract.\n\nBusinesses will have to give clearer information to consumers before they sign up to a subscription contract.\n\nThey will need to send a reminder that a free trial or low-cost introductory offer is coming to an end, and ensure customers can leave a contract in a \"straightforward, cost-effective and timely way\", the government said.\n\nSmall business minister Paul Scully said the consumers deserved better and the majority of business doing the \"right thing\" deserved \"protection from rogue traders undermining them\".\n\n\"No longer will you visit a five star-reviewed restaurant only to find a burnt lasagne or get caught in a subscription in which there's no end in sight,\" he said.\n\nIf the government proposals are made into law, prepayment schemes such as Christmas savings clubs will also have to safeguard fully customers' money through insurance or trust accounts.\n\nShoppers' savings clubs - where consumers pay for goods and services in instalments throughout the year - are not currently covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.\n\nUnder the proposals, even if the company goes bust, shoppers' money will still be protected.\n\nThe rules aim to prevent issues such as the collapse of Christmas savings club Farepak, which saw tens of thousands of people lose money when the company went bust in 2006.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will be able to award compensation to consumers and directly impose financial penalties worth up to 10% of global annual turnover for businesses that transgress the new rules, or up to £300,000 in the case of an individual.\n\nThe government said CMA's new powers will mean cases will no longer need to go through the courts.\n\nInstead, the CMA will be able to award compensation to consumers and directly impose financial penalties.\n\nRocio Concha, Which? director of policy and advocacy, said the impact of fake reviews was \"enormous\".\n\nShe said the process to \"hold businesses to account\" was \"far too complicated and lengthy\".\n\n\"Britain's consumer and competition laws are in desperate need of an upgrade,\" Ms Concha added.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said the extra powers the CMA stands to gain would \"help stamp out the practice of fake reviews, which do irreparable damage to businesses\".\n\nHowever, she said the \"devil will be in the detail\" of the policy.\n\nUK Hospitality wants to see that the \"consumers are safeguarded without placing any further unnecessary burdens on businesses\".\n\nShe said the new CMA powers should not \"unfairly punish businesses\" especially small businesses, adding that there needed to be \"a clear right of appeal\".\n\n\"Fairness for both businesses and consumers, particularly when it comes to offering refunds, will be crucial and any new measures must also be made in the context of a sector facing an onslaught of challenges after a difficult two years,\" she added.\n\nThe government also said the CMA's powers will allow it to \"have stronger tools to tackle companies colluding to bump-up prices\" and to also stop \"killer acquisitions\" in which big businesses snap up rivals before they can launch new products or services.\n\nCMA chief executive Andrea Coscelli said the new rules were an \"important milestone towards strengthening the CMA's ability to hold companies to account, promote fair and open markets, and protect UK consumers\".", "Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson on a visit to a brewery last year\n\nBoris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been fined by the Metropolitan Police over lockdown parties in Downing Street. Can lawmakers get away with being lawbreakers?\n\nNot just any law maker, but the prime minister and the chancellor.\n\nAnd not just any law, but the one that confined millions of us to our homes, closed schools, crippled businesses and were designed to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths.\n\nThe law which the prime minister himself said, while looking solemnly at us down a camera, was essential to our safety and which we must all obey.\n\nThe PM faced the cameras again on Tuesday to apologise for breaking those laws, while insisting it did not occur to him at the time that he was doing anything wrong.\n\n\"But, of course,\" he added, \"the police have found otherwise and I fully respect the outcome of their investigation.\"\n\nHe tried to sound contrite, saying people had a right to expect better from their prime minister.\n\nBut he made it clear he will not be resigning, telling reporters he intended to \"get on with the job\".\n\nWill this be enough to save his skin?\n\nWhen Partygate dominated the headlines, many observers believed it was only a matter of time before Tory MPs triggered a no confidence vote in him.\n\nBut that sense of momentum has evaporated to some extent.\n\nFirstly, and potentially importantly, there aren't many MPs around. It is the Easter break. The chance to plot, to gossip, to fume, to agitate isn't there.\n\nSure there are WhatsApp groups, but they are not quite the same.\n\nBut secondly, and more importantly, the context has changed.\n\nWar has broken out in Europe; our television screens are dominated by the horrific images we see every day from Ukraine.\n\nWho did or didn't drink a glass of wine, where and with whom months and months ago in lockdowns so many of us are desperate to put behind us can, to some, seem trivial, parochial in that context.\n\nIn recent weeks, some Conservative MPs have made it known they had withdrawn their letters saying they had no faith in Boris Johnson's leadership.\n\nThat momentum I was talking about felt like it was draining out of the issue.\n\nThe big question, then - is what happens now?\n\nCould Conservative MPs, talking to voters ahead of next month's local elections, encounter a tidal wave of anger from constituents that makes them think again about the prime minister's future?\n\nOr have a crucial chunk of voters moved on too?\n\nWhat will be the verdict of voters next month, and to what extent would that be able to be pinned on Partygate anyway?\n\nPolitics is at its keenest and its most compelling when the biggest questions are uncertain; where, whatever the speculation - and there'll be plenty - the next public actions and decisions of Westminster's biggest players aren't obvious.\n\nMake no mistake: this is uncharted territory. For the very first time, it is publicly known that the prime minister and the chancellor broke the very laws they put in place, in the very place where they were devised.\n\nEven if Conservative MPs don't have the appetite to remove Boris Johnson now, even if the electorate's verdict next month isn't clear, this is a line from the prime ministerial CV he will never shift.\n\nA prime minister who's built a career on being unorthodox and has survived the apparently politically unsurvivable before, finds the dice rolling again.\n\nAs a pollster put it to me the other day, political events can be classified as turning points or talking points.\n\nThe vast majority are the latter, noisy, but of little long-term consequence.\n\nThis could still have the potential to be the former, even if nothing changes immediately.", "People using self-driving cars will be allowed to watch television on built-in screens under proposed updates to the Highway Code.\n\nThe changes will say drivers must be ready to take back control of vehicles when prompted, the government said.\n\nThe first use of self-driving technology is likely to be when travelling at slow speeds on motorways, such as in congested traffic.\n\nHowever, using mobile phones while driving will remain illegal.\n\nNo self-driving cars are currently allowed on UK roads, but the first vehicles capable of driving themselves could be ready for use later this year, the Department for Transport (DfT) said.\n\nThe planned changes to the code are expected to come in over the summer.\n\nThe updates, proposed following public consultation, were described as an interim measure to support the early adoption of the technology and a full regulatory framework is planned to be implemented by 2025.\n\nThey will also lay out that users of self-driving cars will not be responsible for crashes.\n\nInstead insurance companies, not individuals, will be liable for claims in many circumstances, the DfT said.\n\nThe government announced in April last year hands-free driving in vehicles with lane-keeping technology on congested motorways would be permitted.\n\nAutomated lane-keeping system technology lets a vehicle drive in a single lane, up to 37mph (60kmph), while maintaining the ability to return control to the driver when required.\n\nUnder the new guidance, motorists should be ready take control from an automated system when prompted, for example when approaching a motorway exit.\n\nCurrently available technology is 'assistive', which means drivers should always retain control, the DfT said.\n\nExperts have suggested a vehicle can stop built-in screens displaying material unrelated to driving when the motorist is required to resume control.\n\nBut there is currently no comparable system to turn off handheld mobile devices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens if you fall asleep in a self-driving car?\n\nTransport Minister Trudy Harrison said updating to the Highway Code will be a \"major milestone in our safe introduction of self-driving vehicles\".\n\nShe also claimed their use \"revolutionise the way we travel, making our future journeys greener, safer and more reliable\".\n\nThe development of self-driving vehicles could create around 38,000 new jobs and be worth £41.7 billion to the UK economy by 2035, according to the DfT.\n\nThe Law Commission published recommendations on how the law should be updated in light of self-driving technology in January, concluding human drivers should not be legally accountable for road safety in the era of autonomous cars.\n\nCar safety experts Thatcham Research described the focus on the driver's legal responsibilities as important, adding drivers need to be made aware they \"must remain engaged\" and be ready to resume driving \"at any time\".\n\nEventually, self-driving technology could \"improve road safety across Britain by reducing human error, which is a contributory factor in 88% of all recorded road collisions,\" the government said.\n\nHowever, the technology for fully-autonomous vehicles has proved difficult to safely introduce and previous estimates of when cars will be able to drive themselves have been unrealistic.\n\nSteve Gooding, director of motoring research charity the RAC Foundation, said driverless cars \"promise a future where death and injury on our roads are cut significantly\".\n\nHowever, he said there is likely to be a \"long period of transition\" while drivers retain \"much of the responsibility for what happens\" while operating vehicles.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nFormer world champion Amir Khan says he has been robbed at gunpoint while out with his wife in Leyton, east London.\n\nOn Monday, the 35-year-old wrote on Twitter that he had a \"gun pointed in my face\" as two men stole his watch.\n\nThe 2008 Olympic silver medallist was with wife Faryal at the time but said \"the main thing is we're both safe\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they were investigating after being called to an incident on High Road, Leyton on Monday at 21:15 BST.\n\n\"A man aged in his 30s is alleged to have been approached by two males who threatened him with a firearm before stealing his watch and fleeing,\" said a statement.\n\n\"There were no reports of any shots fired or any injuries. Police responded and conducted an area search.\n\n\"At this very early stage there have been no arrests. An investigation has begun and police are following a number of enquiries.\"\n\nKhan last fought in February when he was stopped by bitter rival Kell Brook, after which he said the defeat could be his final bout.\n• None Are footballers paid too much? Callum Wilson and Michail Antonio discuss the controversial wages of professional footballers\n• None This is the full story of the tragic Hillsborough disaster", "A protest in Bonn, Germany: The German government has previously argued against weapons deliveries to Ukraine\n\nRepenting historical wrongs is a national pastime in Germany. But even by German standards, the soul-searching over Berlin's Russia policy is remarkable.\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, many German politicians have publicly admitted they got Vladimir Putin wrong. Even German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has apologised, saying it was a mistake to use trade and energy to build bridges with Moscow.\n\n\"It's a bitter acknowledgement that for 30 years we emphasised dialogue and co-operation with Russia,\" says Nils Schmid, foreign affairs spokesperson for Mr Steinmeier's party, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). \"Now we have to recognise this has not worked. That's why we have entered a new era for European security.\"\n\nThat new era was dubbed \"Zeitenwende\" - literally meaning a turning point - by Germany's SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a now-famous speech in the German parliament a few days after the invasion.\n\nIt means scrapping rules about weapons exports, a huge boost in defence spending and an end to Russian energy imports. A Russian gas pipeline to Germany called Nord Stream 2 has already been suspended.\n\n\"For the foreseeable future, co-operation with Russia will not occur. It will be more about containment and deterrence and, if needed, defence against Russia,\" Mr Schmid tells me.\n\n[Dialogue and co-operation with Russia] has not worked... we have entered a new era for European security.\n\nUnexpectedly hawkish words for a party that until seven weeks ago believed Germany's historical guilt and moral duty to make up for Nazi crimes meant peace with Russia at all costs.\n\nBut in Berlin, the war in Ukraine feels very close. The images of shelled Ukrainian buildings look like German cities in World War Two. And the third-of-a-million refugees, mostly women and children, arriving at German train stations remind many here of their parents or grandparents as children fleeing Russian soldiers in 1945.\n\nEven Germany's view of its own history is changing.\n\nUntil the invasion mainstream opinion was that German reunification was thanks to dialogue with Moscow by another SPD chancellor, Willy Brandt. But now the debate has shifted, with reminders that Mr Brandt's diplomacy was backed up by strong deterrence, including a West German defence budget of 3% of GDP.\n\nThe issue of German historical war guilt has also become more nuanced. Before the invasion the government argued against weapon deliveries to Ukraine because of Nazi crimes against Russia.\n\n\"Under Putin, official Russian policy tried to monopolise the memory of the Second World War for the bilateral German-Russian relationship,\" explains Mr Schmid. This blinded parts of German society to the suffering of Ukrainians during the war, he adds.\n\nNow there is a greater awareness of Ukraine's traumas under the Nazis.\n\nBerlin's rhetoric has shifted dramatically. But some ask whether actions are following fast enough. Certainly warm words of support are not enough for Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. He has criticised Germany's continued reliance on Russian oil and gas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nIn a BBC interview last week, Mr Zelensky called payments for Russian energy \"blood money\". And a planned visit to Kyiv by President Steinmeier was cancelled at the last minute.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about what happened: some Ukrainian officials say Mr Steinmeier was not \"disinvited\". But certainly German politicians and commentators interpret the failed visit as a sign of Ukraine's distrust in the German president, who as foreign minister under Angela Merkel spent years trying to achieve peace by engaging with Russia.\n\nAt the Brandenburg Gate - a symbol of another \"Wende\", the word used in German for the process of German reunification - I meet Claudia Major, defence specialist at SWP, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.\n\n\"Our partners look at us, and say: OK, you do a Zeitenwende but what are you practically doing?\" she says. \"On sanctions we are timid and on weapons delivery, we are reluctant. So, rightly, they wonder what that Zeitenwende is about, and given that Germany is a big economic, military, political power in the middle of Europe, whatever we do makes a difference, in good ways and bad.\"\n\nGermany has committed to sanctioning Russian energy imports, but wants a gradual phase-out, rather than an instant embargo. The government argues this would tip Germany into recession and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.\n\n\"This is a dilemma that Germany has created itself,\" argues political scientist Liana Fix from the Körber Foundation. \"That's obviously difficult to accept for other countries, who are willing to go ahead with an embargo and have done their homework on energy diversification.\"\n\nGerman President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was told he was not welcome in Ukraine due to his close ties with Russia\n\nIronically, it's a Green Party politician, Economy Minister Robert Habeck, from a party that for years has been calling for energy independence from Russia, who is having to solve this dilemma.\n\nOn military support for Ukraine, Berlin says it is prepared to send whatever weapons Kyiv needs. But there are allegations that some ministries are getting tied up in bureaucracy. Here, too, it is a Green politician, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who is pushing the governing coalition to go faster. She has called for heavy weaponry, such as tanks or fighter jets, for Ukraine.\n\nThe chancellor, meanwhile, appears to dodge the question when asked - possibly nervous of losing his party's support.\n\nOlaf Scholz has to keep his party onside, govern in a three-way coalition and overturn Germany's guilt-laden pacifist identity overnight.\n\nBut even his allies say the chancellor should at least communicate better what's going on. One speech in parliament and a few TV chat shows are not enough, says Claudia Major.\n\nMeanwhile, it feels like many individual Germans are going through their own Zeitenwende. Ariane Bemmer, a columnist for the Tagesspiegel newspaper, has written about reassessing her own feelings towards Russia. \"I definitely got it wrong, it's like losing a friend,\" she tells me.\n\nLike many in the former West Germany in the 1980s, she was wary of US-style cutthroat capitalism. She bought a book called Ami Go Home - she never read it, but felt it would look good on her bookshelf - and was intrigued by the reforms in Russia.\n\n\"In America you had Ronald Reagan as a president, which was a shock for us. We thought: what will he do, this crazy actor with his cowboy boots? Will he set the world on fire? Russia was a place where all the good changes were, perestroika, freedom, wind of change,\" she says.\n\nFew in Germany think that now. In one recent poll, 55% of Germans said Berlin should send heavy weapons, such as tanks and fighter jets, to Ukraine to fight against Russia.\n\nFor Ariane, and many other Germans, any lingering Russophile romanticism vanished for good the day Putin's tanks rolled over Ukraine's border.", "Most of Sviatohirsk's residents have fled the town\n\nIn a picturesque resort town on the northern edge of Ukraine's Donbas region, people can hear the shelling coming closer. The Russians are just five miles to the north.\n\nSviatohirsk was once a staple of the tourist trail but now it is just another place in the Donbas where people flee the fighting. Most of its permanent residents have themselves fled, fearing the war will not stop its ruthless advance here.\n\nIt was famed for its historic Russian Orthodox church and monastery, set amid the wooded Holy Mountains of the Donbas. That monastery has been damaged by shrapnel from a Russian air strike that hit a target nearby. There is now a gaping hole in the church spire.\n\nJust to the north is the city of Izyum where there is already fierce fighting. The residents who had fled Izyum told us they had been bombed day and night, been without running water and electricity for weeks. They also said there were bodies on the streets.\n\nThe support of religious leaders is helping some cope with the trauma of war\n\n\"Everyone is worried,\" the town's mayor, Vladimir, tells me.\n\nHe says those who have remained regularly call to check he's not leaving. He is not. He is staying put and organising food parcels for the town's dwindling population. These are people who are tired, hungry and scared, too scared sometimes to apportion any blame on Russia.\n\n\"I will not talk about it,\" one woman tells me, \"because we still have to go home.\"\n\nRussia is open about the fact that its renewed focus in the war will be in Ukraine's east, the Donbas. The Russian offensive here is coming from three directions - from the north, south and the east.\n\nBut the landscape of the town that so charms its visitors also offers some kind of protection to its terrified residents. Unlike most of the Donbas region, which is largely flat open landscape, Sviatohirsk is set among hills and forests - providing some natural defences - making it harder for an army to manoeuvre with artillery and tanks.\n\nThe people left in the area find themselves queuing for emergency food parcels\n\nThe residents who have stayed behind now rub shoulders with soldiers getting a brief respite from the fighting. They grab a coffee from one of the few shops left open. The military's not allowed to speak to us without permission.\n\nOne man proudly tells us he was trained by British troops before the latest war started. He's confident that Ukraine can win this war.\n\nBut I meet another soldier who sounds less assured. The unrelenting Russian bombardment is taking its toll. Another soldier tells us that the Russians have been targeting their positions with white phosphorous shells - which burn into the flesh.\n\nThere is now a real danger that Russia may soon try to encircle Ukrainian forces in the region who have been fighting Russian-backed separatist in the region since 2014. Ukrainian troops there are among the most battle hardened in the Ukrainian Army. But they, too, are worried that their supply lines could be cut off as Russian forces push in from three different directions.\n\nThe unit we saw look well trained and well equipped. Their automatic weapons were fitted with suppressors, which are silencers. An officer who agreed to be interviewed says his son, too, was trained - by US and British forces.\n\nThe Ukrainian army now is better prepared than when separatists took over the Donbas in 2014\n\nVolodomyr told us that the Ukrainian Army is now much better prepared than the one of 2014 - when Russian backed separatists took over part of the Donbas.\n\n\"If this war had happened then, I don't know how it would end, but now we know the Russian aggressors will get what they deserve.\"\n\nVolodomyr says the Russians are using similar tactics they have used elsewhere in Ukraine - \"creating panic among the local population\". He says \"it's inhuman\".\n\nIt is now happening right across the Donbas.\n\nFrom the distance we could see and hear the city of Severodonetsk being pounded. We tried to enter but had to turn back when we heard the whistle of a shell landing nearby. It was a similar scene further south in the city of Avdiivka - where the remnants of a once bustling industrial city were now hiding in bunkers.\n\nGallina showed the crater caused by a bomb landing in her garden\n\nEven a nearby village hadn't been spared. Sixty-year-old Gallina showed us the crater which had landed in her garden - blowing out the windows of her small home the night before. Inside, her granddaughter, Anastasia, was cowering under a table - still too frightened to come out.\n\nGallina told me \"there's nothing funny about this situation\".\n\n\"We live here like cannon fodder,\" she added.\n\nAnastasia has been hiding under a table since a bomb landed near her home, frightened to come out\n\nUkrainian forces are trying to slow any Russian advance - as they did in Kyiv. One soldier shows us drone footage of a bridge they recently blew up - to the north of Izyum. It brings a column of military trucks to a standstill. But more will be coming.\n\nWhat is happening in the Donbas now - the incessant, unrelenting shelling - is the prelude to the long expected offensive. Russia is trying to weaken Ukraine's defences and its people's resolve.\n\nThere have been also Russian probing attacks across the frontline. Most have been so far repelled by Ukraine forces. But they know more will be coming.\n\nRussia is still massing and reconstituting its battered units. There are still questions as to whether Russian forces will perform any better in the east than they did outside the capital Kyiv - where they were forced to retreat.\n\nThe UK's Ministry of Defence believes Russian commanders will also be concerned by the time it is taking them to subdue the port city of Mariupol - which has diverted men and materiel - slowing the Russian advance elsewhere.\n\nUkraine still fears worse is to come. That's why President Volodymyr Zelensky has once again been calling for more weapons.\n\nUntil recently Western support has been limited to \"defensive weapons\" - such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. But some countries are now sending heavier weapons.\n\nWe have seen some of it - such as armoured vehicles - arrive on the frontline. The Czech Republic is providing Ukraine with a dozen T-72 tanks. The latest batch of US military aid will include 18 howitzers.\n\nBut that will probably not be enough to tip to balance overwhelmingly in favour of Ukraine.\n\nBack in Sviatohirsk, Mayor Vladimir says he is still holding out hope that this conflict can be resolved through diplomacy.\n\n\"All this is terrible,\" he says. \"This destruction has no future.\"\n\nAre you or your family in the area? If it is safe to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The rising cost of living in Britain has led to households cancelling their streaming subscriptions, new research suggests.\n\nA total of 1.51 million services were canned in the first three months of 2022, market research firm Kantar said.\n\nIt said more than half a million cancellations were attributed to \"money saving\", with households budgeting for higher prices and energy bills instead.\n\nAbout 58% of Britain's homes now have at least one paid streaming service.\n\nThe height of coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns saw surges in subscriptions for platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime.\n\nBut researchers said the proportion of consumers planning to cancel subscriptions stating the primary reason as \"wanting to save money\" had risen to its highest ever level at 38%, up from 29% in final three months of 2021.\n\nKantar said households were \"starting to seriously prioritise where and how their disposable income is spent\".\n\nDominic Sunnebo, global insight director at Kantar's Worldpanel Division, added that the latest research would be \"sobering\" for the industry.\n\n\"The evidence from these findings suggests that British households are now proactively looking for ways to save,\" he said.\n\nResearchers said Amazon Prime's thriller series Reacher was the most-watched title in the first three months of 2022, followed by Ozark and Inventing Anna on Netflix.\n\nThey said that although \"churn\" rates increased almost across all streaming platforms, there was a \"clear difference\" in the number of cancellations seen outside of Netflix and Amazon.\n\n\"Netflix and Amazon can be seen to be hygiene subscriptions for Brits; the last to go when households are forced to prioritise spend,\" Kantar said.\n\n\"Disney, Now TV, Discovery+ and BritBox all saw significant jumps in churn rates quarter-on-quarter.\"\n\nBesides mounting cancellations, the early months of 2022 saw the lowest ever rate of new subscribers, Kantar said.\n\nIn January, Netflix said it added 18.2 million members last year - roughly half the number who subscribed in 2020.\n\nInvestors had hoped that pace would start to pick up again, which sent the company's share price down almost 20% at the time.\n\nThe company admitted that new competition from the likes of Disney, Apple, Amazon and HBO was starting to have an impact.\n\nKantar said advertising was \"an obvious route for driving revenue growth, but one Netflix has historically strictly shied away from\".\n\n\"However, Netflix chief financial officer Spencer Neumann added fuel to the fire by saying in March 'it's not like we have religion against advertising',\" its Entertainment on Demand study said.\n\n\"Data across Great Britain shows Netflix subscribers' attitudes to advertising are softening, with 44% now stating they don't mind seeing on streaming services if it makes them cheaper, a significant rise from 38% at the same point in 2021.\"", "A federal judge in Florida has struck down the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other forms of public transit, calling it unlawful.\n\nUS District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the national public health agency had exceeded its legal powers in issuing the mandate.\n\nThe US transit authority said it would now no longer enforce mask wearing.\n\nThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just last week extended the mandate until 3 May.\n\nJudge Mizelle is based in Florida, but federal judges can issue rulings that block nationwide government policies.\n\nHer order on Monday effectively removes the masking requirement in all airports, trains, taxis and transit hubs.\n\nSome social media users reported that the order was announced on aircraft mid-flight, prompting travellers to applaud and remove their masks.\n\nOn Monday, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants appealed for \"calm and consistency\" in airports and on planes to avoid \"confusion and chaos\".\n\nWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki called the decision \"disappointing\" and noted that the CDC still recommends travellers cover their mouths and noses.\n\nMs Psaki added that the Justice Department \"would make any determinations about litigation\" following the order.\n\nThe CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment to Monday's ruling.\n\nLast week US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said the mandate had been extended into May because of rising Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe lawsuit was first brought in July 2021 by the conservative group Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF) and two Florida residents who said wearing masks increased their anxiety and panic attacks.\n\nThe plaintiffs argued that the CDC mandate was \"arbitrary and capricious\" because it gave exemptions to certain groups - like children under two years of age - but not to others.\n\nIn her ruling, Judge Mizelle, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, found that the CDC had improperly invoked what is known as the \"good cause exception\", allowing the agency to skip public notice and comment on the mandate.\n\n\"Because 'our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in pursuit of desirable ends,'\" Judge Mizelle wrote, invoking another case, \"the Court declares unlawful and vacates the Mask Mandate.\"\n\nShortly after the legal decision was issued, the Transportation Security Administration - which runs US airport security - confirmed it would no longer enforce the mask mandate.\n\nUnited Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines said face coverings would no longer be required on domestic flights and certain international flights.\n\nSince the CDC first issued a public health order in February 2021 requiring masks for travellers, more than 7,000 unruly passenger incidents have been reported - 70% of them involving masking rules, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.\n\nAdditionally, ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft both announced that passengers and drivers are no longer required to wear masks while using the services, effective immediately.\n\n\"You can now ride without a mask and use the front seat if you need to,\" Uber said in a statement. \"While mask usage is still recommended, we've updated our Covid safety policies. Let's move forward, safely together.\"\n\nLyft, for its part, said that masks are now \"optional\".\n\n\"We know that everyone has different comfort levels, and anyone who wants to continue wearing a mask is encouraged to do so,\" the company said.\n\nThe Biden administration's Covid-19 mandates have had mixed success in the court system.\n\nThe Supreme Court in January blocked the White House from enforcing its sweeping vaccine-or-test rule for employees at large private companies.\n\nBut the Biden administration's requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against Covid-19 was upheld on appeal earlier this month.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nDerby County have been relegated from the Championship after suffering a dramatic late defeat at Queens Park Rangers.\n\nLuke Amos' 88th-minute winner for QPR, coupled with Reading's remarkable 4-4 draw against Swansea, consigned Wayne Rooney's beleaguered Rams to the drop to League One.\n\nRelegation with three games to go means Derby will play in England's third tier for the first time since 1986.\n\nTheir fight for survival, in a campaign crippled by a 21-point deduction, could only have been prolonged if they equalled or bettered Reading's result.\n\nWhen Amos coolly slipped the ball past goalkeeper Ryan Allsop, their hopes of staying up had taken a major blow but were not over.\n\nHowever, Tom McIntyre's 95th-minute leveller for Reading left the Rams 10 points behind the 21st-placed Royals with three games remaining.\n\nEven then, Tom Lawrence was sent off for a second yellow card for a foul on Charlie Austin to compound Derby's misery.\n\nQPR ended a six-match winless run to move up to 10th in the table and to within two points of the top six, although sixth-placed Sheffield United could increase that gap if they beat Bristol City later on Monday.\n\nIn a nervy first half of the high-stakes game in west London, Amos had an early goal ruled out for offside while Luke Plange skimmed Derby's best chance off the top off the crossbar with a header.\n\nA crucial block from Derby full-back Nathan Byrne to foil Lyndon Dykes after the half-hour mark summed up the steadfast determination Rooney's Rams have played with throughout a fraught campaign.\n\nIf not for the 21-point deduction this season, for entering administration and breaching the EFL's financial regulations, Derby would be 17th in the table and almost as close to the play-off places as the relegation spots.\n\nAllsop made two crucial second-half saves, denying Ilias Chair and Dykes, but Amos finished a quick counter attack with two minutes left to break Derby's resistance and ultimately shatter what hopes they had of avoiding the drop.\n\nDerby's spirited attempt to stay in the Championship is over, but the protracted efforts to sell the club are ongoing.\n\nUS businessman Chris Kirchner was confirmed as the preferred bidder to buy the club earlier this month, but while the sale continues it means Derby remain in administration - having been placed there by former owner Mel Morris 208 days ago.\n\nWith just five players contracted for next season and the Rams under a transfer embargo, rebuilding the East Midlands club in League One will present significant challenges for whoever is involved.\n\nRooney's future with the Rams is also uncertain, with the 36-year-old linked with the vacant job at Premier League side Burnley. Earlier this season he rejected an approach from boyhood club Everton to speak to them about taking charge at Goodison Park.\n\nThe effort, energy, creativity, fighting for the cause, camaraderie. It's all been there in recent months.\n\nThose relationships have meant this team have taken it to game 43 with a 21-point deduction and that has to be commended.\n\nThe amount of players that have been introduced and brought through, that's a good starting block for next season.\n\nIf they can get one or two senior players to sign new contracts and play for Wayne Rooney next season, even in League One, then Derby have a fighting chance.\n\nMinus 15 points is a very strong possibility next season, but that's from the off and not in late September.\n\nDerby fans should be very proud of their team and I'm sure they are.\n• None Second yellow card to Tom Lawrence (Derby County) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Bartosz Cybulski (Derby County) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Malcolm Ebiowei with a cross.\n• None Malcolm Ebiowei (Derby County) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Queens Park Rangers 1, Derby County 0. Luke Amos (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lyndon Dykes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Malcolm Ebiowei (Derby County) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Lawrence.\n• None Attempt saved. Ilias Chair (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Malcolm Ebiowei (Derby County) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ravel Morrison.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nathan Byrne (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Malcolm Ebiowei. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Iby Knill often spoke to young people about her experiences during the Holocaust\n\nAn \"incredible\" Holocaust survivor has died 77 years after her liberation from a concentration camp.\n\nIby Knill, 98, died on Easter Sunday, the same day she was freed from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in April 1945.\n\nMrs Knill had escaped to Hungary from Czechoslovakia earlier in World War Two, but was sent to the camp in 1944.\n\nShe was born in 1923 in what is now the Czech Republic and she moved to the UK after the war, living in Leeds.\n\nShe had married Bert Knill, a British soldier, in 1946 after her liberation from Auschwitz-Birkenau.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holocaust survivor Iby Knill talks about her experiences in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp\n\nAbout six million Jewish men, women and children, along with members of other groups, were murdered during the Holocaust by Germany's Nazi regime and its collaborators in World War Two.\n\nIn Auschwitz, Mrs Knill was initially selected for forced labour.\n\nIn a BBC interview, she said she got through her captivity in the concentration camp by \"staying together\" with her four friends and \"living one day at a time\".\n\nIn the final days of the war, hundreds of the camp's prisoners were forced on a death march.\n\nThey were liberated by the American army on Easter Sunday, 1945.\n\nMrs Knill went on to become a well-known speaker and author about the Holocaust and received a British Empire Medal in the Queen's Honours list in 2017.\n\nShe wrote a two-volume autobiography, The Woman Without a Number and The Woman With Nine Lives, and often told her story to young people to educate them about the Holocaust.\n\nIby Knill had a \"positive mental attitude\", her publisher Phil Caplan said\n\nPhil Caplan, of Scratching Shed Publishing, which published her autobiography, said: \"It is the irony of ironies that Easter Sunday was also the day she was liberated. That circular event in history has added more poignancy.\n\n\"She was incredible. To be in her presence was to be overwhelmed with her view of humanity when she could have borne the strongest of grudges.\"\n\nMr Caplan said Mrs Knill \"had a positive mental attitude and refused to give in\".\n\n\"She wasn't pinned down to one belief, she was a humanist more than anything. She related to young people and that kept her going,\" he added.\n\nAmong other tributes to Mrs Knill, Frank Gardner, the BBC's security correspondent, said: \"Her spirit was indomitable.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Frank Gardner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Karen Pollock, chief executive, of the Holocaust Educational Trust described Mrs Knill as \"formidable\".\n\n\"An active member of the Resistance movement and a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Iby had a unique story to share,\" she said.\n\n\"She was passionate about sharing her testimony and ensuring the next generation learnt about the horrors of the Holocaust.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.\"\n\nFabian Hamilton, who was Mrs Knill's MP and knew her well, added: \"What a stalwart, a completely remarkable women.\n\n\"She didn't start talking about her wartime experiences till about 20 years ago but often spoke of how she had stuck together with her friends as had there been any sense of being on your own that person would be picked off.\n\n\"You do think people like Iby will go on for ever, she was incredible, a living witness and we should never forget.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Russian missile attack on the western city of Lviv has left at least seven people dead, city officials say, on a day the Russians intensified strikes across Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had now started its assault to seize Ukraine's Donbas region in the east.\n\nMr Zelensky's remarks came after Russia said it had hit 300 targets across Ukraine, however.\n\nUp until now the picturesque Ukrainian city had escaped largely unscathed from the worst of the Russian invasion.\n\nOne of the missiles there struck a garage where workers were meeting for coffee before work, officials said.\n\n\"Everyone is unsafe,\" Lviv's mayor said.\n\nYury Buran, a 26-year-old IT worker, was one of those killed when a missile struck.\n\n\"Humans cannot do such things. They are not humans, they are barbaric invaders.\" his father Anatoly said to the BBC.\n\nThe final Ukrainian fighters preventing Russia from taking full control of Mariupol will not lay down their arms, the country's prime minister has said.\n\n\"They will fight until the end. And as for now, they are still in Mariupol,\" Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal told a US TV network.\n\nRussia's military says it controls almost all of Mariupol, while Ukraine's Azov Battalion is still holding out in Azovstal, a huge steelworks overlooking the Azov Sea.\n\nThey've been camped out in a network of underground bunkers and tunnels running beneath Mariupol's massive Azovstal steel complex, ignoring multiple Russian ultimatums to surrender.\n\nCredible footage of the Moskva warship in the hours before it sank appears to show the missile cruiser listing heavily with black smoke billowing into the sky.\n\nLast week Russia blamed the loss of its Black Sea flagship on an unexplained fire, but Ukraine claimed it hit the warship with two missiles.\n\nThey agreed it probably showed the Moskva and that the damage was consistent with that from a missile strike, but stressed it wasn't possible to draw definitive conclusions from the grainy footage.\n\nAiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nTwo British men reportedly captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine have appealed on Russian state television for Boris Johnson to help free them, but its unclear whether the pleas were made under duress.\n\nShaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, were shown in two separate videos asking to be swapped in a prisoner exchange with a pro-Kremlin politician being detained in Ukraine.\n\nFamilies of both men have appealed for their Russian captors to treat them humanely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment a Ukrainian BBC journalist is reunited with his mother in the UK\n\nAfter a 2,000 mile (3,128 km) journey that lasted 35 hours, the mother and severely disabled aunt of a BBC journalist have made it safely to Reading in the UK.\n\nBut the journey was only possible because BBC Monitoring's Russia editor Vitaliy Shevchenko shared the story of the danger his family was facing back in Zaporizhzhia on an episode of the BBC's Ukrainecast, prompting two listeners to work together to help pull off the rescue.\n\nListen to Vitaliy's family thanking the man who was able to aid their escape.", "After BBC Monitoring's Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko spoke about the dangers the war in Ukraine posed to his family in Zaporizhzhia, two people who heard his story on the BBC Ukrainecast podcast worked together to rescue his mother and severely disabled aunt from the country.\n\nFollowing a 35-hour journey, that spanned 2,000 miles (3,218km) and crossed five countries, Vitaly was reunited with family members as they arrived in Reading, and was able to thank the man who aided their rescue.\n\nListen to the full story on Ukrainecast on BBC Sounds", "Aiden Aslin, photographed here in Syria, has been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army\n\nThe family of a British man has appealed for him to be treated humanely after he was reportedly captured while defending Ukraine.\n\nRussian sources claim Aiden Aslin, who is originally from Newark in Nottinghamshire, has been captured in the besieged city of Mariupol.\n\nOn Tuesday his family told the BBC his unit was having to prepare to surrender to Russian forces.\n\nMr Aslin has now appeared in photos and video footage restrained in handcuffs.\n\nHis mother Ang Wood told the BBC: \"I believe it is him in the photographs. We just want him to be treated according to the Geneva Conventions.\n\n\"We are just hoping that maybe there can be some sort of prisoner exchange. We don't know what else to do right now except keep pressing the Foreign Office.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) for a response.\n\nMr Aslin has a Ukrainian fiancée and now has dual citizenship, after moving to Ukraine in 2018.\n\nHis grandmother Pamela Hall told the BBC: \"I never expected this, I thought if the worst came to the worst that Aiden would die fighting.\n\n\"Obviously I didn't want that, I wanted the war to end and for him to go home to his fiancée.\"\n\nMr Aslin had been defending Mariupol with his unit during heavy fighting in recent weeks.\n\n\"I think all the guys should be treated as prisoners of war according to the Geneva Conventions; I appreciate it's opposing forces, but they're all human beings,\" his grandmother said.\n\n\"We are all just hoping and praying for his safety.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Aslin is a former care worker who previously fought with Kurdish armed units in Syria against so-called Islamic State.\n\nHe passed out as a marine with the Ukrainian military in 2018. His family understand his unit is the 36th Marine Brigade.\n\nA video is being shown on Russian television news in which Mr Aslin is being questioned.\n\nThe interviewer first asks in Russian whether he understands the language, to which he replies in Russian \"50/50\".\n\nHe is then asked whether he killed anyone, and the interviewer also says: \"Did you see others killing anyone in your presence?\"\n\nMr Aslin replies in English: \"I didn't do any fighting.\"\n\nAiden Aslin is clearly being used to maximum advantage as a tool for Russian propaganda, interviewed by a Russian TV reporter while being held captive.\n\nIn a lengthy segment, the news anchor and reporter refer to Aiden in brutal terms, calling him a \"head cutter\".\n\nDuring the interview, Aiden appears to back up propaganda that Russian state media has been putting out since the start of the invasion.\n\nHe states he has seen Ukrainian soldiers killing Ukrainian civilians. A classic Kremlin claim regularly made by Russian officials, despite huge amounts of evidence of atrocities against civilians committed by Russian forces.\n\nWe cannot know under what duress Aiden may have been prior to this interview, but one thing is very clear.\n\nThese are not the words of the Aiden Aslin from a few weeks ago, when he was speaking to family from the conflict and regularly posting social media updates.\n\nLoved ones will tell you he was very proud of his role as a marine in the Ukrainian forces, and believes strongly in defending civilians.\n\nHis grandmother told the BBC: \"Aiden was not a mercenary as some of these Russian posts are saying.\n\n\"He has never been a mercenary and his involvement with the Ukrainian forces came about because he made Ukraine his adopted home, and he was due to marry his fiancée.\n\n\"It's an unjust war - it should never have happened.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was filmed without a face covering on while in a barber shop\n\nPolice officers have spoken to Nicola Sturgeon after she was filmed breaching Scotland's face mask rules.\n\nThey reminded her of the importance of wearing a face covering when there was a legal requirement to do so, Police Scotland said.\n\nThe force added it was satisfied that no further action was necessary.\n\nFootage shared on social media showed the first minister without a mask in an East Kilbride barber shop.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Sturgeon said she realised she had forgotten to put her face covering on \"within seconds\" of being in the shop on Saturday.\n\n\"I then immediately put it on,\" she added.\n\n\"However, I accept that not wearing a face covering even for a few seconds was an error on my part and I am sorry for that.\"\n\nShe said Police Scotland made contact with her after receiving complaints.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"This is what they would have done with anyone else in these circumstances, and they were absolutely right to treat me no differently to any other citizen.\n\n\"I explained that the error was inadvertent and the police have confirmed that the matter is closed.\n\n\"While the law no longer requires face coverings to be worn, I will continue to do so in circumstances where this can help reduce the risk of infection, and I encourage everyone to do likewise.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe legal requirement to wear face coverings in crowded indoor places, and on public transport was lifted on Monday.\n\nHowever, people are still being strongly advised to wear masks voluntarily while case numbers remain high.\n\nIt is ironic that on the day Nicola Sturgeon lifted the legal requirement to wear a face covering in shops and on buses, she is in the news for breaking her own rules.\n\nFor the second time in this pandemic, the first minister has apologised for forgetting to put on her mask when she should have.\n\nIt was a temporary lapse and the police have judged that reminding Ms Sturgeon of her responsibilities was sufficient to deal with the matter.\n\nIt is none the less embarrassing for Scotland's principal rule maker to have the police calling her out for being a Covid rule-breaker.\n\nHer case is not equivalent to the multiple parties and gatherings held in and around Downing Street over which the prime minister has already been fined.\n\nIt does however provide Boris Johnson with a comeback to the SNP when he appears in the Commons on Tuesday to explain his behaviour and his previous claim that Covid rules were followed at all times.\n\nDuring the visit to the barber shop on Saturday, Ms Sturgeon shaved a man's beard while journalists took photographs.\n\nThe SNP leader posted footage on her own Instagram account, describing it as \"surreal\" but one of the best and \"scariest\" things she had done on the campaign trail.\n\nFurther footage was later posted online showing her interacting with people without her mask on.\n\nPolice Scotland said its response to the incident was \"in line with our proportionate approach throughout the pandemic\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon has been photographed in a face covering while on the election trail\n\nIn December 2020 Ms Sturgeon apologised for taking her face mask off at a wake following the funeral of a Scottish government civil servant who died with Covid.\n\nAddressing MSPs shortly afterwards, she said: \"I am kicking myself very hard - possibly harder than my worst critic ever could - but more importantly I'll be making sure I don't drop my guard again.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, recently rejected calls to resign, despite being fined by police for breaking lockdown rules in Downing Street in June 2020.", "People will now be able to sit next to each other in waiting rooms\n\nPatients in waiting rooms in England are no longer required to socially distance.\n\nThe new \"stepping down\" rules apply to NHS hospitals, GP surgeries and emergency departments.\n\nPeople will still be encouraged to wear face masks and practise good hygiene.\n\nIn a letter to local health services, NHS England bosses said rules needed to \"adapt\" with Covid-19, because the virus was widely circulating and likely to remain endemic for some time.\n\nCleaning routines in England's hospitals have also been changed.\n\nPatients with Covid will have to isolate for a week instead of 10 days.\n\nAnd those exposed to the virus but without symptoms will not have to isolate at all.\n\nTesting rules were changed in England earlier this month, as part of the government's Living with Covid plan.\n\nSenior NHS bosses said they were changing the rules because of \"the pressure from Covid-19 continuing\".\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS providers, which represents hospital trusts, said: \"We need to keep reviewing our infection-control measures.\n\n\"We know at the moment that they are very important to protect vulnerable people but they also make it a lot more complex to run a hospital, get through care backlogs and provide emergency care.\n\n\"What these rules are saying is each individual hospital needs to review where it is up to in terms of local infection rates but also seeing how many rooms they have in a hospital too.\"\n\nThere is much concern over accident-and-emergency waiting times and a backlog of planned surgeries.\n\nAsked in Parliament, on Tuesday afternoon, about backlogs in the NHS, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"The NHS and social care are facing unprecedented pressure because of the pandemic.\n\n\"In NHS settings and adult social care, there has been a necessity for infection-protection controls.\n\n\"Staff absences have been higher than in normal times but the NHS has been stepping forward to bring support with the record funding that the government is providing both to the NHS and to adult social care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The war in Ukraine will \"severely set back\" the global economic recovery with the UK hit harder than most, the International Monetary Fund has said.\n\nThe conflict is driving up prices for food and fuel which the international body expects to slow growth globally.\n\nIt has cut its global forecast and also downgraded its outlook for the UK.\n\nThis means the UK will no longer be the fastest growing economy in the G7 group of leading Western nations, and will be the slowest in 2023, it says.\n\nThe body says that UK growth will slow as price pressures lead households to cut spending, while rising interest rates are expected to \"cool investment\".\n\nThe UK's economy is now predicted to grow by 3.7% this year, down from the previous forecast of 4.7% made in January.\n\nHowever, next year, the UK is expected to have the slowest growth in the G7 and across Europe's main economies, at just 1.2%, a near halving from the 2.3% expected previously.\n\nThe 2023 UK figure is the slowest apart from heavily-sanctioned Russia in the wider G20 grouping, which includes nations such as China and India.\n\nThe IMF said that the UK was the fastest growing G7 economy in 2021, and is forecast to be the second fastest in 2022.\n\nThe low UK growth rates forecast in 2023 are in part due to the UK rebounding more quickly from the pandemic than some of its G7 peers.\n\nHowever, the UK is also wrestling with high inflation, which will hit growth in 2023, as people cut spending as their real income shrinks, the IMF said. The organisation expects inflation to peak in late 2022 at 9%.\n\nIt said rising interest rates will also slow the UK economy in 2023 and 2023, while government policies such as getting rid of certain tax breaks will reduce business investment at that time.\n\nIn addition, Brexit will hold back export growth, the IMF said, and it will continue to make pandemic-related labour supply \"scarring\" worse by reducing immigration.\n\n\"However, the impact of Brexit is spread over several years and is not the primary driver of the slowdown in 2023,\" a spokesperson for the organisation added.\n\nThe IMF works with its 189 member countries to try to stabilise the global economy, including issuing short-term loans and assistance to countries who are struggling.\n\nIt said inflation was now a \"clear and present danger\" in many countries and the situation has added to supply strains from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In the matter of a few weeks, the world has yet again experienced a major, transformative shock,\" IMF director of research Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas wrote in the organisation's 2022 World Economic Outlook.\n\n\"Just as a durable recovery from the pandemic-induced global economic collapse appeared in sight, the war has created the very real prospect that a large part of the recent gains will be erased.\"\n\nThe organisation said it expected global growth of just 3.6% this year, down nearly a percentage point from its forecast before the war.\n\nThe World Bank also said it was lowering its growth forecast from 4.1% to 3.2%.\n\nThe conflict has already devastated the economies of Ukraine and Russia, which the West cut off from key trade and financial networks with sanctions following the invasion.\n\nUkraine is facing a severe contraction of 35% or more this year, while Russia's economy is expected to shrink by 8.5%, the IMF said.\n\nBut with Russia a major energy producer and key supplier of staples such as wheat and corn alongside Ukraine, the consequences will ripple far beyond their borders, the IMF warned.\n\nThere have been two acute shocks to the world economy in quick succession - the pandemic and the Ukraine war.\n\nThe latter is building on the problems created by the former, tripping up what had been a healthy recovery, and sending prices rising at an even faster rate.\n\nFood and energy prices were already being hiked by the supply bottlenecks after the pandemic, before one of the world's biggest energy suppliers invaded one of the world's biggest food exporter.\n\nBut now there are new bottlenecks emerging from the stringent Covid lockdowns in some regions of China.\n\nFears about inflation becoming entrenched are leading the world's central bankers to raise interest rates. In turn that is raising the cost of borrowing for the record debts many nations racked up during the pandemic.\n\nSo all this requires some skill and cooperation among the old and new financial powerhouses of the world. But that has been another commodity in short supply in recent times.\n\n\"The economic effects of the war are spreading far and wide - like seismic waves that emanate from the epicenter of an earthquake,\" it said.\n\nIn Germany, where the economy is especially closely entwined, the war is likely to lower growth by 1.7 percentage points, it said.\n\nEven in countries with little direct trade with Russia and Ukraine, households will feel the effects of the war, as central banks respond to the more rapid inflation by raising interest rates, making borrowing more expensive, the IMF said.\n\nIn the US, for example, the organisation lowered its forecast for growth in 2022 by 0.3 percentage points to 3.7%, citing the prospect of more aggressive interest rate rises.\n\nUkraine and Russia accounted for nearly 30% of the world's wheat\n\nOverall, inflation pressures are significantly worse than they were when the IMF issued its previous forecast in January.\n\nIt now predicts inflation in \"advanced economies\" will hit 5.7% this year, while it is likely to reach 8.7% in emerging markets.\n\nUK inflation is expected to be 5.3% next year - the highest in the G7, and higher than all EU members, and only exceeded in the G20 by crisis-ridden Argentina, Turkey and Russia.\n\n\"Inflation has become a clear and present danger for many countries,\" Mr Gourinchas wrote in a blog.\n\nA few countries, such as oil exporters, are benefiting. The IMF expects growth in Saudi Arabia, for example, to be stronger than it did in January.\n\nBut the risks are not purely economic, the IMF added.\n\nIt said the war had also created a refugee crisis and aggravated political tensions, risking a \"more permanent fragmentation of the world economy into geopolitical blocks with distinct technology standards, cross-border payment systems, and reserve currencies\".\n\n\"Such a 'tectonic shift' would cause long-run efficiency losses, increase volatility and represent a major challenge to the rules-based framework that has governed international and economic relations for the last 75 years,\" the IMF said.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the IMF forecasts \"will be concerning for many people and families\" in the UK.\n\n\"However the support we provided over the past two years has put our economy in a good position to deal with these headwinds, including through record numbers of employees on payrolls and a strong economic recovery from the pandemic,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the IMF forecast \"shows the extreme challenges facing the UK economy\".\n\n\"While it is true that global forces play a role, the fact that the UK is forecast to have the slowest growth of any G7 economy next year plus the highest inflation, shows the uniquely bad situation the UK is in.\n\n\"Inflation spiralling out of control this year has created a cost of living crisis hitting families across the country, needing decisive and urgent action,\" she said, repeating Labour calls for a windfall tax on oil and gas firms.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine said the UK government had \"failed to shield the UK from spiralling energy bills and soaring inflation, but they have gone ahead with raising people's taxes to their highest point in 70 years\".", "Ministers have been criticised for how quickly humanitarian aid is being sent to Ukraine, with less than a third of the £220m promised having been handed out by the start of this month.\n\nCommons international development committee chairwoman Sarah Champion said she was \"shocked and disappointed\" that less than £60m had been disbursed.\n\nShe said people needed \"help now\".\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss told the committee on 1 April that the delivery of aid was being scaled up \"at speed\".\n\nMs Truss said her department was \"working tirelessly to disburse our funding quickly and effectively\" while ensuring that all aid was targeted effectively.\n\nLatest figures have not been yet made available on how much the situation has moved on in the 18 days since she made that statement to the committee.\n\nBut in a newly-issued statement Labour's Ms Champion said she had previously urged the prime minister to make sure the UK's pledges were distributed quickly and said it was \"shameful\" that she was having to repeat the urgent appeal.\n\nThe Rotherham MP said she was \"extremely disappointed\" that support for Ukraine was coming from an aid budget which had been cut from 0.7% of national income to 0.5%, which she said would mean \"cruel cuts\" to aid programmes around the world.\n\n\"Given these circumstances the government should be less rigid in sticking to the 0.5% target for aid spending,\" she said, adding this would allow the UK to respond to the crisis in Ukraine without taking resources away from other communities suffering from other conflicts or extreme poverty.\n\nShe said more than 12 million people in Ukraine needed humanitarian support, as well as four million who had fled the country.\n\nMs Champion said she was sure the British people who had \"given so quickly and generously\" to the separate Ukraine appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee would be \"astounded\" by the lack of speed of the government's aid delivery.\n\nA spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said the UK had been \"at the forefront of the humanitarian response\".\n\nThey added: \"We have dispersed millions of items of food and medical supplies to people in need across the country.\"", "Whitehall was shut for several hours after the incident at Horse Guards Parade\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two Ministry of Defence police officers were confronted with a knife.\n\nThe incident happened at about 08:50 BST at Horse Guards Parade in Westminster, London.\n\nA Taser was used and a 29-year-old man was restrained by officers, the Met Police said.\n\nThere were no reports of any injuries and the incident was not being treated as terror-related, the force said.\n\nThe man was also arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and remains in custody.\n\nWhitehall was closed for several hours due to the incident.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson says he has \"absolutely no problem\" with raising National Insurance (NI) to tackle the NHS' post-pandemic backlog.\n\nThe prime minister said it was \"unquestionably the right thing for our country\" as the health service was the \"biggest priority\" for people.\n\nBut Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"the wrong tax at the wrong time\".\n\nThe NI hike came into force on Wednesday, and is expected to raise £39bn over the next three years.\n\nAs well as funding NHS services, the money will also go towards social care.\n\nSpeaking to reporters during a hospital visit in Hertfordshire, Mr Johnson said there were now six million people on NHS waiting lists, adding: \"We have got to give our doctors and nurses the funding to deal with that.\n\n\"We've got to do the difficult things, we've got to take the big decisions, the right decisions, for this country.\"\n\nBut the Labour leader criticised not just the tax, but its timing.\n\nSpeaking in Lancashire, Sir Keir said: \"In the middle of the worst cost of living crisis for decades, today the government chooses to increase taxes on working people.\"\n\nHe agreed NHS backlogs needed to be addressed, but claimed the government would use the money raised to pay for its \"incompetence and failure\" over Covid fraud and unused equipment - not for health care.\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, joined the criticism, saying increasing NI was an unfair way of raising the cash needed for health and social care.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"It puts all the burden on working people - that is wrong.\"\n\nThe SNP said the rise was a \"catastrophic error of judgement\" by the government that would \"plunge millions of families into poverty\", while Plaid Cymru described it as a \"dubious measure\" that helped create a tax system \"both less equitable and less efficient\".\n\nBut Health Secretary Sajid Javid told the BBC it would be \"morally wrong\" to expect future generations to pay for the funding that was needed now.\n\n\"The choice for us as a country is we either put that money in ourselves now, and if we don't do it ourselves, we will have to borrow it,\" he said.\n\n\"And that is mortgaging the future of our children and our grandchildren.\"\n\nHe added: \"Why should our children pay for our healthcare and our adult social care? They are going to have enough challenges as they grow older.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe plan to raise National Insurance was first announced in September.\n\nThe tax hike will see employees, employers and the self-employed all pay 1.25p more in the pound on NI for a year.\n\nThen the extra tax will be collected as a new Health and Social Care Levy from April 2023.\n\nThe government said the changes would raise £12bn a year, which would initially go towards easing pressure on the NHS after Covid.\n\nA proportion of the levy will then be moved to fund social care over the next three years.\n\nBut the move has come in for criticism from opposition parties, some Tory MPs and campaigners, as well as businesses, especially the timing of the increase.\n\nThe National Insurance rise will, ministers like to say, provide a much needed boost to health and social care.\n\nThey claim it will pay for the care cap and boost NHS capacity to help tackle the backlog in England - it is up to the rest of the UK to decide how they spend the proceeds.\n\nBut the truth is it will only contribute to that.\n\nRising inflation, staff shortages, and ageing equipment and buildings, mean the health and care system is going to suck up the £39bn raised over the next three years by the hike and then some more.\n\nIt is also worth bearing in mind the government had already committed to rises for the NHS up until 2024 under a funding settlement agreed by Theresa May's government.\n\nThis had brought the increases to something close to the 4% health had historically got, although the rising inflation that is being seen will whittle that away from now on.\n\nAnd that came after a decade of the budget rising by little more than 1% - an unprecedented squeeze for the health service.\n\nThe National Insurance rise is not quite all it seems.", "The UK, US, and Australia will begin co-operating on research into hypersonic weapons and how to defend against them, the government has said.\n\nThe programme will be part of the AUKUS partnership, a security pact announced by the three countries last year.\n\nIt follows the development of hypersonic missiles by China and Russia and their purported use by Russia in Ukraine last month.\n\nHypersonic weapons are those that exceed five times the speed of sound.\n\nThey are harder to defend against because of their speed as well as the fact they fly at low altitudes - beyond the line of sight of ground-based radars - and can manoeuvre mid-flight.\n\nThe UK does not currently possess hypersonic missiles.\n\nThe US and Australia have an existing joint programme to develop the weapons but the UK government stressed the focus of the new venture would be on defence.\n\nIt said there were no plans for the UK to develop its own hypersonic weapons but the new programme would help it assess whether it would need to develop them in future.\n\nIt added the latest announcement was not related to Russia's use of the weapons in Ukraine but said the fact other nations were investing in them meant the UK had to think about how to defend against them.\n\nOn 19 March, Russia claimed to have used a hypersonic missile to destroy an arms depot in western Ukraine, and US military intelligence has suggested Russian forces have used them repeatedly since.\n\nThe attacks would mark the first use of hypersonic missiles in combat.\n\nIt came just months after China caught US intelligence by surprise when it tested two nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles.\n\nEach circled the globe in low-orbit space before coming back down to Earth, the second missing its target by only about 24 miles (40 km).\n\nThe missile is thought to combine a so-called fractional orbital bombardment system, which sends missiles into a partial orbit of the Earth to strike from an unexpected direction, with a hypersonic glider, which remains in the outer atmosphere and is hard to detect until later into its flight.\n\nThe tests demonstrated China had far more advanced space capability than had previously been understood.\n\nNorth Korea has also claimed to be in the process of testing hypersonic missiles.\n\nHypersonic missiles are potentially a game-changer in the way future wars will be fought.\n\nAs their name suggests, they travel at immense speed - Mach 5 or greater, which equates to around a mile a second. They are what is called \"dual capable\" meaning they can carry either a conventional explosive or nuclear warhead. They can also be launched from either air, sea or land.\n\nThere are two types of these weapon: cruise missiles and glide vehicles. The cruise variant, of which Russia has several, can be launched from an aircraft and hit a target more than 1,200 miles away. The glide variant is launched up into space from where it then glides down to earth on an unpredictable path.\n\nHypersonic missiles are changing the way nations plan for their strategic defence for two reasons. Firstly, they are so fast there would be very little time - just minutes - between a launch being detected and a country's leader having to decide whether to retaliate. There is almost no way of knowing whether that missile is nuclear-tipped or not.\n\nSecondly, their flight path, especially that of a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), is so hard to predict it makes interception extremely difficult.\n\nCurrently China is in the forefront of hypersonic missile development, closely followed by Russia, which has already used them to hit long distance targets in Ukraine. The US is late to the game and some of its tests have not gone well.\n\nBritain does not possess any and is only now forming an alliance with the US and Australia to carry out research into them and how, if possible, to defend against them.\n\nThe AUKUS partnership, announced in September 2021, is a trilateral security pact for the Indo-Pacific region. The primary purpose of the deal is for the US and UK to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nThe deal also aims to deepen co-operation on cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and additional undersea capabilities.\n\nFollowing Tuesday's announcement, the UK's national security advisor Stephen Lovegrove said: \"When we bring together the technical knowledge and capabilities of our three countries, we can achieve a huge amount to help keep ourselves and our allies and partners safe.\n\n\"In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's more important now than ever that allies work together to defend democracy, international law and freedom around the world.\"", "Residents of Bucha said Russian soldiers killed civilians outside their homes without provocation\n\nAttacks on civilians by Russian forces in the Ukrainian town of Bucha do not \"look far short of genocide\", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK has announced further sanctions against eight oligarchs and Russian banks, including the country's largest, Sberbank, and Credit Bank of Moscow.\n\nDozens of people have been found dead in the town - including some in a mass grave - after Russia's withdrawal.\n\nMoscow denied involvement and described reports as fake news.\n\nThe Foreign Office announced its latest sanctions following the reports of attacks on civilians, and these include ending all imports of Russian coal and oil by the end of the year as well as action against strategic industries.\n\nThe latest sanctions come in step with those imposed by the US, which has also imposed sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin's two daughters.\n\nAhead of the new sanctions being announced, Mr Johnson said: \"I'm afraid when you look at what's happening in Bucha, the revelations that we are seeing from what Putin has done in Ukraine doesn't look far short of genocide to me.\n\n\"It is no wonder people are responding in the way that they are. I have no doubt that the international community, Britain very much in the front rank, will be moving again in lockstep to impose more sanctions and more penalties on Vladimir Putin's regime.\"\n\nAs part of its sanctions response, the UK has pledged to stop importing Russian oil by the end of the year, while the EU is reducing its imports of Russian gas by two-thirds.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"enormous strides\" the EU is taken to reduce dependence on Russian gas.\n\nAt a working dinner in Brussels on Wednesday evening Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is expected to tell Nato colleagues the \"age of engagement with Russia is over\".\n\nShe is expected to say there is \"no time for false comfort\" and that Russia is not retreating but regrouping to push harder in the east of Ukraine.\n\nMs Truss is expected to urge allies to arm Ukraine quickly and decisively, and to rethink its support for countries \"caught in the web of Russian influence\", such as Georgia and Moldova.\n\nAs part of sanctions imposed on Russia all new outward investment to the country has been banned, while imports of Russian iron and steel products will be banned.\n\nAmong those added to the sanctions list is Viatcheslav Kantor, the largest shareholder of fertilizer company Acron, whose donations funded a new unit at a London hospital used by the royal family.\n\nThe Edward VII Hospital accepted a donation from the Kantor Charitable Foundation to fund the Kantor Medical Centre.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin (R) talks to billionaire, businessman and owner of Acron Group Viatcheslav Kantor (L) while visiting the Acron plant in 2016\n\nThe other oligarchs added to the sanctions list include:\n\nMs Truss said the latest wave of sanctions would decimate Mr Putin's \"war machine\" and show the Russian elite could not wash their hands of the atrocities committed on his orders.\n\nSanctions are penalties imposed by countries intended to stop aggression, or punish breaches of international law, and often involve financial curbs.\n\nThose taken by the UK so far include freezing assets, excluding Russian banks from the UK financial system, banning some exports to Russia, restricting visas for wealthy investors and banning flights.\n\nBy the end of the year, the UK has said it will also phase out Russian oil imports.\n\nAlong with the EU and US, it has frozen the assets of more than 1,000 individuals and companies, including politicians and wealthy business leaders thought to be close to the Kremlin.\n\nAsset freezes prevent anyone in the UK or any UK company from dealing with any funds or resources that are owned or held by the designated person, and prevent resources being provided to or for the benefit of that person.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer had called for \"even tougher sanctions\" following the \"horrific, harrowing images\" of civilian deaths in Bucha.\n\nHe said we have to give Ukraine \"every support we can\" and said the international community must be clear \"that these war crimes will end up with those responsible being hunted down\".\n\nThe deliberate targeting of civilians, as has been alleged by residents of Bucha, is a war crime under the Geneva Convention.\n\nBut for a massacre to be considered genocide, the law also requires proof of the intent to destroy a particular national, ethnic, racial or religious group - whether entirely or in part.\n\nThe Genocide Convention, introduced after the Nazi Holocaust during World War Two, requires the 152 nations who are signatories to \"prevent and to punish\" genocide where it occurs.", "A cost of living crunch is hitting millions of people across the UK, as soaring energy bills start to bite into family finances and prices rise in the shops.\n\nMuch has been said about the squeeze on our budgets, and relatively few people will emerge from it with their personal finances unscathed.\n\nApril is a key month because it is when many of the most significant changes and bill rises take effect.\n\nInflation is the rate at which prices rise. If a bottle of milk costs £1 and that rises by 5p, then milk inflation is 5%. The optimum level, and the Bank of England's target, is a 2% inflation rate.\n\nThis first chart shows how inflation - charting the rising cost of living - is at its highest rate for about 30 years. Official figures reveal these price rises are widespread among the various things we buy.\n\nThey are about to accelerate. The government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), says the rate will peak at nearly 9% later in the year, before slowing. That means prices will continue to go up, but eventually not at such a rapid rate.\n\nThere is little sign of income keeping pace with pay rises and benefit increases (although minimum pay - through the National Living Wage - is going up by 6.6%), so our \"real\" income and standard of living will fall.\n\nThe biggest impact this year is the sharp increase in the cost of energy.\n\nBusinesses are passing on some of these costs to consumers in higher prices. Households are protected from the fluctuations owing to the domestic energy price cap.\n\nYet, the chart shows how the cap, and therefore the typical annual household gas and electricity bill is rising by about £700. The OBR is predicting a further rise of more than £800 a year in October.\n\nThe chart also shows how there is little bill-payers can do about it. They used to be able to shop around for a cheaper tariff but, at present, no deals are cheaper than the default price cap. The government is giving some support with a £150 council tax rebate in April, and a £200 government support payment in October which, although described as a grant, will need to be paid back, like an interest-free loan.\n\nAs well as the soaring cost of heating and powering the home, filling a car with petrol or diesel is getting more expensive too.\n\nThese prices can be quite volatile, week to week, unlike domestic gas and electricity.\n\nThe graphic shows the cost of filling a tank for different types of vehicles, according to the RAC motoring group. Even if you do not run a car, there is concern that pricier fuel will eventually feed through to more expensive bus and coach tickets.\n\nThe most expensive monthly bill for millions of people is their rent, or their mortgage repayment.\n\nThree-quarters of mortgage borrowers in the UK are on fixed-rate deals, so only see a change in their repayments when their current term ends.\n\nAnother two million homeowners are on deals where the interest rate varies - known as tracker or standard variable rate mortgages. The Bank of England has raised the base interest rate three times in four months since December.\n\nThe chart shows how this has increased the monthly bill for these variable mortgage customers for the first time in a long time.\n\nMany workers will be paying more tax from now, most significantly through increased National Insurance payments.\n\nIn July, people will be able to earn more before they start to pay this tax, following a change announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his recent Spring Statement.\n\nCombining those two measures means that in the next 12 months, anyone earning less than about £34,000 will pay less National Insurance than they did last year. Anybody earning more than that will pay more, as the final chart shows.", "Ian Curtis's lyrics, notebooks and letters are among the highlights of the new collection\n\nHandwritten lyrics by Joy Division's Ian Curtis and items from Granada TV's history are among the first objects in a new British Pop Archive.\n\nA set of Curtis's lyrics, notebooks and letters is in the collection with the entire archive of Granada, which made shows like Coronation Street.\n\nThe British Pop Archive will be housed in Manchester's John Rylands Library.\n\n\"We're starting off with a Manchester theme, but I want this to be a British Pop Archive,\" Prof Hannah Barker said.\n\nThe project will launch with an exhibition in the city next month. Many items, including Curtis's lyrics, have not previously been seen in public before.\n\nThey include the late singer's alternative lyrics written for the 1980 Joy Division album Closer and an unused verse for the song Atmosphere.\n\n\"There's something about seeing music that you're very familiar with and seeing its genesis on paper, and people's edits, that's very exciting,\" said Prof Barker, who is professor of British history at the University of Manchester and director of the John Rylands Research Institute.\n\nThe library will also house the archive of Joy Division and New Order manager and Factory Records co-founder Rob Gretton.\n\n\"He literally kept records of everything he did right from the beginning, so that's a fantastic and really big resource,\" Prof Barker said.\n\nThe extensive Granada company archive spans the 1950s to the 1990s\n\nAs well as pop music, the archive will cover all forms of popular culture.\n\nDocumentary-maker David Olusoga, who is professor of public history at the University of Manchester, described the Granada archive, which spans the 1950s to the 1990s, as \"a major record of a crucial era in TV history\".\n\nProf Barker said: \"Everybody knows Coronation Street, which is really important as one of the first programmes that takes the lives of working class people seriously. But also Granada's news and documentary outputs were really influential.\"\n\nShe said the Granada files had been stored in a warehouse in North Yorkshire for the past 30 years and had not been accessible.\n\nHannah Barker, Jon Savage and Mat Bancroft have created the archive\n\n\"When I first started asking people in Manchester if they knew what had happened to the archive - because I knew that one used to exist in Manchester which was accessible to researchers - people said they thought it had been destroyed,\" she said.\n\n\"But I did a bit of digging around, and located where it was, and it was perfectly safe and intact. ITV were very happy actually to return it to Manchester.\"\n\nProf Barker said her ambition for the archive is to encompass \"post-war popular culture across the whole of the UK\", including youth culture and countercultural movements. She is \"just as interested in the audiences and fans as I am in the stars\", she said.\n\nShe is working with author and music historian Jon Savage, who has been appointed professor of popular culture at the University of Manchester.\n\nPost-war British popular culture \"is Britain's gift to the world and we want to reflect it in the materials that we collect\", he said. \"And these materials will be available to the public - that is the most important principle.\"\n\nThe first exhibition, titled Collection, will open at the John Rylands Library on 19 May.", "When humanitarian corridors are opened in Ukraine to get people out of danger zones, rescue teams know they must act to save the most vulnerable.\n\nA BBC crew followed one ambulance team as medics evacuated 12 children, many of them disabled orphans, from the north-eastern city of Sumy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: US seeks more sanctions on 'war criminal' Putin\n\nUS President Joe Biden has called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes as evidence emerges of atrocities allegedly committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.\n\nThere is mounting international anger over the alleged killing of civilians in Bucha, a town near the capital Kyiv.\n\n\"This guy is brutal,\" Mr Biden said of the Russian leader, adding that he believes Mr Putin \"is a war criminal\".\n\nWithout evidence, Russia said images of atrocities had been staged by Ukraine.\n\nMr Biden's intervention follows the publication of new satellite photos by the earth observation company Maxar, which show bodies lining Bucha's streets during its occupation by Russian forces.\n\nAn analysis of the photos by the New York Times showed at least 11 bodies on the streets since 11 March, when Russian forces controlled the city.\n\nRussia claims that no civilians suffered under the Russian occupation of Bucha and says footage and photos from the city were staged.\n\nBut the timing of these satellite images appears to disprove the idea that the bodies only appeared after Russian soldiers left.\n\nBlack objects which appear to be the same size as human bodies remained in the same position on the same street in Bucha for some weeks\n\nUS officials say they are supporting a team of international prosecutors heading to Bucha to collect evidence.\n\nThe Ukrainian government has started a war crimes investigation after it said the bodies of 410 civilians had been found in areas around Kyiv. Some were discovered in mass graves while others had their hands tied and had apparently been shot at close range.\n\nOfficials in Kyiv also accused Russian forces of killing a village head, her husband and her son in the village of Motoyzhyn for aiding Ukrainian troops in the area.\n\n\"You may remember I got criticised for calling Putin a war criminal,\" Mr Biden said. \"You saw what happened in Bucha - he is a war criminal... but we have to gather all the detail so this can have a war crimes trial.\"\n\nMr Biden said the Bucha discovery was \"outrageous\" and said that it was important Mr Putin was \"held accountable\" for atrocities committed by his military in Ukraine.\n\nHe would seek to impose further sanctions on Russia, he added.\n\nThe US state department said it had credible reports of rape, torture and summary executions carried out by Russian forces as part of what it described as a \"broader, troubling campaign\" by Moscow.\n\nAt the request of Ukraine, the international prosecutors will support the prosecutor general of Ukraine's war crimes unit.\n\n\"There are reports and images of a nightmare litany of atrocities,\" said state department spokesman Ned Price.\n\nThe Pentagon said it was \"fairly obvious\" that Russia had been behind the atrocities in Bucha, but that more investigation was needed to ascertain which units were responsible.\n\nThere is mounting international anger over the killing of civilians in Bucha\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also accused Russia of war crimes during a televised address on Monday night and suggested Mr Putin's regime would attempt to cover up evidence of other atrocities.\n\n\"I'm sure you know about the new old tactics of Russian propagandists who are constantly trying to reject accusations of the Russian military,\" President Zelensky said.\n\n\"Now they are doing the same thing. The same lies. They are trying to distort the facts. But, as then, they will not succeed. They will not be able to deceive the whole world.\"\n\nFrance and Germany announced on Monday they are expelling Russian diplomats in response to the discoveries in Bucha.\n\nGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the expulsion of 40 envoys was in response to the \"unbelievable brutality\" the Kremlin had unleashed in Ukraine.\n\nThe French government said it would expel \"many\" Russian staff, but didn't specify the exact number.\n\nLithuania said it was expelling the Russian ambassador, citing atrocities it says have been committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.\n\nMoscow's ambassador to the UN said Russia would present \"empirical evidence\" to the UN Security Council demonstrating that Western statements on events at Bucha were lies.\n\nAt a press conference in New York, Vasily Nebenzya accused Ukraine and its \"Western sponsors\" of fabricating evidence and carrying out a false flag attack on its own people.\n\nIn Bucha, witnesses have described Russian soldiers firing on men fleeing after refusing to allow them to leave through humanitarian corridors.\n\nAt least 20 dead men were found lying in the street, many of them with extensive wounds. Some had been shot through the temple, as if executed, while others had clearly been run over by tanks.\n\nSatellite images taken by Maxar show a 14m (45ft) mass grave in the city near the church of St Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happening? If you are able to talk to us please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Former White House adviser Ivanka Trump testified for hours on Tuesday to the congressional committee investigating the 6 January attack on the US Capitol.\n\nMs Trump, 40, was asked for her account of her father's activities as the crisis unfolded.\n\nShe was one of several aides said to have tried to convince the president to condemn the violence.\n\nHer appearance comes days after her husband Jared Kushner, also an ex-White House adviser, met investigators.\n\nThe questioning lasted up to eight hours, US media reports. Unlike other witnesses called before the committee, Ms Trump never attempted to invoke her right to remain silent, according to the panel's top chairman.\n\n\"She's answering questions,\" congressman Bennie Thompson said. \"Not in a broad, chatty term, but she's answering questions.\"\n\nThe committee has also subpoenaed White House records of Mr Trump's meetings and actions on 6 January, but documents acquired by BBC media partner CBS News show no presidential contacts for more than seven hours, as the battle in the Capitol was at its most intense.\n\nThat runs counter to multiple reports of presidential phone calls to Republicans in the US Capitol, including a heated conversation with House minority leader Kevin McCarthy. Ms Trump could shed light on the methods her father used communicate that day.\n\nOne Democratic member of the committee described Mr Kushner's testimony as \"helpful\" in reconstructing the events of the day.\n\nAs with Mr Kushner and the more than 800 other individuals called by the committee, Ms Trump's testimony has taken place in private. Public hearings are expected in May.\n• None Why 'burner phones' are the talk of Washington", "Mental health bodies in the UK have called for the government to include transgender people in forthcoming legislation to ban conversion therapy.\n\nLast week No 10 rolled back on a promise to include therapies to suppress someone's gender identity.\n\nIt led to a huge backlash from LGBT organisations and the cancellation of the government's first LGBT conference.\n\nBoris Johnson said there are complexities and sensitives which needed to be worked through.\n\nThe Memorandum of Understanding Coalition Against Conversion Therapy (MOU), whose members include NHS England and the British Medical Association, published an open letter downplaying the risk of unintended consequences and called for any ban to include all forms of conversion therapy.\n\nDr Igi Moon, chairperson of the MOU, said they would work with the government to find a way to achieve a ban which also covers transgender people.\n\nThey said: \"We are grateful to members across the psychotherapy and counselling profession, and the whole of mental health, for their clear statement in support of a ban on conversion therapy that should cover gender as well as sexuality.\"\n\nThe government has said it would carry out separate work on the issue of transgender conversion therapy but was keen for any policy not to have unintended consequences, describing it as a legally complex area.\n\nSeveral members of the MOU group - which includes psychotherapy, psychological and psychiatric bodies - say a ban which still allows for explorative therapies is possible and had already been enacted in other countries.\n\nDr Adam Jowett, chairman of the British Psychological Society's sexualities section, said conversion therapy practices carried out on transgender people are \"similar\" to those carried out on lesbian, gay and bisexual people.\n\nHe added: \"Clinicians can still help people fully explore their gender identity where appropriate but it's time for this unacceptable and harmful practice to end.\"\n\nA number of gender critical groups had fought for the ban not to include conversion therapy relating to issues of gender identity, warning of unintended consequences of a legislative ban.\n\nStephanie Davies-Arai, director of gender critical campaign group Transgender Trend, criticised the letter, highlighting a recent interim report into gender identity services in England.\n\nShe said: \"We would expect from professional bodies a higher level of engagement with the complex and sensitive issues detailed in the Cass report, rather than a knee-jerk political response. Children deserve better.\"\n\nThe Women's Rights Network said they agreed with the prime minister's decision to not include transgender people in a ban, adding: \"numerous therapists and the findings of the recent Cass Review that children should not be able to make irreversible life-changing decisions, particularly without parental involvement.\n\n\"Watching and waiting therapies are not 'conversion' and this bill obfuscated that fact.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Mr Johnson told reporters: \"We will have a ban on gay conversion therapy, which to me is utterly abhorrent, but there are complexities and sensitivities when you move from the area of sexuality to the question of gender.\n\n\"There, I'm afraid, there are things that I think still need to be worked out.\n\n\"I'm sorry we haven't been able to reach agreement with the organisations concerned but that will in no way diminish our determination to tackle prejudice wherever we can.\"\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said that conversion therapy in all its forms should be banned.\n\n\"That used to be the government's position, and they've been flip-flopping on this over the last few days,\" he said.\n\nThe row over the government's decision not to include trans conversion therapy in a ban has led to the cancellation of the government's landmark Safe to Be LGBT conference, set to be held in London in July, after more than 100 organisations pulled out.\n\nA spokesman said it was \"disappointing\" to see partners withdraw from the event which focused on the \"fundamental human rights issues facing LGBT people around the world\".\n\nHe said the government remained committed to strengthening LGBT rights and freedoms and would continue to push globally for change for LGBT people.", "Ed Sheeran says the culture of copyright claims is \"really damaging to the songwriting industry\"\n\nEd Sheeran has warned that pop stars should not be allowed to be \"easy targets\" for copyright claims after winning his court battle with the writers of a song they claimed he had plagiarised.\n\nA High Court judge ruled that the singer had not copied part of his hit, Shape of You, from Oh Why, by Sami Chokri.\n\nThat prompted Sheeran to declare on Instagram: \"I hope that this ruling means in the future baseless claims like this can be avoided.\n\n\"This really does have to end.\"\n\nThe case was not the first time Sheeran has faced a copyright claim, and many other stars have also been involved in high-profile disputes in recent years.\n\nLast month, Katy Perry won a case on appeal after a rapper said she had plagiarised an eight-note riff for her 2013 hit Dark Horse.\n\nDua Lipa has recently been sued twice over her song Levitating, the biggest-selling single in the US last year. Those claims have come from the writers behind Latin disco band Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and Florida reggae group Artikal Sound System.\n\nAlso last month, Sam Smith and Normani were sued over their 2019 duet Dancing With A Stranger, while Taylor Swift is facing a trial over her 2014 anthem Shake It Off.\n\nAs the music industry saying goes, where there's a hit, there's a writ.\n\nThe field of music copyright \"has become like the Wild West\", says forensic musicologist Peter Oxendale, who worked with Sheeran in this latest case.\n\nHe says cases have proliferated since 2015, when Blurred Lines creators Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were found guilty in the US of copying the \"feel\" of Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up, rather than directly plagiarising musical phrases or lyrics.\n\n\"In that case, [there] wasn't even two notes in common, and yet it found in favour of the wrong side,\" Oxendale told BBC Radio 4's The World At One.\n\nPart of the melody in Shape of You did bear some similarity to a segment of Oh Why - but Sheeran successfully argued in the High Court that it was a coincidence and he had not heard the other song before.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Ed Sheeran's Shape of You and Sami Chokri's Oh Why\n\nSheeran took legal action after Switch - real name Sami Chokri - and fellow songwriter Ross O'Donoghue asked to be added to the songwriting credits for Shape of You, which is the most streamed song ever on Spotify.\n\nHowever, the judge ruled that Sheeran would be justified in thinking their request \"was a tactic designed to extract a settlement\" - in other words, money and/or a credit without going to court.\n\nSheeran said: \"I feel like claims like this are way too common now and have become a culture where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to court, even if there's no basis for the claim.\n\n\"It's really damaging to the songwriting industry. There's only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music. Coincidence is bound to happen if 60,000 songs are being released every day on Spotify. That's 22 million songs a year, and there's only 12 notes that are available.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by teddysphotos This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSheeran's plea for an end to \"baseless claims\" will find sympathetic ears among other musicians.\n\n\"It should never have got as far as it did,\" Grammy-winning composer David Arnold wrote of the Sheeran case. \"Hopefully this result brings about a change in the avalanche of frivolous speculative copyright infringement cases.\"\n\nBut Wednesday's ruling won't bring copyright cases to an end. It won't even bring cases against Ed Sheeran to an end.\n\nHe's facing another trial in the US after being sued for $100m (£76m) by the owner of a share of the songwriting rights to Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On, who claims Sheeran copied it for his 2014 chart-topper Thinking Out Loud.\n\nHe has also settled cases out of court in the past.\n\nIn 2018, he paid $5.4m (£4.1m) to songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington after being accused of copying their track Amazing (which was released by X Factor winner Matt Cardle in 2012) for Sheeran's 2015 song, Photograph.\n\nIn the latest trial, the star said he had been \"bruised\" by that experience. Even though he felt he had done nothing wrong, he said he had agreed to pay out on the advice of his lawyers because it would have been a \"nuisance\" and \"more trouble than it was worth\" to fight.\n\nThe writers of TLC's No Scrubs have a credit on Shape of You\n\nAfter the Shape of You ruling, Oxendale said: \"I'm full of admiration for Ed Sheeran in this case because he could easily have taken the easy way out, which is just to give them a nuisance payment to go away.\n\n\"But he didn't. He chose to fight it and fighting cases in the High Court is traumatic for anyone. It's difficult. It's really expensive. It's time-consuming.\"\n\nSheeran had already given the writers of TLC's 1999 hit No Scrubs a credit on Shape of You several years ago after similarities were pointed out.\n\nIn recent years, more stars have given the composers of potentially problematic tracks credits before a dispute gets anywhere near a court.\n\nTaylor Swift famously credited 1990s British pop duo Right Said Fred on her 2017 single Look What You Made Me Do because it follows the same rhythmic pattern as I'm Too Sexy.\n\nLast year, Olivia Rodrigo added two members of Paramore to the writing credits of Good 4 U, and the number of writers on Uptown Funk, by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, ballooned from six to 11 when The Gap Band noticed similarities to their song Oops Upside Your Head.\n\nPart of Chokri and O'Donoghue's complaint was that Sheeran treats unknown songwriters worse than famous ones when it comes to giving credits - which he denied.\n\nBut the case rested on the fact that he insisted he had never heard their song, so could not have copied it either consciously or subconsciously - which would have been more difficult to argue if Oh Why had been a hit.\n\nSheeran gave evidence at the High Court trial last month\n\nCopyright lawyer Kate Swaine says: \"If I was advising somebody who's been accused of copyright infringement, the first thing I would ask them is, 'Is there a possibility that you could have, unconsciously or consciously, been influenced, inspired or taken an element of this?'\n\n\"If somebody turns around and says, 'I do know that track really well. I have heard it. It's not out of the question,' they may feel that, rather than getting into the cost and disruption of a court action, it is easier to make a concession and therefore give some credit on the royalties.\n\n\"Here, what comes across from Sheeran's evidence is he was absolutely adamant that he had not heard this track.\"\n\nShe sees little chance of the number of copyright claims subsiding.\n\nBut she says that despite the Blurred Lines ruling, \"the law seems to be doing a reasonably decent job\" of assessing when there is sufficient evidence of copyright infringement, and when there is not.", "Last updated on .From the section Southampton\n\nMatt le Tissier says he has \"stepped aside\" from his role as ambassador at former club Southampton.\n\nThe former midfielder said he took the step to \"separate the work I believe in from my relationship with the club\".\n\nOn Tuesday, he deleted a tweet suggesting media manipulation in the reporting on the war in Ukraine.\n\n\"My views are my own and always have been, and it's important to take this step today to avoid any confusion,\" Le Tissier wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"I will always remain a fan and supporter of everything Saints. I can, however, see that due to recent events it's important to separate the work I believe in from my relationship with the club.\"\n\nAfter deleting the tweet about the war in Ukraine, the 53-year-old said it was because people were \"missing the point\" and insisted he did not advocate war \"in any way shape or form\".\n\nIn recent years the former England international has become known for having outspoken views, including on the media and the Covid-19 pandemic, but speaking to the Telegraph in February he rejected suggestions he was a conspiracy theorist.\n\nLe Tissier, who was appointed club ambassador in January 2019, is Southampton's second all-time top scorer after scoring 209 goals in 540 games between 1986 and 2002.\n\nAfter retiring from playing he became a TV pundit and worked as a panellist on Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday programme until August 2020.\n• None Our coverage of Southampton is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Saints - go straight to all the best content", "Travellers at Manchester Airport have faced long queues for check-in and security over the past month\n\nManchester Airport's managing director is to stand down amid criticism of long security queues which have led to passengers missing flights.\n\nManchester Airports Group (MAG) said Karen Smart had decided to leave the business after eight years.\n\nEarlier, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said police and fire and rescue service staff could be drafted in to help tackle the chaos.\n\nIan Costigan will take on the role of interim managing director.\n\nTravellers at the airport, which is owned by Greater Manchester's 10 councils and an investment firm, have faced long queues for check-in and security over the past month.\n\nThe problems first came to light in mid-March when passengers were left waiting for hours, with some forced to queue outside in the car park while others missed their flights.\n\nMAG previously apologised and said the industry was \"facing staff shortages and recruitment challenges at present, after the most damaging two years in its history\".\n\nCharlie Cornish, the group's chief executive officer, said Ms Smart had guided the airport \"through the most challenging period of its 84-year history\".\n\nHe added that while there would be further challenges ahead, he was \"confident we will soon start to see the benefits of the recovery plans Ms Smart has helped put in place\".\n\nA spokesman for MAG, which also runs London Stansted and East Midlands airports, said Ms Smart, who has been managing director for two years, had decided to return to the south of England, where her family lives, to pursue \"fresh career opportunities\".\n\nAndy Burnham is meeting airport bosses to discuss the \"concerning\" current situation\n\nMr Costigan, who joined MAG in 2013, has held a number of senior roles in the business, including his most recent post as group transformation director.\n\nAirport management are due to meet political leaders and unions to discuss the ongoing situation.\n\nMr Burnham said he would be seeking reassurances about what was being done to bring the situation under control.\n\nHe said it was \"a difficult moment for airports around the world\", which had been \"laid low for the pandemic\" and were having to \"scale up very quickly\".\n\nHowever, he added that passengers \"don't want to see the scenes that we saw at the weekend\", when hundreds had to join long queues to pass through check-in and security.\n\nOn Friday, Manchester councillor Pat Karney revealed that passenger numbers at the airport had surged since the easing of Covid restrictions.\n\n\"Two million people went through the airport in February [and] in the previous year, it was 70,000,\" he said.\n\nHe said the airport's management had put together a \"six-point plan\" to relieve the issues being faced, but added that those \"should have seen all this [and] should have known the recovery was going to be very quick\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were trying to get humanitarian aid when a Russian soldier stopped them\n\nAt around 11:00 on 17 March, Yuriy and his father, Ruslan, were cycling to Bucha's administration building where aid was being handed out. Electricity, gas and water had been cut, and essentials were in short supply in the town, one of the first to be occupied by Russian forces as they advanced on Ukraine's capital Kyiv.\n\nYuriy and his father hoped to pick up some medicine and food. Yuriy said a Russian soldier stopped him and his father on Tarasivska St. They immediately raised their hands.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC by phone alongside his mother, Alla, the 14-year-old gave his account of what happened next. \"We told them that we weren't carrying any weapons and that we didn't pose any danger,\" he said.\n\n\"Then my father turned his head my way, and that's when he got shot… He was shot twice in the chest, right where the heart is. Then he fell.\"\n\nAt that point, the teenager said, the soldier shot him in his left hand and he fell too. While he was on the ground, he said, he was shot again, this time in the arm.\n\n\"I was lying on my stomach, I couldn't see anything that was happening around me,\" Yuriy said. The soldier, he said, shot again, aiming at his head. \"[But] the bullet went through my hood.\"\n\nYuriy said the soldier shot again, this time at his father's head. But Ruslan was already dead. \"I had a small panic attack, lying there with my wounded arm underneath me. I saw that my hand was bleeding,\" he said.\n\nIt was only after a while, when the soldier went behind a tank, that Yuriy got up and ran, he said.\n\nYuriy shows wounds that, he says, were caused by a Russian soldier in Bucha\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the details of Yuriy's account, but it comes as evidence grows of atrocities committed by Russian forces while they were in control of Bucha and other towns north of Kyiv.\n\nIn Bucha alone, bodies of dead men were found lying in the street, many with extensive wounds. Some had been shot through the temple, as if executed. Others had their hands or legs tied behind their backs. Some had clearly been run over by tanks.\n\nMany of the bodies were seen along a stretch of Yablonska St, just 2km (one mile) from the street where Ruslan is said to have been killed.\n\nYuriy's mother Alla told the BBC how she had gone to see her husband after the teenager returned home and told her what had happened. She thought Yuriy could be wrong, and that Ruslan was wounded, in need of medical help.\n\n\"My son begged me not to,\" Alla said. \"He said they would kill me too.\"\n\nWhen she tried to walk down the street, she said, her neighbours stopped her. \"[They] told me not to go further, saying the Russians were killing everyone in the territories under their control.\"\n\nThe next morning, Alla got her mother to help. Wearing white scarves, they went to the site of the shooting. Her mother talked to Russian soldiers and they managed to get through. They finally collected Ruslan's body, and brought it home.\n\nA photograph of the partially covered body, taken by Alla and shared with the BBC, appears to confirm Yuriy's testimony. It shows a gunshot wound to the left side of the chest, near the heart.\n\nRuslan, a lawyer, was 49 when he was killed. He was \"active in the community,\" Alla said. \"He couldn't just sit in the shelter and wait. So, he was volunteering and helping people.\"\n\nThey buried him in the garden of the family home.\n\nYuriy said the soldier who killed him was clearly Russian. His uniform was dark green, he said, typical of the Russian army. \"I saw that on his flak jacket it was written 'Russia' in Russian,\" he said.\n\n\"We were no danger to the military, we were civilians, wearing white scarves to show that,\" Yuriy said. \"It's very stupid.\"", "Graham Hill was a keen cyclist before he discovered he had a brain tumour in 2012.\n\nSurgery had impacted the father-of-two's balance and ability to walk more than a short distance.\n\nThe County Antrim man believed his cycling days were over until he joined the Pedal Power Cycling Club, run by Brain Injury Matters.\n\nThe group uses adapted bikes to cater for those with a brain injury. It is a joint project with cycling and walking charity Sustrans, which provides a number of bikes including side-by-side tandems.\n\nPhysiotherapist Dr Jonathan McCrea, head of services at Brain Injury Matters, said: \"It is one of the most spine-tingling moments when you see people who have had profound life-changing injuries come here.\n\n“They have lost their sense of self and all of sudden they leave their walking frames behind, get on the bikes and they’re free.”", "Kirstie Allsopp said she was afraid that \"profit will be king\"\n\nChannel 4 stars Matt Lucas and Kirstie Allsopp are among the figures who have raised concerns about the government's plan to privatise the broadcaster.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted on Monday that \"government ownership is holding Channel 4 back\".\n\nShe said selling it to a private owner would give it \"the tools and freedom to flourish and thrive as a public service broadcaster long into the future\".\n\nBut Allsopp described her argument as \"a load of utter twaddle\".\n\nThe Location, Location, Location host tweeted: \"C4 was set up to foster the British film & TV industry and it has done that job admirably.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGreat British Bake Off co-host Lucas tweeted a link to a petition that claims privatisation would \"seriously undermine programming aimed at all the communities, across generations, that make up this country\".\n\nHowever, Channel 4 News' new main anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy pointed out that \"editorial independence and funding of news can be ring-fenced\" if the government wishes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Krishnan Guru-Murthy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChannel 4 is currently publicly-owned but funded by adverts. It commissions all its programmes from independent production companies rather than making them itself. Privatisation would see it sold to a private company.\n\nMs Dorries said \"government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon\".\n\nShe said the proceeds would be put \"into independent production and creative skills in priority parts of the country\".\n\nIn response, Channel 4 said the decision to move forward with the sell-off was \"disappointing\" and ignored \"significant public interest concerns\".\n\nThe channel's former head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, told BBC Radio 4: \"The argument doesn't stack up because Channel 4 is not there to compete with Netflix and Amazon.\n\n\"It is there to provide a public service to the people of Britain with really important programmes like Channel 4 News or Unreported World, which Netflix or Amazon would never make.\"\n\nShe told the Today programme that \"if you wanted to support independent production companies, you would invent Channel 4, which is exactly what Margaret Thatcher did\".\n\nThe Channel 4 show It's a Sin has been nominated for 11 Bafta awards\n\nOne of Ms Dorries' predecessors as culture secretary, fellow Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt, said he was not in favour of the privatisation.\n\n\"As it stands, Channel Four provides competition to the BBC on what's called public service broadcasting - the kinds of programmes that are not commercially viable - and I think it'd be a shame to lose that,\" he told Sky News.\n\nShadow Culture Secretary Lucy Powell told the Today programme that privatisation \"doesn't make sense\" and will do \"a great deal of damage to jobs and opportunities in the creative industries\".\n\nMayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, signed an open letter to Ms Dorries, strongly urging her \"to reconsider this extraordinary and confusing decision\".\n\nSome programme and film-makers have flagged up times when Channel 4 supported them.\n\nAlan Davies tweeted \"most of us in comedy had our first gigs on Channel 4 before the BBC hired us\".\n\nFilmmaker Asif Kapedia noted that all his short films had been financed by Channel 4, while Empire State of Mind creator Sathnam Sanghera posted that it was the only mainstream channel \"that would touch my argument on empire\".\n\nConservative MP Julian Knight, chair of the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee, wrote on Twitter that privatisation \"can work for C4\" but is \"a big risk\".\n\nHe said it \"must be part of a thorough overhaul of all public service broadcasting\", adding: \"If this is in the media bill I will support the government.\"\n\nHe also questioned whether the privatisation was \"being done for revenge for Channel 4's biased coverage of the likes of Brexit and personal attacks on the PM\".\n\nMr Knight's predecessor as the committee's chair, Conservative MP Damian Collins,said he supported privatisation because the channel's spending on programme-making had declined in recent years.\n\n\"If we do nothing in a landscape where traditional broadcasters have got declining incomes, declining amounts of money they can spend making new programmes, will Channel 4 be sustainable? For me, that's the test.\n\n\"Actually, private ownership and the injection of money that could come from that could be good for making Channel 4 sustainable long term and then, as a consequence, excellent news for the UK production sector.\"\n\nGB News presenter Dan Wootton tweeted that the sale of Channel 4 was \"not before time\", adding that \"if they can operate in the private sector, good on them\".\n\nPlans for the sale, on which there has been a public consultation, will be included in May's Queen's Speech.", "Rishi Sunak said it was wrong for people to criticise his wife Akshata Murty\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is facing calls to \"come clean\" on his family's financial affairs after it emerged his wife benefits from a tax-saving scheme.\n\nAkshata Murty has non-dom status, meaning she does not have to pay UK tax on income earned abroad.\n\nMs Murty earns money from shares in an Indian software giant founded by her billionaire father.\n\nHer spokeswoman said she paid all tax due in the UK - but Labour called for \"complete transparency\".\n\nUnder the rules, people can be granted non-dom status if they live in the UK but intend to return to their home country.\n\nMs Murty is an Indian citizen and has retained family ties to India. The BBC understands she has said she would eventually like to return there.\n\nIf she lived in the UK for 15 years she would automatically lose her non-dom status, under the rules, but she has declined to say when it came into effect.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Sunak had \"very serious questions to answer\" about his family's finances.\n\n\"If it now transpires that his wife has used schemes to reduce her tax, while he's been increasing taxes on working people, that's breathtaking hypocrisy,\" said Sir Keir.\n\nIt \"just goes to show just how out of touch this chancellor is\" at a time when taxes are increasing for millions of workers, he added.\n\nLabour has written to the chancellor demanding to know if he has benefited from Ms Murty's tax status.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine said: \"Sunak now needs to come clean about which country his family pays tax in abroad and if it is a tax haven.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems have urged Mr Sunak to ban the partners of ministers from claiming non-dom status, calling it a \"loophole\".\n\nBut Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng defended Mr Sunak, saying it was \"completely unfair\" to scrutinise the tax affairs of Ms Murty, \"who is not a politician\".\n\nHe also rejected opposition claims that she was \"sheltering\" from UK taxes.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"I think she's been very clear, she's been very transparent, the chancellor's been very transparent, and this non-dom status has been part of the UK tax system for more than 200 years.\"\n\nWhen asked about the criticism of Mr Sunak over his wife's tax affairs, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I think it's very important in politics to keep people's families out of it.\".\n\nLast week, Mr Sunak told the BBC it was \"very upsetting\" to see his wife being criticised in the media, as she was not an elected politician.\n\nA non-dom is a UK resident who declares their permanent home, or domicile, outside of the UK.\n\nA domicile is usually the country his or her father considered his permanent home when they were born, or it may be the place overseas where somebody has moved to with no intention of returning.\n\nFor proof to the tax authority, non-doms have to provide evidence about their background, lifestyle and future intentions, such as where they own property or intend to be buried.\n\nNon-domiciled tax status was introduced in 1799 to protect colonial investments during the time of the British Empire. Those who have it must still pay UK tax on UK earnings but do not need to pay UK tax on foreign income. They can give up their non-dom status at any time by stating on your tax return that you intend to live in the UK and wish to be considered British for tax purposes.\n\nMs Murty has chosen to be domiciled in India via her father, the billionaire Narayana Murty, which means she doesn't need to pay taxes in the UK on dividends she receives from her stake in her dad's company, thought to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nNon-dom status has been a frequent source of political controversy.\n\nWealthy Conservative politicians, such as former party chairman Lord Ashcroft and environment minister Lord Goldsmith, have faced criticism over claiming it, although Lord Goldsmith has now given up his non-dom status.\n\nMs Murty confirmed her non-dom status after it was reported by the Independent website on Wednesday.\n\n\"Akshata Murty is a citizen of India, the country of her birth and parents' home,\" her spokeswoman said.\n\n\"India does not allow its citizens to hold the citizenship of another country simultaneously. So, according to British law, Ms Murty is treated as non-domiciled for UK tax purposes.\n\n\"She has always and will continue to pay UK taxes on all her UK income.\"\n\nBut tax experts have questioned her statement, suggesting that non-dom status is a \"choice\" that people can give up.\n\n\"Domicile has nothing to do with a person's nationality,\" said Professor Richard Murphy, co-founder of left-wing campaign group the Tax Justice Network.\n\nHe added: \"Just because a person has Indian citizenship will never automatically grant them non-dom status in the UK.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak and Will Smith both saw their wives mocked, but the chancellor says: \"At least I didn't get up and slap anybody.\"\n\nMs Murty was born in India in 1980 and holds an Indian passport.\n\nIn 2009, she married Mr Sunak, who became the MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire, in 2015. The couple, who have two daughters, have a flat in Downing Street, and own a number of properties in the UK including a £1.5m home in his constituency, and a property in Santa Monica, California.\n\nMs Murty's father founded the IT services company Infosys which has grown to be one of India's biggest firms. She owns a little under 1% of its shares, worth more than £500m. She also has interests in several companies in the UK.\n\nLast month the Telegraph reported Ms Murty would have received £11.6m in dividends from Infosys in the past tax year. Her non-dom status means she would not have had to pay UK tax on those dividends, which is currently charged at a rate of 39.35%.\n\nIndian tax authorities say dividend income is taxable at the rate of 20% for non-residents unless they qualify for any deductions. But the dividend rate can come down to 10% for people who are eligible to benefit from the UK's tax treaty with India.\n\nAsked if Ms Murty paid tax on her Infosys dividend payments in India, her representative said \"international tax\" was paid on her \"international income\".\n\nIt is not clear, however, whether she pays tax on her dividend income in India or another jurisdiction.\n\nIn its letter to Mr Sunak, Labour asked if his wife pays all foreign tax in India or in a tax haven such as the Cayman Islands.\n\nMr Sunak made the Cabinet Office aware of his wife's tax status as part of his declaration of interests when he first became a government minister in 2018.", "Isle of Wight Council said staff were visiting the charge points to cover up the \"inappropriate\" website showing on the screen\n\nElectric vehicle charging points in a council's car parks have been hacked to show a porn website on their screens.\n\nIsle of Wight Council has three charge points in Quay Road, Ryde, Cross Street, Cowes and Moa Place, Freshwater.\n\nIn a statement the council apologised \"to anyone that may have found the inappropriate web content\".\n\nThe authority said staff were due to visit the charge points \"to ensure the third party web address is covered up\".\n\nIt is understood the chargers were meant to display the network's own website, but the web address had been redirected and was instead taking visitors to a pornographic site.\n\nThe council said: \"We are saddened to learn that a third-party web address displayed on our electric vehicle (EV) signage appears to have been hacked.\"\n\nIt added the charge points were originally part of the Chargepoint Genie network but have recently been transferred to the GeniePoint network.\n\nThe authority said it was also aware some charge points in council car parks were unreliable.\n\nIt said these were due to be replaced with \"new charge points over the next few months\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Naomi Biden thanked her \"Nana and Pop\" for the chance to celebrate her nuptials at the White House\n\nPresident Joe Biden and the first lady are to host a rare wedding reception at the White House for their granddaughter, Naomi.\n\nThe eldest Biden grandchild, 28, and her fiancé, Peter Neal, 24, will celebrate at perhaps the most exclusive venue in the US.\n\nMs Biden said she was \"endlessly grateful\" to her \"Nana and Pop\" for the honour.\n\nFour other wedding receptions have ever been held at the presidential home.\n\nMs Biden, a graduate of Columbia Law School and the daughter of Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle, announced her engagement to Mr Neal, a law student at the University of Pennsylvania, in September.\n\nMs Biden will only be the fifth bride to have a White House wedding reception, to be held in November. The previous one took place in 2008, when Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former president George W Bush, celebrated a month after she was wed in Texas.\n\nIt has actually been more common to hold wedding ceremonies themselves at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - there have been 18 in total.\n\nThen-first daughter Lynda Johnson poses with husband Charles Robb after their White House wedding in 1967.\n\nThe Maid of Honour catches the bouquet at a reception in the State Dining Room following the wedding of Charles Robb and Lynda Johnson\n\nSince the first White House wedding in 1812 - between the sister of First Lady Dolley Madison and Thomas Todd - most have involved close family members of the first couple.\n\nThe wedding of Nellie Grant, daughter of President Ulysses S Grant, in May 1874, was seen as the most elaborate event ever held at the White House at the time.\n\nTwo hundred and fifty guests gathered in the East Room, decorated with masses of white flowers and Nellie's white satin dress fell into a six-foot train. Still, like many weddings, it was also a stressful affair. Mr and Mrs Grant were said to be concerned about their 19-year-old daughter's wedding to Algernon Sartoris, a diplomat.\n\nPresident Lyndon Johnson and Claudia Johnson watch their daughter Luci Baines Johnson cut her wedding cake\n\nOne sitting president has said \"I do\" at the White House: President Grover Cleveland wed Frances Folson in the Blue Room in June 1886.\n\nOther recent White House weddings have included those of Lynda Bird Johnson - daughter of President Lyndon Johnson - who married Charles Spittal Robb in a grand event in the East Room in 1967. In 1971, Tricia Nixon - daughter of President Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon, was the first to hold a wedding in the White House Rose Garden.\n\nEdward Finch Cox escorts his bride, Tricia Nixon, down the aisle\n\nThe latest White House wedding, in 2013, was one of just three not involving family of the president. Pete Souza, who was chief White House photographer under President Barack Obama, married fiancée Pattie Lease in the Rose Garden.\n\nTony Rodham, the brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Nicole Boxer pose for a photograph during their wedding in 1994 at the White House", "The former Royal Engineer was 18 when he stormed the beaches during the Normandy landings in 1944\n\nD-Day veteran Horace \"Harry\" Billinge has died aged 96 following a short illness, his family has confirmed.\n\nMr Billinge, from St Austell, Cornwall, was 18 when he was a sapper attached to the 44 Royal Engineer Commandos ahead of the Normandy landings.\n\nHe was one of only four of his unit to survive the storming of Gold Beach on 6 June 1944.\n\nThe veteran spent more than 60 years collecting for the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal.\n\nHis daughter Sally Billinge-Shandley said: \"The passion he had for all the veterans that lost their lives was unwavering.\n\n\"He dedicated his life to making sure that was never forgotten, that's how he'll be remembered.\"\n\nMr Billinge's daughters, Margot Billinge and Sally Billinge-Shandley, have paid tribute to their father\n\nMr Billinge was appointed an MBE in 2020 after raising funds to build a national memorial honouring his fallen comrades.\n\nHe dedicated it to the 22,442 service personnel killed on D-Day and during the Battle for Normandy.\n\nA tribute from The British Normandy Trust, posted on social media, said: \"The trust sends its deepest condolences to Harry's wife Sheila, and to all his family and friends. Harry raised more than £50,000 for the memorial.\"\n\nIn 2019 Mr Billinge said on BBC Breakfast: \"I'm no hero, I was lucky, I'm here. All the heroes are dead and I'll never forget them.\"\n\nMr Billinge was appointed an MBE for services to charitable fundraising\n\nPrior to his death, he made annual pilgrimages to the cemeteries of Normandy.\n\n\"The memorial for the Normandy veterans just became part of him, it was just a huge part of his life,\" Mrs Billinge-Shandley said.\n\nD-Day was the start of Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history, as about 160,000 troops from Britain, the US, Canada, France and other Allied nations landed in Normandy.\n\nIt marked the beginning of the liberation of France from the Nazis and paved the way for victory on the Western Front in World War Two.\n\nMr Billinge later fought in Caen and the Falaise pocket in Normandy.\n\nMr Billinge was a sapper attached to the 44 Royal Engineer Commandos\n\nSteve Double, MP for St Austell and Newquay said: \"Harry was a hero, plain and simple.\n\n\"Thank you Harry, for your service. My thoughts are with your family and all those whose lives you touched.\"\n\nMr Billinge grew up in Petts Wood in Kent but had been in Cornwall for 70 years after being advised to leave London for a better quality of life.\n\nAfter moving to Cornwall, Mr Billinge set up shop as a barber and became president of the local clubs for the Royal British Legion and Royal Engineers.\n\nA spokesperson for the Royal British Legion said: \"Everyone at the Royal British Legion is incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Harry Billinge.\n\n\"He epitomised the spirit of our wartime generation and his dedication supporting veterans causes, including the Poppy Appeal, was nothing short of remarkable.\"\n\nHarry Billinge at a ceremony at Penzance Station in Cornwall where a train was named in his honour\n\nIn 2020, Great Western Railway (GWR) dedicated six trains to \"remarkable individuals\" involved in World War Two - Mr Billinge was one of them.\n\nHe said he was \"deeply moved\".\n\nIn a social media post, GWR said: \"We were so sad to hear about the passing of our dear friend, Harry Billinge MBE.\n\n\"It was our absolute honour to name one of our trains after him in October 2020 and we will never forget the impact he had on so many.\"\n\nMr Billinge is survived by his wife Shelia, two daughters Sally and Margot, his son Christopher and granddaughters Amy and Claire.\n\nMr and Mrs Billinge were married for 67 years and were due to celebrate their 68th wedding anniversary in August.\n\nMrs Billinge-Shandley said: \"Some of his last words were, 'love one another'.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "India has \"unequivocally condemned\" killings in Ukraine's Bucha and supported calls for an independent investigation into the \"deeply disturbing reports\".\n\nImages of mass graves and bodies of civilians reportedly executed in the Kyiv suburb have shocked the world.\n\nIndia's condemnation at the UN meeting is the strongest statement it has made since Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nDelhi has so far abstained from UN votes condemning Russia's actions.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday at the UN Security Council meeting, India's permanent representative to the United Nations TS Tirumurti said the country \"remained deeply concerned at the worsening situation and reiterates its call for immediate cessation of violence and end to hostilities\".\n\n\"The situation in Ukraine has not shown any significant improvement since the Council last discussed the issue. The security situation has only deteriorated, as well as its humanitarian consequences,\" Mr Tirumurti said.\n\n\"We hope the international community will continue to respond positively to the humanitarian needs. We support calls urging for guarantees of safe passage to deliver essential humanitarian and medical supplies.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by India at UN, NY This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by India at UN, NY\n\nIndia has a long history of pursuing a non-aligned foreign policy but is under pressure from Western countries over its diplomatic balancing act. Delhi and Moscow also share a decades-old relationship, and Russia is also India's biggest defence supplier.\n\nIndia recently also placed contracts for nearly six million barrels of Russian crude after prices slumped in the wake of Western sanctions on Russia. But the Indian government says this is \"literally a drop, in a larger bucket\" of its oil imports globally.\n\nLast week, Delhi was criticised by the US and Australia for considering a Russian offer that was seen as circumventing the sanctions.\n\nThe civilian killings in Bucha were uncovered after Russian troops withdrew from the town. The mayor, Anatoli Fedoruk, said on Monday that at least 300 civilians had been killed, but there is no official tally yet.\n\nIndia's support for an independent inquiry into civilian killings in Bucha is hardly surprising.\n\nIt stopped short of blaming or naming Russia for the violence in Bucha, which was in line with its policy of neutrality over Ukraine.\n\nThe West has so far appeared to be accommodating of India's stand, which largely stems from its reliance on Russian defence equipment and its historical ties with Moscow.\n\nBut as allegations of atrocities in Ukraine mount, so will the pressure on Delhi to take a clearer stand.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday said that Washington wanted Delhi to scale down its defence dependence on Russia. If his statement is a sign of things to come, India's policy of pushing for diplomacy over Ukraine will be seriously tested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "In a live address, broadcast remotely from his war-torn country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that although Ireland is a neutral country, it had \"not remained neutral to the disaster and to the mishaps that Russia has brought to Ukraine\".\n\nHe praised the Republic of Ireland for its humanitarian and financial support but pleaded for more \"leadership\" to help strengthen international sanctions against Russia.\n\nThis video contains an extract of his speech, which ended in a standing ovation from Irish politicians in the Dáil (Irish Parliament).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Widow of Covid official ‘let down by everybody’\n\nThe widow of a top Scottish government official has accused the first minister of failing in her commitment to fully investigate his death.\n\nAndrew Slorance died after catching Covid while having cancer treatment in a Glasgow hospital in 2020.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said on 18 November last year she would \"not tolerate cover-ups or secrecy\" as she pledged to ensure his family got answers.\n\nHowever, Mr Slorance's wife Louise says she still does not know why he died.\n\nShe told the BBC she feels NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has been reluctant to give her information, and that the Scottish government has let her down.\n\nMr Slorance, who lived in Edinburgh, was head of the Scottish government's response and communication unit which was responsible for its handling of the Covid pandemic.\n\nAndrew Slorance died in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in 2020\n\nWhen he died in December 2020 the first minister led tributes, saying the government was devastated.\n\nThe 49-year-old went in to the £850m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) on 26 October 2020 for a stem cell transplant and chemotherapy as part of treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL).\n\nDespite being treated in an isolation room during this time, he tested positive eight days later on 3 November, and he was moved for his Covid treatment - eventually to intensive care.\n\nThe father-of-five died nearly six weeks into his stay, with the cause of his death listed as Covid pneumonia.\n\nBut after requesting a copy of his medical notes, Mrs Slorance discovered her husband had also been treated for an infection caused by a fungus called aspergillus, which had not been discussed with either of them during his hospital stay.\n\nThe infection is common in the environment but can be extremely dangerous for people with weak immune systems.\n\nMrs Slorance believes it may have played a part in her husband's death but that it was deliberately covered up - a claim the health board has denied.\n\nIn November last year, Ms Sturgeon ordered an external review of Mr Slorance's case, which was carried out by NHS Lothian.\n\nShe pledged to ensure his family would get the answers they were seeking, adding: \"I will not and this government will not tolerate cover-ups or secrecy on the part of any health board and where there are concerns about that we will address those concerns.\"\n\nHowever, Mrs Slorance said the process was inadequate because the review team were not given any access to her husband's case notes and were unable to speak to staff involved.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I feel very let down by everybody involved - the health board, the government and the fact that the first minister has referred to Andrew as a friend.\n\n\"As a friend, surely she can understand why his family desperately need the answers as to what happened.\n\n\"I don't know whether her involvement has been too hands-off and that's why the external review hasn't met the purpose it was supposed to, or I suppose I'm incredibly suspicious that everything that has been done to date has been done in order to make sure that the truth doesn't come out and that it's for a cover-up.\"\n\nAsked whether she felt the first minister had failed in her commitment to fully investigate Mr Slorance's death, Mrs Slorance replied: \"Absolutely.\"\n\nMrs Slorance has now written to the first minister demanding further action after she said a series of meetings to discuss her husband's case were cancelled by the chief nursing officer.\n\nSpeaking about the health board's handling of the matter, she added: \"They seem very reluctant to give me information - any time I've asked for information it has come through in dribs and drabs.\n\n\"I think there's elements where you can see blame being firmly placed on the family for the acquisition of Covid, for us demanding answers that we are supposed to receive.\n\n\"My family and I need answers, we need to be able to grieve. We can't grieve with no answers and no explanation.\"\n\nA spokesman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it was sorry that questions the family had around Mr Slorance's care had added to their grief.\n\nHe said: Our thoughts and sincere condolences continue to be with the family and loved ones of Mr Slorance.\n\n\"We have repeatedly stated that we are entirely content to engage with Mrs Slorance about her husband on the clinical care provided to him and we remain happy to meet her.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"At all times, our clinicians follow rigorous national processes governing documentation on death certificates.\n\n\"It is inconceivable that any clinician would agree to withhold information from a death certificate in order to protect the reputation of the service or a hospital.\n\n\"We also strongly refute that individuals within the organisation would ask any clinician to do so.\"\n\nThe board insisted it remained committed to being transparent and said there was dismay that the integrity of its staff had been repeatedly called into question.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Clinicians from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have extended an invitation to discuss Andrew's care and this offer remains open.\n\n\"We would encourage Mrs Slorance to take the opportunity to meet with NHS GGC clinicians and ask those questions pertinent to Andrew's care.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Williams condemned the violence at the Rangers v Celtic Old Firm derby\n\nThe violence at Sunday's Old Firm match at Ibrox was \"completely unacceptable\", a senior police officer has said.\n\nA Celtic physiotherapist was hit on the head by a glass bottle and glass was removed from the Celtic penalty area.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Williams said enquiries were continuing into both incidents during the game.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon condemned the actions of the Rangers supporters as \"mindless, thuggish behaviour\".\n\nThree men were also charged over vandalism before the game.\n\nThe men, aged 18, 22 and 25, were arrested after officers were called around 02:45 on Sunday after a large group was seen at the stadium and different areas were vandalised.\n\nThree other arrests were made for breach of the peace and drugs offences.\n\nRangers ground staff search for glass after shards from a broken bottle were found in the Celtic penalty area\n\nStewards recovered a host of discarded bottles at Ibrox after the match\n\nPolice Scotland also said 70 people were refused entry to Ibrox and 21 were ejected from the stadium.\n\nACC Williams said: \"The disorder and violence shown during the game on Sunday was completely unacceptable.\n\n\"All the relevant authorities must work together and with genuine fans to prevent incidents such as this in future. There is no place in Scottish football for this type of behaviour.\"\n\nThere has been widespread condemnation regarding events at Ibrox but what can realistically be done to make sure it doesn't happen again?\n\nThe police can prosecute but keeping a close eye on the movements of 50,000 football fans is no easy task - they need the help of the stewards.\n\nStewards sometimes search bags of people going in but in the main, football fans are not routinely searched going through the turnstiles and that is unlikely to change.\n\nPunish the club? If Rangers can show the league that they took all reasonable steps to prevent any potential problems, it's unlikely sanctions from the governing body will follow.\n\nThe club will search for and ban the culprits if and when they are found but the reality is, despite the condemnation and calls for all parties to work together to prevent similar scenes in the future, not much is likely to change.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the behaviour \"has no place in any civilised society\".\n\n\"Whether it happens at a football match or in the street, people throwing glass bottles is just not acceptable,\" Ms Sturgeon told LBC radio.\n\n\"But these are matters for the authorities, obviously for the football authorities and potentially for the police and criminal justice authorities.\"\n\nA Rangers supporters liaison officer said they were working with Police Scotland to identify the individual who threw a bottle from the Copland Road Stand onto the pitch at half-time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘How did someone get a bottle into the ground?’\n\nThe club and the SPFL, which is awaiting the match delegate's report, both urged any fans with information about the incidents to contact police.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that regardless of what team you support, \"people should be able to enjoy football\".\n\n\"Football should be something that people can take their kids to and have a happy, joyful occasion,\" the first minister added.\n\n\"Behaviour like that, whether it's at an Old Firm match or any other football match, besmirches that, and it should absolutely be seen as unacceptable.\"\n\nCeltic came from behind to beat Rangers 2-1 and extend their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership over their city rivals to six points.", "Kayla Mueller was an aid worker in Syria before being taken captive by IS\n\nParents of a US humanitarian worker killed by the Islamic State begged for her life in emails to her captors, a court has heard.\n\nKayla Mueller, 26, was one of several people who died at the hands of a Syria-based IS terror cell dubbed the Beatles due to their British accents.\n\nOn Tuesday, her mother Marsha spoke at the federal trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, known as \"Jihadi George\".\n\nHe has denied charges of hostage-taking and conspiracy to murder.\n\nMr Elsheikh is the highest profile IS fighter to face trial in the US and the only alleged member of the notorious Beatles cell to do so.\n\nHe has been linked to at least 27 abductions, but has asserted that he was not part of the group.\n\nThe Sudanese-born Londoner, who was stripped of his British citizenship in 2018, is accused of taking hostages, resulting in the deaths of four Americans - Ms Mueller, journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig.\n\nHe is also charged with conspiring in the deaths of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nIn opening statements last week, his lawyer argued that he was \"a simple ISIS fighter\" who went to Syria alone to support \"suffering Muslims\".\n\nBut prosecutors played back past media interviews with Mr Elsheikh that contradict the claim he was not involved in the hostage taking scheme.\n\nDuring one interview, Mr Elsheikh describes asking the jailed Ms Mueller for an email address to reach her family, although he goes on to say he never sent any emails.\n\nInside the Virginia courthouse on Tuesday, Ms Mueller's mother described exchanging several emails with the IS captors, in which she begged for her daughter's life.\n\nIn their first contact with the so-called Beatles, she and her husband Carl were asked to submit proof of life questions for Ms Mueller to answer.\n\nLater emails include a video addressed to then-IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which Marsha wore a hijab \"to show respect\".\n\nThe Beatles wrote back demanding either a ransom of five million euros or the release of jihadist Aafia Siddiqui from a US federal prison, within 30 days.\n\nSiddiqui, a Pakistani woman sometimes known as \"Lady Al-Qaeda\", is serving 86 years for the attempted murder of US soldiers.\n\nWhen the Muellers replied they were retired and the payoff was \"more than [what] we could earn in several lifetimes\", the captors wrote: \"get back to work\", the court heard.\n\nThe Obama administration had reassured the Muellers that \"IS won't harm a woman\", Marsha testified. But US officials confirmed in February 2015 that Ms Mueller had been killed in custody. Her body was never recovered.\n\nMarsha sat just yards away from the accused, who sat still leaning back in his chair and took no notes during the testimony.\n\nAs the court broke for lunch, Omar Alkhani, who was Ms Mueller's boyfriend and was attending court with her family, got up from his seat, lent over the bar and pointed towards Mr Elsheikh as he was being escorted out.\n\nMr Alkhani raised his voice in Arabic and said: \"He is in hell you will see him there,\" in an apparent reference to the former commander of the prison where Ms Mueller had been held before she died.\n\nEmotions continued to run high into the afternoon, with the father of Mr Sotloff - an American Israeli freelance journalist beheaded in 2014 - struggling to hold back tears on the stand.\n\nSteven Sotloff was a freelance journalist working in Syria when he was taken captive\n\nArthur Sotloff told the court that the first ransom email he received from the kidnappers described his son as having played a prominent role in \"the US government's battle for the hearts and minds of Muslims\".\n\nIn the note, the hostage takers called for the release of \"all Muslim people imprisoned directly or indirectly by Americans\" in return for the junior Sotloff's return. Arthur said he had no choice but to keep quiet as the group had demanded media silence.\n\nThe Sotloffs too sent a video message to their child's captors, playing to their supposed piety by stating that Islam is a merciful religion and the Prophet Muhammad would want them to act differently.\n\nMonths later, they heard their son's voice for the last time. In an apparently coerced recording, Mr Sotloff asked his family to fight for him and said \"my life lies in the hands of President Obama\".\n\nOn 3 September 2014, Arthur found out by a news alert that his son had been executed in a publicly released video. He was visibly shaking when he walked off the stand and was comforted by Ms Mueller's father as they left the court.\n\nA day earlier, James Foley's mother had testified that she had at first hoped reports her son had been executed were \"some cruel joke\". She told the court: \"It just seemed too horrific.\"\n\nMrs Foley said it only sank in when President Barack Obama confirmed on television that James had been executed.\n\nThe Elsheikh trial continues and is expected to last three to four weeks.\n• None Who were the Islamic State 'Beatles'?", "Land warfare analyst Nick Reynolds, who works for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank, has been filling us in on what the next few weeks of the war in Ukraine might look like, as Russia shifts its focus to the area in the south and east known as the Donbas.\n\nWas Ukraine's foreign minister accurate when he said the fighting in the Donbas could be reminiscent of World War Two?\n\n“Yes I think that’s accurate,\" Reynolds said. \"With all the forces freed up from the north of Ukraine… we’re going to see a clash of arms on European soil that hasn’t been seen for generations.\"\n\nCould Ukraine actually take back territory?\n\nThere are a lot of unknown factors here, Reynolds says.\n\nMany Ukrainians will be buoyed up by the withdrawal of Russian forces in the north, but in the south and east “the map has still been slowly turning red”, he says, and that's even before any reinforcements have arrived from the north.\n\nSo Russia certainly still has some forwards momentum in the south and east, he says.\n\nHow much difference could Western arms make?\n\nThe weapons Western countries have so far sent to Ukraine have been game-changing but Nato has handed over a \"significant amount of its stocks - and that supply was finite\", Reynolds says.\n\nWestern arms will be \"absolutely essential\" in the coming weeks but it's hard to know how they can get them to where they need to go, he adds.\n\nRamping up industrial production of sophisticated weapons such as Javelins, NLAWs and Stingers is not easy, he says, as they have complex supply chains, He believes Western governments are struggling to keep up with demand.\n\nSwitchblade drones could “start to change things on the ground within a short timeframe” – but there’s “very little else” that could do so, he adds.", "Putin and his family were shown in this 2002 picture, which hid their identities\n\nRussia's President, Vladimir Putin, has always been guarded when it comes to questions over his family.\n\nIn 2015, during one of his marathon news conferences, he dodged questions about his daughter's identities.\n\n\"My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them,\" he said. \"They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone.\"\n\n\"Every person has a right for their fate, they live their own life and do it with dignity,\" he added.\n\nHe might not want to name them, but others have. The latest round of US sanctions has targeted Maria Vorontsova, 36, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35.\n\n\"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them,\" one US official said.\n\nWhile little has been officially confirmed about President Putin's family life, documents, media reports and the occasional public pronouncement are enough to provide a portrait of the pair.\n\nThe two are the daughters of President Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila. The pair married in 1983 when she was a flight attendant and he a KGB officer. Their marriage lasted 30 years, spanning Mr Putin's rapid rise to the top of Russia's political system.\n\nIn 2013, they split. Mr Putin said \"it was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life\". She said he was \"completely drowned in work\".\n\nTheir eldest, Maria Vorontsova, was born in 1985. She studied biology at St Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University.\n\nMaria Vorontsova is an academic and businesswoman\n\nMrs Vorontsova is now an academic, specialising in the endocrine system. She co-wrote a book on stunted growth in children, and is listed as a researcher at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow.\n\nShe's also a businesswoman. BBC Russia identified her as co-owner of a company planning to build a massive medical centre.\n\nMrs Vorontsova is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, who once worked at Russian state energy giant Gazprom, although they have reportedly separated.\n\nPeople who have spoken to her since the Ukraine invasion say she supports her father, and has cast doubt over international reporting of the conflict.\n\nCompared to her sister, Katerina Tikhonova has been much more in the public eye, not least due to her talents as a rock n' roll dancer. She and her partner came fifth at an international event in 2013.\n\nMs Tikhonova has assumed a public role without being called President Putin's daughter\n\nThat same year, she married Kirill Shamalov, the son of a long-time friend of President Putin. Their wedding was held at an exclusive ski resort near St Petersburg. Workers there said the couple arrived on a sleigh drawn by three white horses.\n\nMr Shamalov was sanctioned by the US in 2018 for his role in Russia's energy sector. The US Treasury said that \"his fortunes drastically improved following the marriage\". The pair have since split.\n\nFollowing the invasion of Ukraine, two Russian activists were arrested for occupying a luxury villa in Biarritz said to be owned by Mr Shamalov.\n\nMs Tikhonova is now in academia and business. She made a brief appearance on Russian state media in 2018 to talk about neurotechnology and also at a business forum in 2021. In neither cases was her relationship to the president mentioned.\n\nNeither woman is said to spend a lot of time with President Putin.\n\nMr Putin also has grandchildren. He mentioned them at a phone-in in 2017, but did not say how many he had or which of his daughters had them.\n\n\"Regarding my grandchildren, one is already in nursery school. Please understand, I don't want them to grow up like some kind of royal princes. I want them to grow up like normal people,\" he said.", "A Home Office minister has said he \"has not seen any feuding\" between government departments over how to deal with Ukrainian refugees.\n\nLord Harrington insisted \"raised voices\" in meetings were the result of a desire shared by all ministers to \"do the same thing\" and help people.\n\nHe also revealed that 29,000 visas had been issued to Ukrainians, with around 65,000 applications received so far.\n\nBut Labour said the government had to \"step up to the plate\".\n\nSeveral newspapers have reported that Home Secretary Priti Patel and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss have argued over how to clear a backlog of Ukrainian refugees' applications, amid reports that only \"hundreds\" of people have so far made it to the UK.\n\nThe BBC understands that HM Revenue and Customs and Department for Work and Pensions staff are now helping with the processing of Ukrainian refugees.\n\nA Home Office source said a \"cross-government effort\" was under way.\n\nLord Harrington, making his maiden speech since becoming a minister, said during a Lords debate: \"I've not seen this feuding between departments that's reported.\"\n\nHe told peers he had attended meetings with Home Secretary Priti Patel and Housing and Communities Secretary Michael Gove, among others, adding: \"I've seen raised voices because we are all trying to do the same thing, but not [because we are angry] with each other...\n\n\"What happens behind closed doors, I couldn't possibly know... I've not experienced [feuding] myself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLord Harrington said the immediate vetting of refugees should, at most, include passport checks, verifying whether people are on criminal watch lists, checking whether children travelling with adults are actually theirs, and checking whether sponsors have criminal records - the last two designed to prevent people trafficking.\n\n\"That's really it,\" he added, saying that \"it's taken too long to do it\" so far.\n\nThe government is operating two schemes to help Ukrainians displaced by Russia's invasion to come to the UK - involving living with family members already in the country or sponsorship by other hosts.\n\nFor Labour, shadow Home Office minister Lord Coaker said: \"There's a bureaucratic mess here and a bureaucratic quagmire and it needs to be sorted out.\n\n\"The British people want better from their government... They want their government to step up to the plate.\"\n\nThe United Nations says 4.28 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded in late February.\n\nOf these, neighbouring Poland has taken almost 2.5 million.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Many more cities like Bucha says President Zelensky\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the Russian military of carrying out the worst crimes since World War Two.\n\nHe told the UN security council that civilians had been murdered and Russian tanks had crushed people \"for pleasure\".\n\nHe called for those responsible to be tried as Nazis wer at Nuremberg.\n\nGruesome images of bodies lying in the street in towns such as Bucha have generated condemnation worldwide.\n\nAfter his speech by video link to the Security Council, Mr Zelensky showed a graphic video of images of dead Ukrainians, some burned and disfigured.\n\n\"The Russian military searched for and purposefully killed anyone who served our country,\" he said.\n\n\"They killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies.\"\n\nSatellite images show what appear to be the bodies of civilians in the streets of Bucha\n\nRussian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia said there was no evidence Russian troops had carried out atrocities.\n\n\"We've heard once again a huge amount of lies about Russian soldiers and military,\" he said.\n\nAs expected, President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a ferocious, passionate attack on the Russian military for its alleged violations in Bucha and elsewhere.\n\nThe catalogue of horrors Mr Zelensky lists includes throats slashed, limbs cut off, and women raped in front of their children.\n\nHe says there's no difference between this and the actions of terrorists, except that Russia is a member of the UN Security Council.\n\nThis is the speech of a man who feels he has the highest of moral high grounds.\n\nMr Zelensky said the UN had to act, because not doing so would mean there was no point to the world body.\n\n\"Are you ready to close the UN? And the time of international law is gone? If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately,\" he said, adding that \"accountability must be inevitable\".\n\n\"We are dealing with a state that turns its veto at the UN Security Council into the right to [cause] death,\" he said.\n\nHe called for the establishment of a special international tribunal to deal with the crimes, and for Russia to be removed from the UN's Security Council.\n\nThere was \"not a single crime they would not commit\", Mr Zelensky added.\n\n\"The world has yet to see they have done in other occupied cities and regions of our country.\"\n\nUN Secretary-General António Guterres said he would \"never forget\" seeing images of dead civilians in Bucha.\n\nHe warned the Security Council that Russia's invasion is one of the greatest challenges ever to the international order \"because of its nature, intensity, and consequences\".\n\nThe US reiterated its call for Russia to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council.\n\nLinda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, told the Security Council: \"Russia should not have a position of authority in a body whose very purpose is to promote respect for human rights.\"\n\nChina, which has avoided criticising the Russian invasion, said that the reports of civilian deaths in Ukraine were \"very disturbing\", but said any accusations should be based on verified facts.\n\nThe Ukrainian government started a war crimes investigation on Monday after it said the bodies of 410 civilians had been found in areas around Kyiv.\n\nThe images from Bucha prompted US President Joe Biden to call for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes.\n\nA growing number of Western nations have expelled Russian diplomats in response to the discovery of the atrocities, while new sanctions against Russia are being discussed.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell will travel to Kyiv to meet the Ukrainian president later in the week, Ms von der Leyen's spokesman said.", "A security guard at the British embassy in Berlin suspected of spying for Russia has been extradited to appear in court charged with nine offences under the Official Secrets Act.\n\nDavid Ballantyne Smith, 57, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe UK national was arrested by German police on 10 August.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have happened between October 2020 and August 2021.\n\nMr Smith, who had been living in Potsdam, in Germany, was flown back to the UK on Wednesday ahead of his appearance at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the nine charges related to the collection and communication of information useful to the Russian state.\n\nNick Price, head of the special crime and counter terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said Mr Smith was accused of seven offences of collecting information with the intent of sending it to the Russian authorities, one of attempting communication and one of providing information to a person he believed was a member of the Russian authorities.\n\nHe said the CPS had worked closely with its German counterparts to bring Mr Smith back to the UK after obtaining an extradition warrant.", "The US has imposed sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle, including his daughters.\n\nThe list also includes the family of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and major banks.\n\nThe measures follow new revelations of atrocities by Russian troops in Ukraine, including images of bodies of civilians scattered on the streets of Bucha, near the capital Kyiv.\n\nRussia says, without evidence, the images are staged by Kyiv officials.\n\nEven though satellite images have shown the civilians were killed when Russians were in control of Bucha, Mr Putin on Wednesday described the event as a \"crude and cynical provocation by the Kyiv regime\".\n\nReferring to the Bucha murders, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday: \"There's nothing less happening than major war crimes.\"\n\n\"Responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable,\" Mr Biden added.\n\nThe US said that Mr Putin's daughters, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, were being put under sanctions \"for being the adult children of Putin, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked\".\n\nThe announcement described Ms Tikhonova as \"a tech executive whose work supports the GoR [Russian government] and defense industry\".\n\nHer sister, Ms Vorontsova, it went on, \"leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin\".\n\nAsked why the US was targeting Mr Putin's daughters, a senior Biden administration official said the US thought they could be in control of some of their father's assets.\n\n\"We have reason to believe that Putin, and many of his cronies, and the oligarchs, hide their wealth, hide their assets, with family members that place their assets and their wealth in the US financial system, and also many other parts of the world,\" the official said.\n\n\"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them.\"\n\nThe US sanctions announced by the White House include:\n\nMeanwhile the UK has announced further sanctions against eight oligarchs and Russian banks, including the country's largest, Sberbank, and Credit Bank of Moscow.\n\nThe European Union is also debating cutting off Russian coal imports as concern over alleged war crimes increases.\n\nBefore the new raft of sanctions was announced in Washington, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he could not \"tolerate any indecisiveness\".\n\nSpeaking to the Irish parliament on Wednesday, he said there was still a need to convince some in Europe who believe \"war and war crimes are not as horrific as financial losses\" to back tougher sanctions.\n\nHe added that \"Russian oil cannot feed the Russian military machine\", with Ukraine's foreign minister arguing on Twitter that an embargo on gas and oil was needed to truly impact Russia's ability to finance the war.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky urged more action when speaking to Irish lawmakers on Wednesday\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's chief diplomat, separately acknowledged on Wednesday that the one billion euros ($1.09bn; £833m) Europe spent on Russian energy every day put into sharp perspective the billion euros given to Ukraine in military assistance since the start of the invasion.\n\nSome European member states, including Germany, are heavily reliant on Russian energy and had been reluctant to directly target the sector.\n\nHowever, in a first, the European Commission proposed a potential ban on imports of Russian coal on Tuesday, which must be agreed by all 27 members. Europe buys around €4bn ($4.4bn; £3.3bn) worth of coal from Moscow every year.\n\nSentiment appeared to change after evidence of Russian war crimes emerged, with French President Emmanuel Macron joining calls for a ban on coal earlier this week.\n\nThe ban was suggested ahead of a range of sanctions set to be announced in coordination with the US and other G7 nations.\n\nEU officials say sanctions on Russian imports of coal and oil are definitely being considered\n\nEuropean member states are also expected to impose a \"full transaction ban\" on four Russian banks and ban a range of other Russian and Belarusian imports, including wood, cement, seafood and liquor, worth €5.5 billion ($6bn; £4.59bn).\n\nAnd Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said she intends to close EU ports to Russian vessels and ban Russian and Belarusian road transport operators from the region.\n\nMs Von der Leyen accused Russia of \"waging a cruel and ruthless war\" against Ukrainian civilians and said the EU must \"sustain utmost pressure on Putin and the Russian government at this critical point\".\n\nBut Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Tuesday evening criticized the EU's proposed sanctions package, calling it a \"feeble response\" which is \"an invitation for more atrocities.\"\n\n\"Coal, four banks…a ban on ports and borders (with exceptions) is not really an adequate sanctions package to the massacres that are being uncovered,\" Mr Landsbergis wrote on Twitter.", "A festival organised to encourage young people in east London to get vaccinated against Covid saw just 435 people jabbed.\n\nThe four-day Summer Festival at Langdon Park cost Tower Hamlets Council £237,000 to put on, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) reported.\n\nThe cost for each person vaccinated would have been £535 per vaccine.\n\nA council spokesperson said \"innovative ways\" were needed to tackle low uptake.\n\nThe festival held between 30 July and 2 August 2021, included a stage with live performances and free food vouchers were handed out to festival goers as were first and second Pfizer jabs.\n\nA Freedom of Information (FOI) request also showed the council did not record how many people attended the festival in total.\n\nBBC London filmed at the event from the stage where about a dozen people are visible.\n\nLocal residents reported that not many people attended, LDRS said.\n\nThere was plenty of space for young children to show off their dance moves in front of the stage\n\nAt the time, Tower Hamlets mayor John Biggs described it as a local clinic to support everyone to get vaccinated.\n\n\"We know events like this appeal particularly to younger groups, so come along, protect yourself and have some fun,\" he said.\n\nTower Hamlets has seen one of the lowest uptakes of vaccines in the UK throughout the pandemic.\n\nThe vaccination rate for all three jabs for Tower Hamlet residents was 55.7 %, according to official government figures, compared to the UK national average of 67.6%\n\nAlmost 75% of Tower Hamlets residents have had the first coronavirus vaccine and 70.8% have had their second since the rollout began last year.\n\nA spokesperson for the council said: \"Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic we have worked hard to keep Tower Hamlets safe, including vaccinating as many residents as possible and working to address vaccine hesitancy.\n\n\"The vaccine event at Langdon Park, funded by Covid-19 grants from central government, was set up to help vaccinate young residents, where data was showing a low uptake in this group.\n\n\"Councils across the country have been actively encouraged to use funding to deliver vaccines in new and innovative ways, which is important in efforts to address vaccine hesitancy and low uptake in particular groups.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool will take a two-goal lead into the Champions League quarter-final second leg at Anfield but Jurgen Klopp says his side are \"not in dreamland\" after an important victory over Benfica in Lisbon.\n\nLuis Diaz scored late on to put Klopp's side in control of the encounter but they could have been out of sight were it not for a number of fine saves from Benfica goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos.\n\nIbrahima Konate rose highest to head the visitors into the lead from a corner before Sadio Mane added a clinical second to dampen the mood at a lively Estadio da Luz in a dominant first half.\n\nThe home fans ramped up the noise again shortly after the interval when Konate's mistake allowed sought-after striker Darwin Nunez to pull one back for the Portuguese outfit and make it a contest.\n\nBut the Premier League side will have a healthy advantage when they welcome Benfica in the second leg next Wednesday after Diaz added a late third with a composed finish after rounding Vlachodimos, who also denied Diogo Jota in the final moments.\n\n\"Coming here and winning an away game in the Champions League is tough. Obviously, Benfica fought for their lives,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"We could have scored in the last minute - the fourth one would be nice but we're not in dreamland here.\n\n\"It's half-time, we know much more about our opponent, they will go for it again. They won at Ajax, they ground out all the results out in the group stage that they needed, so we are aware of the quality and now we have a nice game in between and then we will be ready again for Benfica.\"\n• None 'We will fight' - title race intensifies as rival bosses focus on big match\n\nThis was a near perfect start to a mammoth run of games for Liverpool that will define their season, with the return leg sandwiched between Sunday's game at Premier League leaders Manchester City and an FA Cup semi-final against Pep Guardiola's side six days later.\n\nThe Reds are chasing a historic quadruple and have already won the Carabao Cup this year, despite Klopp saying four trophies is not a realistic target and insisting winning just one other competition this term would be \"outstanding\".\n\nTheir progress in Europe now looks set but it was not comfortable for the visitors until Diaz skipped round goalkeeper Vlachodimos to score his side's third with three minutes to go.\n\nDiaz, jeered throughout because of his history with Benfica's domestic rivals Porto, was making his first Liverpool start in the competition but continued his seamless beginning to life with Klopp's side and proved a threat throughout.\n\nHe had earlier been denied by Vlachodimos, who stopped Mohamed Salah adding a third before the break as well as keeping out Jota late in the second half.\n\nLiverpool were completely in control early on and were already threatening before Konate was left unmarked to head in Andrew Robertson's corner to score his first goal for the club.\n\nThe visitors then ruthlessly punished a poor touch from former Tottenham and QPR midfielder Adel Taarabt, as Trent Alexander-Arnold angled a superb ball into Diaz and the forward cushioned a header into Mane's path to give him a simple finish.\n\nBenfica, who upset an in-form Ajax side in the previous round, responded four minutes into the second half when Konate missed his kick from Rafa Silva's low cross and 22-year-old Uruguay forward Nunez showed why he is so in demand with a composed finish from close range for his fifth goal in the competition this season.\n\nThat gave the home side belief and, buoyed by the intense atmosphere their fans created, Benfica suddenly looked a different team as Everton tested Alisson from range and Nunez failed to convert after breaking in behind the defence, instead going down under pressure from Virgil van Dijk only to see his penalty appeal waved away.\n\nBut it was Diaz who stole the show late on and Klopp's attention will now switch to a huge game against City in the race for the Premier League title.\n• None Attempt saved. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Benfica 1, Liverpool 3. Luis Díaz (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Naby Keïta with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Henderson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "Matthew Boorman was described as someone who \"lived life to the max\"\n\nThe family of a man who was stabbed 27 times by his neighbour have criticised the \"toothless and ineffective\" police response in the run-up to his death.\n\nCan Arslan, 52, from Walton Cardiff, Gloucestershire, murdered Matthew Boorman, after subjecting his neighbours to 12 years of threats.\n\nThe day before Mr Boorman's death, Arslan told police he would \"sort his neighbour out and murder him\".\n\nThe case has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nThe threat of murder did not appear on police systems until 15:40 GMT the next day - less than two hours before Arslan stabbed Mr Boorman.\n\nMr Boorman's family said questions must be asked about how this was able to happen so that it is never repeated\n\nIn a statement, Mr Boorman's family said: \"We must ask ourselves why this was able to happen...mistakes were made, they must never be repeated.\n\n\"As we move forward and learn how to cope without him, we fight in his name to expose not only the malice and cruelty of the man that did this, but also the failings in the system that let this happen.\n\n\"The police and other authorities had been told how dangerous this man was, the threats he made and the risks he presented.\n\n\"The response was toothless and ineffective, even when the defendant himself told the police he was going to murder Matthew.\"\n\nFollowing the guilty verdict Arslan was remanded to Broadmoor secure hospital and will be sentenced in June.\n\nCan Arslan was found guilty of murdering his neighbour Matthew Boorman\n\nAssistant Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Police Craig Holden said: \"We understand what was heard in court raises questions over what was done by police and other agencies before the terrible events.\n\n\"Following the incident the constabulary referred the case to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and it is currently investigating police actions.\"\n\nAn independent multi-agency review has also been commissioned, which will look at how both public and private sector organisations worked together to address the concerns of Arslan's neighbours.\n\n\"It is crucial we allow these reviews to be carried out without prejudice and as such it would not be appropriate to comment in any detail at this time,\" Mr Holden added.\n\n\"However, we can reassure people that we will act on their findings.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it was investigating Gloucestershire Police's \"actions following a series of reported neighbourhood incidents\" prior to Mr Boorman's death.\n\nAt the time of the murder, Arslan was under an injunction banning him from threatening or abusing his neighbours and he had been served an eviction notice.\n\nSmall rows over parking and a scratch to a car had led to Arslan making repeated threats to attack or kill his neighbours.\n\nMany of them installed CCTV which was ultimately used as evidence in the murder trial.\n\nIn May, Mr Boorman's wife told police she was worried about being murdered.\n\nArslan made counter-allegations, accusing the Boorman's of racially abusing him.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The woman called 999 and the emergency operator realised she was at risk of harm\n\nA man has been arrested after a woman fearing for her safety called 999 and asked if she could order a pizza.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said the call handler immediately asked the woman if she was in trouble and she replied \"yes\".\n\nThe operator was able to establish the woman was on a bus, which was located and stopped in the York area.\n\nThe force said a 40-year-old man, from Leeds, was arrested and remained in custody.\n\nThe call came into the force on Tuesday evening and the operator established the woman could only answer \"yes\" or \"no\".\n\nThey worked out the woman was at risk of harm from a man travelling with her and keeping the phone line open the operator was able to text her for more information.\n\nThe bus she was on was identified through an online tracker.\n\nInsp Dan Spence said: \"This was really good work by everyone involved, allowing us to take immediate action to safeguard a vulnerable woman.\n\n\"I'm aware of people using the 'pizza ordering' technique abroad to contact the police, but I cannot recall a similar call in North Yorkshire.\"\n\nIf you are affected by the issues in this story, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Abortion rights in the US have come under sustained attack in Republican dominated states\n\nLawmakers in Oklahoma have passed a bill that would impose a near-total ban on abortions in the state.\n\nThe bill would criminalise performing an abortion in almost all cases, except where it could \"save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency\".\n\nMedical professionals convicted under the laws face fines of up to $100,000 (£76,505) and 10 years in prison.\n\nIt comes as the US Supreme Court weighs a case that could overturn abortion rights across the US later this year.\n\nOklahoma's House of Representatives, in which Republicans hold a supermajority, voted to send the bill to the governor's office by 70 votes to 14.\n\nThe state's Governor Kevin Stitt will be presented with the bill for his approval. The Republican has already committed to signing into law any legislation that restricts abortion rights.\n\nRepublican Rep Jim Olsen, who authored the bill, said he was \"thrilled\" by its passage and said the legislation could see \"many lives of babies saved\".\n\nBut pro-choice groups say the bill is a devastating blow for women, noting it comes after the state became a major destination for women from neighbouring Texas seeking abortions after the passage of extremely restrictive laws in the state last year.\n\n\"Nearly half of the patients Oklahoma providers are currently seeing are medical refugees from Texas,\" a coalition of pro-choice groups said.\n\n\"Now, Oklahomans could face a future where they would have no place left in their state to go to seek this basic health care.\"\n\nTamya Cox-Toure, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, said in a statement the bill serves as an \"alarming reminder that the days of access to safe and legal abortion may be numbered, and we must continue to fight to guarantee all people have access to the essential health care they need, including abortion\".\n\nRepublican dominated legislatures have been passing a series of restrictive abortion measures in recent years, designed to set up a showdown in the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.\n\nThe court is due to rule by the end of June on a case involving a Republican-backed Mississippi law which could see conservative justices overturn the Roe v Wade decision that legalised abortion under federal law in 1973.\n\nThe ruling could cut off abortion services for tens of millions of women and likely see similar laws bar abortion in nearly two dozen states.\n\nThe latest tactic in anti-abortion legislation is to target and punish providers.\n\nWhen Texas last year passed the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation, some abortion providers I spoke to shut their services altogether, fearing reprimand. People seeking abortions were forced to find alternative options, like accessing abortion pills and travelling out of state.\n\nNearly half of Texans who left the state went to Oklahoma. That may no longer be an option once this law goes into effect there later this year.\n\n\"Legislation like SB 612 on its face is very chilling to people's willingness to practise in states that are this hostile to providers,\" says Zachary Gingrich-Gaylord of Trust Women, one of four abortion clinics in Oklahoma. \"That's the point.\"\n\nSupporters of the law, like State Senator Nathan Dahm, have boasted that the measure is now the \"strongest pro-life legislation in the country\". And they point out the law does not penalise women but the providers.\n\nTrust Women has long depended on medical professionals from out of state to perform abortions because, they say, it's difficult to find local providers willing to go public about where they work.\n\n\"It makes it difficult to bring on even support staff in the clinic at a time that we're seeing an increased volume of patients,\" says Gingrich-Gaylord told me.\n\nIt is a victory for anti-abortion groups who say their priority is to protect the unborn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukraine's president visits the site of alleged atrocities in Bucha\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said peace talks will continue with Russia despite accusing Moscow of war crimes and genocide.\n\nMr Zelensky was speaking in Bucha, near the capital Kyiv, where bodies of civilians were found strewn on the streets after Russian troops withdrew.\n\nThe shocking videos and photos sparked outrage around the world and calls for further sanctions against Russia.\n\nWithout evidence, Russia said images of atrocities had been staged by Ukraine.\n\nUkraine started a war crimes investigation after it said the bodies of 410 civilians had been found in areas around Kyiv. Some were discovered in mass graves while others had their hands tied and had apparently been shot at close range.\n\nWearing a bullet-proof vest and surrounded by Ukrainian soldiers, Mr Zelensky said Russian troops had \"treated people worse than animals\". \"That is real genocide, what you have seen here,\" he said.\n\nResponding to a question from the BBC on whether it was still possible to talk peace with Russia, Mr Zelensky said: \"Yes, because Ukraine must have peace. We are in Europe in the 21st Century. We will continue efforts diplomatically and militarily.\"\n\nIn the town of Bucha, witnesses described Russian soldiers firing on men fleeing after refusing to allow them to leave through humanitarian corridors.\n\nAt least 20 dead men were found lying in the street, many of them with extensive wounds. Some had been shot through the temple, as if executed, while others had clearly been run over by tanks.\n\nSatellite images taken by Maxar show a 14m (45ft) mass grave in the city near the church of St Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints.\n\nBodies have been found on the streets of Bucha\n\nIn the nearby village of Motyzhyn, a BBC team were taken to see a shallow grave. Four bodies were visible, and Ukrainian officials said there could be more.\n\nThree of the bodies have been identified as that of the head of the village, Olha Sukhenko, her husband and her son. The fourth has not been identified yet. It is unclear when they were killed.\n\nIn Irpin, there is evidence of people being shot at as they tried to flee the commuter town. On 6 March four civilians - a woman, her teenage son, her daughter of around eight years of age, and a family friend - were all killed by mortar fire as they tried to cross a battered bridge.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said the \"Bucha massacre [was] a game changer\" but that the \"worst was yet to come\". He urged Western nations to provide Ukraine with more weapons and impose more sanctions on Russia.\n\nBut Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, described the alleged atrocities in Bucha as an \"act\" that had been \"staged\" several days after Russian forces withdrew, according to Tass news agency. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists that Russia \"categorically rejected all allegations\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden repeated his accusation that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was a war criminal and said Washington would call for a war crimes trial. \"This guy is brutal. And what's happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone's seen it,\" Mr Biden said.", "Western Isles Support for Cats and Kittens is seeking help\n\nAround 40 cats have been found alone at a home in the Western Isles after the death of their owner.\n\nThe cats, aged from six months to elderly, were living throughout the home and outbuildings at Breasclete on Lewis.\n\nLocal group, Western Isles Support for Cats and Kittens (Wisck), was called by a neighbour who was feeding the pets.\n\nThe charity said none of the cats had been neutered and some showed obvious signs of injury.\n\n\"With any colony that is living as if it was feral, if a female cat is available, male cats will fight and there are obvious signs of where the male cats have been fighting each other,\" Annie Delin from Wisck told BBC Scotland's Lunchtime Live programme.\n\n\"We have discovered now about 40 cats and we believe they have been on their own for a while. It could be some injuries have also been caused by them being outside and looking for food.\"\n\nWisck has appealed for help and donations to care for the cats.\n\nThe group said in a social media post they were \"unbelievably grateful and humbled by the outpouring of support\" but the cats were \"nowhere near ready for adoption\" yet.\n\nPregnant females will be taken into care until their kittens are born. Adult cats, once neutered, will be appraised for where they go next.\n\nWisck vice chairwoman Karen Cowan added: \"This is going to be a huge undertaking for us and will stretch our resources to the absolute limit.\n\n\"The practicalities of catching and transporting all the cats to and from vets and fosters are going to dominate our volunteers' time.\n\n\"Some of the cats will already be pregnant, with kitten season due to begin any time.\"\n\nShe added that veterinary treatment for cats that needed it would be first priority, then the adults would be neutered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC understands there were several hours of crunch talks in an attempt to salvage the event\n\nThe UK has cancelled its first-ever international LGBT+ conference after a boycott by more than 100 organisations, the BBC understands.\n\n\"Safe To Be Me\" was scheduled to take place in London in June to promote LGBT rights within the UK and globally.\n\nThe event will not go ahead after LGBT+ charities and other groups pulled out over the government's stance on conversion therapy.\n\nTherapy aimed at transgender people was excluded from a ban outlined last week.\n\nThe BBC understands there were several hours of crunch talks in an attempt to salvage the event, but ultimately organisers were unable to move forward after the majority of organisations involved pulled out.\n\nA number of LGBT+ organisations and charities had signed an open letter written by campaign group Stonewall which said they would not lend their support for the event unless Boris Johnson included transgender people in the ban.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday the government's first LGBT+ business champion resigned over the exclusion of transgender people from any conversion therapy ban that would instead only apply to sexual orientation.\n\nThe unpaid role was created especially in the lead-up to the conference, and was expected to last at least 18 months.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, Iain Anderson said he had \"no choice\" but to quit and did so with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nAt the conference, Mr Anderson would have been expected to showcase what UK businesses have done in reducing workplace discrimination and promoting equality for LGBT people.\n\nHe wrote: \"Trust and belief in the government's overall commitment to LGBT+ rights has been damaged.\n\n\"I believe a comprehensive plan to support LGBT+ people to play their full part in our society is urgently needed.\"\n\nIn a statement, a government spokesperson thanked him for his contribution and said they were considering the issue of transgender conversion therapy further in what they described as a \"legally complex\" area.\n\nAccording to NHS England, that therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nSome groups have expressed concern it could impede those helping people with gender dysphoria by blocking explorative therapies or those that do not automatically affirm someone's gender identity.\n\nThe government had promised to outlaw the practice of conversion therapy for all, but announced last week any ban would only apply to attempts to alter a person's sexuality, not attempts to try to change people's gender identity.\n\nA spokesperson said the government would carry out \"separate work\" on the issue of transgender conversion therapy but it was keen for any legislation not to have \"unintended consequences\".\n\nThe U-turn led to more than 100 organisations withdrawing from the Safe To Be Me Conference, which was due to be held in London over three days this summer.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously called the practice of conversion therapy \"repulsive and abhorrent\" and had promised plans to outlaw it on a number of separate occasions.\n\nA number of gender critical groups had fought for the ban not to include conversion therapy relating to issues of gender identity.\n\nResponding to the legislation on Friday, Nikki da Costa, a former director of legislative affairs at No 10, said elements of the law would have had \"profound consequences for children struggling with gender dysphoria\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"Doctors, therapists and parents would be deterred from exploring with a child any feelings of what else may be going on, for fear of being told they're trying to change a child's identity\", adding it was \"deeply concerning\".\n\nThe Welsh government is now looking at legal advice to see what action it can take to ban trans conversion therapy.\n\nOne Conservative MP, Dehenna Davison, expressed her disappointment the conference had been cancelled, tweeting: \"We had such a huge opportunity to prove the UK (and the Conservative Party) is a defender of freedom. As a Conservative member of the LGBT+ community, it is so wrong it has come to this.\"\n\nAnother Conservative MP, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"Having failed to deliver for the LGBT community at home, we will now fail to deliver for LGBT communities around the world. What a record.\"", "Passengers travelling from London Marylebone to parts of Buckinghamshire will have to catch replacement buses\n\nPeople travelling over the Easter weekend are set to face delays and cancellations due to engineering works on the rail network.\n\nNo trains will run in or out of Euston, which is likely to disrupt fans going to the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley.\n\nHeathrow, Gatwick and Stansted Airports will also be affected.\n\nThe timing has been called \"ludicrous\" by travel expert Simon Calder as it is the first bank holiday where all legal Covid restrictions have been axed.\n\nHe said: \"Far more people [are] travelling at weekends now than during the week and now they find they can't go anyway and that's something Network Rail has to address.\"\n\nNetwork Rail said it was undertaking a £22m upgrade project and had advised people to travel either side of the bank holiday.\n\nMany air passengers have already experienced a bad start to their holidays, after 1,000 UK flights were cancelled.\n\nBritish Airways and Easyjet blamed staff shortages for the problems.\n\nMr Calder said \"over-optimism on the part of the airlines\" was to blame for the delays, and warned air travel could be problematic throughout the holidays.\n\nHe warned the \"pressure is going to be on\" before the Easter weekend.\n\nSeveral parts of the Tube network are closing over the bank holiday weekend, which Transport for London acknowledged would be \"frustrating\"\n\nNetwork Rail said there was never an ideal time to shut the railway but Easter provided an opportunity to carry out essential work.\n\nDave Penney, passenger director for the north west and central region, said: \"Long bank holiday weekends continue to give our engineers the time they need to close the railway for complex jobs like track replacements and bridge overhauls while disrupting the fewest number of people.\"\n\nThe construction of HS2 and its new Euston terminal has caused frequent line and station closures along the route\n\nIf you are planning to stay in London, your journey could still be fraught with delays and diversions, due to several parts of the Tube network closing.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said customers should check before travelling and acknowledged the closures may be frustrating.\n\n\"Easter is an ideal time for us to undertake essential improvement works on the network as demand is lower and the four-day weekend means we can do complex works that take longer,\" a spokesperson said. \"\n\nNetwork Rail is advising Manchester City and Liverpool fans against travelling by train to Wembley Stadium on 16 April as trains from the North West will terminate at Milton Keynes Central, potentially leaving fans stranded.\n\nChiltern Railway trains will serve Wembley Stadium station, but the operator said it was expecting to be \"extremely busy\" due to closures on other lines and advised match-goers not to use its services.\n\nThe FA is advising match-goers to travel by Tube to Wembley Park or by car.\n\nHowever, the Metropolitan line is operating a reduced service due to safety checks. TfL is advising people to use the Jubilee line to travel to Wembley Park or the Bakerloo line to Wembley Central.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "P&O Ferries hopes to get two ships back in action, subject to inspection by the coastguard.\n\nP&O Ferries has said it is preparing to get its Pride of Kent and Spirit of Britain ships back in action on the Dover-Calais route \"by next week\".\n\nThe ferries will need to pass inspections by the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) before services can resume.\n\nThere has not yet been any confirmation that the inspections, which can take days, have been booked in.\n\nHoliday-makers and lorry drivers have faced queues near Dover in recent days.\n\nBad weather and the disruption to P&O services had caused long queues of traffic as the Easter holidays started for some.\n\nP&O Ferries had confirmed yesterday that all of its Dover-Calais routes would remain suspended this weekend, and that another ferry operator, DFDS, would not be able to take P&O customers.\n\nThe company expects the Pride of Kent and the Spirit of Britain will be sailing next week.\n\nA P&O Ferries spokesperson said: \"From this weekend, P&O Ferries are getting ready to resume services across a number of vital routes.\n\n\"P&O has been working closely with regulators to ensure our ships are safe to sail. P&O is looking forward to welcoming back vital services and we expect to have two of our vessels ready to sail on the Dover-Calais route by next week, subject to regulatory signoff,\" they added.\n\nThey also apologised to customers whose journeys had been cancelled or disrupted.\n\nFollowing the no-notice sacking of 786 seafarers by P&O Ferries, passengers hoping to cross the channel have been left with fewer travel options.\n\nThe company said on Wednesday it was providing refunds to all passengers booked to travel with them who cannot get on alternative services.\n\nTwo P&O Ferries boats have been detained so far after failing to pass inspections by the MCA - including the Pride of Kent.\n\nSafety concerns have been raised over the replacement of employees with less experienced agency workers paid less than the UK minimum wage.\n\nThe Pride of Kent was detained for a mix of reasons including failures on documentation, crew training and emergency equipment not working properly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How do you sleep at night?\" - MSP Monica Lennon questions P&O Ferries boss\n\nP&O Ferries hit out at the time, saying in a statement that inspections of its ships had reached \"an unprecedent level of rigour\" after interventions by ministers.\n\nAnother P&O Ferries vessel, the European Causeway - which runs between Larne and Cairnryan - failed an MCA Port State Control inspection in March. It is among the services P&O is getting ready to resume, along with the Pride of Hull, which runs services between Hull and Rotterdam.\n\nIn total, eight P&O Ferries need to be inspected so that the MCA is satisfied they are safe to carry passengers and freight.\n\nThe government recently announced a package of measures aimed at forcing P&O Ferries to \"fundamentally rethink\" its decision, which drew outrage from politicians, trade unions and the public. They included plans to create new laws giving ports the power to block ferries from docking in the UK if they do not pay their crew the national minimum wage.\n\nFerry industry groups, however, hit out at the transport secretary's plans, with the UK Major Ports Group saying they should not have to \"be the police for the labour practices of ferry companies\".\n\nP&O's chief executive, Peter Hebblethwaite, has insisted that a U-turn on the redundancies would cause the company's total collapse, leading to a loss of an additional 2,200 jobs.\n\nThe company also faces criminal and civil investigations into the circumstances around the redundancies.", "Craig and Gina Dewdney were told their naturally conceived identical triplets were incredibly rare\n\nThe parents of \"one-in-200 million\" identical triplet boys are reflecting on the \"best but hardest job\" as they celebrate their sons' first birthday.\n\nGina Dewdney and her husband Craig were shocked when doctors at Liverpool Women's Hospital told them their naturally-conceived babies were such a rare occurrence.\n\nWhen born the boys spent six weeks in hospital before going home.\n\nNow Jimmy, Jensen and Jaxson are celebrating their milestone birthday.\n\nMrs Dewdney, from Frodsham in Cheshire, said: \"They've gone through so much already in their tiny little lives so it's going to be a big celebration for them and for us as well.\n\n\"Being a mum is the best job I've ever had. It's the hardest job by far but I absolutely love it now, even through the lack of sleep and the hospital visits.\n\n\"It's tough but I'm loving it, I really am.\"\n\nThe boys spent six weeks on a neonatal intensive care unit before being allowed home\n\nMrs Dewdney, 34, said she had an \"inkling\" she was having twins at first - which was later confirmed with a scan - before the couple spotted a third head on the screen.\n\n\"Twenty minutes into the scan Craig said 'is that a third head?' and there was silence,\" she said.\n\n\"The consultant said in 25 years of scanning they'd never seen triplets, and they were all sharing one placenta which is super, super rare.\"\n\nMr Dewdney, 35, said: \"I was just like 'how does that work holding them?' And I was thinking that's a lot of nappies.\"\n\nThe couple said they had now established a carefully planned routine.\n\n\"If they are even 20 minutes out of sync from one another, you'll settle one down and then the other one will wake up and then that one could potentially wake up the baby that you've just put to sleep,\" Mr Dewdney said.\n\n\"Feeding time is interesting. I have to tidy away while Gina is feeding them or if Gina is spoon-feeding two of them I'll go in with the other. It's just learning how to work together with them\".\n\nThe couple share their daily routines with almost 20,000 followers\n\nThe couple have set up the Cheshire Triplets Instagram page to share their daily routines with almost 20,000 followers.\n\n\"I'm getting loads of interest from people from all around the world who are having triplets or twins,\" Mrs Dewdney said.\n\n\"They just want to know life hacks, how to do things, how I manage with three so its been a really positive thing that's come out of this.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ksenia and Maksim met while working at the same travel agency in Kyiv\n\nThe drone footage shows three cars speeding along an empty main road just outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, when they suddenly turn around and race back - all except one.\n\nThis white car turns, but then stops. A man steps out and raises his hands. Then his body falls to the ground. Moments later, Russian soldiers approach. An elderly woman and child leave the car, and a soldier walks them away.\n\nThe man on the ground was Maksim Iovenko. The 31-year-old was shot dead by Russian forces that were positioned at the roadside. His wife Ksenia, who was in the car, was also killed.\n\nTheir six-year-old son and the elderly friend of the family who were with them escaped, although she was wounded and remains in hospital. (Both families asked us not to name them.)\n\n\"Until I saw the video, I still had some hope,\" Maksim's father Sergiy Iovenko tells the BBC in Kyiv, where he lives. \"I was hoping that he was alive.\"\n\nThe incident happened on 7 March, when Maksim and his family joined a convoy of about 10 cars of civilians trying to reach Kyiv from the western outskirts of the city, which had become a conflict zone.\n\nIt was filmed by a Ukrainian territorial defence group doing aerial reconnaissance, and widely shared.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video captured by a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance group appears to show Russian forces shooting at civilians\n\nWhen a friend of Maksim's who was part of the convoy called Sergiy to tell him the news, Sergiy says he immediately knew something was wrong. There was silence when he picked up the phone, and eventually the friend said: \"Stay strong, your son and daughter-in-law are gone.\"\n\nMaksim lived in Kyiv and worked for a travel agency, which is where he and Ksenia met. Sergiy describes his son as a family man with a kind heart who liked to sing karaoke. But his biggest hobby was his family, he says. \"He loved his son very much, and this was his passion.\"\n\nLike many other Ukrainians, Sergiy says he and his family didn't believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would invade. Once Putin did, Maksim thought Kyiv would be one of the first cities to be shelled.\n\nHaving discussed the situation with an old school friend, Maksim and his family moved west to the friend's second home, or dacha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, not far from the E-40 highway where the shooting would happen. Maksim told his father he thought it would be quieter there.\n\n\"It turned out the opposite,\" Sergiy says.\n\nWhile Russia's main focus appeared to be on the east and south of the country, Russian forces also started bombing towns and cities to the west of the capital, such as Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel - close to where Maksim was staying. Sergiy says he would often hear the sound of the heavy bombing from his home in Kyiv.\n\nMaksim wouldn't say much about conditions at the dacha, Sergiy says. \"He would say, 'it is quiet, peaceful, all is normal.'\"\n\nMaksim and his friend, also called Maksim, would take turns patrolling the area overnight, Sergiy says. Power outages and poor mobile signal meant regular contact was difficult. As the bombing continued, they moved into the basement, leaving only to buy food.\n\nThen, on 7 March, they lost all power. With no electricity, heating or food, Maksim, Ksenia and other families staying in the area decided to return to Kyiv. They knew they risked running into Russian troops along the highway, but they thought they could make it through safely.\n\nMaksim's car was third in the convoy, made up of about 50 people in total, including other children. In the windows of his car, he had put handwritten signs on white paper that read: \"Children.\" His friend was part of the same convoy, and it was his mother who was in the car with Maksim and Ksenia, and he was able to tell Sergiy what happened.\n\nWhen the shooting started, Maksim's car was hit. \"The car's engine stalled,\" Sergiy says. \"My son jumped out of the car, he raised his hands and started shouting that there was a child in the car, so that the child would be saved.\"\n\nIt's not clear why the rest of the convoy fell behind the first three cars, but Sergiy believes many of those driving behind turned back when they saw the cars in front turning and heard the gunshots.\n\nAfter the shooting, Maksim's body was left on the highway and Ksenia's was left in the car. Maksim's son and his friend's mother were told by Russian soldiers to walk back along the road. When they got a safe distance from the Russian soldiers, she called her husband, who came to take them to safety. They returned to the dacha, and were evacuated safely to Kyiv the next day.\n\nA burned out car on the road where Maksim and Ksenia were killed\n\nThe boy is with his grandmother in a safe location in Ukraine but away from Kyiv, where Sergiy remains.\n\nOn Friday, Sergiy received a call informing him that the area had been re-taken by Ukrainian forces. There was more bad news.\n\n\"They burned everyone. Burned the cars as well,\" Sergiy says.\n\nA team of BBC journalists taken to the same stretch of road saw many burned cars and bodies. Among them was Maksim's car, riddled with shrapnel and reduced to a shell by fire, with the burned remains of a body inside it and one on the road beside it, still wearing a wedding ring.\n\nSergiy says he is heartbroken by what has happened, and by what his grandson has had to witness.\n\nThe child remembers seeing the Russian soldiers with their weapons and is receiving support from family and specialists, Sergiy says.\n\n\"The only words he said when he got to a safe place, to his grannies, were: 'We won't be sleeping in a basement any longer, will we? And there won't be any scary men?'\"", "Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust runs both the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital\n\nDozens of families have written to the government expressing concern over a review into failing maternity units in Nottingham.\n\nA probe into Nottingham University Hospitals Trust is under way after dozens of babies died or were injured.\n\nBut families say the review is \"moving with the viscosity of treacle\".\n\nThey have called for Donna Ockenden, who led the inquiry into the UK's biggest maternity scandal, to take charge of a review.\n\nIn a letter to Health Secretary Sajid Javid, a group of 100 people raised concerns with the current thematic review, which has been commissioned by the local clinical commissioning group (CCG) and NHS England, and NHS Improvement.\n\nAccording to the CCG, the review will look at themes and trends and put in \"place detailed and measurable actions so improvements can be made fast\".\n\nBut families have questioned the independence of the review and the experience of the team to handle a probe of this magnitude.\n\nIt is chaired by Cathy Purt, a long-time NHS manager who the families believe has no experience of running complex inquiries or maternity services.\n\nThe letter states: \"If families are to be safeguarded, real intervention is required.\n\n\"The review so far has been less than impactful, understaffed and moving with the viscosity of treacle.\"\n\nThe families say the \"answer is Donna Ockenden\", who led the inquiry into the maternity scandal at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospitals Trust.\n\nSarah Hawkins gave birth to her stillborn daughter in 2016\n\nSarah Hawkins, who was awarded a £2.8m settlement after her daughter was delivered stillborn after mistakes at Nottingham City Hospital in 2016, said a review by Donna Ockenden would lead to many more affected families coming forward.\n\n\"I am confident that we will get into the thousands of families,\" she said.\n\nHer husband Jack Hawkins added: \"We need urgent change to how maternity is working in Nottingham. There are still babies coming to harm.\n\n\"Donna Ockenden knows what she's doing. She's got huge wealth of experience and expertise.\n\n\"This current team is not going to deliver what is needed.\"\n\nThe number of families taking part in the review has increased from 84 to 461 in a month, the BBC has learned.\n\nMaternity units run by the trust - which oversees care at Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre - have been rated as inadequate by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) since 2020.\n\nAn inspection found \"serious concerns\" and that some staff \"did not always understand how to keep women and babies safe\".\n\nFollowing a reinspection last month, the CQC issued a warning notice to the trust, highlighting concerns over triage services and increases in stillbirths.\n\nAt a meeting with families last week, the review team said 179 families, about half those who had been in touch at the time, had still to be contacted.\n\nThe review is expected to be completed on 30 November 2022.\n\nA spokesperson for the review (at NUH) said: \"We would like to thank all the families who have come forward so far. Families and partners will be updated shortly.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the local CCG, NHS England and NHS Improvement (which commissioned the Review at NUH) added: \"The ongoing thematic review has a dedicated team who are ensuring that the experience of women and families is heard.\n\n\"We will continue to monitor the progress of the review and ensure that any necessary improvements to maternity services are put in place.\"\n\nRupert Egginton, acting chief executive at the trust, said: \"We are doing everything in our power to ensure patients using our maternity services get the best care.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some houses at Moor Park Mews in west Belfast were evacuated during the alert\n\nA viable device has been found during a security alert in west Belfast.\n\nPolice and Army technical officers were sent to Moor Park Mews on Tuesday night following the discovery of a suspicious object.\n\nThe device has been taken away for further examination and residents who were asked to leave their homes have been allowed to return.\n\nPolice thanked local people for their patience and appealed for anyone with information to contact them.", "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken during his visit to Bucha – a city in which Russian forces have been accused of slaughtering civilians.\n\nShocking images of bodies in the streets of the city have led to an outpouring of international condemnation of Russia\n\n\"There are people found in barrels, cellars, etc., strangled and simply tortured,\" he said.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has ordered the three month review into fracking\n\nThe government has ordered a new report on the impact of fracking, days ahead of publishing its energy supply plan.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has given the British Geological Survey (BGS) three months to assess any changes to the science around the controversial practice.\n\nFracking was halted in the UK in 2019 amid opposition from green groups and local concerns over earth tremors.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have been calling for a rethink in recent weeks.\n\nThey claimed fracking would give the country a \"competitive and reliable source of energy\" amid concerns over security of access and rising energy prices.\n\nBut other MPs and campaigners have warned against a change in direction, with Labour's Ed Miliband saying the new report had \"nothing to do with the energy needs [and] everything to do with the Conservatives bowing to their backbenchers\".\n\nFracking firms claimed the report was a \"tentative first step\" to overturning the ban and \"exploiting [the] potential\" of shale gas.\n\nAt the time of the moratorium, ministers said they would not change their minds without \"compelling new evidence\".\n\nThe move comes ahead of the publication of the government's energy supply strategy, expected this week.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson promised the plan in \"days\" on 9 March to help tackle energy prices and reduce reliance on Russia.\n\nBut the date kept being pushed back, with sources telling the BBC that the Treasury was unhappy with the cost of commitments to nuclear power.\n\nThe strategy itself is thought to include strategies for nuclear energy and renewable energy, plans to make homes more energy efficient and a route to increasing North Sea oil and gas production.\n\nSome Conservatives from the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) have also been pushing for a rethink of the government's legally-binding target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nBut Mr Johnson and his business secretary have both ruled that out.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday to the Harvard Kennedy School, Mr Kwarteng said the net-zero target was \"set in stone\", adding: \"The government's view is we don't need to change the targets… but we can be more flexible by looking at things like energy efficiency [and a] greater diversity of energy sources.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Kwarteng insisted the government \"must be led by the science\" in its approach to fracking. and it would remain banned, unless it was shown to be \"safe, sustainable and of minimal disturbance to those living and working nearby\".\n\n\"It remains the case that fracking in England would take years of exploration and development before commercial quantities of gas could be produced for the market, and would certainly have no effect on prices in the near term.\n\n\"However, there will continue to be an ongoing demand for oil and gas over the coming decades as we transition to cheap renewable energy and new nuclear power.\n\n\"In light of Putin's criminal invasion of Ukraine, it is absolutely right that we explore all possible domestic energy sources.\"\n\nIn his letter to the BGS, Mr Kwarteng asked for more information on any new techniques which could make the fracking process safer and how any risks compare to those associated with other forms of underground energy production.\n\nFracking plans led to rafts of protests in areas like Preston in Lancashire\n\nBut shadow climate change secretary, Mr Miliband, condemned the move, saying: \"The government itself concluded that fracking is unsafe, and will not help our energy security or cut bills, and fracking is strongly opposed by local communities.\n\n\"It is a sign once again that this government cannot be trusted to deliver on the green energy sprint we need for energy security, to cut bills and tackle the climate crisis.\"\n\nSNP MP Deidre Brock also called for the review \"completely unacceptable\", adding: \"When the leaders of the world descended on Glasgow for COP26, we pledged to do everything we can to end our reliance on fossil fuels, and everything in our power to tackle the climate emergency.\n\n\"By reintroducing fracking, we would be going back on our word, which could have devastating consequences.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth added that it was \"pure fantasy\" that fracking was the answer to the UK's energy needs.\n\nFracking is the process of drilling into the earth, then directing a high pressure mixture of chemicals into layers of rock to release shale gas.\n\nThe UK has only ever had one fracking site in operation - run by Cuadrilla - which halted in 2019 following a report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA).\n\nThe indefinite suspension came after the OGA found it was not possible to predict the probability or size of tremors caused by the practice.\n\nBut last week, regulators lifted an order for the two controversial wells to be capped with concrete.\n\nThe chief executive officer of Cuadrilla, Francis Egan, welcome the government review, claiming they recognised \"the huge potential that shale gas offers this country\".\n\nHe added: \"We trust that this review will allow Britain's huge shale gas resources to be exploited.\n\n\"This can create tens of thousands of jobs, bolster energy security, and provide cheaper gas for local communities, and millions of pounds in tax revenues for northern councils.\"", "British Airways has cancelled four flights at Heathrow Airport today due to Covid-related absences, on top of 74 services previously withdrawn.\n\nThe airline had already signalled it intention to cancel most of the flights following a decision to reduce its schedule until the end of May.\n\nBut recent high levels of staff absence due to Covid have meant further flights being called off ahead of Easter.\n\nEasyJet cancelled about 30 flights at Gatwick Airport on Wednesday.\n\nThousands of holidaymakers have seen their Easter getaways - the first holiday since the end of Covid travel restrictions - delayed or cancelled because airlines and airports do not have enough staff to meet the recovery in demand.\n\nBA withdrew six flights at the last minute on Tuesday as a result of Covid absences.\n\nOn Monday, it cancelled scheduled 62 flights but 12 of them were grounded at the last minute.\n\nCovid-related absences have compounded staff shortages at airports and airlines, and the industry is struggling to recruit staff after thousands of jobs were lost and many workers left the during the pandemic.\n\nEasyJet has said its staff absences were double their normal levels due to Covid.\n\nThe airline said the main routes affected by cancellations were to Amsterdam, Krakow, Bologna and Berlin.\n\nStaff shortages have led to passengers having to face long delays at security and check-in at some airports, with travellers complaining of \"chaos\".\n\nProblems at Manchester Airport led to Karen Smart, the airport's managing director, announcing on Tuesday that she would stand down.\n\nIt came after Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said police and fire and rescue service staff could be drafted in to help tackle the chaos.\n\nFormer Monarch Airlines boss Tim Jeans, who is now director of Cornwall Airport Newquay, told the BBC's Today programme levels of disruption had varied across the country.\n\n\"The problems at Manchester and to a lesser extent at Heathrow are stand out problems because other airports like Birmingham, Gatwick, Newcastle and Glasgow they've not seen the type of problems Manchester and Heathrow have,\" he said.\n\n\"The issue really has been you have to plan to recruit to train, in a very difficult labour market, many many many months in advance and it would appear that Manchester for whatever issues they have had, simply didn't do that.\"\n\nMr Jeans said it takes on average at least 12 weeks to recruit and train new security staff and predicted it would be \"the middle of June before we see a significant easing of these issues\".", "Richard Woodcock died at a flat in Milton Keynes after going to the aid of a two-year-old boy\n\nA \"heroic\" neighbour who sacrificed his own life to save a child died after being repeatedly hit with a dumb-bell, a coroner said.\n\nThe body of Richard Woodcock, 38, was found when police forced their way into a flat at Denmead, in Two Mile Ash, Milton Keynes on 26 June.\n\nCoroner Tom Osborne ruled that he was unlawfully killed, but that \"he saved the life of a two-year-old boy\".\n\nKelvin Odichukumma Igweani, 24, died at the flat after police fired four shots.\n\nThe inquest in Milton Keynes heard how officers from Thames Valley Police were called to reports of an ongoing disturbance at about 09:40 BST.\n\nMr Woodcock had gone to his neighbour's flat after a woman \"fearful for her life\" came to him screaming\n\nMr Woodcock, a council highways officer, had reacted after the \"altercation\" led to a screaming woman arriving at his front door \"fearful of her life and... obviously in an agitated state\".\n\nThe court heard that Mr Woodcock's wife was on a 999 call to the police when her husband decided to see if he could help the child who was still in the flat, who was thought to be in danger.\n\nMr Woodcock was dragged inside and seriously assaulted \"to the point where he was hit with a 4kg [9lb] dumb-bell\", Mr Osborne said.\n\nA post-mortem examination found that he had traumatic head injuries, consistent with repeated blows.\n\nIt was thought that a large kettle-bell was used as weapon, the court heard.\n\nPolice were called to the flats on Denmead in Two Mile Ash at about 09:40 BST on Saturday, 26 June\n\nAt the opening of an inquest into Mr Igweani's death last July, police said Mr Igweani \"became aggressive\" and a Taser was fired, but it was ineffective.\n\nMr Igweani then barricaded himself in the main bedroom with the child, before armed response officers fired four shots, police said. He died at the scene.\n\nAt the conclusion of the inquest into Mr Woodcock's death, Mr Osborne added that the little boy, who suffered life-threatening injuries and needed surgery, was saved by Mr Woodcock's \"heroic conduct\".\n\nThe inquest heard that a woman and another child had got out of the flat before the police arrived.\n\nThe coroner said the killing had had a \"devastating\" effect on Mr Woodcock's family, who were \"haunted\" by what happened, and that a life had been \"needlessly\" taken.\n\nHe told the court that Mr Woodcock would be \"remembered for his heroism and his bravery - but I think he will be remembered for more than his death\".\n\nMr Woodcock was struck repeatedly with a dumb-bell and died at the flat in Milton Keynes, the coroner said\n\nMr Osborne said he hoped that at some point the family, who did not want to speak after the inquest, would be able to think of their loved one and recall \"happier times\".\n\nIn a tribute released by the police last year, Mr Woodcock's family said more people than he \"ever realised\" loved him, with his death a \"huge loss\".\n\nIn her own tribute, his wife said it had been a \"blessing to share my life with you, my dearest friend, my biggest love, my soulmate\".\n\nA full inquest into Mr Igweani's death is due to be held at a later date.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sir David Attenborough seeks expert help to understand the significance of the fossil leg\n\nThe limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota.\n\nBut it's not just their exquisite condition that's turning heads - it's what these ancient specimens are purported to represent.\n\nThe claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth.\n\nThe day 66 million years ago when the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began.\n\nVery few dinosaur remains have been found in the rocks that record even the final few thousand years before the impact. To have a specimen from the cataclysm itself would be extraordinary.\n\nThe BBC has spent three years filming at Tanis for a show to be broadcast on 15 April, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.\n\nSir David will review the discoveries, many that will be getting their first public viewing.\n\nAlong with that leg, there are fish that breathed in impact debris as it rained down from the sky.\n\nWe see a fossil turtle that was skewered by a wooden stake; the remains of small mammals and the burrows they made; skin from a horned triceratops; the embryo of a flying pterosaur inside its egg; and what appears to be a fragment from the asteroid impactor itself.\n\n\"We've got so many details with this site that tell us what happened moment by moment, it's almost like watching it play out in the movies. You look at the rock column, you look at the fossils there, and it brings you back to that day,\" says Robert DePalma, the University of Manchester, UK, graduate student who leads the Tanis dig.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert DePalma: \"Dinosaurs and the impact are two things that are absolutely linked in our minds\"\n\nIt's now widely accepted that a roughly 12km-wide space rock hit our planet to cause the last mass extinction.\n\nThe impact site has been identified in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula. That's some 3,000km away from Tanis, but such was the energy imparted in the event, its devastation was felt far and wide.\n\nThe remains of animals and plants seem to have been rolled together into a sediment dump by waves of river water set in train by unimaginable earth tremors. Aquatic organisms are mixed in with the land-based creatures.\n\nThe sturgeon and paddlefish in this fossil tangle are key. They have small particles stuck in their gills. These are the spherules of molten rock kicked out from the impact that then fell back across the planet. The fish would have breathed in the particles as they entered the river.\n\nThe spherules have been linked chemically and by radiometric dating to the Mexican impact location, and in two of the particles recovered from preserved tree resin there are also tiny inclusions that imply an extra-terrestrial origin.\n\n\"When we noticed there were inclusions within these little glass spherules, we chemically analysed them at the Diamond X-ray synchrotron near Oxford,\" explains Prof Phil Manning, who is Mr DePalma's PhD supervisor at Manchester.\n\n\"We were able to pull apart the chemistry and identify the composition of that material. All the evidence, all of the chemical data, from that study suggests strongly that we're looking at a piece of the impactor; of the asteroid that ended it for the dinosaurs.\"\n\nThe existence of Tanis, and the claims made for it, first emerged in the public sphere in the New Yorker Magazine in 2019. This caused a furore at the time.\n\nScience usually demands the initial presentation of new discoveries is made in the pages of a scholarly journal. A few peer-reviewed papers have now been published, and the dig team promises many more as it works through the meticulous process of extracting, preparing and describing the fossils.\n\nTo make its TV programme, the BBC called in outside consultants to examine a number of the finds.\n\nProf Paul Barrett from London's Natural History Museum looked at the leg. He's an expert in ornithischian (mostly plant-eating) dinosaurs.\n\n\"It's a Thescelosaurus. It's from a group that we didn't have any previous record of what its skin looked like, and it shows very conclusively that these animals were very scaly like lizards. They weren't feathered like their meat-eating contemporaries.\n\n\"This looks like an animal whose leg has simply been ripped off really quickly. There's no evidence on the leg of disease, there are no obvious pathologies, there's no trace of the leg being scavenged, such as bite marks or bits of it that are missing,\" he tells me.\n\n\"So, the best idea that we have is that this is an animal that died more or less instantaneously.\"\n\nArtwork: The thinking is that a water surge buried all the creatures at Tanis\n\nThe big question is whether this dinosaur did actually die on the day the asteroid struck, as a direct result of the ensuing cataclysm. The Tanis team thinks it very likely did, given the limb's position in the dig sediments.\n\nIf that is the case, it would be quite the discovery.\n\nBut Prof Steve Brusatte from University of Edinburgh says he's sceptical - for the time being.\n\nHe's acted as another of the BBC's outside consultants. He wants to see the arguments presented in more peer-reviewed articles, and for some palaeo-scientists with very specific specialisms to go into the site to give their independent assessment.\n\nProf Brusatte says it's possible, for example, that animals that had died before the impact were exhumed by the violence on the day and then re-interred in a way that made their deaths appear concurrent.\n\n\"Those fish with the spherules in their gills, they're an absolute calling card for the asteroid. But for some of the other claims - I'd say they have a lot circumstantial evidence that hasn't yet been presented to the jury,\" he says.\n\n\"For some of these discoveries, though, does it even matter if they died on the day or years before? The pterosaur egg with a pterosaur baby inside is super-rare; there's nothing else like it from North America. It doesn't all have to be about the asteroid.\"\n\nA pterosaur embryo inside an egg, found at the Tanis site...\n\n...here digitally extracted and constructed into a model\n\nThere's no doubting the pterosaur egg is special.\n\nWith modern X-ray technology it's possible to determine the chemistry and properties of the egg shell. It was likely leathery rather than hard, which may indicate the pterosaur mother buried the egg in sand or sediment like a turtle.\n\nIt's also possible with X-ray tomography to extract virtually the bones of the pterosaur chick inside, to print them and reconstruct what the animal would have looked like. Mr DePalma has done this.\n\nThe baby pterosaur was probably a type of azhdarchid, a group of flying reptiles whose adult wings could reach more than 10m from tip to tip.\n\nMr DePalma gave a special lecture on the Tanis discoveries to an audience at the US space agency Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center on Wednesday. He and Prof Manning will also present their latest data to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in May.\n\nDinosaurs: The Final Day with Sir David Attenborough will be broadcast on BBC One on 15 April at 18:30 BST. A version has been made for the US science series Nova on the PBS network to be broadcast later in the year.", "John Lansdown is seeking damages of £76m and wants to set up a trust to protect seafarers' rights\n\nA former P&O Ferries chef is suing the company and its chief executive, claiming unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and harassment.\n\nJohn Lansdown is the only seafarer to take legal action after 800 staff were sacked without notice last month.\n\nIn his tribunal claim he accuses P&O of treating him unfavourably as he is British and eligible for minimum wage.\n\nP&O Ferries said job cuts were \"categorically not based on race or the nationality of the staff involved\".\n\nThe company \"needed fundamental change to make it viable - we knew this decision was the only way to save the business\", P&O said in a statement.\n\nMr Lansdown is seeking financial compensation as well as exemplary damages of up to £76m to \"deter\" P&O Ferries or its parent company DP World from acting the same way in future.\n\nHe would use the money to create a new trust to campaign for improved wages and terms and conditions for seafarers and to outlaw \"fire and hire\" practices in the industry and more widely in the UK, according to his claim.\n\nMr Lansdown, 39, told the BBC he wanted to get \"justice\" for all his former colleagues who felt they had \"no choice\" but to settle their cases.\n\n\"This is not just about me,\" he said. \"799 of my seafaring family have lost their livelihoods, their way of life, their homes for half the year and it's about the bigger picture.\"\n\nP&O confirmed to the BBC that \"all but one\" employee had accepted a settlement and therefore forfeited their right to any legal action as a result.\n\nJohn next to the Old Pride of Kent, the first ship he joined aged 16\n\nMr Lansdown said he joined P&O Ferries as a 16-year-old trainee and was working as a sous chef on The Pride of Canterbury when he was sacked three weeks ago.\n\nHe was working on the ship and had to leave his belongings behind when he was notified \"out of the blue, and without any prior consultation\" about his instant dismissal, he said.\n\nIn his legal papers, seen by the BBC, he claimed private security staff, carrying handcuffs and wearing balaclavas, were hired to remove workers who refused to disembark ferries.\n\n\"I was devastated by the brutal summary dismissal after many years of loyal and diligent service,\" his claim states. \"The manner of the dismissal was harassing.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, P&O said: \"No staff involved in the redundancies wore balaclavas nor were they directed to use handcuffs or force.\n\n\"Staff remained professional, sympathetic and calm in a challenging situation for everyone, trying to ensure the safety of all the people on board the ships. There was no harassment,\" it said.\n\nJohn and his mum after winning a P&O cake competition\n\nMr Lansdown alleges the redundancy was a \"sham\" and unlawful because there was no fair selection process, no diminished need for his job, and P&O Ferries' parent company, DP World, is very profitable, the document adds.\n\nMr Lansdown's British nationality was also a significant influence on the decision to sack staff and replace them with non-British crew paid below the minimum wage of up to £5.50 per hour, it further claims.\n\nP&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite previously admitted to MPs that a decision to sack 800 workers without notice or union consultation had broken the law but said he would make the decision again if he had to.\n\nAt the time, he said of his decision that no union would have accepted the plan and it was easier to compensate workers \"in full\" instead.\n\nIn his legal claim, Mr Lansdown accused the company of \"violating his dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating environment\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"At the end of the day, it was the essence of Brexit what happened to us. This could give a green light to other companies to do the same.\"\n\nMr Lansdown's lawyer, Lawrence Davies of Equal Justice solicitors, said: \"This is the most important battle for British workers' rights post-Brexit; the battle to prevent British jobs being lost on British waters to cheap foreign labour.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is a fight we must win.\"\n\nP&O Ferries has previously said that all 800 staff made redundant would be offered £36.5m in total - with around 40 receiving more than £100,000 each.\n\nThe Insolvency Service has launched criminal and civil investigations into the controversial mass redundancies.\n• None Outrage and no ferries after mass P&O sackings", "Twitter has confirmed that it is working on an edit button that would allow users to change tweets after they have been posted.\n\nIt comes after new board member, Tesla boss Elon Musk, asked his followers in a Twitter poll whether they wanted the feature.\n\nMany users have long called for an edit button but there are concerns about how to execute it.\n\nTwitter said it would start testing the idea in the coming months.\n\nThe social media firm's communications team tweeted: \"Now that everyone is asking… yes, we've been working on an edit feature since last year!\n\n\"No, we didn't get the idea from a poll 😉,\" it added.\n\n\"We're kicking off testing within @TwitterBlue Labs in the coming months to learn what works, what doesn't, and what's possible.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jay Sullivan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUsers of Twitter Blue, the platform's subscription service, get early access to features it is testing.\n\nUnder an edit function users could be able to fix typos or errors in a tweet without losing any replies, retweets or likes it has already gained.\n\nJay Sullivan, the company's vice president of consumer product, said it had been \"the most requested Twitter feature for many years\" in a thread on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, he said the company was exploring how to build the feature \"in a safe manner\".\n\n\"Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of the public conversation,\" he said. \"Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.\"\n\nDuring a talk in 2018, former Twitter boss Jack Dorsey said the firm would \"probably never\" add the feature amid concerns about transparency.\n\nBut rival social media platforms Facebook and Instagram already allow users to edit their posts, and Twitter's new boss Parag Agrawal appears open to the idea.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElon Musk started a poll on Monday after disclosing that he owned a 9.2% stake in Twitter, which made him the firm's biggest shareholder.\n\nOn Tuesday it was announced that he had been appointed to Twitter's board.\n\nThe poll has already attracted over four million votes.\n\nTwitter initially said it was exploring an edit button on 1 April but it was widely interpreted as an April Fool's joke.\n\nTwitter says it was already working on an edit button before Elon Musk was appointed to its board.\n\nBut it does certainly look like the Tesla boss has moved the process along.\n\nTwitter polls are notoriously unscientific - yet Mr Musk appears to make real-life decisions based on their results.\n\nIn November last year, he asked his 80 million followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock. The poll concluded he should, and he did.\n\nMr Musk's poll on whether there should be an edit button on Twitter is being taken seriously by the chief executive of Twitter. \"The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully,\" Parag Agrawal said.\n\nIt certainly suggests that Twitter will now look to change its policy in this area as a consequence of the poll result.\n\nMr Musk overnight has generated huge influence over Twitter - and he seems to be giving his followers the ability to choose what approach he takes.\n\nThis was day one remember, who knows what else he might do in this new powerful position.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he does not believe transgender women should compete in female sporting events - a view he conceded may be \"controversial\".\n\nThe issue of transgender athletes - centred around the balance of inclusion, sporting fairness and safety in women's sport - has recently focused on the case of transgender cyclist Emily Bridges.\n\nBridges was recently ruled ineligible to compete in her first elite women's race by cycling's world governing body.\n\nJohnson was speaking on a range of issues, including the government's approach to the ban on so-called conversion therapy, before adding: \"I don't think biological males should be competing in female sporting events. Maybe that's a controversial thing to say, but it just seems to me to be sensible.\n\n\"I also happen to think that women should have spaces - whether it's in hospitals, prison or changing rooms - which are dedicated to women. That's as far as my thinking has developed on this issue.\n\n\"If that puts me in conflict with some others, then we have got to work it all out. It doesn't mean I'm not immensely sympathetic to people who want to change gender, to transition and it's vital we give people the maximum love and support in making those decisions.\n\n\"These are complex issues and they can't be solved with one swift, easy piece of legislation. It takes a lot of thought to get this right.\"\n\nIn response to Johnson's comments, LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall said: \"Trans people deserve the same opportunities as everyone else to enjoy the benefits of sport and blanket exclusions on trans people participating are fundamentally unfair.\n\n\"This is a complex and fast-evolving issue and much of the science doesn't yet exist in this area.\n\n\"Inclusion policies need to be considered on a sport by sport basis and it's vital to avoid using inflammatory rhetoric, which often causes trans people to stop playing the sports they love.\"\n\nStonewall said that although elite sport \"often dominates these discussions\", transgender people are also \"underrepresented in community sport\" where they \"often feel excluded\".\n\nThe organisation added: \"Sport has the unique power to bring us together and it's important trans people have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of sport without facing exclusion or abuse.\"\n\nJohnson's comments came as a letter signed by a group of elite female cyclists - including retired Olympians, scientists and researchers - called on cycling's world governing body, the UCI, to \"rescind\" its rules around transgender participation and testosterone levels and implement eligibility criteria for women \"based on female biological characteristics\".\n\nThe letter - referring to the Bridges situation - said there was \"deep regret\" at the \"crisis situation\", claiming female athletes in the UK \"have shown you they were willing to boycott\" in order for the UCI and British Cycling \"to hear their concerns about fairness in their sport\".\n\nThe letter included the signature of Sara Symington, head of Olympic and Paralympic programmes at British Cycling. It states:\n• None The group says current transgender rules should be \"rescinded\" unless the UCI can provide \"robust scientific evidence that the rules guarantee fairness for female athletes\"\n• None Current rules are \"asymmetric\" and \"discriminatory\" and UCI needs to \"better involve\" the \"independent voice of elite female athletes\"\n\nIn response, British Cycling said: \"We understand that this is an important issue for our staff and riders, which is why we have worked hard to provide forums for them to openly share their views on our policy and transgender inclusion more widely.\n\n\"These discussions are an important part of our commitment to learn and understand more about how the sport sector can achieve fairness in a way that maintains the dignity and respect of all athletes.\"\n\nIn the aftermath of being prevented from competing in her first female race as a transgender woman, Bridges released a statement saying she felt \"harassed and demonised\" and had \"little clarity\" on her eligibility.\n\n\"I am an athlete and I just want to race competitively again. I hope they will reconsider their decision in line with the regulations,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been relentlessly harassed and demonised by those who have a specific agenda to push.\n\n\"They attack anything that isn't the norm. This is without care for the wellbeing of individuals or marginalised groups.\"\n\nBridges says her privacy has also been \"totally violated\" and she has received \"targeted abuse\" on social media.\n\nAccording to Cycling Weekly, Bridges has been participating in a study at Loughborough University to track her own power data with reduced testosterone levels - and says they show a 13-16% drop in her power outputs across different durations.\n\nBridges also says she has received a mixed response on speaking publicly about her transition, but added that many female cyclists have sent messages of support.\n\nWhat happened in the Emily Bridges case?\n\nBridges, 21, had been set to race at Britain's National Omnium Championships in Derby last weekend, which were won by Sophie Lewis.\n\nShe came out as transgender in October 2020 and began hormone therapy in 2021 as part of her gender dysphoria treatment. She had been allowed to enter women's events by British Cycling because of her consistently lowered levels of testosterone.\n\nBritish Cycling's transgender regulations require riders to have had testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to competition.\n\nHowever, the UCI has not yet completed its own process around Bridges' eligibility to race in international competitions - meaning she could not participate.\n\nThe UCI rules on transgender inclusion also state it must \"protect health and safety\" and \"guarantee fair and meaningful competition that displays and rewards the fundamental values and meaning of the sport\".\n\nBBC Sport understands senior figures in cycling believe these discretions are relevant in Bridges' case.\n\nIn May 2021 - while still transitioning and racing in male events - she finished 43rd out of 45 riders in the elite men's criterium at the Loughborough Cycling Festival and in September she was second to last in the Welsh National Championship road race, a 12km lap behind the winner.\n\nLast month, Bridges won a men's points race at the British Universities Championships in Glasgow - her final men's race.\n\nFollowing the UCI decision on Bridges, British Cycling said it \"fully recognises her disappointment\" but called for \"a coalition\" across a number of sports - involving governing bodies, athletes, the transgender and non-binary athlete community and the government - to work together to \"find a better answer\" in a way which \"maintains the dignity and respect of all athletes\".\n\nBritish Cycling said: \"We also understand that, in elite sports, the concept of fairness is essential. \"Transgender and non-binary inclusion is bigger than one race and one athlete - it is a challenge for all elite sports.\"\n\nOn the eve of the UCI's decision on Bridges' eligibility, UCI president David Lappartient told BBC Sport he was \"worried\" transgender athletes could affect the fairness of competition in cycling, and said current rules based on testosterone levels were \"probably not enough\".\n\nLappartient said world cycling's governing body \"fully recognises the rights of transgender athletes to do sport\".\n\nHe added: \"When I speak with some professors in medicine, some specialists, they say 'yes your body probably has a memory already of what you are and so there is maybe some advantages'. Is it a bridge of fair competition?\n\n\"The question of fair competition is really a question we must put on the table and is it right to take part - when you do transition - at the highest level? Or do we have also to see if this affects the fairness of competition.\n\n\"I can also really understand some ladies saying: 'OK, but we don't accept this'. And today I also [have] the union of the women's riders completely against this and challenging the UCI on this.\n\n\"So we are in between and we were challenged on all parts.\"\n\nWhat are the current rules?\n\nThe most recent International Olympic Committee guidance - updated in November 2021 after the Tokyo Olympics - said there should be no assumption that a transgender athlete automatically has an unfair advantage in female events.\n\nIt recommended that individual sports under the Olympic umbrella - such as athletics, weightlifting, gymnastics and swimming - make their own rules surrounding transgender athletes.\n\nWorld Athletics has set five nanomoles per litre as its benchmark, with cycling set at below five nanomoles.\n\nWorld Rugby has banned trans women from playing at elite level, while the Rugby Football Union's domestic policy in England does allow trans women to play, under certain testosterone-based conditions.\n\nHowever, the IOC guidelines have been criticised by some medical experts, 38 of whom signed a statement questioning the changes made to its policy around testosterone suppressants in transgender women.\n\nThe sporting body said relying on testosterone levels alone in female events was no longer deemed sufficient grounds to determine whether or not a competitor has an unfair advantage.\n\nBut some medical professionals said the guidance was drafted mainly from a human rights perspective with little consideration of medical and scientific issues.\n\nThere has also been new guidance around transgender inclusion in non-elite sport, created in 2021. It was published after an 18-month consultation and review of the existing research and was developed by Sport England, Sport Scotland, Sport Northern Ireland, Sport Wales and UK Sport.\n\nIt said that \"for many sports, the inclusion of transgender people, fairness and safety cannot co-exist in a single competitive model\".\n\nThe report concluded that \"testosterone suppression is unlikely to guarantee fairness between transgender women and natal females in gender-affected sports\".\n\nAnd it added that there are \"retained differences in strength, stamina and physique between the average woman compared with the average transgender woman or non-binary person registered male at birth\".\n\nIt challenged sport bodies to \"think in innovative and creative ways to ensure nobody is left out\", and stipulates individual sports may need to choose between inclusion or \"competitive fairness\" - and safety if relevant.\n\nThe guidance suggests for those sports where safety or fairness could be compromised, the individual sports could create an \"open\" or \"universal\" category separate to male and female ones.\n\nMore reading on this subject\n\n'Transgender inclusion, fairness and safety often cannot co-exist' says major review (Sept 2021)\n\nThomas becomes first known transgender athlete to win NCAA swimming title (March 2022)\n\nBridges will not race in women's National Omnium event (March 2022)\n\nUCI can ban Bridges even if she meets eligibility criteria (March 2022)\n• None Who is the best Premier League player without a trophy?\n• None How could an award-winning racehorse vanish into the night?", "Olha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander are all said to have been killed\n\nRussian forces have killed a village head, her husband and her son, Ukrainian officials say. This - and the discovery of the bodies of five men dressed in civilian clothes - has added to growing evidence of atrocities on the ground in Ukraine. The BBC's Yogita Limaye has been to visit the two scenes.\n\nIn the town of Bucha, just outside Kyiv, the horror of what unfolded during the Russian occupation is finally coming to light.\n\nIn the basement of a building that once housed a children's community centre, five bodies lay crumpled on the ground - five men dressed in civilian clothes, their hands bound behind their backs.\n\nSome were shot in the head, others in the chest. They were yet to be identified, but Ukrainian officials said the men were taken hostage by Russian soldiers and executed.\n\n\"We heard them being shot,\" said Vlad, one of the volunteers who carried the bodies up from the basement. \"We heard mines go off in the area. Around us there are mines. We are lucky we are alive.\"\n\nVlad described hearing a husband calling after his wife who went out into the street to get water, then a volley of shots. Later he found both husband and wife dead. \"I can tell you so many stories but I don't want to,\" he said. \"I want to forget them.\"\n\nNot far away, in the village of Motoyzhyn, four bodies lay in a shallow grave in the woods. Three have been identified - 51-year-old Olha Sukhenko, her husband Igor and her son Oleksander, who was 25.\n\nOlha was the head of the village. It is believed that she and her family were killed on suspicion of helping Ukrainian soldiers, and left on the edge of the woods, half-buried, Olha's hand and her son's face visible through the dirt.\n\nThe Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha on Monday. \"We want you to show the world what happened here, what the Russian military did, what the Russian Federation did in peaceful Ukraine. It was important for you to see that these were civilians,\" he said.\n\nHe said Ukraine was still prepared to negotiate with Russia. \"Ukraine deserves peace,\" he told the BBC. \"We can't live with war. Every day our army is fighting, but we don't want the lives of millions to be lost. That's why we have to have dialogue with Russia.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukraine's president visits the site of alleged atrocities in Bucha\n\nElsewhere in Bucha, there were reports of a mass grave, dug to accommodate bodies from the overflowing morgue. Images and video footage showed dead civilians with their hands tied behind their backs. Evidence was mounting by the hour on Monday of grave atrocities in this once peaceful city.\n\nThe mayor, Anatoliy Fedoruk, said that at least 300 civilians had been killed. There is no official tally yet. Russia has denied any involvement, claiming that the visual evidence had all been faked, but its denials have been met with outrage. Its broken-down, burned-out tanks littered one long road into Bucha.\n\nWe now know some of what happened here, just west of Kyiv. But there are more cities and towns across Ukraine that are still under Russian control. The fear is that what was found here will be found elsewhere, that there will be more bodies in basements and shallow graves.", "A suburban avenue in Bucha became one of the first graveyards for Russia's hopes of encircling and entering Kyiv and then deposing the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe moment came two or three days after the first Russian forces crossed into Ukraine on 24 February, when Ukrainian forces destroyed a column of Russian tanks and armoured personnel carriers moving through the town of Bucha to the city of Kyiv.\n\nThe convoy was destroyed in one of the first of many Ukrainian ambushes that stopped the Russian advance dead.\n\nOur BBC team was able to get to Bucha because during Friday the final Russian soldiers pulled out, as part of what the Kremlin has presented as a calm and rational decision to concentrate on the war in eastern Ukraine.\n\nMoscow says, without proof or any reliability, that its war aims in central Ukraine have been achieved, and they never included capturing Kyiv.\n\nThe truth is that unexpectedly fierce and well organised Ukrainian resistance stopped them outside the capital, and the evidence includes the rusting and twisted wreckage of the column that still lies where it was destroyed on that suburban street.\n\nLocal residents say they hadn't had any bread for weeks\n\nTwo or three weeks into the war the Russian invaders ran out of momentum. On the street in Bucha you can see why.\n\nElite troops from Russia's airborne forces rode into the town in armoured vehicles light enough to be carried by aircraft. They came from Hostomel airport, a few miles away, which had been attacked and seized by Russian paratroopers landed by helicopter on the first day of the invasion. Even then, there was fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces.\n\nWhen the column moved through Bucha on the way to Kyiv, they had a harsh awakening.\n\nThe road is narrow and straight, an ideal place for an ambush. Witnesses said the Ukrainians attacked the convoy with Bayraktar attack drones bought from Turkey. Other neighbours said Ukrainian territorial defence volunteers were also in the area.\n\nHowever they did it, the lead vehicles and the ones bringing up the rear were knocked out and imprisoned the others. The wreckage has not been touched. Belts of 30mm cannon shells lie on the grass verge, along with many pieces of dangerous and damaged abandoned ordnance.\n\nYoung conscripts ran away, begging, local people said, not to be turned over to Ukrainian territorial defence. A man of around 70 who called himself uncle Hrysha, said: \"I felt sorry for them. They were so young, 18 to 20, with their whole lives ahead of them.\"\n\nIt looks as if Russians, as they prepared to pull out of Bucha, had no such pity. At least 20 dead men were lying in the street as Ukrainian troops entered the town. Some of them had their hands tied behind their backs. The mayor said they had buried 280 people in mass graves.\n\nA few civilians who stayed said they had tried to avoid the Russians. They set up wood fires outside their Khrushchev-era flats, cooking on them outdoors because their gas, power and water were cut.\n\nVolunteers are bringing supplies in from Lviv in western Ukraine, and from countries far from the war, geographically at least.\n\n\"This is the first bread we've had in 38 days,\" said a woman called Maria, looking at a plastic bag with some modest looking buns inside. Her daughter Larysa showed me round the Soviet-built apartment building.\n\nMany of the people who had left for safer areas, or abroad, had bolted shut security doors. The Russians removed them by ripping out the concrete lintels and door posts.\n\nA few miles away, the trail of devastation leads to Hostomel airport. Russian airborne troops tried to use it as a base for a push into Kyiv.\n\nThe world's largest transport plane was destroyed early on. The roof of the enormous hangar built for it was so riddled with a constellation of shrapnel holes. The plane itself, known by the Ukrainian word for dream (Mriya), lies there broken-backed, big chunks of fuselage and engine in places around it. Its fate is a parable of what is happening to Ukraine.\n\nAn enormous amount of national pride was invested in the aircraft, as a symbol of Ukraine's ability to make big projects all round the world.\n\nAs the world's largest transport plane, Mriya was once Ukraine's pride", "The remains of Mungo Man carried in a casket made from a 5000-year-old red gum\n\nThe remains of 108 Aboriginal people who died about 42,000 years ago will be reburied in outback Australia, years after they were first dug up without permission.\n\nThese include the remains of Mungo Man, which was famously discovered in 1974 and helped rewrite Australia's history.\n\nThe decision comes after the federal government finalised a four-year-long formal assessment about the reburial.\n\nBut some indigenous groups claim they were not consulted in this process.\n\nBetween 1960 and 1980, there were a flurry of archaeological finds.\n\nDuring this time, researchers found the remains of 108 Aboriginal individuals in Lake Mungo and Willandra lakes, part of the Willandra world heritage area, about 750km (470 miles) west of Sydney - including the remains of an aboriginal man who was dubbed Mungo Man.\n\nAt the time, his remains were the oldest evidence of humans living in Australia, and evidence of the first, recorded ceremonial burial - a sign that there had been a long history of civilisation, as early as 42,000 years ago.\n\nThat record was broken when another 65,000-year-old site was discovered elsewhere in 2017.\n\nLake Mungo, in Australia's Willandra region, is where the 42,000-year-old remains of indigenous Australians were found.\n\nHowever the future of these ancient remains is still a matter of debate.\n\nCampaigners say many remains, removed without permission, are yet to be returned - with some housed in museums overseas. In the case of Mungo Man, indigenous Australians said the removal of his remains caused great pain.\n\nMungo Man was finally returned to Mungo National Park, where he was found, in 2017, after being kept in storage at the Australian National University in Canberra.\n\nIn 2018, the Australian government decided to rebury all 108 remains - in what they described as an effort to accommodate the wishes of Aboriginal groups. On Wednesday, the government finally approved the reburial of the remains over the coming month, at 26 anonymous locations in national parks.\n\n\"Forty-two thousand years ago, Aboriginal people were living - and thriving - on the edge of what was then a rich lakeside. In the last four decades their remains have been removed, analysed, stored, and extensively investigated in the interests of western science.\", Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley said.\n\nWhile the government asserted that they had listened to the local Aboriginal community, some of the community members feel let down by the process.\n\nLocal papers, quoting some locals, said they felt \"bitter disappointment\" as not all the owners of the remains were consulted.\n\nMichael Young, a Paakantyi man from the community, said the central government continued to make decisions without them, according to an ABC News report.\n\n\"It is our place. It is our identity.\"", "The burden of tax falling on workers and employers has increased as a hotly-debated rise in National Insurance payments takes effect.\n\nEmployees, businesses and the self-employed will pay an extra 1.25p in the pound. The government says it will spend it on health and social care.\n\nOpposition MPs said it exacerbated cost of living pressures, but mitigation will be introduced in July.\n\nExperts are urging people to check their status as a new tax year starts.\n\nEarnings levels at which people start to pay income tax have been frozen, increasing the chances of employees being dragged into a new band - with a higher rate of tax - if they receive a pay rise.\n\nEmployees pay National Insurance on their wages, employers pay extra contributions for staff, and the self-employed pay it on their profits.\n\nIn September, the government announced the rise in contributions from 6 April, in part to help ease the burden on the NHS.\n\nIt means that, instead of paying National Insurance contributions of 12% on earnings up to £50,270 and 2% on anything above that, employees will now pay 13.25% and 3.25% respectively. The self-employed will see equivalent rates go up from 9% and 2% to 10.25% and 3.25%.\n\nThose of state pension age do not pay the tax at present, and nor do those on very low incomes.\n\nAfter the announcement last year, the plans were met with disapproval from opposition parties and some backbench Conservative MPs who criticised the timing, as many people face sharp rises in energy bills and prices in general.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak responded in his Spring Statement with plans to allow workers and the self-employed to earn more before they start making National Insurance payments. This will take effect in July.\n\nThe National Insurance rise will - ministers like to say - provide a much needed boost to health and social care.\n\nThey claim it will pay for the care cap and boost NHS capacity to help tackle the backlog in England - it is up to the rest of the UK to decide how they spend the proceeds.\n\nBut the truth is it will only contribute to that. Rising inflation, staff shortages and ageing equipment and buildings, means the health and care system is going to suck up the £39bn raised over the next three years by the hike and then some more.\n\nIt is also worth bearing in mind the government had already committed to rises for the NHS up until 2024 under a funding settlement agreed by the May government.\n\nThis had brought the increases to something close to the 4% health has historically got - although the rising inflation that is being seen will whittle that away from now on.\n\nAnd that came after a decade of the budget rising by little more than 1% - an unprecedented squeeze for the health service.\n\nThe National Insurance rise is not quite all it seems.\n\nFrom now, employees will pay National Insurance contributions on earnings above £9,880 a year. From July, it will be paid on earnings above £12,570 a year.\n\nTaken together, the measures mean that, over the next 12 months, anyone earning less than about £34,000 a year will pay less in National Insurance than they did the previous year, while those earning more will see their payments rise.\n\nHad the chancellor stuck with his original plan, then all but the very lowest income workers would have paid more in National Insurance.\n\nMany employers will still pay more, and business groups have warned that this may be passed on in higher prices. They also said it would add to the pressures already faced by firms following the withdrawal of Covid support measures.\n\nAmong those concerned about the bill is Hanna Gentry, an assistant general manager at George's Bistro in Cleckheaton.\n\nHanna Gentry says the bar will need to bring in more business\n\n\"Personally for me if I look at my wage I think it's not too much, but as a business when you have to pay that on everybody's wages, it adds up really, really quickly,\" she said.\n\n\"We are going to try and bring in more custom, that's the only way we can do it - in terms of events, new menus, to try and draw customers in.\"\n\nMeanwhile James Hipkins, managing director of Emery's Timber and Builders Merchants in Stoke and Telford, told the BBC's Today programme the rise was \"another little extra bit\" to add to the rising cost of materials, fuel and energy.\n\n\"My greater concern is, is it the beginning of a perfect storm? By that I just mean all the little snips going up, is it going to start to stifle industry?\"\n\nHowever, Mr Hipkins said society had a \"moral obligation and responsibility to this\" to fund social care services, which he added have been \"overlooked\" for too long.\n\n\"We all know it needs sorting out, we all know it needs to be paid for but none of us are particularly keen on paying for it,\" he added.\n\n\"At this stage is it seems a bit wishy washy and woolly as it's coming in. I would feel a lot more confident and a lot more happy when I see it as an actual separate levy and it can be identified for where it's supposed to be going.\"\n\nThe government said it had raised Employment Allowance from £4,000 to £5,000, so smaller firms could claim up to £5,000 off their National Insurance bills. Ministers said it meant 670,000 firms would not pay the tax at all.\n\nOverall, the increases in National Insurance for employers and higher-income workers will raise an extra £10.9bn in a year for the government, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson described it as \"necessary, fair and responsible\", adding that it would \"provide the health and care system with the long term funding it needs as we recover from the pandemic\".\n\nNext year, the extra tax will be rebranded as the Health and Social Care Levy.\n\nHealth Minister Sajid Javid said the levy was necessary because it would be \"morally wrong\" to let \"our children pay for our healthcare and our adult social care\".\n\nThe Labour Leader Keir Starmer has condemned the NI rise saying that the UK now has the highest rate of taxation in 70 years.\n\nCalling it the \"wrong tax at the wrong time\" he said: \"In the middle of worst cost of living crisis for decades today the government chooses to increase taxes on working people.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the NI rise \"puts all the burden on working people\".\n\nAn increase in the tax on dividends is also coming into effect, to add to the funds channelled by the government into the NHS and social care.\n\nIt has also gone up by 1.25p in the pound. Many private investors hold shares in an Individual Savings Account (Isa) which protects them from tax. However, some business owners pay themselves in dividends and so will face a tax rise.\n\nEarly last year Mr Sunak said the thresholds at which income tax is paid would be frozen at April 2021 levels for five years (although Scotland has different levels). That means pay rises will push more people into higher tax bands.\n\nIf a pay rise takes somebody from below £12,570 a year to above, then they will start paying income tax at 20% on the amount above £12,570. A shift in salary from below £50,270 to above means paying the higher rate of 40% on the amount above £50,270. The next threshold is at £150,000, when the additional tax rate of 45% kicks in.\n\nAdrian Lowery, personal finance spokesman at investing platform Bestinvest, urged people to check their tax code, which is issued by HM Revenue and Customs and can be found on a pay slip.\n\n\"A tax code of 1257L is currently used for most people who have one job or pension. If yours is different, make sure you understand why, so you're not paying too much tax,\" he said.\n\nAt last month's Spring Statement, Mr Sunak pledged to reduce the basic rate of income tax by 1p in the pound before the end of the Parliament in 2024.\n\nFor this new tax year, the personal allowance of capital gains tax has also been frozen at £12,300, so this much profit can be realised from assets in a year before tax is paid.\n\nThe threshold for inheritance tax - a levy on estates when somebody dies - has also been frozen again at £325,000, as it has since 2009.", "Can Arslan has been found guilty of murdering his neighbour Matthew Boorman\n\nA man who subjected his neighbours to years of anti-social behaviour before stabbing one of them to death has been found guilty of murder.\n\nCan Arslan, 52, lay in wait for Matthew Boorman as he came home from work then stabbed him 27 times on his front lawn.\n\nIt was the culmination of 12 years of threats to Arslan's neighbours in Walton Cardiff, Gloucestershire.\n\nAfter the verdict, Mr Boorman's wife Sarah released a statement in which she said his death was \"truly shocking\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPaying tribute to the 43-year-old father-of-three, the statement praised his fundraising efforts for charity, hiking The Three Peaks with friends, gardening at a hospice and running half marathons.\n\nRead by Mr Boorman's sister Sarah Elston outside Bristol Crown Court it said: \"Matt shone brightly, he radiated enthusiasm and had a real zest for life.\n\n\"He loved to celebrate life, and fill the house with both music and laughter.\n\n\"Perhaps what people will remember most of all about Matt is his smile.\n\n\"His energy, his love, his laughter - a very proud father of his children.\"\n\nMatthew Boorman was described as a very caring husband and a devoted father\n\n\"Matt was a man who infused fun into the most mundane tasks. He was a kid at heart who would fly model aeroplanes and race remote control cars,\" it continued.\n\n\"Matt's death is truly shocking. He was so young and had such a bright future ahead of him.\"\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the family, Ms Elston said he \"touched the lives of everyone he came into contact with\" and \"was a good man\" with \"so much to live for\".\n\nMr Boorman's family paid tribute to him in a statement read by his sister Sarah Elston\n\nOne of Mr Boorman's children saw the attack unfold from an upstairs bedroom, the trial heard.\n\nArslan, who had denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, then forced his way into the home of another neighbour, Peter Marsden, and knifed him eight times.\n\nThe trial heard the murder on 5 October came after Arslan had terrorised his neighbours for years.\n\nMany of them were so worried about his behaviour they had installed security cameras that captured the killing, footage from which was used as evidence by police.\n\nOther neighbours, including an off-duty police officer, confronted Arslan during the outbreak of violence.\n\nAt the time of the murder, Arslan was the subject of an injunction prohibiting him from threatening or abusing his neighbours, and had been served with a notice of eviction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSmall rows over parking and a scratch to a car had escalated to the point where Arslan had repeatedly threatened to attack or kill those living near him.\n\nIn May, Mrs Boorman had made a statement to police setting out a summary of the threats they had received from the defendant.\n\nShe said they were worried about being murdered, or that someone was going to be seriously hurt very soon.\n\nArslan made counter-allegations, accusing the Boormans of racially abusing him.\n\nArslan had claimed that he heard voices, including that of his childhood teddy bear, telling him to kill, but expert psychiatrists told jurors that he was not psychotic and diagnosed him with a paranoid, unstable and antisocial personality disorder,\n\nTwo forensic psychiatrists agreed Arslan was not mentally ill but were divided on whether his personality disorder should lessen the offence to one of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.\n\nDr John Sandford said CCTV footage of the attacks makes it clear that Arslan was aware of what he was doing.\n\n\"It's quite clear he knows what's going on and why he's been arrested,\" Dr Sandford said.\n\nHowever Dr Sally Foster, who conducted a psychiatric examination for the defence, said Arslan's personality disorder diagnosis might provide a defence to murder.\n\nShe said \"impaired mental functioning was a significant contributing factor to the defendant's acts\".\n\nCorrection 9 April: We initially stated that Can Arslan had an \"unstable personality disorder\" but we have clarified this to say he was diagnosed with \"a paranoid, unstable and antisocial personality disorder\".\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Ed Sheeran and his co-writers said the case had caused \"immense\" stress\n\nEd Sheeran has won a High Court copyright battle over his 2017 hit Shape of You.\n\nA judge ruled on Wednesday that the singer-songwriter had not plagiarised the 2015 song Oh Why by Sami Chokri.\n\nChokri, a grime artist who performs under the name Sami Switch, had claimed the \"Oh I\" hook in Sheeran's track was \"strikingly similar\" to an \"Oh why\" refrain in his own track.\n\nAfter the ruling, Sheeran said such \"baseless\" claims \"are way too common\".\n\nIn a video on social media, he said there was now a culture \"where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to court, even if there's no basis for the claim\".\n\nHe added: \"It's really damaging to the songwriting industry. There's only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music.\n\n\"Coincidence is bound to happen if 60,000 songs are being released every day on Spotify. That's 22 million songs a year and there's only 12 notes that are available.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Ed Sheeran's Shape of You and Sami Chokri's Oh Why\n\nShape of You was the UK's best-selling song of 2017 in the UK and is Spotify's most-streamed ever.\n\nJudge Antony Zacaroli ruled that Sheeran had \"neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied\" Chokri's song.\n\nHe acknowledged there were \"similarities between the one-bar phrase\" in Shape of You and Oh Why, but said \"such similarities are only a starting point for a possible infringement\" of copyright.\n\nAfter studying the musical elements, he said there were \"differences between the relevant parts\" of the songs, which \"provide compelling evidence that the 'Oh I' phrase\" in Sheeran's song \"originated from sources other than Oh Why\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Ed Sheeran This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe added that there was only a \"speculative foundation\" for the defence's case that Sheeran had heard Chokri's song before writing Shape of You. \"I find, as a matter of fact, that he had not heard it,\" he said.\n\nSheeran wrote his chart-topping track with two collaborators, Snow Patrol's John McDaid and producer Steven McCutcheon, who all denied having previously heard Oh Why.\n\nThe case dates back to 2018, when the trio asked the High Court to declare they had not infringed the copyright of Chokri and his co-writer Ross O'Donoghue. That led to an 11-day trial in London last month.\n\nThis ruling will come as a huge relief to Ed Sheeran, who took the unusual step of pre-emptively suing Sami Chokri and Ross O'Donoghue in 2018 in an attempt to clear his name.\n\nHe was stung by the accusation that he'd deliberately copied another writer's work without giving them credit. On the witness stand, the star was often terse and abrupt as he explained how, in several other instances, he shared royalties with writers who inspired him. Even on Shape of You, he protested, some of the profits went to the writers of TLC's No Scrubs.\n\nHe later sang Nina Simone's Feeling Good and Blackstreet's No Diggity on the stand in an attempt to prove the melody he was accused of stealing was commonplace in pop music.\n\nChokri was more emotional. He said he felt \"robbed\" by an artist he respected, and that he wished the trial had never come to court. However, he remained adamant that Sheeran had heard and copied his song.\n\nIn the end, the judge disagreed. In order for copyright infringement to be proved, Chokri needed to prove that Sheeran had listened to his song - otherwise the similarities would just be coincidence. But Mr Justice Zacaroli said Chokri's team had failed to establish that Oh Why had ever graced Sheeran's speakers.\n\nAs a star who has faced his fair share of copyright claims, Sheeran will presumably hope this verdict makes future litigants think twice.\n\nThe Shape of You songwriters took legal action in 2018 after the track's royalties were frozen when Chokri and O'Donoghue asked the Performing Rights Society (PRS) to add them to the hit's credits as co-writers.\n\nShape of You earns Sheeran, McDaid and McCutcheon about £5m a year, the court heard, despite almost 10% of the payments having being frozen due to the dispute.\n\nIn his ruling, Mr Justice Zacaroli said Sheeran and his collaborators were justified in thinking the request from Chokri and O'Donoghue to be named as co-writers \"was a tactic designed to extract a settlement\".\n\nAfter the initial legal action, Chokri and O'Donoghue launched a counter-claim alleging copyright infringement.\n\nSami Chokri described the High Court case as \"the worst few weeks of my life\"\n\nIn a joint statement after the judgement, Sheeran, McDaid and McCutcheon said their mental health and creativity had suffered as a result of the case, as well as their wallets.\n\n\"There was a lot of talk throughout this case about cost,\" they said. \"But there is more than just a financial cost. There is a cost on creativity. When we are tangled up in law suits, we are not making music or playing shows.\n\n\"There is a cost on our mental health. The stress this causes on all sides is immense. It affects so many aspects of our everyday lives and the lives of our families and friends. We are not corporations. We are not entities. We are human beings.\"\n\nGiving evidence last month, Sheeran denied that he \"borrows\" ideas from unknown songwriters without acknowledgement, insisting he was always \"completely fair\" in crediting people who contribute to his work.\n\nAndrew Sutcliffe QC, representing Chokri and O'Donoghue, labelled Sheeran a \"magpie\", claiming he \"habitually copies\" other artists and that it was \"extremely likely\" he had previously heard Oh Why.\n\nIn closing arguments last month, Mr Sutcliffe said there was an \"indisputable similarity between the works\". But Sheeran's lawyer said the case against him was \"so strained as to be logically unintelligible\".\n\nForensic musicologists were called by both sides to argue the case, giving contrasting views. One said the songs were \"distinctly different\" but the other argued they contained \"significant similarities\".\n\nIan Mill QC, representing Sheeran, said the case had been \"deeply traumatising\" for the star and his collaborators, while Chokri described the High Court case as \"the worst few weeks of my life\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea's hold on the Champions League hangs precariously after Karim Benzema's hat-trick put Real Madrid in a position of power following the quarter-final first leg at Stamford Bridge.\n\nReal coach Carlo Ancelotti made a winning return to the club where he won the Premier League and FA Cup double after veteran France striker Benzema delivered his latest masterclass.\n\nBenzema, 34 and fresh from the treble that sunk Paris St-Germain in the last 16, punished holders Chelsea with two magnificent headers in the space of three minutes midway through the first half.\n\nKai Havertz's header gave Chelsea hope before the break but keeper Edouard Mendy's poor clearance seconds after the restart gifted Benzema his third to put Real in command of the tie before the second leg at the Bernabeu next Tuesday (12 April).\n\nChelsea battled to the end of this first leg but were always fighting an uphill task after they were hit by Benzema's brilliant one-two and then saw their hopes of mounting a comeback wrecked by a self-inflicted wound.\n\nReal had already delivered a warning about the danger they posed when Vinicius Junior hit the bar but that went unheeded as he provided the cross for Benzema's flying headed opener.\n\nAnd once Benzema had confirmed his aerial threat with a second, Chelsea were always vulnerable against a side who are the masters of these Champions League situations.\n\nHavertz, the match-winner in last season's Champions League final win against Manchester City, gave a subdued Stamford Bridge some hope but the entire destiny of the tie may have turned in the opening 40 seconds after the interval.\n\nMendy, normally so reliable, made an expensive misjudgement when he raced from goal only to send a weak pass in the direction of Antonio Rudiger.\n\nThe defender was unable to gain control and the predatory Benzema was in like a flash to roll the ball into the unguarded net with Mendy looking on in anguish.\n\nIt came just after Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel had introduced Mateo Kovacic and Hakim Ziyech at the start of the second half to build on Havertz's goal, but the changes were undermined before they had any chance to take effect.\n\nTuchel later brought on Romelu Lukaku in a desperate attempt to retrieve the situation but his struggles were summed up when he sent a weak header wide with one of Chelsea's best chances of the night.\n\nChelsea have demonstrated an ability to overcome adversity in the past but with Real holding a two-goal advantage going into the second leg at the Bernabeu, it would rank as one of their finest achievements if they were to reach the last four from this position.\n\nMadrid the masters once more\n\nReal Madrid may be runaway leaders in La Liga but Carlo Ancelotti's side were regarded as rank outsiders as they chase a 14th triumph in this competition in its guises as the European Cup and Champions League.\n\nYet, after the dramatic comeback against the odds to knock out Paris St-Germain in the last 16, with this show of experience and class at Stamford Bridge they demonstrated once again that their credentials are dismissed at your peril.\n\nAnd in Ancelotti, for all the speculation surrounding his long-term future at the Bernabeu, they have a leader who has demonstrated his expertise by winning this trophy three times with AC Milan and Real.\n\nThe coach and Real's players showed they are old hands at this and how they punished Chelsea, with Benzema and the 36-year-old Croatia maestro Luka Modric at their heart, to take a giant stride towards the semi-final.\n\nBenzema gets better with age, scoring two headers of the highest class before poaching a third goal, while Modric retains that priceless ability to control the tempo of games, retain possession and always make the right choice from the options available.\n\nAncelotti will take nothing for granted but the veteran Italian, who flew into London on the day of the game after recovering from Covid-19, cut a highly satisfied figure at the final whistle.\n• None Attempt missed. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\n• None Substitution, Real Madrid. Dani Ceballos replaces Federico Valverde because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Reece James (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kai Havertz.\n• None Attempt saved. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Mateo Kovacic. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "Mehrab Nazir was hiking with his family in the Blue Mountains when they were caught in a landslide, killing him and his younger son\n\nTributes have been paid to a British lawyer who died in a landslide with his nine-year-old son while hiking in Australia's Blue Mountains.\n\nMehraab Nazir, 49, died with his son at the scene. His wife, Anastasia, remains in a critical condition while another son, aged 14, is stable after surgery.\n\nMr Nazir was a partner at a law firm working in Singapore, where his family moved more than a decade ago.\n\nHis firm said he was a \"dear friend and colleague\".\n\nWatson Farley & Williams said they would be \"remembering and honouring\" him.\n\nThe alarm was raised on Monday afternoon by the family's 15-year-old daughter after the landslide killed her father and younger brother, leaving her mother and older brother critically injured.\n\nThe teenage girl was said to be \"extremely distressed\" and is being kept in hospital under observation.\n\nThe two bodies were recovered from the mountains, near the popular walking spot of Wentworth Falls, about 60 miles (96km) from Sydney, at about 09:30 local time on Tuesday.\n\nTour guide Graham Chapman said landslides are common in the Blue Mountains and have been made more likely by recent heavy rain.\n\n\"This beautiful family from England were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, it's so sad,\" he said.\n\n\"Maybe another 50 metres either side or a delay during the day, this wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nby Phil Mercer, in the Blue Mountains\n\nTorrential rain has returned to the Blue Mountains. Thick bands of low cloud have moved in, obscuring buildings and bushland.\n\nAs the rain beats down near Wentworth Falls, car headlights occasionally emerge from the mist. But this popular tourist destination is mostly quiet: walking tracks and some roads have been closed.\n\nMonths of heavy downpours are likely to have been a key factor in the tragedy involving the family of five from Britain.\n\nThey came on a day of rare sunshine in a year that's been dominated in much of eastern Australia by storms and floods.\n\nIn this World Heritage area, the ground is sodden and signs warn of the dangers of rockfalls and landslips. The earth and the famous sandstone cliffs have become saturated, and still it rains.\n\nLandslides here are not uncommon - but rarely, if ever, have they devastated the lives of an entire family.\n\nThe family had set out on the hike on Monday in bright, sunny weather but the Blue Mountains had previously been lashed by weeks of heavy rain.\n\nMr Chapman said: \"I've seen so many landslides I couldn't tell you how many. But the thing is with landslides here in the mountains, you don't actually get to hear about them a lot because it's so remote.\n\n\"Here in the mountains, it can change in the blink of an eye and sadly for the English family, that's exactly what happened the other day.\"\n\nHe said he had cried when he heard the news of their deaths, adding: \"We've only just opened up our international borders, and to know that that family has come to our country and that this has happened on our soil, man, it's just heart breaking.\"\n\nThe family are understood to be members of the Zoroastrian religion, an ancient Iranian faith.\n\nZubin Appoo, president of the Australian Zoroastrian Association of New South Wales, said the accident was \"beyond tragic\". \"Everyone is shocked and so many in our community are reaching out to offer support in any way they can.\"\n\nMr Appoo said tributes to the family were \"flooding in\", adding that the religion had a small and tight-knit global community.\n\nNew South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the incident was \"tragic\" and said he would be seeking advice as to whether the walking track should have been open.\n\nThe Department of Environment and Heritage in the state said the area was closed to the public until further notice and a \"comprehensive review\" would be undertaken.\n\nIt said it had a \"world-class\" programme in place to assess the risks of incidents such as landslides but \"it is not possible to predict and eliminate all natural risks\".\n\nThe walking trail had been inspected days before the landslide as part of a routine assessment, the department said.", "More Kinder Surprise chocolate egg products have been recalled over a link to salmonella cases in the UK.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) had advised people not to eat 20g or three-pack eggs with best before dates between 11 July and 7 October 2022.\n\nKinder Easter egg hunt kits (150g), Kinder Mini eggs (75g), Kinder schokobons (200g) and the 100g Kinder Surprise have now been recalled too.\n\nAll sweets affected had been made in the same Belgian factory.\n\nFerrero, which makes Kinder chocolates, said that it had taken the \"precautionary decision\" to voluntarily extend the recall to these products in the UK and Ireland with best before dates between 20 April 2022 and 21 August 2022.\n\nThe chocolate-maker said none of its Kinder products released for sale had tested positive for salmonella, but that it takes the matter \"extremely seriously\".\n\nThey added that they were aware of Easter coming up, which usually sees a sales boost for Kinder Surprise eggs.\n\n\"The company takes food safety extremely seriously and we sincerely apologise for this matter. Our continued commitment to consumer care has driven our decision today to extend the voluntary recall,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nNo other Ferrero or Kinder products are believed to have been affected.\n\nThe FSA said that if customers have chocolates from the batches described, they should not eat them. They can also contact Ferrero for a full refund.\n\nThe products will be taken off the shelves and notices put up in shops to warn consumers.\n\nIt comes after about 63 people in the UK, mostly young children, became infected with salmonella in an outbreak linked to the Kinder Surprise treats.\n\nOn Monday, the FSA said no deaths had been reported in the UK but most cases involved children aged five and under.\n\nInvestigations so far have been led by the UK Health Security Agency, Public Health Scotland, Public Health Wales and Public Health Agency Northern Ireland.\n\nEurope's health agency said on Wednesday it was also looking into dozens of suspected cases of salmonella linked with eating chocolate in at least nine countries including the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.\n\nIt did not mention Ferrero or any other confectioner in a statement, but warned that the reported cases were mostly among children under 10.\n\nDr Lesley Larkin, of the UK Heath Security Agency, previously said that symptoms of salmonellosis, which can include diarrhoea, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting and fever, \"typically resolve themselves within a few days\".\n\nShe said symptoms could be more severe, especially in young children and those with weakened immune systems and anybody with concerns should contact their GP or call NHS 111.\n\nSalmonella can be spread from person to person, so Dr Larkin advised anyone with symptoms to wash their hands thoroughly and avoid handling other people's food.", "Chronic labour shortages in the food and farming sector could lead to price rises and the UK becoming more dependent on food imports, MPs warn.\n\nThe report by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said Covid and Brexit had a huge impact on the sector.\n\nMPs want ministers to ease English language rules for skilled workers, and expand the seasonal worker visa scheme.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it was \"continuing to work with the sector\".\n\nLast year, a sudden decline in overseas labour led to more than half a million job vacancies in the food and farming sector, out of a workforce of four million.\n\nAlmost a quarter of the UK daffodil crop was left unpicked. Fruit suppliers were forced to leave produce rotting in the fields.\n\nA lack of skilled butchers and abattoir workers meant some 35,000 pigs destined to be made into sausages, bacon and chops were incinerated or rendered - reduced to lard.\n\nWhen the supply of Christmas turkeys was threatened by a shortage of workers and HGV drivers, the government stepped in and set up a temporary visa scheme.\n\nHowever the committee heard that industry members had been warning the government since spring 2021 and that this was \"too little too late\". It led to a serious impact on animal welfare, food security, and the mental health of workers.\n\nWhile the report welcomed \"some of the government's work\" it warned that \"without fundamental change\" the UK was facing \"a chain reaction of wage rises, leading to price increases and food production being exported abroad\".\n\nNeil Parish, chairman of the EFRA committee, said: \"The government's attitude to the plight of food and farming workers was particularly disappointing.\"\n\nMPs said they were \"struck by the government's failure to grasp the labour issues\" and there had been an \"unwelcome tendency ... to blame the sector for not doing more to tackle the problem or fully utilising the immigration system, on the basis of incorrect information on its own immigration system\".\n\nMany UK growers are dependent on seasonal workers to harvest crops\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, said the impact of the new post-Brexit immigration regime and Covid had been \"crippling\".\n\n\"As a result of the conflict in Ukraine, we find ourselves faced with a severe test of the UK's food security, it's clear that this approach has allowed structural weaknesses to develop, which have compromised Britain's food resilience.\"\n\nThe FDF's director of policy and corporate affairs, Jayne Almond, said: \"Compounding the inflationary pressures on UK food and drink manufacturers, many businesses continue to struggle with systemic labour shortages.\"\n\nAnd the National Farmers' Union president Minette Batters said her union was calling for a review of the immigration system, including the seasonal workers' visa scheme.\n\nShe said: \"Today's report from the Efra committee backs up the NFU's long-standing call for a more enabling immigration policy which mitigates against the crippling labour shortages and structural issues that have existed throughout the food supply chain for many months.\"\n\nThe new report calls for a \"radical rethink\" of labour strategy, including a review of the skilled workers visa scheme; and for the seasonal workers pilot visa scheme to be made permanent.\n\nIt also said there should be a 'tailoring' of the English language requirement to the \"needs of the industry\". This could mean less stringent testing for some workers.\n\nLonger-term, home-grown talent should be \"nurtured\", said the MPs, alongside the development of new technology.\n\nIn a statement, Defra said it was looking at how new technology could be used in the sector.\n\nIt added: \"We fully acknowledge that the food and farming industry is facing labour challenges and we continue to work with the sector to mitigate them.\n\n\"We have given the industry greater certainty by enabling the seasonal workers scheme until the end of 2024, allowing overseas workers to come to the UK for up to six months to work in the horticulture sector.\n\n\"Our new points-based immigration system also expanded the skilled worker route to many more occupations, including butchers, who can now be recruited from anywhere in the world.\"", "Viatcheslav Kantor, pictured with President Putin, has funded a new wing at the Edward VII hospital\n\nA major financial donor of the private hospital used by the Queen, King Edward VII's hospital, has been put on the UK list of sanctioned Russian oligarchs.\n\nViatcheslav Kantor, whose name is still above the door of the central London hospital, faces sanctions over Ukraine.\n\nThe hospital recently opened the Kantor Medical Centre, funded by Dr Kantor, and so far is keeping its name.\n\nThe King Edward VII's is where the Queen has gone for medical care, including a night's stay last autumn.\n\nThe hospital describes itself as an \"independent charitable hospital with a proud history of royal patronage, discreetly located within London's Harley Street medical district\".\n\nPrince Philip and other members of the Royal Family have also been treated there.\n\nDr Kantor has been described by the UK government as the \"largest shareholder of fertilizer company Acron with vital strategic significance for the Russian government\".\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said: \"We are showing the Russian elite that they cannot wash their hands of the atrocities committed on Putin's orders.\"\n\nDr Kantor had been \"life governor\" of the hospital but has stepped down from this role and from the board of trustees.\n\nThe private hospital has treated members of the Royal Family\n\nThe oligarch's significant donations to the hospital have funded the Kantor Medical Centre, opened this year, which has seven floors of treatment and diagnostic services.\n\nIt includes new facilities for MRI and CT scans, ultrasound, X-rays and consulting rooms and will have rooms for minor procedures.\n\nDr Kantor, funder of the Kantor Charitable Foundation, has been a donor to many charities and arts projects in the UK.\n\nThe foundation's online photo gallery shows him with Russian President Vladimir Putin, among other international figures.\n\nAt the outbreak of the war in Ukraine the hospital had defended the acceptance of donations from the UK-registered charity funded by Dr Kantor.\n\n\"We share the deep concern felt by people across the world at the invasion of Ukraine,\" said a statement from the hospital.\n\nThose on the sanctions list are subject to asset freezes, meaning anyone in the UK or any UK company is prevented from dealing with any funds or property that is owned by them.\n\nDr Kantor is among eight oligarchs who were added to the UK's sanctions list as part of its latest package of measures in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe others included fertiliser firm founder Andrey Guryev, truck manufacturing firm director Sergey Kogogin, diamond producer Sergey Sergeyevich Ivanov, natural gas firm boss Leonid Mikhelson, Gazprombank chief executive Andrey Akimov, oil producer Gazpromneft chief executive Aleksander Dyukov, and Boris Borisovich Rotenberg - the son of the co-owner of Russia's largest gas pipeline producer SGM.\n\nOther sanctions include asset freezes on Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, and Credit Bank of Moscow, as well as plans to end imports of Russian coal and oil by the end of the year.", "Iryna Abramov stands outside her destroyed home in Bucha, where her husband was killed. 'I wish they had killed me too,' she said.\n\nVolodymyr Abramov was trying desperately to put out the fire in his home, in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, calling out for his son-in-law to help.\n\nRussian troops had smashed through the front gates of Volodymyr's home, opened fire at the house, and dragged Volodymyr, 72, his daughter Iryna, 48, and her husband Oleg, 40, out into the yard.\n\nThe soldiers took Oleg out beyond the gate on to the pavement, Volodymyr said, and threw a grenade in through the front door of the house that exploded with a deafening bang and set the house on fire.\n\nVolodymyr grabbed a small fire extinguisher and tried in vain to extinguish the flames. \"Where is Oleg? Oleg will help!\" he shouted to his daughter.\n\nBut the reply came from one of the Russian soldiers, he said.\n\n\"Oleg will not help you any more.\"\n\nThey found Oleg on the pavement outside the gate, and it was clear from the way he was lying that he had been forced to kneel and shot in the head at point blank range, Iryna said. He was a welder who lived a quiet life on the corner of Yablonska Street in Bucha, who was taken out of his home and killed.\n\nVolodymyr Abramov stands in the house once shared by his daughter and son-in-law. \"I felt empty when they killed Oleg,\" he said. \"I only wanted to die.\"\n\nThe killing is one of scores - if not hundreds - being uncovered in Bucha after Russian troops withdrew from the Kyiv suburb recently. The mayor, Anatoliy Fedoruk, said on Monday that at least 300 civilians had been killed. There is no official tally yet.\n\nRussia has denied any involvement in the atrocities. But its burned-out tanks litter the city. On the grounds of a church, there is an open mass grave with the dead still inside, some in black body bags, some loose in the sand. On the roads, there are bullet-riddled civilian cars - at least one with a body still inside. Houses are caved in by shelling, their driveways ploughed over by tanks. Residents have described Russian soldiers shooting civilians outside their homes with no provocation, and satellite imagery shows that bodies were lying in the streets while the Russians were still in control.\n\nThe Russian soldiers who killed Oleg Abramov \"did not ask him anything\", his wife Iryna said.\n\n\"They didn't ask anything or say anything, they just killed him,\" she said. \"They only told him to take off his shirt, kneel down, and they shot him.\"\n\nVolodymyr Abramov points to the spot on the pavement outside their house where he says his son-in-law was forced to kneel and shot in the head\n\nShe wept on Tuesday as she stood on the spot where he was killed, where a dark patch of blood was still visible on the street. When she ran out and found his disfigured body, the four Russian soldiers who dragged him out were standing casually drinking water, she said. She screamed at them to shoot her, and one raised his gun, then lowered it, then raised it again, and lowered it, until Volodymyr dragged her back inside the gate.\n\n\"Those soldiers told us we had three minutes to leave and they forced us to run in our slippers,\" Volodymyr said. \"Bucha was like an apocalypse - dead bodies everywhere, the streets full of smoke.\"\n\nVolodymyr and Iryna had no choice but to leave Oleg's body lying on the street and it lay there for nearly a month while they sheltered at a relative's house nearby. When it was safe to return, Volodymyr tried to bury his son-in-law on a rough patch of earth by the pavement, and the half-dug hole was still visible there on Tuesday.\n\nBut exhausted by the effort, and afraid of Russian soldiers, Volodymyr carried Oleg back inside the yard and laid him there. Later, Ukrainian soldiers loaded the body into a van, Volodymyr said, and took it away. \"I have no idea how we are going to find it now,\" he said.\n\nA mass grave on the grounds of a church in Bucha, where bodies were discovered when the Russians retreated\n\nUkrainian authorities have now cleared the bodies off the streets of Bucha but there are fears more will be found in the basements and yards of private homes. Officials have only just begun the process of cataloguing the horrors. And so great is the damage in Bucha, it is hard to imagine the scale of the reconstruction needed to restore it to the attractive suburb it once was.\n\nAlong one road through the town on Tuesday, where burned-out tanks were piled up and almost every house was destroyed, 84-year-old Hryhoriy Zamohylnyi was sweeping the street, as if oblivious to the total destruction around him. Somehow, his home was intact - the only building left undamaged along the whole stretch of road.\n\n\"I saw the war with the Germans and now this war with the Russians,\" said Zamohylnyi, a former engineer, born and raised in Bucha. \"What you see here is animal cruelty,\" he said.\n\nAddressing the UN security council on Tuesday, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused the Russians of committing the worst crimes since World War Two, and called for those responsible to be tried as the Nazis were in Nuremberg.\n\n\"The Russian military searched for and purposefully killed anyone who served our country,\" he said. \"They killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies.\"\n\nThe ruins of the Abramovs' home in Bucha\n\nUkraine has begun a war crimes investigation into Russia's actions in Bucha and nearby Irpin. It says 410 bodies have been found across the two suburbs so far.\n\nThere are fears now that more atrocities will be found as the Russians retreat further and more suburbs are opened up - more bodies in the streets, more mass graves. Volodymyr and Iryna Abramov are only looking for one body, and their fear is that they will never find it.\n\n\"He was just a peaceful man, a family man, a welder, who struggled with a spine fracture and was disabled all his life,\" Volodymyr said.\n\n\"Just before he died, while I was in the yard, I saw him briefly through the open gate, on his knees, and he said his final words. He asked them why.\"\n\nRodion Miroshynk and Daria Sipigina contributed to this report. Photographs by Joel Gunter.", "The number of pupils missing lessons because of Covid is stabilising in England's state schools, despite a record number of infections in the UK.\n\nNew government figures show 179,000 pupils (about 2.2%) were off last Thursday because of the virus - down from 202,000 (about 2.5%) in mid-March.\n\nHowever, staffing problems remain in some schools, with almost one in 12 teachers absent.\n\nAnd school leaders have criticised the end of free testing in schools.\n\nAbout one in every 13 people in the UK has coronavirus currently, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBut most people in England can no longer access free PCR or lateral flow tests, after changes introduced on Friday.\n\nSome free testing for the general public will continue in Scotland until the end of April, and in Wales and Northern Ireland until the end of June.\n\nNew data from the Department for Education estimates that 46,000 teachers and school leaders in England (nearly 9%) were absent from open schools on 31 March, down from 48,000 on 17 March.\n\nOne in five state schools had more than 15% of their teachers and school leaders absent, down from 23% two weeks before.\n\nStapeley Broad Lane Primary School in Nantwich has not had to close or send year groups home this term, but learning is still being disrupted because of Covid.\n\nTeaching assistant Sam Morris has just returned to the classroom after being off sick with the virus - and she's not the only one.\n\n\"It's just been really hard work for teaching staff. There is no support. There's no extra staff,\" she says.\n\n\"We can't just call on somebody to come from another classroom, because with eight members of staff off there is nobody else to call on.\"\n\nJust down the road, at Malbank School and Sixth Form, Year 11 student Chloe had to take three weeks off school before her mock GCSE exams because she had Covid.\n\n\"That was pretty hard to deal with,\" she says.\n\n\"Teachers being off didn't really help at all because this is one of the most important years we're going to have.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said he was pleased to see a slight fall in pupil and staff absences, but added \"the situation remains grave with very severe disruption continuing in many schools and colleges\".\n\nReferencing the staff absences, he said: \"It is very difficult to operate in these conditions. The government's decision to withdraw free testing in such circumstances is a retrograde step, particularly with exams a few weeks away, and we have repeatedly urged ministers to reconsider.\n\n\"We understand the government's desire to declare Covid over and done with, but that is simply not the reality in schools and colleges, where the illness continues to be a real problem because of the impact on both pupils and the workforce.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said absence rates \"remain at concerningly high-levels\".\n\n\"We continue to hear a sense of deep frustration from school leaders as they struggle to deal with the significant and on-going disruption caused by Covid - whilst the government removes every measure they have for controlling it,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education said more than 99.9% of schools have \"consistently been open this term\".\n\n\"We are now moving to living with - and managing - the virus, while maintaining good ventilation and hygiene as the norm, and continuing to use vaccines to build the population's wall of protection,\" it said.", "EU officials say sanctions on Russian imports of coal and oil are definitely being considered\n\nThe EU is proposing further sanctions against the Kremlin after allegations of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, with EU ambassadors meeting on Wednesday to decide what steps to take.\n\nEuropean Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said planned measures included an import ban on coal and a ban on Russian ships and road operators.\n\nThe US is also planning more sanctions.\n\nAnd UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is calling for a \"tough new wave\" of sanctions from G7 and Nato ministers.\n\nShe said her Japanese counterpart had agreed the international community had to increase pressure on Russia's Vladimir Putin \"and his war machine with further co-ordinated sanctions\".\n\nEU officials had earlier indicated the focus would be on enforcing existing measures.\n\nBut revelations of atrocities, with hundreds of bodies of civilians found in towns abandoned by Russian troops, have given added impetus for new measures.\n\n\"The new sanctions will probably be adopted tomorrow,\" French European Affairs Minister Clément Beaune said on Tuesday.\n\nThe EU was also working on other sanctions including on imports of Russian oil, she said.\n\nThis is the fifth set of EU sanctions so far. Earlier measures have ranged from individuals including Vladimir Putin and hundreds of Russian MPs, to the financial and energy sectors. The 27 member states plan to cut use of Russian gas by two-thirds by the end of this year and then make Europe entirely independent of Russian fossil fuels by 2030.\n\nThere is an active debate in Germany on imposing a total embargo on Russian energy, but the government warns it would trigger a recession and mass unemployment and for the moment it has ruled it out. \"If it would stop the war, then we would do it immediately,\" said Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.\n\nAt the start of the war Germany was quick to halt the big Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia before it went online\n\nGermany relied on Russian gas for 55% of its imports last year, while for the EU as a whole it was 40%.\n\nExperts widely agree that sanctions agreed by the West until now are unprecedented but Eddie Fishman rates them at \"seven or an eight of 10 in intensity\". He was a lead official in the US State Department in 2014 when sanctions were drawn up in response to Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.\n\n\"Oil remains the life-blood of Russia's economy,\" he argues. \"Putin has made billions of dollars since the war began and Russia's oil sales remain very strong.\"\n\nThe EU's latest proposals tighten sanctions on four Russian banks. Although major Russian banks have been shut out of the Swift financial messaging system, two of the biggest are not.\n\nAgain, it's energy-related. Sberbank and Gazprombank facilitate energy payments from Europe to Russia.\n\nLithuania announced that from the start of this month it had put a stop to all Russian gas imports.\n\n\"Look friends, you can do the same,\" President Gitanis Nauseda told his EU counterparts. It had become possible through investment in liquified natural gas and electricity link infrastructure, he explained.\n\nBut could the EU, as a whole, really turn off the taps to Russian energy?\n\nThere have been warnings of factory closures, jobs losses and plummeting public consent for sanctions.\n\nYou would have to pray for warm and windy weather, says Jacob Kirkegaard of the German Marshall Fund. Warm to lessen the need for heating homes - and windy to power Europe's electricity generating turbines.\n\nAnd while Mr Kirkegaard agrees with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that a ban could trigger a recession, he believes the blow to Russia would be worse.\n\n\"The Russian government would, in my opinion, be compelled to start printing large amounts of new roubles with the risk of inciting significant additional inflation in Russia.\"\n\nBeyond energy, sanctions so far have hit Russia's tech, aviation and finance sectors, as well as its oligarchs - the wealthy Russians who made their fortunes under President Putin's patronage.\n\nBut, as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky reminded Belgian lawmakers in an address last week, there are other awkward areas where business goes on.\n\nRough diamonds are still moving from Russia to Antwerp and sea ports remain open to Russian shipping.\n\nSo while trade ties between the EU and Russia have been seriously frayed, strained but lucrative connections remain.\n\nAn energy embargo remains the \"ultimate\" economic severance weapon, and Germany is usually cited as the main obstacle to that. But other countries are accused of hiding behind Chancellor Olaf Scholz's frank assessments.\n\n\"Germany is really afraid of what might happen to its economy,\" says Prof Karen Pittel, a director at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich.\n\n\"But in principle, if it happens tomorrow, then we'll survive it.\"\n\nShe also believes that the outlook has shifted after President Putin began demanding payment for gas in roubles. Germany refused but Prof Pittel says it's possible there may come a time when Germany has no other choice than to abandon Russian energy.\n\nIt still seems extremely unlikely that Europe will be cut off from Russian supplies in one, big dramatic move, but pressure is mounting.\n\n\"Clear and determined sanctions are necessary. These sanctions are not working,\" Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said this week.\n\nUntil recently, the idea of an energy embargo would not have just seemed unlikely. It would have been unthinkable.", "An official opening event is planned for spring\n\nA man has admitted vandalising the memorial to the 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena bombing.\n\nAnwar Hosseni, 24, caused £10,000 worth of criminal damage to the white marble halo bearing the names of the people who were murdered in the 2017 attack.\n\nHosseni damaged the memorial on 9 February, just weeks after it opened.\n\nManchester magistrates told him the case was too serious to be dealt with by them and sent it to the city's crown court.\n\nThe court heard Hosseni had scratched white lines across various parts of the white marble halo-shaped monument, entitled Glade of Light.\n\nAt the time, Manchester City Council said the damage was \"minor\" and repairs would be made.\n\nFigen Murray, whose son Martyn Hett was killed in the bombing, previously said whoever was responsible must have \"dark hearts to do such a thing\".\n\nShe said the memorial was \"really important\" not just for the families of those who died, but for the people injured or psychologically damaged by the attack.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when bomber Salman Abedi detonated a homemade device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at the venue on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe monument was conceived as a living memorial - a peaceful garden space for remembrance and reflection, featuring plants which grow naturally in the UK countryside and were selected to provide year-round colour and echo the changing seasons.\n\nAround the anniversary every year, the white flowers of a hawthorn tree planted at its centre will bloom.\n\nAn official opening event for the memorial, located between Manchester Cathedral and Chetham's School of Music, has been planned ahead of the fifth anniversary of the atrocity.\n\nHosseni, of Twillbrook Drive in Salford, will next appear at Manchester Crown Court on 4 May.\n\nHe was given bail on condition of residence and that he does not go within a specified area around the memorial.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are signs that the latest wave of Covid infections may have peaked in children and younger adults, according to scientists tracking the outbreak.\n\nBut rates in those older groups most vulnerable to severe disease are continuing to increase in England.\n\nOverall infections in March rose to the highest level recorded in the pandemic, Imperial College's React study found.\n\nThe spike is thought to have been driven by the more transmissible BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron.\n\nBased on swab tests taken from a random sample of 109,000 individuals between 8 and 31 March, it was estimated that 6.37% of people in England had the virus - up sharply from 2.88% in the previous month.\n\nThe figures showed an \"unprecedented\" rise in household infections in all age groups and regions since February, when most outstanding Covid restrictions came to an end in England.\n\nBut towards the end of the study period, the authors found that infections appeared to have peaked in children and to be \"plateauing\" in adults aged between 18-54 years.\n\n\"We are reassured that [the rates] in younger groups seem to be coming down - they can't go up forever,\" said Prof Paul Elliott, chairman in epidemiology at Imperial College London and director of the React programme.\n\nBut he added it was \"worrying\" that the virus was continuing to spread in people aged 55 and over, whose health is deemed to be most at risk from a severe Covid infection.\n\nOn 31 March, an estimated 8.31% of the over-55 age group would have tested positive, according to the data - nearly 20 times the average prevalence recorded since the React survey started in May 2020.\n\nThe team at Imperial said data from mobile phones and other sources suggested there had been a rise in socialising and mixing in recent weeks.\n\n\"We also know many older people had their booster way back in October or November last year so it's likely there will be some waning of the vaccine against infection, if not hospitalisation,\" said Prof Elliot.\n\nAlmost 3,400 positive samples taken in March were genetically sequenced in a laboratory to determine the variant involved.\n\nThe BA.2 version of Omicron, which is now dominant in the UK, was responsible for around 90% of cases.\n\nBut the results also showed five infections were caused by a new form of the virus, currently known as Omicron XE.\n\nIt's thought this version is a mix - or recombinant - of the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants which could have emerged when a patient was infected with both at the same time.\n\nAccording to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), a total of 637 cases of XE had been confirmed in England up to 22 March.\n\nThe World Health Organization has said early tests suggest XE could be around 10% more transmissible than BA.2, but the findings require more investigation.\n\nThe React study, which tests more than 100,000 individuals in England at random most months, has been in place since the first wave of Covid in 2020.\n\nThe data it generated helped scientists quickly identify a number of important turning points in the pandemic, including the emergence of what went on to become known as the Alpha variant in late 2020.\n\nIt has now reported for the final time, after the government decided to stop funding a number of research projects as part of its Living with Covid strategy.\n\nProf Elliot described that decision as \"disappointing\" but said the UK was fortunate that a separate population-wide infection survey, run by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), would continue for the foreseeable future.", "The two candidates appeared only once together during the campaign to challenge each other's policies\n\nEmmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are proposing two very different futures for France, at home and abroad.\n\nAs French voters decide on Sunday which of the two will lead their country, what are their rival plans for the next five years?\n\nThe cost of living has been the number one issue of the election, and far-right hopeful Marine Le Pen has made it the focus of her campaign. But her other big plan is to make social housing, jobs and welfare a \"national priority\" for French nationals and to fight Islamism. Under the banner Marine, Présidente, she tells her supporters victory has never been so close.\n\nHer centrist rival has sought to rally voters under the slogan Nous Tous - All of us. And after five years in power, Emmanuel Macron's offer is for \"complete renewal\", as he tries to attract voters from the left as well as the mainstream right.\n\nMarine Le Pen has promised a raft of measures to cut the cost of living, which she wants to make the priority of a Le Pen presidency. She wants to scrap income tax for all under-30s, reduce VAT on fuel from 20% to 5.5% and abolish it on 100 other essentials. She wants to get businesses to raise wages by 10%, making the increases free of employer tax contributions, and to push up teachers' salaries by 3% every year for the next five years. She also wants to slash toll fees on motorways by 15% by renationalising them, and to privatise public broadcasting by scrapping the TV licence fee of €138 (£115).\n\nEmmanuel Macron says the government has already spent billions of euros capping energy bills, which he says is \"twice as effective as dropping VAT\". He proposes that employers should be allowed to give staff an untaxed bonus of up to €6,000. He wants to increase teachers' wages too in return for extra responsibilities and he is also prepared to scrap the TV licence fee. Bosses' organisation Medef say his policies are better for growth and jobs, while warning that Ms Le Pen's are unfunded and would lead France into a dead end.\n\nMany voters on the far left are expected not to vote for either candidate\n\nEmmanuel Macron wants to pay for much of his programme by raising the pension age from 62 to 65. But his policy has not played well with voters - especially on the left - and he says he will raise it gradually by four months a year. \"It makes sense that I should be ready to listen,\" he explained. He has also promised to raise the minimum state pension from €950 to €1,100 (£785-£910).\n\nMarine Le Pen calls her rival's plan an \"absolutely unbearable injustice\" and wants to keep the pension age at 62, although anyone who began working at 20 could retire at 60. She wants to raise the minimum state pension to €1,000, less than her opponent.\n\nMarine Le Pen wants a referendum on immigration to put an end to what she calls \"anarchic and massive immigration\", and she plans strict rules for entering France and becoming French. Under a highly controversial proposal called Priorité nationale (national priority), she also wants French nationals to be given housing and social services ahead of foreigners - with 620,000 homes for foreign nationals put on the market for families where at least one parent is French. She was initially in favour of holding a referendum on the death penalty before realising it was \"anti-constitutional\".\n\nEmmanuel Macron has accused her of an \"authoritarian\" drift and failing to respect the constitution. He has condemned Ms Le Pen's \"nationalist agenda, which is not patriotism\". He has promised to free up police and gendarmes from admin tasks to double the numbers on the street by 2030, with 11 new mobile units and 200 brigades of gendarmes (military police). Marine Le Pen also promises 20,000 new prison places and 7,000 extra police.\n\nMarine Le Pen wants to ban women from wearing the headscarf in public places and fine them if they wear it. She calls the veil a \"uniform\" imposed by people with a radical vision of Islam. France has Western Europe's biggest Muslim population, and as 69% voted for far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round, the Muslim vote could play an important part in the second round.\n\nEmmanuel Macron has warned that banning the headscarf could start a \"civil war\". He insists that France's principle of state secularism, called laïcité, does not mean fighting against religion. He made clear his opposition to it by praising a young woman wearing a hijab who said she was a feminist. \"This is the best answer to all the nonsense,\" he said.\n\nOne big question for Marine Le Pen is how she could push through all her reforms if she won. She has few credible options for a government, relying on promises of a government of national unity. Her National Rally has only six seats in the National Assembly and it is difficult to see her winning a majority in elections in June. The electoral system works against her National Rally party, so she wants to introduce proportional representation (PR) in legislative elections and a seven-year term of office for president. One of her flagship policies is citizen referendums, which would enable 500,000 people to submit a proposal to change the law and bypass the problem of parliament.\n\nEmmanuel Macron is also campaigning to introduce an element of PR to the parliamentary vote, but says his opponent's plans for referendums indicate that she thinks she is above the constitution and can change the rules.\n\nEmmanuel Macron has called this election a \"referendum on Europe\", arguing that Europe protects France from crises and war, and accusing his opponent of wanting to leave the EU in a \"Frexit\" without daring to say so.\n\nMarine Le Pen has moved a long way from her original plan to leave the EU, although the Macron camp believes that is her ultimate plan. \"Nobody is against Europe,\" she said after the first round. And yet in 2012, she was in favour of pulling France out of the EU, a stance which was then dropped in 2017 when she said she wanted to leave the euro instead. Now she speaks of a European alliance of nations.\n\nHowever, her plans for priority for French nationals would directly contradict EU law and she would do that via a referendum. She would also cause trouble if she tried to tighten border controls, slash French contributions to the EU budget, and give primacy to French law.\n\nShe has also vowed to halt all co-operation with Germany, including military tank and warplanes projects, preferring to see France as a \"big power that counts\". An admirer of Brexit, she talks about freeing France from the \"straitjacket of Brussels\", while denying she harbours hopes of Frexit.\n\nMarine Le Pen has been critical of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but her reliance on Russia for bank loans to her party and her friendly relations with Vladimir Putin have not been forgotten. \"When you speak to Russia you are speaking to your banker,\" Mr Macron told her, saying she was dependent on Russian power. Her campaign team had to deny pulping 1.2 million election pamphlets because they featured a photo showing her shaking the Russian leader's hand ahead of the 2017 election. She is also no fan of Nato, proposing that France leaves its \"integrated command\" while remaining in the organisation, as it was from 1966-2009. After the war she believes there should be a \"strategic rapprochement between Nato and Russia\".\n\nEmmanuel Macron has played a key diplomatic role in the war, with France holding the presidency of the EU. He has maintained close contact with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and says the role of France and Europe is to provide Ukraine with military equipment and take in refugees.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPROFILES: Who's who in race to run France\n\nMarine Le Pen is not known for her green views. Not only does she want to stop building wind turbines, she wants to start dismantling the ones that already exist. And she wants to end subsidies for renewable energy. She also wants to ban food imports that don't meet French standards and she aims to force school canteens to provide 80% of French agricultural products.\n\nEmmanuel Macron has secured the backing of the one Green presidential candidate, Yannick Jadot. He wants to make France the first big country to stop using coal and gas and has pledged to build six new nuclear power stations to add to France's energy mix of 75% nuclear. He has called Marine Le Pen's plan to leave renewable energy a \"complete aberration\".\n\nSo-called healthcare deserts in rural areas of France have become a big election issue. Emmanuel Macron wants to recruit another 50,000 nurses and carers by 2027. Marine Le Pen blames her rival for the closure of 18,000 hospital beds during his presidency and proposes a halt to further closures and the creation of another 10,000 nursing places.\n\nMr Macron also wants to focus on vocational education, with a 50% increase in paid work placements. All schools would provide more sporting activities, so that all six to 12-year-olds would do 30 minutes of sport every day from September. His opponent wants to increase teachers' pay by 3% a year over five years.", "The European Highlander runs between Cairnryan in Dumfries and Galloway and Larne in County Antrim\n\nA P&O ferry that operates between Scotland and Northern Ireland must have a \"small number of deficiencies\" addressed before it can resume service.\n\nThe European Highlander has been inspected by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).\n\nA second P&O ferry operating on the Cairnryan to Larne route, the European Causeway, was earlier detained for two weeks over safety concerns.\n\nIt sailed again on 9 April but with limited services.\n\nSafety fears were raised after P&O replaced nearly 800 seafarers with cheaper agency staff last month.\n\nThe firm suspended most of its sailings but reportedly only expected the disruption to last up to 10 days.\n\nSome services resumed on the Cairnryan to Larne route on 11 April.\n\nInspections also prevented a number of other ferries from operating.\n\nThey included the Spirit of Britain on the busy Dover to Calais route, which has since been cleared to sail again.\n\nA spokesperson for the MCA said: \"The Spirit of Britain has been released from detention and can commence operations when P&O Ferries are ready.\n\n\"The inspection of the European Highlander is now complete; there are a small number of deficiencies and the MCA requires confirmation that these have been rectified before the vessel is free to resume service.\n\n\"There are no further inspections of P&O Ferries at the moment.\"\n\nOther ferries that have been inspected and cleared to sail by the MCA include the Pride of Hull, which operates between Hull and Rotterdam; Norbay, which runs from Liverpool to Dublin.", "Thick smoke was seen rising from the flames on the Dorset heathland\n\nFirefighters have managed to contain a large heath fire that saw 20 homes evacuated.\n\nThick plumes of smoke were seen rising from the blaze on Canford Heath in Poole, Dorset, on Saturday evening.\n\nMore than 80 firefighters battled for hours to bring the flames under control while 16 residents sheltered in Ashdown Leisure Centre.\n\nDorset Police said it was investigating the cause of the fire and urged anyone with information to contact the force.\n\nThere were no reports of damage to property or injuries.\n\nDorset & Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service (DWFRS) said on Sunday morning the incident was \"now surrounded and under control\".\n\nSgt Fern Graham said the cause of the fire remained undetermined and urged anyone who had been in the area at the time and had information to come forward.\n\nShe also appealed for mobile phone and dashcam footage.\n\nCanford Heath is known for being the largest heathland in Dorset, and the largest lowland heath in the UK.\n\nIt is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a part of the Dorset Heathlands Special Protection Area.\n\nThe scorched and blackened heath on Sunday\n\nFerndown Fire Station tweeted the blaze was \"probably the largest fire in this location for a number of years\", with 15 pumps, four water carriers and six off-road vehicles in attendance.\n\nElizabeth Leddy, 28, from Poole said: \"The amount of smoke pluming out was like no heath fire I've seen before.\"\n\nWessex Water had been made aware of some supply issues in the area following the incident, DWFRS said, adding that residents should contact the supplier directly if problems continued.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Rare birds to be protected at harbour\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emmanuel Macron has beaten far-right candidate Marine Le Pen to win the French presidency, projections have shown.\n\nFrench media say Macron has taken 58% of the vote, to Le Pen's 42%.\n\nAddressing supporters, Marine Le Pen said she remained committed to France and its people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christine Fulton: 'The sentence should reflect seriousness of the crime'\n\nThe widows of two police officers who died in the line of duty are joining forces to call for a change to the law in Scotland.\n\nChristine Fulton and Lissie Harper want killers of emergency service workers to receive mandatory life sentences.\n\nMs Harper's husband Andrew was dragged to his death by a getaway car in Berkshire in 2019.\n\nPC Lewis Fulton, Ms Fulton's late husband, was stabbed to death in Glasgow in 1994.\n\nThe Scottish government said life sentences are mandatory for all murder convictions in Scotland and they are available as an option for anyone convicted of culpable homicide.\n\nMs Harper successfully campaigned for a change in the law in England and Wales, after her husband's killers received sentences of between 13 and 16 years for manslaughter.\n\nHarper's Law will mean that anyone who kills an emergency worker while committing an offence will face a life sentence.\n\nNow Ms Fulton, from Ayrshire, wants to the see a similar law change introduced in Scotland.\n\nPC Lewis Fulton was 28 when he died, leaving his wife and seven-month-old son\n\nThe pair met through Care of Police Survivors (COPS), a charity co-founded by Ms Fulton in the wake of her husband's death, which helps the bereaved families of police officers.\n\n\"Through that we have become good friends,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"When she started this campaign, all of the wives in COPS were right behind her. She has done an amazing job in such a short time and we are really proud of her.\"\n\nMs Fulton added: \"In Scotland, we have to follow England and Wales. This is such an important step forward. It's 27 years since my husband died and for 27 years I've been saying that we have to give them [emergency service workers] more support through the courts.\n\n\"They have to give out sentences that mark the seriousness of the crime, so now that Harper's Law is going through in England and Wales, it's time for Scotland to step up to the plate.\"\n\nShe said she would like to think a life sentence would also act as a deterrent.\n\n\"I'm not altogether convinced that it would, but the threat has to be there - if you disrespect these uniforms, you will go to jail for a long, long time,\" she added.\n\nPC Fulton was stabbed as he tried to arrest Philip McFadden\n\nHe died in Glasgow's Gorbals in 1994\n\nPC Fulton, 28, died in the Gorbals area of Glasgow in June 1994 as he tried to arrest Philip McFadden.\n\nHe was survived by his wife and a seven-month-old son, Luke.\n\nAny change in the law would not have affected her husband's killer as he was a schizophrenic and found not guilty of the murder on the grounds that he was mentally ill at the time of the killing.\n\nHe was sent to Carstairs Hospital without limit of time, following a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow in 2000.\n\nMs Fulton, who was awarded an MBE for her work with COPS in 2008, said she was proud that her husband's death had resulted in positive action.\n\n\"Lewis's death actually brought around a lot of changes in the police service,\" she said.\n\n\"They received stab-proof vests, side-handles batons, better handcuffs, better training in dealing with mentally ill people. It also brought about his two big legacies - Care of Police Survivors and the Scottish Police Memorial.\n\n\"Everything that has come from his death has been very positive and this would be another positive step.\"\n\nPC Andrew Harper married his childhood sweetheart Lissie four weeks before he was killed\n\nPC Andrew Harper, a Thames Valley police officer, died after being dragged for more than a mile behind a car.\n\nHe became tangled in a strap attached to the back of the car as he tried to apprehend three teenagers were suspected of stealing a quad bike.\n\nPC Harper had married Lissie, his childhood sweetheart, just four weeks before his death.\n\nMs Harper told the Sunday Mail, which first reported the story, she was surprised Harper's Law had not already been adopted in Scotland.\n\n\"It is important that we protect the protectors and it's clear to me this is something the public wants. To me, it is a no-brainer,\" she said.\n\nTheir plea is also supported by the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers.\n\nChairman David Hamilton said: \"If legislation was able to come forward and the barriers such as ECHR [the European Convention on Human Rights] could be overcome, then of course it's something we would welcome.\n\n\"Taking of a police officer's life is one of the most serious crimes that society can deal with, and if that doesn't merit some kind of mandatory sentence then I don't know what does.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Whenever the life of an emergency worker is taken it is a tragedy and we fully support courts having the extensive powers they do in dealing with offenders.\n\n\"The family of Andrew Harper has tirelessly campaigned for action and we pay tribute to them and sympathise for their loss.\n\n\"In Scotland, a life sentence is mandatory for murder and is available to the court as a sentencing option for anyone convicted of culpable homicide.\n\n\"It is for the independent court to sentence in individual cases and the court will take into account the fact a victim is an emergency worker when sentencing.\"", "Neri Morse died after an attack on Wednesday\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of a father who was fatally stabbed.\n\nNeri Morse, 24, died after he was attacked in Pollard Street, Ancoats at about 18:30 BST on Wednesday, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nAnother man, who is in his 20s, was also stabbed and suffered leg injuries in the attack.\n\nRushaun Brown, 23, from Higher Ardwick in Manchester, has been charged with murder, assault and possessing a bladed article.\n\nHe will appear at Manchester Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nAnother 23-year-old man, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, remains in police custody.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued a warning to drivers after a motorist was clocked at 148mph on an Ayrshire road.\n\nOfficers said the motorist \"almost flew past them\" during routine speed checks on the A78, which runs from Troon to Greenock.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Police Scotland's road policing officers said: \"Nice weather doesn't mean you can drive at these ridiculous speeds\".\n\nOne senior officer said the driver put themself and others in danger.\n\nChief Superintendent Faroque Hussain, Ayrshire's divisional commander, added: \"Faster speeds means greater impacts... our roads are not race tracks.\"\n\nA 36-year-old man has been reported to the procurator fiscal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Road Policing Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emmanuel Macron limited his public appearances ahead of the first round to one big campaign rally\n\nThey duelled for the top job in France five years ago, but now Emmanuel Macron faces a far stronger challenge from a reinvigorated leader of the far right in Marine Le Pen.\n\nThe second round of France's presidential election takes place on 24 April, and the polls suggest the race will be close. The two candidates come up against each other in a televised debate on Wednesday. So who are they and what is their vision for France?\n\nWhen he became France's youngest ever president in 2017, it sealed a meteoric rise that came less than a year after he launched a centrist political movement called La République En Marche! to challenge the traditional parties.\n\nHe easily defeated Marine Le Pen in the 2017 run-off, winning 66% of the vote. Five years on, aged 44, he continues to dominate French politics but the polls suggest this time his far-right rival has a real chance of unseating him from the Élysée Palace.\n\nHe swept to power as an unknown quantity, a charismatic former economy minister who had never run for elected office before, offering a more centrist vision for France.\n\nA protégé of Socialist President François Hollande with a background in investment banking, he brushed aside old political loyalties and, to many voters, that set him apart from the ruling class, even though he shared the background of France's political elite. The Socialists and Republicans who had run France for so long are now in tatters.\n\nHis rise to power appeared effortless, but he had to navigate choppy political waters to push through the controversial reforms he promised voters.\n\nHe made it easier for companies to fire workers, cut taxes and introduced tough security laws to tackle terrorism. But he was forced to scrap a proposed fuel tax in 2018 after weeks of unrest stoked by yellow-vest protesters, known as gilets jaunes.\n\nOther reforms, including a promise to bring the jobless rate down from more than 10% to 7% by 2022, were hit by the Covid pandemic, although unemployment is currently down to 7.4%.\n\nHe is now proposing full employment within five years, cutting taxes by €15bn (£12.5bn) a year for households and businesses, and paying for his programme by gradually raising the retirement age from 62 to 65.\n\nIncreasing the pension age is unpopular with voters already facing a cost of living crunch. He has been accused of relying on expensive advice from consultants including US firm McKinsey. Marine Le Pen has denounced him as a wealthy \"candidate of finance\", even though she is something of a property owner herself.\n\nHe has had to rethink a controversial plan to make a back-to-work benefit for the unemployed called RSA conditional on 15-20 hours of work a week. Mr Macron also wants to invest in the armed forces, doubling France's reserve force.\n\nHe won more than 27% of the vote in the first round, three points higher than in 2017. But he is no longer an unknown quantity and many of the voters who backed Mr Macron first time around have tired of him. He is still favourite to win, but tightening opinion polls show the race is wide open.\n\nThis is Marine Le Pen's third tilt at power but her biggest chance yet.\n\nShe has made this election a choice about the future of her country's society and civilisation and promised to \"restore France's sovereignty\".\n\nHer family has been synonymous with the far right in France for decades, but when in 2011 she took over the mantle of leader of the far right from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, she set about reforming his old National Front and made it her own.\n\nA political player in France for years, Marine Le Pen became a Euro MP before acting on her presidential ambitions. After she was trounced by Emmanuel Macron in the presidential run-off in 2017, she rebranded her party as Rassemblement National, or National Rally.\n\nMarine Le Pen's chances of winning the French presidency are better than ever\n\nShe can no longer claim the hard-right vote to herself, but in this election that has made her look more moderate.\n\nHer more hardline rival Eric Zemmour attracted defectors from her camp, including her own niece. He made her look less extreme on Islam and immigration, and now she stands to attract his 7% of the vote.\n\nShe has crafted a consistent anti-immigration, anti-EU message and Emmanuel Macron has labelled her policies as racist.\n\nShe has in the past expressed her admiration for Russia's Vladimir Putin and relied on a Russian bank loan for her 2017 presidential campaign. She condemns his invasion of Ukraine, while warning of the risk of sanctions to the French economy.\n\nNow 53, she has promised to halt abuse of the right to asylum, with a referendum on restricting immigration. And she wants to ban the Islamic hijab being worn in public areas.\n\nShe also seeks to turn the European Union into an alliance of nations unchallenged by EU laws and pull France out of Nato's integrated command.\n\nMarine Le Pen wants to waive income tax for those under 30 and exempt companies from tax contributions if they raise minimum wages by 10% for many of their staff.\n\nThe opinion polls give her genuine chance of victory. The final stretch of this campaign will decide whether she can improve on 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Just one of Swansea council's 72 councillors is black\n\nThere are calls for political parties in Wales to run a minimum number of ethnically diverse candidates in elections.\n\nLess than 2% of candidates in the 2017 council elections identified as being black, Asian or minority ethnic.\n\nCampaigners said it was \"time to act\" with race-based shortlists to make sure the 5.2% of people in Wales who are ethnically diverse get representation.\n\nBut the three major parties in Wales all said they were against quotas.\n\nThere is no official data on the ethnic background of the candidates running in the council elections on 5 May - something the Electoral Reform Society has criticised.\n\nBut a candidate survey after the last election found just 1.8% of 1,682 respondents said they were from a non-white background.\n\nThree of the seven local authorities who responded to a request for figures by BBC Wales said they had no ethnically diverse councillors.\n\nCardiff council had the highest number of non-white councillors with nine out of 72 council seats.\n\nWhen it came to women, Newport elected one Asian woman from 50 council seats, while Swansea had one black woman from 72 seats.\n\n\"It's appalling, absolutely,\" said Evelyn James from Women's Equality Network Wales (WEN Wales). \"It shouldn't even be something we should be talking about at this point, because we live in a diverse society.\n\n\"When you bring in the different cultures, the dynamics in the thinking, that's how you thrive... so it is important for us to allow every Welsh citizen to be part of the decision process, for their voices to be heard.\"\n\nWEN Wales said the first step in overcoming barriers to political participation, such as prejudice, a lack of childcare provision and financial disincentives, was a system that guarantees councils elect people of colour.\n\n\"We are not saying that diversity quotas are the only effective tool... it is a starting point,\" said Ms James. \"Give them the chance to be at the decision table, because if we leave it to chance they have lots of barriers already in place that limit them.\n\n\"If you deliberately create a system that gives them the opportunity, then you get to see what potential they can bring to the table.\"\n\nEvelyn James said: \"We're not going to wait until decades to come to make the difference\"\n\nThe Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), which represents all local authorities, said it also wanted to see \"greater diversity in our councils' chambers, to ensure councils reflect the communities they serve\".\n\nIt has run diversity mentoring schemes and said all councils had signed a diversity pledge.\n\nA WLGA spokesman added: \"Quotas are often politically contentious, however the WLGA council agreed that groups or parties should consider using voluntary quotas and review their use following the election.\"\n\nBut Welsh Labour, the Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru have all come out against a quota system for the selection of their candidates.\n\nInstead, Labour said black, Asian and party members from other ethnic minority backgrounds have been over-represented in its future candidate programmes.\n\nBut Ramesh Patel, who is standing down after more than two decades as a Labour councillor in Cardiff, said his party was not doing enough.\n\nRamesh Patel said the representation of diverse communities had been a \"total failure\" in Wales compared with parts of England\n\n\"We should now start to be looking at possibly all-women shortlisting for people from diverse communities,\" said Mr Patel. \"It seems like, almost, you've got to fight lots of obstacles to get your name on the ballot paper and that should not happen.\"\n\nMr Patel wants Labour to consider using diversity quotas because he said having people of colour on the Cardiff councils had made a \"huge difference\", especially when it came to communicating with constituents in different languages and understanding cultural differences.\n\nHe said the need for more ethnically diverse politicians applied to all political parties.\n\n\"I think there has been a total failure compared to some parts of England [where] you've got far better representation from those diverse communities,\" he said. \"If you look at Birmingham and London, you've got day-care centres... designed for diverse communities.\n\n\"In Cardiff, I've been fighting for that for years and years and that hasn't happened... because people just don't understand what that requirement is,\" he said. \"But if you've got more diverse councillors, they could be the voice and get some of those things done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives called quotas \"demeaning, implying certain people are a special class that need favours based on their demography\".\n\nThe party said it \"supports people from all backgrounds to join\" and had a strong record of getting ethnic minority candidates elected in Wales.\n\nAltaf Hussain became the first Asian heritage councillor for the Pen-y-Fai ward in Bridgend county in 2017.\n\nHe is standing down from the council this election, after becoming a Conservative Member of the Senedd (MS) for South Wales West last year.\n\nThe retired orthopaedic surgeon said to get the best candidate, the selection process must be open to all.\n\nAltaf Hussain, one of the first Asian heritage councillors in Bridgend says he wanted to see integration, not quotas\n\nQuotas would be \"a diversion\", he said.\n\n\"What I believe is integrity, there should be no difference between you and me,\" he said. \"I don't think quota business can work, that means really you're.... limiting their competition.\"\n\nBut Mr Hussain said many immigrants come to Wales to earn money and see a job in politics as being too unstable and not paying enough.\n\nHe added that some may not be coming forward because \"they're still thinking that we are not equal, which is horrible.\n\n\"Skills should be developed within the political parties and there should be mentors.... but that's not happening at present.\"\n\nThe chairman of Plaid Cymru's black and minority ethnic section, Abyd Quinn Aziz, said the party did not see quotas as the \"necessary response or an answer\".\n\nAbyd Quinn Aziz said looking at racial diversity was something \"relatively new\" for Plaid Cymru\n\nHe said quotas can, in some cases, \"undermine\" politicians from a minority ethnic background.\n\n\"There are people who say that means you get the job, irrespective of whether you can do it or not,\" said Mr Aziz. \"We have an imposter syndrome or an 'am I good enough' feeling anyway, without that adding to it.\"\n\nLooking at racial diversity was something \"relatively new\" for Plaid, he said, explaining that it was part of a wider effort to demonstrate the party is for everyone in Wales, not just Welsh language speakers.\n\n\"Shadowing, mentoring and encouraging people to join\" and take on different roles is the way the party will get more ethnic minority candidates standing for council, he said.\n\nMr Aziz and Mr Hussain both said they believed educating young people was the key to more diverse politics in the future.\n\nThe Welsh government said its new curriculum included \"education on citizenship and politics\" to help learners become \"ethical informed citizens.\"\n\nHemione said ethnic diversity promotes democracy by allowing everyone's voice to be heard\n\nThe last election in Wales, in December, saw the Welsh Youth Parliament become the country's most diverse political body.\n\nHermione, 15, who represents Gower, said she hoped it would inspire more participation from 16 and 17-years-olds, who will be allowed to vote in a council election for the first time in May.\n\n\"Councils and parliaments reflect the wider community,\" Hermione said. \"If people have someone they can relate to in a position of power, it will inspire them to make a change themselves.\"\n\nShe said she hopes her generation of politicians will help to close the diversity gap in Welsh politics.", "Nadine Dorries said her dyslexia can make it \"difficult\" to find the correct expression when speaking\n\nThe culture secretary has said dyslexia caused her to mix up her words in a video that has been shared on social media.\n\nIn the TikTok video, Nadine Dorries talks about being able to \"downstream\" instead of download films online and refers to tennis courts as \"pitches\".\n\nShe said it was tough seeing commentators \"mock me for something that is beyond my control\".\n\n\"I have dyslexia, which means that when I speak I often run my words together.\"\n\nIn the video, posted on Friday by Conservative MP Luke Evans on his TikTok account, he asks the cabinet minister about what her government department does.\n\nShe tweeted on Saturday to defend herself against the criticism she faced over the terms she used in the video, saying it can be difficult finding the right expression when speaking.\n\n\"Dyslexia affects people differently. For me, it affects my speech more than my writing, which is why I find solace in writing\", she said.\n\nIn the video Ms Dorries also says: \"We want to make the internet in the UK the safest internet in the world.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nadine Dorries This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn her tweet, Ms Dorries said it can be \"difficult\" being in front of a camera, writing a book or just speaking to a friend.\n\n\"I've been in politics a long time and you grow a thick skin. It's why I haven't spoken publicly much about how it affects me.\n\n\"For other dyslexia sufferers, we learn that it's what you achieve in life that counts, not what those who mock you say.\"\n\nThe NHS describes dyslexia as a common learning difficulty that mainly causes problems with reading, writing and spelling.\n\nA spokeswoman from one dyslexia support charity, the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre, said: \"Dyslexia affects around one in ten people and is different for everyone.\n\n\"It mainly affects writing and spelling as well as organisation and memory. People with dyslexia, especially with the right help and support, can be very successful in whatever they choose to do.\"", "A pregnant woman was among several adults, and a six-month-old baby, who were aboard a cruiser that got stuck on the River Yare at Breydon Water\n\nThe coastguard has rescued 17 people - along with two dogs and a rabbit - left stranded overnight on mudflats.\n\nThe mission, on Breydon Water in Norfolk, took place after two cruisers ran aground in low tide. It involved two lifeboats and a helicopter.\n\nEleven people were winched by the helicopter, while the rest of the group - including the animals - were taken off the other cruiser by boat.\n\nThey all had to spend the night on the water before the early-morning rescue.\n\nJoe Coglan, who was on one of the boats, said his family was undaunted by the experience and had decided to hire another cruiser, staying on an extra day.\n\nThe drainage engineer said he had only been concerned for his six-month-old daughter, Myla.\n\nHe praised the lifeboat service, saying: \"The rescue was very well done; they're saviours really.\n\n\"If it wasn't for them we'd probably still be there.\"\n\nOne of the two dogs aboard being carried to safety\n\nMembers of the Hemsby lifeboat service rescued several people from one of the cruisers\n\nAccording to Great Yarmouth and Gorleston RNLI, and the Hemsby lifeboat, the alarm was raised on Saturday afternoon.\n\nBoth cruisers had become stuck on the mudflats on the River Yare due to an ebbing tide.\n\nLocal marine engineers notified the coastguard after trying to reach the occupants of the hire boats.\n\nThe low tide meant a rescue of the holiday-makers was not immediately possible, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston RNLI service said. The mission began at 04:50 GMT on Sunday.\n\nAnimals rescued from one of the two cruisers by Hemsby lifeboat crew\n\nHemsby lifeboat coxswain Daniel Hurd was involved in the rescue\n\nHemsby lifeboat service deployed its flat-bottomed vessel, used to navigate the shallow waters of the Norfolk Broads, to carry out one of the rescues.\n\nThe adults aboard, including a pregnant woman, and six-month-old Myla - and the three pets - were taken off that stricken cruiser.\n\nCoxswain Daniel Hurd said the cruiser's engine had broken and the boat was listing (leaning), meaning \"those on board were in some danger\".\n\n\"I'd say they were extremely lucky,\" said Mr Hurd, when asked about the level of danger they were in.\n\nThe group, from Hastings in Sussex, were taken to a nearby yacht station. They had been on a weekend break in Norfolk.\n\nA rescue helicopter was despatched by Humber Coastguard after it became clear crews would be unable to reach the 11 people stranded aboard the second cruiser, due to the tides.\n\nPeople were winched, mostly two at a time, and taken to a nearby rugby field.\n\nHemsby lifeboat remained in the area on standby in order to keep the waterway clear while the helicopter winch took place.\n\nNo-one needed hospital treatment, the lifeboat services said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None New lifeguard hut washed away by high tides\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool moved back to within one point of Premier League leaders Manchester City and left neighbours Everton languishing in the bottom three after victory in the Merseyside derby.\n\nStruggling Everton made Liverpool fight for their win with a well-organised and disciplined performance that will give them hope they can still avoid the drop but was not enough to deny Jurgen Klopp's quadruple-chasing side.\n\nLiverpool can find different ways to get the job done and after blowing Manchester United aside on Tuesday they demonstrated patience to finally break down Everton's stubborn resistance in what could prove to be a priceless win.\n\nThe deadlock was broken after 62 minutes when Andy Robertson arrived at the far post in front of the Kop to head home Mo Salah's cross.\n\nEverton could not respond, although Demarai Gray powered a drive just wide, and Liverpool wrapped up the win when substitute Divock Origi tormented the neighbours once again when he headed in Luis Diaz's bicycle kick with six minutes left.\n\nThe loss means the Toffees end the day in the top-flight's bottom three for the first time since 6 December 2019. They were last in the relegation zone this far into the season in 1998-99.\n• None Best action and reaction from Liverpool v Everton in the Premier League\n\nLiverpool get the job done\n\nThis was not the flowing, blistering Liverpool that effectively won the FA Cup semi-final in the first 45 minutes against Manchester City at Wembley and who dismantled a hapless Manchester United at Anfield.\n\nEverton's rearguard action and determination to disrupt Liverpool infuriated and frustrated Anfield in the first 45 minutes but eventually the dam broke and for all the visitors' courage they were not able to hold out.\n\nManager Klopp may well take as much pleasure from how Liverpool were forced to dig deep and overcome Everton's determined challenge as he would from the way they have swept so many teams aside this season.\n\nLiverpool had to fight for control and, in truth, they were never in their normal level of command and still had to survive one or two anxious moments before the final whistle.\n\nIt puts the Reds right back in City's rearview mirror after Pep Guardiola's side thrashed Watford 5-1, and still on course for their ambition of adding the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup to the EFL Cup.\n\nLiverpool now face Villarreal in the Champions League semi-final first leg at Anfield on Wednesday as firm favourites and their challenge continues to gather huge momentum.\n\nEverton must take heart despite defeat\n\nEverton find themselves in a very hazardous position in the relegation places after this loss at Liverpool followed Burnley's win against Wolverhampton Wanderers.\n\nFrank Lampard's side are now in serious danger of relegation and their 17% possession displays how on the back foot they were, but there were other elements of this game that must encourage them as they try to avoid the drop into the Championship.\n\nThey will certainly believe they should have had a penalty when the outstanding Anthony Gordon tumbled under a challenge from Joel Matip with the score 0-0 after 53 minutes.\n\nIt looked like a clear penalty but was waved away by Stuart Attwell, who had earlier booked the talented youngster for diving.\n\nGordon also shot across the face of goal with a good chance before Liverpool took the lead and Gray fired a rising drive inches off target as his side looked to equalise.\n\nRobertson also made a vital goalline clearance with Alex Iwobi poised to turn home Dele Alli's cross.\n\nEverton were fiercely well-drilled until Liverpool went ahead. It was not pretty but Everton do not have to make excuses for that. They could hardly be expected to play an open, expansive game and make themselves lambs to the slaughter.\n\nWhat is beyond doubt, though, is that Everton are now in serious peril, especially with Burnley seemingly completely reinvigorated after Sean Dyche was sacked and Mike Jackson appointed as caretaker.\n\nJackson has hauled in seven points in three games in charge and the momentum is now with Burnley. This is something Lampard and Everton must address, quickly.\n• None Attempt saved. Richarlison (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Dele Alli (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (Everton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Everton 0. Divock Origi (Liverpool) header from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Luis Díaz following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Luis Díaz (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt blocked. Richarlison (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 300 people have taken part in a vigil for Alyson Nelson, who was killed in Whitehead, County Antrim, last week.\n\nThose who gathered held a silence, while some tied white ribbons to seafront railings close to her home.\n\nMs Nelson, 64, was pronounced dead after police received reports of a stabbing last Saturday.\n\nIn a statement read during the vigil, her family said she had been \"robbed of her life under the cruellest of circumstances\".\n\nThe day after her body was found at a house in Victoria Avenue, police announced they had started a murder investigation.\n\nA man appeared in court on Thursday charged with murder, which was alleged to have been aggravated by domestic abuse.\n\nThe domestic abuse aggravation is part of new legislation which was introduced in Northern Ireland in February.\n\nFamily members tied a white ribbon to the railings at the seafront, close to where Alyson Nelson died\n\nThe vigil on Saturday evening was led by Pastor Steve Ames, of Harbour Faith Community in Carrickfergus, who read the statement on behalf of Ms Nelson's family.\n\n\"We would like to thank the entire community of Whitehead, and further afield, for the outpouring of love and support over the past week since mum was robbed of her life under the cruellest of circumstances,\" it said.\n\nThe family added it took \"great comfort\" from knowing \"how loved mum was and still is by her friends, her family and all those who stand with us\".\n\nThe pastor told BBC News NI \"the grief has just been overwhelming for so many people\" since Ms Nelson's death and the vigil was an opportunity to show support for her loved ones.\n\n\"As a family, they are stunned, it's been a long time since I've seen the kind of grief that they are going through,\" he continued.\n\nA crowd gathered in Whitehead for the vigil on Saturday evening\n\n\"For them to come and stand here as well must have been hugely difficult, just not knowing what to expect.\n\n\"Now that they were here and seeing the sheer number of people standing around them, feeling the love and support, I think in weeks and months to come, especially as they look back to this day, it'll mean so much to them.\"\n\nThose taking part in the vigil also walked to St Patrick's Church in Whitehead to sign a book of remembrance.\n\nMembers of the Belfast Feminist Network were involved in the vigil and said they were showing \"solidarity with those grieving the loss of Alyson Nelson and with all victims of violence against women\".", "Jamie Wallis has been a Conservative MP since 2019\n\nThe first MP to come out as transgender has said he hopes to begin transitioning \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nJamie Wallis last month tweeted that he has gender dysphoria and had been raped and blackmailed.\n\nHe told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, a part of him \"died\" following the rape.\n\nThe 37-year-old, a Conservative MP for Bridgend since 2019, said he had received an \"incredible amount of support\" since he came out.\n\nHe also told the programme the transition process would take many years and he still preferred to use the pronouns he and him.\n\nMr Wallis said he was eight years old when he first started \"trying to work out what this was\", but without ready access to the internet he had no idea \"whether this was something that affected just me or whether there were other people that might feel like this\".\n\nAs a result of this, he said he came to the wrong conclusion and believed \"maybe there was some sort of horrible mistake or something had gone very wrong\".\n\nHe added: \"I think now that I am out and people do know, I'm free to start that and actually go on that journey at a pace that I find comfortable.\"\n\nMr Wallis admitted he tried to \"run away\" from who he was for years until the past six to 12 months before he \"realised, actually, I am no longer ashamed of this\".\n\nHe advised other young people struggling with their gender identity to take their time discovering themselves and \"don't feel rushed to pick up a label or view it in any way\".\n\nIn last month's tweet, Mr Wallis revealed a man sent pictures to his family in 2020 and demanded £50,000.\n\nHe said in that statement that the blackmailer pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison.\n\nThe rape was a separate incident and it is not known if anyone has been arrested or charged in connection with this.\n\nHe told Sophy Ridge he met someone but was \"not OK with not being what I consider to be responsible and safe practice in the bedroom, so I withdrew consent\".\n\nHe went on to say how the man \"decided that he was going to do it anyway and I was powerless to stop him\", adding that \"in that moment, a part of me died and I have been trying to get it back ever since\".\n\nMr Wallis said he still suffered nightmares and flashbacks about the attack, which prompted him to seek help.\n\nHe added: \"I'm not OK, I'm not the person I was before that happened, but I am at least in a place where I can get on with my life whilst I am dealing with it.\"\n\nMr Wallis was arrested last year on suspicion of driving while unfit, following an incident where a car hit a lamppost in Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, on 28 November.\n\nHe said he fled the scene as he was \"terrified\" and had \"no idea what I was doing except I was overcome by an overwhelming sense of fear\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said the matter was still under investigation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Wallis MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On Thursday, trauma surgeon David Nott was in London - a long way from Ukraine. But that didn't stop him from helping to save the leg of a man who'd been caught by a blast in the war-ravaged country.\n\nOleksandr, the doctor who actually carried out the operation, had never performed the tricky procedure before. But a little over a week previously he had watched Prof Nott demonstrate how it was done inside a Ukrainian hospital.\n\nAnd so Oleksandr took a photo of the wound with his smartphone and sent it to Prof Nott, who had recently flown back to the UK. The experienced British war surgeon confirmed the operation was necessary. He'd also previously given Oleksandr a video talking him through how it was done.\n\n\"I was quite nervous and it was slowly, step-by-step surgery, but it went well thanks to David Nott,\" Oleksandr says.\n\nProf Nott, who was born in Carmarthen in west Wales, has previously worked in conflict zones including Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.\n\nFortunately for Oleksandr and his patient, the consultant surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in London had made Ukraine the latest destination in his mission to train doctors how to treat war wounds.\n\nRussia's tactics of bombarding and shelling cities means Ukraine's hospitals are currently seeing many blast injuries.\n\n\"It is the worst possible way of attacking the opposition, by simply shelling,\" says Prof Nott, in his first interview since returning from Ukraine. \"It causes enormous damage. It causes dreadful, dreadful injuries.\" These include shrapnel wounds to soft tissue, bones and limbs.\n\nDavid Nott has worked in conflict zones all over the world\n\nEven just the shockwave of such a blast can do huge damage, he says. The \"blast wind\" in its wake is capable of amputating limbs. Being thrown against buildings can cause traumatic injuries, too.\n\nBarotrauma - physical injury caused by changes in pressure during an explosion - is a particular concern because of Russia's use of thermobaric weapons, also known as vacuum bombs. These can cause bleeds on the brain and in the lungs, causing victims to cough up blood. They are also capable of bursting ear drums and perforating bowels.\n\nWhile he says he has been all over Ukraine - \"north, east, south-east, west\" - Prof Nott does not want to talk about the specific hospitals or areas he has visited for fear that Russian forces will target them - and for the same reason, the BBC is not using Oleksandr's full name or location.\n\nDuring the war in Syria, he used a Skype connection from his office in London to assist with an operation in Aleppo - only for the hospital to be bombed a few days later. He has spoken about how he will never know if the two were connected.\n\nNow Prof Nott says 115 hospitals in Ukraine have already been shelled by Russia.\n\n\"Blowing up hospitals and killing doctors is a real weapon of war too, it's just despicable,\" he says.\n\nWhile he was in Ukraine, Prof Nott brought as many doctors as possible into operating theatres to watch him carry out operations on warzone injuries, including filling holes in limbs, grafting skin and covering exposed bones.\n\nBut the mission, a combined venture between his own David Nott Foundation and the humanitarian group UOSSM International, did not end when he left the country as he would soon end up advising Oleksandr remotely before the complicated leg operation.\n\nThis involved taking a flap of skin from behind the patient's knee to close a wound and prevent infection getting into the exposed bone.\n\n\"They are very difficult operations, they are not easy and they go wrong and cause problems,\" Prof Nott says.\n\nBut despite these challenges, the result was \"miraculous\", he says. \"It worked really well.\"\n\nFor Oleksandr's part, he says it was important to have the advice of someone with practical experience of the operation: \"It's a relief to us when he tells us it will be OK.\"\n\nHe is full of praise for Prof Nott, who he says has \"showed us ordinary doctors how to fight on the medical frontline\".\n\nOleksandr says knowing how to carry out these types of procedure is \"very necessary in our situation\" because there are so many shelling injuries and open fractures that need to be treated.\n\nProf Nott, through his charity the David Nott Foundation, has translated a series of slides and videos on how to treat war wounds into Ukrainian \"which went on as many of the doctors' phones as it possibly could\".\n\nHe also hopes those like Oleksandr that he has taught will pass on what they have learned. \"He will train other people how to do it, they'll train other people to do it and then hopefully everyone will know how to do it in the not-too-distant future,\" Prof Nott says.\n\nUnfortunately, it seems the demand for these skills in Ukraine will not go away any time soon.\n\nEarlier this month, Ukraine's foreign minister said the battles in the eastern Donbas region would resemble World War Two, with the use of \"thousands of tanks, armoured vehicles, planes, artillery\".\n\nTo Prof Nott, the scenes coming out of cities like Mariupol are reminiscent of what he previously witnessed in Aleppo.\n\nFile picture of an operating theatre in Ukraine - unconnected to David Nott's mission\n\n\"It's exactly the same as Syria, exactly the same tactics,\" he says.\n\n\"Aleppo, when I was there by 2016, was completely flattened, the whole place was completely and utterly destroyed.\"\n\nOleksandr says he is now treating \"awful injuries\" that he had hoped never to see.\n\n\"We would like to treat normal trauma, like grannies and grandpas who need joint replacements, common fractures,\" he says.\n\nBut he adds: \"We are doing our job day by day and whatever happens we will stay at home and do what we should do.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nWBC champion Tyson Fury produced a stunning one-punch stoppage in the sixth round to beat fellow Briton Dillian Whyte and then insisted he will retire from boxing.\n\nFury dominated what was a scrappy bout and then unleashed a vicious right uppercut.\n\nWhyte, admirably, got to his feet within the count before staggering into the referee as the fight was halted.\n\n\"This might be the final curtain for the Gypsy King,\" Fury said post-fight.\n\nHe added later: \"I've spent a lot of time on the road. I've been away for a long time. I fulfilled everything I've ever wanted to fulfil.\n\n\"I will retire as only the second heavyweight in history, after Rocky Marciano, to retire undefeated. I was unbeatable at this game.\"\n\nFury - who also retained his Ring Magazine belt - is unbeaten in 33 bouts, while Whyte - suffering his third loss in 31 fights - fell short on his first attempt at a world title.\n\nIf Fury does decide to hang up the gloves, the 33-year-old will miss out on an opportunity to fight for the undisputed crown - a fight which could potentially be staged later this year - and a chance to cement his status as Britain's greatest ever heavyweight.\n\n\"I promised my wife that would be it after the [Deontay] Wilder fight,\" he added. \"But I got offered a fight at Wembley and I owed it to the fans. What a way to go out.\"\n\nFury's wife Paris told BT Sport: \"I would like him to come out now. He has nothing more to prove. If he had anything left to do, I would say 'Yeah Tyson, you do it'. But he has nothing to prove.\n\n\"For Tyson to keep boxing, it just seems for one reason and I know in my heart, I think the only reason that Tyson will come back is for the unification fight.\"\n• None The Gypsy King - end of an extraordinary era?\n• None Recap - All the action as it happened\n\nWith 94,000 fans in attendance - a post-war British record - there was an electric atmosphere like no other for a fight dubbed by some as the greatest all-British heavyweight dust-up in history.\n\nBoos echoed around the iconic stadium as a pumped-up Whyte let out his trademark wolf-like howl before walking to the ring.\n\nFury's ring walk was extravagant. It began to the tune of Don McLean's 'American Pie', soon turned into 'Juicy' by Notorious B.I.G and ended on 'Sex on Fire' by Kings of Leon. Fury then sat on a throne as fireworks blasted skywards, before heading towards the ring.\n\nHe towered over Whyte as the two men touched gloves. Fury teased before the fight that he could switch to southpaw and neutralise Whyte's dangerous left hook but, surprisingly, it was Whyte who came out as a southpaw in a cagey opening round.\n\nIt was then Fury's turn to switch from orthodox in the second as the battle of mind games continued, with the champion edging the opening two rounds.\n\nHe landed with a solid two-punch combination in the third, prompting Whyte to charge at his opponent. But the challenger could not get close to Fury, who used his height and reach advantage to keep Whyte at bay as the fight progressed.\n\nThe contest truly heated up in a spicy fourth round. Whyte connected when asked to break, which clearly agitated Fury.\n\nThe fighters twice received a telling off from Mark Lyson, as the referee struggled to control the two men who boast a combined weight of 37 stone.\n\nWhyte's telegraphed overhand rights were getting nowhere close to the elusive Fury, who was connecting with ease.\n\nThen came arguably Fury's greatest punch of what is proving to be an illustrious career. He teed it up with a left jab and as Whyte stepped forward, Fury whipped in the brutal uppercut.\n\nWhyte fell back on the canvas. He channelled the warrior spirit he spoke of before the fight but, as he made it to his feet, was clearly in no position to continue.\n\nFury insists he will hang up his gloves\n\nFury, as expected, took the microphone and treated fans to his own rendition of 'American Pie' in the ring following his victory.\n\nIt was a singsong to end the perfect homecoming party for the Morecambe-based fighter, who was boxing in the United Kingdom for the first time since 2018.\n\nHe said before the fight that this would be his last. That by boxing at Wembley he had reached his pinnacle.\n\nMany in the sport took those comments with a touch of scepticism - it is something he said several times before - but it seems Fury is sticking to his word.\n\nHis compatriot Anthony Joshua is likely to rematch Ukraine's WBA, IBF and WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk this summer.\n\nThe lure of fighting the winner for all the belts - and the lucrative nature it brings, particularly if Joshua is victorious - could just tempt Fury to halt his retirement plans.\n\nIf this is the end, however, it is a remarkable career from a man who at 6ft 9in and 19 stone has an ability to glide across the ring resembling an elegant ballroom dancer. His style, for his size, is unmatched.\n\nHe is a boxer who went from narrowly beating John McDermott on points for the English title in Brentwood to becoming a unified world champion, shocking long-reigning champion Wladimir Klitschko in Germany in 2015.\n\nA boxer who came back from over two and half years out of the sport and reclaimed a heavyweight title, cracking America and sharing arguably one of the greatest trilogies in the sport with Deontay Wilder.\n\nHe has entertained reporters by dressing up as batman or taping his mouth shut at media conferences. Fury even had time to join the scripted world of professional wrestling.\n\nIn the second coming of his career, Fury has spoken openly about - and become an advocate for - mental health struggles.\n\nBut his career has not been short of controversy. Not long after his first world title, Fury made homophobic and sexist remarks during an interview.\n\nHe previously tested positive for a banned steroid - something he blamed on eating uncastrated wild boar - and later admitted to use of drink and drugs to help deal with depression.\n\nMore recently, his fight with Whyte had been somewhat overshadowed by Fury's links to Daniel Kinahan, who earlier this month was among seven people hit with worldwide financial sanctions by the United States.\n\nFury had previously been advised by Kinahan but this week insisted he has \"absolutely zero\" involvement with the Irishman.\n\nIt has been a career full of highs and lows. But despite the retirement, seeing the Gypsy King in a ring again - with potentially an opportunity to cement his status as the greatest British heavyweight in history - is wholly possible.\n\nWhat next for Whyte?\n\nApart from the few months following his defeat to Alexander Povetkin in 2020, which he then avenged, 34-year-old Whyte had been mandatory challenger for the WBC belt since 2017.\n\n\"Dillian is a warrior and I believe he will be a world champion,\" Fury said as he and Whyte embraced post-fight.\n\n\"One of the greatest and, unfortunately, he had to fight me tonight. You are not messing with a mediocre heavyweight, you are messing with the best man on the planet.\"\n\nSince his first career defeat to rival Joshua in 2015, Whyte has proven his world-level credentials with wins over the likes of Joseph Parker and Povetkin. He is still a big draw in the sport.\n\n\"There wasn't a lot in it - it was a close fight and I didn't feel like I was outclassed in there,\" Whyte told Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"My game plan was to press him and start moving forward. I was trying to attack but one slip and I got caught with the shot.\n\n\"It was always going to be an awkward fight, but I was trying to set up and be patient and land what I could early and from round three onwards start to press.\n\nA rematch with rival Joshua, should he lose against Usyk, is easy to sell and one which could capture the imagination of boxing fans.\n\nTime will tell what the future has in store for Whyte, but the night belonged to Fury - one of, if not the greatest, British heavyweights of all time and a future hall-of-famer.\n• None Who are the best African footballers? Gary Lineker is joined by Micah Richards and Alan Shearer to rank the top 10\n• None Look behind the claims and promises of changing to an electric vehicle", "Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has been criticised for leaving a note for civil servants, saying \"sorry you were out when I visited\".\n\nThe note, printed on government paper with Mr Rees-Mogg's title, was left at empty desks and read \"I look forward to seeing you in the office very soon.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg has said all civil servants must stop working from home.\n\nFDA union boss Dave Penman said the note was crass and insulting, and undermined civil service leadership.\n\nA source close to Mr Rees-Mogg confirmed the note, which has been widely shared on social media, was genuine.\n\nThe note, which was signed off by the Cabinet Office minister \"with every good wish\", was left in a \"completely empty\" office, the source said.\n\nThe source added that it was \"very important for the taxpayer and British public that government is working properly and the estate is well used\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFDA General Secretary Dave Penman said civil servants were planning to leave because of a renewed effort to have them working from Whitehall.\n\n\"Day after day we have good people telling us they will go because they know this is not about effective working practices,\" he said.\n\n\"They know it's a culture war that some ministers think plays well with their base.\n\n\"These notes from JRM are not only condescending, crass and insulting, they completely undermine the leadership of the service.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan also condemned Mr Rees-Mogg's actions in a tweet, saying: \"What a pointless nasty gesture.\"\n\nFormer Conservative MP David Gauke said the Cabinet Secretary \"really needs to have a word\" with Mr Rees-Mogg over the note.\n\n\"Not convinced this will get the best out of civil servants,\" Mr Gauke said in a tweet.\n\nThe BBC has asked the Cabinet Secretary for a comment.\n\nCivil servants have been told to return to the office\n\nEarlier this week, civil servants were told they must stop working from home and return to the office to ensure government buildings are at full capacity.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg wrote to cabinet colleagues urging them to send a \"clear message\" to the civil service about returning.\n\nHe also sent a league table of how many officials were at their desks on a daily basis this month, which shows in some departments daily average of staff in the workplace was lower than a third.\n\nAverage daily attendance in the week of 4 April was 44%, figures show.\n\nThe government's recommendation for people to work from home ended in January, after being reintroduced in the face of the emergence of the Omicron variant last year.", "Cheers from Emmanuel Macron's supporters have greeted the first projections in France.\n\nThe results suggest the incumbent has secured the largest share of the presidential vote and beaten far-right leader Marine Le Pen.\n\nLe Pen was running for the presidency for a third time.", "'I am the president of all'\n\nMacron thanks all those who voted for him, and says he is conscious that many voted for him to block the far right. He says he owes an obligation to those voters for the years ahead. He says he is thinking of who those who abstained and also those who voted for Le Pen who are now disappointed. This gets jeers from supporters, and he urges the crowd not to boo them. \"From now on, I'm no longer the candidate of one camp, but the president of all. \"I tell those who voted for the far right that my responsibility and that of my team will be to address their concerns.\"", "P&O Ferries has been forced to reverse an attempt to pay its new, cheaper agency workers even less money.\n\nIt comes after the RMT Union received reports of agency workers at Dover being asked to sign new contracts replacing their old ones on lower pay.\n\nThe union reported P&O Ferries to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, which ensured the new workers retained their original wages.\n\nThe company has been asked for comment but has so far not responded.\n\nP&O Ferries sacked almost 800 employees last month and brought in cheaper agency workers on some of its boats, in a move it said would ensure the future of the business.\n\nHowever, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said the firm was now \"trying to bring in an exploitative model, with the lowest possible standards they can get away with\".\n\nRMT said that a seafarer on the Spirit of Britain ferry at Dover had initially contacted the union begging for help in a dispute over pay.\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC the worker wrote: \"They don't care about our rights. They try to give us less money. We are desperate.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was \"good P&O have reversed [the] further attempt at a pay cut\", but added that \"they must go much further and pay the minimum wage like all UK businesses\".\n\n\"We will legislate to force them, but they could win back some much needed credibility by acting now,\" he said.\n\nThe Spirit of Britain resumed cross channel services this weekend\n\nOn Friday, the Spirit of Britain was cleared to resume sailing after inspections by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. It had been held at the port since 12 April due to a number of unspecified deficiencies, according to the regulator.\n\nIt is P&O's first Dover to Calais ferry to recommence operations, with services set to resume on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe seafarer who contacted the RMT told the union that they were being forced to work without contracts, after old ones had expired. The worker claimed documents had also been lost by P&O.\n\nThe worker wrote in their email to the union: \"This is my sixth day working without a contract, please help us!\"\n\nOn Friday, the RMT went aboard the Spirit of Britain to speak with seafarers after being previously refused access.\n\nNational secretary Darren Proctor, who was on the visit, said P&O Ferries initially did not want to let them on, instead offering the use of a meeting room in the port. The RMT declined, quoting the ISPS Code, which is a comprehensive set of measures designed to strengthen the security of ships and port facilities.\n\nOnce on board, the union's representatives were chaperoned to a new lounge on the ferry for pets, where the RMT inspectors were able to speak directly to newly employed workers.\n\nThe RMT said it had spoken to a number of workers from around the world who have joined the ferry's crew who shared similar complaints.\n\nMr Proctor said P&O Ferries had \"brought people in on a month contract, some on two-month contracts\" and then told them that they have to accept lower pay rates if they want to stay on.\n\n\"Others are coming in on four-month contracts on lower pay. P&O is undermining safety and creating a lowest possible denominator in ferry standards,\" he said.\n\nThe union complained to the Maritime and Coastguard Authority (MCA) who took action and affected seafarers' contracts were amended with their original wages reinstated.\n\nRMT said that P&O was \"desperate to keep these new crew on board because they've been on board for four weeks now and these crews were beginning to have familiarity with the vessels. They need familiarity to get them sailing again.\"\n\nTim Morris, chief of trade association UK Major Ports Group, said P&O Ferries' newest move was \"clearly not great news for the reputation for maritime in the UK\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme the ports industry was \"disappointed and surprised as everyone else on what has gone on\".\n\n\"It's not how we operate in the ports sector,\" he said. \"We hire locally, we pay well, we have well established industrial relations.\"\n\nMr Morris said there was a law that stopped port operators \"picking and choosing who we let into our ports outside of some very narrow safety constraints\".\n\n\"Whilst we're as disappointed and surprised as everybody else, there needs to be a change in the law before employment conditions can be linked to port access,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast month, P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite admitted to MPs that the decision to sack 800 workers last month without notice broke the law.\n\nHe said there was \"absolutely no doubt\" that under UK employment law the firm was required to consult unions before making the mass cuts.\n\nHowever, he said no union would have accepted the plan and it was easier to compensate workers \"in full\" instead.\n\nThe P&O boss also said he would make the same decision again if he had to.\n\nMr Shapps has said he wanted to see British ports refusing access to ferry companies \"who don't pay a fair wage\".\n\nHe said the government would consult on the changes needed to make it a legal requirement, but urged ports to take action \"as soon as practical\".\n\nHowever, British ports have described the new pay plans for the ferry industry as \"unworkable\".\n\n\"The ports industry is genuinely sympathetic towards the situation of the impacted seafarers, however we would suggest that ports are not the competent authorities to enforce rules on employee salaries or working conditions in the shipping industry,\" said Richard Ballantyne of the British Ports Association.\n\nAre you a P&O employee or agency worker? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Le Pen and Macron come to blows over headscarf policy\n\nThe two candidates for the French presidency have gone head to head in their only televised debate, ahead of Sunday's second-round run-off vote.\n\nFar-right leader Marine Le Pen has fallen behind centrist Emmanuel Macron in the opinion polls but millions of voters are still undecided.\n\nIt did not take long for the two-hour-45-minute clash to burst into life.\n\nThe candidates confronted each other on the cost of living, Russia, climate change and immigration.\n\nAround 15.6 million viewers watched the debate, in which Mr Macron accused his rival of being dependent on Russian power while Marine Le Pen called him a hypocrite on climate change.\n\nSpiralling prices have dominated the campaign and immediately took centre stage in the debate.\n\nEmmanuel Macron was widely seen as the winner of the pair's 2017 encounter, when his rival appeared flustered and underprepared. But this time, Marine Le Pen was ready from the start and far more composed.\n\nThroughout the debate, it was Mr Macron who went on the offensive, appearing more like a challenger than an incumbent, repeatedly interrupting his rival.\n\nMs Le Pen said 70% of the French people believed their standard of living had fallen over the past five years and she would be the president of civil peace and national brotherhood. \"We need to give priority to the French in their own country,\" she said.\n\nMr Macron said France had known unprecedented crisis, with Covid followed by war in Europe. He had steered France through those challenges and aimed to make France a stronger country: the vote was a \"referendum on Europe, on secularism, and a moment of clear choice\", he said.\n\nDespite a strong performance from Ms Le Pen, a snap Elabe poll of voters suggested 59% of viewers thought Mr Macron had come out the winner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Voters react to the Macron and Le Pen TV debate\n\nThe sitting president was seen as most presidential, by 53% to 29%, although half of viewers also said he had come across as arrogant. Ms Le Pen was narrowly deemed to be more in tune with normal people, although 50% found her \"worrying\".\n\nThe president's difficulty was that unlike in 2017, he is now defending a record in office.\n\nIt meant that when asked what he planned for a second mandate, he had to stick to the unexciting option of continuity. His opponent could make hay with attacks on the inevitable failures of five years in government.\n\nAnd yet, the president never gave the feeling he was not on solid ground. His attacks on Marine Le Pen over the Russian loan, over Europe and over the Islamic headscarf all hit home.\n\nOn the economy, he argued forcefully that his already-enacted proposals for protecting the French from inflation - a cap on fuel prices and tax exemption for pay bonuses - were both fairer and more effective than Madame Le Pen's ideas.\n\nAnd in the main, he avoided the trap of coming over as too arrogant or technocratic. Often, he gave the impression of wanting to launch himself more strongly against his opponent but of holding himself back.\n\nAfter a relatively civil start, it quickly turned combative when the two candidates addressed the biggest issue for voters.\n\nCost of living: From the start Marine Le Pen said this was her priority: \"I will permanently cut VAT on energy. I will also cut taxes, no income tax for under-30s.\" She accused Mr Macron on letting pension levels fall in real terms too.\n\nMr Macron said his solution was to impose a cap on prices which was \"twice as effective as dropping sales tax\".\n\nThey became animated as they disagreed on how to bring down energy prices. Mr Macron repeatedly challenged his opponent's proposals as unworkable. She snapped back: \"I want to give the French their money back.\"\n\nMr Macron frequently went on the offensive during the long debate\n\nRussia's war in Ukraine: Emmanuel Macron said Russia was \"going down a fatal path\" and the role of France and Europe was to provide Ukraine with military equipment and take in refugees.\n\nMs Le Pen, criticised for her close ties to the Kremlin and for taking a Russian bank loan for her party, warned that giving Ukraine weapons could make France a \"co-belligerent\". However, she supported her opponent's policy of backing Ukraine and taking in refugees.\n\nAt this point Mr Macron went on the offensive, pointing out she was one of the first political leaders in 2014 to recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea. \"You're speaking to your banker when you speak to Russia,\" he said.\n\nMs Le Pen said she had taken Russian money as no French bank would lend to her party. When she argued that she had had to borrow money like millions of French people, he countered that the French did not look to Russia for finance.\n\nAt one point Marine Le Pen held up a printed tweet to prove her backing for a free Ukraine\n\nEuropean Union: Marine Le Pen has changed her policy from leaving the EU to seeking change from within it. But Mr Macron argued that her idea of a \"Europe of nations\" would spell the end of the EU and that \"you are selling a lie\".\n\nIn the current EU she said France was failing to defend its interests and she would stop negotiating trade deals that \"hurt French producers and farmers\".\n\nRetirement age: This is another of the big election issues: Emmanuel Macron has said France needs to raise the pension age from 62 to 65 over nine years, while Ms Le Pen wants to keep it at 62.\n\nMs Le Pen said his proposal was \"absolutely intolerable\". He hit back saying she was promising to be more generous with pensioners but did not explain how she would pay for it.\n\nClimate change: Renewable energy is another issue where the two candidates are diametrically opposed and it became one of the most animated points of the debate. The only thing they agree on is building more nuclear power stations.\n\n\"You are a climate sceptic, that's pretty obvious,\" Mr Macron said to his rival. The only Green presidential candidate has urged his voters to back the incumbent president. Marine Le Pen retorted that he was a \"climate hypocrite\".\n\nMarine Le Pen argued importing goods from thousands of miles away was responsible for climate change and producing locally would help tackle global warming. There was nothing worse than wind turbines, she complained. He countered that her policy of relying on nuclear power to replace fossil fuels was \"untenable\" and renewables had to be part of the mix. \"Wind turbines create jobs,\" he added.\n\nImmigration and Islam: Marine Le Pen went on the offensive, promising a referendum on who should stay and who should leave France and condemning what she called \"anarchic and massive immigration\" that contributed to a sense of insecurity.\n\nShe then spoke about another of her key policies, banning the wearing of the headscarf in public, arguing that women had to be liberated from \"Islamist pressure\". Mr Macron objected it was wrong to mix Islam with Islamism. Her policy, he said, would lead to \"civil war\" and was a betrayal of French values: \"You would have police running down the street after girls in headscarves and [Jewish] boys wearing the kippah.\" It was intolerant and she was pushing millions of compatriots out of the public space on account of their religion, he said.\n\nConstitutional change: Another of Marine Le Pen's big policies is for citizens' referendums, which she said were rooted in the yellow-vest or gilets jaunes protests that began early in the Macron presidency. \"The main problem after your five-year term is that you have divided the country. We need to rebuild France and bring people together.\"\n\nOne of the big attractions of such referendums for Ms Le Pen is that they would bypass parliament, where she has only a handful of MPs. Mr Macron said they would be unconstitutional.\n\nTelevised confrontations between the top two candidates have been a highlight of French presidential elections for almost five decades and they have proved most decisive when the polls are close.\n\nIn 1974, conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went on to beat Socialist François Mitterrand after performing well in their debate. Mitterrand did better in the rematch in 1981 and won the run-off vote.\n\nThis was the first time since then that the same candidates have squared off in two consecutive elections.\n\nThe 2017 debate was a disaster for Ms Le Pen that led to a big election defeat. This time around the race is much closer and her strong performance could help win over undecided voters.\n\nThe gap in the opinion polls has widened slightly since the first round vote in which the incumbent president won 27.85% and Ms Le Pen came second with 23.15%. But they are still fluctuating wildly, suggesting Mr Macron will secure between 53% and 57% of the vote.\n\nThe choice for voters is far clearer than five years ago, when Emmanuel Macron won with very little experience as a politician.\n\nHis strict Covid policies alienated many voters and he has been accused of acting as a \"president for the rich\". He is more popular in the big cities but has secured the support of other mainstream left and right parties for his pro-EU liberal and global outlook.\n\nMarine Le Pen has toned down her nationalist, anti-EU rhetoric during the campaign but as she made clear in the debate her aim remains to revise France's relationship with the European Union.", "Teams of firefighters from all over Northern Ireland worked to put out the flames\n\nThe devastation from a deliberately-started fire can still be seen on the slopes of Slieve Donard, a year after the flames took hold.\n\nThe fires raged for three days, lighting the night sky above Newcastle and destroying an area of heathland the size of 325 rugby pitches.\n\nTeams of firefighters from all over Northern Ireland joined the battle against the flames.\n\nWhere a river acted as a natural firebreak the difference is clear.\n\nOne side is devoid of the \"mature heather and rich biodiversity\" that Cormac Dolan would expect to see.\n\n\"You're looking for more of a mosaic of vegetation in the ground, whereas here you've just got purple moor grass coming back so far, a year on from the fire,\" the National Trust wildfire recovery ranger said.\n\nHe is part of a team involved in helping the mountain recover.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rangers say Slieve Donard's landscape may take many years to fully recover\n\nWith funding from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), surveys are being done on the wildlife that lives here, as well as management of the faster-growing species, to give other plants time to return.\n\n\"Following the fire, you lose the ecological balance,\" Marc Vinas said, who is the lead ranger in the Wildfire Recovery Project.\n\n\"And then you have some species that respond quickly.\n\n\"Purple moor grass grows very well on the lowland areas of the mountain and has responded quicker than the heathland and the heather.\n\n\"That's why we see that yellowy colour, because it is getting dominant.\"\n\nMarc Vinas is part of the Wildlife Recovery Project\n\nThat has an impact on wildlife as well.\n\nBirds like the meadow pipit and skylark use the heather for nesting, and it is also a source of food for the red grouse.\n\nBut it is a slow-growing plant, and those bird species are fewer in number this year than before.\n\n\"The heather at the minute is at a stage called 'pioneer heather',\" Marc said.\n\n\"This is going to be for 10 years, if the burn was not deep that heather will be recovering from the roots.\n\n\"It will take 10 years just to get that base of heather back. And in 15 or 20 years, it will reach the mature stage. But this is not the end.\n\n\"After that it will start to die and open to give room to the sunlight to reach the ground again. Then the mosses and other wildflowers will be thriving under that.\"\n\nBird species are fewer in number than they were before\n\nGrazing livestock on the mountain helped control the faster-growing species, and how that is done is part of the work the rangers are carrying out to allow nature to recover.\n\n\"We have to compartmentalise the area, that is not easy because we cannot create fences,\" Marc said.\n\n\"At the minute we are creating a plan using innovative technologies that have been used in other properties in the National Trust in England and Wales, with GPS technology.\n\n\"It uses a very low-intensity pulse that tells the animal where it can graze, so you don't need to build a physical fence.\n\n\"Depending on the grazing results onsite, we can just send them to different areas to improve the condition of the habitat, breaking that dominance of purple moor grass.\"\n\nButterflies are being monitored by rangers\n\nThere have been more fires on the Mournes this year already.\n\nBut there is still birdsong in the air, and the numbers of butterflies and lizards on the mountain are being monitored by the rangers.\n\nIt will be a long, slow process.\n\n\"What we want is to reach as much as possible the maximum biodiversity as we had before,\" Marc said.\n\n\"Something that happened in days, we lost years of building that habitat.\n\n\"That habitat will take decades just to get back to what it was before.\n\n\"We'll make sure that that upland wildlife will be coming back to those recovering grounds in the Mournes.\"", "Police were called to Coventry Road and Gilbert Close (pictured), Bedworth on Saturday morning\n\nTwo men and a woman have been stabbed and at least eight other people injured in a town centre.\n\nOfficers were called at about 08:00 BST to reports of people being assaulted in Bedworth, Warwickshire, on Coventry Road and Gilbert Close.\n\nOne of the men who was stabbed, aged in his 20s, is in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nA 33-year-old man, from Bedworth, has been arrested and remains in custody, the force said.\n\nIt added he would undergo a mental health assessment and officers were not looking for any other suspects.\n\nThe other two stab victims have been discharged from hospital after treatment; the other victims all suffered minor injuries.\n\nOne woman told the BBC she was woken up by loud bangs on her front door and, when she answered, a man punched her twice and stabbed her in the throat with a pair of scissors.\n\nA neighbour, Sheila Corcoran, said the attacks had made her feel unsafe: \"You are always going to think now, is somebody going to come and bang the door?\"\n\nExtra police patrols have been put on in Bedworth following the attacks\n\nDet Sgt Rich Simpkins described it as a \"nasty incident\" and said he wanted to hear from anyone else who might have been attacked.\n\n\"We know that a number of people were in the area at around the time of the incident and that there may be more members of the public who may have been approached or assaulted,\" he said.\n\nExtra police patrols will be carried out in and around the town centre, the force said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Valeria, with baby Kira, said she had achieved \"a new level of happiness\" since her daughter's birth\n\nYuriy Glodan had only left his flat and family to go to the shops when he heard the news of the explosion.\n\nAt the entrance to his block of flats he screamed at police to let him inside the burning building. When he reached his flat, he found the bodies of his wife and her mother, killed by a Russian missile that had ripped into the lower floors of the block.\n\nThe body of his three-month-old baby Kira was discovered later; he saw it for the first time when he returned to the flat on Sunday.\n\nThe deaths - three generations of a single family - have sparked outrage and revulsion in Ukraine, a country already hardened by two months of war.\n\nCommenting on the strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky was visibly upset when speaking about baby Kira's killing.\n\n\"How did she threaten Russia? It seems that killing children is just a new national idea of the Russian Federation,\" Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address to Ukrainians. He described those who had planned and carried out the attack as \"bastards\".\n\nFive others were also killed in the missile strike.\n\nYuriy was in the wrecked building on Sunday to find what he could salvage from the apartment. Photo albums, his wife's sugar sachet collection, handwritten notes. He found his baby's stroller in pieces.\n\nYuriy and his baby daughter, who died in a missile attack on Saturday 23 April\n\n\"If I leave things in the flat, it will become garbage and people will throw it away,\" he told the BBC. \"I want to keep it for my memories.\"\n\nHe and Valeria had been a couple for nine years.\n\n\"She could find joy in everything. Odesa was her favourite city. She worked in PR and she could communicate with a lot of people, understand them. I admired what a good writer she was,\" he said.\n\n\"She was a great mother, friend, with all the best qualities. It will be impossible for me to find somebody else like Valeria. She was perfect. Such a person could be given to you only once in a life and it's a gift from God.\"\n\nKira had been born at the end of January, just a month before the start of the war.\n\nA few weeks after that, Valeria had posted on Instagram that she was living with \"a new level of happiness\" after the birth of her first child. \"Our girl is one month old now,\" she wrote. \"It has been the best 40 weeks.\"\n\nYuriy swipes through pictures of his wife and daughter, with our reporter\n\nYuriy showed us photos of Kira on his phone sent to him by his wife.\n\n\"We were so happy when she was born,\" he says. \"I was in the maternity hospital when she gave birth. It's very hard for me to realise now that my daughter and wife are no longer here. All my world was destroyed yesterday by a Russian missile.\"\n\nHe wants the world to know about what happened to his family.\n\n\"What is happening is a grief for my family, for our city, for Ukraine, it's a grief for the whole civilisation. I hope our story helps to stop this war.\"\n\nAs we leave, he hands us some nappies in a carrier bag, one of the few things he's been able to recover from the flat.\n\n\"Please take them,\" he tells us. \"Give them to charity. I have no need for them now.\"\n\nHave you been affected by what is happening in Ukraine? Or do you have any questions about the conflict? Email us at: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A picture from the scene of the explosion shows burned out vehicles\n\nNigeria's president has said the country is in \"shock and trauma\" following the deaths of at least 100 people from an explosion at an illegal oil refinery.\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari described the incident in Imo state, southern Nigeria, as a \"catastrophe and a national disaster\".\n\nMany victims were burnt beyond recognition.\n\nThe police are now looking for the owner of the illegal refinery.\n\nThe damage to fishing and farming caused by the oil industry over the decades and the failure to share the oil wealth has led some to find other ways to make money.\n\nIllegal refining is attractive as in parts of the oil-rich Niger Delta it is seen as being relatively easy to pull off, despite efforts to halt the practice.\n\nDozens of people were thought to have been working at the refining plants when they were caught in the huge fire.\n\nThe death toll has risen as emergency workers go through the scene. Ifeanyi Nnaji of the National Emergency Management Agency told BBC Igbo that the number killed now stood at 109.\n\n\"We learnt many bodies are in nearby bushes and forests as some illegal operators and their patrons scampered for safety,\" he earlier told the AFP news agency.\n\nCharred human remains, as well as fragments of belongings, such as flip flops, bags and clothing, were witnessed across the scene of the disaster by a journalist for the Reuters news agency.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Mr Buhari offered his condolences to families of the victims and said those responsible for the explosions must be caught and brought to justice.\n\nThe authorities have been struggling to curb the proliferation of illegal plants where stolen crude oil is refined. The president ordered security forces to intensify efforts to shut these refineries.\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the explosion that happened sometime overnight into Saturday, but accidents have been common in the past at similar dangerous sites where safety measures are not enforced.\n\nThere have been concerns over a lack of precautions at such facilities as well as over the environmental pollution they cause.\n\nBut Nigeria's official oil refineries do not work to capacity, causing frequent fuel shortages and price increases across the country.", "With the Russian offensive centred on eastern Ukraine, Kyiv is beginning to return to a sense of calm.\n\nBut the city’s defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.\n\nThe BBC got rare access to the 131st battalion in the forests of the capital.", "Lieutenant Denys Gordeev is used to war, but not like this. \"It's become much harder,\" he says. \"We have bomb attacks, rocket attacks every day, all the time, every hour.\"\n\nThough he has spent eight years battling Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas, now he and his men are facing the full might of the Russian army.\n\nAfter its retreat from Kyiv three weeks ago, Russia has refocused its military efforts in Eastern Ukraine - with its goal of taking the whole of the Donbas region. It has redeployed many of its units to the east. Western officials estimate that Russia now has about 76 Battalion Tactical Groups in the region - each of which has about 800 men.\n\nThey also say there's some evidence Russia's been addressing some of its early mistakes, helped by the fact they're now fighting on fewer fronts, and under a unified command.\n\nThe result is that Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold a 300-mile front in the Donbas. They've already lost ground to the Russians and are likely to lose more in the days ahead. Russian forces have been conducting probing attacks to find weak points in Ukraine's defences.\n\nFor now the invading army is mostly using its artillery and rockets to grind down Ukraine's defences. Some military analysts expect a major assault is still to come.\n\nAnd Ukrainian forces, including Lt Gordeev and his unit, appear to be holding the line, although Western experts say they are already outnumbered three to one.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward more measures to tackle the cost of living crisis.\n\nSurges in fuel, energy and food prices are hitting people's pockets, with inflation running at a 30-year high.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Sunday Morning show the government's response had been \"woeful\" and demanded further measures like a windfall tax on energy firms.\n\nA Downing Street source said the PM was working to ease the burden on families.\n\nThey said the PM was also focused on growing the economy, adding the Queen's Speech, where the government outlines its future policies, was coming up and these issues were \"utterly central to what the government is trying to do\".\n\nThe SNP called for an emergency budget earlier this month, saying the Tories had ignored the cost of living crisis \"brewing under its watch\".\n\nThe party's Treasury spokeswoman, Alison Thewliss, said: \"Warm words now won't heat up homes or food - only action will.\n\n\"The chancellor must immediately return to Parliament with an emergency budget that finally puts money into people's pockets.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his own plans to address the cost of living during his Spring Statement last month.\n\nThey included a cut to fuel duty, raising the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance, and pledging to cut the basic rate of income tax before the next general election.\n\nBut he resisted appeals to scrap the rise in National Insurance (NI) - which came into force this month - to raise funds for the NHS and social care, and was accused by charities of not doing enough for poorer households.\n\nLabour has now outlined five policy demands for an emergency budget, including its ongoing call for the windfall tax - saying they would use the money to cut household bills by up to £600 - and cancelling the NI rise.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday Morning programme, Sir Keir said the rising cost of living was \"the single number one issue\" for people across the UK.\n\n\"They're really struggling to pay their bills, and the response of the government in the Spring Statement was woeful,\" he said.\n\n\"What we are calling for is an emergency budget to deal with the cost of living crisis.\"", "Eric Chappell (left) wrote the TV hit Rising Damp, which starred Leonard Rossiter (right)\n\nEric Chappell, the creator of hit TV sitcoms Rising Damp and Home to Roost, has died aged 88.\n\nChappell, who was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in 1933, had several novels rejected by publishers before he decided to become a playwright.\n\nHe went on to win a Bafta in 1978 for Rising Damp, starring Leonard Rossiter and Frances de la Tour.\n\nReece Dinsdale, who starred in Home To Roost, paid tribute to him, saying his scripts were \"a complete joy\".\n\nChappell won a Bafta for Best Situation Comedy in 1978 for Rising Damp\n\nChappell originally worked as an auditor for the East Midlands Electricity Board for 22 years.\n\nWhen he turned his hand to writing plays, his Yorkshire-based story The Banana Box was staged at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1970\n\nIt moved to the West End three years later.\n\nThe show was then adapted to become Rising Damp, which ITV broadcast over four series from 1974 to 1978.\n\nRising Damp, which also starred Don Warrington and Richard Beckinsale, was later adapted into a film, which was released in 1980.\n\nResponding to the news of Chappell's death, actor Reece Dinsdale wrote on Twitter: \"Thank you for everything you did for me, sir. Your scripts were a complete joy to play. Great times!\n\n\"My love & deepest sympathies to his friends & family RIP Eric.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reece Dinsdale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rescuers carry one of those found from a helicopter to an ambulance on Hokkaido island\n\nSearch teams in Japan say seven people have been found after a tourist boat with 26 people on board disappeared off the northern island of Hokkaido.\n\nAuthorities lost contact with the vessel after it sent a distress signal saying it was taking on water at 13:15 local time (04:15 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nThe coastguard could not confirm whether those found were still alive.\n\nThe boat, Kazu 1, is believed to have been on a three-hour trip around the Shiretoko Peninsula.\n\nThe area is a designated UNESCO world heritage site, and boat trips are popular with tourists hoping to spot whales and sea lions as well as brown bears on the rocky beaches.\n\nThe rescue effort - which includes helicopters, patrol boats and divers - is ongoing. Of the 26 on board, two were crew and two were children.\n\nFishing boats from Utoro port have joined the search\n\nKazu 1 was last heard from at around 15:00 local time on Saturday when the crew said it was tipping at a 30-degree angle and starting to sink, according to Japanese media.\n\nWaves in the area had been high and local fishing boats had apparently decided to return to port by mid-morning.\n\nThe crew reportedly said that all those on board were wearing life jackets.\n\nBut temperatures in the area can dip as low as 0C (32F) when night falls.\n\nThe Shiretoko Peninsula is well known in Japan for its beautiful lakes, dramatic waterfalls and unusual rock formations by the sea", "Boris Johnson has not received any further fines for breaking lockdown rules, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe confirmation comes after sources told ITV News fines had been issued for a drinks party in the Downing Street garden attended by the PM in May 2020.\n\nMr Johnson has previously apologised for attending the \"bring your own booze\" event, saying he \"believed implicitly\" it was a work event.\n\nStrict Covid rules were in place when the event was held on 20 May 2020.\n\nPeople could not leave their homes - or be outside the place they lived - without a reasonable excuse, which included work where you couldn't work from home.\n\nOn the same day, the government Twitter account reminded people of the existing guidance that gatherings must be limited to two people outside.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to confirm whether fixed penalty notices have been issued over the event.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson arrived back in the UK after a two-day trip to India, during which he played down the partygate row, saying voters wanted the government to \"focus on the issues on which we were elected\".\n\nIn January, Mr Johnson confirmed he had attended the garden party for 25 minutes to thank staff for their work, but said in hindsight he should have sent everyone back inside.\n\nThe event came to light via a leaked email from Mr Johnson's then principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, inviting people to \"make the most of the lovely weather\". The email was sent to a distribution list of around 100 people, and the BBC has been told about 30 people attended.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Johnson, his wife Carrie and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined by the police for breaching lockdown rules by attending a gathering to celebrate his birthday in June 2020.\n\nAll three apologised but Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak rejected calls to resign.\n\nThe prime minister is known to have attended at least two more of the 12 events being investigated by Met Police - including the 20 May gathering - meaning he could be fined again.\n\nAsked during his trip to India whether he would still be in post by October - his target date for a trade deal with the country - he replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nBoris Johnson might have hoped his trip to India would help shift the focus away from the partygate saga but if anything, things appear to have got worse for the prime minister while he's been away.\n\nHe'll now face a parliamentary inquiry into whether he deliberately misled MPs in addition to the police investigation and Sue Gray report.\n\nThere are signs too that support among his own backbenchers is slipping away rather than hardening.\n\nSteve Baker, a former Johnson-backer who's now had enough, predicts in an interview with the Telegraph that the Conservatives will \"reap the whirlwind\" of partygate at the forthcoming local elections.\n\nRepeated calls to resign from opposition parties won't change the prime minister's fate, but the actions of his own MPs could do.\n\nAnd many of them are waiting for those local election results and to see whether further fines come the prime minister's way before making up their minds about his position.\n\nMr Johnson now faces an investigation by the Commons privileges committee, after MPs gave it the go-ahead on Thursday.\n\nNo 10 initially tried to delay a vote on approving the inquiry, but later backed down in the face of unease among Tory backbenchers.\n\nThe committee will determine whether Mr Johnson misled MPs by telling them Covid rules were followed in No 10 - a charge regarded as a resigning matter under the ministerial rulebook.", "Music and dancing has filled to the streets of Rio de Janeiro, as Carnival retuned after a break because of Covid.\n\nCarnival is one of the most important cultural events in Brazil and it lasts for several days.", "Sajid Javid this week told the House of Commons he thought children's gender treatment services were \"bordering on ideological\"\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid is to review what immediate changes can be made to gender treatment services for children in England.\n\nThis could include changing the law to let the independent Cass review have access to an NHS database of young people who already received treatment.\n\nIt comes ahead of the review's report, due later this year.\n\nThis week Mr Javid told MPs services in this area were too affirmative and narrow, and \"bordering on ideological\".\n\nHe is now thought to be planning an overhaul of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which is run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, with clinics in London and Leeds.\n\nThe trust has defended itself, saying while there is a need for change, doctors already take into account the wider physical and mental health of children who are referred there.\n\nThe health secretary has been considering changing the law to allow a review of GIDS being led Dr Hilary Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to access a database of children who were treated by GIDS to see if any later regretted having treatments, such as puberty blockers. It is unclear how the process of giving access to the information would work.\n\nPuberty blockers are powerful drugs that block the actions of sex hormones and are used to delay the onset of puberty. Last year the Court of Appeal upheld the right of the trust to give the drugs to under-16s if they were deemed capable of giving consent.\n\nThe health secretary's move follows interim findings of Dr Cass's report into GIDS.\n\nShe found a lack of expert agreement around what constitutes gender dysphoria, long waiting lists for treatment and an absence of data on the success of different approaches.\n\nDr Cass also considered GPs and other non-GIDS staff felt \"under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach\" to children unsure of their gender, \"overshadowing\" other issues such as poor mental health.\n\nIn her opinion the present NHS service needed \"transformation\".\n\nThe only NHS gender identity facility for young people is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThere is one GIDS service in England, with clinics in London and Leeds, with other satellite services offering support.\n\nThey see approximately 2,500 young people each year, of which less than 10% have access to hormone treatment.\n\nGirls are more often referred to the service than boys.\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust said \"being respectful of someone's identity does not preclude exploration\".\n\n\"We agree that support should be holistic, based on the best available evidence and that no assumptions should be made about the right outcome for any given young person,\" it added.", "March's NHS performance figures showed were the worst A&E figures on record\n\nDoctors' claims the Welsh NHS is \"broken\" have been dismissed by the health minister.\n\nBut Eluned Morgan did admit the system was under \"immense\" pressure.\n\nThe claim was made by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) following the worst set of accident and emergency (A&E) on record.\n\nThe Welsh Tories said NHS targets were \"going in the wrong direction\" and Plaid Cymru said problems \"existed for years\" before the pandemic.\n\nThursday's figures showed both the four-hour and 12-hour A&E waiting times in March were the worst on record.\n\nAmbulance response times also deteriorated to the second worst on record.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme, Ms Morgan said: \"It is tough, there's no question about it and what we can do is our very best to address that system.\n\n\"The demand on the system is like nothing we've seen before.\"\n\nA lot of our staff are increasingly burned out and morale is a long term problem because we're not able to deliver the standard of care that we believe our patients deserve\n\nAsked if she agreed with the RCEM, Ms Morgan replied: \"We're managing to see around 200,000 people a month - that's not a broken system.\n\n\"I made a surprise visit to Cardiff accident and emergency on Friday night and the scenes were very difficult.\n\n\"It's clear there are people there, they're not time-wasters, these are people who are genuinely in pain and need to be seen.\n\n\"But the pressure on the system is immense and that's why we need to make sure that we see less flowing into the system, more prevention.\"\n\nOfficial figures showed there were 8,757 patients in Wales' hospitals on Thursday.\n\nMs Morgan said more than 1,000 of these were ready to be discharged but could not \"because of the fragility of the social care system\", causing an NHS-wide backlog.\n\nNHS waiting lists have grown for a 22nd successive month, with almost 700,000 non-urgent treatments and operations waiting to be carried out and more than 250,000 waiting more than nine months.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Welsh government will publish its long-awaited plan on how it intends to tackle the huge waiting list backlog.\n\nThe aim is to return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of this Senedd term in 2026.\n\nMs Morgan said operations and treatments would be conducted \"on a much broader footprint in future\" with people potentially travelling across Wales.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"These aren't problems that have suddenly appeared because of the pandemic, these are problems that have been made worse by the pandemic... but that existed for years before because of a lack of strategic planning by the Welsh government to put our health and care system on a stable and sustainable footing.\n\n\"We need to get to that point and sadly we're a long way away.\"\n\nRussell George, the Welsh Conservatives' health spokesman, said: \"My concern is that the targets are going in the wrong direction.\n\n\"But the main issue is not just about recruiting, but about retaining staff and I think when you're under huge pressure and it puts pressure on all those staff and staff are looking around thinking 'is this the career for me?'\"", "The UK has supplied next generation light anti-tank weapons to Ukraine\n\nThe UK is to provide Ukraine with more military equipment, the prime minister has confirmed in a phone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nBoris Johnson told Mr Zelensky more armoured vehicles, drones and anti-tank weapons would be sent to Ukraine, a Downing Street spokesman said.\n\nMr Zelensky thanked the PM for the training of more than 20 Ukrainian troops who arrived in the UK last week.\n\nUkraine was invaded by Russia two months ago this weekend.\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed the UK would be reopening its embassy in Kyiv next week, a move first announced yesterday.\n\nThe No 10 spokesman said this was a demonstration of \"our support and solidarity with the Ukrainian people\".\n\nThe Ukrainian soldiers receiving training in the UK are being instructed on how to use 120 armoured vehicles that will be supplied to the resistance effort against Moscow, the government has said.\n\nPresident Zelensky updated Mr Johnson on the situation in the Donbas, where Russia has been concentrating its military efforts in recent days. Both leaders condemned ongoing attacks by Russian forces against civilian targets, including in Mariupol, Odessa and Lviv.\n\nThe prime minister told Mr Zelensky Russia would be held to account for its actions and that the UK government was helping to collect evidence of war crimes. He also updated the president on new UK sanctions against members of the Russian military, Downing Street said.\n\nThe two leaders discussed how the UK would work with partners to develop a long-term security solution for Ukraine and spoke about discussions taking place with other nations and groups to provide further financial support, including at a G7 finance ministers' meeting last Wednesday.\n\nThe two leaders met in Kyiv two weeks ago\n\nThey also agreed on the importance of establishing a ceasefire and humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to leave the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The talks came as Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had started attacking a steel plant in the battered port city, in an apparent bid to eliminate the last stand by Ukrainian defenders.\n\nAn estimated 1,000 civilians remain sheltered in the Azovstal plant alongside the remaining 2,000 fighters.\n\nPresident Zelensky and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are both due to meet United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in the coming week, with the long-awaited prospect of a humanitarian corridor to allow people to leave Mariupol expected to be on the agenda.\n\nIn a news conference in a Kyiv metro station later on Saturday, Mr Zelensky said he was \"satisfied\" with the level of military support coming from the UK.\n\n\"We want more than we're being given, but we're satisfied,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"We cannot refuse or reject anything during the war from the biggest military aid, which is coming from the United States and the United Kingdom.\n\n\"There are many other friends in Europe, but I'm talking about volumes of help and I'm grateful for it.\"\n• None UK embassy in Kyiv to reopen next week, says PM", "Both sides are under fire from their critics\n\nFinding a French election poster for either top candidate that hasn't yet been defaced is almost like a treasure hunt.\n\nAhead of this Sunday's decisive presidential election, colourful slurs are scrawled everywhere: \"fascist\" or \"dirty liberal\"; \"racist\" v \"elitist\" on billboards for Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.\n\nIt doesn't take long to work out what's aimed at whom. The violent dislike many voters express for one or both sides in this election can take your breath away.\n\nMarine Le Pen is used to it.\n\nThe daughter of an infamous anti-immigration, nationalist politician who repeatedly spoke of Nazi gas chambers and the Holocaust as \"a detail of the history of the Second World War\", she has spent years trying to escape Jean-Marie Le Pen's toxic shadow.\n\nThis is her third attempt at the presidency, and she is the softest public version of herself yet. From her pastel make-up, to a notably warmer speaking tone and her focus on the working French struggling to make ends meet, rather than concentrating on the classic far right priorities: law and order and immigration.\n\n\"Marine\", as she now likes to be known, has tried oh so very hard to rebrand herself as a patriotic centrist.\n\nI put it to her that her critics call her \"un-electable'; describing her as too far right and radical.\n\n\"I'm not radical, sorry!\" she retorted. \"The current government has been lead by the privileged minority for the privileged minority. That's the reality.\"\n\n\"I am running for president to change that. To establish a government of the people, for the people... giving back power to the people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What far-right leader Marine Le Pen said before…and now\n\nIn fairness, she's persuaded many, with popularity ratings she never enjoyed previously. But large swathes of France simply don't buy it.\n\nNagette, a young Muslim office worker, told me Le Pen could '\"change her mask as often as she liked\" but that she remained far-right in her roots and policies.\n\nShe'd be voting Emmanuel Macron, she said, to keep Le Pen out.\n\nWhen I followed Le Pen on her campaign trail in the south of France a few days ago, her press officers had us journalists meet them in a car park at an arranged time. We then were left to hang around irritably, until they suddenly announced the name of the village Marine Le Pen would imminently appear in for a campaign event.\n\nBut there is a logic to it. If the press didn't know ahead of time where Marine would be glad-handing, then her shouting, chanting, at times aggressive detractors wouldn't be there either, to ruin her PR event.\n\nEmmanuel Macron had a far easier time in 2017. His first presidential campaign.\n\nThen, he was a fresher-faced, brazen political disrupter, claiming to be neither of the left nor the right, just promising a bright future for all French men and women.\n\nMiddle-class French women swooned over him. French businessmen had high hopes for the rabbits they hoped the former boy wonder economy minister might pull out of French tricolour-coloured hats.\n\nNow, he's been tarnished by five years in office, which included presiding over a global pandemic, a war in Ukraine which threatens wider European stability and a big, fat Covid and Russia-tensions linked economic downturn.\n\nMadame Le Pen is not the only one with a reputation problem.\n\nMacron is disparagingly referred to as \"Jupiter\" or \"president of the rich\" by his detractors. Many voters say they wouldn't touch him with a barge pole. Which makes Sunday's vote all the more fascinating.\n\nThe French often talk about putting a clothes peg on their nose when casting a ballot in the final round of presidential election.\n\nIt's about choosing \"the best of the worst\", people tell you. Preventing the most odious candidate from taking office.\n\nWhether it was to defeat Marine Le Pen or her father before her, French political parties would club together to form a so-called cordon sanitaire to keep the far right out of government.\n\nThis election year it's far less clear cut.\n\nThe big question is whether voters of the far left will abstain, because of their deep dislike of Emmanuel Macron, even if that might mean ushering Marine Le Pen into the Élysée Palace through the back door.\n\nVoter disdain and voter apathy are arguably the bigger threat for Macron on Sunday than Le Pen herself.\n\nQuite a contrast to the passion you find in international circles when discussing the possibility of a President Le Pen.\n\nFrench Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, told me he thought the wider world, not only Europe, was aware of what was at stake in this election: two visions of the future of France and two visions of the future of Europe, he said.\n\nEspecially in light of the raging Russia-Ukraine crisis.\n\nBrussels and Washington are watching the vote extremely closely, crossing their metaphorical fingers. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and well-known Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have both called for Macron to be re-elected.\n\nFrance has the EU's only significant military force. It's the bloc's second largest economy and it's been playing an increasingly dominant European role since the departure from politics of EU grande dame Angela Merkel, which left Berlin somewhat weakened on the world stage.\n\nMacron wants to boost EU, Nato and transatlantic relations.\n\nWhile Le Pen is a euro- and US-sceptic with historically close ties to Moscow and an arms-length attitude towards Nato.\n\nBruno Le Maire says the world is watching France's election carefully.\n\n\"Do you really think when you have war in Europe,\" spluttered Bruno Le Maire, \"that it's good idea for France, for the G7 countries, for all the allies of the French nation to have France, one of the most important political power in Europe, withdraw from the NATO's military command?\" he asked.\n\nBecause that is what Madame Le Pen proposes.\n\nMr Le Maire also warned the Le Pen economic programme would be disastrous, he said. Not only for France but the whole of Europe. Also damaging close economic partner the UK, he said.\n\nMarine Le Pen fiercely defends her financial proposals, which include abolishing income tax for the under-30s and helping the hard-up with France's cost of living crisis.\n\nShe also claims not to be a danger to the EU.\n\nAs part of her attempt to attract more mainstream voters, Le Pen has backed away from her once oft-repeated desire to remove France from the euro currency and from \"the tyranny of Brussels\".\n\nBut her declared intention to unilaterally reduce France's contributions to the EU budget, to restrict the freedom of movement of workers across Schengen passport-free European borders and to declare the supremacy of French law over EU law, in direct contradiction to EU treaties, could end up paralysing the EU from within.\n\nFrench MEP Nathalie Loiseau, formerly Macron's Europe minister, told me she had gone into politics to help prevent the far right from getting to power.\n\nNo-one should downplay the possibility of a Le Pen presidency, she insisted.\n\nRemember Donald Trump's surprise election victory and the Brexit vote, she added - when people went to bed, believing the UK would remain in the EU, only to wake up to a very different reality?\n\nStill, if Marine Le Pen were to beat the odds and become president this Sunday, Nathalie Loiseau said it was very unlikely she'd manage to cobble together a coalition of like-minded countries aiming to dismantle the EU from the inside.\n\nHer closest EU ally, Viktor Orban, wants the EU to keep existing, she explained, so his country can continue to benefit from subsidies. While Poland's Brussels-sceptic coalition was deeply troubled by Le Pen's cosy relationship with Russia.\n\nThe campaign slogans of Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron both claim they represent all French people. Considering their very different political programmes and reputations, that is an impossibility.", "The European Highlander runs between Cairnryan in Dumfries and Galloway and Larne in County Antrim\n\nP&O Ferries says it has resumed a full service between Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Cairnryan - Larne sailings were disrupted for several weeks after the company sacked 800 workers last month.\n\nIt led to protests and warnings from unions that they could try to blockade Cairnryan and persuade customers to boycott the company.\n\nThe ferry company revealed the return to normal sailings in a tweet to customers on Sunday morning.\n\nStaff were informed they were losing their jobs with immediate effect in a pre-recorded video message on 17 March.\n\nIt led to the immediate cancellation of services on many P&O routes. A partial service began running between Cairnryan and Larne on 11 April.\n\nP&O planned to replace the workers with cheaper agency staff, with bosses says it would not be a viable business without the changes.\n\nSenior management at the firm came in for sharp criticism for the move, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson among those calling for the resignation of P&O boss Peter Hebblethwaite.\n\nHe admitted to MPs that he broke the law by not consulting workers but said he would do the same again if he had to.\n\nProtestors gathered outside the P&O Ferries terminal at Cairnryan following the sackings\n\nTwo vessels are used regularly on the route - the European Highlander and the European Causeway.\n\nThe European Causeway was detained for two weeks over safety concerns following an inspection by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).\n\nWhen inspectors examined the European Highlander last week, they found a \"small number of deficiencies\" which had to be put right before it could come back into service.\n\nOn Sunday, the MCA said: \"The outstanding deficiencies on the European Highlander have now been rectified and vessel is free to fully resume service.\"\n\nBoth ferries were operating on the route on Sunday, according to data on the VesselFinder website.", "The Gurd family missed out on their holiday in the Algarve due to a little-known rule\n\nA family have lost £3,000 on a holiday after the mum was not allowed to board a flight due to a post-Brexit rule for entry to a group of European countries.\n\nNina Gurd was told her passport, which expires in February, was not valid for travel to Portugal.\n\nShe went to the airport confident she had more than the required three months before the expiry date, which had been extended when she renewed her passport.\n\nBut she was told the expiry date was irrelevant, she explained to the BBC.\n\n\"The lady at Bournemouth Airport said it needs to be within 10 years of the issue date,\" she explained.\n\nMrs Gurd's passport was originally issued on 29 May 2012, meaning it would have been due to expire next month.\n\nBut she renewed it early and another nine months were added, giving it a new expiry date of 28 February 2023.\n\nMrs Gurd, her husband John and their three sons Jack, Harry and Charlie, were forced to return to their home in Botley, Hampshire, on 15 April, missing out on their holiday in the Algarve.\n\nMr Gurd said: \"When we were booking our holiday, we were only ever asked for our passport numbers and the expiry dates, nothing else.\n\n\"But the expiry date is apparently meaningless.\"\n\nPortugal is one of 26 European countries within the Schengen Area of free movement.\n\nPrior to Brexit, travellers from the UK could travel within the area without border controls as the country was a member of the European Union, although Britain was not part of the Schengen Agreement.\n\nNow some EU countries in the Schengen Area are insisting passports must be no more than 10 years old from the point of issue. Once the three-month expiry buffer is taken into account, a passport needs to have been issued no more than nine years and nine months ago.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office told the BBC that the advice published on its website has, for several years, warned travellers they may face problems if they have a passport that lasts longer than 10 years.\n\nBut Mr Gurd said the advice was \"all incredibly vague\".\n\n\"Given there is this new rule, it should be easy enough for the government, travel companies and airlines to ask the right questions. It should be being flagged,\" he added.\n\n\"We've got to get the message out there that actually the expiry date on your passport is meaningless.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Hevak's son is unable to reach bomb shelters when air-raid sirens sound in Lviv due to his wheelchair\n\nA Scottish woman says she feels a \"sense of guilt\" that she has not been able to help a Ukrainian family get to the UK sooner.\n\nGillian Randlesome is hoping to host Nataliya Hevak's family - including her disabled son - in her home in Lanark.\n\nBut she said the visa process was taking too long for a family with a vulnerable child.\n\nThe UK government said 21,600 Ukrainians had already arrived.\n\nNataliya, husband Liubomyr, and their children fear for their safety in their Lviv home, which until recently had been safe from Russian attacks.\n\nA missile attack on the western city early this week left at least seven people dead, city officials said.\n\nResidents have been told to use air-raid bunkers but Nataliya's family cannot get into them because her son, Levko, 13, uses a wheelchair.\n\nThe eldest of three children, he was born with muscular dystrophy, a disease that causes weakness and loss of muscle mass.\n\nThe family instead take refuge in a central area of their own building, where they hope they will be safe.\n\n\"My neighbours and friends take their kids ands they go to those bomb shelters, we can't do this because it's impossible to get Levko there,\" Nataliya said.\n\nNataliya Hevak, her husband Liubomyr Pototski and young family are trying to flee the Russian invasion\n\nNataliya signed up for the UK's Homes for Ukraine scheme soon after the Russian invasion at the end of February.\n\nShe met Gillian online through a friend in Scotland nearly two months ago.\n\nGillian had hoped their visa application would be fast-tracked because of Levko's disability. She said the process was complicated and took too long for a family with a vulnerable child.\n\n\"I think it put immense stress and pressure on them and I definitely felt more pressure to try and help,\" she added.\n\nGillian Randlesome is keen to welcome Ms Hevak and her young family in Lanark\n\nThe rooms the family will have in Lanark have been made ready by Gillian, while the visa process and travel arrangements are finalised.\n\nThe UK government said almost 72,000 visas have been granted with 21,600 Ukrainians already arrived in the UK.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are processing thousands of visas a day - this shows the changes we made to streamline the service are working.\n\n\"We'll continue to build on this success so we can speed up the process even further.\"", "The Kazu 1 sightseeing vessel - seen here in an archive photo - went missing with 26 people on board on Saturday\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed after a tourist boat went missing off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the Japan Coast Guard says.\n\nThey say the search is continuing in frigid waters for 16 others who were on board the Kazu 1 vessel.\n\nContact with the boat was lost after it said it was taking on water at 13:15 local time (04:15 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nThe Kazu 1 is believed to have been on a three-hour sightseeing voyage around the Shiretoko Peninsula.\n\nThe area is a designated UNESCO world heritage site, and boat trips are popular with tourists hoping to spot whales and sea lions as well as brown bears on the rocky beaches.\n\nThe crew managed to signal that the vessel was tipping at a 30-degree angle and starting to sink, according to Japanese media.\n\nPatrol boats and police and military aircraft were immediately dispatched to find the vessel. Local fishing boats were also taking part in the search operation.\n\nOf the 26 on board, two were crew and two were children.\n\nEarlier reports suggested that several people were pulled out of the waters - but it is unclear if they are among the confirmed 10 victims.\n\nWaves in the area had been high and local fishing boats had apparently decided to return to port by mid-morning.\n\nThe crew reportedly said that all those on board were wearing life jackets.\n\nBut temperatures in the area can dip as low as 0C (32F) when night falls.\n\nHokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula is popular with tourists in Japan for its wildlife and dramatic coastline", "Danielle Spencer, from Preston, says she is struggling to get warm as she lives without flooring\n\nA woman has told how she has to live in a home with bare floors due to a policy which demands social housing tenants rip up carpets and flooring when they move out.\n\nDanielle Spencer, 41, from Preston, said it was \"heartbreaking\" to sleep on a blow-up mattress on concrete and she was struggling to keep warm.\n\nHer former home was destroyed by fire.\n\nProgress Housing Group, which lets the accommodation, said it offered \"lots of support to tenants moving in\".\n\nThis included decoration vouchers and referrals to charities, it added.\n\nThe policy to rent out social housing fully unfurnished is meant to give new tenants a blank slate and prevent infestations but campaigners are asking for it to be reconsidered.\n\nMs Spencer said: \"I'm walking round and I can't even take my shoes off.\n\n\"I lost all my possessions in the fire, so I'm having to use an airbed. There's no carpet underneath so it's only a matter of time until it's going to pop.\"\n\nMs Spencer, 41, says she cannot afford new carpets\n\nMs Spencer, who has a 12-year-old daughter, said she was struggling to heat her home and feared she would \"end up in debt\".\n\n\"With energy prices rising it costs an absolute fortune,\" she said.\n\nAnother social housing tenant in Preston, who did not want to be identified after being forced to relocate as she fled from domestic violence, said her family was also living with no floor coverings.\n\nShe lost her job earlier in the coronavirus pandemic and had struggled to find money for new carpets or any organisations to help provide them.\n\nShe lives with her 17-year-old daughter and four-year old grandson, and said she was concerned about the effect it would have on them, adding: \"I worry about how I'm going to make it a home.\"\n\nCrisis schemes, run by local authorities, can provide support with furniture but only a few provide carpets or floorboards.\n\nIn Hertfordshire, while clearing her late mother's council house, Sarah Dillingham was told to remove the carpets, even though they had only been installed seven months earlier.\n\nShe said she asked the housing officer if the carpets could remain for the next tenant, but was told she would be fined if she left them in.\n\n\"I was absolutely dumbstruck,\" she said. \"It just seemed so wasteful.\"\n\n\"It beggars belief that people are having to live in properties with bare floors, when people are willing to leave them if they are wanted,\" she added.\n\nA Preston resident says living without floor coverings is upsetting\n\nSome charities offer support to buy carpets, but they can struggle to cope with demand.\n\nEnd Furniture Poverty, a campaign group which is urging social landlords to rethink the policy of stripping carpets, said flooring was an \"essential item\".\n\nHead of policy, Claire Donovan, said: \"They say it is because the flooring is dirty, or it may contain fleas if the previous tenants had pets, but in these cases it could be cleaned.\n\n\"Sadly it is quicker and cheaper to rip out the flooring rather than clean it.\"\n\n\"We urge social landlords to stop this at once and start thinking about the social and environmental cost,\" she added.\n\nProgress Housing Group executive director, Tammy Bradley, said \"predominantly floor coverings would be provided in kitchens and bathrooms only\", but \"on occasion, we do agree for floor coverings to be left\".\n\nHowever, she said: \"Even in these situations when we come to do the property works, there may be cause to take up the flooring for various reasons.\"\n\nShe added that the company offered further support to tenants, including referrals to charities and help with employment or fleeing domestic violence.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia's stated aim is to capture and control Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas\n\nRussia is aiming to take full control of southern Ukraine as well as the eastern Donbas region, a senior Russian commander says.\n\nMaj Gen Rustam Minnekayev was quoted in state media as saying that goal would allow Moscow to form a land bridge to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.\n\nHe also said it would give Moscow access to the Russian-backed separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova.\n\nIt is unclear if Gen Minnekayev's comments were officially sanctioned by the Kremlin, but they were widely cited in Russian state media including the Interfax and Tass news agencies.\n\nRussian defence officials told the BBC's Steve Rosenberg that they were \"looking into\" the general's comments, which - if confirmed - offer the first insight into Russia's potential plans in the coming weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, a senior EU official told Reuters that Russia is likely to intensify its attacks in eastern Ukraine and along the southern coast in the coming days, adding that the next two weeks may be decisive in the war.\n\nMoldova has summoned Moscow's ambassador over the comments, which its foreign ministry described as \"deeply concerning\".\n\nA small Russian-speaking breakaway region, Transnistria borders Ukraine from the west. It claimed independence after the fall of the Soviet Union in a bloody conflict, but is not recognised internationally and officially remains part of Moldova.\n\nA small detachment of around 1,500 Russian troops has been stationed in the region since 1995 as part of a truce agreement.\n\nGen Minnekayev, who is deputy commander of Russia's central military district, was speaking at a military event in the Sverdlovsk region on Friday.\n\n\"Control over the south of Ukraine is another way out to Transnistria, where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population,\" Gen Minnekayev said.\n\nMr Putin made similar claims, without providing evidence, about alleged discrimination against Russian speakers in Ukraine before launching the invasion on 24 February.\n\nAnd the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to them in his regular overnight address. \"The Russian invasion of Ukraine was intended only as a beginning, then they want to capture other countries,\" he claimed.\n\nHe earlier said Russia was planning on holding a series of sham independence referendums in occupied regions to create a series of pro-Russian breakaway states.\n\n\"If they ask you to fill out some questionnaires, leave your passport data somewhere, you should know this is not to help you,\" he warned.\n\n\"This is aimed to falsify the so-called referendum on your land if an order comes from Moscow to stage such a show. This is the reality. Be careful.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Ukrainian defence ministry said that referendums were planned in Kherson and occupied areas around Zaporizhzhia in the coming weeks.", "Politicians have condemned a suggestion made in a newspaper that Labour's Angela Rayner tries to distract Boris Johnson in the Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday claimed some unnamed Conservative MPs said she tried to put the PM \"off his stride\".\n\nMs Rayner dismissed this as a \"perverted smear\" that showed women in politics faced misogyny every day.\n\nA raft of politicians, including female Tory MPs, spoke out in support of her.\n\nConservative Caroline Nokes said too many female MPs of all parties had been \"on receiving end of vile articles\", while former minister Andrea Leadsom tweeted: \"Really sorry Angela. Totally unacceptable comments and reporting.\"\n\nBoth Mr Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer also criticised the comments, with the PM tweeting: \"As much as I disagree with Angela Rayner on almost every political issue, I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today.\"\n\nSir Keir added: \"The sexism and misogyny peddled by the Tories is a disgraceful new low from a party mired in scandal and chaos.\"\n\nA Downing Street source confirmed to the BBC that the prime minister had also contacted Ms Rayner privately by text message to reiterate what he said in his public tweet.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday is not commenting.\n\nThe article - which has now been changed to headline on deputy Labour leader Ms Rayner's response on Twitter - quoted unnamed Conservative MPs claiming she would cross and uncross her legs when opposite the PM at the dispatch box in the Commons to distract him.\n\nA host of MPs have since come out to not only condemn the suggestion made but also the tone of the newspaper's reporting.\n\nAnd Ms Nokes - who chairs the women and equalities committee - confirmed on Twitter that she had contacted the Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, to ask if the political editor who wrote the piece should have a press pass for Parliament.\n\nThe newspaper article said: \"Tory MPs have mischievously suggested that Ms Rayner likes to distract the PM when he is in the dispatch box by deploying a fully-clothed Parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's infamous scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct.\"\n\nThe paper added: \"It is also suggested she employs the tactic when sitting next to Sir Keir when he faces Mr Johnson at PMQs\".\n\nThe piece quotes one MP as saying: \"She knows she can't compete with Boris's Oxford Union debating training, but she has other skills which he lacks.\n\n\"She has admitted as much when enjoying drinks with us on the [Commons] terrace.\"\n\nThe article also described the Labour MP's background as \"a grandmother who left school at 16 while pregnant and with no qualifications before becoming a care worker\".\n\nMs Rayner condemned the article in a thread on Twitter as \"gutter journalism\", and accused the sources of \"spreading desperate, perverted smears in their doomed attempts to save [Mr Johnson's] skin\" amid the partygate scandal.\n\nShe added: \"I won't be letting their vile lies deter me. Their attempts to harass and intimidate me will fail.\n\n\"I hope this experience doesn't put off a single person like me, with a background like mine from aspiring to participate in public life. That would break my heart.\"\n\nThe report led to a huge backlash on social media and support for the Labour deputy leader.\n\nScotland's First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Solidarity from across the political divide to Angela Rayner on this.\n\n\"It's a reminder of the deep misogyny women face every day.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Munira Wilson described it as a \"disgraceful story\", saying: \"I can't even believe it made it into print.\"\n\nLabour's shadow leader of the Commons, Thangam Debbonaire, added: \"This all shows we need more women in politics and that when we work together, we are mighty and fearsome and some pathetic men feel threatened by it.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from Labour's parliamentary party in 2020\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said it is \"very difficult to see\" how his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, could re-join the party in the Commons after his comments about Nato.\n\nMr Corbyn was suspended from Labour in 2020 over his response to a report into anti-Semitism in its ranks.\n\nBut while he was reinstated as a Labour member, Sir Keir refused to let him return to the party's backbenches.\n\nLast week, the former leader suggested Nato be disbanded to \"bring peace\".\n\nMr Corbyn - a long-standing critic of the transatlantic military alliance - said while he accepted the group was not going to be scrapped immediately, people should re-examine it after the conflict in Ukraine ends.\n\nHe told Times Radio: \"Do military alliances bring peace? Or do they actually encourage each other and build up to a greater danger?\n\n\"I don't blame Nato for the fact that Russia has invaded Ukraine. What I say is look at the thing historically, and look at the process that could happen at the end of the Ukraine war.\"\n\nMr Corbyn also described the choice to remove the Labour whip from him as a \"totally unjustified decision\".\n\nAsked whether his predecessor could be readmitted to the parliamentary party after his comments, Sir Keir told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: \"It is very difficult to see how that situation can now be resolved.\"\n\nHe added: \"[Mr Corbyn] lost the whip because of his response to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission in relation to anti-Semitism, but I made it very clear, the first thing I said as party leader was that I was going to tear out anti-Semitism by its roots in our party.\n\n\"I've also made it clear that our position in the Labour Party is not to accept the false equivalence between Russian aggression and the acts of Nato.\"\n\nThe current Labour leader insisted the party's stance under both his leadership and Mr Corbyn's was pro-Nato and that was not going to change.\n\nMr Corbyn remains in the Commons, sitting as an independent MP for Islington North.", "Macron's supporters were happy - but has he forced those who oppose him to the extremes of the political spectrum?\n\nBefore the caveats, it is only fair to acknowledge the scale of President Macron's achievement.\n\nNot enough is being made of this, but this is the first time ever that a governing president of the Fifth Republic has been re-elected.\n\nYes, presidents have retained the Elysée before. But both François Mitterrand in 1988 and Jacques Chirac in 2002 were effectively in opposition in the period running up to the vote.\n\nIn both cases, actual government was - as a result of mid-term parliamentary elections - in the hands of the president's foes. Though in office, Mitterrand and Chirac were politically impotent - but that helped when the wheel turned again and they found themselves back in favour.\n\nAs for Charles de Gaulle's victory in 1965, he'd never been elected by the people in the first place.\n\nSo, Emmanuel Macron is the first president in modern times who, after running every aspect of foreign and domestic policy for a full term, has once again won the trust of the people.\n\nWhen you consider France's longstanding relationship with government - which is essentially to cheer 'em in, then chuck 'em out at the first opportunity - this is no mean feat.\n\nHe has done it by two methods, the first of which bodes well for the next five years, the second less so.\n\nThe results suggest that hidden beneath the seething mass of social media caricatures - the arrogant Parisian rich, the angry provincial mob - there are millions of French people of the middling type who feel that Emmanuel Macron has not been at all a bad president.\n\nThese people appreciate that unemployment is no longer a political issue, largely because of Macron's reforms. They think his handling of Covid was competent, and they agree that pushing back the age of retirement is inevitable.\n\nAccording to projections Macron has taken 58% of the vote to Le Pen's 42% - making it a narrower victory than in 2017\n\nThey also discern a leader who can more than hold his own on the international stage. They are glad there is someone at the Elysée with the stature to talk straight with Putin, even if it proved a fruitless endeavour.\n\nAnd they reckon that under Macron France can aspire to take the lead in Europe, at a time when his vision of greater military and economic autonomy for the EU is looking more and more relevant. The contrast on this front with Marine Le Pen could not have been starker.\n\nThese people may not particularly like Emmanuel Macron - he's too different - but enough have come to respect him.\n\nHowever, the second aspect of the Macron methodology is more problematic - and this is where the caveats come in.\n\nFive years ago, Macron made a brilliant gamble about the state of modern politics.\n\nBy straddling the centre, he destroyed the old pairing of conservatives and social democrats, and using the powers implicit in De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, he installed a highly personalised and highly concentrated system of government from the Elysée.\n\nOpposition was forced to the \"extremes\" of left and right, where he trusted they could never really pose a threat. So far he has been proved right, as this election shows.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the election has also demonstrated something else: that more and more people in France are now prepared to dally with the \"extremes\". They do it because - thanks to the successful Macron revolution - there is nowhere else for them to go if they want to oppose him.\n\nMany of these voters - especially the millions who chose the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon - now want their revenge on the newly re-elected head of state.\n\nThey hope they can do it at the parliamentary elections which will take place in June. But if that does not work, they dream of a social \"third round\" in September taking the form of anti-Macron demonstrations on the street, especially if he has by then launched a new wave of reforms.\n\nEmmanuel Macron will no doubt start this second term promising a new kind of government. He'll be more of a listener. He knows there are wounds that need to heal. The trouble is that he has said that kind of thing before, and a lot of people simply don't believe him.\n\n\"Not only has this election shown that there are two opposing Frances out there. It's also revealed a growing tendency for people to say that the opposite camp is not legitimate,\" said commentator Natacha Polony.\n\n\"In the past elections always ended with someone who people recognised as president of all the French. I'm not sure that is the case any more.\"", "It is to be a re-run of the 2017 second round, where Emmanuel Macron pulverised Marine Le Pen. But this time around, let no-one be under any illusion that it will be so easy.\n\nEstimations from round one show how tactical voting rewrote the electoral map.\n\nVoters gathered into three broad camps: Macron, the far-right and the far-left. In the last days of campaigning, many people who were considering other candidates finally decided that they would rather back a frontrunner.\n\nThere was thus a big transfer of votes from Éric Zemmour - the hard-right nationalist pundit - to the camp of Marine Le Pen. Some right-wingers in the conservative Republicans party may have done the same.\n\nOn the left, voters decided that neither the Socialist Anne Hidalgo nor the Green Yannick Jadot could ever make it into round two. So they shifted massively to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, simply to keep a leftist in the race. This despite many Socialists and Greens actively disliking the man.\n\nAnd in the centre, many who would normally have chosen the Republicans' Valérie Pécresse will have plumped instead for the incumbent. Why? Because they were genuinely afraid that Le Pen and/or Mélenchon were coming up too strong from behind.\n\nMarine Le Pen will once again face up against Macron\n\nRemember under France's system, it's only the top two who go through, and a small margin can make a vast difference. The prospect of a Le Pen-Mélenchon second round was not totally far-fetched.\n\nOne is the utter devastation facing France's two traditional parties of government since 1958 - the conservative right, and the socialist left. This was a process started by Macron five years ago, but now comprehensively complete.\n\nBoth parties' candidates - and certainly the Socialists' Anne Hidalgo - may have failed to reach the 5% threshold, which allows them to claim back election costs. The price tag will be millions of euros, but worse is the ignominy. We can expect serious internal ructions.\n\nMacron has so engineered it that the divide in French politics is now definitively the one that he sought: between his own \"realistic centrism\" and \"openness to the world\" and the \"extremism\" of his opponents. The \"nationalist extremism\" of Le Pen and the \"utopian extremism\" of Mélenchon.\n\nFar-leftist Mélenchon came in third place with about 20% of the votes\n\nThis divide has served him very well so far. It allows him to aggregate the so-called \"responsible\" forces of left and right, gutting the mainstream opposition and leaving him master of the terrain.\n\nBut the second lesson of this first-round vote must bring him cause for concern.\n\nThis is that the so-called \"irresponsible\" forces of the extremes - his opposition - are growing stronger all the time.\n\nAs veteran political commentator Alain Duhamel put it on Sunday night \"the anti-system parties now have the loyalty of a majority of the French\".\n\nFar-right candidate Éric Zemmour has urged his supporters to vote for Le Pen\n\nIf you add Marine Le Pen's vote to that of Éric Zemmour and a third \"sovereigntist\" candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the far-right makes up 33% of the vote - seven points more than in 2017.\n\nAnd then if you add the far-left votes - for Mélenchon and the two Trotskyites - to the total votes for all \"anti-system parties\", that figure exceeds 50% of the votes cast.\n\nMany of these people will end up voting for Macron in round two, for the same reason they did so in 2017 - because for them seeing the far-right in power is unconscionable. But there will be others who abstain, or vote blank, or vote Le Pen.\n\nThe truth is that the anti-Le Pen vote and the anti-Macron vote are converging; the first going down and the second going up.\n\nWhich is why this time, round two is not going to be the same walkover.", "An online forum providing criminals with stolen personal data has been taken down, in a global operation which saw its founder arrested.\n\nFound on the open web rather than the darknet, RaidForums hosted sensitive financial information and \"served as a major online marketplace for hackers\".\n\nIts founder and chief administrator Diego Santos Coelho, 21, from Portugal, was arrested in the UK on 31 January.\n\nThe US Department for Justice said he remains in custody pending extradition.\n\nSeparately the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported police had arrested another suspected founder of the site - a 21 year-old from Croydon - at his home in March.\n\nHe has since been released, under investigation, but at the time of his arrest officers seized £5,000 in cash, thousands of US dollars and activated a freeze on crypto assets worth more than half a million dollars.\n\nRaidForums launched in 2015 and gained prominence in criminal circles by offering access to high-profile database leaks, which could be used to enable crimes such as fraud.\n\nAccording to the threat intelligence firm Recorded Future, the site contained more than 530,000 registered members and was a powerful tool among low to mid-level cyber-criminals.\n\nThe compromised data, which hackers bought and sold, included information stolen from UK companies, some of which related to credit cards, bank accounts, usernames and passwords.\n\nInvestigators found that the forum was operating a membership scheme, where users of the site paid up to 10 euros for access to chatrooms which allowed the exchange of photographs and data linked to cyber-crime.\n\nThey suspected that administrators of the website, based in the UK, were helping to manage its membership, as well as laundering payments to the site through a separate - seemingly legitimate - online business.\n\nPolice from the UK, US, Germany, Sweden, Portugal and Romania were all involved in the dismantling of the online platform.\n\nUnder Operation Tourniquet, the international partners took action to close RaidForums and carried out a number of linked arrests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The takedown of this online market for the resale of hacked or stolen data disrupts one of the major ways cyber-criminals profit from the large-scale theft of sensitive personal and financial information,\" said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite.\n\n\"This is another example of how working with our international law enforcement partners has resulted in the shutdown of a criminal marketplace and the arrest of its administrator.\"\n\nThe FBI's Steven M D'Antuono said: \"The seizure of the RaidForums website, which facilitated the sale of stolen data from millions of people throughout the world, and the charges against the marketplace's administrator, are a testament to the strength of the FBI's international partnerships.\"\n\n\"Cyber-crime transcends borders, which is why the FBI is committed to working with our partners to bring cyber-criminals to justice - no matter where in the world they live or behind what device they try to hide.\"\n\nSpecial agent Jason Kane, from the US Secret Service, said: \"This global investigation signifies the remarkable dedication of the US Secret Service and highlights our partnerships with our foreign law enforcement counterparts essential to disrupting sophisticated networks of cyber-criminals.\"", "Ms Le Pen is projected to get nearly half the votes with nearly two weeks left to go in her campaign\n\nFrench presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen said she broadly supports sanctions against Russia, except when it comes to oil and gas supplies.\n\nThe far-right politician will battle Emmanuel Macron for the presidency in a run-off election after obtaining her highest result ever in the first round.\n\nBut she has faced criticism for allegedly being too close to Russia amid the war in Ukraine.\n\n\"I am perfectly in favour of all the other sanctions,\" Ms Le Pen said.\n\nIn the interview with France Inter Radio, she said: \"I do not want French people to suffer the consequences of sanctions\" on oil and gas.\n\nFrance, like many other European countries, imports much of its natural gas through pipelines from Russia, using it for residential and commercial energy.\n\nBut Ms Le Pen has been criticised by rivals over her past support for Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin.\n\nShe previously appeared to support Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, and in 2017 called for international sanctions over the issue to be dropped.\n\nIn 2014, when Crimea was annexed by Russia, her political party received a loan from a Russian bank with alleged ties to the Kremlin.\n\nMs Le Pen justified her previous remarks by saying the annexation of Crimea was a different situation to the current invasion of Ukraine, and painted her support for Mr Putin as reflective of her wider ambition for a \"multi-polar\" world, Reuters reports.\n\nDespite softening her stance on leaving the European Union and other nationalist issues in recent years, she is still widely opposed by most of France's political establishment.\n\nFormer president Nicolas Sarkozy, for example, publicly announced on Tuesday that he would vote for his party's rival Emmanuel Macron, and encouraged others to do the same.\n\nMr Macron has stepped up his campaigning in recent days\n\nMr Macron \"has the necessary experience faced with a grave international crisis\", the former president wrote, \"and his commitment to Europe is clear and unambiguous\".\n\nBut in a sign of the changing political landscape, Mr Sarkozy's Republicans party candidate - once a dominant force in French politics - attracted less than 5% of the vote in Sunday's first round. Another former titan, the Socialists, received less than 2%.\n\nFar-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who came third in the first round with 22% of the vote, warned his supporters not to give a single vote to Ms Le Pen. However, he pointedly did not back Mr Macron instead.\n\nPolling suggests the final battle between Mr Macron and Ms Le Pen could be extremely tight - with projections pointing to as close as a 51%-49% victory for Mr Macron.\n\nMr Macron is coming under pressure over his proposed pension reforms, which include raising the retirement age to 65.\n\nOn Monday, after Ms Le Pen's strong electoral performance, the incumbent president suggested there was room to change his proposed timelines - something Ms Le Pen painted as an empty promise to try to win over left-leaning voters.\n\nThe presidential campaign still has nearly two weeks to go, with the run-off elections scheduled for 24 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Tropical storm Megi is the first to lash the Philippines since a major typhoon last December\n\nAt least 25 people have died so far in landslides and floods in the Philippines after Tropical Storm Megi swept the nation.\n\nOn Tuesday, rescue crews were still battling to retrieve people stranded on the eastern and southern coasts.\n\nMegi - known locally as Agaton - hit the archipelago on Sunday with winds of up to 65km (40 miles) per hour.\n\nIt was the first such storm of the year - the Philippines typically sees an average of 20 each year.\n\nMore than 13,000 people fled to higher-ground shelters as the storm lashed the east coast. Heavy rain and winds knocked out power supply, flooded homes and fields and caused mudslides in villages.\n\nImages shared by authorities and locals online showed rescuers wading through muddy swamps and using rafts on fast-flowing rivers to try and reach isolated areas of submerged homes.\n\nIn the town of Abuyog, in Leyte, the floods cut roads off and inundated homes and buildings\n\nOne of the worst affected areas was the province of Leyte, where 22 bodies had been retrieved after being buried under a landslide, local authorities in Baybay city said on Monday.\n\n\"I was crying because I know the people buried there and I was also scared because there were mountains behind our house,\" one Leyte resident told news agency AFP.\n\nThe national disaster agency also confirmed that at least three people had died in the Davao region in the south.\n\nThe storm's conditions were due to ease Tuesday.\n\nIt comes about four months after Super Typhoon Rai devastated many of the nation's south-east islands in December - killing at least 375 people and affecting about 500,000 people.\n\nIt was the worst storm to hit the Philippines that year and experts said it had grown stronger far quicker than anticipated.\n\nScientists say human-caused climate change has led to a greater intensity and power in tropical storms. The Philippines has experienced some of its most deadly storms since 2006.\n\nIt's been ranked as one of the nations most vulnerable to climate disasters due to its geography.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch this video that walks through the destruction caused by the typhoon in Cebu City", "On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin claimed war with Ukraine had become \"inevitable\"\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to continue the invasion of Ukraine until his country's \"noble\" aims are fulfilled.\n\nIn a rare public appearance, he said peace talks had reached a dead end and insisted the invasion - which is in its sixth week - was going as planned.\n\nA Ukrainian official, however, told Reuters news agency that negotiations were difficult but continuing.\n\nMr Putin's comments were his first on the conflict in more than a week.\n\nIn contrast to the early days of the war he has more recently kept a lower profile.\n\nHe was visiting a space facility in eastern Russia with Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko, one of his closest allies, to mark the 61st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space.\n\nThe Russian leader claimed he had been left with no choice but to launch the invasion in a bid to protect Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe Kremlin claims that Ukraine has committed genocide against Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine, but there is no evidence to support this,\n\n\"On the one hand, we are helping and saving people, and on the other, we are simply taking measures to ensure the security of Russia itself,\" the 69-year old insisted.\n\n\"It's clear that we didn't have a choice. It was the right decision,\" he said, adding that Russia would \"rhythmically and calmly\" continue the invasion.\n\nMoscow has shifted its focus to eastern Ukraine, moving troops away from the north after encountering fierce resistance in the initial weeks of what it called its \"special operation\".\n\nThe UN says 10 million people have fled their homes since the invasion began.\n\nRussian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted last week that the country had suffered \"significant losses of troops\" since the conflict began.\n\nNeither Russia nor Ukraine's estimates of Russian losses can be independently verified - and analysts have cautioned that Russia may be downplaying its casualty rate, while Ukraine could be inflating it to boost morale. Western leaders believe that between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed.\n\nThe Russian economy has also been rocked by a package of severe sanctions imposed by Western nations.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday, Mr Putin said Russia did not \"intend to be isolated\", arguing that it was \"impossible to severely isolate anyone in the modern world - especially such a vast country as Russia\".\n\nMr Lukashenko also dismissed the impact of sanctions, asking Mr Putin: \"Why on earth are we getting so worried about these sanctions?\"\n\nLast week, the UK government predicted that Russia is heading for its deepest recession since the collapse of the Soviet Union.", "The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world Image caption: The test for the elite maroon berets is said to be one of the hardest in the world\n\nWe reported earlier that the BBC has been able to verify the deaths of more than 1,000 Russian troops, of whom about 20% are officers.\n\nEven if we talk about confirmed losses only - there is evidence that Russia has lost some of its best specialists, including elite special forces operators, highly skilled fighter pilots and some experienced commanders.\n\nIt takes five years and at least $10,000 to prepare an infantry lieutenant in Russia. For other specialties, the cost rises to $60,000 per officer. It costs between $4m and $14m (and takes up to 14 years) to prepare a skillful fighter pilot.\n\nWe also noticed another trend. About 15% of all confirmed losses are paratroopers from units which are considered the elite of the Russian army. And preparation of a paratrooper in Russia demands more money and time compared to an infantryman. So these are sensitive losses.\n\nSome servicemen were very experienced, for example fighter pilot Capt Sergei Volynets fought in Georgia and Syria, and had several medals.\n\nThere are at least 15 military intelligence special forces operators (including five officers) and three maroon berets in the confirmed losses list. These take months or even years to train and educate. The test to get a maroon beret is considered to be one of the hardest in the military world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering his partner's three-year-old son after inflicting more than 20 rib fractures over weeks of beatings.\n\nNathaniel Pope left Kemarni Watson Darby with injuries comparable to a car crash or fall from height.\n\nKemarni's mother Alicia Watson was convicted of causing or allowing her son's death at her West Bromwich flat.\n\nWatson and Pope were also found guilty of child cruelty charges at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nSeveral jurors were in tears as the verdicts were read out after the 20-week trial.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice Tipples also became emotional as she ordered the panel to be discharged from future jury service for life due to the \"awful nature of the facts\" they had had to consider.\n\nKemarni, who was known as a noisy, energetic and cheerful three-year-old, had been the victim of what was described in court as a \"brutal assault\".\n\nJurors heard it was one of several attacks the boy had suffered while living with Watson, 30, and her partner Pope, 32, at the flat in West Bromwich.\n\nKemarni's body had 34 separate areas of external injuries which acted as a \"silent witness\" to the crimes, the court was told.\n\nThe pair had tried to pass this off as accidental and Watson told the police he was a \"boisterous boy\" who was \"always running into things\".\n\nJurors were shown a photograph of Kemarni with an injury to his right eye as well as one showing him eating near a clump of his own hair, which Watson claimed he had cut off.\n\nProsecutors said they deliberately beat the boy's abdomen rather than more obviously visible areas of his body.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC said: \"It's Kemarni's body that spoke the loudest, with the most clarity, in this courtroom. His squeezed, battered and lifeless, oxygen-starved body cannot lie.\"\n\nThe three-year-old died on the afternoon of 5 June 2018 after his ribcage was \"crushed\" at the two-bedroom flat.\n\nAlicia Watson and Nathaniel Pope blamed each other from the witness box\n\nKemarni had expressed a wish not to go back to his mother's flat after contact visits with his dad, the court heard.\n\nA safeguarding review by Sandwell Children's Safeguarding Partnership will reveal whether opportunities were missed to save him.\n\nNo safeguarding concerns about Kemarni had been identified before his death and he had had no involvement with children's social care, the partnership said.\n\nTheir chair, Lesley Hagger, said the case was \"deeply upsetting\" and they would look to publish their report \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"It is vital that sad cases like these are thoroughly looked at and, where there are areas for improvement, that any necessary changes are made,\" she added.\n\nAlthough in its statement the Sandwell Safeguarding Partnership said there had been no prior contact with children's services, the review it's carrying out will want to ask why? This was a vulnerable three-year-old who was living with his mother - a regular cannabis user - and her partner - a convicted drug dealer.\n\nWe learned during the trial that the nursery which Kemarni had attended had raised some concerns about his well-being, but it's not clear to whom those concerns were raised and what action, if any, was taken.\n\nKemarni's tragic and short life seems to have been lived under the radar, and perhaps if any lessons are learned from the safeguarding review it will be to see whether more can be done to pick up on cases like his.\n\nAlicia Watson said Kemarni's injuries had been caused by accidents or fights with other children\n\nBoth adults routinely abused drugs, the prosecution told the court, and neighbours said there had been a \"constant smell of weed from the flat\".\n\nPope, a former warehouse worker, had been jailed for four months for smashing a mother's head repeatedly into a rail on a bus in London in 2011 in front of her children and then dragging her off by her hair.\n\nBut the details were kept from the jury after legal arguments.\n\nHe had also previously been convicted of burglary and possession of heroin with intent to supply.\n\nPope told jurors he had \"just told some of the truth\" about himself in evidence but insisted he had never hurt Kemarni in any way.\n\nWatson was said in court to have a \"zero to a 100\" temper and it emerged she spent money on cannabis and driving lessons at a time when her son lost his nursery place due to a lack of funds.\n\nDuring her six days of evidence she accused barristers of lying and dismissed the case against her as \"disgustingly wrong\".\n\nKemarni lived in a small flat with drug users Alicia Watson and Nathaniel Pope\n\nWatson insisted Pope must have attacked Kemarni while she was away and claimed to be horrified at \"learning\" of his internal injuries.\n\nBut Mr Badenoch told her she had acted with him in the abuse \"for days, months and hours on end\".\n\nThe pair, who blamed each other from the witness box, were also convicted of one count of child cruelty, relating to rib fractures and an abdominal injury before Kemarni's death.\n\nThey were also separately found guilty of two further counts of child cruelty in relation to other children. Watson was cleared of murdering her son.\n\nDet Insp James Mahon described the investigation as a \"horrific case for everyone involved\".\n\n\"It's absolutely awful that the two people who were supposed to look after him the most were those that caused injury, and in the end his death,\" he added.\n\nTheir sentencing will take place at a later date.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeventeen people have been injured in a shooting during the morning rush hour at a New York City subway station.\n\nThe unidentified attacker detonated a smoke bomb and opened fire at Brooklyn's 36th Street station at 08:30 local time (12:30 GMT).\n\nImages from the scene showed bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the smoke-filled station.\n\nOfficials are appealing for information about the gunman, who fled the scene and is still at large.\n\n\"An individual donned a gas mask, he then opened fire striking multiple people on the subway and on the platform.\" New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.\n\nThe attacker then fled wearing what Ms Sewell said was a green construction-type vest and a grey sweatshirt.\n\n\"This is not being investigated as an act of terrorism at this time,\" she added.\n\nPolice have since tracked down a rental van they had been searching for in connection with the attack, according to the Associated Press, but the suspect wasn't there.\n\nTen of those who are being treated for injuries were shot, while others suffered smoke inhalation as well as injuries sustained during the initial panic.\n\nFive people are in a critical but stable condition. None of the injured are believed to be in a life-threatening condition, police said.\n\nOfficers are still working to establish a motive for the attack.\n\n\"My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,\" eyewitness Sam Carcamo told the Associated Press. He added that a billow of smoke poured out of the train once its doors opened.\n\nAnother witness, identified only as Claire, told the New York Post that she had \"lost count\" of the number of shots that were fired.\n\nThe woman said she saw the suspect dropping \"some kind of cylinder that sparked at the top\" - initially believing him to be a subway worker because of the vest she said he was wearing.\n\nNew York's fire department told the BBC it originally received a call about smoke inside the station.\n\nBut officials arrived to find multiple people shot and injured.\n\nInitial police investigations into what happened may have been hampered by a failure in the station's surveillance system.\n\n\"At that particular station there appeared to be some form of malfunction with the camera system,\" New York City Mayor Eric Adams later said.\n\nResponding to the attack, President Joe Biden expressed gratitude to \"all the first responders who jumped into action, including civilians who didn't hesitate to help their fellow passengers.\"\n\nUS cities have seen a troubling rise in gun violence incidents over the past two years.\n\n\"This insanity that is seizing our city has to stop,\" New York Governor Kathy Hochul said after the attack. \"We say no more. No more mass shootings. No more disrupting lives.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Please share your experiences by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ukraine's energy grid has been attacked twice by hackers\n\nThe Ukrainian government has revealed it narrowly averted a serious cyber-attack on the country's power grid.\n\nHackers targeted one of its largest energy companies, trying to shut down substations, which would have caused blackouts for two million people.\n\nThe malicious software used in the attack is similar to that used by Russian hackers who previous caused power cuts in Kyiv.\n\nIt is the most serious cyber-attack so far launched against Ukraine since the Russian invasion.\n\nIn a press conference on Tuesday, Viktor Zhora, deputy chairman of the State Service of Special Communications, said his team were alerted to a possible attack on energy grids at the beginning of the invasion of his country.\n\nHe said that despite a huge effort to secure the cyber-defences of energy organisations in the country, hackers had been able to compromise an unnamed private company responsible for supplying power to two million residents.\n\n\"The hackers planned the electrical outages for 8 April, to strike on Friday evening, before the weekend,\" Mr Zhora said.\n\n\"It looks like we have been extremely lucky to respond to this in a timely manner.\"\n\nMr Zhora thanked researchers at cyber-security companies Eset and Microsoft for helping to identify and neutralise the malicious software used in the attack.\n\nIn a statement, Eset said it had worked closely with the Ukraine cyber authority \"in order to remediate and protect this critical infrastructure network\".\n\nIt added: \"The collaboration resulted in the discovery of a new variant of Industroyer malware, which we, together with [Ukrainian cyber authority] Cert-UA, named Industroyer2.\"\n\nIndustroyer is the name given to the piece of malware that was used in 2016 to knock electricity substations in Kyiv offline for about an hour.\n\nThat attack was blamed on a Kremlin-backed hacking team known as Sandworm, allegedly a Russian cyber-military unit and part of its foreign military intelligence agency, the GRU.\n\nSandworm is also accused of causing blackouts which affected more than 200,000 homes in a number of towns and cities in Ukraine the year before.\n\nRussia denies carrying out the cyber-attacks but both incidents have been blamed publicly by the US and EU on Sandworm, and some individual hacking suspects have been named by cyber authorities.\n\nThe US has named a number of men it believes are part of the Sandworm hacking group, wanted by the FBI\n\nResearchers say that in this latest attack, Sandworm hackers made an attempt to deploy the Industroyer2 malware against high-voltage electrical sub-stations in Ukraine as well as deploying several destructive malware types, including CaddyWiper.\n\nCaddyWiper is one of a number of pieces of wiper software being spread around Ukraine, designed to delete data on infected computer systems.\n\nA wiper was also used to disrupt the US satellite communications provider Viasat on the first day of the Ukraine invasion.\n\nWestern officials believe this was almost certainly the work of Russia but have not yet assembled the evidence to make a public accusation.\n\nThe country has also been repeatedly bombarded with low-level cyber-attacks, and its government says there have been three times as many hacking attempts against its systems as before the war.", "There have been urgent calls for investigations into allegations of war crimes in previously Russian-held areas of Ukraine after shocking footage of murdered civilians.\n\nBut there are wider questions over whether widespread Russian attacks on civilian targets amount to war crimes.\n\nWe've been looking at a series of attacks in one city - Chernihiv - to see whether they are consistent with Russian tactics across Ukraine and reveal something of their strategy.\n\nThe following report contains some graphic details.\n\n\"They were shooting at us with everything they had,\" says Diana, 20. Within minutes of encountering the Russian tank, half her family would be dead.\n\nDiana, her mother Irina, her partner Sasha and his little brother Maxim were fleeing Chernihiv on 9 March after weeks of shelling. They had one simple aim - to reach safety in the west of the country, where relatives were waiting for them.\n\nBut within minutes of leaving the city heading south they were plunged into danger.\n\nAs their Volkswagen Golf passed the village of Kolychivka, Sasha saw Russian tanks ahead. One fired at them immediately. He put his foot down, hoping to accelerate through the danger zone - and then the car stalled.\n\nSasha, Diana and Maxim, and Diana with her mother Irina\n\nThe firing continued, and Sasha shouted for them get out - but 15-year-old Maxim had already been hit. There was a hole in his chest and blood coming from his mouth.\n\nDiana, Sasha and Irina crawled into bushes - but soldiers were approaching, shouting to each other, asking where the family were hiding. Bullets cracked towards them.\n\nDiana's foot was seriously injured. Sasha tried to bandage it, but then as he turned to help Irina, the horror worsened.\n\n\"Irina opened her jacket and we realised that there was nothing to bandage,\" Diana told BBC News. \"A part of her abdomen and intestines had been shot through.\"\n\nThey heard more shooting and Diana turned to Sasha believing these were their final minutes.\n\n\"We had time to say that we loved each other,\" she said. \"I asked Sasha, 'Are we going to die here?' He said, 'Probably'.\n\n\"My mum crawled with us a little more. I kept turning and saying, 'Mum, crawl, please, please'. She said, 'Yes, yes'. And then she [lay] down on the ground. She died there.\"\n\nDiana kept crawling, following Sasha as he broke a path for her through the thicket. They went past a burning field and through the forest.\n\nDiana and Sasha survived and she made it to a hospital. She has lost four toes from her left foot.\n\nDiana has no doubt the attackers were Russian because of their accents, uniforms and the Z symbol daubed on one of the tanks.\n\nThe BBC's verification team has found no evidence of any legitimate military targets near the site of the attack.\n\nAttacks on civilians in cars elsewhere\n\nWater is the most basic of human necessities and there is evidence of deliberate Russian targeting of the supply in Chernihiv.\n\nA pumping station on the outskirts of the city was hit on 14 March.\n\nThe attack badly damaged a water reservoir and destroyed a control room, according to the head of the water company in Chernihiv, Serhiy Malyavko, who said a worker at the plant - along with three family members - were killed. The family was sheltering there after their home was destroyed by shelling.\n\nSatellite imagery shows the damage to the plant, located by Twitter user @obretix in a forested area far away from other buildings.\n\nPhotos released by the water company showed a severely damaged treatment tank with small craters in the ground. Damage that looks like shrapnel holes pepper the buildings.\n\nThe sequence of craters visible in a satellite image suggests ground-launched strikes, says Wim Zwijnenburg, an arms researcher at Pax, a Dutch peace organisation.\n\n\"The shrapnel impact and blast direction seem to indicate the missiles were fired from the west of the water facility, [which] corresponds with the presence of Russian troop movements located to the west, according to public data on their locations.\"\n\nWithout access to the site itself, the experts we've spoken to say it's not possible to be precise about the weapons used. Rather than missiles, the damage may have been caused by heavy guns or mortars.\n\nThe Chernihiv Water Company released pictures of other sites that had been attacked\n\nThe head of the water company says the site was struck three days in a row.\n\n\"There was no military target. I'm 100% sure that the Russian troops have been destroying the city's infrastructure so that there would be no gas, no electricity or water supply in the city,\" Mr Malyavko told BBC News.\n\nHe said two other facilities elsewhere were also destroyed, cutting off water to most of the city's population.\n\nThe rules of war ban premeditated attacks on targets indispensable to civilian life, such as water supplies.\n\n\"This has been done to make the population panic,\" says Mr Malyavko. \"And Russia is probably hoping that if there's a humanitarian catastrophe, the local authorities will agree to start negotiations - and that the city will surrender.\"\n\nIt was the morning of 16 March, and Ukrainian journalist Alina Klimenko received news of a much-needed bread delivery to the city. Her father, Vitalii, dashed to join the queue.\n\nBut after a short while he moved away as a nearby house came under fire. Others, now used to the sound of shelling in the city, stayed.\n\nAnd then the queue itself was hit.\n\nAlina ran out to film the aftermath. Her footage showed bodies on the ground and an ambulance racing to the scene.\n\nAt least 14 civilians died, according to Ukrainian authorities.\n\nWe have confirmed the authenticity of Alina's video and located it to a residential area in the city.\n\nAlina's father, who has a military background, says the incoming fire was from the north-east, consistent with the attack being launched by Russian units operating several kilometres to the north of Chernihiv, according to the mapping team at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).\n\nWeapons expert Mark Cancian looked at the BBC's research. He said the damage was consistent with the impact of a missile with a range of up to 30km (19 miles).\n\nA satellite image from 16 March shows Russian forces with this kind of weaponry 14km north-east of the city.\n\nThe US Embassy in Kyiv initially wrongly reported that Russian forces in the city had shot dead the civilians.\n\nThis was quickly denied by Moscow who said no Russian troops were present in the city. But the Russians went further, saying the event had either been staged, or that those killed were victims of \"Ukrainian nationalists\".\n\nThere have been numerous examples of this type of denial from the Russian government.\n\nA critical factor in any prosecution for war crimes is obtaining clear evidence of a deliberate intent to target civilians.\n\nImages and eye-witness statements can be the starting point, says Prof Alex Whiting, a former investigations co-ordinator at the International Criminal Court.\n\nBut investigators would then need to tackle a series of basic questions:\n\nA hotel and a football stadium in Chernihiv were hit\n\nThroughout the conflict, the Ukrainian intelligence services have been releasing allegedly intercepted communications between Russian forces.\n\nIn one, a man with a Russian accent can be heard being ordered to shoot at a civilian car.\n\nThe authenticity of these conversations has not been verified by the BBC.\n\nBut by building a picture of consistent patterns of behaviour, the case for prosecution becomes stronger.\n\nSareta Ashraph, an expert in human-rights law, says investigators would be looking to establish these patterns of behaviour across the country - whether water facilities, hospitals or supermarkets had been regularly hit - in order to build up a picture of military strategy.\n\n\"This can show evidence of deliberate targeting, where the intent to bring the civilian population to its knees becomes much clearer,\" she says.\n\nAs the war continues, Ms Ashraph says she's reminded of Russian tactics in previous conflicts.\n\n\"I would say that Russia's actions in Ukraine contain some quite dark echoes of actions in Syria,\" she said.\n\nWe contacted the Russian defence ministry about all of the cases documented in this article. We have not yet received a response.", "Ammunition stockpiles aboard a Russian ship that was famously defied by Ukrainian troops early in the war have detonated, according to a statement from the Russian defence ministry.\n\nA fire caused the explosion on the Moskva, the statement in Russian media said, adding that all sailors had evacuated beforehand.\n\nThe statement said: \"The cruiser Moskva's ammunition has detonated as a result of a fire on the warship.\n\n\"The vessel is seriously damaged. The entire crew have been evacuated. The cause of the blaze is being investigated.\"\n\nIt did not specify the cause of the fire.\n\nBut earlier on Wednesday, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet was hit by Ukrainian rockets, according to the governor of Odesa.\n\nUkrainian officials said Russia was struggling to rescue the estimated 510 crew members on board.\n\nThe Moskva warship rose to fame early in the war when Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island refused calls to surrender and told the Russian ship to \"go to hell\", before they were ultimately taken prisoner.", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "Leaked documents seen by BBC News show how a sanctioned oligarch from Putin's \"inner circle\" hid his wealth.\n\nThey reveal how a Swiss tattoo artist was falsely named as owner of a company that transferred over $300m (£230m) to firms linked to Suleiman Kerimov.\n\nThey also show how $700m of transactions - and the secret ownership of luxury properties - went undetected.\n\nThe investigation exposes failures of the banking system and the obstacles impeding Western sanctions.\n\nAs part of the Pandora Papers Russia project, an investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the BBC has discovered evidence that:\n\nTom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the defence think tank RUSI, said the oligarchs Western countries are trying to sanction have many of these shell companies.\n\n\"That just shows you how big a challenge we are going to have in genuinely enforcing the sanctions against oligarchs - beyond just seizing their yachts and houses in Belgravia.\"\n\nSuleiman Kerimov appeared in February with a dozen other billionaires alongside President Putin, as Russian tanks crossed into Ukraine.\n\nHe has been subject to US sanctions since 2018 \"for being an official of the government of the Russian Federation\" having served as a member of both the lower and upper houses of parliament.\n\nHe was sanctioned by the UK government on 15 March this year, as well as by the EU, which said he was \"a member of the inner circle of oligarchs\" close to Putin.\n\nMr Kerimov rose from humble origins as a Soviet era economist to become one of Russia's richest and best-connected oligarchs.\n\nHe made his fortune buying up energy assets and major stakes in Russian banks after the fall of the Soviet Union. He reportedly made $21bn investing in the giant gas company Gazprom - and Sberbank, the biggest state bank.\n\nIn November 2006, he almost died from injuries sustained in an accident in southern France. He skidded off Nice's Promenade des Anglais in a $650,000 Ferrari Enzo, which burst into flames. Mr Kerimov and his female passenger were pulled from the wreckage.\n\nOur investigation of Mr Kerimov exposes the failure of the international banking system to identify who was behind hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions which banks identified as suspect.\n\nMr Kerimov is among more than 4,000 Russians whose names appear in data obtained by the ICIJ and examined as part of Pandora Papers Russia - a new investigation by ICIJ and global partners to shed light on covert financial transactions linked to the oligarchs and others close to the Kremlin in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nCorporate records show how fake owners were used to heighten secrecy and that banks did not know exactly who was behind big US dollar transactions.\n\nThat throws into doubt the ability of governments to identify and seize the assets of those they are targeting in the aftermath of the invasion.\n\n\"We are coming for your ill-begotten gains,\" US President Joe Biden pledged in his annual State of the Union speech. The US has announced a major intergovernmental programme to identify oligarch assets. But that won't be easy, as the Kerimov case highlights.\n\nExperts say Western countries have a lot of work to do because, for years, they have taken a lax approach to the fight against dirty money and failed to hold banks to account.\n\n\"They are going to have to play a lot of catch-up if they want to follow through with this,\" said Julia Friedlander, a former US Treasury Department sanctions adviser now with the Atlantic Council think tank.\n\nThese are the key new findings relating to Suleiman Kerimov.\n\nA secret French court document - seen by the BBC - reveals how the oligarch is alleged to have hidden his wealth behind one of his closest associates.\n\nMr Kerimov was arrested in November 2017 in France on suspicion of laundering the proceeds of tax evasion. The case against him related to the purchase of a string of luxury properties in the French Riviera between 2006 and 2010.\n\nSuleiman Kerimov outside the appeal court of Aix-en-Provence, France, 2017\n\nIt focused on Villa Hier in Cap d'Antibes, a luxurious property once used as a filming location for the 1988 film Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels.\n\nIt had been sold to a Swiss company called Swiru Holding AG in 2008 for €35m (£29.3m) - but investigators discovered hidden payments showing tax had been evaded on the real purchase price of €127m.\n\nAlexander Studhalter, a Swiss accountant and businessman was also arrested. He claimed to be the owner of Swiru Holding and of four villas, but French investigators believed they were really owned by the Russian oligarch.\n\nThey believed Mr Studhalter was a false beneficial owner, or straw man, for Mr Kerimov - but criminal cases against both men were halted, with indictments against them being cancelled by a French appeal court.\n\nIn 2020, Swiru Holding accepted its involvement in evading the tax and was fined €1.4m and made to pay another €10.3m to settle the case.\n\nMr Kerimov's lawyer put out a statement saying that the French courts had \"officially dismissed the allegations made by the former Nice Prosecutor against Suleiman Kerimov of having carried out money-laundering operations.\"\n\nMr Studhalter maintains he was \"never the straw man for my Russian friend\".\n\nBut according to the leaked French court document, seen by the BBC, this is not true.\n\nAt a secret hearing in June 2018, judges laid out evidence collected by the investigating magistrate, which concluded: \"the effective and exclusive beneficiary of the villas is Mr Kerimov and his family.\"\n\nThe evidence included records from three banks - including documents apparently signed by Mr Studhalter, Mr Kerimov and his nephew Nariman Gadzhiev - stating that Mr Kerimov and his nephew were the true owners of Swiru Holding.\n\nIn response, the court recorded, Mr Studhalter claimed the \"documents held by the bank and signed by Suleyman Kerimov or Nariman Gadzhiev… were forgeries\".\n\nIn response to questions from the BBC and ICIJ partners, Mr Studhalter claimed the same bank employee had forged documents at two banks, but said he didn't know why.\n\nMr Studhalter also said: \"I was the sole beneficial owner of Swiru Holding AG from its foundation until I sold the company in 2019, as confirmed by the Swiss Federal Tax Administration and a court in France.\"\n\nMr Kerimov's French lawyers said: \"After several years of investigation, no charges were brought against our client.\"\n\nMr Studhalter says the four villas in France have now been sold. Official records in France show the ultimate beneficial owner of the companies that own them is Mr Kerimov's daughter.\n\nFrance was not the only country where Mr Kerimov used Swiru Holding to conduct secret financial transactions.\n\nOur investigation has discovered that - at the same time the Russian billionaire was buying up properties in the south of France - he was building another secret property empire in London.\n\nOne Cornwall Terrace is a luxury four-storey mansion at the end of a row of terraced houses overlooking Regent's Park in London. The home is connected to half an acre of landscaped grounds, with a grand double staircase leading on to an imposing courtyard.\n\nIt hit the headlines in 2013 when its sale for a reported £80m made it one of the most expensive terraced properties ever sold in the UK.\n\nIn October last year, documents from the Pandora Papers financial leak revealed it was one of two adjacent properties purchased by the ruling family of Qatar.\n\nBut the documents show it was bought for £21m in 2005 by an offshore company owned by Swiru Holding, the same company that bank documents in France showed was owned by Mr Kerimov.\n\nFollowing the successful launch of Mr Kerimov's company Polyus Gold - Russia's largest producer of gold - on the London stock exchange in 2007, One Cornwall Terrace benefitted from a lavish restoration. The work carried out between 2008 to 2013 was a bonanza for London's architects, interior designers, and landscape gardeners.\n\nThe renovation cost £30m, according to architects working on the project and included the addition of a \"state-of-art swimming pool and spa to the basement\", while the garden renovation was \"inspired by Piazza dell'Anfiteatro in Lucca, Italy\".\n\nBut, while references were made to a \"a private Russian client\", Mr Kerimov's ownership of the property was hidden behind layers of offshore secrecy.\n\nThe financial activities of the company secretly owned by Mr Kerimov were not limited to the property market.\n\nDocuments from the Pandora Papers show Swiru Holding at the centre of a web of companies involved in transfers of hundreds of millions of dollars linked to the oligarch.\n\nIn one case, leaked corporate records reveal a nominee shareholder - someone who owns shares for the benefit of another person - was falsely named as the true owner of a company involved in over $300m of money transfers.\n\nRenato Coppo is a tattoo artist in the picturesque Swiss city of Lucerne with a love of \"Asian art\" and \"many years of professional experience in the field of tattooing\". His studio is in the same city as the offices of the accountant and businessman Alexander Studhalter.\n\nAccording to documents dated 2016 - one signed by Mr Studhalter - Mr Coppo was also the beneficial owner of Fletcher Ventures, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, but administered in Switzerland by Swiru Holding.\n\nThe tattoo artist's company Fletcher Ventures was involved in huge transactions. In 2013, the company transferred $100m to a firm called LT Trading Ltd.\n\nIt was one of a number of transactions by Fletcher Ventures that set off alarm bells at US bank BNY Mellon. The bank filed a suspicious activity report with the US Treasury, which traced Fletcher Ventures to Switzerland. Renato Coppo was not identified and the bank could not identify exactly where the money was going.\n\nThe bank's \"internet research\" traced LT Trading to a UK address. Bank officials noted the UK company specialised \"in the sale of fruits and vegetables\". It was \"suspicious\" they concluded \"because it appears to be inconsistent with the purported line of business of LT Trading Limited\".\n\nIn fact, the bank had identified a firm of the same name in the wrong country. Leaked documents from the Pandora Papers show LT Trading had no connection to the British produce company of the same name.\n\nThe beneficial owner of LT Trading named in corporate records was Mr Kerimov's nephew, Nariman Gadzhiev. Like Fletcher Ventures, the company was administered in Switzerland by Swiru Holding.\n\nThe transaction was just one in a series of wire transfers carried out from 2010 to 2015 totalling $700m reported to US authorities as suspicious and where bank officials failed to identify links to the Russian oligarch. The filings were found in a cache of secret reports obtained by the ICIJ for the FinCEN Files investigation in 2020.\n\nLeaked records also show that in 2013, Fletcher Ventures sent $202m to LLC Gilia in Moscow, a company with links to a Kerimov investment company. Bank officials were unable to identify who was behind the Russian firm.\n\nBNY Mellon says it is forbidden to comment on its secret intelligence filings but that it fully complies with relevant laws and regulations.\n\nWhen approached last year about Fletcher Ventures and his company's multi-million dollar transactions Mr Coppo refused to answer questions and referred journalists working with the BBC and ICIJ to Mr Studhalter.\n\nDespite signing a document saying Mr Coppo was the beneficial owner, Mr Studhalter said he had signed it by mistake and produced other records stating that he, not Mr Coppo, was the true owner of Fletcher Ventures.\n\nMr Coppo did not respond to our questions.\n\nFletcher Ventures is not the only company for which Mr Studhalter disputes the paperwork.\n\nA leaked document shows Fren Global Corp extended loans worth around $3bn to a company linked to Mr Kerimov and his family that owned shares in Polyus Gold.\n\nAccording to documents signed by Mr Studhalter, he was the beneficial owner of Fren Global Corp. But Mr Studhalter says he sold Fren Global Corp in 2014 \"as a shell company without assets\" to Nariman Gadzhiev, Kerimov's nephew.\n\nWhen asked about the matter, Studhalter claimed not to recognise what he described as a \"distorted electronic signature\" on the document he was shown.\n\nOther assets attributed to Swiru Holding and believed to have been owned by Mr Kerimov include a custom-built Boeing 737 and a super-yacht, last valued at $150m. Mr Studhalter says he, not Mr Kerimov was the real owner.\n\nMr Kerimov did not respond to requests to comment apart from in relation to the French investigation. Mr Gadzhiev did not respond to the letter sent him by the BBC.\n\nOn 8 April, the EU imposed sanctions on Mr Kerimov's son Said Kerimov, who has stood down from the board of Polyus Gold.The revelation that his daughter now owns the French villas may make the properties the target of sanctions in France.\n\nAnd in a statement last week, the French prosecutor in Nice responsible for the cases for which Mr Kerimov and Mr Studhalter were formally indicted, drew our attention \"to the fact that the procedure remains in progress\". In other words it is still an open case.\n\nAdditional reporting by Will Dahlgreen and Anthony Reuben", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.\n\nCovid-19 infections in the UK may be starting to level off, although case numbers remain high, with an estimated one in every 13 people infected, according to an Office for National Statistics infection survey. The number of hospital patients with coronavirus is also stabilising and levels remain well below those seen in previous waves of the pandemic.\n\nLondon's Heathrow Airport recorded its busiest month since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with 4.2m passengers using it in March. It comes as a spike in coronavirus-related staff absences, combined with difficulties finding and passing security checks for new recruits, has left the aviation sector struggling to cope with the increased number of travellers.\n\nHeathrow says \"resources are stretched\" but that it's \"working closely with airlines and ground handlers\" to meet demand\n\nThe Welsh government is facing criticism after it emerged £32,000 of taxpayers' money was used to create a series of 10 podcasts about the pandemic. Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford was interviewed for an episode of Unlocked: Covid Stories from Wales but, as political opponents noted, there was no mention of how the episode was funded. Campaigners accused ministers of using their \"losses as an electoral campaign tool\".\n\nSome 25 million people in Shanghai are in the second week of a strict lockdown, after a surge in Omicron cases. It's the first time the Chinese city has imposed such strict restrictions - until last month, it had taken a more relaxed approach than other cities in the country. We examine the reasons for the U-turn.\n\nA 12-week rehabilitation programme for people suffering from prolonged after-effects of Covid-19 has been shortlisted for a national award. The Re:Start course in Middlesbrough has helped more than 100 people with long Covid since launching early last year, such as by giving them exercises to help their breathing recover.\n\nThe scheme has been nominated for an MJ Award, which recognises local council achievement\n\nWorried you might have long Covid? Check the symptoms.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "Worker shortages mean airports and ports are facing a \"very difficult summer\", a border staff union has said.\n\nLucy Moreton, from the Immigration Services Union, warned that Border Force was \"catastrophically under-staffed\" and that it took nearly a year to fully train new officers.\n\nMeanwhile, one aviation recruitment expert said it would take at least 12 months for shortages to settle down.\n\nSome travellers have seen long queues and cancellations over Easter.\n\nThe travel industry cut thousands of jobs during the pandemic, but as demand for flights has returned, it has struggled to recruit, carry out security checks and train new staff quickly enough.\n\n\"For the first time in living memory, Border Force is no longer attracting enough candidates to fill the vacancies that they've got,\" Ms Moreton told the BBC.\n\n\"Combined with the fact it takes nearly a year to fully train a Border Force officer, we're going into not just this summer but this weekend catastrophically under-staffed, with people beginning to travel again.\"\n\nWhile she said it was right that no corners were cut with training and security clearances, Ms Moreton said more resources would help.\n\nShe said cash incentives were being offered for working shifts at London's Heathrow Airport, while staff from Scotland and Northern Ireland were also being brought down to provide cover.\n\nHowever, she added: \"This is a very expensive proposition that resourcing it properly in the first place would have avoided.\"\n\nThe Aviation Recruitment Network, which is working with airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester, said it currently had more than 300 live vacancies - a record for this time of year.\n\nKully Sandhu, the organisation's managing director, told the BBC he believed it would take at least 12 months for recruitment problems to be resolved.\n\n\"Brexit has not helped with the issues we're facing at the moment because we had a natural attraction of individuals from the European market who would apply for vacancies within UK airports,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We no longer have that talent pool to recruit from and we are relying on individuals within the UK.\"\n\nHeathrow has said security checks and training mean it can take three to six months before new recruits can start working.\n\nIt is aiming to have 1,000 new security officers recruited and in their posts by the summer.\n\nOn Monday, Heathrow admitted resources were \"stretched\", as it revealed March was its busiest month since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe airport warned of \"congestion in check-in areas at peak times\" and said it was \"working closely with airlines and ground handlers to make sure this increase in demand can be met while keeping passengers safe\".\n\nThe Home Office also said travellers may face longer waits than usual over the Easter period due to high passenger numbers.\n\n\"Border Force's number one priority is to maintain a secure border, and we will not compromise on this. We are mobilising additional staff to help minimise queuing times for passengers and will continue to deploy our staff flexibly to manage this demand,\" a statement said.\n\nLast week, Ken O'Toole, the deputy chief executive of Manchester Airports Group, said staff shortages meant long queues at security could continue for four to six weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, airlines have been hit by Covid-related absences, with EasyJet and British Airways cancelling flights as a result.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the company had seen absence rates of 20% in some cases.\n\nBut he said delays in processing security checks for new airline crew were also contributing to flight cancellations.\n\nMr Lundgren said the airline was waiting for the Department for Transport to give permission for around 100 new members of staff to start work.\n\nHowever, the company said it had flown 94% of its planned schedule in the past seven days, with around 1,500 flights a day - four times higher than this time last year.\n\nIt added that cancellations had been made as early as possible to enable the majority of customers to rebook onto flights departing the same day.\n\nEasyJet said it was seeing strong demand, with summer bookings over the past six weeks above pre-pandemic levels.\n\nHave you changed your travel plans due to warnings of disruption? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The deadline for applying to vote by post or proxy in next month's Northern Ireland Assembly election has passed.\n\nThose who wished to apply had to complete an application form specifying the reason why they cannot go in person to vote at a polling station by 17:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe assembly election is being held on Thursday 5 May across 18 constituencies.\n\nIt is not possible to register online to vote by post or proxy in any part of the UK as legislation has never been updated to allow for this.\n\nSIGN UP FOR ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC Northern Ireland election coverage\n\nTwo hundred and thirty-nine candidates are standing, of whom 90 will be elected.", "US President Joe Biden's administration has finalised a set of new regulations targeting untraceable \"ghost guns\".\n\nThe new rules come as Mr Biden faces increasing political pressure to act against a rise in gun violence.\n\nThe rule bans businesses from selling kits that can be used to create a gun at home without serial numbers.\n\nIn remarks at the White House on Monday, Mr Biden also nominated a new director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).\n\nThe new regulations - which are nearly a year in the making - are expected to face stiff legal resistance from lobbying groups that oppose new gun control regulations.\n\nAt the White House, Mr Biden showed the components of a 9mm semi-automatic pistol that he said had been made using a simple kit purchased online.\n\nGhost guns can be self-assembled and sometimes 3D printed, which means they do not contain a serial number and cannot be traced. Background checks have not previously been required to purchase the assembly kits.\n\nThe new rules require self-assembled \"buy build shoot\" kits to have serial numbers - legally making them a firearm.\n\n\"You buy a couch [that] you have to assemble, it's still a couch,\" said Mr Biden said in his news conference.\n\n\"You buy the parts you need to build a functioning firearm, it's still a gun.\"\n\nIt also forces federally licensed firearm dealers to add serial numbers to any untraceable guns purchased through them.\n\nExperts say that a fraction of violent crimes are being committed with ghost guns, but law enforcement authorities say they are being recovered more frequently at crime scenes.\n\nIn 2021, there were about 20,000 suspected ghost guns recovered by police and reported to the ATF - a tenfold increase from 2016, according to the White House.\n\nMeanwhile, the firearms business has seen record sales since the early days of the pandemic two years ago. In 2020, a record of about 22m guns were legally sold. Almost 19m guns were bought in 2021.\n\nAlso on Monday, Mr Biden announced a new nominee for the ATF after his first choice failed to advance through the Senate confirmation process because of Republican opposition.\n\nIf confirmed, former US attorney for Ohio Steve Dettlebach will be the first to hold the office since 2013.\n\nGun control is an issue Democrats in Washington always talk about but seldom are able to do much about. Part of this is the reality of congressional gridlock, which allows Republicans in the US Senate to block any substantive legislation on the topic. There is also a fear among Democrats that guns are an electoral liability. They worry that firearm-rights activists are more likely to punish them for new legislation than gun-control proponents are to reward them.\n\nAnd so Democratic-backed changes, at least on the national level, are made on the margins. Such is the case with the administration move to regulate ghost guns, which at the moment play a relatively small part in the rise of US gun violence.\n\nIt is an area, however, where the Biden administration can act on its own, without congressional support. The president can tout an accomplishment that may placate supporters concerned that gun control has languished on the back-burner during the first half of his presidency.\n\nEven here, however, the new rules will face almost certain legal challenge. And with the current conservative bent of the US Supreme Court, their fate may ultimately be in doubt.", "Eyewitness reports have begun to trickle in from people who were at the train station where the incident took place.\n\nOne witness, identified only as Claire, was quoted by the New York Post as saying that she \"lost count\" of the amount of shots fired.\n\nShe added that the suspect - who was reportedly wearing an orange vest and gas mask - dropped \"some kind of cylinder that sparked at the top\".\n\nAnother witness, Sam Carcamo, told the AP news agency that his subway door \"opened into calamity\" at the station.\n\n\"It was smoke and blood and people screaming,\" he said, adding that he saw large amounts of smoke billowing from the train once the door opened.\n\nA local man, Danny Mastrogiorgio, told the AP that he had just dropped his son off at school when he saw wounded passengers running up the station staircase. At least two had leg injuries.\n\n\"It was insane,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew York City police have named \"a person of interest\" after a morning rush-hour shooting at a subway station that left more than 20 people injured.\n\nPolice said they were looking for Frank R James, 62, in connection with the attack as he had rented a U-Haul van that may be linked to the shooting.\n\nThe key to the van, rented in Philadelphia, was found at the scene.\n\n\"We are looking to determine if he has any connection to the train,\" NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said.\n\nThe New York Police Department (NYPD) asked \"anyone with information on his whereabouts\" to call a hotline.\n\nMr James has not been named as a suspect in the attack. Being identified as a person of interest means police believe he may have information concerning the crime.\n\nPolice say Frank R James rented a van that may be linked to the shooting\n\nThe New York Times reports that Mr James, who has addresses in Wisconsin and Philadelphia, appears to have posted dozens of videos on social media in recent years, in which he expresses bigoted views. More recently he had also criticised New York City Mayor Eric Adams.\n\nIn a briefing late on Tuesday, police gave more details of the incident which saw a male attacker detonate two smoke grenades and open fire at Brooklyn's 36th Street station.\n\nThe attack unfolded shortly before 08:30 local time (12:30 GMT) on Tuesday, and police said the man had a Glock 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.\n\n\"He then fired that weapon at least 33 times, striking 10 people,\" police chief Mr Essig said. Seven men and three women were shot.\n\nImages from the scene showed bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the smoke-filled station.\n\nAnother 13 people \"suffered injuries related to smoke inhalation, falling down or a panic attack\", the police chief said.\n\nAll of the victims are expected to survive.\n\n\"The male then fled the scene, and detectives are actively trying to determine his whereabouts,\" Ms Essig said.\n\nInvestigators found the Glock handgun, three extended magazines, a hatchet and a range of potential incendiary devices at the scene.\n\nA $50,000 (£38,450) reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the suspect.\n\nPolice say the gunman was roughly 5ft 5in tall and 170lb (77kg). He was said to be wearing a construction vest, grey hooded sweatshirt, and a gas mask.\n\nThe attacker's motive was not immediately known.\n\nLaw enforcement officers stand guard at the scene of the shooting in the Brooklyn borough of New York City\n\nNew York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said earlier on Tuesday that the shooting was not initially being treated as an act of terrorism.\n\nWitnesses have described hearing people shouting for medical assistance and fleeing in panic. Brooklyn resident Yayha Ibrahim said he saw people running from the 36th Street station.\n\n\"I saw a lady, she was shot right in her leg and she was screaming for help,\" he told Reuters news agency. Rescue workers \"did a good job of coming quick and fast, and the ambulance came in and they took her\", he added.\n\n\"My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,\" eyewitness Sam Carcamo told the Associated Press. He added that a billow of smoke poured out of the train once its doors opened.\n\nInitial police investigations into what happened may have been hampered by a failure in the station's surveillance system.\n\n\"At that particular station there appeared to be some form of malfunction with the camera system,\" Mayor Adams later said.\n\nResponding to the attack, President Joe Biden expressed gratitude to \"all the first responders who jumped into action, including civilians who didn't hesitate to help their fellow passengers.\"\n\nUS cities have seen a rise in gun violence over the past two years.\n\n\"This insanity that is seizing our city has to stop,\" New York Governor Kathy Hochul said after the attack. \"We say no more. No more mass shootings. No more disrupting lives.\"", "Johnny Depp and Amber Heard divorced in May 2016\n\nLawyers for Johnny Depp branded Amber Heard a liar, \"obsessed\" with her image, in opening arguments of the defamation trial between the former spouses.\n\nThe case was brought after an article by Ms Heard in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse.\n\nBut Ms Heard's team argued Mr Depp brought her to court simply to \"destroy her\".\n\nMr Depp, 58, has denied any abuse and has sued his ex-wife for $50m (£38m).\n\nMs Heard has in turn, sued him, with a $100m counterclaim.\n\nHordes of fans have already gathered outside the Virginia court for the trial, expected to last up to seven weeks.\n\nAt issue in the trial is Ms Heard's 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post, describing herself as a \"public figure representing domestic abuse\". Mr Depp says the article - which does not mention him by name - is defamatory and derailed his career.\n\nBeginning a day of opening arguments, Camille Vasquez, a lawyer for Mr Depp, told jurors Ms Heard had been the aggressor throughout the relationship.\n\nMs Heard concocted a role for herself as victim, Ms Vasquez said, once Mr Depp had asked her for a divorce in attempt to \"avoid humiliation\".\n\n\"She is obsessed with her public image,\" she said. \"She has been living and breathing this role for years now and she is preparing to give the performance of her life.\"\n\nLawyers for Ms Heard instead claimed the actress had endured emotional, verbal and physical harassment at the hands of Mr Depp.\n\nMr Depp wants to \"haunt her, to wreck her career\", attorney Ben Rottenborn said.\n\nChristi Dembrowski, Mr Depp's older sister, was first on the witness stand. Responding to questions from Mr Depp's lawyer, Ms Dembrowski described a volatile childhood, shaped by their mother's abuse.\n\n\"Mom would, she would scream, she would yell. She would hit [Dad], call him names,\" Ms Dembrowski said. Mr Depp never fought back, she said.\n\nMs Dembrowski described her famous sibling as a gentle and loving brother, son and father to his two children.\n\nAccording to Ms Dembrowski, her brother's demeanour changed when he became involved with Ms Heard. \"He seemed sadder,\" she said.\n\nMs Heard would often insult Mr Depp, Ms Dembrowski said, recalling an instance when Dior wanted to hire Mr Depp for an advertisement campaign.\n\n\"She [Ms Heard] said, 'Dior, why would Dior want to do business with you? You don't have style... She called him an old fat man,\" Ms Dembrowski said.\n\nMr Depp's sister told jurors she was \"devastated\" by the news that Mr Depp would marry Ms Heard, and fearful that her brother's relationship was mirroring that of their parents.\n\n\"If I'm honest, I debated going [to the wedding],\" she said. \"I wanted to make sure that I showed up anyway, because I wanted to make sure, honestly, that my little brother knew I was going to be there no matter what.\"\n\nMs Dembrowski is the first of an estimated 120 witnesses who will be called to testify in Virginia in the coming weeks, helping to sketch competing accounts of Mr Depp and Ms Heard's relationship.\n\nOn Sunday, ahead of the trial, Ms Heard released a statement to Instagram, writing that she has \"always maintained a love for Johnny\".\n\n\"It brings me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world,\" she said.\n\nThe words were delivered with a flourish, the beginning of a case about how Johnny Depp had been wounded, emotionally and materially by the words of Amber Heard. Benjamin Chew, leading Johnny Depp's legal team, laid out what we are about to witness, a case that will try to portray Amber Heard as a liar, a \"troubled\" and \"manipulative\" woman who was, they say, the real abuser.\n\nThe opening statement was delivered with all the slickness of a Hollywood movie, you almost felt there was going to be a round of applause at the end but, inside the court, all was calm.\n\nJohnny Depp sat silently, carefully watching the lawyers' presentations to the jury of 11. Amber Heard, impassive, attentive, occasionally appearing to take notes.\n\nWatching was a crowd made up largely of Depp fans. Before court proceedings began they were warned to keep phones hidden, not to take pictures, there would be no shouting of 'we love you, Johnny.' But as it began there was not a murmur or a sign of movement. Confidence was high that this would vindicate their idol.\n\nThis is going to be, they feel, the full story with evidence from forensic experts, a counsellor, the police and friends. Johnny Depp may have lost his case in London - this they feel will be different.\n\nAmber Heard's legal team then presented the challenge. Yes, she had accused him of abuse but that was not what her article in the Washington Post was about. She did not name Johnny Depp, she did not write the headline and in America there is a special constitutional protection for words written in the newspapers.\n\nMost lawyers would agree that bringing a successful libel action in America is much harder than in the UK and in the case in Britain, the judge came down firmly on the side of Amber Heard's version of events.\n\nToday, however, was just an overture. Jurors were warned that what was to come would be graphic, neither side said they wanted to reveal the details of their turbulent private life and celebrity friends but that is now where we are.", "Asylum seekers had been moved into the Park Inn in response to the coronavirus pandemic\n\nAn asylum seeker who stabbed six people in a Glasgow hotel had contacted the Home Office and other organisations more than 70 times before the attack.\n\nBadreddin Abdalla Adam was among hundreds of asylum seekers moved into city hotels at the start of lockdown.\n\nAn internal Home Office evaluation said contact with the Home Office and two contractors, Mears and Migrant Help, \"should have acted as a warning\".\n\nThe Home Office said significant changes had now been made.\n\nAdam was shot by police and died in the incident in the Park Inn hotel in June 2020.\n\nIn March 2020, the Home Office contractor Mears moved hundreds of asylum seekers from apartments into Glasgow hotels.\n\nThe company said there was a shortage of accommodation caused by the Covid pandemic and it wanted to minimise travel for staff, as well as ensuring asylum seekers could access welfare services.\n\nBadreddin Abdalla Adam was shot by police after carrying out multiple stabbings\n\nOn 26 June 2020, Badreddin Abdalla Adam - a Sudanese asylum seeker - stabbed six people in the Park Inn hotel, including three other asylum seekers, a police officer and two members of hotel staff.\n\nHe had contacted the Home Office, Mears, and Migrant Help 72 times about his health and accommodation in the period leading up to the attack.\n\nThe Home Office review, leaked to the BBC, also found Adam had complained to staff in the hotel and was in touch with the Home Office about an assisted voluntary return to his home country.\n\nIt said the inquiries individually, and cumulatively, were \"not indicative of any elevated risk\" - but the number of times he was in contact \"should have acted as a warning\" and there was \"no joined-up view\".\n\nThe review made several recommendations, including developing a system to identify patterns of contact which may cause concern, and ensuring hotel staff are given mental health awareness and de-escalation training.\n\nThe review said the rationale for moving asylum seekers, who had not been classed as vulnerable, into hotels appeared sound.\n\nBut it said the combined impact of previous trauma, being accommodated long-term in hotels, and the restrictions had \"a significant impact\" on their well-being.\n\nThe stabbings led to a major police operation in Glasgow city centre\n\nThousands of asylum seekers are still living in hotels across the UK, including several cities in Scotland.\n\nRefugees for Justice has been campaigning for an independent public inquiry into the Park Inn stabbings since 2020.\n\nThe organisation's Dylan Fotoohi described the Home Office review as a \"shameful cover-up attempt.\"\n\nHe added: \"Lessons have not been learned, there has been no meaningful investigation, the biased evaluation report by the Home Office has been kept hidden, and they have now expanded the exact same practice that led to these tragedies in Glasgow to other cities in Scotland. This is utterly unacceptable.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Due to the pandemic, the Home Office had to use an unprecedented number of hotels for asylum seekers, including in Glasgow.\n\n\"The use of hotels is unacceptable and we are working hard to find appropriate accommodation for asylum seekers, but local authorities must do all they can to help house people permanently.\n\n\"Since this horrific incident we have undertaken a number of significant changes to keep asylum seekers safe, including how we, our contractors and charities spot vulnerable individuals and provide them with wraparound support and appropriate accommodation.\n\n\"The Home Office has completed the majority of recommendations in the review which found that hotels in Glasgow were of a good standard, clean and well maintained.\n\n\"Our new plan for immigration, which is going through Parliament now, will fix the broken asylum system, enabling us to grant protection to those entitled to it and to remove those with no right to be here more quickly.\"", "The chancellor's deputy, Chief Secretary of the Treasury Simon Clarke, is the latest minister to speak out in \"full support\" of his boss and the prime minister after their fines for lockdown breaches.\n\n\"Their efforts during the pandemic have ensured the UK is now free of restrictions and avoided economic catastrophe.\n\n\"I for one am grateful to them for everything they have done for our country,\" he said.\n\nHe said the PM has apologised and accepted the police decision, and has instituted a \"comprehensive programme of reform in No 10\", so it was time to \"get on with the job of governing\".\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack also backed the PM, saying he \"remains the right person to lead this country\".\n\nSo far, we've still heard no response about the fines from the chancellor, who has been under pressure for weeks after questions about his wife's business links to Russia and tax affairs.", "Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in October\n\nAn IS fanatic has been found guilty of murdering Sir David Amess MP.\n\nThe Southend West MP was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex on 15 October 2021.\n\nA jury at the Old Bailey took just 18 minutes to convict Ali Harbi Ali of murder and preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Kentish Town, north London, had denied the charges and claimed he targeted the MP over his vote for airstrikes on Syria.\n\nSir David's family sat in court just a short distance from Ali as the verdicts were delivered.\n\nAli stabbed Sir David, 69, after tricking his way into a meeting by pretending to be an NHS employee moving to the area\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, said Ali, who refused to stand up in the dock on \"religious grounds\", will be sentenced on Wednesday.\n\nBefore being sent out, the judge told the jury the defendant had no legal defence for killing the Conservative MP.\n\nFollowing the verdicts, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that Sir David was \"a beloved colleague, public servant and friend\", adding that his thoughts were with his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAli stabbed Sir David, 69, after tricking his way into a meeting by pretending to be an NHS employee moving to the area.\n\nDuring the trial, jurors heard how he had also scoped out and planned attacks on other MPs, including cabinet minister Michael Gove who he believed was \"a harm to Muslims\".\n\nHe drew up plans to get close to the Levelling Up Secretary which he abandoned after he split from his wife and left the family home, the jury heard.\n\nThe court heard the defendant was still determined to carry out an attack and scouted the office of Finchley MP Mike Freer and carried out online research on other MPs, including Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nHe chose Sir David after a search on Twitter showed he was due to hold a constituency surgery.\n\nIn his evidence, Ali told the court he wanted to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group but it was too \"difficult\" so he decided to \"help Muslims here\" instead\n\nThe trial heard Ali was a \"model student\" but had become self-radicalised in 2014, dropping out of university and abandoning ambitions of a medical career.\n\nHe was referred to the government's Prevent strategy to counter radicalisation, but continued plotting in secret.\n\nIn evidence, Ali told the court he wanted to travel to Syria to join the self-styled Islamic State but it was too \"difficult\" so he decided to \"help Muslims here\" instead.\n\nHe said he had no regrets or shame about killing Sir David, telling the court: \"If I thought I did anything wrong, I wouldn't have done it\".\n\nAli said: \"I felt like one minute I was sat down at the table talking to him and the next he was, sort of, dead.\n\n\"But, yeah, it's probably one of the strangest days... of my life now, you know?\"\n\nThe court heard the defendant had planned to die as a \"martyr\", assuming he would be shot by police.\n\nAfter the stabbing, witnesses described how he waved the knife around and threatened Sir David's staff and members of the public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown bodycam footage of plain-clothed police officers tackling Ali Harbi Ali to the ground\n\nHe was detained by two plain-clothed officers from Essex Police, the first on the scene, who were armed only with batons and incapacitant spray.\n\nIn video shown to the jury, officers were heard shouting \"drop the knife\" while the defendant was on the phone to his sister.\n\nHe told jurors he dropped the weapon when he realised the officers - PC Ryan Curtis and PC Scott James - were unarmed.\n\nBoth officers have received Essex Police's highest accolade, the Merit Star, for their bravery.\n\nRecalling when they arrived at the scene, PC James said: \"We couldn't stand outside if there was a chance other people were getting attacked, and we also wanted to get paramedics inside the building as soon as possible.\n\n\"Our biggest fear that day was that there were other defenceless people inside with Sir David waiting for the police to come through the door - so any fears we had were put to one side.\"\n\nTwo plain clothes officers were the first on the scene and detained the suspect\n\nDet Ch Supt Dominic Murphy, head of operations for the Met Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said: \"Sir David's family have been left utterly devastated, but they have shown remarkable courage and dignity throughout the investigation and this trial.\n\n\"Following the murder, our officers worked extremely hard and at pace to firstly ensure there was no existing threat linked to the attacker, and then to put together a compelling package of evidence which showed his extremist mind-set, and the lengths he went to in order to plan and commit the attack.\"\n\nSir David was killed five years after Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox was murdered in her constituency.\n\nHer widower Brendan Cox said on Twitter: \"The terrorist will rot in jail and die in ignominy. David's name will be remembered, especially by the people of Southend who he served.\"\n\nJo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater, the current MP for Batley and Spen, told the BBC there were \"two things that really need to be looked at\", including ensuring the country had a \"free and open society and democracy\" and \"also how we make sure people elected to public office feel safe to do their jobs\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ajay Spence: \"I'm under no illusions... you get on with the job in hand\"\n\n\"I'm not a war tourist or anything like that,\" Ajay tells me, from his base near Kyiv where Ukraine's armed forces have been defending the country's capital.\n\n\"I was quite comfortable back home sitting with my cat,\" he says in a strong Belfast accent.\n\nAjay Spence travelled to the war in Ukraine from Northern Ireland a month ago, having first got in touch with the Ukrainian embassy in Dublin.\n\nHaving told them about his previous experience with the British army in Afghanistan and Iraq, he was soon on his way to Poland before crossing into Ukraine.\n\nSeeing the news coverage of the Russian invasion is what spurred Ajay into action.\n\n\"It was just too much to watch you know, it's like asking a firefighter to walk past a burning house and not do anything.\"\n\nAjay was placed in Ukraine's foreign legion, which is said to have fighters from 50 countries, the largest numbers coming from the UK and the US.\n\nHis unit were deployed on front line operations in towns around the capital, Kyiv, that saw some of the heaviest fighting, including Irpin and Bucha. They helped to drive the Russian forces out of areas that had been captured.\n\nTheir duties centred around \"observation missions, advancing, drawing out fire\", he says.\n\n\"It's been pretty heavy work at times. It's not like Iraq, that was a guerrilla warfare situation - this is a conventional war situation against mechanised infantry.\"\n\nBut the threat was real. Not long after he arrived on the front lines, two fighters in his unit died in front of him.\n\n\"They were killed by indirect fire, one bled to death, the other was killed instantly. We carried one of them, trying to save him, while there was heavy shelling around us.\"\n\nIt was a traumatic experience. So what about the risk to his own life?\n\n\"I'm under no illusions about that, I'm willing to accept that. I'm here to do a job which is to help the Ukrainian people. You just think about stuff like that later, and get on with the job in hand.\"\n\nIn the early days of the Russian invasion the position of the UK government on British citizens travelling to fight in Ukraine was unclear, but there have since been warnings to people not to travel.\n\nThose like Ajay, who have been placed into the Ukraine's legion of foreign fighters, are paid the same as locals - 11-15,000 UAH (about £300-400) per month in base pay. There can also be additional pay added on top for those that are deployed to the front during active combat.\n\nCommunication, at least, has been manageable for Ajay thanks to the number of English speakers. And the reception from Ukrainians has been warm.\n\n\"When you're out and about people notice you, people come up and shake your hand. I think they need to see things like that because they need to know the world is behind them.\n\n\"Ukraine is a lovely country, and to see the destruction and damage, and just the pure hatred that's been thrown against the people here, it's hard to watch. I grew up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles so I've got a bit more empathy towards stuff like that.\"\n\nWith Russia's army having retreated from Kyiv in recent days, Ajay says his unit are being redeployed to a new front line. Their mission - to recapture areas currently under Russian occupation.\n\nHe surprises me after our interview by sharing a photo of himself dressed in a rather different type of soldier's outfit.\n\nHolding a sword instead of the automatic rifle now sitting beside him, Ajay explains he had previously worked as an extra in Game of Thrones which was filmed in Northern Ireland.\n\nA rather different battlefield from the one he is now on, and he says he intends to stay in Ukraine until the war winds down.\n\n\"When I left Belfast I got rid of my apartment, so I'll be here as long as I need to.\"\n\nNo one knows how long the conflict will last, and there will inevitably be questions about what happens to fighters once they return home to the UK.\n\nBut for now the international legion says it is proud of its achievements since forming just over a month ago and is advertising on social media for more people to join up.", "The End by Heather Phillipson was installed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2020\n\nThe artist who put a giant whipped cream sculpture on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square is among the nominees for this year's Turner Prize.\n\nHeather Phillipson is shortlisted for the annual art award alongside Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin.\n\nJury co-chair Helen Legg described them as \"urgent and distinctive voices\".\n\nAn exhibition of the four artists' work will open at Tate Liverpool in October, with the winner to be announced at an award ceremony in the city in December.\n\nNoting the effect of lockdown on artists, Tate Liverpool director Legg added: \"It feels like a delayed Turner Prize, but also one that's a real celebration of galleries reopening and the opportunity for visitors to get back into galleries, and to start to re-engage with works of art.\"\n\nThe winner will be awarded £25,000, with £10,000 going to each of the nominees.\n\nHeather Phillipson's RUPTURE NO 1: blowtorching the bitten peach at Tate Britain\n\nHeather Phillipson, an award-winning poet as well as a visual artist, is nominated for both her Fourth Plinth - the dollop of cream topped with a cherry, a fly and a drone - and her recent solo exhibition at Tate Britain.\n\nThe Tate show was populated by huge mutant metal and papier-mâché creatures, and filled with colour and sound in an attempt to, as she put it, \"cultivate strangeness, and its potential to generate ecstatic experience\".\n\nThe Turner judges said she \"splices absurdity, tragedy and imagination to probe urgent and complex ideas\".\n\nBest known as a photographer, Ingrid Pollard, who moved to Britain from Guyana with her family as a child, is nominated for her retrospective titled Carbon Slowly Turning at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes.\n\nShe made her name with photos that captured black figures in the English landscape in the 1980s, raising questions about race and belonging in the countryside. She also uses sculpture, film, collage and sound.\n\nThe judges praised her work, which they said \"for decades has uncovered stories and histories hidden in plain sight\". At 69, she would be the oldest Turner Prize winner.\n\nVeronica Ryan's sculptures evoke fruits, seeds, plants and vegetables, and other objects from her home island of Montserrat.\n\nShe has a particular interest in the Caribbean island's pre-colonial culture, and her 2021 exhibition Along a Spectrum examined \"environmental and socio-political concerns, personal narratives, history and displacement\", according to Bristol's Spike Island gallery.\n\nThe nomination also recognised the outdoor sculptures she created in Hackney, east London, for the UK's first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation. The Turner judges said they were \"struck by the exquisite sensuality and tactility\" of her work.\n\nStill from Sin Wai Kin's A Dream of Wholeness in Parts\n\nToronto-born, London-based Sin Wai Kin is nominated for contributions to the British Art Show 9 and Frieze London. A drag performer and non-binary, their work was described by the British Art Show as bringing \"fantasy to life through storytelling via moving image, performance, writing, sound and print\".\n\nIn the film that was on display, characters moved through a dreamscape, waking up from each consecutive dream and unsure about where reality lies.\n\nThe Turner jury said they were impressed by the \"boundary-pushing nature of Sin's work, and how they deftly translated the visceral quality of their live performances into film\".\n\nAlex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain and co-chair of the Turner Prize jury, said this year's shortlist was \"excitingly rich and varied\".\n\n\"Art has provided much-needed enjoyment and escape over the past year, but it has also helped to reconnect us with each other and the world around us, as the practices of the four shortlisted artists variously exemplify,\" he said.\n\n\"I congratulate all four artists on their brilliant contributions and can't wait to see their exhibition at Tate Liverpool.\"\n\nThe Turner Prize is returning to Liverpool for the first time in 15 years. In 2007, the venue became the first place outside London to present the prize, before it went to other cities including Newcastle, Hull and Margate.\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson previously said the event would \"shine a global spotlight\" on the city.\n\nThe Turner Prize, established in 1984, is the most high-profile award in contemporary British art.", "Kate Jayden has raised almost £25,000 for charity since January\n\nAn endurance athlete who has been running every day for 100 days has broken the record for completing the most marathons in consecutive days.\n\nKate Jayden, from Derbyshire, has completed a 26.2-mile run each day since January, covering 2,620 miles.\n\nShe hit the milestone as she finished the Brighton Marathon on Sunday.\n\nThe current female record is held by US runner, Alyssa Clark, who completed 95 marathons in 95 consecutive days, according to Guinness World Records.\n\nOn finishing, the 35-year-old, from Hartington, said: \"I'm feeling geriatric mostly.\n\n\"I was just overwhelmed. I feel very privileged that I was able to take that journey and so many people have been in touch to say they have been inspired by it too.\"\n\nMrs Jayden initially set out on 1 January to run 2,620 miles - the distance a refugee would travel from Aleppo, Syria, to the UK as a way of raising money and awareness to help refugees.\n\nShe then realised it would amount to running a marathon every day for 100 days, and would break a world record if she completed it.\n\n\"That's what kept me going,\" she added.\n\n\"The main thing was always about the journey from Syria and knowing how much money was being raised makes me cry. That's the bit I cared about when I crossed that line.\n\n\"The mental grit and tenacity has got me through and to pick myself up and go again each day.\n\n\"My motto throughout has been 'don't let anybody ever tell you that you can't make a difference'.\"\n\nMrs Jayden finished her challenge at the Brighton Marathon on Sunday\n\nMrs Jayden, who has documented her journey on social media, has raised almost £25,000 for charities, the Refugee Council, Trussell Trust and The Hygiene Bank with her challenge.\n\nShe said she would now only rest for a week before the training began again for a continuous Deca Triathlon in July, which would see her taking on a 24-mile swim, 1,120-mile bike ride and 262-mile run.\n\n\"I'll take this week off to rest and recover and slowly introduce the bike and swims back in again and focus on that for a while,\" she said.\n\nShe previously said she had taken on the challenge to push herself and also to encourage other women into sport and represent the LGBT community.\n\nMrs Jayden could now be waiting for almost a year to have her record confirmed by the Guinness World Records.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Russians have withdrawn from areas around Kyiv, but they've left deeply wounded lives that might never recover from the trauma. The BBC has heard first-hand testimony and found evidence of Ukrainian women being raped by invading soldiers.\n\nWarning: This report contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence\n\nIn a quiet, rural neighbourhood 70km (45miles) west of Kyiv, we spoke to Anna, who is 50. We have changed her name to protect her identity.\n\nAnna told us that on 7 March she had been at home with her husband when a foreign soldier barged in.\n\n\"At gunpoint, he took me to a house nearby. He ordered me: 'Take your clothes off or I'll shoot you.' He kept threatening to kill me if I didn't do as he said. Then he started raping me,\" she said.\n\nAnna described her attacker as a young, thin, Chechen fighter allied with Russia.\n\n\"While he was raping me, four more soldiers entered. I thought that I was done for. But they took him away. I never saw him again,\" she said. She believes she was saved by a separate unit of Russian soldiers.\n\nAnna went back home and found her husband. He had been shot in the abdomen.\n\n\"He had tried to run after me to save me, but he was hit by a round of bullets,\" she said. They both sought shelter in a neighbour's house. They couldn't take her husband to hospital because of the fighting. He died of his injuries two days later.\n\nAnna never stopped crying while telling us her story. She showed us where she and her neighbours buried her husband in the backyard of their home. A tall, wooden cross stands at the head of the grave. Anna told us that she is in contact with the local hospital and is receiving psychological support.\n\nAnna has buried her husband in the garden\n\nThe soldiers who saved her stayed in her house for a few days. She says they would point their gun at her and ask her to give them her husband's belongings.\n\n\"When they left, I found drugs and Viagra. They would get high and they were often drunk. Most of them are killers, rapists and looters. Only a few are OK,\" she said.\n\nDown the road from Anna's house, we heard another chilling story.\n\nA woman was allegedly raped and killed, and neighbours say it was done by the same man who raped Anna, before he went to Anna's house.\n\nThe woman was in her 40s. She was taken out of her home, say neighbours, and held in the bedroom of a house nearby whose occupants had evacuated when the war began. The well-decorated room, with ornate wallpaper and a bed with a golden headboard, is now a disturbing crime scene. There are large bloodstains on the mattress and duvet.\n\nIn a corner is a mirror with a note written in lipstick, appearing to suggest where the victim was buried.\n\nThe message scrawled on the mirror by Russian soldiers\n\nOksana, a neighbour, told us it had been left there by Russian soldiers who found the woman's body and buried her. \"They [Russian soldiers] told me she had been raped and that her throat was either slit or stabbed, and she bled to death. They said there was a lot of blood.\"\n\nThe woman was buried in a grave in the garden of the house.\n\nA day after we visited, the police exhumed her body to investigate the case. The body was found without clothes, and with a deep, long, cut across the neck.\n\nAndrii Nebytov, the police chief of the Kyiv region, told us about another case they're investigating in a village 50km (30 miles) to the west of Kyiv.\n\nA family of three - a couple in their thirties and their young child - lived in a house on the edge of the village.\n\n\"On 9 March, several soldiers of the Russian army entered the house. The husband tried to protect his wife and child. So they shot him in the yard,\" said Mr Nebytov.\n\n\"After that, two soldiers repeatedly raped the wife. They would leave and then come back. They returned three times to rape her. They threatened that if she resisted they would harm her little boy. To protect her child she didn't resist.\"\n\nWhen the soldiers left, they burnt down the house and shot the family's dogs.\n\nThe woman escaped with her son and then contacted the police. Mr Nebytov says his team has met her and recorded her testimony.\n\nThey have been gathering evidence at the family home - only its shell is now left. Just a few signs of a previous peaceful, ordinary life lie in the charred ruins. We saw a child's bicycle, a stuffed horse, a dog's leash and a man's fur lined winter shoe.\n\nThe husband was buried in the garden by neighbours. The police have now exhumed his body for examination. They plan to take the case to international courts.\n\nUkraine's ombudsman for human rights Lyudmyla Denisova says they're documenting several such cases.\n\n\"About 25 girls and women aged 14 to 24 were systematically raped during the occupation in the basement of one house in Bucha. Nine of them are pregnant,\" she said. \"Russian soldiers told them they would rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man, to prevent them from having Ukrainian children.\"\n\nShe says they are receiving several calls on support helplines - and also getting information through channels on the Telegram messaging app.\n\n\"A 25-year-old woman called to tell us her 16-year-old sister was raped in the street in front of her. She said they were screaming 'This will happen to every Nazi prostitute' as they raped her sister,\" Ms Denisova said.\n\nWe asked if it was possible to assess the scale of sexual crimes committed by Russian troops during the occupation.\n\n\"It is impossible at the moment because not everyone is willing to tell us what happened to them. The majority of them currently call for psychological support, so we cannot record those as crimes unless they give us their testimony,\" Ms Denisova said.\n\nShe says Ukraine wants a special tribunal to be set up by the United Nations to try Vladimir Putin personally for allegations of war crimes including rape.\n\n\"I want to ask Putin, why is this happening?\" said Anna, the woman who told us she was raped. \"I don't understand. We're not living in the Stone Age, why can't he negotiate? Why is he occupying and killing?\"", "The Edward Colston statue was thrown into Bristol's harbour after being pulled down in June 2020\n\nThe acquittal of four people on trial for toppling Bristol's Edward Colston statue has prompted the attorney general to contact the Court of Appeal.\n\nSuella Braverman is seeking clarification of the law around what can be used as a defence to criminal charges arising from protests.\n\nShe said the Colston case has led to \"uncertainty\" and asked for clarification on human rights defences.\n\nThe referral will not affect the acquittals in the case.\n\nMilo Ponsford, 26, Rhian Graham, 30, Jake Skuse, 33, and Sage Willoughby, 22, were charged with criminal damage after the memorial to the slave trader was toppled on 7 June 2020.\n\n(Left to right) Sage Willoughby, Jake Skuse, Milo Ponsford and Rhian Graham were cleared of criminal damage\n\nThey were cleared after a trial but the verdict prompted a debate about the criminal justice system after the defendants opted to stand trial in front of a jury and did not deny involvement in the incident.\n\nThe defendants claimed in court that the presence of a statue of a man involved in the slave trade was a hate crime and it was therefore not an offence to remove it.\n\nThe prosecution argued it was \"irrelevant\" who Colston was and the case was one of straightforward criminal damage.\n\nEdward Colston was a member of the Royal African Company and bequeathed his wealth to charities when he died\n\nMs Braverman has contacted the Court of Appeal concerning the scope of defences that can be used for criminal charges arising from protests and the directions which should be given to juries.\n\nShe said the case has caused uncertainty between the offence of criminal damage and the right to protest peacefully.\n\nThe Court of Appeal will be asked to clarify the law around whether someone can use a defence related to their human rights when they are accused of criminal damage.\n\n\"After careful consideration, I have decided to refer the Colston statue case to the Court of Appeal to clarify the law around protests,\" said Ms Braverman.\n\n\"Trial by jury is an important guardian of liberty and critical to that are the legal directions given to the jury.\n\n\"It is in the public interest to clarify the points of law raised in these cases for the future.\n\n\"This is a legal matter which is separate from the politics of the case involved,\" she added.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Boris Johnson has been fined by police for attending a birthday party thrown for him during a Covid lockdown, and has offered a full apology.\n\nThe BBC's Ros Atkins looks at the events leading up to the UK Prime Minister saying he \"fell short when it came to observing the rules\" laid out by his government.", "Sales in shops have slowed as household budgets come under pressure from the rising cost of living, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said.\n\nIts figures show sales growth for March rose by 3.1%, the smallest increase so far this year and down from a 6.7% rise in February.\n\nIt comes as millions are having to deal with higher energy bills and taxes.\n\nThe BRC said pressure on people's finances and the war in Ukraine had \"shaken consumer confidence\".\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said customers faced \"an enormous challenge this year\" around their finances, which was \"likely to be reflected in retail spend in the future\".\n\nOnline fashion giant Asos said on Tuesday that its sales forecasts for the next few months carried greater uncertainty than usual as it was still unclear how the rising financial pressures on consumers would affect their spending.\n\nSmall business owners told the BBC they had seen a recent dip in sales compared to previous months at a time when they were also having to grapple with higher operating costs.\n\nLucy Rushton (front) says she is worried about the rising costs of running her business\n\nLucy Rushton, owner and founder of the Cheshire Gift Company, said she believed a lot of people were starting to be more prudent with their spending.\n\n\"Going into Easter, sales have definitely been lower than they were last year,\" she said.\n\nMs Rushton, who started her business online and stored products in her garage before moving to a warehouse, told the BBC the company's social media presence had helped with sales from loyal customers.\n\nBut she added: \"I would be lying if I was not worried looking to the next year.\"\n\nMs Rushton said she and her staff wear thermals to avoid putting the heating on in the company's warehouse due to high energy costs.\n\n\"It is cold in the warehouse [but] I would rather keep my staff in jobs,\" she said.\n\nShe said higher shipping and packaging costs were having the biggest impact on her profits, but her team had \"adapted\" and found new ways to get the best value for money without having to pass on big price increases to customers.\n\nWith inflation rising at its fastest rate for 30 years, people in the UK are facing increased pressure from living costs. Fuel, energy and food prices have seen some of the biggest increases.\n\nThe rate at which prices rise has been forecast to reach 8.7% in the final three months of 2022, which means households may be forced to cut back.\n\nBev Logan: It's understandable that people have to be careful but it's a worry for many small businesses\n\nBev Logan, who set up her online women's sportswear business Badass Mother Runners during the first Covid lockdown, said sales had been strong until they \"nosedived\" in April.\n\n\"It's just a bit weird\", she said. \"April hit and things went eerily quiet.\n\n\"It's scary being a small business owner as your bills are going up just like everyone else's, but your sales are going down. It's understandable that people have to be careful but it's a worry for many small businesses.\"\n\nDon Williams, retail partner at KPMG, said the slower rate of sales in March suggested \"clouds on the horizon as household budgets come under pressure from rising costs, an increasing tax burden and competition from holidays\".\n\n\"Additionally, retailers are facing their own battle with rising costs and inflation, and are walking a tightrope between absorbing rising costs themselves or passing these on to consumers,\" he added.\n\nFood sales for the month fell year-on-year and online sales for non-food items also decreased\n\nHe said the big question was whether shoppers will reduce their physical and online shopping baskets in turn.\n\nThe figures from the BRC-KPMG retail sales monitor showed that overall sales fell by 0.4% in March from 12 months earlier.\n\nFood sales for the month fell year-on-year and online sales for non-food items also decreased by 29%, compared with growth of 64.7% the year before.\n\nSusan Barratt, chief executive of the Institute of Grocery Distribution, said food and drink sales figures faced tough comparisons to last year, when some lockdown restrictions started to ease.\n\n\"Easter was also earlier and we're yet to see holiday spending ramp up this year,\" she pointed out.", "Putin's supporters like to share photos of the president playing with dogs in the snow\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has been widely condemned in many parts of the world, but a network of Facebook groups run by people with obscure motivations would like to change perceptions of the country's leader.\n\nMillions of people have viewed posts committed to portraying President Vladimir Putin as smiling, benevolent and peace-loving.\n\nThese are Putin's superfans - and we've been tracking what they do and where they come from.\n\nThousands of posts praising the Russian leader have surfaced on a pro-Putin network of Facebook groups\n\nThe BBC has been investigating these huge pro-Putin groups with the help of researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).\n\nISD experts identified 10 pro-Putin public groups, boasting names such as Vladimir Putin - Leader of the Free World. The groups have more than 650,000 members between them. Content includes photos and messages praising the Russian leader, written in a number of languages, including English, Russian, Farsi, Arabic and Khmer.\n\nNot only are they popular, but they are very active. Over the past month, researchers counted 16,500 posts, receiving more than 3.6 million interactions.\n\nThe overall aim of the groups seems to be to promote Mr Putin as a hero standing up to the West, with overwhelming international support.\n\nThe images often show the Russian leader \"walking confidently, holding puppies, staring longingly into the camera, saluting troops, and riding an array of wild animals, including bears and lions\".\n\nThese groups have gained more than 100,000 new members since the start of the invasion on 24 February.\n\nMany of the posts are put up repeatedly across groups by \"superfan\" administrators\n\nDigging into the details of the people driving most of the content, it emerged that many of the fans listed as administrators of the groups have duplicate accounts under the same name. The researchers found at least 100 such accounts in the network.\n\nThese accounts generally follow each other and sometimes post heart-warming messages or send heart emojis to each other. And they administer these pro-Putin accounts alongside others pretending to be the Russian Federation or the Russian security services, which are clearly fake.\n\nRunning duplicate accounts is a potential violation of Facebook's rules on inauthentic behaviour, the ISD says.\n\nLead researcher Moustafa Ayad calls the practice an example of \"astroturfing\" - an online operation involving multiple accounts that falsely gives something the impression of wider grassroots support.\n\nThe campaign \"creates the appearance of widespread support for Putin and the Kremlin in the shadow of the invasion and relies on... inauthentic accounts to accomplish its goal\", according to the ISD report.\n\nA closer examination of some of the group admins shows some unusual activity. One, named Marine, who says her location is Syria, uses three separate accounts to generate support for the president. Her three accounts, in Arabic, post at the same time every day.\n\nAnother moderator, Victoria, from Cambodia, has been pushing content in a Khmer language group. Since 4 February, her posts have generated more than 34,000 reactions and have been shared more than 4,000 times.\n\nAnd Marine and Victoria jointly run a Khmer-language Facebook page, part of a wider pattern of co-ordination between some of the accounts.\n\nPosts are widely shared across different groups. For instance, another account listed as located in Bulgaria posted the same Putin image 12 times in the space of a couple of minutes.\n\nVladimir Putin's appearances with animals are often shared by the network of fans\n\nWe tried to contact the people behind all of these accounts for comment, but didn't have much luck.\n\nBut a man in Kenya, called Raj, who's in several of these groups and includes \"Putin\" at the end of his name on Facebook, did answer the phone when we rang. In a brief conversation, he called the president a \"great leader\" but said he didn't want to discuss the war. We emailed him further questions about his interest in Russia, but he didn't respond.\n\nHasmik, from Armenia, says she's a journalist and now helps to run six pro-Putin groups. We asked who invited her to do it. She told us it was the people already running the groups and said that she wasn't paid for her efforts.\n\nIt's difficult to glean the motivations of the people behind the accounts. There is no obvious link to the Russian government and unlike other well-known Russian disinformation campaigns, the network isn't subtle; nor do the people involved hide their intentions.\n\nBut we can't rule out the possibility that the network has some links to the Russian authorities or pro-Putin elements inside Russia.\n\nMany people around the world are drawn to Mr Putin and his anti-West view of the world.\n\nWe contacted Facebook, which says it has policies against fake accounts and has suspended a number of accounts based on information from the report and their own investigations.\n\n\"We're continuing to take strong action to prevent the spread of misinformation relating to the crisis in Ukraine,\" says a spokesman for parent company Meta.\n\nIn the course of our research, we came across another interesting phenomenon - Vladimir Putin impersonation accounts.\n\nOne of the Putin impersonation Facebook accounts had a massive following before being taken down\n\nMr Putin is one of the few world leaders who doesn't use social media, and there's no official Facebook account in his name. He reputedly doesn't even have a smartphone.\n\nAccording to his spokesman, Mr Putin simply \"does not need\" social media as it \"doesn't give him anything he doesn't have already\".\n\nBut some have filled the gap left by his online absence. The page on Facebook displayed above had more than three million followers until it was taken down for impersonation shortly after the invasion at the end of February.\n\nA significant number of its subscribers - more than 700,000 - joined during the pandemic, when the page was talking up Russian-made Covid vaccines.\n\nMore recently, the page was posting messages amplifying the Kremlin's view of the war, and many commenting on it appeared to believe it contained the genuine words of the Russian president.\n\nShortly after the invasion, a post on the page declared the goal of the \"operation\" was \"peacekeeping... aimed only at the demilitarisation of a neighbouring country\". This message was shared and liked more than 200,000 times.\n\nAnd the page also had a habit of tagging people in its messages about Mr Putin, including users identified by researchers as having duplicate accounts. In other words, it was interacting with the Putin superfans.\n\nWe don't know who's behind this account. The people managing it are based in Russia and Latvia, according to the page's transparency section.\n\nFan pages are fertile ground to drum up support for the Kremlin internationally, says Nika Aleksejeva, a researcher at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), part of the Atlantic Council think tank.\n\n\"They may help to build public support in foreign countries for Russia's so-called 'military operation in Ukraine' unless taken down by mainstream social media platforms,\" she says.\n\nDFRLab documented how one Putin-impersonator account posting in Arabic had paid for adverts targeting users in several countries, including Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, and Tunisia. The page had more than one million followers, but has since been deleted.\n\nAnother prominent Putin page, posted in Arabic, used to be managed by a man who is also a big fan of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. It attracted almost a million followers before recently disappearing.", "A mother who scrawled contact details on her two-year-old daughter's back while fleeing Ukraine has described to the BBC her desperation in that moment.\n\nSasha Makoviy said she wrote little Vira's name, age and some phone numbers on her, in case the family were separated or killed while fleeing Kyiv.\n\n\"In case of our death, she could be found and would know who she is,\" Ms Makoviy explained.\n\nThe family are now in France where they feel \"surrounded with love and care\".\n\nAfter arriving, Ms Makoviy posted a photo of the writing on Vira's back to Instagram, and the image has since gone viral.\n\n\"It was the first day of the war, and we were preparing everything to flee from Kyiv and I was just not sure if it was safe,\" Ms Makoviy told The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.\n\nPacking their belongings under the sound of falling bombs and with little information available, she said she \"wasn't sure if we would come outside our house and be attacked by rockets\".\n\n\"It was my biggest fear that Vira gets lost or that we become dead and she never finds out who she is, or what family she is from,\" Ms Makoviy said.\n\nSasha Makoviy holds her two year old daughter Vira at their home in Kyiv last Christmas\n\nWorried that her daughter might live but have no surviving family members, Ms Makoviy hoped that at least Vira would one day be able to look up her mother's social media accounts to know what she looked like.\n\n\"I thought that she can find some information from the internet, maybe find my account on Instagram - and maybe she could see her parents,\" she said.\n\nHaving finally reached the safety of France after a long escape through Moldova, Romania and Belgium, Ms Makoviy says she is mentally \"crushed\".\n\nThe war was so traumatic, she says, that simply walking outside is frightening, because she mistakes stones for landmines.\n\n\"Vira is fine. She is too small to understand what is going on. She can feel something from me, but she is too small to understand. I'm really happy about her age. Really happy.\"", "Britney Spears has announced she is pregnant, months after she escaped the legal arrangement that gave her father control over many aspects of her life.\n\nThe singer told her 40 million Instagram followers she was having a baby with partner Sam Asghari.\n\nThe 40-year-old, who has two teenage sons, also revealed she suffered depression during a previous pregnancy.\n\nIn June last year, she told a judge her conservatorship prevented her from marrying or removing her birth control.\n\nShe has previously said she wanted a family with Asghari, a 28-year-old personal trainer.\n\nBut the form of legal guardianship known as a conservatorship, set up by her father in 2008 after she experienced a public mental health crisis, meant she could not make her own decisions about her medical care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sam Asghari talks marriage, family and public support for Britney Spears before the pregnancy announcement\n\nSpeaking against the conservatorship in court last year, Spears said the legal arrangement included control over her reproductive health.\n\n\"I have an [IUD] inside of myself right now so I don't get pregnant... but this so-called team won't let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don't want me to have children,\" she said.\n\n\"So basically, this conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good.\"\n\n\"I want to be able to get married and have a baby,\" she added.\n\n\"I was told right now in the conservatorship I am not able to get married and have a baby.\"\n\nIn her Instagram post on Monday, Spears said she \"won't be going out as much\" to avoid paparazzi photographers.\n\nShe also said the pregnancy would probably be \"hard\" as she had previously experienced perinatal depression - the medical term for depression occurring any time between becoming pregnant to about a year after giving birth.\n\nShe said it was \"absolutely horrible\" and was rarely talked about in the past because \"some people considered it dangerous if a woman complained like that with a baby inside her\".\n\nBut the singer - who has two children from her marriage to Kevin Federline - said she was grateful that it was no longer necessary to keep that pain a secret.", "Karim Mussilhy is now a leading member of Grenfell United\n\nA man who lost his uncle in the Grenfell Tower fire has told the inquiry into the disaster that authorities were more concerned about a riot than helping him.\n\nKarim Mussilhy said he felt abandoned in the chaotic days following the fire, and had no help to find out what happened to his uncle, Hesham Rahman.\n\nMr Rahman's death was only officially confirmed two months later.\n\nThe council apologised on Monday for its failings.\n\nRecalling the days after the fire in June 2017, Mr Mussilhy said despite a tense atmosphere in North Kensington, the families were focused on finding their loved ones.\n\nBut he said the government and council \"dug their head into the sand and tried to portray that we were some kind of criminals like we were going to form a mob\".\n\n\"That seemed to be their main interest. They were more concerned about an uprising,\" he said.\n\n\"These crooks, these criminals, the government, the local authorities, they've not learnt their lessons.\"\n\nMr Mussilhy said he thought the government was \"put in place to look after its people, its most vulnerable people and help would come swooping in\".\n\n\"It never happened. They never planned to. They don't care about us.\"\n\nHe said as the days went on it became \"more and more apparent that we were completely left alone\".\n\nResidents had to make their own lists of survivors.\n\n\"We were abandoned in the worst way possible while we were looking for our relatives,\" Mr Mussilhy said.\n\nMr Mussilhy recalled seeing smoke and flames coming from his uncle's flat and convincing himself he wasn't in there.\n\n\"There's no way I'm standing here watching my uncle smoking and burning. I just wouldn't allow myself to believe that,\" he said.\n\nMr Mussilhy told the inquiry his only sources of information were people he knew and the media.\n\nHe said some journalists were acting like \"parasites trying to feed and attach themselves to vulnerable people\".\n\nBut he also said that out of \"sheer desperation\" he allowed a Sky News team to follow his search for his uncle, in case they might help him to find more information.\n\nA number of local organisations opened their doors to survivors, providing what the council called \"rest centres\", but Mr Mussilhy said there was no sign of any official presence at the centres.\n\nThe possibility that his uncle had died only started to become apparent when he saw fire brigade T-shirts laid out near the tower with notes written by firefighters.\n\nMissing persons signs, candles and tributes were laid near the tower block in the days after the fire\n\nIn his written statement, he said the notes read \"to all those on the 21st floor and above, we are sorry we couldn't get to you\".\n\n\"I realised [my] uncle was probably dead and we watched him burn,\" he told the inquiry.\n\nMr Mussilhy is now a leading member of Grenfell United, which represents many of the bereaved, survivors and residents of the area.\n\nHe said it had come together because official sources of help were not available.\n\n\"Grenfell United exists because of their non-existence. They purposefully left people to fend for themselves,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe will work for the company which owns Die Welt newspaper, reporting from Ukraine and Russia, it announced.\n\nLast month Ms Ovsyannikova staged a protest on Russian television, storming her Channel One employer's live broadcast with an anti-war placard.\n\nThe 43-year-old was detained and fined by a Russian court, and made international headlines.\n\nShe will now work as a freelance correspondent for Die Welt, writing for its flagship German newspaper and appearing as a contributor on a TV news channel it owns.\n\nDie Welt \"stands for what is being defended so vehemently by the courageous people on the ground in Ukraine right now: for freedom,\" Ms Ovsyannikova said.\n\nUlf Porschardt, who is editor-in-chief of Welt Group, said that Ms Ovsyannikova's on-air protest \"defended the most important journalistic ethics - despite the threat of state repression\".\n\n\"I am excited to be working with her,\" he added.\n\nAfter the March protest, Ms Ovsyannikova said she was prevented from sleeping for two days and questioned for 14 hours, before being issued with a 30,000 rouble (£214, $280) fine in relation to an anti-war video message she had posted online.\n\nIn the video, she called on the Russian people to protest against the war, saying only they have the power to \"stop all this madness\".\n\nAfter the protest, the journalist left her job as an editor at the Russian state-controlled Channel One, and announced that she would not be accepting an offer of asylum in France, because she wanted to stay in Russia even though she feared for her safety.\n\nMarina Ovsyannikova, an editor at state-controlled Channel One, was detained after she ran on to the set holding a sign saying \"no war\"\n\nMs Ovsyannikova could still face further prosecution under Russian law, risking years in prison under a new penal code which criminalises spreading \"fake news\" about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nRussia recently made it illegal to call the war an \"invasion,\" with Russian state-controlled news organisations instead told to describe it as a \"special military operation.\"", "Two new medications which fight drug-resistant superbugs could soon become available to NHS patients in England.\n\nDrugs' watchdog NICE says cefiderocol and ceftazidime with avibactam offer value for money and will save lives.\n\nThese 'last line of defence' drugs will tackle severe infections which cannot be cleared by other treatments.\n\nUnder the deal, a fixed annual fee will be paid to manufacturers to cover their development costs, rather than individual payments for each dose.\n\nThe subscription-style payment model is part of the government's strategy to incentivise companies to make essential drugs such as these, alongside the so-called blockbuster drugs which typically make huge profits for pharmaceutical giants.\n\nAntimicrobial resistance is a major issue which threatens to set modern medicine back to the pre-antibiotic era.\n\nWithout effective drugs to address superbugs, routine surgery - such as hip replacements - will become too dangerous to perform, for example.\n\nSome of the bacteria and other micro-organisms behind common, treatable diseases - including tuberculosis and gonorrhoea - have acquired the ability to dodge medicines. Hard-to-treat infections already kill more than a million people per year globally, researchers estimate.\n\nThe two new drugs, approved in draft guidelines from NICE, will help patients with risky urinary tract infections, pneumonia and sepsis.\n\nNHS commercial medicines director Blake Dark said: \"This is an important step in our world-leading approach to incentivise innovation in antimicrobial drugs and the battle against drug-resistant infections.\n\n\"The NHS will now use its commercial power to secure deals that will enable NHS patients to benefit from these treatments, delivering on its Long Term Plan commitment and paving the way for a pipeline of future treatment options.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest health threats facing the world and I'm incredibly proud that the UK's world-leading innovations are helping to develop two antibiotics which will save many lives.\n\n\"NHS patients with severe resistance to other drugs could soon access these medicines, giving them a much greater chance of survival.\n\n\"It's great to see international interest in this new development which will help incentivise investment in developing new antibiotics - together we can ensure our children can continue to treat common infections in the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russians are also burying their dead as the conflict goes on\n\nIn Stavropol cemetery, there is a new line of graves.\n\nThe fresh mounds of earth are covered in a sea of flowers. Decorating the graves, fluttering in the breeze, are military banners with emblems of elite Russian units.\n\nFixed to wooden crosses are the portraits of soldiers, their names and the dates they died.\n\nThe servicemen buried here lost their lives after 24 February: the start of President Putin's \"special military operation\" in Ukraine.\n\nAt the cemetery I meet Dmitry. He lays red carnations at the grave of his former paratrooper comrade, an officer called Sergei Tysyachny.\n\n\"He was like a second father to me and the lads,\" Dmitry tells me. \"We love him, we respect him and we mourn for him.\"\n\nSuch praise for a Russian soldier jars with events on the ground in Ukraine. The Kremlin may insist that its military offensive there is necessary and justified. But the UN Secretary-General calls it \"a full-fledged invasion… in violation of the UN charter\".\n\nThere is also international outrage at reports of apparent Russian military atrocities and alleged war crimes.\n\n\"I don't believe these fakes,\" Dmitry says about war crime allegations levelled against some Russian soldiers. \"I will never believe them.\n\n\"I know how my commander, Sergei, taught us to act. I trust my comrades and my army. They would never do things like this.\"\n\nDmitry, left, says his commander Sergei, right, was like a father\n\n\"But investigations are under way,\" I continue. \"What if you were shown cast-iron evidence that crimes happened? Would you believe it then?\"\n\n\"I'm sure there will be no evidence,\" he replies. \"I'm certain.\"\n\nThis certainty that Russia is right (and the West wrong) is rooted in years of similar messaging here by the state media.\n\nThe Kremlin uses its control of television to convince Russians they are living in a besieged fortress, surrounded by enemies - Nato, America, Britain, the EU, to name a few - who are plotting from morning till night to sow chaos in their country.\n\nPresident Putin's media monopoly has also helped him to persuade many here that Russians in Ukraine are battling \"Nazis\", \"neo-Nazis\", \"ultra-nationalists\" and \"liberating Ukraine from fascism\" - creating a parallel reality around events there.\n\nSince all independent Russian news sources have either been blocked or shut down, accessing alternative views in Russia has become increasingly difficult.\n\nSergei Tysyachny's widow, Lada, agrees to meet me in the centre of Stavropol.\n\n\"I didn't want to believe it. I still can't completely believe it,\" Lada says of the moment she was told her husband had been killed.\n\nShe, too, refuses to believe that Russian soldiers have committed atrocities.\n\n\"They'll accuse Russia of anything,\" Lada says\n\n\"I know that the whole world is against us now,\" Lada says. \"They'll accuse Russia of anything.\"\n\nAnd it turns out that Russia will accuse the West - and Western journalists - of anything.\n\nAt the end of the day in Stavropol, we find ourselves making the news, not just covering it.\n\nA popular local website has published an article about the BBC's visit, along with a photograph of my cameraman and me interviewing Lada on a park bench.\n\nHere's an extract: \"It's easy to guess how the recently widowed resident of Stavropol must have felt talking to journalists from a country that is an accessory to the death of her husband.\"\n\nThis attempt to link Britain to the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine shows how Western journalists in Russia are viewed, increasingly, as the enemy.\n\nAnd how the authorities here are searching for scapegoats for the horrors unfolding in Ukraine.", "Doug Beattie has led the UUP since spring 2021\n\nLauren Kerr has been a member of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) for exactly half her life.\n\nShe's still only 30. She's also female - obviously - and gay.\n\nShe was 12 during the assembly election of 2003.\n\nThat's the one best remembered for the \"Fuss at the Bus\" and for the Democratic Unionist Party finally overtaking the Ulster Unionists as the biggest party at Stormont.\n\nSIGN UP FOR ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC Northern Ireland election coverage\n\nThe narrow margin then has now become a chasm.\n\nSo when Lauren Kerr told her party's election manifesto launch that the next assembly poll \"is the most important election the Ulster Unionist party has ever fought\" it was quite a statement.\n\nAfter all it has been fighting them for more than 100 years.\n\nPOSTCODE SEARCH: Full list of candidates standing in my area\n\nBut this is not the party of Edward Carson and James Craig. Or even of David Trimble and Reg Empey.\n\nTwo of its candidates are gay - one a former member of the Progressive Unionist Party. Another is Catholic.\n\nIts election broadcast features, not for the first time, a hurling stick - and Doug Beattie's first conference as party leader in 2021 had Irish dancers front and centre.\n\nWhen he became leader, Mr Beattie said the party may have to \"shrink to grow\", meaning some of his more conservative members may baulk at the changes.\n\nBut his detractors point to his opposition to an Irish Language Act and his refusal to say if he would be prepared to take up the post of deputy first minister if Sinn Féin emerges as the largest party.\n\nEvidence, they say, that a few Irish dancers don't amount to a change of tune - to mix our metaphors.\n\nOn the other hand his decision to withdraw his party from rallies which oppose the Northern Ireland Protocol, claiming they are helping to raise tensions, showed he was prepared to take risks.\n\nSo far it has cost him a broken office window in Portadown and a poster with his neck portrayed in a noose left at an anti-Protocol rally in Lurgan.\n\nLauren Kerr (front row, second from left) is one of the UUP's new young candidates\n\nBut are there benefits? Certainly the so-called \"Beattie bounce,\" which at one point had the party ahead of the DUP in the opinion polls, appears to have gone a bit flat.\n\nMr Beattie's leadership was not helped by the controversy over a series of historic misogynistic and sometimes racist tweets from the days when he was a soldier fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nThis time he found himself fighting to survive as a political leader.\n\nThe fact he did - helped by profuse apologies - probably says more about how much the party members see their only hope for a long overdue revival pinned to his new vision of \"a union of people\".\n\nBut the party's former director of communications, Alex Kane, still believes he's been damaged, particularly among women voters.\n\n\"He's helped the Ulster Unionist Party in a way. He's attracted attention that they have haven't had for years under a series of leaders,\" he says.\n\n\"The problem is he's a man who tells you exactly what's on his mind, whether it's diplomatic or not, whether it's helpful or not, and it's going to depend when polling day comes whether people will forgive him for some of the mistakes and slips he has made along the way or whether they'll just go back to the safety of somewhere like the DUP.\"\n\nAnd there lies the problem. If the DUP isn't vulnerable now when will it ever be?\n\nLess than a year ago the party lay in ruins, split between two opposing factions divided over the way Arlene Foster was deposed and by much more besides.\n\nIn addition it seemed unsure how to proceed over the Northern Ireland Protocol, for which many people blamed it over its support for Brexit.\n\nYet today the only question is - has it clawed back enough support to overhaul Sinn Féin?\n\nThe last time the UUP was the biggest unionist party, David Trimble was its leader\n\nNo one seriously believes it won't retain its convincing lead over the Ulster Unionists.\n\nJon Tonge, professor of politics at the University of Liverpool, believes the best Mr Beattie's evolving party can hope for in this election is to build for the next one.\n\n\"Doug Beattie is very pro-Stormont and believes that the UUP should be inside institutions arguing the case against the Protocol,\" he says.\n\n\"That's clear blue water between one section of unionism, and another. Whether the Beattie bounce will be anything more than a sort of bob is open to question, because if you look at the UUP's poll ratings - all health warnings included - it suggests the party is only up very, very modestly from where it was in 2017.\n\n\"And the UUP has been beset by problems. The fact that it's on its third leader since the last assembly election speaks volumes about the difficulties that have engulfed the party.\"\n\nThe UUP is running 27 candidates, nine of them women. And yet they run the risk of losing their only female assembly member (MLA) Rosemary Barton in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.\n\nIt is one of several constituencies where they are running two candidates where only one seat seems available to them.\n\nIn a recent piece in the Belfast News Letter, Mr Beattie wrote: \"If I am wrong what has unionism lost? Those who want to will be able to revert back to that negative, angry, inward looking mind-set promoted by some if they wish.\n\n\"But If I am right, then unionism will emerge as a confident, positive, optimistic movement promoting a union for all, working for all, in the best interests of all.\"\n\nThe last Ulster Unionist leader to take such a risk was David Trimble when he signed the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.\n\nArguably the party has never recovered. That recovery must start now if it is going to start at all.", "Alice Walker, a retired IT consultant, was 66 when she triumphed on Mastermind\n\nA veteran quizzer became the oldest female BBC Mastermind champion when she triumphed in the show at the age of 66.\n\nAlice Walker, from Derbyshire, scored a perfect 14 out of 14 in her specialist subject, the Peak District.\n\nMs Walker - who won by six points in the grand final - was cheered on by a performance from the Morris dancing troupe she belongs to during the show, which aired on BBC Two on Monday.\n\nThe now 67-year-old said it was a \"shock\" to win.\n\n\"I applied for Mastermind after watching the programme and thought about entering for many years, but never expected to win, and it was quite a shock when I did,\" the retired IT consultant said.\n\n\"The opposition in the final was very tough but the questions just seemed to fall my way. It was a great experience and such an honour to receive the beautiful trophy.\"\n\nThe previous oldest female winner was Isabelle Heward, who took the title at her fourth attempt at the age of 61 in 2017.\n\nClive Myrie took over hosting Mastermind in 2021\n\nMs Walker's win follows 2021 champion Jonathan Gibson, a PhD student from Glasgow, who became the youngest person to win the show last year aged 24.\n\nShe has been part of the Macclesfield and Stockport quiz league since the 1980s, the show's producers said, and entered this year's Mastermind after contemplating applying for years.\n\n\"I'm not getting any younger. It's time,\" she said.\n\nAlice Walker correctly answered these questions. How about you?\n\nAnswers are below the photo.\n\n1. A traditional almond and jam pudding is named after which town known as the unofficial capital of the Peak District?\n\n2. In the mid-18th Century, which landscape architect was commissioned to redesign the gardens at Chatsworth House?\n\n3. What neolithic stone circle located on moorland near Monyash is sometimes referred to as the Stonehenge of the north?\n\n4. Which peak, the second highest point in Derbyshire, has been described as one of Britain's only true deserts because of its expanse of virtually featureless moorland?\n\n5. Which village between Leek and Buxton claims to be the highest in Britain at more than 1,500ft above sea level?\n\nHer partner Haydn, daughter Laura and granddaughter Evelyn watched from home, while the Poynton Jemmers Northwest Morris dancers appeared on the show with a performance to cheer Ms Walker on.\n\nBBC News journalist Clive Myrie took over the hosting duties last year, replacing John Humphrys who had overseen the quiz show for 18 years.\n\nThe final is available to view on BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Clive Myrie: Becoming host of Mastermind is a big, big job", "The UK Health Security Agency says parents should look out for symptoms such as jaundice\n\nHealth officials are now investigating a total of 74 cases of hepatitis - or liver inflammation - in children across the UK since the start of this year.\n\nThey believe that the common adenovirus could be the cause, but they have still not ruled out Covid-19.\n\nOfficials are examining 49 cases in England, 13 in Scotland and 12 across Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said parents should be on the lookout for symptoms such as jaundice.\n\nThe first sign of an unusual rise in cases in young children was spotted in Scotland last week.\n\nDr Meera Chand, director of clinical and emerging infections at UKHSA, said officials were looking at a wide range of possible factors which could be causing children to be admitted to hospital with liver inflammation.\n\n\"One of the possible causes that we are investigating is that this is linked to adenovirus infection. However, we are thoroughly investigating other potential causes,\" Dr Chand said.\n\nOther possible explanations being investigated include Covid-19, other infections or an environmental trigger.\n\nAdenoviruses are a family of viruses that usually cause a range of mild illnesses such as colds, vomiting and diarrhoea.\n\nHepatitis is not a common complication of these viruses but in rare cases a link has been found.\n\nTo reduce spread, Dr Chand said parents should supervise good handwashing and hygiene at home, as well as keeping an eye out for possible symptoms.\n\n\"We are calling on parents and guardians to be alert to the signs of hepatitis - including jaundice, or yellowing of the eyes and skin - and to contact a healthcare professional if they are concerned.\"\n\nOther symptoms of the liver condition include:\n\nThe UKHSA says there is \"no link\" between these recent infant hepatitis cases and the Covid-19 vaccine, as none of the children involved has been been vaccinated.\n\nProfessor Will Irving, virology expert from the University of Nottingham, said the current crop of cases of hepatitis in children under the age of 10 was \"very unusual\".\n\n\"In relation to viral hepatitis, infection in childhood very rarely causes clinical disease,\" he said, adding it was often much worse if caught as an adult.\n\nIt's a broad term used to describe inflammation of the liver.\n\nUsually the result of a viral infection, it can also be caused by exposure to some chemicals, drinking too much alcohol, drugs and certain genetic disorders.\n\nThere are five main types of hepatitis caused by specific viruses - known as A, B, C, D and E - but none of those appear to have caused the liver inflammation seen in these children so far.\n\nSome types of hepatitis can pass without any serious problems, while others can be long-lasting.", "Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson on a visit to a brewery last year\n\nBoris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been fined by the Metropolitan Police over lockdown parties in Downing Street. Can lawmakers get away with being lawbreakers?\n\nNot just any law maker, but the prime minister and the chancellor.\n\nAnd not just any law, but the one that confined millions of us to our homes, closed schools, crippled businesses and were designed to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths.\n\nThe law which the prime minister himself said, while looking solemnly at us down a camera, was essential to our safety and which we must all obey.\n\nThe PM faced the cameras again on Tuesday to apologise for breaking those laws, while insisting it did not occur to him at the time that he was doing anything wrong.\n\n\"But, of course,\" he added, \"the police have found otherwise and I fully respect the outcome of their investigation.\"\n\nHe tried to sound contrite, saying people had a right to expect better from their prime minister.\n\nBut he made it clear he will not be resigning, telling reporters he intended to \"get on with the job\".\n\nWill this be enough to save his skin?\n\nWhen Partygate dominated the headlines, many observers believed it was only a matter of time before Tory MPs triggered a no confidence vote in him.\n\nBut that sense of momentum has evaporated to some extent.\n\nFirstly, and potentially importantly, there aren't many MPs around. It is the Easter break. The chance to plot, to gossip, to fume, to agitate isn't there.\n\nSure there are WhatsApp groups, but they are not quite the same.\n\nBut secondly, and more importantly, the context has changed.\n\nWar has broken out in Europe; our television screens are dominated by the horrific images we see every day from Ukraine.\n\nWho did or didn't drink a glass of wine, where and with whom months and months ago in lockdowns so many of us are desperate to put behind us can, to some, seem trivial, parochial in that context.\n\nIn recent weeks, some Conservative MPs have made it known they had withdrawn their letters saying they had no faith in Boris Johnson's leadership.\n\nThat momentum I was talking about felt like it was draining out of the issue.\n\nThe big question, then - is what happens now?\n\nCould Conservative MPs, talking to voters ahead of next month's local elections, encounter a tidal wave of anger from constituents that makes them think again about the prime minister's future?\n\nOr have a crucial chunk of voters moved on too?\n\nWhat will be the verdict of voters next month, and to what extent would that be able to be pinned on Partygate anyway?\n\nPolitics is at its keenest and its most compelling when the biggest questions are uncertain; where, whatever the speculation - and there'll be plenty - the next public actions and decisions of Westminster's biggest players aren't obvious.\n\nMake no mistake: this is uncharted territory. For the very first time, it is publicly known that the prime minister and the chancellor broke the very laws they put in place, in the very place where they were devised.\n\nEven if Conservative MPs don't have the appetite to remove Boris Johnson now, even if the electorate's verdict next month isn't clear, this is a line from the prime ministerial CV he will never shift.\n\nA prime minister who's built a career on being unorthodox and has survived the apparently politically unsurvivable before, finds the dice rolling again.\n\nAs a pollster put it to me the other day, political events can be classified as turning points or talking points.\n\nThe vast majority are the latter, noisy, but of little long-term consequence.\n\nThis could still have the potential to be the former, even if nothing changes immediately.", "Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been expelled from the Conservative Party after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.\n\nKhan had denied groping the teenager at a party in Staffordshire in January 2008 but was convicted after a trial.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard he forced the youngster to drink gin, dragged him upstairs and asked him to watch pornography before assaulting him.\n\nKhan, 48, has said he intends to appeal against his conviction.\n\nFollowing the verdict the Conservative Party said Khan, who was elected as Tory MP for Wakefield in 2019, had been \"expelled with immediate effect\".\n\nThe Labour Party and the Conservative MP for Keighley, Robbie Moore, have called for Khan to resign.\n\nThe court heard that Khan had gone to the boy's bed and \"reached in and touched his legs, reaching for, or actually touching, his groin\".\n\nThe complainant, now 29, said the attack had left him \"scared and shocked\".\n\nIn evidence, he said Khan had started \"slow caressing\" him and continued despite being asked to stop.\n\n\"His breathing was getting quite heavy and I kept pushing his hand away and pushing it back and it would keep coming,\" the man said.\n\nKhan had denied the allegation at his trial at Southwark Crown Court in London\n\nThe court was told that police were called at the time but the teenager did not want to pursue the case.\n\nThe man, who cannot be named, contacted the Conservative party in 2019 after learning Mr Khan was standing in the general election.\n\nHe then called police after Mr Khan was elected to Parliament.\n\nJurors also heard from the complainant's older brother, who said the MP had asked if he was \"a true Scotsman\" and lifted his kilt, before \"lunging\" at him at the same party.\n\nAnother witness described waking to find Khan performing a sex act on him after a party in Pakistan in 2010 where the pair had drunk whisky and smoked marijuana.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Resign: People in Wakefield urge their MP to step down after he was found guilty of sexual assault\n\nKhan claimed he had only touched the teenager's elbow when the boy had become \"extremely upset\" after a conversation about his confused sexuality.\n\nThe MP was found guilty after about five hours of deliberations.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Baker, said he would sentence Khan at a date to be fixed and he warned him \"all sentencing options, including immediate custody, are being considered by the court\".\n\nKhan made no comment as he left the court, however, his solicitors later issued a statement saying he \"maintains his innocence and will be appealing as soon as possible\".\n\nThe MP was found guilty after about five hours of deliberations by the jury at Southwark Crown Court\n\nStaffordshire Police said it began its investigation into Khan after the victim came forward in December 2019.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"We know how hard it is to come forward and report these offences, but it is vital to bring those responsible for these offences to justice.\n\n\"We would like to commend the victim for reporting the offence committed against him - he has shown real bravery and courage in doing so.\n\n\"This case has had a huge impact on the victim and his family for a number of years.\"\n\nKhan will be thrown out of the House of Commons if he is handed a prison sentence of more than a year, or he could face a recall petition to oust him.\n\nFollowing the verdict, Mr Moore tweeted that Khan's crime was \"vile and disgusting\".\n\nHe said Khan should \"immediately resign so people of Wakefield can have a new MP as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Labour party also called for Khan's resignation.\n\n\"Imran Ahmad Khan should immediately resign so a by-election can take place and the people of Wakefield can get the representation they deserve,\" a party spokesman said.\n\nBorn in Wakefield, Khan attended Silcoates School before going on to graduate from Kings College London with a degree in War Studies.\n\nHe later worked with the United Nations in Mogadishu and briefly as a consultant with advertising agency M&C Saatchi before ousting Labour's Mary Creagh at the 2019 general election.\n\nFollowing the verdict it can now be reported that Khan had attempted to have the case heard in secrecy, arguing that as a serving MP there were concerns about his safety and that to name him in court would breach his human rights.\n\nHe also attempted to have the age of his victim withheld.\n\nHowever his applications were rejected by Westminster Magistrates' Court Chief Magistrate, Paul Goldspring, who said: \"Damage to reputation is not a ground for making of an order, open justice is and should remain a cornerstone of democracy and the rule of law.\"\n\nHe tried again to have the case heard anonymously on the first day of the trial on the grounds that as an Ahmadi Muslim, both the consumption of alcohol and homosexuality are strictly prohibited, and the reporting of those matters would expose him to \"a risk to his safety both here and abroad\".\n\nA temporary banning order was put in place but was lifted at the end of the second day of the trial.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Connections between different regions of the brain increased in depressed patients given psilocybin\n\nPsilocybin, a drug found in magic mushrooms, appears to free up the brains of people with severe depression in a way that other antidepressants do not, a study has found.\n\nThe results, based on brain scans of 60 people, mean the drug could treat depression in a unique way, the researchers say.\n\nPsychedelics are being studied to treat a range of mental health disorders.\n\nPatients with depression are warned not to take psilocybin on their own.\n\nA synthetic form of the drug is tested on people in trials under strict medical conditions, with psychological support from experts provided before, during and after it is taken.\n\nProf David Nutt, study author and head of the Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research, said the latest findings on psilocybin were \"exciting\" and \"important\".\n\nWith depression, the brain can get stuck in a rut and locked into a particular negative way of thinking, he said.\n\nBut when given psilocybin, people's brains opened up and became \"more flexible and fluid\" up to three weeks later.\n\nThis could be seen in increased connections between regions of the brain when patients were scanned. These patients were more likely to experience an improvement in mood months later.\n\nSimilar changes were not seen in the brains of people treated with a standard antidepressant.\n\n\"This supports our initial predictions, and confirms psilocybin could be a real alternative approach to depression treatments,\" Prof Nutt said.\n\nPsychedelics are a type of hallucinogenic substance which affects all the senses, altering a person's thinking, sense of time and emotions.\n\nWhile regular antidepressants are taken every day, psilocybin may only need to be taken once or twice to produce the same effect - but further research on more patients for longer is needed to confirm that.\n\nThe results, published in Nature Medicine, are taken from two studies. In the first, everyone received psilocybin; and in the second - a randomised controlled trial - some were given the drug while others were given a different antidepressant.\n\nAll participants also received talking therapies with registered mental health professionals. Brain scans were taken before, and then one day or three weeks after taking the therapy.\n\nProf Robin Carhart-Harris, senior study author, said: \"We don't yet know how long the changes in brain activity seen with psilocybin therapy last, and we need to do more research to understand this.\n\n\"We do know that some people relapse, and it may be that after a while their brains revert to the rigid patterns of activity we see in depression.\"\n\nEarlier findings from the studies showed a reduction in symptoms of depression with the psilocybin therapy - but the researchers were not sure how and why it worked.\n\nNow they want to test their theory of changes in brain connectivity on other mental health illnesses, such as anorexia.\n• None The worldview-changing drugs poised to go mainstream", "The crash happed on the Toome Bypass in County Antrim\n\nA woman who died following a crash on the Toome Bypass, County Antrim, was 47-year-old Shauna McDevitt from Londonderry.\n\nPolice responded to the collision shortly after 23:00 BST on Sunday, along with ambulance and fire crews.\n\nA man, aged in his 50s, who was arrested following the incident remains in police custody assisting officers with their enquiries, police have said.\n\nThe Toome Bypass, which was closed for some time, has since been reopened.\n\nPolice have appealed to anyone with information or dash-cam footage to come forward.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of facebook post by City of Derry Airport\n\nMs McDevitt, who worked at the City of Derry Airport, was described as \"the most pleasant colleague and friend you could ever hope to meet\".\n\nIn a Facebook post on Monday, the airport said: \"Shauna will be forever in our thoughts and her memory will live long through the many lives she touched\".\n\nThey expressed their deepest condolences to Ms McDevitt's family and said their thoughts and prayers are with them at this time.", "The virus has been linked to cases of microcephaly\n\nA new outbreak of Zika virus is quite possible, warn researchers, with a single mutation potentially enough to trigger an explosive spread.\n\nThe disease caused a global medical emergency in 2016, with thousands of babies born brain-damaged after their mums became infected while pregnant.\n\nUS scientists say the world should be on the lookout for new mutations.\n\nLab work, described in the journal Cell Reports, suggests the virus could easily shift, creating new variants.\n\nRecent infection studies suggest those variants may prove effective at transmitting the virus, even in countries which have built up immunity from previous outbreaks of Zika, say the team from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.\n\nExperts said the findings, although theoretical, were interesting - and a reminder that viruses other than Covid could pose a threat.\n\nZika is spread by bites from infected Aedes mosquitoes. The insects are found throughout the Americas - except for Canada and Chile, where it is too cold for them to survive - and across Asia.\n\nWhile for most people Zika is a mild illness, with no lasting effects, it can have catastrophic consequences for babies in the womb.\n\nIf a mother contracts the virus during pregnancy, it can harm the developing baby, causing microcephaly (unusually small head) and damaged brain tissue.\n\nZika is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is most active during the day\n\nThe researchers recreated what happens when Zika passes back and forth between mosquitoes and humans, using cells and living mice in their experiments.\n\nWhen Zika passed between mosquito cells and mice in the laboratory, small genetic changes occurred.\n\nThis meant it was relatively easy for Zika to mutate in a way that allowed the virus to thrive and spread, even in animals that had some previous immunity from a similar mosquito-borne infection called dengue.\n\nLead investigator Prof Sujan Shresta said: \"The Zika variant that we identified had evolved to the point where the cross-protective immunity afforded by prior dengue infection was no longer effective in mice.\n\n\"Unfortunately for us, if this variant becomes prevalent, we may have the same issues in real life.\"\n\nProf Jonathan Ball, an expert in viruses at the University of Nottingham, told the BBC: \"We've heard so much lately about the rapid evolution and emergence of coronavirus variants, but this is a timely reminder that shapeshifting is a common feature shared by so many viruses.\n\n\"This work shows just how rapidly a single letter change in the genome sequence of a virus can arise, and the stark impact it can have on the disease capability of a virus. But viruses that share these changes haven't often been seen in outbreaks and, as the authors point out, these intriguing insights require more thorough investigation.\"\n\nDr Clare Taylor, from the Society for Applied Microbiology, said: \"Although these findings were seen in laboratory experiments and therefore have limitations, it does show that there is potential for variants of concern to arise during the normal Zika transmission cycle and reminds us that monitoring is important to follow viruses as they evolve.\"\n\nShe said it might be possible to predict which variants could cause significant issues in the future and intervene early.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, Professor in Medicine at the University of East Anglia, said past infection with Zika might still offer some protection against new variants - as has been seen with Covid.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Much of the war in eastern Ukraine has been fought in areas of open ground\n\nPeople in eastern Ukraine know the Russians are about to step up their offensive here. Even the dogs on the streets seem to know, and can be heard barking whenever there's a heavy thump of artillery in the distance.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people have already fled to the relative safety of western Ukraine. Once again large columns of Russian vehicles have been spotted by satellite - this time heading towards the east.\n\nHere in the Donbas we've also seen signs of Ukraine bringing in more military equipment, including armoured vehicles and longer range air defence systems. But not in the volume of Russia's reinforcements.\n\nUkraine may be being more tactically astute about their movements, or simply have less. Both are probably true.\n\nMany believe this next phase of the war in the east could decide the outcome of this conflict. Many also expect it to be bloody.\n\nAt our request, the Ukrainian army showed us one of their artillery lines that is already shelling Russian positions. The only way to get there was to travel in an armoured vehicle across fields. Much of the war here will be fought across open ground. Ukrainian troops will also take advantage of their already dug in defensive positions.\n\nWe nervously looked up for any sign of Russian aircraft, but Ukraine still has air defences. We saw a vehicle fitted with radar and rockets and anti-aircraft guns, which we were asked not to film.\n\nThere were more air defences at the artillery positions, including short-range Stinger anti-aircraft surface-to-air missiles supplied by the West. They were out of their box and ready to fire, should the Russian drones or jets target their positions.\n\nSuch weapons have made a significant impact in this war - while Russia may have an advantage in the air, it still doesn't have control of the skies.\n\nWeapons provided by the West have helped Ukrainian forces to prevent Russia controlling the skies\n\nUkraine's artillery is, so far, also proving effective. We did not see long lines of artillery, but instead a small mobile unit ready to move at a moment's notice. While the Russians have a bigger army, Ukraine's forces rely on well prepared defences and mobility.\n\nVolodymyr, a Ukrainian soldier, told me they had to change position regularly to avoid being targeted.\n\n\"If we stay in one position for more than a couple of days, then we become the target,\" he said. He also highlighted another key difference; Ukraine's artillery was targeting military positions - Russian artillery - while Russia, he said, was also targeting towns and cities.\n\n\"They're shooting at our cities because they want people to panic. They want our people to give up,\" he said.\n\nRussia will struggle to make significant advances while Ukraine continues to have effective air defences and artillery. Both sides have, until now, had similar levels of forces in the region - around 30-40,000 troops.\n\nBut Western officials say Russia is aiming to double or even triple its strength in the region. Though they add that might take considerable time as Russia reconstitutes its units. Some estimates suggest Russia has lost 20% of its strength since the start of this war.\n\nUkraine also has some of its most battle-hardened troops in the region. They've been fighting Russian-backed separatists here for the past eight years. They're well dug in, using fortified trenches and defensive positions. Some of the troops may look tired, but morale appears to be high.\n\nUkraine is also being given real time intelligence on Russia's military movements by their Western allies. They won't discuss details, but both Ukrainian and Western officials have confirmed this to the BBC.\n\nRussia still has a numerical advantage - tens of thousands more troops being redeployed after its failed offensive around the capital, Kyiv. Russia is also now fighting on fewer fronts and its supply lines won't be as long.\n\nUkraine also has another problem to contend with - the enemy within. In the city of Kramatorsk we went on a police patrol looking for Russian saboteurs.\n\nThere is more pro-Russian sentiment here than other parts of Ukraine. The police stop and search passers-by, looking for evidence they might be Russian saboteurs. They search mobile phones. They're worried about people passing on information and photographs of Ukrainian defensive positions.\n\nThe local police chief, Col Alexander Malish, told me people are arrested and handed over to the intelligence services most days.\n\n\"I don't understand what's in their heads... maybe [it is] Russian propaganda? I think that after the war the people of Ukraine will have to work out what to do with people who've been helping the country of the occupying forces.\" Col Malish said it was part of Russia's hybrid warfare.\n\nSeveral cities in eastern Ukraine have been targeted by Russian airstrikes, artillery and missiles. At a cemetery in Kramatorsk - where more than 50 people were killed in a Russian strike on a railway station last week - fresh graves are already being dug.\n\nTatiana clutches a photograph of her son Alexander Tislenko, who was killed while fighting with the Ukrainian forces\n\nWe watched the burial service of a recent Ukrainian casualty from a distance.\n\nAlexander Tislenko was 34 when he was killed on the frontline, fighting for the Ukrainian special forces. All his mother, Tatiana, knows is that his position was being targeted by Russian Grad rockets before she was told he had been killed in combat.\n\nTatiana held a photograph of Alexander above his coffin, draped in a Ukrainian flag. She couldn't stop crying. Alexander was her only child.\n\nLater, Tatiana told me: \"Our son has dedicated his life to his homeland Ukraine. I'm so proud of him, but it's such a big loss. It's a loss I cannot forget during my lifetime. I curse [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.\"\n\nOver the coming weeks here in eastern Ukraine there will be many more grieving mothers of both Ukraine and Russia. This phase of the war will be difficult for both sides. Both are likely to suffer significant losses. But the stakes couldn't be higher.", "Two US police officers filmed pushing an elderly activist to the ground in 2020 will be reinstated this week after being cleared of wrongdoing.\n\nAn arbitrator ruled last week that officers Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe did not violate use of force guidelines.\n\nThe incident happened during a racial justice protest in Buffalo, New York, as police were clearing an area to enforce a curfew.\n\nThe activist was injured by the push.\n\nArbitrator Jeffrey M Selchick said the two officers had no intention of harming the protester, 75-year-old Martin Gugino, on 4 June 2020.\n\nMr Gugino was knocked to the ground and was seen bleeding in video of the incident that went viral. It happened at the height of protests over the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in police custody in Minneapolis.\n\nAccording to Mr Selchick's 41-page ruling, released on Friday, the officers had no choice but to remove Mr Gugino because he refused to leave the area after the 20:00 local curfew and did not comply with demands to move.\n\nThere is no persuasive evidence that the officers \"sought to push or drive Gugino to the ground\", he wrote, adding that the use of force was \"absolutely legitimate\".\n\n\"While Gugino might well have believed that he was engaged in some type of civil disobedience or, perhaps, acting out a role in some type of political theater, Gugino was definitely not an innocent bystander,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Selchick based his decision on a frame-by-frame video analysis during a three-day hearing last November.\n\nFollowing the June 2020 incident, both Mr Torgalski and Mr McCabe were arrested and suspended without pay. Fifty-seven of their colleagues - the entire unit - later resigned from the riot team in response to the suspensions.\n\nLast year, a grand jury chose not to indict the two officers and charges they faced of second-degree assault were dropped.\n\nMr Gugino spent about a month in the hospital with a fractured skull and brain injury.\n\nHis attorney told Buffalo News that the arbitrator's ruling has no effect on the civil lawsuit Mr Gugino filed against the city last year.\n\nBuffalo police confirmed to BBC News that the two officers would be reinstated this week. The spokesman said he would not comment on the pending litigation against the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man approached police in Buffalo before being pushed backwards", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea's reign as European champions came to an agonising end despite beating Real Madrid on a night of high drama at the Bernabeu Stadium.\n\nIn a Champions League epic, Mason Mount's wonderful finish and Antonio Rudiger's powerful header wiped out Real's 3-1 first-leg advantage and brought the quarter-final tie level in Spain's capital.\n\nThomas Tuchel's side were outstanding throughout and Timo Werner's clever finish from an angle put them ahead for the first time on aggregate and within sight of a place in the semi-finals.\n\nBut substitute Rodrygo - after a stunning pass by Luka Modric - forced extra time with a volleyed finish before Karim Benzema, a hat-trick hero in the first leg at Stamford Bridge six days earlier, headed the decisive goal in the 96th minute to send Real through 5-4 on aggregate.\n\nBenzema, who had earlier headed against the bar on a rollercoaster night, was unmarked when he scored to break Chelsea's hearts after Rudiger slipped inside the box.\n\nEven after what turned out to be the clincher, Hakim Ziyech, Kai Havertz and Jorginho went close to forcing a penalty shootout.\n\nIn the end Chelsea, who played superbly, were made to pay for their first-leg performance as Tuchel's side fell just short of producing one of the great comebacks in the competition.\n• None Reaction from the Bernabeu after incredible Champions League tie\n• None All the best Chelsea content here\n\nMany of Chelsea's players slumped to the ground at the end of 120 gripping minutes after pushing record 13-time winners Real - who will face Manchester City or Atletico Madrid in the last four - all the way.\n\nTuchel had said on the eve of this game that Chelsea's progression into the semi-finals would be akin to the best Hollywood script.\n\nHis players came close to producing a blockbuster in their first game at the Bernabeu in European competition as they showed incredible fight and belief - ingredients which were missing from their poor performance in the first leg.\n\nThis breathless game had everything and more, including a Marcos Alonso goal at 2-0 ruled out by the video assistant referee for handball.\n\nWhile Tuchel will be delighted with the way his players responded, there will be concern at how much the energy-sapping 120 minutes has taken out of them.\n\nChelsea do not have long to recover from going out of Europe as they prepare to make a second visit of the season to Wembley.\n\nThey face Crystal Palace in an FA Cup semi-final on Sunday (16:30 BST) - a competition that offers them their last chance of landing a major domestic trophy.\n\nDespite enjoying success in the Fifa Club World Cup and Uefa Super Cup, they lost a penalty shootout to Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final and are 12 points behind leaders Manchester City in the Premier League with just eight matches left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reece James (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Jorginho (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Hakim Ziyech following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Reece James with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jorginho (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mason Mount.\n• None Kai Havertz (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How are people coping with having to make do with less?\n• None Can they face their fears? Celebrities take on challenges in sub-zero temperatures with Wim Hof", "Specialist rape investigation teams should be installed in every police force in England and Wales to tackle the \"shocking\" collapse in rape prosecutions, a report by MPs says.\n\nReported rapes are at an all-time high, while prosecutions fell by 70% in the past four years, MPs said.\n\nA government review said investigations should be focussed on suspects as opposed to victims.\n\nAt least 40% of forces do not currently have these dedicated teams.\n\nData concerning the number of specialised officers and wider dedicated services is poor and needs improving if the criminal justice response is to get better, the report said.\n\nThe Home Affairs Select Committee said the government should go \"much further, much faster\" in changing how rape and sexual offences were handled by the police, Crown Prosecution Service and the courts.\n\nIt said the reforms needed to focus on the experience of victims seeking justice, because lengthy delays in reaching court, \"harmful\" evidence-gathering processes and poor provision of support were turning people away.\n\nBetween July and September last year, 63% of adult rape investigations were closed because the victim no longer wished to continue.\n\nThe review said the justice system should return to 2016 prosecution levels by 2024, but MPs said this would still be a poor performance and there was little confidence it would be achieved.\n\nIt does not apply to Scotland and Northern Ireland as both nations have separate legal systems.\n\nAmong the recommendations in the MPs' report were that:\n\nDame Diana Johnson, the Labour chair of the committee, said the collapse in prosecutions was \"truly shocking and completely unacceptable\" and while there was significant effort being put in to reverse the decline, there was much further to go.\n\n\"From now on the focus must be on supporting the victims. Reporting an incident should be the beginning of getting justice but instead has become a source of further pain,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact that even now nearly two thirds of cases collapse because a victim may not be able to bear going forward is unimaginable.\"\n\nThe review said a joint programme between the police and CPS was being launched to focus investigations on suspects rather than victims and understanding behavioural patterns that lead to repeat offending.\n\nThus, investigations would focus less on the victim's credibility.\n\nNatasha Saunders, who has been through the system, told the Today programme she initially had no intention of telling the police \"primarily because I knew then just how low rape convictions were\".\n\n\"It took three years to actually get it to court and in those three years I don't know how many times I said to my now husband... 'You know if I knew then what I know now, I don't know if I'd do this'.\"\n\nMs Saunders, who is an ambassador for domestic abuse charity Refuge, said during the trial she was cross examined for five and a half hours \"for an entire court day\".\n\n\"The process in a way has to be very clinical, I understand that\" but \"I don't feel the people [prosecutors and police] are being educated enough\", she said.\n\n\"Especially from people like myself with actual lived experience of what it's like to just go through those proceedings.\"\n\nListening to Ms Saunders' story, Ms Johnson said hearing the lived experiences of survivors had \"been really important... and has helped us to shape the recommendations\".\n\nShe said the committee heard a number of times from people who had gone through the system and explained if they had known how long it would take and what would happen to them, they would not have \"brought the case to the police's attention in the first place\".\n\nThe committee said it was \"deeply concerned\" by reports victims were avoiding accessing mental health support because they feared records of their therapy sessions could be disclosed to the defence and used to undermine their case.\n\nIt said new guidance on pre-trial therapy should be published as soon as possible.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it recognised many victims felt let down by the criminal justice process.\n\n\"It is paramount victims know they can access therapy at any time and that doing so is entirely their decision,\" a spokesman said.\n\nNew \"fundamental principles\" on pre-trial therapy published by the CPS say police must request specific information when requesting therapy notes for an investigation, not make \"unfocused requests\".\n\nAnd they say therapy notes must only be disclosed to the defence when they might be considered to undermine the prosecution case or help the defence.\n\nA government spokesman said it was recruiting more sexual violence advisers, rolling out the use of pre-recorded evidence faster and boosting funding for victim support by £440m over the next three years.\n\nIt said the most recent data showed a \"modest\" increase in the number of charges for rape and \"our reforms will drive this progress further\".", "Blind golfers have used a tournament in Worcestershire to highlight the importance of on-course volunteer guides to allow them to play the game.\n\nThe England and Wales Blind Golf charity staged a matchplay competition at Gaudet Luce in Droitwich.\n\nSecretary Andy Gilford, from Worthing, Sussex, said blind golf was gaining in popularity, but the lack of people to help golfers around the 18 holes was an issue.\n\nGolfer Mike Tomlinson, from Birmingham, said: \"I feel like, when I'm out on the golf course, I'm not a brilliant player, but when I'm on the golf course, I'm equal to everybody else.\"", "These wave-like asperitas clouds are seen so infrequently they were only added to the World Meteorological Organisation's International Cloud Atlas five years ago. BBC Weather forecaster Simon King explains more.", "A pro-Russian soldier standing near a burnt out building in the city of Mariupol yesterday on 10 April\n\nAfter suffering some of the worst fighting in Ukraine's conflict, could the port city of Mariupol be about to fall to Russia?\n\nA brigade fighting in the city said they could be facing a \"last battle\" and that they would soon have to choose between Russian captivity and death.\n\nBut the exact picture of what is happening in the city is unclear. Mariupol's deputy mayor called the reports \"fake\" and said Ukraine's forces were holding out.\n\nMariupol's defence against Russian occupation has turned the city into a national symbol of resistance.\n\nThe port city - which Russian forces have tried and failed to capture fully since the beginning of the war - is critical for Moscow as it would establish a land corridor between Russian-occupied Crimea and the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.\n\nFor weeks Russian troops have cut off essential supplies into Mariupol, bombarding its buildings and blocking survivors from escaping.\n\nThe battle for Mariupol can be seen as part of Russia's shift in focus to eastern Ukraine. Here's how Russia's attack may play out.\n\nFor years the Kremlin has fiercely opposed any expansion of the Nato Western military alliance, which it views as a threat to Russian influence in Europe\n\nResponding to the news that the two Nordic neighbours could apply for Nato membership - Russia says any enlargement of the Western military alliance would not result in more stability.\n\n\"Further [Nato] expansion will not bring additional security to the European continent,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said to reporters.\n\nRussian's disapproval is no surprise: for decades Moscow has opposed any more European countries joining the alliance.\n\nBut Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted Finland and Sweden to seriously consider asking for membership, which comes with security guarantees that Ukraine as a non-member didn't have.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer visited Moscow after travelling to Kyiv over the weekend\n\nThe face-to-face meeting is the first to have been held between a Western leader and President Putin since the invasion began.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer says he went to the Russian capital to confront Putin with the facts, but didn't leave with a positive impression.\n\n\"If you're asking me whether I am optimistic or pessimistic, I'm rather pessimistic,\" he said, adding there was \"little interest\" on the Russian side about a direct meting between Mr Putin and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nFor his part, President Zelensky was asked whether he would hand over any part of Ukraine to Russia. He said he was \"not ready\" for that, but accepted it would be part of any discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Zelensky asked if he'll give Russia any of Ukraine\n\nMillions of social media users are viewing posts portraying Russian president Vladimir Putin as smiling, benevolent and peace-loving.\n\nBut a joint BBC investigation into ten pro-Putin Facebook groups found that many of their most active posters were actually duplicate accounts.\n\nIt's an example of pro-Kremlin \"astroturfing,\" an online tactic designed to create the impression that a movement has more support than it does.\n\nMarina Ovsyannikova, the editor who was detained and fined after holding an anti-war protest during a live broadcast on Russian state television last month, has a new role.\n\nThe 43-year-old journalist has been hired as a correspondent by the company which owns Die Welt newspaper.\n\nMs Ovsyannikova will be reporting for the outlet from Ukraine and Russia - she previously said that despite fearing for her safety she would not leave Russia.", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nThe FIA - motorsport's governing body - is investigating after a 15-year-old Russian karting champion appeared to make a Nazi salute on a podium.\n\nArtem Severiukhin seemed to perform the offensive gesture after winning the first round of the European Championship in Portugal on Sunday.\n\nAccording to PA, he has apologised but denied his gesture was a Nazi salute.\n\n\"I have never supported Nazism and consider it one of the most terrible crimes against humanity,\" he said.\n\nThe FIA announced it had launched an immediate investigation into Severiukhin's \"unacceptable conduct\" on Monday.\n\nSeveriukhin was competing under the Italian flag because of the sanctions put on Russian athletes following their country's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHis team has terminated his contract after he made the apparent gesture during the Italian national anthem, after twice thumping his chest.\n\n\"I know it's my fault, I know I'm stupid, and I'm ready to be punished,\" he said.\n\n\"But please understand that I did not support Nazism or fascism with this gesture.\"\n\nWard Racing - a privately owned Swedish team - said it condemned Severiukhin's behaviour in the \"strongest possible terms\", adding: \"Ward Racing is deeply in shame of the pilot's behaviour.\n\n\"The actions of Artem Severiukhin during the award ceremony on April 10, 2022 were exclusively individual and do not represent the views and values of Ward Racing in any manner.\n\n\"On the contrary, Ward Racing stands with the international community condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine and expresses its solidarity with the people suffering because of this unprovoked and horrific attack.\"\n\nIt added: \"Ward Racing sees no possibility for continued cooperation with Artem Severiukhin and will proceed with terminating his racing contract.\"\n• None Jon Ronson and Louis Theroux take a deep dive into Culture Wars battles and chat about putting their old rivalries to bed\n• None From deadly chaos a mysterious figure emerges in the bewildering heart of contemporary Russia", "Crispin Blunt said he hoped for the return of Imran Ahmad Khan to public service\n\nEx-minister Crispin Blunt has deleted a statement calling the conviction of a fellow MP for sexual assault a \"dreadful miscarriage of justice\".\n\nWakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan was found guilty on Monday of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008.\n\nMr Blunt said the case relied on \"lazy tropes\" and claimed it had \"dreadful implications\" for LGBT+ Muslims.\n\nHe was urged to withdraw the statement by Tory party bosses who said it was \"wholly unacceptable\".\n\nMr Blunt has yet to explain why he deleted the message from his website on Tuesday morning or whether he still holds the view he expressed on Monday. The BBC has contacted him for a response.\n\nLabour called his comments \"disgraceful\" and said he should be suspended from the Conservative Party.\n\nFive members of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for global LGBT+ rights, which Mr Blunt chairs, have either resigned or said they will do so in response to his comments.\n\nArmed forces minister James Heappey told BBC Breakfast Mr Blunt was \"definitely not speaking for the government\", which respected the court's verdict.\n\nKhan was thrown out of the Conservative Party after Southwark Crown Court delivered its verdict on Monday but he has said he will appeal against his conviction.\n\nFollowing Mr Blunt's criticism of the verdict, the Conservative Party said Khan had been found guilty by a jury of his peers, adding: \"We completely reject any allegations of impropriety against our independent judiciary.\"\n\nMr Blunt, a friend of Khan who attended some of his trial, is the MP for Reigate and from 2015 to 2017 was the chairman of the foreign affairs select committee.\n\nHe also previously served as the parliamentary under-secretary for prisons and youth justice within the Ministry of Justice.\n\nIn the now deleted statement on his website, he said he was \"appalled and distraught\" by the outcome of the trial, calling it \"an international scandal, with dreadful wider implications for millions of LGBT+ Muslims around the world\".\n\nHe claimed that the case against Khan had \"relied on lazy tropes about LGBT+ people that we might have thought we had put behind us decades ago\".\n\n\"I hope for the return of Imran Ahmad Khan to the public service that has exemplified his life to date,\" he said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs, Chris Bryant and Kate Osborne, and three from the SNP, Stewart McDonald, Joanna Cherry, and Martin Docherty-Hughes, have announced their resignation from the APPG for global LGBT+ rights.\n\nMr Bryant, who chairs both the committee on standards and the committee on privileges, called Mr Blunt's comments \"completely inappropriate\".\n\nImran Ahmad Khan was convicted following a trial at Southwark Crown Court\n\nFollowing Khan's conviction, Labour said he \"should immediately resign so a by-election can take place and the people of Wakefield can get the representation they deserve\".\n\nDuring his trial, Khan denied groping a teenager at a party in Staffordshire in January 2008.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard he forced the youngster to drink gin, dragged him upstairs, and asked him to watch pornography before assaulting him.\n\nFollowing the verdict, the Conservative Party said Khan had been \"expelled with immediate effect\".\n\nKhan is set to be sentenced at a later date.", "Protesters stand outside the Starr County Jail over abortion charge\n\nA murder charge against a 26-year-old woman who was arrested for a self-induced abortion will be dropped on Monday, a Texas prosecutor has said.\n\nLizelle Herrera spent three days in jail after allegedly causing \"the death of an individual\" via abortion.\n\nBut on Sunday, Starr County District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said it was \"clear\" Ms Herrera could not be prosecuted under Texas law.\n\nLast year, Texas barred abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy.\n\nIt is still unclear whether Ms Herrera was accused of having an abortion, assisting someone else with an abortion, or how far along the pregnancy had been. Texas law exempts pregnant women from being charged with murder in connection with \"the death of an unborn child\".\n\nMs Herrera was arrested on Friday and detained in Starr County, in southern Texas, a local sheriff's official said. Frontera Fund, an abortion rights organisation, said she was released on $500,000 (£383,500) bail the next day.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, the sheriff's office said Ms Herrera was arrested and served with an indictment on the charge of murder after she \"intentionally and knowingly [caused] the death of an individual by self-induced abortion\".\n\nOn Sunday, District Attorney Ramirez said that, after reviewing applicable Texas law, it became clear she could not be prosecuted for murder.\n\nHe added: \"The events leading up to this indictment have taken a toll on Ms Harrera and her family. To ignore this fact would be short-sighted.\"\n\nThe near-total abortion ban in Texas is among the most restrictive in the country. The law is enforced by giving any individual - from Texas or elsewhere - the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. However, it does not allow the women who get the procedure to be sued.\n\nLast year, Texas also narrowed the window in which doctors are able to give abortion-inducing drugs to people up to 10 weeks into pregnancy and barred mailing such medication.\n\nIn most states in the US, abortions are prohibited after the point of foetal viability - the point at which a foetus could survive outside the womb, usually at about 24 weeks.\n\nBut several states - like Texas - have barred the procedure much earlier in pregnancy in anticipation of a Supreme Court ruling that may overturn the landmark legal decision guaranteeing the right to abortion in the US.\n\nThe Supreme Court in June will rule on a Mississippi law that would bar abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest.", "Russian forces allegedly launched the attack on the Azovstal metals plant, where the Ukrainian troops are said to be entrenched\n\nThe US and Britain say they are looking into reports that chemical weapons have been used by Russian forces attacking the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.\n\nUkraine's Azov regiment said three soldiers were injured by \"a poisonous substance\" in an attack on Monday.\n\nHowever, no evidence has been presented to confirm the use of chemical weapons.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said officials were working to \"urgently\" investigate what she called \"a callous escalation\" of the war.\n\nThe Pentagon called the potential use of the weapons \"deeply concerning\".\n\nWestern nations have warned that the use of chemical weapons would mark a dangerous escalation of the conflict and have pledged to take firm action if Russia carries out such attacks.\n\nUkraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said the government was investigating the allegations, adding that early assumptions suggested phosphorous ammunition had been used.\n\nPhosphorus is not classed as a chemical weapon under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but using it as an incendiary weapon near civilians would be illegal.\n\nOn Tuesday, pro-Russian separatist forces in Donetsk denied carrying out the attack.\n\nThe Azov battalion, which has been heavily involved in fighting in Mariupol and has strong ties to the far-right, wrote in a Telegram post that Russian forces had dropped \"a poisonous substance of unknown origin\" during a drone attack at the city's large Azovstal metals plant.\n\nIt said that its fighters had suffered minor injuries, including shortness of breath.\n\nOne injured man described a \"sweet-tasting\" white smoke covering an area of the plant after an explosion. Another said he felt immediately unable to breathe and had collapsed with \"cotton legs\".\n\nThe reported incident - which the BBC cannot independently verify - came hours after a spokesperson for the Moscow-backed Donetsk People's Republic urged Russia to bring in \"chemical forces\" to the besieged south-eastern city.\n\nEduard Basurin told Russian state TV the remaining Ukrainian forces in Mariupol were entrenched at the Azovstal plant and that Russia should encircle it and \"smoke out the moles\".\n\nSpeaking on Monday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky said any use of chemical weapons would mark a \"new stage of terror against Ukraine\" and called on Western nations to arm his forces with the weapons needed to defend his country.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we are not getting as much as we need to end this war sooner,\" Mr Zelensky said. \"I am sure that we will get almost everything we need, but not only time is being lost. The lives of Ukrainians are being lost — lives that can no longer be returned.\"\n\nUK Defence Minister James Heappey ruled nothing out in terms of a Western response if a chemical attack was confirmed.\n\n\"There are some things that are beyond the pale, and the use of chemical weapons will get a response and all options are on the table for what that response could be,\" he said.\n\nLast month US President Joe Biden said Nato \"would respond\" if Russia used chemical weapons in Ukraine.\n\n\"The nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use,\" he said.", "Insulate Britain protesters have held numerous demonstrations in London, Essex and the South East\n\nA judge told of how he was \"inspired\" by Insulate Britain protesters as he fined some for holding a demonstration on the M25.\n\nThe group blocked traffic, including an ambulance with a patient, by sitting at junction 3 near Swanley, Kent.\n\nSome activists glued themselves to the road, while another stuck himself to a police car on 29 September.\n\nSome of the demonstrators appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, while others pleaded guilty by post.\n\nThree protesters, Ian Bates, 63, from Northampton, Karen Matthews, 60, and 54-year-old Biff Whipster from Canterbury, Kent, were told by District Judge Stephen Leake they had \"inspired\" him after making speeches about their climate concerns while representing themselves.\n\nBut the judge added his role was to \"apply the law\" and said their actions had caused \"significant disruption\" to the motorway.\n\nHe said: \"I have heard your voices. They have inspired me and personally I intend to do what I can to reduce my own impact on the planet, so to that extent your voices are certainly heard.\"\n\nWhipster admitted criminal damage by gluing himself to a police car and was fined £120.\n\nMary Adams, 68, of Greenwich, south London, was fined £250 after the judge found her refusal to move out of the path of an ambulance a \"serious\" aggravating factor.\n\nShe had pleaded guilty to wilful obstruction of the highway, along with Margurite Doubleday, 67, Bethany Mogie, 39, from Hertfordshire, Xavier Gonzalez-Trimmer, 21 and from London, and Lucy Crawford, 52, from Cambridge.\n\nThe demonstration, one of a series held across the country by Insulate Britain, disrupted about 18,000 drivers, according to National Highways.\n\nFive protesters, Tim Speers, Daniell Thomas, Peter Morgan, Louise Lancaster and Iain Webb, did not attend court. They were convicted of wilful obstruction after a trial in their absence.\n\nThomas and Speers were fined £200 while Morgan was fined £400. Meanwhile, Lancaster was fined £330 and Webb was fined £300.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US officials have announced sanctions against several top members of the Irish Kinahan organised crime group.\n\nAmong the seven individuals sanctioned by the US Treasury is Daniel Kinahan, who has previously worked as an advisor to boxer Tyson Fury.\n\nTreasury officials said Mr Kinahan \"is believed to run the day-to-day operations of the organisation\".\n\nThe Kinahan cartel emerged in Dublin in the 1990s and the US says it is one of the world's largest crime groups.\n\nThe gang, which the Treasury Department says now uses Dubai as a \"hub\" for its illegal activities, operates in Ireland, the UK, Spain and the United Arab Emirates, with interests in the drug trade and money laundering, according to the Treasury.\n\nUS Under-Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson said the gang \"smuggles deadly narcotics, including cocaine, to Europe, and is a threat to the entire licit economy through its role in international money laundering\".\n\nSpeaking at a news conference in Dublin, Drew Harris, the Commissioner of Ireland's police force hailed the sanctions and warned senior gang members couldn't \"hide from justice forever\".\n\nThe sanctions will target Mr Kinahan, who has previously been named by the Irish High Court as the controller and manager of the gang, his father Christopher Snr - a convicted drug trafficker and alleged founder of the gang, and his brother Christopher Jnr, who the notice accused of working with the gang to \"transport and sell narcotics in the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe US Drug Enforcement Agency has also offered rewards of up to $5m (£3.8m) for information leading to the arrest of any of the three Kinahans.\n\nAll those sanctioned will see their US credit and debit cards blocked and any money they hold in US banks frozen. They will also see access to their property restricted.\n\nThe Kinahan cartel emerged during Ireland's \"Celtic Tiger\" period, an era of high economic growth from the 1990s to 2007. Irish media has reported that it holds a virtual monopoly on the import of Peruvian cocaine to Europe, and controls around a third of the total trade of the drug on the continent.\n\nSince 2016, the group has been involved in a bloody war with the rival Hutch gang in Dublin and Spain, resulting in at least 18 deaths. The notice issued by the Treasury department referred to the Kinahan gang as a \"murderous organization\".\n\nDaniel Kinahan has also become a well-known figure in boxing circles. He is a co-founder of the MTK Global agency, which represents a number of boxing's top fighters, including Tyson Fury and Michael Conlan. Mr Kinahan says he cut ties with the company in 2017.\n\nTyson Fury worked with Daniel Kinahan for several years and last year thanked him for organising a fight with Anthony Joshua\n\nWhile Mr Kinahan claims he is no longer associated with the agency, last year Fury expressly thanked him for organising a high-profile bout with then world champion Anthony Joshua.\n\nJust weeks ago Fury was photographed in Dubai with Mr Kinahan.\n\nScotland's world boxing champion, Josh Taylor, is also one of the boxers represented by MTK Global.\n\nTaylor once described Mr Kinahan as a \"great advisor\" who is doing great things for the sport of boxing. The BBC has contacted Josh Taylor and his team for comment.\n\nDespite Mr Kinahan's well known links to the drug trade, boxing chiefs have defended his involvement with the sport.\n\nLast month World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaimán offered his \"full backing\" to the Irishman's continued involvement after a meeting in Dubai.\n\nThe Assistant Commissioner of Ireland's Police Force John O'Driscoll condemned Mr Kinahan's standing in the sport, telling reporters at a news conference in Dublin that his influence was \"destroying or attempting to destroy a sport that is so important to inner city communities\".\n\nAfter a BBC investigation revealed his continued presence in the sport last year, Mr Kinahan insisted that allegations of criminality are part of a \"campaign\" against him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Harry has told the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games that the \"world is united\" with Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking in The Hague, the Duke of Sussex said: \"You know we stand with you. The world is united with you and still you deserve more.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian team were given special permission by President Volodymyr Zelensky to compete at the competition for injured military veterans.\n\nThe duke also revealed his son Archie would like to be a pilot.\n\nBefore their arrival in this year's host city of The Hague in the Netherlands, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan stopped off in the UK on Thursday to visit the Queen at Windsor.\n\nThe duke and duchess, who have not been on this side of the Atlantic together since 2020, also saw Prince Charles while they were at Windsor Castle, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nThe couple have been joined at the event by a camera crew filming a Netflix documentary series as part of their company Archewell's deal with the streaming firm.\n\nOn Sunday, Harry and Meghan met competitors, including Team UK's Lisa Johnston, at the athletics competition during day two of the Games.\n\nHarry and Meghan arrived for day two of the Games at Zuiderpark on Sunday\n\nThe duke and duchess met competitors at the athletics competition, including Team United Kingdom competitor Lisa Johnston\n\nThe couple have been joined at the games by a camera crew filming a Netflix documentary series as part of their company Archewell's deal with the streaming firm\n\nOn Saturday evening, the Duchess of Sussex introduced her husband to the opening ceremony's audience of competitors and members of the Dutch royal family.\n\nShe spoke of the Ukrainian team's presence at the event, saying it had taken a lot \"both physically and emotionally\" for every competitor to get to the Netherlands, \"not least of which for the Ukraine team, who we are all standing with\".\n\nCalling him her \"incredible husband\", she described the duke as \"the founder of the Invictus Games, and the father to our two little ones, Archie and Lili\".\n\nThe duke said in his address that the Ukrainian team had told him on Friday they had come \"not simply to show your strength but to tell your truth, the truth, of what is happening in your country\".\n\n\"You know we stand with you. The world is united with you and still you deserve more,\" the duke said.\n\n\"And my hope is that these events, this event, creates the opportunity in how we as a global community can better show up for you.\"\n\nThe duke also revealed his two-year-old son, Archie, had expressed a wish to follow in his father's footsteps by becoming a pilot.\n\nHarry was an Apache helicopter pilot in the army in a tour of Afghanistan during 2012-13.\n\nThe Ukrainian team were given special permission by President Volodymyr Zelensky to compete in the games\n\nMeghan introduced Harry on stage, calling him her \"incredible husband\"\n\nSpeaking about the importance of character, the duke told the opening ceremony: \"When I talk to my son Archie about what he wants to be when he grows up, some days it's an astronaut, other days it's a pilot - a helicopter pilot obviously...\n\n\"But what I remind him is that no matter what you want to be when you grow up, it's your character that matters most, and nothing would make his mum and me prouder than to see him have the character of what we see before us today.\"\n\nEarlier, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined in with a junior driving contest where they were driven round a circuit in miniature Land Rovers.\n\nThe duke then took to a full-size car to complete his driving challenge, taking on a course featuring bridges, ramps and rocks.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited the Zuiderpark in The Hague at lunchtime\n\nPrince Harry was driven in a miniature car by four-year-old Dutch girl Scarlet Vroegop, while Meghan's driver was was five-year-old French girl Mya Poirot\n\nThe opening ceremony included performances by the Kaiser Chiefs, along with a military band, Dutch singer-songwriter Anneke van Giersbergen, and Hague-based rock band DI-RECT.\n\nThe 2022 edition of the Invictus Games runs until next Friday. The city was originally due to host the event in 2020 but it was postponed due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nCompetitors will take part in events including archery, athletics, wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball.\n\nThe duke was inspired to set up the games after seeing the 2013 Warrior Games in the US, where injured and retired service personnel competed.\n\nThe first edition of the games was held in London in 2014, with subsequent competitions being held in the US, Canada, and Australia.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.\n\nEveryone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it \"one of the world's safest nations\".\n\nTake the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat \"in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert\".\n\nBut underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.\n\nWalk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.\n\nSpying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars\n\nThose deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.\n\n\"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country,\" Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.\n\nOn the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means \"Community Work\".\n\nOne Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.\n\nAny camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.\n\nThe country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).\n\nThe UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on\n\nThey have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France and Belgium.\n\nThe UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.\n\nBut when Denmark announced last year that it was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.\n\n\"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable,\" it said last August.\n\nAfrica already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees \"often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries\", it said.\n\n\"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - \"so that they can resettle and thrive\", as the home secretary put it.\n\nIt is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take \"tens of thousands in the years ahead\".\n\nOut of Kigali, Wrong says it is a \"poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees\".\n\nNo-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.\n\nLast month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.\n\nCritics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on whom the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence\n\nAfter the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.\n\nBut in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.\n\nHis daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: \"Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.\n\n\"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people.\"\n\nThe reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.\n\nPresident Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017\n\n\"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price,\" says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.\n\nLast year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on \"humanitarian grounds\". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.\n\nWestern nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.\n\nThe UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThe former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.\n\nA cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of-the-art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.\n\nSome see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.\n\nBut Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion\n\n\"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents,\" Yolande Makolo told the BBC.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "During a speech about surging inflation on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden appeared to accuse Russia's Vladimir Putin of genocide.\n\nThe Biden administration has previously stopped short of describing civilian killings in Ukraine as \"genocide\", but has accused Mr Putin of war crimes.\n\nThe White House is seeking to pin the blame for rising consumer prices on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, though American inflation predates the war.", "Russian troops started their encirclement of Mariupol in early March, gradually tightening the noose\n\nThere are growing signs Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing Mariupol, the besieged southern port city which has suffered a devastating, six-week assault.\n\nOfficially, Ukraine's armed forces say they are sustaining its defence and are in \"continuous contact\" with their troops on the ground. But they concede it is likely Moscow will try to take full control of the city, while a regional Russian-backed separatist leader claims Mariupol is close to falling.\n\nUkrainian troops have said they are running out of ammunition, and are believed to have been pushed back into two isolated pockets adjoining the coastline.\n\nThe city's fate is likely to be critical for the next phase of the war. In Russian hands it would provide control of a clear swathe of territory connecting Moscow's two fronts in the south and east. It would release large numbers of forces to redeploy, and provide President Vladimir Putin with a moment of strategic \"victory\" after a lethally shambolic first stage to his invasion.\n\nIt would mark a huge loss, if by now an expected one, for Ukraine's leadership which has described Mariupol as \"the heart of this war today\".\n\nIt is believed Ukraine's forces have been forced back to the port area and the Azovstal iron and steel plant\n\nRussian troops started their encirclement of Mariupol in early March. The siege has killed thousands of civilians and unleashed an appalling struggle for survival for trapped residents who remain.\n\nThousands of people have escaped further north, risking a deadly journey through the front line. Here, in Zaporizhzhia, I have watched civilians arrive day after day, describing how they have witnessed the obliteration of their city.\n\nIn recent days Russian forces are thought to have pushed in further by dividing the remaining holdout of Mariupol's defenders, according to think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).\n\nIt's believed Ukraine's forces have been forced back to the port area and the Azovstal plant, a massive iron and steel works from where they had launched counter-attacks for weeks.\n\nVideos have emerged of fighters apparently from the 36th marine brigade vowing not to surrender their positions.\n\n\"We are holding on to every bit of the city wherever possible,\" says one in a video posted to social media channels on Tuesday.\n\n\"But the reality is the city is encircled and blocked and there was no re-supply of ammunition or food,\" he adds. Part of the footage shows him alongside several other marines in a room that looks like a basement shelter. One of the men has crutches leaning against his chair.\n\nA post on Monday on the brigade's Facebook page described the situation as \"the last battle… It is death for some of us, and captivity for the rest,\" it said, adding they had been \"pushed back\" and \"surrounded\" by Russian troops.\n\nUkrainian analysts differed over whether the post could be relied on as genuine, with some claiming the page had been hacked. But more than 36 hours later the post remained on the site.\n\nThe siege and a resulting collapse in communications in Mariupol mean it is difficult to independently verify reports about changes on the ground.\n\nThere is little doubt Ukrainian forces have been desperate for new supplies of weapons, ammunition, food and water.\n\nMariupol - home to more than 400,000 people before the war - has been virtually wiped out by weeks of heavy Russian shelling\n\nUkraine's military reportedly managed over the weeks to resupply troops with kit including night and thermal vision goggles, portable battery charging packs and even anti-tank munitions; but it became increasingly hard.\n\n\"Ultimately, the city was surrounded so soon into the invasion that there was never a chance to build up supplies,\" says Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at defence think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\n\"They've already held out far, far longer than any external analysis would have predicted possible. So it's difficult to say how much longer they can go on,\" he says, adding that they have \"achieved extraordinary results with very little\".\n\nUkrainian attempts to rotate forces or evacuate the wounded also became much more high risk as Russia tightened its siege.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry claimed two weeks ago it had shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter 5km (three miles) from the Sea of Azov shore. It was thought to have been coming out of the city.\n\nOn Tuesday, it claimed up to 100 Ukrainian troops had tried to fight their way out of the steel works plant - but said half were killed by Russian artillery and airstrikes, and more than 40 surrendered.\n\nIn his video address to the nation late on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said: \"The future of Ukraine directly depends on the strength of our resistance in all its forms. The future of us all, each of our cities, each of our villages.\n\n\"And I am grateful to everyone who understands this. Who does not stop resisting even when it seems that the result is very far. Because the darkest time is always before dawn.\n\n\"I want to separately address those heroes who are having a very hard time. Those who defend Mariupol. A marine battalion of the 36th marine brigade, Azov special operations detachment, 12th operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. Subdivisions of the State Border Guard Service. Volunteers of the \"Right Sector\". The 555th military hospital and National Police employees.\"\n\nAs well as the marines, the defence of Mariupol also consists of the Azov battalion, an ultranationalist militia formed in 2014 which Kyiv says has been reformed and is now part of Ukraine's National Guard.\n\nThey are only a tiny part of Ukraine's overall forces, but their presence has been a key focus of Moscow's propaganda war: it refers to the invasion as a \"special military operation\" claiming it is to \"demilitarise\" and \"denazify\" Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, reports by local forces that Russia deployed chemical weapons in Mariupol this week have yet to be confirmed. They are a reminder of how the conflict could quickly trigger a further dangerous escalation.\n\nThe full capture of the city could see significant numbers of Russian troops, so far used to contain and prevent resupply in Mariupol, reconstituted and moved elsewhere, particularly in other parts of the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow is gearing up for a major offensive.\n\nIt could also see Moscow consolidate its progress north of Mariupol, which is one of the reasons the Ukrainians were finding it so hard to relieve the city, according to Mr Bronk.\n\nThe forces could also be used to bolster Russian-occupied Kherson, where Ukrainian troops have been attempting to retake ground with some success.\n\nPresident Zelensky continued his metaphor that Mariupol is the heart of the war. \"If it stops beating then we will be… weaker,\" he said.", "Boris Johnson will meet India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi for trade and defence talks\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is set to make a long-delayed trip to India this week in a bid to strengthen security ties with the country.\n\nHe will meet his counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday, with talks focused on defence and trade.\n\nIt will be Mr Johnson's first major trip to India as PM after previous visits were postponed due to Covid.\n\nThe UK has been trying to persuade India to reduce its reliance on Moscow since Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nLast month, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss visited India in an attempt to get the country to impose stronger sanctions against Russia and to cooperate more closely on trade, defence, energy and food security.\n\nIndia has not criticised Russia directly since it invaded Ukraine on 24 February and did not condemn the invasion at a United Nations vote on the issue.\n\nMr Johnson's trip will also include a visit to Gujarat on Thursday, India's fifth-largest state, where he is expected to announce a major investment in key industries in the UK and India, as well as new collaboration on science, health and technology.\n\nAhead of his visit, the prime minister said: \"As we face threats to our peace and prosperity from autocratic states, it is vital that democracies and friends stick together.\n\n\"India, as a major economic power and the world's largest democracy, is a highly valued strategic partner for the UK in these uncertain times.\n\n\"My visit to India will deliver on the things that really matter to the people of both our nations - from job creation and economic growth to energy security and defence.\"\n\nIn April last year, Mr Johnson cancelled a trip to India when the south Asian nation was added to the UK's red list, meaning people returning from there had to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nInitially the government had insisted the trip would go ahead, despite India's soaring coronavirus cases and the new delta variant.\n\nInstead Mr Johnson said he would speak to the Indian prime minister online, after questions as to why India had not ben put on the red list.\n\nA trip in January 2021 to India was also cancelled due to the UK lockdown.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDozens of elderly patients at a hospital in Shanghai have died after contracting Covid-19, but official government figures claim no deaths in the city have been caused by the disease since 2020.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to a hospital manager and had access to correspondence sent to relatives of patients who've died during the Omicron outbreak that is sweeping through China's biggest city.\n\nWe've also had access to official documents that suggest at least 27 patients from a single hospital, who weren't vaccinated, have died from what it called \"underlying health problems\".\n\nShanghai is enforcing a mammoth lockdown as authorities try to contain a new wave of the virus. Most of the city's almost 25 million population have been ordered to stay inside for three weeks.\n\nThe BBC has previously reported evidence that authorities in Shanghai are struggling to deal with the outbreak. We spoke to a nurse and a health worker at Donghai Elderly Care Hospital who, between them, described desperate attempts to help dozens of elderly patients, some of whom have died.\n\nWe've contacted several other care homes or hospitals for the elderly since then, after social media postings suggested there was evidence of widespread infections among hundreds of patients in 12 other facilities here.\n\nOne relative of a patient at another care home in Shanghai has told us that doctors and caregivers working there had informed her that everyone in the facility had tested positive. It has capacity for around 300 patients.\n\nThe Donghai Elderly Care Hospital is one of the largest of its kind in Shanghai\n\nIn a phone conversation a manager at Donghai Hospital told us: \"Of course there would be deceased with Covid. [In] Shanghai the situation is like this. How could there not be any death[s] without Covid?\"\n\nIn a letter sent to relatives of patients who'd died management at the hospital apologised and admitted a \"lack of professionalism\". They also expressed their \"deepest guilt\".\n\nOfficial figures say there have been no deaths during the current outbreak across the city; none at all.\n\nChina has a strict criteria for confirming Covid-19 cases, which includes evidence in patients of lung damage caused by the virus. This must be confirmed in a scan.\n\nAny underlying health conditions is also considered before deaths are officially attributed to Covid.\n\nOne man whose 72-year-old sister died at Donghai earlier this month told us that he had struggled to get a full explanation from officials about the cause of death.\n\nHe told us that she had tested negative in the weeks before she died on 3 April. But he was not able to get a record of her test results in the final days before she died.\n\nThe man said his sister was one of six patients in a room, five of whom died. He told the BBC that \"the outbreak [was] so bad in that care home\".\n\nAs far as he could tell the official record said \"she died with Covid negative\". He said he would not go ahead with her cremation until he knew what the cause of death was.\n\nRelatives of a 99-year-old woman who died on 1 April have also raised concerns about the cause of death, given that she tested positive in the final week of her life.\n\nIn social media postings seen by the BBC, with accompanying audio records, her granddaughter said the woman had been transferred to Jinshan Public Health Clinical Centre in Shanghai on 27 March, where she tested positive a day later.\n\nShe was treated for underlying health problems. Three days later she tested negative for Covid. A day later she died. The woman described her death as due to \"aggravation of underlying disease due to Covid\".\n\nThe BBC tried multiple times to contact authorities at Donghai and Jinshan regarding the various allegations, but was not able to get a response.\n\nChina is facing its most serious crisis since the virus first emerged here in early 2020, when the city of Wuhan was locked down and sealed off.\n\nDespite efforts to limit the impact on the economy in the country's financial capital the lockdown of Shanghai has continued way beyond the initial nine day period planned for.\n\nAuthorities have used various terms to refer to the strict restrictions being imposed on people, calling it \"static management\" and \"closed management\".\n\nState media reported that President Xi Jinping said \"prevention and control work cannot be relaxed\". The front page of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily said \"persistence is victory\".", "Alison Bird said she wants the local authorities to reconsider and allow a refugee family to stay in her caravan\n\nA woman said she was \"shocked\" to be told she could not house a family of Ukrainian refugees in her fully-furnished, heated static caravan.\n\nAlison Bird had offered the two-bedroom caravan in Dovercourt, Essex, to a family of four who are squatting in a single room in Turkey.\n\nBut officials said it was not suitable due to the seasonal nature of caravans and restrictions on year-round occupancy.\n\nMs Bird called for them to reconsider.\n\nMeanwhile, she said she did not have the heart to tell the family because they were \"so down and so desperate\".\n\n\"I can't add to their worries, so before I say anything to them I'm trying to get Essex County Council to do the right thing and to say 'yes' to our caravan and to look at each individual property on its own merit,\" she said.\n\nMs Bird's caravan is double-glazed, fully heated, newly decorated and close to the local schools\n\nMs Bird said said she thought the caravan was \"perfectly suitable\".\n\nShe said it could be used all-year round, was double-glazed, fully heated, newly decorated and close to local schools.\n\n\"It would be perfect for this family,\" said Ms Bird.\n\nShe said she and her husband had planned to rent it out over summer but it was \"far more important we house Ukrainian refugees than it is to make a bit of money from the caravan\".\n\nA spokesperson for Essex County Council and other local organisations involved in the Homes for Ukraine scheme said: \"A decision has been taken as a group county-wide that due to the seasonal nature of caravans, there are restrictions on year-round occupancy and other risks which make them unsuitable housing for refugees, particularly refugee families with children.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Russia releases video they say shows surviving crew of the sunken ship Moskva\n\nThe Russian defence ministry has published images showing what it says is the crew of the warship Moskva - the first time any sailors from the ship have been seen since its sinking.\n\nA large group of sailors is seen on parade in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, met by Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm Nikolay Yevmenov.\n\nThe Moskva was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.\n\nThe ship's demise has been described as a huge blow to Russian morale.\n\nThe ministry announced late on Thursday that the Moskva had sunk on stormy seas after a fire caused by exploding ammunition. Ukraine said it had sunk the ship with two Neptune missiles.\n\nRussia said at the time that the crew had been taken to Sevastopol, a major port Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. This, however, is the first time any evidence has been offered of the survival of any sailors.\n\nThe video shows Adm Yevmenov and two other officers standing on a parade ground in front of about 100 sailors.\n\nIt is not clear when the meeting took place.\n\nThe Moskva patrolling the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria\n\nIn an interview shown at the end of the video, Adm Yevmenov says that the officers and crew are currently residing at their base in Sevastopol and will continue their service in the navy.\n\nRussia has not reported any casualties from the fire or the sinking.\n\nHowever, an unnamed US official quoted by Reuters news agency said Washington believed there were casualties.\n\nUkraine says the ship's captain, Anton Kuprin, was killed on board, but the BBC has been unable to verify this.\n\nThe 12,490-tonne cruiser is the biggest Russian warship to be sunk in action since World War Two.\n\nOn the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the Moskva gained notoriety after calling on a small garrison of Ukrainian border troops defending Snake Island in the Black Sea to surrender - to which they memorably radioed an expletive-laden message of refusal.\n\nOriginally built in the Soviet era, the Moskva entered service in the early 1980s. The vessel was actually built in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv, which has been heavily bombed by Russia in recent days.\n\nThe guided missile cruiser was previously deployed by Moscow in the Syria conflict where it supplied Russian forces in the country with naval protection from the Mediterranean.\n\nIt is the second major vessel Russia has lost since the start of its invasion of Ukraine.", "Much of the focus of the war in Ukraine has so far been about the battle on the ground - but the fight to dominate the skies is just as important. The BBC has been given an exclusive interview with a Ukrainian air defence officer about the battle for control of Ukraine's skies.\n\nCaptain Vasyl Kravchuk has a surprisingly ready smile for a man who has endured 50 days of war. We spoke to him via video link from his base at an undisclosed location.\n\nHe knows the coming weeks will offer no respite. Russia may have received a bloody nose in its aborted attempts to take Kyiv, but with the Eastern region of the Donbas now firmly in Moscow's sights, the men and women of Dnipro's Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade will continue to play a key role in the next phase of the war.\n\nDefending Ukraine's skies from Russian attacks is already proving a challenge. As another Ukrainian air defence officer told the BBC, it is like trying to use a giant fly swatter which had large holes in it.\n\n\"We can't cover the whole airspace,\" Capt Kravchuk says simply.\n\nThe fact he is even sitting here speaking to us is somewhat remarkable - especially given the fact that \"many air defence facilities were destroyed fully or partially\" in the first days of the war.\n\nIt's a rare public admission by Ukrainian forces that they suffered significant losses in the early stages of the war.\n\nBut despite these losses, the air defences which survived have still been used to good effect.\n\nOryx, which has been tracking military losses during the war using visual confirmation, says that Ukraine has destroyed, damaged or captured at least 82 Russian aircraft, including jets, helicopters and drones.\n\nIndeed, their successes have confounded military experts, who predicted that Russia would quickly achieve air superiority over Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video, shared by Ukrainian armed forces, shows a Russian helicopter being shot down by a missile\n\nRussia already had a significant advantage in the air, deploying more than three times as many combat aircraft as Ukraine. The US Pentagon says that Russian aircraft have been flying around 250 military missions and carrying out some 30 air strikes every day. Western officials still say that Russia is struggling to gain air superiority.\n\nBut in contrast, Ukraine's aging fleet of mostly MiG-29 fighter jets have been struggling to compete, managing at best around 10 military missions a day.\n\nUkraine knows that Russia has the upper hand in the air. That's why its repeatedly called on Western nations to close its skies.\n\nBut Russia's anticipated offensive in the Donbas presents a new, more difficult challenge.\n\nJustin Bronk, senior research fellow for airpower at the Royal United Services Institute, says Russia is likely to have greater freedom of access in the airspace over the eastern region than the rest of the country due to its proximity to Russian controlled airspace.\n\nIn order to win the fight here, Ukraine requires a mix of long, medium and short range weapons to provide what's known as a \"layered defence\".\n\nThe West has been providing a significant number of shorter-range surface-to-air missiles. The US alone has already sent 2,000 Stingers. The UK has provided an unspecified number of Starstreak high velocity missiles too.\n\nBut while Capt Kravchuk says his country is grateful for those shoulder launched weapons, known as Manpads, he says they're only effective on the frontline.\n\nThis is because Manpads - man-portable air defence systems - are most effective against low flying aircraft. Russia is mostly using long range cruise missiles and high-altitude bombing.\n\nCapt Kravchuk told the BBC: \"We now lack medium and long range air defence systems... we do not have enough.\"\n\nA renewed Russian offensive in the Donbas will put another serious strain on Ukraine's limited air defence.\n\nWhile the focus of the war has turned to Eastern Ukraine, the rest of the country still needs protection. On the ground, we've seen evidence that Ukraine has been sending additional air defence systems to the east in recent days. But it can't afford to redeploy all its air defence systems to the Donbas region.\n\n\"We cannot leave half of Ukraine completely without protection,\" Capt Kravchuck says.\n\nUkraine is having to use its air defences not just to target Russian aircraft, but also Russian cruise and ballistic missiles. They are having some success, but they can't destroy everything.\n\nCapt Kravchuk estimates that his unit is shooting down between 50-70% of Russia's longer-range missiles. As an example, he says when Russia fired six missiles around Dnipro recently they managed to stop four.\n\nThat still suggests a significant number are getting through. The Pentagon says that Russia has launched 1,550 missiles since the war began.\n\nRussia says it's also been using hypersonic missiles. There isn't much Ukraine's air defences can do against those as they travel at five times the speed of sound.\n\nBut the harsh fact is that, without more significant support, Ukraine will find it increasingly hard to defend itself from Russian air and missile strikes the longer this war goes on.\n\nA senior western intelligence official told the BBC that long and mid-range air defences were top of the list of Ukraine's requests for more weapons supplies: \"They're very specific that they need air defence ammunition… they do need those in large quantities.\"\n\nAnd as Capt Kravchuk told us: \"Past wars have shown, whoever dominates the air wins the war.\"", "Hero lost his house but others were able to make repairs\n\nRescue operations are continuing in South Africa in an effort to save the lives of dozens of people who are missing following the floods in KwaZulu-Natal province. With more rain on its way, emergency teams face further peril as they search for survivors.\n\n\"My house was here, and behind my house it was six or seven metres away from the river, so I thought I was safe,\" says Hero Cangcatha, pointing at the debris that was once his Durban home.\n\n\"I'm traumatised because I don't know what to do, I don't know where to go, I don't know the way forward. There's no way forward in fact.\"\n\nHero is one of about 40,000 people affected by the floods. Officials say 13,500 properties have been damaged, leaving many homeless without shelter, food or water.\n\nAnother woman nearby, who said she was too embarrassed to be named, said she must flee before her home is destroyed.\n\n\"I need a place to stay now, right now I'm leaving. Just for the safety of my children. It's too bad, but we thank God that we are alive.\"\n\nNearly 400 people have died and there are fears that number will increase as search and rescue operations continue to find scores of people who are still unaccounted for.\n\nThe grim search for survivors is also in jeopardy because some excavation machine drivers have left for the Easter holiday.\n\nOne aid organisation, Gift of the Givers, is now appealing for people who know how to operate excavation machinery.\n\nThat is now more likely to be a body retrieval operation as opposed to a rescue. But still, residents are digging through the rubble with their bare hands.\n\nThere is a frantic search for clean drinking water, a week on since the floods swept through this region - destroying homes, power lines, roads and bridges.\n\nResidents gathered near a burst-water pipe scrambling for every drop of safe water in Amaoti, a township north of Durban.\n\nThe queues are long but the people are desperate.\n\n\"There's no water at home, we can't eat, we can't bath. We need the government to help us with relief efforts,\" one resident told the BBC, as they filled a plastic container with water to take home.\n\nMeanwhile nearly 300 schools and some health facilities have also been damaged.\n\nSome communities are completely cut off because roads and bridges have collapsed.\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa visited the province earlier this week to access the damage and level of need.\n\nHe described the floods - the worst in decades - as a \"catastrophe of enormous proportions\".\n\nHe's declared the province a disaster area and has promised that the government would \"spare no expense\" to rebuild the infrastructure and assist all affected families.\n\nWeather experts have said that climate change may be contributing to changing patterns and making such extreme events more frequent.\n\nWhile residents and critics agree, they have also blamed the government for not maintaining infrastructure or having proper water drainage systems in the province.\n\nThese are accusations the government has refuted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A makeshift memorial at the site of Lyoya's death\n\nThe fatal shooting of a young black man in Michigan after a scuffle during a traffic stop has once again raised questions about the police use of lethal force - and why pulling over African American motorists so often leads to tragedy.\n\nIn a quiet suburb of the Michigan city of Grand Rapids, a collection of flowers, cards and candles has been placed against a tree next to a small front lawn.\n\nThis corner of Nelson Avenue and Griggs Street - the intersection of two parallel rows of neat clapboard houses with cars in the driveways and Happy Easter decorations in the porches - could be anywhere in the great American Midwest.\n\nSome of the residents, though, speak of something else far less visible but just as commonplace - a sense of insecurity on account of the colour of their skin.\n\n\"Once again we're at the same question - police brutality, police injustice in our country,\" says Terry Roberts, 57.\n\n\"I think most black men go through that. We get stopped for no reason at all or just because we're driving black. That's just how it is.\"\n\nThis week, the police released video footage of the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya.\n\nThe tragic incident was caught in graphic detail and from multiple angles on a police body camera, a police dashboard camera, an eyewitness' phone and a doorbell security system from one of those Nelson Avenue homes.\n\nIt makes difficult viewing from all of them.\n\nFrame by frame, what began as a routine traffic incident - with Mr Lyoya being questioned by a white police officer over a suspected licence plate violation - unfolds rapidly towards an outcome that has once again put the question of racial injustice and policing firmly in the national spotlight.\n\nMr Lyoya at times seems confused, and tries to run.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patrick Lyoya was fatally shot by a police officer, shortly after grappling over a taser\n\nAt one point his hand can be seen holding and fending off an electric stun gun while the officer attempts to deploy it from close range.\n\nIn the ensuing struggle, Mr Lyoya is forced face down to the ground with the policeman lying on top of him shouting at him to let go of the Taser.\n\nThen, without warning, the officer draws his gun and shoots Mr Lyoya in the head.\n\nA short drive east from Grand Rapids, in the Michigan state capital of Lansing, the same biting wind blows from across the Great Lakes, even in Spring.\n\nBut there's one important difference between the two cities that might, some people believe, offer a way to help prevent more deaths like that of Patrick Lyoya.\n\n\"Two years ago, after the George Floyd incident, we wanted to evaluate our policies,\" says Lansing Mayor Andy Schor.\n\nProtesters have been on the streets demanding justice for Patrick Lyoya\n\nThe incident in which Mr Floyd died at the hands of a police officer who knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes, prompted Mr Schor to outlaw restraint techniques like chokeholds.\n\nBut it also led to a wider review in which a decision was made to curtail the range of reasons for which police officers can stop people in cars.\n\n\"We put in place a policy that said we're not going to have our officers pull people over just for non-public safety reasons,\" says the mayor.\n\nWhile offences that pose a danger, like speeding or running stop signs, are still enforced at the roadside, he believes that there are other far more efficient and potentially less confrontational ways to tackle things like cracked taillights or licence plate violations.\n\nAnd telling officers which kind of violations they should pull drivers over for also reduces the risk of conscious or unconscious racial profiling inherent in a more free-for-all approach which, he acknowledged, can lead to escalation.\n\n\"You never want a traffic stop to end up in a death of the person being pulled over or of the police officer.\"\n\nIt will now be for a Michigan police investigation to answer the key questions in the case of Patrick Lyoya - what, if any, threat did he pose and what level of force was appropriate in response.\n\nBut they are questions that police forces across the US find themselves asking all too frequently.\n\nA recent New York Times investigation of road-side traffic stops found that over a five-year period police officers shot dead more than 400 US drivers who were neither wielding a gun or a knife, nor involved in a violent crime.\n\nBarricades at the police station at Grand Rapids\n\nAs a result of those kinds of figures, Lansing is not the only place trying to think differently about how to reduce them.\n\nLos Angeles and Philadelphia are among other cities and districts where the police or city leaders have been rewriting the rules for routine traffic stops.\n\nCarlton T Mayers, an attorney who works with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said he welcomed the changes as a practical approach to a long running problem.\n\n\"We've seen young teenagers, black and Latino, having guns pulled on them over a mistaken identity. We've seen a young black man get punched in the face on video during a routine traffic stop,\" he told me.\n\n\"And this is just within the past two years in Grand Rapids prior to Patrick's tragedy. We know that these issues exist and in order to address it, we need everybody to step up to the plate\".\n\nIn a country where high levels of gun ownership will remain a fact of life and where there's no easy fix for discrimination and bias, reforming traffic stop rules can at least minimise the chances of minor interactions ending in fatalities.\n\nMr Mayers welcomes the shift in some police forces towards minor traffic infringements being handled by administrators rather than traffic police.\n\n\"Now you have unarmed individuals taking on that responsibility instead of armed law enforcement,\" he says.\n\n\"But at the end of the day, it cannot just be one policy change or one law change. It's always a holistic approach that you need, and it has to be a multi-pronged approach.\"\n\nA few doors down from where Patrick Lyoya was shot, I met Ida Nixon, a black woman who has lived in the street for 43 years.\n\n\"When it's going to get solved, we will never know,\" she sighed.\n\n\"I feel sorry for his family,\" she said and then added: \"And a police officer and his family, you know, what they're going through too.\"\n• None Family of man shot by US police want officer named", "The identity of the 28-year-old man has not been revealed\n\nAn Algerian man who won €250,000 (£206,000; $270,000) on a €5 scratchcard in Belgium is struggling to claim his winnings because of his undocumented status.\n\nThe prize is too large to be paid in cash and the man does not have the papers he needs to open a bank account.\n\nA friend who tried to claim the money for him was briefly detained on suspicion of theft.\n\nThe winner says he wants to use the money to build a life in Belgium.\n\n\"When I get the money, I am going to buy a place to live in Brussels. And maybe a car,\" the man, whose identity has not been revealed, told Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.\n\nHowever, first he has to find a way to claim the money.\n\nThe 28-year-old man has no valid identity papers nor a permanent place to live, according to Belgian broadcaster VRT.\n\nBecause he cannot open a bank account, the lottery company will not make the payment, the man's lawyer, Alexander Verstraete, said.\n\n\"We are looking for those documents that can prove his identity. He will have to contact his family in Algeria,\" Mr Verstraete told the AFP news agency.\n\nA lottery spokesperson did not specify to AFP which documents would be required to claim the win.\n\nOne of the man's friends, who has the correct papers, tried to claim the winnings on his behalf by going to the lottery headquarters in Brussels, which is necessary for any prize over €100,000.\n\nBut he and two others were detained by police overnight as authorities suspected they had stolen the winning scratchcard. They were released after the winner explained the situation.\n\nThe card is now being held by a court in the town of Bruges, close to the port of Zeebrugge where it was bought.\n\nMr Verstraete says authorities have promised not to deport the man until he has received the prize money.\n\nThe winner left Algeria four months ago, travelling by boat to Spain, according to Belgian media. From there he went on foot through Spain and France before reaching Belgium.\n\nHe had wanted to travel on to the United Kingdom, but now says he would prefer to remain in Belgium, and hopes to start a family.\n\n\"I will also look for a wife,\" he told Het Laatste Nieuws. \"Still, I am not going to find one with my money, but with my heart.\"", "The Russian Orthodox Church has echoed the rhetoric of the Kremlin in justifying the war in Ukraine. It is a stance that appears to be driving large numbers of Ukrainian priests and parishioners to turn their backs on Moscow.\n\n\"I will never forget the moment when I woke up early to go to mass, only to suddenly hear the shocking sounds of bombing,\" says Father Nicolay Pluzhnik.\n\n\"The wonderful woman who cooked at our church and her son, who was in a wheelchair, were both killed when an artillery shell hit their apartment. I now know of several other of our parishioners who have died.\"\n\nLike most clergy in the region of north-eastern Ukraine where he is from, Father Pluzhnik belonged to the branch of the Russian Orthodox Church which takes its direction from its religious leadership in Moscow.\n\nBut now, he says, has applied to join the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - which was finally granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church in 2019, in a move never recognised by Russia.\n\nHe says many fellow priests who followed Patriarch Kirill in Moscow are doing the same because of the Church leader's stance on the war.\n\nFather Nicolay Pluzhnik in his church in Chuhuiv, in the Kharkiv region, before he fled west\n\nFather Pluzhnik and his family fled under artillery fire and now have a temporary new home in the town of Chernivtsi, in western Ukraine.\n\n\"When the war started, I was waiting to hear from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the 'father' of our church. But first there was no reaction at all, and then there was worse,\" he says.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill blessed the Russian army and gave his blessing to the war. It was not just him but the majority of priests of the Moscow Patriarchate [Russian Orthodox Church] including some that even have Ukrainian roots. I was in shock.\"\n\nAs well as having failed to unequivocally condemn the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, or call for a ceasefire, the Patriarch has held large televised services in Moscow to bless Russian troops. He has also suggested in sermons that the Kremlin's war is a righteous one about the future of Christianity.\n\n\"What is happening today is much more important than politics,\" he said last month. \"We are talking about human salvation, about where humanity will end up and on which side of God the Saviour.\"\n\nPatriarch Kirill, in green robes, at a recent service attended by military personnel\n\nThere are religious undertones in much of the Kremlin's narrative justifying its invasion of Ukraine. It is a fight for the conservative ideals of the Russian Orthodox Church based in Moscow, against an immoral outside world. President Putin has said Ukraine is not only an \"inalienable part\" of Russia's history and culture - but also its \"spiritual space\".\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said he finds Patriarch Kirill's sentiment concerning.\n\n\"There are elements in the Russian Christian tradition that can become really toxic when they get in their head a particular kind of Christian nationalism, a sort of messianic approach to the fate of the nation,\" said Dr Williams during a visit to western Ukraine this week.\n\nHe was part of an extraordinary high-level, multi-faith delegation - including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders. They met refugees who had fled the horrors in the eastern part of the country.\n\nDr Williams has long studied and written about the positive contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church, and appears deeply saddened by the role the Moscow Patriarchate is playing in the war.\n\n\"I think that the increasing influence in the Patriarchate of Moscow of ultranationalist ideals - often including a strand of anti-Semitism - has been going on for some time.\n\n\"And it has now expressed itself in this very uncritical support of Russian national ambitions, a very aggressive attitude towards many other Orthodox churches. The writing has been on the wall for some time,\" he said.\n\nPatriarch Kirill has echoed President Putin's claim that Russian speakers and followers of Moscow's Russian Orthodox Church living in eastern Ukraine need liberating after years of oppression.\n\n\"Our brothers and sisters were really suffering, they suffer for their loyalty to the Church,\" said Patriarch Kirill a week into the war.\n\nBut Father Pluzhnik, a Russian speaker and a follower of the Moscow Patriarchate all of his adult life, is angered by those claims.\n\n\"When I hear them say they are protecting us and fighting some 'Holy War', I think they are either blind, or they are not serving God but the devil,\" he says.\n\n\"We were living peacefully until they came. But far from protecting us they bombed and tortured and killed. Before the war, parishioners were completely free to choose what church they went to, they just went to the church closest to their home. For many of them it was not even a significant difference to go to a church that followed Moscow or not, they just wanted to pray to God. Now that has changed.\"\n\nDr Sergii Bortnyk, a professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy and an adviser to the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, acknowledges that there has been a widespread movement of people and parishes across the country abandoning their loyalty to Moscow.\n\n\"I think it is maybe half of the 12,000 parishes [of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine] that have said that they want to break away now,\" says Dr Bortnyk.\n\n\"Patriarch Kirill has not said anything about all the Christians in Ukraine that have been killed, so I believe the members of our church are free to end their connection to him as the patriarch,\" he says.\n\n\"The connection to all of our [Moscow Patriarchate Russian Orthodox] Church in Ukraine to Moscow is in question now.\"\n\nThe Kremlin's aim, backed by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, had been to unite Russia and Ukraine in a single \"spiritual space\".\n\nBut the manner by which they have tried to achieve that appears to have had precisely the opposite effect.", "Jacqueline Statham says relatives want to be reunited with the men so they can lay them to rest\n\nThe wife of a pilot whose plane disappeared over the English Channel has said she wants to find her husband so she can \"say her goodbyes\".\n\nBrian Statham and Lee Rogers were flying from Wellesbourne in Warwickshire to France on 2 April when their plane crashed, police said.\n\nIt is thought they encountered \"freak weather conditions\" and no mayday signal was given from the aircraft.\n\nJacqueline Statham has asked people to look out for any debris from the crash.\n\n\"We just want them back so we can lay them to rest and say our goodbyes,\" she said.\n\nThe pair were last seen on 2 April before their plane vanished over the Channel\n\nMs Statham, from Solihull, said: \"The problem for the families is that we know where they are, obviously in the English Channel, but we don't know when we'll ever get to be reunited with them.\"\n\nThe pair met at South Warwickshire Flying school and became \"firm friends\" 10 years ago.\n\nMr Statham's son, Douglas, said: \"Their friendship just grew and grew for their love of things like flying, they went out on motorbikes a lot as well.\n\n\"They were just full of life. An amazing couple of guys.\"\n\nMr Rogers posted video of them flying over the channel before their plane disappeared\n\nThe men had set off with the school, as part of a group flying in several aircraft, from Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, heading for Le Touquet.\n\nBoth families said they were grateful to the French and English coastguards who have been involved in the search and rescue effort as well as tourists who handed in Mr Statham's bag.\n\nMr Rogers posted a video of them flying over the channel before their plane disappeared which showed blues skies and a calm sea.\n\nThe search for the experienced pilots was called off on 3 April.\n\nRelatives are asking people to continue to look out for debris or any items connected to their disappearance.\n\nMr Statham said: \"The more evidence there is the more chance there is of putting that picture together of what happened on that beautiful day and how we can just go forward and move on with our lives.\"\n\nDouglas Statham said they wanted to piece together what had happened\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sailors said to be from the Moskva were shown on parade in a video released on Saturday Image caption: Sailors said to be from the Moskva were shown on parade in a video released on Saturday\n\nSome 40 sailors were killed, several are missing and many more were wounded in the sinking of the warship Moskva, the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe reports quoting the mother of a sailor believed to be on board.\n\nThe mother said her son told her in a phone call that the Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, had been hit by three missiles from land, from Ukrainian territory.\n\n\"He called me and was crying because of what he had seen. It was terrifying,\" she said, adding that she herself was terrified of having to wait for him to finish his service.\n\nHe said he would not give her the details of what he had seen because it was so terrible, adding that many of the wounded had lost limbs because of the explosions.\n\nThe newspaper has not named the sailor or his mother to protect them.\n\nBut it says it has documentary evidence which makes it plausible that the sailor was serving on the Moskva.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has so far given no word of any casualties in the sinking. However, earlier we reported that Radio Liberty had confirmed the death of Midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev.\n\nMeanwhile the ministry on Saturday posted video which it says is of the ship's sailors meeting the commander of the Russian Navy in Sevastopol.\n\nIt blames the sinking on a fire on board the ship and stormy weather. Ukraine says it hit the Moskva with two missiles.\n\nNovaya Gazeta Europe was set up earlier this month to get around Russia's crackdown on media freedom. Its Russian counterpart suspended its operations in March after being repeatedly threatened with closure over its coverage of the invasion of Ukraine.", "Footfall across Scotland is expected to surge over the busy Easter weekend\n\nA leading public health expert has urged people to keep following Covid-19 advice over the busy Easter weekend.\n\nProf Linda Bauld told the BBC there were still high levels of infection due to the BA.2 Omicron variant.\n\nShe said public health advice on the virus would be around for \"months to come\" despite the rule on face masks becoming guidance on Monday.\n\nTraffic jams and rail disruption have already impacted commuters across the UK over the long weekend.\n\nFamily gatherings, a rise in church attendance and events including the Musselburgh races are expected to contribute to higher social interaction across Scotland.\n\nCrowds will also have gathered at Hampden for the Scottish Cup semi-finals with Hearts playing Hibs on Saturday and Celtic clashing with Rangers on Sunday.\n\nHearts supporters pictured at Hampden on Saturday during the semi-final clash\n\nEarlier this week the Office for National Statistics sampling showed a slight decrease in the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in Scotland for the third week in a row.\n\nHowever, Prof Bauld said despite the encouraging figures, infection levels were still high due to the highly transmissible BA.2 variant.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: \"Reinfections are increasingly common - they're accounting for around 11% of infections certainly in Scotland.\n\n\"So if you're in indoor places with others you don't normally live with, of course people may pick it up.\n\n\"They're unlikely to become severely unwell but I think in time when we've lifted basically all the protective measures and it's down to people's decisions, we still just need to be aware of that.\"\n\nOn Thursday Public Health Scotland reported 4,196 further cases of Covid-19 and 40 deaths of people who had tested positive.\n\nFewer people are becoming severely unwell with only 20 patients with Covid requiring intensive care on Friday, although more than 2,000 Covid-positive patients are in hospital across Scotland.\n\nOn Monday, the legal requirement to wear face masks in many indoor settings in Scotland will become guidance.\n\nThe move had been delayed twice amid record levels of Covid cases and high numbers of people in hospital with the virus.\n\nSpeaking about the matter to the PA news agency on Sunday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she had confidence in the \"good sense and responsibility\" of people in Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"We can't keep things in law beyond a point where that is deemed to be proportionate, so we will move the face covering requirement out of law and into guidance.\n\n\"Wearing a face covering is a bit of protection you can give, not only to yourself but to the people you might be around - including people who might be more clinically vulnerable.\"\n\nProf Bauld echoed the Scottish government's advice for people to continue wearing masks in crowded indoor places and on public transport.\n\nShe said: \"Wearing a face covering indoors even if it's not a legal requirement, thinking about being in well ventilated places and finally just making sure everyone is up to date with their vaccines before they travel - this is practical advice we're going to hear around the country for some months to come.\n\n\"If you had Delta for example you might pick up Omicron, and you could still become quite poorly even if you don't become severely unwell.\"\n\nProf Bauld added that new hybrid variants were still being identified through the government's testing surveillance.\n\nShe said: \"They certainly are transmissible and in fact some of them may be a little bit more transmissible than what we've got at the moment but they're not causing more severe disease.\"", "Putin's supporters like to share photos of the president playing with dogs in the snow\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has been widely condemned in many parts of the world, but a network of Facebook groups run by people with obscure motivations would like to change perceptions of the country's leader.\n\nMillions of people have viewed posts committed to portraying President Vladimir Putin as smiling, benevolent and peace-loving.\n\nThese are Putin's superfans - and we've been tracking what they do and where they come from.\n\nThousands of posts praising the Russian leader have surfaced on a pro-Putin network of Facebook groups\n\nThe BBC has been investigating these huge pro-Putin groups with the help of researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).\n\nISD experts identified 10 pro-Putin public groups, boasting names such as Vladimir Putin - Leader of the Free World. The groups have more than 650,000 members between them. Content includes photos and messages praising the Russian leader, written in a number of languages, including English, Russian, Farsi, Arabic and Khmer.\n\nNot only are they popular, but they are very active. Over the past month, researchers counted 16,500 posts, receiving more than 3.6 million interactions.\n\nThe overall aim of the groups seems to be to promote Mr Putin as a hero standing up to the West, with overwhelming international support.\n\nThe images often show the Russian leader \"walking confidently, holding puppies, staring longingly into the camera, saluting troops, and riding an array of wild animals, including bears and lions\".\n\nThese groups have gained more than 100,000 new members since the start of the invasion on 24 February.\n\nMany of the posts are put up repeatedly across groups by \"superfan\" administrators\n\nDigging into the details of the people driving most of the content, it emerged that many of the fans listed as administrators of the groups have duplicate accounts under the same name. The researchers found at least 100 such accounts in the network.\n\nThese accounts generally follow each other and sometimes post heart-warming messages or send heart emojis to each other. And they administer these pro-Putin accounts alongside others pretending to be the Russian Federation or the Russian security services, which are clearly fake.\n\nRunning duplicate accounts is a potential violation of Facebook's rules on inauthentic behaviour, the ISD says.\n\nLead researcher Moustafa Ayad calls the practice an example of \"astroturfing\" - an online operation involving multiple accounts that falsely gives something the impression of wider grassroots support.\n\nThe campaign \"creates the appearance of widespread support for Putin and the Kremlin in the shadow of the invasion and relies on... inauthentic accounts to accomplish its goal\", according to the ISD report.\n\nA closer examination of some of the group admins shows some unusual activity. One, named Marine, who says her location is Syria, uses three separate accounts to generate support for the president. Her three accounts, in Arabic, post at the same time every day.\n\nAnother moderator, Victoria, from Cambodia, has been pushing content in a Khmer language group. Since 4 February, her posts have generated more than 34,000 reactions and have been shared more than 4,000 times.\n\nAnd Marine and Victoria jointly run a Khmer-language Facebook page, part of a wider pattern of co-ordination between some of the accounts.\n\nPosts are widely shared across different groups. For instance, another account listed as located in Bulgaria posted the same Putin image 12 times in the space of a couple of minutes.\n\nVladimir Putin's appearances with animals are often shared by the network of fans\n\nWe tried to contact the people behind all of these accounts for comment, but didn't have much luck.\n\nBut a man in Kenya, called Raj, who's in several of these groups and includes \"Putin\" at the end of his name on Facebook, did answer the phone when we rang. In a brief conversation, he called the president a \"great leader\" but said he didn't want to discuss the war. We emailed him further questions about his interest in Russia, but he didn't respond.\n\nHasmik, from Armenia, says she's a journalist and now helps to run six pro-Putin groups. We asked who invited her to do it. She told us it was the people already running the groups and said that she wasn't paid for her efforts.\n\nIt's difficult to glean the motivations of the people behind the accounts. There is no obvious link to the Russian government and unlike other well-known Russian disinformation campaigns, the network isn't subtle; nor do the people involved hide their intentions.\n\nBut we can't rule out the possibility that the network has some links to the Russian authorities or pro-Putin elements inside Russia.\n\nMany people around the world are drawn to Mr Putin and his anti-West view of the world.\n\nWe contacted Facebook, which says it has policies against fake accounts and has suspended a number of accounts based on information from the report and their own investigations.\n\n\"We're continuing to take strong action to prevent the spread of misinformation relating to the crisis in Ukraine,\" says a spokesman for parent company Meta.\n\nIn the course of our research, we came across another interesting phenomenon - Vladimir Putin impersonation accounts.\n\nOne of the Putin impersonation Facebook accounts had a massive following before being taken down\n\nMr Putin is one of the few world leaders who doesn't use social media, and there's no official Facebook account in his name. He reputedly doesn't even have a smartphone.\n\nAccording to his spokesman, Mr Putin simply \"does not need\" social media as it \"doesn't give him anything he doesn't have already\".\n\nBut some have filled the gap left by his online absence. The page on Facebook displayed above had more than three million followers until it was taken down for impersonation shortly after the invasion at the end of February.\n\nA significant number of its subscribers - more than 700,000 - joined during the pandemic, when the page was talking up Russian-made Covid vaccines.\n\nMore recently, the page was posting messages amplifying the Kremlin's view of the war, and many commenting on it appeared to believe it contained the genuine words of the Russian president.\n\nShortly after the invasion, a post on the page declared the goal of the \"operation\" was \"peacekeeping... aimed only at the demilitarisation of a neighbouring country\". This message was shared and liked more than 200,000 times.\n\nAnd the page also had a habit of tagging people in its messages about Mr Putin, including users identified by researchers as having duplicate accounts. In other words, it was interacting with the Putin superfans.\n\nWe don't know who's behind this account. The people managing it are based in Russia and Latvia, according to the page's transparency section.\n\nFan pages are fertile ground to drum up support for the Kremlin internationally, says Nika Aleksejeva, a researcher at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), part of the Atlantic Council think tank.\n\n\"They may help to build public support in foreign countries for Russia's so-called 'military operation in Ukraine' unless taken down by mainstream social media platforms,\" she says.\n\nDFRLab documented how one Putin-impersonator account posting in Arabic had paid for adverts targeting users in several countries, including Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, and Tunisia. The page had more than one million followers, but has since been deleted.\n\nAnother prominent Putin page, posted in Arabic, used to be managed by a man who is also a big fan of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. It attracted almost a million followers before recently disappearing.", "Polish border guards now say fewer people are entering from Ukraine, while more are starting to head east\n\nAt Ukraine's western border with Poland near the town of Mostyska, Olena and Maria walk back into their home country after more than a month abroad.\n\nThe pair are from Slovyansk in the eastern Donetsk region. On 10 March, as Russian invaders drew closer, Olena's husband told her to take their daughter Maria and leave the country.\n\nOlena and Maria headed to a friend's house in Szczecin, a Polish city on the border with Germany. But they had to sleep on the floor, and Olena says they struggled to find work there because they don't speak the language.\n\nNow, they're heading back east - despite the threat of a renewed Russian assault. Donetsk remains a key target for Russian forces.\n\nOlena's husband is an ambulance driver and still in Slovyansk, waiting for them. When we ask how they feel to cross back into their home country, Olena breaks into a huge grin.\n\n\"Super!\" she says. \"No matter what, we're very happy to be back in Ukraine.\"\n\nSince Russia's invasion, more than 10 million people are thought to have left their homes in Ukraine, and 4.3 million of those have left the country.\n\nBut as the front lines stabilise and the country learns to function in a state of war, some Ukrainians are beginning to make the journey back home, even to parts of the country directly threatened by Russian forces.\n\nThe war is now well into its second month. Ukraine has held off the Russian assault and fears of a rapid collapse - as President Volodymyr Zelensky told his people this week, it is more than 48 days since military analysts in the West predicted the capital Kyiv had just 48 hours until its fall to the invaders.\n\nPeople the BBC spoke to at the Polish border said they had tired of life as refugees abroad. Others were desperate to get back for practical reasons - to collect important documents left behind in the confusion after the invasion, protect their homes from looters, or even to pick up children who stayed behind with their fathers.\n\nAnd for others, the pull of home, friends and family is just too strong.\n\nSofia is eating a hot dog from one of the fast-food stalls at the border crossing. She's defying her mum's orders, choosing to come back home after just three weeks in the safety of Poland. War is war, but Easter is Easter - she's eager to see her loved ones back home in Lviv this weekend.\n\nSofia left Ukraine on her mum's orders, but is now heading home for Easter\n\nThe 20-year-old first crossed the frontier into the EU late in March to stay with a godmother's friend in Poznan, after the Russians bombed her home city.\n\n\"Mum forced me, she was panicking,\" Sofia says. But she never felt settled abroad, despite the help for refugees that humanitarian groups and the Polish government have organised.\n\n\"You feel foreign,\" she says. \"Everyone's helping you, but it doesn't feel like home.\" She hopes to stay in the relative calm of Lviv.\n\nOfficial figures suggest more people are making the same choice. Polish border authorities say numbers going to and from Ukraine are now drawing closer - on Wednesday, 24,700 people entered Poland from Ukraine, while 20,000 people made the opposite trip. It's a sharp reversal from the record 142,000 people who crossed into Poland on 6 March.\n\nLviv-Holovnyi rail station is a key transit hub in western Ukraine. Trains bring thousands in daily from war-torn regions: outside, charities give out food, clothes and SIM cards, while coaches line up to take travellers off to the countryside or the border.\n\nAlthough most people come here from the east, a steady stream of people are starting to make the journey in the opposite direction - a potentially lethal choice.\n\nIryna, her daughter Katerina, mother Lina and mother-in-law Yevgenya are from Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine close to the front lines. They initially left the country to stay with relatives in Moldova, but have now decided to return. They've had to buy tickets for the trip - in contrast, journeys westward away from the fighting are free.\n\nIryna, far right, says she is telling her daughter Katerina, second from left, the truth about what's happening\n\nIryna says they would have come sooner, but had to wait for her eight-year-old daughter to recover from an illness. \"Home is home,\" she says, when we ask why they've decided to go back.\n\nShe admits she's worried about her daughter's safety. When they left, the Russian attacks were far away, but now they're getting closer.\n\nWe ask what they've told Katerina about the situation. \"We're telling her the truth,\" Iryna says.\n\nVolunteers at a clinic above the main station concourse give out medical and psychological support for new arrivals. Irena Bous is one of them.\n\nBefore the war, she was a judge for the International Dance Organization and chair of a number of dance competitions within Ukraine. \"All kinds - hip hop, jazz, break dancing,\" she says.\n\nA friend of hers in the Lviv governor's office knew she had a flair for organisation and so asked her to help out when the Russians invaded.\n\nIrena has met several people who are returning to areas wracked by violence. \"It's a bad idea [to return east],\" Irena says. \"We try to save their lives and keep them in Lviv.\"\n\nShe tells us of a woman who came to Lviv from her home near Bucha, a wealthy suburb of Kyiv where Russian troops shot dead scores of civilians and left bodies in the street. After nine days, she decided to return - against Irena's advice.\n\n\"I said, please wait, there are no Russians but we have many things there - bombs, mines - wait until they are deactivated,\" Irena says. The woman travelled back regardless, saying her friends had found her a place to stay.\n\nAnother woman Irena spoke to, who is in her 60s, had fled to Poland even before the war began, but returned to Ukraine and boarded a train east last week. \"I don't know how long I will live, but I will die in my house,\" she told Irena.\n\nBefore the war she organised dance competitions, but now Irena helps run a clinic at Lviv station\n\nOthers we met couldn't bring themselves to leave Ukraine in the first place. At Arena Lviv - a stadium built for the Euro 2012 football tournament, but now playing host to refugees - we meet Roma, a 19-year-old from Mykolaiv on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, and his new friend Iryna, a grandmother from Severodonetsk in the eastern Luhansk region.\n\nThe pair had never met until that day, but now they have decided to stay together. Iryna travelled across Ukraine to the Polish border in the days after the invasion, intent on escaping. After queuing for hours, she made it to the front of the line, only to change her mind at the last minute. Her son is in the military in Ukraine and she hears her home city has been recaptured by Ukrainian forces, opening up the prospect of heading home.\n\n\"I couldn't bring myself to leave [the country],\" she tells us. But since then, she has been moving around the west of the country, sleeping for a time at a nursery in Lviv before ending up at the arena with Roma.\n\nA coach destined for the countryside has one spot left on board, but despite repeated offers, Iryna refuses the seat - choosing instead to stick with her new friend.\n\nNow she and Roma - like millions of others - face an uncertain future as displaced people within the country. With a choice of refugee status abroad or rootlessness inside Ukraine, it is perhaps no surprise that some are risking everything to return to their homes.\n\nIryna and Roma are waiting out the war in Lviv for now", "Ninety percent of cars in the area around Berlin are powered by fuel from the Russian-owned Schwedt refinery outside Berlin\n\nGerman Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck has called on the public to cut energy use and stop using cars to help wean their country off Russian oil and gas.\n\n\"If you can take the train or bike over Easter, that's good too: it's easy on the wallet and annoys Putin,\" said Mr Habeck, who is also economics minister and co-leader of the Greens.\n\nGermany has resisted European calls for a ban on Russian energy.\n\nUkraine's president has criticised the stance of both Germany and Hungary.\n\n\"We need to talk together with these countries on how it's possible for there to be different attitudes to this issue - the oil embargo within the European Union,\" Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC.\n\nHe has argued that Russia does not need to take peace talks seriously because of the billions it receives from oil exports. Some of Ukraine's friends and partners now understood it was an issue of survival for Ukraine, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nAlthough German imports have fallen this year, it still gets a quarter of its oil and 40% of its gas from Russia. It has already halted the opening of a big Russian gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, in response to the war.\n\nEarlier this week, German economic institutes warned that immediately halting Russian imports would spark a sharp recession in Europe's biggest economy by 2023.\n\nAmid EU pressure to ban Russian oil, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has indicated that Germany could do so by the end of this year. However, some members of his coalition from the Greens and business-friendly FDP have accused him of failing to show leadership.\n\nThe head of parliament's defence committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, who was part of a German delegation visiting Kyiv this week, said Germany's old, rigid world view had collapsed.\n\n\"Now is the time to lead and by doing so move forward together with our coalition,\" she added.\n\nUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has appealed to Berlin to make a quick decision on sending further heavy weapons. \"Germany plays a leading role in Europe and we are counting on this leadership,\" he told German TV.\n\n\"We are paying the price with people's lives,\" he said, adding that if Germany had changed its approach earlier then war could have been prevented.\n\nMr Scholz's coalition partners are also pushing for Germany to send further heavy weapons to Ukraine. However, the economics minister said the German military had already delivered what it could without affecting its own operational capability.\n\nGerman manufacturer Rheinmetall has offered to send Leopard 1 battle tanks, but Mr Habeck said they had to be refurbished and that could take months.\n\nIn his interview with the Funke news group, the Greens minister said every German could make a dent in their reliance on Russia by cutting their energy consumption by 10%.\n\nIt starts with personal behaviour. If you heat your home and draw your curtains in the evening you save up to 5% of energy. If you lower the room temperature by 1C it's around 6%\n\nMr Habeck said lowering the temperature was perhaps not quite as comfortable but nobody would freeze.\n\nBosses should also consider offering staff the chance to work from home, as they did during the Covid-19 pandemic, for one or two days a week.\n\nMore than 330,000 refugees from Ukraine have registered in Germany since the start of the war, although the true figure is unclear.", "Julie Taylor with a newly-installed bleed control kit, in memory of her grandson\n\nThe grandmother of a teenager who was stabbed to death has made it her \"life's work\" to fund life-saving first aid kits so his memory will live on.\n\nLiam Taylor, 19, died in an attack outside the Rose and Crown pub in Writtle, Essex, on 31 January 2020.\n\nThree men were jailed for his murder.\n\nJulie Taylor and others fundraised for dozens of public-access bleed control kits containing a tourniquet, bandages and a foil blanket, in his name, \"so Liam was not murdered in vain\".\n\nMr Taylor and his 19-year-old friend had been standing outside the Writtle pub in 2020 when three men jumped out of a car and attacked them.\n\nMr Taylor - known to his family and friends as Fish - died at the scene from multiple stab wounds.\n\nDuring his murderers' trial, police said the stabbings were thought to be in retaliation to an incident earlier that evening, but neither Mr Taylor nor his friend had been involved in that.\n\nLiam Taylor died after being stabbed in a village near Chelmsford\n\nHis family set up the Liam Taylor Legacy crowdfunding page and that, together with other fundraising initiatives have so far paid for two defibrillators, 49 bleed control bags - which cost almost £100 each - and three bleed control units - housed in boxes, which cost about £550 each.\n\nPublic-access bleed control kits are specialist first aid kits which include several items which could potentially save a life.\n\nLynne Baird was instrumental in campaigning for them to be rolled out at more than 50 venues in Birmingham after her son, Daniel, 26, was stabbed to death in 2017.\n\nLiam's grandmother, Mrs Taylor, said: \"These kits are needed so much - it's not getting better out there - it's getting worse.\"\n\nLiam's name would live on through the first aid kits, his grandmother said\n\nShe regularly speaks at events and accompanies police to schools to talk to children about knife crime, and tell the story of how her grandson was killed.\n\n\"I speak to a lot of families whose relatives have been killed in knife crimes and although people generally think you get over the loss, you don't. In many ways it gets worse.\n\n\"The families I speak with - we understand each other.\"\n\nThe bleed control bags she has bought have been distributed to pubs and community groups across Essex, and as far afield as Great Yarmouth in Norfolk and Tottenham, in London.\n\nThe latest boxed unit in Liam's name has just been installed outside The Garrison, a pub in Chelmsford.\n\n\"I don't say Liam 'died' - I say Liam was murdered,\" Mrs Taylor said.\n\n\"We do this, and will keep doing this, because we couldn't let Liam just be murdered in vain.\n\n\"Because of our love, he will live on forever.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, the BBC Action Line has details of organisations that may be able to help\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Home Secretary Priti Patel travelled to Rwandan capital Kigali to sign the deal\n\nThere was only muted applause from a handful of officials as the politicians shook hands in the Kigali Conference Centre, smiling awkwardly for the cameras.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel hailed the Rwandan deal as a world first, a major milestone. And it is. Potentially.\n\nSome nations have attempted to outsource their asylum processing offshore. But no country has ever tried to export its asylum responsibilities before.\n\nWhat the deal envisages is an end to the system of protection for those fleeing war and persecution that Britain signed up to more than 70 years ago.\n\nLast year 28,526 people crossed the Channel in small boats\n\nInstead of claiming asylum when they arrive in Britain, those fleeing persecution or war will have to find a legal and safe route to the UK or, for most, face being packed off to Africa. There are currently very few such routes and none available to the citizens of countries that make up the bulk of those granted refugee status in Britain.\n\nWhat is an asylum seeker form Iraq or Iran, say, supposed to do? They are faced with Catch 22. They can only claim asylum to Britain on British soil. But in reaching the UK, they make themselves inadmissible for asylum.\n\nFor the home secretary and the prime minister, that appears to be the long-term aim: to stop all asylum seekers from coming to Britain. Instead, we are promised a network of safe routes from UN-run refugee camps.\n\nAs things stand, the UK is a passive recipient of those asking for sanctuary. The government has no control over who the asylum seekers are. The new plan would mean politicians could pick and choose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It's a striking fact that around seven out of 10 of those arriving in small boats last year were men under 40, paying people smugglers to queue jump and taking up our capacity to help genuine women and child refugees,\" was how the prime minister put it.\n\nBoris Johnson knew what buttons he was pressing when he said: \"We can't ask the British taxpayer to write a blank cheque to cover the costs of anyone who might want to come and live here.\"\n\nThere is concern the UK is being taken for a ride by people simply seeking a better life.\n\nHe conflated the thousands of people risking their lives to reach the Kent coast in small boats with \"economic migrants taking advantage of the asylum system\".\n\nThe problem with this argument is that a substantial majority of those who cross the channel are subsequently granted refugee status by the UK government. Home Office officials decide they do indeed have a well-founded fear of persecution in their country of origin.\n\nIt was noticeable how upbeat the home secretary was as she jetted to Kigali to sign on the dotted line.\n\nPriti Patel has faced a great deal of criticism in recent weeks, often from MPs on her own side. But she sees the Rwandan deal, nine months in the making, as an opportunity to defeat the \"evil people smugglers\" whose activities in the Channel are so humiliating for a government that promised to take back control of Britain's borders.\n\nI sense this home secretary relishes the opportunity of a battle against \"the naysayers\", her \"political opponents\" who \"condemn everything\" without a plan of their own, and the asylum \"lawyers who are fleecing the British taxpayer\".\n\nThat is an argument that would play well with her core support, burnish her Brexit credentials, and helpfully change the conversation from visa delays and \"partygate\".\n\nOne can see, then, why the UK government would want this deal, but what about the Rwandans? Are they happy about it?\n\nWe don't know all the details of the arrangement, but there is an initial £120m for educational projects and other money to assist with processing sent by the UK.\n\nRwandan ministers believe the arrival of motivated migrants will help boost their economy and the deal itself will encourage further investment.\n\nBut one wonders what the ordinary Rwandan will think of a rich European country sending its problem to a small African state.", "The physical reminders of what happened here will eventually be erased\n\nAt the base of a block of flats in Bucha, the sound of sawing echoes around the deserted communal garden.\n\nIn one of the doorways a blackened kettle boils on an open fire, blowing clouds of steam into the bitter air. This place should be buzzing with life and sound, with the chatter of children playing and clambering over the climbing frame that dominates the square.\n\nBut since the Russians came, everything has changed here. Most people fled, and they're yet to return. There's just one small, hardy group who are trying to pave the way for others to come back.\n\nSergei and his wife arrived at their flat five days ago. Now they and their neighbours are trying to rebuild their damaged homes, and clearing away the debris of countless Russian shells.\n\n\"You always want to come back home\", he tells me. \"So we used our first chance to return as well. And we used our chance to make sure that all the property is safe, even from locals that might come and steal something.\"\n\nSergei takes me to an open grave in the shadow of his building. It's just a few steps away, and we walk in the deep grooves the Russian tanks carved into the mud as they rolled in. Sergei's neighbour - killed as he tried to take a photo of them - lay here.\n\nHis name and the date he died are written of a piece of wooden pallet, a rough and temporary gravestone. When Sergei returned home, one of the first things he wanted to do was finally give him a dignified burial.\n\nIn just a few weeks, Bucha locals have become accustomed to death.\n\nDenys Davidoff stayed in the town throughout the occupation. When the Russians left he ventured back onto the streets, and was confronted with a vision of horror. Many people around the world saw photos and videos of bodies lying scattered on the ground in Bucha, some with hands bound behind their backs. But Denys witnessed them himself.\n\nDenys Davidoff saw much of the horror first hand\n\n\"When I arrived I saw the street with the dead bodies. I just walked around them, and they were everywhere. I wasn't scared, but it was intense. You got used to it during the month of the occupation.\"\n\nAs the world condemned what it saw, Russia claimed the news was fake, and the bodies were planted after its forces left. But Denys lived through it, and that was not what he saw.\n\n\"Some corpses were lying for such a long time that you could see their bodies were covered with the sand and the earth after it rained. At some point I realised I knew some of the people who were killed.\"\n\nThe people of Bucha are still processing the devastation they've lived through. But they aren't entirely safe just yet. More than 3,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance have been found around the Kyiv region so far.\n\nThis local man has come back to repair his home\n\nIn a nearby village we pass a ditch at the side of the road, with around 20 unexploded shells neatly placed in it, lying side by side. A single thin ribbon of plastic tape runs around the perimeter to protect the unaware from stumbling in.\n\nMaking these towns safe again for people to return to will be a huge job.\n\nOn the road to Bucha, there's an unconventional graveyard. The burned and twisted hulks of Russian military vehicles lie idly by the roadside.\n\nThis was a camp, a defensive position, and among the wreckage are signs of the soldiers who once lived here. There are small gold foil pots of food rations, vodka bottles, underwear and socks. Mis-matching camouflage, and a civilian brightly-patterned sleeping bag that someone brought along to keep warm. By the remains of a campfire there's a discarded bottle of shower gel, and someone's toothbrush.\n\nI find pieces of paper with burned edges and Russian script on them. Our local producer Illya scans them and tells me they're from a rulebook for Russian soldiers, a tome of instructions on how to fight and survive. But they didn't here.\n\nLocal people pose for selfies among the abandoned Russian equipment\n\nThere's no silence in this place. Cars and lorries roll by, slowing down for a better look at the wreckage. Locals arrive in a constant stream, then clamber over the destroyed vehicles and pose for selfies.\n\nEven the single Russian forearm lying in the grass nearby, its flesh and skin charred black, doesn't deter them. A closer inspection reveals that one of the tanks still has a badly burnt body inside - barely recognisable as human. A small group gathers and one man films it on his mobile phone.\n\nIn time, this will all be cleared away, and the road will look like it always did. The bodies will be buried, the shattered windows will be mended, and the buildings will be repaired. Eventually the physical reminders of the cruelty that was inflicted will be gone from sight.\n\nBut for the people of Bucha, the memories will long remain.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLiverpool survived a late scare to remain on course for an historic quadruple as they reached the FA Cup final with victory over Manchester City at Wembley.\n\nIf last Sunday's Premier League meeting between the clubs was a classic, this semi-final was effectively decided in a one-sided first 45 minutes, in which a mixture of ruthless finishing and Manchester City mistakes saw Liverpool take a 3-0 lead.\n\nA reshuffled City side were unable to recover as Liverpool, having won the Carabao Cup, are now in the FA Cup final too - as well as the last four of the Champions League, while sitting second in the Premier League.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, who was unable to start Kevin de Bruyne and had Kyle Walker out injured, preferred Zack Steffen to Ederson in goal, a move that back-fired spectacularly.\n\nIbrahima Konate had already headed Liverpool in front after nine minutes when Steffen, trying to repeat the feats of Ederson in the league game between these two clubs, miscontrolled in his six-yard area, allowing Sadio Mane to pounce.\n\nMane beat Steffen with a crisp volley at the end of a superb Liverpool build-up to put Jurgen Klopp's side in complete command at the break but Jack Grealish pulled one back early in the second half and keeper Alisson twice saved crucially from Gabriel Jesus as this semi-final sprang to life.\n\nBernardo Silva pulled another back for City at the start of a tense period of stoppage time but Liverpool survived to face either Chelsea or Crystal Palace, who meet at Wembley on Sunday, in the final on 14 May.\n• None One of Liverpool's best ever performances - Klopp\n\nLiverpool on course for history\n\nLiverpool's win keeps them in contention to make history - as no team in English football has won the league title, the two main domestic cup competitions and become champions of Europe in the same season.\n\nThis was a win built on the foundation of a first half in which their intensity and ruthlessness proved too much for City, whose revamped side looked off the pace and unable to cope with the power of Klopp's side.\n\nKonate's power in the air saw him score his third header in his past three starts and Mane's alertness was never going to allow Steffen to get away with his hesitation as he attempted to keep possession in the six-yard area.\n\nEderson had the calmness and expertise to escape almost on his goal-line as Diogo Jota bore down on him during last Sunday's 2-2 draw at Etihad Stadium but Steffen showed no such expertise or composure, and paid a heavy price as he was caught.\n\nMane led the Liverpool charge while Thiago was imperious in midfield, his clever pass allowing Mane to volley past Steffen at his near post in the closing moments of the first half for what eventually proved to be the winner.\n\nKlopp was elated with his team's performance at the conclusion, although he will have concerns about how they allowed City back into the game through Grealish's goal, conceded two clear chances to Jesus then had to survive the anxiety of four minutes of stoppage time after Silva struck.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, Liverpool deserved to reach the final and will present a formidable barrier to either Chelsea or Crystal Palace once the winner of the second semi-final is decided.\n\nMan City too late to the party\n\nThis was not a good day for Manchester City.\n\nIt started with a section of their support chanting through the minute's silence to commemorate the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, with City issuing a formal apology to Liverpool after the match had started.\n\nIn the football context, Guardiola and City were left to regret injuries, a team selection that did not work out and a horribly laboured first 45 minutes that left them with too much to do, despite the brief hope offered by Silva's second goal.\n\nCity missed the invention of De Bruyne, only fit enough for the bench after suffering an injury in the stormy Champions Leaque quarter-final against Atletico Madrid, and the experience of defender Walker, who was ruled out completely.\n\nAnd Guardiola's loyalty to Steffen as his FA Cup keeper was not rewarded as the American made that crucial error that allowed Liverpool to build on their fast start.\n\nGuardiola will be disappointed but this is a quality side who will now refocus and set sights on the Premier League, where they lead Liverpool by one point, and the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid.\n\nHe will hope to have De Bruyne and Walker back fully fit soon because, despite this loss, there is still so much at stake for Guardiola and Manchester City as they remain in a position to achieve stellar things this season.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Roberto Firmino following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Aké with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 2, Liverpool 3. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The star will also play Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff, Newcastle, Birmingham and London on her tour\n\n\"This is the best welcome home ever,\" says Dua Lipa, a couple of songs into the first UK show of her world tour.\n\n\"We've been waiting so long, so long to put this show on. We've moved it and postponed it and finally we're here.\"\n\nMoments earlier, the 26-year-old had walked down the the catwalk of her vast stage, slowly raising her hands to the air as she soaked up the adulation of 21,000 fans who'd waited two years to see her at Manchester's AO Arena.\n\nThis wasn't just a pop concert - it was a reunion.\n\nThe show's 12 dancers were introduced in an 80s-inspired video clip before Dua took to the stage\n\nFor context, we need to rewind a little. The Future Nostalgia tour was first announced in December 2019, as reports of a new, potentially-deadly virus started to emerge from China.\n\nBy the time Dua's second album (also titled Future Nostalgia) arrived the following March, the world was in lockdown and the tour was on ice.\n\nThe singer fretted about releasing an album of upbeat dance-pop while people were suffering.\n\n\"I'm not sure if I'm even doing the right thing,\" she told fans in a tearful Instagram live, \"but I think the thing we need the most at the moment is music, and we need joy and we need to be trying to see the light.\"\n\nHer instincts were right.\n\nInstead of reminding us what we'd lost, the album cast forward to a time when we'd be pressed against each other again, singing these songs in sweat-soaked unison. Or, to use Dua's own words, she'd had a \"premonition that we fell into a rhythm where the music don't stop for life\" - and Future Nostalgia became the most-streamed album of 2020.\n\nEven so, Covid restrictions played havoc with her tour. It was postponed and rescheduled three times, forcing Dua to find ways to keep her music alive - a remix album, a spectacular live-stream and a constant trickle of new songs, including the chart-topping Elton John duet Cold Heart.\n\nAll the while, anticipation for the concerts grew, and the roar that greeted the star on Friday night was a curious mixture of excitement and relief.\n\nThe singer switched the yellow catsuit of her US tour dates for a pink one in the UK\n\nDua opened the show by playing Hot Streak's 1980s breakdance classic Body Work (\"music makes you lose control\"), signalling her intention to celebrate the abandon of the dancefloor.\n\nShe emerged on stage in an electric pink Balenciaga corset bodice to the bubbling synth groove of Physical, throwing shapes at a ballet barre, before romping down the catwalk and dipping into some 80s-inspired aerobics moves.\n\nThe energy levels barely dipped for the next 40 minutes, as the star blasted through her biggest songs - New Rules, Break My Heart, Love Again, Be The One - flanked by 12 inexhaustible dancers.\n\nThe staging was pleasantly restrained for a pop show, forcing the focus onto Dua's impressive vocals and allowing the band to extend her songs for maximum dancefloor impact.\n\nBreak My Heart was mashed up with Justice's Dance, while Hallucinate was embellished with elements of Daft Punk's Technologic. Even the female-empowerment ballad Boys Will Be Boys segued into a clattering carnival remix, incorporating a sample of Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl.\n\nIt's a trick Dua borrowed from Madonna - placing her music directly into the pop canon - paying tribute at the same time as asserting her dominance. In lesser hands, it would be an exercise in hubris but the platinum-plated hits of Future Nostalgia withstood the comparisons.\n\nDua Lipa won best album and best female artist at the 2021 Brits\n\nThe choreography was just as clever, drawing on decades of dance history. New Rules gained a Gene Kelly-inspired umbrella routine, while Cool saw Dua orbited by two roller-disco skaters.\n\nChoreographer Charm La'Donna, who worked on this year's Super Bowl half-time show, riffed on Bob Fosse's chair routines during Hallucinate, and brought New York Warehouse vibes to the dance hit Electricity. At one point, she even threw in a bit of the hokey-cokey.\n\nBut the masterstroke came towards the end, when Dua recreated the famously awkward, hip-wiggling move that launched a \"Dua can't dance\" meme in 2019. (\"I love her lack of energy,\" commented one observer. \"Go girl, give us nothing\").\n\nThis time, she gave it more oomph, proving not just that she's refined her stagecraft, but that she's capable of laughing at herself.\n\nThe show could have done with a bit more of that humour. The only other glimpse of the star's quirky side was a giant inflatable lobster that appeared during We're Good (a throwback to the music video that would take too long to explain here).\n\nBut the Future Nostalgia tour isn't built for jokes. It's about marking the moment Dua Lipa came into her own as a pop star.\n\nSince 2019, she has transformed into a commanding, confident performer, who can casually throw away a gigantic hit like New Rules two songs into her set, safe in the knowledge she has a dozen other tracks the audience know just as well.\n\nFor Friday's finale, she appeared in a Thierry Mugler catsuit, stitched with 120,000 crystals that turned her into a human glitterball, as she floated above the audience singing Levitating. Back on the ground, she whipped her hair furiously to Future Nostalgia's title track, before taking a victory lap around the disco-funk of Don't Start Now.\n\nNot for the first time, the fans drowned her out... almost as if they'd spent the lockdown learning the words and were finally getting the chance to live out their fantasy. Up on stage, Dua was experiencing the same thing.\n\nShe did a full 180, baby. And look at where she ended up.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The mayor of the port city of Odesa has told the BBC that one of the biggest threats in the Black Sea region has been taken away, after the Russian warship Moskva sank. The flagship carrier was destroyed after it suffered an explosion and fire.\n\nMayor Gennadiy Trukhanov told me: \"The Moskva cruiser had the most modern missile equipment. It was a big threat for us as it could have supported an attack by land if it happened here.”\n\nThe historic city of Odesa has Ukraine’s biggest seaport and has been living in fear of a full-scale invasion by Russia’s navy positioned offshore.\n\nA view of a barricaded street in Odesa on 18 March Image caption: A view of a barricaded street in Odesa on 18 March\n\nEven though the warship is now destroyed, Mr Trukhanov warned that the situation is still dangerous.\n\n“Unfortunately, the enemy has missiles - not only those that were on the Moskva cruiser but also on the land, in Crimea too. We can see it, as there were attacks in Ukraine last night. They were done from the territory of Crimea.”\n\nAnd there was another reminder of the threat from Russia. Rockets hit the coastal city of Mykolaiv to the east of Odesa. The army there told the BBC several civilians were killed or injured. There has been no comment from Moscow on the strike.", "The soldiers at the checkpoint scrutinised our passports, then waved us on. We were inside the grounds of the building that was being used as the headquarters of the resistance against Russia's invasion.\n\nBarbed wire, mines and machine gun mounts ring the building. Heavily armed soldiers were everywhere - the person I was about to meet is a marked man.\n\nThe Kremlin would love to see Volodymyr Zelensky dead and his government replaced with a puppet regime installed by Moscow. But over the 50 days of this war, Ukrainian resistance has stunned the world.\n\nWe passed our equipment through two sets of metal detectors and were ushered inside. Then it was down a series of long corridors, with sandbags piled up every few yards. A little hole was left in the pile near the top, through which the muzzle of an assault rifle might fit.\n\nAn aide to the President led us to a door with a brass plate on it: the words read The Situation Room, in Ukrainian. Inside, the room looks modern, with giant plasma screens covering the walls and trendy office chairs on wheels sporting ergonomic backrests.\n\nBut there was a problem. Interviewing people sitting on chairs with wheels can be tricky. Lost in their responses to questions, they tend to shift from side to side on the wheels.\n\nSo we asked the president's aide for chairs with no wheels. \"Umm,\" he says, \"I'll have a look.\"\n\nHe left the Situation Room and returned with two rather old-fashioned-looking chairs, all brown wood with patterned seats. \"That'll do the trick,\" I say. But I could see the president's chief of staff's lip curl.\n\n\"No, that won't do,\" he said. \"The chair looks too old-fashioned in this room of modern computers and plasma screens. We're trying to project a modern image here.\" And with that, two more modern-looking chairs were produced - with no wheels.\n\nThe discussion over the chairs highlighted so much for me about modern Ukraine. Since the end of the Cold War, a vibrant, young population has looked West for its influences. Cheap Ryanair flights to Western Europe opened up possibilities. This administration wanted us to know that they were informal, different, ready to talk.\n\nI then heard several footsteps coming down the hall. Two soldiers entered the room and behind them was the president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Zelensky says European countries still buying Russian oil are dealing in blood money\n\nAs we greet, an aide handed him a phone. On it was a text message, from France. \"Is it Emmanuel?\" he asked the aide? \"Yes,\" came the reply.\n\n\"We have a connection and he calls me all the time,\" the president tells me. \"Do you mind if I give him a quick call?\"\n\n\"Absolutely,\" I say, surprised that he asked me whether or not he should call the president of France back straightaway or try him later.\n\nBut that's part of the measure of Volodymyr Zelensky, an affability and charm that comes so naturally.\n\nHowever, there were times over the next hour when I could tell he was angry and upset: when he recalled visiting the town of Bucha, about 25km (16 miles) north-west of central Kyiv, that Russian forces had occupied for several weeks. After they pulled out, a mass grave was discovered near a church and there were bodies lying in the street.\n\nI asked him if he believed Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. His response was that anyone connected with the Russian military, and their civilian masters, were war criminals.\n\n\"Given everything that's happened, would you be able to sit around a negotiating table with with these people and talk peace?\" I asked.\n\n\"The window of opportunity is receding,\" he replied, pointing to the atrocities in Bucha and Borodyanka as the main driver of that thought.\n\nMr Zelensky is, of course, a former comedian and actor. But during the hour I was with him, I saw a man mentally exhausted and in deep pain about the treatment of his people. A man who has been compared to Churchill and who many will remember for his leadership through the dark days of war.", "A Jack Russell has been hard at work helping to remove explosive devices left behind by Russian troops.\n\nPatron is currently working in the Chernihiv region, north of Kyiv, and has so far helped to remove hundreds of devices.", "Manchester City will compete for a fourth Women's FA Cup title after booking their place in Wembley's final with victory over West Ham.\n\nCity, who last won the competition in 2020, were put under early pressure from the hosts at Victoria Road but took a 2-0 lead through Ellen White and Chloe Kelly.\n\nKelly's goal - her first since returning from a serious knee injury - threatened to help City pull clear but Lisa Evans gave West Ham a lifeline minutes before half-time with a composed finish.\n\nWest Ham remained competitive but Lauren Hemp confirmed victory for City with two goals in the second half - spinning away from several players before firing it into the bottom corner for her first, then drilling in a second in stoppage time.\n\nIt was an entertaining semi-final in front of a raucous crowd in Dagenham, with plenty of chances for both teams.\n\nCity could have had several more with White having two headed goals ruled out - the first as Lucy Bronze failed to keep the ball in play, before White was offside when she was picked out by Keira Walsh.\n\nThe hosts came close through Tameka Yallop and Katerina Svitkova after the break but City hit the crossbar when Hemp teed up substitute Filippa Angeldahl.\n\nCity will face the winner of Sunday's match between the Women's Super League's top two Arsenal and Chelsea - live on BBC Two from 12:15 BST - in the final at Wembley on 15 May.\n\nIt was an emotional occasion for Kelly, who was starting her first game for City since returning from an anterior cruciate ligament knee injury.\n\nHer goal was gifted to her by West Ham defender Gilly Flaherty but it did not take anything away from what it meant to Kelly, who immediately jumped into the air, clenching her fists before being hugged by her team-mates.\n\nShe was smiling as she jogged back to the halfway line and exchanged words with manager Gareth Taylor. At half-time, she gestured to family in the stands before heading down the tunnel.\n\nThe stage speaks for itself - an FA Cup semi-final with a place at Wembley up for grabs. But the timing is also notable given it is only three months until England's opening game at the Euros.\n\nIf Kelly keeps scoring, playing regularly for City and can get near the level of form she showed before her injury, Lionesses' manager Sarina Wiegman could become interested.\n\n'The best is yet to come from us' - reaction\n\nManchester City manager Gareth Taylor, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I feel really proud of this team. We've had a lack of preparation time off the back of the international break.\n\n\"Compared to our performance previously I thought some of our play was really good. We had some scary moments at times but we deserve our place in the final. It's great to look forward to a Wembley final.\"\n\nManchester City forward Chloe Kelly, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It's brilliant to be back out there with the girls. To get the goal was even better. The team were brilliant today and throughout my injury they've been brilliant. It's great to repay the faith from the manager.\n\n\"The time I spent away was a difficult period. It's so lonely in the gym, but to get a goal within the first few minutes was brilliant for me. I'm loving every minute of it. The best is yet to come from us. Now we have an FA Cup final at Wembley where we can show our talent.\"\n\nWest Ham boss Olli Harder, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was just little details here and there. Congrats to Manchester City on their win. This doesn't define our season. It's been a really positive season for West Ham.\n\n\"We have three league games to go. We have three chances to be awesome. Let's see how high we can finish up the league. The gap between the top teams is closing. I don't think the scoreline reflected the game.\"\n\nFormer England defender Laura Bassett on BBC One: \"West Ham will be very disappointed with the goals they conceded. There's such talent and potential. It will hurt. They came so close to a final.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Grace Fisk (West Ham United Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Goal! West Ham United Women 1, Manchester City Women 4. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Georgia Stanway.\n• None Attempt saved. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Greenwood (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Filippa Angeldahl (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Katerina Svitková (West Ham United Women) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the top centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived at the Invictus Games in the Netherlands, after stopping off to visit the Queen on their way.\n\nIt is the first time Prince Harry and Meghan have appeared in Europe in public together since stepping back as senior royals in 2020.\n\nThe pair visited Windsor Castle to see the monarch on their way to The Hague, from the US where they now live.\n\nPrince Harry founded the games to help injured military veterans.\n\nThis year's games start on Saturday and run until 22 April.\n\nThe couple, who have not been on this side of the Atlantic together since 2020, also saw Prince Charles while they were at Windsor Castle, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nOn their arrival at the games the couple, both wearing suits, walked towards a reception for friends and family of participants in warm sunshine at the Zuiderpark, where the games are being held.\n\nAt one point Meghan waved towards the press pen and the pair walked into the reception hand-in-hand.\n\nA film crew is joining the couple at the games as part of filming for a Netflix series called Heart Of Invictus.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan made their way to a reception for friends and family ahead of the opening of the Invictus Games\n\nThe couple spoke with dignitaries on the yellow carpet at the Invictus Games\n\nThe couple also greeted members of the Ukraine team who are participating at the games.\n\nThe Ukrainian team were cheered and applauded at the event and team manager Oksana Horbach said they had been given permission to travel to the Netherlands for the games by President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nMs Horbach, who works in the Ukraine Armed Forces supply chain in Kyiv, told the PA news agency she had spoken to the duchess about the importance of having a voice and \"she totally understood that\".\n\n\"Be heard, be vocal, have a voice, just tell your own truth, your experience. It's very important to her.\"\n\nShe added: \"And Prince Harry says that he totally supports Ukraine and he says that during the next day we will feel how much support there is to give by Invictus Games community and that he totally supports Ukrainian people in this fight.\"\n\nAs the Kaiser Chiefs belted out their hits, Meghan and Harry strolled down a wooden walkway, Meghan effortlessly navigating the cracks in her white stilettos, chatting to the crew.\n\nThere was a sombre moment, accompanied by universal applause, as Team Ukraine was invited into the \"Home Nations\" marquee for audience with the Sussexes.\n\nFour members of the Invictus community in Ukraine have died in combat or rocket attacks since the start of the Russian invasion.\n\nThe atmosphere inside the Invictus-commandeered public park in a southern suburb of The Hague is cosy and convivial, \"gezellig\" as the Dutch would say.\n\nPolice officers on bicycles wearing bulletproof vests patrol the periphery, fences have been erected around the canals to make sure visitors are protected from any ill-will that might exist beyond the daisy-clad grounds.\n\nThe Sussexes visit to see the Queen came after it was announced she was not expected to attend this year's Easter morning church service, having already pulled out of the Maundy Service on Thursday - for the first time since 1970.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch has mobility problems and has not appeared at several events recently, including the annual Commonwealth Service.\n\nLast month Prince Harry was absent from a memorial service for his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, in London but at the time a spokesperson said he hoped to visit his grandmother soon.\n\nThe visit to Europe comes as Prince Harry is bringing a court challenge against the UK government's decision to refuse police security during his visits from the US.\n\nHis lawyers previously said the UK would \"always be his home\" and it \"goes without saying that he does want to come back to see family and friends\".", "The UK has recorded the hottest day of the year so far on Good Friday as the sun came out at the start of the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThe temperature hit 23.4C (74.1F) in London's St James's Park, the Met Office said, beating the previous year high of 20.8C in March.\n\nOther areas also saw temperatures in the high teens, including in parts of northern England and Scotland.\n\nBut western parts of the UK were cooler due to cloud and rain.\n\nAt the start of the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, highs of 21-22C are expected in the south-east of England and 15-20C in many other areas, according to BBC Weather.\n\nHowever, it is some way off the 29.4C record for the month, set on 16 April 1949 at Camden Square in London. The UK's temperature record for Good Friday was 26.9C in 2011 - also in St James's Park.\n\nA man enjoys the sunshine from his beach hut on Bournemouth beach\n\nVisitors to Wanstead Park in north east London walk amongst this year's bluebells\n\nThe scene on Bournemouth beach as temperatures in the south-east of England are predicted to reach 22C\n\nIt comes as drivers were warned to expect delays on what was predicted to be the busiest day of the weekend for road travel.\n\nAn estimated 4.62 million car journeys were expected to be made across the UK on Good Friday, the RAC said.\n\nBluebells on the Goodwood Estate in Sussex flourishing in the balmy April temperatures\n\nA pair of pygmy goats sit on the roof of their house to take in the early morning rays\n\nThe sun burns through the early morning mist and rises on what is set to be a warm Easter weekend\n\nEarlier, pilgrims carried crosses to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in Northumberland during their annual Christian Easter pilgrimage\n\nApril average maximum temperatures range from 10C in northern Scotland to 13C in south-east England.\n\nLast April saw highs of 18-19C and, in 2020, 26C was recorded on 10 April in Treknow, Cornwall.\n\nThe warm weather is expected to last throughout the weekend in central and eastern parts of the UK before turning cooler on Monday, with highs of 10-14C for many, but still reaching 15-18C in the South and East, said BBC Weather's George Goodfellow.\n\nPretty pastel colours paint the dawn sky on a misty morning in the countryside\n\nA Eurasian blue tit basks in sun as it feeds on peanuts in the countryside", "Wet Leg is the brainchild of Rhian Teasdale (left) and Hester Chambers\n\nThree independent artists - Wet Leg, Father John Misty and Jack White - have taken the top positions in the UK albums chart for the first time in more than 11 years.\n\nWet Leg, the much-hyped Isle of Wight indie duo, went in at number one on Friday with their eponymous debut.\n\nThey managed to outsell the rest of the top five combined in the process.\n\nRhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers' guitar band are the fourth non-major label act to top the chart this year.\n\n\"We just want to say thanks to all of our fans that have bought the record, and that means we can be number one,\" the band said in a statement to the Official Charts Company on Friday.\n\nFather John Misty's album, Chloe and the Next 21st Century - released by Bella Union - went in at number two this week, while Jack White's Fear Of The Dawn, put out on his own Third Man imprint, entered at number three.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOfficial Charts Company boss Martin Talbot said the \"indie treble\" underlined \"the independent sector's power in uncovering and developing talent\".\n\nMusic Week's chart analyst Alan Jones noted it was only the third time this century that indie records - albums by non major-labels or their subsidiaries - had occupied all of the top three places in the chart.\n\n\"The first time, in 2011, saw two albums from Adele (21 and 19) and one from The Strokes (Angles) shutting out the majors, and the second instance happened just six weeks later,\" he told the charts company.\n\nWet Leg's album, released on Domino Records, continues a fine run of form for the smaller labels of late.\n\nCentral Cee's best-selling LP 23, Stereophonics' Oochya! and Don Broco's Amazing Things have previously reached the summit.\n\nEarlier this week, the BPI - the recorded music trade body - announced a fourth consecutive year of growth for indie label market share.\n\nFrontwoman Teasdale has said she started the band as a joke\n\nAlong with the likes of PinkPantheress and Mimi Webb, Wet leg have been one of the most talked-about acts of the year, impressing judges on the BBC Sound of 2022 panel.\n\n\"We just started it as a joke,\" Teasdale told the BBC's Ian Youngs in January. \"And it's doing really well, and there's all this buzz and hype, which feels a bit strange.\"\n\nTheir first single, Chaise Longue, hit the sweet spot between being deeply cool and satisfyingly silly.\n\nInspired by Chambers' grandfather's furniture, it features a string of innuendos including a classic quote from 2004 film Mean Girls (\"Is your muffin buttered? Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?\").\n\nThat was followed up by Wet Dream, an equally enjoyable message to an ex-boyfriend, and their ear-wormy recent single, Angelica.", "Russians are also burying their dead as the conflict goes on\n\nIn Stavropol cemetery, there is a new line of graves.\n\nThe fresh mounds of earth are covered in a sea of flowers. Decorating the graves, fluttering in the breeze, are military banners with emblems of elite Russian units.\n\nFixed to wooden crosses are the portraits of soldiers, their names and the dates they died.\n\nThe servicemen buried here lost their lives after 24 February: the start of President Putin's \"special military operation\" in Ukraine.\n\nAt the cemetery I meet Dmitry. He lays red carnations at the grave of his former paratrooper comrade, an officer called Sergei Tysyachny.\n\n\"He was like a second father to me and the lads,\" Dmitry tells me. \"We love him, we respect him and we mourn for him.\"\n\nSuch praise for a Russian soldier jars with events on the ground in Ukraine. The Kremlin may insist that its military offensive there is necessary and justified. But the UN Secretary-General calls it \"a full-fledged invasion… in violation of the UN charter\".\n\nThere is also international outrage at reports of apparent Russian military atrocities and alleged war crimes.\n\n\"I don't believe these fakes,\" Dmitry says about war crime allegations levelled against some Russian soldiers. \"I will never believe them.\n\n\"I know how my commander, Sergei, taught us to act. I trust my comrades and my army. They would never do things like this.\"\n\nDmitry, left, says his commander Sergei, right, was like a father\n\n\"But investigations are under way,\" I continue. \"What if you were shown cast-iron evidence that crimes happened? Would you believe it then?\"\n\n\"I'm sure there will be no evidence,\" he replies. \"I'm certain.\"\n\nThis certainty that Russia is right (and the West wrong) is rooted in years of similar messaging here by the state media.\n\nThe Kremlin uses its control of television to convince Russians they are living in a besieged fortress, surrounded by enemies - Nato, America, Britain, the EU, to name a few - who are plotting from morning till night to sow chaos in their country.\n\nPresident Putin's media monopoly has also helped him to persuade many here that Russians in Ukraine are battling \"Nazis\", \"neo-Nazis\", \"ultra-nationalists\" and \"liberating Ukraine from fascism\" - creating a parallel reality around events there.\n\nSince all independent Russian news sources have either been blocked or shut down, accessing alternative views in Russia has become increasingly difficult.\n\nSergei Tysyachny's widow, Lada, agrees to meet me in the centre of Stavropol.\n\n\"I didn't want to believe it. I still can't completely believe it,\" Lada says of the moment she was told her husband had been killed.\n\nShe, too, refuses to believe that Russian soldiers have committed atrocities.\n\n\"They'll accuse Russia of anything,\" Lada says\n\n\"I know that the whole world is against us now,\" Lada says. \"They'll accuse Russia of anything.\"\n\nAnd it turns out that Russia will accuse the West - and Western journalists - of anything.\n\nAt the end of the day in Stavropol, we find ourselves making the news, not just covering it.\n\nA popular local website has published an article about the BBC's visit, along with a photograph of my cameraman and me interviewing Lada on a park bench.\n\nHere's an extract: \"It's easy to guess how the recently widowed resident of Stavropol must have felt talking to journalists from a country that is an accessory to the death of her husband.\"\n\nThis attempt to link Britain to the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine shows how Western journalists in Russia are viewed, increasingly, as the enemy.\n\nAnd how the authorities here are searching for scapegoats for the horrors unfolding in Ukraine.", "Russia's foreign ministry says it has imposed sanctions on US President Joe Biden and 12 other US officials.\n\nThe list includes Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, press secretary Jen Psaki and other members of the administration.\n\nBut it also includes two surprises: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mr Biden's son Hunter.\n\nThe measures block their entry into Russia and freeze any assets held in the country.\n\nHowever, the ministry has said the sanctions will not impede necessary high-level contacts for the affected individuals.\n\nOther names on the list are:\n\nThe ministry has said it is applying sanctions \"on the basis of reciprocity\".\n\nRussia is now the most sanctioned country in the world.\n\nWestern countries have already sanctioned top Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov.\n\nOn Tuesday, the US announced sanctions on 11 Russian defence leaders and signalled that it could levy sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Moscow-allied Belarus.\n\nEarlier, the UK slapped sanctions on another 370 Russian individuals, including former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev.\n\nPresident Biden is due to travel to Europe next week to attend an emergency Nato summit in Brussels where he will assert Washington's \"iron-clad\" backing to its allies, the White House said on Tuesday.\n\nHillary Clinton can abandon dreams she may have had of buying a vacation dacha in Sochi.\n\nAny Joe Biden post-presidency plans for starting a business in Moscow will have to be shelved.\n\nJokes aside, the Russian \"stop\" order placed on the US President, senior White House staff and - interestingly - a former secretary of state who has not held public office in nine years is a symbolic but not particularly consequential reprisal for the staggering sanctions the US and allies have imposed on Russia. It's not like any of the listed Americans had significant financial interests in Russia.\n\nThe move is a reflection, however, of the growing chasm between the US and Russia in the wake of the latter's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nProhibiting the top American diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, from even setting foot on Russian soil suggests relations between the two nations are at a post-Cold War nadir.\n\nThat has very real consequences outside of the Ukrainian conflict, as the US and Russia had hoped to co-operate on Iranian nuclear negotiations, counterterrorism, global warming and other pressing international issues. Chances of that happening now are increasingly dim.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nGreat Britain were unable to secure their place in the Billie Jean King Cup finals as Harriet Dart and Katie Swan lost the decisive doubles match against the Czech Republic.\n\nWith the best-of-five tie locked at 2-2, Czech pair Marketa Vondrousova and Karolina Muchova sealed victory with a 6-1 7-5 win on the Prague clay.\n\nEarlier, Dart beat Linda Fruhvirtova 6-0 5-7 6-2 to keep the tie alive.\n\nThat came after British number one Emma Raducanu lost 6-1 6-1 to Vondrousova.\n\nUS Open champion Raducanu was unable to cope with 2019 French Open runner-up Vondrousova's excellent clay-court game and the 19-year-old Briton was also hampered by a blister on her foot.\n\nWith Raducanu sitting out the crucial doubles, Dart played alongside British number six Swan.\n\nThe pair fought back from 4-1 down to 4-4 in the second set, but were unable to force a decider as Muchova and Vondrousova - who dropped just nine games on the way to winning all three of her matches in the tie - took control once again.\n\nThe Czech pair won the deciding doubles to clinch a 3-2 victory for their nation and ensure they qualify for November's 12-team finals.\n\nBritain, who had a new-look team in the absence of recently-retired Johanna Konta and the unavailable Heather Watson, will face a play-off tie during the same week.\n\nHowever, Britain are among the countries bidding to stage the finals and could also still qualify as the host nation.\n\nCaptain Anne Keothavong's team were the huge underdogs going into the tie, with the hosts having a depth of talent and great pedigree in this event.\n\nEven without big-name trio Barbora Krejcikova, Karolina Pliskova and Petra Kvitova, the Czechs were in a strong position after Raducanu lost to Vondrousova in Saturday's first singles rubber.\n\nRaducanu, playing in only her second senior clay-court match after beating Tereza Martincova on Friday, was aiming to put Britain into the lead for the first time and give the momentum to her young side.\n\nBut the world number 12 came up against a wily opponent in Vondrousova, who is a natural on the surface and has proved that with her results.\n\nRaducanu was unable to cope with her opponent's variety and court-craft in a one-sided first set, which lasted just 26 minutes.\n\nThe Briton needed to go off court before the start of the second set for treatment on a blister on her right foot and struggled to move properly when the match resumed.\n\nVondrousova, ranked 32nd in the world, moved 2-0 ahead but then seemed unsettled by Raducanu's lack of movement and lost concentration.\n\nRaducanu was gifted a break back, only for the Czech to refocus and win the next four games to seal victory in 62 minutes.\n\nExperienced Czech captain Petr Pala made a shock move by picking 16-year-old Fruhvirtova to play against Dart instead of world number 50 Martincova.\n\nDart suffered a heavy defeat by Vondrousova on Friday but showed no signs of any scars as she made a confident start against Fruhvirtova.\n\nThe 25-year-old Londoner, who broke into the world's top 100 recently after reaching the fourth round at Indian Wells, asserted her authority and eased to the opening set in 29 minutes.\n\nWhen she moved into a 3-0 and 40-0 lead in the second set, the manner of victory looked as though it would be routine.\n\nEven though Fruhvirtova managed to hold serve in that game, Dart still had the chance to serve out herself at 5-2 but was unable to take her first match point before going on to be broken for 5-3.\n\nAnother match point came Dart's way in the ninth game, only for Fruhvirtova to show further resistance.\n\nThe Czech held and then won the next three games - with Dart showing her frustration by throwing her racquet - to force a deciding set.\n\nAt the start of the third, Dart again showed her ability to reset and moved 5-0 in front before eventually serving out victory at the fourth attempt in the match.\n\n\"I definitely think I gave my team a little bit of a heart attack,\" said Dart.\n\n\"It's natural that I was a bit nervous to try and close it out. I was happy that I was able to reset after the second set. I'm really proud of myself to get through.\"\n\nEmma Raducanu, Harriet Dart and Katie Swan showed plenty of fight over the two days to make the scoreline closer than expected, but even with four star players missing, the Czechs just had too many talented options.\n\nGreat Britain will next be in action in November, either in a play-off tie or as hosts of the finals. The Lawn Tennis Association expects a decision on the venue for the event before the end of May.\n\nMinds are now turning to the French Open, with Raducanu still hopeful of being able to play in the clay-court tournament in Stuttgart next week even though her blisters need regular bathing in surgical spirit.\n\nBlisters on her hands and feet, as well as a hip injury and a stiff back, have all held the 19-year-old back this season.\n\nThe optimum training schedule is still under construction, and like any other athlete in the early stage of a career, Raducanu's body is not yet sufficiently tuned to the rigours of weekly competition.\n\nPoland also booked their place in the finals for the first time when world number one Iga Swiatek won 6-0 6-0 against Romania's Andreea Prisacariu.\n\nThe 20-year-old, who rose to the top of the rankings after Ashleigh Barty's retirement, secured a 3-0 win for the Poles with her 19th consecutive match victory.\n\nKazakhstan will also make their finals debut after a surprising victory over Germany, while Italy and Spain qualified after taking unassailable 3-0 leads in their ties against France and the Netherlands.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Darkly comic, poignant and devastating monologues about life in poverty\n• None The greatest players never to have lifted the Premier League trophy", "Olympian Etienne Stott joined the protest on top of a Shell oil tanker\n\nSix people have been arrested after climate change activists, including two Olympians, scaled an oil tanker.\n\nExtinction Rebellion protesters surrounded the Shell tanker in Bayswater Road in London in protest at the use of fossil fuels.\n\nGold medal-winning canoeist Etienne Stott and sailor Laura Baldwin had glued themselves to the top of the tanker, Extinction Rebellion said.\n\nThe Met said six arrests for vehicle interference had been made.\n\nIt is not known if the two Olympians were among those arrested.\n\nMr Stott said he wanted to \"disrupt the toxic fossil fuel industry\".\n\nA large banner was unfurled after two people climbed Marble Arch\n\nThe Met said protesters had been walking through central London and \"stopped at various locations along their unspecified route, causing disruption\".\n\nShortly before 18:00 BST, a man and a woman climbed up two pillars on Marble Arch to hoist a green banner with \"End fossil fuels now\" on it.\n\nA group of eight activists later locked themselves on to a car in the road, while two glued themselves to the roof.\n\nOfficers cleared the road and several people were detained.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe group said the \"highly disruptive\" action would end a run of 10 days of protests.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, the Met said: \"We attended Bayswater Road at approximately 08:50 BST to deal with a number of protesters who had climbed on an oil tanker.\n\n\"We have made six arrests for vehicle interference. The road is now open.\"\n\nOn Friday protesters blocked four of London's busiest bridges and blocked entrances to major insurance marketplace Lloyd's of London earlier this week.", "One clip shows a policeman in a hazmat suit removing a protester from the scene\n\nVideo has emerged of clashes between police and people being forced out of their homes in Shanghai, as the city enters a third week of Covid lockdown.\n\nSome residential compounds are being turned into quarantine centres.\n\nMillions are confined to their homes as Shanghai battles a fresh outbreak of the virus. Anyone who tests positive is placed in quarantine.\n\nBut with more than 20,000 new cases a day, authorities are struggling to find enough space.\n\nThe city in recent weeks has converted exhibition halls and schools into quarantine centres, and set up makeshift hospitals.\n\nThe low numbers of serious cases in Shanghai have led some to ask whether a lockdown is necessary, correspondents say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn recent weeks many residents have taken to social media to complain about the restrictions and the lack of food supplies.\n\nPeople have to order in food and water and wait for government drop-offs of vegetables, meat and eggs, and analysts say many are running low on supplies.\n\nThe lockdown extension has overwhelmed delivery services, grocery shop websites and even the distribution of government supplies.\n\nThree weeks into lockdown, some here in Shanghai are angry.\n\nHead to toe in protective suits in an eastern district of the city, officers were forcing people out of their rented apartments so they could turn them into temporary quarantine facilities, all in the name of a war against a resurgent Covid.\n\nBut for some it was just too much, their homes sequestered, their desperation easy for all to hear.\n\nA few miles away, there was an organised protest, a bold stand as the lockdown takes hold in a country where you can be arrested for picking quarrels.\n\nThey're angry about a local school being turned into another quarantine facility. Police with riot shields forced them off the streets in the end.\n\nThis was on a small scale but it's a sign of anger and frustration as this lockdown goes on.\n\nMeanwhile the Chinese government has sent teams to the city to help more than 660 companies in key sectors of the economy such as semiconductor and car manufacturing to resume production, reports state media.\n\nThe Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday they would ensure the supply of medical goods and the smooth flow of supply chains.\n\nThe move follows reports that parts of China's manufacturing sector might soon have to close, at least temporarily, because companies cannot get essential components from Shanghai.\n\nHe Xiaopeng, president of electrical vehicle manufacturer XPeng, said that if work did not start again in Shanghai during May, potentially all car factories across the country might have to stop operating.\n\nChina is one of the last remaining nations still committed to eradicating Covid, in contrast to most of the world which is trying to live with the virus.\n\nBut this zero-Covid policy has come under strain in recent weeks with the spread of the Omicron variant.", "Activists climbed on to the top of oil tankers at a fuel terminal in Grays, Essex\n\nPolice have arrested 40 more people after climate change protests at three oil terminals.\n\nEssex Police said 28 were detained at the Navigator depot in Thurrock and the Grays oil terminal.\n\nWarwickshire Police confirmed another 12 arrests at the Kingsbury depot near Tamworth.\n\nPeople in orange hi-vis jackets were seen on top of oil tankers, holding \"Just Stop Oil\" signs, a group affiliated with Extinction Rebellion.\n\nThey have been demanding that the government stop new oil and gas projects.\n\nProtesters from Just Stop Oil have been demonstrating in Kingsbury since April (archive image)\n\nDemonstrators have been trying to obstruct the entrance at the site near Tamworth since 1 April and up to 29 were arrested after a protest there last weekend.\n\nWarwickshire Police said: \"Officers remain at Kingsbury Oil Terminal today and are currently dealing with protest activity after a number of protesters arrived overnight.\n\n\"While we will always recognise and respect the public's right to peaceful protest we will take action against anyone who breaks the law or causes significant impact on the community.\"\n\nEssex Police confirmed the total number of arrests to date stood at 454 and that officers remained in Thurrock where a small number of protestors remained.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Glen Pavelin said: \"Our dedicated officers will continue to work across the weekend to keep Essex moving, keep people safe and minimise disruption to the public.\n\n\"As demonstrated this week, if you come to Essex and engage in disruptive and dangerous protest, we will arrest you.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Further 29 arrests at oil depot during protests\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A £120m trial will see mostly single men arriving in the UK via boat crossings sent to Rwanda, under new plans\n\nA plan to tackle the number of asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats will see some given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, the government has announced.\n\nThe UK is not the first to explore sending individuals overseas. What has been the impact of other countries' policies?\n\nAustralia first began using offshore detention centres in 2001.\n\nAnd in 2013, it hardened its immigration law to deny resettlement visas to asylum seekers arriving by boat.\n\nThousands of asylum seekers have been transferred out of Australia during this time. Its Border Force has said more than 4,000 were relocated between 2012 and 2019.\n\nSome 112 refugees and asylum seekers currently remain on the nation island of Nauru, but a similar scheme on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea - where 120 people were detained - ended last year.\n\nThis picture taken in 2014 shows asylum seekers at Australia's Manus Island detention centre\n\nRights groups and the UN have frequently criticised Australia's centres for substandard conditions.\n\nIn total, 13 people sent to Nauru and Papua New Guinea have died from violence, medical inattention or suicide.\n\nIranian Kurd refugee and author Behrouz Boochani told the BBC in 2019 that detention on Manus Island was like a prison, and said the system felt like it was designed to \"humiliate us and destroy us\".\n\nHe said people were taken \"from the water\" and sent to Manus Island without being asked questions, and experienced a \"violation of human rights\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iranian Kurd refugee Behrouz Boochani, speaking in 2019, was sent to Manus Island\n\nAustralia argues its offshoring policy is justified because it prevents deaths at sea. By its own projections it will spend $811.8m (£460m) on offshore processing in 2021-22.\n\nIn March, a three-year deal was announced for up to 450 refugees from Australia's regional processing centres to be resettled in New Zealand.\n\nFaced with a growing influx of asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, Israel took action to resolve the problem by striking deals with third country \"safe havens\" to take an undisclosed number of people.\n\nThe two countries were not officially identified but media reports said they were Uganda and Rwanda.\n\nWhen the scheme began in 2015, those rejected for asylum and other illegal immigrants were given the choice of returning to their country of origin, or accepting a payment of $3,500 and a plane ticket to one of the third countries, or being put in jail if they stayed in Israel.\n\nAfrican migrants protest against the treatment of asylum seekers by Israel\n\nBy 2018, Israel said some 20,000 of about 65,000 who had arrived in the country illegally had left under one scheme or another.\n\nHowever, human rights activists criticised the \"voluntary deportation\" programme as giving false promises to those who chose to accept it, putting them at risk in the countries that took them where there was no guarantee of their legal status nor protection against further deportation.\n\nA later plan to forcibly deport failed asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants to third countries - reportedly Uganda and Rwanda again - was suspended by Israel's Supreme Court.\n\nThe Danish government has not been shy about its goal of \"zero\" refugees in Denmark.\n\nLast June, legislation was passed that would allow it to move asylum seekers to third countries outside the EU while their cases were processed.\n\nThe controversial measure was heavily criticised by the European Commission and human rights groups, while questions were raised about its legality.\n\nA surprise visit to Rwanda last year by Immigration Minister Matthias Tesfaye prompted widespread speculation Denmark intended to open a facility there.\n\nA memorandum of understanding was signed, but there was nothing concrete about a refugee-processing centre.\n\nJust last night, however, the minister met other political parties to spell out his plans.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Tesfaye told the BBC: \"We are in dialogue with Rwanda, and we have a good cooperation based on a broad partnership, but we do not have an agreement on transfer of asylum seekers.\n\n\"I share the view of the Rwandan and British governments that the current asylum system is unsustainable.\"\n\nDemonstrators in Copenhagen march with a banner reading 'Syria is not safe' following the revoking of hundreds of Syrians' resident permits\n\nDenmark was the first country to join the UN Refugee Convention in 1951. But recently, governments on the left and right have repeatedly tightened immigration laws.\n\nLast year it began controversially revoking the residence permits of hundreds of Syrians from the Damascus area, arguing it was now safe for them to return.\n\nHowever, Denmark's approach to Ukrainians is markedly different. It plans to host up to 100,000 people and grant work permits.", "A dozen sanctioned Russians are linked to an estimated £800m worth of property in the UK, analysis by the BBC reveals.\n\nMulti-million pound country manors in the south of England and luxury flats in London's most expensive areas are among the homes which have been snapped up by figures linked to Vladimir Putin.\n\nSome of the individuals deny ownership of the mansions, which may mean they are beyond the reach of the sanctions.\n\nTo get to the bottom of who owns what, we carried out a detailed trawl of leaked offshore documents, the Land Registry and court papers - as well as previous reporting.\n\nOur findings highlight the UK's status as a place for super-rich Russians to set up home, and the difficulties of identifying the true owners of properties bought by offshore firms in tax havens.\n\nIn response to the BBC's findings, anti-corruption group, Transparency International highlighted how hard it is to track who owns what in the UK.\n\n\"Because of the system of secrecy here in the UK and in relation to the Overseas Dependencies it's really easy for people to hide their assets and their funds in the UK and not even the police necessarily have sight of where those assets are,\" Rachel Davies, head of advocacy at the organisation, told the BBC.\n\nThe UK, US and European Union have together sanctioned more than 1,000 Russian individuals and businesses, including wealthy business leaders - so-called oligarchs - who are considered close to the Kremlin.\n\nMost of those listed below were sanctioned after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, although some were already on the government's sanctions list.\n\nIn early March, the British government imposed sanctions on the 55-year-old billionaire. The previous week Mr Abramovich had put Chelsea FC up for sale.\n\nHe has a vast property portfolio in the UK with more than 50 luxury residences, most on Fulham Road in west London. Through his UK company Fordstam Limited, he owns dozens of apartments in Chelsea Village, plus the hotel and residential complex around Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium, according to the Land Registry.\n\nHis most expensive London property is a 15-bedroom house on a street that is nicknamed Billionaires Row. With its vast stucco-faced Italianate mansions, it is home to royalty and ambassadors - as well as oligarchs.\n\nMr Abramovich bought the property in west London using an offshore company in 2011, reportedly paying £90m. In 2016 he was granted planning permission for a £28m refurbishment, including a subterranean pool, although this did not go ahead.\n\nIn planning documents submitted to the council, its existing pool was described as a \"miserable space\" that was \"too small to afford comfortable or meaningful swimming\".\n\nIn 2017, Mr Abramovich used Fordstam Limited to buy an apartment just off the King's Road for £8.7m. In 2019, he paid £22.3m for a three-storey penthouse apartment on the former Lots Road power station site in Chelsea.\n\nMr Abramovich did not answer the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nThe UK government imposed a full asset freeze and travel ban on Alisher Usmanov on 3 March, citing the Russian billionaire's \"close links to the Kremlin\". This followed a similar move by the EU.\n\nThe Uzbekistan-born businessman and former Arsenal shareholder has been a close associate of Everton's majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, who resigned as chairman of Mr Usmanov's USM Holdings in early March following the imposition of sanctions on the oligarch. Everton have suspended all dealings with Mr Usmanov's businesses, including USM's sponsorship of their training ground.\n\nHis wealth has been estimated at $18.4bn (£14bn), including \"Beechwood House in Highgate [north London]… and the 16th Century Sutton Place estate in Surrey\", the UK government said.\n\nBut a spokesman for Mr Usmanov said most of the billionaire's UK property, plus a $600m (£456m) yacht, had already been \"transferred into irrevocable trusts\", potentially putting them beyond the reach of sanctions.\n\nTracing the ownership of the two houses targeted by the UK government is extremely difficult. They have been held through a complex web of trusts and companies registered in places like the British Virgin Islands which, until recently, did not require the ultimate owner to be disclosed.\n\nMr Usmanov bought Beechwood House for £48m in 2008 using an offshore company. As part of an investigation with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the BBC has seen a document showing Usmanov secured a mortgage in 2005 to part-finance payments for Sutton Place via two firms in Cyprus.\n\nHis two nephews each own multi-million pound properties in north London.\n\nWhen the UK government imposed sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, they described him as worth £2bn and a \"one-time business partner\" of Roman Abramovich.\n\nIn early March, a court heard that he has a multi-million pound property portfolio in the UK, including the art deco mansion Hamstone House in Weybridge, Surrey. Sitting in eight acres of grounds, the Grade II listed property was acquired for £7.1m by a Cyprus-based company, Edenfield Investments Limited, in 2001.\n\nMr Deripaska also owns a large home in Belgrave Square that was occupied by protestors. However, a spokesman for the billionaire at the time said the property belonged to family members.\n\nThere is evidence suggesting Mr Deripaska owns a building five minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace. The 17th-Century terrace house was bought in 2004 for £4.7m by Astibe Limited - an offshore shell company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, which appears in the annual accounts of EN+ (an energy and metals group that Mr Deripaska has a stake in). The property is listed as the address of the company, according to research by Transparency International.\n\nA judge has frozen UK bank accounts operated by a British businessman amid allegations they are linked to Mr Deripaska - National Crime Agency investigators believe the accounts were being used to help the oligarch avoid sanctions.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Deripaska said the sanctions were \"deeply misguided\" and based on \"unfounded and hollow accusations\".\n\n\"Mr Deripaska has never been involved in politics. It is wrong to suggest that Mr Deripaska is close to the Government of Russia and/or Vladimir Putin,\" the statement read.\n\n\"The decision to sanction him has nothing to do with justice or law, neither does the freezing of assets belonging to him or his family.\"\n\nThe UK-based billionaire oligarch Mikhail Fridman had his shares frozen in the investment firm LetterOne, which owns international health food chain Holland & Barrett, after the EU sanctioned him following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On 15 March, he was also sanctioned by the British government, which said he was \"closely associated with President Vladimir Putin\".\n\nMr Fridman told the BBC that the imposition of sanctions by the UK government left him \"shocked\" and that the statement he was closely associated with Vladimir Putin was \"absolutely incorrect\".\n\nLetterOne, which is just under 50% owned by Mr Fridman and Petr Aven (see below), announced the business partners had \"ceased to have any involvement with the company\".\n\nMr Fridman, who is thought to be worth around $12bn, owns a huge property, Athlone House in north London, for which he paid £65m in 2016.\n\nMr Fridman told his local newspaper, the Hampstead and Highgate Express, the building was originally designed for a Victorian industrialist, adding: \"It felt like fate that I, as a businessman, would be similarly drawn years later to the same property and grounds.\"\n\nMr Fridman secured planning permission for a significant restoration, including the addition of a wine cellar, cinema room, swimming pool, yoga room and cigar room.\n\nMr Aven was named in EU sanctions as \"one of Vladimir Putin's closest oligarchs\" who \"does not operate independently of the President's demands\".\n\nAlong with Mikhail Fridman, the Russian billionaire's shares in LetterOne were frozen.\n\nLand Registry records show a Cyprus-based company paid £8m in 2009 for his home, Ingliston House in Virginia Water, Surrey.\n\nPetr Aven pictured next to his Henry Moore sculpture\n\nMr Aven reportedly owns an extensive private art collection, which includes works by Kandinsky, Louise Bourgeois and Henry Moore. He was photographed by the FT at his home alongside some of his pieces.\n\nAfter he was sanctioned by the EU, he stepped down as a trustee at the Royal Academy, which returned a donation from him.\n\nMr Aven told the BBC that his family also owned a two-bedroom apartment and studio in central London.\n\nHe said he \"strongly disagreed\" with UK government's description of him as a \"pro-Kremlin oligarch\".\n\nHe said the sanctions against him were \"understandable, but unfair\", adding he saw no fair reason to be sanctioned and that he never operated under the demands of Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"My partners and I always tried to be out of politics,\" he said.\n\nBorn in Kyiv, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, Mr Khan is \"a close associate of Vladimir Putin who has been involved in destabilising Ukraine\", according to UK authorities, which sanctioned him in March.\n\nHe and and his wife Anzhelika own several properties in England.\n\nThe Panama Papers revealed the couple have shares in the Seychelles company Apilosa Corporation. Land registry papers show it paid £62m in 2008 for two apartments near Buckingham Palace.\n\nGerman Khan bought two more flats in the area in 2005. In 2018, they were transferred to his wife's name, according to Land Registry documents.\n\nThe couple also bought a mansion in Virginia Water, Surrey, for £26m in 2014. Records show that the mansion was sold on 24 December 2021 to Ravenmorrow Limited for £31m.\n\nIt is unclear who now owns the property. Ravenmorrow Limited was set up in December last year and no individual is identified on UK company records as the beneficial owner.\n\nMr Khan did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe UK government said Igor Shuvalov \"is a core part of Putin's inner circle\" when it imposed sanctions on him in March.\n\nOfficials confirmed his assets in the UK include two luxury apartments in Whitehall worth an estimated £11m. That was first reported by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, set up by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nLand registry documents show the properties are owned by Sova Real Estate LLC in Russia, which - according to official records obtained by the Anti-Corruption Foundation - indicated they were owned by Mr Shuvalov and his wife.\n\nIn response to our questions, a spokesperson for Mr Shuvalov confirmed that ownership of the apartments had been transferred to a Russian company \"controlled by the Shuvalov Family\" in 2014.\n\nThe value of the flats significantly exceeds the £634,000 that Mr Shuvalov declared as his and Mrs Shuvalov's joint wealth to the Russian parliament in 2014.\n\nMr Shuvalov's spokesperson told the BBC that these issues \"have been the subject of competent government audits\", and that \"no complaints were ever filed\".\n\nIn August 2021, Mr Gutseriev was sanctioned by the UK because of his close relationship with Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nMr Gutseriev was the founder of Safmar Group, a Russian conglomerate, but is no longer involved in the company. Mr Gutseriev's son Said, a British citizen who has not been sanctioned, now part-owns SFI - a company previously known as Safmar Financial Investments.\n\nThe Pandora Papers revealed Said Gutseriev owns a multi-million-pound City of London office block bought for more than £40m through a secret offshore company.\n\nSaid Gutseriev's representatives told the BBC he did not have \"any business links with his father\". His lavish wedding, which made headlines in 2016, featured performances by Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias.\n\nYuri Soloviev is a high-ranking executive at sanctioned Russian bank VTB and was sanctioned by the UK government on 15 March this year. The 51-year-old has Russian and British citizenship.\n\nAccording to US Treasury officials, his wife Galina Ulyutina \"was previously implicated in a golden passport scheme\" in Bulgaria. Golden passport schemes allow nationals of one country to acquire citizenship in another through investment.\n\nMr Soloviev owns two London properties in his own name. One is a penthouse in Hampstead, the other is in Westminster. A third apartment near Kensington Palace was bought outright in the name of a relative for £2.2m in 2006 and revealed in the 2016 Panama Papers leak.\n\nA spokesperson for VTB told the BBC that Mr Soloviev \"left VTB group on 24 February 2022\", the day that Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"Mr Soloviev was not sanctioned by any countries while working at VTB,\" the statement added.\n\nThe chairman of the management board of state-owned Gazprombank, Andrey Akimov, was sanctioned by the US in 2018. He was sanctioned by the UK earlier this month.\n\nAccording to Catherine Belton in her book Putin's People, he is a former intelligence operative and \"one of the most important financiers behind Vladimir Putin's regime\".\n\nWorking with the International Consortium of Journalists, the BBC has seen evidence in the Pandora Papers leak that link Mr Akimov to property in London.\n\nLand Registry documents show that Mr Akimov's partner Marianna Chaykina owns an apartment in Knightsbridge. It was bought for £10m by British Virgin Islands (BVI) company Inma Investments in 2012.\n\nMs. Chaykina is listed as co-owner of a number of Mr. Akimov's firms in leaked corporate records and she has been described by Russian media as Mr. Akimov's wife.\n\nThe BBC received no response to its questions from Mr Akimov.\n\nPolina Kovaleva is the stepdaughter of Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, according to the UK government.\n\nLavrov was sanctioned by the British government at the same time as Vladimir Putin. A few weeks later, on 24 March, the UK government sanctioned Ms Kovaleva too - saying she reportedly owns a London property worth £4m.\n\nLand Registry documents show Polina Kovaleva bought an apartment in Kensington with no mortgage in 2016, when she was 21.\n\nMs Kovaleva did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nArkady Rotenberg is one of Vladimir Putin's closest friends - the pair sparred in the same judo gym in St Petersburg.\n\nThe US and the EU imposed sanctions on him in 2014 following Russia's annexation of Crimea. He is also under sanction in the UK, with the government citing his \"close personal ties to President Putin\". His brother Boris and son Igor were added to the sanction list last month.\n\nIn July 2020, an investigation by the US Senate accused the Rotenberg brothers of using secretive purchases of expensive art to evade sanctions.\n\nUpper Ribsden in the village of Windlesham was bought in 2012 for £27.5m by Ravendark Holdings Limited, a company registered in the BVI. It received a loan of over £30m from another BVI company said to be owned by Mr Rotenberg.\n\nIn November 2021, a High Court judge ruled the house was held on trust for the benefit of Mr Rotenberg by Ravendark. That was appealed and the case has yet to be decided. Mr Rotenberg did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe difficulty faced by senior judges and lawyers in establishing who owns a UK mansion illustrates how hard it can be to trace the assets of sanctioned oligarchs.\n\nUpdate 27 May 2022: This article has been amended to clarify the business dealings of Said Gutseriev.", "Scammers are cold-calling people asking for their bank details to receive the government's £150 energy rebate, councils have warned.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced the rebate for homes in council tax bands A to D in February to help people cope with escalating cost of living prices.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) urged people to be alert to the scam and not give out personal information.\n\nIt emphasised that councils would never request bank details over the phone.\n\nAnyone who unexpectedly received a text, email or phone call seeking information or payment should not give out personal information, including bank details, click any links or respond until they could be sure it was genuine, the LGA said.\n\nEligible households in England that pay council tax by direct debit should receive the payment directly into their bank account.\n\nThe government has urged people to set up direct debits and the LGA said those who did not pay their council tax by direct debit would be sent a letter with details of how to claim.\n\nDuring the Covid pandemic, there was a sharp increase in scams, including promises of a payment from HM Revenue and Customs to support individuals during lockdown or offers to book a vaccination for a fee.\n\nMohan Iyengar, vice-chairman of the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, said councils were working to ensure residents received their energy rebate payments as soon as possible.\n\nHe added: \"However, criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their attempts to take advantage of the financial worries people are facing and as a result many of these scams look legitimate on first impression.\"\n\nFraudulent text messages can be reported by forwarding them to 7726, a free reporting service provided by phone operators. Potential scams can also be reported to Action Fraud.", "Denise Kidger began her military career in the Women's Royal Army Corps in 1989\n\nAn army veteran says being selected for her first Invictus Games has allowed her to rediscover herself and her \"can-do attitude\".\n\nDenise Kidger will take part in various events during the competition which kicks off in The Hague, The Netherlands, and runs until Friday.\n\nThe 51-year-old, from Seaham Harbour, County Durham, was medically discharged in 2014 after 22 years' service.\n\n\"Without sports recovery, I wouldn't be here today,\" she said.\n\nThe Invictus Games were founded by Prince Harry in 2014 to celebrate the sporting achievements of injured service personnel.\n\nMore than 500 competitors from 20 nations are due to take part in a series of adaptive sports.\n\nThe event was postponed for two years due to the pandemic.\n\nDenise Kidger (right) with with her late brother Stephen and her sister Tracey-Ann Knight\n\nMs Kidger joined the Women's Royal Army Corps in 1989 until it disbanded in 1992.\n\nShe then joined the Adjutant General's Corps (SPS), serving in overseas posts including Germany and the Falkland Islands.\n\nDue to injuries to her neck, back, hands, shoulder and left knee, mixed anxiety and depressive disorder, she was medically discharged eight years ago.\n\nMs Kidger met Prince Harry who founded the Invictus Games in 2014\n\nWhen her 22-and-a-half years in service ended Ms Kidger said she did not just lose a job, but \"a lifestyle and family\" and the pride she had serving her country.\n\nShe will take part in a number of events at her first Invictus Games, including cycling in the time trials criterium, indoor rowing, the 100m on the track, discus, the one-armed 50m freestyle, one-armed backstroke and 50m relay in the swimming category.\n\nThe sportswoman will represent the UK in several events, including the discus\n\n\"I am starting to feel pride again, being able to wear the union jack and represent my country again,\" she said.\n\n\"I haven't just rediscovered myself and my can-do attitude, but I've also found friends.\n\n\"It's so fun being part of something, being included, having a laugh again and learning, and the coaches are absolutely phenomenal.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Harry and Meghan land in Netherlands for Invictus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nathan Fleetwood went missing after a night out in Shrewsbury\n\nA body has been found in a river in the search for a 21-year-old man who was missing for 19 days.\n\nNathan Fleetwood was last seen near Kingsland Bridge, Shrewsbury, on 27 March.\n\nWest Mercia Police said the body was found by West Mercia Search and Rescue in the River Severn on Friday.\n\nThe force said formal identification had not yet taken place but Mr Fleetwood's family had been informed of the discovery.\n\nHundreds of people were involved in searches for Mr Fleetwood, led by his family and his friend Toby Owen.\n\nIn a post on the Help Find Missing Nathan Fleetwood page, Mr Owen said his friend's body had been found near the Greyfriars Bridge.\n\nToby Owen has organised searches around Shrewsbury to find clues of his friend's whereabouts\n\nMr Owen thanked everyone involved and said he hoped it showed \"that we can all pull together as a community\".\n\nIn the same post, Mr Owen added a message he said was from Mr Fleetwood's family, asking for \"time and space\" to come to terms with their loss.\n\nMr Fleetwood went missing after a night out at Albert Shed in the town and the final sightings of him were in the Kingsland area.\n\nIn a direct message to his friend, Mr Owen added: \"We all love you so much and did everything we possibly could to get you home safe.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Nigel Pearson was known for his speedway, football and darts reporting\n\nTributes have been paid to the sports journalist and commentator Nigel Pearson.\n\nHis family said the 52-year-old died on Friday after being taken ill suddenly earlier in the week.\n\nMr Pearson, a former BBC Radio Humberside speedway reporter, went on to work on national TV and radio.\n\nSky Sports, who Mr Pearson worked for as a darts commentator for 15 years, said he \"was a consummate broadcaster with a distinctive voice\".\n\nThe broadcaster said Mr Pearson was \"loved by our audiences\", while tributes have also been paid by West Bromwich Albion, Wolves and darts players.\n\nIn a tweet, darts player Michael van Gerwen wrote: \"Nigel could always make me laugh in post match interviews.\"\n\nFellow former world champion Phil Taylor said: \"Sad, sad news about Nigel Pearson passing away. Always polite and a good guy.\"\n\nProfessional Darts Corporation chief executive, Matt Porter, said: \"Nigel was an extremely popular figure across darts and a range of sports and well-respected throughout the media for his unique style.\n\n\"He'll be missed by us all.\"\n\nYorkshire-born Pearson was also known for his speedway commentary and worked as a press officer for British Speedway.\n\nA number of clubs have posted tributes on Facebook with Glasgow Tigers saying his contribution to speedway had been \"immense\".\n\nNewcastle Speedway added: \"Nigel's love of Speedway shone through in his commentaries, and he will be sorely missed by all who knew him and listened to him.\"\n\nThe football club he supported, West Bromwich Albion, tweeted: \"We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Nigel Pearson.\n\nWest Midlands rivals Wolves tweeted: \"Though his local allegiances were blue and white, Nigel has long been a friend of Wolves and will be greatly missed by all at Molineux.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The French cosmetics chain L'Occitane says it will close its Russian shops and website, days after defending its decision to continue trading.\n\nThe firm said the move follows the \"enormous human suffering and escalating military action in Ukraine\".\n\nL'Occitane told the BBC last week it was keeping its shops open to protect staff from potential \"retaliation\".\n\nSome customers had criticised the company for its decision and called for a boycott of the brand.\n\nIts products are sold at more than 3,085 retail outlets worldwide and had sales of €1.5bn (£1.3bn) last year.\n\nLast week the firm told the BBC it had discussed closing its Russian stores \"at length\" but said it had not because it wanted to protect staff from potential \"retaliation\".\n\nThe cosmetics firm, which has spas and stores in Russian cities including Moscow and St Petersburg, originally said it could not take the \"risk\" of closing its shops.\n\nBut in a statement issued on Friday evening, L'Occitane said the decision to shut its Russian operation had been approved by the company's board of directors.\n\n\"Given the enormous human suffering being caused by escalating military action in Ukraine and to protect our employees worldwide from potential public aggression, we have decided to close our own stores and e-commerce websites in Russia,\" the statement said.\n\nHundreds of international brands including L'Oreal and Estee Lauder have already closed shops and ceased online sales in Russia in protest at the war in Ukraine.\n\nTweeting a picture of a L'Occitane product one customer said: \"I've used this cream for years, never again. Even if they back out, they've showed their corporate integrity.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maddus Mickus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of firms are still listed as still operating in Russia by Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld at Yale University's School of Management.\n\nAmong them are the French energy giant EDF, the UAE's Emirates airline, and China's Lenovo computer brand.\n\nAround 600 big firms have pulled out of Russia or suspended sales since it invaded, including Starbucks, Coca Cola, Levi's and Apple.\n\nOther international outlets still open in Russia have said they are not able to shut stores due to complex franchise deals preventing them from withdrawing. Burger King and the hotel groups Marriott and Accor are among the firms restricted by these arrangements.\n\nOn Tuesday, some independent Nike stores were found to be operating in Russia over a week after the sportswear brand said it was temporarily closing all its shops in the country.\n\nProfessor Vanessa Burbano, from Columbia Business School in the US, said that consistency between claims and actions is important for brands with operations in Russia.\n\n\"Customers and employees do pay attention to which companies are first in making these kinds of commitments and which firms don't go as far,\" Prof Burbano said.\n\n\"The risk of companies making claims that may not be perceived as consistent with their actions is that they could be seen as a green-washing in the Ukraine context which would be bad for their reputation.\"", "Robert Jenrick and his family with Maria, Christina and Boden\n\nA former cabinet minister has taken in a refugee family under a government scheme to help those fleeing Ukraine.\n\nRobert Jenrick, the MP for Newark, and his family have welcomed Maria, 40, Christina, 11, and Boden, 15, into their Nottinghamshire home.\n\nHe is thought to be the first MP to take in refugees under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.\n\nMr Jenrick said both families had found it \"very emotional\" when they finally met in person at Stansted.\n\n\"I think the family we are sponsoring were happy to be in a place of safety,\" he told the BBC. \"Like most Ukrainians who come under the scheme they are leaving behind husbands, fathers, relatives and friends so there are mixed emotions.\"\n\nThe former communities secretary said his family had discussed doing something to help after being moved by the news from Ukraine, and had been put in touch with the family through another Ukrainian family who was staying with friends.\n\n\"The process was relatively slow to begin with but well worth the wait from our perspective,\" he said, adding that Maria and her family had been \"absolutely lovely\".\n\nAs of Wednesday 25,100 visas have been issued under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme - which allows families in the UK to sponsor refugees to come and live with them - from 55,600 applications.\n\nSince it began the scheme has faced criticism for being slow - and Home Secretary Priti Patel has previously apologised for the delays in granting visas.\n\nSeveral MPs and government ministers have previously said they would be open to hosting a Ukrainian refugee. Environment minister Victoria Prentis was the first to welcome one, according to the Telegraph, although Vika came to the UK via an existing scheme, not Homes for Ukraine.\n\nMr Jenrick said that he was hoping to arrange places at school for the two Ukrainian children now under their roof in the coming weeks.\n\nWhile he said he would encourage anyone who was lucky enough to be in the position to host a refugee to do so, he said that it was a commitment which \"should be entered in to seriously\".\n\n\"But I think it is going to be a very rewarding experience for my family,\" he said, adding that it had made them grateful for the life they have in the UK.\n\nMr Jenrick told the Daily Telegraph's Chopper's Politics podcast - which first reported the story - that the process had been \"overly bureaucratic\" and red tape had \"tested the patience\" of sponsors and the families applying for the scheme.\n\nIn his experience, he said it took around three weeks to get the three visas needed.\n\n\"There were simple things that we could and should have done from the outset, like having the form in Ukrainian, for example,\" he told the Telegraph, adding he was not sure it was necessary for security checks to be done on minors who were \"extremely unlikely to be a threat to this country\".\n\nBut Mr Jenrick said it had not been too difficult to find a family wanting to come to the UK.\n\nIt has meant a busier house with the Ukrainians joining Mr Jenrick, his wife, their three children and two dogs in the family home.\n\nBut he told the Telegraph's Christopher Hope the experience had been humbling for him and his family, and said they would be \"a little less selfish\" for the experience.\n\nMaria and her children had been through \"harrowing\" experiences in Ukraine, he said, and had queued for seven hours at the Polish border on their way to the UK.\n\n\"It does feel very rewarding,\" he said. \"It's a very tangible way to reach out and help another family.\"\n\nHe added that he was looking forward to spending the Easter weekend with his \"new extended family\".\n\nAsked if he had received the £350-a-month payment being offered to hosts as part of the scheme Mr Jenrick said that either they would return the money or it would be given to the Ukrainian family.\n\nThere are two schemes for people in the UK to welcome refugees: the family scheme, for Ukrainians with a family member in the UK; and Homes for Ukraine, which lets people in the UK host Ukrainians who do not have family ties here.", "A key finding in the latest IPCC climate report has been widely misinterpreted, according to scientists involved in the study.\n\nIn the document, researchers wrote that greenhouse gases are projected to peak \"at the latest before 2025\".\n\nThis implies that carbon could increase for another three years and the world could still avoid dangerous warming.\n\nBut scientists say that's incorrect and that emissions need to fall immediately.\n\nThe IPCC's most recent report focused on how to limit or curtail emissions of the gases that are the root cause of warming.\n\nIn their summary for policymakers, the scientists said it was still possible to avoid the most dangerous levels of warming by keeping the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century.\n\nThis will take a herculean effort, with carbon emissions needing to shrink by 43% by the end of this decade to stay under this threshold of danger.\n\nBut before they fall, emissions need to reach a peak - and it's in the text explaining this idea that the report becomes confusing.\n\n\"Global greenhouse gases are projected to peak between 2020 and at the latest by 2025, in global modelled pathways that limit warming to 1.5C,\" the summary states.\n\nMost media outlets including the BBC concluded that meant emissions could rise until 2025 and the world could still stay under 1.5C.\n\n\"When you read the text as it's laid out, it does give the impression that you've got to 2025 which I think is a very unfortunate outcome,\" said Glen Peters, from the Centre for International Climate Research in Oslo, and an IPCC lead author.\n\n\"It's an unfortunate choice of wording. That is, unfortunately, going to potentially have some rather negative consequences.\"\n\nIt's partly because the climate models that scientists use to project temperatures work in five-year blocs, so 2025 follows 2020 for example, without reference to the years in between.\n\n\"Because models work on 5-year increments, we can't derive statements with higher precision,\" said Dr Joeri Rogelj, from Imperial College London, and an IPCC lead author.\n\n\"But when you look at the scientific data supporting this headline, it becomes immediately clear that any scenario in line with 1.5C drops emissions from 2020 to 2025. Even for scenarios that limit warming to 2C this is also the case.\"\n\nCoping with the aftermath of deadly floods in South Africa\n\nCovid delayed the mitigation report by about a year but the information used came from models that projected peaking, by and large, in 2020.\n\n\"The headline statement couldn't say emissions should have peaked already, as governments and scientists need to agree on messaging that is scientifically accurate without being policy prescriptive,\" said Dr Edward Byers, an IPCC contributing author from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.\n\nThis led to a lengthy debate during the two-week long approval session between the scientists and government officials over the exact words to use.\n\n\"There were many discussions about whether words such as \"now\" or \"immediately\" can be used,\" said Dr Byers.\n\n\"Some parties or people had concerns that that this would soon be out of date. And if the report was read in the future then \"immediately\" doesn't mean anything.\"\n\nA dried out reservoir in Chile where drought has forced the government to take emergency measures\n\n\"I don't personally agree with that so I think 'immediately' would have been the best word to use.\"\n\nA major challenge in communicating complex messages about climate change is that the more simplified media reports of these events often have more influence than the science itself.\n\nThis worries observers who argue that giving countries the impression that emissions can continue to grow until 2025 would be a disaster for the world.\n\n\"We definitely don't have the luxury of letting emissions grow for yet another three years,\" said Kaisa Kosonen from Greenpeace.\n\n\"We have eight years to nearly halve global emissions. That's an enormous task, but still doable, as the IPCC has just reminded us - but if people now start chasing emissions peak by 2025 as some kind of benchmark, we don't have a chance.\"", "Russia says it targeted the Vizar military factory near Kyiv with missiles overnight\n\nMoscow says it will respond to any Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory by striking Kyiv with more missiles.\n\nThe \"number and scale\" of attacks will go up if its own settlements become targets, the ministry said.\n\nThe warning came as Russia announced a missile strike on a military factory near Kyiv, which it claimed was in response to a Ukrainian helicopter attack on a Russian village.\n\nUkraine denies it carried out the attack.\n\n\"Tonight, sea-based high precision long-range \"Kalibr\" missiles hit a military facility in the outskirts of Kyiv,\" Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.\n\nThe strike targeted Ukraine's Vizar military facility that was producing and repairing anti-aircraft and anti-ship missile systems, Mr Konashenkov added, warning that Russia would intensify missile attacks on Kyiv if Ukraine continued what he described as attacks on Russian land.\n\nHe said: \"The number and scale of missile strikes against objects in Kyiv will increase in response to the commission of any attacks of a terrorist nature or sabotage on Russian territory by the Kyiv nationalist regime.\"\n\nAndrei Sizov, a 47-year-old owner of a wood workshop near the factory, told the AFP news agency that the blasts came overnight.\n\n\"Around 1:30am, my security guard called me because there was an air strike,\" he said.\n\n\"There were five hits. My employee was in the office and got thrown off his feet by the blast.\"\n\nHe also said he believed Russia was taking revenge for the sinking of the Moskva warship, which Ukraine claims it hit with Neptune missiles.\n\nWorkers clear through rubble following a Russian missile strike on the Vizar military factory near Kyiv\n\nOn Thursday Russian officials accused Ukraine of sending two helicopters 10km (6 miles) into Russia's Bryansk region, bombing a residential building in the village of Klimovo and injuring eight people.\n\nKyiv denies the attack and accused Russia of staging the incident to stir up \"anti-Ukrainian hysteria\".\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the claims.\n\nRussian forces started withdrawing in March from around the Ukrainian capital to focus on Russian efforts to seize eastern parts of the country, but Kyiv remains vulnerable to missile strikes.\n\nIn its statement the Russian defence ministry made no mention of the sinking of its Black Sea naval flagship overnight.\n\nThe military factory targeted in the strike produced anti-ship missiles, including some similar to the Neptune ones that Ukraine claims to have used to attack and sink the Moskva vessel.\n\nThe Russian account of the warship's sinking differs. Moscow defence officials claim an unexplained fire onboard caused ammunition to explode, ultimately causing the Moskva to \"lose its balance\" as it was being towed to port.\n\nIt is still not independently confirmed how the heavily-defended Black Sea flagship sank.\n• None Sunken Russian warship: What we know\n• None The battle for control of Ukraine's skies", "Twitter's board has armed itself against a possible hostile takeover - a day after billionaire Elon Musk made a $43bn (£33bn) offer to buy the platform.\n\nIt has adopted what is known as a \"limited-duration shareholder rights plan\", also known as a \"poison pill\".\n\nThe move will prevent anyone from having more than a 15% stake in the company.\n\nIt does this by allowing others to buy additional shares at a discount.\n\nThe Twitter board detailed its defence plan to the US Securities and Exchange Commission and put out a statement saying it was needed because of Mr Musk's \"unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire Twitter\".\n\nA takeover bid is considered hostile when one company tries to acquire another against the wishes of that company's management - in Twitter's case, its executive board.\n\nJosh White, former financial economist for the Securities and Exchange Commission, told the BBC that a poison pill is \"one of those last lines of defence against a hostile bid takeover\".\n\n\"We call it the nuclear option,\" he said.\n\nMr White says the board has made it clear \"that they don't feel like it's a high enough value for the company\".\n\nBecause Mr Musk had signalled that he was not willing to negotiate a higher price, the Twitter board went ahead with the poison pill.\n\nMr White says he was surprised by Mr Musk's negotiation tactic because if the end game is to acquire the company it might not be the \"right approach\".\n\n\"I actually think if he was truly serious about the takeover attempt, he would have started at a price and left the window open for negotiation,\" he said.\n\nThe plan will expire on 14 April next year.\n\nChief Executive Parag Agrawal previously said the company was not being \"held hostage\" by the offer.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Musk said at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver: \"I am not sure that I will actually be able to acquire it.\" He added that he does have a \"plan B\", though he did not divulge it.\n\nMr Musk announced a 9.2% stake in the company earlier this month, but he is not the largest shareholder anymore. Asset management firm Vanguard Group disclosed that its funds now own a 10.3% stake.\n\nMr Musk has said he believes Twitter is limiting freedom of speech on the platform and he reiterated this at the Vancouver event. He has said his primary motivation would be to expand free speech - a US Constitutional right - on Twitter.\n\nMr Musk is being advised by the US investment bank Morgan Stanley. Meanwhile, Twitter is being helped by two banks, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, according to Bloomberg.\n\nTwitter is trying to make itself inedible to a predator. Its wrapping itself with spikes and covering itself with poison.\n\nThe poison pill strategy has been around for decades - and it works.\n\nTwitter will flood the market with new shares if Elon Musk buys more than 15% of the company. That would then dilute his share of the company. Clever.\n\nIt strongly suggests that Twitter's board will fight Mr Musk's bid to take control of the company.\n\nThis doesn't necessarily mean Twitter is saying it doesn't want to be bought. The mechanism simply gives the board more power to prevent a hostile takeover.\n\nElon Musk is likely now to appeal to shareholders. He's already said it would be \"indefensible\" if Twitter's board didn't put the offer to a shareholder vote.\n\nTwitter is finding out that being courted by the world's richest man can be flattering, but it's also hugely distracting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021", "Priti Patel had to personally approve a scheme to send some asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda after her officials voiced concern over value for money.\n\nThe home secretary issued a rare \"ministerial direction\" to push through the plans, meaning she takes responsibility for it.\n\nIt is only the second time the Home Office has used the power in 30 years.\n\nA union for top civil servants said the plan was \"divisive\" but officials would have to implement it or leave.\n\nFDA general secretary Dave Penman told BBC News: \"Civil servants know their job is to support the government of the day. They sign up for that knowing they might not like what the government does.\n\n\"On the more divisive policies, which this clearly is, they face a choice - implement or leave. That could mean elsewhere in the Home Office, another department, or the service.\"\n\nMark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union, which also represents civil servants, said: \"For the government to attempt to claim this is anything other than utterly inhumane is sheer hypocrisy.\n\n\"We have already seen that they are prepared to risk lives by turning boats back in the channel - a policy which we have had to take them to court over. It is a heartless approach that displays total disregard for human life which everyone must oppose.''\n\nThe use of a ministerial direction highlights the unconventional nature of the government's refugee relocation plan.\n\nAs well as criticism of the policy on legal, moral and logistical grounds there is concern from officials at the Home Office about the cost.\n\nThe department couldn't say whether the scheme would be value for money, which is perhaps not surprising given ministers have openly admitted they don't know how much money will need to be spent.\n\nFlying asylum seekers to another country is not a world first but it's a new and controversial approach for the UK.\n\nThe policy is testing the reach of the government's powers.\n\nHome Office civil servants could not precisely quantify the benefits of the policy, and uncertainty about the costs meant Ms Patel had to take personal responsibility for it by issuing the ministerial direction.\n\nA source close to the home secretary said \"deterring illegal entry would create significant savings\" and the fact that the savings could not be quantified precisely should not prevent action from being taken.\n\nMinisterial directions have been used 46 times since the 2010 election, with two in the Home Office since 1990, according to the Institute for Government think tank.\n\nThe other time the formal order was used by the Home Office was in 2019 by former home secretary Sajid Javid, to bring in the Windrush Compensation Scheme before legislation was in place.\n\nUnder the £120m scheme, people deemed to have entered the UK unlawfully since 1 January could be flown to Rwanda, where they will be allowed to apply for the right to settle in the east African country.\n\nThe government said flights could begin within weeks, initially focusing on single men who crossed the Channel in small boats or lorries.\n\nMore than 6,000 people have crossed in small boats so far this year. The latest Home Office figures suggest last year, 28,526 people made the crossing, up from 8,466 in 2020.\n\nMore than 160 charities and campaign groups have urged ministers to scrap the policy - which has also drawn criticism from opposition parties and some Conservatives.\n\nSir David Normington, a former head civil servant in the Home Office, told BBC Newsnight the policy was inhumane and morally reprehensible, adding it was \"probably unlawful and it may well be unworkable\".\n\nLabour's shadow justice minister Ellie Reeves called it \"unethical and unworkable\" and said it would fail to deter people from crossing the Channel.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the scheme would be a \"bureaucratic nightmare\" and claimed it had been announced as part of a \"cynical distraction\" from the Partygate scandal surrounding No 10.\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, said it was \"absolutely chilling\".\n\nGillian Triggs, an assistant secretary-general at the UNHCR, said such a policy - which is similarly used in Australia - could be effective as a deterrent but there were \"much more legally effective ways of achieving the same outcome\".\n\nAustralia has used offshore detention centres since 2001, with thousands of asylum seekers being transferred out of the country since then.\n\nIt has been frequently criticised by the UN and rights groups over substandard conditions at its centres and its own projections show it will spend $811.8m (£460m) on offshore processing in 2021-22.\n\nLast year, the UK government raised concerns at the UN about claims of \"extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances and torture\" in Rwanda, as well as restrictions to civil and political rights.\n\nBut a Home Office spokeswoman said Rwanda was a \"safe and secure country with a track record of supporting asylum seekers\" and that under the plans, the country would \"process claims in accordance with the UN Refugee convention, national and international laws\".\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Good Morning Britain on Friday justice and migration minister Tom Pursglove argued that while the short-term costs would be \"pretty equivalent\" to what the UK was paying currently to accommodate those claiming asylum, the new scheme would save British taxpayers money in the \"longer term\".\n\nThe scheme comes as part of broader efforts to cut the number of people entering the UK by crossing the Channel in small boats - with the Royal Navy taking operational command of patrolling the Channel from UK Border Force.", "Salah Abdeslam said he did not regret failing to carry out the plot to kill\n\nThe main defendant in the trial over the 2015 Paris attacks has apologised to victims at the end of his testimony.\n\nProsecutors say Salah Abdeslam, 32, is the only surviving member of the so-called Islamic State cell that targeted Paris that night, killing 130 people.\n\n\"I wish to express my condolences and offer an apology to all the victims,\" he told the court.\n\nProsecutors say his suicide belt malfunctioned, but Salah Abdeslam said he had changed his mind.\n\nHe is facing charges of murder as part of an organised terrorist gang but is not accused of killing anyone personally. He began his testimony by pointing out that he himself had killed or injured no-one.\n\n\"I know that hatred remains... I ask you today that you hate me with moderation,\" Salah Abdeslam told the court in a tearful statement. \"I ask you to forgive me.\"\n\nHis apology marked the end of his testimony, after remaining silent in the early days of the trial, apart from occasionally railing against the court.\n\nOne of his defence lawyers asked him if he regretted not carrying out his plan to kill.\n\n\"I don't regret it. I didn't kill these people and I didn't die,\" he replied.\n\n\"I would like to say today that this story of November 13 was written with the blood of the victims. It is their story, and I was part of it,\" he added.\n\n\"They are linked to me and I am linked to them,\" he said in a quivering voice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe attacks took place on 13 November when a 10-man squad of heavily armed jihadists targeted several sites across Paris, including the Bataclan concert hall and Stade de France.\n\nNine of the attackers either blew themselves up or were shot dead. French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam is thought to be the last survivor of the group.\n\nIt is believed that he travelled to Paris from his home in Brussels along with the other attackers and was intending to blow himself up. Why he failed to do so - technical malfunction or a last-minute change of mind - is a key question the victims' families want answered.\n\nHe has claimed he had planned to blow himself up in a crowded bar but changed his mind after seeing the people whom he was about to kill.\n\nSalah Abdeslam faces a life sentence if convicted. He has already been handed a jail sentence by a Belgian court for his part in a shootout in Brussels with police that led to his arrest.", "Hundreds of fans have gathered outside the funeral of The Wanted singer Tom Parker, who died from brain cancer last month at the age of 33.\n\nThey saw the star's widow, Kelsey, lead a hearse pulled by four black horses through Petts Wood, south-east London.\n\nOn the side of the carriage, flowers spelled the words \"Tom\" and \"Daddy\".\n\nThe title of the boy band's 2011 number one Glad You Came also formed a floral tribute outside St Francis of Assisi church.\n\nStars including One Direction's Liam Payne and Parker's bandmates from The Wanted were amongst those in attendance.\n\nTraffic came to a standstill as the hearse, with a floral tribute to Tom, was driven through the streets\n\nOne Direction star Liam Payne was among those in attendance at the service\n\nFans were invited to pay their respects as the funeral procession made its way down the Queensway in Petts Wood.\n\nTraffic came to a standstill and the large crowd fell silent as the coffin was carried from the undertaker's into the waiting hearse. The silence, save for the occasional dog barking or baby crying, was striking for what is normally a busy high street.\n\nBut as the procession set off on the 15-minute walk to the church, the hundreds of fans were encouraged by the celebrant to \"clap and cheer loudly\" - which they duly did.\n\nUpon arrival, family and friends made their way into the church as others congregated outside to watch the service on four large TV screens that had been erected outside.\n\nMany were in tears, hugging each other. Some were dressed in black, but others wore brightly-coloured T-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with The Wanted's logo.\n\nParker's bandmates Jay McGuiness, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran and Nathan Sykes carried his coffin into the church as the poignant Champagne Supernova by Oasis played over the speakers.\n\nThe Wanted's Max George (left) and Jay McGuiness helped carry the coffin into the church\n\nParker's brother Lewis, his wife Kelsey and his bandmates were among those who shared memories or did readings during the service.\n\nGeorge delivered a touching and often-humorous speech as he shared memories of working with Parker. \"As we were carrying Tom in, I could actually hear him saying, 'It's about time', because he's carried us for the last 15 years,\" he joked.\n\n\"Tom was and always will be a brother to myself and my bandmates. He made such an impact on us from the start, and his love for music and his striving for success outmatched any of us.\"\n\nHe continued: \"[Tom] was the only member of The Wanted to have a punch-up with every member of The Wanted.\" The mourners laughed warmly as Kaneswaran, who was standing beside George, added: \"He did lose every fight, by the way.\"\n\n\"It is so wonderful to see all the support for Tom,\" Kaneswaran continued. \"There's one thing we can all agree on - Tom Parker was an absolute hero.\"\n\nParker's widow Kelsey (centre) with family members outside the funeral\n\nGeorge concluded: \"He has left us far too early and we will miss him so much. The heartbreak shared here today is a credit to the love Tom shared. The people outside, the people all around the world, is a credit to him. Rest easy, mate.\"\n\nKelsey's eulogy was pre-recorded because, she explained, she would have found it \"too painful to stand up in front of everyone\".\n\nIn her audio message, she recalled meeting Tom outside a nightclub when she was 19. The singer asked if he could add her on Facebook, \"and the rest is history,\" she said. \"I told everyone from that moment, I'm going to marry Tom Parker.\n\n\"Life with you, Tom, was never boring,\" she continued. \"We spent a lot of our first years together drinking Mahiki [nightclub] dry, dancing all night long, parties in our Battersea flat, and having the funniest, most irrelevant drunken fights.\n\n\"Tom, your energy was never-ending and your creativity was out of this world. We all know how much you loved an invention, I bet you're gutted you never made it on Dragons' Den.\n\n\"You were the best husband I could ever ask for... You did everything with love and no malice.\"\n\nParker married Kelsey in 2018, and the couple have two young children, Aurelia Rose and Bodhi.\n\nThe singer's picture was on the front of the funeral order of service\n\nTom's mother, in a message read out by the singer's brother Lewis, said: \"We have nothing but love and pride for not only his achievements, but his positive attitude, resourcefulness and determination.\n\n\"We will always be faithfully and unswervingly at his side. He was an amazing son and brother who we love dearly.\"\n\nBolton-born Parker died at the end of March, almost 18 months after he revealed he had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.\n\nKaneswaran remembered Parker's \"big Boltonian heart\", adding: \"He was never afraid to stand up for what was right, no matter the risk.\"\n\nOther songs played during the service included Handbags and Gladrags by Stereophonics, Live Forever by Oasis, the hymn Amazing Grace and The Wanted's own single Gold Forever.\n\nAs the coffin was taken from the church back to the hearse, some fans released golden heart-shaped balloons from the crowd.\n\nThe Wanted fans Bethan (left) and Tamara told the BBC their butterfly hairclips were a tribute to Parker\n\nAfter the ceremony, fans comforted each other and shared their memories of meeting Parker and seeing the band in concert.\n\n\"Tom has been like a constant in our lives for like 12 years,\" one fan, Bethan, told BBC News.\n\n\"If you tweeted him, he'd always respond to you and big you up. It was like you were his favourite person in the world whenever you got to speak to him.\n\n\"And he was our favourite person in the world. None of us want to be here, obviously, but we get to do this together.\"\n\nAnother fan, Tamara, said the large number of people attending the funeral \"just shows the legacy he has created, and the love he has outpoured to so many people\".\n\n\"This love is for Kelsey and the family. We're so grateful we got the opportunity to be here for this.\"\n\nShe added: \"The funeral was a real tribute to Tom. To hear his family speak about him. I wasn't even surprised hearing the stories because it was kind of like we know him already. So it was just a beautiful moment to hear those stories.\"\n\nAnother member of the same group, Maddie, said: \"He was so lovely. He was always welcoming, the nicest person and the loveliest man.\"\n\nAll four friends had met Parker several times over the years. \"He loved his fame, he knew the power he held with being famous,\" Bethan said. \"So he always made sure he felt the love we'd been able to give him. He didn't take a second for granted with any of us.\"\n\nRecalling one encounter with Parker, she said: \"Outside a radio station, I remember him running away from security, trying to come back to us. He wanted to be with us.\n\nMaddie (far right) described Parker as \"the nicest person and the loveliest man\"\n\n\"I'll cry listening to their music, but I won't ever not love listening to it, because that was our communication with him. It's going to be painful listening to their music for a long time, but he loved being in The Wanted.\"\n\nBethan and Tamara explained that they were wearing butterfly hairclips in tribute to Tom - the butterfly has been adopted by many fans as a symbol for the band.\n\n\"Everything is butterflies because of Gold Forever,\" Bethan explained. \"Could he have written a more perfect song to remember him by? We're all getting tattoos of butterflies and the lyrics of Gold Forever, all because of him.\"\n\nFans were seen crying and singing along to Gold Forever as it played at the end of the service.\n\nThe lyrics seemed particularly fitting at the funeral: \"Say my name like it's the last time / Live today like its your last night / We want to cry but we know its alright / 'Cause I'm with you and you're with me / Butterflies, butterflies, we were meant to fly.\"\n\n\"You'll have seen butterflies everywhere,\" said Bethan. \"If you go on Twitter you'll see most of our fan accounts have got the blue butterfly emoji in, and whenever Kelsey posts something there's always a butterfly in it, because that's our strongest symbol of connection with him.\"\n\nThe Wanted had 10 UK top-10 singles between 2010 and 2013, including All Time Low, Chasing The Sun, Heart Vacancy and Lightning.\n\nThe title of Glad You Came, one of the band's hits, was displayed as a floral tribute outside the church", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson's fine for breaching lockdown rules is the \"most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister\", a historian has said.\n\nHistory of government expert Lord Hennessy told the BBC Mr Johnson had \"broken the law\", \"misled Parliament\" and \"shredded the ministerial code.\"\n\nMr Johnson is the first serving PM to be sanctioned for breaking the law.\n\nSpeaking after news of the fine was announced, the PM said people \"had the right to expect better\" from him.\n\nMr Johnson has since said it \"did not occur\" to him at the time that the \"brief\" gathering in the Cabinet Room to mark his birthday in June 2020 could be in contravention of Covid lockdown rules.\n\nHe is known to have attended at least two further events of the 12 being investigated by police, meaning he could be fined again.\n\nOne No 10 aide, who witnessed many of the events under investigation, told the BBC the birthday party was the least serious gathering, in terms of potential rule-breaking, that the PM attended.\n\nThe prime minister intends to update MPs on the fine after they return from their Easter break on Tuesday.\n\nOpposition parties are investigating ways to hold him to account for what they see as misleading statements to Parliament.\n\nSpeaking to Broadcasting House on BBC Radio 4, cross-bench peer Lord Hennessy said: \"I think we're in the most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister that I can remember.\"\n\nHe added when Mr Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined on Tuesday, he wrote in his diary that \"Tuesday 12 April 2022 will be forever remembered as a dark bleak day for public and political life\" and the prime minister had become \"the great debaser in modern times of decency in public and political life, and of our constitutional conventions\".\n\n\"The prime minister sealed his place in British history as the first lawbreaker to have occupied the premiership,\" Lord Hennessy wrote.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson had turned his position into \"an adventure playground for his narcissistic vanity\".\n\nLord Hennessy accused the prime minister of having \"broken the law, misled Parliament and has in effect shredded the ministerial code\" when he \"should be the guardian of the code\".\n\nThe chancellor and prime minister have both apologised for receiving fines\n\nThe prime minister is under pressure to justify why he previously said to MPs that rules in No 10 Downing Street were followed at all times.\n\nOpposition MPs have accused him of misleading the House of Commons, which they say would break the ministerial code and be a resigning offence.\n\nLord Hennessy said Mr Johnson's decision not to resign showed \"complete and utter disdain for the decency of our constitutional conventions\".\n\nHe also criticised ministers defending his conduct on the airwaves and their use of the situation in Ukraine to argue there should not be a leadership contest now by saying they \"cannot ignore the decency of your own system\".\n\nHe said: \"The Queen's First Minister is now beyond doubt a rogue prime minister, unworthy of her, her Parliament, her people, and her kingdom.\n\n\"I cannot remember a day when I have been more fearful for the well-being of the constitution.\n\n\"It's an assault on not just the decent state of mind which keeps our society open and clean but also on the institutions of the state.\n\n\"If he's not prepared to do the decent thing... why should anybody else behave decently and properly? The whole decency of our public life turns on this question.\"\n\nLord Hennessy of Nympsfield sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher\n\nLord Hennessy thinks future prime ministers should sign an oath to protect and uphold the constitution and that Boris Johnson \"must have knowingly misled when he said the guidelines were kept throughout\".\n\nAmong the options open to opposition parties to put political pressure on Mr Johnson include asking a parliamentary committee to investigate or holding a Commons vote.\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas has written to Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle asking him to establish a process to investigate both Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak.\n\nIt puts pressure on the parliamentary authorities to respond and on some Conservative Party backbenchers who have been on the fence about their leader's conduct.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Russia releases video they say shows surviving crew of the sunken ship Moskva\n\nThe Russian defence ministry has published images showing what it says is the crew of the warship Moskva - the first time any sailors from the ship have been seen since its sinking.\n\nA large group of sailors is seen on parade in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, met by Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm Nikolay Yevmenov.\n\nThe Moskva was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.\n\nThe ship's demise has been described as a huge blow to Russian morale.\n\nThe ministry announced late on Thursday that the Moskva had sunk on stormy seas after a fire caused by exploding ammunition. Ukraine said it had sunk the ship with two Neptune missiles.\n\nRussia said at the time that the crew had been taken to Sevastopol, a major port Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. This, however, is the first time any evidence has been offered of the survival of any sailors.\n\nThe video shows Adm Yevmenov and two other officers standing on a parade ground in front of about 100 sailors.\n\nIt is not clear when the meeting took place.\n\nThe Moskva patrolling the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria\n\nIn an interview shown at the end of the video, Adm Yevmenov says that the officers and crew are currently residing at their base in Sevastopol and will continue their service in the navy.\n\nRussia has not reported any casualties from the fire or the sinking.\n\nHowever, an unnamed US official quoted by Reuters news agency said Washington believed there were casualties.\n\nUkraine says the ship's captain, Anton Kuprin, was killed on board, but the BBC has been unable to verify this.\n\nThe 12,490-tonne cruiser is the biggest Russian warship to be sunk in action since World War Two.\n\nOn the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the Moskva gained notoriety after calling on a small garrison of Ukrainian border troops defending Snake Island in the Black Sea to surrender - to which they memorably radioed an expletive-laden message of refusal.\n\nOriginally built in the Soviet era, the Moskva entered service in the early 1980s. The vessel was actually built in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv, which has been heavily bombed by Russia in recent days.\n\nThe guided missile cruiser was previously deployed by Moscow in the Syria conflict where it supplied Russian forces in the country with naval protection from the Mediterranean.\n\nIt is the second major vessel Russia has lost since the start of its invasion of Ukraine.", "The Queen was spotted at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk on her birthday\n\nThe Queen is celebrating her 96th birthday on Thursday in Sandringham.\n\nBritain's longest-reigning monarch travelled by helicopter to her Norfolk estate, where she is being joined by family and friends.\n\nShe is thought to be staying in a cottage particularly liked by her late husband, Prince Philip.\n\nA photograph has been released to mark the birthday, showing the Queen with two ponies and reflecting her lifelong interest in horses.\n\nThe picture was taken at Windsor Castle, where the Queen now mostly stays, and shows her with two Fell ponies, who will appear in the forthcoming Royal Windsor Horse Show.\n\nA photograph for the Queen's birthday reflects her lifelong interest in horses\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wished the Queen happy birthday on Twitter, calling the monarch an \"inspiration to so many across the UK, the Commonwealth and the world\", and sharing a photo of the Queen and Prince Philip with seven of their great-grandchildren.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by The Royal Family\n\nPrince Harry suggested in a US TV interview that the Queen might be downplaying this latest milestone, saying that \"after a certain age you get bored of birthdays\".\n\nBut she will be spending time at Wood Farm, a cottage described as \"small and intimate\" by former housekeeper Teresa Thompson, and a place with strong associations with Prince Philip, who died a little over a year ago.\n\nThe Queen was in Sandringham earlier this year when she marked her accession to the throne in 1952.\n\nShe was born in 1926, not in a royal residence, but in a London townhouse on Bruton Street, where she first lived with her father and mother, who became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.\n\nThe house on Bruton Street where the Queen was born was demolished in the 1930s\n\nBirthday wishes have been sent by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and gun salutes were fired.\n\nThe prime minister also paid tribute to the monarch's \"dedicated and faultless service\" in a pre-recorded address posted on Twitter.\n\nThe Queen's Guard played Happy Birthday during the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen has had mobility problems in recent months and has had to miss a number of events, including church services over Easter.\n\nHer only public appearance this year, outside of her own residences or on video, was at the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe Queen's 96th birthday marks another unprecedented age for a British monarch, in a year in which she has become the first monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee of 70 years on the throne.\n\nThe next longest-lived monarchs were Queen Victoria and George III, who lived to the age of 81, and were the only other monarchs to have lived into their 80s.\n\nAccording to figures from the Office for National Statistics, the Queen is one of about 124,000 people in the 95 to 99 age group in the UK, almost three quarters of these being women.\n\nAlthough 21 April is the day the Queen was born, it is not her only birthday. The monarch also has an official birthday celebration on the second Saturday of June, a tradition which began because her great-grandfather Edward VII's birthday was in November, when the weather is generally less favourable for a birthday parade.\n\nThe Queen's official birthday is marked each year by the military parade Trooping the Colour. This year, the parade will take place on Thursday 2 June to coincide with the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nA number of commemorative items are being produced to mark the Jubilee. Among them is a Barbie doll, featuring a recreation of her wedding tiara and an ivory gown fitted with a blue ribbon.\n• None The mystery of the Queen's birthplace", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you prove a war crime has been committed?\n\nImages posted online will be crucial in prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine, according to UK legal experts.\n\nA law professor said the use of bomb footage from Yemen during a mock war crimes trial showed how images shared online had \"transformed\" the documentation of atrocities.\n\nOne online investigator said there was \"so much\" useful and verifiable information in warzone footage.\n\nBut experts also said eyewitness accounts must not be overshadowed.\n\nCases against individuals who have committed war crimes in Ukraine could depend on social media posts about unlawful killings, wartime sexual violence and torture, said Prof Yvonne McDermott Rees, who runs the Open Source Research for Human Rights project at Swansea University.\n\nImages shared online have \"transformed\" the documentation of atrocities, legal experts say\n\nShe said material, known as open-source information, had \"completely transformed our way of knowing about human rights violations\".\n\n\"We're seeing increasingly the UN commissions of inquiry, fact-finding missions, even the International Criminal Court in the Hague, using this kind of evidence,\" she explained.\n\nProf McDermott Rees said open-source information had also been used in Swedish and Dutch courts to prosecute members of the so-called Islamic State returning from Syria.\n\nOpen-source information is information that is freely available online.\n\n\"A video of a beheading that's recorded or shared on YouTube or Facebook... is evidence,\" she said, adding that similar material was recently tested for use in a UK court.\n\nIn 2018, unverified footage of the aftermath of a deadly airstrike on the office of the presidency in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, was posted on Twitter.\n\nPeople were seen lifting injured people from the rubble following an airstrike in Sana'a, Yemen\n\nThe open-source investigative website, Bellingcat, used geolocation, satellite imagery and comparisons of hundreds of images to document the attack.\n\nTheir evidence was then presented in the mock trial of a fictitious Saudi pilot accused of war crimes.\n\n\"We wanted to see if one of these videos would be accepted as evidence in a common-law court in England and Wales,\" said Nick Waters, the justice accountability lead at Bellingcat.\n\nHe said the result was a methodology \"we're now using to collect and verify incidents in Ukraine\".\n\nSix people were reported to have died in an airstrike in Yemen, footage of which was then used in a mock war crimes trial in the UK\n\nThe problem, said Prof McDermott Rees, is that in the midst of war, bystanders are rarely thinking about a criminal trial.\n\n\"They're sharing it with the intention of showing the world what they've witnessed,\" she explained.\n\nBystanders are being encouraged to film landmarks and known buildings in their footage of war crimes and to use a mobile phone app developed by the International Bar Association, called eyeWitness.\n\nA young woman with a mobile phone takes pictures of a destroyed Retroville shopping centre in Kyiv following a Russian shelling attack\n\n\"It does things like capturing the metadata, the time, the date, the place where this piece of content was recorded,\" she said.\n\n\"If you are recording this, as well as showing the injuries suffered, the weapon, see if you can include landmarks or buildings in the background.\"\n\nShe said Witness, a charity that uses videos to document human rights abuses, has published guidelines on how bystanders can gather images that will be acceptable for use in courts.\n\nWar crimes investigators are also fighting against the widely held view that online images cannot be trusted.\n\n\"That misses out on the fact that there is so much useful and verifiable information being posted on the Internet,\" Mr Waters said, adding that it is difficult to fake incidents online because real events come with a pattern of tweets from multiple sources.\n\n\"With the advent of social media, of smartphones, you effectively have an incredibly powerful information network where people are able to take pictures and take videos of the events,\" Mr Waters added.\n\nThe presence of mobile phones in war zones has been a gamechanger\n\nSolicitor Dearbhla Minogue works with the human rights charity, Global Legal Action Network and Bellingcat,\n\nShe said viewing a video of something happening is a lot more compelling than hearing somebody talk about it.\n\n\"Think about... the death of George Floyd,\" said Ms Minogue.\n\n\"People actually saw that happening in real-time, including the jury, by watching what was filmed by a passer-by.\n\n\"That impacted the outcome of that trial because it was no longer one person's word against another person's.\"\n\nThe University of California has developed rules for the use of digital open-source material, called the Berkeley Protocol.\n\nThe question facing war crimes prosecutors, Ms Minogue said, is how to reassure a judge that the video is not faked or manipulated for political reasons.\n\n\"With a video that just appears online purporting to be the aftermath of an airstrike, how do we know that it is what it says it is?\" she said.\n\n\"That it's not staged or faked or these issues that are being raised by Russia in the context of these Bucha videos.\"\n\nMs Minogue said the normal way in domestic courts is to call the person who filmed it to give evidence in court.\n\n\"But in the cast of open-source information, where you don't have the creator, you can't ask them how they created it, whether they manipulated it [or] whether someone else could manipulate it.\n\n\"Using the information in the video and comparing it with other satellite imagery or other videos showing the same event, they can piece together all these bits of content and assess whether they think it real or fake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Russian soldiers raped me and killed my husband\"\n\nProf McDermott Rees warned that while open-source material can help, \"it's important not to lose the human side in all of this\".\n\nShe said: \"In Yemen, this kind of evidence wasn't seen on its own, it was in close collaboration with accounts that were gathered by NGOs on the ground.\"\n\nIn Ukraine, she said evidence of rape had been documented in the testimony of survivors, \"so it's really important that we don't underplay the importance of those human accounts\".\n\n\"It's about showing that when international crimes are committed, they're not committed with impunity,\" Prof McDermott Rees said.\n\n\"So this work in documenting and gathering information… we have to make sure that's going to stand up in court and that we'll see justice.\n\n\"All of us are seeing this really disturbing content coming out of Bucha, other areas in Ukraine and I think universally we want to see justice done.\"", "ThisEgg, the creators of the show, said they had received threats\n\nA sex education theatre show aimed at children has been cancelled after the venue said it had received \"unprecedented threats and abuse\".\n\nThe Family Sex Show, featuring topics such as consent, pleasure and queerness, was due to be performed at Bristol's Tobacco Factory in May.\n\nThe creators of the show, who said they had also received threats, have now cancelled its whole tour.\n\nMore than 38,000 people signed a petition calling for it to be axed.\n\nThe petition claimed the show was \"profoundly irresponsible\" and \"wholly inappropriate\".\n\nThe show would have featured full-frontal nudity and those organising it would \"present a severe safeguarding risk\", protesters added.\n\nIn a statement, the Tobacco Factory said: \"Performances of The Family Sex Show by ThisEgg at Tobacco Factory Theatres have been cancelled.\n\n\"This is due to the unprecedented threats and abuse directed at our building and team.\"\n\nIt apologised to people who had booked tickets and said they would be offered refunds.\n\nThe show was due to be held at the Egg Theatre in Bath and the Tobacco Factory in Bristol\n\nThe show also explored topics such as non-sexual nudity and gender and was aimed at children as young as five.\n\nIt was due to be performed at The Egg theatre in Bath and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.\n\nIts creators ThisEgg said they had received \"violent and illegal threats\" from \"a small group of people with extremist views\".\n\nIn a Twitter statement, it said: \"These public performances would have offered safe and positive learning to children, young people and guardians about rights, bodies, sex and relationships\".\n\nThey said audiences were given information about the content before booking \"so they could make an informed decision\" as to whether to watch it.\n\nThe opposition had \"prevented families from opting to attend something that was transparent, consensual and legal,\" ThisEgg added.\n\nCritics on Twitter responded by saying the show was unsuitable for children.\n\n\"I can't believe anyone thought this show would be appropriate for children,\" said one.\n\nAnother said it was \"utterly abhorrent\" that the show's creators had intended to perform it for children.\n\n\"I was horrified. Thank goodness it's cancelled,\" they added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by OOR LESLEY Cybernat🍒 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe show explores names and functions, boundaries, consent and relationships\n\nThey continued: \"We believe that what has happened is reflective of structural and societal attitudes towards relationships and sex education as well as art, culture and who is allowed to create and what we are allowed to engage with in the UK.\n\n\"Removing work that celebrates freedom of expression from stages cannot be the answer.\"\n\nThe company said there would be performances for an invited audience at The Egg in Bath.\n\nCorrection - 3 May 2022: This article has been amended to remove references to how the show was made in consultation with safeguarding specialists after new information came to light.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon talked about the menopause during an interview on ITV's Loose Women programme\n\nScotland's first minister has revealed that she is anxious about how going through menopause will affect her.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was in the \"foothills\" of menopause but felt nervous to speak out about the \"intensely personal\" experience.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Loose Women programme, Ms Sturgeon said she hoped addressing the issue would help tackle the stigma around the subject.\n\nShe said she had been considering how she would cope given her public role.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I feel quite nervous [talking] about it as well. It's not the kind of thing I feel instinctively comfortable talking about - I think because it is so intensely personal, and there's still a lot of stigma around it.\"\n\nOn her own experience, the 51-year-old said: \"Obviously I'm in the foothills of it. I've been quite anxious about - given the public nature of my job - how I am going to cope with the impact of that, what's it going to be like.\"\n\nShe said she knew it was important to use her platform to talk about her experience, and hoped women in a similar position would benefit from hearing about her experience.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she wished she could go and read about other politicians' experience of the menopause.\n\n\"If I could go and read Angela Merkel or Hilary Clinton saying 'this is what it was like for me and how I coped with it', I think that would help me right now,\"\n\nShe hoped sharing her experience would help the next generation of female leaders.\n\nEarlier this year, the first minister spoke to a podcast about menopause.\n\nShe told The Shift there was still a \"massive amount of guesswork\" about menopause and that many women still suffered in silence.\n\nShe said she had already had a conversation with her doctor about hormone replacement therapy (HRT), a treatment to relieve symptoms which works by replacing hormones that decrease as women approach menopause.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that she had not started treatment yet, but was of the generation that grew up thinking that HRT was \"some terrible, terrible thing\" and that it was a \"badge of honour to push yourself through without it\".\n\nSome women report symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety and mood changes.\n\nShe said: \"I'm at the stage where definitely I'm feeling a bit hotter overnight, not being able to sleep and I've got windows open in the depths of winter,\" she said.\n\nThe first minister had not experienced \"extreme\" symptoms in public or in meetings, but she said she had thought about what would happen if she got a hot flush for example in parliament when she was on her feet in the middle of First Minister's Questions.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that she was concerned speaking up could be used against her in some way.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she and her husband had considered fostering\n\nIn the wide-ranging interview with Loose Women, the first minister was also asked about whether she and her husband were still considering fostering.\n\nShe said the couple had talked about it but had \"only scratched the surface\", adding: \"It would be a really serious decision to take.\"\n\n\"It's for the future, but it's something that we have thought about and talked about but only in an initial stage.\"\n\n\"You shouldn't do it to fill a gap in your own life - it should be about the young person.\n\n\"So I wouldn't want to do it just because I don't have children of my own, it would only be if I genuinely thought I could offer something to a young person.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"Circumstances have meant that I have never had children... and obviously I had a miscarriage and spoke about that because there's still a lot of stigma around that as well, so I think it is important to open up these conversations.\"\n\nThe first minister revealed in 2016 that she had experienced the loss five years earlier, while she was deputy first minister.\n\nSpeaking previously about her loss, she said she hoped it would challenge assumptions made about why she - and other women - did not have children.\n\nThe first minister was also asked on the programme about being filmed in a barber's shop at the weekend not wearing a mask.\n\nShe said again that she had made a \"mistake\" and had forgotten to put it on when she went into the shop, and said it was an \"error for a few seconds\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mikhail Fridman said the conflict in Ukraine should be stopped as soon as possible\n\nOne of Russia's richest men has said imposing sanctions on oligarchs would have no impact on Moscow's decision to launch a war in Ukraine.\n\nBillionaire banker Mikhail Fridman told a press conference in London the war was a tragedy for both sides.\n\nBut he stopped short of direct criticism, saying personal remarks could be a risk not just to himself but also staff and colleagues.\n\nHe joins another businessman, Oleg Deripaska, in calls for peace.\n\nThe two men are the most prominent oligarchs to speak out against Russia's invasion, now in its sixth day.\n\nThe UK also sanctioned Belarusian military chiefs on Tuesday for their role in \"abetting\" the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the Belarusian military has \"supported and enabled the Russian invasion of Ukraine\" and has also sanctioned some of its state manufacturing firms.\n\nThe Belarus sanctions are on top of those already applied on Minsk by the UK since 2020 when over 100 people and organisations were targeted in response to the fraudulent elections in Belarus.\n\nBorn in Ukraine before the break-up of the Soviet Union, Mr Fridman was the founder of Russia's biggest private bank, Alfa, and runs investment firm LetterOne which has extensive interests in oil and retailing.\n\nThe billionaire said the sanctions, which freeze some assets and impose a travel ban, were unjustified and he would fight them.\n\nBut he added the sanctions would, in any case, not have the desired effect of helping to rein in the Kremlin.\n\nHe said: \"My parents always told me: you know, because you are a Jew, you could not be in this position or that position, in this university or this job.\n\n\"Now, I'm facing the same situation here in the West, because you are Russian.\"\n\nOn Monday, the European Union slapped sanctions on Mr Fridman, who lives in London, and long-time partner Pyotr Aven.\n\nThe EU statement described Mr Fridman as \"a top Russian financier and enabler of Putin's inner circle\".\n\nMr Fridman said the conflict in Ukraine should end as soon as possible, but avoided questions about outright condemnation of President Vladimir Putin's actions.\n\n\"Please, don't push me to comment,\" he said, adding it would be not just \"my personal risk, but also a risk for my colleagues and staff\".\n\nHe said his companies had tens of thousands of staff in Russia, Ukraine and the UK. \"It's a very sensitive issue. We have a dozens of partners and I do not have a right to put all of them at risk.\"\n\nMr Deripaska, who founded one of Russia's largest industrial groups, has also pleaded for peace in a post on the messaging app Telegram.\n\nRussian billionaire oligarchs do not give many press conferences.\n\nIn some Western circles, the mere sight of banker and industrialist Mikhail Fridman defending himself after being sanctioned by the EU, shows the strategy of squeezing Russia financially is having the desired impact.\n\nMr Fridman, who was born in Ukraine, said sanctions were having a drastic impact on the Russian economy, and called for an end to the conflict - but said he had no influence over the actions of President Putin.\n\nThe founder of Alfabank said when asked if there was a bank run in Russia, that there was huge pressure on the Russian currency the rouble. He said many Russians were going to banks to withdraw roubles to convert into dollars because of dramatic moves in value, to keep hard currency \"under the mattress\".\n\nBut he feels the EU is treating him unfairly and without due process, that he should be sent back to Russia, for having been born in the former Soviet Union. And tellingly, while wishing for the war to end, he said journalists could not expect him to criticize President Putin, given the risk to his staff in Russia and Ukraine.", "Elisei Ryabukon was 13 when he was killed, trying to escape\n\nEvhen Ryabukon patted the coffin gently, and appeared to be having a final conversation with his son. He broke down, over and over again, before he could finish.\n\nHis wife Inna, steeling herself, adjusted the framed photo of a smiling, young boy placed on the coffin - a mother's last act of care.\n\nThe boy was Elisei Ryabukon. He would have been 14 in May.\n\nJust over a month after he was killed in firing by Russian soldiers, his family, friends, neighbours and classmates gathered at a church in the city of Brovary in the east of Kyiv, to say goodbye to this much loved child from Peremoha village. A community that had been scattered by war, came together in grief.\n\nElisei was remembered as honest, humble and helpful, a boy who didn't like to fight and who refused to play aggressive sport.\n\nInna, Elisei and her younger son were stuck in Peremoha when the fighting started.\n\n\"On 11 March, the Russians gave us permission to leave. They even waved us goodbye and wished us luck. Then when we were crossing a field, they started firing at us from every direction,\" Inna said.\n\nThere were five cars in the convoy of vehicles evacuating. Elisei was in the second car, in which no one survived.\n\n\"I crawled through the field and saved my three-year-old son by dragging him by the hood of his jacket. The fact that any of us made it out alive was pure luck,\" she said.\n\nShe says her younger child is the only reason she's able to carry on. She's filed a complaint with the police and wants justice for Elisei's killing.\n\n\"I want the world to know about the crimes of Russia. I want every victim to be counted. I want Russia to be held accountable for the people, children and women, they have killed on our land,\" she said.\n\nElisei's grandmother mourns him at the funeral\n\nElisei is among more than two hundred children known to have been killed in Ukraine so far, according to the country's government. Hundreds more have been injured.\n\nOhmatdyt hospital has received dozens of children wounded in the fighting.\n\nSix-year-old Daniil Avdeenko has been brought here from the northern city of Chernihiv, which had been surrounded and bombarded by Russian forces until they withdrew from the area at the start of April.\n\nDaniil and his parents were injured in mortar shelling just outside their home in a residential neighbourhood.\n\nWhen the explosion occurred, all of them were thrown to the ground. His father Oleksandr saw that his wife's leg was bleeding profusely. He used the strap of her bag as a tourniquet, an act that has saved her leg from being amputated.\n\nOleksandr had called out to Daniil, who'd told him he was alright. But when the boy began to stand up Oleksandr realised how badly he was hurt.\n\n\"I saw that he had shrapnel all over his body, and he was bleeding a lot,\" he said.\n\nAll three were taken to different hospitals.\n\n\"For the first four days we didn't know who was alive, and who wasn't. They didn't register my son's name when he was admitted to hospital,\" he said.\n\nEventually the family was reunited, and brought to Kyiv for treatment.\n\nDaniil had shrapnel pieces in his head which were removed, but the bits lodged in his back are still there. Doctors say it will be too painful to remove them right now. The boy has multiple injuries and fractures in his leg. It's not clear when he'll be able to walk.\n\nFor most part he's cheerful, but he lets out little cries of pain when a nurse comes to inject a medicine.\n\n\"He tells the nurses at the hospital the details of how we were all covered in blood. He remembers it all. But he blames himself. Just before it happened, I'd told him to go down to the basement with his mother. But he insisted on coming outside to me,\" says Oleksandr. \"I've explained to him that he's not guilty. We all have.\"\n\nAfter the war started, Oleksandr says Daniil would ask lots of questions.\n\n\"When there was shooting, he would ask 'Dad who's shooting now?'. I'd say 'ours'. 'And now?', he'd ask. I'd tell him 'It's our men being attacked,' In the night, he would see tanks in his dreams. When bombs dropped from the sky, he would wake up frightened. But despite it all he would still have fun. After the attack though, he's changed drastically,\" says Oleksandr.\n\nEven those who've managed to flee physically unscathed, bear scars of psychological trauma.\n\n13-year-old Ilya Bobkov escaped along with his family from Bucha just outside Kyiv, which was under Russian control for weeks.\n\nThey managed to leave through a humanitarian corridor which was opened in March for civilians to be evacuated. His family now lives in one room in a rundown government building in Kyiv.\n\n\"On 24 February when the fighting started, I was shocked. I had expected it to be a regular day, I'd go to school, do my homework and play games. My mother came to my room and told me to pack a few things. Then we started living in our basement. It was very scary. It was hard to get through the nights,\" Ilya says.\n\nIlya Bobkov fled from Bucha, the site of alleged Russian war crimes\n\nOn their way to safety, Ilya and his family saw burning buildings, destroyed tanks and corpses along the way.\n\n\"I can't escape the feeling that the war is still all around us. I dream about my family being killed or taken hostage by the Russians. I wake up in cold sweat,\" Ilya says.\n\nHis aunt Valentyna Solokova whose family evacuated along with Ilya's says they tried to keep the children distracted by playing games or looking at family photographs. They were also forced to have difficult conversations, especially when they were running low on food supplies.\n\n\"I'd tell the children that bread and water are the most important things. I had to make them understand that they lived one life before, where they had everything, they went to school and played games. And now they had to learn to live without all that,' she said. 'I told them the time has come for you to grow up.\"\n\nA generation of children in Ukraine is cut off from a normal childhood at the moment. The UN estimates that around two thirds of the country's 7.8 million children have been displaced.\n\nWith fighting raging in the south and east, and renewed shelling in Lviv and Kyiv, no part of Ukraine appears safe right now.\n\nIt's unclear when the children of this country might be able to return to the life that was suddenly interrupted.", "The UK, EU, and US governments have responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with devastating sanctions against the billionaire businessmen perceived to be in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.\n\nMr Putin has warned his allies for many years they should protect themselves against such measures, particularly as relations soured with the US and EU countries after the annexation of Crimea.\n\nBut while some of those closest to him took his advice and remained invested in Russia, others kept their money in palatial properties overseas and football clubs, and their companies remained listed on foreign stock exchanges.\n\nThey now find themselves scrambling to hold on to their assets amid the most comprehensive economic penalties imposed in the modern era. Here's what we know about some of them.\n\nSaid to be one of Mr Putin's favourite oligarchs, Alisher Usmanov is also one of the richest, worth an estimated $17.6bn, according to Forbes. A former professional fencer, the EU describes him as a \"businessman-official\" who helps the president solve his business problems.\n\nBorn in Uzbekistan while it was still part of the Soviet Union, he runs USM Holdings, a huge conglomerate that involves mining and telecoms, including Russia's second biggest mobile network MegaFon.\n\nThe EU announced sanctions against him on 28 February, and the US and UK have followed suit. He has called the sanctions unfair and said all the allegations against him were false.\n\nUSM Holdings appears to be hoping to avoid EU sanctions as he owns just under 50% of the shares. His superyacht Dilbar, named after his mother, is undergoing a refit in Hamburg and is at risk of being seized.\n\nIn the UK, his main visible investments are in property. In London he owns Beechwood House, a £65m country house with grounds in the heart of the city, and just outside London in Surrey, he owns a Tudor mansion, Sutton Place. Both have been frozen by UK authorities.\n\nHis business partner Farhad Moshiri owns Everton, and Mr Usmanov's companies USM, MegaFon and Yota have been key sponsors at the club, with suggestions his involvement was even closer. Everton suspended the sponsorship deal last week, and Mr Moshiri quit as a USM board member.\n\nOne of the most high-profile Russian billionaires because of the phenomenal success of his football club Chelsea FC, Roman Abramovich was sanctioned later than some others, possibly because he is less obviously influential than other Putin allies.\n\nHow influential he is in the Kremlin is much debated. Some suggest he is merely tolerated by Mr Putin, but the UK believes the two are close and that Mr Abramovich has made money out of the relationship, being awarded lucrative contracts for the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia, for example.\n\nMr Abramovich strongly denies having close ties to Mr Putin or the Kremlin, but the UK portion of his estimated $12.4bn fortune is now frozen. Just before the UK sanctions were announced, he put Chelsea up for sale for £3bn. His £150m house in London's Kensington Palace Gardens in London was also reportedly up for sale.\n\nMr Abramovich made his money in the 1990s and was one of the original oligarchs during Boris Yeltsin's presidency. His biggest break was buying the oil company Sibneft at a knockdown price. His assets include the third-longest yacht in the world, Eclipse, which recently left the British Virgin Isles, heading east across the Atlantic. His other mega-yacht, Solaris, is in the Mediterranean.\n\nHe had started to withdraw from the UK in recent years. In 2018 he decided not to apply to renew his UK visa, and has instead been using his newly acquired Israeli passport to visit London. And while he used to go to every Chelsea home game, in recent years he was rarely seen at Stamford Bridge - and now he is banned from entering the UK.\n\nWhen President Putin came to power, Oleg Deripaska was immensely rich, his wealth peaking at about $28bn - but he is now thought to be worth a mere $3bn.\n\nOleg Deripaska, right, with Mr Putin in 2017\n\nHe fought his way to a fortune in the 1990s, coming out on top in a vicious battle for the aluminium industry. The US said he was involved in money laundering, bribery, extortion and racketeering, and reported allegations that he had \"ordered the murder of a businessman, and had links to a Russian organized crime group\". He denies the allegations.\n\nHe suffered badly in the 2008 financial crisis and needed Mr Putin to bail him out. In 2009, President Putin humiliated him by suggesting publicly that he had stolen a pen. Since then, he seems to have worked himself back into favour and was described in the Mueller report - a US investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election - as being \"closely aligned\" with the president. When it announced its sanctions, the UK also described him as closely associated with Mr Putin.\n\nHe founded a green energy and metals company, En+ Group, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, but reduced his stake in it to below 50% when he was subjected to US sanctions in 2018. At the time, one of Mr Deripaska's companies, Basic Element, released a statement calling the sanctions \"groundless, ridiculous and absurd\".\n\nHe owns a vast art deco property, Hamstone House in Weybridge, Surrey, which he has been trying to sell for £18m but has now been taken off the market. He also owns a yacht, Clio, which was recently seen in the Maldives.\n\nUnlike many sanctioned oligarchs Mr Deripaska has been vocal about his view on the war, taking to social media to call for peace. \"Negotiations need to start as soon as possible!\" he wrote.\n\nIgor Sechin's connections to Vladimir Putin run long and deep, according to the EU which announced sanctions against him on 28 February. He is said to be one of Mr Putin's most trusted and closest advisors, as well as a personal friend, and the two are thought to be in daily contact.\n\nHis progress was made through ruthlessly pushing aside opponents - his nickname in the Russian press is Darth Vader. A leaked US embassy cable from 2008 described him as \"so shadowy that it was joked he may not actually exist but rather was a sort of urban myth, a bogeyman, invented by the Kremlin to instil fear\". The US imposed sanctions on him in 2014, which he called \"totally unjustified and illegal\". They announced new sanctions against him on 24 February.\n\nMr Sechin has spent his career alternating between jobs in politics and business, sometimes holding senior jobs in both at the same time. When Putin was prime minister, he was a deputy prime minister, and now runs the state oil giant Rosneft.\n\nMr Sechin worked with Mr Putin in the mayor's office in St Petersburg in the 1990s, and is widely believed to have been in the much-feared intelligence service, the KGB, although has never openly admitted it.\n\nBased in Russia, no-one knows how much money Mr Sechin has, but the French have seized a yacht called Amore Vero that was linked to him after his second wife Olga Sechina kept posting photographs of herself on board. They have since divorced.\n\nBeyond that there is little sign he has substantial wealth overseas that could be easily uncovered, and it may be hard to track down and freeze any more of his assets.\n\nAlexey Miller is another old friend of Vladimir Putin's. Something of a grey man, he too has built his career on loyalty to the president, starting when he was Mr Putin's deputy on the foreign relations committee of the St Petersburg mayor's office in the 1990s.\n\nAlexey Miller, right, with Mr Putin in February this year\n\nHe has run the immensely powerful state-owned gas company Gazprom since 2001, but it was a surprise appointment and it is widely assumed that he is just carrying out the orders of his old boss. The US ambassador to Moscow in 2009 described Gazprom as \"inefficient, politically driven, and corrupt\".\n\nMr Miller was not sanctioned after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, but when he was added to the list in the US in 2018, he said he was proud. \"Not being included in the first list. I even had some doubts - maybe something is wrong? But I am finally included. This means we are doing everything right,\" he said.\n\nHe does not appear to have easily traceable assets outside Russia and there is no information about his net worth.\n\nThe EU describes Pyotr Aven (pictured on the left) as one of President Putin's closest oligarchs, and Mikhail Fridman as an enabler of Putin's inner circle. Together the two men created Alfa-Bank, the largest private bank in Russia.\n\nThe Mueller report said Mr Aven met with Putin in the Kremlin about four times a year, saying he \"understood any suggestions or critiques Putin made during these meetings were implicit directives, and there would be consequences for Aven if he did not follow through\".\n\nThey were warned by Mr Putin in 2016 to protect their interests from future sanctions. This week the pair stood down from the London-headquartered LetterOne investment group they founded almost 10 years ago because their shares were frozen by EU sanctions on 28 February. Mr Aven also stood down as a trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.\n\nThe two businessmen said they would \"contest the spurious and unfounded basis for the imposition of these sanctions - vigorously and through all means available to them\".\n\nMr Fridman, thought to be worth around $12bn, lives in London in a house next to Lord's Cricket Ground and also owns a huge property, Athlone House in north London, that he paid £65m for in 2016.\n\nAt a London press conference on 1 March, he said the Ukraine war was a \"huge tragedy\" but would not criticise the Kremlin directly saying to do so could put the jobs of hundreds of thousands of employees at risk.", "Alyson Nelson, 64, was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nPolice have released the name of a woman who was killed in Whitehead, County Antrim.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched following the death of Alyson Nelson, who was 64 and had lived in the town for many years.\n\nShe was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 60s has been arrested.\n\nPolice were called to a house in Victoria Avenue at about 18:10 BST on Saturday after receiving reports of a stabbing.\n\nThey said the man had been arrested on suspicion of murder and was in police custody.\n\nThe incident happened at Victoria Avenue in the town centre on Saturday evening\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThe BBC was told Ms Nelson was often seen walking her dogs and chatting with neighbours.\n\nPeople in the area have said they are shocked and saddened by her death.\n\nMaeve Taylor, from Whitehead, said she was \"devastated\" at what had happened.\n\n\"I feel so sorry for her family, she was a lovely neighbour, a lovely lady,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"She walked her dogs, everybody knew her around the town. She would have been out and about and always very friendly, very chatty and she will be badly missed.\n\n\"It is just shocking, how she has passed away.\"\n\nVictoria Avenue is located near the railway station in Whitehead\n\nRev Mark Taylor, a Church of Ireland rector in Whitehead, said \"there was a great deal of shock\" at what had happened and that the community's thoughts and prayers were with Ms Nelson's family.\n\n\"This is a quiet, seaside town,\" he added.\n\n\"There are families that are torn apart and it is very hurtful for them, very difficult for them to deal with.\n\n\"They are known to people in the community, who care for them deeply.\"", "Scientists say they have identified urine bacteria which are linked to aggressive prostate cancer.\n\nThe discovery might provide new ways to spot and even prevent these dangerous tumours, experts hope.\n\nIt's too soon to say if the bacteria might cause the cancer, rather than just be a helpful marker.\n\nThe University of East Anglia team which found the link plan more work to see if clearing the infection might prevent bad tumours.\n\nBacterial infection is known to play a part in the development of other cancers - a bug called H. pylori can trigger stomach cancer, for example, and a course of antibiotics can get rid of this risk.\n\nProstate cancer is not always life-threatening - some tumours grow too slowly to ever cause any problems, and can safely be left alone and simply monitored instead.\n\nThe challenge is diagnosing and quickly treating men who have the aggressive, fast-growing ones that harm, while sparing others from unnecessary treatment.\n\nCurrently available tests, such as the PSA blood check and a biopsy, are not always able to predict which cancers will be harmful.\n\nFor this latest work, published in the journal European Urology Oncology, the researchers studied more than 600 patients with and without prostate cancer, to assess how useful the urine bacterial test was.\n\nThey identified five types of bacteria which were common in urine and tissue samples from men whose cancers ultimately went on to be aggressive.\n\nAll were types of bacteria that can grow without oxygen. Some were brand new types, never found until now.\n\nTwo of the new bacteria species found by the team have been named after two of the study's funders - Porphyromonas bobii, after the The Bob Champion Cancer Trust and Varibaculum prostatecancerukia, after Prostate Cancer UK.\n\nDr Rachel Hurst, one of the research team, said: \"Among the things we don't yet know is how people pick up these bacteria, whether they are causing the cancer, or whether a poor immune response permits the growth of the bacteria.\n\n\"But we hope that our findings and future work could lead to new treatment options, that could slow or prevent aggressive prostate cancer from developing. Our work could also lay the foundations for new tests that use bacteria to predict the most effective treatment for each man's cancer.\"\n\nHer colleague Prof Colin Cooper, who co-led the research, told the BBC he was very confident that the findings were real - they had followed rigorous measures to make sure there was no chance of contamination as they carried out the lab work.\n\nHe said it was possible that some of these bacteria make hormones that drive the development of aggressive tumours.\n\nDr Sam Godfrey from Cancer Research UK, said: \"Nearly four in 10 cancers in the UK are linked to known risk factors such as smoking and obesity. But there are other cancer-causing risk factors, such as bacteria, that we are only just beginning to identify.\n\n\"More studies are needed to establish how these bacteria are involved in prostate cancer growth, but this research could help lead to new screening and prevention tools that would help reduce the impact of these cancers on society.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I feel my mother's presence in almost everything I do now - Prince Harry\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has spoken of his feelings about the \"constant\" presence of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\n\"I feel her presence in almost everything that I do now,\" Prince Harry told a US television interview.\n\nSpeaking at the Invictus Games, he also talked about how much he enjoyed the \"chaos\" of fatherhood.\n\nBut Prince Harry didn't confirm whether he would attend events during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year.\n\n\"There are lots of things with security issues and everything else,\" said Prince Harry, who is involved in a legal dispute over the provision of security in the UK.\n\nHe said that \"home for me now, for the time being, is the States, and it feels that way as well\".\n\nSpeaking in the Netherlands to NBC's Today programme, Prince Harry spoke about feeling his mother's influence \"more so than ever before\".\n\nHe said it felt as though Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997, had helped his brother William and \"now she's helping me set up\".\n\n\"Like he's got his kids, I've got my kids. You know the circumstances are obviously different. But now I feel her presence in almost everything I do.\n\n\"Definitely more so in the last two years than ever before, without question. So she's watching over us,\" he told interviewer Hoda Kotb.\n\nIf there were fears in Buckingham Palace about a tell-all interview, Prince Harry focused on his own young family, now living in California.\n\nAsked about missing his father and brother, he spoke about focusing on the Invictus Games and then returning to his children.\n\nPrince Harry told the US interviewer about how much he loved being a father. \"I love every part of it. I always wanted to be a dad with my own kids.\"\n\nAlthough he said that working from home was \"not all it's cracked up to be\" when children interrupted Zoom calls.\n\n\"It's really hard to separate the work from them, because they kind of overlap.\"\n\nPrince Harry, who did not travel to the UK in March for the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip, spoke about visiting the Queen last week.\n\nSince meeting her grandson she has travelled to her Sandringham estate in Norfolk, where she will spend her 96th birthday on Thursday.\n\nPrince Harry singled out the Queen's sense of humour as her best quality. \"Her ability to see the humour in so many different things,\" he said.\n\n\"We have a really special relationship. We talked about things that can't talk about with anybody else,\" said Prince Harry.\n\nHe described the Queen as being \"on great form\".\n\n\"She's always got a great sense of humour with me and I'm just making sure that she's protected and got the right people around her,\" said Prince Harry.", "A photo of Halyna Hutchins at a vigil following her death in October\n\nThe producers of a film whose cinematographer was accidentally shot dead on set by Alec Baldwin have been fined and strongly criticised by authorities for failing to follow safety guidelines.\n\nThe makers of Rust showed \"plain indifference to recognised hazards associated with use of firearms on set\", according to the New Mexico Environment Department.\n\nThe agency has issued the maximum $136,793 (£105,000) fine to Rust Movie Productions.\n\nHalyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza injured in October as Baldwin rehearsed with what he believed to be a safe gun.\n\nAlec Baldwin has said he said he did not pull the trigger but the revolver fired after he cocked it\n\nThe actor, who was also a producer on the film, has previously said he did not pull the trigger and has no idea how a live bullet came to be on the set near Santa Fe.\n\nThe report said Rust Movie Productions' management \"knew that firearm safety procedures were not being followed on set and demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety by failing to review work practices and take corrective action\".\n\nThe company said it disagreed with the findings and would appeal.\n\nNew Mexico Environment Department cabinet secretary James Kenney said: \"There were several management failures and more than sufficient evidence to suggest that if standard industry practices were followed, the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins and the serious injury to Joel Souza would not have occurred.\n\n\"Through our investigation, we determined that Rust Productions' failures were both serious and wilful.\"\n\nHe added: \"The bottom line here is that it was the employers' obligation to follow national standards, and that did not happen on the set of Rust.\n\n\"This was a terrible tragedy and our thoughts are with the victim - a mother, a wife, an experienced cinematographer and a well respected member of the film community. Today we continue to extend our thoughts and prayers to her loved ones.\n\n\"While I realise no fine can compensate for the loss of life, we are holding Rust Productions fully accountable.\"\n\nThe tragedy occurred at Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe\n\nIn a statement to the Reuters news agency, Rust Movie Productions spokesman Stefan Friedman said: \"While we appreciate OSHA's time and effort in its investigation, we disagree with its findings and plan to appeal. Our thoughts and prayers remain with Halyna's family.\"\n\nBaldwin has previously said a live bullet \"wasn't even supposed to be on the property\", and that the replica Colt .45 revolver fired after he cocked it during rehearsals.\n\nBaldwin's lawyers issued a statement after the report was released, saying: \"We appreciate that the report exonerates Mr Baldwin by making clear that he believed the gun held only dummy rounds and that his authority on the production was limited to approving script changes and creative casting.\"\n\nAccording to court records, Mr Baldwin had been handed the weapon by the film's assistant director, Dave Halls, who did not know it contained live ammunition and indicated it was unloaded by shouting \"cold gun\".\n\nMr Halls had been given the gun by Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old armourer on the film. Lawyers for Ms Gutierrez-Reed have said she did not know where \"the live rounds came from\".", "Most of Sviatohirsk's residents have fled the town\n\nIn a picturesque resort town on the northern edge of Ukraine's Donbas region, people can hear the shelling coming closer. The Russians are just five miles to the north.\n\nSviatohirsk was once a staple of the tourist trail but now it is just another place in the Donbas where people flee the fighting. Most of its permanent residents have themselves fled, fearing the war will not stop its ruthless advance here.\n\nIt was famed for its historic Russian Orthodox church and monastery, set amid the wooded Holy Mountains of the Donbas. That monastery has been damaged by shrapnel from a Russian air strike that hit a target nearby. There is now a gaping hole in the church spire.\n\nJust to the north is the city of Izyum where there is already fierce fighting. The residents who had fled Izyum told us they had been bombed day and night, been without running water and electricity for weeks. They also said there were bodies on the streets.\n\nThe support of religious leaders is helping some cope with the trauma of war\n\n\"Everyone is worried,\" the town's mayor, Vladimir, tells me.\n\nHe says those who have remained regularly call to check he's not leaving. He is not. He is staying put and organising food parcels for the town's dwindling population. These are people who are tired, hungry and scared, too scared sometimes to apportion any blame on Russia.\n\n\"I will not talk about it,\" one woman tells me, \"because we still have to go home.\"\n\nRussia is open about the fact that its renewed focus in the war will be in Ukraine's east, the Donbas. The Russian offensive here is coming from three directions - from the north, south and the east.\n\nBut the landscape of the town that so charms its visitors also offers some kind of protection to its terrified residents. Unlike most of the Donbas region, which is largely flat open landscape, Sviatohirsk is set among hills and forests - providing some natural defences - making it harder for an army to manoeuvre with artillery and tanks.\n\nThe people left in the area find themselves queuing for emergency food parcels\n\nThe residents who have stayed behind now rub shoulders with soldiers getting a brief respite from the fighting. They grab a coffee from one of the few shops left open. The military's not allowed to speak to us without permission.\n\nOne man proudly tells us he was trained by British troops before the latest war started. He's confident that Ukraine can win this war.\n\nBut I meet another soldier who sounds less assured. The unrelenting Russian bombardment is taking its toll. Another soldier tells us that the Russians have been targeting their positions with white phosphorous shells - which burn into the flesh.\n\nThere is now a real danger that Russia may soon try to encircle Ukrainian forces in the region who have been fighting Russian-backed separatist in the region since 2014. Ukrainian troops there are among the most battle hardened in the Ukrainian Army. But they, too, are worried that their supply lines could be cut off as Russian forces push in from three different directions.\n\nThe unit we saw look well trained and well equipped. Their automatic weapons were fitted with suppressors, which are silencers. An officer who agreed to be interviewed says his son, too, was trained - by US and British forces.\n\nThe Ukrainian army now is better prepared than when separatists took over the Donbas in 2014\n\nVolodomyr told us that the Ukrainian Army is now much better prepared than the one of 2014 - when Russian backed separatists took over part of the Donbas.\n\n\"If this war had happened then, I don't know how it would end, but now we know the Russian aggressors will get what they deserve.\"\n\nVolodomyr says the Russians are using similar tactics they have used elsewhere in Ukraine - \"creating panic among the local population\". He says \"it's inhuman\".\n\nIt is now happening right across the Donbas.\n\nFrom the distance we could see and hear the city of Severodonetsk being pounded. We tried to enter but had to turn back when we heard the whistle of a shell landing nearby. It was a similar scene further south in the city of Avdiivka - where the remnants of a once bustling industrial city were now hiding in bunkers.\n\nGallina showed the crater caused by a bomb landing in her garden\n\nEven a nearby village hadn't been spared. Sixty-year-old Gallina showed us the crater which had landed in her garden - blowing out the windows of her small home the night before. Inside, her granddaughter, Anastasia, was cowering under a table - still too frightened to come out.\n\nGallina told me \"there's nothing funny about this situation\".\n\n\"We live here like cannon fodder,\" she added.\n\nAnastasia has been hiding under a table since a bomb landed near her home, frightened to come out\n\nUkrainian forces are trying to slow any Russian advance - as they did in Kyiv. One soldier shows us drone footage of a bridge they recently blew up - to the north of Izyum. It brings a column of military trucks to a standstill. But more will be coming.\n\nWhat is happening in the Donbas now - the incessant, unrelenting shelling - is the prelude to the long expected offensive. Russia is trying to weaken Ukraine's defences and its people's resolve.\n\nThere have been also Russian probing attacks across the frontline. Most have been so far repelled by Ukraine forces. But they know more will be coming.\n\nRussia is still massing and reconstituting its battered units. There are still questions as to whether Russian forces will perform any better in the east than they did outside the capital Kyiv - where they were forced to retreat.\n\nThe UK's Ministry of Defence believes Russian commanders will also be concerned by the time it is taking them to subdue the port city of Mariupol - which has diverted men and materiel - slowing the Russian advance elsewhere.\n\nUkraine still fears worse is to come. That's why President Volodymyr Zelensky has once again been calling for more weapons.\n\nUntil recently Western support has been limited to \"defensive weapons\" - such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. But some countries are now sending heavier weapons.\n\nWe have seen some of it - such as armoured vehicles - arrive on the frontline. The Czech Republic is providing Ukraine with a dozen T-72 tanks. The latest batch of US military aid will include 18 howitzers.\n\nBut that will probably not be enough to tip to balance overwhelmingly in favour of Ukraine.\n\nBack in Sviatohirsk, Mayor Vladimir says he is still holding out hope that this conflict can be resolved through diplomacy.\n\n\"All this is terrible,\" he says. \"This destruction has no future.\"\n\nAre you or your family in the area? If it is safe to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Russian defence ministry has released video of what it says is a successful launch of a nuclear-capable missile.\n\nThe new Sarmat super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk spaceport in the north-western Arkhangelsk region and landed in the other side of Russia in the far-eastern Kamchatka peninsula.\n\nPresident Putin said it was food for thought for those who try to threaten Russia.", "The Duke Of Sussex has revealed the Queen was \"on great form\" during their recent meeting - as he describes making sure she is \"protected\".\n\nPrince Harry dropped in to see his grandmother with wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on the way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands last week.\n\nHe said in a US television interview it allowed him to check the monarch, 95, has \"the right people around her\".\n\n\"It was really nice to catch up with her,\" he told NBC's Today show.\n\nThe duke also used the interview in The Hague, in the Netherlands, to describe the United States as his home \"for the time being\" where he has been \"welcomed with open arms\".\n\nDescribing the visit to see the Queen, which was not announced in advance, the duke said: \"Being with her, it was great. It was so nice to see her... she's on great form.\"\n\n\"She's always got such a great sense of humour with me and I'm just making sure she's protected and got the right people around her,\" he added in a preview of the full interview, expected to air in the US later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan, who had not visited the UK together since they stepped back from royal duties in early 2020, also saw Prince Charles while they were at Windsor Castle, reports said.\n\nThe 37-year-old did not attend a memorial service for his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, in London last month.\n\nHe is currently engaged in a legal case against the UK government over his police protection in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen - who is 96 on Thursday - has been forced to pull out of several key events - including a traditional Easter Sunday church service - in recent weeks after speaking about her mobility problems.\n\nThe short clip from US television doesn't reveal what Prince Harry was \"making sure\" the Queen was protected from. Problems with her health? Bad advice?\n\nBut his comments, following his flying visit to the UK, are likely to raise some eyebrows and maybe even some hackles among those already looking after the Queen in Windsor Castle.\n\nThere's a danger of overanalysing a few seconds of small talk - and maybe more will be explained in the full interview later.\n\nBut what did seem clear is that Prince Harry sees his future as being in the United States, at least for the time being. Never mind the royal genes, it's jeans and sunshine for now.\n\nWith a young family now growing up in California, it has the feel of putting down roots.\n\nPrince Harry is visiting Europe in his role as private patron to the Invictus Games, which sees 500 injured and sick military personnel and veterans from 20 nations compete in a week of adaptive sports.\n\nThe aim of the event, which he founded, is to help recovery, support rehabilitation and promote wider understanding of injured and sick servicemen and women.\n\nA film crew is expected to be joining him at the games as part of filming for a Netflix series called Heart Of Invictus.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan made a deal with Netflix in September 2020 to make a range of programmes which they said would focus on creating content that \"informs but also gives hope\".", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "Actor Johnny Depp has testified in his $50m (£38m) defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard that he never struck her.\n\nThe lawsuit is over an opinion piece Ms Heard wrote for the Washington Post in which she called herself a victim of domestic violence. He denies any abuse.\n\nMs Heard has sued back, with a $100m counterclaim against Mr Depp.\n\nThe closely watched civil trial, which is taking place in Virginia, is now in its second week.\n\nMs Heard's team has portrayed Mr Depp as an abusive partner prone to drug and alcohol binges.\n\nMr Depp's team has presented Ms Heard's claims of domestic violence as a \"hoax\" and a calculated strategy to ruin his reputation.\n\nSpeaking to the jury on Tuesday, Mr Depp said the truth was all that mattered to him now.\n\n\"I never struck Ms Heard in that way, nor have I struck any woman in my life,\" he testified, adding that \"her accusations sort of permeated the industry\".\n\n\"It's been six years of trying times - so strange when one day you're Cinderella, so to speak, and then in 0.6 seconds, you're Quasimodo,\" he said, describing how people's attitudes towards him changed after Ms Heard's op-ed was published.\n\nThe trial has focused so far on Mr Depp's demeanour and whether he was ever verbally or physically abusive towards Ms Heard. Lawyers for Mr Depp have accused his ex-wife, an actress, of giving the \"performance of her life\" in her descriptions of alleged abuse.\n\nMr Depp began his testimony saying that Ms Heard's claims are \"not based in any species of the truth\".\n\nHis lawyer went on to ask him to describe his childhood in Kentucky, and the abuse that he suffered from his mother.\n\n\"I could see when she [his mother] was about to head into a situation where she was going to get riled up and someone was going to get it. And generally it was me,\" he said.\n\nMs Heard watched as Mr Depp testified to the court\n\nMs Heard is also expected to testify later in the trial.\n\nThe jury has heard evidence presented by the celebrity ex-couple's former therapist, who described how Mr Depp and Ms Heard engaged in \"mutual abuse\", as well as from medical workers who treated Mr Depp as he was detoxing himself from opiates.\n\nOn Monday, a nurse who was hired to treat Mr Depp's drug addiction and attended the couple's wedding testified that she witnessed Ms Heard \"try to instigate\" conflict with her former husband on several occasions.\n\nShe would sometimes pick fights with him while he was receiving medical treatment, said nurse Debbie Lloyd, who frequently travelled with Mr Depp.\n\nOn Tuesday, a sound engineer, Keenan Wyatt, who has worked with Mr Depp on nearly all of his movies since the 1990s testified to having never witnessed the actor verbally or physically abuse his two children or their mother.\n\nThe trial is expected to last at least six weeks.\n\nAhead of the case, Ms Heard wrote on social media that she never identified Mr Depp by name in her 2018 op-ed.\n\n\"Rather, I wrote about the price women pay for speaking against men in power,\" she said.\n\n\"I continue to pay that price, but hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny\".", "Health officials say they are now investigating unexplained cases of hepatitis in children in four European countries and the US.\n\nCases of hepatitis, or liver inflammation, have been reported in Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and the US, health officials say.\n\nLast week UK health authorities said they had detected higher than usual cases of the illness among children.\n\nThe cause of the illness is not yet known.\n\nThe European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) did not specify how many cases have been found in the four European countries in total.\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) said less than five had been found in Ireland, and three had been found in Spain. It added that the detection of more cases in the coming days was likely.\n\nInvestigations into the cause of the illness are ongoing in all of the European countries where cases have been reported, said the ECDC.\n\nIn the US, Alabama's public health department said nine cases have been found in children aged one to six years old, with two needing liver transplants.\n\nInvestigations into similar cases in other states are taking place, it added.\n\nThe UK is where the highest number of cases has been reported - with a total of 74 recorded so far.\n\nLast week the UK Health Security Agency said the usual viruses that cause infectious hepatitis (hepatitis A to E) have not been detected among the cases in the UK.\n\nAs a result, investigators are looking at other possible causes, and believe that the common adenovirus could be the cause.\n\nAdenoviruses are a family of viruses that usually cause a range of mild illnesses such as colds, vomiting and diarrhoea.\n\nIt did however say that other possible causes of the illness are also being investigated, and it had not ruled out Covid-19. It added that there is no apparent link with Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nIt's a broad term used to describe inflammation of the liver.\n\nUsually the result of a viral infection, it can also be caused by exposure to some chemicals, drinking too much alcohol, drugs and certain genetic disorders.\n\nThere are five main types of hepatitis caused by specific viruses - known as A, B, C, D and E - but none of those appear to have caused the liver inflammation seen in these children so far.\n\nSome types of hepatitis can pass without any serious problems, while others can be long-lasting.\n\nUK health authorities said parents should be on the lookout for symptoms such as jaundice.", "Uranus, photographed here by the Hubble Space Telescope, has at least 13 rings and numerous moons\n\nThe US space agency Nasa should prioritise a mission to Uranus, an influential panel of scientists says.\n\nThe \"ice giant\" is the seventh planet in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun 19 times further out than the Earth.\n\nIt's only ever been visited once before, in a brief flyby by the Voyager-2 probe in 1986.\n\nResearchers think an in-depth study of Uranus can help them better understand the many similarly sized objects now being discovered around other stars.\n\nThe recommendation is made in a document published by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).\n\nKnown as a \"decadal survey\", it is the summation of what the American research community thinks are the big planetary science questions right now and the space missions required to answer them.\n\nNasa has broadly followed the recommendations of previous National Academies reports.\n\nThe last planetary decadal survey, published in 2011, had as its two top priorities a rock-collection mission to Mars, which became the Perseverance rover, now on the surface of the Red Planet; and a mission to Jupiter and its moon Europa, which is currently being prepared for launch in 2024. This is called the Europa Clipper spacecraft.\n\nThe closest we've been to Uranus is with the Voyager-2 mission\n\nSpecialists who study the outer planets in our Solar System have been campaigning for a return visit to either Uranus or Neptune ever since their late-80s Voyager-2 encounters. And the science case has only strengthened over the intervening years, proponents argue.\n\nLook at the size-range of planets now being discovered around other stars and they seem to dominate in a range that's about three and four times the width of the Earth. That's Uranus and Neptune.\n\n\"And that actually poses a problem for planet formation theories,\" explained Prof Leigh Fletcher, who contributed to the report.\n\n\"We think we understand how something gets as big as Jupiter, and we think we understand how something gets to be the size of Earth and Venus. But in the middle, in that kind of sweet spot between those end-members - we don't fully understand how a world can start to grow and grow and not just carry on to become Jupiter-mass in size. A mission to Uranus could help us answer that,\" the Leicester University, UK, scientist told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: European scientists will hope they can join the mission, just as they did with the Cassini mission to Saturn\n\nThere are favourable launch opportunities in 2031 and 2032 that would allow a spacecraft to use a gravity slingshot around Jupiter to shorten the cruise time to Uranus to \"just\" 13 years.\n\nThe spacecraft would go into orbit around the planet, which would preclude any observations at the more-distant Neptune. The eighth and outermost planet will have to wait its turn.\n\nUranus is an oddity compared with the other planets in the Solar System in that its axis of rotation is almost parallel with the plane of its orbit around the Sun. It's as if it has been knocked on to its side, which may well be the explanation - scientists speculate that it suffered a massive impact with another body early in its history.\n\nUranus has rings and plenty of moons.\n\nIndeed, the moons are quite a draw because a good many of them are likely to be \"ocean worlds\".\n\n\"This is the idea that you've got an icy crust and then you've got some kind of liquid briny ocean down at depth that may or may not be in contact with whatever silicate rocky material is down at the bottom,\" said Prof Fletcher.\n\n\"Well, all of the big five classical satellites of Uranus are thought of as being ocean world candidates. These moons could have cryo-volcanic (ice volcano) activity taking place on them.\"\n\nThe successful completion of the Perseverance rover's mission comes before all else\n\nDr Robin Canup from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, was the co-chair on the Academies' steering committee.\n\nShe said an ice giant was a worthy target for a Nasa flagship and of all the potential candidates assessed in what would be the most expensive class of endeavour, the Uranus mission was the most mature technically.\n\n\"It was the only one to receive a low-medium rating for its risk,\" she explained.\n\n\"So because of that, we are extremely excited to recommend that the highest priority new flagship should be a Uranus orbiter and probe. This will be a fantastic multi-year mission with the probe dropping into the planet at the beginning of the mission, followed by an extended orbital tour investigating the satellites, their interiors, the magnetosphere, the rings, and the atmosphere.\n\n\"It is technically ready to start now. We recommend that it be initiated in financial year 2024.\"\n\nEuropean-based planetary researchers, like Prof Fletcher, will be hoping the European Space Agency (Esa) can contribute to such a mission.\n\nNasa and Esa are frequent partners, such as on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn (2004-2017), but their priorities and funding cycles do not always coincide.\n\nAnd for Nasa, the speed at which it's able to implement the recommendation will depend on its other financial commitments.\n\nThe decadal survey panel said completing the Perseverance rover's objectives and the follow-up missions designed to bring its rock samples back to Earth came before everything else in importance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Le Pen and Macron come to blows over headscarf policy\n\nThe two candidates for the French presidency have gone head to head in their only televised debate, ahead of Sunday's second-round run-off vote.\n\nFar-right leader Marine Le Pen has fallen behind centrist Emmanuel Macron in the opinion polls but millions of voters are still undecided.\n\nIt did not take long for the two-hour-45-minute clash to burst into life.\n\nThe candidates confronted each other on the cost of living, Russia, climate change and immigration.\n\nAround 15.6 million viewers watched the debate, in which Mr Macron accused his rival of being dependent on Russian power while Marine Le Pen called him a hypocrite on climate change.\n\nSpiralling prices have dominated the campaign and immediately took centre stage in the debate.\n\nEmmanuel Macron was widely seen as the winner of the pair's 2017 encounter, when his rival appeared flustered and underprepared. But this time, Marine Le Pen was ready from the start and far more composed.\n\nThroughout the debate, it was Mr Macron who went on the offensive, appearing more like a challenger than an incumbent, repeatedly interrupting his rival.\n\nMs Le Pen said 70% of the French people believed their standard of living had fallen over the past five years and she would be the president of civil peace and national brotherhood. \"We need to give priority to the French in their own country,\" she said.\n\nMr Macron said France had known unprecedented crisis, with Covid followed by war in Europe. He had steered France through those challenges and aimed to make France a stronger country: the vote was a \"referendum on Europe, on secularism, and a moment of clear choice\", he said.\n\nDespite a strong performance from Ms Le Pen, a snap Elabe poll of voters suggested 59% of viewers thought Mr Macron had come out the winner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Voters react to the Macron and Le Pen TV debate\n\nThe sitting president was seen as most presidential, by 53% to 29%, although half of viewers also said he had come across as arrogant. Ms Le Pen was narrowly deemed to be more in tune with normal people, although 50% found her \"worrying\".\n\nThe president's difficulty was that unlike in 2017, he is now defending a record in office.\n\nIt meant that when asked what he planned for a second mandate, he had to stick to the unexciting option of continuity. His opponent could make hay with attacks on the inevitable failures of five years in government.\n\nAnd yet, the president never gave the feeling he was not on solid ground. His attacks on Marine Le Pen over the Russian loan, over Europe and over the Islamic headscarf all hit home.\n\nOn the economy, he argued forcefully that his already-enacted proposals for protecting the French from inflation - a cap on fuel prices and tax exemption for pay bonuses - were both fairer and more effective than Madame Le Pen's ideas.\n\nAnd in the main, he avoided the trap of coming over as too arrogant or technocratic. Often, he gave the impression of wanting to launch himself more strongly against his opponent but of holding himself back.\n\nAfter a relatively civil start, it quickly turned combative when the two candidates addressed the biggest issue for voters.\n\nCost of living: From the start Marine Le Pen said this was her priority: \"I will permanently cut VAT on energy. I will also cut taxes, no income tax for under-30s.\" She accused Mr Macron on letting pension levels fall in real terms too.\n\nMr Macron said his solution was to impose a cap on prices which was \"twice as effective as dropping sales tax\".\n\nThey became animated as they disagreed on how to bring down energy prices. Mr Macron repeatedly challenged his opponent's proposals as unworkable. She snapped back: \"I want to give the French their money back.\"\n\nMr Macron frequently went on the offensive during the long debate\n\nRussia's war in Ukraine: Emmanuel Macron said Russia was \"going down a fatal path\" and the role of France and Europe was to provide Ukraine with military equipment and take in refugees.\n\nMs Le Pen, criticised for her close ties to the Kremlin and for taking a Russian bank loan for her party, warned that giving Ukraine weapons could make France a \"co-belligerent\". However, she supported her opponent's policy of backing Ukraine and taking in refugees.\n\nAt this point Mr Macron went on the offensive, pointing out she was one of the first political leaders in 2014 to recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea. \"You're speaking to your banker when you speak to Russia,\" he said.\n\nMs Le Pen said she had taken Russian money as no French bank would lend to her party. When she argued that she had had to borrow money like millions of French people, he countered that the French did not look to Russia for finance.\n\nAt one point Marine Le Pen held up a printed tweet to prove her backing for a free Ukraine\n\nEuropean Union: Marine Le Pen has changed her policy from leaving the EU to seeking change from within it. But Mr Macron argued that her idea of a \"Europe of nations\" would spell the end of the EU and that \"you are selling a lie\".\n\nIn the current EU she said France was failing to defend its interests and she would stop negotiating trade deals that \"hurt French producers and farmers\".\n\nRetirement age: This is another of the big election issues: Emmanuel Macron has said France needs to raise the pension age from 62 to 65 over nine years, while Ms Le Pen wants to keep it at 62.\n\nMs Le Pen said his proposal was \"absolutely intolerable\". He hit back saying she was promising to be more generous with pensioners but did not explain how she would pay for it.\n\nClimate change: Renewable energy is another issue where the two candidates are diametrically opposed and it became one of the most animated points of the debate. The only thing they agree on is building more nuclear power stations.\n\n\"You are a climate sceptic, that's pretty obvious,\" Mr Macron said to his rival. The only Green presidential candidate has urged his voters to back the incumbent president. Marine Le Pen retorted that he was a \"climate hypocrite\".\n\nMarine Le Pen argued importing goods from thousands of miles away was responsible for climate change and producing locally would help tackle global warming. There was nothing worse than wind turbines, she complained. He countered that her policy of relying on nuclear power to replace fossil fuels was \"untenable\" and renewables had to be part of the mix. \"Wind turbines create jobs,\" he added.\n\nImmigration and Islam: Marine Le Pen went on the offensive, promising a referendum on who should stay and who should leave France and condemning what she called \"anarchic and massive immigration\" that contributed to a sense of insecurity.\n\nShe then spoke about another of her key policies, banning the wearing of the headscarf in public, arguing that women had to be liberated from \"Islamist pressure\". Mr Macron objected it was wrong to mix Islam with Islamism. Her policy, he said, would lead to \"civil war\" and was a betrayal of French values: \"You would have police running down the street after girls in headscarves and [Jewish] boys wearing the kippah.\" It was intolerant and she was pushing millions of compatriots out of the public space on account of their religion, he said.\n\nConstitutional change: Another of Marine Le Pen's big policies is for citizens' referendums, which she said were rooted in the yellow-vest or gilets jaunes protests that began early in the Macron presidency. \"The main problem after your five-year term is that you have divided the country. We need to rebuild France and bring people together.\"\n\nOne of the big attractions of such referendums for Ms Le Pen is that they would bypass parliament, where she has only a handful of MPs. Mr Macron said they would be unconstitutional.\n\nTelevised confrontations between the top two candidates have been a highlight of French presidential elections for almost five decades and they have proved most decisive when the polls are close.\n\nIn 1974, conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went on to beat Socialist François Mitterrand after performing well in their debate. Mitterrand did better in the rematch in 1981 and won the run-off vote.\n\nThis was the first time since then that the same candidates have squared off in two consecutive elections.\n\nThe 2017 debate was a disaster for Ms Le Pen that led to a big election defeat. This time around the race is much closer and her strong performance could help win over undecided voters.\n\nThe gap in the opinion polls has widened slightly since the first round vote in which the incumbent president won 27.85% and Ms Le Pen came second with 23.15%. But they are still fluctuating wildly, suggesting Mr Macron will secure between 53% and 57% of the vote.\n\nThe choice for voters is far clearer than five years ago, when Emmanuel Macron won with very little experience as a politician.\n\nHis strict Covid policies alienated many voters and he has been accused of acting as a \"president for the rich\". He is more popular in the big cities but has secured the support of other mainstream left and right parties for his pro-EU liberal and global outlook.\n\nMarine Le Pen has toned down her nationalist, anti-EU rhetoric during the campaign but as she made clear in the debate her aim remains to revise France's relationship with the European Union.", "Ukrainian soldier stands guard close to the front line with Russian troops near Kharkiv\n\nUkraine's allies have pledged to send more weapons to help it defend against a renewed Russian offensive.\n\nThe US and others vowed to send artillery, anti-tank and air defence aid to Kyiv during a 90-minute video call on Tuesday.\n\nUkraine says it needs the weapons to help defend itself as Russia launched a new campaign in the country's east.\n\nClashes there have marked what Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky said was the start of the \"battle for the Donbas\".\n\nThe eastern Donbas - which comprises the Luhansk and Donetsk regions - is where Russia is concentrating its efforts.\n\nAccording to Ukraine, Russian forces have been attacking Ukrainian positions along the entire 300-mile (480km) front line since Monday.\n\nIt was amid these renewed attacks that Western leaders met to discuss further military assistance for Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the meeting, the US defence department said additional military aircraft and aircraft parts had been sent to Ukraine to increase their fleet size and repair others in Ukraine's arsenal that were damaged.\n\nThe US defence department added that the US had not provided aircraft to Kyiv itself, and did not provide details on which countries have provided the aircraft.\n\nPresident Zelensky has been appealing to the US for Soviet-made air defence systems and fighter jets as an alternative to a no-fly zone over Ukraine.\n\nLast month, the US refused a proposal by Poland to provide it with MiG-29 fighter jets, which it would then transfer to Ukraine.\n\nPresident Joe Biden, speaking to reporters after the meeting between Western allies, added that the US is planning to provide a further military aid package to Ukraine of a similar size to the $800m (£615m) aid package he announced last week, according to US media.\n\nHe said Washington would also be sending Ukraine more artillery - heavy guns deployed in land warfare.\n\nOther countries also pledged to help Ukraine with further military assistance during the meeting.\n\n\"They [Ukraine] need support with more artillery, that is what we will be giving them,\" said the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in parliament after the meeting.\n\nIn Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany was providing finance to enable Ukraine to buy anti-tank weapons and ammunition from German arms manufacturers.\n\nMeanwhile, the Czech Republic said it would repair Ukrainian tanks and armoured vehicles when they are damaged in combat.\n\nFurther economic sanctions against Russia was another topic on the agenda.\n\nThe arms pledges follow persistent calls from President Zelensky for allies to increase their weapons supplies to Kyiv.\n\n\"We need heavy artillery, armed vehicles, air defence systems and combat aircraft — anything to repel Russian forces and stop their war crimes,\" Mr Zelensky said on Twitter last week. \"Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with heavy weapons\".\n\n\"The United States and Western states under its control are doing everything to drag out the military operation for as long as possible,\" Russia's defence chief Sergei Shoigu said.\n\nThe leaders also discussed how to provide security guarantees to Ukraine after the war even if it is not a member of Nato, a French presidential advisor said.\n\nNato is a military alliance whose 30 members - including the US, UK and Germany - have agreed to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any one of them.\n\nSince Ukraine is not a Nato member, the alliance isn't obliged to come to its defence.\n\nIts members fear that involving themselves in direct armed confrontation could lead to an all-out conflict between Russia and the West.\n\nInstead, Nato members have supplied Ukraine with millions of dollars worth of military aid since Russia launched the invasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Galina is sheltering in a Mykolaiv basement, but will run out of medication in three weeks", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRussian and Belarusian players will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year because of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMen's world number two Daniil Medvedev of Russia and women's world number four Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus are the highest-ranked players to be affected.\n\nThe players are also banned from any of the UK grass-court tournaments.\n\nThe governing bodies of men's and women's professional tennis said the move was \"unfair\".\n\nSerbia's Novak Djokovic, a six-time men's singles champion at Wimbledon, said he did not support the \"crazy\" decision by the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC).\n\nThe men's body, the ATP, said it could \"set a damaging precedent for the game\", while the women's body, the WTA, said it was \"very disappointed\".\n\nIn a statement, the ATP said: \"Discrimination based on nationality also constitutes a violation of our agreement with Wimbledon that states that player entry is based solely on ATP rankings.\n\n\"Any course of action in response to this decision will now be assessed in consultation with our board and member councils.\"\n\nThe WTA said it \"will be evaluating its next steps and what actions may be taken regarding these decisions\".\n\nDjokovic, the men's world number one, added: \"The players, the tennis players, the athletes have nothing to do with war. When politics interferes with sport, the result is not good.\"\n\nMartina Navratilova, who won a record nine Wimbledon singles titles, said excluding Russian and Belarusian players was \"not the way to go\".\n\n\"I think it's the wrong decision. Tennis is such a democratic sport. It is difficult when you see politics destroy it,\" said the Czech-born American.\n\nWhich players will be affected by the ban?\n\nExplaining its decision, the AELTC said it had a responsibility to \"limit Russia's global influence through the strongest means possible\".\n\n\"In the circumstances of such unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players,\" a statement from the AELTC read.\n\n\"It is therefore our intention, with deep regret, to decline entries from Russian and Belarusian players to Wimbledon.\"\n\nSabalenka reached the semi-finals of last year's tournament, while Medvedev, who has been announced as one of the star draws at the grass-court warm-up event at 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands today, reached the fourth round.\n\nRussian world number 15 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova - who called for the war to stop earlier this year - and 18th-ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus will also miss out.\n\nRussia's Andrey Rublev is eighth in the men's standings, with compatriot Karen Khachanov 26th.\n\nOnly players are banned, which means coaches, umpires and physiotherapists can be involved in the tournament.\n\nWhile the Lawn Tennis Association has banned Russian or Belarusian players from competing in the UK this summer, they will all still be able to play at the French Open, which begins in May.\n\nPlayers from both countries have been allowed to compete on the tennis tour but not under their national flags.\n\nWhat has the reaction been from the tennis world, Russia and UK politicians?\n\nThe ATP said Russian and Belarusian players would still be allowed to compete at its events under a neutral flag.\n\n\"Our sport is proud to operate on the fundamental principles of merit and fairness, where players compete as individuals to earn their place in tournaments based on the ATP rankings,\" it said.\n\n\"We believe that today's unilateral decision by Wimbledon and the LTA to exclude players from Russia and Belarus from this year's British grass-court swing is unfair and has the potential to set a damaging precedent for the game.\"\n\nThe WTA said: \"Individual athletes should not be penalized or prevented from competing due to where they are from, or the decisions made by the governments of their countries.\n\n\"Discrimination, and the decision to focus such discrimination against athletes competing on their own as individuals, is neither fair nor justified. The WTA will continue to apply its rules to reject discrimination and ensure that all athletes are able to compete at our Tour events should they qualify to do so, a position that until today's announcement has been shared across professional tennis.\"\n\n\"Given that Russia is a strong tennis country and our athletes are among those at the top of the world rankings, the tournament itself would suffer because of this ban,\" he said.\n\n\"It is unacceptable to make the athletes once again hostages of certain political prejudice, intrigues and hostile actions towards our country.\"\n\nThe AELTC, which organises Wimbledon, consulted the government in April about whether to allow players to compete.\n\n\"We recognise that this is hard on the individuals affected, and it is with sadness that they will suffer for the actions of the leaders of the Russian regime,\" AELTC chairman Ian Hewitt said.\n\n\"Given the importance of not allowing sport to be used to promote the Russian regime and our broader concerns for public and player (including family) safety, we do not believe it is viable to proceed on any other basis at The Championships.\"\n\nThe AELTC is also working to withdraw TV rights from companies broadcasting in Russia and Belarus.\n\nAlthough the AELTC statement says the decision could be overturned if \"circumstances change materially between now and June\", that is considered very unlikely.\n\nA statement from the LTA said it is \"important to do all it can to support Ukraine at this time\".\n\n\"The LTA believes that tennis must join many other areas of sport and public life in sending a clear signal to the Russian and Belarusian states that their actions are the subject of international condemnation,\" a statement read.\n\n\"The continuing participation of Russian and Belarusian nationals at events risks providing a boost to these regimes when there is an unprecedented international effort to isolate them and sanction their actions.\"\n\nUK sports minister Nigel Huddleston welcomed the \"decisive action\" by the AELTC and LTA.\n\n\"The UK has taken a leading role internationally to make clear President Putin must not be able to use sport to legitimise Russia's barbaric invasion of Ukraine. Whilst the withdrawal of individual athletes is a complex issue that will divide opinion, there is a bigger cause at stake.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries added: \"This decision means Putin won't use the most iconic Grand Slam in tennis to try to legitimise the horrors he is inflicting on the Ukrainian people. The right move.\"\n\nRussia was previously banned from defending its Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup team titles after the country's invasion of Ukraine - a military operation supported by Belarus.\n\nThe ATP and the WTA have suspended their combined event scheduled to take place in Moscow in October.\n\nThe International Tennis Federation (ITF) has also cancelled its events in the country.\n\n'There comes a time when silence is betrayal'\n\nUkrainian world number 25 Elina Svitolina released a lengthy statement on Wednesday, calling on tennis' governing bodies to take a harsher stance against Russian and Belarusian athletes.\n\nSvitolina has taken a break from the sport to deal with a back problem and the emotional impact the invasion has had on her.\n\nShe posted on social media urging the ATP, WTA and ITF to ask Russian and Belarusian players if they supported the war, the military activities in Ukraine or the regimes of Russian and Belarusian presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko.\n\n\"If applicable, we demand to exclude and ban any Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing in any events,\" she wrote.\n\n\"In times of crisis, silence means agreeing with what is happening.\n\n\"There comes a time when silence is betrayal, and that time is now.\"\n\nOlga Savchuk, who captained Ukraine in last week's Billie Jean King Cup tie against the USA, said Russian players should be banned from competing.\n\n\"It cannot just be a sanction against 90% of the Russian people and 10% not,\" Savchuk told the New York Times.\n\n\"It has to be even and I think it is collective guilt.\"\n\nUkrainian former world number 13 Alexandr Dolgopolov thanked Wimbledon for \"stepping up and showing the world an example\".\n\n\"I believe Russia should be isolated in all possible ways, and the people of Russia have to solve this problem,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\nThis is a decision which makes the All England Club and the LTA stand out from the crowd.\n\nNot in the sporting sphere, in general, as athletics, badminton, canoeing and rowing have all banned individual athletes from Russia and Belarus.\n\nBut in tennis, the initial French Open entry lists have been published with these players present, and neither the WTA nor the ATP Tour feel it is fair to prevent these individuals continuing their careers.\n\nThere may possibly be some movement from Roland Garros after Sunday's second round of the French presidential election, but the approach in tennis thus far has been to ban Russian teams but let individuals play on - albeit it with their nationalities removed from scoreboards and ranking lists.\n\nA large majority of players have been happy with this stance up until now, but given the scale of what has been happening in Ukraine, and taking into account British public sentiment, the AELTC felt it had no alternative.\n\nAnd this with the possibility of legal repercussions in mind. The LTA, for example, has contracts in place with the ATP and the WTA for the grass-court events they stage at venues such as Queen's and Eastbourne in June.\n• None The raw and honest story of Paul Gascoigne's life on and off the pitch\n• None Is it worth buying an electric car? Look behind the claims and promises of switching to an EV", "Protests have been held in east London over the student's treatment\n\nThe head teacher of an east London school where a black pupil was strip-searched has stood down due to health issues.\n\nA safeguarding report found the search of the 15-year-old girl, known as Child Q, was unjustified and racism was \"likely\" to have been a factor.\n\nChild Q is suing the Met Police and the school in Hackney over the incident.\n\nIn a letter to parents, the school said \"an outstanding head teacher\" is already in place to take over the role.\n\nDuring the incident, the girl was taken out of an exam to the school's medical room and strip-searched by two female Met Police officers who were looking for cannabis, while teachers remained outside.\n\nNo other adult was present, her parents were not contacted, and no drugs were found.\n\nThe girl's intimate body parts were exposed and she was made to take off her sanitary towel, according to the review.\n\nThe Met has admitted the actions of the two officers were \"regrettable\" and it \"should never have happened\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Florence Eshalomi: \"When my daughter is 15, I hope this issue still isn't happening but I'm worried it will\"\n\nThe school's governing body has claimed teachers were \"not aware that a strip search was taking place\".\n\nIn March, the school released an apology to Child Q and her family.\n\nSince the incident, the school has changed the leadership of its governing board. However, research by the BBC shows the chair of governors was still in place six months after the search occurred.\n\nThe make-up of the school board has also changed.\n\nThe Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) said a report on the incident was being \"finalised\".\n\nThe incident sparked days of protest across Hackney, near the site of Child Q's school.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City leapfrogged Liverpool back to the Premier League summit thanks to three second-half goals against Brighton.\n\nAfter struggling to break down Graham Potter's men in a frustrating opening period, Kevin de Bruyne provided the inspiration as City restored their one-point advantage.\n\nDe Bruyne created the opener for Riyad Mahrez and provided the faint final pass for Bernardo Silva to wrap up the scoring eight minutes from time.\n\nIn between, Phil Foden needed the aid of a deflection to beat the Brighton goalkeeper after Mahrez spotted the England man on his own just outside the box at a corner.\n\nThe goals relieved building tension around Etihad Stadium and leave City knowing six more wins are now required for Pep Guardiola's men to retain their title, starting with the home game against relegation-threatened Watford on Saturday.\n\nDe Bruyne did not get his name on the scoresheet but the standing ovation he received as he was replaced by Gabriel Jesus shortly after Bernardo's goal said everything about the Belgian's contribution.\n\nWith frustration mounting in the stands, De Bruyne took direct action eight minutes after the restart.\n\nHe set off on a surging run from inside his own half and the determination to make an impact meant he kept going when twice he could easily have stopped to claim free-kicks.\n\nInstead, he kept his feet and shrugged off a third challenge before running the ball on to Mahrez. The Algerian profited from a couple of fortunate deflections, first to give him the shooting opportunity before a second took it past Robert Sanchez.\n\nThis was the Algerian's 250th Premier League appearance and he helped boss Guardiola to his 250th win as City's boss - achieved 52 games quicker than any other manager in English top-flight history.\n\nAfter Foden doubled the hosts' lead, De Bruyne was the key man again as Bernardo added a third, deftly flicking on Oleksandr Zinchenko's pass after the Ukrainian - earlier given a warm reception on only his second home appearance since the Russian invasion of his homeland - had taken advantage of Brighton hesitancy inside their own half.\n\nAfter his injury scare during the Champions League quarter-final second leg with Atletico Madrid, Guardiola will want to keep De Bruyne as safe as possible for the remainder of the campaign.\n\nThe same, presumably, is also true of central defender Ruben Dias, who was introduced at half-time after a seven-week absence with a hamstring injury and seemed to shrug off fears from the bench he had suffered a recurrence.\n\nBrighton's awful record against City, eight defeats out of nine Premier League meetings and no away wins in their entire history, offered hardly any cause for optimism.\n\nHowever, buoyed by fabulous recent wins against Tottenham and Arsenal, Potter showed what a side could do with a gameplan that players willingly adhere to.\n\nA three-man defence which Lewis Dunk led with his customary authority, was bolstered by a further three in front of them, with limited space in between for City's talented playmakers to exhibit their skills.\n\nTrue, visiting attacking opportunities were rare - the nearest they came in the first half was down to pressure exerted by a Pascal Gross corner that dropped into a dangerous position inside the six-yard box where it was booted clear by Aymeric Laporte.\n\nBut their efforts were another notable achievement by Potter, who has guided Brighton so close to their highest ever finish.\n\nSadly for the visitors, they were only able to repel City for eight minutes of the second period and after that, it was a familiar story.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Jeremy Sarmiento tries a through ball, but Solly March is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Enock Mwepu (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Joël Veltman tries a through ball, but Solly March is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 3, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Jeremy Sarmiento (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Thames Valley Police said officers were called to a property in Bourne End on Tuesday\n\nA \"complex\" murder investigation is under way after three bodies were found at a sheltered accommodation scheme.\n\nA man and a woman, in their 60s, and man, in his 50s, were found dead at Orchard House on Spring Gardens, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, on Tuesday.\n\nThames Valley Police said officers were called to the address at about 21:55 BST following reports of a disturbance.\n\nThe force said all three were known to each other and described the incident as a \"targeted attack\".\n\nIt added that formal identification of the bodies was still to take place.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"We are in the very early stages of this investigation and we are dealing with a very complex inquiry, which appears a targeted attack.\n\n\"We are not looking for anyone else in connection with it.\"\n\nThe man and woman, from Bourne End, and the other man, from Hazlemere, have not been identified.\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone who might have seen something in the area of Orchard House to come forward\n\nDet Supt Brown added: \"A scene watch is likely to be in place for a number of days at very least, which is likely to have an impact on local residents and we would like to thank them in advance for their patience.\n\n\"The next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers, our thoughts remain with them at this most difficult time.\"\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone who heard a disturbance or saw anything suspicious in or around Orchard House or Spring Gardens between 17:00 and 22:00 to come forward.\n\nResidents emerging from the sheltered accommodation in this quiet riverside village have been describing their shock at what happened on Tuesday night.\n\nThere is police tape with a number of officers standing outside the block of 39 flats, which are for people over the age of 60.\n\nEve Speight lives on the second floor with her husband, a few flats down from the one where the three bodies were discovered.\n\nShe told the BBC that her husband heard two men arguing earlier in the evening.\n\nShe then described the \"frightening\" moment armed police arrived with a helicopter circling overheard.\n\n\"We knew instantaneously there must be a murder or somebody got killed,\" Ms Speight said.\n\n\"The next thing we knew we had armed police in the flat and they searched every room and they said they would do that in the whole building.\n\n\"It was frightening because we didn't know what was going on, nobody was telling us anything.\"\n\nMs Speight said all the residents are \"very sad\" and added that it is \"not a nice place to live anymore once this has happened\".\n\n\"You begin to think about your own security,\" she said.\n\nRed Kite housing association, which runs the property where the incident happened, confirmed it was assisting police with their investigation.\n\nHead of communications, Julie Gamble-Kempe, said staff were \"shocked\" and were supporting the other residents who lived there.\n\n\"The welfare of our tenants and their safety is of utmost importance to us, so we will be working with tenants who live at the scheme to ensure they feel safe and secure and will do everything we can to help them through this very difficult time,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The war in Ukraine will \"severely set back\" the global economic recovery with the UK hit harder than most, the International Monetary Fund has said.\n\nThe conflict is driving up prices for food and fuel which the international body expects to slow growth globally.\n\nIt has cut its global forecast and also downgraded its outlook for the UK.\n\nThis means the UK will no longer be the fastest growing economy in the G7 group of leading Western nations, and will be the slowest in 2023, it says.\n\nThe body says that UK growth will slow as price pressures lead households to cut spending, while rising interest rates are expected to \"cool investment\".\n\nThe UK's economy is now predicted to grow by 3.7% this year, down from the previous forecast of 4.7% made in January.\n\nHowever, next year, the UK is expected to have the slowest growth in the G7 and across Europe's main economies, at just 1.2%, a near halving from the 2.3% expected previously.\n\nThe 2023 UK figure is the slowest apart from heavily-sanctioned Russia in the wider G20 grouping, which includes nations such as China and India.\n\nThe IMF said that the UK was the fastest growing G7 economy in 2021, and is forecast to be the second fastest in 2022.\n\nThe low UK growth rates forecast in 2023 are in part due to the UK rebounding more quickly from the pandemic than some of its G7 peers.\n\nHowever, the UK is also wrestling with high inflation, which will hit growth in 2023, as people cut spending as their real income shrinks, the IMF said. The organisation expects inflation to peak in late 2022 at 9%.\n\nIt said rising interest rates will also slow the UK economy in 2023 and 2023, while government policies such as getting rid of certain tax breaks will reduce business investment at that time.\n\nIn addition, Brexit will hold back export growth, the IMF said, and it will continue to make pandemic-related labour supply \"scarring\" worse by reducing immigration.\n\n\"However, the impact of Brexit is spread over several years and is not the primary driver of the slowdown in 2023,\" a spokesperson for the organisation added.\n\nThe IMF works with its 189 member countries to try to stabilise the global economy, including issuing short-term loans and assistance to countries who are struggling.\n\nIt said inflation was now a \"clear and present danger\" in many countries and the situation has added to supply strains from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In the matter of a few weeks, the world has yet again experienced a major, transformative shock,\" IMF director of research Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas wrote in the organisation's 2022 World Economic Outlook.\n\n\"Just as a durable recovery from the pandemic-induced global economic collapse appeared in sight, the war has created the very real prospect that a large part of the recent gains will be erased.\"\n\nThe organisation said it expected global growth of just 3.6% this year, down nearly a percentage point from its forecast before the war.\n\nThe World Bank also said it was lowering its growth forecast from 4.1% to 3.2%.\n\nThe conflict has already devastated the economies of Ukraine and Russia, which the West cut off from key trade and financial networks with sanctions following the invasion.\n\nUkraine is facing a severe contraction of 35% or more this year, while Russia's economy is expected to shrink by 8.5%, the IMF said.\n\nBut with Russia a major energy producer and key supplier of staples such as wheat and corn alongside Ukraine, the consequences will ripple far beyond their borders, the IMF warned.\n\nThere have been two acute shocks to the world economy in quick succession - the pandemic and the Ukraine war.\n\nThe latter is building on the problems created by the former, tripping up what had been a healthy recovery, and sending prices rising at an even faster rate.\n\nFood and energy prices were already being hiked by the supply bottlenecks after the pandemic, before one of the world's biggest energy suppliers invaded one of the world's biggest food exporter.\n\nBut now there are new bottlenecks emerging from the stringent Covid lockdowns in some regions of China.\n\nFears about inflation becoming entrenched are leading the world's central bankers to raise interest rates. In turn that is raising the cost of borrowing for the record debts many nations racked up during the pandemic.\n\nSo all this requires some skill and cooperation among the old and new financial powerhouses of the world. But that has been another commodity in short supply in recent times.\n\n\"The economic effects of the war are spreading far and wide - like seismic waves that emanate from the epicenter of an earthquake,\" it said.\n\nIn Germany, where the economy is especially closely entwined, the war is likely to lower growth by 1.7 percentage points, it said.\n\nEven in countries with little direct trade with Russia and Ukraine, households will feel the effects of the war, as central banks respond to the more rapid inflation by raising interest rates, making borrowing more expensive, the IMF said.\n\nIn the US, for example, the organisation lowered its forecast for growth in 2022 by 0.3 percentage points to 3.7%, citing the prospect of more aggressive interest rate rises.\n\nUkraine and Russia accounted for nearly 30% of the world's wheat\n\nOverall, inflation pressures are significantly worse than they were when the IMF issued its previous forecast in January.\n\nIt now predicts inflation in \"advanced economies\" will hit 5.7% this year, while it is likely to reach 8.7% in emerging markets.\n\nUK inflation is expected to be 5.3% next year - the highest in the G7, and higher than all EU members, and only exceeded in the G20 by crisis-ridden Argentina, Turkey and Russia.\n\n\"Inflation has become a clear and present danger for many countries,\" Mr Gourinchas wrote in a blog.\n\nA few countries, such as oil exporters, are benefiting. The IMF expects growth in Saudi Arabia, for example, to be stronger than it did in January.\n\nBut the risks are not purely economic, the IMF added.\n\nIt said the war had also created a refugee crisis and aggravated political tensions, risking a \"more permanent fragmentation of the world economy into geopolitical blocks with distinct technology standards, cross-border payment systems, and reserve currencies\".\n\n\"Such a 'tectonic shift' would cause long-run efficiency losses, increase volatility and represent a major challenge to the rules-based framework that has governed international and economic relations for the last 75 years,\" the IMF said.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the IMF forecasts \"will be concerning for many people and families\" in the UK.\n\n\"However the support we provided over the past two years has put our economy in a good position to deal with these headwinds, including through record numbers of employees on payrolls and a strong economic recovery from the pandemic,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the IMF forecast \"shows the extreme challenges facing the UK economy\".\n\n\"While it is true that global forces play a role, the fact that the UK is forecast to have the slowest growth of any G7 economy next year plus the highest inflation, shows the uniquely bad situation the UK is in.\n\n\"Inflation spiralling out of control this year has created a cost of living crisis hitting families across the country, needing decisive and urgent action,\" she said, repeating Labour calls for a windfall tax on oil and gas firms.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine said the UK government had \"failed to shield the UK from spiralling energy bills and soaring inflation, but they have gone ahead with raising people's taxes to their highest point in 70 years\".", "Western officials say they see some signs that Russia is addressing some of the problems that beset the early weeks of its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe fact that they are trying to advance along a more narrow set of lines means that issues like command and control are better.\n\nBut officials say the Russians are still operating in long convoys on single roads, which means they remain vulnerable to attack. Ukrainian troops, they say, “continue to fight in a very smart and very effective manner”.\n\nSome of the Russian lines of communication are still quite long (notably south from Kharkiv) and exposed to attack from the west.\n\nOfficials say Vladimir Putin is “still in a position to win”, with a range of possible outcomes, none of which they expect to see happen quickly. The West is gearing up to sustain military support for Ukraine “through a prolonged period of conflict….perhaps much of the rest of this year\".\n\nA successful Russian campaign in the Donbas is possible and, in a worst case scenario, this could lead the Russians to revisit some of their pre-war objectives, such as Kyiv and Odesa.\n\nOfficials say that Russian forces enjoy a roughly three to one advantage in numbers over the Ukrainian military, but much depends on how smartly Moscow uses those forces and what capabilities the Ukrainian defenders have - hence the push by the West to send even more advanced equipment.\n\nRussia still has large numbers of troops - between 5,000 and 10,000 - in the area around Mariupol, which means that there has been little or no movement on the southern side of Russia’s expected pincer movement against Ukrainian forces in the Donbas.\n\nOfficials say that if Putin wants to seal off Mariupol, this will not be a trivial task and will continue to limit the ability of those forces to take part in operations in the Donbas.\n\nOfficials note that Russia’s use of long-range Iskander missiles has slowed somewhat in the past week, suggesting Moscow has concerns about usage rates and the ability to restock.", "\"I was thinking what would happen if I would receive a message that Maks has died, what would I do?\", she says. \"And I just started crying in the middle of the street because I don't have any answer to that.\"\n\nWe are sitting in the office of her volunteer centre in Kyiv, where boxes of supplies - food, medical kits and armoured vests - are being gathered to be sent off to Ukrainian forces on the eastern front: the epicentre of the Russian offensive.\n\nHer sense of purpose is twofold: her nation and her family, with her 26-year-old cousin Maksim, or Maks for short, fighting in Mariupol.\n\nThe boy she grew up with, whom she describes as a kind and respectful engineering student, is one of the last remaining Ukrainian defenders holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in the city, somehow withstanding the ferocious firepower of one of the world's biggest armies.\n\nPerhaps a couple of thousand soldiers and civilians are there, in the Cold War-era network of bunkers and tunnels, where food, water and time are running out. For more than a month she had no word from him but spoke to him briefly this week.\n\n\"He never told us about the real conditions, probably he didn't want to upset us\", she says. \"But they have very little food and medical supplies - and it's harder and harder to treat wounded soldiers.\"\n\nGrowing up in Sumy, north-eastern Ukraine, Maks's mother - Olena's aunt - wanted him to join the army, calling it \"a school of life for men\".\n\nWhen he was called to fight in Mariupol, she was initially relieved, thinking the city, a little further along the coast from the occupied territories of the Donbas, would be spared the worst.\n\nBut Russia is determined to establish a land corridor through eastern Ukraine to Crimea - and that would have to run through Mariupol. And so Russian forces have besieged it for some seven weeks. Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky said tens of thousands may have died in the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Olena Nikulina says her cousin has become \"a true hero of Ukraine\"\n\n\"I feel terrible about him being there\", says Olena, struggling to hold back her tears. \"First of all, I feel very sorry about not speaking to him as much as I could while we still had a connection. It felt terrible when my aunt sent me a message at 06:00 to say that Maks' friend was probably dead and she's so worried about him.\"\n\nI ask of the pride she must feel towards the boy who used to drive her in his car - and became a Ukrainian fighter who refused Russia's demands to surrender.\n\n\"I would have never imagined my cousin to become a true hero of Ukraine and of Mariupol\", she replies with a smile. \"It's obviously a very bitter sense of pride in the sense that he's in a life-threatening situation. I dream of the day he will return and I will be able to tell this to him.\"\n\nOn the shelves in the volunteer centre are spoils of war: Russian soldiers' equipment, downed missiles and fragments of a Russian fighter jet that the Ukrainians proudly exhibit as symbols of an invasion that has so far not gone Moscow's way.\n\nBut the Kremlin will surely be determined that the eastern offensive does not repeat the mistakes of the west, from where Russian troops have now retreated.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is thought likely to want a tangible gain by 9 May - the annual commemoration of Victory Day against Nazi Germany - and Mariupol could serve him that.\n\nThat's a fear shared by another relative, Vladimir Vasilyuk, whose 23-year-old son Danilo is also fighting in the Azovstal plant. They're still in regular contact.\n\n\"The boys are lacking ammunition\", Vladimir says, \"but they don't want to leave because they're protecting the civilians - they don't want to abandon them.\"\n\nRussian service equipment on show at the volunteer centre\n\nHis composed, almost impassive look begins to break as he talks more of his only child, lowering his eyes with a sharp intake of breath.\n\n\"I don't sleep at night\", he admits. \"If I had a chance to go there, I would. I don't think the city is worth the loss of his life. But the boys made their choice.\n\n\"Maybe it's my fault that he joined the army, because I always took him to training and I prepared him for it\", he adds. \"His main goal was always to make our country better.\"\n\nWe stand beneath a monument in Kyiv covered up by sandbags spray painted in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag. The bells of the golden-domed St Michael's Church chime five.\n\n\"I am sure we will see each other again\", Vladimir says, \"it's a matter of time. But if I could pass a message to him now it would be that I love him and I'm waiting for him.\"", "Labour could have used PMQs to focus on the cost of living crisis but I think they have realised there is more to run in all of this.\n\nIt is very difficult for the PM to close this down when you have this ongoing threat of more fines landing plus the allegations he misled Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson says he wants to move on, and is talking about Ukraine and travelling to India - but it isn't doing the trick yet.\n\nThe prime minister has apologised but he is still trying to explain his actions by saying the breach only lasted nine minutes.\n\nThat works up to a point, unless there are more fines are coming.\n\nAnd that is what Conservative MPs are worried about - that this row keeps rumbling on.", "Germany is moving \"as fast as possible\" to end its reliance on Russian energy, but it will take time, the country's finance minister has said.\n\n\"We have to be patient,\" Christian Lindner told the BBC.\n\nBy contrast, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had earlier said Germany would end oil imports by the end of the year, with gas following.\n\nUkraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky has criticised Germany for failing to curb Russian energy imports.\n\nHe described energy payments as \"blood money\".\n\nProceeds from the sale of Russian oil and gas amount to around $1bn (£770m) a day, undermining international efforts to put economic pressure on President Vladimir Putin to end the war.\n\nThe US has already banned Russian oil imports and the UK plans to phase them out by the end of the year.\n\nBut EU countries are more heavily dependent on Russian energy, with Germany currently buying around 25% of its oil and 40% of its gas from Russia.\n\nMr Lindner told the BBC that his country was working to implement an embargo on Russian energy but that he preferred using sanctions which \"hurt [Putin] more than us\".\n\nHe said a sudden halt to Russian energy imports could see the physical shutdown of German producers such as manufacturers and carmakers.\n\nEarlier this week, German economic institutes warned that immediately halting Russian imports would spark a sharp recession in Europe's biggest economy by 2023.\n\n\"We are willing to stop all energy imports from Russia, it's just a matter of time,\" said Mr Lindner, who is leader of the liberal Free Democrats, one constituent of Germany's coalition government.\n\nHe insisted that any calculation on Vladimir Putin's part that Germany would continue to rely on Russian energy was \"wrong\".\n\n\"In the end, we don't want to have any further business with Putin,\" he said.\n\nHowever his stance was at odds with statements made by Germany's foreign minister, Ms Baerbock, a prominent Green politician and former co-leader of the party.\n\nMs Baerbock said Germany would halve Russian oil imports by the summer and eliminate them altogether by the end of the year, to be followed quickly by a reduction in Russian gas imports.\n\nGermany's finance minister was keen to sound tough on Russia and appears acutely aware of the criticism levelled at his country for dragging its feet over a full energy embargo on the Kremlin.\n\nHis basic message was - it is coming, but not quite yet, because it is impossible to enact immediately and would probably lead to shutdowns of large swathes of the German economy.\n\nPresident Zelensky used a BBC interview last week to demand an immediate embargo on Russia's lucrative oil trade, accusing those sending euros and dollars to Kremlin-controlled oil giants of \"trading in blood\". He singled out Germany alongside Hungary for blocking EU action.\n\nMr Lindner said Germany would move as fast as possible, but did not confirm that would be within a year.\n\nIn Berlin this issue appears to be putting some stress on the three-party governing coalition. Mr Lindner leads the free market FDP, not the normal bedfellows for the Social Democrats and Greens.\n\nMeanwhile Green Party leader Annalena Baerbock, also the foreign minister, said dependence on Russian oil would definitely finish by the end of the year. The Chancellery under Olaf Scholz appears to be the most cautious on this issue.\n\nGermany has already called off the opening of Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in response to the war, a project pursued by previous governments of different political stripes.\n\nBut Mr Lindner said he was concerned about the macroeconomic effects an overnight shut-off of Russian energy would cause.\n\n\"I don't fear [the] economic costs [of buying less Russian energy]. I fear the physical scenario, if you have to stop the supply, for a complete production line, this causes more than economic costs,\" Mr Lindner told the BBC.\n\n\"I think it's preferable to have sanctions, which we can stand for months, for years,\" he said.\n\nMr Lindner said Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the root cause of growing geopolitical and economic risks including inflation, food shortages and a debt crisis for low income countries.\n\nBut he also criticised the approach of previous Berlin governments of relying on Russia for oil and gas.\n\n\"It was a strategic miscalculation from German governments, over the last two decades, and now we have to work on energy diversification,\" he said.", "Ukraine’s foreign minister has said the city of Mariupol “doesn’t exist anymore”, after weeks of Russian attacks.\n\nDmytro Kuleba told CBS’s Face the Nation that Russian troops have “decided to raze the city to the ground at any cost”.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United and Liverpool supporters united in a fan-led minute of applause at Anfield in support of Cristiano Ronaldo and his family following the death of his baby boy.\n\nLiverpool fans sang their club's anthem 'You'll Never Walk Alone' in the seventh minute - Ronaldo's shirt number at United - of the league match.\n\nA United shirt with Ronaldo's name and number was held up in the away end.\n\nThe Portugal international missed Tuesday's match between the two rivals.\n\nOn Monday, Ronaldo and partner Georgina Rodriguez announced the death of their baby boy, saying it is the \"greatest pain that any parents can feel\".\n\nTheir baby girl survived, and they said her birth \"gives us the strength to live this moment with some hope and happiness\".\n\n\"Our baby boy, you are our angel. We will always love you,\" they wrote.\n\nBoth United and Liverpool players wore black armbands in a mark of respect to Ronaldo and his family.\n\nBefore the match, which Liverpool won 4-0 to go two points clear at the top of the Premier League table, United's interim boss Ralf Rangnick said there were more important things in life than football.\n\n\"The whole team, the whole club is with him [Ronaldo],\" added Rangnick.\n\n\"For me it was clear he has to be where he is now with his family.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp called the applause in memory of Ronaldo's baby son his \"moment of the game.\"\n\n\"So many things are much more important in life than football, we feel for Cristiano and his family,\" Klopp said.\n\n\"That is exactly how football should be with all rivalry aside at this moment. There is only one thing that is important and it was a show of class. All our thoughts, from the moment we heard about it, are with Cristiano and his family.\n\n\"I cannot even imagine how it must be and we really feel for him.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live football correspondent John Murray, who was commentating at the game, described the tribute as \"wonderful\".\n\n\"After being at Wembley on Saturday where there was the disruption of the Hillsborough silence, I have to confess when I heard this morning that there was this tribute to Cristiano Ronaldo at this game, you did think 'I hope that goes off ok'.\n\n\"In actual fact it was wonderful. It was a brilliant show of support from human beings to another human being.\"\n\nFormer Everton and Scotland forward James McFadden, who was co-commentator for 5 Live at the game, described the tribute as a \"real touch of class\" from Liverpool fans.\n\n\"To show their respect and support for Cristiano Ronaldo in such a difficult time - a classy, classy touch,\" he added.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "The actor is known for their roles in Perks of Being a Wallflower and the Fantastic Beasts franchise, among other projects\n\nUS actor Ezra Miller has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a woman in Hawaii.\n\nThe Fantastic Beasts star threw a chair at the woman, leaving her with a cut to her forehead, according to police.\n\nMiller was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning for second-degree assault at a private property in Pahoa on Hawaii's Big Island, after reports of the attack.\n\nIt's the second time the 29-year-old has been arrested in recent weeks.\n\nHawaii Police Department said the actor had become \"irate\" before throwing the chair.\n\n\"Shortly after 01:00 HST (12:00 GMT) Tuesday April 19 2022, a 29-year-old visitor from Vermont was arrested for second-degree assault after an incident at a residence in Pahoa,\" said the police department in a statement.\n\n\"During the course of their investigation, police determined that the individual, later identified as Ezra Miller, became irate after being asked to leave and reportedly threw a chair, striking a 26-year-old female on the forehead, resulting in an approximate half-inch cut.\"\n\nPolice added the woman \"refused treatment\" for her injury.\n\nMiller was arrested and charged with harassment and disorderly conduct at a karaoke bar last month.\n\nAccording to police, the actor grabbed a microphone from a woman singing and lunged at a man playing darts after becoming aggravated by a rendition of Shallow from the film A Star Is Born.\n\nThe man and woman involved dropped their petition for a temporary restraining order against Miller last week.\n\nTheir lawyer declined to comment on the reason.\n\nMiller is known for their roles in Perks of a Wallflower, Trainwreck, and the Fantastic Beasts franchise.\n\nThey are due to star as Flash in DC's upcoming film The Flash, set to be released next year.\n\nHowever, according to reports from Rolling Stone, Warner Bros and DC executives met after Miller's first arrest, agreeing to pause any future projects with the actor.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A Jack Russell has been hard at work helping to remove explosive devices left behind by Russian troops.\n\nPatron is currently working in the Chernihiv region, north of Kyiv, and has so far helped to remove hundreds of devices.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has once again apologised after receiving a fine from police for breaking Covid-19 laws. This apology in front of MPs in the House of Commons on Tuesday was repeated often in the face of fury from opposition parties. It was branded \"a joke\" by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, and while most Conservative MPs rallied round Mr Johnson one did not. Tory MP Mark Harper called on him to quit over his \"indefensible\" actions. The prime minister will face a further test on Thursday after Labour secured a vote on whether the Commons committee should investigate if he misled Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says people have a right to expect better of their prime minister over Partygate\n\nShop sales have returned to pre-pandemic levels in Scotland, according to new data. It's the first time that has happened since the start of the pandemic, with figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium showing total sales last month were 0.6% up on March 2019. Rising costs have played a part in the figures, rather than more sales. Read more here.\n\nThere have been at least 40 maternal deaths from Covid in the UK, according to data. Almost all were unvaccinated and more than half happened after pregnant women were advised to take-up the vaccine. Some of these deaths were \"preventable\", says leading scientist Professor Marian Knight, who believes pregnant women have been an \"afterthought\" during the coronavirus pandemic. Here's more on the story.\n\nSocial distancing is ending in waiting rooms in NHS hospitals, GP surgeries and emergency departments. NHS England announced the changes saying the rules needed to \"adapt\" with Covid-19. People are still being encouraged to wear face masks and practise good hygiene.\n\nThe domestic section of the Scottish government's vaccine passport scheme is going to be switched off. Deputy first minister John Swinney said it would \"no longer be appropriate\" given the legal requirement to show vaccine verification ended on 28 February. Read more here.\n\nUnsure about when to where a face covering? Here are the latest rules and advice.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Tesla has been raising prices - but that hasn't seemed to dent demand for its electric cars.\n\nDespite the firm facing higher costs, profits at Elon Musk's electric car company soared to $3.3bn (£2.5bn) in the first three months of the year, as customers proved willing to pay more.\n\nThe firm's deliveries were up 68% - and would have been higher if not for supply chain shortages, the firm said.\n\nIts Shanghai factory was also recently forced shut due to Covid restrictions.\n\nAs the plant reopens this month, staff will be required to sleep at the factory in an effort to avoid further lockdowns, Bloomberg has reported.\n\n\"Although limited production has recently restarted, we continue to monitor the situation closely,\" Tesla said as it shared quarterly results with investors.\n\nTesla has been pushing to expand, opening new factories in Texas and Germany in recent weeks.\n\nThe firm delivered more than 310,000 cars in the first three months of the year and in a conference call, chief executive Elon Musk predicted the company would produce 60% more cars during the year as a whole compared to last year.\n\nTesla doesn't advertise its products, but attracts frequent headlines, often related to controversial comments made by Mr Musk.\n\nBut the firm said that it had also seen spikes in orders following increased marketing from rival electric car makers.\n\nMr Musk said Tesla expects to mass produce a robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals by 2024.\n\nWhile Tesla shares rose more than 5% in after-hours trade, following the strong results, some investors worry Mr Musk may be distracted from his focus on the electric carmaker as it expands.\n\nMr Musk, known for his sometimes erratic musings on Twitter, recently made an unsolicited offer to buy the social media platform for $43bn.\n\nThe rise in Tesla's stock market value in recent years has made Mr Musk the world's richest man, with an estimated net worth of more than $260bn.\n\nThat is nearly $100bn more than his closest rival, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021", "Fulham crushed Preston to seal their Premier League return as Aleksandar Mitrovic's double took his season's tally to 40 goals.\n\nThe Serbian striker netted twice in the first half, sandwiching an eye-catching strike by teenager Fabio Carvalho.\n\nMitrovic was denied a hat-trick by Preston goalkeeper Daniel Iversen - but it made no difference to the outcome as victory confirmed promotion for Marco Silva's side.\n\nFulham could effectively secure the title as early as Saturday if they win at second-placed Bournemouth.\n\nThe Cottagers might have fallen behind early on, with Marek Rodak called into action to thwart Ched Evans and then tip Ben Whiteman's long-range drive over the bar.\n\nBut any hint of nerves swiftly evaporated in the ninth minute as Joe Bryan won possession and burst down the left flank to set up Mitrovic, who slid the ball through Iversen's legs.\n\nCarvalho and Harrison Reed went close to extending the lead as the home side seized control, repeatedly slicing through Preston's defence.\n\nIt was Carvalho who did eventually grab Fulham's second in the 34th minute, rifling home on his left foot after Neeskens Kebano's cross had deflected perfectly into his path.\n\nMitrovic made it 3-0 just before half-time, reaching the 40-goal mark after another incisive break along the left, with Harry Wilson providing the assist.\n\nNorth End nearly reduced the deficit early in the second half as Rodak produced another fingertip save to foil Cameron Archer, palming his attempt on to the woodwork.\n\nBut there was to be no dramatic Preston comeback - nor a third goal for Mitrovic, who had two more attempts kept out by Iversen and was eventually substituted with a quarter of an hour remaining.\n\nAlthough Neco Williams' effort from distance whistled just over, Fulham had to be content with the three goals - and the win that wrapped up their third promotion in five years.\n\nThe clinical Cottagers have shot through the Championship like a bolt of lightning and look set to smash a number of records as they win promotion back to the top tier with four games to spare.\n\nMarco Silva's swashbuckling brand of fast transitions and quick passing has seen them score 98 goals so far.\n\nThey could still break Manchester City's Championship second-tier record, since the launch of the Premier League in 1992, of 108 goals.\n\nSilva's men also wrote themselves into the history books in January when they scored 19 goals in three games and were the first English side in 88 years to score six or more goals in three consecutive games.\n\nSerbian striker Mitrovic's 40 goals - already another Championship record - have helped propel Fulham out of sight at the top of the table and all eyes will be on him at the start of next season to see if he can finally recreate his scintillating Championship form against the country's top defences in the Premier League.\n\nThe west London club have been something of a yo-yo club in the past few seasons, with consecutive promotions and relegations to and from the Premier League every season since their 2017-18 play-off final victory against Aston Villa.\n\nWhen Marco Silva became the new Fulham manager, he knew he was taking on the job of leading the team straight back to the Premier League.\n\nHis first task was to rebuild a squad that had been heavily reliant on loans under Scott Parker in the top flight. But also to rebuild the confidence of players who will have felt they hadn't performed as they'd hoped, or hadn't been given the chance, during another relegation season.\n\nNew signing Harry Wilson made an instant impact with a goal on the opening day. While a 5-1 win in Fulham's first away match at Huddersfield provided an early indication of just what the team might achieve. That big victory also included a first goal of many for Aleksandar Mitrovic and one from young star Fabio Carvalho, as he began to make headlines that are set to lead to a big move to Liverpool.\n\nWilson looks to have been the best of the new additions, with Silva ultimately relying on the old guard to get the results. And while there will be plenty of praise for Mitrovic, Fulham are far from a one-man team with 'Captain America' Tim Ream one of many players who has had an excellent season.\n\nThe questions though remain the same. What lessons have the club learnt from previous promotions to ensure they stay up this time?\n\nAre the players who have got them up good enough to keep them up? And will any new additions be the right fit for the challenge ahead?\n\n\"All season he (Mitrovic) has been exceptional. I have to manage his condition - you know how he can play with his energy when he is fresh.\n\n\"There was a lot of energy from the first minute. We had to get the job done tonight and we need to be proud of what we achieved.\n\n\"We delivered to the club and the fans who deserved this. I am proud of the players as this was the goal on the first day - automatic promotion.\n\n\"The season has been fantastic for the fans. Last season was really tough for all of them and we have done this for them.\"\n\n\"Congratulations to Fulham. I thought we could have scored in the first five minutes and then maybe the game changes a little bit.\n\n\"But you can't give a team like Fulham the opportunities to score that we did - they'll punish you and we found ourselves 3-0 down.\n\n\"You only have to look at the star man who scores the goals and that is the difference - they've got that quality.\n\n\"I thought we were a lot better second half, but ultimately we were outclassed in the first half.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Wilson (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Tom Cairney.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rodrigo Muniz (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Cairney.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sean Maguire (Preston North End) header from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Hughes with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "People are set to be better protected from fake reviews and \"subscription traps\" under plans to tackle rip-offs.\n\nProposals include making it \"clearly illegal\" to pay someone to write or host fake reviews.\n\nA competition watchdog will get new powers to fine firms up to 10% of their global turnover for bad business practices.\n\nBut an industry group said the new rules shouldn't put \"any further unnecessary burdens on businesses\".\n\nThe average UK household spends about £900 each year after being influenced by online reviews and spends £60 on \"unwanted subscriptions\", the government said.\n\nUnder the proposed rules, there will be a new laws against offering to write and commissioning fake reviews.\n\nWebsites hosting consumer reviews will have to take reasonable steps to check they are genuine.\n\nReviews website Trustpilot said it \"welcomes legislation introduced with the aim of protecting consumers from fake reviews\".\n\nIt said it is \"continually working to ensure we are taking appropriate action against attempts to manipulate reviews on our site\".\n\nTripadvisor, a travel reviews website, said its operations \"are geared towards identifying, blocking and removing fake reviews\".\n\n\"The most direct way to protect consumers from biased and inaccurate information is to focus public policies and enforcement on the bad actors,\" said Becky Foley, senior safety director at Tripadvisor.\n\nThe government also wants to bring in new rules against \"subscription traps\", in which businesses make it difficult to leave a contract.\n\nBusinesses will have to give clearer information to consumers before they sign up to a subscription contract.\n\nThey will need to send a reminder that a free trial or low-cost introductory offer is coming to an end, and ensure customers can leave a contract in a \"straightforward, cost-effective and timely way\", the government said.\n\nSmall business minister Paul Scully said the consumers deserved better and the majority of business doing the \"right thing\" deserved \"protection from rogue traders undermining them\".\n\n\"No longer will you visit a five star-reviewed restaurant only to find a burnt lasagne or get caught in a subscription in which there's no end in sight,\" he said.\n\nIf the government proposals are made into law, prepayment schemes such as Christmas savings clubs will also have to safeguard fully customers' money through insurance or trust accounts.\n\nShoppers' savings clubs - where consumers pay for goods and services in instalments throughout the year - are not currently covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.\n\nUnder the proposals, even if the company goes bust, shoppers' money will still be protected.\n\nThe rules aim to prevent issues such as the collapse of Christmas savings club Farepak, which saw tens of thousands of people lose money when the company went bust in 2006.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will be able to award compensation to consumers and directly impose financial penalties worth up to 10% of global annual turnover for businesses that transgress the new rules, or up to £300,000 in the case of an individual.\n\nThe government said CMA's new powers will mean cases will no longer need to go through the courts.\n\nInstead, the CMA will be able to award compensation to consumers and directly impose financial penalties.\n\nRocio Concha, Which? director of policy and advocacy, said the impact of fake reviews was \"enormous\".\n\nShe said the process to \"hold businesses to account\" was \"far too complicated and lengthy\".\n\n\"Britain's consumer and competition laws are in desperate need of an upgrade,\" Ms Concha added.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said the extra powers the CMA stands to gain would \"help stamp out the practice of fake reviews, which do irreparable damage to businesses\".\n\nHowever, she said the \"devil will be in the detail\" of the policy.\n\nUK Hospitality wants to see that the \"consumers are safeguarded without placing any further unnecessary burdens on businesses\".\n\nShe said the new CMA powers should not \"unfairly punish businesses\" especially small businesses, adding that there needed to be \"a clear right of appeal\".\n\n\"Fairness for both businesses and consumers, particularly when it comes to offering refunds, will be crucial and any new measures must also be made in the context of a sector facing an onslaught of challenges after a difficult two years,\" she added.\n\nThe government also said the CMA's powers will allow it to \"have stronger tools to tackle companies colluding to bump-up prices\" and to also stop \"killer acquisitions\" in which big businesses snap up rivals before they can launch new products or services.\n\nCMA chief executive Andrea Coscelli said the new rules were an \"important milestone towards strengthening the CMA's ability to hold companies to account, promote fair and open markets, and protect UK consumers\".", "Johnny Depp has sought to paint ex-wife Amber Heard as a volatile spouse who abused and demeaned him.\n\nThe actor, 58, has sued Ms Heard over an article she wrote saying she was a victim of domestic violence.\n\nMr Depp has denied any abuse. Ms Heard, 35, has sued him in return, with a $100m (£76m) counterclaim.\n\nIn his testimony, Mr Depp said he felt \"pure hatred\" from Ms Heard. Cross-examination from her lawyers began on Wednesday after two days of testimony.\n\nHis testimony is set to resume into a third day on Thursday.\n\nAfter the romance of their first year together soured, the pair argued regularly, he said, with Ms Heard frequently issuing a \"sarcastic, demeaning, aggressive, violent, toxic spew\", and occasionally resorting to violence.\n\n\"It could begin with a slap,\" Mr Depp said. \"It could begin with throwing a TV remote at my head. It could be throwing a glass of wine in my face.\"\n\n\"She has a need for conflict. She has a need for violence,\" he said. And in recordings of the former couple played to the jury on Wednesday, Ms Heard can be heard admitting she \"did start a physical fight\" with Mr Depp.\n\nMr Depp also recalled a now-infamous incident between him and his former wife, in which he found \"human fecal matter\" on his side of the bed in the flat he shared with Ms Heard.\n\n\"It was so bizarre and so grotesque, that I could only laugh,\" he said.\n\nMs Heard has denied that she or any of her friends left human excrement on the bed, testifying in Mr Depp's 2018 defamation trial in the UK that the idea was \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\nJurors in the closely watched civil trial, which is taking place in Virginia, have heard two wildly different accounts of Mr Depp and Ms Heard's relationship.\n\nLawyers for Ms Heard have so far worked to portray Mr Depp as a physically and sexually abusive partner prone to drug and alcohol binges.\n\nMr Depp addressed his drug and alcohol use on Wednesday, saying he had become addicted to prescription opioids after receiving Roxycodone for a back injury.\n\nThe actor testified that while detoxing from the drugs, Ms Heard withheld medication from him that would have relieved symptoms of withdrawal because she said it was not time for the next dose.\n\nThe actor said he rolled on the floor, in tears, and begged. \"I hate saying this, having to admit this, but that was about the lowest point in my life.\"\n\nAs Johnny Depp settled down for day two on the witness stand there was only the briefest glance across the court towards where his ex-wife Amber Heard was sitting.\n\nThroughout it all she sat watching intently, occasionally writing a few notes as Mr Depp began to describe his views about their relationship - a relationship she says was violent and abusive.\n\nOn day one of his testimony, his answers at the beginning had been marked by hesitations and long searches for the right words.\n\nThe Johnny Depp of day two was immediately rather more fluent as he described how their marriage disintegrated and how he felt her behaviour had become controlling and belittling.\n\nIt was, he said, an \"endless parade of insults and looking at me like I was a fool\".\n\nThe reason for the long description on the previous day of his problematic relationship with his mother now began to make sense. The criticisms from Ms Heard and his responses to it made him realise he was in a relationship with his \"mother\".\n\nThere was a little smile as he reflected on what he had said.\n\nHe also talked about celebrity and the impossibility of dealing with everything that was written about him.\n\n\"Your arms are too short to box with God,\" he said.\n\nHis drinking was, he said, a means of dealing with the pain of the relationship. It was Ms Heard who would strike him, he claimed. He would retreat, booking extra rooms when they were travelling so he had a place to escape.\n\nAs they rose for recess, he looked straight ahead.\n\nMs Heard watched, her face giving nothing away.\n\nHer side of the story is yet to be told.\n\nUnder cross-examination, Ms Heard's lawyer Ben Rottenborn had Mr Depp confirm that his name is not mentioned in the 2018 op-ed in question.\n\n\"I think that it's very easy to write a piece and put the finger on someone without saying their name,\" Mr Depp replied.\n\n\"There are sneaky ways of writing things.\"\n\nThe lawyer also asked why Mr Depp did not sue after Ms Heard accused him of assault in a restraining order two years earlier, in May 2016.\n\n\"I was advised by my attorney not to fight,\" Mr Depp said.\n\nMr Rottenborn additionally introduced into evidence a divorce document the couple signed in August 2016 that stated: \"Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain.\"\n\nThe defamation trial is now into its second week.\n\nEarlier, the jury heard evidence presented by the celebrity ex-couple's former therapist, who described how Mr Depp and Ms Heard engaged in \"mutual abuse\", as well as from medical workers who treated Mr Depp as he was detoxing himself from opiates.\n\nSeveral high profile witnesses, including the entrepreneur Elon Musk and the actors James Franco and Paul Bettany, are to appear later in the trial, which is expected to last at least another month.", "Protesters, including Mr Assange's wife Stella Moris, gathered outside the court in London\n\nJulian Assange's battle against extradition to the US is now heading to the home secretary for her final decision.\n\nIn a hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court, the judge who oversees extradition requests authorised the case to be sent to Priti Patel.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder is expected to appeal to the High Court if she approves his extradition.\n\nMr Assange is wanted in the US over documents leaked in 2010 and 2011.\n\nThe Supreme Court ruled last month that Mr Assange's case raised no legal questions over assurances the US had given the UK over how he is likely to be treated.\n\nMs Patel must now decide whether the US's request for Mr Assange meets remaining legal tests - including a promise not to execute him.\n\nJulian Assange's lawyer Mark Summers QC told chief magistrate Paul Goldspring that the home secretary would be receiving \"serous submissions\" on US sentencing law and practices.\n\n\"You, of course, have no option but to send this case to the Secretary of State,\" he said.\n\n\"It is not for me to raise fresh evidence [at this stage] even though there have been serious developments in this case.\"\n\nJulian Assange, pictured in 2017, spent nearly seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London\n\nMr Assange spoke briefly on a video link from Belmarsh Prison during the seven-minute hearing, to confirm his name and date of birth and to acknowledge he understood what was happening.\n\n\"I am duty-bound to send your case to the Secretary of State for a decision on whether you will be extradited,\" the judge told him.\n\n\"You have the right to appeal to the High Court and if you exercise your right to appeal it will not be heard until [Ms Patel] has made her decision.\"\n\nScores of people protesting against Mr Assange's extradition gathered outside the court, carrying placards reading \"Don't extradite Assange\".\n\nThe 50-year-old has been in prison since he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2019 and arrested by British police, after Ecuador withdrew his asylum status.\n\nIn May 2019, while serving a jail sentence in the UK for breaching bail, the US justice department filed 17 charges against Mr Assange for violating the Espionage Act - alleging that material obtained by Wikileaks endangered lives.\n\nMr Assange's legal team claimed that classified documents published by Wikileaks, which related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, exposed US wrongdoing and were in the public interest.", "People using self-driving cars will be allowed to watch television on built-in screens under proposed updates to the Highway Code.\n\nThe changes will say drivers must be ready to take back control of vehicles when prompted, the government said.\n\nThe first use of self-driving technology is likely to be when travelling at slow speeds on motorways, such as in congested traffic.\n\nHowever, using mobile phones while driving will remain illegal.\n\nNo self-driving cars are currently allowed on UK roads, but the first vehicles capable of driving themselves could be ready for use later this year, the Department for Transport (DfT) said.\n\nThe planned changes to the code are expected to come in over the summer.\n\nThe updates, proposed following public consultation, were described as an interim measure to support the early adoption of the technology and a full regulatory framework is planned to be implemented by 2025.\n\nThey will also lay out that users of self-driving cars will not be responsible for crashes.\n\nInstead insurance companies, not individuals, will be liable for claims in many circumstances, the DfT said.\n\nThe government announced in April last year hands-free driving in vehicles with lane-keeping technology on congested motorways would be permitted.\n\nAutomated lane-keeping system technology lets a vehicle drive in a single lane, up to 37mph (60kmph), while maintaining the ability to return control to the driver when required.\n\nUnder the new guidance, motorists should be ready take control from an automated system when prompted, for example when approaching a motorway exit.\n\nCurrently available technology is 'assistive', which means drivers should always retain control, the DfT said.\n\nExperts have suggested a vehicle can stop built-in screens displaying material unrelated to driving when the motorist is required to resume control.\n\nBut there is currently no comparable system to turn off handheld mobile devices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens if you fall asleep in a self-driving car?\n\nTransport Minister Trudy Harrison said updating to the Highway Code will be a \"major milestone in our safe introduction of self-driving vehicles\".\n\nShe also claimed their use \"revolutionise the way we travel, making our future journeys greener, safer and more reliable\".\n\nThe development of self-driving vehicles could create around 38,000 new jobs and be worth £41.7 billion to the UK economy by 2035, according to the DfT.\n\nThe Law Commission published recommendations on how the law should be updated in light of self-driving technology in January, concluding human drivers should not be legally accountable for road safety in the era of autonomous cars.\n\nCar safety experts Thatcham Research described the focus on the driver's legal responsibilities as important, adding drivers need to be made aware they \"must remain engaged\" and be ready to resume driving \"at any time\".\n\nEventually, self-driving technology could \"improve road safety across Britain by reducing human error, which is a contributory factor in 88% of all recorded road collisions,\" the government said.\n\nHowever, the technology for fully-autonomous vehicles has proved difficult to safely introduce and previous estimates of when cars will be able to drive themselves have been unrealistic.\n\nSteve Gooding, director of motoring research charity the RAC Foundation, said driverless cars \"promise a future where death and injury on our roads are cut significantly\".\n\nHowever, he said there is likely to be a \"long period of transition\" while drivers retain \"much of the responsibility for what happens\" while operating vehicles.", "Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova survived the mass killing of Mariupol's Jewish residents in 1941 by hiding in a cellar\n\nAn elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust has died in the siege of Mariupol, her daughter told the Chabad.org news site.\n\nVanda Semyonovna Obiedkova, 91, was sheltering without water in a freezing basement when she died on 4 April.\n\nMore than 80 years ago she had hidden in a cellar during Mariupol's Nazi occupation.\n\nThis time she was taking shelter from Russian forces who have bombarded the city and cut off essential supplies.\n\n\"There was no water, no electricity, no heat - and it was unbearably cold,\" said Larissa, who was in the basement hiding with her mother. \"There was nothing we could do for her. We were living like animals.\"\n\nAny moment spent outside the cellar was risky, with two snipers installed near the closest water sources, and the unrelenting bombardment from the sky.\n\n\"Every time a bomb fell, the entire building shook. My mother kept saying she didn't remember anything like this during the Great Patriotic War [World War Two].\"\n\nBorn in 1930, Vanda was just 10 years old when Nazi occupiers arrived in the port city and rounded up its Jewish population in October 1941.\n\nSoldiers marched thousands of residents, including Vanda's own mother, to a ditch where they were executed in a mass grave.\n\nThe little girl escaped by hiding in a basement when German SS officers arrived at her home to take away her mother.\n\nShe survived the rest of Mariupol's Nazi occupation by spending the next two years in a hospital, which her father - who was not Jewish - had managed to get her checked in to.\n\nMs Obiedkova is the second Ukrainian Holocaust survivor known to have died since the Russian invasion began.\n\nIn March, a 96-year-old concentration camp survivor died when Russian forces shelled the apartment block he was living in, his relatives said.\n\n\"She was a kind, joyous woman, a special person who will forever remain in our hearts.\"\n\nLarissa and her surviving family members are now said to be in a safe location.\n\nMariupol's mayor says 100,000 people remain trapped in the eastern port city, which has been under intense Russian bombardment since the beginning of the invasion. The BBC has been unable to verify the figure independently.\n\nThe city is a key strategic target for Moscow, which if captured would free up thousands of Russian troops to take part in offensives elsewhere and allow Russian forces in annexed Crimea to link directly with separatist forces in the east.\n\nDespite multiple ultimatums from Russia, Ukrainian defenders have remained camped out in Mariupol's massive Azovstal steel complex where they've vowed to fight to the end.", "A new series of Stranger Things will air in May\n\nNetflix has hinted it will crack down on households sharing passwords as it seeks to sign up new members following a sharp fall in subscribers.\n\nThe number of households using the streaming service fell by 200,000 in the first three months of the year as it faced stiff competition from rivals.\n\nIt was also hit after it raised prices in some countries and left Russia.\n\nNetflix warned shareholders another two million subscribers were likely to leave in the three months to July.\n\n\"Our revenue growth has slowed considerably,\" the firm told shareholders on Tuesday after publishing its first quarter results.\n\n\"Our relatively high household penetration - when including the large number of households sharing accounts - combined with competition, is creating revenue growth headwinds.\"\n\nThe streaming giant estimates more than 100 million households watch the service for free using shared passwords.\n\nBoss Reed Hastings previously described the practice as \"something you have to learn to live with\", adding that much of it is \"legitimate\" between family members. The firm also said account sharing had probably fuelled its growth by getting more people using Netflix.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr Hastings said it was making it hard to attract new subscribers in some countries.\n\n\"When we were growing fast, it wasn't a high priority to work on [account sharing]. And now we're working super hard on it,\" he told shareholders.\n\nThe firm said payment plans it is testing to curb password sharing in Latin America could be rolled out to other countries.\n\nSince last month, account holders in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru must pay to add user profiles for people outside their household (the company currently allows people who live together to share their Netflix account).\n\nUsers can add up to two extra profiles for $2-$3 (£1.53-£2.30) a month each, on top of their regular fee.\n\nNetflix - which did not say how it would enforce the rule - said it was seeking a \"customer centric\" solution.\n\n\"The principle way we have is asking our members to pay a bit more to share the service outside their homes,\" said Greg Peters, Netflix's chief product officer.\n\nDominic Sunnebo, an analyst at research firm Kantar, warned the plan could backfire at a time when consumers were looking for ways to save money.\n\n\"If the schemes to counter password sharing move too fast and too aggressively, it also risks alienating a potential future audience - many who password-share beyond the household are not actually aware they're breaking the terms of their subscription.\"\n\nNetflix said that pulling out of Russia in March in response to the Ukraine war had cost it 700,000 subscribers.\n\nAnd another 600,000 people stopped using its service in the US and Canada after it put up prices in January.\n\nThe firm raised prices across all of its US plans, with a basic plan increasing from $9 to $10 per month, and a standard from $14 to $15.50.\n\nIn the UK, basic and standard plans have both increased by £1 a month to £6.99 and £10.99 respectively.\n\nNetflix said the price rises would yield more money for the firm, despite the cancellations. But analysts say the rising cost of streaming services is wearing on households as the cost of living rises.\n\nIn the UK, households cancelled more than 1.5 million streaming subscriptions in the first three months of the year, with 38% saying they wanted to save money.\n\nOne of Netflix most popular series, Bridgerton, launched its second series last month\n\nSeeming to acknowledge this, Mr Hastings said Netflix was looking at launching a free ad-supported service like its rivals Disney and HBO.\n\nAnalysts say it could open a significant new revenue stream for the company, which has so far shunned advertising.\n\n\"Those who have followed Netflix know that I've been against the complexity of advertising, and a big fan of the simplicity of subscription,\" he said. \"But, as much as I'm a fan of that, I'm a bigger fan of consumer choice.\"\n\nNetflix's biggest threat is intense competition from firms such as Amazon, Apple and Disney, which are pouring money into their online streaming services, according to experts.\n\nPaolo Pescatore, an analyst at PP Foresight, said Netflix's subscriber loss was a \"reality check\", as it tries to balance retaining subscribers with raising its revenue.\n\nTell us how you have been affected by the issues raised in this story.\n\n\"While Netflix and other services were key in lockdown, users are now thinking twice about their purchasing behaviour based upon changing habits,\" he said.\n\nNorth America especially is \"now awash with too many services chasing too few dollars\", he added.\n\nShares in the streaming giant plunged in early trade in New York on Wednesday, dropping more than 30% off the back of the update.\n\nThe firm - which remains the world's leading streaming service with more than 220 million subscribers - had enjoyed uninterrupted quarterly growth in subscribers since October 2011.\n\nHowever, it said a surge in sign-ups during the pandemic had \"obscured\" the real picture around its growth.\n\nIt made revenue of $7.8bn (£6bn) in the first three months of the year, up 9.8% compared with the same period last year.\n\nThat marked a slowdown from earlier quarters, while profits fell more than 6% to roughly $1.6bn", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "Capturing the whole of Mariupol is seen as a major strategic prize for Russia\n\nDefenders of the besieged city of Mariupol will fight to the end against Russian forces, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says.\n\nThe port city has not fallen despite an ultimatum from Moscow to remaining fighters to give up, he said.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia has chosen to raze Mariupol to the ground.\n\nLocal officials said Russian forces have announced they will stop anyone from entering or leaving the city.\n\nCapturing the whole of the city is seen as a major strategic prize for Russia, leaving it in control of a vast swathe of southern and eastern Ukraine.\n\nAn advisor to the mayor of Mariupol said residents would be forced to queue for a pass to enable them to move between districts and some could have their phones confiscated or be taken against their will to Russia.\n\nPetro Andryushchenko also said Russia was holding at least 20,000 Ukrainian citizens in filtration camps outside Mariupol.\n\nIn an interview with the US network ABC, Mr Shmyhal said a Russian deadline for Ukrainian forces in Mariupol to surrender by Sunday had been ignored.\n\n\"The city still has not fallen,\" he said. \"There is still our military forces, our soldiers, so they will fight until the end. And as for now, they still are in Mariupol.\"\n\nRussia's military says it controls almost all of Mariupol, while Ukraine's Azov Battalion is still holding out in Azovstal, a huge steelworks overlooking the Azov Sea.\n\nJustin Crump, a military expert at security consultancy Sybilline, told the BBC there could be 500 to 800 Ukrainian troops holding out in the city.\n\n\"[The steelworks] has nuclear bunkers, tunnels, it's built to survive a nuclear conflict - they are really well set for defence,\" he said.\n\n\"They have had more than 50 days to fortify it and build escape routes,\" Mr Crump added. \"I suspect that unless they are wiped out they'll be there a long time. It's credible there would be guerrilla resistance.\"\n\nUkraine has demanded that Russian forces open humanitarian corridors from Mariupol to allow civilians and wounded Ukrainian troops to leave, but no large-scale evacuations have taken place for several weeks.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk confirmed there would be no corridor again on Monday and repeated calls for a way out of Mariupol to be set up.\n\n\"We demand an urgent humanitarian corridor from the territory of the Azovstal plant for women, children and other civilians,\" she said in a post on Telegram.\n\nThe situation for civilians in the city is desperate, with homes destroyed and widespread water shortages.\n\nThe family of one of two British men reportedly been captured by Russian forces while fighting in Mariupol have said they are hoping for a quick resolution to his situation.\n\nShaun Pinner, 48, who is serving in the Ukrainian Army, has appeared on Russian state television, as has Aiden Aslin. They asked to be exchanged for Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician being held by Ukraine's authorities, though it was unclear if they were speaking under duress.\n\nMr Medvedchuk's wife has also called for the exchange, appealing to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to help arrange it.\n\nAs Mariupol defenders continue to hold out, Ukrainian officials still deny any possibility of territorial concessions to Russia.\n\nIn an interview broadcast on Sunday by CNN, President Volodymyr Zelensky brushed aside the idea of letting Moscow take over parts of eastern Ukraine to stop the conflict.\n\n\"Ukraine and its people are clear. We have no claim to anyone else's territories but we are not going to give up ours,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, authorities in the western city of Lviv said seven people were killed in rocket strikes on Monday morning.\n\nIt is not yet clear what the strikes were targeting. In recent weeks, Russia has focused its offensive on eastern Ukraine.", "Destroyed buildings and vehicles in Mariupol on 13 April Image caption: Destroyed buildings and vehicles in Mariupol on 13 April\n\nThe embattled Ukrainian city of Mariupol could completely fall to Russian forces within days, a European official has told Reuters.\n\nThe official, who asked not to be named, said they believe that Russia hopes to declare the city \"liberated\" by 9 May, the date when Russia marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.\n\n\"We do expect a complete destruction of the city and many civilian casualties in Mariupol,\" they added.\n\nThe official added they fear the death toll could be worse than Bucha, where Russian troops have been accused of killing hundreds of civilians. Russia denies the claims.\n\nAdditionally, the official said they believed Russia's medium-term objective was to control Luhansk and Donetsk and secure a land corridor with Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014.\n\nSuch an operation is likely to take between four and six months to complete, after which the conflict could result in a stalemate, the official added.", "Wrexham Maelor is an 800-bed hospital for people in north-east Wales\n\nA carer has been arrested for allegedly sharing a WhatsApp video of a patient who had soiled a bed.\n\nNorth Wales Police was called in by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board following allegations made regarding the vulnerable patient on 24 March.\n\nOfficers said the report \"related to concerns of abuse of position and possible ill-treatment of patients\" at Wrexham Maelor Hospital.\n\nThe nursing staff member has since been released on police bail.\n\nThe force said the health board is assisting with its investigation, but have not given any details about what is alleged to have happened.\n\nIt is alleged that the staff member filmed a patient who had soiled a bed\n\nThe health board said it had started an internal disciplinary procedure and had put measures in place to ensure the safety of patients.\n\nIt said it will also be setting up a helpline for staff, patients or anyone who may be concerned.\n\nDeputy CEO Gill Harris said: \"We were recently made aware of allegations against a member of staff regarding a vulnerable patient and immediately referred the matter to North Wales Police.\n\n\"Whilst we are working with all relevant authorities, this remains a matter under police investigation.\n\n\"Therefore we will not be making any further comment at this time.\"\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr is Wales' biggest health board in terms of population, covering more than 700,000 people across the north of the country.\n\nSpecial measures describe the highest level of Welsh government intervention in and monitoring of the running of a health board.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr came out of special measures after more than five years in November 2020.\n\nBut recently it was warned to address issues with the service with \"immediate effect\" after multiple two previous \"concerning\" incidents led to a plan to treat some north Wales vascular patients in England.", "A Russian tycoon has lambasted the country's \"massacre\" in Ukraine and called for an end to the \"crazy war\".\n\nOleg Tinkov wrote in a profanity-littered Instagram post that he did not see \"any beneficiary\" of the conflict.\n\nMr Tinkov is one of Russia's most well-known entrepreneurs and founded the global online bank Tinkoff Bank and owned the cycling team Tinkoff-Saxo.\n\nHe is also one of the most high profile Russians to publicly condemn President Vladimir Putin's actions.\n\nTwo of the country's most prominent oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have made separate calls for peace, but have stopped short of direct criticism.\n\nMr Fridman, a billionaire banker, has said any personal remarks could be a risk not just to himself but also staff and colleagues.\n\nHowever, the businessman Boris Mints, who worked for the Russian government in the 1990s but was discharged of his political roles four days after Mr Putin took office, has joined Mr Tinkov in voicing direct criticism of the president.\n\nMr Mints, who lives in the UK, is the subject of current legal action by the Kremlin. He told the BBC \"every right-thinking person has a duty to speak out against this appalling war and Vladimir Putin's growing authoritarianism\".\n\n\"All of us must do what we can to support Ukrainians suffering from this vicious onslaught, whether in Ukraine or as refugees beyond its borders,\" he added.\n\nThe UK government has sanctioned Mr Tinkov along with many other Russians identified as having close links to the Kremlim. Mr Mints has not been sanctioned.\n\nWarning: This story contains language some may find offensive.\n\nMr Tinkov has previously denied having any close relationship with President Putin or the Kremlin.\n\nIn his Instagram post, Mr Tinkov said 90% of Russians were against the war in Ukraine and added \"morons in any country are 10%\".\n\n\"I don't see a SINGLE beneficiary of this insane war! Innocent people and soldiers are dying,\" Mr Tinkov added.\n\n\"Waking up with a hangover, the generals realised that they have a shit army.\n\n\"And how will the army be good, if everything else in the country is shitty and mired in nepotism, sycophancy and servility?\"\n\nBefore Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, Mr Tinkov's wealth had been estimated at more than $4.4bn (£3.4bn).\n\nBut he has since lost his billionaire status as shares in his bank have plummeted, Forbes reported last month.\n\nSwitching to English in his post, Mr Tinkov wrote: \"Dear 'collective West' please give Mr Putin a clear exit to save his face and stop this massacre. Please be more rational and humanitarian.\"\n\nOleg Tinkov used to own cycling team Tinkoff-Saxo\n\nIn a statement, Tinkoff Bank said it would not comment on the \"private opinion\" of its founder, who stepped down as chairman in 2020, saying he no longer made decisions for the brand started in 2006.\n\nMr Tinkov, who is not currently in Russia, owns about 35% of Cyprus-based TCS Group Holding, whose stable of companies under the Tinkoff brand span sectors from banking and insurance to mobile services.\n\nHe has been described as a \"serial entrepreneur\" whose career has seen him go from bike racing, to importing electronics, flogging frozen food, brewing beer, issuing credit cards and then back to bike racing as owner of cycling's Tinkoff-Saxo team.", "Katie Jarvis played Hayley Slater in EastEnders between 2018 and 2019\n\nA former EastEnders actress who shouted \"black lives don't matter\" outside a fish and chip restaurant has been sentenced to a community order.\n\nKatie Jarvis, who played Hayley Slater from 2018 to 2019, was arrested in Southend-on-Sea, Essex in July 2020.\n\nBasildon Crown Court heard the 30-year-old got into a dispute with a group of women and later spat towards a bouncer.\n\nJarvis, of Rainham in east London, admitted racially aggravated harassment and common assault on Tuesday.\n\nCyrus Shroff, prosecuting, said tensions flared over seating outside the restaurant, at about 19:30 BST on 31 July.\n\nSomeone tried to take an empty seat, which was at a table where Michelle Antonio, who is black, was sitting with two others of her group of four people.\n\nMs Antonio said the chair was being used, then saw the defendant and told her that she could not take the seat as it was needed, the court heard.\n\nJarvis appeared at Basildon Crown Court on Tuesday, when she admitted the charges\n\nMr Shroff said differing accounts have been provided over what happened next, with Jarvis claiming Ms Antonio was \"aggressive\", which Ms Antonio denies.\n\nMr Shroff said Jarvis walked off, shouting \"black lives don't matter anyway\", an insult which included an expletive, and \"I'm a celebrity\".\n\nHe said it \"appears a fight broke out between the parties\".\n\nMr Shroff said Ms Antonio stated Jarvis's comments made her \"feel disgusted and angry\", and that she \"can't believe in 2020 these things are still being said\".\n\nLater that evening, Jarvis was denied entry to the Hope Hotel, and was asked to leave when she returned an hour later.\n\nShe shouted abuse at a doorman, and spat towards him, the court heard.\n\nThe doorman contacted police and Jarvis was arrested at about 23:00 that night.\n\nPatrick Harte, mitigating, said Jarvis was sorry and she \"maintains she didn't physically assault anyone that day\".\n\nHe said she was \"sorry to the people who heard her use the awful language on that day, and to Mr Groom the doorman, who was simply doing his job\".\n\nMr Harte said Jarvis \"drinks very rarely\" and on the day in question \"had been in London - she had a number of successful interviews for films\".\n\n\"She was celebrating,\" he said.\n\nDuring a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Judge Samantha Leigh noted that Jarvis had no previous convictions as an adult and said that as she was in the \"public eye you have been subjected to abuse on social media\".\n\nShe sentenced Jarvis to a two-year community order, with 200 hours of unpaid work and a requirement to complete 60 days of specified activities.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ukainian city of Lviv has been the target of Russian missile strikes.\n\nThe BBC's Dan Johnson reports from the scene, where he witnessed \"missiles streaking across the sky and hitting buildings\".", "Hayden Wood said he had put all his personal savings into Bulb\n\nThe co-founder of collapsed energy firm Bulb has defended continuing to be paid £250,000 a year, saying he is helping with a sale of the company.\n\nBoss Hayden Wood told MPs he was asked to stay on to \"support customers\".\n\nHe said he was \"very sorry\" for how the company collapsed when it buckled under rising wholesale gas prices.\n\nBulb collapsed late last year and was placed into \"special administration\", being run by the government through regulator Ofgem until a buyer is found.\n\nIt is one of 29 suppliers which have gone bust following a sharp rise in wholesale gas prices.\n\nThe Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee heard the collapse of Bulb was expected to cost the taxpayer £3bn - which is the biggest state bailout since the Royal Bank of Scotland collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nMr Wood told MPs the company had realised it \"couldn't afford\" losses which would have been incurred in supplying energy to customers with prices of wholesale gas reaching 400p per therm - despite having £120m in the bank.\n\nHe said Bulb, which has 1.6 million customers, had been in discussions to raise funds and eventually to sell the company.\n\nBut when talks fell through, he said: \"We had no reasonable prospect of being able to fund those losses for customers and that is when we made the difficult choice to enter special administration\".\n\nHe added: \"I am very sorry for the way things turned out with Bulb.\n\n\"I think I and we at Bulb...should take responsibility for how the business failed.\"\n\nAsked if it was \"morally justifiable\" that taxpayers continued to pay his salary after the company had gone bust, Mr Wood said: \"I think everything we are doing right now is to try and complete a sale of the company so that we can minimise the cost to taxpayers and minimise the disruption to consumers.\"\n\nMr Wood said he had never received a bonus from Bulb, had put all his personal savings into the company he created in 2015 and had since lost all his shareholdings in the firm.\n\nAt the time Bulb was placed in special administration, the Treasury set aside £1.7bn to purchase the gas required until the end of the tax year in April 2022 by which time it had been hoped a buyer would be found for the business.\n\nBut government officials have conceded that the prospect of offloading the business to a private buyer seems remote in the current environment and that means that taxpayers will foot the bill.\n\nA Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy spokesperson said: \"Bulb's administrators have agreed to keep Mr Wood temporarily in place to ensure a smooth handover and sales process.\"\n\n\"Mr Wood is paid for this work under his employment contract with Simple Energy, the parent company of Bulb, in a separate administration process over which the government has no influence.\n\nThe spokesperson added that the government will seek to recoup administration costs at a later date.\n\nJake Brown headed up Avro which had 580,000 customers when it collapsed\n\nThe committee also quizzed Jake Brown, chief executive of now-collapsed firm Avro, which had 580,000 customers.\n\nMr Brown faced questions about loans his family business took out of the firm, as well as his failures to engage with regulators and energy charities. Avro's collapse is expected to cost £700m.\n\nThe committee chair said Mr Brown had appeared to have got off \"pretty lightly\" when customers were now having to foot the bill for his business going bust.\n\nLabour MP Darren Jones added Mr Brown \"personified\" the reason the government needed to change energy market regulation and said he \"took customer money out the business\".\n\n\"In my view you should have never been allowed to start an energy company. I find it quite offensive that you have ended up with so much of customers' money,\" he said.\n\nMr Brown told MPs he had a \"lot of regret\" that that company had gone bust and claimed he \"had not touched any customers' money\".\n\nEarlier during the committee meeting, the bosses of four major energy firms called on the government to do more to help people struggling with soaring energy bills.\n\nKeith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power, told MPs \"so many people are really going to struggle\" after prices rose by 54% from 1 April.\n\nBut he warned further rises forecast in October were going to be \"horrific\".\n\nE.ON boss Michael Lewis said efforts by the government to soften the blow of higher prices were \"not nearly enough\".\n\nScottish Power's Mr Anderson spoke to MPs alongside E.ON's Mr Lewis, Simone Rossi the chief executive of EDF, and Chris O' Shea the boss of British Gas owner Centrica.\n\nMr Anderson said his company had 8,000 calls with concerns about paying bills since the price for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity increased by £693 on average - from £1,277 to £1,971 per year - at the start of April.\n\nBut he said his biggest concern was when prices are due to rise again in October, \"particularly around the most vulnerable and poorest\".\n\n\"In summer consumption goes down. Come October that's going to get horrific, totally horrific,\" he said.\n\nMr Anderson said the energy price crisis had now \"got to the stage now where I believe the size and scale of this is beyond what I can deal with, it's beyond what I think this industry can deal with\".\n\nThe Scottish Power boss said the government should set up a \"deficit fund\" and wipe £1,000 off the bill of anyone who is deemed to be in fuel poverty and on pre-payment meters, which would be repaid by all customers or the government.\n\nMr Anderson said such a policy was required for people in fuel poverty that \"puts their bill back to where it used to be before the gas crisis\".\n\nBut he said in the future the government should scrap the energy price cap - the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge households - and introduce a \"social tariff\".\n\nHe said a social tariff would be \"targeted to discount the price\" to people in fuel poverty.\n\nMr Lewis, chief executive of E.ON, supported the idea of a social tariff but said the government could do more in the short-term situation which he said was something he had \"never\" seen in his 30-year career.\n\nHe said if the government did not provide more support for households, E.ON forecast 30-40% of its customers would \"go into fuel poverty\".\n\nTo date, the government has said it will offer extra relief of £150 via the council tax system in England in April and in October customers in England, Scotland and Wales will receive a £200 rebate on their energy bills.\n\nThey will have to repay this at £40 a year for five years, starting in April 2023.\n\nThe warm house discount scheme is also being expanded to cover three million households. It offers low income households a one-off annual discount on their electricity bill, and was worth £140 in 2021-22.\n\nMr Rossi added the government support for bill payers announced in February was \"proportionate at that point\", but added things had got worse as a result of the war in Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr O'Shea said 10% of Centrica customers - about 716,000 households - were in £440 of debt on average compared to 125,000 at this time last year.\n\nHe said the insolvency service \"should pursue managers, the directors, the executives of every failed company\".\n\n\"Those that have misbehaved should feel the full force of the law,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Starmer accuses Boris Johnson of “slandering\" the Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nBoris Johnson has ignored a Labour call to apologise to the Archbishop of Canterbury over comments the PM made to a private meeting of Tory MPs.\n\nMr Johnson reportedly told his MPs that senior clergy had been \"less vociferous\" in their condemnation of Vladimir Putin than of plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nThe PM said the Rwanda policy was an attempt to save lives in the Channel.\n\nIn his Easter Sunday sermon, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the policy of sending some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK illegally to Rwanda cannot \"stand the judgment of God\".\n\nMr Johnson accused \"senior members of the clergy\" and the BBC of misconstruing the policy in a speech to Tory MPs on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe PM was attempting to rally support from his MPs after his Commons apology over being fined by the police for breaking Covid laws.\n\nHe suggested, in an aside, that the clergy had been less vociferous in condemning Vladimir Putin, according to No 10 sources.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Welby and the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said in a statement issued by Lambeth Palace that they would continue to oppose the policy on \"moral and ethical grounds\".\n\nThe two senior clergymen had denounced the invasion of Ukraine as \"an act of great evil\" and had called for Russian troops to withdraw, the statement added.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Johnson of not being sincere in his apology for breaking Covid rules at his birthday party in June 2020.\n\nAs soon as he was off camera, the PM had gone back to \"blaming everyone else\" he said, adding: \"Would the prime minister like to take this opportunity to apologise for slandering the Archbishop and the Church of England?\"\n\nMr Johnson said he was surprised to be attacked over a policy that had been devised to \"end the deaths at sea in the Channel as a result of cruel criminal gangs\" and had, he claimed, been first devised in 2004 by [then Labour home secretary] David Blunkett.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Mr Johnson should resign because he \"can't be trusted with the truth\".\n\nMr Johnson and the Labour leader also clashed over reports that Mr Johnson had criticised the BBC's coverage of the war in Ukraine in his speech to MPs.\n\nSir Keir accused the PM of opting to \"slander decent people\" in private but lacking the \"backbone to repeat it in public\".\n\nHe said: \"The prime minister also accused the BBC of not being critical enough of Putin.\n\n\"Would the prime minister have the guts to say that to the face of [BBC reporters] Clive Myrie, Lyse Doucet and Steve Rosenberg, who have all risked their lives day in, day out on the frontline in Russia and Ukraine uncovering Putin's barbarism?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I said nothing of the kind and I have the highest admiration as a former journalist for what journalists do. I think they do an outstanding job. I think he should withdraw what he just said - it has absolutely no basis or foundation in truth.\"\n\nAfter PMQs, Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden said Sir Keir had no evidence for his claim that the PM had accused the BBC of not being critical enough of President Putin, and called on the Labour leader to apologise for the comments.\n\nIn a letter to Sir Keir, Mr Dowden said the prime minister had a \"long track record of supporting the free press and the BBC, particularly with regards to their coverage of the conflict in Ukraine\".\n\n\"I call on you to retract your comments and apologise to the prime minister and the House,\" he added.\n\nMPs will vote on Thursday whether to ask the Privileges Committee to consider whether Mr Johnson misled them on at least four occasions over the Partygate row, and is therefore in contempt of Parliament.\n\nTory MPs are expected to be ordered to oppose the Labour-led cross-party motion on Thursday, although the prime minister will not vote on it as he will be on an official visit to India.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"Conservative MPs should think carefully before voting to block an investigation into Boris Johnson's lies.\n\n\"The public won't stomach another Conservative stitch-up that drags our democracy through the mud just to protect one of their own.\"", "A father whose son took his own life in July 2020 is calling for an \"urgent overhaul\" of the way some counsellors and therapists assess suicide risk.\n\nHis son Tom had died a day after being judged \"low risk\", in a final counselling session, Philip Pirie said.\n\nA group of charities has written to the health secretary, saying the use of a checklist-type questionnaire to predict suicide risk is \"fundamentally flawed\".\n\nThe government says it is now drawing up a new suicide-prevention strategy.\n\nAccording to the latest official data, 6,211 people in the UK killed themselves in 2020.\n\nIt is the most common cause of death in 20-34-year-olds.\n\nAnd of the 17 people each day, on average, who kill themselves, five are in touch with mental health services and four of those five are assessed as \"low\" or \"no risk\", campaigners say.\n\nTom Pirie, a young teacher from Fulham, west London, had been receiving help for mental-health issues.\n\nHe had repeatedly told counsellors about his suicidal thoughts - but the day before he had killed himself, a psychotherapist had judged him low risk, his father said.\n\n\"It's difficult to admit suicidal thoughts, especially for young men,\" Philip told BBC One's Breakfast programme.\n\n\"And the danger, if the client is labelled at low risk, is they get the impression that this is not a topic to go into any further.\n\n\"And that is absolutely wrong.\"\n\nTom's assessment had been based on \"inadequate\" questionnaires widely used despite guidelines saying they should not be to predict suicidal behaviour, Philip said.\n\nThe checklists, which differ depending on the clinicians and NHS trusts involved, typically ask patients questions about their mental health, such as \"Do you have suicidal thoughts?\" or \"Do you have suicidal intentions?\"\n\nAt the end of the session, a score can be generated - placing the individual at low, medium or high risk of suicide, or rating the danger on a scale between one and 10.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn July 2020, a Royal College of Psychiatrists report concluded the approach to suicide risk assessment was \"fundamentally flawed\" and the use of terms such as \"low risk... unreliable, open to misinterpretation and potentially unsafe\".\n\nUsing scales or ratings could provide false reassurance, it said, especially when suicidal thoughts could vary significantly across a short time period.\n\nAnd now, a group, including mental-health charities Mind, the Samaritans and Papyrus, has written to the health secretary saying: \"Risk should not be defined as a number nor treatment determined by a 'score'.\"\n\nOne of the co-signatories of the letter, Zero Suicide Alliance co-founder Steve Mallen said: \"It's not that we're saying these tools don't have benefits - the problem is the way in which they are applied.\n\n\"Some clinicians seem to regard them as the be-all and end-all definitive judgement.\n\n\"It doesn't take a genius to work out that when somebody is in a deep psychological crisis, what is really required is an in-depth conversation and a detailed appreciation of their circumstances and background.\"\n\nMr Mallen, whose son Edward killed himself in 2015, added one of the main issues was a lack of resources in the system, with some NHS therapists and counsellors rushed into a \"processed-based\" approach.\n\nAnother co-signatory, Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park Sarah Olney, said: \"We need these individualised assessments to go much deeper into what's going on with people.\n\n\"And yet what we are seeing time and time again is, 'We've ticked the boxes, we've filled out the form, where's the next person?'\"\n\nLast week, the Department of Health and Social Care asked for evidence as part of plans to update its 2012 suicide-prevention strategy for England.\n\nA department official said: \"Every suicide is a tragedy, which is why we are investing £57m in suicide prevention through the NHS Long Term Plan.\n\n\"NICE [National Institute for Health and Care Excellence] guidelines advise staff not to use risk-assessment tools to predict suicide, though they can be helpful in developing a safety plan.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mikhail Fridman said the conflict in Ukraine should be stopped\n\nOne of Russia's richest men who said imposing sanctions on oligarchs would have no impact on the war in Ukraine has been frozen out of a company.\n\nInvestment firm LetterOne confirmed Mikhail Fridman's shareholdings had been \"frozen indefinitely\", along with those of long-time partner Pyotr Aven.\n\nNeither man can receive dividends or any other financial benefit.\n\nLetterOne said it was \"taking all action necessary\" to protect the 120,000 jobs its investments support.\n\nIt added its board had decided to make a donation of $150m (£114m) to support people affected by the war in Ukraine.\n\nMr Fridman and Mr Aven set up LetterOne, an international investment business based in Luxembourg, in 2013. The billionaire bankers both stepped down from the company last week after being sanctioned by the EU over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nLast week, Mr Fridman said the war was a tragedy for both sides, but stopped short of direct criticism, adding personal remarks could be a risk not just to himself but also staff and colleagues.\n\nMr Fridman, who is the founder Russia's biggest investment bank, Alfa, said the sanctions, which freeze some assets and impose a travel ban, were unjustified and he would fight them.\n\nHowever, the oligarch, who has extensive interests in oil and retailing, added the sanctions would not have the desired effect of helping to rein in the Kremlin.\n\nBorn in Ukraine before the break-up of the Soviet Union, Mr Fridman has been described by the European Union as an enabler of Putin's inner circle.\n\nThe EU also says Pyotr Aven, who created Alfa-Bank with Mr Fridman, is one of President Vladimir Putin's closest oligarchs.\n\nMervyn Davies, chairman of LetterOne, said everyone involved in the firm \"would want us to take these steps given their love and passion for and heritage in Ukraine\".\n\nMr Davies, a former UK Labour government minister, is himself facing pressure to cut ties with LetterOne.\n\nThe company said three other Russian board members, German Khan, Alexey Kuzmichev and Andrei Kosogov, had resigned from their positions as they believed it was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nSeparately, Conservative peer Lord Barker has stepped down as chairman of EN+, the London-listed owner of Russian aluminium giant Rusal.\n\nRusal was founded by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, an industrialist with close ties to President Putin.\n\nLord Barker, who quit after he faced pressure to cut ties following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, earned $4m (£3m) in 2020 from EN+ and $7.8m in 2019.\n\nAlthough he has resigned, the Sunday Times reported it is understood that he plans to take over large parts of the business in a restructuring aimed at distancing the company from Russia.\n\nIn a statement, EN+ said it was considering \"carving out\" Rusal's international business. It has not announced if Lord Barker is part of its plans.\n\nMr Deripaska is one of the richest men linked to President Putin - having made billions from his stake in Russia's aluminium industries, including EN+, which he owns 45% of.\n\nHe first became widely known in the UK in 2008, when it emerged he had been involved in talks over a donation to the Conservative Party via George Osborne. The donation was never made but the story triggered a row at the time about links between British politicians and Russia's elites.\n\nHe has been subject to US sanctions since 2018 but is not under any sanctions in the UK.\n\nIn a tweet on Monday, Mr Deripaska said: \"We need peace as soon as possible, as we have already passed the point of no return.\n\n\"The entire world will be different, Russia will be different as well.\"\n\nPoliticians with links to Russian oligarchs have been criticised since the start of the war in Ukraine, with the Institute of Directors (IoD) saying it is \"no longer tenable for British directors to be involved in governance roles in the Russian economy\".\n\nIn a poll of its members, the IoD said 86% supported the view that all British people should now resign their Russian board mandates.\n\nSenior politicians also called on Lord Barker to sever ties to Mr Deripaska, rather than continuing to work for companies linked to the billionaire.\n\nLord Barker was appointed as independent chairman of EN+ after the company was listed on stock markets in London and Moscow in 2017, before being appointed executive chairman in 2019.\n\nHe was previously a member of the House of Commons from 2001 to 2015, before being made a life peer. He took a leave of absence from the House of Lords in 2019 after taking up his position with EN+.\n\nElsewhere, Sandra Stash, an American non-executive director of Russian steel company Evraz stepped down from the firm, which is part-owned by Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, who has a 29% stake in the company.\n\nMs Stash became the second member of the company's board to step down, with James Rutherford, a British member of the board, quitting last week.\n\nMeanwhile, Ian Cockerill, the British chairman of the London and Moscow-listed precious metals mining company Polymetal, stepped down from the company's board, along with five other members - Ollie Oliveira, Tracey Kerr, Italia Boninelli, Victor Flores and Andrea Abt.\n\nPolymetal was founded in Saint Petersburg and operates a number of gold and silver mines in Russia, Kazakhstan and Armenia.", "After BBC Monitoring's Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko spoke about the dangers the war in Ukraine posed to his family in Zaporizhzhia, two people who heard his story on the BBC Ukrainecast podcast worked together to rescue his mother and severely disabled aunt from the country.\n\nFollowing a 35-hour journey, that spanned 2,000 miles (3,218km) and crossed five countries, Vitaly was reunited with family members as they arrived in Reading, and was able to thank the man who aided their rescue.\n\nListen to the full story on Ukrainecast on BBC Sounds", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: When a prince lends you his coat...\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall has revealed she voted for Strictly Come Dancing champion Rose Ayling-Ellis during a visit to the EastEnders set.\n\nAyling-Ellis, who plays Frankie Lewis in the BBC One soap, won dance show Strictly last year.\n\nThe actress, who is deaf, said she was \"mind-blown\" at Camilla's support.\n\nCamilla and the Prince of Wales also met stars including Danny Dyer, Letitia Dean, and Steve McFadden during their tour of the set in Elstree, Herts.\n\nThe tour took place after filming wrapped on an hour-long special for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall with Maddy Hill, Danny Dyer and Rose Ayling-Ellis\n\nAyling-Ellis said after the meet-and greet that Camilla also revealed her grandchildren watched Strictly.\n\n\"It is amazing, so lovely,\" the actress said.\n\n\"I mean come on, it's the Royal Family voting for me, sometimes you forget how many people watch the show, I am mind-blown.\"\n\nKellie Bright - Dyer's onscreen wife Linda Carter - said: \"It was just a really special moment. I mean everybody has gone through a pandemic the last few years, it is just a nice thing to be able to do something like this again.\"\n\nPhil Mitchell actor McFadden presented Charles with a street sign of Albert Square covered in cast signatures.\n\n\"On behalf of the cast, we hope it hangs on the mantelpiece,\" McFadden said.\n\nThe Prince of Wales is presented with an Albert Square street sign from Steve McFadden and Letitia Dean\n\nDuring a group photograph, the Prince of Wales took off his jacket and gave it to Dean, who plays Sharon Watts in the soap.\n\nThe moment came after Dean said: \"You've got your coat on, very wise.\"\n\nThis prompted Charles to take his jacket off and place it around her shoulders.\n\nThe royal couple met cast and crew at the Elstree set\n\nCharles was met with a round of applause after giving his jacket to Dean.\n\nDean later told Charles: \"Thanks for lending me your coat, it smelt rather lovely.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales with Rudolph Walker and Letitia Dean\n\nGillian Taylforth, who plays Kathy Beale, said: \"It's just so exciting, we were all standing around the corner and we were all having fun, laughing and joking and when they said they're on their way suddenly I said: 'My stomach is going right jelly wobbles.'\n\nThe royal couple were shown around the new set of EastEnders, which was originally due to be finished in 2018.\n\nAfter meeting with Charles, Natalie Cassidy, who plays Sonia Fowler, said he was \"so personable and lovely\".\n\n\"They were very interested in all aspects and I think that is what's amazing about them, they make every conversation seem fresh,\" she added.\n\nIt is not the first time a member of the royal family has visited the EastEnders set.\n\nThe Queen met Dame Barbara Windsor, who played Peggy Mitchell in 2001.\n\nThe monarch stepped behind the Queen Vic, walked around Albert Square and through the EastEnders street market, meeting stars of the show.", "Princess Beatrice has featured in a legal dispute between a Turkish millionaire and her business adviser\n\nA Turkish millionaire claims her payment to Prince Andrew was falsely described as a wedding gift for his daughter Princess Beatrice.\n\nNehebat Isbilen is claiming at the High Court in London that her business adviser Selman Turk \"dishonestly misappropriated\" £38m of her assets.\n\nMrs Isbilen paid £750,000 to Prince Andrew and claims Mr Turk had wrongly told her bank it was a wedding gift.\n\nThere is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Princess Beatrice or Prince Andrew.\n\nThe Duke of York has now returned the £750,000 to Mrs Isbilen.\n\nMr Turk has rejected the allegations made against him.\n\nThis complex court case revolves around accusations that Mrs Isbilen's money was fraudulently used by her business adviser, Mr Turk.\n\nMrs Isbilen, aged 77, is from a wealthy Turkish business family, but when her politician husband was jailed she wanted advice on moving her assets out of Turkey.\n\nBut the High Court has heard accusations that Mr Turk \"misappropriated\" her assets - and her lawyers have been trying to track down and recover her money.\n\nAccording to court papers, this revealed that \"substantial sums\" had been paid to Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York.\n\nMrs Isbilen claims Mr Turk advised her to make a \"gift\" of £750,000 to Prince Andrew, which she was misled into believing was for assistance with her passport.\n\nThis amount was transferred from her account on 15 November 2019.\n\n\"The representation that Mrs Isbilen needed to make a gift to the Duke of York in connection with her passport [or for any other purpose] was false,\" says her legal team in their claim of dishonesty against Mr Turk.\n\nBut Mrs Isbilen's testimony in an affidavit also says that she saw an email from Mr Turk to her bank explaining the £750,000 payment as being a \"wedding gift\" for the Duke of York's daughter, Princess Beatrice.\n\nThis claim was \"entirely false\" says Mrs Isbilen in her affidavit.\n\nA week before the payment by Mrs Isbilen, Mr Turk's firm had also been a winner of an award at the Pitch at the Palace business initiative, headed by Prince Andrew.\n\nRepresentatives of Prince Andrew have not commented on the ongoing court case.\n\nA spokesman for the Duchess of York said: \"The duchess was completely unaware of the allegations that have since emerged against Mr Turk. She is naturally concerned by what has been alleged against him.\"\n\nThe court has heard claims of further payments to the Duke and Duchess of York, via a company called Alphabet Capital.\n\nAccording to court documents, about £900,000 of Mrs Isbilen's money was paid into this company in two payments, despite her claim: \"I did not know about or authorise either of these payments.\"\n\nThis company then made payments to Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah, with Peters and Peters, the law firm representing Mrs Isbilen, claiming Prince Andrew received £350,000 and the Duchess of York £225,000.\n\nThe discovery of payments to Prince Andrew emerged after a court order allowed a search of Mr Turk's financial dealings.\n\nCourt papers show that some of the expenditure had been attributed by Mr Turk to professional costs and unsuccessful investments, but there were claims of significant amounts still to be explained.\n\nJonathan Tickner, Mrs Isbilen's lawyer, said she had been \"the victim of serious fraud and financial wrongdoing\", and was determined to pursue her claim against all those involved.\n\nCourt documents show that Mr Turk has disputed the allegations and disagrees with Mrs Isbilen's understanding of how her assets have been handled.", "The Duke and Duchess of York have been named in a court case in which a Turkish millionaire is claiming £38m has been \"dishonestly misappropriated\" by a business adviser.\n\nThe High Court in London has heard claims that \"substantial sums\" from Nebehat Isbilen were paid to Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah.\n\nIt is understood that £750,000 has been repaid by the prince to Mrs Isbilen.\n\nThe business adviser, Selman Turk, has rejected the allegations.\n\nThe complex court case involves claims brought by 77-year-old Mrs Isbilen that her business adviser Mr Turk misused her funds.\n\nCourt documents show that among the expenditure and investments being questioned were payments to Prince Andrew and Sarah, the Duchess of York.\n\nAccording to the court papers, Mrs Isbilen claims Mr Turk advised her to make a \"gift\" of £750,000 to Prince Andrew, which it is claimed she was misled into thinking was for assistance with her passport.\n\nThis amount was transferred from her account on 15 November 2019.\n\n\"The representation that Mrs Isbilen needed to make a gift to the Duke of York in connection with her passport (or for any other purpose) was false,\" says her legal team in their claim of dishonesty against Mr Turk.\n\nRepresentatives of Prince Andrew have not commented on the ongoing court case. But it is understood that the prince was not aware of any arrangements between Mrs Isbilen and Mr Turk.\n\nAnd it is understood that the prince has returned £750,000 to Mrs Isbilen.\n\nThe discovery of payments to Prince Andrew emerged after a court order allowed a search of Mr Turk's financial dealings, as Mrs Isbilen's lawyers tried to establish the whereabouts of her assets.\n\nCourt papers show that some of the lost money had been attributed by Mr Turk to professional costs and unsuccessful investments, but there were claims of significant amounts still to be explained.\n\nThe High Court had been told Mrs Isbilen needed help moving assets out of Turkey after her husband became a political prisoner, and that Mr Turk was trusted to help.\n\nJonathan Tickner, Mrs Isbilen's lawyer, said she had been \"the victim of serious fraud and financial wrongdoing\", and was determined to pursue her claim against all those involved.\n\nCourt documents show that Mr Turk has disputed the allegations and disagrees with her understanding of how her assets have been handled.\n\nMr Turk had also been a winner of an award at the Pitch at the Palace business initiative, headed by Prince Andrew.", "The Centrica boss said there is \"a lot of emotion\" in the debate around fracking\n\nFracking could boost UK energy supplies and reduce bills, according to Chris O'Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica.\n\nThe UK government placed a moratorium on fracking in 2019, amid fierce local opposition and fears of earthquakes.\n\nMr O'Shea said there needed to be an \"informed debate\" about it.\n\nHowever, environmental group Greenpeace said there had been \"a decade of hype and bluster\" around shale gas.\n\nFracking is the process of drilling into the earth, then directing a high pressure mixture of chemicals into layers of rock to release shale gas.\n\n\"We do have to be careful, if it does cause earthquakes, it's not something we should do,\" Mr O'Shea said.\n\nThe UK met 48% of its gas demand from domestic supplies in 2020, and bought the rest on international markets, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.\n\nCuadrilla has been given an extra year to delay the closure of its site in Lancashire\n\nMr O'Shea told BBC Radio 5Live's Big Green Money show: \"The key question is, do we want to source our gas from overseas? Or do we want to have more gas domestically? And shale is certainly worth exploring.\"\n\nThe UK has only ever had one fracking site in operation, which halted in 2019 following a report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA).\n\nThe indefinite suspension came after the OGS found was not possible to predict the probability or size of tremors caused by the practice.\n\nHowever, this year regulators gave owners Cuadrilla an extra year to re-evaluate the site before it could be sealed up in 2023.\n\n\"I can't tell you what the right answer is, but I can tell you we don't achieve that by people taking entrenched positions that are not based on the full facts,\" he said.\n\nHe added that British Gas and Centrica had held off discontinuing a share in a fracking licence while it waits to see if the government will revive the possibility of shale gas extraction.\n\n\"We have a small residual share in a fracking licence which we were in the process of discontinuing,\" he said.\n\n\"What we've decided to do is just hold off for a year.\"\n\nThe fracking site owned by Cuadrilla Resources in Lancashire had to halt activities in 2019 following concerns about small earth tremors\n\nIn March, the Energy Minister Greg Hands said in Parliament that shale gas \"could be part of our future energy mix,\" but added that it would need the \"support of local communities.\"\n\nMr Hands also said the government was clear that the gas was \"not the solution to near-term issues,\" adding that it would take years before commercial quantities could be produced.\n\nA group of Tory MPs known as the Net Zero Scrutiny Group has been pushing for the government to end its fracking ban saying that it could help secure energy supplies for Britain.\n\nMany environmental groups have said they were concerned about the potential for fracking to cause earthquakes.\n\nAt Cuadrilla's site in Lancashire, more than 120 small tremors were recorded while it was drilling.\n\nRosie Rogers, head of energy at Greenpeace UK, told the BBC: \"After a decade of hype and bluster, all the fracking industry has given us are two holes in a muddy field and some minor earthquakes.\"\n\nPreviously, Greenpeace has said that fracking would not improve energy security, because any gas extracted would belong to the gas firm doing the drilling, not to Britain, and it would be sold on international markets.\n\n\"It will take many years to develop and if it ever gets produced, it will be sold to the highest bidder on the international market, with no impact on our energy bills,\" a Greenpeace spokesperson said.\n\n\"If the UK and Europe want to end their dependence on Russian gas, the quickest way to do that is by insulating homes, installing heat pumps and boosting renewables.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJournalists entering a Ukrainian town which saw fierce fighting with Russian forces have found dead bodies of men in civilian clothes strewn on a street.\n\nAn AFP news agency reporter in Bucha, near Kyiv, counted at least 20 bodies. At least one man had his hands tied.\n\nUkrainian forces regained control of the town this week and photos show widespread devastation.\n\nBBC journalists in another part of Ukraine found the bodies of two civilians killed by Russian forces.\n\nWarning: Some readers may find content in this story distressing including a photo lower down.\n\nEarlier this week the BBC's Jeremy Bowen and his team counted a total of 13 bodies, some of whom may have been Ukrainian soldiers, along a stretch of road between the villages of Mria and Myla.\n\nUkraine says Russian forces have made a \"rapid retreat\" from around Kyiv, with one official saying the whole region around the capital has been retaken since the invasion began on 24 February.\n\nThe invasion has seen thousands killed in ferocious fighting and has made refugees of at least four million Ukrainians. Western states have responded with tough sanctions against Russia and military supplies for Ukraine.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has sought to justify his attack by arguing that Ukraine, a former Soviet state with Nato and EU ambitions, was a constant threat and Russia could not feel \"safe, develop and exist\".\n\nIn Bucha, where a photographer for Reuters news agency also recorded dead bodies, holes gaped from apartment blocks hit by shelling and crushed cars littered the streets.\n\nSixteen of the 20 bodies seen by AFP lay either on the pavement or by the verge. Three were sprawled in the middle of the road, and another lay on his side in the courtyard of a destroyed house.\n\nAn open Ukrainian passport lay on the ground next to the person who had his hands tied behind his back with a piece of white cloth. Two other people had white cloth tied around their upper arms.\n\nWarning: There is a photo below that some readers may find distressing\n\nA Ukrainian official told AFP the dead men could have been killed in a bombardment or shot by Russian soldiers, and police would investigate.\n\nBut the town's mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, told AFP by phone that all of the 20 dead had been shot in the back of the head. He added that other bodies still lay inside the wrecks of cars destroyed by shelling.\n\nThe town, he said, had buried 280 people in mass graves as a result of the Russian invasion.", "Essex Police said it was working to bring the protests to a swift and safe conclusion\n\nMore than 80 people have been arrested as climate change protesters continued to block oil terminals.\n\nActivists from Just Stop Oil said they had obstructed access to a tanker park and revealed an underground network of tunnels at two oil terminals in Essex.\n\nThe protesters are demanding the UK government stops new oil and gas projects.\n\nEssex Police said 83 people were arrested for a variety of offences after protests in the Thurrock area.\n\nThe force said 63 were held on Friday following protests in Oliver Road, Grays, London Road, Purfleet, and Askew Farm Lane, Grays.\n\nTwenty people were arrested on Saturday at Oliver Road and Stoneness Road, Grays, with officers \"continuing to engage\" with protesters at both sites, and at Purfleet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rachel Nolan said: \"Our officers are continuing to work in exceptionally challenging circumstances with a view to bringing these protests to a safe and swift conclusion.\n\n\"I would like to thank businesses, local drivers and workers for their continued patience whilst we carry out our work.\"\n\nThe Just Stop Oil activists said Saturday morning's tunnel activity at Grays and Purfleet meant the main and emergency access roads to the oil terminals were closed.\n\nThe activists said Titan Truck Park in Grays contained more than 100 oil tankers which service the three major oil terminals in the area.\n\nIt comes after activists from Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion obstructed 10 fuel sites in the Midlands and southern England in the early hours of Friday, to stand against \"expanding UK oil and gas production\".\n\nProtesters glued themselves on to roads and locked on to oil drums and each other.\n\nExxonMobil UK, one of the country's largest privately-owned underground oil pipeline distribution networks, said it shut down three of its terminals as a result, and police from at least five forces were deployed to tackle the demonstrations.\n\nThe Met arrested 14 activists who broke into a facility at Bedfont Road in Staines, Surrey, and West Midlands Police arrested six people at a terminal in Tyburn, Birmingham.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Laura Murray described the alleged harassment as the \"last straw\" in an unsupportive work environment\n\nTwo former Labour staff were asked to sign confidentiality agreements after making complaints of sexual harassment about a senior official.\n\nDocuments show the women had reported the party official for \"inappropriate\" and \"possessive\" behaviour.\n\nIt has emerged as the ex-staffers have been named as potential sources of a leaked report about the party's handling of anti-Semitism.\n\nThe official was temporarily suspended and strongly denied the allegations.\n\nLaura Murray and Georgie Robertson refused to sign the legal agreements and chose to resign without payouts, according to documents seen by BBC News.\n\nTheir lawyer, Mark Stephens, said the contract violated the equality watchdog's guidance and Labour's own policy on non-disclosure agreements.\n\nLabour said it takes any complaints of sexual harassment \"extremely seriously\" and fully investigates them in line with the party's procedures.\n\nMs Murray had been working as Labour's head of complaints and Ms Robertson was a press officer when they raised concerns about \"inappropriate behaviour\" from a senior official in March 2020.\n\nThe pair said they were assured their complaints would be kept confidential because they feared retaliation and were not yet ready to instigate a formal process, but the official was informed by HR without their consent.\n\nThe BBC has seen documents including an initial complaint, formal grievances, and official correspondence.\n\nIn them, Ms Murray complained the man was acting \"overbearing and possessive\" and had been pressuring her to go for drinks with him.\n\nHe was also \"constantly messaging at all hours of the night\" and had made inappropriate comments about her love life and her attractiveness, it added.\n\nMs Murray had first tried resigning in January that year over what she described as the \"last straw\" in an unsupportive working situation but was persuaded to stay on.\n\n\"It was really, really obsessive levels of communication,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"And because I was more junior, I didn't really know how to protect myself.\"\n\nMs Robertson alleged the official had also previously sought her out while she was working late and had pressured her to go for drinks with him following a private event.\n\n\"After rebuffing his advances, he then started to spread false rumours that I was sleeping with a married man at work,\" she said.\n\nThe official was suspended by Labour, but he was then reinstated after the women said they felt \"pressured\" to withdraw their complaints and had no confidence in the process after their request for confidentiality had been ineffective.\n\n\"When he came back to work, I felt like he was just trying to get revenge against me, and I felt completely disempowered to do anything about it,\" Ms Murray said.\n\nThey later submitted formal grievances but said their complaints were \"never dealt with seriously\" by the party after that.\n\nThe next month, in April 2020, an internal report about Labour's handling of anti-Semitism complaints was leaked which raised questions about the party's culture.\n\nIt contained hundreds of private messages from named staff members, some of whom are currently taking legal action against Labour for an alleged data protection breach.\n\nMs Murray and Ms Robertson had been instructed under then leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to work on the report and were questioned as part of an independent investigation.\n\nBoth women were big supporters of Mr Corbyn's leadership, entering politics under his wing, and Ms Murray is the daughter of one of his then closest aides.\n\nThe pair denied leaking it but were requested to take a period of leave while the investigation was under way, which was later found to be inconclusive.\n\nAfter months of uncertainty about their jobs, Ms Murray and Ms Robertson took out formal grievances and tried to negotiate their exit.\n\nBy this time, Sir Keir Starmer was the new Labour leader, and they say the party failed to properly investigate their complaints.\n\nThe BBC understands Labour did not subsequently raise these formal grievances with the senior official, who had previously denied the allegations.\n\n\"It was months of very intimidating and aggressive conduct from the party,\" Ms Robertson told the BBC.\n\n\"It felt like a slap in the face and just being completely thrown under the bus.\"\n\nThe pair then resigned after Labour party lawyers asked them to sign a settlement agreement with a broad confidentiality clause, seen by BBC News.\n\n\"I refused to accept that and to be silenced,\" Ms Robertson said. \"It could encourage the party to use those agreements in future with other women who'd been harassed.\"\n\nThe legal agreement would have stopped them from speaking about their experiences of harassment and from bringing any present - or future - claims against the party or the official.\n\nSir Keir became Labour leader after Jeremy Corbyn in April 2020\n\nIt would have also required them to compensate Labour for all costs related to the leaked report, their lawyer said.\n\n\"No person in their right mind would trust them not to treat that indemnity as a means of oppression,\" said Mr Stephens.\n\n\"As a consequence of that, I think we've seen an attempt at abuse by the Labour Party in the way that they have dealt with this.\"\n\nMs Murray has since quit politics and trained as a history teacher; while Ms Robertson, who is a Labour councillor, intends to do the same and told the BBC she will not be standing for re-selection.\n\n\"It's been hellish to be honest. I never thought I would end up here,\" said Ms Murray.\n\n\"I know I didn't leak the report. And I'm just in shock that the Labour Party would think it's OK to treat an ex-employee or anybody like this.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Labour Party said it \"takes any complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously, which are fully investigated and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken in line with the party's rules and procedures\".", "The WTO's director general, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is worried that a food crisis is brewing\n\nThe Ukraine war has led the World Trade Organization (WTO) to cut its global trade growth forecast for this year.\n\nThe previous 4.7% growth forecast has been cut to 2.5% due to \"the impact of the war and related policies\", said WTO boss Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.\n\nThe cut is also linked to continuing global supply chain problems that started as a result of the pandemic.\n\nShe said disruptions would make food more costly, saying \"my worry is that we have a food crisis that is brewing\".\n\nDr Okonjo-Iweala told the BBC that although Russia and Ukraine only make up about 2.5% of global merchandise exports, they \"are very, very significant in certain sectors\".\n\n\"The first worry, of course, is for the people of Ukraine, who are being displaced [and] not having enough food to eat,\" she said.\n\nShe added the global economy was \"going to suffer some severe consequences\", and said poorer countries would particularly feel the impact of the shortages, and \"the supply constraints on food\".\n\nSupplies of many food products including wheat and corn have been affected following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIndustry groups have warned the EU faces a shortage of sunflower oil. In total, 46.9% of global exports come from Ukraine and 29.9% from Russia according to S&P Global, but with Ukraine's ports closed it is struggling to export it.\n\n\"I'm truly worried about looming hunger, particularly in poor countries that can least afford it,\" Dr Okonjo-Iweala warned.\n\nUsing Africa as an example, the former Nigerian finance minister said 35 of 55 countries there imported wheat and other grains from Russia and Ukraine and 22 imported fertiliser.\n\n\"Work being done by the African Development Bank now shows that in many countries, food prices are rising by 20% to 50% already,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Dr Okonjo-Iweala said she was hopeful there were solutions to the supply problems.\n\nShe said in the short term countries could be \"changing our dietary tastes\" to eat more homegrown products.\n\nShe added in the longer term Africa was investing in \"heat tolerant varieties of wheat and other crops\" as it adapts to climate change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on why the war in Ukraine is pushing up food prices - and the likely impact on poorer countries\n\nAs well as food prices surging, the cost of other commodities have hit record highs amid concerns the war and economic sanctions on Russia will lead to supply disruptions.\n\nRussia's mining industry is hugely important for many substances such as palladium, where it is responsible for 40% of global production of the metal that is essential for carmakers.\n\nEven before the war in Ukraine, the pandemic had caused a mismatch between supply and demand in many industries which pushed prices up, and the International Monetary Fund has warned that soaring inflation will reduce global economic growth this year.\n\n\"In the short to medium term, I think that we are going to see these inflationary pressures continue,\" Dr Okonjo-Iweala said.\n\nTrade has become a key tool many countries have used to pressure President Vladimir Putin over his decision to invade Ukraine.\n\nUkraine has cut economic ties with Russia and led calls for it to be suspended from the WTO because of the war. However no country has ever been expelled from the WTO, something the Director-General said is \"not an easy thing to do\".\n\nShe says there is no mechanism to kick Russia out despite some leading international trade lawyers disagreeing.\n\nYou can watch Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's full interview on \"Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst\" this weekend.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch the show on Sunday at 15:30 on the BBC News Channel.\n\nIn other countries, it will be on BBC World News at Saturday at 23:30 GMT, Sunday at 05:30 & 16:30 GMT and Monday at 07:30 & 16:30 GMT", "A cost of living crunch is hitting millions of people across the UK, as soaring energy bills start to bite into family finances and prices rise in the shops.\n\nMuch has been said about the squeeze on our budgets, and relatively few people will emerge from it with their personal finances unscathed.\n\nApril is a key month because it is when many of the most significant changes and bill rises take effect.\n\nInflation is the rate at which prices rise. If a bottle of milk costs £1 and that rises by 5p, then milk inflation is 5%. The optimum level, and the Bank of England's target, is a 2% inflation rate.\n\nThis first chart shows how inflation - charting the rising cost of living - is at its highest rate for about 30 years. Official figures reveal these price rises are widespread among the various things we buy.\n\nThey are about to accelerate. The government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), says the rate will peak at nearly 9% later in the year, before slowing. That means prices will continue to go up, but eventually not at such a rapid rate.\n\nThere is little sign of income keeping pace with pay rises and benefit increases (although minimum pay - through the National Living Wage - is going up by 6.6%), so our \"real\" income and standard of living will fall.\n\nThe biggest impact this year is the sharp increase in the cost of energy.\n\nBusinesses are passing on some of these costs to consumers in higher prices. Households are protected from the fluctuations owing to the domestic energy price cap.\n\nYet, the chart shows how the cap, and therefore the typical annual household gas and electricity bill is rising by about £700. The OBR is predicting a further rise of more than £800 a year in October.\n\nThe chart also shows how there is little bill-payers can do about it. They used to be able to shop around for a cheaper tariff but, at present, no deals are cheaper than the default price cap. The government is giving some support with a £150 council tax rebate in April, and a £200 government support payment in October which, although described as a grant, will need to be paid back, like an interest-free loan.\n\nAs well as the soaring cost of heating and powering the home, filling a car with petrol or diesel is getting more expensive too.\n\nThese prices can be quite volatile, week to week, unlike domestic gas and electricity.\n\nThe graphic shows the cost of filling a tank for different types of vehicles, according to the RAC motoring group. Even if you do not run a car, there is concern that pricier fuel will eventually feed through to more expensive bus and coach tickets.\n\nThe most expensive monthly bill for millions of people is their rent, or their mortgage repayment.\n\nThree-quarters of mortgage borrowers in the UK are on fixed-rate deals, so only see a change in their repayments when their current term ends.\n\nAnother two million homeowners are on deals where the interest rate varies - known as tracker or standard variable rate mortgages. The Bank of England has raised the base interest rate three times in four months since December.\n\nThe chart shows how this has increased the monthly bill for these variable mortgage customers for the first time in a long time.\n\nMany workers will be paying more tax from now, most significantly through increased National Insurance payments.\n\nIn July, people will be able to earn more before they start to pay this tax, following a change announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his recent Spring Statement.\n\nCombining those two measures means that in the next 12 months, anyone earning less than about £34,000 will pay less National Insurance than they did last year. Anybody earning more than that will pay more, as the final chart shows.", "Parents and carers of five to 11-year olds in England can now book a low-dose Covid vaccine for their children.\n\nThe jabs - already widely used in other countries - can be booked online and will be available from hundreds of sites from Monday.\n\nIt comes as officials estimate that a record 4.9 million people in the UK have the virus - up from 4.3 million the week before.\n\nThe figures were released as free tests ended for most people in England.\n\nThe UK's vaccine advisers said the jabs would help \"future-proof children's defences\" against infections.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland already offer the jabs.\n\nIn general, most children are not at high risk of becoming severely ill from Covid.\n\nIn February, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said vaccines should go ahead to prevent \"a very small number of children from serious illness and hospitalisation\" in a future wave of Covid.\n\nIt recommends two doses of the low-dose vaccine, 12 weeks apart, with some five million children now eligible.\n\nThe vaccine contains a third of the adult dose.\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and deputy lead for the NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme, said vaccines remained the best defence against the virus.\n\nShe added: \"My 13-year-old son has had his two vaccinations, and I'll be booking my 10-year-old daughter in for hers at the earliest opportunity, and would encourage all parents to read the NHS information available and consider doing the same.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Children without underlying health conditions are at low risk of serious illness from Covid, and the priority remains for the NHS to offer vaccines and spring boosters to adults and vulnerable young people, as well as to catch up with other childhood immunisation programmes.\"\n\nMost appointments will be available at local vaccination centres and community pharmacies. Options for walk-in jabs will also be on offer.\n\nParents and guardians of eligible children will be sent invitations from the NHS in the next few weeks.\n\nYoung children who have conditions that put them at increased risk from Covid, or who live with people with weakened immune systems, have already been offered jabs.\n\nThe wider rollout of jabs for children comes after latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest that about one in every 13 people in the UK has coronavirus, with cases reaching nearly 5 million.\n\nThe figures for the week ending 26 March are thought to give the most accurate reflection of what is happening with the virus in the community.\n\nThe surge is partly driven by the contagious Omicron BA.2 sub-variant and people mixing more.\n\nJim McManus, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, said the surge in numbers was causing disruption for businesses, workplaces, in schools and in the NHS, with staff going off sick.\n\nPeople can help curb the rise by ventilating areas and wearing masks in crowded spaces, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It is only the actions that we take that will keep this virus low and enable the NHS and businesses to do business as usual,\" he said.\n\n\"If we want to be optimistic, we have to do some work to get there.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the government's \"living with Covid\" plan means free testing will only continue for certain groups - including some people with weakened immune systems, people admitted to hospital and health and care staff.\n\nGovernment minister Brandon Lewis told Today there would be a point where support packages introduced during the pandemic would taper off and end, as the country learned to live with Covid.", "On Saturday afternoon, a bright red tanker carrying 33,000 tonnes of Russian diesel sailed up the Thames and delivered its cargo in Grays, Essex.\n\nIts arrival - which doesn't violate sanctions - highlights the UK's dependence on Russia, which supplies nearly a fifth of the country's diesel.\n\nThe UK has pledged to stop importing Russian diesel by the end of the year: until then, the deliveries continue.\n\nRussian-owned or flagged vessels are now banned from UK ports.\n\nBut the STI Comandante's journey from Primorsk on the Baltic sea does not flout the Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia, because the ship is owned by the US firm Scorpio Tankers and flies the flag of the Marshall Islands, a nation in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nSome shipping lines including the global giants Maersk and MSC have chosen to suspend most deliveries to and from Russia.\n\nOthers have decided that as long as the trade is still legal and safe, they will continue.\n\nIt's a controversial choice. “This shipment of diesel, along with the other fossil fuels that have been allowed to enter the UK since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is filling Putin’s coffers and helping to fund the war. It has to stop,” said Emily Armistead, programme director at Greenpeace UK.\n\nGreenpeace has set up an automated tracker to monitor movements of tankers leaving Russia, loaded with oil and diesel.\n\nThe STI Comandante was chartered by ST Shipping, a subsidiary of the commodity giant Glencore. Glencore doesn't necessarily own the diesel on board, though - it may well have been bought and sold many times while the boat was on the water.\n\nPhasing out Russian oil will be extremely hard, and diesel will be particularly difficult. Russia supplies 8% of the UK’s oil needs but 18% of its diesel, according to government figures.\n\nDiesel is essential to a modern economy. Besides fuelling more than a third of UK cars, it powers trucks, buses, some trains, farming and construction equipment, and is used for generating electricity.\n\nThe Ukraine crisis has led to a shortage of diesel across Europe, which depends on Russia for about half of its diesel imports.\n\nThis shortage has been reflected in the prices that drivers pay for diesel at the pump, which have been rising faster than petrol prices.\n\nThe average price of diesel in the UK has risen 18% since the start of February, to 177p a litre, while the average cost of unleaded has risen by 11%, according to RAC Fuel Watch.\n\nThe faster rise “reflects the fact that the biggest immediate problem at the moment for the end user is diesel,” said Neil Crosby, senior oil analyst at OilX.\n\nOther countries, including the US and Germany, have also seen sharply rising diesel prices.\n\nDiesel supplies were tight before the crisis began, as demand for oil bounced back after pandemic lockdowns faster than producers could keep up.\n\n“Stocks of lots of fuels are relatively low, but diesel in particular, in Europe, in the US and in Asia as well. The demand for diesel has been very strong up until the crisis, and that also contributed to that. There’s just an imbalance between supply and demand,\" said OilX’s Mr Crosby.\n\nFinding alternative supplies to replace the diesel Britain buys from Russia will be made harder because many other countries around the world are also trying to wean themselves off Russian energy supplies at the same time.\n\nThere is no suggestion of pumps in the UK imminently running dry. But last week, the boss of one of the world’s biggest trading groups warned of possible diesel shortages around the world.\n\n\"The diesel market is extremely tight and we're possibly heading to stock-outs. Europe can probably afford to pay. The problem is what happens to Africa and Latin America,\" Jeremy Weir, the chief executive of Trafigura said on 22 March, according to the Reuters news agency.", "The battle-scarred town of Irpin now stands as an example of Ukrainian resistance, and of Russian defeat. President Putin's forces managed to enter the town but didn't manage to push through it. If they had, Kyiv would have been their next stop - the capital is just a short drive away, 13 miles (21km) down the road. Blocking the Russian advance here was critical.\n\nWe reached the city centre under armed escort, driving through streets strewn with rubble and downed power lines - and devoid of life.\n\nUkrainian forces gave us a careful tour - avoiding some main roads. We were told Russian forces might be present in the forests on the outskirts, though the Mayor, Oleksandr Markushyn, insists the town itself is completely under Ukrainian control.\n\nTroops proudly showed us a Russian armoured personnel carrier which had been torn to shreds, its turret upturned. Another burnt out Russian vehicle was just down the road. But we were moved quickly from place to place because of the ongoing risk of Russian shelling.\n\nMost of the 70,000 people who used to live in this middle class commuter city fled over the past month - darting out of basements, running the gauntlet of relentless Russian shelling.\n\nMany may have little left to come back to. President Putin claims he is not targeting civilian areas, but the destroyed homes of Irpin give the lie to that.\n\nMany residential buildings in Irpin have been damaged or destroyed\n\nWe saw extensive damage in residential areas, including one high-rise block where a shell had punched a neat hole right through a corner apartment. There was a child's red toy car on the ground, close to a forsaken playground. There were cars with bullet-riddled windscreens, and charred houses where the roofs have been ripped off.\n\nSome of the dead still lie beneath the rubble. Others were buried hastily in courtyards and parks because a proper funeral was impossible. The mayor estimates that between 200-300 civilians were killed here, some directly targeted as they fled. The final death toll is likely to be higher.\n\nThe Russians had held 20-30% of the city, but the resistance here was dogged. Ukraine's defence ministry has recognised \"the mass heroism and resilience of the residents and the defenders\" with the honorary title \"Hero City of Ukraine\". The title dates from World War Two when it was awarded by the Soviet Union to several cities.\n\nInside the city, as heavily armed police and troops kept watch, there was a palpable layer of tension.\n\nThis victory was hard-fought, but troops we spoke to conceded that the Russians could be back at some point.\n\n\"Yes, I believe that,\" said Serhiy Smalchuk, whose day job is TV presenting. \"They need Kyiv, right, because Putin will lose if he doesn't take over Kyiv. So, perhaps they will try but we are prepared in case they come back, and we will defeat them.\"\n\nIvan Kolehin said he expected to die in the battle for Irpin\n\n\"We don't know what they are thinking,\" said Ivan Kolehin, a young territorial defence recruit. \"I don't think they will try again any time soon. Their ground forces have been removed but their artillery can still hit us.\"\n\nIvan had a day job in marketing before he took up arms. He seemed to be struggling to process the battle for Irpin, and the fact that he is still alive.\n\n\"I never thought I would live,\" he said. \"On our third day we heard a whistle and they started to bomb us directly. We sat in the basement and the ceiling started to crumble. We were pretty scared.\"\n\nNow he worries for the future of the city.\n\n\"It's still not safe here, but in due time we will rebuild,\" he said. \"Probably it will take years, considering the damage. I am trying not to think about the fact that every house that was destroyed was built by someone, sometimes with their own hands.\"\n\nHe had Russian friends in the past, but not anymore.\n\n\"I hate the Russians from the depths of my heart,\" he said. \"There are no excuses for this.\"\n\nCivilians are still being evacuated from Irpin\n\nMoscow now says it will drastically reduce its attacks around the capital, and focus on the eastern Donbas region. In reality the Kremlin had little choice, as its offensives around the capital had ground to a halt.\n\nBut in time Russian forces may regroup and target the capital again. If they do, the \"hero city\" will once again be in their path, and in the line of fire.\n\nAs we left Irpin a trickle of civilians was evacuating on foot, crossing a river bed on planks of wood balanced precariously on rubble and boulders. This is the wreckage of a bridge, blown up by Ukrainian forces to block the Russian advance - another sacrifice made by Irpin.\n\nAn ambulance was waiting for two elderly women, carried up the riverbank on stretchers - survivors of a merciless and failed Russian assault.\n\nFurther up the road a departing column of Ukrainian troops - with the swagger of victory - broke into an obscene chant about President Putin.", "Corpses and burned out cars litter this stretch of the E-40 highway\n\nFootage of Russian troops shooting a man with his hands up on a highway outside Kyiv at the beginning of March was shared around the world. Now the Russians have been pushed out of the area and the BBC's Jeremy Bowen has been to see the grim aftermath of their short-lived occupation.\n\nThis report contains material some viewers will find disturbing\n\nWe counted 13 bodies on a nightmarish stretch of road not much more than 200 yards long, between Mria and Myla, villages whose Ukrainian names translate as Dream and Sweetheart.\n\nTwo of the dead are confirmed as Ukrainian civilians who were killed by the Russians. The others have not been identified yet - they lie where they were killed - but only two are wearing recognisable Ukrainian military uniforms.\n\nOur BBC team was able to get to the area, on the main E-40 highway as it approaches Kyiv, because Ukrainian forces had captured the sector only 10 hours earlier.\n\nThe marks of battle and of heavy shelling were everywhere. Petrol stations and a hotel that was well-known for its spa and restaurant were in ruins. Shell holes and craters pockmarked both carriageways.\n\nUkrainian troops changing a wheel in the ruins of a roadside garage said the Russians were about 4km (2.5 miles) away and had pulled their remaining men and armour back after a hard fight, lasting several days, in the early hours of the morning.\n\nLeft behind in the heart of the desolation were the dead bodies, and a mass of questions and concerns about who they were and how they died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome answers already exist for a couple who were killed by the Russians and left to decompose on 7 March. Their rusty, shrapnel riddled car lies in the road next to one of the petrol stations, reduced to a shell by fire. Next to it are the burnt and twisted remains of a body that is just about recognisable as the remains of a man. A wedding ring is still on the corpse's finger. Stretched out inside the hulk of their car is what is left of the incinerated body of a woman, the mouth opened in what looks like a scream.\n\nTheir deaths were filmed by a Ukrainian drone on 7 March, operated by the Bugatti unit of Territorial Defence. The unit released the video, which was republished by news organisations around the world. It caused outrage because it showed the cold-blooded killing of a man who had raised his arms to show he was harmless, in the classic gesture of surrender.\n\nThe bodies, the BBC discovered in an investigation this month, are of Maksim Iowenko and his wife Ksjena. They were part of a convoy of 10 civilian vehicles who were trying to escape the Russians and get to Kyiv.\n\nKsjena and Maksim Iowenko were civilians and should have been protected\n\nAs they drove down the road, they spotted a Russian tank in position, dug into the grass verge. The drone video shows it was clearly marked with the letter V, one of the identifiers used by the Russian armed forces. The other cars did quick U-turns and drove away at speed. But Maksim's car stopped, most likely because it was hit.\n\nAs soon as the car stopped, Maksim leapt out and raised his hands. Within seconds he was shot dead. His wife was killed in the car. Also in the car were their six-year-old son and the elderly mother of one of Maksim's friends. Both of them survived and were eventually released by the Russian soldiers.\n\nThey were found walking back down the road, and the woman told her family that Maksim was shouting that a child was in the car when he was killed. Both survivors, according to the Bugatti drone unit, are now safe but deeply traumatised.\n\nThe car is now burnt out, but it was not on fire after the attack. One hypothesis must be that the bodies and the car were set on fire by the Russians to destroy the evidence of what they had done. The Bugatti Unit has submitted its drone video to the Ukrainian authorities and to the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nMore burnt cars and dead bodies line the road for the next few hundred yards. No video has emerged to show what happened. A credible working assumption for any investigation must be that the other dead people were killed by the tank crew, or other Russian soldiers.\n\nSome of the evidence the BBC gathered is too disturbing to show in full. Here a dead man has been covered by rubber tyres\n\nHere a Ukrainian soldier gestures towards sets of charred human remains by a burned out vehicle\n\nAttempts have been made to destroy the other bodies. Some have been left to rot where they were killed. But other corpses have been piled up and surrounded by tyres. Charred clothing indicates attempts were made to set fires around them. Tyres are flammable and must have been placed there as an accelerant.\n\nThe emplacement where the tank was dug in has a clear arc of fire across the area where the 13 bodies are lying. The tank has gone but debris was left by its crew, including Russian army field rations. In the woods nearby is at least one other tank, which has been burnt out after being hit by an anti-tank missile.\n\nA Ukrainian soldier produced a wallet he had found in the tank. He emptied out Russian identity papers, bank notes in the Russian currency, the rouble, and small change in Belorussian coppers. The major thrust to the north-west of Kyiv came from invaders who had crossed the border from Belarus, Moscow's ally.\n\nClose by the knocked out tank are the remains of a chaotic camp, with dugouts, chairs and a long table piled high with the remains of food and drink. They are all surrounded by big piles of garbage, rotten food and empty bottles of alcohol. Ukrainian soldiers said shops at the petrol stations were looted.\n\nAn abandoned Russian camp: the soldiers are said to have looted petrol stations\n\nNext to the table is a large pair of bolt-cutters. Piles of unburied rubbish scattered in a forward position are usually a sign of undisciplined soldiers.\n\nWe decided to drive two or three kilometres further down the road, after Ukrainian soldiers said more Russian armour had been destroyed.\n\nIn a small village, a Russian tank and two armoured personnel carriers were broken and burnt. Some of the wreckage was still smoking. The force of the weapon that destroyed the tank blew off its turret and main gun, which lay upside down and half buried in a crater around 15 yards away.\n\nIn the pine woods on either side of the road Ukrainian soldiers were digging trenches and fox holes with shovels. Others were patrolling. It was far too early to say whether the Russians were gone for good, or whether they would be back.\n\nWhat is clear though is that Russian forces, under continued pressure from Ukrainian soldiers, have been forced to yield strategic territory around Kyiv. Every time they move back, the Ukrainian capital and its people become a little safer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video captured by a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance group appears to show Russian forces shooting at civilians\n\nAs and when the Russians leave, more evidence is likely to emerge of civilians having been killed - backing up the many stories that have emerged of such incidents.\n\nThe gruesome scenes on the road were more than simply the terrible deaths of human beings who had become victims of President Putin's decision to invade. It is also a crime scene, with evidence that should be collected and preserved for an investigation whenever this war ends.\n\nUnder the laws of war civilians are protected, and when they are killed in defiance of those laws, their deaths amount to war crimes.", "Researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong have created a \"soft robot\" made of slime containing magnetic particles, which can be manipulated using external magnets.\n\nThe magnetic particles are toxic, but have theoretically been made safe to enter the human body after being covered in a layer of silicone compound - although further safety testing will be needed in the future.\n\nThe team in Hong Kong hope the slime will one day be used to collect objects which have been accidentally swallowed.\n\nYou can read more about the team's research here.\n\nThis video has no sound.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nBBC coverage: Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds; live text and video highlights on BBC Sport website & app.\n\nEngland will attempt to win a second successive Women's World Cup when they face Australia in Sunday's final.\n\nHeather Knight's side lost their first three games of the tournament, but go into the meeting with Australia in Christchurch (02:00 BST) on the back of five straight wins.\n\nNo England senior women's or men's team has successfully defended a World Cup.\n\n\"The way we've come back has been remarkable and speaks volumes about this group,\" Knight told BBC Sport.\n\n\"To be here at a World Cup final with a chance of going back-to-back and making history is very special.\"\n• None World Cup final to be shown free to air\n\nKnight lifted the trophy on home soil in 2017 and is set to become the first player to lead England in two 50-over World Cup finals.\n\n\"I'm more relaxed than I was in 2017,\" she said. \"There's a lot of experience from five years ago and the girls that were involved then will hopefully take a lot from that.\n\n\"We need to remember to take everything in, because it is a special moment in your career to be involved in a World Cup final.\"\n\nEngland are likely to be unchanged from the team that beat South Africa in the semi-finals, while Australia are waiting on the fitness of all-rounder Ellyse Perry, who has missed two games with a back problem. She could play as a specialist batter.\n• None Vote for the best catch of the tournament\n\nAustralia are perhaps the strongest international sports team in the world. Since losing in the semi-finals of the previous World Cup they have been beaten in only two of the 41 one-day internationals they have played, as well as winning two T20 World Cups.\n\nThey went unbeaten in winning the Ashes series against England in January and February and go into the World Cup final having won all eight of their games in this tournament.\n\n\"There's no doubt about that we've had our eyes set on winning this tournament for a long time,\" said Australia captain Meg Lanning.\n\n\"England are hitting hitting peak form at the right time, so it's going to be a huge challenge for us. We we know we have to play well to be able to beat them, but it's an exciting opportunity.\"\n\nLanning brushed off any suggestion that her team's supreme form makes them favourites to win the final.\n\n\"They'd be disappointed if they didn't win, just as we would be,\" said Lanning. \"You can think about it how you like, but we're coming in to this game wanting to win as we do every other game.\"\n\nKnight, however, says Australia are \"clear favourites\".\n\n\"If I was captain of that team, I would do exactly the same to try to take the pressure off a little bit,\" she said.\n\n\"We have the mentality that we have almost got nothing to lose. If we do get in a position where we can win the game, we have to have a few players that go and take it. We can certainly beat them.\"\n\nAustralia have won the World Cup on six occasions and England four - a combined total of 10 wins from the 11 previous tournaments.\n\nHowever, the Ashes rivals have only ever met in two finals - Australia won both - with the most recent meeting at this stage coming in 1988.\n• None 'I hate being called Megastar' - in search of the real Meg Lanning\n\nSophie Ecclestone: The England left-arm spinner is the tournament's leading wicket-taker with 20, yet went wicketless when England were beaten by Australia in the group stage. It is hard to see England lifting the trophy without Ecclestone having a good day.\n\nMeg Lanning: The Australia captain is possibly the best batter to have played women's cricket. At only 30, Lanning has 15 one-day hundreds; no other player has more than 12. England must find a way past her.\n\nNat Sciver: England's star all-rounder has had a relatively quiet tournament since making a century in a losing cause against Australia. A match-winner with bat and ball, England will need her to stand up against the Aussies.\n\nJess Jonassen: If Ellyse Perry cannot bowl, Australia's seam bowling will be relatively inexperienced, leading to plenty of responsibility on the spinners, like left-armer Jess Jonassen. If England can get after Jonassen, where will Australia turn?\n\nAustralia go into this game with all the pressure. For England, the pressure is off.\n\nEngland have had an incredible journey to get to this final. Now they have to go out and play with freedom.\n\nCan England bat first and get big runs on the board, making sure Australia have a huge target to chase?\n• None What made Sir Alex Ferguson who he is? Sir Alex speaks about his younger days and the influences which shaped his extraordinary career\n• None Was Sven-Göran Eriksson expected to succeed wherever he went?", "Russian forces in Ukraine are regrouping to double down on their attacks in the east of the country, according to Nato's secretary general.\n\n\"Russia is trying to regroup, resupply and reinforce,\" Jens Stoltenberg said.\n\nThe UK said Russia was bringing in between 1,200 and 2,000 of its Russian troops from Georgia as reinforcements.\n\nMoscow said on Tuesday that it would reduce military activity in northern Ukraine and focus on \"liberating\" the Donbas region in the south-east.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said Russia's aim of pursuing a military outcome had not changed.\n\n\"We see continued shelling of cities and we see that Russia is re-positioning some of the troops, moving some of them around, most likely to reinforce their efforts in the Donbas region,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, Russia maintains pressure on Kyiv and other cities. So we can expect additional offensive actions, bringing even more suffering.\"\n\nEchoing Mr Stoltenberg's remarks, the UK's Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned that Russia's change in tactics was \"not a retreat\".\n\nThe UK also said bringing in Russian troops from breakaway areas of Georgia had not been part of Moscow's original plan.\n\n\"It is highly unlikely that Russia planned to generate reinforcements in this manner and it is indicative of the unexpected losses it has sustained during the invasion,\" the defence ministry tweeted.\n\nAround 20% of Russian troops around Kyiv have started to reposition, according to a US senior defence official.\n\nThe official added that the Russians had largely abandoned Hostomel airport, outside of Kyiv, and are also moving away from the Chernobyl nuclear plant.\n\nBut they said Russia was keeping the pressure on in the air, with air strikes continuing to fall on the cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv in the north.\n\nBombs are also falling on towns and cities in the south, which is becoming the key battlefront, according to Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Vadym Denysenko, cited by Reuters news agency.\n\nOn Thursday evening Ukraine's air force appealed for more support from Western countries, saying it was operating outdated equipment that was no match for Russia's more advanced systems, had sustained losses and urgently needed modern fighter jets and air defence systems.\n\nThe air force urged provision of F-15 or F-16 fighter jets, which it said had the same advanced technology as the latest Russian fighter jets. Previous discussions had centred around Poland providing Russian-made Mig-29s but the plan was eventually dropped.\n\nIt also called for the US Patriot or Norwegian Nasams missile systems.\n\n\"Truth: Air superiority is the deciding factor in this war. Air superiority has played a key role in all wars since WWII,\" Ukraine's air force tweeted.\n\nThough US intelligence reports say Russian troops have not made much progress in the east since the invasion began, Russia has said it will now concentrate its efforts on \"liberating\" the region.\n\nThe region is home to the self-declared and Russian-backed people's republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, which are part of Ukraine but which Russia recognised as independent three days before invading.\n\nBut Ukrainian troops have \"stymied\" and \"frustrated\" Russia's progress in the region, said the US defence intelligence official.\n\nThey added it remains to be seen whether the refitting and repositioning of troops will make a difference. But that this could mean the conflict is lengthy and more drawn out.", "Ian Birch has appealed for information after returning to work\n\nA train driver who was left with a bloodied face after a brick was thrown at his cab window has appealed for more information about his attackers.\n\nIan Birch was injured during the incident, as his train was travelling at 70mph (112 km/h) in Clifton, Greater Manchester, on 4 February.\n\nNo one has been arrested yet despite police appeals.\n\nThe Northern Railway driver said: \"I could have been blinded or even killed.\"\n\nMr Birch was able to halt the train safely and praised a doctor travelling onboard who treated him.\n\nFollowing his recent return to work at the Blackburn base, Mr Birch said: \"I want the people who did this to see the impact of their actions. I could have been blinded or even killed.\n\n\"Someone knows who threw that brick and I urge them to come forward to help ensure the person responsible doesn't have the chance to endanger more lives with their reckless behaviour.\"\n\nIan Birch was hit by a brick thrown through his window\n\nAnyone with information is urged to contact British Transport Police or Crimestoppers.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People have been facing long queues to get through security at Manchester Airport for weeks\n\nA lack of staff at Manchester Airport has led to people facing long waits for baggage collection, as the airport struggles with increased demand.\n\nThe airport has suffered delays for weeks, with hours-long queues for security causing some to miss flights.\n\nOn Saturday, returning passengers were told there were not enough staff to get the bags through - or even to let them disembark from planes in some cases.\n\nThe airport said it was struggling to recruit and train staff to meet demand.\n\nThe difficulties come as Easter holidays begin in parts of the UK, and demand increases after the removal of all Covid travel restrictions to enter the UK.\n\nPassengers said they were told in the baggage hall that there were not enough staff to get the bags through.\n\nOne man told the BBC a member of staff had said \"they've got rid of everyone [staff] and no one wants to come back\".\n\nOther people complained on Twitter that they were left stuck on planes because \"there's no ground crew available to let us off\".\n\nThe issues at the airport, which is partly owned by Manchester City Council, have been blamed on a \"failure of management\" by one councillor.\n\nThe airport apologised to passengers whose experience had \"fallen short of the standards they expected\".\n\nIt said it was experiencing some of the busiest periods in two years and advised people to arrive at the \"earliest time recommended by their airline\".\n\nIt said it was \"under-resourced\" and was struggling to recruit more staff, who take \"a lot of time to train, up to eight weeks\", adding there were shortages of baggage handlers and handling agents.\n\nThe airport is \"exploring a number of short-term measures\" to alleviate delays, including the use of agency staff.\n\nOn Friday, the Airport Operators Association (AOA) said its members had been trying to hire for new roles following job losses and staff departing during the pandemic.\n\nBut it warned recruitment problems and Covid-related staff absences could put operations at airports under strain.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said at peak time passengers \"may not have the experience they are used to\".\n\nManchester Airport has previously said that 400 new recruits would start at the airport in April.\n\nSeparately, Heathrow Airport said it had a very busy day on Saturday, with congestion in parts of the airport.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said it was \"expecting to see passenger numbers not seen since early March 2020\" over the coming weeks and that the airport has deployed extra staff across to help limit delays.", "Children aged between five and 11 in England will be offered a low-dose Covid vaccine, the government says.\n\nOfficial scientific advice concludes the move would help protect the \"very small\" number of children who become seriously ill with Covid.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid says the rollout will be \"non-urgent\", with an emphasis on parental choice.\n\nNorthern Ireland also said on Wednesday it will be following Wales and Scotland in offering young children the vaccine.\n\nChildren are at a much lower risk of becoming severely ill from a Covid infection, so the health benefits of vaccinating them are smaller than in other age-groups. Also, many will have some protection from already having caught the virus.\n\nSo the scientists on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises governments across the UK, have been weighing up the evidence for immunising five to 11-year-olds.\n\nIt concluded vaccination should go ahead to prevent a \"very small number of children from serious illness and hospitalisation\" in a future wave of Covid.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, from the JCVI, said: \"We're offering this to five to 11-year-olds now in order to future-proof their defences against a future wave of infection.\"\n\nHe suggested parents consider getting their children vaccinated during school holidays to minimise disruption to their education from any flu-like side effects of the jab.\n\nThe full guidance says fewer than two children would develop inflamed heart muscle (myocarditis) out of every million vaccinated.\n\nHowever, it estimates vaccinating one million children would prevent:\n\nProf Lim warned other childhood vaccinations include the MMR and HPV campaigns have \"fallen behind due to the pandemic\" and it was \"vital\" that Covid jabs did not disrupt these immunisations.\n\nMr Javid said: \"The NHS will prepare to extend this non-urgent offer to all children during April so parents can, if they want, take up the offer to increase protection against potential future waves of Covid-19 as we learn to live with this virus.\"\n\nHe emphasised that children are at low risk from Covid and that the \"priority remains for the NHS to offer vaccines and boosters to adults and vulnerable young people\" and to catch-up with other childhood immunisation programmes\".\n\nThe vaccine - which contains just a third of the adult dose - has already been used widely in other countries. The US alone has given it to eight million children in this age group.\n\nHowever, the JCVI denied it had been slow to act and said the vaccine had received regulatory approval only in December.\n\nChildren aged from five to 11 who have other medical conditions that put them at greater risk are already eligible for the vaccine.\n\nIn total, about six million children in the UK in that age group will be offered the jab.\n\nTwo 10 microgram doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, with at least 12 weeks between each dose, would be administered to those whose parents decide to take up the offer.\n\nThe Welsh government announced on Tuesday that it would be offering jabs to children after seeing the JCVI ruling.\n\nIt followed reports the committee's announcement was delayed due to a disagreement with the UK government, which says it is \"reviewing the JCVI's advice as part of wider decision-making\".\n\nScotland then followed the next day, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying Scottish ministers had received and considered the same JCVI advice and were \"content to accept it\".\n\nShe told parents and carers of children in the five to 11 age group that more information would be given when plans had been finalised.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said the JCVI decision was \"important and welcome news\" but accused the government of treating children as \"an afterthought\" during the pandemic.\n\n\"Ministers must now ensure all children can access the jab to avoid further disruption to their education,\" she said.\n\nIf you are a parent, do you plan to have your child vaccinated? What are your questions about children receiving a Covid vaccine? Send us your questions and tell us about your plans by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Millions of households are facing a £700 a year rise in energy costs, alongside hikes in the cost of council tax, water bills and other utilities.\n\nIt has led to warnings that many people on lower incomes will be forced to choose between paying for heating, or food.\n\nA selection of your questions have been answered by:\n\nWhy do we pay more using a prepayment meter? - Gary Steventon\n\nFor the 4.5 million people on prepayment meters, the price of energy has now risen by an average £708 - to £2,017 a year.\n\nThat compares to an annual rise of £693 - to £1,971 - for those on standard tariffs, paid by direct debit.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem's argument is that there are higher fixed costs associated with running a prepayment meter.\n\nCharities and some suppliers have said that these customers are often among the most vulnerable and should be given more help by the government.\n\nWho allowed the price cap to increase by so much, especially when the energy companies have made record profits? - Chris Yaxley\n\nThe price cap, covering England, Wales and Scotland, is set every six months by energy regulator Ofgem. It is designed to reflect the costs faced by suppliers and to prevent profiteering.\n\nThere has been a huge rise this time, owing to the rising cost energy companies pay for gas. This is now being passed on to customers.\n\nThere has been a debate about whether energy companies should be taxed more, with the money raised used to help those struggling with bills.\n\nEnergy companies argue that their retail arms are making very little, or no, profit. While the energy generation business is having a much better time of it, they argue that they are already heavily taxed.\n\nGas prices do not increase by themselves. What is causing the increase? - John Ashburn\n\nThere are a host of reasons why the wholesale price of gas - paid by energy companies - has been volatile. At present it is about six times higher than it was a year ago.\n\nOne reason is the surge in demand for energy, as businesses and economies get going again after the lifting of Covid restrictions. There is also the ongoing issue of a shortage of gas storage across Europe.\n\nA further rise in the price cap - predicted to push up the typical household energy bill by another £600 a year - is expected in October.\n\nThis is mainly because of the potential restriction of Russian gas supplies - linked to the war in Ukraine.\n\nWhile we get very little gas from Russia in the UK, we are affected by the global price of gas.\n\nCan people forced to work from home ask employers to contribute to energy bills? - Andrew Green\n\nThere is nothing to stop you asking. What response you get from your employer is down to them.\n\nSome employers have offered temporary grants and payments, to help their staff pay their energy bills.\n\nUnions and employees themselves are likely to point to the rising cost of living - including higher energy bills - to ask for higher salaries.\n\nWill giving up Netflix, Amazon Prime, alcohol and mobile phones offset the rising cost? - Leslie Cox\n\nThe average UK household spends about £916 on alcohol each year.\n\nSome mobile phone deals exceed £80 a month but, depending on your contract, you may be able to switch to a SIM-only deal for as little as £36 a year.\n\nGiving up all of these costs could save between £1,132 and £2,056 a year.\n\nA 54% rise in the energy price cap means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will now pay £1,971 per year.\n\nSo, going without could make a difference.\n\nBut even then, a further rise pushing the annual bill up to £2,600 should be expected in October, analysts have told the BBC.\n\nHow is the assistance provided going to help pensioners who have been robbed of a triple-lock increase? Dave\n\nThe triple-lock, a policy used to set the rise in state pensions, was suspended last year because it followed the average rise in wages and would have meant an increase of 8%.\n\nAt the time that seemed like a big increase, but inflation is now 6.2%.\n\nInstead of the state pension going up by 8%, it's going up by 3.1% - based on the rate of inflation in September last year, which is a much smaller pay rise for state pensioners.\n\nChanges announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Spring Statement were mostly aimed at working people who pay National Insurance. There has not been any specific new support for pensioners.\n\nWhy have tariffs on 100% renewable electricity gone up? - Karl Oldham\n\nEco providers are still affected by wholesale prices, which are driving bill rises.\n\nThese providers try to buy in advance from renewable sources, and invest in schemes for renewable generation.\n\nBut ultimately, at present, they have to source electricity from the National Grid - some of which is generated from gas.\n\nAs a result, they are not immune to the situation in the wider market, and prices charged by renewable generators have been going up too.", "Ukrainians have fled the war across Hungary's eastern border\n\n\"Peace or War\" is at stake screams the headline in the tabloid Metropol, handed out to morning commuters flocking through the Western Station in Budapest. And there's a neat blue cross in the box next to the \"peace\" option.\n\nThat's the slogan of Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, as it battles to win a record fourth consecutive term in office in elections on Sunday.\n\nAfter 12 years in power, they face their first genuine challenge from an opposition alliance of six parties that has united under one candidate: Peter Marki-Zay.\n\nAnd Russia's war in Ukraine has given added impetus to the race.\n\nHungary shares a border with Ukraine and has taken in more than half a million refugees so far. Mr Orban insists that by helping the people, but refusing to supply weapons to Ukraine, only he can keep Hungary out of the war.\n\nHis party's slogan of peace or war may be simplistic, but it is effective. And it is broadcast, printed, and lit up in bright letters wherever you look in Hungary.\n\nIt interrupts any music you play on YouTube, and even videos that include international coverage of the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe government has spent eight times more on its campaign than all the opposition parties combined, according to a group of critical monitoring organisations. It helps that the ruling party has the support of a largely pliant media.\n\nThe opposition's catch-phrase, on the other hand, is \"Orban or Europe\".\n\nTheir candidate Peter Marki-Zay argues that Hungary should join Poland, the UK and others in supplying arms to Ukraine. And if called upon, and only within a Nato framework, should even consider sending troops.\n\nThe opposition complains that Fidesz has isolated Hungary from the European mainstream, from consensual democracy, fairness and decency. And that in this war Mr Orban has even alienated Hungary's closest allies - Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - the other members of the Visegrad-4 group.\n\nA V4 defence ministers' meeting was abruptly cancelled this week, with the Czech defence minister accusing Mr Orban of valuing Russian oil over Ukrainian blood.\n\nBut it was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky whose message hit home hardest.\n\n\"There can be no Russian branches in Europe that divide the EU from within,\" he said in an address to the Danish parliament on Wednesday. \"This must stop, and Europe must stop listening to the excuses of Budapest.\"\n\nHungary gets 85% of its gas and 64% of its oil from Russia, through a pipeline that deliberately circumvents Ukraine. However, a Hungary-Russia deal to expand the Paks nuclear power station south of Budapest with Russian finance and technology looks increasingly jeopardised by the war.\n\nAnd with Hungary's election campaign reaching its peak, President Zelensky chose the recent EU summit to address a very personal message to Mr Orban.\n\n\"Listen, Viktor, do you know what's going on in Mariupol? And you hesitate whether to impose sanctions or not? And you hesitate whether to let weapons through or not? And you hesitate whether to trade with Russia or not? There is no time to hesitate. It's already time to decide.\"\n\nMr Zelensky also made a poignant reference to Budapest's famous shoe monument on the banks of the Danube.\n\nLook at those shoes. And you will see how mass killings can happen again in today's world. That's what Russia is doing today. The same shoes. In Mariupol, there are the same people\n\nThe 60 pairs of bronze shoes remember Hungary's Jews, murdered and pushed into the river by Hungarian fascists in the winter of 1944.\n\nDays after his speech, Ukrainians in Budapest arranged new shoes among the bronze ones on the Danube embankment, decorated with flowers and the blue and yellow ribbons of the Ukrainian flag - in memory of all the dead in Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine, victims of the Russian invasion.\n\nHungarians laid shoes beside the Danube this week in memory of the victims of Russia's bombardment of Mariupol\n\nThe idea that Hungary is isolated from an otherwise pro-Ukraine Europe is an argument the government side bitterly rejects.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Orban told his final campaign rally: \"If the opposition wins on Sunday, the next day they will start delivering weapons to Ukraine, and close the taps on the Russian gas pipelines. Our heart is with [the Ukrainians], but Hungary has to stand up for its own interests.\"\n\nThe election arithmetic suggests a closer race than the government would like.\n\nAccording to opposition paper Nepszava, Fidesz is assured of victory in 41 of the country's 106 individual constituencies, while the opposition alliance can count on 33.\n\nThat leaves 32 battleground districts where the opposition has to break through. The remaining 93 seats in Hungary's 199 seat Parliament are divided according to party lists.\n\nDifferent polling agencies suggest a record turnout - perhaps as high as 80%, compared with 70% four years ago.\n\nIn a country of 9.7 million, the electorate was split almost evenly - 2.6 million apiece - four years ago. Pollsters reckon that this election will be decided by between 300,000 and 600,000 voters who are either undecided or uncommitted, and who are in the cross-hairs of campaigners from both sides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Hungarian PM Viktor Orban says the country could host peace talks", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Police in Sri Lanka fire tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Kandy\n\nPeople protesting in Sri Lanka against the government's handling of the worst economic crisis in decades have defied a curfew in several cities.\n\nIn the capital Colombo, opposition protesters faced off with security forces for a couple of hours before dispersing peacefully.\n\nBut in the city of Kandy, police fired tear gas and water cannon at students.\n\nThe 36-hour curfew was imposed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after clashes near his residence on Friday.\n\nPeople are banned from being on any public road, in a park, on trains or on the seashore unless they have written permission from the authorities, and access to social media was blocked temporarily.\n\nThe curfew is due to remain in force until 06:00 (00:30 GMT) on Monday.\n\nThe island nation is grappling with what is said to be its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948. It is caused in part by a lack of foreign currency, which is used to pay for fuel imports. With power cuts lasting half a day or more, and shortages of food, medicines and fuel, public anger has reached a new high.\n\nIt is a massive turnaround in popularity for Mr Rajapaksa, who swept into power with a majority win in 2019, promising stability and a \"strong hand\" to rule the country.\n\nOn Sunday, soldiers armed with assault rifles blocked an attempt by a crowd of hundreds of protesters to march to Independence Square in the capital.\n\n\"President Rajapaksa better realise that the tide has already turned on his autocratic rule,\" opposition MP Harsha de Silva told AFP news agency at a rally. Another opposition MP, Eran Wickramaratne, said: \"We can't allow a military takeover. They should know we are still a democracy.\"\n\nIn Kandy, a city of 125,000 people in Central Province, police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesting students near the University of Peradeniya.\n\nThe social media crackdown has been criticised by the president's own nephew, Namal Rajapaksa, who tweeted: \"I will never condone the blocking of social media. The availability of VPN, just like I'm using now, makes such bans completely useless.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NDTV This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThursday's protest outside President Rajapaksa's house in Colombo began peacefully, but participants say things turned violent after police fired tear gas and water cannon, beating demonstrators.\n\nProtesters retaliated by pelting police with stones and at least two dozen police personnel were reportedly injured, with a number of vehicles also set on fire.\n\nFood and fuel have been in short supply for weeks. Now people fear they're losing their basic liberties after the government blocked access to social media sites, including YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, WhatsApp and TikTok. Many believe it's to prevent people organising protests and to shut down criticism.\n\nPolice and the military are on the streets of Colombo. Mass demonstrations had been planned today but with a curfew and state of emergency in place most people have stayed home. The streets of the capital are mostly deserted, but we encountered a few protests throughout the day, which passed peacefully with the police at a close distance.\n\nOvernight, the authorities in the west of the country say they arrested more than 600 people for violating the curfew. The government says it's brought in the curfew to maintain order after protests turned violent last week but many people we've spoken to - from all walks of life - blame the authorities for mismanaging this crisis.\n\nFrustration is growing. \"Enough is enough,\" Roshinta, a student, told me as she held a placard in the city centre before the curfew kicked in. \"Millions of people are suffering, and we are angry.\"\n\nBurnt-out vehicles outside Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's private residence in Colombo on Friday", "Some of the 39 Russian soldiers from the 331st regiment who are known to have died\n\nIn any war, there are units that distinguish themselves and others that become symbolic of failure. The 331st Guards Parachute Regiment had high hopes of being the first, but now represents the disintegration of Russia's plan for a quick war.\n\nThe regiment's commanding officer, Col Sergei Sukharev, was killed in Ukraine on 13 March, and was posthumously awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation medal. At his funeral, deputy defence minister Gen Yuri Sadovenko said the colonel \"lived for the future, for the future of our people, a future without Nazism\".\n\nCol Sergei Sukharev, commander of the Kostroma 331st regiment, was also killed\n\nCasualties among Russian forces are not widely reported in Russia itself, but using open source material, the BBC has pieced together the story of their advance, and found that at least 39 other members of the elite 331st regiment have died.\n\nThe men were part of a column that advanced into Ukraine from Belarus, led by Russia's airborne forces, known by the acronym VDV. Their presence underlined the priority of their objective - advancing on the capital, Kyiv.\n\nThat advance swiftly got drawn into a destructive stalemate in districts on the outskirts of Kyiv which soon became synonymous with the viciousness of the war: Bucha, Irpin, and Hostomel.\n\nVideos that emerged online from these battles showed combat vehicles used by Russian airborne forces with \"V\" signs painted onto them.\n\nOne video we found shows several damaged light armoured vehicles from the VDV, abandoned after an attack by Ukrainian special forces. Another shows several vehicles from the Russian airborne forces apparently abandoned.\n\nThe men in the 331st regarded themselves as the pick of Russia's army. In a video posted online last May, a general tells soldiers of the 331st Parachute Regiment that they are \"the best of the best\". The unit served in the Balkans, Chechnya, and the 2014 Russian intervention in the Donbas region of Ukraine, and regularly took part in Red Square parades in Moscow.\n\nThe 331st was also a showcase for Russia's policy of replacing national service soldiers with contraktniki - professionals under contract. It is understandable why the generals should have given it an important role in the invasion.\n\nA comment on a post mourning Maj Sergei Krylov reads: \"We are proud of you, thank you for supporting peace. Russian hero Major Krylov. RIP\" - this post is no longer public\n\nFrom early March, reports began to circulate of deaths in the 331st. It took time for bodies to be returned to Kostroma, the community where it is based, 300km north-east of Moscow.\n\nAs the funerals started, an anguished conversation began playing out on social media. Memorial walls on V'Kontakte - the Russian equivalent of Facebook - pledge \"eternal memory\" and feature pictures of candles.\n\nThe wife of Sergei Lobachyov mourns her \"reliable, loving and caring husband\"\n\nA woman who says she was the wife of Warrant Officer Sergei Lobachyov writes: \"Seryozha, my most reliable, loving and caring husband. Now you are in heaven and you will protect us from there! You will always live in our hearts and you will forever be a real hero to me!\"\n\nAlthough many posts appear to accept Kremlin explanations that the war is being waged against Ukrainian fascists, some also display anxiety about the lack of reliable information.\n\nOn the memorial wall for Sergeant Sergei Duganov, one woman wrote: \"Nobody knows anything. The 331st regiment is disappearing. Almost every day, photos of our Kostroma boys get published. It sends shivers down my spine. What's happening? When will this end? When will people stop dying?\"\n\nHer post was followed by another, which exclaimed: \"Kostroma has lost so many young men, what a tragedy\". Another pleaded: \"God, how many more death notifications shall we receive? Please have mercy on our boys, help them survive, return them back home to their wives and mothers. I'm begging you!\"\n\nYanosh Leonov's partner writes: You are a real hero, you are the best father, a loved and loving husband, a loyal friend and a real fighter.\n\nSpeaking out about the war in Russia carries great risks, but there are hints of a loss of faith in the Kremlin's arguments for war. On the memorial page for one sergeant, a woman asks: \"Why aren't children of MPs on the frontline? The majority of them live in Europe anyway. Ordinary boys are dying for no good reason.\" Another uses an expletive to describe President Vladimir Putin, and goes on to say that by deciding to \"play war\" he has \"sent thousands of guys to die\".\n\nFor the most part though, those reacting on social media remain true to the official narrative.\n\nThe top Ukrainian comment on a post mourning Ravshan Zhakbayev reads: Everyone who steps on our soil to occupy it will get buried in it. Welcome to hell! A later comment reads: Eternal memory to you, our hero, our protector. Thanks for all.(((\n\nOn some V'Kontakte memorial walls, Ukrainians have posted comments mocking the dead men. \"Over 15,000 have died already and they will continue on dying as long as they'll keep on marching on our land. Nobody invited you freaking saviours,\" reads one.\n\n\"Alexander, go away you bloody Nazi,\" a Russian responds to another mocking post. \"Our soldiers are real heroes. Russians have never killed civilians nor children, which is something you can't say about Ukrainians.\"\n\nThe fury of those online exchanges is nothing, though, to the experiences of the VDV forces, who have been hit by Ukrainian artillery, ambushes, and infantry assaults during weeks of bloody combat.\n\nIn these close-quarter battles, they have discovered what earlier VDV units learned in Afghanistan - that armoured vehicles designed to be light enough to be carried on planes do not give much protection from enemy fire. From the roads outside Hostomel airfield, to a side street in Bucha, or a road junction in Irpin, videos taken by Ukrainians have shown burnt out and abandoned vehicles belonging to the airborne group.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThese scraps of phone footage also speak to a more basic failure. In these shattered neighbourhoods around Kyiv, the Russian paratroopers were outmatched by the Ukrainians. And given that the defenders were in many cases simply local defence units or reservists, that speaks to a basic failure in the VDV's system of training and recruitment.\n\nUkrainians have latched on to the 331st's losses, making excited claims that the regiment has been \"wiped out\". Ilya Ponamarev, a former Russian MP and opposition figure who now lives in Kyiv, says people there see the regiment's fate \"as a perfect example of karma\".\n\nDuring the 2014 fighting in the Donbas, the 331st was held responsible by Ukrainians for killing hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers at Ilovaisk, in breach of a ceasefire agreement.\n\nHowever, while the regiment has suffered considerably, Ukrainian claims that they have been wiped out are an exaggeration. It is likely, though, that the 331st Parachute Regiment may have been withdrawn from Ukraine recently - certainly unidentified elements of the VDV task force to which it belonged were filmed on 29 March pulling back into Belarus.\n\nPhotographs of some of the Russian soldiers from the 331 regiment who have died\n\nAs for the price of failure, it mounts daily. At the time of writing, BBC Newsnight had compiled a list of 39 named members of the 331st Parachute Regiment killed in Ukraine. But since none of those fatalities is more recent than the 13 March, it can be supposed that dozens more will emerge in the coming weeks.\n\nKostroma locals have told us they believe that around 100 members of the regiment may have died. And many families will never receive their loved one's body because it was left behind on the battlefield.\n\nEven a conservative projection of the deaths we now know about, and their dates, suggest that the town's losses in a few weeks in Ukraine already exceed those from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya.\n\nThe regiment that set off full of confidence in February has acquired the type of reputation that no soldiers would ever want.\n\nThe BBC has so far verified the deaths of 39 soldiers from the 331st regiment: Klim Abramov, Cpl Artem Arbuzov, Oleg Bedoshvili, Capt (Co Cdr) Yurii Borisov, Snr Lt Ilya Chernyshev, Cpl Yuri Degtaryov, Konstantin Dobrynin, Sasha Dolkin, Sgt Sergei Duganov, Kiril Fedoseyev, Andrey Kovalevsky, Maj Sergei Krylov, Stanislav Kutelev, Cpl Yanosh Leonov, Sgt Alexander Limonov, Snr WO Sergei Lobachyo, Cpl Ivan Mamzurin, Cpl Ilya Martynenko, Lt Lev Ovchinnikov, Maksim Ovchinnikov, Cpl Leonid Panteleyev, Maj Oleg Patskalyev, Sgt Stanislav Petrutik, Sgt Roman Pomelov, Snr WO Pavel Rudenko, Snr Lt Alexander Shalygin, Sgt Nikolai Smirnov, Col Sergei Sukharev, Maxim Svetlenko, Snr Lt Nikolai Symov, Daniil Titov, Maxim Trokai, Ivan Turyev, Sgt Maxim Vorotyntsev, Capt Alexei Vyshegorodtsev, Alexei Yelimov, Cpl Artem Yergin, Sgt Ravshan Zhakbaev, Cpl Danila Zudkov", "Russia continues to face fierce resistance from Ukraine, more than a month into its invasion.\n\nUkrainian forces have begun attempts to retake some areas from Russia, which said this week it would scale back operations around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv.\n\nMeanwhile four million people have fled Ukraine, and a quarter of the country's population is thought to be displaced.\n\nTwo of the BBC's reporters on the ground answer your questions.\n\nIn light of the recent counter-attacks that Ukraine has undertaken, and assuming that diplomatic talks between Ukraine and Russia fail, is it possible that Ukraine may be able to \"win\" this war militarily? - Harry Tinsley\n\nIn military terms it's a case of so far, so good for Ukraine.\n\nIt has surprised President Putin, and the world, by mounting skilled and stubborn resistance against a larger, better equipped army. Equally, Russian forces have surprised the world by being disorganised and inept.\n\nWe saw an example of Ukraine's success in battle at a frontline position outside Kyiv last week. Ukrainian forces told us the Russians had tried to break through four times in the past month, and each time had been held back. The evidence was there in the form of about a half dozen burnt-out Russian tanks and armoured personnel carriers.\n\nRussia's invasion is now in its sixth week, and it has failed on the key fronts - the Russians have not managed to enter the capital Kyiv, to topple the government, or to take any major city - bar Kherson - in the south. Russia has destroyed more than it has captured. That's a poor return on a costly invasion.\n\nThat said, it's too early to predict the outcome here.\n\nWe may be at the start of a long war. Russia says it will focus now on the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. It may have little choice, having failed to make gains elsewhere. But in the future, it could resume trying to capture more territory elsewhere.\n\nMr Putin's fate is probably tied to the success or failure of the invasion. He may continue to pour in troops, and armour and heavy weapons over the longer term.\n\nWith Russia recruiting from the Middle East, does this show a lack of confidence in the quality of its own forces? - David Carter\n\nThe Kremlin would never admit to it, but there is evidence that at least some of the Russian troops are inexperienced and unprepared for their mission. The Ministry of Defence was recently forced to admit that - contrary to Mr Putin's claims - conscripts had been sent to fight in Ukraine.\n\nMoscow claims to have 16,000 Middle Eastern \"volunteers\", many of whom fought against Isis in the last decade, ready to join Russian troops. They may have more experience than some of their Russian counterparts, and some experts say they'd probably be more skilled in the kind of urban combat necessary to take cities and towns.\n\nSome argue too that they'd be less reluctant to attack or kill Ukrainian civilians (many Russians have close ties to Ukraine and consider the people there to be \"brethren\"), and that they have a reputation for brutality which could have a psychological effect on Ukrainian troops.\n\nThe Kremlin presumably knows all this, which is why it was so keen to publicise its access to Middle Eastern fighters - even though it has not yet officially confirmed that it will actually send them in.\n\nTo what extent will unexploded ordnance remain an issue for Ukraine after the war? Is there potential for large areas of land to be deemed inaccessible as a result? - Robbie\n\nSadly yes, as so often in conflict, the danger to human life will remain long after the guns eventually fall silent.\n\nThe danger comes not only from unexploded ordnance, but also from landmines. They can kill for years to come, unless and until demining organisations can clear frontline areas. I have seen these organisations at work after other wars. Their work is painstaking, and time-consuming.\n\nBefore the invasion began, there was already a war raging in the east of the country between Russian-backed separatists and the government of Ukraine. It began in 2014, and has dragged on ever since.\n\nWhile reporting from frontlines there in late January and February, we had to carefully skirt many minefields. At that time the snow was melting - turning the soil to mud. In these conditions, mines can easily shift from their original location (which may have been marked on maps or fenced off).\n\nCurrently in the commuter town of Irpin, north of Kyiv, the Ukrainian army says there is a high risk to life because of mines in the streets.\n\nIs it getting more or less likely that the people in Russia will overthrow Mr Putin or cause greater civil unrest, the longer the conflict lasts? - Damien Fieldhouse, Somerset\n\nThe Kremlin comes down hard on those who oppose the war and many Russians who think that way have fled. What were almost daily street protests have dwindled.\n\nState opinion polls have to be viewed with some cynicism, but they consistently show majority (and growing) support for Mr Putin and for his \"special military operation\".\n\nGiven that most independent Russian media outlets have been blocked or forced to close, there are few alternatives to state media, which sticks to the Kremlin narrative. That says that Russian troops have only gone into Ukraine to defend the Russian-speaking population from attacks and \"genocide\" perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis.\n\nIf you only watched state TV, you might well conclude that this is indeed an honourable and necessary operation to save Russian speakers and Russia itself from an aggressive Ukraine which, with the help of America, is developing biological weapons and is desperate to get its hands on nuclear ones.\n\nSanctions are starting to have a noticeable effect with prices rising, but the Kremlin frames this as another example of Western aggression. At this stage it's hard to see any public dissatisfaction evolving into revolution.\n\nWho is going to pay to rebuild the damage inflicted on infrastructure in Ukraine - never mind the human cost? - Steve Sandercott, Rugby\n\nThe greatest cost is the human one and that is increasing by the day. The verified civilian death toll, according to the United Nations, is about 1,200 people, but the real number will be far higher. Add to this the fact that four million Ukrainians have had to flee and become refugees in other countries.\n\nThere is also extensive physical destruction, in cities and towns across this vast country. Nowhere has suffered more than Mariupol in the south, where we spent 10 days in the countdown to the invasion.\n\nAt that point it was a bustling port city, with trendy cafes, busy restaurants, and families strolling in the parks. Satellite imagery of Mariupol now shows mostly scorched earth, with 90% of residential buildings damaged or destroyed.\n\nAs many as 5,000 people are known to have been killed in this city alone, according to Ukrainian officials. They say the actual death toll could be twice that.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised to restore \"every house, every street and every city\". He says Russia will have to \"learn the word 'reparations'\" and pay the full cost.\n\nUkraine will certainly want reparations to be a key part of any deal done to end the war. If Russia pays - and how much - will depend on who has the upper hand when that deal is done. Theoretically, Russian assets abroad, frozen by G7 countries, could be used to help foot the bill.\n\nIf a peace deal were to happen, how would Ukraine/Russia deal with Crimea, the regions taken by Russia in the Donbas this past month, and the areas that have been controlled by Russian-backed rebels for the past few years? - Ryan McGauley\n\nWe know that Mr Putin wants the world to recognise Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, as Russian. During negotiations earlier this week, the Ukrainian side suggested that Crimea's status be negotiated over 15 years as part of an overall peace deal, although it's hard to see Mr Putin agreeing to that.\n\nHe also wants the international community to recognise (as he has) the self-proclaimed peoples' republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent (although this would basically mean \"Russian-controlled\").\n\nGiven that the Kremlin's current plan is to intensify its efforts in eastern Ukraine in order to \"liberate\" the whole Donbas region, we can assume that Mr Putin intends to try to take - and hold on to - the region.\n\nWe've seen the Ukrainian military be very effective in certain areas. What prevents the military from destroying the Russian artillery that is shelling their cities? - Paul Ackrill\n\nIndependent military experts point to one possible factor. They say Russia is firing artillery from tracked vehicles, that can quickly move location once they have fired. That makes them harder to target.\n\nUkrainian forces have told us they also are constrained because of the presence of civilians in built-up areas from which Russia is firing. They don't want to risk killing their own people while targeting Russian artillery. This has been an issue in the towns like Bucha, outside Kyiv, where some civilians remained despite the presence of Russian forces.\n\nAround Kyiv, Ukrainian forces have managed to push back the Russians, limiting the scope for them to use artillery. Because the city centre is out of reach, Mr Putin's men have been unable to bombard Kyiv as they have Mariupol, and have resorted to air strikes.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian air defences have been working well. Several times here in Kyiv we have heard the massive bang when a Russian missile is brought down - sometimes with casualties on the ground.\n\nIn general, Ukraine has been pleading for more and better air defence systems to help it curb the Russian threat. And the constant demand here is for Nato to impose a no-fly zone. We have met civilians fleeing the shelling of Irpin, who pleaded for Nato to \"close the skies\". However, few here believe there is any chance of that, because of Western fears of becoming embroiled in a wider war.\n\nMr Putin has placed massive restrictions on the media in Russia, but is there a possibility that news reported by Ukraine - for example, the numbers of deaths of troops and civilians, - is not wholly accurate? - Sarah, Oxford\n\nBoth sides are fighting an information war, as well as the war on the battlefields.\n\nIn any conflict, information from any of the warring parties - about civilian deaths, territory captured, or enemy soldiers killed - has to be taken with caution.\n\nThis is especially true now in relation to Russia - which is trying to ensure that its people receive only the Kremlin's version of events. It still refuses to admit that it invaded Ukraine and refers only to its \"special military operation\".\n\nWe prioritise first-hand reporting, which is why the BBC has teams in so many parts of Ukraine - gathering testimony from people on the ground, including civilians, medical staff, local officials and the Ukrainian military.\n\nUkraine is acknowledging that it has suffered losses, and BBC teams in different cities have been able to report on the funerals of Ukrainian soldiers killed in battle. We can't know yet if the full extent of the losses is being made public.\n\nAre there any anti-war Russians? Are they safe? - Roanna, Brighton\n\nYes there are, but it's difficult to assess how widespread such dissent really is.\n\nSpeaking out against the war - or even telling the truth about what Mr Putin continues to insist is only a \"special military operation\" - can result in a criminal conviction and possibly a jail sentence.\n\nIt's reported that more than 15,000 people were detained for taking part in almost daily street protests during the first three weeks of the invasion.\n\nMost independent journalists, and many Russians who oppose the invasion, have fled the country for places like Turkey, Armenia and Georgia. The Kremlin calls them traitors, and some of those who have stayed have become the target of abuse or attacks.\n\nWe are seeing the point of view of frontline Ukrainian soldiers, but is it possible to get the perspective from the Russian side? Are you prevented by the Russians from reporting on and talking to Russian troops on the ground in Ukraine? - Robert, Bishop's Stortford\n\nI can't answer for my colleagues currently in Ukraine, but the Kremlin tightly controls the flow of information back to Russia.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence issues frequent updates which consistently emphasise the success of the \"special military operation\". Russian soldiers are banned from using smartphones, and Moscow has made it a criminal offence to publish information which would discredit the Russian military, or to spread what the Kremlin would deem to be fake news about it.\n\nAn independent organisation exists which aims to help families of servicemen to get information about them. However, they've recently told us that they're under considerable pressure from the authorities to stop their activities.", "There have been concerns about safety at the former plant since the Russian occupation\n\nRussian troops occupying the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl have left, the plant's staff say.\n\nAccording to Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom, staff at the plant said there are currently no \"outsiders\" at the site.\n\nEarlier, it said some Russian forces had set off towards the Belarusian border, leaving a small group behind.\n\nThe announcement appears to confirm reports by senior US defence officials on Wednesday of a withdrawal.\n\nRussian troops seized Chernobyl at the beginning of their invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.\n\n\"This morning, the invaders announced their intentions to leave the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,\" Energoatom said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nThe company later accused the Russian military of abducting members of the Ukrainian National Guard held captive since the start of the war. Energoatom sourced its information to workers at the plant and did not give numbers.\n\nIt also confirmed reports that Russian troops had dug trenches in the most contaminated part of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, receiving \"significant doses\" of radiation. There are unconfirmed reports that some are being treated in Belarus.\n\nReuters news agency quoted workers at the plant as saying some of the soldiers had no idea they were in a radiation zone.\n\nThe Russian military, however, said that after capturing the plant radiation levels at the plant itself had stayed within a normal range.\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement that it was unable to confirm the reports.\n\nThe head of Ukraine's agency in charge of the exclusion zone, Yevhen Kramarenko, said that radiation levels appeared to be normal and there was no indication of significant damage. However, as the sensors for detecting radiation levels were not working, staff needed to check the facilities, he added.\n\nThe head of the IAEA said it was in close consultations with Ukrainian authorities on sending a mission to the Chernobyl plant \"very, very soon\".\n\nWhile \"Chernobyl\" is a word that evokes apocalypse, nuclear experts stressed throughout this saga that there was no risk of \"another Chernobyl\".\n\nThere is no working nuclear reactor on the site. As Prof Claire Corkhill from Sheffield University told me at the time, even if buildings containing contaminated material were pierced \"we wouldn't be talking about plumes of radioactive smoke\".\n\nShe was much more concerned when Russian forces attacked a building at the working Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility on 4 March. That incident caused the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to plan a trip to Ukraine - essentially to ask Russian forces to keep nuclear facilities out of the line of fire.\n\n\"What is a concern in Chernobyl now,\" Prof Corkhill told me, \"is that we haven't had regular communication between the site and the IAEA, which basically keeps a [safety log] of where any potentially hazardous material is. We now need to go in and establish that none of that material is missing.\"\n\nOther scientists are concerned about the damage that may have been caused to a place that has become a wildlife refuge and a site of international research collaboration.\n\nProf Nick Beresford, who studies the exclusion zone's landscape, says his Ukrainian colleagues now don't know if they will have labs to return to. \"The zone itself, over the last nearly 40 years, has become a site for wildlife,\" he added.\n\n\"Lots of rare species moved in when people moved out. We just don't know how this will have affected the wildlife.\"\n\nIn recent days Russia has said it will scale down its operations in northern Ukraine around the capital Kyiv and focus its forces on the eastern Donbas region. Chernobyl is located north of Kyiv.\n\nBut on Thursday Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Moscow was repositioning rather than withdrawing in order to regroup, resupply and reinforce its offensive in Donbas.\n\n\"At the same time, Russia maintains pressure on Kyiv and other cities. So we can expect additional offensive actions, bringing even more suffering,\" he said.\n\nThere was no change in Russia's objective to pursue a military outcome, he added.\n\nThe occupation of the Chernobyl site since 24 February, the day of the invasion, has been dogged with concerns about power outages and problems for the staff, many of whom were trapped there for weeks and could not get home.\n\nAlthough no longer a working power station, Chernobyl was never fully abandoned and still requires constant management.\n\nIt is the site of what is considered to be the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986.\n\nThe Russian withdrawal follows an announcement several days ago by the mayor of Slavutych, a nearby town housing workers at the plant, that Russian troops had left the town.", "A banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin next to the Moscow embassy in Riga, Latvia\n\n\"Era defining\", \"new reality\", \"historic moment\" - that's where we are right now in Europe. At least, that's what countless European politicians and commentators say, since Russian President Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAre they right? Yes and No, I'd argue.\n\nOn 24 February, President Putin shocked this continent out of complacency.\n\nHis assault on Ukraine has brought large-scale death and destruction back to Europe, including whispers of possible nuclear war.\n\nHis aim: not only to dominate Ukraine, but to roll back Western dominance militarily and - ideally - politically, in terms of liberal democracy, from the former Soviet sphere of influence.\n\nThe action Western allies take together now will fundamentally affect Europeans' sense of self and safety for years to come.\n\nNato is re-invigorated. The transatlantic military alliance, once dismissed by French President Emmanuel Macron as \"brain dead\", is simultaneously proving Mr Putin wrong to view the West as weak and disunited, while also providing military support, defence and deterrence to Nato's eastern flank that feels so exposed to the Kremlin's expansionist fervour.\n\nThis - so far - is also proving to be a defining moment for the EU. The bloc had long talked up playing a bigger role on the world stage - and not solely in terms of economics and trade. Until now, that was a failed ambition.\n\nBut the Russia-Ukraine crisis has unexpectedly elevated the EU into a credible geopolitical player.\n\nThe speed with which Brussels co-ordinated sanctions against Russia - both within the EU, and with international allies - was frankly impressive. As were the unity of resolve amongst member states, and the bureaucracy-defying EU moves to enact never-before-used mechanisms to help Ukrainian refugees, and the Ukrainian military.\n\nGermany, one of the EU's biggest players, also took the world's breath away by suddenly saying goodbye to World War Two sensitivities and announcing huge investments in its military, the Bundeswehr.\n\nKey to the decision being applauded in the EU and further afield is that this is not a Germany newly flexing nationalist muscles.\n\n\"This is about Germany helping to re-define Europe, not its own role,\" Ricarda Lang told me. She is the co-chair of the German Green Party in the coalition government.\n\n\"It's about European sovereignty, not just in security and defence but also in terms of imports and energy.\"\n\nFor years Germany has knowingly been reliant on the US for security, and on Russia for energy and trade. It is not the only EU country in that position. But as the bloc's richest and most powerful nation, Berlin is the most stand-out example.\n\nAnd this has weakened the West's hand when it comes to sanctions against Russia.\n\nEU countries pay Moscow up to €800m (£674m; $884m) for energy every day, which amounts to an estimated 40% of the Kremlin's income. This money goes towards funding the war against Ukraine, that the West is ostensibly fighting.\n\n\"It's tragic it took a war like this, but now we Germans have woken up with a bang!\" insists Marie Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, who heads the German parliament's Defence Committee.\n\nShe assured me Berlin was now ready to take responsibility.\n\n'We Germans have woken up with a bang!' said the chairwoman of the German parliament's Defence Committee\n\nThe West looked at Germany with suspicion after two world wars, she observed, but that was decades ago, and - to be honest, she said - Germany was pretty comfortable enjoying being a Nato and EU member, without having to invest in its own army.\n\n\"Germany's allies have waited too long for us to do our bit.\"\n\nBerlin has now pledged to build an efficient, modern military, and to keep up defence spending to Nato requirements. Under international pressure, trade and energy ties are being tackled, too.\n\nBear in mind, though, that transforming the currently threadbare German military will take years, as will untangling the country from its deep-seated relations with Russia.\n\nFor decades, Berlin was the dividing line between East and West Europe.\n\nHopes for European unity were high after the fall of the iconic Berlin Wall, and the ensuing 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.\n\nBut fast-forward 30 years, and you hear talk of a new \"Berlin Wall\", though further to the east.\n\nTiny Baltic country Latvia has a 200km (124 mile)-long border fence, separating the EU and Nato member on one side from expansionist Russia on the other.\n\nCol Sandris Gaugers is the commander of the Latvian Land Forces Mechanized Infantry Brigade. We spoke at his military base, just outside the capital, Riga. The base is also home to Nato forces, which have almost doubled in size since Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nCol Sandris Gaugers said priorities have changed across Europe\n\n\"I see a new Iron Curtain coming. Though this time, we'll be on the western side,\" the colonel told me.\n\n\"We are living a new reality. For us Latvians the security environment is now gone. We spent 20 years in Iraq, in Afghanistan. Now our main focus is here. How do we defend our freedom and our country?\"\n\nPriorities have now changed across Europe, he said. \"People used to focus on economic wealth. Now it's about defending our values and way of life.\"\n\nLatvians and their Baltic neighbours in Estonia and Lithuania are trying hard not to say \"I-told-you-so\" to the West. They've been warning about President Putin for years.\n\nThey feel they understand the Russian leader better than most. All three countries were once part of the Soviet Union.\n\nLatvia's Prime Minister, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, insists the West has to accept that \"Putin is not like us\". France and German leaders famously went on diplomatic visits to Moscow earlier this year, trying to dissuade President Putin from attacking Ukraine.\n\nPrime Minister Kariņš says agonising over finding the right words, or turns of phrase to persuade Mr Putin, is pointless.\n\n\"He's hell-bent on destroying democracy and our way of life.\n\n\"If we don't stop Putin. He will not stop at Ukraine.\"\n\nMr Kariņš said the one good thing to come out of the current situation is that Nato and the EU are working closer together than they have in 30 years. That, he said, was a game-changer.\n\nAnd here we come back to whether this is an era-defining moment for Europe.\n\nThe EU is thrilled to have the US back and engaged in Europe.\n\nFor all Brussels' talk of the bloc now building \"strategic sovereignty\" in defence and security, EU countries look to Washington when faced with Russian threats.\n\nTraining session at the Adazi military base in Latvia\n\nEU defence plans, designed to complement - or to partly replace - Nato, depending which European politician you speak to, are nothing new. And so far, they've never worked.\n\nAll EU countries agree that at the very least, it makes sense to pool resources and know-how: cyber, military, equipment and intelligence. Yet, no nation wants to go first.\n\nEach EU member has businesses or individuals benefiting from national contracts. The European Commission now wants to oversee the overhaul of defence capabilities. Few in the military are holding their breath, wherever they reside in Europe.\n\nAs regards the renaissance in EU-Nato co-operation, in all likelihood, once the acute Russia-Ukraine crisis subsides, the US will turn its attention to what it truly sees as its foreign policy priority: the Asia-Pacific, not Europe.\n\nBut the EU has its raison d'être back.\n\nDesigned originally as a peace project, its vision fell by the wayside in recent times. Younger Europeans had no memory of war. They saw no urgency in uniting or fighting for peace on their continent.\n\nIn that regard, this moment really is a new reality.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTransgender cyclist Emily Bridges says she has been \"harassed and demonised\" after being told she cannot compete in the National Omnium Championships.\n\nBridges, 21, says she has provided medical evidence that she is eligible to race in her first women's event.\n\nHowever, she still has \"little clarity\" around her \"alleged ineligibility\".\n\n\"No-one should have to choose between being who they are and participating in the sport that they love,\" she said in a statement on social media.\n\nBridges says that, for the last six months, she has been in contact with British Cycling and the sport's world governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), over the eligibility criteria she needed to meet to compete this Saturday.\n\nBritish Cycling's transgender regulations, which were updated in January this year, require riders to have had testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to competition.\n\nBridges says she has provided both British Cycling and the UCI with evidence that she meets the criteria \"including that my testosterone level has been far below the limit prescribed by the regulations for the last 12 months\".\n\nThe UCI told British Cycling that, because international ranking points are allocated at national championship events, Bridges' participation could only be allowed once her eligibility to race in international competitions is confirmed. That process is currently ongoing.\n\nBritish Cycling said on Wednesday they had been informed by the UCI that \"under their current guidelines Emily is not eligible to participate\" in this weekend's event in Derby.\n\nBut Bridges said: \"Despite the public announcement I still have little clarity around their finding of my ineligibility.\n\n\"I am an athlete and I just want to race competitively again. I hope that they will reconsider their decision in line with the regulations.\"\n\nShe added: \"I've been relentlessly harassed and demonised by those who have a specific agenda to push.\n\n\"They attack anything that isn't the norm. This is without care for the wellbeing of individuals or marginalised groups.\"\n\nBridges says her privacy has also been \"totally violated\" and she has received \"targeted abuse\" on social media, \"despite the fact I have not yet raced in the female category\".\n\nBridges began hormone therapy last year as part of her gender dysphoria treatment and continued to compete in men's races, but she was a provisional entry on the women's starting list for the National Omnium Championships.\n\nAccording to Cycling Weekly, Bridges has been participating in a study at Loughborough University to track her own power data with reduced testosterone levels - and says they show a 13-16% drop in her power outputs across six-second, one-minute, five-minute and 20-minute durations.\n\nBridges also says she has received a mixed response on speaking publicly about her transition, but many female cyclists have sent messages of support.\n\nHowever, after the UCI deemed she is ineligible, British 800m athlete Ellie Baker said on social media: \"I would refuse to race and hope that the other women would stand with me on this too.\n\n\"This is totally unfair. The advantages a trans women has had from going through puberty as a boy to a man can never been undone.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Liz Ward, director of programmes at campaign group Stonewall, said Bridges \"hasn't been given a fair chance to compete in Saturday's race\".\n\n\"It is disappointing that UCI have overruled British Cycling's competition criteria, which Emily was in full compliance of,\" she added.\n\n\"British Cycling had already extensively consulted on their trans-inclusion policy, which is fully in line with International Olympic Committee guidelines. Our thoughts are with Emily.\"", "Prices in general are rising at their fastest rate for 30 years but energy is the most significant\n\nPeople have been warned to brace for another huge rise in energy bills when the next cap takes effect in October.\n\nThis could add another £629 a year to a typical bill, on top of Friday's unprecedented £700-a-year rise, says energy consultancy Cornwall Insight.\n\nThe expected rise in bills just as colder weather kicks in has prompted calls for fresh government support to those struggling to pay.\n\nEnergy prices have been affected by the Ukraine war and pressure on suppliers.\n\nThe most up-to-date prediction from Cornwall Insight would, if accurate, push annual energy bills for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity to up to £2,600 from October.\n\nA typical bill is expected to fall back to the current level in summer 2023, although longer-term forecasts are tricky.\n\nBill Bullen, the boss of Utilita, warned that elderly people and children were at serious risk over the next winter because of a lack of heating.\n\n\"We are going to see an extra £500 or £600 added to bills in October, and frankly the chancellor's going to have to fund that entirely for low-income households,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"He won't be able to afford to take this problem away for everybody... but for customers who can't respond to that price [increase], that's where the help needs to be targeted.\"\n\nThe warning comes on top of a huge rise in what energy suppliers can charge customers from Friday. The £693 a year rise in a typical energy bill will affect 18 million households, with 4.5 million customers on prepayment meters facing an even bigger increase of £708 a year.\n\nAt the same time, a host of bill hikes take effect with council tax, water bills and car tax going up for some on 1 April.\n\nMinimum wage rates are rising which, along with some financial support from the government, is partially softening the blow.\n\nPrices in general are rising at their fastest rate for 30 years, but the sudden increase in the cost of energy is the most significant for individuals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew official figures suggest four in 10 bill-payers have been finding it very, or somewhat, difficult to afford their energy costs.\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said the country is facing the biggest single shock from energy prices since the 1970s.\n\nIt is the largest increase, by far, in the energy regulator Ofgem's price cap, since it was introduced.\n\nThe cap, set every six months for England. Wales and Scotland, is designed to protect domestic customers from the volatility of wholesale energy prices.\n\nChris O'Shea, chief executive of Centrica, which owns the UK's largest supplier British Gas, said his business was supporting struggling customers and was giving grants to those most in need.\n\n\"We would love to do more. The reality is that for a retail energy company, the market has gone through quite a change, and profits have reduced quite substantially,\" he told the BBC's Big Green Money Show.\n\nHowever, he accepted that profits had risen sharply for the heavily taxed exploration arm of the business.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said that low earners, renters, parents, people with disabilities, unemployed people and divorcees were least able to afford a bill shock.\n\nThe government has said it was taking \"decisive action\" to help people with the cost of living, including a £200 reduction to energy bills in October - which needs to be paid back in instalments, and a £150 reduction in council tax bills for 80% of billpayers.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour party, branded the government's response as \"pathetic\".\n\nHe accused the government of forcing people to choose between heating their homes or eating.\n\nHe said that the Labour party would introduce a one-off windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies and use the money to help households struggling to cope with rising energy bills.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC's Newscast: \"I'm confident in what we've done. I know it's tough for people. We're facing a very difficult situation with the price of things going up and I want to do what we can to ameliorate some of that, but I'm also honest with people that we can't ameliorate all of it, sadly.\"\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story?", "P&O Ferries faces a probe into the controversial no-notice sackings of nearly 800 members of staff.\n\nThe Insolvency Service has launched criminal and civil investigations into the circumstances around the redundancies.\n\nIn a letter, it said it would consider \"prompt and appropriate action\" if the law was broken.\n\nGrant Shapps has also asked the service to consider disqualifying its boss from acting as a company director.\n\nThe transport secretary made the announcement as part of new pay plans for the ferry industry this week after P&O Ferries sacked 786 employees without notice and replaced with them with agency workers.\n\nP&O Ferries said on Friday that all but one of the sacked employees had taken steps to accept the redundancy offer made by the company. One former P&O worker, John Lansdown, told the BBC he did not respond to the company's offer.\n\nThe company declined to comment on the Insolvency Service's investigation when approached by BBC News.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted that he and Mr Shapps would follow the new investigations into P&O Ferries closely as they develop.\n\nThe Insolvency Service has the power to investigate allegations of corporate abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Shapps said earlier this week that his new package of measures would force P&O Ferries to \"fundamentally rethink\" its decision.\n\nHe urged ports to block ferries from docking if they do not pay their crew the UK minimum wage, with plans to create new laws.\n\nFerry industry groups, however, hit out at the transport secretary's plans, with the UK Major Ports Group saying they should not have to \"be the police for the labour practices of ferry companies\".\n\nUnions also expressed disappointment that the plans did not go far enough for workers who had already lost their jobs.\n\nP&O Ferries' boss Peter Hebblethwaite admitted that the firm knowingly broke the law by not consulting with unions and planning to compensate workers instead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe firm said previously that staff would be offered £36.5m in total - with about 40 getting more than £100,000 each.\n\nP&O Ferries said some employees were set to get 91 weeks' pay and the chance of new employment, and no employee would receive less than £15,000.\n\nMr Hebblethwaite has insisted that a U-turn on the redundancies would cause the company's total collapse, leading to a loss of an additional 2,200 jobs.\n\nHe told MSPs this week that P&O had \"painstakingly explored all possible alternatives\", but that it could not expect \"unconditional support\" from parent company DP World for the business without a plan to become viable after making a £100m loss year-on-year.\n\nMr Shapps branded the executive a \"pirate of the sea\", accusing him of \"disgracefully shredding the reputation\" of the company.\n\nHowever, Mr Hebblethwaite said he would not step down.\n\nHe said he felt compelled \"to discharge my duties for this historical company\" and provide \"the effective operation of the trade routes upon which this country depends\".\n\n\"I will therefore continue to do my utmost to ensure that this company has a sustainable business for the future.\"", "Ghislaine Maxwell pictured in a court artist sketch as the guilty verdict in her sex trafficking trial was read\n\nA US judge has upheld Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction, denying her bid for a new trial.\n\nMaxwell, 60, had complained that one of the jurors falsely stated before the trial that he had never been sexually abused.\n\nHer lawyers argued the fact the juror had been abused in the past meant he could not be impartial.\n\nMaxwell was convicted in December last year of trafficking girls for the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nShe faces up to 65 years in prison, but maintains her innocence. Epstein killed himself in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe juror in question was earlier given immunity from prosecution. He had asked to be identified by his first and middle names, Scotty David.\n\nWhen asked why he failed to disclose his past in the jury questionnaire when explicitly asked, he said it was an \"inadvertent mistake\".\n\n\"This is one of the biggest mistakes I have made in my life,\" he added, saying he \"flew through\" the document and was \"super-distracted\" by everything going on around him in the jury room.\n\nOn Friday, US Circuit Judge Alison Nathan said the juror had testified truthfully at a hearing in March over Maxwell's bid for a retrial.\n\n\"His failure to disclose his prior sexual abuse during the jury selection process was highly unfortunate, but not deliberate,\" the judge said.\n\n\"The court further concludes that Juror 50 harboured no bias toward the defendant and could serve as a fair and impartial juror.\"\n\nA US Circuit Judge said the juror, who asked to be known as Scotty David, harboured no bias toward Maxwell", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChristian Eriksen scored his first goal for Brentford as they closed in on Premier League safety by outclassing Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.\n\nBrentford produced a magnificent display to record their first win over Chelsea since 1939 as they came from behind to stun Thomas Tuchel's side with three goals in 10 minutes in the second half before adding a fourth late on to humiliate the Champions League holders.\n\nThe Bees enjoyed the better of the first half but were punished for not taking chances when Antonio Rudiger flashed a brilliant 30-yard finish past David Raya three minutes after the restart.\n\nBrentford's response was instant and spectacular as Vitaly Janelt hammered home the equaliser two minutes later before the golden moment in the 54th minute as Bryan Mbeumo squared a pass for Eriksen to score in front of the joyous visiting support.\n\nAnd Brentford were not finished there, Janelt breaking clear again on the hour to beat Chelsea keeper Edouard Mendy before substitute Yoane Wissa completed their glory day in the closing moments.\n\nBrentford are now on 33 points, 11 clear of Watford, who are third from bottom, and can now surely contemplate Premier League football again next season.\n• None Go straight to all the best Chelsea content\n\nEriksen provided the story of this truly remarkable Brentford win with that first goal for the club since making his comeback with the Bees after suffering a cardiac arrest playing for Denmark against Finland at Euro 2020 in June.\n\nIt was a wonderful moment but was simply the flourish on a quite brilliant team performance from Brentford, who thoroughly deserved one of the greatest victories in the club's history. The margin of the scoreline did not flatter them.\n\nThomas Frank's side took the fight to Chelsea from the first whistle, with striker Ivan Toney having three presentable chances as they went right on the front foot.\n\nIf there was any disappointment, it was the fact they did not cash in on that superiority, and they paid for it when Rudiger fired Chelsea in front.\n\nBrentford's response was truly outstanding, giving them the result that surely means they will stay in the Premier League next season.\n\nAnd there is no doubt Eriksen's presence has lifted those around him. Brentford have won all three games he has started since making his comeback as a substitute against Newcastle United in late February.\n\nEriksen may be the star name but this was the complete all-round display, with Toney giving Chelsea's vulnerable defence a torrid time and Janelt providing the cutting edge.\n\nBrentford were also resolute in defence, with Frank and his players fully deserving the huge ovation they received from their ecstatic fans after the final whistle.\n\nChelsea get what they deserve\n\nChelsea can have no complaints about this defeat or the embarrassing scoreline as they were abject in a performance that was completely out of character with their recent efforts.\n\nTuchel's side won their six matches in March but were never fully switched on from first to last and paid the price.\n\nIf there is any consolation for Tuchel - and he will have to search very hard to find any - it is that this did not come in Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final first leg against Real Madrid at Stamford Bridge.\n\nIf they repeat this horrible defensive performance, and indeed their entire shambolic effort, their hopes of retaining the trophy they won last June might be over.\n\nDespite the usually reliable presence of Rudiger and Thiago Silva, Chelsea were never unable to control Brentford, who ran them ragged and actually should have scored more than four goals.\n\nChelsea must hope this is a blip, rather like their 5-2 home loss to the eventually relegated West Brom last season, because they cannot afford this when Real Madrid come here this week.\n\nThe likes of Karim Benzema would have been licking their lips watching this defensive fiasco.\n• None Attempt missed. Kristoffer Ajer (Brentford) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Hakim Ziyech with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Reece James (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1, Brentford 4. Yoane Wissa (Brentford) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Ivan Toney (Brentford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a headed pass following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Hakim Ziyech with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Dame Cressida Dick was the first woman to hold the role of commissioner\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick will leave her role on 10 April.\n\nHer current deputy, Sir Stephen House, will take over in the interim until a new Met chief has been appointed.\n\nDame Cressida quit in February when the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he had lost confidence in her leadership.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Khan said the next commissioner \"must have a plan to restore the trust and confidence of Londoners\".\n\nIn a tweet, Dame Cressida said: \"It has been a tremendous honour to serve the people of London and the UK.\"\n\nThe commissioner said she had to resign from the role after Mr Khan's intervention.\n\nIt followed a number of high-profile scandals involving the force, including cases of sexism and misogyny among some Met officers.\n\nLast month, the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" examples of bullying and sexual harassment at Charing Cross police station in central London.\n\nDame Cressida, the first woman to lead the UK's biggest police force, also faced criticism over the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer last year, and a series of other controversies.\n\nHer successor will be appointed by the home secretary, in consultation with the mayor of London.\n\nMr Khan's office said the mayor would work with the home secretary \"to address the deep cultural issues facing the Met Police Service\".\n\nA spokesman for Mr Khan said: \"The mayor thanks Dame Cressida Dick for her decades of public service.\n\nDame Cressida will take unused annual leave after 10 April, with her last day of employment being 24 April.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The violence comes amid heightened tensions at the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan\n\nThree Palestinian militants have been killed in a gun battle with Israeli security forces near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police say.\n\nA statement said the Palestinians were on their way to carry out an attack in a car on Friday night and that they fired on a counter-terrorism unit that was trying to arrest them.\n\nFour Israeli troops were wounded in the ensuing clash, one of them seriously.\n\nThe Islamic Jihad militant group confirmed the dead men were members.\n\n\"We mourn our heroic martyrs and we assert that our fighters will continue to combat the enemy,\" it armed wing said.\n\nPalestinian news agency Wafa cited security sources as identifying the three men as Khalil Tawalbeh, from Jenin, Saeb Abahreh from al-Yamoun, and Saif Abu Libdeh, from Tulkarm.\n\nIsrael's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned that the country's security forces would \"act forcefully against any attempted attack\" on its citizens.\n\nThe forces are already on their highest level of alert since last year's conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, after three deadly attacks in Israel in less than two weeks.\n\nThe violence has come in the run-up to a sensitive time when religious holidays will overlap for Muslims, Jews and Christians. Saturday is the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.\n\nOn Friday, a Palestinian man was shot dead during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Israeli military said its soldiers opened fire when a suspect threw a Molotov cocktail at them during a riot.\n\nAnother three Palestinians were killed on Thursday. One was shot dead after he stabbed and wounded an Israeli on a bus in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, while two others were killed in a gunfight during an Israeli raid in Jenin.\n\nThe Israeli military said its soldiers came under fire in Jenin as they arrested three people suspected of involvement in an attack by a Palestinian gunman in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak on Tuesday, in which two Israeli civilians, two Ukrainian nationals and an Israeli policemen were killed.\n\nFour people were killed by an Israeli Arab in a car-ramming and stabbing attack in Beersheba on 22 March, and two were shot dead by two Israeli Arabs in Hadera on Sunday. All three of the assailants were linked to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).", "Yemen is facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises\n\nA two-month truce has been agreed by warring parties in Yemen, the UN says.\n\nIt is the first nationwide truce agreed since 2016 in a war which has killed nearly 400,000 people, according to UN estimates.\n\nAbout 60% died from hunger, lack of healthcare and unsafe water.\n\nThe deal between the Saudi-led coalition and Iran-backed Houthi rebels - which can be extended if both agree - came into effect at 16:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nSaturday is the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for many Muslims.\n\nUS President Joe Biden hailed the UN-brokered truce as a long-awaited \"reprieve for the Yemeni people\".\n\nBut he added: \"These are important steps, but they are not enough. The ceasefire must be adhered to, and as I have said before, it is imperative that we end this war.\"\n\nThe truce announcement was made by the UN special envoy Hans Grundberg on Friday, on the second day of peace talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.\n\n\"The parties accepted to halt all offensive military air, ground and maritime operations inside Yemen and across its borders,\" his statement said.\n\nFuel ships will be allowed passage into the rebel-held port of al-Hudaydah on the Red Sea, and commercial flights will be able to operate from the airport in the rebel-held capital Sanaa. Roads into the besieged south-western city of Taiz would also be opened, said the UN envoy.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged all sides to implement the agreement as soon as possible.\n\nThe Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's official government has been fighting the Houthis for the past seven years, using mainly air strikes.\n\nThe Houthis, in turn, have used drones and missiles to attack both Saudi Arabia and its ally, the United Arab Emirates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yemen has seen some of the worst violence of its eight-year civil war in the past 12 months", "Concerns have been expressed by current and former Whitehall staff about fines issued to those who broke Covid laws by going to parties in government offices.\n\nThe government has not confirmed reports that attendees at a leaving party in June 2020 have been fined.\n\nBut one former insider told the BBC they had heard junior members of staff had been fined, while senior staff had not, and that this was \"disgraceful\".\n\nNo 10 has confirmed the prime minister has not received a fine so far.\n\nOne other government source said police had targeted \"low-hanging fruit\", and another agreed this appeared to be the police's approach.\n\nBut a Whitehall insider cautioned it was too early to say until the process was complete and all the fines had been issued.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police launched an investigation earlier this year following reports of parties in Downing Street and other government buildings in breach of coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nOn Tuesday, the police confirmed they were issuing 20 fines as a result of the inquiry and said more could follow.\n\nReports have suggested the first tranche of fines related to a leaving do on 18 June 2020 for a No 10 adviser.\n\nThe police have said they will not be disclosing the names of those who are receiving a fine, nor the events to which the fines relate.\n\nCivil servants have not been provided with help for legal costs and are being advised to pay any fines they receive.\n\nSenior staff and politicians have paid for private legal advice.\n\nA recipient can contest a fine, in which case the police will review the case to decide whether or not to withdraw the fine or take the matter to court.\n\nThe prime minister is known to have attended at least three of the events being investigated by police and his wife Carrie Johnson is also reported to have been at some of them.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he agreed with the \"general argument\" that families should not be dragged into politics.\n\nBut he said the public was entitled to know if the wife of the prime minister who had set the rules the rest of the country was following had been fined for breaking them.", "Some drivers said they did not move for more than six hours in queues approaching Dover\n\nMotorists reported delays of more than six hours approaching Dover, with long queues caused by disruption to cross-Channel ferry services.\n\nBad weather and a shortage of ferries were being blamed.\n\nCapacity at the Port of Dover was already reduced due to the suspension of P&O services.\n\nLorry driver Stuart Orme, who was stuck for several hours, told the BBC people were being \"treated like animals\" with little or no help.\n\nHundreds of lorry drivers were stuck on the M20 in Kent for a second night into Sunday, with warnings from Dover MP Natalie Elphicke that the problems in the area could continue for several days.\n\nA spokesperson for the Port of Dover said: \"Operators have been working hard all day to process the traffic and get people on their way as swiftly as possible.\n\n\"Tourist traffic continues to move through the port and local traffic congestion is easing but still busy.\"\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum - a partner organisation preparing for emergencies in Kent and Medway - said problems had been made worse by \"impatient\" lorry drivers attempting to avoid the Dover TAP and Operation Brock traffic management plans and causing a bottleneck in the town.\n\nLorry driver Stuart Orme says he has been stuck for hours\n\nA section of the M20 is being used to park lorries, leading to long tailbacks and under Operation Brock, the motorway remains closed to anything other than freight between junctions eight and nine.\n\nThe Department for Transport said efforts were being made to minimise disruption.\n\nOperation Brock's concrete barrier, found between Ashford and Maidstone on the M20, was originally introduced to keep traffic moving amid fears that a no-deal Brexit plan would lead to delays at the border.\n\nLorry driver Stuart Orme told BBC South East on Saturday he had been stuck between junctions eight and nine of the M20 for more than six hours and had moved less than 0.6 miles (1km) in that time.\n\n\"We're being treated like animals. No welfare, no toilet facilities and no information. We're just left here,\" Mr Orme said.\n\n\"We're trying to get to the Ashford truck stop because we won't get over [to their destination] today. They won't let us go down the middle of the queue to get to Ashford to use facilities.\"\n\nAnother freight firm Logistics UK told the BBC it had built in plans for a 15-hour wait at Dover to cross the channel, and again at Calais on the way back.\n\nToby Howe from the Kent Resilience Forum said \"impatient\" HGV drivers had caused a bottleneck in Dover\n\nToby Howe from the Kent Resilience Forum said it had been prepared for disruption caused by P&O Ferries suspending services, but the stormy weather was \"the straw that broke the camel's back\" and blamed \"impatient\" HGV drivers for causing a bottleneck in Dover.\n\n\"There is a traffic management plan in place which controls freight getting to Dover. Ordinarily, that plan would have worked, but because we then had lorries getting very impatient and avoiding that, that's what caused the problem.\n\n\"It's all heading straight to the port and there isn't any other outlet for it. So that's the problem. Once it happens it's very hard to undo.\"\n\nMatthias Mueller and his family are trying to reach Germany\n\nNHS nurse Matthias Mueller left his home in London with his family at 05:00 BST to try to be among the first to swap his P&O ticket for a DFDS one at the port.\n\n\"We are going to Germany to see my parents for the first time in two years. We thought this would be an early start to the Easter holidays, it's come to a standstill,\" Mr Mueller said.\n\nNick Gale, a teacher from Kent travelling to Amsterdam with family, criticised the \"awful\" communication around Dover after missing the ferry they were booked on.\n\n\"We've got no food and an eight-year-old in the back moaning,\" Mr Gale said.\n\n\"Around Dover it's awful, there is no communication for what non-freight customers [are] to do. We're local to the area so knew a couple of ways to beat the huge queues but it's literally not moving.\"\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke said: \"The traffic disruption caused by P&O's actions is very serious\", adding that the adverse weather and Easter break had made the situation \"severe\" and likely to continue for days.\n\n\"The problems have caused an unacceptable impact on our community, particularly at Whitfield, Aycliffe, Capel-Le-Ferne and in Dover town itself.\"\n\nSome schools have already broken up for Easter and an increase in traffic was expected as many families made the most of the easing of travel restrictions.\n\nP&O services have been reduced after the company sacked 800 workers last month. It has yet to be given permission to resume sailings to France using cheaper agency staff.\n\nP&O services have been reduced after the company sacked 800 workers last month\n\nThe shortage of cross-Channel services was made worse after a DFDS ferry hit a berth in Dunkirk in strong winds, leading to that being taken out of service for repairs.\n\nIt will not be available until Monday at the earliest.\n\nTravel journalist Simon Calder described it as a \"perfect storm\" for Easter travellers.\n\nWith P&O's three vessels at berth in Dover, he said DFDS services had been coping well with the extra passengers until Saturday.\n\nA \"surge in demand\" had been coupled with difficult weather conditions in the Channel overnight, he said.\n\n\"It's very difficult to see how that will be relieved,\" he added, with bookings also high at the Eurotunnel terminal at nearby Folkestone.\n\nMr Calder said disruption was affecting airports as well with Easyjet cancelling flights to Mykonos, Copenhagen and Corfu at Manchester Airport.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Rishi Sunak said it was OK for people to attack him, but not wife Akshata Murty\n\nIndian tech giant Infosys, in which UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife owns shares thought to be worth more than £400m, is closing its office in Russia.\n\nSources told the BBC that the company was trying to find replacement roles abroad for staff employed in Moscow.\n\nInfosys has been under pressure to cease its Russian operations following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAnd Mr Sunak has faced questions over wife Akshata Murty's shares in the firm, which was founded by her father.\n\nEarlier, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Sky News it was important for the chancellor to reveal whether his family had been \"benefiting from money made in Russia when the [UK] government has put in place sanctions\" on firms and individuals following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC's Newscast podcast this week that he had found criticism of his wife \"very upsetting\", adding that he understood how film star Will Smith had felt when his own wife had been mocked by comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars over her medical condition.\n\nBut he joked: \"At least I didn't get up and slap anybody, which is good.\"\n\nInfosys, one of India's biggest companies with a presence in about 50 countries, set up an engineering centre in Moscow in 2016 and it is thought that up to 100 people are employed there.\n\nAfter Russia invaded Ukraine, many global IT firms suspended operations in the country, but Infosys has kept what it called \"a small team... based out of Russia that services some of our global clients\" until now.\n\n\"We do not have any active business relationships with local Russian enterprises,\" it added in a recent statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Infosys declined to comment on the decision to close the Moscow office or what its future involvement with companies operating in Russia would be.\n\nRishi Sunak says it is unfair that his wife has faced criticism over her Infosys shares\n\nMs Murty's shareholding of 0.9% of Infosys is estimated to be worth more than £400m.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Sunak has previously said neither she nor any members of her family \"have any involvement in the operational decisions of the company\".\n\nBut Labour and the Liberal Democrats have insisted the chancellor has questions to answer about whether his family benefits from the shareholding at a time when he is calling for UK businesses to divest from Russia.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Sky News it was \"in the public interest\" to do so.\n\nHe added: \"I'm not attacking their family but I do want to know if the chancellor's household is benefiting from money from a company that's investing in Russia when the government is saying quite rightly that nobody should be doing that.\"\n\nThe chancellor told Newscast that, being in public life, he was himself \"fair game\" for criticism, but it was \"very upsetting and, I think, wrong for people to try and come at my wife\".\n\nInfosys, which has offices in London, Edinburgh and Nottinghamshire, announced last year that it was hiring 1,000 extra staff in the UK.\n\nIndia's government, unlike the UK's, has not condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and did not vote against it at the United Nations Security Council.", "The wreckage of the plane which crashed into the new-build block of flats in Upper Heyford\n\nA plane has crashed into an empty block of flats near Bicester, Oxfordshire.\n\nThames Valley Police said it happened at about 12:00 BST on Saturday. The pilot has been taken to John Radcliffe Hospital, but the extent of his injuries is unknown.\n\nThe new-build block of flats off Camp Road, Upper Heyford, was unoccupied and officers said nobody else was hurt.\n\nAn eye witness described seeing the pilot parachuting down on to the old RAF base.\n\nTisa Kilby, 55, said she was out walking her dogs when she saw the light aircraft hit the building.\n\n\"I looked up and literally saw this guy leap out of this plane and thought, that's an odd place to be parachuting,\" she said.\n\n\"Within four or five seconds the plane nose-dived and crashed into the block of flats.\"\n\nMs Kilby said she had been told by police at the scene that the pilot had suffered life-changing injuries\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said the victim, an \"older gentleman\" was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has launched an investigation and inspectors have begun searches.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson has congratulated Volodymyr Zelensky on the successful push back of Russian forces from Kyiv.\n\nSpeaking with Ukraine's president, the UK prime minister also acknowledged the \"immense suffering being inflicted on civilians\", Downing Street said.\n\nUkraine says its military has retaken the entire region around the capital, as Russia has withdrawn from key towns.\n\nMr Johnson also updated Mr Zelensky on a recent military donor conference convened by the UK with 35 countries.\n\nSpeaking over the phone with the prime minister, the Ukrainian president gave an update on the steps towards peace negotiations and welcomed \"further UK involvement in these diplomatic efforts\", Downing Street said.\n\nAmong the areas abandoned by Russia around the capital is Hostomel airport, as well as key battleground towns around the capital of Irpin and Bucha.\n\nAs Moscow's forces retreat, evidence of civilian killings is mounting. In Bucha, at least 20 dead men's bodies in civilian clothes were found in a street.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said Mr Johnson \"congratulated Ukraine's brave armed forces\" for their success in pushing back the Russian army in some areas.\n\nBoth leaders agreed on the importance of \"continuing to ratchet up sanctions to increase the economic pressure\" on Russian President Vladimir Putin, as long as Russian troops remained on Ukrainian territory.\n\nMr Johnson also updated Mr Zelensky on the progress made at a military donor conference and \"committed to continue to step up defensive support\", the spokesperson added.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Zelensky described the UK as a \"powerful ally\" and added: \"We look forward to the donors' conference for Ukraine.\"", "The ex-governor has been an ardent supporter of former Republican president Donald Trump\n\nSarah Palin has announced a run for Alaska's only seat in the US House of Representatives, her first bid for political office in more than a decade.\n\n\"America is at a tipping point,\" Palin said. \"As I've watched the far left destroy the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight\".\n\nPalin made history in 2008 by becoming the first woman to appear on a national Republican ticket, as John McCain's vice presidential running mate.\n\nThe 58-year-old former governor of Alaska and fiery supporter of ex-President Donald Trump joins a field of about 40 candidates hoping to succeed Don Young, who died last month.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Palin appealed to conservative voters worried about illegal immigration and \"socialist\" policies enacted by the Democrats, as well as issues like high inflation and petrol prices.\n\nAfter losing out to the Obama-Biden ticket in 2008, Palin, a self described \"hockey mom\", became one of the most recognisable voices of the Republican Tea Party movement, and later starred in two reality television shows about her family.\n\nHer brand of combative conservatism and anti-establishment appeal has led many to consider her as the political precursor to Donald Trump, whose successful bid to become Republican president she supported in 2016.\n\nSince Mr Trump's 2020 election loss, Ms Palin has repeated the former president's unfounded claims that the election was tarnished by fraud.\n\nIn February this year Sarah Palin returned to the headlines when a New York City jury rejected her lawsuit against the New York Times newspaper, which she claimed had defamed her by linking her in an editorial article to a deadly shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A \"cartoonish figure\"? Nick Bryant explain Sarah Palin's rise to the top (almost)", "A small plane flying from the UK has vanished over the English Channel, prompting a search for debris.\n\nThe plane, thought to be a PA-28, went missing on a journey from Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, to Le Touquet, France, at around midday on Saturday.\n\nThe French Coastguard said the plane - which was carrying two people - was the subject of a \"worrying disappearance\".\n\nIt asked vessels travelling in the Channel to look out for debris. The search will resume on Sunday.\n\nTwo French aircraft and a boat were engaged in the search on Saturday, with a UK aircraft also attempting to trace the whereabouts of the missing plane.\n\nThe searches were suspended overnight and will resume on Sunday.\n\nThe small plane was on a journey between Wellesbourne and Le Touquet in northern France", "Millions of people will now feel the impact of an unprecedented £700-a-year rise in energy costs - at the same time as a host of bill hikes take effect.\n\nThe 54% rise in the energy price cap means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will now pay £1,971 per year.\n\nA further rise pushing the annual bill up to £2,600 should be expected in October, one analyst has told the BBC.\n\nCouncil tax, water bills and car tax are also going up for some on 1 April.\n\nMinimum wage rates are rising which, along with some financial support from the government, is partially softening the blow.\n\nThe £693 a year rise in a typical energy bill will affect 18 million households, with 4.5 million customers on prepayment meters facing an even bigger increase of £708 a year.\n\nAmong them is Winston Carrington, a grandfather in his 70s, who said he was growing vegetables in the garden of his Manchester home to help ease the impact of the rising cost of living.\n\nWinston Carrington is worried about covering his bills\n\n\"I'm going to grow, and I'm going to fill my freezer this year with my own produce. I'm going to have to,\" said Mr Carrington, who uses a prepayment meter.\n\n\"I can't go away this year again, not because of Covid or anything. I just can't afford to go away. The state pension that we're getting at the moment does not cover what I need.\"\n\nPrices in general are rising at their fastest rate for 30 years, but the sudden increase in the cost of energy is the most significant for individuals.\n\nNew official figures suggest four in 10 bill-payers have been finding it very, or somewhat, difficult to afford their energy costs.\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said the country is facing the biggest single shock from energy prices since the 1970s. It is the largest increase, by far, in the energy regulator Ofgem's price cap, since it was introduced.\n\nThe cap, set every six months for England. Wales and Scotland, is designed to protect domestic customers from the volatility of wholesale energy prices.\n\nHowever, official forecasters and analysts have warned people to be braced for another huge rise in energy bills when the next cap takes effect in October. Wholesale prices have been affected by the war in Ukraine and ongoing pressure on suppliers.\n\nThis could add another £629 to a typical bill in October, according to the most up-to-date prediction, provided to the BBC from leading energy consultancy firm Cornwall Insight.\n\nIf this proved to be accurate, then the average bill next winter would be double that of the winter just gone. A typical bill is expected to fall back to the current level in summer 2023, although longer-term forecasts are tricky.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story?\n\nBill Bullen, the boss of Utilita, warned that elderly people and children were at serious risk over the next winter because of a lack of heating.\n\n\"We are going to see an extra £500 or £600 added to bills in October, and frankly the chancellor's going to have to fund that entirely for low-income households,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"He won't be able to afford to take this problem away for everybody... but for customers who can't respond to that price [increase], that's where the help needs to be targeted.\"\n\nChris O'Shea, chief executive of Centrica, which owns the UK's largest supplier British Gas, said his business was supporting struggling customers and was giving grants to those most in need.\n\n\"We would love to do more. The reality is that for a retail energy company, the market has gone through quite a change, and profits have reduced quite substantially,\" he told the BBC's Big Green Money Show.\n\nHowever, he accepted that profits had risen sharply for the heavily taxed exploration arm of the business.\n\nCouncil taxes and water bills are also going up for many people, added to the rising cost of food and household items.\n\nOne estimate suggests that a typical consumer is now facing a £73 a month increase in bills, of which about £58 is from rising energy costs.\n\n\"The added cost pressures set to come into play in April threatens to obliterate even the most finely tuned budgets.\" said Myron Jobson, senior personal finance analyst at Interactive Investor.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said that low earners, renters, parents, people with disabilities, unemployed people and divorcees were least able to afford a bill shock.\n\nEven before the latest increases, charity Citizens Advice said that in March, it referred 24,752 people to food banks or to other charitable support, up by 44% compared to the same month last year.\n\nThe government has said it was taking \"decisive action\" to help people with the cost of living, including a £200 reduction to energy bills in October - which needs to be paid back in instalments, and a £150 reduction in council tax bills for 80% of billpayers.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour party, branded the government's response as \"pathetic\".\n\nHe accused the government of forcing people to choose between heating their homes or eating.\n\nHe said that the Labour party would introduce a one-off windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies and use the money to help households struggling to cope with rising energy bills.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC's Newscast: \"I'm confident in what we've done. I know it's tough for people. We're facing a very difficult situation with the price of things going up and I want to do what we can to ameliorate some of that, but I'm also honest with people that we can't ameliorate all of it, sadly.\"", "Russia has said it will not cut off gas exports to Europe yet in a standoff over its demand to be paid in roubles.\n\nRussian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Thursday stating buyers must pay in roubles through Russian bank accounts from Friday.\n\nThe Kremlin said this would not affect shipments which were already paid for, with payments for deliveries after 1 April due in mid-April at the earliest.\n\nThe country is seeking to shore up the rouble as Western sanctions bite.\n\n\"Does this mean that if there is no confirmation in roubles, then gas supplies will be cut off from 1 April? No, it doesn't, and it doesn't follow from the decree,\" Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nThe EU said it was talking to energy companies about how to pay for gas.\n\nDitte Juul Jorgensen, the director general of the European Commission energy directorate, tweeted that the EU was \"working closely with member states and operators... to establish a common approach on currency payments for gas contracts with Russia\".\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine Western nations have placed sanctions on Russian companies and individuals.\n\nUnlike the US and Canada, the EU has not placed bans on oil or gas, as its member nations are heavily reliant on it.\n\nRussia supplies the European Union (EU) with about 40% of its gas and a third of its oil imports which are mainly paid for in euros and dollars.\n\nThe EU has no easy substitutes if supplies are disrupted, but at the same time, Russia is making €400m (£340m) per day from gas sales to the bloc and it has very few options for rerouting this supply to other markets.\n\nMember states in the EU have been on alert for any disruption to Russian gas imports as tension continues between Russia and the West over the Ukraine invasion.\n\nOn Wednesday, Germany and Austria took the first steps towards gas rationing. Germany urged consumers and companies to reduce consumption in anticipation of possible shortages, while Austria said it was tightening its monitoring of the gas market.\n\nA crunch point appeared to be in the offing when Moscow issued a decree on Thursday requiring foreign buyers of Russian gas to open rouble accounts from Friday or else risk being cut-off.\n\nMoscow did, however, offer a mechanism for buyers to obtain roubles via the state-run Gazprombank.\n\nThe bank has escaped sanctions from the EU to allow energy trading to continue.\n\nThe UK has imposed sanctions on Gazprombank, but imports less than 5% of its gas from Russia.\n\nUK and Dutch wholesale gas prices fell on Friday after the announcement that Russian gas supplies would not be halted immediately.\n\nWestbound flows of Russian gas via major routes were steady on Friday.\n\nEuropean experts have said Mr Putin's decree is mainly aimed at shielding Russian energy giant Gazprom from future sanctions.\n\nIf Gazprombank collects the money, the EU could not sanction it without cutting gas.\n\n\"It amounts to a warning from Putin not to tighten financial sanctions further,\" said Jeffrey Schott of the Peterson Institute of International Economics think tank.\n\nJack Sharples of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies said: \"What sounded grandiose has turned into a storm in a teacup.\n\n\"By making it the main recipient of money for gas, it puts an extra shield against sanctions around Gazprombank.\"\n\nOne European official said that he believed Mr Putin had demanded the switch to rouble payments to test who would go along with it, but no-one did.\n\n\"After the pushback, he is trying to find a system where he could claim that he had won, while in fact something close to the status quo is continuing,\" the official said.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nEngland could face Scotland or Wales at the Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 after the draw for the tournament's finals was made on Friday.\n\nOne of Wales, Scotland or Ukraine will go into Group B after the remaining European play-off path is completed.\n\nIran and the USA have also been drawn in England's group.\n\nThe World Cup takes place between 21 November and 18 December in Qatar, with Senegal playing the Netherlands in the tournament's opening game.\n\nEngland's first fixture, taking place on the same day, sees them take on Iran. The two sides have never met in a senior men's competitive international.\n\nThe game will take place eight days after the Premier League begins a six-week break.\n• None Ten things to look out for after World Cup draw\n• None What can fans expect at the Qatar World Cup?\n\nReigning champions France are in Group D while Brazil, who returned to number one in the Fifa world rankings on 31 March, are in Group G.\n\nWales, seeking to reach their first World Cup since 1958, will have to overcome the winners of Scotland and Ukraine in the play-off final in June.\n\nHowever, that semi-final - which had been scheduled to take place on 24 March at Hampden - was postponed because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAfter playing Iran on 21 November, England play the USA on 25 November before finishing their Group B campaign on 29 November against one of Scotland, Wales or Ukraine.\n\nThe winner of the remaining European play-off will open their World Cup campaign against the USA on the first day of the tournament.\n\nShould Scotland progress they will play England at a World Cup finals for the first time. The two sides met at last summer's Euro 2020 tournament with the game ending goalless.\n\nWales and England have never met at a World Cup finals either. England won 2-1 when the sides met in the group stage at Euro 2016.\n\n\"We've got to get out of the group,\" said England boss Gareth Southgate. \"Out first objective is to get out of the group and then we build from there.\n• None A guide to the eight World Cup stadiums in Qatar\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Qatar 2022 - can football be a catalyst for change?\n\n\"When you're seeded you get the advantage of missing out on those big six or seven teams. Most of the first seeds would be pleased with the group they get.\n\n\"The USA are an interesting one. They've got some very good players and we know what they could be capable of, so that one in particular is an intriguing one.\"\n\nThe winner of England's group could meet world champions France in the quarter-finals.\n\nTopping Group B means a last-16 game with the runners up in Group A, which contains the Netherlands, Ecuador, Senegal and hosts Qatar.\n\nShould France top Group D they will face the runners-up in Group C, which features Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Poland.\n\nWhat else stands out?\n\nGroup E sees former world champions Spain and Germany drawn together. They will meet in their second group game on 27 November.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo's Portugal are in Group H, which also sees Ghana and Uruguay meet in a rematch of the controversial 2010 World Cup quarter-final tie.\n\nIn that game, Luis Suarez handled on the line to deny the Ghanaians a winner in the last minute of extra time.\n\nMeanwhile, Lionel Messi and Argentina are in Group C with Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Robert Lewandowski's Poland.\n\n'England can have no complaints'\n\nEngland will understandably make all the right noises about just how difficult their World Cup group in Qatar will be, but no-one can deny it could have been a lot more difficult for Gareth Southgate's side.\n\nFor all the unpredictability of the World Cup, as demonstrated frequently over the years, England will have no complaints whatsoever, given what they could have been presented with.\n\nThe United States will call on history - they beat England in the 1950 World Cup and drew in South Africa in 2010 - but reality insists they will be huge underdogs, even if they have a very respectable Fifa ranking of 15th.\n\nEngland open against Iran and face what might well be their toughest challenge in the final game when they will meet either Wales, Scotland or Ukraine.\n\nEach of those potential fixtures will have its own emotional currency, as demonstrated by passionate, tightly contested games with Wales and Scotland at Euro 2016 and Euro 2020 respectively. England only saw off Wales with a last-minute winner from Daniel Sturridge in France, while the improving Scots got a fully deserved draw at Wembley last summer.\n\nUkraine, meanwhile, will have support from around the globe, as well as talent in their side - but, make no mistake, England will be quietly satisfied with what the draw has thrown their way, in the group stage at least.\n\n'We can look ahead with optimism' - Wales & Scotland reaction\n\nFormer Wales captain Ashley Williams on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We were the most successful Wales squad, getting to the Euro 2016 semi-finals, but we didn't get to a World Cup. Just getting there would be a box ticked for Wales. If they manage to get there you're feeling a bit like we have a good chance.\n\n\"Let's not get carried away but we can look at it with some optimism. There could have been a worse group.\"\n\nFormer Scotland forward James McFadden: \"Scotland are in a really good place at the minute.\n\n\"The performance at Wembley in the Euros was really good and we got slaughtered for celebrating a 0-0 draw, but it was a great performance and showed the potential of the young team.\n\n\"Now we have a strong squad and optimism we can get the job done. The response from the players and manager [since the Euros] has been outstanding.\"\n\nWhy don't we know all the teams?\n\nUsually all the teams would be known before the World Cup draw but this year three positions are yet to be decided for two reasons.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine delayed the European play-off, while the coronavirus pandemic accounts for the other delays.\n\nTwo intercontinental finals will be played in Qatar on 13 and 14 June. Costa Rica and New Zealand meet in one and in the other Peru will play the winner of the United Arab Emirates v Australia, who meet in the Asian play-off in Doha on 7 June.\n\nThose games were moved from March because of knock-on effects of the Covid pandemic in each continent. All the Oceania qualifiers were played from 17-30 March in a mini-tournament in Qatar.\n\nWho won't be at the World Cup?\n\nEuropean champions Italy are the most notable absentees after their play-off defeat by North Macedonia, although they did also miss out on the last World Cup.\n\nRussia also miss out after being disqualified from the play-offs following their country's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nNorway failed to qualify, meaning Borussia Dortmund goal machine Erling Braut Haaland will have to wait for his major tournament debut.\n\nMohamed Salah and Egypt will not be there either after losing to Senegal on penalties.\n\nNigeria, Algeria and Ivory Coast are also missing from Africa, while South American World Cup regulars Colombia and Chile also failed to qualify.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Fire engulfs a market in Hargeisa the capital city of Somaliland\n\nResidents of the capital of Somaliland, Hargeisa, have woken to scenes of devastation after fire tore through the main market overnight.\n\nThe blaze destroyed hundreds of businesses in the densely crowded market area as firefighters struggled to gain access to the flames.\n\nBut it appears that nobody was killed though 28 people were injured.\n\nThe blaze is a setback for the city of 1.2 million people, capital of the unrecognised Republic of Somaliland.\n\nSomaliland, which broke away from Somalia just over 30 years ago, has escaped much of the chaos and violence that plague its neighbour.\n\nThe fire started around 20:00 (17:00 GMT) on Friday and was not brought under control until Saturday morning, Efe news agency reports. The cause was not immediately known.\n\n\"The town has never witnessed such a massive calamity,\" the city's mayor Abdikarim Ahmed Moge told reporters.\n\n\"This place was the economic centre of Hargeisa and even though the firefighters did their best to contain the fire, the market is destroyed.\"\n\nThe market - the biggest open-air market in the city - was a hub of activity with hundreds of small businesses.\n\nSomaliland has a high rate of unemployment and the market was a lifeline for many poor families who depended on it to make a living. The fire happened just a few hours after the month of Ramadan began, when food business traditionally booms.\n\nSomaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi said the fire had destroyed goods worth millions of dollars.\n\nResponding to news of the disaster in the former British protectorate, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted he was \"saddened to see... such destruction in the open market that is the economic heart of the city\".\n\n\"Your city will rise again and the UK will do what we can to support Somaliland's rebuilding effort,\" he added.\n\nMarket trader Bashi Ali told AFP news agency he had possessed several businesses in the market and they had all been burnt to ash. \"All we can learn from this disaster is to plan the market well,\" he said.\n\nDramatic photos of the aftermath of the blaze were posted by journalist Fahad Karie\n\nThe market used to be home to about 2,000 shops and stalls\n\nOfficials said it started on Friday but was largely brought under control by dawn on Saturday", "Conservative MP David Warburton has been suspended from the parliamentary party pending an investigation into allegations about his conduct.\n\nThe claims about Mr Warburton, who sits on the backbenches, are being examined by Parliament's Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS).\n\nConservative sources have told the BBC that three allegations of sexual harassment are being investigated.\n\nMr Warburton has been MP for Somerton and Frome since 2015.\n\nA spokesperson for the Whips Office said the party whip had been removed while the investigation was ongoing.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that three women have complained about Mr Warburton's conduct.\n\nThe newspaper also reported allegations that Mr Warburton had taken cocaine, and that he had failed to declare a £100,000 loan - taken out in 2017, and since repaid - from a Russian businessman.\n\nMr Warburton hasn't responded to a BBC request to comment on the allegations.\n\nHowever he did tell the Sunday 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