russia is preparing for a major ukrainian offensive, with vast defenses set up in key areas in the south of the country, including crimea. we ll have all the details from our new bbc verify team it s been investigating. also on the programme. we will bring you the latest updates on the search for madeleine mccann, who disappeared in southern portugal in 2007. police are to search around a reservoir near where the british three year old girl went missing. and we ll look at the political headaches that greeted joe biden and rishi sunak on their return from the g7 leaders summit injapan. the prime minister has met with his ethics adviser over what to do about suella braverman. the home secretary was caught speeding in 2022 and asked the civil service for advice on arranging a private speed awareness course. she says she s confident nothing untoward happened . meanwhile, president biden returns to the negotiating table in washington for talks with the republican house speaker
qatari world cup in paris world cup and ballast ambassador who is cold homosexuality and damage in the mind. the petrol actor leslie phillips, star of the carry on films, has died at the age of 98. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. many headteachers in england say they may have to cut the number of teaching staff because of pressure on their budgets. a survey by the headteachers union found two thirds of its members said they ll have to make teaching assistants redundant or cut their hours. the government says it is giving schools an extra four billion pounds in funding this year. here s our education editor, branwen jeffreys. it s all go for these four and five year olds, learning through new experiences. but making the sums add up is getting harder. some teaching assistants have left and not been replaced. that s because the bills are going up. we are tightening our belts and it gets to a point where, how much more can you tighten? we are shopping around as mu
the prince was taken to london aged 7 along with what became known as the largest haul of looted artefacts in the country s history. he died at 18 and was buried in catacombs next to st george s chapel in windsor. our ethiopia correspondent, kalkidan yibeltal, reports. an ethiopian prince taken to europe in the 19th century by british soldiers after his father s army was crushed. his life was short and tragic, forced to live in an alien culture, far removed from his own. but he had the favours of queen victoria, and when he died, he was buried in windsor castle. more than 150 years later, his relatives are on a mission to bring his remains back to his country. translation: i feel sad for him. he was separated from his mother,
in the 19th century. prince alemayehu, the son of one of the country s most prominent rulers, was taken to britain at the age of seven. 0ur ethiopia correspondent kalkidan yibeltal has this report. this is alemayehu, an ethiopian prince taken to europe in the 19th century by british soldiers after his father s army was crushed. his life was short and tragic. forced to live in an alien culture far removed from his own. but he had the favours of queen victoria. and when he died, he was buried in windsor castle. more than 150 years later, his relatives are on a mission to bring his remains back to his country. translation:. but i feel sad for him. he was separated from his mother, his father and his country at once. his mother died soon, and he was left alone. ifeel for him as if i knew him. he was disjointed from ethiopia,