heavy rain. two brothers from pakistan who were held in the us military prison at guantanamo bay for nearly 20 years are released without charge. and roald dahl s multimillion selling children s books are to be printed in their original form after a backlash against editing them for modern audiences. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has ruled out sending f 16fighterjets to ukraine, saying the planes are not needed for now. it comes despite increased pressure from ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky for urgent air support to help protect its skies from russian attacks. president zelensky has marked the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine by hailing his nation s year of invincibility . james waterhouse reports from kyiv on how the first anniversary was marked. the morning, wore rained down on ukraine. war. air raid siren wails a shadow with haunting consequences. the once unthinkable playing out as the world on.
in other news, large parts of southern california are struck by record breaking blizzards and freezing temperatures. you can see the hollywood sign, which i can assure you is behind me, for miles around, but today it is blanketed by a wall of fog, and dense and very heavy rain. and roald dahl s multi million selling childrens books are to be printed in their original form, after a backlash against editing them for modern audiences. hello there, and a very warm welcome to the programme. president biden has ruled out sending f 16fighterjets to ukraine, saying the planes are not needed, for now. it comes despite increased pressure from ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky for urgent air support, to help protect its skies from russian attacks. president zelensky has marked the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine by hailing his nation s year of invincibility . james waterhouse reports from kyiv on how the first anniversary was marked. the morning war rained down
of political times past, so too was the speech at a global power conference by his former boss, borisjohnson, part of which was shown live on the news channel on thursday. nothing and no one will stop me reciting the song. of the oompa loompas about augustus gloop, which you all remember. # augustus gloop. # the great big greedy nincompoop. that made me weep with laughter as a child. and frankly, i d be very surprised if anybody at cis in vauxhall behaved towards their secretaries as bond behaved towards moneypenny. but that doesn t mean we should be banned from reading fleming s novels. not everyone welcomed the reappearance of the former prime minister, with janet edwards asking. we mentioned a couple of weeks ago complaints about hugh edwards and reeta chakrabarti travelling from london to edinburgh to present news bulletins on the day of nicola sturgeon s resignation, and that this practice of flying news anchors out on location was a regular source of irritation. so regu
and wednesday have been suspended after three of the four unions representing ambulance workers agreed to talks with the government. you re watching bbc news. now its time for the travel show. we start this week in brixton, a part of south london that s become the go to for caribbean british culture, from food to fashion and art. but it hasn t always been like this. after the second world war, britain was decimated, and so thousands of people from commonwealth countries were invited here to fulfil labour shortages. so, i m here in windrush square, which was named after one of the first ships to bring almost 1,000 people from the west indies to britain. now, the boat became a symbol for a generation of people who settled here from 19118 to 1971. and this year is a pretty important one for britain, as it marks the 75th anniversary of the boat s first arrival. some of the new arrivals were temporarily housed in clapham, but many found accommodation in nearby brixton after travel
declared dead. and the medical breakthrough that could help stroke victims regain control of parts of their body. president biden has arrived in poland after an extraordinary visit, to an active war zone on monday. joe biden s unannounced and surprise trip to kyiv was short on time, but long on symbolism, ahead of the first anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine. he said america would stand with ukraine for as long as it takes and pledged another $500 million of military aid. speaking while air raid sirens were going off, president biden added that vladimir putin s war of conquest was failing. our international editor, jeremy bowen has this report. (air-raid siren wails) the air raid alarm, as the two presidents arrived at st michael s church, where ukraine commemorates its war dead, felt too well timed to be a coincidence. with unprecedented security in kyiv, the americans had warned the kremlin that joe biden was coming. he had just arrived from a long trainjourney