and dubbed the next david attenborough, a conservationist kid meets one of his biggest heros. hello and welcome to bbc news. teachers are calling for more children in england to be urgently given free school meals in order to support families struggling with the cost of living. they say the programme should be expanded to include all families who receive universal credit. in a letter to ministers, uniions are warning that more than two and a half million children live in households that miss meals or struggle to access healthy food and insist now is the right moment to act. alice key reports. lunch is served at this half term holiday club in stockport. staff here are responsible for keeping 20 children a day fed and entertained. but as rising prices start to hit parents pockets, there are fears that without more support, children could go hungry. we know that a lot of the families who come here are living in food poverty. and have certainly been impacted since the cost o
problems for the nhs that s according to patients groups. the mayor of paris has apologised to liverpool fans for the chaos at saturday nights champions league final. bradford is named the 2025 city of culture bids from 20 of the cities to secure the title. konoplyanka, the once humble chippy in coventry that is now a tick tock sensation. hello welcome to bbc news. the transport secretary has demanded a meeting to go fight out what s going on at uk airports. meeting to go fight out what s going on at uk airports. the prospect of serious travel disruption over thejubilee bank holiday affecting thousands of travellers is increasingly likely. the holiday giant tui is cancelling more flights until the end ofjune affecting more than 30,000 holiday makers. other airlines have also cancelled flights as around two million people prepare to fly over the next few days. four days of holiday begin on thursday. four days of holiday begin on thursday. the aviation industry cut tho
can the eu agree on a ban on russian oil? it s not looking hopeful. eu leaders meet again to see what might be done. resistance, notably from hungary, has held up the eu s troubled sixth lot of sanctions. 0ther landlocked countries, such as slovakia and the czech republic, have also asked for more time, due to their dependence on russian oil. bulgaria, already cut off from russian gas by gazprom, has likewise asked for opt outs. but prime minister viktor 0rban s hungarian government, which has compared an oil ban to dropping a nuclear bomb on its economy, is seen as the ultimate obstacle. he wrote to the european council to say he didn t even want to be discussed. joining me now is dr adi imsirovic, senior research fellow, the oxford institute for energy studies. sir, you ve worked in the industry for 30 years. this weekend, the eu chief ursula von der leyen said there was a need to think strategically about how the eu approaches the topic of russian oil. she had previously i
children and two teachers shot dead by a teenage gunman in texas. another day of travel disruption. waits of six hours reported for ferries at dover and hundreds of flights cancelled at some uk airports. and one of the greatest jockeys of all time lester piggott has died aged 86. we start in ukraine where, in a gesture of defiance directed at russia president zelensky has made a rare trip to visit his troops on the front line in the east of the country. he went to kharkiv, close to the russian border, an area once again under attack. mr zelensky described the situation in some parts particularly serevodonetsk as indescribably difficult for the ukrainian army. it s the first time since the start of the war that the president has ventured to the devastated eastern region, as our correspondent caroline hawley reports. with heavy artillery, russian forces are continuing to pound ukrainian positions in a war that s taking more lives every day. with all this firepower