as the body of nicola bulley is finally identified, her family criticise sections of the uk media. and real treasure from cambodia dating back a thousand years or more surfaces in london. hello and welcome to the programme. president biden has arrived in poland after an extraordinary visit to an active war zone on monday. jo 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 dollars 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. 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 w
and real treasure from cambodia, dating back 1,000 years or more, surfaces in london. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. 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 editorjeremy 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 krem
that the body found in the river is nicola bulley who went missing last month. fractious scenes in israel s parliament, where members are debating a controversial overhaul of the country s judiciary. we begin in ukraine where us presidentjoe biden has made a surprise visit to kyiv his first trip since russia invaded almost a year ago. speaking alongside president zelensky, mr biden said that russia s war in ukraine is failing and that vladimir putin had been wrong to think russia could outlast ukraine and its allies. putin thought ukraine was weak and the west was divided. as you know, mr. president, i said to you in the beginning, he is counting on us not sticking together. he was counting on the inability to keep nato united, he was counting on us not to be able to bring in others on the side of ukraine. he thought he could outlast us. but he is just been plain wrong. one year later, the evidence is right here in this room. we stand here together. president biden took a
a british citizen, latchford died in 2020 as he was awaiting trial in the us. latchford s family agreed to return his stolen collection but the authorities didn t know what would be handed over. brad gordon, the head of the investigation team, was the first to see the jewellery. i was driven by a representative of the latchford family to an undisclosed location. there was a vehicle, the door was opened and inside were four boxes of cambodia was my greatest treasures. ifelt like cambodia was my greatest treasures. i felt like crying, ijust treasures. i felt like crying, i just thought, treasures. i felt like crying, ijust thought, wow, the crown jewels of the cambodian ancient civilisation had ended up here in the uk, and it was all packed up infour in the uk, and it was all packed up in four boxes in the back of a car.
location. there was a vehicle, the door was opened and inside were four boxes of cambodia s greatest treasures. i felt like crying. iwas. ijust thought, wow, the crown jewels of the cambodian.ancient civilisation had ended up here in the uk, and it was all packed up in four boxes in the back of a car. last year, we went to cambodia to meet looters turned government witnesses. they have identified items they say they stole from temples and sold to latchford and his network, items investigators have traced to uk institutions like the british museum and the v&a. cambodians want all their stolen items back, including the country s authoritarian leader hun sen. in elections coming up injuly, the jewellery s return will be