and a triumphant ukraine wins the eurovision song contest after claiming the popular vote in italy. hello and welcome to bbc news. we begin this hour in the united states. an 18 year old man has appeared in court charged with murder, after ten people were killed in a shooting at a supermarket in the city of buffalo, in new york state. three others were wounded. of the 13 people shot, 11 were black. police said the gunman, payton gendron, livestreamed the killings. he s suspected of being a white supremacist. nada tawfik reports from new york. a busy grocery store in a predominantly black community. this was the shooter s intended target. the horror started immediately in the parking lot as the gunman emerged from his car, heavily armed and wearing tactical gear he shot four people, killing three of them. to eyewitnesses it was clear he came to do maximum damage. when i first saw him shooting, he shot a woman, he shot a deacon, he shot another woman, and then he went in the
lebanon holds parliamentary elections for the first time since an economic collapse sparked widespread anger against the political elite. and a triumphant ukraine wins the eurovision song contest after claiming the popular vote in italy. hello and welcome to bbc news. an eighteen year old man has appeared in court charged with murder, after ten people were killed in a shooting at a supermarket in the city of buffalo, in new york state. three others were wounded. of the thirteen people shot, eleven were black. police said the gunman, payton gendron, livestreamed the killings. he s suspected of being a white supremacist. nada tawfik reports from new york. a busy grocery store in a predominantly black community. this was the shooter s intended target. the horror started immediately in the parking lot as the gunman emerged from his car, heavily armed and wearing tactical gear he shot four people, killing three of them. to eyewitnesses it was clear he came to do maximum damage.
elections for the first time since an economic collapse sparked widespread anger against the political elite. and a triumphant ukraine wins the eurovision song contest after claiming the popular vote in italy. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we are going to go to bbc pick is live now, breaking news in berlin. this is at the foreign ministers meeting. this is actually in helsinki. trying to smooth over the problems on the finish declaration of membership of nato, its desire to join nato. this is the scene in helsinki at the moment where government ministers are outlining the proposals. we are expecting that what we have been waiting as announcement, finland will be joining. to discuss why the finns were going tojoin nato, the suggestion is sweden will make a decision on that. the swedish labour party reaching their decision on their policy position later today, we think. this is the scene in helsinki. we are expecting a formal application fr
elections for the first time since an economic collapse sparked widespread anger against the political elite. and a triumphant ukraine wins the eurovision song contest after claiming the popular vote in italy. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. within the past hour, finland has formally announced that it s abandoning decades of neturality, to apply for membership of nato. the decision, in direct response to russia s attack on ukraine, will still need to be approved by finland s parliament. it comes as nato s foreign ministers hold a second day of talks in berlin, which they hope will smooth the way for finland and sweden to join the alliance. turkey has voiced misgivings about their membership, accusing them of sheltering kurdish militants, but other member states hope they can secure ankara s approval. let s listen to the announcement made by finland s pm sanna marin. we have reached today an important decision including cooperation between t
and coming up a full lunar eclipse, giving people the chance to see what s known as a super blood moon. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. finland and sweden have abandoned their military non alignment and announced their intention tojoin nato in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. the alliance s secretary general jens stoltenberg has described the move as historic while president putin, talking of finland, described the plan as a mistake . nato, the north atlantic treaty organization, is a military alliance which was formed in 1949 by 12 countries including the us, the uk, canada and france. after the soviet union s collapse in 1991, many former eastern bloc countriesjoined nato. finland which has a border of more than 1,300 kilometre russia and sweden want to join now. nato foreign ministers, who have been meeting in berlin, said they wanted a rapid accession because of the ukrainian crisis. our europe correspondent, nick