in praia da luz, the long running search has resumed, with police digging near the arade dam, just 50 kilometres away from where she went missing. also tonight the disgraced entertainer rolf harris has died aged 93. we ll talk to a reporter that sat through every day of his sexual assault trial. we will also speak to the chief rabbi of ukraine about the impact of russia s invasion and what he s doing to support people across the county. but first, we start with that news that the former british prime minister borisjohnson has been referred to police over new allegations he broke lockdown rules during the covid pandemic. the information was passed to police by the government s cabinet office. it s being reported that the referral is to two police forces based on recently discovered information. it should be stressed at this stage, police are investigating, and no breach of the rules has been confirmed. live now to our uk political correspondentjonathan blake. hi there. this is
where, in the bbc radio theatre in central london, we are going to bring together newscast, for, like, a massive, mammoth, it s going to be amazing and hopefully, you re going to be there! i did know about this, ijust didn t know when it was. i think it was probably in this thing somewhere, but it wasn t impressed upon my mind that it was the 18th of. was it the 18th?! 18th of.? this is good marketing, though, over and over again, which is what you re meant to do in an advert, which is good. alex, i don t know if you have the same issue as i ve had a few times and actually, she keeps reading it as catsfest . it does look like catsfest! is that like a really bad happening? interesting you went for the musical i went for the animal! i went for a giant, i mean, that could be a spin off pets podcast. what could you call it? catsfest? no, catscast! newscats! oh, no, we had anyway, the basic is on the 18th of october, of our social medias or go you will find the details and yo
italy s political parties have been holding their final campaign rallies ahead of sunday s parliamentary election. giorgia meloni s right wing brothers of italy party now on bbc news, it s newscast. chris, what are you doing on the 18th of october? the 18th of october? what day of the week is that? i know they say a week is a long time in politics a month must be a lot for you. exactly! i can t even think about the labour conference, which starts this weekend. it seems an eternity away, so the 18th of october, i have no idea. you tell me what am i doing, adam? you have got a diary invite on your phone calendar for castfest the first inaugural castfest where in the bbc radio theatre in central london we are going to bring together newscast, ukrainecast and americast fora massive, mammoth, live podcasting recording. it s going to be amazing, and hopefully you re going to be there. i did know about this, i just didn t know when it was. i think it was probably in this t
there s always talk about it being so unpolitical but ijust don t see how it is. tonight with the context, lord bilimoria president of the confederation of british industry and founder of cobra beer and ron christie former senior advisor to president george w bush. welcome to the programme. after weeks of dicussions, eu leaders have agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. the plan is expected to affect up to 90% of russian oil imports by the end of the year. it will only affect oil that arrives by sea that s around two thirds of imports. but not pipeline oil, following strong opposition from hungary. first, this is the eu s foreign policy chief. we were in versaille bursae a few weeks ago, not many observers would ve thought it would ve been possible for us only in a few weeks to take such a concrete and historic decision. we have decided to sanction russia by banning russian oil, this is extremely important and we will succeed in the following months to i