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
things that were £1 are now £1.10. it adds to the panic as well and you are just thinking, how am i going to get through this month? the average price of petrol reaches a record high amid new sanctions on russian oil. one week after the school shooting in texas, sir andy murray, who survived the dunblane massacre as a child, calls for changes to america s gun laws. surely at some stage you do something different, like, you can t keep approaching the problem, you know, by buying more guns and having more guns in the country. another senior conservative mp dame andrea leadsome blames the prime minister for lockdown parties in downing street. and customers from all over the world flock to a chippy in coventry that s become a social media sensation. and coming up on the bbc news channel. liverpool have demanded an apology from the french sports minister following comments suggesting fans were to blame for problems at the champions final on saturday. good afternoon, and
we start with the war in ukraine. we ll look at what s happening on the ground in a moment. first to sanctions. eu leaders have finally agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. it will affect oil that arrives by sea. that s around two thirds of imports. this is the second day of the summit. we know that the eu has been trying to work out a way to ban russian oil imports for months. we ll get into why it s been so complicated in a minute. first, this is the president of the european commission. we decided then to have a ban now on de facto 90% russian oil imports of russian oil imports to the european union by the end of the year. and this comes at a time when we see that russia has disrupted supplies to, by now, five member states finland, bulgaria and poland but now to a company in the netherlands and a company in denmark. that message was echoed by the ukrainian foreign ministry. they said. let s look at the bigger picture. russia currently supplies about 27%