in ukraine anymore. political uncertainty in italy after the prime minister, offers his resignation but the president refuses to accept it. and ivana trump, donald trump s first wife and the mother of three of his children, has died, aged 73. hello and welcome to the programme. celebrations have been taking place in sri lanka after gotabaya rajapaksa became the country s first sitting president to quit. he did so after months of angry protests over the rapidly rising cost of living, and shortages of food and fuel. the delay in handing over his letter of resignation was, it seems, to do with his flight from the maldives to singapore. from colombo, rajini vaidyanathan reports. music. a moment to savour, after months of struggle. now there s joy. these demonstrators had one key demand, that the man they blame for their economic woes resign. tonight, president gotabaya rajapaksa did. protesters say they are celebrating what represents a victory for people power. it s the end of t
ukraine anymore. political uncertainty in italy, after the prime minister, offers his resignation but the president refuses to accept it. and ivana trump, donald trump s first wife and the mother of three of his children, has died, aged 73. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe celebrations have been taking place in sri lanka after gotabaya rajapaksa became the country s first sitting president to quit. he did so after months of angry protests over the rapidly rising cost of living, and shortages of food and fuel. the delay in handing over his letter of resignation was, it seems, to do with his flight from the maldives to singapore. from colombo, rajini vaidyanathan reports. music. a moment to savour, after months of struggle. now there s joy. these demonstrators had one key demand, that the man they blame for their economic woes resign. tonight, president gotabaya rajapaksa did. protesters say they are celebrating what represents a victory for people
my guest is meaza ashenafi, the first woman to be appointed chiefjustice of the federal supreme court of ethiopia. now there is hope of making progress in the peace talks taking place, but will there be justice for the victims of war? chiefjustice meaza ashenafi in abbas ababa, welcome to hardtalk. look, you ve got violence across many parts of ethiopia, you ve got an acute food crisis as well, which means that 30 million of the country s 100 million population are in urgent need of help. this is a tough time for you to be a senior official in ethiopia. you are absolutely correct, zeinab, and this government and the people of this country have embarked on a very promising transition. but unfortunately we re facing the harsh realities that you havejust mentioned, and this has been a combination of conflict, drought, and other gross violations of human rights. and, yeah, it is a reality, but i am hopeful that we will come out of this difficult situation. what gives you cause to
indescribably sad. 14 little kids and one of their teachers are dead in texas, and countless more are traumatized after yet another mass shooting. this one at robb elementry, an elementary school. the school is nrlt uvalde county texas, 58 miles west of san antonio. texas governor abbott identified the shooter as an 18-year-old uvalde res den. he shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensively 14 students and a teacher. in addition to that, it has been reported that the subject shut his grandmother right before he went into the school, and there is i have no further information about the connection between those two shootings, and the subject is reported to be a student to have been a student at uvalde high school. he added that the shooter abandoned his vehicle and entered robb elementary with a handgun and possibly a second firearm. abbott added that the shooter was likely killed by responding officers but the events are still being investigated. it is unclear wh
Maybe not today. I might opt out of that. The weather is not that exciting. If youre stuck underneath this area of cloud you probably wish it would dance. Many areas grey and rizzoli. That is not moving anywhere fast. Away from those areas, chances of sunshine. Some sunny spells for northern ireland. It will turn murky and drizzly. We will lose the rain from the south. Tomorrow, we will still have cloud around in the north and east. The odd spot of drizzle. The best of the sunshine in the south west. That is where we will have the best of the temperatures were some areas up to 18, and 19. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines. Labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn is urging Party Activists to dust themselves down and take the fight to the tories, after suffering heavy losses in the local elections. Theresa may has sought to play down talk of a landslide General Election victory. The Liberal Democrats say they would put a penny in the pound on income tax to generate billions more for the nhs and