hello, and welcome to the programme. a major meeting of ukraine s allies has ended without agreement on whether to send more tanks to kyiv. representatives of around 50 countries gathered at the us airbase in ramstein, in germany, to discuss co ordinating military support. germany s new defence minister denied blocking the export of its leopard tanks, which kyiv has been pushing for, saying such a decision had to be carefully considered. ukraine says the tanks are needed to break the deadlock in the war. germany is under pressure to allow its leopard ii tanks, to be exported to ukraine, which isn t a member of nato. germany s new defence minister has said no decision has been made, adding that berlin would not stand in the way of exports if its allies acted together. the uk has commited to sending 1a challenger ii tanks to the front line. russia has warned that providing tanks would mark an extremely dangerous escalation. here s our europe correspondentjessica parker. this
their disbelief after new zealand s prime minister announces she s stepping down. and the harrowing anti war epic all quiet on the western front leads the nominations for this year s british academy film awards. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 3pm in los angeles where we begin our programme with the news that the hollywood actor alec baldwin is to be charged with the involuntary manslaughter of the cinematographer halyna hutchins, who was shot dead on the set of the film rust. 4pm in los angeles. the film s armourer who was responsible for the weapon will face the same charge after a gun that the actor discharged on set was found to contain live ammunition. sophie long has the latest from los angeles. the frantic efforts to save halyna hutchins in the moments after she was shot. it was during rehearsals on the set at the bonanza creek ranch in new mexico when the shootings and deaths depicted on the 19th c
to ensure that afghan women continue work with aid agencies hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us despite a ban by the taliban. yet hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. we start with some breaking news here in the uk prime minister rishi sunak has been issued with a fixed penalty notice by police for not wearing a seat belt in a moving car. mr sunak had previously apologised for what he called the brief error ofjudgement in a social media video as he carried out a series of visits in the north of england on thursday. tonight, lancashire police said it had issued a 42 year old man in london with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty. our political correspondent, david wallis lockhart, told me more about the background to the story. rishi sunak was going across the north of england because he was announcing levelling up funding. government funding that was going to specific p
she believes progress is being made towards reversing bans on women taking part in public life in afghanistan. anti abortion activists rally in washington for the fiftieth annual march for life , calling for further restrictions on termination of pregnancies. we start with some breaking news here in the uk prime minister rishi sunak has been issued with a fixed penalty notice by police for not wearing a seat belt in a moving car. mr sunak had previously apologised for what he called the brief error ofjudgement in a social media video as he carried out a series of visits in the north of england on thursday. tonight, lancashire police said it had issued a 42yearold man in london with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty. our political correspondent, david wallis lockhart, told me more about the background to the story. so of course rishi sunak was yesterday going across the north of england because he was announcing levelling up funding. so essentially government funding t
facts, truth, and justice. that is who won today. also coming up in this hour of newsday. ambulance staff and nurses in england and wales will strike on the same day next month in the health service s biggest walk out of the current dispute. and another day gets underway at the australian open, but defending champion rafael nadal heads home after his dramatic second round exit. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 2am in ukraine where the government says it s suffered its biggest loss of the war, when the three principalfigures in the interior ministry were killed after their helicopter crashed in kyiv. interior minister denys monastyrskiy died with his deputy and the department s state secretary, along with the crew, when the aircraft came down in bad weather in brovary, a suburb of the capital. the crash set fire to a children s nursery. at least 1a people died, including one child. our ukraine c