russia is preparing for a major ukrainian offensive, with vast defenses set up in key areas in the south of the country, including crimea. we ll have all the details from our new bbc verify team it s been investigating. also on the programme. we will bring you the latest updates on the search for madeleine mccann, who disappeared in southern portugal in 2007. police are to search around a reservoir near where the british three year old girl went missing. and we ll look at the political headaches that greeted joe biden and rishi sunak on their return from the g7 leaders summit injapan. the prime minister has met with his ethics adviser over what to do about suella braverman. the home secretary was caught speeding in 2022 and asked the civil service for advice on arranging a private speed awareness course. she says she s confident nothing untoward happened . meanwhile, president biden returns to the negotiating table in washington for talks with the republican house speaker
fascinating to talk to you. thanks, then. we will talk about that a little more in the programme. but also developing tonight. police in portugal are investigating a new lead in the disappearance of madeleine mccann the british three year old who disappeared while on a family holiday in southern portugal. specialist teams will carry out a search of a reservoir. parts of the area have already been cordoned off with what appear to be forensic tents set up. it s not yet clear if the search will concentrate on the land around the reservoir or the water itself. it follows a request by police in germany, who have tracked the movements of this man, christian bruckner, back in 2007. he s the german national who was made a formal suspect by portugese police last year. he s denied any involvement and has never been charged in connection with the incident. he s known to have been in portugal s southern algarve region when the mccanns were on holiday there. they say their daughter went missing f
covid and died. his daughter believes this followed the discharge of hospital patients who had the virus into his care home. a wider policy which she says failed residents like her father. i just think they were totally expendable. i don t think they were regarded at all. my dad worked all of his life to the age of 75, paid national insurance. he had a right to life and they had a duty of care, and he was failed. the last time that i was able to see my father was about 24 hours was before he died. doctor cathy gardner s father michael gibson died in an 0xfordshire care home in early april 2020. he was in a ground floor room so i was able to see him through a window. i was lucky that i could do that because i know many families, they couldn t see their loved ones at all. doctor gardner started the legal action because she believes care homes largely had to fend
the last time that i was able to see my father was about 24 hours before he died. doctor cathy gardner s father michael gibson died in an oxfordshire care home in early april 2020. he was in a ground floor room so i was able to see him through a window. i was lucky that i could do that because i know many families, they couldn t see their loved ones at all. doctor gardner started the legal action because she believes care homes largely had to fend for themselves in the first months of the pandemic. her work has included the study of viruses, she believes the need for more protection for older and disabled people should have been clear. i believe that lives could have been saved in care homes if the government had acted differently. if they had pursued a policy involving quarantine, testing, proper training on infection control and ppe, all of those things, they could have saved lives. and it s important to remember that it wasn tjust the old and vulnerable that died, that care home sta