hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan. you re watching the context on bbc news. british gymnastics bans coaches from weighing gymnasts part of new safeguarding rules for young athletes. to new york now, where a federal court has formally welcome to the programme. these the bbc that talks are still under way to extend that truce between israel and hamas. we are waiting to hear more about that and get more official confirmation about any terms around that, but at the moment, we can see the pictures there now. those two russians who were part of the group released today. russian israelis, motherand daughter, 73 years old and her 50 year old daughter. they are russian immigrants living in israel. we will stay across that developing story and when we get it. to new york now, where a federal court has formally announced charges against an indian government employee, alleging he conspired to assassinate a sikh separatist in the us. the unnamed official is accused of working with anoth
our political correspondent jack fenwick reports. he d previously said he disliked the russian president but admired him as a political operator, and that the invasion of ukraine was a consequence of western expansion. the reform uk leader said he had predicted the war ten years ago. i stood up in the european parliament in 2014 and i said, and i quote, there will be a war in ukraine. why did i say that? it was obvious to me that the ever eastward expansion of nato and the european union was giving this man a reason, to his russian people, to say they re coming for us again, and to go to war. home secretary james cleverly accused him of echoing putin s vile justification for the invasion, and there was criticism too from labour. the only aggressor in ukraine is vladimir putin, and it is shocking that nigel farage chooses to align himself with putin. he s become a putin apologist. mr farage said last night that putin was wrong to invade, the eu was wrong to expand eastward