Abuse the government says social Media Companies face massive fines if they dont act. Better than i ever did. Betterthan i ever did. Brexit ended visa free travel to the eu for musicians now eltonjohn tells us why it will hit so many young performers. At the beginning of a career, when you have written your first record, and you want to go out and play live more than anything else, because it helps you grow as an artist. And a clap for the captain its happening now at sir toms home and joined by the hospital staff who took care of him in his final hours. And coming up on bbc news, more trouble down under, as up to 600 players and Coaching Staff go into quarantine, and all tennis is cancelled tomorrow at the australian open. Good evening and welcome to the bbc s news at six. In the last hour, the Prime Minister has been thanking all those who have helped the uk to reach a milestone in its Vaccination Programme ten Million People have now received a first dose. But borisjohnson also issu
britain needs to mobilize a citizens army to face the threat from russia. and in gaza, israeli tanks hita un buildings, killing nine people. the white house says the food situation is dire, as they push for a much needed humanitarian pause. good evening. russia says ukraine has deliberately shot down a military transport aircraft that was carrying dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war. the plane exploded in a huge fireball close to belgorod, a russian city 25 miles from the border with ukraine. photographs that were taken shortly after, show the wreckage lying in a snowy field. the russian defence ministry said 65 ukrainian prisoners of war, six crew members and three other passengers died in the crash. the russian ministry of defence said the pows were being flown to belgorod from an airfield near moscow, and were scheduled to be exchanged later today at the border. they claim a second plane carrying around 80 pows was turned around and returned to moscow. our verify team hav
of a large number of explosions. air raid sirens have sounded across the country. video footage on circulating on social media which have not been verified by the bbc show air defence systems shooting down missiles. government messages have warned people to keep away from windows as debris from intercepted missiles is falling from the sky. the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko, says some of the debris has fallen on the city s zoo. that comes as on monday, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky made made a surprise visit to the united kingdom to secure fresh promises of military aid to fight russia s invasion. uk prime minister rishi sunak welcomed the ukrainian leader at chequers, the prime minister s country house. they held bilateral talks lasting around two hours. president zelensky said they discussed western nations providing kyiv with fighter jets, with the aim of creating what he called a jets coalition . prime minister sunak promised to send hundreds of air defence mis