notre dame cathedral as restoration continues, four years since a fire destroyed significant parts of the world heritage landmark. hello, i m lucy gray. the man arrested on suspicion of throwing a smoke bomb at japan s prime minister fumio kishida has been identified by the authorities as 24 year old ryuji kimura. there are no further details regarding possible motivation. mr kishida was about to give a speech in support of a local candidate of his ruling party the ldp. pm kishida made a speech in another location later, where he said the incident should not be allowed to disrupt the electoral process. the attack comes ahead of nationwide local elections and by elections for vacated seats injapan s lower house. our correspondent shaimaa khalil in tokyo has been giving us the latest. very dramatic scenes coming this morning from wakayama in western japan. chaos among the crowd as a young man is being tackled and then pinned to the ground by security personnel. and then a screa
climate change advisers to the government say england is strikingly unprepared for the unavoidable impacts of global warming. and after sleeping outdoors for three years, the boy in the tent is coming back inside after raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. coming up on the bbc news channel. scotland s stunning win over spain maintains their perfect start to european championship qualifying, but their captain insists it is just a start. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. tributes have been paid to the tv presenter and comedian paul o grady, who has died at the age of 67. his husband said he died unexpectedly but peacefully yesterday evening. paul o grady rose to fame in the 1990s with his drag queen persona lily savage and went on to present several programmes on tv and radio including blankety blank and a sunday show on radio 2 for m years. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at his life and career. lolly. it s a tribute to
the man arrested on suspicion of throwing a smoke bomb at japan s prime minister, fumio kishida, has been identified by the authorities as 24 year old ryuji kimura. there are no further details regarding possible motivation. mr kishida was about to give a speech in support of a local candidate of his ruling party the ldp. after the incident pm kishida made a speech in another location where he said the incident should not be allowed to disrupt the electoral process. the attack comes ahead of nationwide local elections and by elections for vacated seats injapan s lower house. our correspondent shaimaa khalil in tokyo has the latest. very dramatic scenes coming this morning from wakayama in western japan. chaos among the crowd as a young man is being tackled and then pinned to the ground by security personnel. and then a screaming crowd scrambling to leave the scene as a loud explosion is heard, and then smoke fills the air. the man is then being taken away from the scene. the
police injapan say a twenty four year old man has been arrested after he appeared to throw a smoke bomb at the japanese prime minister, fumio kishida. ryuji kimura was seized by security guards after an explosion at a local campaign event in wakayama city. there are no further details regarding possible motivation. mr kishida was about to give a speech in support of a local candidate of his ruling party the ldp. after the incident pm kishida made a speech in another location. the attack comes ahead of nationwide local elections and by elections for vacated seats injapan s lower house. our correspondent shaimaa khalil in tokyo has the latest. very dramatic scenes coming this morning from wakayama in western japan. chaos among the crowd as a young man is being tackled and then pinned to the ground by security personnel. and then a screaming crowd scrambling to leave the scene as a loud explosion is heard, and then smoke fills the air. the man is then being taken away from the s
closing of access to asylum in the uk for people arriving irregularly, we believe it s a clear breach of the refugee convention. they will enable us to take a very bold and forward leading steps in order to reduce the rights of people to claim and to thwart their removal. the bbc is to speak to one of its highest paid presenters, gary lineker, after he criticised the government s immigration plans on social media. he bbc investigation reveals how scammers and con people out of hundreds scammers and con people out of hundreds of millions of dollars. hello and welcome to bbc news. the un secretary general, antonio guterres is in ukraine to hold talks with president zelensky about the continued export of ukrainian grain. brokered by the united nations and turkey lastjuly, and secured with russia, the deal enabled the shipping of ukrainian grain from odesa via the black sea, through the bosphorus strait and istanbul. but, now the deal is up for renewal and russia has signalled t