Good morning. It is a cold start in some parts of the north of the country, temperatures close to freezing. For many, it will cloud over with scattered showers developing and some of those will be heavy and thundery. I will have all the details later in the programme. Its tuesday 21st may. Rishi sunak says the government will pay whatever it takes to compensate the victims of the the Infected Blood Scandal. Details of the scheme are expected to be announced later today. Its been described as the biggest Treatment Disaster in the history of the nhs. Yesterday a Public Inquiry highlighted a catalogue of failures over many years, which it said had catastrophic consequences. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has more. Cheering and applause. A moment of relief and joy after years of grief, frustration and anger. Sir Brian Langstaff delivers his findings to just some of the thousands of people whose lives have been touched by the Infected Blood Scandal. Outside, some of them reflected
No foot soldier, no commander, no civilian leader, no one can act with impunity. Prosecutors accuse israel of a state sanctioned attack against gazas civilian population, including extermination and using starvation as a weapon of war. And hamas of extermination, hostage taking, torture and sexual violence, including rape. Tonight, a very personal rebuttalfrom israels Prime Minister. Mr khan creates a twisted and false Moral Equivalence between the leaders of israel and the henchmen of hamas. This is like creating a Moral Equivalence after september 11 between President Bush and osama bin laden. Hamas also strongly denounced what it said was an attempt to equate the victim with the executioner, and that the palestinian people, like all those under occupation, had the right to resist. In israel, the response from across the political spectrum has been outrage. Israels president said it was scandalous to equate the two sides. One Opposition Leader called it moral blindness. Those in mr n
You were there yesterday and, david, you were there as well. How was it being there, being surrounded by so many other people who have been through similar experiences to you . It was very surreal and i am still trying to take it all in because for the first time we heard the truth being pronounced in such clarity and it was damning. We knew it was going to be damning but to hear it and to be there with some of the others, but we were also so aware of so many that couldnt be there because they were either too ill or had already passed away, so it was a very poignant day, very powerful and we are extremely thankful for the work of the inquiry. Are extremely thankful for the work of the inquiry of the inquiry. David, coming to ou, of the inquiry. David, coming to you. Your of the inquiry. David, coming to you, your father of the inquiry. David, coming to you, your father of of the inquiry. David, coming to you, your father of course of the inquiry. David, coming to j you, your father of
This is the helicopter taking off to return to iran. The other two reached their destination safely, but irans Interior Minister said on sunday that the president s aircraft had experience a hard landing and communication had been lost. Several countries have offered to help in the search, which was been hampered by bad weather as you can see from these pictures issued by the azerbaijan red crescent society. Overnight, turkey launched a drone to search for the missing helicopter. This map tracks its progress you can see where it concentrated its search. In the early hours of the morning, turkey said it had identified a source of heat, which it suspected to be the wreckage of a helicopter carrying irans president raisi. It said it had shared the coordinates with the iranian teams. Lets speak to patricia degennaro, professor of International Security at new york university. Welcome to the programme. Thank you for being with us. At this stage we dont have many details, as weve reported, s
As part of the Wikileaks Organisation in 2010, leaked us military secrets, he did so to expose war crimes and therefore he had a right to free speech in doing that under the Us Constitution and therefore cannot be prosecuted for doing so. Now, the us says its given assurances that this is not the type of case where free speech comes into play, but this is not satisfied thejudges here in london and theyve said, well, we want to have a full appeal on this point and actually really try to unpick this. The other points of assurances from the us Thatjulian Assange will not face the Death Penalty that has been accepted by his team. Now that that is no longer an issue, it fundamentally concerns this question of whether or not he, if he went on trial in the united states, can say, i have a defence of speaking out freely in order to expose war crimes, and that should be heard in my trial. The Hush Money Trial of former us President Donald Trump has resumed in new york with the continued Cross E