ghobadi has the latest. six cities across iran were targeted and in some of the cities, multiple schools were attacked. we started receiving videos from the city of qom, which is the iranian vatican. parents are furious, they re talking to officials, they re shouting at them, there are scenes of chaos and horror. in other cities, we have obtained videos from hospitals where parents are picking up a girl student who has fainted on the floor, other students are crying, gasping for breath on hospital beds, and we have reports in the northwestern town of ardabil and also in the southern kurdish town in western iran, the hospitals are packed with schoolgirls. reports of poisonings are frequent. no girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. at the beginning of this month, bbc reality check looked into this reporting, more than 1,000 iranian students mostly schoolgirls have fallen ill over the past three months. the first k
welcome to bbc news. you stood with us shoulder to shoulder the words of ukraine s president, volodymr zelensky on his first official visit to neighbouring poland. the nato country has been one of kyiv s strongest backers during the conflict with russia taking in millions of refugees and supplying arms. and that loyalty has been on show in warsaw president zelensky welcomed here with full military honours. from his polish counterpart renewed backing for ukraine s bid to join the western military alliance. speaking at a press conference with president zelensky, the president of poland and zhey duda said more polish fighterjets will make way to ukraine soon. translation: four fighterjets, translation: four fighter “ets, hundreds of i translation: four fighter “ets, hundreds of an i translation: four fighter “ets, hundreds of an error, translation: four fighterjets, hundreds of an error, brings - translation: four fighterjets, hundreds of an error, brings the | hundred
good evening from kyiv. i m ali velshi. a global superpower says it is calling for peace. early friday morning, beijing time, the chinese government released a 12 point plan which is calling, quote, china s which it s colin, quote, china s position on the political settlement of the ukraine crisis. while lacking in specifics, the document goes out of its way to urge russia not to use nuclear weapons in this war. quote, nuclear weapons must not be used and nuclear wars must not be fought. the threat or use of nuclear weapons should be a post, and quote. the document also takes a swipe at nato, with a section titled, quote, abandoning the cold war mentality. and it to cries u.s. anxious russia, quote unilateral sanctions and maximum pressure cannot solve the issue. they only create new problems. in a wide-ranging press conference today, ukrainian president zelenskyy seemed to signal and openness to a good faith peace plan from china and he says he hopes to meet with chin
scariest year translation: this has been the scariest year of translation: this has been the scariest year of my translation: this has been the scariest year of my life. - translation: this has been the scariest year of my life. so - scariest year of my life. so little joy and laughter, scariest year of my life. so littlejoy and laughter, so much fear, pain and tears. we ll have the latest on the grim milestone in ukraine and what might happen in the next 12 months. also coming up on newsday. disgraced hollywood film mogul harvey weinstein is sentenced to a futher 16 years in prison for rape on top of the 23 year sentence he is already serving. and the european union tells its staff to delete the social media app tiktok to protect data and increase cyber security. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. it s almost exactly one year since russia began its full scale invasion of ukraine and the un gener