where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. police in london have arrested a man after a car crashed into the gates of downing street, the home of the uk prime minister. the man was detained on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving. there are no reports of injuries. in the last hour police said that the incident is being dealt with by local officers in westminster and isn t currently being treated as terror related. what you can see here is a white car which we ve circled, approaching the main entrance to downing street. the car appears to slow down as before it hits a set of gates, which are staffed round the clock by armed and unarmed police officers. the prime minister was in downing street at the time of the crash, but has since left for a scheduled visit. now for some live pictures of whitehall right nowjust so you can see the situation on the ground. and as you can see, the police have still cordoned off the area. there is still a strong po
welcome to the programme. ukraine has been a common theme at two major leaders summits. we will cover it all here tonight on the context. on the first day of their annual meeting injapan, g7 leaders agreed new sanctions against russia. meanwhile in saudi arabia, president zelensky made a surprise visit to the arab league gathering, urging those attending, to support ukraine. also making the headlines at that summit president assad of syria it s the first time he s been invited to the arab league since the devastating civil war, that s blighted the country. and later in the programme we have a special report from the new york times which has uncovered shocking evidence of the greek coastguard abandoning asylum seekers in the sea. but first let s focus in on the g7 summit injapan. the leaders have agreed new sanctions against russia. they said the measures would starve moscow of their technology, industrial equipment, and services that supported its war against ukraine.
welcome to the programme. i m yalda hakim. we start in bangladesh where thousands of refugees have seen their homes destroyed or damaged by a powerful cyclone. the weather system hit land on sunday, narrowly avoiding a direct hit on the world s largest refugee camp in cox s bazar. at least 29 people were killed in myanmar, which bore the brunt of the storm. in a moment we ll have an exclusive interview with bangladesh s prime minister sheikh hasina. they were forced to see out the storm in their flimsy shelters. agency say a nightmare situation was just averted a stop that serves as a reminder of the vulnerability of almosti million refugees. in reminder of the vulnerability of almosti million refugees. in a moment, we will have an exclusive interview with the prime minister, but earlier this month, the bbc was given special access to the camp. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan and her team report now on the story of anwar a five year old boy who has only kno
and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl