Installed, officials are saying they blame falling debris, but the images suggest that this is a direct hit. We dont know the further implications, whether in terms of who is in there. But this is a place where russia has really asserted its dominance. It is the Black Sea Fleet from which it has launched Missile Strikes across ukraine. It has blockaded ports. And this is a peninsula that russia annexed back in 2014. Its almost a cornerstone of russias invasion. And i think regardless of whether kyiv claims responsibility for this one, it did last week when it hit a dry dock with british Supplied Storm Shadow missiles destroying a submarine and a warship. It is clear ukraine is continuing with its strategy of trying to target sites in crimea to both undermine russias occupation, but also to support its continued Counter Offensive further north by by frustrating russian operations. As we said, president zelensky is in canada, for the First Time Since russias invasion, on a visit to thank
Here is president zelensky and his wife olena being welcomed by Prime Ministerjustin trudeau. There is full day of events, including talks with Business Leaders and members of the large Ukrainian Community in ukraine. He will also give a speech to the Canadian Parliament in ottawa. Mr zelensky flew from washington where he held talks at the white house. President biden has approved Security Assistance for kyiv valued at 325 million dollars. It includes upgrades to air defences, but not the long range missiles president zelensky has been requesting. Anti government protests are again taking place in the armenian capital, yerevan, amid anger over azerbaijans defeat this week of Ethnic Armenian separatists in the enclave of nagorno karabakh. For a third day, Opposition Groups are calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister. The latest protests come after the two sides held peace talks yesterday. Our correspondent in the region, rayhan demytrie, is following developments from neighbo
of reunion and relief, with children in particular the focus of worldwide attention. for the families still waiting, now the question what are the chances that further negotiations can yield a breakthrough? so far, 110 israeli hostages held by hamas have been freed and 240 palestinians have been released from israeli prisons. these were mostly women, children and teenagers, and in this programme, we want to put the names, faces and stories to those numbers. in that spirt, on tuesday, 84 year old ditza heiman, one of the founders of kibbutz nir oz in israel was released. she is a former social worker and also the widow of a holocaust survivor who came to the uk on the kindertransport. sisters dafna and ela el yakim were freed on sunday after being taken from their father s home, also on kibbutz nir oz. their mother shared this photo of their reunion, writing, my precious daughters were returned to me yesterday, a moment etched forever in my memory. emily hand, who turned n
0 connor s funeral cortege passes through. they will be a private burial later but this is in very public moment for people to gather, to remember, to mourn as well. if we listen, we can hear the sounds of people clapping. i say sad, but there are moments ofjoy, there is reiki playing on a loudspeaker and i have read that moments ago, there were people who were gathered near the cortege who broke into a rendition of nothing compares two u which was sinead 0 connor s greatest hit that she had back in 1990. roads are closed in bray where she used to live, fans were able to pay their respects here and lots of people meeting outside of her house, laid notes and flowers and then, as you can see, the funeral cortege moving
stars including harry styles appeared on his final night. i would never say never to that. # you filled it with thousands of moments ofjoy. # and now there won t be any more. signing off, corden said, all we have wanted is to be a bit of light and levity at the end of your day. thank you for letting me into your home every night. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. the bank holiday weekend is just around the corner and it will be quite mixed, quite typicalfor this time of year. it will be feeling warmer and there will be some sunshine around but there is still the chance of some heavy showers. a bit warmer today and brightening up, a drier day across the country after