gaza. injerusalem, there is an uneasy calm, as palestinians mark easter and ramadan. our international editor jeremy bowen reports. injerusalem, where tension and worse are normal, there is always the consolation of religion. this ramadan, many of those ending a day of prayer at the aqsa mosque were palestinian israelis, around a fifth of israel s population. israel, citing security, restricts access to jerusalem for palestinians from the occupied west bank. just down the road, palestinian christians were deep in their celebration of easter, walking to the old city from the garden of gethsemane, where they believejesus prayed on the night before he was crucified. but in this city, sacred for christians, jews and muslims, religion and politics always mix. all the palestinian people are suffering today. they are suffering from occupation, they are suffering from apartheid, they are suffering from genocide. and today, what we are praying is to stop this disaster situation he
most successful actors. she s won notjust one but two academy awards. brought up originally in australia, she s returned to her roots for her latest film, the new boy, which she s also produced. it s the story of a young boy from an indigenous background who s kidnapped and then forced to live in a catholic orphanage. cate blanchett, welcome to the arts interview. thank you. so i wanted to begin byjust getting you to explain the whole idea of new boy. well, it s a film by warwick thornton, who s one of australia s great directors. he s a cinematographer, he s a writer, and this is a film that s intensely personal that he s sort of wrote 20 years ago from personal experience, and then it s been extrapolated out from there. but in a nutshell, it s set on a remote monastery in the 1940s, so the backdrop is the second world war. and the monastery is being presided over by a nun, who i play, who s officiating mass, the priest is dead. and one night, unceremoniously, a young indige
we will shortly show you first hand testimonies, but before that, top united nations officials met today, saying the war has plunged the country into one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history . edem wosornu, director of operations and advocacy at the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, told the un security council of the severity of the situation in sudan. sue dan is on sue dan is on course sue dan is on course to become one of the worlds worst hunger crisis. already 80 million people and one third of the country are facing food insecurity. by the time the season arrives in may, people could face what we term ipc phase five level acute food insecurity. we call this stage a catastrophe. since april last year, sudan has been torn apart by fighting between these two men. one is the head of the country s military, general abdel fattah al bur han and the other is his former ally, general mohammed hamdan dagalo, who leads a paramilitary group
following the deaths of their relatives in the early days of the covid pandemic. the families argue that human rights were breached because not enough was done to protect family members from the virus. the government says it tried to safeguard care home residents using the best evidence available at the time. here s our social affairs editor, alison holt. very happy days. that s my mother and father on a cruise. for liz, these photos provide special memories of her mother, margaret. when her mum found it hard to get around, she moved to a care home but she was still sharp. and this is also i think a lovely photograph. this is my mother in her care home. margaret died there during the first wave of the pandemic, aged 95. she had always kept a diary so documented the details of her last days, big and small. this was a particularly special diary for me because it is the last one that she wrote. liz is one of the relatives taking legal action against the government and others o
bbc verify has geolocated the building as the regional theatre. this is an image from another video which was taken from cctv footage. it shows people running for cover as a missile hits a pedestrianised area and the fire. president zelensky, who s on a visit to sweden, spoke to the media about the events in chernihiv. translation: our bright city of chernihiv. - this morning, russia launched missiles in the very centre of the city where the national drama theatre is located as well as many residential homes. there were many people were in the theatre at the time and many were at home, too. more than 90 people were injured, 12 children among them. they were just taking a walk in the central square with their parents. among the dead is a six year old child whose mother is seriously injured and is in intensive care. my condolences to those who lost their loved ones in this russian, obviously terrorist, attack. our correspondentjames waterhouse is in chernihiv and sent us this u