now on bbc news.. dateline london with shaun ley hello and welcome to the programme which brings together the foreign correspondence for audience back home from the dateline london. it has been a convention busting week, this one. the queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen, two countries strictly neutral for 80 years repairing to take sides for, in northern ireland a party in favour of reuniting ireland top the poll for the first time in the century since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and work in the studio are brian o connell, a portuguesejournalist and university lecturer, newly created british citizen, and jeffrey coffman who has been a royal correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. could have you back with us. let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland. finland s president said on friday he is going to ring president putin and tell him that the situation has changed. how a big a
police in india have arrested two people after a fire destroyed an office building in delhi and killed at least 27 people. #upin # up in space, man. # bookmakers are predicting a rare good result for the uk at tonight s eurovision. but will it be enough to hold back the favourites, ukraine? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the mayor of kharkiv has told the bbc that the russians have withdrawn from the kharkiv city area in the direction of the russian border. he said said his city was no longer being shelled by the russians and people were gradually returning. the us think tank the insitute of the study of war earlier said russia had failed in its efforts to encircle the city, and now appears to be concentrating on getting its troops safely back across the russian border. russian troops are instead focusing their attacks in the donbas region, which is now seeing some of the heaviest fighting. our correspondent in lviv, joe inwood, told us mor
scotland. just 12 for aberdeen, up to about 22 23 in london and the south east. things are looking unsettled through the week ahead. we are going to be seeing some spells of terrain, particularly across northern and western parts of the uk. furthersouth northern and western parts of the uk. further south and east avoiding most of the down peers, once again. temperatures in the mid 20s. goodbye for now. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: us military analysts say ukraine appears to have won the battle for its second biggest city kharkiv. reports suggest russia now appears to be focused on withdrawing its troops after failing to encircle the city. finland says it has spoken to russia aboutjoining nato. russia has warned finland and sweden that their entry into the defence alliance would lead to a militarisation of the baltic region. police in india have arrested two people after a fire destroyed an office building in delhi, and killed at least 27 people. witnesses say sev
Downplay it as a rift with china. More emphasising the close ties with vietnam. It is no doubt that there is a significant repercussion for china and the international influence of china after signing the steel because it is a new and Historic Deal between the us and vietnam and joe biden travelled to hanoi to sign the agreement of the back of the 620 summit of the 19 biggest economies in the world plus the european union. Thats at wrapping up and ending up with a couple of agreements as well and the African Unionjoining The 620 Summit in the future and also that controversial paragraph written on ukraine. We will have some analysis on that later. You can see the United States of america written outside the plane, that is Air Force One and the us President Joe Biden heading back to the us after what from a us perspective will be seen as a successful trip, strengthening those ties with vietnam. Lets ta ke lets take it to morocco now. We can see the live pictures, Big Heavy Equipment rea
Something that Good Police Work effects, good policing is about making sure that you check all eventualities, and the metropolitan police did that, they made sure that the airports were all aware of this mans escape very quickly so that all of the czechs were going on to make sure that he couldnt get out. What they also did was concentrate in and around the area that he had actually gone missing. So, the operation is very much based on a significant number of things, not just one item, and everything has to be pulled together by the commanders and then, thankfully, there has been and then, thankfully, there has been an arrest within what is a relatively small space of time. 0nce once we got that information that they believed he was in the Chiswick Area, do think there was a sign they were very much closing in . Absolutely. Forthe were very much closing in . Absolutely. For the police say that, then they were definitely of the view that he was in that area. If anybody had been helping