during a holiday in portugal 16 years ago. madeleine vanished from a portuguese holiday home 16 years ago on the 3rd of may, 2007. a week later portuguese police said they believed madeleine had been abducted but was still alive and in portugal. at the end of may 2007 police issued a description of a man seen on the night of madeleine s disappearance possibly carrying a child. byjuly 2008 portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. weeks later authorities shelve their investigation. in 2022, a german man is declared an official suspect by portuguese prosecutors. joining me live now arejim gamble, a former police officer who helped with the madeleine mccann investigation, and jon silverman, a professor of media and criminal justice at university of bedfordshire and former bbc home affairs correspondent. thank you forjoining me. first, what exactly are we looking at? it s been many years now since we had any kind of fresh investigation. why is
and she is still alone to this very moment. a russian missile strikes a hospital in the ukrainian city of dnipro, killing at least one person and injuring 15. british cycling bans transgender women from the female category of its competitions. of borrowing in europe how worried should we be about the global economy? and as the iconic rocky horror show celebrate s 50 years on the stage, we speak to one of its original stars. hello, i m ben thompson, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. we start in sudan where the family of an 85 year old uk national has told a bbc news arabic investigation that his disabled wife died of starvation after the british embassy there left the couple to fend for themselves during the recent fighting. despite repeated calls for assistance, abdalla sholgami and alaweya rishwan were offered no help in leaving their home which is just yards from the embassy in the capital, khartoum. the foreign office said t
verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. police have started digging near a reservoir in portugal, in the long running investigation into the disappearance of madeleine mccann. you can see on you can see on your screen you can see on your screen live pictures of the area where the police are searching. the arade dam is 50 kilometres from where the british toddler went missing in praia da luz 16 years ago. the operation is being led by german police looking for evidence to link her disappearance to christian brueckner, a german man who was made a formal suspect by portuguese prosecutors last year. our correspondent navtej johal is at the barragem do arade reservoir in the algarve where the search is taking place. so far today the search has been focused around the arade dam, this vast expanse of water you can see behind me, and you can see still a couple of officers wearing white forensic suits jutting out from the promontory in the
we start with an emphatic win for manchester city who ve beaten the 1a time winners real madrid 4 nil to reach the final of the european champions league against inter milan. 5 1 on aggregate. it s the one trophy pep guardiola is yet to win at city, in a season where they re chasing a treble. twice beaten at this stage by real, this was finally city s night, our sports editor dan roan was watching at the etihad stadium: this will spill as a battle between the two best sides in the world. but in truth, there was only really one team ended. it did seem tantalizingly poised, this champions league semifinal second leg after the 1-0 semifinal second leg after the 1 0 drawl in madrid by manchester city were way too strong for the champions, the winners of this competition real madrid running up to 4 05- real madrid running up to 4 05 one on aggregate and it means that manages pap guardiola slide deemed emphatic compelling revenge against the side that knocked them out of this
is now, back in 1985. goodnight. music: how soon is now by the smiths. this is bbc news, here he was at westminster in february giving the speaker a pilot s helmet. on the helmet reads, we have freedom, give us wings to protect it. this is what he wants. f 16 fighter jets like these flown by the polish air force. modern warplanes that could give ukraine greater control of the skies. some european countries are ready to give some of theirs to ukraine but they are all made by the us and that means that president biden, who is at the g7 summit injapan, needs to give his permission first. he has been reluctant, fearing it could escalate the war, but now his officials say the us will help train ukrainian pilots and will not stop european countries donating some f 16s. this comes after concerted pressure from european leaders, including rishi sunak, who earlier this week promised president zelensky to gather international support for getting ukraine the air power it needed. but tra