but no one was ever convicted for what happened here and now the government wants to end all prosecutions from the troubles. today s reportjoins a number of others with similar findings involving ties between state security forces and paramilitaries. the scale of collusion in northern ireland s conflict is slowly becoming clear. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. if you want to get in touch with me on any of the stories that you ve seen so far on newsday or any thoughts that you have, i m on twitter. i m looking forward to hearing from you. you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme plastic pollution in the world s oceans could rise fourfold within the next three decades. we ll hear from one of the people behind a new analysis from the world wide fund for nature.
this is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines. another frantic day of diplomacy. the leaders of france, germany and poland meet in berlin, as president macron warns it could take some time to defuse the ukraine crisis. protests against covid vaccine laws continue in the canadian capital, 0ttawa. truckers had earlier blocked a key route into the united states. let s turn to the topic of plastic pollution in the world s oceans which, according to new analysis from the world wide fund for nature, is set to quadruple by 2050. should the prediction come true, many delicate ecosystems will not survive, says the report, and precious species will be lost forever. let s speak to kate noble, no plastics in nature policy
guarantees. yesterday to berlin for talks and his polish counterparts. the message of merging, they can be a concrete solution, it may take months. meanwhile the military build up continues on both sides. russia was keen to show these pictures of its navy had into the black sea, off the coast of ukraine. and in poland hundreds more us troops arrived as part of president bidens plans to shore up nader is not nato s eastern flank. russia denies its preparing to invade. but in eastern ukraine civilians are already caught up in violence with the separatist fighters backed by russia have occupied some areas since 2014. the bbc has reported on the conflict a senseit bbc has reported on the conflict a sense it began and sent this report from here.