in most of afghanistan, the only country in the world to do so. china s military launches fresh drills off taiwan in response to a visit to the island by a new group of american politicians. the uk becomes the first country to approve a covid vaccine that fights both the original strain and the omicron variant. and check mate, with a difference, how this underwater version of chess is helping competitors stay cool in the hot weather. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. us officials have warned of an increase in violent threats to law enforcement following the search of donald trump s florida estate, mar a lago. the fbi and department of homeland security issued a memo to law enforcement around the country. in a separate development, prosecutors in the us state of georgia have told rudy giuliani he s a target of their criminal investigation into attempts to overturn the result of the last presidential election
and in ukraine, russian forces advance on the centre of the key city of severa donetsk in the eastern donbas. good evening and welcome to bbc news. breaking welcome to bbc news. news on our top story toda with breaking news on our top story today with the problems at the football over the weekend. we are just hearing in the last couple of moments that you aare launching an independent report, commissioning and independent report into what happened. let s look at the events of saturday night. the french government has blamed what it called industrial scale ticket fraud, for the chaos at this weekend s champions league final in paris. french ministers held emergency talks earlier today with police, and french and european football officials, as the row continued about what happened at the match. there s been widespread condemnation of the tactics of the police, who used tear gas and pepper spray on thousands of liverpool fans as they queued for hours to get into the stadium.
Celebrate victory on derby day, but theres no shaking off the holders Manchester City, who remain hot on their heels. Good morning. Some heavy rain in Northern Ireland this morning. That will push north and east during the course of the day. It is the south east that will hang on to the driest and silliest conditions for longest. All of the details later on in the programme. Driest and sunniest. Its monday, the 29th of april. The Irish Government says it will pass Emergency Legislation to return rising numbers of Asylum Seekers arriving from Northern Ireland, because theyre fearful of being sent to rwanda. Irish ministers estimate that 80 of recent arrivals have come to the country via Northern Ireland but the uk government says it wont accept any Asylum Returns from the eu via ireland. Our Political Correspondent helen catt reports. The border between the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland is designed to be easy to cross. But the Irish Government says its recently seen an influx
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