the legal definition of a landlord is to be debated in the supreme court today in a bid to help tenants in some of england s worst rental properties. if you want to get in touch with a comment about any of the stories we re covering today you can do that on twitter @annitabbc and use the #bbcyourquestions. in sport, manchester united beat nottingham forest 3 0 in the first leg of their league cup semi final. hello, good morning, and welcome to bbc news. russia has hit back at ukraine with a wave of missiles the day after two western countries confirmed it would send tanks to help kyiv s forces repel the russian invasion. one person has been reported killed and two injured in kyiv as around 30 missiles were fired at targets across the country. in his nightly address, president zelensky thanked germany and the united states for agreeing to send tanks, but said his country now needs more long range artillery and aircraft. for months, he s campaigned for these, in public, and i
security detail tackling the suspect. a local resident in his 40s. the gun he used appears to have been handmade, a motive not known at this time. as brianna said abe was japan s longest serving prime minister and was still a towering figure in japanese and international politics. he had crucial working relationships with both president obama and president trump. this assassination causing shock waves around the world this morning. let s get right to cnn s blake essig who is in tokyo with the very latest. blake, what can you tell us? reporter: brianna, john, devastating news here in japan. doctors at nara medical university hospital have confirmed that japanese former japanese prime minister shinzo abe has died after being shot twice, once in his chst and once in his neck. doctors treating former prime minister said that his heart had actually stopped by the time that he reached the hospital, they said that he was bleeding profusely and that the bullet that killed abe w
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heard from jens stoltenberg the secretary general of nato saying that he was a true democrat. what does that really mean in practical terms? it meant that this latest nato meeting where japan was not a member, it had a seat at the table, it was invited to madrid, the prime minister invited to madrid to join other nato leaders because of japan s strong role and value as part of an alliance where nato, united states, european partners sought china for the first time as a threat to value and security and stability. so in this way abe did prepare japan for an outsized and bigger international role than it had had for many, many decades and it came at a time when the world needed it. so i think this is why we re seeing such an outpouring of support. european commission president urs is a von der leyen talking
with a win over italy. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the prime minister is stepping up british diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis over ukraine, amid continuing fears of a russian invasion. more than 100,000 russian troops are massed at the border. this morning, borisjohnson met the secretary general of nato, which russia wants to stop ukraine from joining. mrjohnson has warned the crisis is entering it s most dangerous moment . he said the uk is putting a thousand troops on standby in case of a humanitarian crisis. in a moment we ll report from moscow, where the foreign secretary is holding talks.