election goes to a runoff after the closest vote, in two decades. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the uk where ukraine s president has made a surprise visit to secure fresh promises of military aid to fight russia s invasion. prime minister rishi sunak promised to send hundreds of air defence missiles and long range attack drones but stopped short of sending jets. rishi sunak tweeted this picture welcoming president zelensky when he arrived at chequers the prime minister s country residence the pair in a bear hug, with the caption reading: welcome back . volodymir zelensky had earlier described rishi sunak as his friend . there were then handshakes on the doorstep before the pair held bilateral talks, lasting around two hours. uktraine s president says the pair discussed western nations providing kyiv with fighter jets, with the aim of creating what he called a jets coalition . rishi sunak pledged long term support for ukraine to ensure that it s abl
football. mikel arteta is left frustrated as arsenal can only draw at home to brentford in the premier league. the number of people now known to have died in the earthquakes which struck turkey and syria has passed 25,000. the turkish president, recep tayyip edrogan, said perhaps 80,000 people had been injured in his country, and thousands of homes have been left uninhabitable. the united nations aid chief, martin griffiths, who is in turkey, says the tragedy is the worst natural disaster to hit the region in a century. mr griffiths praised the international response, saying more than 100 countries had sent help, but said he wasn t clear about the extent to which aid would reach rebel held parts of syria. we ll hear from mr griffiths in a moment, but first, our correspondent quentin sommerville is in harem in the northwest idlib province of syria, which is rebel controlled. he found no sign of a relief effort, with local people, including children, left scouring through rubbl
you have shown absolutely no remorse and it appears that you are in complete denial as to what you did. rail passengers face severe disruption after transpennine express axes more than 50 of its services in a single day. and in sweden, resesarchers say they re close to completing the first crash test dummy based on an average woman. elon musk, the world s richest man, has finally taken control of the social media platform twitter, in a deal worth £38 billion. he tweeted that the bird is freed , and is reported to have fired a number of the firm s top executives. it brings to an end an on/off takeover saga that has gone on for months. mr musk, the boss of tesla and spacex, says he believes in absolute free speech and there s speculation that some people who ve been banned from twitter, including former president donald trump, may now be invited back. here s our north america technology reporter, james clayton. when elon musk made a surprise entrance into twitter this week,