And making stolen phones harder to sell on the Uk Government, asks Tech Companies how they can tackle phone theft. And libraries are facing mass closures across the uk. A former childrens laureate tells us why he feels that is a decimation. Hello and welcome to the programme. We start this i were in ukraine. Where russia has carried out one of the deadliest strikes in months. Ukraines Defence Ministry says 51 people have been killed, and more than 200 injured. It happened in poltava a city in the east of the country. Many people are believed to be trapped under the rubble. The countrys Defence Ministry called It A barbaric strike against an educational establishment. President zelensky said, it was a very difficult day for ukraine. Our bbc verify correspondent, Merlyn Thomas has the latest. Here at bpc verify we are working hard to analyse and verify footage of the aftermath of the attack. Let me talk you through what we know so far but what happened. The attack was on the city Of Po
we start injapan, where the g7 summit is getting under way. leaders of seven of the world s most powerful democracies are gathering in hiroshima. you see these pictures here? that is the french president emmanuel macron who has just met the japanese prime minister kishida who has been welcoming everyone to the memorial piece garden there in hiroshima. this meeting is expected to get under way shortly but what the japanese prime minister has been doing is welcoming all the leaders of the g7 nations as they have been arriving just a moment ago. the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau also arriving at this meeting. there is plenty on the agenda, we know the leaders will be discussing the war in ukraine for one, certainly china s presence in the region stop either has already been a flurry of news in the lead up to this summit,, a us official saying there would be new steps to economically isolate moscow and we can its ability to wage war. we are looking at the hiroshima memori
And perhaps a whole host of other important issues, donald trump and Justin Trudeau are polar opposites. Yes, it is going to be a delicate afternoon for the canadian Prime Minister. He is in washington for theirfirst meeting. But a crucially important one given Donald Trumps threat to renegotiate the north American Free Trade Agreement, nafta as it is known. Trade between the two countries is currently worth some 660 billion. Last year the us had a slight trading surplus in goods and services around 12 billion. They share the worlds Longest International Border and across it they do 2 billion of trade every day. But here is why this relationship is so crucially important to the canadians 75 of their exports go to the United States. Which is why any new tariffs would have a huge knock on effect. This is the scene at the white house. Everybody congregating and the various anchors going through their paces. We will take you live there wendy two leaders appear. There wendy two leaders appe
these pictures here as we are expecting the us president to get out of that car there on what has been a very rainy day so far in hiroshima and we have as we mentioned already seen a few leaders greeted by the japanese prime minister, we have seen already the canadian parameters to justin have seen already the canadian parameters tojustin trudeau, the french president emmanuel macron, we earlierjust missed some images of the british prime minister rishi sunak was arrived as well so the g7, an important meeting of course because it represents leaders of seven of the world s most powerful democracies and these meetings are incredibly important with some of the issues that we mentioned on the agenda at the summit. some of them of course also discussing nuclear symbolism and the importance of nuclear deterrence or a time where there are concerns about the threat of russia and the escalation of the conflict in ukraine, possible escalation of the conflict in ukraine so this drop has all the
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