hundreds of thousands of students received their exam results on thursday, allowing them to sort out their university places. but some btec students are still waiting to see how they did in vocational courses. exam board pearson won t reveal how many are affected but says it s a small percentage. the association of colleges isn t impressed. pearson won t tell us the numbers, but i know in some colleges there are several hundred students who haven t got their results from pearson. in any normal year there is a handful, perhaps, in a college. but hundreds is unprecedented. so we absolutely need pearson to openly investigate what went wrong, publish the findings and make sure this doesn t happen again. in a statement, pearson said: another exam board, ocr, is also apologising for delays in issuing cambridge technical s results, a vocational qualification with an emphasis on workplace skills. it says it has delivered more than 1,000 results in the last 2a hours. among those waiti
welcome to bbc news. we ll start with the conflict in ukraine, because ukrainian troops are reported to have carried out more attacks on russian forces in the crimean peninsula. smoke was seen rising from the headquarters of russia s black sea fleet in sevastapol, with moscow claiming it shot down a ukrainian drone. russia has occupied crimea since 2014 and there have been a series of recent attacks on russian military infrastructure there. james waterhouse sent us this report from the ukrainian capital, kyiv. it is what and where this is, which makes this smoke significant. another apparent strike in russian occupied crimea. over the last 11 days, there have been a series of explosions on mostly military targets. out of all of the ukrainian territory which moscow has taken, crimea is where its grip has been strongest. but that grasp appears to be weakening. translation: russian s commanders aren t saying what happened, - but it is either a failure of russia s air defences,
we are determined to get a square deal for our people and that is exactly what we will achieve, and the public seem to be right behind us in that campaign. tribal warriors in south africa proclaim a new king of the zulus after a year long family feud. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. security forces are still fighting islamist militants who took over a hotel in the somali capital modagishu more than 2a hours ago. at least 20 people are said to have been killed. sporadic gunfire and loud explosions could be heard into saturday afternoon at the hayat hotel, but details remain difficult to verify. a security official says al shabab militants are still holed up with hostages. anxious relatives gathered outside the hotel, which witnesses say has been partly destroyed. the hotel is popular with politicians and government officials, some of whom are said to be still trapped inside. bbc monitoring s beverly 0chieng has been following the story from
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