a social gathering, that was clearly against the rules at the time. now, borisjohnson knows this and he knew this all along, and he s just trying to lie to the british public, and it seems like he s laughing at them now. any day now, the senior official sue gray will publish her report and its expected more images will be unveiled. we ll have more on the latest revelations and the new questions for the metropolitan police on the way they decided who should be fined. also tonight. nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, held in iran for six years on spying charges, says she was forced to sign a false confession before she could leave. the number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in the uk has reached 57, including the first case in scotland. and with a buggy at the ready, the queen was determined to visit the chelsea flower show in platinum jubilee year. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel: high fives all around, as raducanu battles back at roland garros to book her place in t
this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and one o clock in the morning in ukraine, where a court has sentenced a russian tank commander to life in prison for killing an unarmed civilian. vadim shishimarin was the first person to stand trial for war crimes since russia s invasion three months ago. he had admitted shooting the 62 year old civilian, but said he d been acting on orders and he will appeal against his sentence. our correspondentjames waterhouse was in court. this wasn tjust a trial, it was ukraine s day in court, with all eyes and cameras on 21 year old vadim shishimarin. by legal standards, his journey to this dock has been quick. more than two weeks ago, the russian soldier was questioned over an alleged war crime. translation: we started moving. on the way, we saw a civilian talking on the phone. i was ordered to shoot and fired one round at him. he fell down. we moved on. today, the court heard how shishimarin shot a 62 year old
aimed at countering china s growing influence in the region. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome. the united nations world food programme has described russia s blockade of ukrainian ports as a declaration of war on global food security that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. it echoes concerns raised by the ukrainian government, and wider accusations that the kremlin is deliberately targeting food supplies. our economics editor, faisal islam, reports. across the world, food and energy crisis are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger and leading to whole country is going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. with russia s war in ukraine making the supply shocks much worse, the economic stakes are very high here and across part of the problem is that the natural response that should bring down energy orfood prices producing more
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Devastation. House after house after house in this neighborhood unable to survive. Lets give you a sense of what it was like when the fire roared through here. Flames swirling in high winds and hot temperatures, Wreaking Havoc on the Northern California landscape. The aptally named car fire which was first sparked by a vehicle ravaged the reason since monday, doubling in size over the course of the week and is still growing, deadly, out of control. Charred dozens of acres and structures as firefighters try to contain it. Neighborhoods scorched as smoke and fire climbed through hills, fueled by dried landscape. No idea what were going to do tomorrow. Hell, we dont know what were going to do tonight. Reporter this man and his wife never imagined they would see their house like this. We didnt think the fire was going to come here, so we didnt really take things out. Like Everybody Else that was scrambling at the last min
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Lawyer. Hes been lying all week. Hes been lying for years. I mean z now, fred, President Trump has not answered directly cnns questions about Michael Cohens claims, nor about that personal private recording he apparently made of a conversation that he had with President Trump. He has, however, tweeted about Michael Cohen. At one point suggesting that cohen could potentially be making up stories to get him out of legal troubles connected to his taxi business, fred. Boris sanchez, thanks so much. All right, so how did we get here . Lets go back to the week this all happened in june of 2016. Here are the facts. We know the publicist rob goldstone, the man who helped orchestrate the meeting, emailed donald trump jr. To offer incriminating information on hillary clinton. Then just a few days later, then candidate trump offered up this message just two days before
from it. The big question, how much did donald trump know an