charities and campaigners go to the high court to challenge the government s plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda. the number of child cruelty and neglect offences in england jump by 25% in a year, according to police figures. britney spears does it again she s married for the third time but a previous husband tries to gate crash the event # neighbours # everybody needs good neighbours.# after 37 years and nearly 9,000 episodes, residents of ramsey street past and present get together for the final time as filming of neighbours comes to an end. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk foreign secretary liz truss is to speak to her ukrainian counterpart this morning about the case of two british men who have been sentenced to death after being captured by russian forces while fighting in ukraine. she s already publicly deplored the judgment against aiden aslin and shaun pinner, who along with another man from morocco, were found guilt
of course, if you look at it, you could be forgiven for thinking these are scenes from 100 years ago, from the first world war. the artillery pounding, the trenches that have been dug, and all the while, the fighting goes on, and all the while, lives on both sides are being lost. the european union s parliament says it supports ukraine s bid to become a candidate tojoin the bloc. in a speech to a democracy summit in copenhagen which was also addressed by president zelensky the parliament s president said ukraine was already part of the european family: this is about hope. this is about an acknowledgement of the price that ukraine has been forced to pay. and it is as much about strengthening europe as it is about strengthening ukraine. so, let me be clear, the european parliament, which i have the honour and responsibility to preside, stands firmly behind
gloves that may have used modern slavery to be produced. so these are matters that are still being legally discussed, some of it may end up in court, and some of it may be criminal, so we will wait to see, but the challenge for us, it is harder for legal matters to be looked at by parliament, because it is bound up with lawyers, but we will keep a heady eye on this. can any of the money be recouped? these excess items, when the government talks about them being recycled, do they mean literally recycled, or do they mean sold to other people who might want them? some of it will be given to people, because there s just so much of it that they will never get rid of it in any other way, and that will have an effect on the market. again, it was almost laughable if it was not so serious aprons being turned into bin liners, visors being turned into trays for serving food in, and some incinerated,
with president macron s party, has nowjoined mr melenchon s new alliance. we agree on this, on a programme which is very strong on ecology and solidarity, and we also recognise that we do have some divergences on some other points. do you really wantjean luc melenchon as prime minister? the little bit of political experience that i have now has taught me that there are some questions which need to be postponed to when is the right time. mr macron s centrist group currently has 56 seats clear of a majority. losing that margin could mean his reforms running into the ground. in france, if you want to be able to pass reform and change the country and to change life of people, you need to have a clear majority in parliament. the project ofjean luc melenchon, it s leaving the european union, it s leaving nato, it is being complacent with vladimir putin.
after years of protests against his reforms, a rebellious parliament is not on mr macron s wish list. jean luc melenchon can paralyse parliament now with 17 mps. 0ne government supporter told french radio, imagine what he could do with 50. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. the child protection charity nspcc says child cruelty and neglect offences increased by a quarter last year as the country emerged from the pandemic. following a freedom of information request to police forces in england, the charity found 26,000 offences were recorded in 2021/22, an average of 72 a day. that s a 25% rise from the previous year. nspcc experts warned at the start of the pandemic that an increase in pressure on parents and caregivers, coupled with a rise in children s vulnerability and disruption to normal protective services, would lead to a heightened risk of abuse.