Are at risk from the rays. Welcome to bbc news. President zelensky has renewed his appeal for allies to provide ukraine with more air defences, after another night of russian bombardment caused serious damage to Energy Infrastructure. He called for decisive action, saying the world could shoot down every missile and drone launched by, what he called, russian terrorists. Four power plants were hit in three regions, and Gas Infrastructure was also struck. An oil refinery in occupied slavyansk was damaged. Reports indicate a second oil refinery was also hit, and video has emerged of destruction at an airbase. A little earlier i spoke to victoria vdovychenko programme directorfor Security Studies at the centre for defence strategies, a Ukrainian Security think tank. The most important is the time space and that is very important also, our allies understand that the shortage of the weapons on the ground, in the field, on the ukrainian battlefield in particular, therefore, it was so timely,
Progress in finding common ground. In the last few hours, its also been announced that americas top diplomat Antony Blinken will visit saudi arabia this week. Meanwhile, hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel, and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and Us Governments has published in the past few days. Our correspondent anna foster is in tel aviv where families have been gathering to call again for all the hostages in gaza to be released. Omri miran s father was actually already on the list of confirmed speakers for this event tonight. When he got up on the stage, he talked about the moment, he said he was sitting having coffee with someone and talking about his grandchildren when the man he was talking to held his phone and said, look, they have released a v
Of them who arent happy. Arsenal crushed chelsea 5 0 to move clear in the premier League Title Race as it heads towards the thrilling conclusion. Baroness Floella Benjamin is honoured by bafta for her work supporting young people and pioneering diversity in childrens television. It will develop into a sunny dry day for many but more cloud in the east and the south west producing some showers and still a key northerly wind down the east coast. All the details later. Its wednesday the 24th of april. Our main story. More than 50 survivors of the migrant Boat Disaster in which five people died off the coast of france are recovering in england this morning, having declined to be rescued by french authorities. The incident took place just hours after parliament approved a bill to allow the uk to send some Asylum Seekers to rwanda. The government has said the new law will reduce illegal Channel Crossings but some migrants have said it wont deter them from trying. Graham satchell reports. The
Its monday the 22nd april, our main story. The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has told the bbc that the investigation into his death should be reopened, after the metropolitan Police Issued another apology for the way theyve handled the case. Stephen was 18 when he was stabbed to death in a racist attack in south london 31 years ago today. The metropolitan Police Commissioner has apologised to Doreen Lawrence after questions were raised about another suspect in a bbc investigation. Daniel de simone reports. The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence took place 31 years ago today at a south london bus stop. Two of the original five prime suspects were convicted almost 20 years after the murder. But the met s disastrous handling of the case means no one else has been brought to justice. Last year, the bbc publicly identified a sixth suspect matthew white, who died in 2021 and revealed multiple failures by the met to properly investigate him. Now, stephens mother, baroness Doreen
So, just to run you through those, he said they had identified an airfield and a commercial airline to take flights off. He said that they had 500 people trained and ready to escort people to rwanda. He said that they had secured extra court time to process legal claims, and 200 people legally trained to do that. So i think what rishi sunak was trying to do there was to get ahead of the debate this evening in the House Of Lords and House Of Commons about the intricacies of the bill and say that the government is ready to get flights off as soon as possible. Obviously, the caveat to all of that is that rishi sunak initially said that he wanted to get flights off in the spring, he is now saying the flights now wont happen for at least another 10 12 weeks, which takes us beyond the spring into the summer. I think that will have implications for whether these will be done. They certainly wont be done by local elections, and there are questions about how much of an impact this will have bef