and the la palma volcano covers the airport in ash, closing it off to all planes. hello and welcome. we begin with events in china and canada where what appears to be a exchange of detainees has taken place. the flights involve meng wanzhou and two canadian nationals. meng was fighting and extradition order from canada that could see her stand trial on financial charges. the two michaels were held in china on spying charges. they were detained in canada. but all three are now in their home countries. after more than a thousand days away from home, meng wanzhou arrived back. a crowd of well wishers were there to greet her. translation: the long wait abroad was full - of struggles and sufferings. but when i went down the staircase and landed on the ground, i was thrilled by the warmness from the hometown. the motherland, i m back. meng wanzhou was the worlds the us alleges she poured banks diaz alleges that not breaching american s sanctions. the case is complicated, but the fa
closing it off to all planes. hello and welcome. we begin with the vincent china and canada where what appears to be a exchange of detainees have taken place. when meng wanzhou, and two canadian nationals. she was fighting and extradition orderfrom canada was fighting and extradition order from canada that could see your stand trial on financial charges. the two michaels were held in china on spying charges. they were detained in canada. but all three are now in their home countries. after more than a thousand days away from home, meng wanzhou arrived back. a crowd of well wishers were there to greet her. translation: the long wait abroad was full - of struggles and sufferings. when i went down the staircase and landed on the ground, i was thrilled by the warmness of the hometown. the motherland, i m back. she was the worlds the us alleges she poured banks to process transactions with a company based in iran and breaching us sanctions. her case was complicated but she was the
this was the moment he arrived at the prime minister s residence in rome, where he was greeted by italian president sergio mattarella. shortly after this, he met italian prime minister giorgia meloni. she s been one of ukraine s more vocal backers, although polls suggest that italian people overall are opposed to sending ukraine more weapons. as are some of her coalition partners. live now to the bbc s sofia bettiza in rome. out, members of the rmt union are back on picket lines. another 24 hour strike at their long running dispute, with live now to the bbc s sofia bettiza in rome. president zelensky has had a meeting with his counterparts. this private meeting lasted for 25 minutes and some of these things discussed were economic functions against russia, the kidnapping against ukrainian children, and they need to set up. after the meeting, president zelensky said i want to thank italy each italian one by one for to show italy s continued support for ukraine. quite a few sym
palestinians took to the streets in gaza city this evening, as a ceasefire between israel and the militant islamichhad went into effect. crowds celebrated in the streets accompanied by emergency services and civil defence vehicles with sirens blaring and lights flashing. the truce came into effect just over two hours ago, signalling an end to the worst episode of cross border fire in the last few years. these are recent pictures from gaza. we are hoping to bring you some live pictures. this is actually the live shot across gaza city. the agreement brokered by egypt follows five days of violent exchanges which have killed at least 35 people all but one of them palestinians. there has been no comment from the israeli prime minister or other officials since news of the truce emerged. a palestinian source told the bbc that the new agreement included a commitment by israel to stop so called targeted assassinations. israel has been demanding a complete halt to rocket fire by
and russian media reports a car explosion has killed the daughter of an influential russian philosopher and key putin ally. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brun brunhuber. we begin with the extreme weather threat across the central and southwestern u.s. a tropical storm warning has been lifted for far southern texas, but rain from that system could spread into oklahoma and louisiana through midweek. strong winds are expected as the storm moves further inland. meanwhile, more than 12 million people across the southwestern and central u.s. are under flood watches. in parts of arizona, new mexico and texas, the risk of flash flooding is high, with these areas expecting heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout the day. in new mexico, residents are doing what they can to prepare for the worst. water backs up into our yards and also so far we made almost 50 sandbags. we have some that we made last year, but we re making more to prepare for that rain. an