for many of us today it is going to be dry, sunny and warm, except across the very far north of scotland and parts of eastern england, where we hang onto more cloud. that will suppress the temperatures. details later in the programme. good morning. it s tuesday, the 30th of may. new measures to crackdown on the use of vapes by children in england, are set to be unveiled by the government. ministers have pledged to close a loophole allowing retailers to give free samples to children, and a ban on nicotine free vapes for under 18 s is also being considered. our health editor hugh pym has the details. a recent laboratory test for bbc news on illegal vapes confiscated at a school showed some had more than twice the safe amount of lead, and nine times the safe amount of nickel. the prime minister said he was shocked by this report, and said he was taking further action to clamp down on rogue firms who unlawfully target children with these products. the measures include closing a l
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. moscow has been targeted by multiple drones in the biggest such attack since the invasion of ukraine. officials said eight drones had reached the russian capital, causing some damage, but most had been shot down. ukraine has denied any involvement. russia s president, vladimir putin, said the drones were aimed at civilian targets and that russia reserves the right to take the harshest possible measures against kyiv. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, heard the explosions this morning, and sent this report. russian television says this is the moment that moscow came under attack. the bbc has not independently verified the images russian tv showed. but from early morning, people in and around the russian capital did report hearing explosions. i heard them, too. at home my windows shook from the force of the blasts. russia s defence ministry accused ukraine of carrying out the attack but said that russia s military had downed
thanks forjoining us. it s been an eventful weekend at the g7 summit injapan. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky returns home after securing a pledge of unwavering support , as well as more military equipment from his allies. at the summit, dominated by talks of russia s invasion, us presidentjoe biden confirmed that the us and its allies will help train ukrainian pilots to fly western fighterjets like the f 16, which zelensky had long asked for. biden also promised to support ukraine with more ammunition and armored vehicles, partly as a demonstration of western resolve. we will not waver. putin will not break our resolve as he thought he could two years ago, almost three years ago. we are going to continue to provide economic and humanitarian and security assistance to ukraine so it can stand strong as long as it needs to. meanwhile, president zelensky thanked world leaders for their enduring support at the end of the summit and said that russia s defeat would result
enters talks about pay. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the business journalist, john crowley, and joe twyman, who s the director of the polling organisation, deltapoll. tomorrow s front pages starting with. the financial times leads with covid cases in china, which the paper says have reached up to 250 million in december since the country eased lockdown restrictions. the times reports on an initiative by the government to cut down early retirement the paper says prime minister rishi sunak plans a midlife mot to get over 50s into work. the daily mail says the nhs is wasting money on equality, diversity and inclusion related positions. the i leads on yesterday s vote in scotland on gender identification reforms, saying it could lead to what it calls an unprecedented constitutional clash with westminster. it s also on the front page of the telegraph, which says labour leader sir keir starmer wants updat