iam i am live at the start of france, the gates are open, kick off three hours for what could be one of the great champions league finals. good afternoon. people are facing huge disruption to their travel plans as the half term break gets under way. dozens of flights have been cancelled and there have been long delays at ports and on the roads, as well as cross channel services. and there are warnings that the disruption is likely to continue for more than a week. let s take you through the latest developments. easyjet is cancelling more than 200 flights over the next ten days from gatwick airport, insisting it needs to in order to provide reliable services over this busy period . there have been long queues at london s st pancras station for eurostar services across the channel as families head to disneyland paris and football fans try to get to the french capital ahead of the champions league final. and people are being urged to check the latest advice before travelling to
priority for the democratic world to stop putin because i believe he is a neofascist. we need every kind of efforts, economic, political, diplomatic, to eventually get rid of putin and to free russia of putin, and we need to be together and we need to use all possible means. vladimir grossman, the former prime minister of ukraine. now, nazanin zaghari ratcliffe tells your story out. now on bbc news, nazanin zaghari ratcliffe tells her own story, exclusively to emma barnett. imprisoned and kept apart from her husband, young daughter and home for six years, the story of nazanin zaghari ratcliffe has moved people around the world. with her return to britain in march, alongside fellow detainee anoosheh ashoori, from confinement in an iranian prison, nazanin was finally reunited with her husband, richard, and daughter, gabriella, and has had the chance for face to face conversations
i know to try and get them back to the uk. i know it to try and get them back to the uk. i know it has to try and get them back to the uk. i know it has been to try and get them back to the uk. i know it has been awfully - to try and get them back to the uk. i know it has been awfully hard - to try and get them back to the uk. i know it has been awfully hard forl i know it has been awfully hard for the family. i know it has been awfully hard for the family. it i know it has been awfully hard for the family, it has i know it has been awfully hard for the family, it has been i know it has been awfully hard for the family, it has been five - i know it has been awfully hard for the family, it has been five years, | the family, it has been five years, really. the family, it has been five years, really. where the family, it has been five years, really, where anoosheh the family, it has been five years, really, where anoosheh has - the family, it has been five years, real
world to her that hug with her daughter. world to her that hug with her dau:hter. . ~ , ., world to her that hug with her dau:hter. . ~ ,, . there has been a huge amount of effort and campaigning to get both nazanin and anoosheh released. we can speak now to leanna burnard, a legal officer who has been working with the ratcliffe family for more than five years, and to janet daby, the labour mp for lewisham who has been campaigning for the release of her constituent anoosheh ashoori. thank you, both, forjoining us. leanna, you have been talking about this in the last 24 hours. you are talking to richard, the family, you were never quite sure. how much of a sense of relief is there now? tt is sense of relief is there now? it is absolutely sense of relief is there now? it is absolutely overwhelming, to be honest absolutely overwhelming, to be honest i absolutely overwhelming, to be honest. i think the build up and anxiety. honest. i think the build up and anxiety, not only
ashoori who was arrested third, a retired engineer who was arrested and then held. a third british national has been released from prison but has been furloughed. in other words he has to stay in tehran. afterfour years in tehran. after four years in detention tehran. afterfour years in detention in many diplomatic efforts to release them some are asking why this is happening now. here s ross atkins nazanin zaghari ratcliffe has been released by aransas appears he is on the plane home. the british iranian detainee anoosheh ashoori has been released to. so far nazanin zaghari ratcliffe six years in detention are over and the reasons why have little to do with the charges of spying she pays, no evidence was ever offered. rather is the disease james landau puts it. two factors help explain why that calculation has changed. the first is a debt. calculation has changed. the first isa debt. . . calculation has changed. the first is a debt. ., ., ., ., calculation has changed. the first isade