President macron, the french president, to discuss a potential agreement which might allow the uk to send back some small boat migrants in return for accepting a number of asylum seekers from europe. That is potentially something they might announce later on. There also, potentially, a multi million pound package that we might hear about later to support eu measures to stop migrants coming from africa. I can t quite tell. Have actually taking the photograph? i think so. They re all going to be wandering back in. It s a dramatic setting there for that big meeting of european leaders. Let s leave that now. We will of course bring you the speeches and news conferences throughout the day and you can catch up on our website. We have got continuous coverage of the meeting. That will be updated and my colleague will bring you up later on. Let s move on now to other news. Palestinians in the last 2a hours. These are the latest pictures from across the border in southern israel, showing a large
authorities since the end of the cold war. the us government and the wall streetjournal have dismissed the charge saying he s being used as a bargaining chip by moscow. we ve been speaking to evan s sister danielle. it s really hard for him, but we re so proud of him. he s very resilient and he is working really hard to stay strong. he worries about us. we try to make sure that he knows that we re doing well. and he even recently sent women and his life some bouquets in his life some bouquets for international women s day, march eighth, which is really nice. paul, i want to ask you, his detention was extended for a fifth time this week. what can you tell us about that? it s a pattern we ve seen since start of this. every two or three months, the russians produce him in court and ask for more time to investigate. we haven t seen any evidence through that whole process now. it s been extended for another three months, which means we don t know when there will be a trial. so r
welcome to the world today, an hour of international news from the bbc. we start in northern ireland, where politics has been thrown into turmoil with the news that the leader of the democratic unionist party, sirjeffrey donaldson, has resigned after being charged with rape and other historical sexual offences. he was arrested yesterday along with a 57 year old woman, who has been charged with aiding and abetting in connection with the alleged offences. they will appear in court next month. sirjeffrey, who is northern ireland s longest serving mp at westminster, says he will strenously contest the charges. jennifer o leary reports. sirjeffrey donaldson, a leader whojust weeks ago returned his party to power sharing at stormont. today, his political career appears to be over. in a statement, his party announced his resignation, confirming that he s been charged with allegations of an historical nature. bbc news understands he s been charged with rape and multiple other sexual
development in northern ireland news thatjeffrey donaldson the leader of the democratic unionist party has been charged with historical sexual offences and has quit as leader. the dup says mr donaldson, who has been in politics for almost ao years, has had his membership suspended pending the outcome of a judicial process. the party released a statement earlier, it says: police issued a statement earlier this morning. it read a 61 year old man had been charged with non recent sexual offences adding that a 57 year old woman was also arrested and charged with aiding and abetting additional offences . the statement confirmed two people will appear in court on april 24. let s speak to our ireland correspondent, sara girvin. a quite stunning development. take us through it. a quite stunning development. take us through it us through it. yeah, it s really remarkable. us through it. yeah, it s really remarkable. sir us through it. yeah, it s really remarkable. sirjef
near a seaside park. the attacker has been shot dead. israel s prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has ordered the mobilization of police and army reserves. earlier, in the occupied west bank, two british israeli sisters were killed and their mother injured in a gun attack on a car. here s israel s defence minister. translation: we will settle | the account with whoever tries to hurt citizens of israel and we will bring them to the cemetery or prison after investigation. anyone who tried to turn the days of israel holiday into days of morning will regret this matter greatly. this all comes after a week of escalating tensions between israelis and palestinians. on wednesday and thursday, israeli police stormed jerusalem s al aqsa mosque. israeli forces fired stun grenades and clashed with palestinians as they gathered for ramadan prayers. on thursday rockets were fired from lebanon into northern israel, the biggest such attack in 17 years. israel responded with air strikes