a review of london s metropolitan police is expected to heavily criticise the force for racist, sexist and homophobic behaviour. uk passport office staff are to strike for five weeks, which could have a major impact on holidaymakers booking summer holidays. and making waves a former professional surfer breaks the world record for the longest surf session in australia. the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for president vladimir putin and the head of the russian children s commission for alleged war crimes in ukraine. they are accused of forcibly deporting children from ukraine to russia. the icc says there are reasonable grounds to believe mr putin bares individual criminal responsibility for such deportations, which it says started soon after moscow launched its full scale invasion nearly 13 months ago. the warrant means mr putin could be detained if he leaves the country. the kremlin has denounced the move, calling it outrageous and unacceptabl
hello and welcome. the french president emmanuel macron and the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, are in beijing, where they re holding talks with the chinese leadership. the trip is the latest push by europe to engage with china, and they re expected to urge china to use its influence on russia to halt the war in ukraine. after meeting with china s premier li qiang preident macron has met president xi xingping in the last half hour. in his first comments, mr macron said the visit would focus on economic ties as well as international stability. joining me from the newsroom is our asia pacific editor, michael bristow. thank you for being with us. tell us how significant this meeting is. it is very significant, you have seen the pomp and ceremony of the welcome xijinping has given emmanuel macron and it starts on a note of something like optimism. president macron said his meetings with the chinese premier, president macron said this was a chance f
key officials in kyiv. the presidential spokesman and presidential spokesman and presidential adviser. presidential spokesman and presidentialadviser. both presidential spokesman and presidential adviser. both of them say the presidential adviser. both of them say the same thing. that everything ukraine say the same thing. that everything ukraine has say the same thing. that everything ukraine has at its disposal it s using ukraine has at its disposal it s using to ukraine has at its disposal it s using to defend itself rather than attack using to defend itself rather than attack russia and both of these officials attack russia and both of these officials have said it s possible that russia might use this incident to that russia might use this incident tojustify that russia might use this incident tojustify an attack that russia might use this incident to justify an attack on ukraine. so the big to justify an attack on ukraine. so the big question now is how it happened
have rejected the ukrainian side. the ukrainians have rejected they the ukrainian side. the ukrainians have rejected they have the ukrainian side. the ukrainians have rejected they have anything l the ukrainian side. the ukrainians. have rejected they have anything to do with this alleged drone attack. we ve heard from presidential spokespeople here rejecting any ukrainian involvement. what s interesting is that we also heard from an adviser to president zelensky who not only rejected any ukrainian involvement with this attack but also said this could be an indication that moscow is preparing to launch a large scale attack against ukraine. the senior adviser also said carrying out an attack like this wouldn t change the situation on the battlefield for kyiv and would only give russia the excuse to carry out more attacks targeting the civilian population. so the ukrainians have so far rejected any kind of involvement in this alleged drone attack. what s interesting is the context