We start with efforts to get desperately needed aid into gaza, lets ta ke lets take you to live pictures in larnaca with a Spanish Charity ship is leaving the port carrying some 200 tonnes of food to gaza along what is going to become a new Maritime Aid Corridor that was announced by the eu. This vessel is being operated by world central kitchen, and it has been in larnaca for the last three weeks. It is towing a barge loaded with items which have been provided by world central kitchen. It is being organised by open arms, you can see the vessel has 0pen organised by open arms, you can see the vessel has open arms written on it. The open arms people say that on that barge being told our 200 tonnes of basic foodstuffs, including things like rice and flour and cans of tuna. The ship will take around two or three days to reach as i but we do not know where it will dock in gaza because there are no ports, so anything which has been set up will have to be temporary. It is an under closed loc
arrangements in northern ireland to try to help restore power sharing at stormont. and a triumphant ukraine wins the eurovision song contest after claiming the popular vote. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. first, sweden and finland have confirmed they will apply for nato membership ending decades of military non alignment. the finnish president, sauli niinisto, called his country s decision historic. however, sweden s governing social democrats, said that as members they would not accept nuclear weapons or alliance bases on swedish territory. reports say both countries are planning to hand their membership applications to nato on wednesday. nato foreign ministers, who are meeting in berlin, say they want a rapid accession because of the crisis in ukraine. from berlin, our europe correspondent, nick beake, reports. a fresh aerial attack lights the sky above the besieged mariupol steelworks. this is where the last of the city s defenders have been holed up, a final
And they ask us to help, as i say, i think it will be very difficult to say no. We dont need unilateral action, we need to work through the un but, above all, we need to bend ourselves totally to getting a political settlement in syria. The government loses a court bid to delay publication of its Air Pollution Strategy until after the general election. New figures show a big rise in Violent Crime in england and wales with knife crime at its highest level for six years. And how readers are turning off their e books and switching back to paper, as publishers enjoy a record year. Good evening, theres been a major Security Operation in whitehall as armed Police Arrested a man suspected of Planning Acts of terrorism. A rucksack and several knives have been recovered from the scene, but no one has been injured. Its understood officers from Scotland Yards Counter Terrorism command moved in on the suspect as part of an Intelligence Led Operation. The Prime Minister was not in Downing Street at
Hello and welcome to sportsday with me Lizzie Greenwood hughes and hugh woozencroft. The headlines this evening. Tears at the Stadium Of Light as sunderland are relegated from the Premier League. Five star celtic thrash their glasgow rivals rangers in the Old Firm Derby. Ferraris good form continues as vettel takes Pole Position at the Russian Grand Prix. And andy murray is beaten in the semi final of the barcelona open. And im at Wembley Stadium, we are just a couple of hours away from tonights super fight. Anthony joshua against Wladimir Klitschko. So plenty of sport to get through today but only one place to start and thats at the Stadium Of Light. A disappointing day for sunderland fans. Lizzie is with our football reporterjohn bennett. Disappointing if you are a sunderland fan, an understatement. They are down, it has been coming for some time . Yes, a 10 defeat against bournemouth, late defeat, for david moyes it is relegation. For sunderland fans, disappointment. They had been e