scarlettjenkinson and eddie ratcliffe lured brianna jai to a park in broad daylight, where they stabbed her 28 times. brianna ghey. this afternoon they were given life sentences with minimum terms of 22 and 20 years. the pair had discussed the murder in the weeks before. police have released new images of abdul shakoor ezedi, who they re still hunting in connection with an attack on a woman and her two children, using a corrosive substance that has left the mother with life changing injuries. more details have emerged of ezedi s movements before and after the attack in south london on wednesday evening. but we begin tonight with an unprecedented warning from more than 800 serving officials in the us and europe denouncing their governments policy on israel and the war in gaza. in a signed a statement they warn that their own governments policies on the israel gaza war could amount to grave violations of international law . one signatory to the statement a us government
he tells me how armed russian soldiers in balaclavas came to his school that day, loaded him and 12 other children onto buses, and drove off with them. translation: to be honest, it was pretty scary. i didn t know where they were taking us. sasha then had no contact at all with his mum for six weeks. i ask how hard that was. translation: yes. to be honest, it s too distressing to even remember. ukraine believes more than 19,000 children have been moved to russia since this war began. russia claims it s just protecting the children. but russia s president is now a wanted man. the international criminal court has accused him of the illegal deportation of ukrainian children. i asked tetyana what she made of that charge. translation: it s not only putin who should be put on trial. - it s all the main people the commanders, all of them for what they did to the children. what right did they have? they knew it was impossible for us to get them back, and they didn t care. and t
there was a time, before the war in ukraine, when europe thought about its place in the world, and how it could become less dependent on the united states. as washington turned inwards, and administrations refocused us foreign policy towards asia, france and germany talked about the need for strategic autonomy . but today in warsaw, at a meeting of the bucharest 9, it was the american president sat at the head of the table. all nine members of this group were part of the former soviet union or the defunct warsaw pact. the commitment of the united states to nato, i ve said it too many times, i ll say it again, is absolutely clear. article five is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. and this is an important moment. i look forward to the discussion, the next steps we can take together and to keep our alliance strong and to further deter aggression. because what literally is at stake is notjust ukraine,
welcome to the programme. beforejoe biden spoke in warsaw this evening, the white house pushed back on a narrative that this was a split screen moment, pitting the american president against vladimir putin. yet the very fact the two men were giving wildly different accounts of the war, on the same day, and just hours apart, makes the comparison unavoidable. in fact, at certain points in this address, joe biden tackled head on the charges president putin had laid earlier in the day. the appetites of the autocrat cannot be appeased. they must be opposed. autocrats only understand one word no, no, no. cheering no, you will not take my country. no, you will not take my freedom. no, you will not take my future. here wasjoe biden returning to a familiar theme. that global confrontation between democracies and autocracy. since he first picked up that theme in the wake of january 6th, western democracies have recovered some of their swagger. that confidence, said the president, flo