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also tonight. the government s furlough scheme which saved millions ofjobs during the pandemic comes to an end today but around a million are still using it. almost 80 years after working as a secretary in a nazi concentration camp a 96 year old woman is arrested after going on the run to avoid trialfor complicity in mass murder. and we meet randall goosby the 25 year old who s being hailed as the rising star of classical music. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. a report into boxing corruption at rio 2016 identifies 11 suspicious bouts, including a final which saw britain s joe joyce lose out on gold. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. a former metropolitan police officer has been given a whole life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of sarah everard in march. wayne couzens will never be released. he pretended to arrest her in london and lured her into his car as she walked home from a friend s house. hours later he raped ....
he s determined to make his field more inclusive. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and 7pm in washington, where the us congress has voted to prevent a government shutdown by passing a short term spending bill. it ll keep the lights on, but only for another two months. here s the house speaker nancy pelosi after the spending bill passed the house. and with this continuing resolution, we not only keep government open, keep checks flowing to our veterans and social security recipients and the rest, but it s about, again, whether it s science at the national institutes of health, the education of our children, the protection of our environment, it s just a remarkable thing to think of all good things that we can do working together for the people. so, a shutdown avoided with hours to spare. but president joe biden s problems haven t gone away. fellow democrats are struggling to agree on a plan to vote on ....
grateful to the american people and personally to president biden. denmark is accused of double standards after allowing ukrainian refugees to stay for up to two years, while reducing the number of non european asylum seekers. authorities in beijing roll out mass testing this week, as they close more gyms, malls and cinemas to try to contain the spread of covid. the london club that s hosted some of music s biggest names is reopening later, three years after it was struck by fire, flood, and a plague. hello there and a very warm welcome to the programme. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky has said a russian missile attack on ukraine s capital, during a visit by the un secretary general, illustrates russia s contempt for global institutions. mr zelensky said the strikes on kyiv showed that civilians in ukrainian cities could not relax. gareth barlow reports. missile strikes in the centre of kyiv, a first for two weeks. two russian rockets struck a 25 story building, ....
hello and welcome to bbc news. two british volunteers working to provide humanitarian aid in ukraine are understood to have been captured by the russian military. it s believed the men were working as part of a joint humanitarian operations centre project in the country to help provide food, medical supplies and evacuation support. it comes after the foreign office confirmed a british national was killed while fighting in ukraine. it s thought the man, who s not been formally named but is believed to be scott sibley, was fighting for ukrainian forces when he was killed. a second man is understood to be missing. meanwhile, several russian strikes hit kyiv on thursday and killed at last one person, as the secretary general of the united nations, antonio guterres, met ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky in the capital and visited nearby towns. mr guterres said he was shocked by the attacks, and admitted that the un s security council had failed in its role to prevent or ....
sherry. sunnierand address most of that apart from the sherry. sunnier and warmer days in many areas. yesterday in south yorkshire with the cloud and 9 degrees for the top temperature but today with the sunshine getting closer to 15 degrees, the able average. there is some rain in the forecast this weekend but there is a catch, these are the april rainfall percentages are so far, the rainfall percentages are so far, the rain is coming mainly to those areas which have been closest to their april average. which have been closest to their aprilaverage. scotland which have been closest to their april average. scotland and northern ireland, furthest from the average and wales and england, you may see some but not much of that applies to the first part of may. a mixed picture this weekend. the source of the rain, these weatherfronts initially bringing into scotland and northern ireland tomorrow, a chance in wales and england on sunday but ahead of that with high pressure, ano ....