last month in new york. more on those in a moment. first story making headlines in australia. now to a story which is making headlines in australia and around the world after broadcaster antoinette lattouf was sacked by the abc network for reposting a human rights watch report about gaza. the company has denied it succumbed to external pressure from an israeli lobby group citing a breach of its social media policy and referencing the importance of impartiality. hundreds of staff at the abc have threatened walk outs, unless they get assurances about support to staff in the spotlight. i ve been talking to antoinette lattouf who s now launched legal action against the broadcaster i started by asking how suprised she was, when she was fired. i was floored, not only how i was fired, but how quickly things escalated. one minute i was taking talkback calls about christmas playlists don t include michael buble, the next thrown under the bus in a very public way and within a
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by russia s invasion of ukraine. in response, moscow says the finland nato alliance increases the risk of conflict and that it will strengthen its military presence in the region. the head of the military alliance, jens stoltenberg, is calling finland s accession a historic moment. here s what he said earlier. in a few hours we will welcome finland as the slst member of our alliance. this will make finland safer and nato stronger. on this very day in 1949 the washington treaty, nato s founding treaty, was signed in washington, and it s hard to imagine a better way of celebrating our anniversary than to have finland becoming a full member of the alliance. nato s foreign ministers meet at a pivotal time for our security. we see that president putin s war of aggression against ukraine grinds on. we will meet in the nato ukraine commission with the foreign minister where we will address how to sustain and ramp up support from nato allies to ukraine. both the urgent needs, but als
suspects than six years ago. can ukraine s troops hold back the russian advance in the east? we report from a frontline town, which may become one of moscow s key targets. the price of the cheapest pasta in uk supermarkets went up by 50% in a year, as households continue to be hit with the rising cost of living. balmoral has been the only place where the queen could relax from the affairs of state. and in the run up to the long jubilee weekend, we talk to people who live near balmoral about their neighbour, the queen. and coming up on the bbc news channel. the takeover is complete the consortium led by american todd boehly is finally approved, bringing the 19 year roman abramovich era to an end. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the french government has blamed what it called industrial scale ticket fraud for the chaos at this weekend s champions league final in paris. french ministers held emergency talks earlier today with police and french and european f
and in ukraine, russian forces advance on the centre of the key city of severa donetsk in the eastern donbas. good evening and welcome to bbc news. breaking welcome to bbc news. news on our top story toda with breaking news on our top story today with the problems at the football over the weekend. we are just hearing in the last couple of moments that you aare launching an independent report, commissioning and independent report into what happened. let s look at the events of saturday night. the french government has blamed what it called industrial scale ticket fraud, for the chaos at this weekend s champions league final in paris. french ministers held emergency talks earlier today with police, and french and european football officials, as the row continued about what happened at the match. there s been widespread condemnation of the tactics of the police, who used tear gas and pepper spray on thousands of liverpool fans as they queued for hours to get into the stadium.