good afternoon. first, police in northern ireland are warning that dissident republican groups may try to cause public disorder to draw police into attacks over the easter weekend. extra officers are being drafted in ahead of a visit by president biden next week as part of events to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. our ireland correspondent chris page reports from belfast. in northern ireland this weekend, people are holding events to mark a quarter of a century of relative peace. the agreement signed on good friday, 1998, largely ended three decades of conflict. but there is also a reminder that the threat from paramilitaries hasn t completely pa ramilitaries hasn t completely faded. paramilitaries hasn t completely faded. police have taken the unusual step of warning there could be street violence at a march held by dissident republicans. there is very strong community evidence specifically coming forward in respect of monday s events in derry londond
pope francis presides over palm sunday mass at the vatican, just a day after leaving hospital in rome for treatment for bronchitis. we start with the breaking news that russia says a leading pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast in a cafe in st petersburg. police say 16 others have been injured in the incident. the city is the second largest in russia after the capital, moscow. vladlen tatarsky was one of a handful of reporters writing blogs on the telegram platform from the front line and was a vocal supporters of russia s war in ukraine. it is not clear at this time who s responsible for the blast. as you d expect, details of the explosion are still coming in and of course as we get more on this, we ll bring it to you. to the united states now, though. authorities there have been assessing the damage caused by severe storms and tornadoes. at least 26 people are now known to have died as the storms ripped through the south and the midwest, leaving a trail o
a mother and her partner have been found guilty of murdering her 15 year old son in huddersfield in west yorkshire in a campaign of torture that lasted weeks. the european union launches fresh legal action against the uk for failing to comply with the post brexit northern ireland protocol. and later in the hour, will the millions of people who loved the book enjoy the film of where the crawdads sing? find out what mark kermode thinks of it, and the rest of the week s main releases, on the film review at 5.45. good afternoon. a critical incident has been declared at the port of dover, with holiday makers and lorry drivers facing queues of several miles to the ferry terminal. bosses at the port have blamed what they ve called woefully inadequate staffing at french border controls. this weekend marks the start of the school summer holidays in most of england and wales, and the rac estimates that nearly 19 million leisure trips will be made between now and monday. our correspon
and the long wait is over for millions of lord of the rings fans.as a tv pre quel is launched at comic con . a landmark agreement to allow the export of grain, from the ukrainian port of odesa has come under threat, after the city was hit by a missile strike, less than 2a hours after the deal was signed. russia had promised not to attack the port or any ships carrying grain out of it. but president zelensky said the strike showed that moscow would always find ways to avoid delivering on its agreements. there has been no direct response from the kremlin. our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, sent this report from odesa. in a war littered with broken promises and especially devastating betrayal, two missiles launched from the black sea hitting odesa s port. two others were taken out by air defence systems. for coffee vendor sergei, there is only one thing to do. translation: i saw black smoke after the missiles hit, so i knew i had to run to a bomb shelter and hid
hello and welcome to bbc news. the focus of the conservative leadership race to elect the next british prime minister is switching to immigration, with both candidates setting out measures to control the uk s borders. the former chancellor, rishi sunak, has proposed a ten point plan including a cap on refugee numbers, and witholding aid from countries which won t accept the return of asylum seekers whose claims have failed. the foreign secretary, liz truss, has told a newspaper she would increase the number of frontline border force staff by a fifth. joining me now is our political correspondent, tony bonsignore. you have been looking in detail at the ten point plan from rishi sunak, what are they saying in more detail? liz truss saying this morning all over the mail on sunday, her key message is she will continue with the rwanda plan, try and expand it to other countries. you mentioned increasing borderfor to other countries. you mentioned increasing border for staff,