volodymyr zelensky the president of ukraine is visiting germany. in the last hour, he was greeted by the german chancellor olaf scholtz, with whom he is now holding talks. germany has just announced its biggest sum of military aid to ukraine yet 3 billion dollars. that s about £2.1i billion. earlier, mrzelensky was received by president frank walter steinmeier. the trip comes just a day after a visit to italy, where he met the italian pm, the president and the pope. let s cross to our correspondent jenny hill in berlin. thank you forjoining us. germany is certainly pulling out all the stops for the visit of president zelensky? indeed. first of all from the formalities and ceremonial prospective he has had the thought military honours at the chancellery and he met the german president early this morning. and while he was there, president zelensky thanked there, president zelensky thanked the german people, describing germany as a true friend under a reliable ally. he
outside africa, where it s most common. first identified in monkeys, the disease typically spreads through close contact. coming up shortly on bbc news newswatch. but first here s click. no, this isn t some kind of sea monster. but an autonomous machine that aims perhaps to make working and see that little bit safer. with an ever growing demand for renewable and sustainable energy sources, the infrastructure that provides that energy is becoming increasingly critical. now, at present, those facilities are often maintained by human divers working in challenging and hazardous conditions. but here at heriot watt university they are developing underwater robotic solutions to help take the strain. and if come up with this, the walker autonomous drone. ~ ., this, the walker autonomous drone. ., ., drone. we ve got our scanning sauna, drone. we ve got our scanning sauna. a drone. we ve got our scanning sauna, a mechanical drone. we ve got our scanning sauna, a mechanical sc
good evening. a woman who was terrorised and abused by an mi5 agent is taking legal action against the security service. the woman, who we are calling beth, has lodged a formal complaint with the watchdog for the intelligence services, after a bbc investigation revealed that her then partner used his security status as a means of controlling her. the agent, whom the high court ruled cannot be named, also attacked the woman with a machete and threatened to kill her. 0ur correspondent daniel de simone reports. a violent mi5 agent who used his position to abuse. ultimately this position within the security services was used to terrorise me. last night, we revealed how the state informant attacked his girlfriend beth with a machete and threatened to kill her. the foreign agent a right wing extremist with a long history of abusing women can t be named because the government obtained a court order keeping his identity secret. he attacked his british partner before leaving the uk wh
Myrie will be here with a round up of the days news. But first, is time for our world. This next story is going to freak you out. The transgender couple have had a baby. This next story is going to freak you out. A transgender man is pregnant by his transgender female partner. Did you get that . Neither partner has had surgery, which means they conceived the baby just like any other couple. Good evening. There is some much needed rainfall in the forecast in the course of the night and tomorrow will see scattered showers. Those showers will be following in ona those showers will be following in on a south westerly breeze. Some of them could be a little heavy on the afternoon across scotland and Northern Ireland. Temperatures here about 15 or 16. A bit warmer than that for england and wales. Fairly well scattered showers. They will line up in bands from the South West Of England up towards the home counties. Those showers fade fairly quickly during the evening. And then we see the wind p
Myrie will be here with a round up of the days news. But first, is time for our world. This next story is going to freak you out. The transgender couple have had a baby. This next story is going to freak you out. A transgender man is pregnant by his transgender female partner. Did you get that . Neither partner has had surgery, which means they conceived the baby just like any other couple. Good evening. There is some much needed rainfall in the forecast in the course of the night and tomorrow will see scattered showers. Those showers will be following in ona those showers will be following in on a south westerly breeze. Some of them could be a little heavy on the afternoon across scotland and Northern Ireland. Temperatures here about 15 or 16. A bit warmer than that for england and wales. Fairly well scattered showers. They will line up in bands from the South West Of England up towards the home counties. Those showers fade fairly quickly during the evening. And then we see the wind p