In a moment we ll bring you all tomorrow s front pages in our paper review but first this evening s breaking news that afterjust three weeks in the job, the leader of northern ireland s democratic unionist party edwin poots has resigned after a revolt in his own party. Our ireland correspondent chris page explains why. This place where northern ireland s politics plays out is well used to unpredictability, drama and strain relations i really no one has seen anything like the events which have unfolded this evening. It seems like in no time at all since arlene foster was deposed as devey leader after an internal coup. Now her successor edward boots has announced he is standing down. The basic issue, of the mill he won. The conditions under which unionist stair power units in the devolved government. He led his partisans only last month. At this evening. He seemed to be a bit happier. Sir geoffrey donaldson who narrowly lost the recent leadership contest. In one of the most senior de
Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. The indian foreign minister has confirmed that its delegation at the meeting of the g7 group here in london is self isolating after two members tested positive for covid 19. The news comes on the day the pandemic is being discussed at the meeting with the focus on the global distribution of coronavirus vaccines. There s growing pressure to share stockpiles and know how with poor nations trailing far behind in fighting the pandemic. The world trade organistion is also meeting to look at one solution: waiving vaccine patent rights. Courtney bembridge has the details. Are wealthy nations doing enough to help poorer countries tackle covid 19? that s the question being put to g7 foreign ministers, who are meeting to consider new ways to ensure fairer access to vaccine stockpiles. The g7 countries are the world s economic and political leaders. They re also home to many of the world s vaccine producers. We will only solve
Good morning from the lake district. More of us are holidaying close to home this year and destinations like this are gearing up for the first weekend of the season. We could be set for an all premier league final in the europa league as both manchester united and arsenal reach the last four, with the londoners dominating in prague. Plus, 125 years since the national trust bought their first property, in east sussex. I will be taking a look around and bringing you the forecast. A cold start but the most it will be a dry day. It s friday, 16th april. Our top story. Final preparations are being made ahead of the duke of edinburgh s funeral, which will take place at st george s chapel in windsor tomorrow afternoon. The service for prince philip, who died last week at the age of 99, will be attended by 30 guests, including all his children and grandchildren, alongside personnel from the armed forces. Buckingham palace said the plans very much reflected the duke s wishes. Charlotte wright r
Beautiful family love america. You should hear them gush about it proudly from english. He earned his pathway to america. After three ways of fighting the state department bureaucracy, he earned a visa to this country. And he has made good on it fraud and free. But when joe biden and the democrats talk about refugees, they are not talking about bacher. They want different americans. Which brings me to this. Each year the white house notifies congress the number. This number is known as the refugee ceiling. Because there is no glass ceiling the left doesn t want to shatter, right? why not crash that one as well. Well, yesterday, the people in charge of the white house, whoever that is, announced they would raise the refugee ceiling next year to the highest level in american history. The highest ever to a goal of 125,000 authorized refugees next year. A number higher than ever been given in a single year even to, say, jews in world war ii germany. For reference that number 125,000 equals
conducted from now on. roughly half of the uk population now has antibodies against covid, either through vaccination or being infected. the terrible brutality of libya s civil war we have a special report from tarhuna, where they are exhuming the dead to find their loved ones. the case against the former policeman charged with the murder of george floyd resumes in the us city of minneapolis with more witness testimony. and temperatures soar as the uk provisionally records its warmest march day for 53 years. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. an official review into the policing of the london vigil held in memory of sarah everard has found that officers did not act inappropriately or in a heavy handed manner . footage from the event on clapham common showed women being detained, and the force was widely criticised, including by senior politicians. but the chief inspector of constabulary, sir tom windsor, says officers had done their best to disperse the crowd peacefu