Welcome to the programme. We begin injamaica where the american top diplomat Antony Blinken is holding crisis talks with the review and leaders on the worsening violence in haiti due to criminal gangs. They have overrun much of the capital and close down its Main International airport. They are calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister who is currently in puerto rico and unable to return home. As he blinked and said the United States would contribute additional funding to a states would contribute additionalfunding to a un backed Security Force intending to help police fight against as well as humanitarian aid. What weve seen in recent days again should remind us that the already challenging and difficult Security Situation has now deteriorated even further, and makes the Multinational Support mission even more important than ever. The United Nations Security Council has reaffirmed that, and reaffirmed a collective commitment to deploy it as quickly as possible. Given this incr
And the best actor. Live from our studio in singapore. This is bbc news. Its newsday. Thank you for your company this morning. We start this hour in the uk where the princess of wales has apologised for what she calls any confusion after she said she edited a photograph of her and her children. Her statement came after five News Agencies retracted it over editing concerns. The image, taken by the Prince Of Wales, was the first of catherine to be released since her surgery injanuary. The princess of wales was seen on monday being driven out of windsor in a car with prince william, as he travelled to the Commonwealth Day service which she did not attend. Our royal correpondent Daniela Relph has more. Very nice to see you guys. The Prince Of Wales this evening at an event related to his earth shot environmental project in london. At the end of a day filled with unexpected twists and turns. Prince william took this photo of his wife and children that were supposed to reassure, to calm the
The headlines the bbc sees evidence that staff at Nasser Hospital in gaza were mistreated by israeli forces. A ship loaded with 200 tonnes of humanitarian aid finally leaves cyprus for gaza where people are dying of starvation. Haitis Prime Minister resigns and calls for calm after Gang Violence plunged the country into chaos. Social Media Influencer andrew tate and his Brother Triston are arrested by Romanian Police over alleged sex offences committed in britain. And surf s up on the river severn,. We start this half hour in haiti where the Prime Minister, ariel henry, has agreed to resign and make way for a transitional authority. It comes as heavily armed gangs take control of the capital and dead bodies pile up on its streets. It has a complicated past. Since breaking free from French Colonial rule over two centuries ago, the caribbean state has weathered multiple foreign interventions. Well start in 1915, when the us invaded and occupied haiti following local unrest. It maintained
so today she ll be presented with france s highest honour, the legion d honneur. i m just amazed, really. i m not expecting that sort of thing. president macron will give christian her medal here in ver sur mer, so she says she s brushing up on her french. i spent the morning trying to go through my french dictionary to find some really polite things to say in french, because i used to be absolutely bilingual when i was young and i lived in france for a whole year, and now i ve forgotten it all. but as we witnessed at a school here in northern france last month, christian is being far too modest about her linguistic skills. she speaks french. i feel wonderful. thrilled by it all. yesterday she was flown from portsmouth with pat owtram, also a recipient of the medal. i like yours very much. yes. i ve always been ratherjealous of it. ..wishing her bon voyage. have a good trip. thank you very much. very exciting. with the distinctive red ribbon and white cross, the people of fra
we have a special report on a yazidi family suing an islamic state leader s widow for abuse and sex trafficking. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in new york, where the united nations security council has voted in favour of an american resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire by israel and hamas in gaza. 1a countries voted in favour, with russia abstaining. speaking after the vote, the us ambassador to the un, linda thomas greenfield, said the fighting could end now if hamas accepted the three phase plan. our north america correspondent nada tawfik is monitoring events for us, and sent us this update. the united states, i think, it s no surprise that this resolution, the vote, coincided with antony blinken s trip to the region. and what we heard from the united states was that this was the best possible way to secure a durable end to the war, saying that it really is a deal that was israel s initiative, it outlined thr