Month: March 2024

BBC/Joyce Liu By Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent in Kharkiv In central Kharkiv you hear the rattle of generators on every street. Ten days ago, Ukraine’s second city was plunged into darkness by a massive, targeted Russian missile attack on the energy system – it was the biggest since the start of the full-scale war.

HOLLIE ADAMS By Ian Casey BBC News King Charles III is due to make his most significant public appearance since being diagnosed with cancer. The King will join the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at an Easter Sunday service at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. The Prince and Princess of Wales

Liam McBurney/PA Media By Jayne McCormack BBC News NI political correspondent Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has said she is “determined” to ensure political stability in the days ahead. The DUP representative was reacting to the resignation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson as DUP leader. Sir Jeffrey stepped down from the position after he

EPA By Lucy Williamson BBC News, above the Gaza Strip One thousand miles east of Gaza, large blocks of aid are being loaded on to a US military transport plane, its crew silhouetted by the morning sun glancing over the desert landscape around Qatar’s al-Udeid airbase. They push 80 crates into the plane’s cavernous interior,

Getty/Charles McQuillan Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been charged with historical sexual offences and has resigned as Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader. A 57-year-old woman has also been charged with aiding and abetting in connection with the alleged offences. They were both arrested on Thursday morning by PSNI detectives and were questioned before being charged on

EPA By Hannah Price & Sean Seddon BBC News Former sub-postmasters and politicians have called for the Post Office to face a police investigation after BBC News revealed the company knew of flaws in its Horizon IT system. A document shows bosses and lawyers knew of issues in 2017, but kept arguing sub-postmasters were to

By Hannah Price and Tom Beal BBC News investigations A draft report uncovered by the BBC shows the Post Office spent £100m fighting sub-postmasters in court despite knowing its defence was untrue. The document reveals the Post Office was shown evidence by 2017 that losses could be due to errors in the Horizon IT system

By Jeremy Bowen BBC international editor, Jerusalem After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a manmade famine. It has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfil its legal responsibilities to protect Palestinian civilians, and to allow adequate supplies of humanitarian aid

.Copyright: . Less than one hour after it left the Port of Baltimore, bound for Sri Lanka, the crew of the Dali sent a mayday signal, alerting port authorities that the ship had lost power and was out of control. But it appears from videos that the vessel was travelling too fast and the crew

Getty Images By Nick Triggle Health correspondent Public satisfaction with the NHS has dropped again, setting a new low recorded by the long-running British Social Attitudes survey. Just 24% said they were satisfied with the NHS in 2023, with waiting times and staff shortages the biggest concerns. That is five percentage points down on last

At around 01:30am local time (05:30 GMT), a 911 caller reported an incident in the Francis Scott Key Bridge area. Chief Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore City Fire Department confirmed to us that the bridge had been struck by “a large vessel” causing it to collapse into the Patapsco River. He also

EPA By Christy Cooney BBC News Israel has cancelled meetings in Washington after the US declined to veto a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution, which also called for the release of all hostages, followed several failed attempts at similar measures since the 7 October attacks. Israeli Prime Minister

ReutersCopyright: Reuters The Palestinian representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, has welcomed today’s resolution – but says it is overdue. “It has taken six months, over 100,000 Palestinians killed and maimed, two million displaced, and famine, for this council to finally demand an immediate ceasefire,” Mansour tells the UN. He says the draft resolution was

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Graeme Baker BBC News Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people. Three were marched blindfolded into a Moscow court while the fourth was in a

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent, Kyiv As news of the Moscow concert hall attack broke on Friday, Ukrainians knew what was coming: Kyiv would be blamed. The next thing they expected was more drones and more

Reuters By Daniela Relph, royal correspondent & Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News The Prince and Princess of Wales are “enormously touched by the kind messages” they have received following Catherine’s cancer diagnosis, a Kensington Palace spokesman has said. Saturday’s statement also added they were “grateful” that the public understood their request for privacy. Catherine revealed