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as the first ship bringing aid to gaza unloads its supplies, there are hopes talks for a ceasefire could resume on sunday. and vaughan gething is set to succeed mark drakeford as the first minister of wales — making him the first black leader of a any european country. uk supermarket sainsburys apologises, after most of the day's online deliveries were cancelled because of technical problems. hello i'm anjana gadgil. princess diana's brother earl spencer has told the bbc that the press attention suffered by his sister was more dangerous than the scrutiny faced by catherine, the current princess of wales. in an interview for tomorrow's sunday with laura kuenssberg, earl spencer has also revealed details about the violent punishments that he and his sister
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endured when they were young. here's laura kuenssberg. i always believed the press would kill her in the end, but not even i could imagine that they would take such a direct hand in her death. charles spencer's fury at the way the press treated his sister, diana, made him famous. it is a point to remember... his anger at her funeral, raw, after years of intrusion and pain. ..a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age. decades later, there's been a frenzy around the current princess of wales, kate — even around a family photo. but does the rumour and online speculation compare to what diana endured? no, i think it was more dangerous back in the day. the circumstances of her death were so shocking that it did make the industry that supports the paparazzi really consider more carefully what it could and couldn't do.
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not because they had a moraljudgment, but because it was unacceptable. he's publishing a memoir about appalling, violent and sexual abuse he suffered at boarding school. sent away at the age of eight, he became a victim. innocent family snaps mask the darker secrets of what went on. he even told me he and his sister were physically hurt by a nanny known as nanny foster, as young children. and their elder sisters were punished with laxatives by a different nanny, too. she used to crack our heads together if we were both found to have done something naughty — obviously, without my father's knowledge. but it really hurt. it wasn't a tap on the wrist. it was a cracking crunch, you know, and i remember it still. but you and diana and your other sisters were then brought up, even in a home environment, where staff, nannies who were hired to look after you, were hurting you. again, i don't think we realised that that was wrong. charles spencer may come from one
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of the wealthiest families in the land, but privilege is no guarantee of happiness. aristocracy — no protection from abuse. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. the full interview with charles spencer will be broadcast on bbc one and available on the bbc iplayer for uk viewers on sunday at 9am gmt. talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in gaza could resume on sunday in qatar. egyptian officials said hamas has presented a new proposal for a three—stage plan to end the fighting. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the proposal unrealistic, but has agreed to send israeli negotiators to qatar. there have been two main rallies in tel aviv tonight. in what has become known as hostages square, relatives of captives have been calling for their release. there's also been an anti—government demonstration calling on mr netanyahu to resign
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and to hold new elections. we are here to protest this government that has not been acting for the majority of people in israel for the majority of people in israel for a while now, especially since the beginning of the war, whether it is the hostages or whether it is creating more tensions between arab and jewish people, we think it is actively harming us. that and jewish people, we think it is actively harming us.— and jewish people, we think it is actively harming us. that is why we are here. actively harming us. that is why we are here- my _ actively harming us. that is why we are here. my message _ actively harming us. that is why we are here. my message today - actively harming us. that is why we are here. my message today is - actively harming us. that is why we l are here. my message today is what the member said in the american parliament— the member said in the american parliament about how benjamin netanyahu is leading us to catastrophe and we must have an election_ catastrophe and we must have an election as — catastrophe and we must have an election as soon as possible, otherwise we are all going to be in a bad, _ otherwise we are all going to be in a bad, bad — otherwise we are all going to be in a bad, bad situation. the two rallies come as the first maritime humanitarian aid shipment
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to gaza has been unloaded on to the shore, containing 200 tonnes of food desperately needed for gaza. the us charity behind the world central kitchen is carrying out the mission in co—operation with the united arab emirates. speaking ahead of a two—day trip to the middle east, the german chancellor urged israel to allow unlimited humanitarian aid into gaza. translation: we have a difficult situation. - it is necessary for aid to reach gaza on a larger scale. that will be a topic that i also have to talk about. we are concerned about the further advancement of military developments. in particular, there is a danger that a large full—scale offensive in rafah will result in many terrible civilian casualties, which must be avoided at all costs. we will have to talk about the long—term perspective, the question of how a peaceful coexistence between a palestinian state and israel can succeed. our correspondent injerusalem mark lowen has been speaking to aid organisations
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in gaza about the situation there. unicef, the un children's charity, says that one in three children under the age of two are acutely malnourished, and that figure is double what it was injanuary, so there is an urgent need for aid. a slight glimmer of hope with this ship now off—loading the 200 tonnes of aid, being allowed to off—load. it's unclear how the aid will be distributed inside gaza itself, although the idf are saying they will provide some security for that distribution on the ground, which is much needed given the fact that civil order has broken down there, and aid distribution, as we've seen, can turn into a fatal, disorderly incident. so the cypriots, who sent the first ship, are saying that a second ship is now ready to leave as well, carrying 240 tonnes of aid, but really these are fractions of what is needed on the ground, and people are resorting
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to a maritime corridor and ships bringing in aid because trucks coming in over land are being so heavily restricted, they have been so heavily restricted by israel over the last five and a half months of war. in order to get a little glimpse of that humanitarian situation on the ground, i spoke to dr margaret harris, a spokesperson for the world health organization, whojoined us from geneva, and i asked her what her contacts on the ground in gaza are telling her. in our meetings, people say it's beyond words, it is misery they have never seen. my colleagues are people who worked in the toughest places, in africa, in many wars and situations, and they have never seen the speed and the horror and the misery that people are living in. they are living massively crowded together, starving in places, covered in human waste, faeces, unable to clean the place because we can't even bring chlorine in. so it is good news to hear
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that at least there is some movement towards a ceasefire, because that is the only answer to what we are seeing in gaza right now. dr margaret harris, painting a picture there of the emergency, the health emergency as she puts it and the disastrous situation facing people inside gaza, not least in rafah in the south of the gaza strip, where around half of the entire population of gaza, probably around 1.4 million people are sheltering, and the israeli prime minister's office has greenlit, we are told, military operation there for israeli troops to enter rafah, which is what the israeli prime minister has been warning for several weeks. that would be perilous in terms of the numbers were sheltering there but also in terms of israel's international reputation, which is taking a huge hit. the german foreign minister tweeted today that a large—scale military offensive in rafah would be unjustified and that more thani million people
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have nowhere left to go. president biden said a week ago that a military incursion into rafah would be a red line as far as he's concerned. so that would be a huge risk for israel to go into rafah. i think the prime minister's office has said they're ready to do so in order to increase pressure on hamas ahead of the ceasefire talks that are due to resume, we understand, on sunday, tomorrow, in doha. the israeli delegation are going to talk with qatari and egyptian officials. so that is a glimmer of progress, even though the israeli prime minister's office have said the hamas demands are unreasonable and unfounded. we will have to see whether there is any progress made in those talks in doha on sunday. vaughan gething will become europe's first black leader after winning the welsh labour leadership election. the outgoing first minister, mark drakeford, will step down from the post next week. mr gething was born in zambia and is a former solicitor.
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the result of the leadership election was very close. mr gething, currently the economy minister, won with 51.7% of the vote. his opponent, the education minister jeremy miles, received 48.3%. 0ur political editor chris mason was watching the announcement. the two contenders had just been told the results, but the rest of us had to wait. vaughan gething's wife and son on the front row — always good to have a book with you just in case dad's work thing on a saturday drags on a bit. and now we turn to the oscar bit. and the winner... ..is vaughan gething. mr gething celebrated his 50th yesterday, and winning the welsh labour leadership today. we turn a page in the book of our nation's history. a history that we write together. notjust because i have the honour
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of becoming the first black leader in any european country, but because the generational dial hasjumped too. and i want us to use this moment as a starting point for a more confident march into the future. smiles and applause, yes, but questions too about a £200,000 donation vaughan gething accepted from a company run by a man who was convicted twice for environmental offences. the loser, jeremy miles, left pretty sharpish, writing on social media, "trust must be continually earned," which sounds like a barb at the donation and vaughan gething. i think at the end of the day it was a race between two disciples of drakeford. they were both in his cabinet and are responsible for the longest waiting times in the uk, the worst educational outcomes and the weakest economy of uk nations. that is their record and it doesn't seem like anything will change as a result. plaid cymru are in a co—operation agreement with the labour government here but they reckoned the donation stinks. one way to clear it up would be
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to pay the money back, because while he says he has done nothing wrong, it doesn't really pass the smell test. vaughan gething insists he's done everything by the book. let's talk about that £200,000 donation — have you spent it all? we have spent a lot of money through the campaign on volunteers, staff, on the work you need to do to run a campaign. is that what swung it for you, huge amounts of money? i think what swung it is the fact we persuaded members that they could believe in me. lots of hard work goes into running a more than three months campaign... and lots of money? it's an indivisible part of modern politics. another striking part of modern political leadership — diversity. growing up, you don't see yourself as different until you realise that the world does see you differently. and that really happened going into secondary school, looking more and more at the world i was growing up in, recognising that people saw me differently to my classmates. from schoolboy to first minister,
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vaughan gething will take on his newjob on wednesday. that was our political editor chris mason with that report. russia has accused ukraine of trying to interrupt the russian elections by stepping up attacks on its territory. a second day of voting has taken place in russia's presidential election. vladimir putin is expected to wind a further six years in power as his only serious opponent is either in prison, in exile or dead. they have been sporadic acts of protest. at various polling stations people have poured liquid into ballot boxes. medvedev described them as traitors and cold their acts direct tonga schools have been closed after
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bombardments that authorities there have blamed in ukraine. i spoke to catherine belton who is the author of putin's people and asked her why this election is so important to vladimir putin. he knows he important to vladimir putin. he: knows he will win it and everybody will come up with the result he wants otherwise they will face punishment as well. on the other hand he is a lawyer and he likes to keep a veneer of legitimacy and he wants a good victory. he is expecting 80% of the vote to persuade everyone else in the elite that the nation is behind them. so any kind of glimpse of protest, anything that is happening that is outside of that victory parade for him kind of impinges a little on his authority which is why he has gone to such great lengths to eradicate the field of any opposition at all.
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other candidates are standing other candidates are standing against him. why do they make the effort to take part when they have no chance of succeeding? the? effort to take part when they have no chance of succeeding? they aren't really given — no chance of succeeding? they aren't really given a — no chance of succeeding? they aren't really given a choice. _ no chance of succeeding? they aren't really given a choice. russia - no chance of succeeding? they aren't really given a choice. russia is - no chance of succeeding? they aren't really given a choice. russia is a - really given a choice. russia is a democracy but that doesn't exist in the lower house of parliament which basically rubber—stamped the kremlin's of a decision. you have the communist party candidate who already lost to putin last time around. when question now, are you going to be a better president than putin, he doesn't even answer the question. they are there to sort of basically show and present this veneer, this facade of democracy and really they arejust veneer, this facade of democracy and really they are just friends of putin. really they are 'ust friends of putin. ~ ,., really they are 'ust friends of putin. ~ ,:, ., , putin. we saw there have been soradic putin. we saw there have been sporadic protests _ putin. we saw there have been sporadic protests during - putin. we saw there have been sporadic protests during this i putin. we saw there have been - sporadic protests during this voting process which lasts a couple of days. do you expect there will be more protest over coming days? i more protest over coming days? i guess all eyes are on tomorrow 12
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noon moscow time which is when the widow of the opposition leader who died injail exactly a month ago, today she has called on his supporters and in fact the entire opposition of russia to continue his campaign. for everyone to turn up at polling stations at 12 noon tomorrow in a sign of dissent, a sign of disagreement against putin's war and against his bloody regime. the prime minister also addressed concerns over the upcoming presidential elections in the united states and that a trump presidency, which abandoned ukraine, would be giving a victory to russia.
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she told my colleague sumi somaskande that the world should not ignore frightening messages from president putin. of course, we have to take everything seriously, what he says. he has been threatening with the nuclear war for for quite some time but it has been only words. he's very good in sowing fear within our societies and really listening what we are afraid of and giving you the fears that you have. ok, you are afraid of the nuclear war so i'm giving out these kind of signals. and, you know, the public goes, oh, whoa, whoa, we can't do that. it is a trap, a trap of self—deterrence, because if we are afraid, then we start to self deter. and that is what putin wants. so we also have to think what putin is afraid of, and he is actually afraid of going to war with nato. so he doesn't want that. and we of course don't
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want that either. and you can watch more of that interview between kaja kallas and my colleage sumi somaskanda in the coming hours here on bbc news. two of the uk's biggest supermarket chains, sainsbury�*s and tesco, have been hit by technical issues. sainsbury�*s apologised to customers, after the vast majority of its online grocery deliveries didn't happen today. tesco also cancelled a number of online orders. our business correspondent marc ashdown reports. 0rdering online for delivery to your door has become a popular way to get the weekly shop in, but sainsbury�*s admitted it couldn't fulfil the vast majority of orders placed for today. it blamed a technical error relating to a software update overnight. and after customers took to social media to express their frustration, the ceo wrote a personal letter. simon roberts said...
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services at some physical stores, like this one, have also been affected with disruption to click and collect and customers unable to use contactless payments. although sainsbury�*s confirmed people have still been able to use chip and pin and, of course, cash. separately, britain's biggest supermarket chain, tesco, said technical issues had forced it to cancel some online orders, which were due to be delivered today. it also apologised to customers for any inconvenience. 0rdering online has changed the retail landscape and has become increasingly important to the way we shop. glitches like this in systems is the last thing a big business would want to happen. we saw it yesterday with mcdonald's and today, sainsbury�*s and tesco. this is absolutely not what they want. they need to be resilient so their systems stand up to problems because they want to serve their customers well every single day, 365 days a year. so, it's frustrating for the businesses,
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it's frustrating for the customers. sainsbury�*s owns argos, which was also affected by the software issues. the supermarket giant said it's doing everything it can to get back to business as usual. marc ashdown, bbc news. one of the oldest and most prestigious film studios in the arab world has been destroyed in a fire. several buildings near al—ahram studio in the egyptian capital, cairo, also had to be evacuated as the flames spread. no casualties have been reported. many egyptian films and television series have been produced at the studio since it was founded eighty years ago. translation: the fire reached the upper floors in those - buildings, then spread. all those buildings burned down, then the ambulances and fire trucks arrived. this is a cinematography studio that tv shows used to film series in ramadan. the place is always active. nobody knows what happened. some say it was due to a short circuit, but others say that something
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strange happened inside. the indian navy says one of its warships has forced 35 somali pirates who had hijacked a cargo vessel in the indian ocean to surrender. a spokesman said all seventeen crew of the hijacked maltese—flagged ship, mv ruen, were rescued without injury. our south asia regional editor, anbarasan ethirajan has more on this. it was hijacked off the coast of somalia in december and since then the international maritime forces have been tracking this ship. a few days ago another bangladeshi ship was hijacked by the pirates in the arabian sea. officials suspect this particular ship could have been used as a mother ship to go deep into the water and hijack that. in the navy on the platform x they said they were tracking this particular ship and today they have come out and
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said they have coerced the surrender of these 35 somali pirates off the coast of somalia. it seemed to be a complex operation. they have used long—range drones and maritime surveillance aircraft and also the air dropping of marine commandos like the indian equivalent of the navy seals before they could convince these pirates, according to this navy spokesperson, to surrender. and all of the crew members, they have been rescued. the viral moment a grandmother was hoisted into air by a security shutter has been captured in a painting on the front of the shop where it happened. cctv footage of anne hughes getting trapped has been watched by millions around the world, and anne was the guest of honour when the artwork was unveiled. our reporter matt murray has more. since being caught on cctv hanging from a shutter,
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anne hughes has avoided the cameras until today. she made a brief appearance to see a mural immortalising the moment she was stuck on the shutter. westlife's hit you raise me up was played by the shop for the unveiling of the artwork. it's not as if i've done anything heroic or anything like that. you know, so much fuss being made about me being stupid, really. anne is the cleaner at the best one store in tonteg and was waiting to start her shift when she was caught on the shutter and on cctv. the video of anne has now been seen by tens of millions of people across the world. on the bbc news instagram account alone, it's been viewed 48 million times. it must be nearly half the population of the uk is now seeing you hanging off the shutter. how do you feel? proud. laughter proud. it's not every day i hang off a shutter, so it's a good job
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the camera caught it. and i could feel my coat going up, and i tried to unhook myself from the shutter, but i couldn't. and up, i went. and i thought i was facing death then, because i thought i was going to come down, smack my head again, you know, on the pavement. but i was so glad that ahmed came out and rescued me. i really am so grateful for that. the moment has been immortalised by graffiti artist tea two sugars. there's a moment where she's just lifted off the floor and she's trying to struggle with the trolley. but we caught her mid—air holding the trolley and her scarf dangling and everything like that. so, yeah, that was... that was the moment that i had to capture. brilliant. it's beautiful. well done, well done. anne has taken it all in good humour and is relieved to have her own fob now to operate the shutter and avoid any future accidents. matt murray, bbc news.
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it will never not be funny and i am so glad she finds it funny as well and takes it as a joke. let's take you live to iceland now, where a volcano has erupted for the fourth time since december. the authorities have warned for weeks that an eruption was imminent on the reykjanes peninsula just south of the capital reykjavik. as you can see, it is spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air against the dark night sky. stay with us here on bbc news. at last some beautiful spring sunshine for much of the uk on saturday including here in cumbria. it wasn't long before we saw the cloud they can from the west before outbreaks of rain moving northwards and eastwards. —— the cloud thicken.
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this will come down as rain over wales for a time into central and southern england and eastern england southern england and eastern england so a soggy start to the day but it is a mild one, milder than it was on saturday morning. temperatures between five and ii saturday morning. temperatures between five and 11 degrees. double figures in the south still. a mild start of the day, more sunshine on offer throughout the day on sunday but also a few showers in the afternoon. it's a very wet start for parts of southern england. the heavy rain clears over the north sea. here it should brighten up by lunchtime and perhaps more sunshine developing. sunny spells elsewhere. coastal and hill fog for a time across the west. it will fog over northern ireland in the afternoon. outbreaks of rain here, some of the shower is heavy and thundery the northern england but mild again, we could see 17 celsius in east anglia as we head through the afternoon. looking to the west again as we had three sunday night and into monday.
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various weather fronts approaching. these are fizzling out. there will be rain in the north and west throughout the night and then it is a bit of patchy cloud as we head through much of monday. for most of us on monday it will stay dry, clouding over, outbreaks of rain over northern ireland and western scotland by the end of the day. the air is still mild. temperatures will peak in the teens for many. keeping that mild air heading to monday and tuesday with that south—westerly wind. on tuesday we are likely to see more heavy rain across the north and the west. so for northern ireland and the western scotland. elsewhere i think it'll stay largely dry as we had throughout the day. a lot of the cloud will break up and we will brighter spells developing. all eyes out towards the south—west ijy all eyes out towards the south—west by the time we get to the end of tuesday because this rain could cause some problems perhaps on wednesday. the air is still very mild on tuesday, as well, 16 celsius. it could turn cooler as we head through wednesday and thursday. it stays unsettled, more rain
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focused on kate. talks aimed at securing a ceasefire and the release of hostages in gaza could resume on sunday in qatar. egyptian officials say hamas has presented a new proposal to end the fighting. israel has agreed to send negotiators. and vandalism arrests in russia as voters spoil their ballots on day two of the country's presidential elections. vladimir putin is almost certain to win a further six years — his only serious rivals are dead, in prison or in exile. one of the oldest and most prestigious film studios in the arab world has been destroyed by a fire. buildings near cairo's al—ahram studio were evacuated. now on bbc news, it's the royal photo re—touch. and a warning this programme contains flashing images. let's turn to some major news out of great britain. this photo of the princess of wales
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