who's sceptical of sending military aid to ukraine. he won by a greater margin than expected, defeating the pro—western candidate ivan korcok. it is no time to take a look at the sport with jane. —— now time. hello from the bbc sports centre. it's just kicked off in the big match between manchester united and liverpool in the english premier league with liverpool hoping to re—gain top spot in the table. arsenal took the lead on saturday. that game is just under way at old trafford. one minute on the clock. it is still 0-0. it's one of three games in the premier league today. chelsea — who had that dramatic late win over united in midweek — are away at sheffield united. they lost to liverpool

on the same night. later on sunday, tottenham host relegation threatened nottingham forest. you can follow all of those matches on the bbc sport website. to a huge game in scotland now. it was a six—goal thriller at ibrox with the old firm match finishing in a 3—3 draw. celtic dominated the first half — daizen maeda capitalising on a mistake early on, then matt o'riley scored from the spot to put the visitors 2—0 up. rangers also converted a penalty and then equalised late on through abdullah sima. there were a frantic last few minutes with celtic�*s adam idah putting the visitors back in front on 88 minutes. but the game wasn't over with rangers�* rabbi matondo rescuing a point. there's still one point between the two sides. rangers have a game in hand. in spain, athletic bilbao ended their run of six successive copa del rey final defeats, and a ao—year wait for silverware with a dramatic penalty shoot—out victory over mallorca.

after extra time it was 1—1, so to penalties and alex berenguer stepped up to seal a 4—2 win in the shoot—out in seville. the victory prompted ecstatic scenes at a sold—out la cartuja stadium, giving bilbao�*s fans the chance to celebrate a trophy for the first time in four decades. translation: this title is something specialfor something special for how long we've been chasing it, for all the finals we've lost, for what this cut means for atletico. we've lost, for what this cut means foratletico. i we've lost, for what this cut means for atletico. i didn't want to say anything because i didn't know what was going to happen, but i can't compare this to anything else. after failing to finish in australia a fortnight ago normal service resumed for formula one world champion max verstappen in japan this morning. the dutchman took a clean sweep of pole position, fastest lap and race win. it was the 57th victory of his career. he beat his red bull team mate sergio perez by 12.5 seconds.

carlos sainz continued his impressive start to the season with a podium at suzuka. england's women lost their final one—day international against new zealand in hamilton. new zealand reached their target of 195 to win with seven wickets in hand and 66 balls remaining. sophie devine hit a six to not only win the match, but reach her century too. england had already won the series heading into this one, after taking the first two games. england captain heather knight says her side can learn from devine�*s excellent innings. the pitch wasn't quite as straightforward, it was a bit of a tricky one. i thought sophie showed us exactly how to bat. the way she soaked up pressure at the start of her innings, tactically targeted a bowler that was a good matchup for her, and was able to soak up that pressure and put it back on us, i think it a really good lesson for our middle order and our batting group. american danielle collins

will play daria kasatkina in the women's singles final at the charleston open on sunday. the miami open champion continued her impressive run by knocking out number three seed maria sakkari in the semifinal. collins is on a 12 match winning streak, it will be 13 in the final if she beats kasatkina, who overcamejessica pegula in the other semifinal. and that's all the sport for now. more on all those stories on the bbc sport website and you can keep up—to—date with the manchester united versus liverpool match at old trafford. thank you, jane. slovakia has a new president. peter pellegrini won saturday's vote by a greater than expected margin, after a campaign overshadowed by the war in ukraine. mr pellegrini favours peace talks with russia, and described his pro—western opponent as a warmonger. for more on this let's speak now to our correspondent rob cameron, whojoins from neighbouring prague.

when we were talking about this vote yesterday, we were talking about how it was crucial because of the situation in ukraine. now we have seen peter pellegrini, who favours closer ties with russia win. how does that leave slovakia's position with that war? i does that leave slovakia's position with that war?— with that war? i think it really cements with that war? i think it really i cements slovakia's position is no longer one of the big supporters of ukraine. this is a country that are less than nine months ago donated its entire fighterjet less than nine months ago donated its entire fighter jet fleet of retired make 29 fighterjets to ukraine, then in october the premise came to flare any platform and pledge of sending not one round —— the prime minister came to power. of

sending the army stocks ukraine, and this has been cemented by his ally by winning the presidential election —— not sending army stocks. he favours a peace over war and maintaining that line that is very much mr ficho's line, of sending more arms to ukraine is prolonging this war. we more arms to ukraine is prolonging this war. ~ . , , ., this war. we have “ust been hearing followed amir — this war. we have just been hearing followed amir zelensky, _ this war. we have just been hearing followed amir zelensky, who - this war. we have just been hearing followed amir zelensky, who said . followed amir zelensky, who said this afternoon ukraine will lose the war if the us congress does approve aid. mrzelensky war if the us congress does approve aid. mr zelensky for many months now has been calling on other nations to mmp has been calling on other nations to ramp up support to ukraine. what was the conversation during that election campaign around this? it was a very bitter conversation and one marked by a great deal of fake news, in fact, one marked by a great deal of fake news, infact, because one marked by a great deal of fake news, in fact, because when mystic

pellegrini surprisingly emerged in second place in the first round, he did not win that, it was won by the seasoned diplomat ivan korcok, when he came second, the pellegrini campaign and government camp embarked on a smear campaign really against mr korcok, claiming he would send slovak boys off to fight in ukraine, despite the fact that the office of president of slovakia has no such constitutional power to do so at all. so clearly the ukraine moor dominated this election. and mr korcok, who lost the selection this weekend said the election was won on eli, essentially, and fake news helped to swing it —— one on a lie. the temperature of the political debate in slovakia on... the temperature of the political debate in slovakia on. . .- the temperature of the political debate in slovakia on... thank you for explaining _ debate in slovakia on... thank you for explaining the _ debate in slovakia on... thank you for explaining the relevance - debate in slovakia on... thank you for explaining the relevance of - debate in slovakia on... thank you | for explaining the relevance of what is happening in slovakia to the

wider world. is happening in slovakia to the widerworld. rob is happening in slovakia to the wider world. rob cameronjoining us from prague. this ceremonies are being held across rwanda to mark three decades since the start of the genocide against ethnic tutsis and moderate hutus. injust 100 days, 800,000 people were killed in 1994. rwanda's president paul kagame said the international community failed his country either through contempt or cowadice during the massacre. france acknowledged that it could have stopped the genocide, along with its allies, but lacked the will to do so. bbc�*s senior africa correspondent anne soy has been following the occasion from nairobi. a lwa ys always good to talk to you. just tell us more about how this grim anniversary is being marked. bier? anniversary is being marked. very solemn and _ anniversary is being marked. very solemn and poignant, _ anniversary is being marked. - solemn and poignant, notjust for one days, but people around the world who have been remembering how hate and discrimination just

ascended into the slaughter of close to 1 ascended into the slaughter of close to1 million people in 1994 —— not just for rwandis. the commemoration begins and for the next 100 days, rwandis will be remembering the act of 1994 that changed their lives in many ways. earlier today, of 1994 that changed their lives in many ways. earliertoday, president paul kagame lit the flame of remembrance in kigali at the memorial there and lead heads of state and former heads of state joining him from around the world to lay a wreath at that the where it is believed about a quarter of a million people were buried. the journey of recovery has been long and slow in rwanda and people are still confronting the troops. just this year, i knew a mass grave was discovered, so indeed thejourney this year, i knew a mass grave was discovered, so indeed the journey of discovery continues. but the president reflected in his speech on

the demographics today in rwanda and said about three quarters of rwandans are under the age of 35 so will not have a memory of what happened in 1994 and said that is where the hope of the country, rebuilding, new and renewal lies, in this new generation that will have a different perspective. find this new generation that will have a different perspective.— different perspective. and as we were reporting. _ different perspective. and as we were reporting, friends - different perspective. and as we were reporting, friends will- different perspective. and as we were reporting, friends will be i were reporting, friends will be formally acknowledging its failure to stop the genocide at the ceremony. tell us about the significance of that.- significance of that. hugely significant. _ significance of that. hugely significant. in _ significance of that. hugely significant. in 1994, - significance of that. hugely significant. in 1994, francej significance of that. hugely - significant. in 1994, france was supporting the government of romano who was killed just a day before the genocide started on 7th of april. the plane he was travelling in was shot down over kigali sixth april and for a long time, rwanda, the euro and has had a difficult

relationship with france but over time we have seen that relationship appears to be thawing basically because of the actions that leaders of france have been taking, president macron recently acknowledged they could have had a bigger role in stopping this genocide and that is a message that will be played to commemorate 30 years of the genocide. he acknowledges that france had the means to stop the genocide, they had the intelligence, butjust failed to do so. he says there was no will to stop the genocide, this will be welcomed in rwanda and by president kagame as he sees this as a step towards healing. he was very keen on his message today to also talk about his message today to also talk about his critics. he has come under criticism because of his strong grip

on power, of allegations of assassinations of his critics, both at home and abroad, of suppression of dissent, and he said people need to be careful not to call the victims of the genocide of the villains. indeed this is a discussion that is happening and today in rwanda, if you are hutu or tutsi, and he and his government had been keen to get rid of that tribal identity that was the basis of the genocide, but his administration has also been on the spotlight for some of the extreme measures it has taken. at of the extreme measures it has taken. �* ., ., , taken. a moment never to be forgotten- — second, thank you for taking us through the remembrances today. here in the uk, the prime minsiter, rishi sunak has said britain continues to stand by israel's right

to defend its security six months on from the start of the israel—gaza war. but mr sunak said the nation remains "appalled" by the deaths of three british aid workers in an israeli defence forces strike this week. the deputy prime minister, oliver dowden, has been answering questions on gaza. live to the newsroom and our poltical correspondent, helen catt. tell us more of what we heard from mr dowden. tell us more of what we heard from mr damien-— tell us more of what we heard from mr dowden. there has been a lot of discussion in _ mr dowden. there has been a lot of discussion in the _ mr dowden. there has been a lot of discussion in the uk _ mr dowden. there has been a lot of discussion in the uk about - mr dowden. there has been a lot of discussion in the uk about whetherl discussion in the uk about whether british companies should still be allowed to sell arms to israel, and that has heightened after the strike on the convoy of aid workers. oliver dowden, the deputy prime minister was pressed on this this morning. when you british company wants to sell arms, they have to have a licence from the government and it gets assessed against a number of criteria, some of which include the uk's obligations under international law and the risk that those products, those arms will be used to violate human rights. there have

been questions over whether that should still apply for israel. the deputy prime minister oliver dowden was pressed on this this morning and said he believed it was still legal for arms to be sold from the uk to israel. , where there are specific concerns about different areas of israel's contact, we are raising those concerns with israel. it's so important to remember this — we've gone from the horrors of six months ago to holding israel to extraordinary high standards. it's right we do so and it's right that we raise these concerns where we say, look, what you're doing in respect of not getting aid in or what you're doing in respect of your targeting raises concerns for us and we need you to engage. so so the way this process works as the business _ so the way this process works as the business department grants these licenses, — business department grants these licenses, but takes advice from the foreign— licenses, but takes advice from the foreign office. mr licenses, but takes advice from the foreign office-— licenses, but takes advice from the foreign office. mr dowden will sing the advice from _ foreign office. mr dowden will sing the advice from the _ foreign office. mr dowden will sing the advice from the foreign - foreign office. mr dowden will sing the advice from the foreign office i the advice from the foreign office had not changed, but there has been a big question about the advice being given to the foreign office by

lawyers. there have been some suggestions from a conservative mp earlier this week, lucy occurrence, that some lawyers had suggested israel was not staying within international law, so there are calls for that legal advice to be made public. the labour�*s david lemi, today said he thinks the government should publish a summary of the advice it has been given —— david lammy. margaret thatcher suspended sales of arms to israel. tony blair suspended sales of arms to israel. gordon brown suspended sales of arms to israel. all during previous conflicts. this has been done before. this is a very serious issue, it's now gone on for six months and issues of proportionality, precaution and distinction there are real concerns notjust from judges,

from the intelligence community but the broader public. for that reason, lets us be sure that we are not in breach. labour is not calling for arms to be stopped, but is calling for that legal advice, the summary of it to be published. it wants the foreign secretary, david cameron, who sits in the house of lords to come to the house of commons to take questions on this. there are striking a cautious note, warning any newspaper article the support is not unconditional but supporting the right of israel to defend itself. a murder investigation has been launched by police in bradford after a 27—year—old woman was stabbed in the city centre yesterday afternoon. our correspondentjudith moritz is at the scene with the latest. well, we know this happened just

after 3:00 yesterday afternoon, broad daylight in a busy part of bradford city centre as well, just north of the city centre here. and this is an area which would at that point have been pretty busy with shoppers. there are restaurants here, there are beauty salons and so on, so lots of people around. what we understand to have happened isjust behind where i am, and you can see it's still cordoned off here, there's a shop there and just outside the shop, this woman, 27 years old, we don't have her identity at this point, was stabbed by a man who ran off. now, the police are still looking for him. we understand that the man and woman were known to each other. we don't know any more about the circumstances and west yorkshire police are asking for people who were in this area, and as i say, it would have been busy, perhaps people driving past with dash cam footage, anyone who saw anything to get in touch. they're appealing for anyone who has got any information at all to help. but also today, we've been seeing scene of crime officers here pulling apart this area, looking through the patch of grass behind me, behind the shop, and just combing through the area

as well for information. judith martz there. police have arrested two people on suspicion of murder after human remains were found in a park in south london. a 44—year—old man and a 48—year—old woman are being questioned about the discovery, which was made in croydon on tuesday. police haven't yet identified the victim, but say their inquiries have made significant progress. now solar eclipse fever is building. millions of people in north america will be able to witness a rare solar eclipse on monday, hoping to spend around four minutes in total darkness as the moon blocks the sun's light. ben woolvin has more. all right, guys, are we ready? preparing for totality. this is dallas, texas, where tomorrow lunchtime, 100% of the sun will be covered by the moon. who's excited? the eclipse is coming! the eclipse is coming, the eclipse is coming! eclipse chaser leticia ferrer is ready to witness daytime darkness for her 21st time.

i've seen 20, all over the world. it's just such a feeling in my soul, that i'm so grateful to be there, and so happy to see it enough that i'm sort of addicted to them. i'm addicted to that feeling of that... for those few seconds or minutes, being one with the universe and being really present and feeling it. i think it's going to be scary because it's going to be very dark at, like, daytime. and i've never seen an eclipse. my parents are scared too, because they've also never seen an eclipse either. the last time a total eclipse was visible in the us was in 2017, when thousands gathered here in oregon. this year, the united states is a great place to see a total solar eclipse. it will be coming up through mexico and exiting up towards maine, so across the central part of the united states. you need to be inside the path of totality to see the total eclipse, which is a small band.

however, you can see a partial eclipse from all over the united states. so here in washington, we will see about 87% of the sun covered by the moon. in the uk, people in the west of the country should be able to catch a partial eclipse from just before 8:00pm tomorrow evening. it's been almost 25 years since the last total eclipse was visible here in 1999. the next one will be 66 years from now, in september 2090. ben woolvin, bbc news. well, here in the uk, the eclipse will be less dramatic, but a partial eclipse could be visible in some parts of the country. our correspondent, emma vardy, has been looking at some of the way you can safely catch a glimpse a once—in—a—century solar eclipse will be happening right here in north america. so you want to watch it? but haven't we always been told, never look directly at the sun? here's what you need to know. the old advice still applies — you mustn't look directly

at a solar eclipse. that could permanently damage your retina, the part of your eye which senses light. so to witness this spectacle, what can you do? time to accessorise. these are solar viewing, or eclipse, glasses. nasa says they're 1000 times darker than your average sunglasses and will keep your eyes safe. they're widely available but remember to check that they have the iso symbol and have the code 12312—2 to show that they meet the latest international safety standard. and if you don't have eclipse glasses, you can make a pinhole projector with just paper or foil pricked with a small pinhole. this allows you to watch a projected image of the eclipse without looking directly at it. but the same principle works with anything that has small holes, like a colander. even just holding your hands like this can give you a projection of the solar event. and if you can't do any of these, or aren't in the path of the eclipse this time around,

there's always the internet, where you can watch a live feed from a telescope. orjust wait a few more decades. happy viewing! hgppy happy viewing indeed! and we will have special live coverage of the solar eclipse on monday here on bbc news. you can also find lots more on the bbc news website including how scientists will be conducting experiments during the four minute blackout window. during both world wars, hundreds of thousands of women were recruited into the land army to replace farm workers who had gone away to fight. but no official records were ever kept. now one former royal navy officer is trying to trace some of the so—called former land girls who farmed in devon during and after world war two. emma ruminski has been to meet them. from the planting of harvest, the girls in land army work with all of the skill and confidence of the regularfarmer�*s boys. making a good rake usually calls for a lot of experience, though the girls are a little more

used to the comb. working the land during and after the second world war involved hard work and long hours for the women that volunteered. grace dray is pictured here with her potato harvest. she lied about her age to sign up for the women's land army and leave london for dartmoor. she had never worked on a farm before but looking back now at 94 believes that it was the making of her. it was hard work. i know that we felt every muscle was strained with doing really heavy work. and when you are only working in an office, that is very sedatable, but i loved every minute of it. you had a pair of these, i assume? oh, yeah. a pairof them. did you like those? no, ididn't. grace is just one of the 1700 former land girls that farmed in devon. becks pearson started her quest to record their stories when she bought some old uniform at an auction, but could not find out about the women's land army locally. they did so much to feed the country.

dame trudy denman, who was the director of the women's land army during the second world war, said the land army fight in the fields, and it is in the fields that we may well win this battle. well win this battle, because without the nation being fed, we could not fight the war. so they were an amazing group of women. did you ever drive a tractor? i did drive a little ferguson. did you? but i wasn't supposed to because i hadn't passed my test! 0k. not all land girls lived and worked together as part of a gang. ruby terry worked on a neighbour's farm in kingston and never got a uniform or badge. 85 years later, becks has brought one along for her. you were definitely one of the girls that got forgotten, so i think that you should have a badge. ruby milked the cows twice a day and worked in the fields in the afternoon. that is your land army badge. thank you very much for all that

you did during the war to make sure that we, the country, got fed. thank you. how long did it take you to milk 50 cows every morning and night? well, not very long once you got used to it. - you had to be quick, you know, . before they came out to collect it. it is absolutely unbelievable to get some sort of recognition after such a long time. becks is ex—forces herself and hopes that more land girls from devon come forward so that she can record their stories. more than 5,000 nail technicians across the uk are coming together to collectively raise their prices from tomorrow. it's being labelled national nail price increase day — and comes after the company behind the movement calculated that workers were making around £7 an hour — well below the minimum wage. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello there. it certainly has been a weekend of contrasts —

wet and windy, stormy for some, glorious for others. you had to make the most of the sunshine when you had it. after the warmest day of the year so far in east anglia, it was not a bad start to sunday morning. it did cloud over a little as the day progressed. and the week ahead is going to stay pretty unsettled, i'm afraid. often wet and windy, a little bit cooler as well to begin with. but then there's a potential for something warmer to return from wednesday into thursday later on. more on that in just a moment. but we've got this deepening area of low pressure for monday, which is going to bring some wet weatherfor some of us. so we'll start off on monday morning with rain into the channel isles, moving up through cornwall, gradually into south wales, up through the irish sea. ahead of it, we'll have this band of showery rain developing as well. so across england and wales it's a case of quite a lot of cloud around. there will be some showery outbreaks of rain. top temperatures, though, still on the mild side, 17 celsius here. in the east, the pennines, 17 celsius and it may stay dry for much of the afternoon.

heaviest of the rain through the isle of man, just fringing into northern ireland. the bulk of scotland for monday afternoon, staying fine with some sunshine, highs of ten to 12 celsius. but that rain will move its way across northern england into scotland overnight, and also the wind direction is set to change back to a north—westerly, which is going to push that milder air over into eastern europe. a cooler air source arrives for all of us on tuesday. tuesday doesn't look a particularly pleasant day either. there'll be a spell of heavy rain which will grind to a halt for a time across southern scotland and northern england. quite a lot of cloud and plenty of frequent showers. temperatures on the whole will struggle due to the strength of the wind gusts in excess of 35 to 40 mph, so on your thermometer, probably only looking at between eight and 12 celsius as a high. wednesday will start off for some of us quite promising. we've got this little ridge of high pressure quieting things down, but the next frontal systems are waiting in the wings to move in from the west.

so eastern areas seeing the best of the dry weather on wednesday with some sunshine coming through. that rain clears through to sunny spells and scattered showers in the north, but it is going to allow more heat to return in the south later on.

live from london. this is bbc news. israel says it has withdrawn more ground troops from southern gaza. the move was announced as benjamin netanyahu claims his troops are �*one step from victory�*. translation: we destroy control rooms, weapons, _ translation: we destroy control rooms, weapons, ammunition, . translation: we destroy control| rooms, weapons, ammunition, and translation: we destroy control- rooms, weapons, ammunition, and will continue to systematically destroy what is underground. six months on, israeli families are mourning their loved ones killed during the october 7th attack by hamas at the the nova music festival site. a new round of ceasefire talks between israel and hamas

are due to begin in cairo, amid renewed warnings of famine in gaza. in other news, events are being held across rwanda to mark three decades since the beginning of the genocide against ethnic tutsis and moderate hutus. and as millions prepare for the solar eclipse in north america, we look at how to safely watch the total blackout. hello, i'm rajini vaidyanathan. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says his troops are just "one step away from victory". it's six months since hamas gunmen stormed into southern israel, massacring 1,200 people and kidnapping more than 250. the attack sparked what's become the deadliest and most destructive israel—gaza war, killing over 33,000 palestinians. speaking at a cabinet meeting,

mr netanyahu said a ceasefire would not be agreed until israeli hostages, captured by hamas