the actor hugh grant settles a long—running lawsuit —— says he has been offered a enormous amount of money as he settles a long—running lawsuit against the publisher of the sun newspaper over claims journalist used private investigators to tap his phone. mps have rejected all of the changes made to the rwanda bill by the house of lords. the bill is now being sent back to the house of lords. a russian missile kills 1a and wounds more than 60 in chernihiv in northern ukraine. inflation in the uk has fallen to its lowest level for two and a half years as some food prices drop.

hello, i'm annita mcveigh and welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. three days after iran's unprecedented attack on israel, diplomacy is intensifying to ease tensions in this region and the risk of a dangerous escalatory spiral. later... the team seeks many suggestions but said israel would make its own decisions. translation: i am now coming from meetings i with the foreign ministers of great britain and germany. last night, i spoke to british prime minister rishi sunak and soon i will also speak to other leaders.

i thank our friends for their support in defending israel, and i say this for both the verbal support and support in actions. they also have all kinds of proposal and advice, i appreciate it, but i want to be clear — we will make our decisions on our own, and the state of israel will do what it needs defend itself. after his meeting with mr netanyahu, lord cameron spoke to reporters, who asked him if he was satisfied that israel wasn't going to do anything that might exacerbate the situation. we wanted to demonstrate our solidarity with israel because it was an appalling attack by iran, but to be clear, we have repeated our view that any response should be smart and designed in a way that is going to limit and try to de—escalate this conflict. nobody wants to see this conflict grow and spread, and so those were the things we were discussing. but at the same time, i think it's really important for the eyes of the world to switch

to looking at the situation in gaza, where hamas have now held these hostages for 193 days. they have been offered a good deal to release dozens of prisoners from israeli jails in exchange for a pause in the fighting and for a small number of hostages to be released. they should take that deal, and when the world sees they're not taking that deal, everyone should recognise it's hamas that is causing this conflict to continue. as i've said, we do not want to see escalation. we hope that anything israel does is as limited, as targeted and as smart as possible. it's in no—one�*s interest that we see escalation, and that is what we said very clearly to all the people i've been speaking to here in israel. but at the same time, we should also recognise some things that are going in the right direction, and that is huge amounts of aid now potentially coming into gaza, the opening of ashdod port,

the opening of new crossings, up to 500 trucks a day. these are things we've been asking for, for a long time, and to be fair to the israeli government, they have now accepted that and it's now a question of delivering those things and the early signs are encouraging. i think we are seeing a genuine change in israel's attitude of aid getting into gaza. they have made a series of promises about opening the port at ashdod, about opening new crossing points into gaza and aiming for 500 trucks a day, switching the water back on into gaza, allowing more to come through the so—called jordan corridor. these are important promises, there are early signs there are improvements being delivered, but we will want to check day by day that it really is happening, because it is so important we get that aid into gaza, we get people fed, water, the shelter and the medicine they need. big changes have been promised by the israelis, and we believe some things are happening

and we want to make sure they all happen. meanwhile, the united nations is launching a $2.8 billion appeal to provide aid to palestinians in the gaza strip and occupied west bank. 0rganisers say 90% of the funding would go to gaza, as aid workers there struggle to prevent famine. they've warned that thousands of people don't have the food and supplies they need particularly in the north of the territory. they'll also focus on re—establishing health services and infrastructure, including water supplies, which have been destroyed during the war. live now to our correspondent wyre davies injerusalem. wyre, hello to you. where have the diplomatic efforts got to so far today? what is your assessment? i think we got there from lord cameron, some sort of realistic reluctant acknowledgement that israel is going to do something. for the first couple of days after those iranian attacks at the weekend and about 200 projectiles launched towards israel, there was some hope,

certainly amongst the americans and israel's allies, that i would be it. joe biden called on mr netanyahu to take the win full time that clearly is not enough for netanyahu. certainly it is not enough for those quite hard—line right—wing members of his cabinet, who really want israel to launch an all—out attack on iran. that clearly is not going to happen, but israel has said it will do something, and mr netanyahu's response today was fairly fat. he thanked his friends. they have all kinds of digestions and advice, which i appreciate. i would also like to clarify, we will make our own decisions ourselves. fairly clear israel wants to do something to retaliate against iran, it is what form that retaliation takes that is the next step. 0ver takes that is the next step. over the last few months and years, israel has been suspected of attacking shipments of weapons from iran to hezbollah in southern lebanon. that kind of thing can be

stepped up. i don't think we know if there are good to be any direct attacks against iranian nuclear facilities or facilities —— attacks against iranian nuclear facilities orfacilities —— going to be. that would be very worrisome because it would lead, according to the iranians, to another response from iran itself. we get that tit—for—tat result, which could in the eyes of some people lead to the escalation into a much more dangerous regional war, and of course that is the one thing that lord cameron and others are eager to avoid. �* , ., avoid. and the g7 meeting later, what are their _ avoid. and the g7 meeting later, what are their options? - avoid. and the g7 meeting later, what are their options? their- what are their options? their o tions what are their options? their options are. _ what are their options? their options are, and _ what are their options? their options are, and they - what are their options? iie: " options are, and they promised what are their options? tie: " options are, and they promised it's pretty clear, to organise more sanctions against iran for it is quite ironic that in the lead up to what happened last weekend, mr netanyahu was very much... he had been criticised by the americans, the british, for his approach to the war in gaza, the humanitarian situation, and now of course the west is bending over backwards to

accommodate benjamin netanyahu, because they don't want this escalation of the concert against iran, and i think to that and we will see more sanctions against the iranians being proposed at the g7 summit in italy. gk. iranians being proposed at the g7 summit in italy.— iranians being proposed at the g7 summit in italy. 0k, thank you for that update. _ summit in italy. 0k, thank you for that update, wyre. _ summit in italy. 0k, thank you for that update, wyre. wyre - summit in italy. 0k, thank you for that update, wyre. wyre davies i summit in italy. 0k, thank you for that update, wyre. wyre davies in jerusalem. the actor hugh grant has settled his privacy case against the publisher of the sun newspaper. according to court documents, mr grant claimed the sun used private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house. the terms of the settlement have not been made public, but hugh grant says he's been offered "an enormous sum of money". a spokesman for news group newspapers says the sun does not accept liability or make any admissions to the allegations. my colleague sarah campbell has been following the case. it had been expected that in january of next year, he would have his time in court in this case against a news group newspapers, the publishers of the sun. news group newspapers, the publishers of the sun. and he is one of several individuals, including, as you say, prince harry, suing this group for unlawful information gathering.

so in mr grant's case, that means tapping of landlines, he alleges, bugging his house, bugging his car, using blagging methods to access medical information. and he had been very vocal about this, and so it was somewhat of a surprise when, at a court hearing this morning, it emerged that mr grant had in fact settled his case. and a short while later, he released a long thread on x, formerly known as twitter, explaining why. he said the publisher was offering him an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court. he went on that he did not want to accept it or settle, as he wanted to see those allegations tested in court, but that his lawyers had advised him that if he went to court and if he won, if the damages he was offered were even just a penny less than the settlement, he would have to pay the legal costs of both sides. and he said that would amount to something like £10 million. news group newspapers have previously rejected allegations of any wrongdoing by staff at the sun, and they have settled more than 1,000 cases without making

any admission of liability. that is exactly what has happened here. they have released a statement in relation to mr grant's case saying we have reached an agreement to settle the case, this has been done without an admission of liability, it is in both party's financial interests not to progress to a costly trial, and just to say, mr grant says he will use that settlement money to boost groups like hacked off, which campaigns against what it sees as wrongdoing by the press. sarah campbell. mps have rejected all the changes made to the rwanda bill by the house of lords. the amendments included proposals to prevent former afghan soldiers who served alongside british forces from being sent to the east african nation. the bill is expected to be considered again by the house of lords later today. let's speak to our political correspondent pete saull. pete, it feels a bit like parliamentary ping—pong, it is going between the two houses of

parliament. just bring us up—to—date with exactly where we are with this bill, then. we with exactly where we are with this bill, then. ~ i, i, bill, then. we are in the half-time interval of — bill, then. we are in the half-time interval of that _ bill, then. we are in the half-time interval of that game _ bill, then. we are in the half-time interval of that game of _ interval of that game of parliamentary ping—pong at the moment. as you say the house of commons rejected those four amendments that had been put forward by the house of lords yesterday, that was a bit of formality. the government has got a majority in the comments so it's been batted back to the lords. the expectation is the debate in the lords will get under way injust under an hour's debate in the lords will get under way in just under an hour's time and then they will start voting again. what i am told is they will vote on two different amendments, so gradually the numbers of those changes are reducing. the first being one to do with something called the rwanda committee, an organisation made up of experts and lawyers that will oversee the treaty that the uk has signed with rwanda, and the amendment gives that committee greater powers to effectively say look, it is not a safe country as the legislation says that it safe country as the legislation says thatitis, safe country as the legislation says that it is, if some of those

conditions that the treaty sets out are not met. the second amendment is likely to do with this issue of whether or not people who have fought alongside british armed forces in places like afghanistan should be exempt from being deported to rwanda, and i am told from the labour side that the support for both of those admins holding up quite strongly. what they don't know is how many of the so—called ping—pong battalion, this is how they refer to the conservatives who don't often appear in the house of lords but sometimes turn up on next like this, when the government needs to boost its numbers, whether they will turn up en masse and finally mean the lords does back down this evening. if it does, the legislation will probably get what's called royal assent tomorrow and make its way onto the statute book. qm. royal assent tomorrow and make its way onto the statute book. 0k, pete, thank ou way onto the statute book. 0k, pete, thank you very _ way onto the statute book. 0k, pete, thank you very much. _ around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

paedophiles convicted of serious sexual offences could lose their parental rights under a new law. this follows a bbc report into a mother who spent £30,000 in legal fees to stop her paedophile ex—husband getting access to their daughter. after hearing this story, labour mp harriet harman tabled an amendment to the legislation to cover the most serious sexual offence rape of a child under 13. i spoke with her from westminster a little earlier. it was a glaring anomaly in the law, it was not even a loophole, it was just that when in the 19905 restrictions were introduced so that if someone was convicted of a serious sexual offence, they would then be put on the sexual offences register, they were not able to work with children or teach in schools or work in a children's home, or do fostering, all those restrictions were put into protective children from somebody who had been convicted

of a serious sexual offence, and yet his own children were not protected, because the idea was that he still had parental rights. so it wasjust left to the mother if she could to manage to go to court to protect her child, and what this new change in the law will do is it will say that just as we protect other peoples children from serious sexual offenders, his own children must be protected too and he must lose his parental rights if he commits a serious sexual offence. find parental rights if he commits a serious sexual offence. and you had heard this story, _ serious sexual offence. and you had heard this story, as _ serious sexual offence. and you had heard this story, as we _ serious sexual offence. and you had heard this story, as we mentioned l heard this story, as we mentioned in the introduction, from our correspondent sanchia berg, explain how this mother have to spend £30,000, her parents remortgage to their home to raise the money for their home to raise the money for the legal fees. their home to raise the money for the legalfees. again, it their home to raise the money for the legal fees. again, it seems shocking a parent, a mum should have to go to these lengths to protect her child. it to go to these lengths to protect her child. , i, i, i, , to go to these lengths to protect her child. i i, i, i, , i, her child. it is extraordinary what the did her child. it is extraordinary what they did and _ her child. it is extraordinary what they did and it — her child. it is extraordinary what they did and it cost _ her child. it is extraordinary what they did and it cost them - her child. it is extraordinary what they did and it cost them a - her child. it is extraordinary what they did and it cost them a lot. her child. it is extraordinary what they did and it cost them a lot of| they did and it cost them a lot of money and took an awful lot of bravery and a long time, but it should not ever be like that. it

should not ever be like that. it should not ever be like that. it should not be just down to the mother to protect her children from the father who is a serious sex offender, it should be the law that actually protect them, so really this has been a gap in the law and it was exposed by the fact of sanchia berg, bbc reported, going into the family courts because there's now limited opening up of there's now limited opening up of the family courts, it's all still anonymous, but she was able to sit in a family court, hear this case and then report it, and then it's the basis of those reports that everybody is saying, this is obviously wrong, we need to change the law. �* i, , i, i, , the law. and does the lot need to be strengthened further _ the law. and does the lot need to be strengthened further in _ the law. and does the lot need to be strengthened further in your - strengthened further in your opinion? i strengthened further in your oinion? ., strengthened further in your oinion? ~' i, i, opinion? i think the government want to start with — opinion? i think the government want to start with dealing _ opinion? i think the government want to start with dealing with _ opinion? i think the government want to start with dealing with just - to start with dealing with just those who have committed the most very serious sexual offences against children, which is the rape of a children, which is the rape of a child of 13 or under, but clearly the intention from the government is to expand it once it has been introduced, but i think the most

important thing is that the principal has been established that actually what should be a priority is the protection of the child, not the rights of the father, and parental responsibility is a privilege, it's not a right, and actually if you commit a serious sexual offence, you should forfeit that right as a father. harriet harman, and p. harriet harman, mp. inflation in the uk has fallen to its lowest level for two and a half years. the rate at which consumer prices rise was 3.2% last month, that's down from 3.4% in february. food prices were the main reason for the fall, which was slightly less than had been expected. inflation has been gradually coming down since its peak of 11% 18 months ago. dharshini david reports. from the moment her day starts, higher prices are taking their toll on sam, who cares for adults with learning difficulties. water is 8% more expensive than a year ago. energy bills are down 18%,

long—awaited relief for many. food and drink, however, is up 11% overall. milk is cheaper, as you may have noticed, but that could be overshadowed by the likes of sugar, which is 14% dearer. sam has had pay rises, but she is forgoing things from haircuts to eye tests to make ends meet. i have thought about leaving for a better paid job. but i love myjob, i'm very passionate about myjob. and it's actually not a job, it's a vocation. which i feel that we need more people to come into this work but if they look at the pay, they wouldn't want to do this work. inflation has slowed considerably from its peak as weaker global food and energy costs and higher interest rates take effect. and a lower energy price cap in april will help it fall to the bank of england's 2% target. but things remain more expensive.

council tax especially. it's just shooting up. so it is getting more difficult every day. so i don't see any real changes. the most expensive thing is the accommodation - and the oil and petrol. and when petrol prices are increasing, - everything is increasing. i've not particularly seen a considerable drop in anything, unfortunately. but hopefully, fingers crossed, things will start to improve. for the prime minister, a sense things are getting better. after a tough couple of years, today's figures show that our economic plan is working and inflation continues to fall. having been 11% when i became prime minister, it's now fallen tojust over 3%, the lowest level in two and half years. i think that the reasons - for the falls in inflation are down to what is happening in some of the global markets. - but the truth is people

are still worse off, - worse off after 14 years - of conservative government. ready to hit the road, but only after sam has forked out a bigger insurance bill which, like many services, has seen more stubborn inflation, and to fill up — petrol prices could rise further if unrest in the middle east hits oil prices. which could mean more bumps in the road to lower inflation. economists still expect rates to start falling in the summer but we are not there yet. dharshini david, bbc news. at least 1a people have been killed and around 60 injured in what ukrainian officials say was a russian missile attack on chernihiv. the city's mayor said a high rise building in a densely populated neighbourhood was hit. president zelensky said the destruction wouldn't have taken place if ukraine had sufficient air defences. james waterhouse reports from kyiv. bus passengers dive for cover

after two missiles hit nearby. what follows is the haunting sound of a third. in chernihiv, live air strikes happen with little notice. russia tried and failed to take this city. but with its border only 60 miles away, the skies bring a constant threat. "i was walking my dog," says maxim. "i heard a hit, then the second and the third. "i thought it was air defence working." the explosions are followed by a familiar recovery routine, with the number of dead expected to rise. for ukrainians, there is no escaping russia's invasion, and their leader keeps asking his allies for more air defenses. translation: with our partners, we work to get more _ real help to achieve true equality in the defense against terror, for the same rules to apply to us here in ukraine. with western military aid continuing to deplete,

ukraine is increasingly fighting this war on its own. james waterhouse, bbc news, kyiv. president zelensky has spoken to the head of nato to say ukraine needs more help with its air defences. we also been hearing last short while from washington that there will be a vote on saturday, this is from the speaker of the house of representatives, a vote on ukrainian aid on saturday evening. this couple of lines coming into us in the last few minutes. a memorial ceremony has been held for pc yvonne fletcher, a0 years after the young constable was shot and killed outside the libyan embassy in london in 1984. a campaign is also being launched to bring a private prosecution over her death. our home and legal correspondent, dominic casciani, reports. bagpipes play

for a0 years, the thin blue line of policing between serving the public and dying while protecting them, has been remembered at this spot. wpc yvonne fletcher was fatally shot on this day in 1984. today, hundreds of former and serving officers turned out to honour her sacrifice. the 25—year—old died in a hail of bullets fired from inside libya's then embassy, controlled at the time by revolutionary followers of libya's colonel gaddafi. yvonne fletcher had been sent to control crowds and her death shocked the nation. but after a ten—day siege, the then prime minister margaret thatcher had no choice under diplomatic immunity laws but to let the shooters go. the police neverforgot, including john murray, who held wpc fletcher's hand as she lay dying. now, what i cannot understand and will never be able to understand

is why our government, the uk government, has lost interest in the death of a colleague and friend. well, i can assure my government that i won't. this is why he says yvonne fletcher has been let down. the crown prosecution service dropped a case against this man, saleh ibrahim mabrouk, the last surviving figure from inside the embassy. so mr murray sued for damages. mr mabrouk e—mailed from libya to say he'd done nothing wrong, but the judge ruled he was jointly liable for the shooting carried out by others. mr murray is using that ruling to try a rare private prosecution, funded by his supporters. private prosecutions are difficult and face many hurdles — this one perhaps more than many. but the gathering today is resolute. this is a policing family united in grief and wondering whyjohn murray has to go it alone. i should have been there on the day. you should have been

there on the day? yeah, but i swapped, my colleague swapped. consecutive governments have been a disgrace. politicians are a disgrace. the last post plays today, sadness, but in the weeks to come, hope. john murray will askjudges to start an extraordinary murder trial and perhaps one last time, hope to see justice done. dominic casciani, bbc news in central london. and stay with us here on bbc news. good evening. sunshine for some, but not for all. that has been the story today, and when the shower clouds came they were pretty threatening. quite a dramatic weather watcher picture here sent in from north wales. most of the showers have been out to the west first thing this morning, with these frontal systems

sinking steadily south. through this evening, we have a clutch of showers just clinging on to east anglia and south—east england. they fade away, skies clear, temperatures are likely to fall away, and gardeners and growers, take note, we could see a touch of light frost in sheltered western areas with low single figures. further north and west, we keep around 4 or 5 degrees, and that's because we have cloud and rain spilling in from another system, which will bring some wet weather as we go through the day. into the afternoon, perhaps the best of the sunshine in east anglia, the midlands and southern england, clouding over through north wales, north midlands, up into northern england, to close to the scottish borders, where there will be outbreaks of rain. the rain not too bad in northern ireland, but it will stay fairly persistent on and off through the north—west of scotland throughout the afternoon. the rain obviously having a little impact on the feel of the weather once again, only highs of 8 to 12 degrees, but we might see 15 celsius in the south—east with the best of the sunshine. there will be some rain

for all of us at some point through thursday night into the early hours of friday morning, and then the high pressure really trying to influence its story. however, because of the position of the high, we still pick up this northerly wind, so we will be chasing cloud amounts around. a breezy day on friday, and that will have an impact on the feel of the weather once again. temperatures just below par, really, for the time of year. into the start of the weekend, the high pressure is continuing to nudge its way a little bit further north and east. this weather front could enhance some showery rain for a time across eastern scotland and maybe north—east england. it also, again, depends on the direction of the wind. because of the position of the high, we are continuing to drag in the wind from the north—east, so coming from scandinavia, a cooler source, and so that means that along the north sea coasts, yes, at times, those temperatures struggling and there will be a few scattered showers. so west is best for not only sunshine, but also warmth this weekend.

this is bbc news, the headlines. lord cameron, the foreign secretaries urged israel to do little as possible to escalate tensions in the middle east. but netanyahu has said israel will decide on own steps.

we hope that anything israel does is as limited and as targeted and as smart as possible. it's in no—one's interest that we see escalation. translation: we will make our own decisions on our own. _ and the state of israel will do what it needs to defend itself. a former chairman of royal mail and post office, allan leighton, says the horizon it scandal is unbelievable and apologises for what happened to sub—postmasters while he was chairman. children's doctors are calling for it to be made illegal to smack children in england and northern ireland, saying current laws are �*unjust and dangerously vague'. inactivity among working age people in the uk due to long—term sickness is set to increase further over the coming years, new research suggests. sport and for a full round—up, here's the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. a huge night ahead in the champions league — with manchester city and arsenal

potentially on course to meet in the champions league semi—finals.